The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-24 00:00:00

IRELAND.

" Agitation" proceeds. The Pilot of Friday furnishes
ample evidence of the fact, for it reports the proceedings of
meetings at Galway, Ennis, Limerick, &c. In the North
also meetings have been held.
The ilall,: in the pitiful spirit which characterizes all
its lucubrations, spitefully speaks of the great festival at
Galway as a grand grubbery. " The Rooks have had a
grand Grubber!' at Galway (says our polite paragraphist).
Thither the Hierarchs mustered in unusual numbers, and
with unwonted stateliness. Apart and separate, like the
grand seraphic Lords of all,' in Milton's Pandemonium,
the Graces, and their Lords suffragan, both lay and cleri-
cal, accompanied by Mr. O'Connell, sat at a table provided
for themselves ; whilst the subjects and the vulgar laity—
the serfs and heritage of the Church—were placed at dis-
tinct and inferior tables, and suffered to scramble, as best
they might, for a share of the good things a-going."
The Lord Lieutenant has been visiting Kilkenny, where,
as well as at Castlecomer, an Address was presented to his
Excellency.

We regret to announce the demise of Sir John
Hay, Bart., of Haystoun, late M.P. for the county of
Peebles, at Rome, on the Ist instant. The Hon. Baronet
was in his 50th year, and retired from Parliament at the
last election. Sir John Hay was collaterally related to the
family of the Marquis of Tweeddale, being descended from
the Hon. John Hay, second son of John, third Lord.
Mr. Sergeant Arabin, the Deputy Judge Advocate,
will perform the duties of Judge Advocate till a successor
to the late Right Hon. R. Cutlar Fergusson shall be
nominated.

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It appears that Lord John Russell has no present
intention to appoint a Police Magistrate in the room of the
late Mr. Rogers, as an arrangement has been made with
the Magistrates of the Queen-square Police Office to as-
sist in the duties of the Hatton-garden office.
Signor L. Martini, the celebra.ed accordion player,
has arrived in London, after a successful tour on the Con-
tinent.

There were at the beginning of the present year
12,431 post-offices in the United States. In 1790 there
wereonly 1,875. _ _ _

At a numerous meeting of the board of guardians of
the Wilton Union, held on Monday last, it was resolved
forthwith to increase the amount of out-door relief at pre-
sent afforded to the poor of that union, in conseqeence of '
the high price of bread.
POST-OFFICE SAGACITY.—The charge for con-
veying a single letter from Liverpool to Manchester is 7d.
If a letter should contain a couple of bills it will be charged
Is. 9d., though its weight is no more than a quarter of an
ounce. This is the tariff, though hundreds of people are
performing the journey back and forward at all times of the
day, and the time occupied in going from one place to the
other occupies only 90 minutes. Can any one be surprised
that the revenue of the Post-office stands still, notwith-
standing the enormous increase of business in the country,
when no notice is taken of circumstances by the Post-office ?
Can any one believe that the Liverpool people will not take
advantage of the traffic between their town and Manchester
to avoid paying Is. 9d. for the carriage of a quarter of an
ounce? It is downright stupidity to charge more than 2d.
—Morning Post.
CROWLAN D.—On the occasion of a charity sermon
recently preached in the Abbey at this place, the re-
spectable body of Dissenters closed the doors of their
chapel, and betook themselves to join the congregation of
the Church ; an instance of truly Christian liberality
which in these days of sectarian bitterness, we fear, is sel-
dom to be met with.—Lincoln Mercury.
THE ALLEGED CASE OF SUFFOCATION IN
THE CITY.—The inquiry was resumed yesterday touching
the death of James Frickey, who was found dead in St.
' Michael's Church, Cornhill, under circumstances which
led to a suspicion that he had been suffocated by the va-
pour arising from a newly invented stove. The evidence
adduced yesterday went to show the harmlessness of the
stove in question. In order to test its properties satisfac-
torily, the same stove was, by permission of the coroner,
placed in the church at five o'clock yesterday morning, and
having been lighted the doors of the edifice were kept per
fectly closed till four o'clock in the afternoon, when Messrs.
Cooper and Brande, the well-known professors of chemis-
try, and Dr. Golding Bird, lecturer at Guy's Hos-
pital, entered for the purpose of making experiments
upon the quality of the atmosphere. The result of
their inquiries may be briefly stated as follows :
The quantity of carbonic acid gas thrown out by the stove
at full heat never exeeds one per cent., and the church con-
tains about 100,000 cubic feet of atmospheric air. The
quantity of charcoal which the stove contained at the time
of lighting on Saturday night was 491b5., so that had it been
possible that it anal!l have been all consumed in a moment
it would not have vitiat6d the atmosphere of the church
one and a half per cent. Mr. Cooper stated that he had
frequently toung as much as four per cent. of the noxious
gas in the crovvdetl gialeritas of theatres and chapels. Ten
per mit would throw a person into a comatose state, and
about tweivc per cent would destroy life. None of the
three gentleman had experienced any ill effects upon
their resuiration when they Aotered the church. They
had collected air from all parts of the aut.,* and it did
not co tarn more than one and a half .per cent. of the
noxious gas at any pla.ce. After bearing a vaiety
of
evidence from persons who had useti the q.-.OYe with per-
feet safety. Ole jury returned a verdict, " That James
Frickey came to hid di-.e.th by apoplexy, acceler 1, by in-
ua4l, impure

