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

MISCELLANEO.

35 Australian Agricult
323 Canada
all Copper Miners ofEng
all Do. Preference

5 Crystal Palace
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1 (Eastern Steam

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1 Electric Telex. of Ir.
14 Gen. Steam Navigat,
50 General Screw Steanl
21 Irish Beetroot Sugar•
2 Netherlands Land._
all Peninsular & Oriental
60 Royal Mail Steam
25 South Austral.Landl
2 Univeral Emigration
and Colonization:.
281 Van Dien,ken's Land
1 Submar. Telegraph

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

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LONDON, Jan. 4.—lt blew a heavy gale early this morn-
ing and moderated towards
S.:light breeze, and dull hazy weather.
daybreak. Wind at Noon,
DEAL, Jan. 3.—Wind, W.S.Ny-. fresh. Arrived:--May-
rains ; James Armstrong, Calf .
St. George, Demerara ;
Thomas Arbuthnot, Mau-
flower, Akyab, for Hamburgh
Albers, New Orleans. Arrived from the River—Douglas,
for San Francisco. The Prince Edward, for Sierra Leone,
and the Senator, for Sydney, N.s,
fling damage.
W., were in contact last
night in the ROads, the former received damage to bow-
way (s), West Indies. . d, N.W. Sailed—Med-
marnidotsh,e lajatnte.r
303.11zwtrii.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 3.—Wind, S.W.
Arrived—Queen Vic-
spriScit'u&THen
toria, Sunderland, for Beyrout, with loss of rudder, and
other damage.
W
Madras
Ni Jan
Bermuda.. 3.
ind, W.S.W. Sailed—Cecilia,
; N
DUNFANAGHY, 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-
derson, Calcutta; Alex. Grant, New Orleans : Massachu-
sets,Cumberland, N.S. sailed_
'harleston ; Orient,N iNageawra,YEc:ksto;
Boston, &c.,
.Sotn.
frJeoighhnt,
N.B. ; Acustics, Prince Edward's Island ; Pastonta, Ha-
vannah ; Tempest, New Orleans ; Champia,_,
m Savannah ;
45,000 dollars;
York; Niagara,
Sinda, Pernamuco. Off Port—Salla, Africa. Put •
back—
Runnymede, for Newfoundland, with decks started and
sails, &c. ; 'Child
Rotoheekr,dfaomr aßgeo,stohanywg
itbheenlossstruofcksparsby,a heavy sea Bell
Harold, Mobile, towed back.
WARKWORTH, Jan. 3.—The Helm, Rartlepool to Lynn,
was abandoned in a sinking state off Tynemouth
; crew
saved, and landed here. _

was abandoned
3
(may reported ;
Dec.PETERHEAD, 30and n 0 t Jane .
sl..—AnThtheoGnrgazeplrlrevi.
crew saved.
FRASERBURGHO Jan. 3.—The John Bright (brig) was
seen Dec. 27, in a sinking state, by the Eagle, arrived
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.

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 other 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 given in 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,