The Sun. — London, England, 1849-08-07 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NAT ItiIitIERZICS. SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow Hay, 21 18s to 3/ I3s; New ditto, 21 5s to 310 a; Old Clover, 31 18s to 41 153; New ditto, 31 to 41; and Straw, 11 6s to 1/ 12, per load. A full average supply,: and a heavy demand. CUMBERLAND.—OId Yieadow Hay, 3i Os to 31 16s; New ditto, 21 5s to 31 03; Old Clover, 4/ Os to 41 14s ; New ditto, 31 Os to 41 Os; and. Straw, 1/ 8s to 11 13s per load. Supply toleraby good, and trade dull. WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 Os to 31 15s, New ditto, 21 5s to 31.; Old Clover, 41 03 to 41 16s; New ditto,. 310 s to 41 Os; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 11 12s per load. Trade dull, at barely stationary prices. comomax.. SUGAR.—There is no improvement in the demand for British Plantation, and the sales were only 510 hhds, including a portion of 120 hhds Barbadoes, 50 Demerara, and 76 Jamaica, which went at a fur ther decline of 6d. to is. per cwt. 260 bags Mauri tius sold at previous rates; middling to good yellow at 36s to 39s ; but 2,160 bags Bengal r went off heavily at a decline of 6d to is per cwt; mid to good mid white Bemires, at 38s 6d to 39s 6d, yellow at 37s to 38s 63, and broAn at 32s to 345. A floating cargo of Bahia, e• mprising 300 chests of white and 280 of brown, sold at 20s to 233. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,303 'Ads, 171 tierces, 625 barrels; there were taken for home consump tion 1,556 hhds, 217 tierces, 628 barrels. The stock in the same places; is 15,527 hhds, 2,250 tierces, 6,355 barrels. MOLLS/EP.-450 casks clayed Cubs of good quality realised 17s, being again rather lower. COFPEE.-1,440 bags Plantation 'Ceylon at auction sold steadily at 48s 6d to 51s 6d for fine and 14 casks 50 barrels Jamaica realised 36s to 55s fur good cad to mid. _ _ Rusi.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 645 puns 12 hhds; there were taken for home consumption, 167 puns 20 hhds; and ex ported 54 puns 115 hhds. The stock iu the same places is 21,336 puns 2,681 hhds. Ricx.-1,440 bags Bengal were withdrawn at 10s for good mid white, there being no buyers thereat; but 1,940 bags Aracan, of fair average quality, brought 7s 6d per cwt, being rather easier. SPICES.-190 bags Pimento sold steadily at 4,-id to 4kd for ord to good. TALLOW.—The tendency of prices for the month of July has been rather to advance, and may be quoted is to is 6d for all descriptions above the price of the pre vious month. The business was not extensive, except by public auction, by which mode considerable parcels of South American and Australian have found buyers. The arrivals and deliveries have each been much above the average. The price at St. Petersburgh has advanced to 117 ro. for Y.C. on the spot, and pro portionately for August delivery. By the last letters 117 ro. was the price of first sort Y.C. for immediate shipment, which, at the exchange of 37d costs 40s 6d laid down in London. TEA.—The deliveries are not quite so large for Lon don consumption. THE CHOLERA. RETURN OF CASES, AuG. 6. Attacks. Deaths. In London and vicinity In England and Wales In Scotland Total.. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Right Hon. the First Lord, with Rear-Admiral Dundas, and others of the Board of Admiralty, during their official visit to Devonport, patronise the ball at Moorhead's Royal Hotel, on the 16th inst., in aid of the funds of the British Female Orphan Asylum. Rear-Admiral Superintendent Sir John Louis, Bart., assisted by Captain Hope Johnstone, made a survey of the ships in Devonport ordinary last week. THE AJAX, 60, SCREW TWO-DECKER.—The Ajax, steam-guard ship, under the superintendence of Captain Austin, C. 8., went out of Portsmouth harbour, to try her speed at her load draft of water, yesterday morning. The weather was favourable, and the following was the result of the trial along the measured mile in Stoke Bay. She has come up to the speed of the Blenheim, although the cost of her conversion from a sailing vessel to a steamer was inexpensive when compared with the .alte rations made in the Blenheim and.La Hogue. Her en gines answered admirably. A number of naval officers and scientific gentlemen went out in her. It is now suffi ciently shown that these steam guard-ships would prove an admirable and defensive class of vessels, to be used either in offensive operations, or as a superior defensive class of guard-ships. Draft of water forward, 21 feet 111 inches; abaft, 23 feet 11 inches; height of midship port, 5 feet 5,1 inches. _ _ _ Mile. Time: Speed per hour. Strokes. Tide and Wind Ist.. Bm. 2 see. • • 7'468 knots .. • • 46 •• •• With. 2d.. 9m. 34 sec. .. 6'271 ~ ... 48 .... Against. 7m. 4 sec. 8.49 48 ...• Ifith. 4th.. 11 m. 23 sec. .. 6'BB 48 •• .. Against. This gives, as a mean rate of speed, 7-J27 knots an hour, or eight and a quarter statute miles an hour. The speed of the Ajax thus bear - s about the same proportion to the speed of Sir C. Napier's peddle-wheel steamer Sidon, as the speed of the Sidon bears to that of the Terrible, paddle-wheel steam-frigate ; but the Ajax, compared with the Sidrn in point of armament, is a match for a squadron of her class. A broadside from such a ship as the Ajax might not injure the broadside of the Sidon, but it might, nevertheless, find its way into the machinery, through the decks, and into the captain's cabin. WANT OF DOCK ACCOMMODATION AT DEVONPORT. —Two gangs of shipwrights have been taken from the Niobe, 26, and one from the Calliope, 26, at Devonport, and put on the Vanguard, 80, to hasten her six months' repair. It may not be generally known that the Van guard was taken into No. 5 dock, and her bends were taken off before she could be taken into No. 4 dock, where she now is under repair, and that she must go back again to No. sto have them put on. Is not this a sehject worthy of notice at the present time, when the Admiralty have it in their power to convert No. 1 deck to any siza or depth they please, at a comparatively small expense—yea, less than it would cost to make a darn for deepening another? It may be hoped, as the Admiralty will be at Devonport by the middle of this month, that their attention will be called to a subject of such vast importance. The Adeleide, 104, advanced ship, will be taken into No. 5, dock at Devonport, to have her copper examined and cleared. The Octavio, 50, will be launched at Pembroke next week. This surely cannot be the Bth of the expensive lot of Vernons of Sir William Symonds' construction. If so, taking the Vernon as a criterion, it will cost about the price of one of them annually to keep them in repair. The Athol, 2, troop-ship, Master Commander Pearn, with engineers and artillery, for the Cape, Algoa Bay, and Mauritius, put into Devonport from Woolwich on Saturday morning, and sailed in the afternoon. The Elfin, steam-tender, Master Commander Balliston, was taken into dock at Portsmouth, yesterday. She will vane out again almost immediately, when the Polyphe mus will be taken in. DOCKYARD.—Messrs. Robinson and Rundell, inspec tors of Devonport, have been or , ered to Portsmouth from that yard, to compete with those from other yards for the three vacancies for foremen. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 6.—The raze© frigate Grampus, 50, was undocked to-day completely advanced for re commission even to painting, from which it is augured she will soon rehoiat the pendant. She was hauled into the sea-fitting basin. The Myrtle steam tender left the harbour at three P.M., with seamen for the Queen and Dcnialus, fitting IDevonport. The orders respecting the Arrogant remain in force to-day. Wind—S. ; light breezes, and fine weather. PLystotrrn, Arm. 4.—The Pbmnix steamer, Com mander Wodehouse, is appointed to sail to morrow, for the coast of Africa, with mails, touching at Madeira, With dispatches. The Jackall, iron steam-vessel, was undocked to-day. Orders have been received from the Admiralty for the erection of a cholera hospital within the walls of the Devonport Dockyard. It is to be so completely fitted that in the event of cholera occurring among the artisans they can continue cccupation until the termination of their sickness. Wind—E.; light breezes, and fine weather. WOOLWICH, ADO. 6.