The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

No. 17,:347.] LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING

EAST INDIA HOUSE, Aran, 28, 1849.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,
That a Quarterly General Court of the is ,id Company will he hold
at their House, in Leadenhall-street, on ITamizspeT, the 21st June
next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon.
JAMES C. MELYILL, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, APRIL 28, 1848.
lIE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,

That the Tran-ter Books of the said Company's Stock will be
SHUT cn TUESDAY, the 6th June, at Three o'clock, and OPENED
again on Tnuastinv, the 13th July ; and
That the Warrants Mr the Divideuds on the said Stock, payable
on the 6th July, 1848, under the 11th Sec. of the Act 3 and 4 William
IV., Cap. 85, will be ready to be delivered on that day.
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

LI ALE of OLD STORES at PORTSMOUTLI•
Admiralty, Somerset-place,_May.l,. 1848.

The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give
notice, that on WEDNESDAT, the 17th instant, at Twelve o'clock at
Noon. the Admiral Superintendent will pat up t• Sale in her
Majesty's Dock-yard at Portsmouth, several Lots of OLD iiTORES,
consisting of Old Canvas in Rags, Rope cable•laid and hawser-laid,
Yarns, Oakum, Hemp 'takings, Flyings and Cuttings, Files, &c., &c.,
&c., ad lying in the said Tard.
Persons as siting to view the Lots must apply to the Superintendent
for Notes of Admission for that purpose.
Catalogues and Conditions of bale may be had here and at the Yard.

GRAVESEND via BLACIOVALL RAIL-
WAY, and STAR and BLACKWALL PACKETS.
Railway and Boat included in one Payment.
Fares, to or from London.
Fore Cabin and Second Class Railway, ONE STILLING;
Saloon and First Class ditto, OSE SHILLING and SIXPENCE.
To or from Blackwall or Intermediate Piers,
Fore Cabin.... • ... 9d. Saloon ...... Is.
No other Packets call at the Grays or Greeahithe Piers.
From The Terrace Pier. Gravesend, at 7,83 t., 9%, 11%, 1,3, 4,
5,6, and 7. Sundays, at 7,8%, 1134, 1,3, 4,5, 6, and 7.
From the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, at 9, 10, 11. 12,
5%,* 6, and 7.* Sundays, at 9, 10, 11, 1%, 234, 3%, 5,6,
and 7.'
The TRAINS starting one quarter of as heur before each of these
times.
Passages marked * are run direct, the Packets not being per-
mitted to stop at Piers or for Stoats.
Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parte of London
every quarter of an hour.
BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 4/. 4s. ; Six Months, 21. Iss. ;
Three Months, 11. 15s. ; to be had of the Collectors on board the
packets ; Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend ; or of Mr. Saunders,
Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall.
Star Office. Gravesend, April 15. 1848.

CHESTER and HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
The CHESTER and HOLYHEAD RAILWAY will be
OPENED for Trattic between CHESTER and BANGOR, on MON-
DAY, May 1. The Trains for the month will be as follows :
Departure from Chester (to Bangor) ..
9, u wit Lo
.. a in the morning.
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II f, •
•1( to 2 lin the afternoon
„ 19 90 • .25 past 4
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.1 in the morning.
It
It 10
90
1 } in the afternoon
11
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SITNI7AY TRAINS.
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B In the morning.
past2s 4 in the afternoon
FFrroomm . . .
7 in the morning.
•••••••••••••••• ••••••• 7 In the evening.
For further particulars, see Time Bills.
By order,
GEORGE KING, Secretary.
61, Moorgate-street, London, April 29, 1848.

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which I must say is far superior in strength and flavour, than any
which have been submitted to me.
" I am, Gentlemen, most respectfully yours,
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" To Messrs. Wm. Clayton and Co., 72, Watling-street."
This unrivalled adjunct to the dinner table or Cuisine is almost the
only Sauce used in these regions of Curries and Condiments, the East
and West Indies. Its wholesome and stimulating stomachic proper-
ties render it an indispensable luxury.
To be had of all respectable houses in Great Britain and the Co-
lonies; and wholesale only, at 72, Watling-street, City.

