The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-30 00:00:00

ITALY.

Tll6 'Venice Gazette, of :the 15th, contains a bul-
letin from the garrison of Malghera, stating that the
Austrians unable to continue their works on the front
of attack, were trying to extend their right wing as
far as the soil would permit. The inundation of the
esplanade continued satisfactory.
Another bulletin, in the same paper of the 16th,
states that the Austrians had hitherto tried in vain to
render the soil more firm, in consequence of the con-
tinued fire from the fort. The fire of the besiegers
was uninterrupted, but did little damage.
Letters from Bologna of the 22d inst. state that the
Austrian Governer had ordered all foreigners residing
in that city to quit it within three days.
The Posilivo of Rome, of the 20th, states, that as
soon as the Neapolitans had left Albano the colours of
the Republic were again hoisted, amidst the cheers of
the population, and that many subalterns from the
Neapolitan camp had gone over to the Rom,ns."'
The Contemporaneo of Rome, of the 19th, an-
nounces the arrival at Civita Vecchia of the Infernal
French steamer, with 850 troops on board. An officer
immediately lauded before the rest, and sent an esta
fette in great haste to General Oudinot.
The Contemporaneo of Rome, of the 20th instant,
publishes the following instruction given to General
Oudinot

"You are aware that an internal reaction and foreign
i
intervention menace the existence of the tepullicAn
Government of Rome, which we have not recognised.
That Government,..advancing to a crisis now unavoidable,
it is our duty to maintain in the_peninsula the legitimate
influence of France, and to obtain the re-establish-
ment of. a regular order of
the interests and rights of thet thing
conformable to
people. Although
you ate not to interfere in the definitive negotia-
tions which will secure that result, you' are autho
rized to receive any proposition that Ymay prepare it,
avoiding,. however, in .the form of the agreement, any-
thing that should imply the recognition of the au-
t otities now ruling at Rome. You .will find here
inclosed the 'draft of a letter, which you ,'ill address
on your artiv' sl to the Governor of Civita Vecchia, to
demand admission. The entrance of the harbour will not
certainly b: denied you. According to every
probability, you will be received, on the contrary, with
alacrity as a liberator by some'and as a
useful mediator by others. But if, contrary to
all dxpeetations, you were denied admission to Civita
Vecchia 1-. you must not be deterred trem occupying the
town by a resistance, made in the name of a Govern-
m,nt which nobody in Europe has recognised, at.d
which maintains itselt at Rome ill opposition to the
‘li,fies of the immense m&io, itY of the population.
Once landed on the territory of the dominions of the
Church, you will hasten to commuLicato with IYI.
D'Harcourr, who is charged with settling, at Gaeta,
the interests of ti:e mission cot tided to you. You will
send to Rome one cf your officers, to explain to the
chiefs of
the ,Government the nature Ifyaoruer
not come
You will uxpressly iniorm them-that you:)
"to supiort the order of things, of which they are the re-
presentatives, and invite them to co-operate in an
arrangement calculated to bring about the desired
solution. Your advance on Rome at the head of

the troops may, no &Wet, facilitate an accommoda-
tion by ene.ur,i,,,ir.rt ti a le.nost part of the
population. Yoi will judge if circumstances be
suet, drat you may repair to Rime with a cer-
tainty not o.dy f not encountering any serious re-
sistance, but 540 of being sufficiently well -re
ceived to induce a belief, that by entering Rome you ro•
spond to the appeal of the porulation. Until this mo-
ment, when a regular Government shall have replaced
this one, which now presses on the States of the Church,
you may if you deem it expedient maintain in
ffice the existing authorities, provild they con-
fine themselves to exercise their municital funs
Lions and nowise impede your mission, or re-
establish the previous authorities, avoiding as
much as possible to interfere directly in those
changes, and limiting your action to the encouragement
and the eliciting of the wishes of the honest part of the
population. You may, if' you think proper, claim the
medium of the Consul of France, established at Civita
Vecchia, whom I place at your disposal. Such are the.
instructions lam now able to give you. Your excellent
judgment will suggest what I have emitted, and, on my
side, I will not tail to forward you the suggestions which
circumstances may render necessary. 1 here annex the
draft of a proclarnaticn, which you will publish immedi-
ately after your arrivd."