—The Niger steam-vessel re turned to Woolwich, where she will remain for the present, her experimental trials for the season having been competed; her pendent was taken down to-day. The Vulture steam-frigate left Woolwich this morn ing, towed by the Monkey steam-vessel, for Sheerness, Where she is to be made ready as an advanced war- steamer. The Diligence transport-ship is alongside of the Wharf-wall, loading with timber. The Samuel Enderby, belonging to the South Sea Whale Fishery Company, went down the river to-day, and will call at Plymouth to embark Mr. Charles En derby, F.R.S., appointed Governor of the Auckland Islands. The Samuel Enderby takes out an expe rienced surgeon for the service of the company. and One appointed by the Government for the Auckland Islands. She also takes out a surveyor and a number Of artificers for the new colony, and being destin(d to be employed in the whale fishing, is amply supplied with Mr. Greener's harpoons and harpoon-guns, which ha►e been found so effective in destroying and capturing whales in the Davis' Strait, Newfoundland, and South Sea fisheries. The Admiralty have issued instructions tbat the vesEels of the royal navy on that station are to 'visit the Auckland Islands once a month. THE CITY STEAM- BOAT COMPANY,—By desire of the directors of the above company, the usual annual treat was given to the whole of the officers and men in their employ on Saturday last, at the company's yard at Battersea, the extensive war e h ouse o f w hi c h was prepared and decorated for the occasion under the super intendence of Mr. Hancock, their secretary. Mr. Francis, of Nine Elms, occupied the chair. Loy al toasts were drunk, and a high encomium passed upon the ability and good conduct of their servants. The good feeling of the directors was unanimously appreciated by their guests. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.—The Havre Cotton market closed rather dull on Saturday. Yester day it assumed greater activity, and the sales to two o'clock were 1,600 bales at firm prices; 100 dusts of indigo also chanved bands, realising from 61. 40c. to 7f. 30e. Coffee active. THE TEA TRADB.—AUGUST 6.—The deliveries of tea in London last week were 554,902 lbs., being rather less than in the preceding week. The market is qui A. GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. — This line is now completed between Dumfries and Thornhill, and the inhabitants of the former place have already made excursions over it. LITERAT URE. not by any means incompatible with . ex cellences of a very peculiar description. That some such excellences must have existed in those pro ductions is demonstrated incontestably by two results of their publication. First, by the applause elicited by them fro-u the gifted authors whose names we have enumerated; and, secondly, by the extraordinary popu larity which they attained at once, and which several of them have since, up to the present moment, sus tained with an enormous portion of the educated multitude. In short, the eulogistic analysis of the " first work" in Blackwood—the cordial friendship of Sharon Turner—and the remarkable circumstance that the " Omnipresence" has passed through five and-twenty editions—would constitute alone conclu .sive testimony that there was much in this new aspirant for celebrity to justify the panegyrics of his admirers. Yet, while the unprejudiced and discern ing could not fail to recognise this truth through the haze of caricature and misrepresentation, Mr. Mont gomery himself afforded the utmost assistance to those who carped at his books and scoffed at his popularity, by his besetting sin, the disease of writing, or cacoethes scribendi. Whether it arose from an insatiable yearning after appro bation or from an unconquerable impulse of his nature, or from any other innate or extraneous incitement, he wrote and published, wrote and published, wrote and published, with the most reckless rapidity. Volume after volu me i ss u e d from tne press, and that moreover, so t o speak, with scarcely any perceptible intermission. There - was the long poem on the " Omnipresence ;" and another , long poem on " Satan ;" and another long poem 01;1 , the " Messiah ;" and another l o ng poem on "Woman;" - and another long poem on " Luther ;" and another long poem on " Death ;" and 'another long poem on " Oxford." Add to all these a multiplicity of smaller 'pieces of versification, together with bis different volumes of poetic-prose, such as his " Christ our All in All," his "Reflective Discourses," and his " Gospel before tp # ,A g e," and we may at a glance form some conception - of the tendency such hasty composition would necessarily engender in a mind naturally dis posed to be diffuse and discursive—a tendency to fritter away the riches of the imagination—to di lute the flavour of the hippocrene. At length there has been a wholesome lull after this continuous and unnatural activity. Seven years have elapsed, and Mr. Montgomery again pre sents himself before the bar of criticism with a new volume of verses, verses moreover inspired by a mo tive the most purifying because the most benevolent. " Christian Life"—the circulation of which is intended to aid not the least attractive of all the eleemosynary institutions of the metropolis—is a book containing some five hundred pages, and onebundred and twenty four separate fragments. It is conceived throughout in the same strain which has been conspicuous. in Mr. Montgomery's previous compositions, with this ad vantage, that the present effusions are more reflected, the thoughts comprised in each more harmoniously compacted together, and there is no longer that dis tressing consciousness in the mind of the reader that the author is striving to be " effective" even though it occasionally be at the expense of rhythm or of rhetoric. In the " Christian Life," unlike se veral of its predecessors, the phraseology is nowhere tawdry from an exaggerated effort at verbal magnificence—and the graces of the imageries are no where marr e d by incongru ous affectat ions. On the contrary, in several of the pieces, there is considerable elegance, as well as force fulness of diction, and considerable appropriateness as well as novelty of illustration. Thus, it is beau tifully said in one part (p. 29) — "Eternity familiar reads To faith's perusing eye, As spirit after spirit speeds To populate the sky." In an admirable poem, called " The Religion of Solitude," and beginning with the couplet— NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPEDITION TO THE RIVER JOR DAN AND THE DEAD SEA. By W. F. Lynch, U.S.N., Commander of the Expedition. Narratives of travels in the Holy Land are pos sessed of a peculiar and universal charm, occasioned in part by their sacred associations, and in part, pro bably, by the fact of the names and places to which they relate having been from our childhood familiar to us as household words. Hence, although that at tractive region has been celebrated by the genies of Chateaubriand and Lamartine, both especially qua• lified to chronicle such a pilgrimage, we turn with interest to every new account of the most interesting portion of the globe. The narrative before us differs in some respects from all its predecessors; it describes a hitherto unexplored region, and, moreover, it—this record of the world of bygone times—is written by an American. Lieutenant or Captain Lynch has treated the subject, as it should be treated, con amore. His remarks exhibit the intelligence of ap educated man together with the enthusiasm of a true believer. This visit to the Holy Land had it seems been for years one of his favourite daydreams. When, em barked on the expedition, the land of America had disappeared from sight, he writes with exultation—. " The yearnings of twenty years were about to be gra tified. When a young midshipman, almost the very least in the escort of the good Lafayette across the ocean, my heart was prepared for its subsequent aspirations. In truth, in our route across the Atlantic, in the silent watches of the night, my mind, lost in contemplation, soared from the deep through which we ploughed our way, to that upper deep, gemmed with stars, revolving in their ceaseless round, and from them to the Mighty Hand that made them ; and my previous desire to visit the land of the Iliad, of Alexander and of Caesar, became merged in an insatiate yearning to look upon the country which was the cradle of the human race, and the theatre of the accomplishment of that race's mysterious destiny; the soil hallowed by the footsteps, fertilized by the blood, and consecrated by the tomb, of the Saviour. Twice, since, at distant intervals, I contemplated making the desired visit. But the imperative calls of duty in the first instance, and a domestic calamity in the second, prevented me. As I have before said, in the spring of the present year I asked permission to visit the lands of the Bible, with the special purpose of thoroughly ex ploring the Dead Sea; the extent, configuration, and de pression of which are as much desiderata to science as its miraculous formation, its mysterious existence and the wondrous traditions r es p ec ti ng it . are o f thrilling interest to the Christian. The same liberal spirit which decided that the expedition should be undertaken, di cted ample means to be furnished for its equipment. With our boats, therefore, and arms, ammunition, and in struments, I telt well prepared for the arduous but de lightful task before me." The same sentiments pervade the entire work ; its composition, like the expedition to which it relates, has evidently been a labour of love. The expedition was eminently successful. The following passage gives the result of its labours : " Before retiring we bathed in the Dead Sea, pre paratory to spending our twenty-second and last night