The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-12 00:00:00

DECEMBER 12, 1848:

ACRED MUSIC.

TflE 818 LE PSALM-S, set forth to appropriate
Tunes or Chants, Ancient and Modern, and Divided and
Arranged after a plain and easy method for General Use
in Public and Private Worship. By 11. J. Gauntlett,
Mus. Doc.

The object of this work will be best described in
the words of its preface. "This volume contains the
entire Book of Psalms, reprinted from the authorised
version of the Holy Scripture. Each psalm is set
to one or more appropriate tunes, and arranged for
general recitation, after the scriptural and primitive
manner of singing. The work is published with the
hope of satisfying the wishes of those who desire to
see the pure word of God set to plain,
serious, and solemn music, taking its just
position in the praises and thanksgivings
of public and private worship. The editor has de-
sired to render this musical psalter a congregational
one as well as a useful singing-book for the family
circle. Each psalm has been set to an appropriate
chant, and the time in which it is to be sung care-
fully marked. Whilst many of the chants are ex-
ceedingly simple, there are others of a complex
character, but their peculiarities are fully developed
in the Explanation of the Chant and in the Direc-
tions for the use of this Book. The easiest and the
best calculated to commence with are pointed out.
Where there are organs, and where it may be thought
desirable to chant the psalms in parts, a little book
of a uniform size with this volume is published, which
contains all the chants set in four parts
and arranged for the use of the organist."
This extract from the preface will give an idea of the
character of Dr. Gauntlett's very valuable work.
We have before us five small volumes—one contains
the chants arranged for the organ, and each of the
other four contains the Psalms, with appropriate
chants. Each volume is a complete work in itself,
and contains the whole- of the psalms ; their only
difference being that one volume is adapted for a
" bass" voice, another for a " tenor," and so on.
Some very truthful remarks, eulogising the Psalms
of David, and recommending them as the most
beautiful and most appropriate subjects for sa-
cred music, form a fitting introduction to these
volumes. The eulogy and the recommendation are,
however, scarcely needed. Perhaps no book in the
whole Bible, and most certainly no profane work,
gives such natural and such eloquent expression to
the feelings of humanity, whether of joy, of sorrow,
of supplication, or of thanksgiving, as do the inspired
songs of the Shepherd King. No matter what our
frame of mind may be, it is impossible to turn over
the Psalms without finding our emotions there
pourtrayed, our troubles consoled, and our hopes en-
couraged. Dr. Gauntlett has performed a great
public service in thus facilitating the chanting of
these sublime poems.

NEW MUSIC.

SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE.-AFRIENDIN

NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED.
Lewis and Johnson, Cheapside.

This song, which has been sung on several occa-
sions by Mr. H. Phillips, is composed by Mr. G. 0.
Allamann. It is a good melody, well harmonised, the
poetry by J. Oliver, Esq., and is sure to be popular
with the million.

THE FORSAKEN MOTHER. Ballad. Addison
and Co., Regent-street.
This charming ballad, written and composed by
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. St. Leger, is decidedly the best
we have seen by these distinguished amateurs. It
has been sung with great success by Miss B assano,
Miss Wallace, Mrs. Weiss, Mrs. Alexander Newton,
and Mademoiselle Nissen.

IRELAND.
TRIAL OF MR. DUFFY.

