The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-14 00:00:00

MADAME ANNA BISHOP.

In the last number of the Musical WOricianarrative is
given of the career of Madame Bishop abroad, evidently
gathered from authentic sources, by which it would ap-
pear that every circumstance of her professional:life, be-
tween the years 1839 and 1846, has been attended with
reputation and distinction of the most brilliant and un-
precedented kind—that the potentates of Europe have
vied with each other in heaping honours upon her, not
only in oral eulogies, but in gifts of excessive value. Her
successes, indeed, on the Continent, if the record doth
not " protest too much"—and, having last night heard
her, we do not believe that it does—have never been
equalled by any English singer ; and, so far as the
recognisance of our own native talent is concerned, we
are gled that; in these sorry times of its manifestation, a
special instance of intellectual and practical merit has not
bean overlooked. A note or two borrowed from the
memoir alluded to may at this moment not be
without interest ; Madame Bishop was the Miss
Riviere who, in 1838, was one of the best and most pro-
mising pupils of the Royal Academy of Music, singing
with applause at the Ancient and Philharmonic Conceits,
and also at the principal festival;. After this, influenced
by the suggestions of the present Earl of Westmorland,
she commenced the study of operatic music cf the
Italian school, with a view to an experiment on the
stage, and in 18:39, at a dramatic concert given by
Bochsa at • the Opara House, she sang selectiens from
Rossinea Tancredi and Gthrzl Ladra in character,
with credit and success. In the latter part of the same
year ahe went ever to Cop:,-nhFtgen, where he gave tea
concerts ueder the pa.ronage of the court, netting during
her thr:,e months' residence in I),nmark upwards
of 12,000 thalers. In 1840 she traversed Sweden,
and divided with •JenLy Lind, then,
.as now, the
•
pr:ma donna of the Tiitatre the public Cavell:, en
joy iog at the same time the immediate countenance of
Prince Oscar. At Ursula she was scratald h.), three
hundred of the university students, vt Ito committed va-
rious other extravtigarcies denoting the • int( ieity of
their admiration. Triumphs more brilliant still awaited
liar at 4t. Petershurgh, where she sang &fere their
Imperial Alajesties and the leading members of the
Russian nobility, eciving costly tokens of opinion in
d amends and precious gilts. From St. Peteraburgh she
went successively to Doman Riga, Mittau, Moscow,
Novogorod, Kasen in Tertiary, Odessa, Yessi in Mol.
davia, Lemberg in Krakova, and Brume There seems
to have been no limit to the enthusiasm which her pro-
faress over this extended route awakened—in one place
she was presented with a Persian carpct and an elegant
eofe ; at another some dozen pairs of bracelets were trans-
mitted for her acceptance ; while at Yassi the reigning
prince condescended to lead her out to dance at a court
ball, an act of grace which the Princess Royal followed
up, by bestowing on her a set of turquoises and a purse
of 300 sequins. We read also of a shawl worth 1,000
rubles, as an offering on the part of the Countess Paturka.
A similar kind of ecia was iu store for her in Germany
and Hungary: She gave concerts at Vienna (which she
reached in 1842), Presburg, Pestle Raub, Carlsbad,
Frankfort, Mayence, Darmstadt, Maeheim, Munich,
Innspruck, Trieste, and Rovedero—the King of Bavaria
being her kindest patron during this section of her career.
In 1843 she visited Verona, Padua, Venice, Ik.igo, Fer-
rara, Florence, Rome, arriving at Naples in May. 'ln the
last-mentioned city she remained upwards of two years,
the whole of which time she enjoyed the position of
prima donna at the San Carlo and the Fondo, exceptirg
a short interval in 1844, when she sang for a few nights
at Rome. It seems that her popularity with the vola-
tile Italians never abated during this long period, and
that the mad enthusiasm which was exemplified on the
night of her last Neapolitan appearance exceeded all
ordinary manifestations of popular frenzy. At the espe-
cial command of the Bing of Naples, she was then ex-
pressly engaged for the celebrated fetes of Palermo ; and
having again reaped a harvest of hcuours and rewards
from illustrious hands, she turned her steps homewards,
through Switzerland, giving concerts at Zurich, Berne,
Neufchatel, Geneva, and Basle ; afterwards at Heidel-
berg, Liege, and Brussels. Such has been the profes-
sional career of Madame Bishop since the public first
became acquainted with her as a pupil of the Royal
Academy of Music.