upon it. We have carefully sounded this sea, determined its geographical position, taken the exact topography of its shores, ascertained the temperature, width, depth, and velocity of its tributaries, collected specimens of every kind, and noted the winds, currents, changes of the weather, and all atmospheric phenomena. These, with a faithful narrative of events, will give a correct idea of this wondrous body of water, as it appeared to us. "From the summit of these cliffs, in a line a little north of west, about sixteen miles distant, is Hebron, a short distance from which Dr. Robinson found the dividing ridge between the Mediterranean and this sea. From Beni Na'im, the reputed tomb of Lot, upon that ridge, it is supposed that Abraham looked " towards all the land of the plain," and beheld the smoke, " as the smoke of a furnace." The inference from the Bible, that this entire chasm was a plain sunk and "overwhelmed" by the wrath of God, seems to be sustained by the extraordi nary character of our soundings. The bottom of this sea consists of two submerged plains, an elevated and a depressed one; the last averaging thirteen, the former about thirteen hundred feet below the surface. Through the northern, and largest and deepest one, in a line cor responding with the bed of the Jordan, is a ravine, which again seems to correspond with the Wady el Jeib, or ravine within a ravine, at the south end of the sea. "Between the Jabok and this sea, we unexpectedly found a sudden breakdown in the bed of the Jordan. If there be a similar break in the water-courses to the south of the sea, accompanied with like volcanic characters, there can scarce be a doubt that the whole Ghor has sunk from some extraordinary convulsion; pre ceded, most probably, by an eruption of fire, and a general con flagration of the bitumen which abounded in the plain. I shall ever regret that we were not authorized to explore the southern Gher to the Red Sea. "All our observations have impressed me forcibly with the conviction that the mountains are older than the sea. Had their relative levels been the same at first, the tor rents would have worn their beds in a gradual and cor relative sloop;—whereas, in the northern section, the part supposed to have been so deeply engulphed, al though a soft, bituminous limestone prevails, the torrents plunge down several hundred feet, while on both sides of the southern portion, the ravines come down without abruptness, although the head of Wady Kerak is more than a thousand feet higher than the head of Wady Ghuweir. Most of the ravines, too, as reference to the map will show, have a southwardainclination near their outlets, that of Zerka Maine or Callirohoe especeially, which, next to the Jordan, must pour down the greatest volume of water in the rainy season. But even if they had not that ch fltction, the argument which has been based on this supposition would be untenable; for tribu taries, like all other streams, seek the greatest declivities without regard to angular inciination. The Yerman flews into the Jordan at a right angle, and the Jabok with an acute one to its descending course. "There are many other things tending to the same conclusion, among them the isolation of the mountain of Usdum; its difference of contour and of range, and its consisting entirely of a volcanic produce " But it is for the learned to comment on the facts we have laboriously collected. Upon ourselves, the result is a decided one. We entered upon this sea with conflict ing opinions. One of the parties was sceptical, end another, I think, a professed unbeliever of the Mosaic account. After twenty-two days' close investigation, if I am not mistaken, we are unanimous in the conviction of the truth of the Scriptural account of the destruction of the cities of the plain. I record with diffidence the conclusion we have reached, simply as a protest against the shallow deductions of would be. unbelievers." Interesting as the narration of the travellers' adven tures may be, those adventures were not always quite agreeable to the travellers themselves. At times they suffered intensely from heat and thirst, e. In the early part of the night, there was scarcely a moment that some one was not at the water-breakers; but the parching thirst could not be allayed, for, al though there was no perceptible perspiration, the fluid was carried off as fast as it was received into the system. At 9, the breakers were exhausted, and our last waking thought was water. In our disturbed and feverish slum bers, we fancied the cool beverage purling down our parched and burning throats. The mosquitoes, as if their stings were envenomed by the heat, tormented us almost to madness, and we spent a miserable night, throughout which we were compelled to lie encumbered with our arms, while, by turns, we kept vigilant watch. " We had spent the day in the glare of a Syrian sun, by tle salt mountain of Usdum, in the hot blast of the sirocco, and were now bivouacked under the calcined cliffs of Moab. When the water was exhausted, all too weary to go for more, even if there were no danger of a surprise, we threw ourselves upon the ground—eyes smarting, skin burning, lips, and tongue, and throat parched and dry; and wrapped the first garment we could find around our heads to keep off the stifling blast; and, in our brief and broken slumbers, drank from ideal fountains. " Those who have never felt thirst, never suffered in a simoom in the wilderness, or been far off at sea, with "'Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink,' can form no idea of our sensations." In another place we find the commander of the ex pedition making the following rather unsatisfactory observation :—" Thus far all, with one exception, had enjoyed good health, but there were symptoms which caused us some uneasiness. The figure of each one had assum , d a dropsical appearance. The lean had become stout, and the stout almost corpulent; the pale faces had become florid, and those which were florid ruddy ; moreover the slightest scratch festered, and the bodies of many of us were covered with small pustules. The men complained bitterly of the irritation of their sores whenever the acrid water of the sea touched them. Still all had good appetites, and I hoped for the best; there could be nothing pestilential in the atmosphere of the sea." " Where ever there is an evil," adds Captain Lynch, " there is usually its antidote near at hand ; and perhaps the remedy for these cutaneous diseases (above-men tioned) is to be found in the acrid juices of the ocher, which grows here and upon the southron shores of this sea." This " osher' is no other than the celebrated apple of Sodom— " All gold and ruddy on the rind, And ashes at the core." "This fruit," says Captain Lynch, "is doubtless the genuine apple of "8 odorn, for it is fair to the eye and bitter to the taste, and, when ripe, is filled with fibre and dust. We have succeeded in bringing safely home some of the green and the dried fruit, and also the leaves and blossoms of the osber, put up in spirits of wine." Among the numerous interesting anecdotes scattered throughout the narrative, the following is singularly sad, and might have forme d t h e ground work of one of Moore's or Byron's Eastern poems : " Towards noon it became very warm, and we were thirsty. Meeting an old Arab woman, we dispatched her to the Subeih for some leban. We noticed that 'Awed, our Ta'emirah guide, was exceedingly polite to her. But when she returned, accompanied by her daughter, a young and pretty fellaha, he became sad, and scarce said a word while they remained. On being asked the reason of his sudden sadness, he confessed that he had once spent twelve months with that tribe, sleeping, according to the custom of Arab courtship, every night outside of the young girl's tent, in the hope of winning her for his wile. He said that they were mutually attached, but that the mother was opposed to him, and the father demanded 4,000 piastres, about 170 dollars. 