The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-24 00:00:00

111 USIC.

Tender and True. Ballad. The words by Miss
Muloch. The music by A. M. Pares. C. Lons-

dale : Old Bond-street.
As sweet and tender a ballad as we have met
with for many and many a long day—" Tender
and True" wins its way to our heart at once and
irresistibly. The mere selection of her theme evi-
dences upon the instant the composer's appreciation
of the pathetic and the beautiful ; for the verses
here set to music are in the depth of their emotional
grace worthy in every way of the gifted author of
" John Halifax" and of so many other remarkable
additions of late years to our living literature. The
love lament here articulated so exquisitely in
words by Dinah Muloch and in music by A. M.
Pares—possesses this one peculiar and distinguish-
ing characteristic, that the very repetition of the
words of the singer (the blemish of almost every
other ballad composed and sung !) lends to the
touching and tearful chaunt over the grave of
Douglas, its last crowning and perfecting charm.
Wherever it is heard, it is secure of winning for
itself a widening popularity.

.Erin Waltzer. Composed and inscribed to the
Lady Henrietta Morant, by William Frederick
Wolley, Esq. Addison and Co., 210 Regent-

street.

A charming waltz, very suitable for the dance,
the time being admirably well marked. And, re-
garded as a musical composition, it is noticeable
that in it a very gracefal melody floats on through
three different keys, and through a movement
most artistically varied. The proceeds are
to be given to the Ragged School Reading
Rooms, Westminster, and we can therefore cor-.
dially commend it to all who wish at once to add
a charming waltz to their repertoire, and to contri-
bute towards a charitable undertaking.

On Thursday evening next, May the 29th, a grand
concert at the Hanover-square Roems—in aid of
the Band Fund of the 48th Middlesex Rifle Volun •
teers (The Havelock), under the command [the
Regiment, of course, not the Concert] of
Lieutenant-Colonel George Cruikshank. If only
for the goodwill we all have for the owner of that
ever welcome and delightful name, we do heartily
wish success to the entertainment. That success it
is likely to have, however, for many other reasons.
It is an entertainment, as its vary yurpOSe
indicates, in furtherance of the great popular
and patriotic movement of the Rifle Volun-
teers. Again, the whole arrangements of the
coming concert have been so excellently well
prepared ! Its patrons including amongst them
influential names such as those of the Earl
of Shaftesbury (may we not, after last night's
Gazelle, add ?), K.G., and the Countess of Shaftes-
bury, Viscount and Viscountess Bury, Lord Ebury,
Lady Havelock, Mrs. Milner Gibson, &c. The
performers engaged, numbering amongst them
artistes as eminent as Mdlle. Pare pa, Mr. Lawler,
Mr. George Buckland, Mr. Cooper, the violinist,
Mr. Grattan Cooke with his Oboe, and Mr. Kiall-
mark as conductor and as performer at the Grand
Pianoforte. While everything prospectively in re-
gard to this concert is thus really couleur de rose—
who possibly, we cannot help wondering, corrected
the proof of the little programme of the entertain-
ment itself ? It is irritating to find a name " familiar
in our mouths as household words" there within so
brief a compass misprinted—a well-known name
like that of George Cruikshank. But--worse than
this—it jars upon our nerves to read mention made
there in this programme of the " Stabet Mater" of
Rossini !

His Excellency Count de Lavradio, Portuguese
Minister, has just left London on a short tour to the Con-
tinent. During his absence the Chevalier dos Santos will
act as charge d'affaires.

Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury entertained at
dinner, last evening, the Prince and Princess Edward of
Saxe-Weimar, Emily Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Edith
Somerset, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Coun-
tess of Glengall, the Duchess of San Arpino, Lord and
Lady Foley, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, Lord
Dunkellin, the Marchioness of Ely, Lord Stanhope, Lord
Henry Gordon Lennox, Viscount Fowerscourt, Viscount
Chelsea, the Earl Annesley, Col. the Hon. Cecil Forester,
and the Hon. Frederick Calthorpe.

