The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-28 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation continues
without material alteration, and the sales are only 420
hhds, including 110 hhds Barbadoes at auction, which
realised 37s to 41s for low to good yellow. 250 casks
and 7,500 bags Mauritius were only partially sold
at about former rates, the remainder (consisting
chit fly of the better sorts) being withdrawn above the
relative value; 450 bags Bengal realised former
prices, from 38s to 393 6d for low to mid
white Benares. A floating cargo of 1,000 boxes brown
Havannah have been sold at 20s. The quantity of
British Plantation landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 3,670 hbds, 329 tierces, 887 bar-
rels; there were taken for home consumption 1,345
hhds, 143 tierces, 616 barrels. The stock in the same
places is 18 581 hhds, 2,378 tierces, 6,523 barrels.
COFFEE.-170 bags and 30 casks Plantation Ceylon
were withdrawn, as also 1,194 bags Rio, of usual import,
at prices above the present market value; but 340 bales
55 half-bales Mocha, and 1,550 bags Native Ceylon were
about half sold, at steady rates, the former from 54s to
33s fur fair clean garbled, and the latter at 37s to 37s 6d
for good ord quality.
Rust.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 865 puns 16 }aids there were
taken for home consumption 196 puns 16 hbds, and ex-
ported 257 puns 71 hhds. The stock in the same places
fs 21,487 puns 2,374 hhds.
RICE.—Of 3,100 bags Bengal offered at auction, only
abqut one-fourth part sold at lOs to lOs 6d for good mid
wh,te.

SALTPETRE.-375 bags Bengal and 1,500 barrels
Egyptian were chitifly withdrawn, the former at 28s for
4i to 34, and the latter at 26s 6d to 27s for 7k to 61 per
Cent refract inn.

SPICES.—Of 1,100 bags Malabar Pepper offered.
barely two-thirds sold at a decline of *1 per lb; from 3d
to 3*(l for fair to good shot kind.
TALLOW,—P.Y.C. is 39s per cwt on the spot, and
town 40s.
TEA,—The market is quiet.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Blsusms, Ana. 22.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ...... •• •• •,•
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent .. •.• • ••
Loan of Thirty Millions, FourperCent •• ••
Ditto Three per Cent • •••••.• • • . .. • •
Ditto Thirty-sevenMillions,ditto
Ditt0,ditt0,1840............ • . • • 954
Ditto,dltto,lB42 ••• • • • ...• •.• • • • 95%
Ditto, 1844... • • . • • • • • ............ 875(
Ditto, 1836... ••..••••••••• • • • • • • • •• •• 82
Ditto, 1848 .... •••• • • • • •• •• • 94
Ditto of the City, 1832 •• •• •• • • • 100
Ditto, 1843 .• .. • • • • • • • • • • • 91%
Bank of Beigium...• • • ••••.•••• • • • • • • ••
Issue of 1841 ...•. •
Exchange on London, 25.47%.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTEEDAM, Ana. 21.
Money. Bills
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent •••••• • • • • • 52% 53
Ditto, 3 per Cent .• . • ••.••• • • • • .. 61% 624
Ditto, 4 per ..................sl'• 811( 81%
Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent.. • ..
Commercial Company, 434 per Cent • •
Spanish New 5 per Cents. •
Ditto 3 per Cent., Inland •••.• • . • • •
Exchangeon London, at sight • • • • 12.02
Two months... ••.••• • • .. 11.97
On Hamburgb, at sight .• . • 35
Two months... •• •••••• • • • • 34.87
On Paris, at sight ••••• • • • •• 58.87
Two months... •• ...• 56.50

Last night, died of cholera, the widow of a police-
officer of the L division, named Bradley, No. 42, who
but a few days ago died of the same disease, and was
buried with due honours at St. John's, Waterloo-road.
Bradley was a steady, unofficious, and sober officer,
and well respected. Three very young orphans are left
behind, who are at present she! ered by poor but be-
nevolent persons till the relatives are found.
Pride may sometimes be a useful spring-board to
the aspiring soul, but it is much more frequently a de-
structive stumbling- block.—Eliea Cook's Journal.
