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London, England, 1850-10-10 00:00:00

THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS.

COURT CIRCULAR.

and definitions—even the " Golden Rule," the doc-
trine of the " Three Dominants, or the Theory of
the Supremacy of the Third"—would be thrown
down as so many themes of controversy, in
which every chapter in the hook must be cited,
and discussed; whereas, it need scarcely be doubted
that the reader, who commmences earnestly at the
beginning and follows the developments of the system
candidly to the end of the first part, consisting of the
"Elements," " Prolegomena," and "Practical Trea-
tise," will feel that uncertainty, obscurity, and multi-
plied contradictions no longer cloud or distort his
musical insight. If he knows well all that has been
perused from the beginning to the end of that first
part—if he have made himself thoroughly acquainted
with all the rules, both essential and accessory, he
will feel confident that he possesses all the knowledge
requisite for composition of any kind whatever,
choreographic, dramatic, symphonic, sacred, and fugued
music. But if he wishes to be a professional composer,
he will study the second part entitled " Tne Theore-
tical and Confirmatory Treatise," in which most of
that which has hitherto been secret in the art is re-
vealed. In a manner as novel as it is unexception-
able, are elucidated the geneuphonic doctrine of the
unity of the diatonic genus, the " poly tonism" of chords,
the use of the " melo-harmonic typometer," the melo-
harmonic properties of the third, the functions of the
"three dominants," the accordance of the "sonor-
ous" with the " rythinical" potency, the alterations
of the " transcadence," with the nature and union of
" tonism and modism," &c. The examples are taken
from the most faultless works of the greatest Masters,
and they appear sufficiently to testify the luminous-
ness and completeness of the geneuphonic theory.
If any, however, should upon perusal arrive at a dif-
ferent conclusion, no stretch of prejudice, no force of
injustice will resist the acknowledgment, that the
musical scholar, of whatever standing, cannot rise
from the study of this great work without a clearer
judgment, a more definite knowledge, and a more
exact perception of the natural truths of music than
he had before conceived to be by any means attainable.

