The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-16 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, /848.

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FRANCE.

Three thousand labourers assembled in the Chump
de Mars on Tuesday morning, and from thence p.m-
ceeded to the hotel of M. Vivien, the .Minister of
Public Works, to demand of him to be allowed to
assist in the works at present being executed in the
Champ de Mars. A delegation was received by M.
Vivien, who explained to them how much he regretted
that he: could not grant their requests, as the works
in question were being executed by the Minister of
War. The men then retired without manifesting any
displeasure and separated peaceably.
It is announced, that Admiral Baudin has pro-
ceeded to Tunis with two frigates, in consequence of
the Bey of Tunis having refused to acknowledge the
French Republic.
M. Cabet, the Chief of the Icarian Communists,
was sentenced by the Court of Correctional Police of
Paris, on Wednesday, to one month's imprisonment,
for having had in ki s possession 14 muskets and a
quantity of ammunition.
The commission appointed by the National As-
sembly to examine the decree defining the responsi-
bility of the President of the Republic and his
Ministers has already held four meetings. The Com-
mission has resolved that " the President's responsi-
bility shall not be a vain word. Whoever shall be
President the law will surround him with such a
number of precautions and guarantees that the
National Assembly cannot be deprived of any portion
of the national sovereignty?' The Commission has
resolved to class any intervention, however inoffen
sive, of the President of the Republic or his
Ministers at elections, amongst the crimes
against the nation. The Commission has, more-
over, adopted measures to prevent and punish
any attempt to exercise an influence by corruption
amongst the members of the National Assembly.
It has also introduced an improvement of vast im-
portance. Whilst it permits every citizen to bring
an action against the First Magistrate of the Re-
public and his Ministers, the latter is to have a right
to cite the plaintiff directly before •the High Court of
Justice as a calumiator. A. jury shall be summoned
to give a verdict at the same time on the original
complaint and on the charge of calumny.
By a decree, dated the 11th, the Chief of the Exe-
cutive Government nominates the following citizens
to be members of the committee to superintend and
direct the management of the Sinking Fund and the
Caisse des Depots et Consinations—viz., MM. Goud-
chaux, Dueler; and Berryer, representatives of the
people; De Gasq, President of the Court of Ac-
counts; D'Argout, Governor of the Bank of France;
Legentil, President of the Chamber of Commerce;
Marchand and Lesseps, Councillors of State ; and
Montanier, " Directeur Mourement General des
Fonds."

mice of your duties as a magistrate for the last twenty
years have gained ior you the respect laid esteem of all
parties; and we recognise in your conduct, during the
late critical period, a continuation of those services for
which you have always been distinguisheel. We further
desire to express our entire satisfaction with the humane
manner in which you have carried out those duties, ren-
dering justice in mercy.
" With sincere and het:Welt wishes for your future
happiness and 'prosperity, we are, your
.obedient ser-
vants,

(Signed)

WATERFORD, &c.

MEMORANDA OF A MUSICIAN.

BY GEORGE J. 0. ALLMANN.

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

No. IL
HANDEL.

This immortal composer possessed hands of an ex-
traordinary size, so fat, indeed, were they that the
knuckles, which generally appear convex, were like
those of a chubby child, dimpled, so as to be rendered
concave; and yet his touch was so smooth that his fingers
seemed—like the fabled Centaur was believed to have
partaken us much of the nature of horse as man—a
portion of the keys themselves, so gentle and yet bring-
ing out each note so distinctly and with such perfect
apiomb. He was accustomed to wear a white wig of an
enormous size, eclipsing by far Lablache's ruinous Don
Pasquale perruque—and when all went on satisfactorily
in the orchestra it had a certain vibration or nod, which
manifested its wearer's inward satisfaction and approval.
It is said that the leader always kept an anxious look-out
at this point d'attraction. and unhss this gyratory move-
ment were visible, nice observers were always sure that
his " inward man" was irritated.

