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

LITERATURE.

" SLINGSBY" AND " STEWART."

A quaint Misque, entitled " A Winter Night's
Wake" will be remembered by the readers of the
Dablin, University Magazine, as having there, in
tie pages of that Magazine, a few months b.Ack,
rind° its fantastic and graceful appearance. It
will be recollected, in Teover, to have been
avowedly an effusion from the facile pen of
Jonathin Freke Sliogsby ; 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 expfsitely and nrat
appropriately set to music by the genius of a con-
genial compo3er, to wit, Robert S ewart, Mus. D.
Tne 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 boil brilliant and numerous.
The success of the whole, it is gratifying to note,
was, as it eminently deserved to be, triumphant.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—Her Majesty and the Prince
C ,nsort honoured this hou,e with their presence het
night, in old -r to witness the masterly performance of
Mr. Charles Kean as King Lear.

The Coug.tess de Neuilly t'le Princess de Joins%lle,
and the Duke de Nemours visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence House, S 6
JamlES7t4.

Tee Duke an Duchess of Beaufort come to town to-
morrow from Badminton House. Gloucestershire for the
se 1.40 u.

Tne Countess Blondoff was Fafely delivered of a
daughter, at her residence in E%ton-place South, on
Thursday fait, and with the infant is progressing favour-
ably. Tao Countess d'Alten, mother of her ladyship
ant of the Duch() sof Manchester, has arrived in town
from Hanover.

LIE LATE LORD HANDYSIDE.—Tbe death of Lon.]
Ilandyside, which we announced yesterday, creates a
vacancy in the Court of Session in Scotland, as well as
in the High Court of Justiciary. The learned lord was
the son of Mr. Handyside of Lainshill, mer-
chant, Glasgow. He passed the isb bar in 1822,
ant was appointed Sheriff of Stirlingshire in 1840. In
1353, after having for a short period filled the office of
S)licitor-Get era!, he was elevated to the bench both of
the supreme, civil, and criminal courts of Scotland. As
a jaite he distinguished himself by great zsal, patience,
and ability. He was one of the three judges at the trial of
Miss 111..de tine Smith, and last autumn he presided
alone at the protracted Falkirk Bank trial; and gave at
he chase a very able at.al)sis of the evidence a' d
a luo'd judicial charge. The le..rned lord who was in his
60th year, married in 1848 a rioter f Mr. Rot ert Bruce
of Kennel, at whose seat in Clackinann.hire, whither he
had gone to recruit his health, impaired in the diecbaro
of his duties, het xpired after a suddenspa,modic attack.
His lordship wiv a Liberal in politics, and his death at
this juncture wll thereby gain a seat on the Scottish
beach to the Conservative party. Eis not to be antici-
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honourably offered to him by his poitical adversaries.
Tne vac,inoy will more likely ba fife 1 up by the appoint-
meat to the bench of the Solicitor-General, Mr. Charles
Batilie, who vacated the sheriffehip of Stirling on the ac-
cesaion of the present Ministry to take office ucder them.