.TTBLIC in behalf of the
PHOM, Poet of Inverury.
Provost Thorns TTEE.
Mr. John Watson
Rev. George Gilfillan Mr. James 1.1. Ower
Rev. J. K. M'Gavin Mr. William Boyack
Dr. Arrot Mr. William Bett
Mr. James Westland Mr. James Chalmers, jun.
Mr. Patrick Watson I Mr. Arthur Begg, jun.
Mr. Thomas Saunders.
TREASCRER—Mr. Patrick Watson.
SECUETAIT—Mr. Boyack.
The Committee appointed to raise a fund for the relief of the
Widow and Family of the late William Thom, the gifted but unfor-
tunate Poet of Inverury, beg leave briefly but earnestly to appeal to
the Public, more especially to the Public of Scotland, in behalf of the
trust which has been confided to them.
The name and genius of Thom are well known and universally ac-
knowledged ; many of the feeling and pathetic effusions of his muse
have been brought before the public, not only in a combined form,
but in various periodicals. Ins talents attracted the attention of the
ablest judges ; and the Messrs. Chambers, in their Journal, have de-
voted a chapter to his autobiography, and to that favourable 'need of
praise to which they eensidered his merits entitled.
The life of William Thom has, indeed, combined the vicissitudes of
a humble child of the Muses, having formed a scene of trials and dis-
appointments, accompanied by an overflowing share of poverty and
distress.

AN APPEAL to the ]
WIDOW of WILLIAM
COMM!

Many of his earliest and best years were passed at the riawkhill
f Dundee—the remembrance of which seemed deeply impressed on
his mind ; for thither, to use his own emphatic language, he wished
to return, like a bird that flutters round her forsaken nest, to spend
his latter days in comparative peace and quiet.
Ills wishes were fuhllled, for not many months ago he did return
from his wanderings, debilitated and impoverished, and breathed his
last on Monday, the 23th or February. lle has left a widow and three
infant children, the youngest but live months old, totally unprovided
for ; and it has therefore been resolved to raise a fund, in order, if
possible, to afford them permanent assistance. A ComantLee has
been appointed, who have cheerfully undertaken this duty, and al-
ready they are happy to announce that their call has been responded
to in a prompt and liberal manner. Lord Kinnaird, Lard Jeffrey,
Messrs. Douglas Jerrold and Robert Chambers, and many others,
have spontaneously sent their contributions ; and it is earnestly
hoped that the charitable and the admirers of native genius and un-
obtrusive merit will support and encourage the laudable object which
the Committee have in view.
Dundee, March 10, 1848. _ .

Contributions will be received by any of the Members of Commit-
tee ; and at the shops of Messrs. Chalmers, Shaw, and Middleton,
Booksellers, and Mr. Mills, Perfumer, Dundee.
DEATH OF WILLIAM THOM, THE INVERURY POET.
(To the Editor of the "Dundee Courier.")
Dundee, February 29, 1848.
Sir,—The painful task has been deputed to me of announcing to
the public the death of William Thom, the Inverury poet. For
some time past he had been in delicate and declining health ; and
his diseased state of body was doubtless aggravated by the uncer-
tainty of his circumstances, and the consequent anguish of his
honourable and sensitive mind. Yesterday, in our city, at half-
past eleven a.m., he departed this life. He has left behind him
something more than a name—some true and beautind strains.
which, as " a thing of beauty is a joy for ever," the world will not
willingly suffer, like the inscription on the coffin, to be buried in
the tomb. lie has left behind him, alas ! something of yet ten-
derer and mere mournful interest—a widow and three children,
th 7 eldest of whom is only four years, and the youngest but a few
months old. These are " utterly destitute," and but for the kind-
ness of one or two private friends, might have been cast out erc
this to the charity of the streets. I make no appeal in behalf of
the poet himself; " atter life's fitful fever be sleeps well." He has
found what the most troubled and tempest-tossed wanderer will at
last find, and which to him was peculiarly grateful—rest. Nor will
I indulge or express any vindictive feelings as to the treatment
which ho received while yet alive. A true poet, he met with truly
poetic usage. He was caressed, but not fed ; as if one could sup
on incense, or as if one public dinner could keep a man alive for
years : But I would bespeak general sympathy in behalf of his
destitute family. I would implore every lover of literature—
every one who has derived pleasure from the departed poet's
lyrics, or from the simple story of his life —to prove their pleasure
and their gratitude true by some more substantial evidence than ex-
clamations or tears. I would call especially- upon those who saw
him at our late Watt Festival, and heard almost his latest breath
given forth in those brief, broken, but thrilling accents—accents how
far superior to the measurtd cadences of rhetoric—to testify by
generous deeds their sense of melancholy satisfaction that theirs was
the privilege of meeting with and hearing him fur the last time.
No time ought to be lost. Indeed, no time has been lost. Intima-
tions to the above effect either have been, or are immediately to be,
dispatched to Douglas Jerrold, Charles Dickens, Lord Jeffrey, and
others But as Dundee has had the honour of containing his death-
bed, let us follow the start we have accidentally gained by instant,
active, strenuous efforts in behalf of his widow and his fatherless
bairns.