The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam have arrived
at their residence in Grosvenor-square for the season.

The Countess Dowager of Morton and the
Ladies Doug:as have arrived in Lower Brook-street from
Italy. _ _

Lord and Lady Methuen have arrived in town.
His lordship has taken a residence in Lowndes-square for
the season.

Lord Herries has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-
square, for Everingham-park.

Lady Macdonald Lockhart (of Lee) has fixed
Fridays, June 6 and 13, for her balls at 82, Eaton-square.
Lady LAura Grattan has arrived in Lowndes-
street for the season.

Mr. and Lady Augusta Milbanke and the Misses
Milbanke have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square,
from Thorpe Yerrow, Bedale. Mr. Mark Milbauke has also
arrived at Thomas's Hotel.

The Admiralty have at length settled with Cap-
tain Coles. The terms, after considerable deliberation,
have been arranged as follows :—The nation becomes the
exclusive possessor of the invention in consideration of
paying down £5,000, and granting to Captain Coles £lOO
for every cupola brought into the service for the next 14
years.—Army and Navy Gazette. _ _ _

MILITARY MURDERS.—The bill to provide "for
the more speedy trial of certain homicides committed by
persons subject to the Mutiny Act, and for giving jurisdic-
tion to the Central Criminal Court to inquire into such
homicides," has been printed, and is issued to-day. The
principal clause is as follows :—" Whenever any person
shall have been committed for any murder or manslaughter
committed or supposed to have been committed at any place
in England or Wales, and out of the jurisdiction of the
Central Criminal Court. and it shall appear to her Ma-
jesty's Court of Queen's Bench in term time, or to any judge
thereof, or of any of her Majesty's superior courts of com-
mon law at We-tminster, at vacation, that the said person
(hereinafter called the prisoner) was at the time of the com-
mission or supposed commission of the said murder or
manslaughter subject to the present or any future Mutiny
Act, and that the person (hereinafter called the deceased)
for the murder or manslaughter of whom the prisoner
shall have been committed was at the time subject to the
said act, it shall be lawful for such Court of Queen's Bench
in term time, or for such judge in vacation, without the
prisoner being brought or appearing in person before the
said court or judge, upon the application of her Majesty's
principal Secretary of State for the War Department, and
upon his certificate in writing, that it. would contribute to
the maintenance of good order and military discipline if
the said prisoner were to be indicted and tried at the Central
Criminal Court, to order that the said prisoner shall be in-
dicted and tried at the Central Criminal Court." _

Captain Collinson, R.N., C. 8., has been electedlan
Elder Brother of the Trinity House.—Army and IVavy
Gazetto,

LATEST NEWS.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.
The following most important despatch was re-
ceived in London by the Bremen steamer, which
arrived at Southampton on Thursday. No such
intelligence reached us from our own correspondents,
but it may have been received by telegraph in New
York so close upon the departure of the steamer
that there was no time left for the intelligence to
become public.

We (Tines) give it as we have received it, not
vouching absolutely for its authenticity, but with
entire confidence in the good faith of the eminent
firm to which it was addressed :

" Confederate army in Virginia defeated and

surrounded."

TURIN, MAY 23.

The Official Gazette repels the 'insinuations
thrown out against the Government respecting its
conduct in the late events at Brescia and Bergamo,

and says :

" It is entirely false that the Government has in
any way connived at the disturbances or hesitated
as to what measures to adopt. The Government will
be ready to justify its proceedings before Parliament.
In the meantime the public may rest assured that the
judicial authorities will act with strict impartiality."

MADRID, MAY 23.

According to news received here from Mexico,
n.npral Doblado has given a written Pnn°l3-I—"L
to sign a treaty whlcu ILaCI already been drawn up
for the payment of the claims and expenses of the
expedition to Mexico, and in which every satisfac-
tion is guaranteed for the future in favour of Spain
and England.