The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-30 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN.

SlR,—Scarcely a public musical performance has taken
place of late on the large scale which nowadays receives
acceptance, without the aid of a considerable number of
Mr. Hullah's late upper schools, but somehow or other
their services are but barely acknowledged.
From the accounts in several of the daily papers of the
recent performance at St. Paul's it would appear that the
chorus was that of the Sacred Harmonic Society. It ought
to be stated that a large proportion--I think about a third
—were members of the upper schools. I think this fact
deserves to be known at a time when appeal is being made
in Mr. Hullab's behalf.
It may be added that all the amateur societies are now
strongly reinforced by persons who have been Mr. Hullah's
pupils, and it is not alleging too much to say that but for
him the gigantic choruses now frequently assembled in
London would have been impossible. Yours, &c.,
Jan. 29. ONE OF MR. HULLAH'S PUPILS.

The late Mr. Mathew Uzielli headed:the list of
guarantees for the Exhibition of 1862 for the munificent
sum of £lO,OOO. It appears that the executors under his
will have no legal power to continue this guarantee. How-
ever, Mrs. Uzielli, his widow, supplies his place for the
amount of apo, whilst his brother, Mr. Theodorious
Uzielli, has added his name for £3,000.
Lord Leigh has offered, through the Coventry
School of Art, to give two medals—a gold one for the best
fancy ribbon, in style, make, and harmony of colour ; and a
silver one for the best six designs for ribbons. Lady Leigh
is about to give a prize for the best plain ribbon, having
special reference to cheapness as well as quality.
The officers and crew of her Majesty's ship
Sanspareil have contributed one day's pay each for the poor
weavers of Coventry.
The Sentinella of Brescia states that the autho•
rities of that town had forbidden the wearing of the Gari-
baldi uniform by any one who could not show authentic
documents proving him to have belonged to the Southern
army. This step had been taken in consequence of dis-
turbances got up by pretended Garibaldians.
His Excellency the Count de Lavradio, who has
been suffering from a severe cold, has gone to St. Leonard's
to re-establish his health.
The eircumstartte of the proposal for an exchange
by the Bank of France of £1,200,000 in silver for gold from
the Imperial Bank at St. Petersburg having been broken
off has created some surprise, and led to conjectures as to
the possibility of political feeling having been mixed up
with the event. The arrangement was considered an
accomplished fact both in Paris and St. Petersburg, but
the Emperor of Russia is understood at the last moment to
have refused his sanction.
M. Caussidiere, the French prefect of police in
the early days of the Republic of 1818, died on Saturday
of a cancer in the stomach, at the age of 52.
M. Fould is now in Toulon, and, as it is slid,
paying particular attention to naval affairs.
"It is affirmed," says the Presse, " that the
Polytechnic School is about to be removed from its present
locality to a building erected on part of the Luxemburg
garden."

Decamps! picture of the " Are et les Chiens
Sevens," which was seen at the French Universal Exhi-
bition, was sold yesterday by M. Fillet, at the sale-rooms
of the Rue Drouot, for 27,000 francs. It formed part of
the collection of M. Albert, formerly dancer at the French
Opera.

THE MURDER IN LIVERPOOL,—The uncle of
Donegan still lies in a very precarious state at the hospital.
The inquest on the body of Cassidy will be opened to• day.
At present the young man Thomas Donegan, who killed
Cassidy and so seriously injured his une le, is at large.
THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE BRANCH DOCK
LINE OF THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—
At the Liverpool coroner's court yesterday the adjourned
inquiry into the circumstances attending this deplorable ac-
cident was resume 3. Mr. Newlands, the borough engineer,
being detained in London with important Parliamentary
business, the inquiry was further adjourned until the 6th of
February.
Francis Volant, who was condemned to death at

the last assizes of the Loire-Inferieurs for the murder of M.

Daniou, receiver of taxes at Moisdon, was executed two
days back at Chateaubriant, to which place he was removed
from the prison of Nantes. The prisoner, since his con.
demnation, had never entertained the least hope of a re-
prieve or manifested any fear of death, and he maintained
the same composure to the last moment.

