The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

NAT 2.
STOCK. EXCIIANGE.—The share market was dull today, and but
few sales were effected. Great Western, Quarters, were done
at 3% (fis.

LIVERPOOL, MAT 2.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The maket continues to improve, bat still
little business was 'doing. The sales are—Birmingham and x-
ford Junction, 25%—Caledonian, Quarters, (late Halves), lie. 3d.—
Dundee and Perth, New, 8 %—Lancashire and Yorkshire (B. and EL),
26 c. dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 4% dis. —London and North-Western,
New Quarters, 4 p.—Ditto, Fifths, p.—Midland, 63 c.—Ditto,
Halves, 11 Ni dis.—South.Eastern and Dover (No. 4), G%—York,
Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 1850,
2% dis.—York and North Midland (East and West Riding Extension),
Preference, 6 per cent. till 1850, c. dis.
MANCHESTER, MAT 2.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follows :
Sheffield and Lincoln, W 4 dis.—Midland Stock, 68—Dover (No. 4),
7—Eastern Counties, 8 _

YORK, MAT 1.

STOCK EXCHANGE —The business transacted to-day was as fol-
lows :—Great Northern, 10N —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N.
E. Purchase), 51. i. _ _ _ _

GLASGOW, MAT 1.
STOCK. Excuaxax.—The business done in the Stock Exchange to-
day has. been as follows : Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves
(No. I), CL lls.—Wishaw and Celtness, 4%—York, Newcastle, and.
Berwick (G. N. E. purchase or l'reference), 5. _

HER. MAJESTY'S TNEATRE.—The Queen's box was
on Tuesday evening occupied by Mr. G. E. Anson and the
Hon. Mrs. Anson, Miss Harman, Colonel the Hon. C. B.
and the Hon. Mrs. Phipps, the Hon. Augustus Vernon
and party. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager's box was
occupied by his Serene Highness Prince William of
Hesse Philipsthal, bis Serene Highness Prince Edward of
Saxe Weimar, the Earl of Denbigh, the Ladies Cust, the
Hon. Miss Macdonald and party. Amongst the visitors
were—The Duke and Duchess of Leeds and Miss Lane
Fox, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady
Alicia Paulet, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, his
Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow
and Mdlle. Olga de Leaner, his Excellency the Swedish
Minister and the Baroness Rehausen, his Excellency
the Neapolitan Ambassador, his Exoellency the
French Ambassador, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the
Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis of Huntley, th•
Marquis of Granby, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of
Falmouth, the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, the
Countess of Lichfield, the Baron Meagden, M. de Berg,
Baron Wiedenbruck, the Viscount Somerton,: the Vis-
count Engeld, the Viscount and Viscountess Anson,
Baron Theodore de Gazes, Baron and Baroness de Mon-
therot, Viscount Clitden, Lord W. Lennox, Lord and
Lady Templemore, Lord Elphinstone, Lord G. Paget,
Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lady Charles Somerset
and Miss Somerset, Lady Flower, Lord W. Graham,
Lord Eddisbury, Lord William Powlett, Lady Fitzroy
Somerset, Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Lady Liltord,
Lord George Lennox, Hon. Mr. Lumley, Lady Kin-
loch, Lady Forbes, Sir W. K. Ball, Bart., Lieutenant-
General Sir Alexander Barnard, Bart., Sir T. Hare,
Bart., Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Bart., Sir J.
Bayley, Bart., Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bart., and
Lady Barrett Lennard, Sir C. Ibbotson, Bart., Sir W.
Clay, Bart., and Lady Clay, Lady Lister, Mrs. Walpole,
Mr. Start, M.P., Mr. Sandford, General the Hon. H.
Cavendish, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martyn, Captain the
Hon. Strange Jocelyn, Captain P. Munday, Mr. Yarn-
ther, Mr. Packe, M.P., and Mrs. Packe Reading, Mr.
Norman Macdonald, Mr. W. Rose, Mr. G. Dodd, M.P.,
Mr., Mrs., and Miss Ewings, Mrs. Mountjoy Martin,
Mr. Hubert de Burgh, Mr. Reynolds, Mr., Mrs., and
Miss B. Trelawney, Major Buckley, Mrs. Paul, Mrs.
Wyndham, Mr. and Mrs. B. Fraser, Mrs. G. Dodd and
Miss Saunders, Mrs. Fitzroy Somerset, Colonel Meyrick,
Captain Martin, Colonel Tierney, Miss Howard, Captain
Meynell, R.N., Colonel Dixon, Colonel Thornton, Mr.
0. Morgan, M.P., Mr. H. Broadley, M.P., Mr. H. Sin-
gleton, Mr. W. Delafield, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Viner, &c.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVErT•GARDEN.—Her
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured
the performance at the Royal Italian Opera with their
presence on Tuesday evening; they were attended by the
Marchioness of Douro, Lady Caroline Cocks, Lord Morley,
General Wemyss, and the Hon. Colonel Gordon. Among
the visitors were his Excellency the Turkish Ambassa-
dor, Prince Callimaki and suite, his Excellency the Nea-
politan Minister, Prince Cestelcicals, his Grace the Duke
of Wellington, the Marchioness of Ely, Miss Burdett
Coutts, Miss Beaumont, the Duke of Brunswick, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Douro,
the Countess of Charlemont, the Earl of Wilton, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis de Sauli, Baron
Nicolai, the Earl of Essex, the Earl of Besborough, the
Earl and Countess of Shelburne, the Earl of Durham, the
Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Bradford and the ladies
Bridgeman, the Countess Cornwallis, Hon. Charles Ne-
ville, th• Countess of Essex and Miss Johnstone, Sir
John Walsh, Bart., H. Vincent, Esq. and Miss Vincent,
Viscount Chelsea, Viscount Sidney, Viscount Temple-
town and Hon. Arthur Upton, Viscount Mandeville,
Viscount Clitden, Vicountess Jocelyn, Vicountess Can-
ning, Lord and Lady Ashburton, Lord George Manners,
Lord Archibald St. Maur, Lady Hotham, Lady Norreys,
Lord Ward, Hon. John Fortescue, I lon. Spencer Cow-
per, Hon. George Mules, Hon. Mr. Howard, Hon. Mr.
Corry, Hon. A. Vivian, Sir John Cam Hobhouse,
Bart. and Mr. Edward Hobbouse, Sir Chstrles

