The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-02 00:00:00

MEMOIR OF MR. SAPIO.

[The following biographical notice, promised by
ourselves in yesterday's impression, is transferred to
our columns from the pages of Oxberry's Dramatic
Biography, No. XV .]

" Blest in thy song, and blest in every grace
That wins the friend, ur that enchants the fair.'
SHENSTONE.
" A marvellously proper gentleman, not over young,
nor wild—rather sad than merry, and yet not sad enough
to damp our joys—most pleased when pleasing, and happy
in the happiness of others."
F,

or upwards O. f a quarter of a century Braham
has held undisputed sway in the vocal world.
Hill,
Phillips, Horn, Cook, and numberless aspirants, have
never approached a rivalry; and even Sinclair
,and
Incledon have been confessedly
his inferiors. , A
man's voice," says Quin, "can't last for ever, and is
often the worse for thirty years' practice ;".._perhaps
a reflection of this nature induced the subject of the
present memoir to resign his quiet department of a
concert singer, to involve himself in the turmoils of a
theatre.
Of Mr. Sapio we know little ; and as it is not our
custom to state, as facts, those morsels of information
that we extract from casual inquiry, our biography
may prove meagre ; but what we do state,:our readers
may rely upon.
Had it rested with ourselves, we should have as-
suredly delayed the memoir of this gentleman till a
more frequent exercise of his powers had enabled us
to have formed a more correct estimate of his talent ;
and until longer continuance in the dramatic world
had given us greater facilities of acquiring informa-
tion respecting him.

Mr. Sapio, Who is a descendant of an Italian family,
of great respectability, was born in London, in the
year 1792 ; his family are musical, and inherit the
genius of their country in that particular; our hero's
early habits made him a musician, and it became to
him rather as a language that he intuitively studied
than as a science that he painfully pursued. The
children of musicians usually possess what is termed
" good ears," a thing which is not supposed to be an
heir loom from nature, but an acquirement from the
continual hearing of musical sounds, when the ear is
yet in embryo, and when we imbibe without percep-
tion—the acquisition of the grounds of music thus
become as easy as the acquirement of language, and
in
formation
without every day add to the stock of our
without perceiving our gradual improvement.
Music was, however, not the only study to which
the infant mind of our hero was directed; he received
a good education, and became master of the French
and Italian lauguages, which he speaks with the same
fluentcy asjthat of his mother country.
Mr. Sapio and Madame Vestris are the only two
English performers that can support a line of cha•
ratters in the Parisian, Roman, and London theatres :
a thing, lightly as some persons think of the acquire-
ment of languages, highly creditable to the industry
of these individuals. The lady Ewe have named has
sustained the station of prima donna, we believe, both
in Italy and France ; and Mr. Sapio has had an offer
to fill the male department in both of those countries.
The Italian Opera House in London has also long
wished for our hero's services, and Mr. Benelli and
Mr. Sapio, we are informed, were in actual treaty.
Mr. Sapio was long known as a concert singer, and
in that capacity few performers ever obtained greater
estimation ; but the concert-room does not represent
the public, and the fiat of the one often differs widely
from that of the other. The concert is, generally
speaking, confined to the opulent; and the retired
butcher, whose profits have rendered him prodigal,
may be seen in silent misery with his amiable con-
sort, who goes thither because it is genteel, when the
real connoisseur is frequently from poverty obliged
to absent himself—indeed, the price of admission is a
serious evil. Persons of rank and taste may consider
half a guinea or a guinea as little for a musical treat,
and persons of riches and no taste may consider that
sum well expended for the pleasure of a seat with
their superiors—the consequences may be easily fore-
seen. The concert-room becomes no just criterion of
the merits of a singer, because the majority of its visi-
tors are not persons capable of judging : it is the only
entertainment where the rich vulgar can absolutely
intermingle with the patricians : the palisade of a
private box keeps her Grace from contamination in
the theatre, whilst Mrs. Greasy of Leadenhall-
market may have a place actually beside her in the
concert room. When we say this, we do not mean
toinfer that the praises bestowed upon Mr. Sapio, as
a concert singer, were unmerited ; but we are gene-
ralising the subject, and denying that a name in that
capacity is any general warrantry of merit.
The public have, for two or three years, had an op •
portunity of judging of Mr. Sapio's capabilities at
the Oratorios, where he impressed us with a high
opinion of his science and his taste ; and where, in
the more solemn and affecting parts of sacred melody
we always held him superior to Braham, who shines
more where animation is requisite.
Mr. Sapio's friends have long urged him to attempt
the stage, and he strenuously resisted their wishes, from
a fear of his incapacity as an actor. When he beheld
Braham and Sinclair, we should suppose he could fear
little rivalry in that particular; but, it appears, Mr.
Sapio's good sense would not suffer him to be content
with barely arriving at their cold insipidity of enuncia-
tion. A correspondent informs us that Mr. Smart (a
professor of elocution of learning and eminence) be-
came our hero's preceptor; we do not vouch fo.l the fact,
but if so, it is by no means discreditable to Mr. Sapio:
ho has had few opportunities of acquiring elocutionary
power, and he was right not to present himself before
the public until he had acquired a delivery that was
at least inoffensive, and a mode of action calculated to
impress and not disgust.
In 1824, Mr. Sapio started to the north, and com-
menced his dramatic career in Edinburgh, where he ob-
tained many friends and admirers; and after this neces-
sary precursory step, he concluded an engagement at
Drury-lane Theatre, at (saith the Green-room) twenty
guineas per night, and made his first appearance in the
Soraskier, in the Siege of Belgrade, on the Ist of De-
cember in that year. Dramatic interest had not been so
much excited by the first appearance of any singer (save
Miss Wilson) as on that occasion; a crowded house
showed the state of public anticipation I and an enthu-
siastic reception its estimation of his vocal powers.
The ease with which Mr. Sapio entered upon the dra-
matic part of his task certainly surprised us: since that
period he has performed Henry Bertram in Guy Man-
nering, Prince Orlando in The Cabinet, and the Dey
(Fall of Algiers). Since which, we aro informed, that
mass of-- (let our readers fill up the chasm) Elliston,
has thought fit to bicker with, and shelve our hero.