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MAISCIIESTRR,' TUESDAY.-- Taking into account
that this is cur great annual holiday-week, and that
the attendance on 'Change to-day has, in consequence
been a good deal thinned, we have bad a better busi-
ness than was generally expected. In yarns, the
operations on continental account have been of fair
amount, and sellers have maintained their prices with
decided firmness ; it has been evident that a slight
concession on their part would have led to some
increase of purchases. The same remarks
apply to qualities suitable for India. Both
the better and commoner kinds of 40's, 50's,
and 60's mule have been marked by a steadiness
which was wanting last week. There has been some
business for other foreign markets. In spinnings
for home manufacture no change is observable. Tae
transactions in goods have been on a rather moderate
scale. The India and China merchants have made
limited purchases of 40-inch shirtings, mostly in 60
to 64 reeds, and lighter 66's. The lower reeds are
in less request than they were only a short time ago ;
and the makers ketray symptoms of a growing
desire to enter into contracts; buyers are now,
however, restricting themselves very much to orders
for prompt delivery. The operations for other quar-
ters do not tell much upon the general market. The
Greeks are still doing little ; indeed, their advises
since our last publication show rather a- further
deterioration in the markets of the Levant. We are
glad to find, however, that some purchases are being
made in cloth (as well as yarns) for Italy. While
7-Bths printers of the finer sorts are less called for,
and somewhat more easy of purchase than they were,
the lower fabrics continue scarce and perfectly firm.
Heavy domestics and fustians, adapted to the home
trade, are still extremely depressed.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had very little
change in the flannel market to day ; business still
continues slack, and prices extremely low. In the
wool marke there has not been much doing : prices,
except in skin wool, are rather in favour of the buyer.
The creditors of Mr. I humus Bamfurd, of Wardle,
held their second meeting this (Monday) night, at
the Public Hall, when he agreed to assign over his
effects for the equal benefit o his creditors.
HuDDERSFIELD, TULSDAY.—This being Whit
Tuesday, it is kept as a holiday, and but little has
been done either is Cloth Hall or warehouses. The
general trade of the town and district is considered
good for the season.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There were but few mer-
chants in our Piece Hall to day, and the amount of
business dune was very limited. Prices are little
more than nominal. In yarns we have no material
change to report. Prices are necessarily drooping,
as old orders run out, and no new ones are received.
But little wool is changing hands, and prices are gone
down to pretty near what they were before the late
mischievous and uncalled for advance.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The market for woollens is
rather better in the halls, but still exhibits a want ol
energy on the part of the buyers. Business in the
warehouses extremely dull.

THE ARMY.
WAR MEDALS.

By the General Order 592, issued from the Horse
Guards, it appears that out of the 20,369 qualified
claimants for war medals, a large number have not yet
sent in their claims. The period allowed for the out•
standing applications extends to the Ist of May, 1850,
after which no claim will be taken into consideration.
The following circular for regulating the distribution of
medals-awarded to out-pensioners now deceased has been
issued to the stair officers of pensioners for their guid-
ance, and is being acted on:—
" Sir—With reference to a circular from the Com-
mander-in- Chief 's Department, transmitting the Infan-
try medals which hare been awarded under the General
Order of the Ist of June, 1847, and in which circular
you are ordered to retain, pending the instructions
of the Secretary at War, any of them which belong
to men who have died since the date of that order,
I am directed to inform you that, with a view of
facilitating the issue of these medals to near rela-
tives who may be clearly entitled thereto, the Secre•
tury at War has authorised their being granted to such
applicants in the following order, viz.:-1. Widow-2.
Eldest son livirg-3. Eldest daughter living-4. Father
—5. Mother-6. Eldest brother living-7. Eldest sister
living—whenever the requisite relationship to the de-
ceased has been established to your satisfaction. It is,
therefore, only iu cases where that relationship may be
doubtful, or where the degree of popinquity is beyond
what has been here provided for, that it will be necessary
for the parties to address their claims to this department.
" I am desired to add, that, as the local companies of
pensioners will probably be celled out for exercise in the
end of next mouth, the Secretary at War considers this
will be a good opportunity for delivering the medals
publicly to such of the men as choose to assemble for
that purpose. To the rest they can be delivered at the
first payments after being received; and you will notify
to the claimants that they are in your hands for this
purpose, as soon as they arrive.—l am, Sir, your most
obedient servant. " L. SULIVAN.
" War-office, May, 1849,"

