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TIVA L.

The committea of the Handel Festival have at
length wound up their accounts and the result is
eminently satisfactory. The enterprise appears to
have beeu quite as successful in a financial as in a
popular and artistic sense. The net profit reaches
the handsome sum of 9,0001. This is in excess of a
large amount of incidental property paid for out of
the receipts, of which the most important items are
the °rehears, still a fixture in the Crystal Palact,
the necessary furniture of the orchestra, and the
printed and copied music—all, of course, available
fur any filter° occ ision. Taking these into consi-
dotation no previous musical festival ever realized
so much. The distribution of the surpluq, in ac-
cordance with an agreement between the directors
of the Crystal Palace Company and the Committee
of tho Sacred Harmonic Society, will bo as follows:
—One ninth (1,0001.) to the society six-ninths
(6,0001.)_ to the company; and two-ninths (2,000 Z.)
to a gugrant,e fund, jointly invested, towards the
expenses of the Handel commemoration proposed
to beheld in 1859.

The gross receipts of the recent festival were
23,3601., out (4' which amateurs will- be glad to
learn that no less than 11,0001. was obtained on the
last day., when Han lei's great choral masterpiece,
" Isra4 in Egypt," was performed. This fact says
volumes for the musical taste of the public, in ad-
vancing the progress of which the Sacred Har-
monic Society has been au important and powerful
agent. Noth withstanding its grandeur and sub-
limity,. " Isra-1 in Egyp ." has not hitherto been a
" popular" work, in the strict signification of the
term. During Handers lifetime it was more rarely
presented t'ian almost any other of his great. work',
and never without curtailments and intirpolations.-
At the festival in the Crystal PalaCei however,
" Israel" was preciselyas it came from the pen
of its immortal composer, and the effect produc3l
upon the vast multitude assembled was unparal-
lele 1. It is more than probable that henceforth
" Israel in Egypt" will maintain the place towhich
it is justly entitled by the side of " The Messiah,"
its worthiest companion, and that public affection
will be fairly divided between the two. The
interests of the musical arts the fame of Handel,
and the prosperity of the Sacred Harmonic Society
must alike be promoted by such a result, while the
festival of 1857 will be remembered with all the
more satisfaction in consequence.
The gre it experiment having been tried it re-
mains to profit by experience. Competent judges
are of opinion that, with sundry not very formid-
able expedients, added to certain modifications
suggested from the outset, but which there was not
time enough to consider, the concentration of sound •
within spec al limits and its more equal diffusion
among the various localities in which the audience
are stationed may be easily accomplished. What-
ever could possibly be done under the circumstances
was done by the energy and zealous perseverance of
the directors ; but between this and 1859 there is
plenty of time to devise and carry out such im-
provements as are indispensable to unqualified
success. The committee of the Sacred Harmonic

Society, we aro informed, 'have already in con-
templation a p 1 to to keep the enormous body of
amateurs, provincial and metropolitan, who offi-
ciated as chorus at regular and constant practice in
the interval. The other duties will devolve chiefly

upon the directors of the Crystal Palace, who have
already shown that many thousands of persons can
be ac.:!onuod.ated with ease and comfort—which
was half the battle, since otherwise the Handel
Festival would in all probability have degenerated
into a riot. On this bead doubts and fears are

wholly set at rest, and the exclusive question now
becomes one of providing means by which the musi►
cal effect shall be more generally distributed. The
year 1859 is not only interesting as the centenary
of Handel's death, but as the 50th anniversary of
the death of Haydn, and the 50th anniversary of
the 'birth of Mendelssohn.
The last ceremony connected with the festival of
1857 in which the performers were concerned took
place on Friday night, at Exeter-hall, when modals
commemorative of the event were distributed.
These medals are of bronze, with Handel's bust
(from the original statue of Roubillao, in the pos-
session of the Sacred Harmonic Society) on the
obverse, and on the reverse an ancient lyre, encir-
cled by the inscription—" Crystal Palace—Handel
IFestival—June, 1857."

DESPRI7II77O AT OP THE SHIP HARK.
AWAY BY FIRE.

