The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-23 00:00:00

QUARTET CONCERTS.

The third concert of the above series, under Messrs. Bla-
grove and Lucas, at the Hanover-square Rooms last night,
attracted an extremely fashionable assemblage of company.
The room, however, was anything but crowded. The selec-
tion consisted of Mozart's Quartet in E flat major (No. 4, of
op. 80) ; the Quartet in 13 flat major (op. 130), of Beeth-
oven ; the Military Septet in C major (op. 114), of Hummel ;
and Haydn's Quartet in G major (No. 1 of op. 80); besides
several vocal pieces. The quartets were played with the
same delicacy and precision, the same keeping in all the four
instruments, that we have been accustomed to hear at these
concerts. If there was any fault to find with them, it was
that in parts they might, in our estimation, have been im-
proved by the infusion of a little more energy and vigour into
the execution of the several parts. The playing was perfect,
but from the apparent want of power in the forte parts, arising
from the size of the room, and the seeming modesty, or at
least the actual moderation -of the performers, the lights and
shades were not defined with sufficient distinctness to do away
with that sameness, incident to a succession of compositions
limited to four instruments. The Septet of Hummel conse-
quently stood out in bold relief, and was unusually effective.
The pianoforte part was superbly played by Mrs. Anderson,
and yet not in such a mode as to convey an idea that she
aimed at anything like parade, or a wish to display her own
very superior abilities. It was played in the way it ought
to be, as the leading instrument of the Septet, but not
as a pianoforte concerto or solo. The brilliancy of Mrs. An-
derson's fingering, striking as was its effect, appeared to be
but secondary to the full, round, and powerful tone produced
by her in the combined harmonics and the beautifully expres-
sive style of her performance. The other parts were for flute,
clarionet, trumpet, violin, violoncello, and double bass, by
Messrs. Card, Willman, Harper, Blagrove, Lucas, and
Howell. These instruments were all played with great de-
licacy; the three wind instruments were particularly effective.
The vocal pieces were, in the first part, a song, by Mr. Stret-
ton, " The Adieu" of Keller; very fairly sung, but the
voice of this gentleman is not of an agreeable quality of
tone ; and Cherubini's " Ave Maria," charmingly sung by
Miss Woodyat, and splendidly accompanied by Willman on
the clarionet. In the second part Mr. Bennet sang Spohr's
canzonet " Felicity," and the serenata of Rossini " Mira la
Bianca Luna." The first was very well sung by Mr. Ben-
nett. but is, like most of Sphor'svocal music, heavy, and not
particularly interesting. Rossini's serenata was much ad-
mired. We should have stated. that the vocal music was ac-
companied cn the pianoforte by Mr. Cipriani Potter. The
next Concert takes place on Thursday, April 5, which tenor.
nates the series.
A

