The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-17 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
a new drama, entitled THE MASTER PASSION. Messrs.
Ryder, Cr. Melville, Graham, P. Cathcart, Garden ; Miss C.
Lee.eraq and Mrs. Charles Young.
To be followed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A.
Harris, Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leclercq.
After which, a new farce, in one act, entitled NURSEY
CHICKWEED. Messrs. Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ;
Miss L. Keeley anti Mrs. Weston.
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To conclude with the Divertissement from LOVE AND
FORTUNE.

MEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPIII.
.1A Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster.

THIS EVENING, 'PITE DEAD IIEART. Messrs
B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart,
Billlngton, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar,
and Miss K. Kelly.

Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called
DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole,
P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly.

•
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Offfee open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
TFIIS EVENING, a new Comedy, LONDON PRIDE ; or,
Living for Appearances. Messrs. Leigh Murray, Barrett,
Charles Young; Mcsdaa.es Frank Matthews, Murray, and
Nelly Moore.

After which (first time) a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
THE SWAN AND EDGAR. Messrs. Barrett, Francis,
Hiss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and the Corps
de Ballet.

To oonclude with A DEAD SHOT. Mr. IL Cockrell.

Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d; Pit, ls. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform •
ance commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke.

Extraordinary prosperous career of the new historical
Drama, in four parts, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARI-
BALDI. New scenery -Magnificent Minter+ Tableux.—
Supported by a Powerful Company—Mr. R. Phillips, Ennis,
Belmore, Raymond, Miss Kate Carson, &c. -The Scenes in
the Circle will be sustained by the best and most talented
Equestrians of the day, Mr, John Henry Cooke, Miss Rosina.
Madlle. Marguerite, and a host of British, French, and
American talent—Little Menoni, the wonderful Juvenile
Equestrian—Facetious Clowns, Parisian Pierrots, and Ec-
centric Drolls -terminating eat% Night with the comical and
mirth-provoking Ballet entitled LOVE'S VAGARIES.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

0 ANTERB UR Y HALL CONCE RT S.-
x__, EVERY EVENING. The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETS (now first made public in England at these Con-
certs).
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And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAII.

Comte Vocalists —Messrs. Geonfe Unison (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic). W. T. Critehfleld, and E. W. Hackney.

Several interesting: Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sizhts of the metropolis.

ROSA BONHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Flee Arts Gallery. The
gallery is opedi from 9 a.m. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

TILE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, NOVEMBER 16.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
45--this day at noon.

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THE SUN.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1839.

THE ' EDITOR of the Freneh Press seems not
pleased with the Duchies. They have acted inde-
pendently, when he meant they only to be indepen-
dent, or to be called independent. They have
done unwisely, we are now told; first, in voting
annexation to Piedmont, and, secondly, in voting
the Regency of Prince CARIGNAN. And even the
Prince, His IMPERIAL MAJESTY TILE EDITOR says,
has not hearkened to the wise counsels of France,
"as expressed in the letter of the EMPEROR to the
KING."

