The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-29 00:00:00

MR. BOCHSA'S CONCERT.

Beethoven, Spohr, Paganini, Logier, and the gentleman
whose name heads this notice, have each and all enjoyed the
high and distinguished honour of falling under the ban of the
John Bull professors of " the old school" of this country. The
" heads of the profession," as they are termed, drove Mr. Lo-
gier from the metropolis, by organized committees and the
publication of venomous pamphlets. The Directors of the
Philharmonic Society gently closed the doors of their Con-
certs to the " sweet singer of Cassel," who left our shores
disgusted at the ignorance and bigotry he had experienced.
Paganini, " the half demoniac," throughout his sojourn in
this country manifested the most perfect indifference to either
frowns or favours, and his determination to adapt his per-
formance ad captandum vulgus, rendered any servile submis-
sion on his part " to the powers that be" unnecessary and use-
less. Only those who have had the great fortune to hear
the extemporaneous performances of this extraordinary and
wonderful musician can have a perfect conception of his varied
and intellectual attainments in the art. By the " heads of
the profession" it has been seriously doubted whether Beetho-
ven's name would survive as a composer ! The most magni-
ficent of all his works, the Sinfonia in D minor (No. 9) failed
in this country, and the Directors of the Philharmonic Con-
cert, happy and contented in their blind and utter darkness of
its merits, have sedulously shelved it amidst the archives of
their library, having passed their fiat upon it, to use the words
of the musical periodicals, as a " crude wild," " odd ram-
bling," " ludicrous and obstreperous," " failure of a great
man." Mr. Bochsa, upon his arrival in this country, had to
encounter the venomous attacks of the musical profession,
but from the Concert of yesterday we do not imagine he has
suffered any serious injury. The room was thronged with a
most numerous and brilliant audience, and, as we are in-
formed, upwards of 400 persons were disappointed in obtaining
admittance, a circumstance which reflects no credit on the
management or foresight of Mr. Bochsa, and may operate in
future to his disadvantage. Most of the eminent vocal and
instrumental performers, both native and foreign, were present
on this occasion, and the concert was remarkable for the many
novelties presented to the public. The most prominent and
distinguishing feature was a MS. concerto sinfonique for the
harp, which the composer had in his synopsis entitled " A
Voyage Musical in different parts of the World." It embraced
specimens of the national melodies of almost every country,
commencing with the Chinese, from whom Mr. Bochsa
imagines all systems of music are derived, and terminating
with the British. Without adopting the creed of Mr. Bochsa,
we may be permitted to say that the concerto was cleverly
constructed, and very effective in its performance. The
Chinese specimens were extraordinary, and the composer by
the aggregation of somewhat like half a dozen melodies all
going on at the same time, proved himself no ordinary musi-
cian. It was not however characterized by any of those sudden
enharmonic transitions for which the composer is so remark-
able--the restraints arising from his plan no doubt operated in
curbing his imagination in this respect. We have no space to
enter upon the other novel specimens of Mr. Bochsa's industry
and talents, but we beg to remind our native artists that there
appears no lack of encouragement to those who spiritedly
pursue the study of the science, on an enlarged and philoso-
phical principle.

" A PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND," BY
M. DE LAMARTINE.--" M. de Lamartine," says the Edin-
burgh Evening Post, " has here poured forth the full tide of
the varied and high-toned feelings and fancies which occurred
to him, during a most interesting series of wanderings through
the sacred territory where the light of Christianity first dawned
upon the world. He rightly states his work a Pilgrimage,'
for he was urged to his adventure—not by any selfish, worldly
interest—but by the devotion which in his soul he has ever felt
for all that is associated with the Holy Land, and its hallowed
memorials. From the age of eight years, the enthusiatic poet
assures us, he burned with the desire of going to visit the
mountains on which the Divine Power had descended—the
deserts—tbe rivers—and the many interesting spots consecrated
throughout that hallowed territory. This book is studded with
intellectual gems of the finest water, ilnd must be altogether
regarded as the depository of the rich mental ore of one of the
motimagiuttiv and sensitive poets of the present day."

' LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1835.

We yesterday laid before our readers a highly inte-
resting report of- the -proceedings- of the London Re-
form Club. Our columns to-day contain the Ad-
dress, and a list of the Committee, of the Reform
Association—a document which, while it cannot fail
to stir up the dormant energies of the Reformers,
must strike the hearts of the Tories with dismay. No-
thing, indeed, could be better timed, or more salutary,
than this display of active zeal on the part of art
wealthy and influential friends of Reform. Every
corner of the country is at this moment infested with
the emissaries of the Tories. These pests of society are
going about every where organizing anti-Reform clubs,
misleading the ignorant, frightening the timid, and
practising all the other artifices in which they are so ex-
pert, to draw the people aside from the path of reform.
The Tories have already experienced the good effects
of attending to the registration of the electors. In
several counties, particularly in Devonshire, they em-
ployed agents, and hired lawyers, last year for the expre:_s
purpose of watching and superintending the registra-
tion. Their proceedings did not then excite that sus-
picion which ought never to be allowed to slumber
when they are in motion, and the consequence was
that the Reformers found out when it was too late,
that while they slept, the enemy had been sowing
tares in the field. The result of the elections showed,
not, as the Tories pretended, a re-action in the minds
of the electors, but an addition to their numbers. The
Reformers must now bestir themselves, or the result of
the next election will, they may rest assured, be much
more disastrous.

We are glad to find, that although the Reform
Association is intended to be a point of central union
for all the other Associations to which it will give
birth throughout the kingdom, it is to draw no pecu-
niary contributions to its funds from the local associa-
tions. We also rejoice to see that the dissemination
of political knowledge is not lost sight of. The circu-
lation of political tracts in a cheap form, and written
in a popular style, will, in our opinion, be by far the
most effectual instrument for permanently destroying
the baneful influence of Toryism.

At a public dinner given to him yesterday, by
his Lambeth constituents, Mr. TENNYSON, in a few
stirring words, accounted for the partial success which
the Conservatives met with at the last election. " We,
the Reformers," said the Hon. Gentleman, " were,
in many quarters, sleeping in self-complacent secu-
rity. We thought we were safe under the shadow of
the Reform Bill, and never dreamed that on our own
exertions depended the success of its complicated ma-
chinery. The Tories studied it, and studied it well,
and secretly and silently extended their machinations ;
like moles underground, they toiled while we were fast
asleep." There is, unfortunately, but too much truth
in these remarks. Having gained one great battle, the
Reformers thought the contest was at an end, and that
nothing remained but to enjoy the fruits of their vic-
tory. They forgot that a discomfited enemy is not an
annihilated one, and allowed the Conservatives to rally
their forces, dispatch their agents, register their friends,
methodize their schemes, and again present an impo-
sing battle array. Had the Reformers bestirred them-
selves, as they should have done, we should never have
seen Sir R. PEEL heading a Parliamentary phalanx,
three hundred strong. However, an opportunity of
of reducing this phalanx may possibly present itself at
no distant period, when the Reformers, profiting by
experience will, of course, be one and all on the alert.
Mr. TENNYSON evidently alludes to this contingency,
when, speaking of the Municipal Reform Bill and the
Irish Tithe question, he observes----" I am confident
that both these salutary measures will be carried by
such small majorities, that the House of Lords riii
not scruple to declare that they are insufficient to war-
rant their sanction. The Peers will cavil--the Peers

will throw them out. It may—indeed it will—thei e-
fore be incumbent on the Government to appeal to the
sense of the country, to throw themselves on the sym-
pathy of the people once more, and to obtain from
them a stronger numerical force in the popular repre
sentation of the House of Commons." \Ve have little
to add by way of comment on this timely warning, ex-
cept to impress on the Reformers the necessity, first,
of acting in concert, and not allowing small differences
of opinion to alienate them from each other ; and, se-
condly, of forming Associations by way of counteracting
the malign influence of the Conservative Clubs.