Price, Bart., Sir William Abdy, Bart., Sir Richard
Vyvian, Bart., Sir Henry Welk. Bart, Sir John
Campbell, K.C.T.S., and Lady Campbell, Sir Henry
Paulet, Bare, Sir William Molesworth, Bart., and Lady
Molesworth, Sir Charles Marshall, Sir John and the
Misses Burgoyne, Lady Jodrell, Sir Felix Agar, Le
Chevalier de Horta, Madame and Mademoiselle de
Horta, Admiral Sir John Dundas, Colonel Wingfiel I,
Colonel Blanc, Colonel Merry, Colonel Bagot, Colonel
Ridley, Major Gage, Major Simpson, Captain Cuddy,
Captain C. Ellison, Captain Sykes, Captain Maxwell,
Captain Moorsom, Mr. and Mrs. Coghlan, Mr. T. Baring,
M.P., Mr. Gerard Stuart, Mrs. Standish Standish, Mr.
Tierney, Mrs. Horsham, M. and Madame Uzielli, Mr.
Montague Gore, Mr. Gore Currie, Mr. Broadhurst, Mr.
W. A. Commerell, Mr. S. Lushington, Mr. C. Walsh,
Mr. F. Vane, Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery, Mr. Henry
Greville, Mr. and Miss Mitchell, Miss Richards, Miss C.
Webster, &c. &c.
LONDON SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—This
new society held its first annual general meeting
on Monday last, in the Lower hall, Exeter-hall. There
was a large attendance of subscribers, and the gallery
was filled by ladies connected with the society. The
Rev. George Roberts, president, filled the chair; sup-
ported by the Rev. F. J. Stainforth, V.P. ; the Rev.
W. S. Austin, honorary secretary ; the Rev.
C. Day ; and other clergymen and gentlemen.
The Chairman opened the business of the meeting by
a brief address, in which he expressed the very great
satisfaction he experienced by the attendance of so nu-
merous a body of supporters, and congratulated the sub-
scribers upon the unprecedented success that had marked
the society's operations during the past year ; he then
called upon the secretary to read the report, which
stated that the society had been established with the
view to meet the increasing taste fur sacred music, the
more immediate cause of its formation having been the
dismissal of Mr. Surman from the post of conductor to
the Sacred Harmonic Society, which position he had oc-
cupied for nearly fifteen years ; that, with Mr. Surman's
removal from the Sacred Harmonic Society, was also
discontinued his vast stock of music, which was gene-
rously placed by him at the disposal of the new society.
The financial statement showed a deficiency at the expi-
ration of the society's year, but this was, however, more
than counterbalanced by subscriptions received subse-
quently. The report stated that the number of sub-
scribers entered up to Lady-day last was 696, this num-
ber having been obtained during the first twelve months
of the society's existence, not by withdrawals from say
society previously in existence, but, with comparatively
few exceptions, from an entire new connexion, a number
certainly unprecedented in the annals of any musical
society, proving the necessity for its establishment, and
affording a strong pledge for its continuance ; and the
Committee continued to receive the most encouraging
offers of assistance and support in carrying on their
operations. The reading et' the report was received by
the large body of subscribers with the greatest satisfac-
tion. The several speakers met with a most hearty and
favourable reception, several of them having dwelt
strongly upon the unjust persecution to which Mr. Sur-
man had been subjected, and expressed their contempt
and disapprobation of the unhandsome and marked op-
position with which the society had had to contend on
the part of its opponent. No sooner was an oratorio
announced for performance than the old society imme-
diately advertised two or three performances of the same
work. Notwithstanding this, the London Sacred Har-
monic Society had made its way, was steadily receiving
fresh accessions, and it required but continued exertions
to ensure its prosperity. Votes of thanks were unani-
mously given to the various officers of the society, the
committee, &c., after which the proceedings terminated.
FREE PARDON.—At the late Kingston assites a
man named John Roberts was convicted of a criminal
assault, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation.
The prosecutrix, who upon the trial represented herself
as a married woman, gave her evidence in such a manner
upon that occasion as to induce a very general belief
that she was not telling the truth as to the actual
character of the transaction ; but the jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty. Very soon after the matter
had been thus disposed of it was ascertained that the
prosecutrix had made a great many false statements,
and that, instead of being a respectable married woman,
she was a person of a very different description; and
there was every reason to believe that ther.
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The Marquis of Lansdowne gave a dinner to the
Cabinet Ministers yesterday evening at Lansdowne
House.