The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-13 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(Per the Nova Scotian, via Greencastle.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.
General Gilmore has applied to the Government
for reinforcements of troops at Charleston. On the
29th be had erected batteries within 250 yards of
Fort Wagner, and mounted three heavy guns one
mile and a quarter from Fort Sumter.
General /3urnside has declared martial law in
Kentucky.
Gold advanced this morning to 1294, and fell in
the afternoon to 128.
Erehange, 142, Treasury 7-30 Notes, 1068 ;
New York Central Railway, 127; Erie, 104; Illi-
nois Central, 114. Cotton, 1621-c. Breadatuffs
irregular. Provisions more active, at
Sugars, 10kc. to 12c. lower prices.

THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The
working of the Metropolitan line by the Great
Western Railway Company having ceased on Monday
evening, the traffic was worked on Tuesday morning by the
Great Northern Company on the narrow gauge rails.
Whether owing to the want of adequate rolling stock or to
some imperfection in the arrangements, great inconvenience
to the public was occasioned by delays in the trains. At
King'e.cross station such was the state of things that the
clerks declined at one period to take money from intending
passengers, and refused to return money to persons who
had paid their fares and found themselves unable to proceed
to their destination with sufficient speed. The train leav-
jag Bishop's-road station at 9.30 was drawn by an old en-
gine which, it is alleged, was out of order, and no sooner
had the train lett the station than the engine ran off the
line, causing considerable alarm to the passengers, none of
whom, however, were hurt. Assistance was procured, and
in a short time the engine was liitr3cl on the rai!,s. A telly
Mary StoppagQ, of L'e. tr4o oco-471,4a.

MUSIC.

rytnns, Sacred Part Songs, and other Pieces
Edited by Frederick Westlake. Parts I. and 11.
Lambert and Co.

The combination in this beautiful series of Hymns
and other Sacred Pieces, the intimate and appro-
priate combination in them of Good Music and
Good Poetry, both of a religious character—is
simple but admirable design set before himself by
the compiler and editor of the Publication.
So far as the working cut of such a design can be
estimated upon an examination of two instalments,
the initial one and its immediate successor, we can
speak of it in terms not merely of unhesitating ap
proval but in those of real and unaffected admira-
tion. Within the compass of these two intro-
ductory Parts alone, comprising in ono of
them 13 and in the other 16 distinct compo-
sitions, no less that, 23 out of the 29 pieces
thus given have been composed expressly for the
work under notice. Of these twenty-three original
pieces four are from the hand of Mr. Westlake
himself—and of themselves, by their varied merit,
justify his position as supervisor of the whole serial
collection. Macfarren, Molique, Meyer Lutz, Sohn
Barnett and Henry Leslie, Schultes, and Schacher
are particularly noticeable also among the other
contributors. The pieces are variously arranged for
two, three, or four voices. The accompaniments
are, at choice, for organ, harmonium, or pianoforte.
Living composers, and these both English and
Foreign, as the names already specified sufficiently
indicate, are intended to be chief contributors to a
work as carefully selected and as intrinsically beau-
tiful of its kind, as a.whole, as it is a perfect marvel
of cheapneEss in the mere manner of its publication

Sight Singing made Easy. pp. 32. Lambert and

Although this little sixpenny manual (designed
for choirs, schools, and choral societies) does not
assume to itself any notable originality either in
plan, principle, matter, or arrangement—as its own
prospectus very candidly acknowledges—it will be
none the less welcome, or the less uselul,we are certain
of that, when it comes to be examined into by those
for whose use it has been expressly designed. It
is wonderful how much practical instruction has
been comprised within so small a compass, and that
what has been so compressed there, has been ren-
dered, in spite of the compression, so perfectly com.
prehensible in every way to the least tutored learner.
Intended, as its very title page intimates, to em-
brace the advantages of the Tonio Sol-fa System
with the ordinary musical notation, it is
calculated to render sight-singing easy to all
comers, that is to the disciples . of both
schools or systems—easy, that is, upon one simple
condition that the instructions here compacted
together bo practised or acted upon within a reason-
able interval with assiduous application.