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POST-OFFICE --13IPRO VEMENTS,
The 10th inst., being what is known as the official
quarter in most of the public departments, the altera-
tions which are said to have been in progress for some
time in the General Post-office, with reference to the
dassificatioa and salaries of the sub sorters and letter-
carriers, were expected to have been so far matured as
to come into operation from and after the .above-named
period. It is in those two multitudinous branches of the
establishment, viz., the sub-srters and letter-carriers
department, where the greatest discontent has pre-
vailed, where the prospects have been disheartening, and
where justice, or aught like a fair and equitable remu-
neration for toilsome duties performed have been so
long withheld. According to a return of the names,
salaries, &c., of all persons employed in the General
Post-office, ordered some time ago by the House of
Cominous, it appears, that the maximum amount of
salary, which the sub-sorter can—it may be after forty
or fifty years' services—attain, is 1101. per annum ; nor
may he even reach this, upon the average, until after a
service of twenty-five years. By the new scale, which
is now said to have been determined upon, and which is,
in one respect at least, an improvement upon the
old, it is proposed that there shall be twenty sub-
sorters at 1 le/. per annum ; 20 at 1001., 40 at 901.,
40 at 80/., 20 at 67/. 125., and 20 juniors at 6.5/. Thus
1101. is still to be the maximum salary, but then you
have a considerable numerical augmentation of the
higher claisitications, and, consequently, better pres-
peels of speedy promotion. With reference to the
letter carriers, it has been known for some time that the
"Christmas gratuity" system was to be abolished.
corifng to the Parliamentary return above alluded to,
sr m , of the senior Imer-carriers receive in salary from
the revenue only 361 S 5. per annum, or 14s. a.wetlc (It
was net until 1832 that the ralary was increased to 1/.
asweel:), whilst in some instances the gratuities average
upwards of 100/. a-year. The new arrangements, it is
trederetootl, aboihh it t.do this most objectionable, prin-
ciple of paying a public servant, and in consideration of
the deprivation of thesegratuities, fix the scale of salary et
from 60/., the minimum, to 110'. ter annum. Great im-
provement: are in ercgrces in the mercy-order depart-
ment of the Charing-eroes hraech. Frem the progres-
sive increase of business there, it has been found neces-
sary to afford the public greater accommodation and
faciLties, and a number of workmen are engaged in en-
larging the money-order cflice, so that the public may
have the same acres as to the counter in banking houses;
indeed, this department of the rust-office may be, not
inaptly, perhaps, termed a sort of Hank of Exchange."

City estate (Lady
When the Lord Mayor and the deputation from the
Corporation of London visited the
Dacre's bequest), at Brandsburtont inYorkshire, they
in the most tiourishlng condition, and
tfhouentdentahnetspia•olipyeeertr:
rnted and happy. His Lordship and
Aldermen Farebrother and Sir Peter Laurie having
learned that Pcseyism was the order of the Sunday in a
great part of the district, sent to ascertain whether the
elerg-yman of the parochial church of the place was in the
habit of preaching in a v:hite surrlice er a black gown.
Upon being informed that he mounted the pulpit in
white, they intimated that they were most desirous to:at-
tend Divine worship, but that they could not sanction
any innovation upon the religious observance of their
forefathers, and could not think of being present except
the curate would exchange the white for black upon the
occasion. There was no hesitation upcn-the subject. The
offiektting clergyman, notwithstanding the establishment
of the surplice es a preaching dress by Archdeacon Wil-
berforce, sent word to the deputation that they should
see nothing to be cavilled at in any part of the service,
and accordingly the Londoners had it all their own way.
The church was crowded on the day the deputation at-
tended, and they departed, without having in any respect
compromised their consciences. It is said that some
considered this interference of the deputation as a proof
of great liberality, ',ill calculated to operate as a lecture
upon the new system, while others thought that it might
just as well have ben let atone.
PIN E