'Awed bad 2,000 piastres, the earnings of his whole life, and in the hope of buying her (tor such is the true Dunn of An Arab marriage), he determined " Lone Nature is no loneliness to me, Her solitude makes my society," there occurs a metaphor which, although anticipated in some measure by the American poet, Professor Longfellow, is to our thinking much more felici tously rendered by Mr. Montgomery. Longfellow, in depicting the prairie in his " Evangeline, ' closes his description thus— " And the grim, taciturn bear, the anchorite monk of the desert, Climbs down their dark ravines to dig for roots by the brook side, And over all is the sky, the clear and crystalline heaven, Like the protecting hand of God inverted above them." Here the " figure " is half odd, half solemn. Re• peated by Mr. Montgomery, it is the latter alone ; his lines reading thus— " Serenely awful o'er my trancil soul 1 hear the music of th! Almighty roll, And each deep cadence cloth appear to tell— ' My hand o'ershades thee though invisible!'" With the same perception of the solemnify produced by the dim articulation of an austere thought, he depicts in another page (69) the emotions produced " - when we know that Adam's fall O'er bright creation drew a pall, And over man and nature cast The shadow of a ruin'd past." That Mr. Montgomery knows the force of a single word when rightly introduced is shown, we think, repeatedly and conspicuously in a tender and pensive sketch, headed " Infancy in Heaven," a sketch col oure d b y the sadness as of a personal affliction. We feel this when be is appostrophizing the dead child, now " - dreaming of its unborn days," now of its " baby wiles and winsome ways." When (he exclaims very touchingly)— " To heaven return'd thine infant breath, Like a dead lily wert thou laid, Ere sin had cast its poieon'd shade Around thee, white in lovely death." With the same delicate appreciation of true pathos he speaks, in the same page (76), of standing in the child's death chamber— " And all was breathless in thy room !" It is but natural to find one dilating upon the charms of infancy, who had already termed little children— " Those incarnations of maternal dreams l" Perhaps the gems of the present volume, as they should be, are the poems dedicated to the most beau tiful, but most mournful, of all diseases—that dread disease which, as Charles Dickens has exquisitely said, " throws around familiar looks unearthly indi cations of the coming change, a disease in which death and life are so strangely blended, that death takes the glow and hue of life, and life the gaunt and grisly form of death"—consumption. That Mr. Montgomery could throw around the young girl whom he delineates as the victim of this terrible malady, so gentle , and angeliF- an - aspect' of evanescent. ) lovliness, i s ..no matter orsurpriie, remembering, as we do, so vividly, that portraiture which recurs somewhere in one of his former productions: It is where he is speaking of a youth lamenting over the death of his betrothed— " —One, the beatings of whose heart were his Be-echoed ! —she who walk'd with angel's step, Her looks the living sunshine of his soul, Her tones the MOW of his memory." Generally there is perceptible in the verses of Mr. Montgomery the agreeable sadness pervading the whole of the poem on " Consumption," though at some moments the key-note of his song is of such profound melancholy that, to quote one of his own expressions, he seems "darkly girdled by a zone of thought." Yet the principal portion of his effusions cannot be said to have other than an elevating and consoling influence—appealing as they perpetually do to our sense of the grandeur of religion and of the omniscience of the Divinity. In the "Christian Life," more than in any other of his writings—if we may use an expression admissible in Art—the " vanish ing point "of his picture is always in the Hereafter. He evinces the ever-present solicitude that his reader should— " The Past revolve, and o'er the Future pray." His chief anxiety is to depreciate the importance of the present as contrasted with the days to come, feel ing as he has emphatically said already, that— " All the ages of unreckoned Time Are but the pulses of Eternity." In the enforcement of this great lesson he has many obstructions of style to overcome, prominent among which are his reduplication of epithets a n d th e casua l the bathos fo former er his oo to se o id th io e rna htiocee in which, describingvocabulary. Instance in children, he says— " Behold their gambols, and the shooting gleams Of mirth which sparkle from their restless eyes." Of the latter blemish take as an example his mention, while recounting the stupendous tragedy of the Crucifixion, of " The errands of celestial love," and of " the soldiers wrangling for the parted vest" of Christ. In justice, however, to the author, it must be remembered that these exceptions to his manner of composition have reference almost exclu sively to his preceding volumes—the " Christian Life" being almost entirely relieved from their intrusion. In the poem inscribed " The Wandering Dove," there is a passage beginning— " Man was not made for finite good," which bears a startling resemblance to a charming poem, very little known, by Maurice O'Connell (de ceased) ; yet we are far from . regarding the coinci dence as indicative of a plagiarism, for we would almost wager that Mr. Montgomery never encoun tered the verses in question, called " Man was not made for this !" One couplet—before we abruptly draw our remarks to a conclusion—must not be overlooked. It is where the author has finely ex claimed— " A transient grief glib tongues can tell, But cloister'd Anguish keeps her cell." Such are some few of the touching and melodious verses scattered through this volume of poetic gene rosity—the intellectual alms of a sensitive and highly intelligent nature. The purpose of the w or k is its own most gentle yet most forcible commendation. THE SUN. LONDON, VUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1849. As a graceful offering of charity it wins our enco miums, and as a book containing the noblest thon2hts and the least perishable effusions of Robert Mont mery it demands the attention of the reflective mul titude. MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED). THE JOURNAL OF DESIGN. This, the sixth monthly number of the Journal of Design, completes the first volume of that very excellent publication, which is dedicated by special permission to Prince Albert, as a very appropriate acknowledg ment " of the uniform and successful endeavours of his Royal Highness to aid the progress of the arts and manufactures in his adopted country." In the preface to this first volume the directors of the work congratulate themselves on the great, and, we may add, deserved success which has attended their efforts. Independent of the services which it renders to de signers and manufacturers, the Journal of Design, by tending to cultivate and develop a popular love of the Beautiful, is a most welcome and most valuable addition to our periodical literature. The pre:ent number contains, among other things, some exquisite samples of paper hangings. TILE SPORTING REVIEW. The Sporting Review is this month embellished with a portrait of " Lady Evelyn," the winner of the Oaks, 1849. Among the literary contents are an essay on the " Science of the Rod," by Ramrod (who anticipates that every one noticing the signature will inquire, " What can R amro d k now a b out the rod ?"); "Sketches from the Cape of Good Hope ;" ' Otter Hunting ;" " Sporting Clubs ;" " Racing in July," and other papers of a similar character. - THE FARMER'S. The Farmer's Magazine for Augu s t i s o f more than average excellence. The first article is an in teresting inquiry into the impurity and purification of water. Among the rest of the contents are arti cles on " Manure from House-fed Animals," " Ad vantageous Grazing of Sheep and Cattle," " Hay making," " Forcing Strawberries," a report of the lecture on the " Anatomy, &c., of the Organs of Respiration, with particular reference to pleuro pneumonia in the Ox, " delivered at the recent agri cultural meeting at Norwich, by Professor Simonds, &c. The various proceedings of the great Norwich meeting are, of course, amply detailed in the Farmer's Magazine. SHARPE' S LONDON. The principal attraction in Sharpe's this month is a beautifully engraved view of Buda and Pesth, from a painting by Bartlett. Miss Pardoe has contributed an article on Hungary in 1849, which (notwithstand ing its liberal sentiments) is far from according with our views, as one sentence will sufficiently testify. Miss Pardoe speaks of the Hungarians as struggling, she fears, hopelessly against a colossal enemy, who can scarcely fail eventually to overwhelm them by numbers, whereas the ultimate triumph of the Hun garians is, in our opinion, almost beyond a doubt. TUPPER'S TALES. The first number of a popular edition of the popular tales of Martin Farquhar Tupper has just been issued. In size and appearance this volume is similar to Mur ray's " Home and Colonial Library." The tale con tained in this first part is " The Crock of Gold, a Tale of Covetousness;" it is illustrated with a frontis piece by Leech TAIT. This is an excellent number of Tait. The first article," Reform the Law," is worthy of perusal, and, more than that, worthy of being put in practice. The second is upon that now peculiarly interesting topic, " The Hungarian War." " A Shetland Lochinvar" relates a romantic tale, of a similar character to that of Scott's popular ballad. The " Modern Vassal" is continued, and promises to increase in interest. " A Tale of the Mexican Gulf," and a well-written article, " There and Back Again," by Mr. St. John, are commenced. " Sketches from Highland Tradi tion," " The University of Oxford, its Defects and Remedies," and the ordinary " Registers," literary and political, &c., complete the list of contents of Tait for August. THE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. The Journal of Agriculture, and the Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, contains an article on the