The South Staffordshire Election has not, it seems,
passed off without rioting and bloodshed. In another
part of The Sun, our readers will find some particu-
lars of a serious affray which took place on Wednes-
day night last, at Wolverhampton, just after the an-
nouncement of the close of the poll, and the defeat of
Colonel ANsoN. It would be premature, at present,
to offer a decided opinion on the subject of this riot ;
but one fact appears pretty evident, namely, that the
soldiers behaved with very unnecessary violence. The
major part of the evidence—so far as it has yet gone—

tends to prove that there was certainly not sufficient
tendency to insubordination on the part of the people,
to warrant the calling out of the military.

Under the head " Police Report," our readers will
find a curious account of an assault case, from which
we quote the following racy specimen of Andrew-Ag-
newism :—" The complainant said, that on Saturday
night, he and the defendant had some words, and they
stripped to fight. After the interchange of a few hard
blows, they tumbled down together on the floor, the de-
fendant being under. At that moment the clock struck
twelve, and although witness had the best of the bat-
tle, he proposed to his antagonist to postpone the
contest until Monday morning, that it might not be
said they violated the Sabbath. The complainant
added, that the quarrel was a severe one, and he
thought it no harm to renew the fight when the
Sabbath was over ; but he kept a quiet and sober
house, and it would be a scandal to have a disturb-
ance in it, on the Lord's Day." This is as happy an
illustration as could have been met with, of the sort of
cant that would be brought into full operation, were
St. Poulter's or St. Agnew's Sabbath Restrictions
Bill ever to become law. It is so good, that it almost
looks like a burlesque, got up for the express purpose
of exemplifying the rank absurdity of these Bills.
Conceive a man deliberately " nursing his wrath to
keep it warm" all Sunday—the day of repentance for
transgressions, and forgiveness of injuries—in order
that he may thereby be able to put in a claim to that
sort of virtuous forbearance which, the Saints assure
us, is the essence of all true religion I But as very supe-
rior sanctity is seldom found unaccompanied by interes-
ted motives, we find a little lower down in the
Report, something like a clue to the complainant's pious
proposition. The defendant declared " that he (the
complainant) never said a word about the Sabbath,
until he found that he was getting the worst of the
fight, when he suddenly cried out, ' Jack, it is Sunday,
and we ought to wait 'till Monday.' " Here is a
precious pot of ointment for you—a shred torn from
the "linen vestment" of Saint Agnew I And with
such Saints the country will be overrun, the very instant
the Sabbath-Hypocrisy-Propagation Bill shall have
become the law of the land. While on this subject,
,we cannot do better than quote the opinions of LUTHER,
who expressly says—" Keep the Sunday holy, for it's
use sake both to body and soul. But if any one—
when the day is made holy for the mere day's sake—
if any one sets up it's observance upon a Jewish
foundation, then I order you to work on it, to
ride on it, to dance on it, to feast on it—to
do anything that shall reprove this encroachment
on the Christian spirit of liberty." We trust our
notoriety-loving Saints will bear this dictum of the
great Protestant Reformer constantly in remembrance.
LUTHER was not a man to sin, on the side of laxity,
in religious matters.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday have been all re-
c?ived. The Chamber of Peers has issued citations to
all the individuals who signed the letter addressed to
the prisoners, through the columns of the defunct Tri
butte. M. AUDRY DE PUYRAVEAU received the
citation of the Chamber on Monday evening, to which
he returned the following answer, directed to the Pre-
sident, Baron PASQUIER :
" M. President— I declared to the committee of the Chamber
of Deputies, that I did not acknowledge the right of that
Chamber to authorize the Chamber of Peers to proceed
against me, nor do I acknowledge the right of the Chamber
of Peers to take any such proceedings against me. I feel it
to be my duty to renew to you this declaration in answer to
the citation which I have just received. Whatever may have
been the opinion of a majority of my colleagues, on a ques-
tion which interests to such a high degree the independence
of the powers of the state, and the dignity of the elective
Chamber in particular, I am of opinion that I should be want-
ing in my duty to my constituents, and to my character as one
of the deputies of the nation, if I did not protest with all the
authority I bold by this title against the unconstitutional juris-
diction of the Chamber of Peers. I beg you therefore, Sir, to
inform the Chamber that I will not appear at its bar, unless
constrained by force. My conscience commands me to make
this resistance in the interest of the independence and dignity
of the national representation. Accept, M. President, assu-
rances of my distinguished consideration.
"AUDRY DE PUYRAVEAU, Deputy."
As the citations direct that the persons accused of
signing the letter shall appear before the Chamber this
day, we shall not have long to await the result of this
manly protest against the unconstitutional power usurped
by the Chamber of Peers. Whatever may be the con-
sequences, both the Deputies accused of signing the
letter have acted as became the Representatives of a
free people. M. CORMENIN'S speech will be long
remembered as a proud defiance flung in the face of
the Chamber of Peers ; and the manly protest of M.
AUDRY DE PUYRAVEAU will be carefully preserved
among the records of French patriotism.
We made a mistake yesterday in stating that M.
JAUTRENOU, the Editor of the Reformateur, was
sentenced by the Chamber of Deputies to one month's
imprisonment, and the payment of a fine of 100 francs.
With regard to the period of incarceration we were
right, but the fine imposed was 10,000 francs (4001.)
the maximum of the penalty allowed by law. We
were led into the mistake by supposing that the minimum
of the penalty was voted for, whereas the vote included
the minimum of the period of incarceration and the
maximum of the fine, and vice versa. Besides under-
going the penalty imposed by the Chamber of Depu-
ties, the Editor of the Rfformateur is cited to appear
at the bar of the Chamber of Peers this day, to an-
swer for an alleged breach of privilege in publishing
the letter addressed by the advocates to the prisoners
of April. This appearance will of course be followed by
another fine and an augmented period of incarceration,
for the purpose of effecting the ruin of the Rfformateur.
The Chambers of Peers and Deputies sat on
Wednesday, but their proceedings were of no mo-
ment. One of the prisoners, a Carlist, named
GENEST, was placed at the Bar, and the witnesses
against him examined. Their evidence amounted to
almost nothing.

