The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-25 00:00:00

NEW MUSIC.

SONGS.—'• Who'll be an Old Man's Darling ?"
and " Push Along ! Keep Moving ! or IV eck or
Nothin7." Both written, composed, and published
by .1. Beuler, Bury place, Bloomsbury.
The first is a song of an old bachelor, describing
his career in love affairs until the age of seventy,
when, having arrived at the years of discretion, he is
very desirous of getting a wife, by say of atonement
for past folly. The words are humorous, and the
music appropriate to give expression to them. The
" Fiddle liddle lol" chorus of the chuckling old gen-
tleman, extremely anxious to get married, but fully
determined not to have " any cross-grained dame,"
is unctuous, and we can imagine a Farren or a Frank
Matthews making
_much of it; it appears a capital
acting song.
" Push Along I Keep Moving !" is a dashingdetcrip-
tion of the modern go-a-head movement of intellect
and steam from twenty to one hundred miles an hour.
Mr. Beuler, who seems to have found out that all the
good old tunes have been 'over-worked, has turned
his inventive faculties to the production of new ones,
and the melodies of both these songs are good—the
air of the latter is particularly spirited, and very ap-
plicable to the " high pressure power" of the verses,
which, according to the title-page, were written with
"the poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling." Here is
specimen—

"Short reckoning and the shortest day,
Because it quickly passes,
Men like, and then short courtships—they
Are loved by all the lasses.
And so admired quick people are
That, 'stead of priest or vicar,
They patronise the registrar,
Because be marries quicker!
And going fifty miles an hour—
All slower movements loathing—
The fashion is high pressure pew'r,'
And all is neck or nothing!"

TRH CAPTURED EAGLE.—The noble bird captured
by a gamekeeper of John Arkwright, Esq., of Hampton
Court, in this county, has, we are informed, escaped from his
prison. The keeper was doing something to the cage, when
the eagle took advantage of the opportunity to escape from
his ignominious confinement.—. Hereford Journal.

•
THE METROPOLIS BUILDINGS BlLL.—Yesterday
the Bill brought into the House of Commons by Sir George
Grey to amend the Metropolitan Buildings Act was printed.
It contains no fewer than 145 clauses.

Whittlesea Mere is now free from water, and next
year will, no doubt, be under the plough. Various articles in
gold and silver have been taken from the bottom; among
other things, a gold censer, very many swords, and a valu-
able chandelier, which, when lighted up, represents the west
front of Peterborough Cathedral. Drains are being cut in all
directions, and in all probability many more relics will be
found.—A Cambridge Paper.

LINCLUDDEN ABBEY.—The picturesque ruins of
Lincludden Abbey, near Dumfries, have sustained consider..
able injury in a point which must interest antiquarians.
The " Turnpike Tower," a tall isolated clump, fell to the
ground last Sunday. Lincludden Abbey was founded in
1165, and on account of the alleged misbehaviour of its in-
mates, was converted into a college in 1379, and as such
became the dowry of Margaret, daughter of the then King
of Scotland, when she was married to William, lord of
Nithsdale and Galloway. The tower which has just fallen
was erected when the building was turned into a collegiate
institution. It formed a very interesting part of the ruins.
The Royal Scottish arms were richly sculptured on its front.
ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH, FEB. 24.—Four-
teen waggons, each containing one ton of shot, and drawn by
four horses, in charge of three mounted non-commissioned
officers and two gunners and drivers of the Royal Artillery,
left the Royal Arsenal at nine o'clock A.M. to-day for Ken.
sington Palace, the shot being intended to be used in testing
the galleries of the Crystal Palace. In addition to the
mounted detachments attached to each waggon, there was a
detachment of two non-commissioned officers and twenty
gunners as an escort on foot; the whole under She command
of Captain Gregory, with two Lieutenants; Captain and
Adjutant Adye, of the field-batteries, accompanied the party.
DINNER AT THE MANSION-HOUsE.—Last night
the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress received nearly 200
of the members of the Court of Common Council and their
wives, at dinner in the Egyptian Hall. At this entertain-
ment there were present the Common Councilmen of his
Lordship's ward, and of twelve other wards, the remaining
wards having been entertained at the banquet on the 12th
iustaut.