LITERATURE.
THE GENEUPHON IC GRAMMAR, an
original and condensed Grammar of Harmony,
Counterpoint, and Musical Composition; or the
Generation of Euphony reduced to Natural Truth.
By the late General J. J. de Yirues y Spinola, and
Don F. T. A. Chaluz de Vernevil. Dedicated, by
permission, to H. R. H. the Prince Albert.
It happens not unfrequently that ingenious and
enthusiastic reformers of established theories and
usages in science suppose that they have devised a
new system, when in reality they have done no more
than invent a new nomenclature. A cursory reading
of this work would leave the impression that the
authors of the ‘• Geneuphonic Grammar" have simi-
larly mistaken the true result of their own labours.
However confused, vague, and uncertain be the
hitherto enunciated laws of musical composition, and
however acceptable and convenient may be the new
terms in which the natural laws of music are ex-
pressed by the discoverer of the geneuphonic theory,
General de Virus=, and his accomplished coadjutor,
Den Chaluz de Vernevil, it does not readily strike
the reader of their work (or rather works) that
the actual laws, the ruling principles, which
have ever governed, and continue to govern,
the best masters in their compositions, are
in any degree effected by the system here proposed.
Neither does it immediately appear that, in the no-
menclature adopted, the authors of this grammar have
altogether succeeded in clearing the terminology of
musical science from hard words and names of pe-
dantic, if not of barborous, combination. Thus it will
occur to some that the term " polytonogammistn" is
neither very expressive in itself nor very classical in
its composition, and some other terms introduced may
seem open to similar objection.
But what if a more careful reading leads to the
conviction that here is developed a theory, essentially
new, complete, precise, and luminous, applied in a
system, which comprehends in a simple and symme-
trical body those natural laws which have been intui-
tively recognised by musical genius, however they
may have been disguised hitherto by the jargon of
the schools? What if the few novel terms introduced
—and they are but few in the practical or the didac-
tic parts of the system—are justified by a demonstrated
necessity, and serve in every instance to
mark distinctly and unmistakably the leading
principles of the new theory, and to guide the
student in their application ? The careful and
impartial reader will recognise before be lays down
the volume that such are the results obtained. That,
amongst the cognoscenti and professors, --this work
will meet with an impartial, indeed a liberal, consi-
deration, is guaranteed by the fact that it receives
the patronage of Prince Albert, who is not only re-
cognised universally in the musical world as an ac •
complished practical musician, a learned and masterly
composer (witness his noble mass), but is further
known to be exceedingly tareful in permitting the
use of his name in the patronage of any work of
scientific pretensions. But more, the universally
acknowledged fact that musical science (so called)
has hitherto been in a most unsatisfactory state, con-
stantly deplored by the most able writers in every
age, from the early Greeks to Catel, Weber, and An-
toine Reicha, must secure a candid attention for a
work of which the object—unquestionably worked
out with much success—is to display the elements of
harmony in a point of view correspondent with the
present state of musical taste in this country, and
to treat them in a concise, perspicuous, and
complete manner. The want of such a work is
acknowledged by the greatest men of our times who, in
attempting to supply the deficiency, acknowledge a
consciousness of the inadequacy of their efforts.
Weber, who, a quarter of a century ago, filled the
world with his fame as a great theorist, says, in his
"Theory of Musical Composition," that "so far as
music is concerned, the progress made of late years
in practical composition has been out of all proportion
to that which has been realised in the correspondent
theoretical doctrines, the latter yet remaining in a
very rude state. Whoever doubts the fact may readily
satisfy himself of this truth, by merely inquiring of
the multitudes, who every day fruitlessly endeavour
to derive the requisite assistance from the treatises on
composition, or the miserable thorough-bass schools,
which have hitherto been published." In his preface
to his " Dictionary of Music" (of the " Methodical
Encyclopaedia") be speaks of the existing theories in
this way—" What is tiresome are the continual battles
I am incessantly obliged to fight against so many
doctrines opposed to the truth, which those
works contain, and in which the erroneous
ideas of Rameau, D'Alembert, and of many
others are collected, and in which are gathered,
in spite of judgment and experience, all
that is known as being false. I pity those who are
doomed to stuff their minds with such nonsense. They
are far less advanced than those who never opened a
book of theory." From Engelback, Busby, Sheridan,
Castel Blaze, nay from Rousseau and D'Alembert
themselves, and a host of others of equal note, such
complaints might be quoted to the extent of volumes.
But in Bacon's preface to his " History of Music,"
the whole charge against the prevalent theory is for-
cibly summed up in these words:—" The theory is
reduced to certain mystical subtleties, of which the
application and truth have nothing either constant or
certain.
All those authors, however, have thought that there
was no reason to despair of arriving at a theory upon
which a grammar should be formed for elementary
music, harmony, and the science of counterpoint,
which might answer every question, and remove every
doubt, and which should rest on a radical, positive,
simple, but comprehensive, single, but universal prin-
ciple. That great problem the authors of the " Gen-
euphonic Grammar" profess to have solved. If it be
denied that their solution is perfect, it must be ad-
mitted that they have achieved a very close approxi-
mation, and that they have demonstrated principles
gwhichsrded,beifforneotwoelrteo
altogether etl
interesting
least
os
unknown.
elucidations t overlookedteteminent
Thean d i disre-
garded, e
original-
author of the theory, De Virues y Spinola, now de-
ceased about eight years, served his country with dis-
tinction as a diplomatist and a general officer, and was
regarded
twenty Spain
yeaarss tthoe m nna of tnd poet,itnh so scholar,tsreuet
ive
and metaphysician of his time. He is said to have
devoted
prin-
ciples upon which his theory is perfected. His own
view of his labours is
In his preliminary discourse he says :
"my aim is to explain a simple fact, coeval with na-
ture herself, whence it springs. This, theory will re-
main unshaken. Contested or not for a period, it will
be brought to perfection in course of time by successive
connoisseurs ; and the fact which has dictated it, and
which has constantly been within the view of every
practitioner, will at length become manifest. The system
of which it is composed, and which will,in my opinion, do
away with all the ancient theories, is grounded upon a dis-
covery, or rather hypothesis, perfectly novel; a desidera-
tum, the accomplishment of which is the fruit of the most
unremitting researches. It strikes me that the hypothesis,
which is nothing less than that of a sole principle appli-
cable to every case, without exception, and which the
great' asters, though unintentionally, haie follovied in
all ages, is destined to produce in the science of music a
revolution similar to the one in geography effected by
I .
our great Columbus.
do not hesitate to affirm
that the acquisition of the science of harmony
need in no case exceed a month. The infallible
effect of this theory will be to lay before the
pupil at the first view—I, wherein consists all the
art of every partition whatever;, 2, that all this art, with
respect to harmony, lies in one and the same operation;
3, that this operation is the very same which he has just
learned. The theory
of music remained incomplete.
This, although unknown to many of the first composers
of our age, was a truth admitted by all the philosophers
and the learned who had devoted themselves to the great
art, of which I now present the new rudiments. The
perusal of their works, and the want of a principle] appli-
cable to all cases,inspired me with a wisb,even in my youth,
to achieve the discovery of this principle. I must, how-
ever, confess that I viewed it at first in the light of
another quadrature of the circle, or of another philoso-
pher's stone. With this object in view, .I employed all
the leisure moments of my early education in reading
above forty thousand folio pages on musical harmony.
Amongst all these, I did not find a single treatisent exempt
from serious errors, and on which
theAwever o • an uni-
versal principle was not sensibly fe.t• rslosing sight
of this idea, I continued, for many yeae _
tafterwards, to
apply every respite occasionally allowd.baot me by the
various duties of my public career, to E.ltudy and
the o
meditation of which I have spoken at peeing of this
discourse, and which, from their very
never
nature, could have
no fixed or regular design. Still, 1
onlevertrelinquished
my endeavours until I arrived,
not
lh
constitutes the know-
ledge of the spring in nature
which of this fact and re-
gulates harmony, but at the reduction I a to an
universal principle. This principle
.PP led to every
known law, and to the erection of asystem reared upon
this single and general principle,
tda so
complete that it
rendered useless all the ancie9 theories, destroyed
all the ancient exceptions, itselfb admitting of
none, and answered, as it _be admit
and
from its own power every speciesof objection. It id
then the learned men of ability, who have immortalized
themselves by their writings on music, who supply me
with the necessary courage
of or
such
.r_ an undertaking.
All of them, I repeat, have acknowledged the want of
an universal principle, or at least, e
single fact, by
which every other might be regulated.
His earnest and able coadjutor Don Chaluz de
Vernevil, a man of noble rank, professor in the Uni-
versity of Madrid, and member of several learned
bodies on the continent, has reduced the theory into
a series of clear, lucid, and practical lessons, which,
commencing with the first elements of music, may
readily be mastered within a month, and lead the
student to a complete and satisfactory knowledge of
musical science, heretofore absolutely unattainable
by any course of reading, if, indeed, it ever was
satisfactorily acquired, even by y
ractiears of toilsome
study or a life of triumphant pce, v 4 attempt
an analysis of a system so comprehensive would he
attended with little success in the space which could
be afforded in these columns, and such a brief exposi-
tion of the leading principles as might be given here
would fail to carry that conviction of their perfect ap-
plicability which a considerate perusal of the yak"
itself will irresistibly produce. qiu9tci 414

