The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-10 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1849.

FRANCE.

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At the conclusion of the speech delivered at Be-
sanqon by M. DE MONTALEMBERT, the honourable
orator spoke as follows :
" What would make our disunion inexcusable, and the
defeat which would ensue miserable beyond all expres-
sion, is the character of our enemies ! You know them
as I do. I believe them quite capable of imitating the
monsters, of whom they every day make the apology.
But they are only the parodists of them. They have
none of the qualities of their models, their predecessors;
none of that sombre grandeur, which it is impossible
pot to admit, even in abhorring it, as I abhor it.—(Bravo.)
But if we were to allow ourselves to be vanquished by
these little plagiarists, our condition would be as lament-
able as that of our fathers, and even more shameful ; we
should be conquered and slaughtered by pigmies.—(Ex-
plosion of applause.) At bottom, they are nothing; they
are only a handful of men, without talent, and often
without courage. But do you know on what they cal-
culate, and not without reason? They calculate on the
intrinsic force of evil, on the natural perversity of man.
And we, in our discussions and plitical combinations,
have too often forgotten to take that force into account.
This leads me to say a word of a theory which bas
lately been produced, and which is now preached by
certain writers who call themselves Conservatives, and
by others who call themselves religious. I refer to the
theory of unlimited liberty. We are told that all the
dangers of society arise from compression, from repres-
sion, and especially from the restrictive laws which we have
made to guarantee the maintenance of liberty by checking
its abuses. But I compare the folly of these writers to this:
I suppose a man charged to keep a wild beast, a tiger in a
cage. And there is assuredly no exaggeration in com-
paring the bad instincts of man to a tiger. The keeper
imprudently thrusts his arm or his foot between the bars
of the cage, and the tiger devours it. A political or
theological doctor arrives and says: —' Ah I the tiger
bas devoured your arm or your foot? That does not
astonish me; why did you keep the poor animal shut up
in a cage?—(Loud laughter.) Open the cage, let the
tiger run loose and do what it will, and you will see that
it will do you no harm.' Thereupon the animal is re-
leased, and it commences by devouring the keeper and
the doctor.—(Laughter and applause.) Such is the les-
son which the common sense and experience of centu-
ries teach us. And I hope that society of these days,
will like its predecessor, not listen to the false counsels of
these pretended doctors."
From the latest communications received from the
French Republic it would appear that the cholera is
spreading rapidly, and becoming more and more
destructive throughout the departments. Anxiety is
in consequence increasing among all classes of the
community, and some of the most eminent physicians
have been dispatched by Government to the succour
of the most afflicted districts.

pecially for Imperial Brazili ans, which have advanced.
National Brazilians have also been in request, and seve-
ral transactions have taken place. In United Mexicans, 1
Copiapos, and St. John del Reys, many bargains have
been effected.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.)
THE CAPTALNS7 GOOD SERVICE PENSION.—We
have authority for announcing that the Captains'
Good Service PerAsion of 1501. per annum, which has
been relinquished by Rear-Admiral Watts on his
promotion, has been conferred on Captain John Car-
ter (1815), who was Midshipman of the Penelope at
the blockade of Malta and the capture of Guillaume
Tell, and who served as; Lieutenant of the Leviathan
at the battle of Trafalgar.
The Colonelcy of the 19th Foot, vacant by the
demise of Sir Warren Peacocks, has been conferred
on Major-General Charles Turner, commanding at
Cork. The high character and accomplishments of
the Major General, more than his foreign service,
have earned for him this distinction. We believe
Major-General Turner saw little war service after the
campaign in Egypt and the capture of Martinique.
He entered the army in 1795, obtained his company
in three years and a half, and was a Major in April,
1807. His subsequent promotions took place through
the Brevets of June, 1814, July, 1830, and Nov., 1841.
Major-General Robert B. Gabriel, C. 8., K.H., has
succeeded to the Unattached pay of twenty fire shil-
lings per diem, from 7th August. This officer
entered the service in 1797 ; was engaged in the
Walcheren Expedition, subsequently proceeded to
the Peninsula, and was employed on the Staff until
the end of the war in 1814.

