The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

All the admirers of national music, taken in a cos•
mopolitan sense, ought to pay a visit to St. James's
Theatre. The airs and melodies of the Tyrolese
mountains, the cebrated " Jedel" of the Zillertbal,
and the national instrument not only of Tyrol, but of
the Bohemian Alps, -the " zither," may be heard
there to perfection. The company of Tyrolese singers
now performing at St. James's Theatre, for a limited
period only, are old friends of the English public;
on their appearance they were greeted with a friendly
round of welcome. The " Hunter's Echo in the Fo-
rest," and the " Laughing Chorus," were encored,
and each individual performance gave the highest
satisfaction; the perfect manner in which they keep
time together, blending their voices in one har-
mony, is admirable. Herr Veit Rahm's per-
formance on the zither is deserving of special
notice. The zither is a member of the guitar family
—the only difference being that it is laid fiat upon the
table, is consequently somewhat different in shape,
and has sixteen strings instead of four or five. This
instrument in the Bavarian and Bohemian mountains,
or rather in the valleys they encircle, as well as in
those of Styria and Tyrol, is the favourite instrument
of the villagers. It may claim as old an ancestry as
the harp of Erin, the bagpipes of Scotland, the violin
of Italy, or the guitar of Spain. Ita tones are wiry
and wild, but in the hands of a skilful performer, a
good zither is capable of giving forth the softest
sounds. Sufficient proof of this was given last night
by Herr Wit Balm, who, in his performance of "The
Evening Bells," elicited tones as soft as those of the
most delicately fingered harp, and notes as clear as
his own mountain rills. An Irish air, sung by Herr
Rainer, by desire, gave great satisfaction to the audi-
ence. We do not doubt that at the present moment
this novel entertainment will prove most attractive.

CREMORNE GARDENS.
THE THIRD SAFE PARACHUTE DESCENT BY
MADAME POITEVIN, AND ASCENT OF THE
LARGEST BALLOON EVER CONSTRUCTED.
The name of Poitevin has been brought before the
public rather invidiously during the past week, at all
events it now stands pre-eminent in the annals of
aeronautics; for not only has M. Poitevin produced
the largest and the handsomest balloon in the world,
but he has also rendered easy and safe that which has
hitherto been considered difficult, indeed, impossible
and dangerous. The inflation of this immense machine
li (which requires only the ball and cross to render it
a very correct representation of the dome of St.
Paul's) commenced at half-past seven o'clock on
Sunday morning, and at five o'clock last evening had
taken about 120,000 feet of gas. Some idea may
be formed of its extraordinary ascending power
when it is known that, in addition to the aid of 40
men, it requires nearly two tons of sand, distributed
through 200 bags, to prevent its ascent till the ap-
pointed time, which was to have been six o'clock,
but owing to the number of gentlemen anxious to
accompany the adventurous and scientific proprietor,
and the difficulty of making the English assistants
understand the French directions, the ascent did not
take place till half an hour after that time, which, it
must be admitted, was a trial to the patience of the
immense number of spectators assembled, but when
it did take place the simultaneous burst of applause
from the assembled thousands, the cheers, waving of
banners, and distribution of bouquets from the aris-
tocratic party who had purchased their transit to the
clouds, marked the gratification they one and
all entertained of the grandeur and splen-
dour of the ascent. In about five minutes
the parachute began to expand, another mi-
nute passed and the elegant little machine was seen
gradually descending, followed for some time by its
immense partner, no doubt managed by M. Poitevin
to give his party a good opportunity of watching the
descent, till, without oscillation or apparent risk, it
landed its intrepid occupant in a garden in the neigh-
bourhood of Clapham-common, from whence she was
driven through cheering multitudes back to the gar-
dens, to receive upon her presentation at the theatre,
within forty minutes, the warmest welcome. The party
of twenty-five ladies and gentlemen who occupied the
car descended in safety in the grounds of Mr. Good •
child, of Beckenham, and made their appearance at the
gardens by ten o'clock, and testified in very warm
terms the delight they had experienced in their trip,
and the high sense they entertained of the superior
aeronautic knowledge and talent of M. Poitevin. The
next ascent will take place on Thursday. The gardens
were densely crowded.