•
The Vauxhall proprietors, who aro determined this
year to out-do all their former out-doings, have offered
immense terms to Mr. Sepia, but with a prudent regard
for his own fame, he has declined their proffers.
So much for the career of our hero in the metropolis,
and we now turn to a consideration of those talents by
which ho has acquired the patronage of the public.
Mr. Sapio is a singer by acquirement rather than by
nature; his voice is neither extensive nor strong, nor is
its tone naturally good. It has neither the flexibility or
sweetness of Sinclair's, nor is it managed with as much
skill as Braham's; yet it is indubitably much superior to
Braham's (now) in tone, and directed by more science and
attention, than ever fell to the share of the Scotch vocalist.
The principal error of Mr. Sapio appears to be, a love
for the bravura. We know that in Henry Bertram ho
rested his hopes entirely on the introduced song of
" Scots wa hao wi Wallace bled," and anticipated little
from the ballad; when, in fact, he succeeded eminently
in the latter, whilst in the former his failure was dread-
ful; his voice actually broke up, in the attempt to be
energetic. When will singers learn that noise is not
emphasis? His song of " The Rose and the Lily," in
The Seraskier, is, in parts, extremely beautiful ; so is
his execution of the Italian air, "My heart with love
is beating." Hts trumpet-song was by no means a happy
effort; he wants physical power for such an attempt.
In Orlando we admired the quiet unobtrusive beauty
of his style of singing " The Beautiful Maid," and the
impressive acting of his duet with Miss Stephens; we
cannot extend the same praise to that with Horn, which
became discordant from the singer's forcing his natural
voice beyond its limit, instead of resorting to his falsetto.
The polacca was a happier effort than we had antici-
pated, but injured by a redundancy of action; and here
we must remark, that on the second and third repetition
of this song ho used exactly the same actions to the dif-
ferent passages ; a poverty of invention unpardonable
in an actor, whilst the repetition of the same cadences
were as derogatory to his talents as a singer. Whilst
naming what Mr. Sapio cannot do, in the energetic parts
of opera, it is but fair we should particularise his duet
with Horn, in The Dey of Algiers (we have forgotten
the name of it), it was a fine, bold, animated effort, and
the merit of Sapio's singing may be imagined, wh©n we
say it roused the torpid Mr. Horn into effort. Our hero's
execution of " Yes, 'tis decreed," in that miserable pro-
duction, is also excellent ; nor did he fail to sustain his
fame in a duet of considerable dimfficisusltsyt,epwhiethna.that ex-
ordinary compass ; his
t r amo rrd. i
Sapion a r y musical uysei
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toenee
rn oenf
y
falsetto is not peculiarly pleasing to us; but thi
arise from our admiring no feigned voice that
doseallinao-t
blend with the natural one; his shake is evidently de-
ficient; it iq neither steady, nor brilliant. we will allow
him all the drawbacks that novelty of situation are likely
to have thrown upon his assumption;but , we must re-
mark, what we have already said of p
render him a
Dearman, that Mr.
greatSa pi o
Bwinagnetrthne hatllardal tia to
a
good one.
nerally effective, and always introduced
attention to the literary, well as the musical construc-
tion of his songs. as glNr•aiethes aarperopgeer-
As an actor Mr. Sapio has much to unlearn: ho is too
abundant in his action, and too foreign (if we may be
allowed the term), in his
general deportment: he is,
however, far beyond most of the singers of the day al-
ready, and a little attention will render him an ornament
to the stage, in this particular. Redundancy is the fault
of the French school, and this is the model which. Mr.
Sapio seems to have studied from. delivery
that em-
phatic and pleasing; but ho should remember
te, con-
tinualeffeee.mtphasis is destructive of, rather than conducive
Clark hair and eyes; his features are
darMkrc.
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BISHOPRIC OF SIERRA LEONE.—Sir E. N. Bux-
ton, Bart., M.P., has given the sum of
.250/. towards the
oatablishment of the proposed uoW bishopric of Sierra Looae.

