The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-05 00:00:00

DRU.RY-LANE TIlE4.2'liE.

The series of concerts under the management of
Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Harrison terminated on
Saturday night with a highly successful perform-
ance. The programme was almost exclusively of a
" popular" character. Never has Miss Pyne given
"The convent cell" with more exquisite feeling.
The encore awarded to this ballad was enthusiastic,
and M:ss Pyne repeated the last stanza with un-
diminished effect. A similar tax was levied upon
Mr. Harrison for his song, "I'm a simple mule-
teer."
In the second part, Mr. Harrison sang two new
ballads, of very equal merit, though in totally
opposite styles, the one, a patriotic effusion, " The
heroes that fought in the ranks," composed for Mr.
Harrison by Mr. Bllfe ; the ether, " I will not
weep for, thee." Bo.h were redetnauded.
The instrumental pieces, in addition to the sym-
' phony, were an operatic selection from " Lucrezia
Borgia," with some excellent solo playing by M.
Barret (oboe) and other .

EABTEB SUNDAY (WINDSOR).—Her Majesty and his
Royal Highness the Prince Consort with the royal
family and suite, as is customary on Barter Sunday,
honoured with their presence the public promenade on
the Grand Parterre yesterday. Shortly after the ar-
rival, at four o'clock, of the bands of the Royal Horse
Guards -'(Blue) and Scots Fusilier Guards, the royal
party came on the east terrace by the private entranoe to
the Clarence Tower, when the bands played the National
Anthem. A laughable incident occurred during the
royal promenade in consequence of an eccentric old lady
waving her bonnet to the Queen, and running up the
steps with the intention, as she said, of shaking bands
with her Majesty. The ardent loyalty of the old dame
was, however, immediately checked by one of the police
in private clothes, ,who politely escorted her off the
terrace.
His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the
Countess de Persigny will leave Albert Gate House this
afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle,
and will return to town on Wednesday.
His Excellency the Pr ussian Minister and the Countess
Bernstorff gave a grand entertainment, at the Legation,
on Carlton house-terrace, last evening, to his Royal
Highness Prince George of Saxony.
The Baroness Brunnow is expected in town early next,
week, from Berlin.
MR. MOSTYN, M.P.—This gentleman, in consequence
of impaired health, has been at length compelled to yield
to the recommendation of his physicians, and relinquish
for the present his Parliamentary duties, in order to try
the air of the south of Italy. Mr. Mostyn has.already
taken his departure from England.
DEATH OF SIR J. ArGRIGOR, F.R.S.—We
regret to have to announce the death of Sir James
M'Grigor, Bart. In 1793 he entered the army as sur-
geon of the 88th or Connaught Rangers. In 1815 he
became director-general of the army medical depart-
ment; which office he held more than 35 years. For
these and other services Sir James M'Grigor was
created a baronet and a knight commander of the Order
of the Bath. He received also the decorations of the
Tower and Sword of Portugal and the Crescent of
Turkey. Three times he was elected Lord Rector of
Mitrischal College, Aberdeen.
The Sardinian Government have not yet received a
reply to its second note demanding the release of the
Cagliari. The report that the note in question had been
retarned.is unfounded.
THE CONDEMNED CONVICT JAMES JONES.—Mr. Wal-
pole, the Home Secretary, having carefully considered
the case, has thought it fit to advise her Majesty to
commute the capital seLtence to penis( servitude for life.
HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SCOT-
LAND.—The Prince Consort has accepted an invitation
to be present at tie annual meetings of thi-i society,
which are to be held at Aberdeen at the close of the
month of August text.
TEMPLE BAR.—The removal of this well-known arch,
the work of Sir Christopher Wren, is in contemplation,
and a., for many reasons, it would bo a pity to deQtroy
it. a suggestion has been made to place it at the entrance
to one of the parks, and so preserve the old land mark.
THAI OUTWARD EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAIL.—

