The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-30 00:00:00

Senor Julian Areas' Matinee Musicale.

A very agreeable and recherche entertainment was given
yesterday afternoon in Collard's Concert Rooms, Grosve-
nor-street. Senor Areas is the most accomplished per-
former on what may almost be called the Spanish national
instrument that we ever listened to. The varieties of tone
and expression which he drew from the few simple strings
of the guitar were really marvellous, and called forth the
warm applause of a select audience. In variations of the
famous " Carnival de Venise," in fantasias of his own com-
position, in Spanish romances and boleros, and more espe-
cially in a selection of airs from " Trovatore," he displayed
his singular skill. His performance of the celebrated
"Miserere" brought at once before the mind the well.
known scene by the lonely tower, the agitated search of
Leonora, and the exquisite melody heard from the unseen
prisoner. Senor Areas was ably assisted by Miss Saunders
and Miss Bennett, the former lady a vocalist of some
power, the latter a pianiste of considerable skill. Miss
Bennett, who has not hitherto been much before the pub-
lic, is likely to become a valuable addition to our concert
rooms. We may add that the concert giver avoided the
common error of too great length, which frequently
renders the best musical entertainment somewhat tedious.

THE ST. GILES'S MURDER P—SUSPICIOUS DISAP-
PEARANCE.—On Thursday evining, a man was
found lying on the roadside, between Coatbridge and the
village of Coatdyke, in a state of unconsciousness, and ap-
parently dying, He was brought to the office ty the police,
and properly attended to. On being able to speak he stated
that his name was Louis Smith, and he belonged to Man-
chester. He seemed to be a foreigner by his speech and
broken English, and, as soot as he had recovered so far as
to be able to walk, he was taken to the Old Monkland Poor-
house, where a suit of clothes, the property of the institu-
tion, was provided him, and he was otherwise well attended
to. This sort of confinement did not appear to please his
fancy, for on Friday night he scaled the wall which sur-
rounds the grounds and made off. This anxiety to depart
aroused certain suspicions that may yet turn out to be well
founded—v'z., that his description tallies in almost every
respect to that given of the murderer of the girl lately in a
house of ill fame in London, and for whose apprehension a
reward of £lOO is offered by the authorities. The same man
was at Hamilton on Monday last, and was taken care of by
the police under circumstances somewhat similar.—Glaa-
gow Herald.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Wed-
nesday, April 29.—Admissions on payment, 1,229; ditto
by season tickets, 788; total, 2,017.

MODERN LOVE.—A correspondent of a contem-
porary says :—" It is my duty to impress upon you
the certain fact that one-half of our young people lose their
senses when they lose their hearts. One of our party has
already written five letters to his ladye-love, and he goes
about groaning and fighing in the moat pitiable manner.
Ho has no appetite and sleeps up at the top of the house,
close to the moon. He cannot stand by one of the columns
of the piazza without putting his arms round its waist; and
I caught him kissing an apple to-day, because it had red
cheeks."—Amer scan Paper.
ABRAHAM.—While I was contemplating this in-
teresting scene I saw the President suddenly emerge
from his private room and walk excitedly into another
apartment. Never was Iso astonished in the man. Three
years ago I knew him to be tall, straight, and well-propor-
tioned. Now he burst through the door a careworn old man
—his body went forward. his face pallid, and, in place of the
stately appearance he might be supposed to make, he
shaded along, swinging his arms backward and forward
Oh, what a change was there ! Stopping short at his door:
as he was returning, ho seemed greatly perplexed, and,
turning about, he exclaimed, " I said I would see no more
gentlemen to-day," and closed the door with some noise.—
Buffalo Courier.

RIvAL IRON SAFE MANUFACTURERS.—The one
was a Yankee, the other wasn't. He that wasn't
told his story. A game cock had been shut up in one of his
safes, and then it was exposed for three days to the most
intense heat. When the door was opened the cock stalked
out, flapped his wings, and crowed loudly, as if nothing had
happened I It was now the Yankee's turn. A cock had
frozen
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dead,
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also been shut np in one of his safes, with a pound of fresh
butter, and the safe was subjected to a most tremendous
heatel for more than one week. The legs of the safe were
dooran itselfth e b ullers s
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solid fused st
to open it. When it was opened. the cock was
knocked off a piece of it • with a hammer had his eye put out
by a frozen butter splinter ehdatasa tA3marenqwuihroe
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