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

MANCHESTER, 3L& 2

STOCK EXCHANGE.— The transactions to-day were as follows :
Sheffield and Lincoln, 14% dls.—Midland Stock, GS—Dover (so. 4),
7—Eastern Counties, 8%.

YORK, MAY I.

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

GLASGOW, MAY 1.
STOCK MCCLUNG/S.—The business done in the Stock Exchange to-
day has been as follows : —Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves
(No. l), Cl. 12s.—Wishaw and coltness, 465¢—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (G. N. E. purchase or Preference), 5.

HER MAJESTY'S' THEATRE.—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 Ph ilipstbal, 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 end 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 Lechner, his Excellency the Swedish
Minister and the Baroness Rehausen, his Excellency
the Neapolitan Ambassador, his Excellency the
French Ambassador. the Marquis of Clanricarde, the
Marquis of Donegal, the Miami is of Huntley, the
Marquis of Granby, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of
Falmouth, the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, tho
Countess of Lichfield, the Baron Meagcicn, M. do Berg,
Baron Wiedenbruck, the Viscount Somerton,: the Vis-
count Engeld, the Viscount and Viscountess Anson,
Baron Theodore de Citzss, Baron and Baroness de Mon-
therot, Viscount Clifden, 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., Litutenant-
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. Sturt, M.P., Mr. Sandford, General the Hon. H.
Cavendish, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martyn, Captain the
Hon. Strange Jocelyn, Captain P. Munday, Mr. Parn-
ther, Mr. Packe, M.P., and Mrs. Puke 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 Me'yrick,
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. IL Sin-
gleton, Mr. W. Delafield, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Viner, &c.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-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 Casteleicale, his Grace the Duke
of Wellington, the Marchioness of Ely, Miss Burdett
Coutts, Miss Beaurnoet, the Duke of Brunswick, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Ailesbury,the MarquisofDouro,
the Countess of Charlemont, the Earl of Wilton, the
Marquis of Lansdowne the Marquis de Sauli, Baron
Nicotai, the Earl of Essex, the Earl of Besborougb, the
awl and Countess of Shelburne, the Earl of Durham, the
Earl of Belfast, the. Earl of Bradford and the ladies
Bridgenian, the Countess Cornivall,s, Hon. Charles Ne-
ville, the Countess of Essex and Miss Johnstone, Sir
John Walsh, Bart., 11. Vincent, Evq. and Miss Vincent,
Viscount Chelsea, yiscount Sidney. Viscount Temple-
town and Hon. Arthur Upton, Viscount Mandeville,
Viscount Clifden, Vicountess Jocelyn, Vicountess Can-
ning, Lord and Lady Ashburton, Lord George Manners,
Lord Archibald St. Maur, Lady Habana, Lady Norreye,
Lord Ward, Hon. John Fortescue, lion. Spencer Cow-
per, Hon. George Jiffies, Hon. Mr. Howard, Hon. Mr.
Corry, Hon. A. Vivian, Sir John Cam Hobhouse,
Bart. and Mr. Edward Hobhouse, Sir Charles
Price, Bart, Sir William Abdy, Bart., Sir Richard
Vyvian, Bart., Sir Henry Web*. Bart, Sir John
Campbell, K.C.T.S., and Lady Campbell, Sir Henry
Paulet, Bart., Sir William Molesworth, Bart., and Lady
Moleswortb, Sir Charles Marshall, Sir John and the
Misses Burgoyne, Lady Jodrell, Sir Felix Agar, Le
Chevalier de Horta, Madame and Mademoiselle do

Horta, Admiral Sir John Dundas, Colonel Wingfield,
Colonel Blane, Colonel Merry, Colonel Bigot, Colonel
R;dley, 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 Standith, Mr.
Tierney, Mrs. Horsham, M. and Madame trzielli, Mr.
Montague Gore, Mr. Gore Currie, Mr. Broadhurst, Mr.
W. A. Ccmmerell, Mr. S. Lushington, Mr. C. Walsh,
Mr. F. Vane, Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery, Mr. Henry
Greville, Mr. and Miss Mitchell, Miss Richards, Miss C.
Wt-bAer, &c. &c. •

LONDON SAMED 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 Robcrts, 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 ho 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 bad marked
the society's operations during the .past year ; he then
called 'upon tho secretary to read the report, which
stated that the society had been established with the
view to meet the increasing taste for sacred music, the
more immediate cause of its formation having been tie
dismissal of Mr. Surman from the post of conductor to
the Sacred Harmonic Society, which position he had oci:

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 defibiency 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
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offers of assistance and support in carrying on their
operations. The reading cif the report was received by
the large body of subscribers with the greatest satisfac•
lion. The everal speakers met with a most hearty and
favourable rec' p:iun., several of them having dwelt
strongly
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the part of its opponent. No sooner was an oratorio
announced for pert'ormance than the old society
diet, ly advertised two or three performancesf theimme.
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work. Notwithstanding this, the LctrnSoareed itlnr
M onic Society had mode its way, was steadily "receiving
fresh acccs,ieete and it revired but continued exertions
to en, ure its prosperity. Votes of thanks were uneni-
mensly given to the various officers of the society, the
committee, &'., af.er whirls the proceedings terieinated.
FREE PAIIDON.—At the late Kingston assir..l a
man named John Roberts was convicted of a crituinal
assault, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation.
The presecutrix, who upon the trial represented herself
as a married women, cave 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
chaructcr of the transaction ; but the jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty. • Very seen after the matter
bad been thus disposed of it was ascertained that the
proAeutrix had made a great tunny !slue ztateinerts,
and that, instead of being a respectable married woman,
she was a person of a very ditferet,t description; and
there was every reaion to believe that the whole charge
had been trumped up against the prisoner. The whole
of the facts having been submitted to the Home Secre-
tary, the result has beet) that Mr. Keene, the governor
of Thirsemonger-lene Gaol, received a free pardon for
the prisoner on Saturday, and he was immediately dis-
charged from custody.
The Marquis' of Lansdowne gave a dinner to the
Cabinet Ministers yesterday evening at Lansdowne
House.