The double vote, the C'onslitutionnel tells us,

means simply this :
" That Italy no longer confided in the wisdom
of Europe; that she even distrusted her decisions,
since she forestalled them ; and that, having be-
come mistress of herself de facto, she would, if neces-
sary, dispense with the sanction of international law.
But nothing, absolutely nothing, justified that distrust of
the future resolutions of the Congress. Let Italy be con-
vinced of this fact—that the Congress of which she is LOW
advised to decline the jurisdiction can alone achieve and
sanction her deliverance. The Congress alone has the
power of consenting to the territorial arrangements which
may be useful to her new organisation."
But we may well ask, what reason has Italy to
confide in a Congress ; or, indeed, what title has
any Congress to demand the confidence of Italians ?
Hare these Italian States the rights of indpendent
nations; or have they not ? No one is hardy
enough to deny them such rights, at least none but
the merest thorough-bred tyrants, who hold that
nations were made for Sovereigns and dynasties,
not Sovereigns for nations. Once allots, however,
the principles by which the Sovereigns of the
mightiest peoples both of the Old World and the
New now occupy their thrones or their Presiden-
tial Chair, and it is properly no business of a Con-
gress at all to tell the Duchies who shall rule over
them. They cannot properly acknowledge the
right-of Such a court. They may, if they please,
imitating weaker countries—Belgium, Greece, the
Danubian Principalities—ask the intervention of a
combination of the Great Powers; but, unless they
ask it, «the Powers" have no more rightful con-
cern with settling the Government of the Duchies
than a highwayman has in settling what I shall do
with my purse. He may extort my purse from
me for his own use, and " the Powers" may wrench
the rights of Central Italy from her for their own
use, but the latter deed is but the political counter-
part of the former—it is political highway robbery,
and, like the Treaties of 1815, could have no
binding force on the peoples.
And. he people of the four States show, we are told,
" a want of confidence" in a Congress by their vote.
Clood--:and nev,'r was a vote of want of confidence
better justified. We are now told that he of Naples,
and he, the Arch-Shepherd of Perugian fame, are
claimants for a seat in Congress—and of course the
" Great Powers " arc all to be there. England will
surely be absent, unless it be previously declared
that the four States had a right to vote as-they
pleased,—that, in fact, they were not called on to
" confide in a Congress." Now, how on earth could
any man in his senses ask the States to trust such a
precious Congres“as this—Sardinia, alone, avowedly
in their favour; France avowedly desiring them to
take back their detested despots ; Russia and
Prussia,.lookinz, no doubt, most lovingly on States
who had kicked out detested despots; Austria, of
course, dead against them ; England standing aloof
because she will not compromise the primary rights
of Central Italy-- -so a precious jury they are asked
to confide in. A j ury of despots, on Liberty—rather
say of wolves, on. sheep. Vic Tort EMMANUEL was
wrong in the fin it instance, when he referred him-
self and th em t o a, Congress. They did not want

him to plead their cause before a tribunal they
could not possibly trust. They wanted him to take
their cause into his own hands, and it was his duty
to have done it. Count CAVOUR would have coun-
selled him to do it. GARIBALDI would have coun-
selled him to do it. And once done, Austria might
have gnashed her teeth, she dared not have moved.
Again, we are told from Paris that " it is ques-
tioned by what right Sardinia undertakes to pre-
judge the decision of the Congress in naming a re-
gent for Central Italy, and thus by his nomination
assuming that the Duchies were already annexed
to Sardinia. This proceeding is contrary to all cus-
tom and not in accordance with the rights of the
people." This refers, of course, to the nomina-
tion, by Prince CARIGNAN, of the Chevalier
BUONCOMPAGNI as his Vice-Regent, as we may
call him. We are glad to see this. It gives some
hope that BIIONCOMPAGNI will be no mere tool of
the Great French EDITOR. The Chevalier, indeed,
though not a MAZZINI or a GARIBALDI, has won
his administrative spurs in the cause of Italian
liberty. As commissioner for the King of SAR-
DINIA, till the imperiousness of France compelled
his recal, he managed so well as to incur the dis-
pleasure of the Marquis of NORMAN BY and of all
the admirers of the Dukes in Italy and elsewhere.
He goes to his Regency as an Italian, we may
therefore presume, and so far, the counsels of the
Autocrat of France are foiled. We are again, how-
ever, told that this is " prejudging" whafought to
come before a Congress. To which the reply is, as
above, that the Italians are the only legitimate judges
of the question ; LOUIS NAPOLEON, who has no right
to prejudge, did so by his letter to the King of
SARDINIA; the Italians, who have a right, do so by
their double vote. We accept the representation of
the meaning of the double vote. We affirm that it
is exactly what it ought to be. Instead of not be-
ing " in accordance with the rights of the people,"
we may challenge all Frenchmen who, six or seven
years ago, elected their own Emperor, to deny the
same right to the free States of Central Italy. And
the same fact assuredly furnishes an answer to the
observation that the conduct of the Duchies is
"contrary to all custom." It is not contrary to
the custom of France, who will surely think that
she may settle the propriety of political customs, as
well as the proprieties of crinoline and bonnets.
France chose her Ruler in 1852, and told the
Powers of Europe it was hers to choose, theirs to
acknowledge the chosen. Why may not the
Italians follow in 1859 the example set by France
in 1852?