Brevet-Colonel Daniel Falla, half-pay
tached, has succeeded to the pension of 100/., in
addition to his half-pay, vice Brevet-Colonel Sampson
Stawell, deceased. Colonel Fella is an officer of
fifty-one years standing. He has seen much service,
and was latterly employed for many years on the
Staff as Town-Major of Gibraltar.
The Colonels Commandant of the Royal Marines
have received directions to substitute a cocked hat
for their present chaco. This is merely giving force
and effect to her Majesty's regulations, which require
that all full Colonels in employment on the Staff
should wear the cocked hat.
General Sir Charles Napier quits India in the
spring of next year. He has sent home instructions
for the purchase of an estate on the banks of the
Thames, where he intends to take up his permanent
residence. It is believed that he will become the
possessor of the property now belonging to Colonel
C. I. K. Tynte, M.P.
We regret to hear that Major-General Sir William
Napier is suffering severely from an injury to the
right hand.
It is highly probable that Sir William Gomm will
continue in India with the expectation of succeeding
Sir Charles Napier on his retirement from the Indian
command in the spring,.
SICKNESS IN THE TOWEE.—The battalion of the
Guards which marched into the Tower from Chichester
on the Ist instant, was in a perfect state of health on
its arrival, but soon afterwards experienced the dele-
terious effects of the water used in the Tower. One
man died on Tuesday, in a few hours, of the cholera,
and seventeen were on the same day taken into hos-
pital with diseased bowels. The pernicious water, it
seems, does not proceed from any water company,
but is supplied from the Thames by means of forced
pipes, which carry many impurities into the tanks.
In consequence of the cholera having appeared in
the detachment of the 11th Hussars, stationed at
Kensington, the troops were removed on Wednes-
day, by sudden order, and joined the Head-quarters
at Hounslow. The Household Brigade of Cavalry

is performing the dispatch duty until further orders.
Mr. Reid, formerly of the Life Guards, and keeper
of the Cavalry Canteen at the Horse Guards, was
taken suddenly ill yesterday morning (Friday),
at four o'clock, of cholera, and died the same day at
one o'clock.

MEMORANDA OF A MUSICIAN.

BY GEORGE J. 0. ALLMANN.

" Notes, notes, forsooth, and noting 1"
SUAKSPERIL

No. XVII.
HANDEL.
While conducting in Dublin the performance of his
own oratorio the Messiah, Dubourg, the leader (the
celebrated violinist), had a short solo in the introdu2ione
of a song alloted to him, together with a close to make
a piacere. Wandering up and down the instrument, he
seemed for a moment bewildered and uncertain of the

original key, but at last coming to the shake, which was
to terminate this long close, Handel, to the greatest de-
light and relish of his Irish audience, and to the aug-
mentation of applause, exclaimed, loud enough to be
heard in the most remote parts of the theatre, " You're
velcome home, Maishter Dupourc—velcome home."

productions of a M. Morel, the music to them being
composed by Gre try. Their success was solely attri-
butable to the excellent music.

CIIERUBINI.
It was the opera of Lodoiska which, according to M.
Felts, laid the primal foundation of this composer's fame.
A grand opera in three acts, Loduiska, was performed
for the first time at the Theatre Feydeau on the 18th
July, 1791. It was Cherubini's first production in the
French school of music, and exhibited the most perfect
contrast to his other works in the Italian style. The
air of Varbel " Yoyez la belle besogne" recalls the form of
the buffo style of the period when it was written; all the
rest is of an animated cast, of which Cherubini's genius
had previously afforded no indication. There existed a
strong rivalry at this period between the Opera Comique
in the Rue Favart and that of the Rue Feydeau—in the
animosity of conflicting struggle of interests the managers
formed the strange idea of mutually injuring each other
by producing works on the same subject. Kreutzer
brought out Paul et Virginie at the Theatre Favart.
The Feydeau must produce it also with the music of M.
Lesueur. Cherubini then brought out the Lodoiska, and
in less than a month afterwards the same opera was
produced in the Rue Favart, with music composed to it
by Kreutzer. At the Feydeau La Caverne obtained a
brilliant reception ; the managers of the old opera in-
stantly engaged Mehul to compose another Caverne for
them, but this proved a wretched failure. Even from
this contest, which was a reproach to the managers of the
operas, were deduced interesting comparisons and obser
vatioes as to the respective merits of artists. These
comparisons, so to speak, commenced with the two
Lodoiskas. Cherubini was always unfortunate in the se-
lection of his libretto, and in this instance it happened
similarly, for, notwithstanding its popularity all over the
continent, a more uninteresting and ill-conceived plot can
scarcely be imagined. However meritorious the music of
an opera may be, it will never guarantee entire success
when the dramatic composition is feeble. Lodoiska,
ushered in with the name of Cherubini, did not fail to
be sure, but at first it met with but a very limited suc-
cess; and for the first season was coldly received and
yielded but little profits to the treasury. Strange to re-
late, the triumph of Kreutzer's Lodoiska at the Favart
was brilliant—one or two romances, the melodies of
which were remarkahly simple and catching, becoming
at once exceeding popular, more especially La douce
clarte de l'Aurore. Above all, the overture, though not
so brilliant as that of Cherubini, and the Marche des
Tartares became the rage. The libretto of this opera
was, however, far superior to that of Cherubini,, and to
that may doubtless be attributed its more entire success.
It is a subject fit for much curious speculation, that
though both musicians and cognoscenti preferred Knout-
zees opera to that of Cherubini, they would have de-
voutly crossed themselves in horror if a comparison
were instituted between the merits of these two com-
posers—as musicians.