BALMORAL, OCT. 6

13RUSSLLS, OCT. 9.—The itioniteur has not pub-
d any bulli:tin of thc, Qle.n's health. We le:rn,
however, from iritelligenc rect.iveil up to a late hour
last night, that there has been no change in the healli
of her Mjesty.
The Queen Arn?lie has seen her royal daughter
several times in the course of the day.
Drs. Carswell and Janssens are in continual at-
tendance upon her Majesty ; and Dr. Gueneau de
Mussy, who has been the physician of the Orleans
family whila in England, and who accompanied Queen
Amelie, has also seen our illustrious Queen.
M. Von Coninck, the priest of St. Gudule, has also
been admitted to her Majesty, with whom he passed
some time.

Tier Mi,jesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert attended Divine service this morning in the
parish church of Crathie. The service was performed
by the Rev. Archibald Anderson. The ladies and
gentlemen of the household were in attendance upon
her Majesty and his Royal Highness.
Sir George Grey arrived at Balmoral yesterday
evening.

OCT. 7.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
drove out this morning i❑ an open carriage.
The woods of Balmoral were afterwards driven for
deer.

OcT. B.—The Moniteur of this morning contains
no bulletin of the state of her Majesty's health ; the
reason as,igned is that the latest news received from
Ostend last night, states that no change had taken
place. Her Majesty Queen Amelie brought with her
from England her physician in ordinary, Dr Gueneau
de Mussy, who has been the medical attendant of the
Orleans family since their arrival in England. tie
has had frequent conferences with Dr. Chong 1, and
he appears to act in concert with the Queen's usual
medial attendants, Sir Robert Carswell and Dr.
Janssens.
A letter from Ostend, dated last night, says—
" Queen Amelie, with her family, has been many
times to the'Palace during the day to see her august re-
lative, who is still exceedingly weak. The King also
passes a great part of the day near her Msj,sty. M. dv
Cuninek, the elder and primary curd of the church of
St. Michael and Gudule, has been closeted with the
Queen for some time. His Majesty, accompanied by the
L'uc de Brabant and the Count de Flandres, appeared
upon the ramparts for'a short time. The Queen Marie
Amelie, with her children and the Princess Charlotte,
also took a short walk."
A supplement of the Moniteur, dated 10 o'clock,
contains the following :
" We have only received this morning the following
bulletin issued yesterday morning at Ostend :
"' No important change has taken place since hitt
night in the state of the Queen ; the fever was, how-
ever, not so violent last night, and the weakness is, con-
+equently, less this morning. •
" Sir ROBERT CARSWELL, D.M.
" F. JANSSENS, D.M."
" H. GUENEAU DE MUSSY, D.M.P.