CHATHAM, MAY 28.—A detachment of the 75th Regi
ment arrived at Chatham barracks On Sunday afternoon,
the 27th, from Gravesend, at which place they disem-
barked from the Prussian Ergle steam boat from Cork.
This detachment joins the Provisional Battalion as a
depot for the regiment recently sailed for India. Its
strength consists of 1 sergeant-major, 6 sergeants, 1
drummer, and 43 rank and tile, with 28 women and 49
children, under command of Captain A. T. Hotham,
with Lieutenant E. W. J. Knox and Lieutenant Amurie.
Detachments of invalids from Corfu and Melts arrived
at the invalid depot, Fort Pitt, on Saturday night last.
from Gravesend. They consisted of the 16th Foot, 1
sergeant, 8 rank and file, with one woman; 36th Regi-
ment, 3 sergeants, 31 rank and file, with 8 women, and
15th children, 44th Foot, 5 privates; 69th Foot, 2 ser-
geants. 1 drummer, 13 privates, with 4 women ar.d 9
children; 76th Regiment, 4 sergeants, 36 privates, with
3 women and 3 children; under command of Lieutenant
J. 0. Chicheste r, 161 Foot, with Staff-Surgeon Burton;
these troops came home by the. Apollo, 8-gun troopship,
Commander Rawstorne, and, after being medically in-
spected by the chief medical officer, Dr. Henry, 45 men
were taken into hospital, and nearly all young men,
with a complication ot disease:; two other staff surgeons
came home in the ship, viz , Dr. Smith and Dr. Russell,
the latter gentlemen lost his wife, who died on the pas-
sage, on the 24th April , leaving one son, three years
old, who was n board. Sergeant Richard Brown, cf
the 16:11 Foot, previous to his leaving the regiment in
Corfu, after 23 years service, and who has arrived at
the invalid depot, was presented on the sth of April last,
by the sergeants of the regiment, with a very handsome
silver snuff-box, us a token cf their esteem for him during
his long service in the corps.
NEWRY.—An accident,. which might have been of a
serious character, occurred on Saturday evening to Major
Carpenter of the 41st Regiment. Two privates of the
71st Regiment were firing at a mark, from a case ot
pistols belonging to
_Lieutenant Fortescue of the same
regiment, when the ball from one of the pistols lodged
in the leg of the gallant gentleman. Major Carpenter
was walking between Dillon's-cross and Banduff police
barrack, and the soldiers were iu the fields at a con.
sithrable distance f roar the place at which the accident
occur red. The soldiers were taken into custody in order
that an inquiry may:, be made . into the circumstance.
Cork Examiner,

RAILWAY GUARDS' UNIVERSAL

FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
gil
i;fi, promoterstt,heatthe
star, ofG otihdiisv
onAn ininedeatyin
the tlbles
St. Paneras-rcad„ for the purpose of ree; i
gs society
co
!I:2 rlve :Its, heldCl d
with
the eminent actuary, Mr. Nava!), in
' complianceot' Parliament.
of monthly contlibutione, prepared. and'ainpgproved by
an Act introduced in the present aes,lo.n
By the Act referred to no societyF•i ndly Societies Act,
en-
rolled in conformity with the e
upon which the
without the tables of contribudtioonfs
can in future be
defrred annuities
amount of relief in sickness an
are calculated,
d the probable duration anhealthiness
as well as other benefits in expectancy
contingent upon
lf human life, shall have been approved lay the Govern-
ent scivaries tnerein named, of whom Mr. Nelson is
one. The intervention of the Legislature on this subject
has arisen from the feet that the past experience of
many who belong t.i friendly societies has proved that
through the want of scientific knowledge in fixing the
rates of contribution, the expectation of mutual assist-
ance at the time of sickness and in the hour of death
has, in too many instances, proved delusive, and has,
moreover, opened a wide door fur fraud on the industri-
ous and the provident. The spirit of competition has,
in such cases, run the rates too low to enable the society
to provide the benefits promised. We believe the Rail-
way Guards' Universal Friendly Society is the first
whose tables of contribution have been prepared in con
formity with the new Ac ; and although upon a cursory
glance the rates appear higher than usual, a more mature
consideration of the chiet elements involved in the cal-
culations induces us to approve these tables, in compiling
which. if Mr. Neison errs; it is certainly on the safe aide,
and-the rates are capable of revision and amendment,
under the powers of the same Act. The subject is an
interesting one, and the office of Mr. Nelson one of very
critical administration.