I ALLEGED MURDERS.
At the Thames Police-court yesterday, William Mur-
phy, 26, a cooper, residing at 39, Middlegrove-street,
St. George in the East, and Mary Ann, his wife, also 26
years of age, were charged on suspicion of having caused
the death of their two children—Bridget, aged two years
and a half, and William, aged twelve months—within
the last two days.
Sergeant Kelly, 2 11, stated that, from information re-
ceived, he, accompanied by Wigley, 141 11, went last
night to 39, Middle Grove-street, and in the first floor
front room found two children dead in bed. ge waited
some time till the female prisoner came. The male pri-
soner came soon after, and he asked them if they lived
there, and if the children were theirs; to which they
replied in the affirmative. Ile then told them he should
take them into custody for causing their death. They
both answered, " I did not murder them." Dr. Tripe
had examined the children, and gave witness a certificate
to the effect that Bridget, te eldest, was in an emaciated
condition, had evidently been much neglected, and was
bruised on the lower part of the left thigh; the youngest
was in a very good condition, and they had both evi-
dently died suddenly. There was a bed in the room
folded up close. The children looked as if they had
been neglected.
Murphy—l was quite stunned when the officer came
to me. _

Mr. YARDLEY—I must caution you that any state-
ment you may make will be taken down, and may be
given against you at your trial. Do you wish to ask
any questions? Murphy—No.
Amelia WaiEh stated that she was a married woman,
and resided at 39, Middle Grove-streef. Last Wednes-
day week the female prisoner came to her house in search
of lodgings. Witness asked
it she had tiny children. She
said yes, one baby only. Witness agreed to take them as
lodgers, and they began to move in the following day.
They eame into the house on Saturday, bringing the
bah)", which witness remarked was a fine healthy one, in
which remark the female prisoner . acquiesced. On
told me you had only
Monday witness saw a fine looking girl, five years old,
with. the female prisoner, and asked whose was. she. The
prisoner replied that it as hers. Witness said,
." You
said she did not look upon that one as anything, because
she was so quiet. Witness turned to the child and
said, " Your mother doe
one baby;" to which the prisoner
s in now dead lay with its head
dear." On Tuesday theBcame home
quite drunk. The baby was
bed,and
not. seem
prisonerto own you, my
the little girl
its feet on the bed. Witnesosna round foot .
took the baby up in her
arms, and it was nearly speechless. There three
were .
children altogether, and witness
whether the third one was hee asked the prisoner
pause she said it was. Witness saids? After some little
basket, and
" No, it can't be
yours,. it must belong to one of your
prisoner rerlied, `` No, I am the mothermpanions." The
On taking the children down stairs theytipsy appeared.quite
told him that the children were mere also. Witness
must be starved. He answered, " They skeletons, and
fine as any children in Grove-street;" toy used to be as
marked that they must be very much alteredeh she
re-
him to go up and put his wife to bed; instead of putting
told.
her to bed he struck her, and she screamed outPute g
Wit-
ness ran up and found. that he had grasped his vr. ife by
the throat. She pacified them, and took the childre-
up, The children began. to cry on being taken into then
room. The female prisoner told her nothing about th