There is no trusting to appearances, we are told ;
but this maxim is of no avail, for men are the eager
dupes of them. Life, it has been said, is " the art of
being
well deceived;" to which it might be added, that
hypocrisy
is the great talent of mankind. The game of
fortune is, for the most part, set up with counters;
so that he who will not cut in because be has no gold in
his pocket, must sit out most of his time and lose his
chance of sweeping the tables. Delicacy is in ninety-
nine cases out of a hundred, considered as mere rus
ticity; and sincerity of purpose is the greatest affront
that can be offered to society. To insist on simple truth,
is to disqualify yourself for place or patronage, the less
You deseive, the more merit in their encouraging you;
and he who, in the struggle for distinction. trusts to
realities and not to appearances, will in the end find him-
self the object of universal hatred and scorn.—Eliza
Cook's Journal.
STONYHURST COLLEGE, LANCASHIRE. —At the
recent examination of students of this institution, the
first silver 'Lethal was awarded to Matthew Boyle Wil-
liams, librarian, of this town.—Cheltenham Journal.
la g aiPeenseTriIISyUSPENSION BRIDGE.—This splendid bridge
supposed to have been completely demo-
lished during the recent events of the war operations
between the Hungarians and Austrians, but up to the
present time, we are glad to learn, from a correspond-
ent on the spot, no serious damage has been done
to the structure. The first retreat the Austrian
army was obliged to make from Pesth, the General
:gave orders for the destruction of the bridge, and
9 ewts, of powder were placed on it, 30 cwts. on each
:!de, or under the chains, with the view of breaking them.
ztoth charges were fired at the same time ; the person
Ado superintended the arrangements and fired the
eearges was literally dashed to pieces. The effect it pro-
ticed on the bridge was the breaking down of the road,
which consists of transverse cast-iron bearers, to a con-
siderable extent. The vibration of the chains was very
great, and continued for some length of time; but, after
tee retreat of the Austrians, the bridge was
agate repaired. The Hungarians, however, were
Obligedl, to retreat over the bridge, when
.6'llabinski gave orders for its destruction. Mr.
-lark, at Pesch, went to Dembinski, and remonstrated
With hi me —ale and told him that it would be nothing to his
Zedit as a General to destroy so fine a structure. The
eneral told Mr. Clark that his orders were peremptory,
buto after a great deal of negotiation he consented that
demo of the bearers should be taken down, and put into
frfttse,
sc and taken down to the island of Schutt, the boats
Teen came
and sunk in deep water: this was done.
Cell came the Russian and Austrian armies, when the
•arers were taken up, and the bridge again repaired.
several shots have struck the stonework places, but no
great damage is done.—Mining Journal.
k.:IIaNGE BIRTH.—A boy in the district of Kir-
-6,?7Y, who has a passion for chicken hatching, got a
egg some time ago from some sailors just come
h;,,te tr.re Akaandria, and placed it under a favourite
expecting to get a large Egyptian fowl; but his
"Prise and amazement may be better conceived than
described when he found one morning a live crocodile !
feshire Advertiser.
ufA few days ago, a mother and daughter, named
tzlc.ner, were executed at Marienweder, in Prussia,
1.,) rr
the murder of their husband and father. In
Lebruary, 1848 at daybreak, four gendarmes on their
way from Berlin saw the two women kneeling as if in
Prayer at Calvary, near the village of Tullicb, with a
arge box between them, covered with a blanket. The
officers,
conceiving some suspicions, went to the women,
and asked what they were about. They seemed too
terrified to reply, and accordingly the officers opened
the box, and to their surprise found in it the corpse of a
Man dreadfully mutd,ted. The two women were
arrested, and after an investigation bad been commenced,
they, admitted that the deceased was the husband of one
and father of the other of them; and that they had mur-
dered him—the mother, to be enabled to marry a farm
tabourer, with whom she was in love; the daughter, to
escape from what she called a hateful tyranny. This
murder, they said, they effected when the man was
4:14'1E, by pouring boiling water into the ears -and on
e face, and by afterwards cutting and slashing the
:tIY- The sentence on them was, that they should be
4:43hed on the wheel, beginning at the feet ; but
Gal King commuted this into simple decapitation.—
.9)1 tti.