LECTURES ON MUSIC BY T
PHILIPPS, ESQ., AT MANCHESTER.

The lectures on " Dramatic effects in Music," at-the
Mechanics' Institution, Athenaeum, and Royal Institution,
by T. Philipps, Esq., of London, originally announced for
last week, commenced on Monday. The lecture theatres
of the institutions were crowded to excess every evening.
In opening his lectures, Mr. Philipps observed that of all
sciences music was the one most calculated for the exhi-
bition of its elementary principles, and the subject of his
present lectures the best adapted for inducing the culti-
vation and improvement of the vocal music of the Church,
the chamber, and the theatre; for the practice of the adept
of the greatest acquirements, as well as for the merest
novice. At tha present moment the demand for the right
cultivation of vocal music was unprecedentedlygreat, and by
a strange fatality never was that demand so inefficient];
supplied. His object, intention, and endeavours, through.-
out these lectures, would be all directed to one pur-
pose, the application and general adaptation of the grand,
though simple, principle derived from the elements of
rhetoric, for the intelligible and just enunciation of the
words in the composition, and the correct performance of
vocal music in every class, quality, and degree. Intelli-
gibility was the first operative mark of this grand principle,
and we could not be intelligible without an application
of the rhetoric elements for just articulation and ac-
tion. The three branches of vocal music, that of the
church, of the chamber, and the theatre, though distinct
and separate, were, he should show, intimately connected
and governed by the same first principle ; they pro-
ceeded from the same source, though bearing in differ-
ent directions. His proposed improvement consisted
in the application of well-known principles to hitherto
untried effects (except in his own practice); for, though
the elements of rhetorical delivery had been known
from the earliest records, there was no trace in the
history of modern music of the practical application
of those elements to vocal compositions or perform-
ances ; although it was proved by traditional facts,
that music and oratory amongst the ancient Greeks, were
intimately connected and associated. English vocal music
was too often regarded as inferior to that of other nations,
a fact which did not proceed from any deficiency in the
learner, as some imagined, but from the total absence of
application of those elementary principles for uniting the
component parts of composition—words and music. This
deficiency was not equally great amongst foreign singers ;
for three of these at least, in modern times, shamed our
native singers by their enunciation of English vocal music
—he referred to Madame Mara, to Caradori, and to Ma-
libran. As an old professor, he would boldly assert that
there never was a period when the efforts of teachers were
so little contributive to the advancement of their pupils or
of their own reputation, because they practised the difficul-
ties of foreign compositions without comprehending their
meaning, and thus the fa•hion was set for miscallingincon-
gruity modern taste and good style.
A number of illustrations were given by the Lecturer
and his pupils, the Misses Brandon, which want of space
obliges us to omit a notice of, calling forth frequent bursts
of applause from the audience.—Manchester Times.