The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-10 00:00:00

DEATH OF GENERAL BEM.

Letters from Turin of the 4th state that General
Bern died a short time since at Aleppo, and was buried
with the military honours accorded to the general
officers in the Turkish service.

DEATH OF TUE B IRON DE VERNEVIL.—Died at
Paris, en the 19th of December, 1851, in the sixtieth year
of his age, the Baron F. T. A. Chatriz de Vernevil, A.M.,
a man of varied talents, extensive learning, and varied ac-
complishments. H 2 was educated at the University of Paris,
where he took the degree of Master of Arts at an early age.
In the course of a life of great literary and scientific labour,
and much travel, he was decorated by various Sovereigns and
universities with orders and titles of high dignity. He was
Knight of St. John, Knight of the ;Order of Charles 111.,
F.M.S. of Spain, F.S.A. of France, F.R.S. of Saxony, In
spector of the Studies in the University of Paris, and one of
the Directors of the University of Madrid. A few years
ago his eyes were injured by an explosion during a chemical
experiment, and for a long time before his death he was
totally blind. But this calamity did not diminish the acti-
vity of his mind or the zeal of his studies, in which, to the
last, he was as indefatigable as in his youth. Much of the
latter part of his life was occupied in propagating and per-
fecting, with the co-operation of Mr. J. F. Hoskins, Member
of the Royal (now National) Conservatory of Music
in Paris, the new theory of Geneuphony, invented
by that illustrious patriot and scholar of Spain, the
General Don Virnes y Spinola ; and he had the
gratification, after great difficu:ty and greater per-
severance, to witness the success of his distinguished friend's
system of musical science, entitled Geneuphony, in a fair way
to universal adoption, it having received the especial patron-
age of Prince Albert, taken as the text-book in the Royal
Conservatory of Music in Madrid, and stamped
with the unqualified approbation of the great Ros-
sini, who testified his app:eciation of this disco-
very of the natural laws of music, by composing an
elaborate canon to illustrate the application of the goneu-
phonic principles. The Baron had been in declining health
for a considerable time, and had some pecuniary difficulties
to contend with; but he died in comparatively easy circum-
stances.

BISHOP PORTEUS o?.i A REVISION OF THE
THIRTY-NINE ARTICI,EB.—" At the close of the year 1772,
and the beginning of the next, an attempt was made," says
the pious Bishop Porteus, " by myself and a few other clergy-
men, among whom were Mr. Francis Wollaston, Dr. Percy,
now Bishop of Dromore, and Dr. Yorke, now Bishop of Ely,
to induce the bishops to promote a review of the Liturgy and
Articles, in order to amend both, but particularly the latter
—those parts which all reasonable persons agreed stood in
need of amendment. The answer given by the Archbishop
of Canterbury (Cornwallis), February 11, 1773, was in these
words, I have consulted severally my brethren the bishops,
and it is the opinion of the bench in general that nothing can
in prudence be done in the matter that has been submitted
to our consideration.' " Works of Dr. Porteus, Bishop of
London ; Ca de?l and Davies,lBl6. Vol. i., p. 38-40.
DEATH OF A CHARTIST LEADER.—On Friday Mr.
John Skevington, who had for many years past been the
leader of the Chartist body in the neighbourhood of Lough-
borough, expired. Apart from his adherence to the princi-
ples of the Charter, Mr. Skevington was an uncompromising
friend to civil and religious liberty, and as such his loss is
much regretted. About twelve months ago he retired into
more quiet habits of life, and it is believed settled down with
the Wesleyans, and became a decidedly Christian man. We
are happy to add his end was peace.—Nottingham Journal.
THE LINEN DRAPERS', SILK MERCERS, &C., Iti-
STITUTION.—The ball usually held at this season in aid of
the funds of this, the first established of the metropolitan
trades' institutions, took place last night at Willis's Rooms,
St. James's. A list of stewards, well sa!ected from the load-
ing houses, ensured a good attendance, and the whole of the
arrangements afforded perfect satisfaetiqn ti a com;,snv of
nearly. 400 lemons, who, with the aid of Adams's band, and
Messrs. Willis's excellent catering, kept up the festive meet-
ing until a late hour. Mr. Henderson tsciated as matter of
the ceremonies.

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