The Master of the Mint had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
The Metropolitan Local Commissioners representing
the section of the h ine Arts had an interview yester-
day, in the new Palace of Westminster, with the
Executive Committee of the Exhibition of 1851.
Cclonel Reid (in the chair), Mr. Cole, Mr. Dilke,
Mr. Fuller, Colonel Lloyd (special commissioner),
Dr. Lyon Playfair (special commissioner) and Capt.
Boscawen lbbetson, F.R.S., were present. Mr.
Digby Wyatt, Secretary of the Executive Committee,
attended. The Local Commissioners present were—
Mr. John Jackson (Rathbone-place), Rev. S. R.
Cattley (Hon. Secretary to the City of London Com-
mittee), Mr. G. H. Drew (Secretary of the West-
minster Committee), Mr. H. Weekes (Lower Bel-
grave-place), Mr. George Godwin, F.R.S. (Local
Commissioner for Kensington), Mr. W. Wyon, R.A.
(Royal Mint), Mr. C. Fowler (Gordon-square), Mr.
H. Burnell (Cheyne- walk), Mr. W. Tite, F.R.S.
(Lowndes-square), Mr. W. E. Greenwell (Secretary
of the Marylebone Committee), Mr. J. Cook Evans
(Barrister, Finsbury Committee).

HER MAJESTY'S RETURN FROM

BALMORAL.

The arrangements for her Majesty's reception at
Holyrood on Thursday evening are making satisfac-
tory progress. In addition to the other preparations,
we believe it has been proposed to light a large bonfire
on the summit of Arthur Seat, which will illumine the
surrounding country, and have altogether a very
striking effect. We are happy to hear that the public
subscription set on foot to defray the expenses has
met with great success. It is also proposed, we be-
lieve, to illuminate St. Anthony's Chapel, and other
parts of Salisbury Crags, with the " Drummond
Light ;" and other pyrotechnic displays are spoken
of for the occasion. We regret, however, to under-
stand that the authorities have been obliged to give
up part of their design with the variegated lamps. It
was originally intended that the lamps should be
formed into a variety of ornamental devices; but it
has been found that the strong current through the
valley would extinguish them, so that they will have to
be placed in ordinary gas globes, erected on posts
which are being raised for the purpose, 200 yards apart,
along the route from St. Margaret's station to
Holyrocd. We believe that the effect of the whole
will be very striking and beautiful. Her Majesty,
we learn, is to lunch at Stonehaven between one and
two o'clock on Thursday, so that the Royal party may
be expected here about six o'clock. A cavalry escort
will await her Msjesty's arrival at St. Margaret's, and
the way to the Palace will be lined with military.
The Royal party will leave for Osborne on Friday
morning, at eight o'clock.

" Ostend, Oct. 7: "
At noon a second supplement of the Illoniteur was
issued, with news up to midnight preceding. It
states that during the evening hrr ➢Majesty was less
calm than in the course of the day. The pulse was
weak and frequent.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
CHESTER RACES.—WEnssissumr.
The Grand Stand Stakes of 10 soya. each, for two yrs
old. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Osborne's The Black Doctor ... walked over.
The Chester Handicap of 15 sous. each, 10 ft, and only
5, &c., with 100 added. The second to receive 20
soya. out of the stakes. A mile and seven furlongs.
Mr. Osbaldeston's Fugleman, 5 yrs, 6st 121 b (Charlton) I
Mr. Dawson's Cocktail, 4 yrs, 6st 71b
Mr. Stewart's Wilrnont, 3 yrs, 4st Illb 3
Not placed—Ballinafad, 6 yrs, 7st 121b—Inheritress,
aged, 7st 61b—Juggler, 4 yrs, gst 121b—Spot, 4 yrs,
Est 71b—Portia, 4 yrs, Est 61b—and Keleshea, 6 yrs,
Est 41b. Won by a neck.
A Plate of 501., added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sot's. each.
Grosvenor Coarse.
Mr. Dawson's The Savage, 3 yrs (Lye) I
Mr. Montgomery's Cantab, 3 yrs
Mr. Cunningham's The Meese, 6 yrs
Not placed—Master Downes, aged, 9st glb—Stan-
ton, 4 yrs, 9st 51b—Clara, 6 yrs, 9st 31b—Aldgste, 4 yrs,
Bst 71b—Augean, 3 yrs, 7st 121b—Snowdrift, 3 yrs, ist
121b—Rose Bradwardine, 3 yrs, 7st 71b—and Brocoli,
3 yrs, Tat lib. Won by a length.
The Chester Leviathan Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 30
added; for three yrs old colts, Bst 81b; fillies, Bst 41b;
winners, extra. One mile and three-quarters.
Mr. Dawson's Mark Tapley (Cartwright) 1
Mr. Fowler's Jails Briggs
Won in a canter.
The Tradesman's Welter Cup of 50 sous., added to a
handicap sweeptakes of 10 sous. each, h ft. Twice
round and a distance.
Mr. Kemp's General Sale, 4 yrs, lOst 51b (Mr. Hadley) 1
Mr. Oalses's Half-and-Half, aged, lost 51b
Mr. Dawson's The Cocktail, 4 yrs, lOst 611) 3
Mr. Irwin's Ballinafad, 6 yrs, list 71b 0
Mr. Lawson's Valiant, aged, lOst 81b 0
Won by a neck.
The Scramble Selling Stakes of 3 soya. each, with 20
added; two years old, Est 81b; three, Bst 61b; four,
9st; five and upwards, 9st 31b; mares and geldings
allowed 31b; winners extra. Six furlongs.
Mr. Osborne's Emily Ann, 2 yrs (Osborne) 1
Mr. Merone's Cauliflower, 5 yrs 2
Mr. Lawson's Brenda, 2 yrs
Mr. James's La Voleuse, 4 yrs
Mr. R. J. Scott's Pansey, 3 yrs 0
Won by a length.
The Halter Skelter Handicap of 5 sovs. each, with 30
added. One mile and a half.
Mr. Walters's Reality, 5 yrs, 7st (Arnold) 1
Mr. Cotgreave's Abbess of Jerveaux, 3 yrs, Est 410 2
Mr. Osborne's Lady Hylda, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b
Mr. Fowler's Ribaldry, 5 yrs, Bst 51b
Mr. Lawson's Valiant, aged, Bst
Mr. Giles's Gaffer Green, aged, let 101 b 0
Mr. Dawson's Joe Sutherland, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b ... 0
Won by halt a neck.
UPTON RACES.—TIIESDAY.
The Upton Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 35 added,
were won, in two heats, by Mr. Forster's Forester, beat-
ing Mr. Gulliver's Fazeley and Mr. James's Sarah.
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each. with 20 added,
were won in three beats by Mr. Levett's Batwing, beat-
ing Mr. Humphrey's The False Gem, Mr. Land's
Boundless, and four others.
The Severn Stakes were won, in three heats, by Cap-
tain Roebuck's Selina, beating Mr. Parr's I'anope, Mr.
Drew's Impression, and Mr. Scott's Wallace.