The Railway Guards' Society, at their meeting of

Monday, approved the tab'es we have refetrod to, and
p:c.h,e( chd toe feet such members of the g€nerai cothrxii;tee
to carrying out tl.e obj.,.cts a the society as time and a
somewhat scanty attendance of guards from the country
ro:itted. Mr. Bishop, fo..- the Birmingham distric ;
Mr. Henry Boots, for London; Mr. Fow:er, for Liver-
vot; Mr. Hargraves, for Manchester; Mr. Cooper, for
Peterborough, guards; and Mr. Davis, of London; and
Mr. Smith, of Manchester, breaksmen; were appointed
members of the general committee as representing the
London and North-Western Company.
The election of the representatives of the other- lines
was deferred to a future meeting, out of consic:eration
to the absent members.
The meeting then separated._

We are happy to hear that the society has the hearty
concurrence of all parties interested. The very best
feeling prevailed at the meeting.

THE FREEMEN'S LANDS BILL.

It is generally conceded that though the Act for the
" Reform of Municipal Corporations in England and
Wales" brought about a radical reform in these cor-
porations, by introducing a new and wholesome system,
and which previously were mere hotbeds of corruption,
yet that that important Act made no provision for the
management of " strays," waste, and common lands, and
for the protection of the interests of all having au
interest in them. To obviate this glaring defect the
'above-named Bill has been introduced into the House
of Lords by the Earl of Carlisle with every prospect of
success. 1E owes its origin to Mr. Leeman, the well-
known solicitor of York, who for some time past has
carried on a correspondence with the authorities of the
principal towns in the kingdom, with the view of ex-
hibiting the nett ssity for tsucli a measure, and the
framing of suitable provisions. At a numerous meeting
of the freemen of York, presided over by the Lord
Mayor, the Bill was approved of. The enthusiasm of
Mr. Leeman is most commendable, because he had
pledged himself that if the freemen did not approve of
the Bill that it should not cost them one single farthing.
Every one who has paid the slightest attention to the
management of these Important lands must admit that
the present system is defective in the extreme, and
be glad to see the probability of a panacea being
applied to the existing evils. The York Herald thus
defines the leading principles of the Bill and urges upon
freemen the necessity to bestir themselves to promote its
success:—

" The Billie so perfectly unobjectionable in its nature,
that no person can possibly offer any opposition to it, ex-
cept for the sake of factious annoyance. The freemen,
not oni of York, but also those of England at large, are
deeply indebted to Mr. Leeman, for the great amount of
trouble he has thus voluntarily taken for their welfare,
and for the care which he has bestowed to secure them
all their rights and privileges by an Act of Parliament.
The provisions of the Bill enact that the town clerk shall
make out a list of freemen, who shall elect tteir own
land wardens, or pasture masters, but that the treasurer
of the borough shall also be the treasurer of the freemen.
It likewise contains powers to authorise the exchange or
sale of any lands which a majority' of the freemen may
d.-cide upon, but only provided such exchange or sale
shall meet with the sanction of the town council, and the
Lords of the Treasury. The bye-laws for the govern-
ment of the strays, are left to be drawn up by the free-
men themselves; and thus, it will be evident to all, that
!hey will pas...ss full and unrestricted power. As we
know there will be some opposition offered by interested
and designing parties, whose only object is to serve their
own mean purposes, we call upon the freemen of every
town who are interested in strays, to be up and doing—
to hold public imetings to discuss the Bill—to petition
in its favour, and, by every means in their power, to
assist the Noble Earl in his kind and disinterested exer-
tions to serve a numerous olvs of individuals, whose in-
terests, we regret to ray, have not hitherto had that at-
tention which, in our option, they have fully deserved."

