The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-21 00:00:00

HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS

A very delightful performance took place at these
rooms on Thursday evening last—the first exhibition of
the students of " The British School or Vocalization,"
established last year, and conducted by Mr. G. F.
Flowers, the giver of the concert. Mr. Flowers was
assisted on this occasion by twenty-four of his pupile,
who performed a variety of excellent selections in a very
admirable manner. The contralto voice of Miss Annie
de Lara, aged twelve! and the soprano voice of Miss
Clara Holmes, aged ten! astonished the audience. These
young ladies were encored in two Italian duets, and
certainly Mr. Flowers may well be proud of such
evidences of the excellency of his tuition, which has pro-
duced an unparalleled instance of vocal maturity
and flexibility in singers so young. Encores were
likewise bestowed on Miss Brooke and Miss
Isabella Staunton, Miss Whittaker, and Mr. Benham.
The concert was under the immediate patronage of her
Grace the Duchess of Sutherland, was most fully and
fashionably attended, and Mr. Flowers wasnalled for-
ward and unanimously cheered in appreciation of the
signal success of his spirited, and we may add patriotic
undertaking, his design being to prove that English
voices are as beautiful as those of foreigners when pro-
perly developed. His ultimate intention is permanently
to establish'schools for operatic singing, and the exhibi-
tion on Thursday of the effects produced on the voice
by his method, after only fifteen months' instruction,
satisfactorily proves his ability to carry out his object.

REGULATION OF TIME BY ELECTRIC

TELEGRAPH.

On Thursday; the requisite arrangements that have
for some time past been pending between the Electric
Telegraph Company, the Astronomer Royal, and the
South Eastern Railway, for the establishment and trans-
mission throughout London and the provinces of moan
Greenwich or uniform time, being completed, the con-
struction of the ingenious apparatus intended to carry
out the object was commenced by Mr. Edwin Clark, the
company's engineer, upon the dome of the company's
west end station, opposite Hungerford market. The
operations, which commenced as early as three in the
morning, attracted great attention from the passers-by
through the Strand during the day. A scaffolding was
first erected on the top of the cupola, built under the
direction of Mr. Sandys, the constructor of the appa-
ratus, designed by Mr. Clark. This scaffolding
was 30 feet high, and from its summit an
uninterrupted view of London and the river
was obtainable, the total height at which the
apparatus stands being about 110 feet above the
level of the Thames. A high wind prevailed at inter-
vals during the day at this altitude. The scaffolding
having been tecurecl, the next step was that of raising
the apparatus, which consists of a long quadrangular
shaft or pillar'of wood 38 feet high and 8 in circumfe-
rence, formed of three sections. The first section of the
hollow shaft was fixed by the workmen into the floor of
the room underneath the dome, and thence carried
through and joined on the second 'section, and the third,
the latter of which WRS then passed through the centre
of a large globe or bell, which is intended, by meant; of
sympathetic electrical action, to fall every day situulta-
neeeele with the wela known bail on the top of Green-
wich -Observatory, between which and the Strand the
electric wires have been completed for the purpose, so
as to indicate to all London and the vessels below
bridge exact Greenwich time. The ball is a re-
markable object, being nearly six feet high and 16 in
eiccumference, eed could with ease accommodate three
people inside. It is formed of zinc, painted black,
so that it may be the better seen in contrast with a light
sky, with a broad white belt diametered about it, making
it look like a "great globe," or representation of a ringed
Sturn. The shaft is continued a few feet above the
ball, and at the extremity is a bright gilded weather
vane, with "E. T. C." on the arms. It may be stated,
to render the nature of the mechanism more understand-
able, that the apparatus is provided with an air cylinder
in connexion with the telegraphic wires between London
and Greenwich, and that when the ball at Greenwich
falls an instantaneous shock of electricity will be com-
municated along them, and this acting on au electrical
trigger connected with the ball in the Strand, will cause
it to fall simultaneously with that at Greenwich, and the
first experiment will be tried when the arrangements for
the carryingted at 1,
novel chronometrical are perfected.
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