ALT S IN SC OTL AN 1).-A correspondence
bit A ixt the Honourable Board of Scottish Manulkicturers

and the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture,
and Architecture, relating to the accommodation of the
latter in the Royal Institution huildings,Edinburgh,has re-
lived-the unnaturalcontest between these national bodies.
The former a:4llounce that it will cut off the accommo-
'(.!t.tiens 'of the latter for annual exhibitions after 1847,
and seems, indeed, determined to employ every means is
can to depres,s, if not to destroy, the cultivation of that
fine arts in Scotland.—Litcrary Ga.:ate.

A letter &re Dusseldorf, of the 3d of October, says,
" Within these three days 133 vessels, laden with Rus-
sian wheat, bound for the Upper Rhine, from the Ne-
therlands, state that the crops of corn there have been
generally good, and that there is at present a stagnation
in the price of wheat."
The last accounts from the Havannah, dated Sept. 16,
received, the day before yesterday, announce a rise of
one-half to a real on sugar since the letters of the 16th
of August
The freight is reduced to 41. 55., and up to this
date the stock is reduced to 80 or 100,000 chests. _

A letter from Meran (Tyrol), dated Oct. 10, addressed
to the Augsburg Gazette, says, "Yesterday a courier ar-
rived here from Botzen, announcing the arrival of the
King of the Belgians on the raol-row. But his Majesty
will pass only two days here, as his departure is fixed
for the 14th. The house which the King will occupy in
our little city adjoins that of Marshal Marmont, Deke of
Reguisa. It is said that the august traveller, on quitting
our city, will go to Como.
CbNSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 23.—The latest intelligence
from Trebisond of the 16th of this month, states in direct
contradiction to the former aecounts, that up to the end
of August the cholera had not yet ceased in Teheran;
the number of persons who had fallen victims to it were
estimated at 6,000. The third son of Mehemit Shad
had died of the pestilence, and it appeared that the
cholera was spreading in the direction of the Caspian
Sea and the Russian provinces.
In Kars an insurrection has taken place in consequence
of the collecting of the taxes. Several fires have taken
place at Constantinople within the last few days.
Adrianople had again suffered from a very extensive
fire, which destroyed three khans, several houses, and
five hundred merchants' stores.

