The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-31 00:00:00

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.

EXETER HALL.
Last •
Harm night one of the periodical performances of the Sacred
usv °llk Society took place at Exeter-hall, which was, as
subs' on these occasions, filled by an immense concourse of the
mb,t✓Pt, and their friends. The Oratorio was Israel in
whaiti One of the most sublime works of the immortal Handel,
sat. was given entire, or nearly so. The chorusses were
sorilt as they commonly are at these meetings, that is to say,
is Were very effectively performed, while others fell into
nftter confusion. " The Horse and his Rider," although called
vag3ter,a4ain, was, to our thinking, nearly in the latter predica-
sr4; While in the chorus, " The Blast of Thy Nostrils," the
cf etatain , out of tune and out of time, of the immense mass of
,„„,- 'era& voices, was execrable. " Thy Right Hand"
"as correctly and spiritedly sung, and the audience evinced
their judgment by encoring it. The singers were Miss Birch,
Miss F. Wyndham, Miss Jenkins, Messrs. Hobbs, Lciller, and
Atkins. Mr. Leffler sang "He layeth the beams of his
chambers in the waters," in a style peculiarly chaste and cor-
rect, and with good quality and power of voice. " The Lord
is a mon of war," was sung by Messrs. L4llcr and Atkins,
by the former remarkably well, and the later creditably
enough. We did not think Miss Birch in this oratorio so suc-
cessfully as usual. Miss Wyndham sung with exquisite feel-
''V. Mr. Perry was the leader, and Mr. Surman the con-
ductor. We may mention that the newly introduced brass
bass instrument—adverted to by us a week or two since—was
used in the chorusses, and had in many places a most splendid
effect. It was played by the professor who has been engaged
for some time in practising upon it, Mr. Standen; a member
of the baud of the Coldstream Guards.

THE MAILS.—The London morning mail now
arrives here at five instead of seven in the afternoon, and a
general delivery takes place the same evening. The Aber-
deen mail is now also despatched at ten minutes before six,
lustead of twenty minutes before eight, as before. The Edin-
burgh press have also to thank Sir Edward Lees for the rea-
diness with which he has complied with their request to give out
newspapers, however late the mail may happen to be of arriving.
There is another suggestion deserving the attention of the
llost-office authorities, which we would take the liberty to offer.
We understand that in several of the other large towns in
Scotland considerable inconvenience is felt when the arrival
or departure of the mails takes place during the night, owing
to a deficiency of hends. It is very desirable, therefore, that
in all such cases additional assistance should be afforded to the
Postmasters, who are often much exhausted by the necessary
attendance, especially in the winter season, when the arrival
of the mails is very often exceedingly irregular.—Scotsman.
On Tuesday morning, between eight and nine o'clock
a labouring man, named James Findley, in passing along
Little Gray's Inn-lane, slipped down, by treading on a slide el.
the :pavement, and Cell with such violence on his right side, that
he sustained a compound fracture of the thigh of a most dange-
rous description.
The Bayaderes are stated by the Belgian Papers to
have landed on the 25th instant at Antwerp, from the Soho
"Wier.

TO the ELECTORS of SOUTHWARK.

GENTLF.MEN,-The time has arrived when I feel called
upo:: to address you. Iduso at present under circumstances
seem peculiarly to call for explanations—and upon
this, uF, upon all other ocasions, I open myself to you syith-
-01.1:. VeSir Ye.

When I accepted an appointment under Government, I do
not pretend to have done so with reluctance. I have laboured
f‘r well nigh a quarter of a century in the cause of political
Ref,rm, and you could deserved), distrust my sincerity if I
p.a#i"esed to disdain the emoluments of office. I have no
su,l! affectation. Ido not aspire to that sort of heroism. It
v-o,dd be, in my opinion, a grievous miscooception to sup-
pose that no public man could ally himself with Government
1 bout disconnecting himself from. the people. 'My humble
means of serving the public in Parliament have been pur-
e!lased at a great sacrifice of private fortuee. I do not lament
It is a sacrifice whicli every roan must make, whose
rn,i,icAt principles arc ef that kind which do not lead to
;Ilialstmial favour.

