The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-12 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS,

The Rev. T. Brereton, B.C.L. Fellow of New College,
in this University, has been presented to the Vicarage of
Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire, vacant by the death of
the Rev. C. Reynell ; patrons, the Warden and Fellows of
that Society.
The Rev. P. C. Law has been instituted to the Rectory
of Nortlirepps, Norfolk, on the presentation of the King,
as parcel of his Duchy of Lancaster. The Rectory was
void by the death of the late Rev. Dr. Pett.

The Rev. P. Felix has been instituted to the Vicarage
of Easton Neston with Huincote, Northamptonshire, on
the presentation of the Right Hon. Earl Pomfret.

The Rev. E. %Valford, M. A. to the Rectory of nailing-
hoe, Suffolk, vacant by the death of Dr. I. Clarke.
The Rev. J. E. Commies, B.A. to the living of North
Shoobury, Essex ; patron, the Lord Chancellor.
The Rev. J. Sikes, LL.D. of Newark, has been ap-
pointed Archdeacon of Nottingham, in the room of the late
Archdeacon Eyre.

Since the cause of emancipation has become,
SO fashionable in these days of liberalism, it is somewhat
matter of astonishment that our liberal Ministry have not
expressed any wish to emancipate the owners of copyhold
estates from their present inability to vote at county elec-
tions. It is certainly anomalous that the owner of a
cottage-house, worth only forty shillings a year should
have the right of elective franchise, whilst the owner of a
copyhold estate of 500 acres is not entitled to it. We
know an instance where a gentleman in this county, pos_
sessing a domain worth 50,0001., was compelled the other
(lay to buy a cottage in his neighbourhood to entitle him
to the same privilege which is enjoyed by hundreds of cot-
tage owners in this town. This is a subject really de.
serving of the serious notice of the Legislature. S toeh-
port Advel tiser.

Several swallows were observed on Tuesday,
on the banks of the Don, in this neighbourhood. The ap..
pearance of this harbinger of brighter days and milder
weather is rather earlier than usual. From the register
of a naturalist, kept for more than sixty years, in Norfolk,
the earliest period at which this bird has been noticed in
that part of the country was March 30, and the latest
April 26, a difference of 27 days. —Sheffield Courant.

The first opera GLUCK composed for the
French theatre was the Ipldgenie en Aulide of Racism
He was a whole year in writing the music, studying dur-
ing that time the French language with the utmost care,
and endeavouring to build upon its flexible rhythm the
melodies of Germany and of Italy. In this he was com-
pletely successful ; but he encountered great opposition
from the French musicians and amateurs, who all rose up
in arms against the attempt to adapt the strains of their
celebrated poet to foreign music. The composer, how-
ever, was patronized by the amiable but unfortunate
MARIE ANTOINETTE, who had been his pupil in Ger-
many; and his opera, as well as several subsequent ones,
was received with enthusiasm. The French were now In
raptures with the man whom a short time before they
would have gladly banished from the kingdom ; they said
he had discovered the ancient music of the Greeks ; that
he was the only musician in Europe who knew how to
express the real language of the passions; and he was at
the zenith of his fame when, in 1776, PICCINI arrived.
His style was essentially different from that of Gtocx ; his
operas, though possessing many beauties, brilliant melodies,
and passages of great elegance and pathos, were deficient
in that unity which Gl.ucK made his particular study.
Many of the volatile French espoused the cause of the
Neapolitan, and a musical war commenced, which lasted
several years, being carried on with the usual artillery of
pamphlets, epigrams, lampoons, &c. The young were
chiefly for Piccisu, the old fur GLUCK. And so zeal-
ously was the contest conducted, that no door was open to
a stranger without the question being put to him, " Are
you a
got tired of the dispute, and determined it in the only way
in which it ought to have been determined, by dividing
&palm between them.. Constable's miscellany,. Vol. 52.