game-laws, - which advocates the preservation both of the " peasant " and the " pheasant," so as to afford amusement to the ricb, without injury to the poor. MISCELLANEOUS. The Metropolitan this month contains the conclu sion of Mrs. Tinsley's beautiful tale " The Storm and the Conflict," and the commencement of "The Gold seekers in the Sacramento," abridged from the French of Paul Duplessis. One of the best papers in this ma gazine is on " Juvenile Depravity," by the Editor. We perceive that various articles from the same pen, which we recently commented on in the Metropolitan, have been published in a little brochure, en titled " Cigars and Tobacco, Wine and Women as they Are, by a Modern Epicurean." The People's and flowitt's Journal commences a new series. Its contents, as usual, present an agree able compound o f the useful and the amusing. Among its poetical writers is Charles Mackay. Of a similar character is a new periodical, entitled the Home Circle, which numbers among its contributors Miss Agnes Strickland. " Who are the Hungarians P"—is a question answered by Chambers in a very interesting manner. "How much misery and mischief would be avoided," says the writer of this article, " if rulers would take the trouble to learn the A B C of polity and morality 1' The Church of England Magazine preserves its usual interesting and useful characteristics as a manual of reading for the several Sundays in the month. The Land we Live In very appropriately makes Dublin and its environs the subject of consideration this month. In addition to the accustomed pencil illustrations of the pen-and-ink descriptions, we have here an excel lent map of the environs of Dublin. The Colonial Magazine and East India Review, the Colonial Church Chronicle, and the Evangelical Magazine and 2124eionary Chronicle treat with sufficient ability of colonial and missionary subjects. Macphail's Edinburgh Journal contains the first part of " Horce Davidse, in which a beautiful and most merited panegyric is pronounced upon those sublime strains "which have soothed, instructed, and comforted the pious and the penitent of mankind for three thousand years." Ainsworth's Magazine contains this month the final chapters of the brilliant, if not, in this instance, quite "ad mirable,:: prichtpn. "Guy Fawkes" is continuep4 - thos - _Rine AsSemblie is adorned with is . portrajtsof Rowena, the fair rival of the dark haired RebeeCi. Le Follet, graceful as ever; contains this month some beautiful fishing costumes. The Gazette of Fashion furnishes a variety of fanciful dresses for gentlemen. Frank Fairlegh, animated with his wonted spirit, continues to appear in monthly parts ; and to turn again from the gay to the grave, we have to notice the National Library of Select Literature, which this month contains the first part of Dr. Kitto's Bible History. Under the title of the Catholic Pulpit Mr. Dolman is issuing a publication containing some of the best sermons recently preached in Catholic churches, among others translations from the eloquent Lacordaire. This volume will, without doubt, be acceptable to members of that communion for which it is designed. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen's box at her Majesty's Theatre was, on Saturday evening. occu pied by the Viscount and Viscountess Canning,' the Marquise de Caraman, the Countesse do Flahault . and party. Her Majesty the Queen Adelaide's i box was occupied by the Viscount and Viscountess Curzon, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Trebeck, and party. Amongst the visitors were—His Grace the Duke of Wellington and the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Paulet, the Duke of Leeds, the Duke of Rut• land, the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis of Westmeath, his Excellency the Russian Minister, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, his Excellency the Belgian Minister, and Madame Van de Weyer, his Ex cellency the Brazilian Minister and Madame la Marquis de Lisboa, his Excellency the Neapolitan Ambassador, his Excellency the Minister of the Argentine Republic, his Excellency the Minister of Costa Rica, M. de Berg, the Baron Koller, the Count de Berke, the Count de Ro•- sen, the Charge d'Affaires of France and Madame Mon therot, the Earl of Eglintoun, the Earl Beauchamp, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine Villiers, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Shelburne, the Earl Granville, the Earl Bruce, the Earl of Falmouth, the Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, the Viscount Somerton, the Viscount Emyln, the Viscount Anson, the Viscount Canti I upe, the Viscount Ogden, Lord Ward, Lord Hubert de Burgh, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Win. Lennox, Lord Bateman, Lord Foulis, the Dowager Lady Monson and party, Lady Powlett, Lady Mary Bentinck, Lady Wetherell Warneford, Lord Burghley, the Hon. Miss Irwin, General the Hon. H. Cavendish, General the Hon. Arthur Upton, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Ward, Miss Burdett Coutts, Mrs. Bancroft. Mr. and Mrs. Browne and party, Sir Thomas Barrett Len nerd, Bart., M.P., and Lady Barrett Lennard, General Sir Frederick Trench, M.P., Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Woodford, Bart., Lady and the Misses Wood ford, Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., M.P., Lady Howard, and Miss Howard, Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Bart., the Bores de Guerlache, Lady Lesford, Lady Flower, Sir Charles de Crespigny, Bart., Sir William Keish Ball, Bart., the Count and Countess de Miremont, Chevalier Drouet, M. de Kichner, Hon. Cecil Forester, Mr. Sturt, M.P., Mr. Dodd, M.P., the Hon. Mrs. Norton, Mr. Somers Harford, Mr. Macgregor, Mr. and Mrs. Tudor, Mrs. Dodd, Lieu tenant-Colonel Ellis, Colonel Lockyer Freestun, 1.1_; • .. and Mrs. Lockyer Freestun, Mr. Fitzroy Somerse t, M n une, n F o T r r d e e i , a Mrs. wn o 1 11. Broadley, ALP., Major Buckley. Mrs- We are happy to hear THE LORD CUANCELLOR. — • the Noble and Learned Lord is regaining his hea lthin A Mr. B_ re satisfactory manner. liis Lordsbip and family are re ' r M e t r 0 . Wimbledon'. 11 , Colonel enni his Lordehip's de li ghtful seat, near siding at Copse bill, ker Wilson, M r . N r . o U r t b a , r t i n : n. to sell his horse, which he valued at 1,000 piastres, or a little over forty dollars. But, The course of true love did never yet run smooth;' . . and unfortunately his horse died, hich reduced Lica to d( spair. Shortly after, the girl's uncle claimed her for his son, then five years old, offering to give his daughter to her brother. According to an immemorial custom of the Arabs, such a claim took precedence of all others, and the beautiful girl, just ripening into womanhood, was betrothed to the child. With the philosophy of his race, however, 'Awad subs( quently consoled himself with a wife; but, true to his first love, never sees its object without violent emotion." _ The above extracts form but an inadequate idea of the ' varied riches of this delightful work. It is illustrated with numerous sketches of scenes and individuals described in its pages, and contains also an elaborate sketch map of the river Jordan and the Dead Sea. Before taking leave of Captain Lynch, let us not forget to mention the characteristic account he has given of his interview with the Sultan —an interview which had nearly never taken place owing to the American's refusal to give up his sword before entering the Royal presence. This breach of etiquette was ultimately connived at, and Captain Lynch retained his sword. During his progress to the royal apartment he was disgusted with the abject servility of the Sultan's attendants. Speaking of the secretary, who conducted him to the royal chamber, he says, " His countenance and his manner exhibited more awe than I had ever seen depicted in the human face. He seemed to hold his breath, and his step was so soft and stealthy that once or twice I stopped under the impression that I had left him behind, but found him ever beside; me. There were three of us in close proximity, and the stair-way was lined with officers and attendants; but such was the death-like stillness that I could dis tinctly hear my own footfall, which, unaccustomed to palace regulations, fell with untutored republican firmness upon the royal floor. If it had been a wild beast in his lair that we were about to visit there could not have been a silence more deeply hushed." The Sultan received the American with great cor diality. He conversed with him through an inter preter. Some prints illustrative of the North Ame rican Indians (the work of American artists) were presented to the Sultan. He looked at them, and said he considered them evidences of the advance of the United States in civilization, and be would trea sure them as a souvenir of the good feeling of its Government towards himself. "At the word civili zation, pronounced in French," writes Captain Lynch, " I started, for it seemed singular coming from the lips of a Turk and applied to our country. I have