I frankly confess that 800/. a-year, the income of the office
to e inch l was appointed, would have been extremely an-
c,n;table to me, reduced as my financial strength has been by
r,pt.aten election contests. When, however. I entered on the
Oaties of the office to which Lord .John Russell was kindly
pleased to appoint me, it war, by no means clear to me, that
I was thereby disqualified from retaining my seat in Parlia-
ment. This was a point of leading consideration, and or, the
approach of the Sessions I submitted the case for the opinion
of (:ounsel, and have, within these few days, received the
j,:int opinion of Sir William Follett and Mr. Austin, to the
erfs•ct that the office I held came within the scope and in-
tendment of 1110 Statute of Anne, and disqualified me from
sitting or voting in Parliament. I could not withhold from
this opinion the weight which it deserved; I forthwith waited
on Lord John Russ'cii, and resigned it, and with it all claim
to s..lary during my temporary occupation of the office, that
no que,tion might arise as to its havintT been to me an office
Fofit.
I did not surrender the office of Registrar, and the salary
attached to it, from any impression that by holding it I
should open myself to reproach. I hope Ido not, in your
opinion, estimate my pretensions too highly, when I con-
sider myself as hgving earned the reward of office, without
impugning my integrity in the ace. ptance of it. But desir-
ah•c to me as the official income might be—. 23 I have already
admitted it would—there are vet fotrlings of a higher nature
which I cannot relinquish. The ea circumstances in which
hr.t. addition of income would have put me, was not without
its weight in my deliberation, but it would not balance against
the result which was to follow from it. I must have given up
the high position in which I stand as your representative; I
must have exchanged the p0.,,t of honour in which you have
placed me for the profits of office. I could not bring my
mind to this. I could not cut asunder that political relation
which links me to my constituents, and which I can never
alvert to but with a feeling of pride and gratitude. No. If
me humble talents have any value,. it is in the public direc-
tion in which you have placed them; and in that direction I
em resolved to keep them. In giving up my office Ido not
cost a•" longing, lingming look behind." Industry and per-
severance are, in themselves profitable qualities, and my
purpose is to resume my profession ; if', in so doing, I can
s;icceed in making my pecuniary as complete as my political
independence, I shall be content. At all events, should I
not succeed in attaining the one, I will never abandon the

other.
cannot conclude this address without availing myself of
the opportunity it affords me of recording my public thanks to
Lord John Russell, upon whose favour 1 had, assuredly, no
political claim. lam sensible of the benefit intended me, and
I am grateful for it.
The ensuing session will be occupied by questions of deep
interest. We are in a crisis which calls for all the wisdom
and for all the energy of those who are at the helm. For
myself, I shall continue—as I trust I have always done—in
the line, not of a capricious but of a constitutional opposition
to whatever measures may appear to me to be either unfavour-
able to the interests of the country, or inimical to the freedom
of the people.
I am, Gentlemen, your faithful friend and devoted servant,
D. W. HARVEY.
Raleigh House, Brixton-hill, Jan. 3u, 1839.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

