The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-10 00:00:00

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HER- MAJESTY.

BALUORAL CASTLE, June 7.
The Queen and Princess Louise attended Di'
rine service at the parish church, Crathie.
The Duchess of Athole, the Hon. Miss Cathcart,
and Colonel Ponsonby were in attendance.

There will be an interesting Handel revival at
the Crystal Palace on Saturday next, it having
bean decided to perform the great master's Fire'
work music " in connect:on with a pyrotechnic
display. As the work is rarely heard, and but
very little is known concerning it, a few particulars
may not be unacceptable. On the 27th of April,
1749, the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle was celebrated
by a firework exhibition in the Green Park. The
" machine," or stand, " represented a magnificent
Gothic temple, from which extended two wings,
te:ininated by pavilions 114 feat in height to the
top of Ws Majesty's arm=, 410 feet long." Pre-
cede I by a salute from " 101 brass ordnance " the
affair ended by the Gothic Temple taking fire, and
very nearly burning down the King's library which
stood close at hand. But some music Mr. Handel

had written for the occasion was duly played out,
anl seems to have gratified the crowd immensely.
The greatest curiosity had been felt about it. A
contemporary print records how, when the music
was rehearsed at the Spring Gardens, Vauxhall,

12,000 persons attended ani " occasioned such
stoppage on London. Bridge that no carriage could
pa-s for three hours." This excitement probably
arose as much from the peculiar character of the
music as from the popularity of its composer. The
overture, for example, truly described as " a grand
overture of warlike instruments," was written for
t xenty-four hautboys, twelve bassoons, nine
trumpets, nine horns, three pairs of kettle-drums,
a serpent, and a double bass. So remarkable an
orchestra would account of itself for any degree of
curiosity. The other pieces, intended to illustrate
various pyrotechnic designs, were two allegros—
the second called "La Rejouissance " One
Bouree, one Siciliana, entitled "La Paix," and
two minuets, in all of which the " warlike
instruments" were joined by others more peace-
ful. Handel must have been gratified by the
success of his novel effort. ".Firework music
had a place in concert programmes for a long
time, and when the composer directed its perform'
ante on behalf of the Foundling Hospital it brought
1,000 half-guineas to the funds. In return Handel
was enrolled a governor and guardian of the
hospital.

A correspondent of the Atlas forwards a local
paper, which describes the attractions held forth
by the booths at some races recently held at Wye.
In several instances these consisted of skeletons;
and, in one case, the interest was heightened by
the announcement that the remains were those of
one of the victims of the Clerkenwell explosion.
A correspondent of the Scotsman calls attentioa
to what he calls an act of Vandalism. He says
that the shaft of a cross, which for centuries
marked the point whence Robert Bruce and his
followers left Arran, has lately been removed, and
used in the construction, in the neighbourhood, of
a dry stone dyke.
IGNORANCE OF DIVINITY STUDENTS.—In the
General Assembly, last week, at Edinburgh, there
was an interesting debate upon a proposition for
establishing a more satisfactory mode of examining

students by the presbyteries of the Church. The
contemplated improvement was warmly advocated
by Mr. Douglas Maclagan, who gave, from his oval
experience, an amusing example of its necessity
He said :—ln the medical faculty, with which he
was connected, they required the students to pass
a preliminary examination in literature and mathe-

matics. At a late examination there were fifty-
five candidates, and in English twenty-seven
passed and twenty-eight were rejected. If the
Aiserably wsae to hear all the details of the
examination, they would be astonished. One of
the questions—not a very profound one—was as to
the meaning of the word "hypothesis." One of

the candidates said that it meant " a machine for
raising water."—(Laughter.) Another candidate
sad that it meant " something that happened to

man after h's death."—(l, mihter.) One of the
historical questions put was as follows :—" GPO
some account of Galileo and Copernicus ;"
which. one of the students replied that Galileo was
a man that had committed five murders—(laugh-
ter),—another that Galileo and Copernicus were
two gentlemen who had fallen together in some
battle—(laughter),—and a third student said that
Copernicus was " a compound of two metals."-'
(Laughter.)

M. Vivien Da Saint Martin has in the press 6
new Universal Dictionary of Geography, which re
to contain a description of all the countries end
peoples of the world, after official documents, and
the results of the latest investigations of topo-
graphers, archaeologists, natural historians, hydr°-
grashers, and statisticians.
At a meeting of the Dublin corporation on Dion'
day, Mr. A. M. Sullivan, of the Nation and Weekly
News, appeared for the first time since he had been
liberated from prison, where he had been incarce-
rated on conviction for publishing seditious libels,
in his place in the council chamber. He receifea
a warm ovation from both sides of the house.

He claimed indulgence while he thanked the
members for their kindness, and as to the PO:
position that he should be nominated as lore
mayor for the ensuing year, he took the first oP'
portunity to come there, and in the strongest but
most respectful manner to refuse and disclaim ita
such compliment. He would place no limit t'e
to the kindness of the house in its desire to
compliment him, but he could not allow the
public to believe that he intended to ask or ac-
cept such a compliment. He would ask the
town clerk to replace iu the books a notice give°
by him last year, that he would nominate the
Lord Slayor for the ensuing year from amongst
gentlemen comprising the minority (Conservatives)
of the council. Nothing that could happen to 190
would withiraw him from the direct line of Prl°-
ciple on which he acted in giving that notice':
n imely, that all sides should be admitted in the
turn to such representative positions in the
try as could be conferred on them—(hear, hear)
and if ever there was a time at which, more thae
another, he would like that that wholesome poll-
ciple should be most strictly asserted, it was n1:0
when some of their fellow-citizens throughout the
country might be agitated by fears as to whetll
they might apprehend injustice from the maiolll
of their fellow-countrymen in case they were 10_
power. It would afford him much gratificatioo
move that some gentleman of the minority sh°ul
be nominated for the mayoralty for the ensulliv

year.
The Northern Whig reports that some rioting in
Banbridge on Friday and Saturday, occasioned bia
some persons who took offence at the probes
visits to that Orange locality of three memberB °a
the order of St. Vincent de Paul, who morning 813..
evening conduct religious services in the ROO;
Catholic chapel. In spite of the efforts of tbi,
police they came into the town from the surronnui.
ing neighbourhood in a state of great elceitemen'
and smashed the windows of several Roman Ch 3-0
tholic inhabitants. The police assembled nor t,ci
chapel to prevent the mob from attacking it,
were assailed with showers of stones. On Suna/J
comparative quietness prevailed, but fears were °II;
tertained that that the rioting would b 3 reneWe
upon a more formidable scale.
FORGERY OF TICKETS TO A LIBERAL MEETlzis'
We are informed that summonses will be applied for t,
day, at the Liverpool Police-court, against the rrse°l:./
supposed to have been the principals in the rec2nt forgtea
of tickets for the Liberal meeting. The parties imPlics

are elieved to be ng
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