Since the above was written, we have received
the following telegram from Mr. REUTER'S office :

PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING.

"The Constitutionnel of to-day, in an article
signed by its secretary Boniface, announces that
the French Government, true to the principles of
its policy, has recommended to the Cabinet of
Turin to annul the appointment of the Regency which
the Government of the King of Sardinia has dele-
gated to Chevalier Buoncompagni, as such appoint-
ment would prejudice the questions brought be-
fore, and encroach upon the competency of, the

Congress.

The Constitutionnel says This advice must be
considered as a proof of the solicitude of the Em-
peror for the Italian cause, which cause he made to
triumph on the field of battle, and the final set-
tlement of which awaits to-day only the decision of
Europe.' "

Instead of the above being considered as a proof
of the solicitude of the EMPEROR for the Italian
cause, it proves very clearly quite the reverse, and
exposes NAPOLEON'S hypocrisy to the contempt of
Europe, and the well-merited detestation of the
Italian people.

Who has not a word of praise for his Royal High-
ness the General Commanding-in-Chief? This new
military reform of H.R.H., issued by his orders,
and signed by his Secretary, amounts, really and
tn.:ly, to nothing less virtually than the Abolition
in the Royal Army of England of the degrading
punishment of the Lash. Henceforth every recruit
tying the particoloured ribbons in his hat, and
slipping the QUEEN'S shilling into his pocket, may
pass through the whole period of his military ser-
vitude afterwards without being from first to last in
any way not only lia,ble, but capable even, of being
subjected to the ignominy. of Corporal Punishment.
SHAKSPERE :has written, oracularly, " the cat
will mew, the dog will have his day." But from
this day forth the cat in the Royal Army of Eng-
land is virtually a thing non-existent and abolished.
It is a reform for which we ourselves have for years
and years past loudly and earnestly argued, almost
we had said clamoured. The evil of the lash was a
part of the military system, regarded, for that
matter, by the whole mass of the community with
unmitigated abhorrence. There was nothing to
redeem it. It was worse than a crime against all
the nobler feelings and honest self-respect of our
soldiery—it was a mistake, and a mistake the most
egregious. It was a part of the system, moreover,
that always worked ill. It hardened and brutalised
the offenders themselves, and excited far and wide
only sentiments of the profoundest indignation. It
was literally a betise, a positive stupidity. For
among other (almost we might say inevitable) con-
sequences, the lash in a manner as it were by magic
instantaneously, at every singing of the thongs,
during the cruel torture of the flagellation, trans.
formed the Culprit into the Victim and Martyr, as
it were, of a detestable tyranny. Whenever a sol-
dier was flogged of late years, no matter what his
offence, the sympathies of the public fell to his lot
and not to the authorities—environing the offence
and not the punishment. The Press, as a body,
has for a very considerable time past been strenu-
ously and most energetically opposed to it. Some
of the wisest and most heroic of our great Captains
have expressed their detestation of the lash as an
instrument of punishment for the British soldier.
One of them the most dauntless and gifted of
all the great English Captains of modern times,
the man who, as a conqueror, is second only
in the role of the Royal Army of England to
ARTHUR, Duke of WELLINGTON ; we mean, of
course, it is needless to say, the late General Sir
CHARLES NAPIER, the Glorious Victor of Seinde,
who was dead against this degrading system
of corporal punishment in the army. No man was
a keener or a more sagaciousy disciplinarian than
Sir CHARLES NAPIER—but •it was precisely be-