Deal, JLN. 30.—Wind N.W., moderate—Arrived and remain, the
Lusitania, Gibbons, from Oporto; Enterprise. Gibbs, Liverpool; Alert,
White, ditto; Torn Bowling, Bordeaux. Came down from the River
and sailed, the Toronto, Greswold, for New York ; Express, ➢fann,
Leghorn.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 30.—Wind N.N.W., blowing hard, in squalls,
accompanied with rain and snow.— Arrived the Boadicea steam packet,
Stevens, from Gibraltar—last from Falmouth ; Corsair, Greig, Cepha-
lonia—sailed the 13th Nov., Gibraltar 1 lth Jan. Sailed the Edward,
Petit, for Cherborg.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 29.—Wind N. N. W. ; 30, N.N.E.—Arrived the
Radical, Anderson, from Newport, for Newcastle, with cargo shifted.
Sailed the Edward, Thompson, for London; Funchall, Porrell, ditto;
Kate, M'Simon, ditto; Enterprize, Smart, Seinlin ; Sweed, Lawson,
Cape of Good Hope.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 29.—Wind N.N.W. to W., first part moderate,
latter part strong breezes and squally.—Arrived the Rambler, Gilbert,
from Odessa ; Liberator, Angel, London. Sailed the Trois Arnie, Gil-
bert, for Antwerp ; Jane Cumming, Cumming, Ostend : Augustine,
Letters, Rouen ; Ann, Bryant, ditto; Boadicea steam-packet, Stephens,
Portsmouth.
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LIVERPOOL, JAN, 30.—Wind N.N.W.. fresh breezes.—Arrived the
Nathaniel troopship, from Savannah; Flora, Vile; Leghorn ; Julia,
Lisbon ; Mauriciar, Rochelle Abbey ; Bains, Limerick ; Jim Crow,
Yarmouth ; Du, Grinder, London ; Stag, Glasgow ; Mermaid (steamer),
W;:terford ; Falcon, Belfast. Off port Lancashire Lass, Smyrna.
MARGATE, JAN. 30.—Arrived the Nile, Cowan Bordlair, for Sunder-
land, assisted in with loss of anchor and chain ; Emma, from Liverpool
to Celohester, assisted in with rudder unshipped ; Union, Ostend ;
Properous, Heason, Dieppe; Amilie, Gravelines. Off port Countess
f Durham, Williams, Waterford, with loss of anchor and cable.
RAMSGATE, JAN. 30.—Arrived the Nancy, from London ; Travel-
lers, Dunkirk, came in with foremast sprung, &e.
DOTER, JAN. 30.—Arrived the Normanton, Hall, from Newcastle.
BRISTOL, JAN. 30.—The Great Western (steamer), bound to New
York, was off Ilfracombe, at eleven p.m, the evening of her departure,
being sixty miles in five hours, against a strong wind and tide.
ILFRACOMBE, JAN. 29.—A cask of porter, marked Thomas Pee, Car-
(MT, and four chairs, have been picked up near this port.
WORKINGTON, JAN. 29.—The Mary, Brown, from Chepstow, which
was on shore at the entrance of the harbour, has been hove off, and
brought in here.
SHOREHAM, JAN. 30.—The Sir Sidney Smith was driven on shore on
Berthing Beach; after discharging her cargo, has been condemned.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 30.—The Buoy on the Manacles Rocks has been
replaced.
JERSEY, JAN. 27.—Arrived the Azores packet, from Ancona;
Ostsee, Shellen, Dantzic ; Industrie, Jensen, Gothenburg. Sailed the
Ravena, Benet, for Lisbon ; Unide, Charlestown.
SCILLY, JAN. 27.—Arrived the Marie Therese, from Pontieux ; Pro..
gross, Pritchard, Cork ; Cadiz, Relay, Sunderland ; Selim, Williams,
ditto; Princess Mary, Jenkins, ditto; Herald, ditto; Lord of the
Isles, ditto ; Little John, Hayes, Youghall ; Sir John Byng, Perew,
Cork ; Mary Reid, Hay, Sligo ; Anarabia, Cardiff ; Kate, ditto ;
Amelia, Black Sea. Sailed the Kate, Cuthbertson, for Western Islands.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 30.—The Beatrice, Wheeheld, sailed from Alex.
andria for Liverpool 20th September, and from Malta 15th October,
has not since been heard of.
YARMOUTH, JAN. 29.—Arrived the Thomas and Martha, Ransom,
from Antwerp.
LYMINGTON, JAN. 30.—Arrived the Liskeard, Thom, and City of
Norwich, Thomas, from London, with damage, and loss of deck load.
MILFORD, JAN. 29.—Arrived the Flora, Houghton, —; Brothers,
Trewith, Llanelly, leaky, having struck on the Smalls, bound to Water.
ford; Ardent, Peters, Bayonne, for Ross, leaky.
ALDBOROUGH, JAN. 30.—Arrived off, William Wallis, Paul, Dantzic.
KING'S Roan, JAN. 29.—Put back the Argus, for Jamaica.
STARCROSS, JAN. 29.—Arrived William Churchwood, from Jamaica.
DUBLIN, JAN. 29.—Arrived the Kate, Vedley, from Seville ; Hart,
Fleden, Bordeaux.
Si-dramas, JAN. 29.—Arrived the Veruacheling, Elvors, from Haden-
gen ; and Progress, Cross, from New Dieppe. Sailed the Fradrenes.
landt, Eugerst, for Messina ; and Mary Bell, Brown, Constantinople.
WATERFORD, JAN. 28.—Arri ,M the Confidence, Angel, from Lon-
don ; Rose INl`Couran. Evans, ditto ; and Penelope Caffriere,
CORK, JAN. 28.—Arrived the Favorite, Sell:, from London ; British
Queen, Wood, St. John's, New Brunswick, with loss of bulwarks,
having been in contact with a steamer ; and Arethesa, Furner, Cayenne.
Sailed the Brothers, Poole, for St. John's, New Brunswick.