LECTURE ON SHAKSPERE.
Last evening a lecture was delivered by Aladame
Steinberg, on the Genius of Shakspere, in the theatre
attached to the Western Literary Institution in
Leicester-square. The subject being one which has
almost been exhausted by writers, as well as lecturers,
the lady attracted but a small audience, though her
merits are of no mean order, and certainly deserved
a little more encouragement. Her language is ele-
gant, perspicuous, and scrupulously correct, and her
mode of delivery easy and emphatic. One great fault,
however, she had, if in a lady it can be properly so
termed. She is a little too much inclined to
hero worship. Shakspere is her idol, and all
who vesture to insinuate an imperfection in his
works or his life are actuated by spleen, jealousy, or
vindictiveness. Throughout his whole productions
there is not a blemish, error, or defect—they may be
read by all with profit and by the most innocent
maiden without a blush. Where others find the poet
at fault she discovers a beauty, and from every ob-
seure sentence or expression she evolves a wide stream
of light. According, in fact, to her definition, he is
not only the paragon of poets, but an imperishable
and perfect model of truth, morality, and wisdom.
Of course, none dispute the genius of our im-
mortal bard, but there is a limit beyond
which praise defeats its own purpose as well as de-
traction. A great portion of the lecture consisted
of a refutation of an article recently published in
Chambers's Journal, in which it was stated that
Shakspere was not the author of the plays passing
under his name, but that they were the production of
some poor half-starved student from a foreign country,
who was kept locked up by Shakspere, and the
emanations from whose transcendent intellect he ap-
propriated to himself. The fair lecturer was mightily'
indignant at so sweeping an accusation, but the ap-
pearance of a solitary article of this description, when
anything in the shape of novelty is so eagerly seized
upon, was scarcely of sufficient importance to justify
so lengthened a reference to it before a public audience,
especially as the authorship has rem ained undisputed
for more than two centuries.

EDUCATION IN DRAWING.—The Committee of
Privy Council for Education have recently issued circulars to
the inspectors of schools directing them to aid, by every
means in their power, the system proposed by the Depart-
ment of Practical Art for causing elementary drawing to
become a part of national education. It is intended to teach
the very simplest elements of drawing in all schools willing
to bear a small proportion of the necessary expense, and
then admit the qualified scholars to study in a central draw-
ing school in every town. The importance of the new
scheme thus set on foot will be fully appreciated when it is
remembered that until the public ignorance in such matters
is removed no expensive or successful effort can be made to
raise the standard of taste in design amount; our manufac-
turers.—Times.
TIIE LATE ACCIDENT ON TEE BRISTOL AND
EXETER RAILWAY.—The second fatal result has ensued from
the accident to the express train on Wednesday last at
Creech, near Taunton. The engine-driver, Eaton, who had
sustained severe injury of the wrist, died yesterday (Monday)
morning in the Taunton Hospital. His arm was amputated
on Friday, and mortification set in on Sunday. His del:I osi..
Lion has been taken, but it throws :no light on the cause of
the engine running off the line. He was 34
and laa left a wife, but lato fauilky, years of age,