child being ill till Wednesday, when she said that it was
cutting its teeth, and that she had been to Dr. Tripe
who said nothing was the matter with it. She
brought home a phial of medicine and a powder.,
There was another female with her. Witness advised
her to put themin a warm bath, but did not know whe-
ther she followed that advice. Witness had given them
notice to on quit ' Tuesday. On Wednesday she begged
the female to quit that night, but she said she could not,
as the baby was ill; but she mentioned nothing of the
little girl Bridget. They had always a lot of low com-
pany with them. On Friday witness begged them to
keep the door shut. They said they could not, as their
friends were coming in and out. Witness again told them
that she wished them to leave, on which the female pri-
soner said, "Yon must be an unfeeling woman, when my
two children are dead." Witness went into their room,
and found what she stated to be true. She then asked,
" Why did you not call me, as they were dying?" to
which the prisoner made no reply. Witness examined
the child Bridget, and on looki •
ng at its leg she found that
the blood had set in the right thigh. She asked the male
prisoner what it was, and he said it was the death blow.
It looked as if the child had had a severe blow. Tho
.
baby was a sick and ailing child.
The prisoners, who seemed totally unconcerned, and
asked the witnesses no questions, were remanded till
Wednesday.

ST. ALBAN'S BRIBERY COMMISSION.
ST. ALBAN'S, MONDAT.—To-clay the commissionero,
Messrs. Slade, Forsyth, and Phinn, re-assembled in the
Town-hell, at ten o'clock, with a view to closing the in-
quiry.

©letter was read from Mr. Wilks. one of the former
candidates, stating his inability from indisposition to
attend on the Commissioners.

The Hon. Mr. Craven, who was an unsuccessful can-
didate in 1847, and Mr. Repton, the present Conserva-
tive sitting Member for the borough, were examined.
and both admitted they believed that at their respective
elections, though not personally cognisant of it at the
time, bribery, on a scale similar to that practised at the
last election, had been committed. The Hon. Mr.
Craven said he had a suspicion, because having at the
time advanced from 6001. to 1,0001. for the purpose of
carrying out his election, of that amount 3001. was not
duly accounted fcr.

Mr. Lepton said he suspected that improper expenses
had been incurred for his election; but he did not know
precisely the way in which the transactions were carried
on; nor was ho aware that Edwards had lent Blagg
5001. to conduct his (Mr. Repton's) election until be
read a statement to that effect i❑ the newspapers a abort
time ago. Ile was never asked to repay the 500/. so
alleged to be lent because he said he would not give any
large sums of money for election purposes any more.
lle admitted that at the election in 1841, when Lord
Listowel and Mr. Muskett were his opponents, a de-
mand was made upon him after the election for between
2,0001. and 3,0001,, and this was paid by members of his
family; and the exorbitant nature of this demand had
induced him not to have anything to do with such de-
mands in future. The matter was transacted between
his friends and Edwards and Blagg, to the latter of
whom he personally advanced 4701, for what ho supposed
to be the expenses of conducting the election.
The rest of the proceedings in the examination con-
sisted of those individual voters who had received
bribes, and who were not forthcoming at the last
election.

