The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-04 00:00:00

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1 Electric Teleg. of Ir.
14 Gen. Steam Navigat,
50 General Screw StenH
2i Irish Beetroot Sugar.
2 Netherlands Land....
all Peninsular & Oriental
60 Royal Mail Steam
25 South Austral. Land
2 Univeral Emigration
and Colonization....
281 Van Diemen's Land
1 Submar. Telegraph

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DA Y.)

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LONDON, Jan. 4.—lt blew a heavy gale early this morn-
daybreak. Wind at Noon,
ing, and moderated towards
S. light breeze, and dull hazy Weather.
DEAL, Jan. 3.—Wind, W k
. ''''' 'V. fresh. Arrived—May-
flower, Akyab, for Hamburgh .
Thomas Arbuthnot, Mau-
Albers, New Orleans. Arrived from the River—Douglas,
St. George, Demerara ;
froitri7ssan; JFarmaneesisAcorm. stThronegp,rZenea;d;
and the Senator for Sydney, isT.s.m..,
vv were in contact last
Edward, for Sierra Leone,
night in the ROads, the former received damage to bow-
split, &c., and the latter only trifling damage.
SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 3.--Wind, N.W. Sailed—Med-
way (s), West Indies.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 3.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Queen Vic-
toria, Sunderland, for Beyrout, with loss of rudder, and
other damage.
Madras ; BAY, Ja
Bermu Wind, W.S.W. Sailed—Cecilia,
Nina,
~PAlOrirlemexn.thGdrNwaneawtrd'isTsiolskland ; Pastonta, Ha-
DIINFANAGHT, Jan. 3.—The Lively of Inverness is on
shore ; crew saved.
PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 3.—Wind, W.N.W. to S.S.W.
Sailed— Draneo, Coast of Africa.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. 3.—Wind, W. Arrived--Anna Hen-
Orleans : Massachu-
Siam, St. John,
vNsd
eac
t.
ni
Bs• Hen-
derson,
an„
A;eus t
Charleston Calcutta; s ,
Tempest,
New Orleans ; Champlain, Savannah ;
Columbia, New York ; Niagara, Boston, &c. on freight
45,000 dollars ; Aldbara, Cumberland N.S. Sailed—
Sinda, Pernamuco. Off Port—Salla, Africa. Put back—
Runnymede, for Newfoundland, with decks started and
other damage, having been struck by a heavy sea • Bell
Harold,Rock for Bo
Mobile, ston with
towed back. loss of ePars, sails, gm '—
; Child
WARKWORTH, Jan. 3.—The Helm, Rartlepool to rr Lynn,
was abandoned in a sinking state off ....,
--.7A-Lemouth ; crew
saved, and landed here.

PETERHEAD, Jan. 3.—The George IV. was abandoned
Dec. 30, and not the St. Anthony, as previously reported ;
crew saved.
seen Dec. 27, in a sinking state, by the Eagle, arrived
FRASERBURGH, Jan. 3.—The John 13right brig) was
(
here, which succeeded in taking off one man ; two brigs
passed her afterwards.
MONTROSE, Jan. 3.—The Wesley foundered off Whitby
on Dec. 28 ; crew saved.

BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.—On Monday last the wife of
a labourer on the railway, named Cornelius Amphlett,
living in the Blockhouse, gave birth to three children—
one boy and two girls. They were all born alive ; but
one died the same day, and the oper two yesterday.—
Worcester Chronicle.

THE FRENCH OPERA.—French opera was not really
introduced into France until the middle of the 17th cen-
tury, under the ministry of Cardinal Mazarin. But who
was the first person to venture to write an opera in the
French language ? The authorities tell us it was the
Abbe Perrin. This divine's first effort in this line was
a pastoral in five acts, represented at Vincennes, and
subsequently at other places. The music was by one
Gambert, organist of St. Honore, and superintendent of
the Queen mother's music. On the 26th June, 1669,
Perrin obtained letters patent authorising him to esta-
blish, in the city of Paris, and any other place in the
kingdom, academies of music, , for singing in public thea-
trical pieces, such as those givenin Italy, Germany, and
England. In 1713 a decree fixed the number of per-
formers, including male and female chorus singers and
dancers, and orchestra instrumental players, at 125,
neither more nor less ; and a new regulation in the year
1769, specifying the number of each class of voices of
chorus singers, of first, second, and third-rate dancers,
and of each instrument in the orchestra, brought the
total of performers on the establishment up to 252.
Such is a short account of the origin and rise o the
present French opera,