THE FRENCHREPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The greater part of the first page of the Gonnatu
tionnel is filled with an article by M. VERON on tilt
fina. n
itemsces. ltolf .
this y E
daeopNa
rcontinues
theto dissectG
t diffe-
rentanc
to indicate reforms in the mode of
siderably to the
taxes and duties, • ofovoeornllemoteinng,
the
positionc lose of hoits rwechelicphtsheoifmatghieneTarewaosuulrdy. adAd
tcotho;
ilalr.ticle he notices at some length the pre
of all the existi*EngmitLaExeDB,2
M. DE andG'
the
eDeN substitutionfor t he aobfo l!vt
hi °ant
GIRARDIN calls a sole voluntary tax in tile
shapeo,.te of premium for an insurance of all the propertg
was
fiLia country. by the Government. This proposition
, %made a long time ago, and excited some attention
iotyinovelty, but we do not remember having seen
. noticed seriously by any of the other journals as a
project worthy of consideration. M. VERON does not
offer any opinion on this project. He says, on the
contrary, that he will not discuss it. age
The Pays has a long article on the new mortg
T
bank;, of which it expresses the most unqualified er
probation. according to this journal they
are
destined to render the most important services, 04
gradually to extinguish the burthens upon propertr
by enabling the owners to borrow money at a much
lower rate than at present, and with the certainty in
a given number of years of paying off the capital bY
a sinking fund from a portion of the interest.
The Bishop of NEVERS has accorded a dispensation
1 from fasting for the 15th instant, being the Wednes-
day of the Quatre Temps, the PRINCE PRESIDENT
being expected there that day. At Bourges, by or-
der of the Prefect, 20,000 medals are to be struck in;
commemoration of the visit of visits. _Municipal
councils, National Guards, and all the remark
civil and military, are on the alert. It ee
that the dealers in the different towns are
speculating •
largely in coloured lamps. The Presidential Imperial
progress will be very magnificent.
The PniNcE PRESIDENT has relieved M. ALFOONSO
REMOND, responsible editor of the months'oureignonne, from the sentence of six
meat, recently passed on him for violation of the levee
on the press.
'lite' e
Some of the pupils of the Boole Speciale Mi r
imprison-.
of St. Cyr recently wrote to the PRINCE PRESIDENT
to request that the sum charged for board and
eci.uc.ra;
tion might be diminished for them, on scow!! of t‘f.
straitened circumstances of their parents. The •""iti.'"'
the day after his visit, sent, in a letter written by Tao
-
self, 4,000 f, to the general commanding the
schoo t
be divided amongst them.
The Illoniteur contains a decree approving of the
statutes of the Paris to Cherbourg and Caen Rat
Dan4onantoothßeersaaopcporno.ving of the statutes of
LB
The section of the Bordeaux Railway from ,_,.
Beaux to Aogouleme is officially announced to be
opened on the 20th. i for
M. Decos, Minister of Marine, has left Per 6
that from
Havre, on his way to Cherbourg, to be present at the
launch of the Austerlitz.
The Echo de l' Aveyron, p üblished at Exclei, bro
received a second warnin. The name eaaf —a. to
MAupAs, the Minister ofg Police, is not ari„..,se feet
the document in approbation of what the prefect
has done.
The PRINCE PRESIDEIST of the Eepublic, aeitei°,m...:
and
hy General DE ST. ARNAUD, Minister of liana
e Generals MAGNAN, LEVASSEUR, RENATO, fi't
MIRAN; and a brilliant staff, passed in revievitte_i
Saturday, in the Champs Elytees, the sth Chass!nraZ
the 12th and 15th light infantry, and the sth, .1°
37th, 580, and 72.1 regiments of the line, under.tb._e_
command of General CARRELET. Ile distributed
_tru,
each regiment two crosses of the Legion of Fieuee
Well
and five military medals. The Peinsos was l'i
received.
The Moniteur Algerien contains a list of 334 per-
The
transported after the events of December, w2:l.
aye been pardoned or had their aentences comreuy,ts
The greater part of them belonged to the departures
ofof tthheeßsaesisnees.Alpes, the Herault, the Gera, and ' *i•
in the south. Only one belongs to the departmeaa
h sitleo
The Bourse was feeble, with little "tisoci-a-
doinff except in railway shares. The .rour- ea at
Half per Cents. opened at loaf. 50c., and el°1; r
104 f. 10e. for the end of the month; the l'bree Pee,
Cents, closed at 77f. 25c.; Orleans ay Great
1,445 f. Rouen, ; B73f. 75e.; Havre, 375 h; .-5f
Northern, 688 f• 750; Avignon, 490 f.; Basle, 31 •
, and 14005,
Paris and
798 f• 750.4 Lyons ad Avignon, 50G;
798£ es
~„
BoiuLriNanEeses, 61)000f.v;SIt..s.11iwizoite;r:tioGliGrigth6;7111,711T VP
LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, Sfsl:;ml-3.East le'
Dijon and Besancon, 2%—llutch Itile°!snib' 'l': embourg'
dian, 28 %—Grand Junction of France 0079 t. "iranucle, ‘1.3154......!
67i—Namur and ,Liege, 678' Northern'
i) Ditto, 201. 3 per cent. Bonds,— 14—Fars and Lyons,
Paris and Strasbourg, 285i8—Sambre any_geuse, 8 Ilk '