ohStiZURE OF AN ILLICIT DlSTlLLERY.—yesterday
,i; -e.tiward Thomas, accompanied by Messrs. D. Co.lqu-
b and Pentecoit, officers of Inland Revenue, assisted
44P:tlice-constable 328 K, made a seizure of an Illicit
I'”Y et No. 4, West-street, Stepney. Au entrance
tr-seffected at he back door, and in a back room on the
tain.uo floor they found a copper still, capable. of
.c.on-
ef g. 40 or 50 gallons, at full work, about six gallons
pints, a number of tubs, and other articles, used in
reoil• ''ng on an illicit trade, from 50 to 60 gallons of
afblaen 'isses wash in a state of fermentation, the whole of
war L were seized and conveyed to the Inland Revenxe
"uses in Broad-street.
and Jersey has brought a quantity of cider, in casks, as
~,eri• cltion of her cargo. The same vessel brought 26 tons
Islagogt °f new potatoes, the produce of the Channel
tioAn letter timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affec-
t and a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the
ir---Eliza Cook's Journa'.
ta " NICARAGUA QUESTION.—Liverpool letters
Niel) . .
receive , regarding this singular question, that accounts
Ni_d by the steamer Cambria report that Mr. Ben-
t, i 'rims been instructed by the United States Cabinet
thatQ 1
1111
hoer Palmerston distinctly and unequivocally
thrp. su clusive privilege as that claimed by Mr.
roit`"aY, the British Consul at New York, will be ad-
of Aede and no such possession rccognized. The right
Greati Britain to a menopoly of the important high-
-1.,,1141 question is pronounced to be " ludicrous;" and it
d that General Taylor's administration intends to
squired
and preserve all the just rights which have been
Ittred by Ampriean citizens in Nicaragua.
'-,t(IPMENT or geldings HORSES.—On Saturday last several
go and four mares were shipped by Mr. John
Jackson,
n_on board the Gazelle, for Hamburgh, en route
ktgajlit:a This
.is the first shipment of horses that
Advirtior. place since the blockade was raised.—. Hull

CLOSE OF THE MUSICAL SEASON.

The most brilliant musical season that has perhaps
ever been known in London closed on Saturday with
the performance of Don Giovanni, by the company
of the Royal Italian Opera, at Covent-garden.
From the early part of last winter London had
become the head-quarters of all the musicians of
Europe. Driven by political causes from France,
from Italy, from Germany, the Elite of the musical
profession sought and found a refuge and a welcome
in England. Dining the whole of the season London
supported Iwo Italian and one French opera, besides
Numerous benefit concerts, and regularly every week
for forty weeks the London Wednesday Concerts,
besides, during a portion of the season, a German
opera. In reviewing the season we shall proceed to
consider separately the efforts of each operatic esta-
blishment, and first
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Mr. Lumley, who began the season under
immense disadvantages, disadvantages attributable
not to any fault of his own, but to the caprices
of that spoiled child of the public, Mademoiselle
Jenny Lind, brought it to a most tri-
umphant conclusion, and in the annals of Her Ma-
jesty's Theatre the season of 1849 will be ever
renowned as the seascn in which Lind, Alboni, and
Sontag, all sang. In consequence of the indecision
of Jenny Lind, who during the whole of last
winter was vacillating as to whether or not she
should again appear on the stage, Mr. Lumley
was unable to form his engagements until the time
of opening approached. He had, however, secured the
services of Alboni as his prima donna for his open-
ing, and on the 15th of March the theatre opened
with the Cenerentola, in which Alboni sustained the
character of the heroine, a part in which she had
created a furore in Paris, and in which her success
here was equally great. Gardoni was theprimo Lenore,
and Coletti, Belletti, and the two Lablaches, continued
members of the company. After performing three
nights Alboni returned to the continent to complete
her engagements, and on the 24th of March Madame
Guiliani, a most efficient vocalist, an excellent actress,
and a very pretty woman, made her &but as
Elvira, in the opera of Ernani, in which character
she produced a most favourable impression, which was
more than confirmed by her subsequent performance
of Leonora in I Due Foscari, on the 31st, when
Coletti made his first appearance for the season in the
character of the Doge. On the 10th April, Made-
moiselle Parodi, the pupil of Pasta, made her first ap-
pearance in England in the character of Norma,
and at once assumed a high position on
the stage. She appeared in Norma for five con-
secutive nights, and each time with increasing suc-
cess. She subsequently appeared in La Javorita, and
in this she more than sustained the fame she had
acquired by her Norma. Her version of Semira-
mide was somewhat different from the conventional
reading of the part, and did not much please the ad-