THE DUCHESS OF KENT—ARRIVAL AT
D AL MAHOY.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived
yesterday afternoon at Dalmahoy, the seat of the Earl
of Morton, where she is to remain for a few days.
Her Royal Highness left Haddo House, where she
had been on a visit to the Earl of Aberdeen, yester-
day morning at ten o'clock, posting from the Noble
Earl's residence to Aberdeen. After lunching at
Roberts's Hotel, the Duchess left Aberdeen by rail.
way in a special train, travelling by the Aberdeen
line to Forfar • from Forfar to Perth on the
Scottish Midland ; from Perth to Larbert on the
Scottish Central; and from Larbert to Ratho on the
Edinburgh and Glasgow—the journey from Perth to
Ratho being accomplished in an hour and fifty
minutes. At Perth her Royal Highness was received
by Provost Dewar and Baillie Puller, of Perth, and
Captain Ronald, directors of the Scottish Central
Railway, with Mr. Johnstone, the manager ; and
Provost Sawyer, of Stirling, joined the train at that
city. Mr. Thomson, superintendent of the passenger
department of the Edinburgh and Glasgow line, ac-
companied the train from Larbert to its destination.
The train arrived at Ratho station at a quarter-past
six o'clock. Her Royal Highness occupied the ele.,
gant saloon carriage which was constructed some
years ago by the Caledonian Company for the use of
her Majesty, and which had been sent to Aberdeen
on this occasion for the special use of the Duchess.
The Baroness de Speth accompanied her Royal High.
ness in the saloon carriage ; and Sir George Couper
travelled in one of the ordinary first-class carriages
which composed the train.
Her Royal Highness, on alighting, was received by
the Earl of Morton, who had arrived at the station
a short time previously, and was conducted by him
into the waiting-room (which was tastefully fitted up
for the reception of her Royal Highness), till the tra-
velling carriages on the train had been removed.
After remaining a short time, however, her Royal
Highness availed herself of the private carriage of the
Earl of Morton, in which she proceeded to Dalmahoy.
The Baroness de Speth and Sir George Couper were
in the carriage beside her Royal Highness, the Earl
of Morton accompanying on horseback.
The domestics of her Royal Highness remained
till the three carriages upon the train were landed,
and immediately proceeded in them to Dalmahoy.
The posting arrangements were under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Isaac Scott, postmaster to the Queen.
As the time of the arrival of the distinguished
party was not generally known, there was not a great
crowd at the station, and the arrangements were of
the most satisfactory description. Mr. List, the active
superintendent of the county police, was on the spot,
and the best order was preserved.
We understand that the Earl and Countess of
Rosebery and Lord , and Lady Belhaven met the
Duchess last night, at Dalmahoy ; and that a nume-
rous and distinguished party are to assemble to-day
(Tuesday), on the occasion of the visit of her Royal
Highness.
The Duchess, we believe, remains at Dalmahoy till
Thursday, when she will leave by the Caledonian
Railway, joining it at Kirknewton station, which is
distant about three miles from the residence of the
Earl of Morton.—Edinburgh Advertiser.