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SPAIN
We have received advices from. Madrid to the Bth
instant.
HwaAs e
let, eecrt expected
oomn the
Madridl 9th .
of
the
7th ital
The return of the QUEEN and Court to the OP
ercucto has just been fined 200 reels bysatbY e 9 Governor:
of Madrid fur an article which was considered cli ~.
respectful towards the QUEEN and the Governivel,
Inthe rosecution of the lieraldo by the Minister..;
Finance and which is to be tried by a jury, the ptlY.
prosecutor demands three years' imprisonment sea:.
a fine of 50,000 reels, against the responsible Pli,./LP
i‘ i. 1358,
lisher.____ Several other journals, the .EP°_,`7,
Constitutional, Diario Espanol, and .Esperawf
are prosecuted for copying the article ~,u,
the 'Jerald° which gave offence to the 70
sister of Finance, and punishments nearly as sever
that required against the Beraldo are ailed for. „op,
_ The Madrid Gazette of the 7th published `he
lowing decree of the Queen of SPAIN :----" In A° clip.
to perpetuate the remembrance of the signal ands
tinguished service rendered on the 2d February Izii".:
id a critical moment, to my royal person and InY by
lustrious daughter, the Princess of the AsT,_trante
'ate'
Colonel MANUEL MENCOS MANSODE ZU:(1,"'", le upon
quisim thedel nobility cant of the royal corps of llalberdiers, I confer .
timely succour. the
pitayro.o„f CTasuteille,
wordit the title of Ivi.el.ll
" amparo" iv3Pil°
The Bourse was not open on the Btb, it being -
nativity of the blessed Virgin.

Minister of of Foreign Affairs, M. VAN
HOLLAND; "The
A letter from the Hague, of the 9th, or :"" 0
SoNseq,c,e:
this clay presented his resignation to the NAN°. I°___.,
question relative to the treatywith France on literaarYti
piracy will probably receive by this resignettiet,lvo
amicable_ solution. Baron VAN Zir"No end
ciNhyaßinyhEexr. T 0 f
thean Statese ine tote
nne irearci , b ei
sr
butnhi
probable successor of M. VAN SON
appointment has not been definitively decided on.
BELGlUM.caused
The great meeting of the booksellers, which e
were some of the principal Ine°
so much alarm :o'k:rot Seto
in prospect, has passed off quoit_
quietly; not above 600 booksellers, among faina ijh
Brussels, Verviers, Liege, Namur, Charleroi, Ghent, e.
&c., assembled. Petitions were presented by de-
Brussels,
test from these
tint other places, all of which tie
in the trad
d, with almosmperate energy, against 1P
literary treaty.
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GERMANY. tried
The editor of the Reform of Haniburgh was jest.,
by the muicipal tribunal of that city on the Bth french
onR a charge of insult to the PRESIDENT of the , „The
sehpublic by publishing a caricature entitled,„ ,-3,
fi women are the supporters of the Einpire. ,)",,,,
public prosecutor called for the conderanation of 10•" d
defendant to a fine of 200 marks (about 3500, tiot
the costs. The tribunal wts to pronounce judg'"e
on the 10th.
The Borsenhalle of Hamburgh states that
thousand
emigrants left the port of 13rErneu then
Ist inst. th t
The German Journal of Frankfort informs 11,;:`-nilii
a conference of the members of the coalition ovtl:d—e;
stadt will be held in a few days in I3avaria, in order
be
to come to an understanding cs to tbe replY '°,,id
made to the last note of Prussia. It is thought, B-5
this journal, that the reply will not be of a
ta° t°
Da
render a rupture probable.
a portion of h
We read in the Leipsic Gazette :—" It is agerteci
port of Cattaro to Russia, in order to enable the
that the Austrian Government is about to cede the
letter
however,to place t hiesr e n 0 t
compel Austria to renounce ideal of b coming"
Baron WARD, all
maritime power, for
probable, forerthfl'seetc'essliobns wnoeusvll:l:
which the port of Cattaro JP
dispensable." -
enna on the Bth inst.
Minister of Parma, arrived at Vi-

ITALY.
The Opinione of Turin, of the 9th, mentions a ru'
mour to the effect that General LAMARMOILA, Ali
nister of War at Turin, is to compliment the P2/__
DENT of the Republic on the occasion of his Frogresls
through the southern provinces of France.
The ilisorgimento of Turin states that several per'
sons have been arrested at Naples and Palermo a!
being implicated in the political plots which caused
the arrests lately made at Siena, Perugia,
towns of Central Italy. f
From a Florence correspondence in the Opinionelo _
Turin of the 9th, we learn that the Tuscan Minister of
the Interior has notified an order to all printers not to
publish any speeches of the counsel for the defence in
the case of GUEURAZZI and others. The counsel for the
defendants have appealed against this order to
the Council of Ministers. Meanwtile the trial
an
other
"drags its slow length along ;" the reading .of the
docUmollB 111 OPPrrt of the prosecution will, IC i 5 Wm