The steam-ship Colombo, Captain Field, lift 2.uth-
ampton yesterday with the above mails, 96 boxes of
specie cf the value of 50,5331., and 60 passengers,
among whoa' are Captain Edison, Lieutenants Higman
and Burke, fsr Malta ; Lieutenant-Colonel Wynne, for
Hong Kmg, &e.
STATUE OF BURKE FOR ST. STEPHEN'S HALL. —Mr.
Traced has just finished his statue io marble of Edmund
Burke, for the New Palace, Westminster. This statue
will complete the series for St. Stephen's Hall. The
same sculptor has likewise finished the bas-relief of
"The Field of the Cl. th of Gold," and " Elizabeth
Knighting Drake," also executed for the New Palace.
STATUE OF THE LATE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, AT
DERBY.—It has been determined to erect a statue of
the late Duke. of Devonshire, in his county town of
Derby. Should there be any surplus funds they are to
go to some charitable purposes, such as the late duke
would have approved c.f.
REPRESENTATION OF CAMBRIDGE.—in anticipation of
a general election the Liberals of Cambridge have been
C sncerting measures with a view to the selection of
eligible candidates in opposition to the present Conser-
vative members, Mr. K. Macaulay and Mr. A. Steuart
Rumour has also mentioned the names of Mr. A. H.
Layard and Mr. W. M. Thacketay as possible candi-
dates, but nothing positive has been determined on.
A NEW UNIVERSITY DEGREE.—Government has at
last consented to sanction a new degree—Doctorship of
Science. This is truly wise and gracious. London
University will very soon be able to grant the new scien-
tific degree, and we presume that Oxford and Cambridge
—especially Cambridge—will in due time follow the good
example.— Atitenceune.
On Saturday Dr. Lyon Playfair's report on the Lon-
don Mechanics' Institution, presented to Parliament,
was printed. The doctor is of opinien that the institu-
tion, if made free of debt, would not be "self-support-
ing." He says, " Mecean,ce institutions, if they fulfil
their missions, should be attended by the working dosses
chiefly."
The death of Mr. Robarts, the head of one of our
oldest and most respectable banking firms, has been
announced. It occurred yesterday after an illness of
only two or three days. No member of the financial
world ever held a higher position, cr was more univer-
sally esteemed. Mr. Roharts formerly sat in Parliament
for Maidstone, but had long retired from political life.
He had reached his 79th year, and at the time of his
death was chairman of the Committee of Bankers.
According to a circular of M. Arles Dufour, of Lyons,
the silk market has been benefited by an impulse given
to the retail trade by a fortnight of fine weather. Tne
stocks of spring goods in the hands of dealers have been
cleared off, and if the season had been a little less ad-
vanced fresh orders would proSabiy have been given.
Under the circumstances the transactions in the raw
material, although not active, have been sufficient to
su-tein prices.
GRENADES.—ne effect of the grenades directed against
the Eeeperor's earriageappears so much greater than that
of our own hand-grenades, that it seems probable that
it may lead to a change, not only in our army, but in the
armies of other European nations, Our grenades are
fired by a fuse, those of the assassins explode by percus-
sion. Dispensing with the fuse, Hex:eoliths, is a simplifi-
cation, and so an advantage.—United Service Gazette.
FLOGGING IN SOHOOLS.—In the middle ages, we read
of, besides stationery, itinerant schoolmasters, and
teachers of readicg. In the woodcuts of a work printed
by Caxton, the sctn;ohnastiT holds a rod in his ha-id,
and the boys kneel before him. The practice of flogging
is sometimes engraved upon the seals of public schools ;
the seal of St. Olave's school, dated 1576, represents
the master sitting in a high backed chair at his desk, on
which is a book, and the rod is conspicuous y displayed
to the terror of five echolere standing before him ; and
the seal of St. Saviour's; School, 1573, represents the
master seated in a chair, with a greup of thickly.trussed
Pipits before him. Dr. Busby, who was 50 years head
master of Westminster School, is said to have boasted
bie rod to the sieve to prove good scholars, but his seve-
rity is traditional. The practice of flogging in Winches.
ter is illustrated upon the walls of the great school.—
Tintbs' School Days of Eminent Men.
SOLITUDE.—S:IIne people say they prefer solitude.
They are "never so happy as when alone." No one
objects to it. It's a lawful taste, under limitations, if
not a very useful or amiable one. But the point that
provokes ohs is, that instead of b Mg ashamed of it,
and trying to conceal it as they would any other moral
obliquity—as a taste for amateur shop-lifting, or any ,
awkward propensity of that kind—these people parade
it ; they claim to be praised for it ; they loek down
upon you with the most magnificent air cf superiority.
"My mind to me a kingdoms is, say they. Very well ;
rule it, and have done with it : I don't want to invade
your kinp_doin. But don't usurp a regency over my
mind. My mind is no kingdom : I don't want any such
kingd©m : I might as well be Ro'insm Crusoe. The
man whom you berrow that fine sentiment from was in
prison, and wisely made-the best of it. Ha could sing
another note when out of his cage. Travel through the ,
woill is ynur oxn say, if Sou will, butdon'taffect
to sneer at our more social conveyances. Why on earth
are you to be praised for a surly, inhospitable, uncorn-
panienable disposition I It's selehnests, let me tell
you, a good deal of it. You-are too refined, forsooth,
for this everyday life. You don't enjoy other people's
happiness; their vulgar affairs and little interests bore
a philosopher of your stamp, because you have never
learnt the true human philosophy which drew down
plaudits from a more enlightened audience than fills a
modern lecture-room—a philosophy which found its

sanction, remember, in a higher authority, where we are
taught to be "all things to alt men."—Blackwood'B
Magazine.