POST-OFFICE NOTlCE.—Windermere, in West-
moreland, hiving been constituted a post town, the Pvst-
office there vtia be opened for the issue and payment of
money orders ou and after the ht of June next. Mount
Bellew, county Gahiay, Inland, is now called Mount
Bellew Bridge._

We are enabled to state that a marriage of more
than common interest t vcn in a political point of view
has been agreed upon between a fair country vroman of
our own and one of the Royal personages who have had
occasion to seek refuge in Great Britain. The Count de
Alontemolin has offured his hand to Miss de Horsey, the
aecompli.hed daaghter of Spencer de Horsey, Esq., and
the marriage will shortly be solemnized in this country.
It is understood that a negotiation has been opened by
the Prince with the Government of the Queen of Spain,
which has crnsented to make an adequate provision for
his Royal Highness and his bride, in consideration of
the renunciation of the claims to the throne of the male
line, of which the Count de Montemolin is the repr‘sen-
tative.—Tirnes.

WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN
RAILWAY.—II appears from a return to the House of
Lords respecting the allotment of 5,800 shares of the
above company among members of either House of Par-
liament, that 372 shares were allotted to three mem-
bers of the House of Lords, of which 202 shares
were taken up, and the deposits paid upon
them; and of 5,489 shares allotted to 47 Members of
the House of Commons, 4,467 were taken up, and the
deposits paid thereon, leaving 1,022 not taken up. The
shares were first issued on the Ist of July, 1845, and
appeared in the official list of the Stock Exchange on
the 231 of July; on the 24th of July they w.re marked
as done at * premium, and on the 25th of July at
premium.

DINNER TO MR. AUSTEN, OF WALTHAM ABBEY.—
On Thursday last a dinner was given to this gentlemen,
at the Hotel, Waltham, on the occasion of his retire-
ment from the charge of the Government powder-mills,
which important duty he had filled for many years.
John Griffiths, Esq , J. Colville, Esq., ard other magis-
trates and gentlemen presented to Mr. Austen at the
same time a very costly silver snuff-box, as a testimony
of their high esteem fur his character, and their sense of
the very efficient manner in which his important duties
have been performed, by which life and property in the
neighbourhood have been preserved from the disastrous
effects of the explosions so fro quent in former days.
WILFUL DAMAGE TO THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
—The first instance of malicious injury being dune to
the electric telegraph has just occurred on the London
and North Western Railway, between Clifton-bridge and
Ruby, by the twisting of the wires, and by which the
communication was broken off between London and
Rugby down, and Liverpool, Manchester, and Birming-
ham up. A reward has been offend for the discovery of
the perpetrators of the mischief; and it may be perhaps
usefully mentioned, that by law the act is a misde-
meanour, and renders the party on conviction liable to
transportation.