We briefly mentioned this event yesterday. The
following is an extract of the Harkaway's log
SATURDAY, SEPT. 5.-5.7 p.m., light airs and
fair weather, with the wind north-westerly. 7.30,
while under all sail, lower and aloft, and making 5
knots through the water, heard an explosion in the
hold, and found a thick smoke issuing from the
after hatchway, this being the only hatchway not
battened down. We immediately gave the alarm of
fire in the ship. The cargo consisted of spirits of
turpentine, resin, and cotton. We soon discovered
that the hold WAS on fire, the smoke thou coming
up from below very thick. We then covered all
the hatchways with wet sails, and wetted the decks
tore and aft, fearing the turpentine might explode
and blow the ship Co pieces. We immediately got
out all the boats and got the passengers in them—
men, women, and children ; every man belonging
to the ship remaining on board to extinguish the
fire, and ready to jump into the boats if necessitated.
All hands remained to ascertain what might

happen.
"At four a.m. of the 6th the smoke appeared to
abate. We got in our boats again, and made all
possible sail. At eight we found to a certainty
that the hold was on fire, smoke and heat issuing
from every place where there was ventilation, the
smoke smelling of burning cotton. We closed up
every place that might give ventilation to the hold,
this being all that we could do, for we dared not
open any of our hatches ; got the boats ready for
hoisting out, with provisions of water in each. We
then trimmed and made all sail, and kept the ship
on her course, remaining on board to see what
would happen, wishing to save the ship and cargo
if possible. At noon, appearances very bad, bat
appa• ently no worse. A strong smell of smoke and
fire through the decks and. hatchways, although
well closed up. All hands still remaining by the
s' ip. Allowed the ship to make four feet water,
to be kept so, to cool the hold. Shortened, made,
and trimmed sails occasionally. The wind at
S S.W. beginning to increase as night came on.
Midnight, a heavy gale blowing.
" MONDAY, SEPT. 7.---Continued heavy gales,
and rAiti all this day, and a very heavy sea running.
At 5 a.m. every appearance of fire breaking out—
smoke issuing through the hatch-s and decks fore
and aft, and through the ship's sides. 8 a.m. A
hard gale of wind blowing, and the sea running
high ; found it impossible to keep the ship from
burning, and dreading an explosion every moment,
concluded on cutting away the masts and filliug
the ship with water. 9. Cut away the fora and
main mass, and got out a boat for the
saving of liVes. Two boats were all ready
for getting out the ship's side. By this time the
smoke and fire began to appear through the
forehatch and ship's side starboard. We then ob-
served a sail standing towards us. She came down,
and hove to to pick us up. She proved to be a
barque, the Sarah Dorothy, of Newcastle. We
first got out all the passengers, two men, two wo-
men, and six children, and with difficulty got them
all into the first boat. The barque sent her boat to
our rescue, by which we sent some of the crew.d
Tried to get out another boat, but she swampe.in
alongside. By this time the ship was enveloped
flames through the decks and sides.
" Tl4e turpentine in fore hatchway notwh
pl
and blew up the deck. By this time exploded,
and
re-
turned from the barque, the ship th et.
e;ntoflasmavese
fore and aft. After wing every extel of
tain
and
lives, and in the next boat's return
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all the passengers and crew safe on board the Sarah
remainder of the crew quitted t s itp, a ter seeing
Dorothy.
" On Tuesday, the Bth, the captain and crew re-
maiLe I on b.:ard the Sarah Dorothy.
" Wednesday, 9th.—Fell in with the. English
baralie Advice, of Liverpool, who took seven of our
people with him to
.--The royal mail steam
L7onad.mon.
sasenndgteorsokontiteoacradpt;atihne,
Thursday, 10th,
packet Atrato hove in sight,a
Ist and 2d mates, and ten
remainder of our crew, four hands, preferring to
stay on board the Sarah Dorothy, and go to St.
John's."

A UASTY pa MARRIAGE N. Texas paper tells of a young
n cu
.16 who eloped on MARRIAGE.-3
accompanied by the
clergyman who was to 'marry them. The lady's father
gave chase, and was overtaking the party, when the
maiden called out to her clerical friend, "Cant you
marry us as we run ?" The idea took, and he commenced
the ritual, and just as the bride's father clutched her
bridle rein, the clergyman pronounced the lovers man
and wife. The father was so pleased with the dashing
a,tion that, as the story goes, he gave them his blessing,