The advices received from Bayonne, bearing date
the 23d instant, are not important. Several of the
French journals state that the Cabinet of Lotus
PHILIPPE, or rather the KING himself, has agreed to
the terms of intervention proposed by Spain. We
have learned from other sources that the KING cola-
municated the resolution of the Cabinet, through his
MiniSter, to the Duke de FRIAS, the Spanish Am-

bassador, who has already despatched a courier with
the intelligence to the Representatives of the Allies in
London. A rumour also prevailed that. VALDEZ has
resigned the War Department, together with the Com-
mandership-in-Chief of the QUEEN'S armies in the
Northern provinces. The cause of the Minister's
resignation is said to be want of health. We
regard the rumoured resignation and retirement of
VALDEZ as an untruth. VALDEZ was the first to
press upon the Council of Regency the necessity of
having recourse to foreign intervention, to put an end to
civil war in the North, and, consequently, he cannot
retire with honour, at the instant the Government is
employed in adopting his advice.
The Renovateur says, " Persons worthy of credit
affirm that the'intervention has been decided upon, and
that two Doctrinaire Ministers, who oppose the mea-
sure, retire."

The Sentinelle says, " that ZUMALACARREGUI
has failed in his attack on Puenta la Reyna ; but that
400 men, who left Montrieul to go to Pampeluna,
were attacked on the road, and had 57 men killed, and
40 taken prisoners—the remainder reached Pampe-
luna." Other accounts in the same journal say "that
ZUMALACARREGUI was on the 20th at Etchareng, a
short distance from Pampeluna, with nine or ten thou-
sand men. On the 17th the garrison had made an
unsuccessful sally, having been repulsed, and obliged
to return into the city, with the loss of some men.
ERAso, with 12,000 men, blockades Vittoria. Lo-
PEZ is at Larzaga, with four or five thousand men.
VA LDEz, with all his forces, occupies the Ribera,
and the environs of Leren and Logrono, having also a
force at Haro and Lodosa. It is evident that his ob-
ject is to guard the passages over the Ebro."