A serious accident occurred at Saint-Valery-
sous-Bures (Seine-Inferieure), to a servant, a young man
named Tolain, who had the imprudence to throw gunpowder
into the kitchen fire from a powder-horn which he held in
his hand. The. consequence was that all the powder in the
horn exploded, and so dreadfully shattered his hand that
immediate amputation was necessary.
In the Paris coinparket during the past week the
tendency has been downwards. The four marks of flour were
quoted at 64fr. 75c. the sack of 157 kilos. Wheat was ob-
tained readily at 35fr. 75c. the hectolitre and a half. Rye
was rather offered, but the price remained firm at 23fr. 50c.
the 115 kilos. Barley was in demand at 20fr. 50e. the 100
kilos.

From a statistical table drawn up for the last
and some preceding years it appears that the average
annual number of deaths of persons of one hundred years
in France is 118 ; and that the fifteen departments in which
the greatest longevity is attained stand in this order:
Ba=ses-Pyrenees, Dordogne, Calvados, Gers, Puy•de-
Dome, Arii:ge, Aveyrcn, Gironde, Landes, Cantal, Doubs,
Seiney aitrrarn-et-Garonne. It thus appears that people
live longest in mountainous regions. Some surprise may
be felt at seeing the Seine (Paris) cited among the depart-
ments most remarkable for longevity.

FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A FEMALE SERVANT.—On
Friday evening, about five o'clock, a cry of "Fire I fire I"
was hoard in the house of Mrs. Berrill, hairdresser, of
Mercer's-row. Some of the passers-by immediately ran to
give notice to the superintendent of the engines, and in a
few minutes Charles Smith, jun., was on the spot. The
services of the engines, however, were nut required, as it
was not the house but the female servant who was in
flames. From information gathered on the spot we ascer•.
tained that the poor girl, who had lived only a very
short time with Mrs. Berrill, lighted a paraffin lamp,
which she was in the act of carrying from one room to
another, when it accidentally slipped from her hands and
was broken. The oil burnt on the ground, and the unfor-
tunate deceased put her foot on it to put out the blaze,
when her under dress caught fire, and from the inflam-
mable nature of the oil she was immediately enveloped in
flames, and in less than ten minutes was a corpse.-
2V or thampton Herald.

The New York commercial advices show that gold
shipments from this country were resulting in loss, and
that about £1,300,000 still remained to arrive out. It was
every day becoming more difficult to find employment for
money, and stocks were steadily rising, the news of the
advance of the Bank rate of discount to 6 per cent, on the
31st December having produced but little effect. This
abundance of money, coupled with the belief that the rate
of exchange would be firmly maintained, was operating
favourably in inducing merchants to discharge promptly
their foreign debts, and the present mail has brought remit-
tances to cover liabilities which will not fall due for
several weeks. A further issue of £1,000,000 Treasury
bonds was to be made at Washington on the
10th instant. The method of bidding was to be the
same as for the preceding £1,000,000, each tender
specifying the lowest amount of interest that would be ac-
cepted for the year, and it was thought that the whole
might, perhaps, be taken at a rate a little less than 12 per
cent. The railway traffic totals from the West continued
satisfactory.
FATAL QUARREL IN LIVERPOOL.--A disturbance
which occurred on Saturday night in Johnson-street, Dale-
street, Liverpool, led unfortunately to the most serious re-
sults. It appears that some men were drinking in a public
house in Dale-street kept by Messrs. Mellor and Llewellyan.
During the time they were drunk some angry words trans-
pired, which ultimately ended in their being turned out.
No sooner had they reached the street than the quarrel
assumed a much more turbulent appearance, and the ser-
vice of a policeman was called into requisition before' the
parties would move off from before the public house. One
or two of the men walked away in different directions, but
the remainder, four or five, passed into Trueman-street,
where the row was resumed by two of the men, named
respectively Cassidy and Donnovan. After a few words,
Cazsidy drew a sheath-knife and stabbed Donnovan in the
neck, completely severing the windpipe. Death was in-
stantaneous ; and on an uncle of Cassidy, who was present,
vine; to lift up the dead body of Donnovan, the assassin
immediately rushed at his uncle, stabbed him three limes
in the neck, and then decamped. The murdered man was
taken to the dead-house, and the elder Cassidy removed to
the Royal Infirmary, where he lies in a state of uncon-
sciousness. Up to a late hour on Sunday night no trace of
the murderer had been discovered.

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