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(Front the Illustratetl Lvsykle.
-
Brigadier-General Henry INV*rek'litis-ili-rn a-
13ishopswearrnonth, near Sunde}liid,-itant,
father, who was descended from a TaNy with -
long resided'- at Grimsby, having a,ceurrifetated an'
independence in commerce and ship-building at
Sunderland, purchased Ingress Park, ,rear Dart-
ford; in the county of Kent. He wa-,. married to a
daughter of the family of Ettrick, -which had been
seated for many
_generations at High Barites. H.
RaVelock was educated at the 0114.V:fin-use, where
he had as his- contemporaries ' Panmure, Dr.
Thirlwall,' the Bishop of St. • David's.. Dr.. Wadding-
ton, the, Dean of Durham, the late Archdeacon
[Tare, G. Grote, the historian of Greece ; Sir W.
Macnaughten, the unfortunate Envoy to Cabul ;
Sir W. Norris, late Recorder of Perwig ; Sir 0.
Eastlake, and Mr. Yates, t! e a:t .r. Iu 1813, in
consequence of the decline of his father's fortunes,
Ingress Park was sold to Government, and Have-
lock was entered of the Mi Idle Temf le, 'and a‘-
tended the lectures of . Chitty, the eminent special
pleader, where his most intrn tte aesociste was the
late Sir Thomas "Talfourd, the-author of " Ion."
His elder brother William had distinguished him-
self in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo ;
and Henry, yielding to the military propen-
sities of his family, endeavoured through his
terest to obtain a commissint. A month after the
battle of Waterloo he was appointed S-cond Lieu-
tenant in the Rifle Brigade (931 h), where his military
training WAS asaiste'l by Captain, afterwards Sir H.
Smith,- the victor of Aliwal. Havelock served for
eight years in England, Scotland,
Sand Ireland,
at length exchanged into the 13th
aLnigdL harmstln
Infantry, embarked for India in 1823.
In 1824 the first But mese war broke out, and
Havelock was appiuted Deputy Assistant-Adju-
tant-General, and was present at the actions at
N-apadee, Patanagob, and Peghan. On the termi-
nation of the war he was associated with Captain
Lumsden and Dr. Knox on a mission to the Court
of Ave, and had an audience of the " Golden
Foot," when the treaty of Yandaboo was signed.
In 1827 he published the " History of the Ava
Campaigns," remarkable for the freedom of its
comments on the transactions of the war. In that.
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year he wag appointed Adjutant of the Military
Depdt formed at Chinsiirah_ by Lord Combermere,
and soon after_ married the youngest daughter yf

the la'e Rev. Dr. Marshman; of gerampore. The

Chinsurah establishment was soon after broken up,
and Havelock returned to his regiment. He sub-

sequently visited Calcutta, and, having passed in
the languages at the College, was appointed Adju-
tant to his corps by Lord W. Bentinck. The corps
was then under the command of Colonel,afterwards
Sir R. Sale. In 1838 Havelock was promoted to a

company, after having served 23 year's as a subal-
tern. An army was now collected for the in-
vasion of Affghanistan, and Havelo± accom-
panied it on the staff of Sir Willoughby Cot-
ton. He went through the first Affghan cam-
paign, was present at the storm of Ghuznee and
the occupation of. Cabul, and then returned to
India with Sir Willoughby Cotton. Having ob
tamed leave to visit the Presidency, he prepared a

" Memoir of the. Affghan Campaign," -which was
soon after printed in London. lie returned to the
Punjaub in chfirga of a detachment, and was placed
on the staff of Gen. Elphinstoue, as Persian Inter-