since learned that he is but a student of French, and presume that by the word ' civilization' he meant the arts and sciences." This little incident is as natural as it is amusing. We can conceive the indignation of the representative of Republican Ame rica on hearing his country's civilization patronisingly commended by a Turk ! THE CHRISTIAN LIFE; a Manual of Sacred Verse. By the Rev. Robert Montgomery. [SECOND NOTICE.] Twenty years have expired since the author of this volume first published any of his efforts in versi fication—seven since his name last appeared from the press, coupled with a new poetical composition. Long as those intervals may seem to be, respectively, Mr. Montgomery has, nevertheless, been evidently endeavouring throughout to enhance and elevate his reputation. His sedulous efforts have been thus directed, to our thinking, for two paramount reasons —first, with the intention of dissipating the ridicule attached to his earlier productions by several in different, and by one remarkable and influential reviewer; secondly, from a solicitude to justify the generous and earnest encomiums which had been (strangely enough) pronounced upon those very same productions not merely by an extraordinary number of persons known under the generic title of the " reading public," but also, and in a particular manner, by men whose works had acquired celebrity, and whose genius has rendered them illustrious. For it is a circumstance not aufficiently borne in remem brance with regard to Mr. Montgomery, that while he has been derided by one man of distinguished eminence in letters, he has been eulogised as emphatically by many individuals of extraordinary capacities, both in poetry, history, and criticism—authors whose virtues are the honour and whose names are the glory of our national literature. If the more crude effusions of his imagination have been ridiculed in the pages of the Edinburgh, they have received the most earnest and cordial commendations in those of Blackwood. If the "Omnipresence of the Deity" has been analyzed in the language of scorn and derision by Mr. Ma caulay, it has elicited also the plaudits of Robert Southey—the encouraging praise of George Crabbe —the graceful approbation of Lisle Bowles—the emphatic panegyrics of Professor Wilson—the un stinted applause of Archibald Alison—the elevating approval of Sharon Turner—and the genial and heart born encouragement of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Is not that a wreath of bay-leaves for the young aspirant for a poetical reputation ? Is not that a chorus sufficient to show that the effort of the stripling, although in several points weak and ineffective, was not wholly futile, or wholly contemptible ? When the author of the " Sybilline Leaves can be moved to enthusiasm, would it have been altogether irrational or hazardous to predict better things from the object of that enthusiasm ? When the creator of Christopher North, when the historian of Europe, when the bard of Kehama, when the annalist of England, and the commentator of the " Dunciad," and the poet of rural simplicity, unite in asserting the existence of merit in a " first volume," are those either rash or frivolous who presume to admire its versification ? We leave the answer to these questions to the candour of the unimpassioned. Sufficient for us, and for Mr. Montgomery, is it to couple his own acknowledgment, that " at the age of eighteen or nineteen (the period in which his intro ductory work was penned) the mind is crude and the taste imperfect," (p. vii.) with that energetic and almost pathetic assertion of John Keats (pathetic, as occurring in his introduction to his " Endymion"), that " the imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is," says Keats in a tone of sombre self-consolation, " a space of life be tween, in which the soul is in a ferment, the charac ter undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thicksighted !" How true that is, we have most of us felt by a bitter experience. Mr. Montgomery confesses that he has so felt it by the declaration con• tained in the preface of " The Christian Life," to the effect that the " Omnipresence," ,as now published, thiscom pfaacretdwwithitha manlythe earlier n e a d e i n t i u o o n u s s . m ß p e o fe s r u e r i e n , " has been .corre c t e d a l most i nto a new poem when " co g th t e author remarks; that the, sarcastic criticism" of .MV.. Macaulay " only serves to perpetuate verbal errors and defective lines, which no longer exist, except in his criticism." "Doubtless," he continues, in a dignified tone of remonstrance," as one who professes, truth, can dour, and open manliness of disposition, that successful writer will not republish his assault without some re ference to the circumstance here stated." For our selves we cannot say how immeasurably better that gentle yet direct rebuke is, in our estimation, than the peevish and spiteful vituperations which out of a mistaken spirit of friendship were directed against Mr. Macaulay in an essay penned some time back by Mr. Archer Gurney. Mr. Gurney should have known that a great writer, a writer illustrious by the combination in himself of the qualities of a brilliant rhetorician, a ripe scholar, an erudite historian, a graceful essayist, a poet of no inconsiderable forceful ness, an orator of no narrow renown, a statesman of no meagre reputation—is not exactly the fittest mark for every paper pellet of every adventurous apologist, in any moment of petulance and irritability. Mr. Montgomery, in a very different mood, with the dignity becoming a scholar, the self-pos session of a gentleman, and the suavity of a Christian, remonstrates with Mr. Macaulay in a manner such as, to the generous and enlarged intellect of that eminent man, must, we are satisfied, prove wholly irresistible; the more so as the remon strance is accompanied with a declaration that the " verbal errors and defective lines," to which he ori ginally directed public attention, have by this time been entirely expunged. One thing in regard to Mr. Montgcmery—and it is an impression forced upon our conviction by the very circumstance of his having been simultaneously admired and ridiculed by different sections of the community —appears to us to be altogether incontestable. We allude to an opinion which we have now for a considerable time enter tained, that Mr. Montgomery does anything but justice to those intellectual faculties with which he is unquestionably gifted, and some of them even to a very remarkable extent—that, in short, he has written too rapidly—that his verses have been rather too " unpremeditated." His facility of composition has been so exhilarating to his fancy, that it has tempted him to throw the reins to his Pegasus, and to traverse the realms of his imagination with what we cannot but regard as a very reprehensible precipitation. Endowed with a marvellous fund of language, he has coined that bullion of the mind into thoughts of every fantastic proportion; he has treated that intel lectual treasure as a spendthrift does his gold— squandering it with a blind and lavish profusion upon every subject that chanced for the moment to present to him an aspect of fascination. Sometimes, indeed, he has arrayed the veriest scarecrow of a conceit in the gorgeous apparel of his peculiarly rich andornate diction. At others, carried away by the cestrum, or Ei r it y ol2 of his meditations, be has uttered phrases that might be stigmatised as plagiarisms but for the distortion which proved them to be involuntary. In proof of which, we might mention, in particular, se veral of the passages referred to by Mr. Macaulay, and since erased from the " Omnipresence." While these errors of judgment and violations of taste suffi ciently account for the unmitigated abuse showered, by some critics upon the writings of Mr. Montgomery, they are, nevertheless, blunders MEMORANDA OF A MUSICIAN BY GEORGE J. 0. ALLMANN. " Notes, notes, forsooth, and noting !" Sitmisrnmr. No. XVI. GUISEPPE TARTINI. ' The greater portion of my readers must have heard of the singular anecd o t e re l ate d o f L a S ona t a d i D . :unto, but inasmuch as accounts h ave d i ffered so materially as to wake a reasonable doubt of its veritability, the follow ing relation, which M. de Lalande informs us he heard frcm Tartini's own mouth, may accurately be relied on. " I dreamed one night," said the eccentric Musician, "in 1713, that I had made a compact with the Devil, who promised to be at my service on all occasions, and, during this vision everything succeeded according to my mind, my wishes were prevented and my desires always surpassed by the assistance of my new servan'. In short, I imagined that I pra sente3 the Devil my vio'in, in order to discover what kind of a musician he was, when, to my great astonishment, I heard him play a solo so singularly beautiful, which he executed with such superi,r taste and precision, that it surpassed all the music which I had ever heard or conceived in my life. So great was my surprise and so exquisite my delight upon