TTEMTTED SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning, be-
ween six and seven o'clock, a female about twenty years of
age, very decently dressed, was observed walking to and fro
near to the centre of Waterloo Bridge. She was sobbing
violently. A gentleman named Dowling was induced to watch
her. After some time she suddenly clambered upon to the
balustrades of the bridge, and was about to throw herself off
when Mr. Dowling caught hold of her dress to draw her back-
wards. She refused to state who she was, and was given in
charge to the police.
Mr. Thomas Ridgway, jun., of Harwich, near
Bolton, was killed last week by a fall off his horse while
hunting, near Preston, with Mr. Farrington's. hounds. He
was in his 23d year, and very fond of field sports. He lingered
after his fall several hours in extreme agony.
On Wednesday a wardmote was held in Cutlers'
Hall, Cloak.lane, in the ward of Vintry, for the election of
an Alderman of that Ward, in the room of Henry Win-
chester, Esq., deceased. Mr. W. Magnay, stationer, was
unanimously elected. No other candidate was proposed.
Notwithstanding the exertions made by the police
no clue has yet been gained with regard to the perpetrators
of the late mysterious and extensive plunder of diamonds, sic.
at the residence of Lord Viscount Charlemont, the value of
which is supposed to exceed considerably the sum at first
stated, namely, 2,0001.
The Temps gives the following statement as to the
axes of ships of the line in the French navy afloat on the Ist
of January
hatrye:Tlaj The oldest, the Ocean, has been afloat 47
3a estueux, 35 ; the Commerce, 3 l ; the Maren-
go and the Nestor, 27 ; the Trident and the Diademe, 26 ;
the Ville de Marseilles and the Montebello, 25 ; the Scipion,
24 ; the Jena, 23 ; the Alger, 22 ; the Neptune and the St.
Petri, 19 ; the Souverain, 18 ; the Algesiras, 14 ; the
Ce nn
.e,
the Hercule, the youngest, will have been
launched a
two years in July next. There are twenty frigates
which are more, and eleven which are less, than twenty years
rouxr, o
6 In3d; the Suffren, 8 ; the Jupiter and the Gene-
u
old. Between 1810 and 1838 there were only twenty ships
launched,
although from 1820 to 1837 forty have disappeared.
Lord Sandon, Mr. G. W. Wood, M.P., Mr.
Scotland,
:NI. 13., the Attorney-General, the Lord Advocate of
and a Deputation, had interviews with the President
of
of Trade (yesterday) on the subject of refining
ttile Wallace,
pd'wird
sugar.
mR. QuiN NEW R S O.IANCE.—Much expecta-
tion is excited in the reading world by the announcement of
Mr. Quip's oriental fiction entitled " Nourinahal," The
scenes arc laid, as we understand, among the most sublime as
well as beautiful localities of the Eastern world ; and the tale
is of such a nature as to correspond in a remarkable mapper
with the impressions and associations excited by those locali-
ties. The wilds of Tartary—the wonders of the Himalaya—
Hindoostan
in all its imperial splendour—the Tallies of Callao_
mere in all their unequalled loveliness _these are the seoyes
through which Mr. Quin follows and illustrates the wild fic-
tions and wondrous traditions to which that'
have given rise.
trVlEW.—Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, it
review of the Guards destined for Canada, took place in
Ilyde Park, in the presence of their Commander, Major-
General Sir J. aiacdonnell, and a largo assemblage of rank
and fashion.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge, the Princess Augusta, and Prince George,
were present, as well as the Duke of Wellington, Lord Hill,
Lord Fitzroy Somerset, the Marquis of Downshire, most of the
Officers of the Household troops, and a large number of the
Nobility. The Guards consisted of two brigades of eight
hundred each, divided into companies of one hundred each.
They went through a variety of military evolutions with the
nicest precision and most soldierlike order. These brigades
consist of picked men, and nothing could be finer than their
appearance. The uninviting state of the weather spa believed
to be the cause of her Majesty's absenco, The clouds threat-
ened rain all the mornin • g,but fortunately held off until the re-
view was over.
THE SOLWAY.----What is called the vernal equinox
has reached us earlier f late than the
o years
and every one knows that during the gales that precede and
fallow that period the Solway Frith is far from affording im-
munity to the shipping interest, unbuoyed and unlighted as it
still is to an extent unknown on any
other commercial coast.
In Cumberland the nautical arrangements have long been
that even
superior ; but great im-
provement, was made apparent by the survey executed last
year by Lieutenant Robinson, of the Royal Navy, and his as-
sistant, Mr. Bedford; and when all the buoys ordered are
planted, the light-ship placed, and other steps taken, the
navigation along the whole line of coast, to St. Bees and be-
yond, will be rendered as safe during the ni,,o•ht as during the
day. The observations taken during the last two seasons
have been reduced pencil; objects,
to paper by pen' and
however minute, in the sha e of rock or sand, are
e ; to every extensive carefully delineate to sand-bar,such
as Robin
Rigg, limits are assigned, with the depth
of water at ebb or full tide;
not even the Piper's
Cove, Colvend, " the Needle's e'e," or " Lot's Wife," escape
notation; and time charts, in the opinion of all, when pub-
lished, will speak for themselves. None, save the uninls
tiated, can form the slightest ofthe labour
idea amount 04
which a scientific marine survey implies the sextant and
sounding line are in constant requisition ; the tide-table
must be studied, and its variations noted at every creek
in boating it along• the coast it is impossible tO, eaNsloy the
theodolite • but still the whole bearntici embraced—chan-
nels, headlands, and b. every ca ea intervening object—must be
worked trig enosae 11'and h •
traea y ; having seen the charts allu-
ded to, we can safelythat they b ••
say
sus, expensive, and beautiful. That they will he
the A f
0111 dmiralty, or by aunle oiler
a" ••• , 'would fain hope •
and ibe done, se.r i
, y eel ,he moat invaluable will be ren-
dered to evQ.,
i 5
mapped,
4,41,c,1
wm_ twiner visiting the Solway. Every county
h every coast still more erkrec,l r
,01Y, - ticulariy in our day, not
lakes, and •
when friths, essuar es, rivers
are bridged by steam, and communication by dexceeding in
land
frequency cern= • t' b t C •
inca wrt er 'as our(ec‘