preter. ,
The Eastern Ghilzieslhaving risen and blockaded
Cahill, Havelock was sent to join Sir R. Sale, then
marching back to India, and was present at the
forcing of Khoord Cahill pass, at the action of Te-
zeen, and all the other engagements of that force
till it reached Jellalabad. In conjunction with his
friends, Major Macgregor and Capt. Broadfooti he
had the chief direction under Sale, of the memor-
able defence of that place, of which he wrote Millie
despatches which were afterwards so highly com-
mended by Sir G. Murray. In the final attack on
Mahomed Akbar in April, 1842, which obliged the;
chief to raise the siege, Havelock commanded the
right column, and defeated him before the other
columns could come up. For this he was promoted
to a Brevet Majority, and was made Companion of
the Bath. He was then nominated Persian Inter-
preter to General Pollock, and was present at the
action of Mamoo Keil, and the second engagement
at Tezeen. He then proceeded with Sir IJohn
M'Caskill's force into the Kohistan, and had an im-
portant share in the brilliant affair at Istaliff. The
next year he was promoted to a Regimental Majo-
rity, and nominated Persian Interpreter to the
Commander-in-Chief, Sir H. (afterwards Viscount)
Gough.
At the,close of 1843 he accompanied the army to
Gwalior, and was engaged in the battle of Maharaj-
pore. In 1844 he was promoted to the rank of
Lieut.-Colonel by brevet. in 1845 ho proceeded
with the army to meet the invasion of the Sikhs,
and was actively engaged in the battles of Moodkee,
Ferozeshah, and Sobraon. At Moodkee he had two
horses shot under him ; at Sobraon a third horse
was smitten down by a cannon-shot which passed
through his saddle-cloth. On the conclusion of the
6 utlej campaign lio w a3appoiitLed Deputy A.clj ntan ii.
General of the Queen's troops at Bombay. The se-
cond Sikh war now broke out, and his elder brother,
Col. W. Havelock, was killed at Ramnuggur. His
own regiment., the 53d, hearing been ordered into
the field, be quitted his staff employment at Bom-
bay, in order to join it, and- had proceeded as hr
as Indere, when his further progress was counter-
manded, and he returned to his post. Twenty-five
years of incessant and laborious service now began
to toll on his constitution, and his medical advisors,
in 1849, sent him to Europe for two years for the
restoration of his health. He returned to Bombay
in 1851, and was soon after made Brevet Colonel,
and appointed, through the kindness of Lord Har-
dinge, by whose side ho had fought in the
three battles of the Sutlej, Quartermaster-
General, and then Adjutant-General, of Quenes
troops in India. On the d.-.lspateli of the ex-
pedition to Persia he was appointed to the second
division, and commanded the troops at Mohamme-
rah, the glory of which action was, however, re-
served for the naval force. On the conclusion of the
peace he returne I to Bombay, and embarked in the
Erin for Calcutti, in which vessel he was wrecked,
in April last, off the coast of • Ceylon. Five days
a"ter he obtained a passagein the Fire Queen, and,
on reaching Calcutta, was immediately sent up to
Allahabad as Brigadier-General, to eommand the
moveable column, with which 113 has now, in three
decisive actions, defeated the Maliratta fiend, Nene
Sahib. It is singular that in sal these engagements
in Burmah, in Affghanistan, at Gwalior, in the
Sutlej campaigns, and in Persia, though generally
exposed to the hottest fire, he 'has never bees
wounded.

WINTERING IN DAVIS' STRAITS.—The Hull Packet
says—" A. letter has been received in this town, by way
of New London, A.tnerica, from Mr. Skelton, the pre-
sent mate of the barque Alibi, of Aberdeen, which vessel
wintered in Davis' Straits. Out of her crew, consisting
of 30 to 40 men, five have died of scurvy, occasioned by
living on salt meat, and the want of suitable provisions ;
and the doctor of the ship, in desperation, had leaped
overboard, and was drowned. Amongst the dead are
the mat., Mr. Dannatt, and several other men from
Hull. It appears the Alibi was nine months looked up
in the ice, and was not released therefrom till July ; and
it will be November before she reaches Scotland. She
caught three whales last fall, and thie3 more this sum-
mer, making altogether 55 tuns of oil, up to the 24th of
July ; and it was possible that more might be caught,
but the fish, though plentiful, were very wild, and would
not allow the ships to come near them. The letter is
dated July 24, and states that the mate, John Dannatt,
died May 24, after being three months' ill of scurvy ;
John Brown died in February, after being ill two months
and a half, of the same disease ; one Dthidee man died
in April, and two more in July. Many others of the
orew had been ill in scurvy, but most of them were rd.
covering ; the doctor had been out of his mind most of
the winter—it was about the middle of July, in a gale of
wind, when the ship was making for a harbout, that he
leaped overboard, and was drowned, though every effort
was made to save lien. Dannatt has left a widow and
five children, from three to thirteen years of age."
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THEATRE ROYAL," HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
fHIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with
Sh tke-pe.are's Comedy of MUCH Al.lO ABOUT NOTHING.
Beatrice Mrs. Catherine Sinclair (her. .Bth appearance in this
country) ; Bencdick (Bth time), Mr. IT.owe ; Dogberry, Mr.
Compton ; Hero, Miss M. Oliver.
After which, the new ana success!'. Comedy, entitled
VICTIMS in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. William
Farren, Miss Reynolds, Miss Emma King,, &e., will appear.
To conclude with THE GLEANERS.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retain( xl the whole of the
evening), 6s. each. (No charge i'o3 , booking.)
First Price. s. d. Sewn d price. s. d
Drags Boxes 5 0 Dress Bozo*. 3 0
Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
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ower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery'. 0 6
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