this occasion that it deprived me of the power of breathing. I awoke with the violence of my sensations, and instantly seized my violin, in hopes of expressing what I had just heard, but in vain. I, however, then composed a piece which is, perhaps, the best of all my works, and called it the Devil's Sonata.' " Tartini was wont to say that it was immeasurably inferior to that which he dreamed the "illustrious Stranger" executed, and furthermore de clared that could he have obtained a subsistence by other means he would have destroyed his instrument and abandoned music for ever. GUADAGN I Was not only remarkable but famous for his politesse towards the fair sex. An amusing instance of this is recorded. One day, while he was engaged in conversation with a lady, a domestic, entering the apartment in haste, announced to the musician that the King of Sardinia was in the ante-chamber. "Is he," returned Guadagni coolly, as if lie were the monarch receiving the musician at his levee," is he? Then request hls Majesty to wait till this lady has finished her business with me." Of this wonderful magician of PAGANINI the violin the following interesting anecdote i s re l ated. Travelling in Germany, the great artist arriv e d w i t h out the gates of Frankfort, where he alighted, and i nstea d of entering the city pro: ceeded to a quiet and retired auberge in the suburbs. After having partaken of his usually slender supper, Paganini, absorbed in reverie, mounted the narrow stairs to the place assigned for his repose, a narrow and mean looking garret. By that time the night, which was, however, remarkably beautif u l, had considerably ad vanced, yet Paganini seated himself at the open window,. and gazing into th e n i g ht saw th e brilliant eyes of heaven only through the medium of his own, while the spirit of his dreamy and imaginative fancy peopled the surrounding space with strange forms and shadows that to the rapt musician were not phantasms, but partook of substantiality and real existence. Suddenly the clock of some neighbouring kirche struck one, and in the space of a moment "A change came o'er the spirit of his dream;" for instantly the remembrance of an occurrence of which he had been an ear-witness occurred to his mind. The Wizard-violinist abruptly caught up his instrument and endeavoured to pourtray sounds that still echoed through his ears. The moans and cries of a newly- born infant, the agonized sobs and shudders of the mother, were imitated with the most consummate fidelity by his won derful bow. The unaccustomed sounds soon awakened the host, who precipitately arose, marvelling through what means such ♦isitors could ha►e entered his house unknown to himself. Arousing his son also, they hastened together to the apartment from whence the sounds proceeded. Their astonishment may be guessed when they perceived the tall, gaunt, almost unearthly figure of a man—or of a disembodied spirit—for it seemed as much like the one as the other—strangely gesticulating. But they were soon calm enough to be hold that it was a man apparently lost in intense thought, who not (van noticing their entrance caused his violin to utter, so it appeared, distinct human sounds, while the pale moonlight lit up his cadaverous face with an ex pression not of the earth. They retirei immediately, without daring to disturb the " midnight recollections" of the performer, and it was not till some time after wards that they discovered their guest was the renowned Paganini. II ANDEL. Our phlegmatic composer being once requested by Dr. Greene, no mean musician of his day, to peruse and give his opinion of an anthem which he had just composed, invited the latter to come and take coffee with him the next morning, when he would inform him what he thought of it. Accordingly the aspirant for Handel's opinion wail punctual to the appointed hour, coffee was served, and a number of various topics discussed. The Doctor, burning with anxiety to hear Handel's opinion of his manuscript, fidgeted and grew uneasy, but the wily German, as it amused at the torments of his visitor, still avoided speaking about it. At length the Doctor, no longer able to control his impatience, exclaimed, " W(11, Sir, but my anthem, what is your opini , n of it?" " Ach your antem ' rEspondul Handel," your antem? vy I tilt hang it out of de window." " Out of the window— hang my anthem out of the window," repeated the Doctor in a burst of anger, " what on earth for, Sir?" " Vy—l did link it vanted AIR, Sir, deat noes all!" TACCIIIN AR 111. The famous mae. , tro di canto (and father of Madame Persiani) wai in personal appearance very extraordinary. Of diminutive stature, he possessed a large he ad and very high shoulders, that almost approached deformity. In singing he never moved or made a single gesture. Ile was engaged once to sing at the Optra Itulien, Parrs. Curiosity was on the qui vice, tor be was the most re nowned tenor of his day. He merely sent to the theatre to inquire the name of the opera in which he was to perform, and sent word that he required no re hearsal. He therefore arrived sans facon, and with his hat in one hand and his cane in another advanced in front of the orchestra—a very statue—and without the slightest motion, or stirring from his position, performed his part in the concerted music, or sang his arias, think ing about as much of the libretto or the action of the drama as of Utopia. He had been used to a public, which, knowing his eccentricity, was accustom( dto it. But now it was otherwise—his appearance in the first in • stance created evident disapprobation, quickly fol lowed by unmistakeable signs of derision, which at length were succeeded by ill-repressed bursts of laughter. Tacchinardi, perceiving the unfavourable impression he produced, stopped, approached more nearly to the foot lights, and saluting with a polite bow the auditory, said —" Gentlemen! I have not come to show my person but my voice. I am not to be looked at but heard. Be good enough then to listen while I sing!" He then began to sing his part, when his fine voice and exquisite taste soon changed their derision to unanimous admiration end applause. GLUCK. " You sing that air very loud," said this Michas Angelo, this Nestor of Musicians, very bluntly one day to a prima donna, "but do not flatter yourself you sing it well." The vocalist, however, begged to differ from him and only sang it still more vociferously. " At!! well," said Gliick quietly to himself, "she will be tired before she has finished it." CHERUBIM. It is a strange fact that throughout his entire career Napoleon evinced a great dislike to the person and abilities of Cherubini.- The cause of this antipathy is involved in uncertainty, but there are many reasons given for it. Among them the following is the more probable:—Cherubini, on the foundation of the Con servatoire de Musique r!t Paris, in 1796, was appointed one of the three inspectors of the studies of the pupils. Napoleon, after the campaign in Italy, brought with him a march by Paesiello and wished to hear its per formance at the Conservatoire. M. Sabrette, the director of the institution, d eeme d i t an exce ll ent opportunity of exhibiting to the future Conqueror all the resources of the new and first musical institute in France, and ac cordingly chose a cantata and mare& funcbre, whic h Cherubini bad composed fur the iurisr!al of General Roche. This exasperated the fiery Corsican, who was offended that his wish had not been yielded to, and who considered that it was a reproach upon his musical taste, to have substituted for the march of Paesiello the works of Cherubini. But that which wounded his vanity still more was, that he should hear the praises of General Roche recited when his own would have been far more pleasant to his ear. Let that be as it may, however, Napoleon from that moment felt a singular and lasting dislike to Cherubini, and exhibited this narrow-minded feeling by constantly lauding in the presence of the un fortunate musician the works of Paesiello, whom he said he ranked as the first among composers, after whom ho only recognized Zingarelli, thus denying to Cherubini even the honour of second rank. It was owing to this persecution on the part of Napoleon that Cherubini was seized with a nervous affliction, the first attack of which occurred in 1801, when, so much had this display of Bonaparte's dislike preyed upon his mind, he became suddenly disgusted with the art which he had so lung, so diligently, and so successfully cultivated, and gave himself up during the continuance of this depression and melancholy to the study of botany. Notwithstand ing this circumstance, which would have awakened pity in the breasts of any but of the Corsican despot, Na poleon never ceased his dislike to the composer of Lodoiska, but displayed it on all occasions and in every . possible way. Even when h e con f erre d upon Ch e rubim in 1815 the Cross of the Legion d'Honneur ho acknow ledged; avowedly that he pr esen t e d it to him, not as mark of distinction, but in consequence of his bein g director of the