THE FIRE IN BLENITEIM-STREET.—The firemen
having eventually succeeded in extinguishing the fire
which broko out on Monday night upon the premises
belonging to Mr. George Freeman (late Alderson and
Co.) in Blenheim street, Oxford-street, a strange dis-
covery was made. On the men entering, by means of a
small window, a kind of lumber room parallel with the
first floor leads, their attention was directed to what
sppeared to be the remains of two or three persons who
had been burned to death. Upon making a closer
inspection it was ascertained that the substances found
were the remains of two, it not three human beings,
which bad not been divested of the flesh, and which was
so hard and dry, from long exposure to the air, as not to
bo easily removed. The head of. each party was off, and
there is every reason fur supposing that the bodies had
been used by the celebrated Dr. Brookes, who formerly
had possession of the premises for anatomical purposes.
Although every irquiry has been mado for the purpose
of learning how the disaster occurred, nothing satisfac-
tory could be gleaned; the prevailing opinion, however,
is, that it arose from the spontaneous ignition of some
greasy rags. Had it not been for the exertion cf the
firemen, there is no doubt that the premises of Mr.
Colhurn, the well-known bookseller in Marlborough-
street, would also have been destroyed, as the warehouse
of that gentleman adjoined those burned down.
THE WHITSUNTIDE EXCURSION Tamas.—Yes-
terdsy and since Saturday the holiday excursion trains
iu and out of London, and throughout the country, were
on an extraordinary scale. The influx at the Euston
station of the London and Noith-Westeru, brought up
from the manufacturing districts by several special
trains, rendered additional arrangements necessary;
antatt:l excursion trains coming in from Liverpool,
Birmingham, and other places, allowing passengers 10
and 16 days in London, at 255. and 20s. the trip. In the
much talked of Paris excursion-train there were only
21 passengers; and as the net receipt would not amount
to more than 50/., insufficient to .pay for the engine,
they were taken by the ordinary trains. Among other
excursion curiosities and novelties was a train from
Birming
taking passengersatHtuwno
guineas each ; another train from
Dublin to London and back,
Hospital; "school trains" on the La-cash ire and Vie surplus profits to be devoted to the Birmingham
York-
shire, conveying
Sunday school children, witty their
tutors, at sixpence a head, frcm the mills and manufac-
tories to the outskirts, and upwards of three thousand
children, in 100 carriages went in one day. A. large
number of persons availed themselves of single'fares for
the double journey on the Chester and Holyhead to see
the stupendous tube-bridges now erecting offer the
Illenai Straits. Yesterday the trains on the Greenwich
Railway ran every 5 minutes each way until 12 o'cicck,
and carried several thousand persons.
ST. Al ARTIN• IN- THE-FIELDS Pu Llr months
The total number of bathers fur the fßou
the opening of the establishment, ending May 24, was
ntss---
from
51 752. 01 the there were 20,172 first-class bathers,
18,472 being men and 1,650 women; and 31,610 eeeiond-
class bathers, 28,957 being men and 2,653 women. The
cold baths taken were 429 first class, 422 by men tied 7
by women; and 729 second-class, 722 by men and 7 by
women. The greatest number of bathers in any one day
was on Saturday, May 5, when there were .were 1,297.
The gr.( retest number on any Sunday (the baths being
%an Ire m 6 till helf pact 8 a.m.) was on Sunday,
May 6, when there were 585. The tmallest number on
any one day was on the 19th a April, when there were
only 103. The total receipts for the four months have
been 772/. Bs. 10d. The bathers last week were 5,597,
and the receipts 811. Bs.
D EATII OF 'WILLIAM NICHOLSON, TAR GALLO..
WAY POET.—This eccentric, but still remarkable. man.
under many disadvantages, died at Kildarroch, Borgue,
.on the 16th inst., aged sixty-seven. At the time the
I'4! t rick Shepherd was engegtd in the composition ef the
" Queen's Wake," the deceased bard appeared in Edin-
burgh, armed with manuscripts for publication, which
the author of " Kilmeny," and other deathless lays, ex-
hibited hii usual good:fature in revising with the
. greatest scruitukaity. The 'volume was Well received,
and about twenty years afterwards ran to a second edi-
tion, published in Dumfries, to which was prefixed a me-
mo r of the author.—DentirreA Courier.

It is reported that Lord Wallscourt died yesterday
morning in Paris of cholera.

MEMORANDA OF A MUSICIAN.

BY GEOitGE J. 0. ALLMANN.

Notes, notes, forsooth, and noting!"
SIIAKSPERE.

No. :CAL
G lACOMO BATTISTA LULLI.