cause he was that—because he had really

at heart the, well-being and the perfect
subordination of his troops—of the troops to every
man amongst whom he was at once the Friend and
the Model, the Protector and the Paragon—because
he was such Sir CHARLES NAPIER was heart and

soul for the abolition of the lash as an abhorred
and barbarous institution. Against it he used his
' pen as powerfully as ever he wielded his good
sword against the foe! And now, the lash, thanks
to the wise councils and benignant resolution of
11.R.11. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, is a thing virtu-
ally abolished. By this one act, if by nothing else
—and it is not the least of the Duke's military re-
forms—H.R.H. has earned a right to the baton of
a Field Marshal. The remembrance of this act—
and it is an act that will be long• and gratefully
borne in remembrance--will be the gl,;ry of
H.R.H.'s career at the Horse Guards as the General
Commanding-in-Chief !

After commenting upon the long-notorious, and

painful fact of " the unequal estimate of crime and
allotment of punishment by courts-martial, especi-
ally as regards corporal punishment," the General
Order announcing this wise and noble reform upon
which we are here commenting goes on to observe
thus-explicitly, by way of explanatory announce-
ment :

"All men on entering the army will be placed in
the first class, and will not, except for aggravated
mutinous conduct, be liable to corporal punishment.
They will continue in the first class unless they
should incur degradation into the second class by
the commission of certain crimes hereafter speci-
fied."

After having enumerated the two classes o.
.leffencee, the General Order adds—

" No man guilty of offences under the first head is
to be subject to corporal punishment, except during
time of war, when the army is in the field."
While, upon the other hand, it is said :—" Men
guilty of offences under the second head, being
crimes of a very serious description, will, if in the
second class, be liable to corporal punishment. If,
however, they are in the first class, they will, toge-
ther with their other punishment, not being corpo-
ral punishment, be disrated, and passed into the
second class, when they will thenceforth, on the
repetition of crimes under the second head, be liable
to corporal punishment, as having degraded them-
selves by their own bad conduct." The soldiers in
this way being placed in the same position as the
criminal if brought up and duly convicted upon
certain charges upon trial before the Quarter-
sessions. An important provision has yet to be
specified as part and parcel of this beneficent
Order, namely, the paragraph announcing that
" Uninterrupted good conduct for a year will how-
ever, again restore the soldier from the second to
the first class, as proving a desire for reformation
and amendment." The closing sentence of the
Order is especially worthy of consideration.
It is expressed in the manner following :
" His Royal Highness trusts that the above classi-
fication will greatly simplify to the officers of the
army the method of dealing with crime ; will deter
the evil-disposed from committing offences, justly
subjecting them to severe punishment, which,
though necessary to maintain discipline, should be
restricted as much as possible ; and will give con-
fidence to the good soldier by securing to him, on
entering her Majesty's service an immunity from
degrading punishment, which immunity it will be
in his power to preserve to the day when his en-
gagement shall expire." Again we say this wise
and just reform thus generously inaugurated by
the Duke of CAMBRIDGE as the General Command-
ing-in-Chief, is his Royal Highness's title to the
baton of a Field-Marshal, and with that to the full
and supreme designation of Commander-in-Chief.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary have returned to Kew from visiting
her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Prince Vogorides has left the residence of tho
Turkish Ambassador for Constantinople.
The Princess Olga Dolgorouky has left Long's
Hotel for Lisbon.
His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van de Weyer have arrived at the residence of the Belgian
Legation, in Portland-place, from Brighton.
His Excellency the Portuguese Minister has
arrived at the residence of the Legation, in Gloucester-placo,
from Widsor Castle.
The Duke de Richelieu arrived at the Pavilion
Hotel, Folkestone, yesterday, on his way to Paris.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Aileshury left
Windsor Castle yesterday, for their seat, Tottenham-park,
Wilts.