PEDESTRIANISM.
The celebrated pedestrian," Tim Ingham," of Preston,
is matched for a wager of 501. to walk from Preston to
Kendal and back, a distance of eighty-eight miles, in one
day. The task is to be performed in the course of three
months, the choice of the day to be left to the pedestrian.
EXTRAORDINARY PEDESTRIAN FEAT.—A remark-
able pedesttia❑ feat has just been accomplished by Ro-
bert Pugh, one of the mountain guides at Dolgelly, in
Merionethshire, who performed the task of walking
from that town to the top of Ceder Idris and back four
times in 13i hours. The distance to the summit of the
mountain is six miles, and the read is very steep and
craggy, and, perhaps, one of the roughest and most toil-
some in North Wales. Pugh started at five o'clock in
the morning, and concluded his task at half-past six in
the evening, having thus accomplished the four journeys
within 2i hours of the stipulated time, the wager. which
was for the sum of 101., being that he could not walk
the distance in sixth en hours. The weather was very
wet and stormy, yet notwithstanding this drawback, and
the arduous toil of the four ascents, the guide did not
appear in the least fatigued. The, completion of the
tisk was announced by a I), al of bells.

FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS IN
, SCOTLAND. _

The Marchioness of Douro and Mr. and Lady
Wardlaw Ramsay have arrived in Edinburgh.
The Earl of Minto is entertaining a family party
at his residence at Minto House, comprising Colonel
and Lady Elizabeth Romilly, Lord and Lady John
Russell and family, Vice-Admiral George Elliot, the
Hon. John E. Elliot, M.P., besides the members of
his Lordship's family.
Lord and Lady Byron and the Hon. William
Byron left Edinburgh on Friday for London.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., arrived
at Edinburgh on Friday night, from his seat, Fallo-
den, in Northumberland, and left on Saturday morn-
ing, for Bahnoral.
The Countess of Pembroke and the Hon. Mr. and
Mrs. Sidney Herbert arrived in Edinburgh on Fri-
day, from Dunmore Park.
The Earl of Shelburne, with the Marquis de
la Valette and Count de Morny, left Edinburgh on
Thursday.
The Earl of Effingham and family are at present
on a visit to the Earl of Rosebery at Dalmeny.
The Right Hon. Lord Elphinstone arived at Edin-
burgh on Monday.
Viscount and Viscountess Milton arrived at Edin-
burgh on Monday night.
The Earl of Effingham arrived at Edinburgh on
Monday.

PURSUIT OF JOURNALISM UNDER DIFFICULTIES...-.A
kindly sympathy prompts us to offer a hint calculated to
meet the difficulty under which the French journalists now
labour, in being obliged either to write tamely, or to expose
themselves to prosecution through the law, which compels
them to affix their names to their leading articles. Here is
a fragment of a model spirited leader relative to an imagi-
nary Ministry ; an article which, as far as the authorship is
concerned, would, we are bound to say, defy indictment :
" The consequences of Lord Mountbushel's accession to the
Premiership (Brown) are manifesting themselves with a ven-
geance (Jones). The funds—the nation's purse—are
(Robinson) falling fearfully (Tomkins). Discontent is
(Johnson) ripe at Blanchester; fifty mills have already
closed, and the streets are thronged with (Snooks) frantic
crowds, exclaiming (Styles) Bread or (Blokes) Blood!
(Hopkins). A hundred thousand men have already assem-
bled at Birmingham, prepared, if need be, (Briggs) to march

THE SUN, ,LoNDON, ,i,THURSDAY „EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1850.

Lever.