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, MAY 27
Five per gents., 107 f 90c. 75c. 40c.
Four per Cents., 98f. 50c.
Three per Cents., 79f. 05c. SOf 15c. 79f. 50c.
Bank Actions, 1,67 f. 50,!.
Rente tie Naples, 98f. 20c. 97f. 90c.
Roman Five per Cents., 994.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 43.
Pyrite d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 28 %14.
Royal Spanish Loan, 17 46
itcnte Perpet. d'Espatme. Five per Cents., 43 4334 43.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, —.
Portugue,e Loan, Five per Cent., 96,4.
tiaytian Loan, 430 f. —e.
EXcIiANGP. ON LONDON.
tine month, paper, 25f. 40c. ; money, 251 40c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, 2.5 f. 25c
—enters Aulkentique

BOURSE, THREE O'CLOCE..—The report is general that an
intervention in Spain is positively decided upon, and that a
state messenger set out with that news last evening. It will
not be published before all the conditions of the intervention
are agreed upon by the members of the quadruple alliance.
This accounts for the sudden rise in the Spanish stock yester-
day, and a continuance of it in this day's market. The 3 per
Cents. have been before the opening of the Bourse at 80f.
40c. and have declined to 79f. 95c.: they have, however,
since improved to 801. 10c. to 80f. 15c., their present price.
There is a strong suspicion that MM. Broglie, Humann, and
Maison arc going to leave the Ministry. To-morrow there
will be no Bourse. The rentes fell suddenly.
Q UARTRR TO FO UR. —Five per Cents., 107 f. 35c. ;
Three per Cents., 79c. 50c. ; Five per Cent. Spanish, 43 ;
Three per Cent. Spanish, 284; Cortes, 43; Coupons, 244 ;
Guebhards, 46 ; Differes, 184 ; New Loan, 56/ ; Defini-
tives, 55 ; Passive, 15i ; Ducats, 98 • Romans, 99i ; Pedros,
963- ; Haytians, 4301. ; Brabant Bank, 17i premium.

We have received Brussels and German Papers,
from which we have given extracts, which are, how-
ever, of no political importance. The continuance of
the Plague in Egypt, and the effect which it has had
in raising the price of cotton at Vienna, may be of
some consequence to manufacturers here.
Advices from Prussia state that the KING is
to meet the Emperor of RUSSIA in July, to
confer with him on the subject of foreign inter-
vention in the affairs of Spain. This looks ra-
ther ominous, especially as the object of the North-
ern Powers is to act as a check upon France and Eng-
land. The announced return of the Austrian Am-
bassador, and the meeting of so many distinguished
diplomatists in Vienna in the course of the summer,
may be followed by consequences which our Govern-
ment ought both to foresee and anticipate.
VIENNA, MAY 16.—1 t is reported that Prince Paul Esterhazy,
our Ambassador in London, will shortly have leave of absence, and
will come to Vienna. Our Ambassador in Russia (Count Fiquel-
mont), will also come here on account of ill health. Prince Felix
Von Schwartzenberg will act as Charge d'Affaires at St. Peters-
burgh ; Count Kuegstein, our Ambassador at Hanover, has also
got leave of absence, and will go for some months to his estates. In
consequence of afflicting news from the East of the spreading of the
plague, the productions of Syria, Egypt, and Macedonia are rising
considerably in value, and cotton in particular is bought up here at
any price.

A letter from Ragusa of the 23d of April, announces that
Sir Howard Douglas the new Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands, with his family, arrived from Ancona in the
harbour of Grcvose, on board the lonian steam-beat Eolana-
issos. He was going to Corfu.
BERLIN, MAY 7.—The great military reviews at Kolish
arc almost the exclusive subject of conversation.
BRUSSELS, MAY 27. Spanish Stock has risen considerably
above the prices of yesterday. The Rentes Perpetuelles were
sold to-day at 21 per cent. higher. Cortes 2i, and the
Deferred Debt I.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, MAY 27.
Actual Debt, 2i per Cent ,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOll4
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 99
Socie-y of Commerce Four and a Half per Cent llB
Bank of 11,1ptium, Five per Cen- .
—Brussels Papers, May 28.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY 19.
Five pe-r Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Bank Shares
—,lllgenteine Zeitung, May 21.