mirers of the windmill school of acting. We, however,
at the time expressed it as our opinion that Made-
moiselle Parodi's reading of the part was the correct
one—an opinion which we see no reason what-
ever to modify. Her Donna Anna, however,
in Don Giovanni, and Carolina, in the
Matrimonio Segretto, were admitted on all
hands to be excellent, and her Lucrezia Borgia was
far and away the finest on the stage. Her personi-
fication of the Countess, in Le Nozze di Figaro, was
admirable, and there can be no doubt but that Ma-
demoiselle Parodi (who is now not yet twenty-two
years of age) has before her a brilliant career, and that
the time is not far distant when she will be
hailed the prima donna of Europe. On the 12th of
April, Mademoiselle Jenny Lind had appeared in the
opera of the Zaube7jiote, got up as a concert, but
the success of the attempt was so very moderate, that
she consented to appear for a limited number of nights
as an operatic actress, being her farewell en-
gagement, and on the 26th of April she appeared in
La Sonnambula, and excited to the full as intense
a furore as she had done during the two preceding
seasons. The character of Elvino was sustained by
Calzolari, a new tenor, who produced a most favour-
able impression on the audience, and who is a most
valuable addition to the company. The operas in
which she played were La Sonnambula, Lucia di
Lammermoor, La Figlia del Reggimento, and Roberto
it Diavolo, in which last she again took leave of the
stage outhe 10th of May. On the 12th,Madlle. Alboni,
who had returned from the continent, re-appeared
in the Cenerentola, and shortly afterwards performed
Rosins, in the Barbiere di Siviglia, a character in
which she had already frequently appeared, and
always with the greatest success, Arsace, in the
Semiramule, the character in which she originally
made here debut some three years since, and in
Ninetta, in the Gazza Ladra, and Zerlina, in Don
Giovanni, characters in which she had never pre-
viously appeared, but in which she achieved the most
marked success, not merely as a vocalist, but as an
actress also. Shortly afterwards she ap-
peared as Fidalma, in the Matrimonio Segretto,
and never since the days of Malibran has the character
of Fidalma been nearly so effectively sustained ; in
that of Norina in Don Pasquale, in which her acting
was full of humour and spirit, and hersinging perfect;
and in her favourite characters of Orsini, in Lucrezia
Borgia, and of Cherubino, in the Nozze di Figaro.
During the month of June an engagement was
concluded with Moriani, who happened to be passing
through London, and who appeared in the character
of Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia, and in that of Otello.
On the 7th July occurred the great event of the
season, the re-appearance of Madame Sontag,
with undiminished powers, after an absence from the
stage of twenty years. She made her debut in the
character of Linda, and the first verse of the
"Oh lute di quest' anima" proved that she still
retained her purity of intonation, her exquisite
quality of voice, and her unapproachable brilliancy of
execution in as great perfection as when twenty years
before she had driven half Europe mad with enthusi-
asm. She performed Rosina in // Barbiere, Amina
in the Sonnambula, Desdemona in Otello, and
Susanna in the Nozze di Figaro, and in each excited
a furore that quite equalled,the Lind furore when at its
height. The engagement of Madame Sontag was a
masterpiece of management on the part of Mr.
Lumley, and enabled him to bring a brilliant season
to a most brilliant termination. All the operas pro-
duced were put on the stage with the utmost care and
attention, and were cast in the most efficient possible
manner. Lablache, the greatest of living bassos, set
the example of not unfrequently appearing in a minor
part in order to give increased strength to the cast of
an opera, an example which was worthily followed by
Coletti and Belletti. The orchestra, thanks to the
untiring exertions of Balfe, was greatly improved,
and the choruses were, generally speaking, admira-
bly drilled. The deesses de la danse were Carlotta
Grisi, Marie Taglioni, and Carolina Rosati. The
Diable a quatre was the ballet until after the Easter
recess, when Electra was produced, in which the in-
troduction of the electric light produced a most bril-
liant and novel effect. The run of Electra continued
until Carlotta Grisi left for the continent. Then a
most delightful divertissement, entitled La Prima
Ballerina, was produced, with Carolina Rosati as the
heroine; this had a considerable run; and then the
Plaisirs dhivers, with its pas des Patineurs, the
chef d'ceuvre of Paul Taglioni, which bids fair to take
a permanent place in the ballet repertoire, brought to
a triumphant conclusion a season which, considered
in an artistical point of view, has been one of the most
glorious in the annals of her Majesty's Theatre.