The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-15 00:00:00

Miss Stabbach's Concert.

The May sunshine brings, as usual, all our musi-
cal friends to town to enliven the cares of the ses-
sion with song and melody. Miss Stabbach, one of
our most popular and promising young singers,
took her part in the entertainment of the public by
giving a very attractive and superior concert on
Tuesday evening at the Hanover•square Rooms.
The artistes engaged were of the highest order of

talent, vocal and instrumental. Miss Stabbachi
dear soprano voice and cultivated style were heard
to full advantage in several choice morceaux.
Among them was a new song by the poputar com-
poser, Langton 'Williams. :Mlle, Georgi is a new
cand.date for popular approval, while Mr. Lewis
Thomas is an old established favourite. He pot.-
sesses a bass voice of a high order, and has been
gradually acquiring a high and sthl rising reputa-
tion. The instrumentalists were among the first
performers. Madame Arabella Goddard was, for
some unexplained reason, unable to take part in
the entertainment ; but there at ;east Signor Piat i
was to evidence anew his marvellous skill on the
violoncello. The conductors were Herr Wilhe m
G:nz and Signor liAndegger, who were, as usual,
very efficient. The concert was almost, we might
say, as a matter of course, very well attended, and
may be ranked at once among the successes of the
musical season.

A deputation from the Corporation of Birming-
ham, consisting of Mr. Alderman Ryland, Mr.
Councillor Sadler, and Mr, Councillor Wiggin, accompa-
nied by the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P., Mr. Jonn
Bright, M.P., and Mr. W. Scholefield, M.P., had an inter.
view yesterday with Sir G. Grey on the utilisation of the
sewage of towns and the prevention of the pollution of rivers
and streams.

A deputation from the British North American
Association had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle
on Wednesday, at the Colonial-office, on the subject of the
of the Intercolonial Railway. The deputation was intro-
duced by Mr. R. W. Crawford, M.P., chairman.
PORTSMOUTH, Wednesday, 6 p.m.—A strong
W.S.W. gale set in here on Monday, and, accom-
panied by a heavy and seasonable fall of rain, increased in
force up to daylight this morning, when the wind somewhat
moderated, and the rain ceased. It still, however, blows
hard in the Channel. The ship Captain Cook, from Lon-
don, bound to New Zealand, with passengers, put into the
anchorage at the Motherbank this morning to get the iron
fittings of her foreyard repaired, which had been damaged
during the gale outside, The Norwegian bi ig Alma, Capt.
Christian Elorun, laden with salt from the Mediterranean,
was driven ashore near the Atherfield rock in Chub() Bay at
about half past 10 o'clock last evening. Captain Elorun
and nine men were saved from the wreck by the exertions
of Lieut. Mugford and the coastguardsman at the Ather-
field eta ion. The telegraphic message from Brighstone is
so imperfect that it is quite impossible to ascertain whether
any lives have been lost or not. On Monday the barometer
fell from 30.1 to 29.8, and yesterday and last night it; fell to
29 6, rising to 291 by 9 a,m. this morning. It is now slightly
on the rise.

FEDERAL RECRUITS.—it is reported in shipping
circles that 1,000 Irish recruits proceed to New
York in the steamer Great Eastern, and that the passage
money has been found and paid by agents of the Federal
Government. Had such a scandalous violation of the
Foreign Enlistment Act been perpetrated by agents of the
Confederate States Mr. Adams v. ould, no doubt, have been
heard from in Downing-street, and our contemporaries with
Northern sympathies would have been loud in their con-
demnation.