We have to announce the death of the Earl of
Devon, which took place yesterday, at his residence in the
Place Vendome. His Lordship was in his 67th year.—
Galignani's Messenger.
Lord Longford died of a carbuncle at the back of
his head, and not of a bile in the throat, as previously stated.
Ile was attended by Dr. Warren, Sir Astley Cooper, Sir Ben-
jamin Brodie, and Mr. Vance.
Among the novelties of the present day may be
mentioned a placard against all the walls of the City, an-
nouncing, in large characters, " Gravesend asparagus, fresh
from the beds, by every tide."
A very valuable manuscript, never published, has
lately been discovered. It consists of the minutes of a com-
mercial inquiry made in 1601 by order of Henry IV. This is
the first inquiry of that kind that ever took place in France.—
Galignani's Messenger.
BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, THURSDAY,
MAY 28.—The supply of Wheat is good, and the best descrip-
tion of samples fully realized last week's quotations ;;but other
kinds met heavy sale at less money. There is still a demand
for fine fresh threshed malting Barley, but the season for malt-
ing is near its close, and so is the supply of this kind of Bar-
ley, and it fully supported recent rates. There are a few spe-
culative inquiries for grinding parcels at low rates. Malt con-
tinues a dull trade. The trade is heavy for Oats, and they
barely support last currency. Beans M scarce, and prices
are firm, but no advance can be noticed. Flour without
alteration.

BOROUGH OF LAMBETH.—Yesterday the two
members for this borough, Messrs. Tennyson and Hawes, were
entertained by a numerous and respectable body of the electors
of South Lambeth at a public dinner at the Three Compasses,
Vauxhall. Mr. Ten, a gentleman of considerable influence in
the borough, presided on the occasion.

SCOTLAND.—The General Assembly held its first
meeting on Thursday last. Dr. W. Thomson was chosen
Speaker, or Moderator, of this ancient body. The more
rigid members are attempting to exclude from the lay elder-
ship all such persons as do not practise religious wosrhip
twice a day in their families. This question it is expected
will give rise to much discussion. The Assembly has refused
to accede to the request of the Church of Geneva to send a
deputation thither to join it in celebrating the third centenary
of the Reformation. It was announced by Dr. M'Farlane
that the Genevese Church had lapsed into errors and heresies,
and that, consequently, the Church of Scotland could not ac-
cept her invitation.
COLONEL BADCOCK'S " ROUGH LEAVES FROM
A JOURNAL, KEPT IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, IN 1832, 33, AND
34."—" Being, as an accredited agent of the British Govern-
ment, only a looker-on, Colonel Backcock, though constantly
exposed to the extreme of personal danger, was able to view
and estimate, more clearly than others, what was going on ;
and, we doubt not, will be confidently appealed to by future
historians, while, to the present generation, his book will
afford matter for deep thought—and, let us hope, edification.
With the Emperor Don Pedro, the Colonel was on intimate
terms of friendship ; and his anecdotes of that personage, and
of his daughter, the Queen, are very curious. That his work
may not be altogether a military record of war, the author has
very pleasantly illustrated, from his personal observation, dur-
ing his wanderings in Spain, the old and well-known novels
of Gil Blas and Don Quixote. "__Naval and Military Gazette.
EXTRAORDINARY REPTILE.--A very singular
description of viper was found in the path of a cover at
Broomfield, last week, and is now in the possession of Mr.
Draper, a very respectable medical gentleman of this town.
It is of the dark viper. species ; its colour an olive green, about
.1 inches long, and at the distance of two inches and a half
f-clri the tail two white feet protruded, at the extremity of each
of which are six white sharp clam, half an inch in length.
This extraordinary reptile is entirely unknown to naturalists.—
Taunton Courier

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