THE ZOIST. No. XXXI.
The present number of the Zoist contains much in-
teresting matter. The Mesmeric News from India,
communicated by Dr. Elliotson, is most satisfactory.
Dr. Esdaile has, comparatively speaking, few pre-
judices to contend against in India. The members
of the medical profession in that country are too
widely scattered to form a clique, or, more properly
speaking, to organize a conspiracy for the habitual
suppression of truth. Dr. Esdaile has an opportunity
of appealing to an unprejudiced public, • and we ac-
cordingly find that in India, to quote the words of the
Indian Times, " Mesmerism as a science has taken
root so fixedly as to be beyond the power of opposi-
tion." In a powerfully-written article Dr. Elliotson
replies to certain incorrect statements made by Dr.
Todd, respecting a cure of a case of deafness and
dumbness, recorded seven years ago in the Zoist. Dr.
Elliotson seems surprised at the conduct of Dr.
Todd ; we, on the contrary, consider it characteristic
and in perfect keeping with the line of conduct ge-
nerally observed by Dr. Todd towards his professional
brethren. Dr. Elliotson also administers a smart
castigation to Dr. J. W. Wilson for his recent Har-
veian oration. Several of the opposers of mesmerism
have demanded of the professors of that science some
well authenticated instances of a mesmeric effect pro-
duced on animals. The present number of the
Zoist contains three cases in point, each vouched
for by unexceptionable evidence; the first case being
communicated by the Duke of Marlborough, the se-
cond by the Rev. T. Bartlett, and the third (mes-
meric cure of a cow) by Miss Harriet Martineau.
We give these three cases as reported by the operators
themselves to Dr. Elliotson.
" Mote Park, Athlone, January 1, 1843.
" My dear Elliotson,—At Lord Ely's farm is a yard
dog, so savage and ferocious no one dare approach him.
I was determined to beat him, and in three minutes had
him fast asleep, his last sigh being a deep growl. In
presence of several persons I then kissed the dog on his
forehead, and there left him to awake at his leisure.
' " Yours most truly,
" MARLBOROUGH.'
" I requested the Duke to learn the subsequent state
of the dog, and the following was the reply:—
" Blenheim, February, 1843.
" My dear Elliotson,—l have a letter from Ely Lodge
this morning, written by Lord Adam Loftus. I extract
as follows:—" The dog has been quite stupid ever since."
" must now tell you what I have been doing here.
I have also a very savage yard dog. I tried him to-day;
in about fifteen minutes he ran into his kennel and hid
his eyes from the manipulating process,—growling,
snarling, and barking most furiously, notwithstanding.
I then made the man who feeds him, and who is the
only person who dares go near him, drag him out of his
kennel and nail up a hurdle before the entrance, so as to
keep him effectually outside. I then went to work
again, the dog, as you may suppose, .being ten times
more furious. In about 45 minutes I bad him so quiet,
oppressed, and stupid, that he dropped his nose several
times in the mud around his kennel, and kept shutting
and opening his eyes. Carts and horses, and men and
boys were passing and repairing, which served continu-
ally to arouse him, so that I could not satisfactorily com-
plete the task, and leave him dead asleep; besides which
a heavy snow storm was falling all the while, and I could
not feel my finger's ends. But I completely subdued the
beast, and patted him on the head before I left.
" Yours most sincerely,
MARLBOROUGH.'
" My friend, the Rev. Mr. Bartlett, produced mesme-
ric effects upon a bull, as he thus wrote me word:—
" My dear Sir,—lt may perhaps not be uninterest-
ing to you to hear of a little incident, which occurred to
me in the autumn of 1847, when I, was in Westmore-
land and Cumberland. Upon descending a mountain,
over which I had been wandering alone, and enjoying
the magnificent prospect which opened before me, I
found myself in a narrow road between two stone fences,
which perhaps separated the lands of different proprie-
tors. On one side of the fences were cattle and a bull.
The bull approached the fence in an angry mood, and
walked along the other side of it, parallel with me, for
more than a quarter of a mile; he then grew more ex-
cited, tore the ground with his horns, and bellowed
fiercely. As I could not but apprehend that, should
there be a breach in the wall, he might leap over and
attack me, I was considering what course it was best to
take, when we came to a very high and strong gate.
Upon reaching the gate, the bull rushed close up to it,
and bellowed loudly through it. As I knew that he
could neither leap over, nor force this gate, I also ap-
proached it, and looked him steadily in the face. In
about a minute I caught his eye, which then fixed upon
me. In about another minute a twinkling of the eye-
lids arose, very similar to that of a human subject at
an early stage of mesmeric influence. After probably
three or four minutes, the eyes gradually closed, and the
bull remained quiet, and appeared to be as immoveable
as if he had been chiselled by the hand of the sculptor!
The transition from his previously excited state to his
perfectly motionless state was indeed, most striking.
I could not but feel thankful that all danger from
the bull was now past, and, after looking at his fixed
form for a few minutes more, I descended the remainder
of the mountain, and did not stop to wake him.
"' Believe me, dear Dr. Elliotson,
" Very faithfully yours,
" T. BARTLETT.
." Kingstone, near Canterbury, Aug. 23,1550.'
" Having heard that Miss Martineau had lately cured
a cow, I wrote to Ambleside, requesting her to inform
me whether the report was correct. The following is
her obliging, and, I will add, noble answer:— .
" ' Bolton, near Skipton, Aug. 19, 1850.
" Dear Dr. Elliotson,—Your note has just reached
me, having been forwarded from home. The story of
the cow is this:—One very hot evening in July, I took
some young cousins to see my stock ; and I saw a small
pail half full of blood at the door of the cow-house.
During my absence that day, my cow, Ailsie, had been
taken violently ill, so that the servants bad sent to Rydal
for the cow-doctor, who had bled her and given her
strong medicines. This had been done some hours be-
fore I saw her; and the doctor had said that if she was
not much relieved before his evening visit, he. was sure
she would die. There were no signs of relief in any way
when I saw her at seven o'clock, nor when the doctor
came, soon after eight. He said she could not recover,
and it was a chance if she lived till morning. At ten,
she was worse; and, to be sure, no creature could ap-
pear in a more desperate state. She was struggling for
breath, quivering, choking, and all in a flame of fever.
Her eyes were starting; her mouth and nostrils dry;
and the functions suspended, as they had been all day.
"' It occurred to me then to have her mesmerised;
but, lam afraid, I was rather ashamed. The man knew
nothing whatever about mesmerism, except the fact, that
I had once done it, with success, to his sister. I believe
he had not the remotest idea what was done, or what it.
meant.
" I desired him to come up to the house at twelve
o'clock, and let me know Ailsie's state. As I sat during
those two hours, I remembered how I had known cats
affected by mesmerism, and how Sullivan, the whisperer,
tamed vicious horses, and Catlin learned from the In-
dians how to secure buffalo calves by what seemed
clearly to be mesmerism; and I determined to try it upon
the cow, if by midnight she proved to be past the pewee
of medicine. ,
" At midnight I went down and found Witt there was
no improvement or promise of any. I kten directed the
man to mesmerise her, and shower!, " him how. He was
to persevere, till he saw some decided change, in making
passes along the spine, from thebead to the tail, and also
across the chest, as she laboured more dreadfully than
ever in her breathing, Within a few minutes her
breathing became easier, her eye less wild, her mouth
moist, and befera morning she was relieved in all ways.
The first news I heard was of the astonishment of
the Rydal doctor, who came early, without an idea that
she could be alive, lie exclaimed that he had "never
thought to QOO her alive again ;" that "it was a good
101 In Miss M.'s pocket;" and so forth. One thing
struck me much. My man called to me as I was in the
garden, and asked me to Dome and see how "Ailsie fare
to go to sleep like: when he mesmerised her; and it
really was curious to see how her eyes grew languid and
gradually closed under the treatment.
This is not all. Towards noon, I was told that
Ailsie had relapsed, and was almost as bad as ever. I
went down, and saw that it was so, and ordered an hour's
mesmerising again. The relief was as striking as before,
and in two hours more she was out of danger, and beta
been very well t„:„.„.
" I fgesee how such a story may be ridiculed ; but
PWeive bow important it is that wo illaoWd gather some
fiwts about the power of metmerkina over brutes, not only
for truth's and humanity's eats, but because the estab-