DESTRUCTION OF A LARGE
COTTON-MILL.
AMITON-ITNDER-LYNF, OCT. 11.—During the night of
Saturday and Sunday morning the town of Staley bridge
was thrown into the greatest consternation and alarm, in
consequence of a report that the extensive cotton-mill of
Messrs. W. Bayley and Brothers, whose firm employs
upwards of 1,000 persons, was on fire. The report was
also speedily circulated in Ashton, from which town,
about smile and a quarter distant, many persons went at
midnight to view the scene of destruction.
On our arriving at the spot we found that the fire had
broken out in the second story of the large warehouse
adjoining the factory, in which was from 9,000 to 10,000
pieces of calico, besides a large quantity of twist, waste,
&c. The fire was first observed about 11 o'clock, rits.,by
the watchman connected with the mill, who but a few
minutes before bad removed what is termed the watch peg
attached to the clock, this being done every half hour to
show that he was not neglecting his duty The peg was
shifted about half-past ten, and although the clock is
placed in the building where the fire originated, he at
that time did not perceive the least symptom
of fire ; shortly after, however, he noticed a light in the
warehouse, and on examination found that that part of
it in which the waste is kept was all in a blaze. He im-
mediately gave an alarm, the fire bell was rung, the
people got up out of their beds, and in the course of a
short time thousands of persons were congregated in the
factory yard and around the building. Two of the town
fire-engines were speedily on the spot, along with a num-
ber of firemen, but such was the throng and confusion
that it was some time before they could be got into play.
The pipes from the Dukinfield Waterworks were also
fixed, but the pressure not being sufficient, it was some
time before they were of much service. The desire of
all present seemed to be to render assistance, but this
tended much to hinder those whose services in reality
would have been of some effect. Mr. flickey, superinten-
dent of police, with the few officers he has at his com-
mand, after a time succeeded in keeping the people back,
when a number of men entered the building, and al-
though in much danger from the falling materials, they
carried out a goodly number of the burning pieces, and
threw them into the yard, which, although of con-
siderable extent, was strewn with the burnt goods
in every direction. Such was the rapidity of the fire,
that the building, which is three stories high, and seven
windows in length, was, in the course of about two hours
from the time of the fire being found out, completely ,
gutted, the whole of the interior being destroyed. Near
to the warehouse was placed about twenty hogsheads of
oil, which were expected to have taken fire ; fortunately
they were saved by being rolled into the streets. Great
difficulty was experienced in keeping the devouring ele-
ment from the adjoining mill. It frequently happened
that a strong wooden passage or bridge leading from
the warehouse into the factory was enveloped in flames.
This fixture the firemen endeavoured to cut down, but
finding it impracticable they gave up the attempt, and
kept pouring a continual stream of water upon it, which
had the desired effect. To the left of the warehouse
stands, within a few yards, the cotton-mill of Messrs.
Thackreys. This mill was also considered to be in much
danger. They, however, took the precaution to place
a number of men on the top of the mill during the night,
each being supplied with a large bucket of water. Their
services, however, were not brought into requisition.
It is generally supposed that the fire must have
originated from spontaneous combustion, although every
precaution was taken by the firm to exclude any greasy
or oily waste from that taken into the warehouse, a
separate place in the yard being appointed to receive all
waste of that description. The whole of the 10,000
pieces, together with every other article, was destroyed,
save the burning remnants off he cloth, which was carried
out by the men who daringly ventured their lives for
the purpose. We believe no person was very seriously
injured, which is somewhat surprising when we consider
the manner in which some conducted themselves. The
estimated damage of the stock is 2,5001, which, with the
destruction of the building, will be between 3,0001. and
4,000/. Both the building and stock is insured in the
Phoenix fire-office, but the insurance will scarcely cover
this amount. It is gratifying to state that the hands
(with the exception of a few) will be able to commence
work on Monday. During the whole of Sunday the
place was visited by many thousand persons, who came
from a distance to view the ruins.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK P.M.
—The packet-ship Queen of the West, with intelligence
from New York to the 21st ult., arrived off Holyhead
this morning. The state of the weather renders it doubt-
ful whether the letters she brings can be obtained until
after the arrival of the steamer Cambria, anticipated
early in the morning, will have rendered them useless.
RUMOURED BREVET.—We are informed by un-
questionable authority, that it
i is decided to have im-
mediately a Brevet promotion n the Army—a boon so
long expected and well merited by the service.—Lin.e-
rick Chronicle.

