The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-18 00:00:00

WELSH MELODIES.

Mr. Kibbey delivered the second of his course of
lectures •on the above subject at the Music Hall,
Store-street, on Friday evening last, on which occa-
sion he was assisted by Misses Cubitt, Thornton, and
Porter; Messrs. Leason, Ellis Robert, Welsh harper,
and Talhaiarn, the penillion singer. Mr. Kibbey appears
to be deeply versed in Druidic lore, and as familiar with
the writings, history, and character of Taliesin, as
Mr. Wilson is with those of his favourite, Burns.
The Welsh melodies generally are of a melancholy
cast, and the mode adopted by Mr. Kibbey to intro-
duce the different airs tends to depress the spirits of
his audience, which are enlivened only by the very
superior performance of Mr. Roberts on the triple
harp, and the penillion singing of Talhaiarn. The
performances of the two latter were most rapturously
applauded and unanimously encored. National music
being the fashion of the day, we entertain very little
doubt that the beautiful melodies of Cambria will soon
become very popular favourites. To 'ive them a
fair chance, however, such as Glyndwr s war-song
and the prophecy of the inspired bard, they should be
entrusted to a male singer, and we would re-
commend Mr. Kibbey to be rather less senti-
mental, and to introduce some lively anecdotes, of
which there is no dearth in the principality.

FRIENDLY RELATIONS OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
—Tbe limitersr publishes the following paragraph ?—" In the
night of. the 20th of January last the French corvette of war
Creole, Commanded by Capt. Jam, on her way from the Piraeus to
Smyrna, ran aground in the bay of Caristo, in the island of Negro_
poet. The weather was extremely tempestuous, and the night very
dark. On the first intimation of the event, Rear.Admlral Le Bay,
Commander of the Levant station, hastened to seed to the assistance
of the Creole the war steamer Castor, of 120. horse power, and
Capt. Sir C. Sullivan, Commander of her Britannic Majesty's ship
of war the Formidable, who was also at the Piraeus, placed at his
disposal the Vesuvius, a steamer of the British navy, of l2o.horse
power. On the 27th of the same month the latter steamer, com-
manded by Mr. Ominaney, brought back the Creole to the
Pirwus. Rear-Admiral Le Ray speaks in high terms of the cor.
(Hatay and readiness with which Captain Sir C. Sullivan
offered him the assistance of the Vesuvius, and •of
the services rendered on that occasion to the French
navy by Captain Ommanney. He has further addressed the
expression of his gratitude to Admiral Owen, Commander.in.Chief
of the naval forces of her Britannic Majesty in the Mediterranean.
Admiral Owen hastened, in an order of the day, to make known
to the officers of his squadron the letter of Rear. Admiral Le Ray,
and, in expressing his satisfaction at the readiness with which
officers of the British navy had rendered assistance to a French
vessel in danger, he announced that he considered it his duty to
lay before the Lords of the Admiralty the honourable testimony
borne by the commander of the French station in favour of Captain
Ommanney." The Artnoricain de Brest of the Slth inst. contains
the following'—" It is known that the French and English Go-
vernments have adopted the generous principle of allowing the
widow or heirs of the subjects of either nation who have fallen vic-
tims of accidents, occasioned by the servants of the other, a pen.
sion at least double that which they would have obtained from
their own country under similar circumstances. It is in virtue of
that praiseworthy reciprocity that the British Government has just
granted a pension of 506 f. to Marie Perrine Bedfort, the widow of
Pierre Jean Baudquard, accidentally killed at Newfoundland in
July last by a shot fired from one of the coast guard boats of the
English station."
DRURY-LANE THEATRE. —DIIIITCZ'S engagement
lies'
but six more nights to run, and during the last two
nights every seat in the theatre has been occupied imme-
diately after opening the doors. The following members of
the aristocracy have been present :—Duke and Duchess of
Bedford, Duke of Devonshire, Duke of Brunswick, Marquis
and Marchioness of Northanby, Earl and COuntess.ofThes-
terfield, Marchioness of Aylesbury, Marchioness of Sligo,
31archioness of Conyughatn, Countess of Westmeath, Mar-
quis of Douro, Marquis of Tavistock, Marquis of Worcester ;
Ladies Ponsonby, Lyndhurst, Bnlkeley, pitworth, Soames,
C. Somerset, Romilly, Graham, Stanley! Sykes ; Earl and
Countess of Delawarr, Earls of Munster, Shelburne, and
Erroll; Lords Lowther, Castlereagh, Dudley Stuart,
.Pon-
sonby, Ernest Bruce, Francis Russell, Soames, Charles Fitz-
roy, A. Fitzclarence, William Russell, A. Lennox, Wethick,
Cranley ; Count Keilmansegge ; Sir Charles Shakerley, Bart.,
Sir W. Montague, Bart., Sir George Cayley, , Sir B.
Graham, Bart., Sir George Talbot, Bart., Sir Thomas Hare,
Bart., Sir F. and Lady Roe, Sir Henry Wheatley, Bart., Sit
Henry Webbe, Bart., Sir John Palmer, Bart., Sir John Har-
rington, Bart., Sir James Flower, Bart., Sir Charles O'Malley,
Bart., Sir Thomas Gage, Bart. ; Count de Nouilles, WA: L.
Grant, Major Buckley, Colonel Fox, General Pariby', Hon.
E. Byng. - . :

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