The inquiry stands farther adjourned, for any sup-
plemental or subsidiary purpose, to 25th January next.

SOUTHAMPTON NEW Docxs.—A disatrous acci-
dent occurred on Saturday evening which must delay the
opening of this splendid new dock for some time longer. It
was intended that on Thursday next this dock, the area of
which is upwards of ten acres, should be opened with great
ceremony. It has been gradually filled with water during
the past week; and on Saturday- Mr. Giles, the engineer,
was superintending the removal of the dam which separates
the outer dock, or tidal basin, from the new close dock. The
timbers from the upper portion of this dam had been re-
moved, and it was intended that the lower portion should
be forced up by the water. The gates, which are constructed
of solid baulks of timber, appeared very massive, and KAU.
ciently strong to sustain any pressure that might be put on
them. Unfortunately, however, for the credit of Mr. Giles
(the engineer who constructed the docks), as well as for the
pockets of the Dock Company, the hinges on which they
hung were too slight, and the gates were forced up—one of
them now lies floating on the surface of the inner dock. The
copper bolts of the hinges were too small, and quite inade-
quate to sustain such massive work ; the consequence was,
as might have been anticipated, they snapped short off. It
is supposed this unfortunate accident will occasion a delay of
at least two months before the dock can be opened, as well as
an expense of some thousands to the company, Two coffer-
dams must now be sunk on both sides of the gates, and the
water must be pumped out before they can be replaced, and
the dock opened.
ROYAL SOCIETY, DEC.
I.—The anniversary meet-
chair. His Lordship delivered his annual address, after
which the Copley
ing was held this dav, the Earl of in
medal was presented to
Rosso, president,the
Professor Owen
Transactions '
published in the " Philosophical ;
pals ontology, 1
medals to the Earl of Bosse for his observa.
one of the royal for his important discoveries in comparative anatomy and
Newport for his
CTohl
ae n ',l arl
paper on the impregnation of the ovum.
Lions on the nebula, and the second royal medal to Mr. G.
Edward of
I °35
Sa-
bine,
The society then proceeded to the election of council and
officers for the ensuing year, and the following noblemen and
were elected:—President—The
igce.npt.lemmen.Amr.
ILA. Secretaries—Mr. Samuel Hunter Christie, Mak ,
and Mr. Thomas Bell. Foreign Secretary—Captain W. IL
Smyth, RN. Other members of the council—Mr. William
Bowman; Mr. Benjamin Collins Brodie; Mr. Chas. Brooke;
the Rev. Professor Challis, M.A. ; William Clark, M.D. ;
Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny, M.D. ; Sir P. de Malpas Grey
Egerton, Bart. ; the Very Rev. the Dean of Ely - Mr. J. P.
Gassiot ; Marshall Hall, M.D. -
, Sir John Frederick W.
Herschel, Bart.; Professor W. Hallows Miller, M.A. ; Lie"
tenant-Colonel Portlock, R.v.. Mr. Edward Solly; Mr.
William Spence ; Nathaniel Wit'llich, DI. D.
The mercantile accounts from Vienna show that no
mitigation had occurred in the coercive measures °i
the
Government regarding the dealings on the g
etexdijncetilated
the same time nothing had been atten3P •
give cer-
tainty inspire confidence in the finances, orto -
The means to
tainty to the proceedings of the merchants.
be adopted by the Bank for carrying-
affording advances direct to the manufacturing
in-
stead of to the Viennese capitalists,
doubtful, and, accordingout the scheme of
anfacturing interests,
were still altogether
the telegraphic quotations, it
oftoexchange upon London, which, un-
der that the rate
_police, ii had nominally declined to
der the influence of la P°
again risen - the
to 12.38, showing an unfavourable
12.23,
has ase
The new tariff just prepared and
reaction of 11 per cent.
exhibited, although
published, occupied atten•
on most articles are said to be raised con-
siderably; glass, tion. The duties
however,
is an exception, in deference to
manufacturers, who feared that any rise on
the 13ohemian.
ht provoke retaliation on their own peculiar
that article ung .
productions. On iron, candles,furs, liquors, urs, paperhangings,
cards,confectionery, chocolate, and edibles of all kinds, the
charge is increased about a third, and upon caoutchouc and
articles made from that substance it is doubled. This tariff
is to last till the end of October, 1i54, and most of its pro-
visions are in accordance with the suggestions of the Cus-
toms' Congress, held in the early part of the year, and which
was composed of persons representing the various protected
manufactures of the empire.
JUBILEE OF THE GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH IN
LONDON.—On Sunday morning the jubilee of the establish-
ment of the German Lutheran Church in London was cele-
brated at the church in the precinct of the Savoy, the first
German mission in London having been established there 50
years ago by the present minister, the Rev. Dr. Steinkopff.
The building on the occasion was very beautifully ornamented
with laurels, evergreens, &c. The congregation was ;eery
numerous, and amongst other distinguished persofitstepre
_ate.
were the Duchess of Orleans. the Prussian Minister,
The sermon was preached by the
Rev.
ed o.rt the state of
after which the congregation was addresesu,
Dr. Tiarks, Dr.
1 the church by the Reverends Dr. PP
Cuag the ministers of the
' Wallbaum, Dr. Kuper, and Dr. Schs ,
principal Grim& ciawciael ta_14;34911.