ASTONISHING RECOVERY FROM DROWNING.—AS a
coal miner, named Isaac Gregory, of Rac!stock, was
passing over the brige near Radstock Mill, .he per-
ceived something floating oa the surface of the mill-
stream, and thought it was a deg, but on looking the
second time, he perceived it was a child. a boy about
nine years of age. He immediately leaped into the wa-
ter, which was about five feet deep, and succeeded in
bringing the child (to all appearance a corpse) out of
it, which he carried to a cottage about two hundred
yards distant. The neighbours soon asserntlecl, and
unanimously concluded that the child was dead, as he
must have been at least twenty minutes in the
water. There was not the slightest evidence of life, the
heart had ceased its functions, and every pulse was
stall. Mr. George Carter, one of the clerks at Bad-
stock coal works being there, requested a pair of bel
lows to be immediately procured, which was done; he
then slightly inflated the lungs with three slight blasts
of air from the bellows into the mouth, and then put his
ear to the stomach and bowels of the child, when he
thought he heard something in there agitation.' In a few
minutes he repeated the same, and in a few seconds he
perceived slight symptoms of animation; he then again
repeated the experiment, when the child caught the
nose of the bellows between his teeth so fast that it was
with difficulty withdrawn. He was then carried into a
cottage, laid on one side before the fire, his bowels well
rubbed, and in less than a quarter of an hour he jumped
upon his feet, and ran about the house, although appa.
rently in a state of insensibility. He was carried home,
put to bed, and drank a small quantity of brandy; the
next morning he went to work as usual. The boy's
name is Brown, son of Charles Brown, c.ial miner, Rad-
stock—Bath Journal

