The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-20 00:00:00

MONTHLY CONCERTS.
ST. MARTIN'S HALL.
The fourth of the series was given by Mr. Hulls!),
last evening, when he produced Mendelssohn's oratorio,
Elijah, with an effect and a success surpassing, perhaps,
all his previous efforts. The great room of Si-. Martia's
Long-acre, was crowded to the walls. In the un-
reserved seats there wes. not standing-room for one per-
son more, and a great many who wished to press in for
their chance of accommodation were necessarily refused
admission to that part of the hall; whereas the admis-
sion of a down more in the reserved seats would have
seriously incommoded the occupants of that privileged
portion of the funding. The audience, although so nu-
merous, was, strictly, in the received meaning of the
word, select. Nor should we use the term "elegant" in
a common-place signification, applying it to the com-
pany on this occasion, for the appearance and style, and
the manifestations of practised and refined taste which
marked their demeanour throughout the evening, call for
the use of that epithet moat especially. Without any
noisy applause, there was no lack of a sufficiently em-
phatic expression of high gratification throughout the
surpassingly fine performance to satisfy all engaged in
the production that their rare excellence in almost
every particular was fully appreciated. Applause,
indeed, there was—very much more than at
any of the three previous concerts of this series.
There were also several indications of a disposition to
encore; but these received no encouragement from the
great body of the audience, or from Mr. Hullah himself,
and the great work proceeded from the overture to the
magnificent close, in the final chorus of thanksgiving,
with smoothness and perfection, rarely (if ever) before
witnessed in the first production of so great and difficult
a work. Mr. Mullah may well exult in pride of the ex-
cellence of his choir of pupils. Of the principal vocalists,
Miss Williams, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Lockey are so well
known, that a word more of especial notice would be
superfluous, beyond saying that they displayed their
usual powers, but under circumstances and in a mood
which actually compelled one to fancy for the time that
these most accomplished and able singers had improved
amazingly even upoa their previous excellence. There
is no doubt that the performance of Miss ,Kearns is an
improvement equal to that of ten years upon that of her
MAI here in November last. In a fourth appearance,
never was there known so surprising, so delightful a
progress. As the child sent by the prophet to observe
from the mountain whether there were signs of rain
from, the sea, in replying to Elijah's question,
" Hath my prayer been heard by the Lord?"
her tone was delicious. " There is nothing," was ut-
tered in such pure notes—so child-like—so sweet—as
to characterize the angelic youth that must be chosen as
the interpreter of the Lord's will to his honoured ser-
vant, in that grand trial. Another soprano, Mrs. Ender-
shon (a pupil of Sir George Smart's), made a very
triumphant deb4t, as was foreknown from the announce-
ment, for Mr. Hullah risks no failures. Miss Kent and
Miss Gill distinguished themselves most creditably in
the parts assigned to them, as did also Mr. Ilerberte
and Mr. Buckland. On the whole, it is, seriously, not
too much to declare that it was affirmed with truth, by
those of last night's audience who had heard the ora-
torio under Mendelsshon's own conduct, that the glori-
ous work was never done so much justice to as at this
hall.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, FEB. 19.
LAUNCH OF A TURKISH STEAM-SHIP.— On Wednes-
day afternoon, at a quarter-past one, was launched from
the ship-building yard of Messrs. John and Robert
White, a splendid steamer for the Ottoman Government,
in the presence of the Turkish admiral and captains and
officers of the Ottoman squadron at Portsmouth. The
steamer was named by the admiral " Shapere" with the
accustomed ceremony, and on the dogshores being
knocked away she glided along her ways to her destined
element amid the hearty hurrahs from the spectators.
This graceful model is 750 tons, with two masts, and
was launched all a Canto, and is destined, like her three
predecessors built by the same firm, to carry the Turkish
mails between Constantinople, Smyrna, and the Black
Sea. She will be placed in the Medina Dock to be cop-
pored, and then proceed to London to receive her en-
gines by Messrs. Mandslay and Co.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING,

1851.— THURSDAY.
Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft, A.F.
Mr. Mangsn's Russborough, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Duke of
Bedford's Bordeaux, 4 yrs, Bst—Lord Stanley's Uric',
5 yrs, 7st Sib.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, 11.30 A.M.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's ship Indus,
Captain Soy, is just signalled from Alexandria, with the
East India, China, and Mediterranean mails.

BURGLARY AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT
WINDSOR.—This morning (Wednesday), at half-past one
o'clock, the house of Mr. Tucker, the well-known verger of
St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, who resides at No. 4,
Clarence-road, was burglariously broken into by two nightly
assassins, who effected an entrance through a side window at
the basement of the house, forcing it with a jemmy. They
first ransacked cupboards, chiffoniers, and drawers in the
lower rooms of the house, and, not finding the object of
their attack, proceeded upstairs with lighted candles, which
one of them held whilst the other entered the respective
sleeping apartments of Mr. Tucker and an elderly lady
named Whittaker. Having first entered Mrs. Whittaker's
apartment, she was awoke by the light and noise, and im-
mediately exclaimed " Who's that?" The fellow, in reply,
said, " I'll let you know," and struck her a blow on the
head with an iron instrument; he repeated the blow, Inflict-
ing two severe wounds, and with another blow broke her
arm, which she held up to save her head. Mr. Tucker, on
hearing Mrs. Whittaker's screams, jumped out of bed and ran
to her assistance, but was met by the burglar, knocked down
by a blow on the head, and on rising three consecutive times
was knocked down, receiving four severe and dangerous
wounds on the head, during which period Mrs. Whittaker
endeavoured to throw up the window, screaming murder and
police as well as her faint state would permit. The police
were soon at hand, but the cowardly villains had decamped.
Mr. Earangey was called in to attend the sufferers, who are
in a most dangerous state. Mr. Tucker is upwards of 90
years of age.

