The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-10 00:00:00

Mr. Leonard Walker's Concert.

This gentleman gave an evening concert at Han-
over-square Rooms on Wednesday last. The rooms
were very well attended, the music well selected,
And the concert, though rather too long, was on the
whole very successful. In fact the length was so
great that although several of the earlier pieces in
•he programme were passed over, it was eleven
o'clock before the second part was begun. The
lateness of the hour at which the performances com-
menced contributed in some degree to this delay,
another reason being that several pieces were re-
demanded. Among those thus honoured was Mdlle.
Parepa's brilliant and animated rendering of Auber's
hiughing song from Marion Lescant, and Master
Willie Pape's performance of Thalberg's ♦ariations
on " Home, sweet home." Mdlle. Parepa was un-
questionably the prima donna of the evening, but
Nldlle. Georgi, a new singer of much promise, shared
her laurels. She possesses a voice of rare extent,
and considerable power, and is heard to advantage
in airs like the famous " I 1 segreto," or Benedict's
" Sad sea waves." The former piece was among
her performances of Wednesday, and it is in music
of that style that she will be most popular. Herr
Oberthur was the harpist, and played several solos
with his usual success. His executive powers and
faculty of expression were shown to more advantage
In these than in the duet with the piano which he
played with Mr. Aguilar. There were other well-
known names among the performers, and the
audience appeared to derive much gratification
from the evening's entertainment.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
and a large circle have been invited by the Duke and
Duchess of Richmond to partake of the hospitalities at
Goodwood during the race week.
BURIED FOR CENTURIES.—SeveraI bodies have
been recently found embedded in a mass of har-
dened mud ; and the fortunate idea struck Signor Fiorello
of pouring plaster of Paris into the moulds thus formed
In this manner an exact caste was made, enclosing such
parts of the contained bodies as remained undecomposed.
Thus were obtained first, the body of a man stretched upon
his back, his features very well preserved ; in fact, so per-
fectly, that his friends, were they alive still, could have
sworn to his identity. Afterwards the remains of two
females, a woman and a young girl, were preserved in the
same manner ; so that, while of the dress only a cast re•
mains, the skull bones themselves are there, resting upon
the outstretched arm. At the moment of death, the left
hand seems to have been clasping the dress. In the elder
female the left hand is shut, one of the fingers having a
ring upon it. This group consisted of ono man and three
women, probably all of the same family, who were attempt-
ing to save themselves by flight, after having hastily
secured certain objects which they valued. Silver money,
besides four earrings and a finger ring all made of gold,
together with the remains of a linen bag, were lying near
the woman. One is struck by the fact that very many of
the persons thus disclosed expired while engaged in the act
of drawing their dress over their features. Two reasons
may be given for this. One, that it was done in the en-
deavour to prevent suffocation from the mephitic vapours
given off by the volcano. The other and the better, that
it was customary among the Romans to hide the face,
When in the act of death. Thus, true to history. Shake'
spears makes Antony say of " the mightiest Julius"—
.eind, in his mantle muffling up his face,
Even at the base of Pompey's statue,
Whkh all the while ran blood, great Casar fell,
—Dish tles "411 the Year Rowed."