60th Foot (Ist Battalion)—James Arnold; Michael Ains-
worth, William Ancant, Samuel Abraham, William Brittle,
Thomas Buttery, William Brookes, John Budden, William
Buddle, George 8001, William Buley, Hugh Canning, George
Cakebread, William J. Charlton, William Chew,
Samuel Churchill, James Clark, William Crain, Mi-
chzel Coulehan (Bugler), Thomas Coulehan, George Davis,
Patrick Dowdle, William Dowers, Thomas Edges Mark Ed-
wards, Charles Farmer, John Fletcher, John Forbes, William
Forbes (Sergeant), James Gahagan (Bugler), Alexander
Geddis, James Gibbs, Charles Grant, Francis Gore,
Adam Guthrey, Thomas Harrison, Thomas Hart,
Willie% Hastings, Joseph Haywood, John Hendry
(Sergeant), Patrick Hughes, James Inglis, William
Keating, James Kelly, Thomas Keogh, James King,
Henry Lipscomb, David Logan, James Maloney, John
M'Ewen, James Milner, James Molyneux, Francis Moore,
Samuel Motley, John Mullen, Thomas Murdock, James
Nickoll, John Noble, John Nutt, James Picken, Thomas
Pollock, John Preston, J. Rees, M. Reilly, R. Reynolds,
Denis Romey, James Shea, John Shea, Thomas Sheldrick,
Charles F. Smith (Sergeant), Samuel Smith, Frederick
Stevens, Edward Stevens, Robert Stewart, John Tennen*,
Alexander Thompson (2), Thomas Thompson, Henry Tophan
(Corporal), William Tough, Stephen Turnbull, George Ver-
non, Charles Webb, Joseph Webb, Thomas Williamson, Mat-
thew Wilson, William Wright, Henry Yarwood.
86th Regiment—WilliamArmstrong, William Bindley,
James Brown, Thomas Brown, William Brown, George
Brown, John Bible, Michael Burns, Hugh Beatty, William
Brennan, John Bows, Alexander Brough,. James Brusey,
G. J. Byrne, James Byrnes. Thomas Birtch (Corporal),
John Bowker, Joseph Black, William Curry, John Curteis,
Michael Collins, Patrick Carroll, George Clarke, Patrick
Cummins, John Crenshaw (Sergeant), John . Clarke (Ser-
geant), Patrick Clancy, James Campbell, IN Connolly,
Patrick Carey, John Clabbon, Bernard Cahill, Laurence
Conry, Michael Condon, John Crimmins, Peter Collin),
Thr.c Curran (Sergeant), Patrick Coleman, Win. Campbell,
James Chitty, Denis Cullen, S. Cuttle, M. Chamberlain,
James Cline, Thomas Caffery, Robert Donlan (Sergeant),
Michael Darcey, Edward Donohoe, John Doyle, atichael
Doyle (Corporal), Martin Doyle, Martin Doyle (Corporal),
John Derby, Thomas Dunn, Patrick Donnelly, Thomas
Doran, John Dryden, Thomas Donelly, Michael
Duggan, Martin Daily, Richard Eales, James Farrell,
James Flynn, James Finney, Michael Fitzgerald,
Robert Fleming, Josiah Fleming, Michael Fay, Joseph Fla-
nagan, Patrick Farrell, Patrick Fitzpatrick, John Fennell,
Thomas Fury, Michael Ford, John Farmer, S. Fawcett, Jo-
seph Garner, John Gates (Corporal), Isaac Green, John
Gallagan, James Glynn, Samuel Graham, John Graham,
John Gorman (Sergeant), John Gordon, John Gregson,
Thomas Gowland, Michael Gleeson, Samuel Hannon,
Matthew Higgins, Henry Herrman, Henry Hardinge, James
Harnan (Sergeant), Richard Hornby, Richard Hall, John
Harrison, Robert Henderson, John Haggard, John Hume,
Edward Halfcree, Patrick Healy, David Hawthorn,
William Harris, Thomas Hopkins, Edward Hughes,
William Jackson, William Jamison (Quartermaster
Sergeant), William Jordan (Corptaral), John Kennecy,
Edward Kasbie, John Kenney, Charles Kelley, Peter Kenn,
Michael Kenny, Joseph Keely, Charles Kildea (sergeant),
William Key, Patrick Landers, John Lanty, Thomas
Lyons, Stephen Lynch, Martin Lynch, John Lynch, Michael
Lynch (Corporal), Laurence Lambert, Richard Littler, Pa-
trick Larken, John Lackey, Stephen Leman, Mich. Lawless,
Israel Lee, Charles Larking, William J. Larmour, Thomas
Lee, William Lavray, Thomas Lewis, Thomas M'Bride
(Sergeant-Major), William M'Cormick, James M'Darby,
Michael M'Donnell, John M'Nally, James :31`Donald, Ed-
ward Marshall (Corporal), Benj. Marcroft, Patrick Murphy,
John M'Evoy, J. M'Mahon, J. M'Call, T. Malone, R. Milne,
John Morgan, William M'Neill (Sergeant), Hugh M`Gee,
Robert M'lntyre, Patrick Morriss, William Moyers, John
Murray, Philip M`Dermott, Michael Meery, W. M'Grath
(Sergeant), Denis Mahony, Patrick Naughton, Michael
Nowlan, James Newman, John Nevin, Frederick E. O'Connor,
John O'Brien, John O'Neill, Owen O'Neill, Patrick O'Neill,
James O'Neill, Edward o'.74tillivan, Thomas O'Sullivan,
William Parker, John Price, Edward Pinnen, Joseph Pear-
son, Thomas Patterson, Abel Pimblett, Henry Piper, John
Patterson, Janes Plumb, John Quarter, John Ramsay,
Joseph Rees, Patrick Reilly (Sergeant), Owen Reilly,
Michael Reilly, Bernard Eel:ly, Thomas Reynolds, E.
Rhatigan, John Roche, William Rhodes, David
Rhodes, George Robinson, Edward Robinson, Pet' ick
Rooney, John Ross, Henry Rodgers, Thomas Rourke,
Charles Rourke, Patrick Roundtree, William Rutledge,
Samuel Ryan, Patrick Ryan, William Sancred, Isaac
Saunders (Corporal), John Shaw (Corporal), Joseph
Shaw, Timothy Shea, Peter Sheridan, Nicholas Sheeky,
James Sinnott, William Smith, Blucher Smith, James
Smith, Daniel Smith, George Smith, John Smith,
Henry Simpson, James Simpson, James Sipper, John Sykes,
Joseph Taylor, Joseph Telford, Peter Thompson (Sergeant),
John Thompson, James Thompson, Daniel Vernon, Thomas
`Vincent (Corporal), Patrick Ward, William Ward, Beejamin
Wheeler (Corporal), William Whitfield, John Wood, Thomas
Wright.