The British Merchant, from Llanelly to Bombay, was spoken with
24th inst., 100 miles S.W. of Cape Clear.
The Hotspur, Humphrey, from Rotterdam to London, was abandoned
on the Oaster Bank 27th inst., with 10 feet water in her hold, having
struck on Goree Bar—crew saved.

On Tuesday morning, about eleven o'clock, the fol-
lowing accident occurred in the St. Katharine's Dock :—A
journeyman carpenter, named George Clark, was engaged in
fixing some machinery for a crane, at the upper part of the
shaft of the F. warehouse, when, in jumping from the bar-
rels of the crane on to a temporary stage, which had not been
properly secured, one of the cross pieces, by which the stage
was made fast to the crane, gave way. and the whole came
down with a loud crash, precipitating Clark to the bottom of
the shaft, a height of about 70 feet. He fell upon the quay,
and his arms and legs were broken and his skull fractured.
The unfortunate man died instantly. His remains were con-
veyed, by the direction of Mr. Taylor, the superintendant of
the dock police, to the nearest public house, where the body
awaits a Coroner's inquest. Front inquiries we learn that
Clark and his fellow-workmen, who narrowly escaped the
same fate, had the :fixing of the stage, and were re-
peatedly cautioned by the foreman of the work to secure it in
au efficient manner.

THE PARIS JOCKEY CLUB.—This Club was
established after the Revolution of 1830, by Lord Seymour and
some other young men. Their sole object was, at that time,
tointroduce into France English races, better horses, bets,
and the habits of the turf. The Club consisted, at first, of a
very few members, who occupied a humble apartment in the
Rue du Helder. The Association gradually 'increased, and
the Club is now established in finer apartments. The Club
consists of two hundred and fifty ordinary members, and of a
certain number of foreign members, who are admitted for six
months. On their introduction members pay 500 francs, and
250 francs annually. The foreign members pay 200 francs
for the six months they are permitted to frequent the place.
The apartments are most elegantly furnished. They are
divided into two parts—one where smoking is allowed, and
the other where it is excluded. The former fragrant part
consists of a billiard-room and two drawing-rooms, presenting
the appearance of so many tabagies. Every day at six and
seven o'clock two dinners are served up—one for twelvo, and
the other for six persons. Those who pnt their names down
first have places kept for them. These dinners are very good,
the price being six francs, exclusive of wine. One may also
dine a la Cartc, but these dinners are generally inferior to
the others.
THE ALLEGED MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—
The parties charged at Lambeth-street Office with having
murdered a police constable named Barton, by !brewing him
into the canal at Bromley, as already detailed
.in The Sun,
were yesterday discharged, there being no evidence to show
that the deceased had met his death in any unfair way.