DUBLIN, .10NDAY.—Th3 commission opens on Tues-
day (to-morrow). It is pobable that the trial of Mr..
Duffy will commence on Thursday next.
Tne Freeman's Journal has another list of signatures-
to the memorial againit the exclusion of Roman Catholics
from juries for the trial of political charges, and also the
following letter from Lord Ffrench:—
. "-Castle Ffrench, December 5, 1848.
" Gentlemen,—ln acknowledging the receipt of your
esteemed Circular, I beg leave to assure you that the
grave subject to which the memorial accompanying it
refers had previously engaged my earnest and anxious
attention, as involving an indecent violation of one of the
most valuable principles of our constitution, and, at the
same time, imposing an insufferable stigma upon the an-
cient religion of this country.
‘` flew indignant must have been the feelings'of the
Roman Catholics of Ireland, when, during the lata state
trials, they saw every person of that persuasion excluded
from the jury panel, and ordered by the law officers of
the Crown to stand by, as if rendered by their religion
unworthy of belief on oath, and disqualified to discharge
the solemn duties of an honest ak.d independ,nt juror.
" We shall offer no insult to the religion of others,
and why, then, should we suffer an insult to be offered
to our own? We do not advocate, but abhor, the prin-
ciples of sectarianism. All we re quire is fair play. On
that we will insist, and vindicate our religion from in-
famy and insult.
" "frial by jury, or the country,' says Jadge Black-
ktene, is the trial by his peers of every Englishman,
which, as the grand bulwark of his liberties, is secured to
him by the Great Charter;' and the founders of the
English law', continues the:same Learned Judge,' hare,
with excellent forecast, contrived that the truth of every
accusation, whether preferred in the shape of indictment,
information, or appeal, should be confirmed by the una-
nimous suffrage of twele of his equals and neighbours,
indifferently chosen, and superior to all suspicion; so
that the liberties of England cannot but subsist sQlong
as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate—not only
from all open attacks (which none will be so hardy as to
make) but also from all secret machinations which may
sap and undermine it; and that these inroads upon this
sacred bulwark of the nation are fundamentally opposite
to the spirit of our constitution, and that, though they'
began in trifles, the precedent may gradualiy increase
and spread, to the utter disuse of juries, in questions of
the most momentous concern.' And are we to look on
with-folded arms, and see this glorious principle of our
constitution, which is the only protection of our proper-
ties, of our liberties, and of our lives—thus flagrantly
violated without an effort for its vindication. This is
the worst of all despotisms—the infringement of law
under
-the guise and semblance of law.

" Most willingly do I affix my signature to your me-
morial, and I shall feel happy to afford, in the promotion
of your views, every co-operation in my power.
" The memorial bears on its face the amplest evidence
of its truth and justice, and must be successful. For I
cannot persuade myself, but that Lord Clarendon will,
at once, take steps to have such abuses remedied.
" I have honour to Fe, Gentlemen,
" Yours faithfully,
FRRENCH.

" To Very Rev. John Spratt, D.D., and
N. H. Delamarre, Esq., Hon. Secs."
The Warder has the following paragraph:—
" SIGNIFICANT HINT.— We have been informed, on
good authority, that a human skull was deposited at the
hall-door of Mr. Kemmis, the Crown solicitor, in Kil-
dare-street, as a premonitory caution against jury
packing.
STATE OF TRADE IN DUBLIN.

The Freeman's Journal contains the following:—
"In reference to our markets last week, we can only
re-echo our observations of several past weeks. There
is a good, if Hot a large, consumption of produce going
on, but not the smallest alteration for the better in prices;
so far from it, that the leading articles are all a shade
lower than last week. While this continues week after
week, it is hopeless to look for any animation or dispo-
sition to speculate. All classes of dealers find it their
interest to hold the smallest possible stock in constantly
receding markets. We greatly fear that, as the addi-
tional demand, usual at this period of the year, has failed
to give a stimulus to trade, that we have to encounter
for the next month or two a lower stage of depression
than we have even yet reached.
" The following statement shows the consumption of
tea in Ireland up to November, taken from the official
reports :

1848. 1847.
lbs. lbs.
Dublin 2,901,735 2,856,110
Belfast
Cork
Other ports ... 1,067,595 1,114,687

5,390,149 5,216,258
5,216,958

Increase in 1848... 173,191
" There is a falling off of 14,000 lbs. on the month's
consumption, distributed as follows:—Dublin, 9,000;
other ports, 113,000, both less; Belfast, 28,000; Cork,
11,000, more."
THE WINTER EMIGRATION.

The Limerick Examiner of Saturday says—
" While our quays are thronged with shipping, bear-
ing away our food and our people, the evicted tenants or
♦oluntary emigrating farmers continue to flock into this
city, on their way to America. The cars, caravans,
coaches. and jingles from the country towns are full of
them., The steamer Erin-go-Bragh, which arrived yes-
terday, contained hardly any person but passengers
outward bound.' Owing to this trade, the numbur of
ship-brokers is treble what it was before."