If all accounts are true, Handel had not a little of the
bon vivant in his composition. An amusing anecdote is
related of his love of good cheer both liquid and solid.
During the oratorio season he used frequently to invite
the principal performers engaged on his sublime crea-
tions to his house in Brook-street. One evening, being
at dinner, it was observed the composer frequently ex-
claimed, " Och! I haf de taught!" Whenever this oc-
curred the company, out of deference to his genius, and
naturally unwilling that, from civility or etiquette to
them, the public should lose anything of so much value
as his musical ideas, always begged that he would retire
and commit them to paper. With this request, after a
proper display of reluctance and hesitation on each oc-
casion, our composer so frequently complied, that the
suspicions of some of them became at length aroused,
and one of the most curious among them unluckily
peeped through the keyhole into the adjoiniwz room,
wherein he perceived at once the object for which Handel
had "de taught," and this was nothing less than a hamper
of choice Burgundy which, as was subsequently dis-
covered, had been only just presented to him by his
friend and patron, Lord Radnor, our bon vivant not
being, we suppose, quite content with the "bumble
port" which he placed before his guests, was quaffing
magnum after magnum of this more treasured beverage.
And if not from the effects of his " potations pottle
deep," quite plenus veteris Bacchi, was, nevertheless, suf-
ficiently so, to judge from his gyrations, to realise the
lines of Ovid:

" Nunc est libendum—nunc peds
Libero pulsanda tellus."
HAYDN.

Like many men of ardent imagination and honourable
ambition, Haydn was destined to await for many a
weary day the time when his fame as a composer should
be established, not only in a commercial point of view,
but as an adequate return for his mental industry. One
of his earliest bargains for the copyright of his compo-
sitions was made with Forster (01 the famous firm of
Croysaill and Forster), the violoncello maker. The
agreement was drawn up and entered into on behalf of
Haydn by Count von Sweiten, with John Ashley the
elder on the part of Forster, and was couched in the fol-
lowing terms:—" Whereas Joseph Haydn of Vienna is
about to sell certain musical compositions to William
Forster of London, and as the said Joseph Haydn is a
composer of no celebrity, he agrees to furnish the said
William Forster with sonatas, quartetts, and sinfonias
at half the usual price that is demanded by authors of
repute for such compositions!" We really do not know
which to admire the most—the easy and quiet way in
which Haydn endured the indignity of such an agree-
ment, or the meansouled display of the two Englishmen
—Arcades ambo—who could dictate to a man of intellect
and genius se humiliating a proposal, though Haydn
might well plead the same reason es the poor famished
Apothecary—
" My poverty and not my will consents."

DREADFUL MURDER.

The inhabitants of St. Leonard's were thrown into
great consternation about noon on Sunday, by the
report that the residence of Miss M. A. C. Moore had
been burglariously entered, and the cook brutally
murdered ; upon inquiry the report was found to be
substantially correct. The house is known as " Ca-
tharina Villa," and is the westward of several de-
tached residences situate on the West-hill, the cliff
at the back of the church running parallel with the
road to the railway station. The family consisted of
Miss Moore, her brother, Dr. Moo?e, coachman, and
footman, all of whom attended divine service at the
Baptist chapel at llastings, whither they had gone
on the morning of the unhappy occurrence. The re-
maining members of the establishment are the house-
maid, who is at present at home in a delicate state of
health, and the cook (Mary Ann Newman), the sub-
ject of the atrocious attack. She was about sixty.
years of age, and had been in her situation twenty. five
years. On the return of the family from chapel, the
footman not being able to effect an entrance in any
other way, got in at the window of the drawing-
room (where it is supposed the burglars entered) and
discovered the room strewed with open trunks and
jewel cases. On going through the passage the cook
was found still breathing, and with three severe
wounds at the back of the head, one of which had
laid bare the brain. The alarm was given, the autho-
rities and police were quickly on the spot, but no
trace could be obtained, as the road is covered with
beach. It was discovered that several articles ofjewel-
lery, consisting of watches, brooches, necklaces, rings,
&c. &c., were stolen. During the afternoon a noto-
rious character known as "Turf Hyland," who was
concerned in the sacriligious entry of the church, was
apprehended; but his statement being satisfac-
tory, he was again liberated. At eleven P.M. a man
named John Pearson, who formerly lived as coach-
man at the house, and who was frequently quarrelling
with the cook, was taken up on suspicion. The un-
fortunate woman lingered in a state of insensibility
till yesterday, Tuesday, at nine A.M., when she ex-
pired. At one o'clock, on Monday, the prisoner
(John Pearson) was brought up for examination be-
fore the mayor (Alfred Burton, Esq.), F. Ticehurst,
F. Smith, and G. Scrivens, Esqs. The inquiry was
strictly private, and ended in a remand to Thursday.
Superintendent Bolton arrived during the day, and is
actively engaged in assisting the police in their in-
quiries and in unravelling the mystery which yet
hangs over this diabolical occurrence.—Brighton
Guardian.