By the decease of the Rev. G. Trevecke, vicar of
Mogan. that extensive and valuable living, estimated at
I,ooe/. per annum, is placed at the disposal of the patroness,
Lady Bassett.
THE COURT OF CHANCERY.—The annual accounts
respecting the Court of Chancery required to be laid before
Parliament were printed on Saturday. The fees received in
the year ending the 24th of November last were 151,4981.
18s. 4d. Annexed to the return is another, respecting the
business in the Court. In the year ended the 2d of Novem-
ber last there were 8,755 matters disposed of by the Court,
on which day there were 735 appeals, pleas, demurrers, &c.,
standing in the books for hearing.
FIVE CHILDREN POI-ONaD.—Yesterd ay—
an inquest
was held by Mr. H. M. Wakley, the deputy coroner, at the
King's Head Tavern, Little White Lion-street, Seven Dials,
to inquire touching the death of liyam Star, aged nine
years. From the evidence adduced it appeared the deceased
and four other children, on Thursday last, picked up outside
the shop of Mr. Fowler, oilman, Lisle-street, Leicester-
square, a quantity of beetle wafer (a poisonous compound
used for destroying those insects), and it being sweet in
taste, with a deep red colour, they conceived it to be a
sweetmeat, and ate some of it. Soon after they were attacked
with most alarming symptems, and Star was taken by his
parents to Charing-cross Hospital. The usual antidotes
were administered, but without effect. It was Shown that
the poison in the waters was sugar of lead. The coroner and
jury were of opinion that such dangerous substances should
not be cast into public thoroughfares. The jury returned a
verdict of Accidentally pois,ned " The other four chil-
dren are in a dangerous state, and not expected to recover.
THE MEMBERS FOR THE WEST RIDING.—The
result of the division on Mr. Disraeli's motion on the distress
of owners and occupiers of laud, which reached this town on
Friday morning last, took every one by surprise, as it was
not anticipated that the Ministers would hare so small a
majority as fourteen in a house of five hundred and fifty-
three Members. The Protectionists hailed it as a virtual
deteat of the Ministry, and the Free-traders were equally
astonished at the closeness of the division; but the most
astonishing part of all to the supporters of protection was the
fact that Mr. Edmund Denison and Mr. Cobden had joined
hands upon the question. This remarkable vote on the part
of the former gentleman created great disappointment and
vexation amongst his supporters and friends in the Doncaster
polling district. At first it was stoutly maintained that a
mistake had been made in the printing of the division list,
and that the name of INIr. E. Denison was that of the Hon.
Member for Melton. This impression, however, was quickly
removed by observing that Mr. Evelyn Denison had paired
off upon the motion with the Hon. Manners Sutton. The
farmers were, indeed, loud and bitter in their complaints at
the course adopted by Mr. Edmund Denison, as they justly
considered that the motion of Mr. Disraeli was such as the
Hon. Member for the West Riding might have consistently
and cordially supported. Whatever may have influenced.
Mr. Denison in giving his vote against a motion for the re-
lief of the agriculturists, it is pretty evident from what we
can hear that the Hon. Member for the West Riding hasda-
maged
France to convey the
The General Screw
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via Dunkirk, to this coun-
try,
this
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quantity
nofaFrench goods for the Exhibition,
a satisfactory .
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with the view of carrying arrangement out in
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and
to the French Government, the
oern arrival. in consequence the limitedcoill-
an extra steam-ship on the line
pany has
be required and se of bringing the exhibition goods only, and
for the purpose
steamer Earl of Auckland
the greatest
dis-
chargingdisposal for depositing so large
period at pwlaicing
has been selected by the company for the purpose, and •
is
expected to arrive immediately with the first instalment of
dello in th bduisipldaitncgh. The screw-
contributions to the Exhibition. It is believed that the
quantity of goods to be brought from France will amount to
about 2,000 tons weight.

INCREASE IN TUE COAL TRADE.—The coal trade
in Monmouthshire is rapidly extending, and so densely
crowded have the Bute Decks of Cardiff been, that notwith-
standing every facility for the rapid shipments of coal, much
delay has been experienced in meeting the demand. In
order properly to meet this great extension of the staple trade
of the port and the district, it has been proposed to construct
another dock to the eastward of the present docks, for the
accommodation of large vessels, and a project has been mooted
to convert the sea-lock into a dock. The merchants, and
others interested in the trade, have taken the matter up. and
petitioned the trustees of the Bute Docks on the subject.
In the valley of Aberdare, Glamorganshire, several very
deep pits are being sunk, with every prospect of success.—
Herefie d Journal.
pm Last week a
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in the r attiring him-
self from his bed about six o'clock, and, a
left the house, and proceeded
twenty-two miles, by v
respectable young man (a clerk in an othictee at St.
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five o'clock • way
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did he awake, when he found hi jolting among
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not
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after-
noonth sandbills of the village. Atter some inquiries as to his
&c., he immediately started back to walk home
o'clock
.next morning, not
again, w
without breaking his
• fatigued, and h
a little fast, for the beat
whereabhouertse,
of all reasons, be having, w en changing his garments in the
• mated to transfer 55., which were in the pockets
morning, o he arrived about one
of the clothes be daily wore.—Liverpool Chronicle.
POST-OFFICE PACKET SERVICE.--According to the
usual docdment, published yesterday, the total chargefor
the Post-cffice packet service for the current year is esti-
mated at SO ,4961., viz., 727,4251. for contract packet. soy
vice, and 82,(1711. expense
MO WI year Wog 7644640 f Queen's Tessa The sum