The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-11 00:00:00

NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

NORWICH, SUNDAY.—The preparations for the forth-
coming musical festival, which will commence to-mor-
row, are on a most extensive scale, and promise great
effectiveness.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who has
accepted an invitation from the Lord Bishop of Norwich
to spend a week at the Palace during the festival, will
arrive by special train from London to-morrow; and
amongst the distinguished persons who have signified
their intention of being present at the festival, and who
have received invitations to dine with the Bishop, are the
Marquis of Bristol, the Marquis of Douro, the Earl of
Orford, the Earl of Rosebery, Earl Gosford, Lord Strad-
broke, Earl Jermyri, Lord George Bentinck, Lord Rane-
lagh, Lord Jocelyn, Lord Hastings, Lord Berners, Lord
Stafford, Lord Sondes, Lord Walsingham, the Rev. Lord
13ayning, Lord Wodehouse, Lord Colborne, Mr. Justice
Matteson, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Baron Rolfe, the
Earl of Leicester, the Hon. E. Coke, M.P., the Dean of
Norwich, Sir E. Bacon, Bart., the Rev. W. Kemp, Bart.,
Sir W. Proctor, Bart., Sir W. Ffolkes, Bart., Sir T. B.
Durrant, Bart., Sir R. P. Joddrell, Bart., Sir C. Chadd,
Sir Augustus Henniker, Bart., Sir J. H. Preston, Bart.,
Sir E. Stracy, Bart., Sir E. H. Lacon, Bart., Sir T. Hare,
Bart., Sir W. Jones, Bart., Sir J. P. Boileau, Sir W.
Foster, Major-General Sir B. Harvey, Bart. ; Captain
Sir E. Travers, Sir H. Robinson, Mr. G. Hudson' M.P.,,
Mr. W. Bagg, M.P., Mr. E. Wodehouse, M.P., Mr. H.
N. Burroughs, M.P., Mr. S. M. Peto, M.P., Mr. C.
E. Rumbold, M.P., Mr. J. Sanders, M.P.; Mr. E. S.
Gooch, M.P., Mr. E. Fellows, M.P., the High Sheriff,
the Mayors of Norwich, Yarmouth, Lynn, and Thet-
ford, &c.

The band consists of 400 performers, under the di-
rection of Mr. Benedict. Among the principalzsv6cpil
performers are Madame Viardot Garcia, Madan* e's-
tellan, Mademoiselle Alboni, the Misses Williams, Signor
Lablache, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. IL Phillips, Mr. Lockey,
Mr. Whitworth. Mi. Blagrove will lead the band.
The performance will take place in St. Andrew's Hall,
which has been superbly fitted up fur the occasion.
The general rehearsal will take place at ten o'clock
to-morrow morning, for which the price of admission
has been fixed at one guinea.
On Wednesday the first morning performance will
commence with " The Christian's Prayer," by Spohr, to
be followed by Haydn's oratorio of The Creation. In
the evening, Mendelssohn's First Walpurgis Night, fol-
lowed by a scene froM Der Freischutz, and a selection
from Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito, and to conclude with
Wallace's new National Anthem, " Oh preserve and
bless the Queen."
On Thursday morning the performance will consist of
Mendelssohn's oratorio of Elijah. The principal solo
parts will be sustained by Messrs. Phillips, Whitworth,
S. Reeves, Lockey, Madame Garcia, Mdlle. Alboni, and
Madame Castellon. In the evening, in addition to Bene-
dict's Crusaders a miscellaneous performance will take
place.
On Friday the concert will consist of Davidde Peni-
tente, Mozart, and Israel in Egypt, Handel.
The performances will close on Friday evening with a
grand dress ball, under the direction of M. Jullien.

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND MR. SALT, OF BIRMING-
HAM.-Mr. T. C. Salt has received the following note
in reply to his letter on the currency to the Right Hon
Baronet:—

"Drayton Manor, Sept. 1, 1848.
Sir Robert Peel presents his compliments to Mr.
Salt, and has had the honour of receiving this day the
communication addressed to him by Mr. Salt, Sir
Robert Peel will limit himself to the assurance that he
gives Mr. Salt entire credit for a sincere and disinte-
rested conviction of the truth of the doctrines which he
maintains on the subject of the currency, and that Sir
Robert Peel does not consider that he has the slightest
ground to complain of the temper or spirit in. which
Mr. Salt has expressed his total and unqualified dissent
from the views of Sir Robert Peel."

DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE IN WILLIAM
SON-SQUARE, LIVERPOOL.—About ten o'clock last night,
a gentleman, apparently about thirty years of age, and
of respectable exterior, went down into Mr. Clarke's
shooting gallery, in Williamson-square, in this town,
and asked to have a few pistol shots at the bull's eye.
The pistols were handed to him, and he fired fourteen
shots. The fifteenth loaded pistol was then handed
to him, when he deliberately said to the party
in charge of the gallery, "We will now try
it this time," at the same moment applying the
mouth of the pistol to his right jaw, which, without
further ceremony he discharged. The contents of the
deadly weapon lodged in the unfortunate man's jaw and
head, and it was, supposed for a moment that life was
extinct. He, however, rallied, and was taken to the
Northern Hospital, where, we learn, up to the hour of
going to press, he lies in a most
hopeless state. The
melancholy occurrence, for which there appeared no
imaginable reason, necessarily caused the greatest con-
sternation in the neighbourhood.—Liverpool Chronicle
of Saturday.
THE LATE AMATEUR PERFORMANCE AT THE
THEATRE ROYAL.—Yesterday the committee of the
Brunswick Club, which conducted the late amateur and
other performances at the Theatre Royal, for the benefit
of the sufferers by the Ocean Monarch, brought their
1 labours to a close by presenting the handsome sum of
1501. to the treasurer of the charity, Mr. Daniel Neil-
son. The spirited manner in which this undertaking
was conducted, from first to last, reflects the highest
credit on all the parties connected with it. When it
was determined to assist the unfortunate sufferers by the
performance, the members of the club who -happened to
be present at the time the subject was mooted subscribed
thirty guineas in aid of the undertaking, to prevent the
possibility of loss or failure ; and the spirit with which
the public and the professional leaders, and gentlemen in
the town; seconded the efforts of the amateurs, has pro-
duced the gratifying result we have mentioned.—
Liverpool Chronicle of Saturday.
. LIEUTENANT EDWARDES. —This young officer,
whose skill and gallantry in routing the army of the
Moultan Raja with a handful of men have been for the
last fortnight the subject of so much commendation in
the continental as well as in the British press, is a na-
tive of Frodesloy, in Salop, where • he was baptized on
the 17th of January, 1820, so that his laurels, of which
the oldest general in tho army might be proud, have
been won early indeed. His father, the Rev. Benjamin
Edwardes, brother to Sir Henry Edwardes, of Ryton-
grove, Shrewsbury, was at the period, and for many
years, rector of Frodesley, at an income of 3701. per
annum. After receiving a preparatory education in his
native village, the subject of this notice was sent to
King's College, London, where, uncL•r the superinten-
dence of the Rev. Dr. Lonsdale, now Bishop of Lich-
field, his instruction was completed. He was one of
those cadets, therefore, who had not the advantage
afforded him of an education in the Honour-
able East India Company's establishment at Ad-
discombo. To a fortunate accident, therefore, do
the company and the country owe the possession of the
young hero's services. Through the instrumentality of
his uncle, Sir Henry Edwardes, was the young man
nominated to a cadetship by Sir Richard Jenkins,
G.C.8., late M.P. for Shrewsbury, many years on the
civil department in India. lie was passed and sworn on
the 26th of August,•lB4o, as direct cadet of infantry on
the Bengal establishment, and shortly afterwards pro-
ceeded to the scene of his future glorious career. It may
be added, for distinction sake, that the name of the officer
is Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, as several directors,
from a similarity of surname in their Own protdgds, have
been led into the mistake that the nomination of the
young officer was theirs. A pleasing incident may be
here mentioned. On Mr. Hume rising in the Lower
House, a few nights since, to inquire into the nature of
the reward intended to be conferred on Lieutenant Ed_-
wardes, Lord J. Russell somewhat quickly interposed,
and, addressing Sir John Hobhouse and Air. Hume,. said
that the nature of the reward would be made known to
the officer by a communication from the Sovereign her-
self. A difficulty will arise as to the promotion of Lieu-
tenant Edwardes, owing to the peculiar regulations of
thel Company's service, he being but yet a junior
lieutenant ; but it is generally thought that, in the
present instance, a special case will be made, and that
he will of one be promoted to the milli of Field Officer.