TrIR ARMY IN IRELAND.-The following is an
official return of the troops in Ireland for the month of
December:-Ist Dragoon Guards, Cahir; 6th ditto,
Dublin; 3d Dragoons, Longford; 4th Light Dragoons,
Athlone; 6th Dragoons, Dublin; 7th Hussars, New-
bridge; Bth Hussars, Newbridge; 12th Lancers, Cork;
13th Light Dragoons, Dundalk; 17th Lancers, Dublin;
Ist Foot, second battalion, Dublin; 2,1F00t, Dublin; 3d
Buffs, Limerick; 9th, Newry; 13th, Belfast; 26th, Cork;
31st, Athlone; 35th, Mullingar; 40th, Dublin; 41st, But-
tevant ; 43d, Templemore ; 47th, Limerick ; 48th,
Dublin; 49th, Templemore; 55th, Dublin; 57th, Ennis-
killen; 59th, Dublin; 64th, Clonmel; 68th, Galway;
70th, Cork; 74th, Dublin; 75th, Kilkenny; S3d, Fer-
moy; 85th, Waterford; 89th, Parsonstonn; 92d, Lime-
rick. In addition, there are the depot companies of the
following regiments, whose head-quarters are on Indian
and colonial service :-7th Foot, Youghall ; 19th, Alul-
lingar ; 34th, Boyle ; 38th, Castlebar ; 66th, Tralee ;
73d, Fermoy ; 79th, Nenagh ; 88th, Kinsale ; 95th,
Londonderry. There are also strong detachments of
Artillery, Marines, Royal Engineers, Out Pensioners,
and armed Policemen, making in all an armed force of
close upon 50,000 men. It is understood that the Coast
Guard of Ireland, a body who can be also made available
as fighting men when ;required, will shortly be placed
under a variety of new regulations. All the highly
paid and useless offices will be abolished as they become
vacant, while the situations of the working officers and
men will be rendered more permanent and advantageous.
WOMAN BURNED.-On Saturday evening a young
woman named Isabella Willins, residing in Carnegie-
street, was severely and dangerously burned. It is
supposed that, being intoxicated, she had been smoking
in bed, and that an ember from her pipe had fallen on
the bed-clothes, which, as well as the bedstead, were
partially consumed. The fire was extinguished soon
after it was discovered, and the unfortunate woman con-
veyed to the Royal Infirmary, whore she lay on Sunday
evening in a dangerous state, and unable to give any
account of the manner in which the accident occurred.-
Caledonian Mercury.
DISPATCH OF THE &MIL/ND MAIL.-In conse-
quence of the day for the usual dispatch of the overland
mail to India falling on a Sunday (the 24th instant),
and the day following being Christmas Day, some anx-
iety has been felt on the subject by merchants and others
lest the mail should be delayed till the 2Gth, an ar-
rangement which would materially interfere with the
regular return of the Indian correspondence. The fol-
lowing letter, in reference to the date of the dispatch, has
just been issued by the Post-master General:-" Gene-
ral Post•office, Dec. 11, 1848. Sir,-In answer to your
letter of the 9th instant, I am directed by the Post-
master-General to inform you that, as far as this de-
partment is aware, the next mail for India, via Mar-
seilles, will be dispatched on the 25th insthnt, the
fixed day, the 24th, falling on a Sunday. I am, Sir,
yiyar obedient servant, John Tilley, Assistant Secre-
tary."
REFREiENTATION OF TRURO.-We regret to an-
nounce that a vacancy has occurred in the representation
of this borough, owing to the sudden death of Mr.
Turner, M.P.
A CHARTIST AND EIS BAIL.-Thomas Webb, of
Stockport, who was held to bail, himself in 100/.,syncd two
sureties in 501. each, to appear at the ensuing Li li
Assizes for trial, under the monster indictment forrcer-
uddenly ab-
tain Chartist offences, at Manchester, a
sconded with his family to America, leaving his bail in a
serious difficulty.
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REMOVAL OF THE TAX ON THE JEWS IN AUSTRIA.
—Among the many important changes which have
recently taken place on the Continent, we ought not to
leave unnoticed the vote come to by the Diet at Vienna,
on the sth of October. They decided, by a majority of
243 against 20, in favour of the abolition of the tax
hitherto imposed on the Jews in the Austrian do-
minions, called the " Judensteuer," as well as of the
other taxes levied for permitting the temporary resi-
dence of Jews in Vienna, or by passport and police
regulations. The minority is said to have consisted of
German members, while the Bohemian and Galician re-
presentatives, without an exception, voted in the majority.
As a tax imposed on the Jews merely as Jews, and not
on account of any other circumstances, could not but
operate most unfavourably on the feelings of the nation
at large, we may well hope that whatever may be the
final arrangements for the government of Austria, they
will not be again subjected to that oppressive distinc-
tion.—Jewish Clironick.

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