The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-20 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

" SLINGSBY" AND "STEWART."
A quaint Masque, entitled " A Winter Night's
Wake" will be remembered by the readers of the
Dablin University Magazine, as having there, in
the pages of that Magazine, a few months back,
made its fantastic and grac,fel appearance. It
will be recollected, moreover, to have been
avowedly an effusion from the facile peu of
Jonath►n Freke Slinigsby ; ;or, to designate a
gifted and popular writer by his own more
euphonious name, Doctor John Francis Waller.
Very recently this same Masque from the pen of
Doctor Waller has been charmingly performed in
Dublin by the University Choral Society—the
verse of the poet having been exqu sitely and meat
appropriately set to music by the genius of a con-
genial composer, to wit, Robert Stewart, Mus. D.
The occasion of this performance was a concert, of
which the Masque formed the first division. The
viceregal party were amongst the audience—the
audience itself being boll brilliant and numerous.
The success of the whole, it is gratifying to note,
was, as it eminently deserved to be, triumphant.

PRINCESS'S MEATRE.—Her Majesty and the Prince
C insert honoured this house with their presence last
night, in oid r to witness the masterly performance f
Mr. Charles Kean as King Lear.

The Com.tess de Neuilly t ,e Princess de Joinville,
and the Duke de Nemours visited her Royal Highntss
tie Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence House, St,
.7-woes's.
Toe Duke and Duchess of Beaufort corns to town to-
morrow from Badminton House. Gloucestershire fur the
se i.•;ou.

The Countess Blondcff was safely delivered of a
daugliter, at her residence in Eton-place South, on
Thursday last, and wit►i the infant is progressing favour-
ably. Toe Countess d'Alten, mother of her ladyship
and of the Duct e sof Manchester, has arrived in town
from Hanover.

TOE LATE LORD HANDYSIDE.—Tbe death of Lord
Handyside, which we announced yesterday, creates a
vacancy in the Court of Session in Scotland, as wel as
in the High Court of Justiciary. The learned lord was
the son of Mr. Wiliam Handyside, of Lainshill, mer-
chant, Glasgow. He passed the Sc..t ish bar in 1322,
and was appointed Sheriff of &irlingshire in 1840. In
1353, after having for a short period filled the office of
S e •al, he was elevated to the b nch both of
the supreme, c.vil, awl criminal courts of Sc ,thind. As
ju'ge he distinguished himself by great z gal, patience,
and ability. He was one of the three judges at the trial of
Miss Msde eiue Smith, and last autumn he presided
alone at the protracted Falkirk Bank trial, and gave at
he close a very able analysis of the evidence ai d
a lee d judicial charge. The learned lord who was in his
60th year, married in 1848 a siat r of Mr. Rohert Bruce
of Kennet, at whose seat in Clackaaannshire, whither he
had gone to recruit }Ai health, impaired in the discharge
of h's duties, he expired after a sudden spasmodic attack.
His lordship was a Liberal in politics, and his death at
this juncture wll thereby gain a siat on the Scottish
bei.6 to the Conservative party. It is not to be antici-
pated that the Lord Advocate will accept this promo-
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