The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-02 00:00:00

THE SINGER AND HIS LEG.

There are people who form little local attachments
about their own persons, and fall in love with an eye,
a nose, a cheek, a chin, or a finger-nail. One of the
first vocalists on the British stage is known absolutely
to doat on the construction of his leg ; he thinks, that
since legs were made, nature never constructed such a
pair as he is the possessor of, and he accordingly takes
every opportunity of obtruding them upon the obser-
vation of the audience. The earnestness with which
he details their circumference, in various parts, to his
friends and acquaintance, and the complacency with
which he regards them, when only covered with thin
black silk stockings, would be a fine subject for any
clergyman who wished to preach a sermon on the vani-
ties of this world. Unfortunately the costume of the
English opera but seldom affords an opportunity for
the display of the pedestals on which the musical
hero's body is erected, and those of 11r. - were
too often doomed to be secluded in long wide trowsers,
from the admiration of the public. But the fates
were not always averse, and times would occur when
thin black stockings were not at variance with the stage
regulations. Alexander the Great was a proud and
happy man when he crossed the Granicus ; Henry the
Fifth, when the battle of Agincourt brought
the
French nobles, who had been playing at dice for him,
captives at his feet ; Apelles, when his rival mistook
his curtain picture for reality ; and Brigadier-General
the tailor, when surrounded by the best dressed
staff in the militia, arrayed in coats of superfine cloth
of his own making ; but none of them were so proud
and happy as this vocalist, when he at last obtained
an opportunity of submitting his unexceptionable pair
of legs to the public view. He would rush upon the
stage and pour forth his excited feelings in song, and
there were few who could entrance an audience like
him—they would hang with breathless attention upon
every accent, and he never failed to make his exit amid
the most deafening applause. This he was far from
attributing altogether to his vocal powers. «Ah
he would say, as he reached the side-wing, at the
same time slapping the objects of his admiration with
affectionate familiarity—" Ah I it is some time since
they have seen such a leg as that !"—Crayon Sketches.

A TERRIBLE STORM !—We have been favoured
by a gentleman of Lenton, near this town (says the Notting-
ham Mercury), with the following extract of a letter from
Colonel S. Stretton, who is on a tour in Italy, dated Battag-
lia, near Padua, August 29 :—" We have just had a most
dreadful storm, which fell upon the city of Padua, about six
miles off; the masses of ice which fell were about twenty
pounds weight, and three feet in circumference ; they broke in
all the roofs of the houses in that half the city in which they
fell (only one half was visited), demolished the large marble
statues, windows, &c., and beat the lead on the roof of the
cathedral into large holes, as if with heavy hammers. Above
three millions would be required in England to replace the
damage done to the houses now in ruins. I was looking at
the storm from this place, where, although, thank God, no
masses of ice fell, yet we had torrents of rain and dreadful
thunder. Fortunately we did not drive out that day, or, had
we been caught in the storm, not only ourselves but the horses
would have been killed, and the carriage destroyed."

Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease.
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s.
54 60 30 34 22 30 38
48 55 26 31 28 33
Birmingham........ 56 58 30 40 16 22 48
Bridport 56 74 32 36 26 30 54
Cirencester 44 52 0 26 24 87
54 86 36 40 26 34 •46
Guildford 48 74 2:3 32 26 35 43
54 83 35 33 20 30 4U
Hereford -- 53 62 26 34 2(5 :32 44
Highworth 62 Rlt 32 42 28 34 53
Maidenhead ..-- 56 68 34 44 22 30 36 37
62 64 36 32 30 32
Reading 40 66 22 36 14 26 45
44 51 28 33 23 28 36 40
Southampton 54 58 33 3
388 2
32 42
Stroud 84 78 37 38 22 32 _
Tewkesbury 48 34 30 38 42 _
Uxbridge 48 74 26 34 20 26 46
58 80 27 32 17 23 34 42
Wanninster 46 54 27 31 23 26 34 40
59 21 22 35
Worcester...---..- 48 52 32 36 24 26 44