When lying on the bed of death, his confessor would
not grant him absolution in ertremis unless he consented
to commit to the flames his last opera, Achille et Polixene,
as-the only method of rescuing Lim from eternal per-
dition. With !miry heart-drawn sighs—for the soul of
- the expiring musician clung forcibly to a work from
which he hid expected to thrive both fame and emolu-
ment, and which not without severe struggles it could
be induced to immolate—Lulli at last g,..ve the required
acquieeeence, at the same time poiuzirg with his finger
to an escrutoire in which his cherished manuscript was
deposited. The confessor with eager hands cast it into
the jaws of the devouring element, and with a satisfac-
tion he took no care to conceal, watched its destruction
till the whole mass was reduced to cinders. He then
performed his promise, and after shriving the composer,
left him. But strange to relate, Lulli grew better, and
was soon thought to be out of danger. One day he was
honoured by a visit from one of the royal children of
Louis the Fourteenth. "Is it really true," he inquired
of Lulli, " that you have thrown your opera into the
fire?" The composer replied affirmatively. " How
foolish of you," rejoined the Prince, "to believe' so
blindly the protestations of a false-hearted Jesuit, and at
the same time to destroy such music!" "Hash, hush!"
added Lulli in a solemn whisper, looking round the
apartment anxiously, as if he expected to meet the con-
demning glance of his father confessor, and yet with a
kind of cunning chuckle at having overreached him—
" Hush, hush! I knew what I was about, I have another
copy of it beneath my pillow !" Unfortunately Lulli
suffered a relapse, and with the prospect of immediate
dissolution before his eyes he became truly penitent for
the duplicity of which he bad been guilty, and into such
an extremity of alarm and remorse did its remembrance
lead him, that he submitted to be laid on a bed of ashes,
with a cord round his neck, and in this penitent situation
openly acknowledged a deep sense of his recent trans-
gression. After this the perturbation of his soul de-
creased, and he became resigned to his approaching end.
When he felt his last moment was near he began sing-
ing in a weak voice a hymn, and expired as his lips
uttered the solemn and emphatic words, " faut
mourir, relcheur, faut mourir! ' The cause of his
-death was mortification, the result of an accident by
which he injured his foot severely while beating time to
aTe Deum (1687). Madame de Sevigre, in a leter of
• the 6th May, 1672, in which she gives an account of the
funeral ceremony of Chancellor Sepier, thus writes
concerning Lulli:—" As for his genius it is a thing
which canna be expressed. In the music we had yes-
terday at the Royal Chapel Baptiste outdid himself.
His beautiful miscrere was added on this occasion. We
had also a libera, at hearing which all eyes were in
tears." Sauteuil composed the epitaph on his magnid-
cent monument in the Church of Petits re:es, where
-Lulli expressed a desire to be interred. This epitaph
consisted of six Latin verses, the substance of which,
when translated, expressed—

"0 Death, know we that thou watt blind! but in striking
Lulli bast thou convinced us that thou art deaf also."

CORELLI
Was performing some of his compositions before a select
party, who had been invited by his patron-Cardinal for
the expres3 purpose of hearing the renowned musician.
This party consisted of some of the most distinguished
patricians of Rome, and Oozelli observing, while playing
the most beautiful movement of one of his sonatas, that
the Cardinal was engaged in earnest conversation with
them, suddenly ceased and quietly laid down his instru-
ment. This unexpected cessation surprising his patron,
the latter inquired if a string were broken, to which
Cloreili, with an honest opinion of the respect due to his
in:ptie, replied firmly yet respectfully, " No, your
Eminence, I WWI only fearful I interrupted matters of
impottance!" With a consciousness that genius could
now slispley itself advantave.uusly unless properly esti-
inated;. the Cardinal bore this gcrit:e rebuke in a manner
worthy of. admiration, and immediately broke off the
conversation to listen attentively while Coreili performed
the whole sonata over again.

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH.

Frederick the Great was an ardent admirer of music,
and a profound worshipper of the genius of the Great
Fuguist, whom he had invited to visit him at Potsdam.
Of this invitation Bach did not immediately avail him-
self, but one evening., just when the King had taken his
flute in hand for the purpose, as was his custom, of join-
ing in the practice of orchestral music, he received the.
agreeable news that the learned musician had arrived.
He r)se immediately. " Gentlemen," said he, " old
Bach is cone, I will sea him at once, even in his travel-
ling dress." Bach was at this time sixty-two years of
age (1747). He died three years afterwards, leaving a
name behind him that the World—forgefful, selfish as it
is—will not willingly let die.
SOUNDS I.IIITATED BY LANGUAGE.
The cry of the cuckoo has been peculiarly and feli-
citously imitated in the language of different nations by
the names with which they distinguish that bird. For
instance, tha Greeks call it Koxxu; in the Latin it is
(renominated cuculus, which in the Italian is moiified
into cucolo. In the German it is called kukuk, which, as
well as the French coueou, the English cuckoo, and the
Greek which I have before given, is singularly illustra-
tive of the bird's notes. In the Sclavonic, however, it is
called kukaliza, in the Polish kukulha, and in the Russian
kukutka. But these latter languages possess several
names for the bird, the former kukoviza, the latter
kukuva.sca. The Danes and Swedes call it goeck, which
is ill-expressive and very unfelicitous.