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HOPES.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)

" Oh boy ! why seek'st thou with such care,
Those bubbles of the sea ?
Thy touch but frees the prison'd air."—
" I'm gathering hopes," saith he.
" Old man, why in that shatter'd bark

post tempt this troubled sea,
Without a compass, rudder, mark?"
"I'm following hope," saith he.

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF THREE CHILDREN.-
A female named Isabella Stevenson was taken before the
magistrates of Fenton, Staffordshire, on Friday, on a
charge of attempting to murder her three children, of the
respective ages of seventeen months, three years, and
five years. The prisoner seemed exceedingly dejected.
From the evidence adduced, it appears that the prisoner,
who is the wife of a crotemaker living in the town, on
the previous day took the three children out for a walk,
and after leading them about for some time, she made
for a place termed Smith's Pool (a large pond), a short
distance from her own house. She then threw the
youngest child head foremost into the pool, and after-
wards laid hold of another one for the purpose of throw-
ing it in, when its screams attracted the attention of Mr.
Superintendent Perry, of the inland navigation, who
hastened to the spot, and, at the risk of his own life,
jumped into the pool, and succeeded in recovering
and
drowning child, who was in a very exhausted state, n
preventing the destruction of the other two children.
The woman was taken into custody, and the child taken
out of the water was attended by a medical gentleman,
who succeeded in restoring suspended animation. The
mother, when placed before Mr. Rose, the magistrate,
exhibited umistakeablo evidence of her mind being in a
disordered state. She was sent to a lunatic asylum.
THE SWELL MOB AND THE DETECTIVES AT
BOULOGNE.—A gentleman applied to the Lord Mayor at
the Mansion-House on Saturday, for his advice relative
to the notorious Joseph Wood, the cab and omnibus
proprietor, now iu custody at Boulogne, for stealing a
gold watch from a lady on board the steam-boat which
had just reached Boulogne harbour from Folkestone,
and on board of which was Field, of the Detective Force,
who went thither in search of the Tannings. Since this,
his (Wood's) mother had proceeded to Boulogne, taking
with her considerable property, the supposed proceeds of
various depredations, and it would seem was in a fair
way of procuring the liberation of her son, having ne-
gotiated with, and agreed to pay to the husband of the
lady from whom the watch was stolen no less a sum
than 4001. not to appear against him. As the appli-
cant had himself suffered by Wood, and was fearful he
might be again let loose to plunder the public, he begged
his Lordship would interfere. The Lord Mayor could
not interfere, but suggested an application to the French
consul, who might probably be able to effect the desired
object.
DREADTITL CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—A
o'clock on Friday afternoon a most horrible case hottest
afaouorf
manslaughter occurred in Barlow-street 1"."
aged about 40,
blacksmith, named Thomas R h __lc_artistot;
groin with hot
having been stabbed twice through h
lurngost immediately. On
irons, so as to cause death
a epeo,liceman hastened tot e
receiving the infortnaotthoini,
L a blacksmith, who, on
spot, when heienscetutJ,
" I'm the man that has done it,"
seeing
abteiobnnigince' surrenderedcr himself into custody. It seems
in liquor, Richardson had visited Lee whilst
andtha‘
at wi'-ork, and behaved himself in a very troublesome
way, when Lee became exasperated Lind turned him out
of the smithy. lie repeated his visits, however, again,
and was still worse intoxicated. Lee was then about to
weld the iron r d of a pump-sueker, which he had got
red hot, when losing Lll control over himself, and aggra-
vated by the man, he rushed at him with one of the
heated irons in each hand, and stabbed him twice in the
groin. The unfortunate man has been removed to the
George and Dragon, where his remains now await the
coroner's inquest.—Manchester Courier.
NORWOOD, SURREY, although only six miles from
town, continues, through the merciful Providence of the
Divine Ruler over all, to be entirely exempt from the present
Dreadful Scourge and the influx of persons from London
now taking houses and apartments in that beautiful and
healthy locality, exceeds anything ever before known by
the oldest inhabitant.
Order is Nature's beauty.—Eliza Cook's Journal.