Messrs. Chalmers, Middleton, and Shaw, Booksellers, and Mr
Mills, Perfumer, have kindly undertaken to receive donations.

The smallest sums will be welcomed

I am, Sir, yours truly,
GEORGE GILF LLAN.
The last ,ernes of the late William Thom, written shortly before
his death:—

SONG OF THE DWELLERS IN DEAN VALE,
Tune—" Miller o' Dee."
While we laugh Wad sing, in this happy ring,
With a bright and a brotherly glee,
May we never forget that the sun bath set
On the homes of misery.
For oh ! it may be that this chill night wind
Sweeps rotind some tireless hearth, •
Freezing the heart of the homeless ono,
With never a friend on earth.
Then aye, as we sing, may we closer cling.
In our bright mid brotherly glee ;
Yet never forget that the sun may set
On the homes of misery. .
Man was not made for this world alone,
The world was lent to man ;
'Tis a debt we owe to heaven, you know,
Then pay it as well as you can.

Now winter rides mad iu his carriage of snow,
With his pelting rain and his hail;
May it never be said that hunger and woe
Held abiding in bonny Dean Yale..

Then aye, as we sing, may we closer cling,
In our bright and brotherly glee,
And never forget that the sun miy set
On the homes of misery.

W. THOM.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
On Saturday evening Signor Labocetta made his
first appearance before an English audience as Il
Conte Almaviva, in Rossini's Bart iere di Siviglia,
and although Signor Labocetta was evidently labour-
ing under a severe cold, yet he achieved a great suc-
cess. His voice is a high tenor of the purest
quality and sweetest tone in the world ; it is managed
with excellent taste and consummate art, and it is
full of expression and feeling. The serenade in the
first act was deliciously given (we should like much
to hear Signor Labocetta sing the serenade in Don
payiale ; if we;mistake not he would make that
henceforth his own), and the trio " Zitti, Zitti," with-
Beletti and Mademoiselle Cruvelli, was cfeservedly
rewarded with an encore. After hearing
Signor Labocetta, we are not surprised at
the high opinion which Meyerbeer entertains
of his qualifications. He is a deliciously sweet
singer, a most accomplished musician, and (a matter
not to be despised) an excellent dresser. His Count's
costume in the last scene was superb. It is sufficient
to say that Lablache was Bartolo, and it is sufficient
to say of the Figaro of Beletti, that it was worthy
of the Bartolo of Lablache. Mademoiselle
Cruvelli was delightful as Rosins. The
character of Basilio was sustained by Bouche, and he
made quite a prominent part of it. His makingi up
was admirable—long, gaunt, half-starved, thin
bearded, and sanctified, he looked thej very
" chanter
in the choir," mean spirited and calumniating,
" the genial confidant and general spy" wham
Beaumarchais drew. His acting was perfectly
in keeping with his appearance, and his singing was
superb. Never have we heard "La Calumnia" sang
so well, never have we seen it acted so well. When
he extends his fingers claw.like, as though he were in
imagination tearing his victim, he seemed the living
incarnation of—
"L'Envie aux doigts crochus au feint pale et livide."
Never, we repeat, has this character been so brought
out as it has been by Bouche. He has done for
Basilio what Lablache has done for Bartolo. All the
artistes were called for at the conclusion of each act
of the opera.