[The followipg appeared in our Third Edition of
last night ;—j

FRANCE.
M. Jules Migeon has presented to the Assembly
the following proposition for the revision of the Con-
stitution :
" Considering Art. 111. of the Constitution, which
states that ' When in the last year of a legislature the
Nationol Assembly shall express a wish that the Consti-
tution should be modified, either wholly or partially,
that revision shall be proceeded to in the following man-
ner:—The wish expressed by the Assembly shall not be
converted into a definitive resolution until after three
consecutive deliberations taken at a month's interval be-
tween each, and with three-fourths of the votes ex-
pressed. The number of voters mast be at least 500. The
Assembly of revision shall only be named for three
pendia. It cannot occupy itself except with the revision
for which it has been convoked; but, nevertheless,
in; case of urgent necessity, it may provide for legisla-
tive necessities.' Considering the numerous petitions
which have been presented from every part of France—
considering the almost unanimous wish expressed by
the Councils-General—considering, lastly, the p ropoBl-
- presented on the 31st May last by a great number
of representatives, for the purpose of restoring to th
nation the full exerciQe of its sovereignty, we have the
honour to propose to the Assembly to (evpress its wish
that the Constitution should be revised."
when for the first
It is known that the Assembly,
time a proposition for the revision of the
.Constitution
was presented to it by M. Broglie, decided that all
propositions of that nature should be examined by
special commissions elected in the bureaux, whose re-
ports mast be presented to the Assembly within the
delay of one month from the (ley of their nomination."

GERMAN Y.
IShG- 0? PRUSSIA'S SPEECH FROM THE
THRONE.

The following was the opening address read to the
Pr scan chambers, on the 27th ult.:—
G6mtieniou Deputies of the First and Second Chambers,
Majesty the King, our most gracious Sovereign,
is prgvented bidding you welcome at the commencement
of your important labours, by the fulfilment of a sacred
and painful duty.
" As the Tats King of Hanover came to Berlin to at-
tend tie funeral of his late Majesty Frederick William
111, our King would not omit giving, by his personal
stftendanco at the funeral of au old friend and illustrious
public testimony of respect for the exaltel virtues
of the late King of Hanover, and the sympthy his Ma-
jetty feds for the painful loss which has bJallen the
BD)* House and the Hanoverian nation in equal measure.
• " His Majesty has, therefore empowered ta,),_ by an
orti=.r of the 24th of November to open the session of the
Chambers in his name, and at the same time communi-
c)ste t.) 'yea some of the propositions which are thertly
t) eng-s-e the attention of the Chambers and the Go-
4e:ir met t.
Toe orders and decrees fo7merly is-71ted by his
Majesty's Government, which have not yet 13..,en sub.
misted for your approval, will be immediately laid before
you._ The C9la6eientiou6 erupt rituent of the tneaus tur-
p
ished by the ordinary liwa, and the increasing sense
of order Inn legality among alt ciasses of the population,
have relieved the Government since the close of the
last s' scion from the neces.sity of m,itting use of such
poweo'S, or other exceptiorra measures.,
" The estimates or the expenditure fo th 1852,
which be as soon as peJsinie submir,ted to e year y
ou for
your constitutional decision, exhibit, for the army, an
unavoidable increase.
" As his Majesty's Gwernment reserves the more
detailed explanatiJns on this pin', it will b) sufficient at
present to state th;t the increasing revenue furnishes
timp'e rcle4as of covering this a,:itlitional expenditure,
irld that the finaucial position Of the country is generally
113LISf.votury.
ee Tee 'Great Exhibition of the Products of Industry
of alt Nations at London, is w hie his Majesty's Go-
vertn•tra readily co-opera,ed, h.is tarnished a new and
satisfae:ory proof of the high (14-gree of deve.lopoent our
agriculture, arts, and in3nufaitures, in their various
branch s, have attained.

