The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-24 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURGIT, MAY 13.—The Imperial family will set
out on the 17th of this month for Moscow, where they will
pass some weeks. The Princes of Hesse, and the Hereditary
Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, will accompany them. Before
they leave St. Petersburgh, there will be a grand review, as
is usual in the spring. The physicians of the Empresi do not
think it necessary for her Majesty to go to Ems this year.
The intention of doing so is therefore given up.—:llemburgh
Borsenhalle, May 21.
ST. PEYERSBURGII, APRIL 24.—Foreign journals have an.
nouneed the great scarcity of money that prevails hero, and
that the Government intends to contract a loan at Am-
sterdam already. Last year an attempt was made to
remedy the deficiency by creating bonds of the Com-
mercial Bank and Treasury Bonds. From this year for-
ward the proprietors of the gold mines in the Ural Mountains
and Siberia, are to pay a much higher duty ; the building of
the Isaacs Church of the Hermitage, and many other Imperial
edifices, is suspended for the present. A fortnight ago the last
English missionaries, Messrs. Thallybrass and Swan, of the
Edinburgh Society, returned from Siberia. on their may to
England. Henceforward there will be no English missionaries
in all Russia, as the Russian Government has confined their
operations to preaching only, and the converts are obliged to
embrace the Greek religion. These two clergymen have done
a great service by translating the Bible into the Mongol lan-
guage.

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CITY OF WESTMINSTER .LITERARY, SCIEN-
TIFIC,.AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. —Last Thurs6y even-
ing Mr. Wilson, the distinguished vocalist. gave the first of a
series of lectures on Scottish music, at this Institution, to a
crowded and gratified audience. He explained, in his essay,
the limited compass of the primitive Scottish scale, as in the
case of the " Banks and braes o' bonnie Doon," to which might
be added " Logie o' Buchan," " Auld lang sync," &c., and
pointed out the peculiar Characteristics of some of our northern
circulationfor
melodies ; particularly the mournful effect produced by the in-
troduction of the flat seventh; in the old Border air of " The
flowers of the forest." He traced the origin of some of our
lecture
secular tunes to the church.chaunts about three centuries back,
and showed, by changing the time of " 0 walY Daly," its
strong claim to an ancient eccle4astic existence. His
was interesting and instructive ; but his exempikations by
in which in simple melody he so eminently excels,
his own fine voice, modulated by pure taste and exquisite feeling,
carried to the
hearts of his hearers the most thrilling conviction. Mr. Wilson
gave several songs in his happiest manner, and concluded with the
olden ditty of :" Tak yer auld cloak about ye," a lyric that
bears evidence to the ancient truth that differences will occur
in the best regulated families. It was sung with most graphic
power, and a rapturous encore attested the effect of the perform-
"'nee. We are glad to see this fine and flourishing Institution
directs efforts for the expansion of intellect, it_ neglects not
blendinr, occasionally the dulce with the utile—that while it
those pursuits that move and mend the heart. -It is " refresh-
ing" in this utilitarian age to enjoy a soiree musicale of our
native unsoohistica,ed melodies that to pleaseroable sensations
attune the chords of the heart, too often discordantly jarred by
collision with the harsh realities of life. The .announcement
, of Mr. Wilson's second lecture next Thursday evening
was
I hailed with manifest satisfaction by the assembled admirers of
the 'joyous science.
theth Colonies,.
E. ECTIONS OF TIIE CITY OF LONDON
.r
s :morning
ha tthe object in the different
Wards of the City of London, of which *is to re-
questl hn Russell, the Secretary
requisition was, in
himself as a candidate at the next
would offer election. It is
1 signed.
expected to be most nume.rous y The following is a
of the requisition : To Lord John Russell,' M.P
the undersigned electors of the City of London do hereby
re-
quest that you will in the event of a dissolution of Parliament,
permit yourself to be put in nomination
of London in the ensuing Parliament."
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SUICIDE AT THE CAMBRIAN• 'COFFEE..
HousE.—Yesierday morning, at half-past three,.a,man having
the appearance of a footman entered the Cambrian Coffee-
hout,e in Great Russell-street, and having called:for a cup of
coffee, be asked to be furnished with a bed. The waiter con-
ducted him up stairs, and had just reached the shop again, when
he heard a heavy fall on the floor. He ran up stairs, and on
entering the room found the man extended on the floor with
his head nearly severed from his body. the carotid artery being
completely cut through. No letters or papers Were found on
the deceased to lead to a clue of his name or address. He
had on a dark mixture' coat, brown waistcoat, plush small-
clothes, white stockings, and shoes. The buttons have a
boar's head, and are the manufacture of Messrs. Trimmer
and Co., Strand.
VENICE, MAY 4.—The. Athenmum and the
city of Venice sustained yesterday a very severe loss. Bartolo-
meo Gamba, author of the " Testi di Lingua," one of our mo,t
leatned and el•gant writers, and sub-librarian of the Library of
Which he um,
taken '
with his usual energy, was suddenly ill, sank down, aad
St. Mark; while he was delivering a lecture at the Athenaeum,
expired on the spot, at the age of 75 years.
GIRAFFES.—NI. Itiboulet arrived lenvon Sa-
hiGehiralat'aesve exhibitedeallgil btltereimakdtlrfiny theng
traveller had captured six of
I these beautiful creatures, but in hoisting one of them on boa -d
the Great Liverpool it struggled so that The crate gave wily,
turday last, wialtliitifi,v,e
pastilibv,)::s:kiii.ia' 1 his enterprising
i and he so injured himself that if was fottudnecessasy to destrq
him.- Fortenouth Paper,