music of the National Guard. THE MUSICIANS' COMPANY. It is a fact but little known, that the musiciars of London possess a charter granted by James the First under the denomination of " The Company of Musicians of London." Their coat of arms is, .azure, a swan argent. within a tre a s ure counterfluro or, i n a chief gul e3t a rose between two lions or, and the cell still sign Lyra for a crest. The intention of the foundecnriofvetii:eism c ri Cim:: parry w as, that regularly instructed and o sicians should be enabhd to exercise their profession to the exclusion of ignorant charlatans, ex isted in great numbers. who at that tim© STEPHEN JEFFRIES. This eccentric individual was, so we gather from Sir John Hawkins, a pup i l of Michael Wise, and in 1680, being then only twenty-two years of age, was el ec t e d organist of Gloucester Cathedral, which office he held for thirty-four years. He was the composer of the fine melody which even at this time the chimes of the cathedral continue to play, and which is of very re markable const ruc ti on . J e ff r i es was a man of singular humour, and p ossesse d cons id era bl e intellectual powers ' and a ready gift of repartee. An instance of this will suffice:—Ono of the choristers of Gloucester, in order to cure him of his well-known habit of remaining late at taverns, was persuaded by the wife of Jeffries, who dressed him up in a winding-sheet for the occasion, to meet the truant husband with a large lantern and midis in the cloisters, through which he would have to pass on his way homeward. Jeffries at the expected time appeared, while his zigzag evolutions plainly evinced that he was Bacchi picnics. The chorister therefore rote and attempted to terrify him by giving a most dismally prolonged groan. But the unabashed and fearless organist only retorted by holding as it were a sort of conversation with hinise f, as drunken men are in the habit of expressing his wonder by saying, " I thought you spirits bad been abed before this time of night!" The ghost burst into a hearty laugh, and the illusion ♦anished. That night, however, Jeffries never went home at all. lie finished it with the Phantom in " Potations pottle deep!" TESTIMONIAL TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES. THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHr OF EVERY NATION 'WHICH I.OVES RIGHT ♦ND Ll- BERTY."—Kossuth's Protest against Russian Interven tion. Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:—. Messrs. Coutts and Co. Messrs. Drummond. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of the committee recently formed to carry out the Testimonial. * * *All further Post-office orders to be made payable to Murdo Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. ...707 6 51 Subscriptions already received From a Few Members of the St. Luke, Chelsea, Provident Society (and Friends), held at Mrs. Hanks, the Crown, Exeter-street, Sloane street, Chelsea ... A Bristol Liberal, second subscription Five Working Men at Holloway Subscriptions from Glistonbury— John Norman J. G. L. 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Contributions by W. Dennis ... 0 8 6 A mite from a few Friends of the Hungarians, from the Good Intent, Brown-street, Grosve nor-square Simnel Haynes ... ••• ... 0 2 6 11. A. F., per J. 5.... 0 5 0 Mr. Bland, Ferry-hill, from a few Sympathisers . 0 4 0 From the Parlour Customers of Mr. Barker, Somer's Arms, Wilste a d- s t ree t, Somer's-town . 1 7 6 Total £725 2 bj THE HUNGARIAN WAR SONG. [Written by the Rev. William Wickenden, Bart., who has already served with the unconquerable Circaesians, and would, with heart and soul, join any auxiliary force which might be raised among his countrymen to aid the heroic and noble-minded Hungarians ; and though his profession might preclude him from engaging in the actual strife, yet he could administer consolation to the heroes dying on the field of battle, and would do ao— and, if necessary, die with them.] Children of Heroes ! arouse to the fight! And scatter your foes to the mansions of night; Your old deeds of glory renew on that plain Where your foemen, in myriads, lay batter'd and slain. See Freedom, in his sun.bright car, Leads to death or victory ; Glorious is the laurel'd grave Of those who for their country die. Yon dark cloud of smoke over Buda's seath'd brow Springs frcm the villa:es mouldering below ; And the loved, much-loved spot, where your cottages stood, Is now a charred chaos of fire and of blood'. From : ruin dark your country save; Brothers, swift triun ph fly; Glorious is the laurel'd grave Of those who for their country die. Your consort 3 arc ravished, your children are torn From the arms of the mother, distracted, forlorn ; And now see the d tstards approach to the fight. Revenge ! Shout Revenge ! On, on in your might ! Oh, Heaven ! inspire each martial breast ; Disown that wretch who dares to fly ; Glorious is the laurcl'd grave Of thot , e who for their country die. The sabres clash wildly, the cannons loud thunder, And, like a fierce whirlwind, the brave kionveds sunder The dark frowning phalanx of tyrants before ; They fly in dismay, or roll trampled in gore. We thank thee—Oh, thou King of heaven For this resplendent victory ; Glorious is the laurel'd grave 01 those who for their country die. HUN GARY. Huns wha hae for freedom bled, Buns wha hae free tyrants fled, Welcome to a Briton's bed— A Briton's sympathie. Now has come the eventful hour; Fuemcn on your country lour; See approach the despot's power— . To crush 'its li6ertie. Who would be a coward Sclave, Wha would fear to " cross the nave," Wha would fill an exile's grove, Let him starve and die. Wha for hame, for life, and law, Freedom's sword would strongly draw, Free-man stand or freeman fa', Let him honoured be. By oppression's galling chains, By all Humanitie disdains, We will drain our dear:wongains, - . But ye shall be free. Up ye Magyars! on ye brave! Haste, your bleeding country save! Strike—till freedom's banner wave O'er a' your ain countrie. Lay the bloody Bruin low, — Tyrants fall in every foe, Lrberty's in every blow. On—to victoria ! SCOTUS. Aug. 1, 1839. READING ELECTION. The nomination took place yesterday in the Town Hall. The Mayor (Mr. Thomas Harris) presided. Mr. Sanstort proposed Mr. Bowyer. Mr. 11. F. LETCRWORTU seconded the nomination. Mr. BOWYER said he appeared before them to ask their suffrages, not as a nominee of any party, but as the representative and exponent of those great principles of national Improvement and progress which were main tained by the Liberal constituency of the borough. He had nut been nominated by any strange Member of Par liament at any meeting, but had come forward as there was no Liberal candidate in the field. He had a deep interest at stake in the county, and, therefore, might probably be a more safe representative of the borough than any stranger. Mr. H. SimoNns proposed Mr. Standford. Mr. HODGES seconded the nomination. Mr. STANFORD was for maintaining that monarchical n system of government under which the greate st of practical and rational liberty existed. He in favour maintain the Church Establishment. . wis a h m e to s of protection, maintaining 0 uforr connexionf r free tra tie w was it h a t o f t a eu. t r l oilIce:I:Di was an d for the maintenance of Church and Norton. Sa Mr. CARROLL proposed Mr. Exam. seconded f in th e nomination. our of those measures of free Mr. NORTON was een g t:e v n to the country, and the re restrictions on commerce and the reform; e trade foovral wh l ich h f i s c iw h i people. He was in favour of fi nancial an advocate o f an extension of the auf rt a measure for shortening the duration of I arliament. He believed vote by ballot r n g u e s an dr industry heo f was othua the people. remaining support m ight do good, and could do no harm; he was for the abolition of ecclesiastical courts, and was opposed to the levying of any distress on Dissenters for the support of the Established Church. As to the colonies, he had spent twelve years in them, and was satisfied that good government would do away with the necessity of an armed force for their protection. He was opposed to the geme-laws. Mr. U. MNE nominated Sir John Hare. Mr. W. HONE seconded the nomination. Sir Joint HARE was for an extension of the franchise to every person who had been properly educated, He was in favour of the ballot, and thought all sects ought to build their own places of worship. Mr. JAMES proposed, and Mr. BIICIELAND seconded, Mr. Clark, the Chartist candidate. Mr. CLARE addressed the electors at great length in support of his peculiar opinions. The MAYOR then put the names of the different iffe l r s e o nt can didates, when there appeared-- For r r Mr. r. s ßowyer, taord aboutabout ... 200 For Mr. Norton, about 400 For Sir John Hare, about ..• 50 For Mr. Clark, about •416 •• SO The MAYOR declared the show of hands to be is favour of Mr. Norton. A. poll row demanded, Pad Will take place to•cisy MIA IIA - 30% lb 7% 0 1 4 16% 1263 i le% 4% 5% -. 4 %4 a.* . . 1...1 - lOi ii% , x d - • - s.ct ;)x %. 1 ~. 6. 470.