" B.etveen his 31...jest;)'d Goverhin;,nt and the Govern-
mi:ve of tae other Stares the Z,llv,rein alterations
in the general tariff of the Union have been agreed on,
hiving for their main object the ab ,lition of duties on
foretga materi.ds of mlnufacture, and facilitating the
tranait tr.‘th. At the same time an agreemenr, has bee❑
made with the Governments of Bavaria, Baden, Nassau,
and the Gratt,l Duchy of ilesse, relative to a mutual re-
duction of the tolls on the. Rhine. Fully relying on
your sub,equr-ntly approving these two measures, his
Majesty's iiovernm•:nt has carried them both into exe-
cation.
" Lice these Ml:liar:79, so will the treaty his M tjnity's

Government ha 3 co7leliided with the kingdom of Sir-
dial: have a beneeial eff:ct, while the treity of the 7th
of September with the kingdom of lignover will open
for the development of the whole Z Alverein a now and
hop,ful future for all the brauehee of ita trade and pro-
dueri.)n.

"Itis a real satisfaction that the most import ant
voices in North as well as South Gsrurany have properly
catimatud the importance of a step Prussia has taken in
the wall-understood interest of all concerned in it; and
there is no doubt the approaching negotiations on the
rensssval of the Z Alverein will lead to a result satisfies
tory to all psr!ies, and bring us near• rto the end—a
Cut Union of alt the German States.
these hnhjects propositions will he made to
you githout delay, for your constitutisnal decision.
The c .fling together the fostner Provincial Diets, es
the ad interim prsvincial representation for the election
of dislrict csturnissincs for the clastnfiad income-tax,
rendered necessary by a recent Legisiatile measure, and
fbr the exercise of their communal add local duties, has
afforded the Government au opportunity of requesting
from the assemblies their reports on the serious °Nee.,
tiene raised against the introduction of the new Gemeinde-
Oroinung. These assemblies must be especially compe-
feet to give a judgment on the practical relations that
have to be taken into consideration on this subject.
"The result of their discussions has been the accutnu-
'Aston of very valuable materials, which have been care-
employed in framing the project of law on this
question, which will be laid before you.
" In souse parts of the kingdom it is to be lamented
that tlae produce of the harvest has been unravourable,
and an anxiety founded on it has been expressed to the
Government in various measures it has been urged to
adopt in reference to it. The Government, however, has
thought itself boucd to avoid every interference with the
freedom of traffic and the rights of property, as a course
that increases the evil instead of alleviating it; and still
entertains the hope that an unrestricted intercourse on
one side, and the reasonable economy of an intelligent
people on the other, rill render the assistance of the
Govsrament quite unnecessary.
" The Government reserves more detailed commutti-
csVions respecting several propositions till they shall be
introduced. _

a Gentlemen, his Majesty has charged me especially
whiles expressing his regret that he is not able to greet
you tb-day in person, to declare his confident expectation
that you will again, with fidelity and unity, promote the
welf,re of the country and contribute to tbo realization