BURGLARIES.--THE CANNON GANG.—An investi-
gation before the county magistrates at Chatham, which
lasted for three days, has terminated in the commitment for
trial of George W eston, J. Thomas, and J. Clark, for a bur-
glary, on the 2d inst., at Graveney, near Faversham ; of
George Weston and J. Clark, for breaking into Townsend's
redoubt, in the fortifications at Chatham, in December last;
of T. Wilson and his wife, for receiving goods stolen from a
grocer's shop at Newington, near Sittingbourne, in January
last, and also for receiving various other stolen goods, the
produce of different burglaries. These two last-mentioned
persons, it will be remembered, were landlord and landlady
of the Cannon. In a great number of instances the stolen
property was found in the private apartments of Mr. and
Mrs. Wilson. A woman named llarriet Summers, who has
been acting as lodgers' chambermaid at the Cannon, is
proved to have sold or disposed of many of the stolen ar-
ticles. Superintendents Dunne and Everest have been inde-
fatigable in their exertions to detect the proceedings of this
formidable gang, and to their labours the public are indebted
that the offenders are about to be brought to justice. The
former of these officers has also ascertained that the men who
broke into Holford-house were in connexion with the gang
at Chatham.

TIItcEATENING SIR W. SOMERVILLE.—In the course
of yesterday morning Sir \Villiam Somerville, M.P., Chief
Secretary for Ireland, waited upon Mr. Broderip, at the
Westminster Police. court, and having handed him some
letters, the contents of which did not transpire, a warrant
was immediately issued against the writer for threatening
personal violence to the Right Honourable Baronet. The
warrant was forthwith executed, when the accused, an
Irishman of genteel appeafance and good address, gave his
name, Samuel APCarthy. In the course of the inquiry it ap.
peered that an imposition had been practised upon the de-
fendant which led him to apprehend that he had been ill-
used b the Right Honourable Baronet. The explanation
appearing
to be well founded, Sir William Somerville did not
v
press the matter, and the defendant was discharged—the
Magistrate observing that,• had it been proceeded with, good
bail would have been required.

SERIOUS FIRE AT LEEDS.-LEEDS, WEDNESDAY.
—About nine o'clock on Tuesday night the warehouse of
Mr. Fletcher, furniture-dealer, Kirkgate, was found to be on
fire. Information was quickly conveyed to the police-office,
and soon afterwards the fire-plug apparatus of the town was
in full operation; but such was the combustible nature of the
property, that notwithstanding a good supply of water, and
every exertion, the fire was not subdued until the building
had been completely gutted, and the furniture entirely
destroyed. Considerable fear was felt for the safety of the
adjoining property. Mr. Furness, druggist, had a warehouse
contiguous to the one in question, containing a large quan-
tity of naptha ; but, from the well-directed exertions of those
present, the fire was previnted from spreading. It is not
known yet how the fire originated, but we may say that it
is suspected that it was not the result of accident. The
same premises were on fire a short time ago, and there were
then strong suspicions on the part of the fire-offices of foul
play.

THE SAILORS' STRIKE AT LIVERPOOL-LIVER-
poor, WEDNESDAY.—The sailors in this port continue on
strike, and perambulate the streets with music and flying
flags. Yesterday Mr. Kenworthy, shipowner, obtained a
warrant to bring up three seamen for not proceeding in the
ship Lintin, when ready for sea. The crew were shipped, it
appears, at the Sailors' Home on Friday, when they signed
articles to be on board on the lith instant, two hours before
high water, to proceed to sea. But the sailors now on strike
mobbed the ship, and three men had to be taken off to her
in a boat. The men complained that they had been intimi-
dated against joining her; and after lying in the river for two
hours, with a steamer attached, the ship had to proceed to
sea one man short of her complement. Mr. Rushton said
the chairman of the Local Marine Board had called his atten-
tion to this vessel, and he had given such orders as would
prevent future interference.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND THE WELSH LAN-
GUAGE. - Some short time ago the Lord Chancellor presented
the Rev. David Jeffrey, curate of Neath, in South Wales, to
the rectory of Tir Newydd, in Anglesey, vacant by the death
of the Rev. Rhys Hughes. Mr. Jeffrey is a Welshman, and
well acquainted with his mother tongue; and in reference to
this subject, it is asserted that the Lord Chancellor has ex-
pressed his intention of not bestowing any of his Welsh pa-
tronage on ministers who are not thoroughly proficient in and
masters of the Welsh language. This was the first Welsh
living which had fallen to the Chancellor for disposal, and
the fact that it was given to a Welshman whose superior
upialitications in his native language were well known is con-
sidered evidence of the Lord Chancellor's intention that
clergymen shall understand the language spoken by the great
majority of their flock.

A BOLD CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.—Messrs. Thomas
Tucker and Co., of Liverpool, ship-builders, have offered to
accept the American challenge, to construct a Failing ship,
of any size, to compete with one of the Yankee build ; and the
owners of the winntg ship to gain the losing one.

LADIE VEILS.—A celebrated writer on sight says
that wearing veils permanently weakens many naturally good
eyes, on account of the endeavours of the eye to adjust itself
to the ceaseless vibration of that too common article of dress.
Ladies, then, should beware of hiding their pretty eyes and
faces with veils.