lisbment of a few such facts would dispose of the objec-
tion that the results of mesmerism are " all imagination."
I !Am fi-md of my cutv, and stand up for her goJel
ties, hot I cannot boast of any imaginative faculty in hr.,r.
A cow morbidly imaginative is a new idea, I telieve. If
it is true that the greatest chemist in the world says
tbathe must believe if he saw a baby mesmerised, I would
ask him whether a cow, or a cat, or a vicious horse,
would not do as well.

"If my cows are ever ill again, I will try the experi-
ment with great care, and let you know the result. I
may mention that some of my neighbours were aware
of the desperate illness of the cow, and of her doctor's
astonishment at her recovery. We did not tell the
doctor how we interfered with his patient, and I
dare say he has not heard of it at this hour ;
but others of my neighbours were deeply interested in
the story, and wished it could be made known. To this
I can have no objection, as I do not mind a laugh, and
should be glad to save the life of even a single cow.
" I am, dear Dr. Elliotson, yours truly,
" HARRIET MARTINEAU.'
The present number contains several interesting cases
to which we shall probably direct the attention of our
readers o❑ some future occasion, and also gives a very
satisfactory account of the progress of the Mesmeric
Infirmary.

THE DALTONS. Nos. V. and 17. By Charles

Another separation has taken place in the Dalton
family—Kate having removed from Baden with the
Onslows,.: accompanying Lady Hester to Florence.
Before the close of the number just published for
October, we find them establisbed in the Tuscan
capital, and Kate in a fair way to become a mere
fashionable coquette. Albert Jekyl has " dangled"
atter the Onslows like a parasite and diner out, as he
is : and the circumstance of his odd habits of living is
made the occasion for a most humorous scene between
himself, a fat old monk, and a Spanish ballerina.
These three incongruous beings meet at a petit souper
in Jekyl's apartments. The dancer is the disguised
femme de ("hombre of Kate Dalton, and seems
destined to effect no slight influence over that
young lady's destinies. Sydney Onslow has left
Italy to attend a dying relative, but her brother
George remains with Sir Stafford. Among the other
personages of the story now in Florence we must not
forgot to mention the abominable Colonel Hagger-
stone. " Phiz" contributes to the story his graceful
and inimitable illustrations.