of Close conditions- utidr which alone a snccessful,
strong, aid independent development of Prussia is pos-
ratite,
"-I-hereby, in virtue of the Royal Commission, declare
the eitting of the Chambers to be opened."
' The Court of Appeal of Greifswald, before which
N. liitasenpflug, the President of the Ministry of
le .e, was summoned to appar on tie 25th ult. to
answer a enarge of fraud and embezzlement, has
found Ilirn guilty, in contumaciant, and sentenced him
to four weeks' imprisonment.
Count Portalis, the Prussian Minister at Constan-
tinople, has been dismissed. He had signed the
manifesto of the Conservative opposition.
Count Rittberg has been elected President of the
Upper Chamber.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
RESULT OP REVISION OF PARLIAMENTARY LISTS IN

THE CITY OF BATH, 1851.
Liberal claim 9, 106; disallo;ved, 21; to amend, 29;
teal votes allowed, 56.
ennservative claims, 31; di4allowed, 9; to amend, 5;
rest votes allowed, 17.

Liberal objections taken, 72; failed, 28; sustained, 44;
qualification! elsewhere, 7; real votes expunged, 37.
Conservative objections taken, 52; failed,l4; sustained,
sg • qualiications elsewhere, ; real votes expunged, 30.
ief jority to Liberals ort revision, 46.
19 A STERN DIVISION OF SOMERSET.
Lib ralehlialS made, 55•:; disallowed, 27; allowed,

CURIOUS CASE.
A curious case was submitted, a few days ago, to the
Trilzunal of Correctional Police of Saint Lo. M. Da-
ta4court, mayor of Tribehou, and an extensive farmer,
W _le
eineknown in the Parisian market as the principal pro-
Ir of the famous " butter of Isigny," laid a com-
plaintagainst two of his neighbours, named Chardin and
Le B', and azainst six females, for having during the
last fou r Yeats poisoned his milk. whereby it became
impossible Lot himplaiot to produce butter of good quality.
Repeated complaints
by his agents at Pail of his butter having been made
hti, M. Damimurt caused his ponds
to be cleared out,fields to be examined, his milk-
women and labourers
he bes repeatedly changed, but
though by these means
.ettipg good milk, in , few weeks
for a short time in
ever.b All his efforts to discover
it became as bad as
of the reason of this
fat jntil recently, when one
omilkwomen con-
y arowsiurti„on named De-
fesse.dat she had been bribed b
consisted
of
urine,
00rzlipt it.
Tisciee-to put 3 'mixture into the
Thia mixture, it appeared,
phut:,
berapck, tansy, and other things. On investigation it
turod out that this woman had been Irni,i,ave cii by
Charciin and Le Bas, M. name.:curt's rivals ''
in trade,
and bier adversaries in politics, their
3: object was, if
possible, to ruin him. rie Tribunal condemned
Chardin to five years' imFisc,nrnent, and 100 f. fine;
Le as to two years' imprisonment, and 50f. fine; the
woman Devisdea to four years' imprisonment, and 50f.
fine, end five other women who had been in M. Dame-
"C-intrt's service, and had been bribed by Dvisdes to
adulterate the milk, were sentenced to periods cf im-
PXesacinment, varying from six months to two years.
widen lia was besides ordered to pay 4;000f. damages, and
'''' 845B45 and Devisdes I,ooof. each.

513; ciai;ns mad', cll,alio,Ned, 73; al-
-527.
,Conservativo
1640, 440.
Liberal objections raide,l36; failed, 28; sastaima),loB.
Cuuservative objection' made, 71; fails', 19; sus.
tabled, SS.
Ortrtaere objections to Liberal 3 wale', 246; fai!ed, 3;
sustained, 243.
Overawe' objections to C,,nee:vivive3 tuad, 331;
fai ed, 1; sustained, 380.
Total gain to literals, 2sO.

THE SU

KOSSUTH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUM
enclose the copy of a letter I have this
day addressed to the editor of the Times, and shall
feel obliged by its insertion in The Sun.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
DUDLEY COUTTS STUART.
Literary Association of the Friends of Poland,
Sussex Chambers, Duke•street, St. James's,
Saturday, Nov. 29, 1851.