The Earl arid Countess of Elgin have arrived at
Farrance's Hotel, Belgravia, from Scotland.
The Earl and Countess Manvers have left Thoresby
Park, Notts, for Brighton.
The Earl of ilopetoun has arrived at Long's
Hotel, from Scotland.
Viscount and Viscountess Enfield and the Hon.
Misses Byng have arrived in town from Wroth= Park,
Herts.

Lord Kenyon is at present staying at the Pavilion
Hotel, Folkestone.
Mr. Lawrence and Lady Jane Peel and Miss
Peel have arrived in town from Brighton.
The Right Hon. Frederick Peel, M.P., and Mrs.
Peel have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgravia.
The Right Hon. T. H. Sotheron Estcourt, M.P.,
and Mrs. Sotheron Estcourt, have arrived at Farrance's
Hotel, Belgravia, from Estcourt House, Gloucestershire. ,
The King of the Belgians the day before yester-
day received in private audience Count de Ludolf, who pre-
sented his credentials as Minister of the Two Sicilies.
The Modena Gazette announces that the Arch-
bishop of Modena has caused the Sardinian arms to be
placed over the entrance of his palace.
A communication from Vienna, in the "Cologne
Gazette," states :—" The Austrian naval authorities seem
inclined to introduce the French invention of &unboats
plated with iron. At all events, an experiment with that
view has been made at Maria-Zell, in Hungary, by
covering with iron iron-plates a large chest made of thick
planks, and then firing 48-pound balls at it from a distance
of 400 yards. The effect is said to have been astonishing,
as the balls wore shattered to pieces-without breaking any
of the plates."

A telegram was received at Lloyd's yesterday,
announcing the recovery from the Royal Charter of two
bags of sovereigns, weighing about 181 b. each, one large
box of gold, weighing 561 b., and a smaller box.

C _OMPOSITIONS FOR COATING SHIPS' BOTTOMS:.
A number of gentlemen interested in shipbuilding assem-
bled in the Southampton Docks on Tuesday morning, to
witness the result of an experiment which had excited some
interest among persons of that class. In the early part of
last May the Royal Mail Company's steamship Atrato was
coated on:the starboard side with M'lnnes's green copper
soap, and on the port side with Peacock and Buchan's pink
composition, for the purpose of practically testing the rela-
tive merits of the two articles in keeping the bottom of the
ship clean. On docking the Atrato on Tuesday for examina-
tion it was found that the starboard side was covered with
coral pipe, shells, and barnacles, with a good deal of corro-
sion; while the port side was perfectly free from coraline
incrustation or barnacles, having merely a thin slimy
unctuous coating upon it. The result is considered as hav-
ing incontestibly proved that preparations of copper are of
little value in preventing incrustation or fouling on the
bottoms of iron ships, while their galvanic action must,
sooner or later, prove injurious to the rivets and plates. The
green composition is now being scraped off Ole Atrato.
THE AMERICAN AGGRESSIONS AT SAN JUAN.—
Accounts have been received from Vancouver's island
which state that the Americans are profiting by the im-
punity which has been so long allowed them, and are
.teadily_establishing themselves upon the island., They
have now placel the island under the American Revenue
Law. ,A small steamer, the Caledonian, went a few days
before the accounts left with a party of respectable people
on a pleasure trip to San Juan, but on arriving were told
they would not be allowed to land without a permit from
the Custom-house at Port Townsend, in the Oregon terri-
tory. They were about to return to Victoria, when a shore
boat went alongside into which several of the passengers
jumped and went ashore without leave. The authorities
said they would overlook the act for the present, but would
carry the law into effect should it be attempted again. A
short time previously some fishermen from Victoria were
driven off from the neighbourhood of the island, and told
they had no right there.
BOILER EXPLOSION.—A fearful boiler explosion
took place at West Cramlington Colliery, about ten miles
from Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Tuesday ; one man was killed
and another dangerously hurt, but from the amount of de-
struction that occurred, and the number of persons about,
the most miraculous thing is that so many persons escaped
without injury. There were three boilers placed along-
side of each other, and on Tuesday morning, Th.smas
Graham, the foreman blacksmith, and Henry Tate, another
smith, were employed rivetting some plates in one of
them that was disused, when the boiler adjoining to it ex-
ploded with a noise that shook the earth, and which was ,
heard at the other collerics, three or four miles distant. Tho

