The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-22 00:00:00

MEAT MARKETS.

NEWGATN AND LEADENHA.LL.—Beef, from 3s 4d to 48
6d ; Mutton, 3s Bdto 48 10d; Veal, 4s Od to 5a 4d ; Pork,
3s 8d to 58 4d per 81bs, by the carcase. Trade steady.
SOUTHALL, Jan. 21.—We had a fair trade here to-day,
and prices were well supported. Beef, from 3s 10d to 5s Od ;
Mutton, 4s Od to 58 2d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; Pork, 4s Od
to 5s Od per 81bs, to sink the offal.
ROMEGED, Jan. 14.—The beef trade was heavy, on easier
terms ; otherwise, the demand ruled brisk. Beef, from
3s 8d to 5s Od ; Mutton, 48 Od to 5s 6d ; Veal, 4s 6d to 5s
6d; Pcrk, 4s Od to 5s 041 per 81bs. Quarter-old store pigs,
—8 to —s each.

SACRED HARMONIC SOClETY.—Mendelssohn's Athalie
and Rossini's Stabst Mater are to be performed at Exe.
ter-hall to-morrow (Friday) evening. The performers
will be Madame Clara Novell°, Madame Lemmens (late
Miss Sherrington), and Miss Dolby, with M:. Phelps as
the speaker of the interlocutory ♦erses ; whilst the
Stabat Mater, which has never yet been given by the
society, is to be sung by Madame Novtllo, Miss Dolby,
Mr, Sims Reeves, and Signor Belletti.
ST. MARTIN'S HALL.—The performance of Elijah, an
oratorio which is now as well known as The Messiah,
affords very little room for remark. As produced last
evening, under the direction of Mr. Hullah, its execution
was on the whole praiseworthy. It is full of difficulties ;
and the greatest difficulty of all is to find a performer
competent to sustain the part of the Prophet. It is no
disparagement to Mr. Thomas, who is an oratorio singk r
of much merit, to say that in this character he is not in
his element. Mr. Sims Reeves and diss Dolby, as usual,
sang admirably, but their parts, though full of beauties,
are of subordinate importance. The choruses had evi-
dently been carefully rehearsed ; and the points of har-
mony, often of excessive intricacy, were taken up with
considerable firmness. The audience was crowded, a
thing which never fails to be the case whenever and
wherever Mendelssohn's chef d'cruvre is announced.

CATHERINE HAYEEL—THE MATHEW TESTIMONIAL.--
The most distinguished of living Irishwomen has testi-
fied her respect for the memory of the Apostle of Tem-
perance—the most eminent of her Irish contemporaries—
by contributing A/, to the monument by which it is
proposed to perpetuate his name in this city. She has
thus shown her sympathy with the popular feeling, and
proved that she has not lost in the brilliancy of her great
success, or in her prolonged absence in other lands, any
of the warm generosity of the Irish heart. The announce-
ment of this contribution at the meeting on yesterday
was received with the warmest demonstrations of popular
respect for the gifted lady from whom it came.—Cork
Reporter.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—A new oomedy is in rehearsal
at this theatre, written by Mr. Palsgrave Simpson. It
is in three acts, and the dramatis personaa have been
entrusted to Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Young, Mr.
Tilbury, Mr. Vincent, Miss Oliver, Miss Mason, and
Mrs. Selby. Reports from the greenroom are divided
as to its merits, which is a good sign for the piece. Had
the greenroom been unanimous in its favour we might
have confidently anticipated a failure, and if the green-
room bad been unanimous in its condemnation a great
public success had been anticipated. It is a very re-
markable thing that actors and actresses are the worst
judges of the literary merits of a dramatic piece, and the
reason of this is that they only look at one particular
character, and by that character form their estimate of
the whole piece. Another reason is that the reading of
a piece in the greenroom conveys hardly any impression
upon that select auditory of what the piece on the stage
will be, for in truth they are mostly occupied during
such reading by thoughts and conjectures as to how the
piece will be cast, and whether they individually will
ave a good part in it.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.—One half of the electric tele-
graph cable, which is destined to connect iralentia Bay
vith Newfoundland, is now in course of construction at
Cardiff. The makers are Messrs. Kuper and Co., tele-
graph wire-makers, of London and Bute Docks. Their
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portion of the cable is 1,260 miles in length, and it to
be completed by June nest.
MANAGEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT.—The expense
of the management of the public debt was in the year
ended March, 67,3221., aid to the Bank of v ,
after deducting 60,000/. for composition for stamp duty,
and 120,0001. out of the profits of the circulating des
partment.