The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-30 00:00:00

employed the time he thought he weir destroying in
taking my daily exercise." It is a terrible !glee'
tion to think that we are at the mercy of things so
insignificant as a " penny tin," and that one 01.1110
moat philosophical mathematicians living is obliged
to alter his hours of exercise to escape it. But Mr.
Babbage is not surrounded with music that is in-
strumental only. He is equally experienced about
the human voice in its various forms, He divides
the human voice into three heads. First, there
the human voice shouting out objects for sale; then
there is the human voice engaged in religious wor-
ship, in conjunction and in unison with the human
nose ; then, lastly, there is psalm singing. All these
interfere with Mr. Babbage, and distract his
workmen while they are engaged in attending to
the famous analytical engine. They drive him wild
with mental agony, and affect injuriously his mode
of life. Three or four times a day Mr. Babbage
rushes down stairs from the middle of the most
complicated calculation that ever perplexed a senior
wrangler, to beg the organs and the human voicas to
move off. Their triumph over his nerves and his
good nature ought, indeed, to rank as one of the
glories of St. Cecilia's day. Of the divine Cecilia--
the " inveutress of the vocal frame"—the poet
says, that " she drew an angel down," It is what
the organs outside accomplish most days of the
year with Mr. Babbage. Down he comes, almost
by clockwork, an angelic visitant, who, as the
organ-grinders soon discover, is not always in 6.11
angelic temper. it is easy to understand who it Is
that dislikes harmonies so constant and so noisy-
An astute magistrate once asked Mr. Babbage
whether he believed that a man's brains would be
injured by listening to a street organ. Mr. Bab'
bags replied, " Certainly not ;" for that no ma°
with a brain ever listened to street music. Those
who confine themselves like Mr. Babbage to philo-
sophy and to the music of the spheres, have no ear
for the tom-tom and the flageolet. It is far harder
to make out who it is that likes them. Mr. Bab-
bage has drawn up in a masterly manner two the'
roughly exhaustive tables, which he thinks embrace
all the admirers of that description of n.usic which
may be said to be made up chiefly of sounding brass
and tinkling cymbals. There is something slightly
acrimonious in the composition of the list, but ID
Mr. Babbage's state of mind we cannot wonder at
it. In the first column we have tavern keeperst
gin shops, coffee shops, servants, children, and
visitors from the country. It is evident what Mr.'
Babbage thinks of his college friends and of his
country cousins. It is an uncomfortable thing to be
tabulated by the side of coffee shops and gin
shops, and Mr. Babbage can only have done
it to his country visitors as a solemn
retaliation. On the other column he placar
first and foremost, ladies of doubtful virtue.
He conceives evidently of J./ zebel,as of a young pet'
son who was in the habit of looking out of upper,
windows, and encouraging hurdy-gurdies.
in the list come (" occasionally") " titled ladies;
" but these," adds Mr. Babbage, " are almost inns'
riably of recent elevation, and deficient in that taste
which their sex usually possess." This is decidedly
a fact for Mr. Dod. It is only those who have been
recently raised to the peerage who care for bra
bands. The reason, we imagine, must be, that it 1°
only a parvenue peeress who is to blow her own
trumpet. Nobody who came over with the Con'
quest ever encouraged street music. Thus we have 00
one side gin-shops, and Mr. Babbage's visitors from
the country, and Anonyma, and a growing Brul0;
magem nobility. On the other are Virtue, an
Modesty, and the Analytical Engine, and the 2101'
tagenets of Plantagenet Castle. Between such or
posits lists it is difficult to hesitate a moment about
choosing, and any man of refinement, or woman °i
character, will at once pronounce for Mr. Babbage
and for the suppression of all wandering melodist°
The real moral to be drawn from the annoyances t,!,
which Mr. Babbage is subjected, is, how much
better it would be in lei ge towns if man r,,,g
an analytical engine. Mr. Babbage's calculatll
machine has no sorrows ; no journeyman or mechael
has the power of patting it out by a constant Per,
formence upon "penny tins." It grinds evil
through Verdi and a hundred organs. Italians vitt
monkeys cracking nuts to siow music have no effe„.4
upon the quantity or the quality of its work.
internal organisation enables it to calculate log
rithms totally irrespective of a piano next door,or
German flute with window open across the way:
is therefore a great thing to be an analytical engine 0
Mr. Babbage tells us that during the last doyen
years of his life, at least one-fourth of his workllll
power has been destroyed by the nuisance of stree,
music. He thinks that 25 per cent. is a large 11,
come-tax to be levied upon the brain of the Mt°
lectual workers of the country for the sake of bra:,
bands. Mr. Babbage's brain is probably extrae_„
dinarily sensitive; but it is certainly a loss to scien.
that he should have to labour under such difficulttei:
nor can we conceive a more real penance to a sen°„
rive brain than the penance which the present rEg"
'EttiollB of the police compel him to undergo.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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YORK—SATURDAY.
There was a moderate supply of wheat at market to-del
late rates
Wheat, red were with37s to 39s difficulty ma
Oats..., lBs to 36)
e. 39
White do .40s to 443 Beans 33s to
Barley .26s to 30s Peas ...._..s to 4,,
..,0
Malt, 588 to 60s per qr. ; rye, 28s per qr, ; flour, b
to 29s per sack.

GRANTHAM—SITunDAY.
Old white: wheat,:42s to 44s ; red, 37s to 40s per o,Gst,i
►
new white, 425,.t0 445; red, 38s to 40s. Maltino•
33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; oats, 01d,
23°
265; new, 20s to24s; beans, 34s to 365; peas, 348 to 36s'

LEICESTER—SATURDAY. oct
There was a lair show of wheat at market to-day' 00,
prices about the same as last week, with a limited busill
—New white wheat, 42s to 45s ; red, 38s to 41s Pef.,o
stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley,
new, 33s to 36s per qr.; grinding, 28s to 308; old
c°o'
28s to 30s; new oats, 21s to 24s per 24 stone. 13
old, 108 to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 26s to 31s per 20 atop'

NORWICH—SATURDAY.
There was a rather liberal supply of wheat to-cloY't for
prices were the same as on this day se'nnight, but 0
flue heavy qualities an advance of 6d per qr was lordtilio
some instances. Beans, barley, peas, and oats ruled
at former rates.
White wheat. 42s to 44a 1 Red wheat 389.03
Malting barley ...Ms to 36s 1 Chevalier barley 33eL°20/
Distilling do 29s io 30s 1 Oats.. .. 24° '-
Flour, 25s Od to 26s Od per sack from the miller

NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAT. ayai
A limited show of wheat to-day, with a moderate dnota.
and late prices were fully supported. No change 10 351'
—White wheat, from 37s to 40s ; red wheat, 36s t°oo,,
Barley—malting, 30s to 378 ; grinding, 27s to 295. ,381
old, at 24s to 30s Od; new, 19s to 255. Beans sold
to 428. per qr. ; new, 35s to 375.

DUBLIN—FRIDAY. • opf,
The attendance to-day was good. No change tefi or,
article of Irish grain. Foreign wheat in fair demand' 09
unaltered in price. A slow trade for flour and Ga
Prime qualities in maize sought after. d'
a. d. a. d. B.a• 130'
Wheat, white.. 24 0t026 6 I Oatmeal lO oto 0
Do., red 2l 6to 24 0 Beans..
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Do., new .... —oto 0 IBere ' -- oto
~ 0i
Barley ...... 11 6t014 6 Rapeseed
Oats ........ 90to 12 0 Bakers' flour
Do., black.... 0 to'— 0 Indian corn

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