boiler that exploded was torn completely in two, one-half of
it being carried into the air, alighting on the other side of
tke pit. Dislodged materials were flying about in all direc-
tions; a large piece of timber fell through the roof of a pit-
man's cottage, another large piece of boiler plate fell at a
pitman's cottage door; and a huge fragment of the boiler

was thrown on to the waggon way, close to where a wag-
g.on driver was passing, but without injuring him. Other
Peraons had most extraordinary escapes. Graham, the
foreman blacksmith, who was inside the unemployed boiler
at the time of the explosion, escaped with a slight cut of
the head, while his partner Tate, who. was working under
neath it, was literally boiled to death by the scaldingwater
thrown out by the explosion: William Curtis, the fireman
attending the boiler that exploded, was buried among a
maw., of bricks and rubbish, but though he is very much
hurt, hopes werr entertained of his recovery yesterday. The
damage done by the explosion is very considerable, and
about 400 pitmen and lads will be thrown out of employ-
ment soma time, until the hollers and engines are put into
a working state again.

PROPOSED UNIVERSITY PRIZE ESSAY ON SIR J.
FRAWKLIN.—A member of the University of Oxford has
offered a prize of £5O for the best poem on " The Life, the
Character, and the Death of the heroic Seaman, Sir John
Franklin, with special reference to the Time, Place, and
Discovery of his Death." Competitors, who must be mem-
bers of the University, are to send in their contributions on
or before June 1, 1860. The judges are b be the Vice.

Chancellor, the bean of Christ Church, and a ilifid-pelEon
named by them.

NEIV- MUSIC;

The Gay Deceiver. W .11. Montgomery.
An Evening with the Christy ;Wastrels. Mont-

gomcry.

lienziniscences from Flototo's Opera of" Martha."
A. B. Berg.

Six-Airs from "La Traviata," Montgomery.
Thou Lovely Angel Mine. C. L. Fischer.

lhou art Adored. Mercadante.

" The Gay Deceiver" forms one of an unexcep-
tional series of ladies' comic songs, and Mr.
Montgomery has certainly done justice to the quaint
and good-natured satire of the words, which are by
Eliza Cook, and appeared in this journal a short
time since. The melody is smooth and flowing,
and admits of great humorous effect in singing.
We advise young ladies to enlist it as soon as pos-
sible into their service, if they wish to give a gen-
tle " rap on the knuckles" to the modern " exqui-
sites" who value themselves and their 'mustachios
at a very high figure. "An Evening with the
Christy Minstrels" is an arrangement of eight of
their most popular airs in an easy and
familiar style, admirably adapted for young
musicians, as it combines an amount of
useful practice with attractive genuine
harmony. Berg's " Reminiscences" from Flotow,
and Montgomery's selection from La Trariata may
be classed as possessing the same constituents of ex-
cellence and equally well suited to juvenile pianists.
" Thou Lovely Angel Mine" is a beautiful German
song—brilliant, elogant, and tender. " Thou art
Adored" is the well-known cantata from Merca-
dante's "Il Giuramento," and consequently needs no
further mention.

If is fairly due to the publishers of The Musical
Bouquet to say that their fastidious judgment and
indefatigable energy in presenting first-rate music
to the public, at a fabulously cheap rate, demands
the praise and patronage of all who are not above
blending economy in expenditure with exhibitions
of sterling art and refined taste. The finest classical
works of the old masters, and the choicest produc-
tions of the modern ones, are given in rapid succes-
sion, while the superiority of the paper, printing,
and general getting up, fully sustain the character
of the Musical Bouquet as being amongst the very
best musical publications of the day.