The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

LYCEUM-ENGLISH OPERA.

An English version of the " Trovatore" was produced
last night to a crowded house, and with great success.
On the present occasion, though the performers wera not
the stars of the Italian stage, yet they acquitted them-
selves well; and produced an effective ensemble. Mr.
Augustus Braham surpassed himself in the character of
Manrico : we never saw and heard him to so much ad-
vantage. He sang, indeed, with remarkable sweetness,
and some of his principal efforts were most warmly re-
ceived. Madame Caradori'e Leonora was a musician-
like performance, and Miss Susan Pyne's Acuenza
showed considerable dramatic power. Mr. Ferdinand
Glover, as the Count de Luna, showed himself a mere
novice as an actor. But he is a singer of rare merit.
The opera is admirably put upon the stage ; the cos-
tumes, scenery, and decorations being rich and beautiful.

LYCEUM THEATIIE.—Mr. Balfe's new opera, founded,
we hear, on "The Muleteers of Toledo," a piece pro•
duced some time ago at the Princess's, is in active
rehearsal, and will be ready for production, it is sup-
posed, at the end of next week.
HERRING TRADE.—WICK, Oct. 15.—N0 sales of her-
rings have taken place, so far as we can learn, since t'e
date of oar last, at which time prices ruled at 36e. 9d.
for full crown brands, and 325. for spente. Of the latter
the stock is sold out, and now that continental prices
are rather on the decline, it is fortunate that the quan-
tity of the former is also small. Price of red herrings
at Wick, 40s. per harrel.—Jolen o'Groat Journal.
A SECOND SILK CROP.—A singular experiment, which
may lead to valuable results, has just been made at
Toulouse. A lady, the wife of a captain quarterenaeiter,
put an ounce of silkworms' eggs to hatch in September
last, and fed the young worms with the leaves of the
mulberry tree as usual. The worms have thriven bet' er
than in May last ; none of them have died, and they
are now spinning their cocoons. This success is, per•
haps, in a great measure attributable to the mild wealli;:r,
for which this autumn has been so remarkable ; at any
rate, the above fact shows that the secondcropofmulh,cry
leaves is quite as good food for the silkworm as the first,
contrary to the opinion of the majority of ail growers.
—Gallynani.
THE NICK OF TIME.—,As the late Earl Fitzhardinge's
rent-roll is supposed to have been about 40,0001. a-par,
a nice point, it is remarked, may arise on the question
of the precise hour of his death, which is aenounced as
having taken place " about midnight'' between the 10 •h
and 11th inst. His rents were payable at " old time,,"
that is, Old Lady-day and Old Michaelmas-day. Old
Michaelmas-day fell this year on Sunday, the 11th in •t.,
and the day begins at midnight. New the rent is due
upon the first moment of the day it bec.)mes due, so that
at one second beyond 12 o'clock of the 10th inst., rent
payable at Old Michaelmas Day is in law due. If the
earl died before 12 the rents belong to the parties takirre
the estate, but if after 12, then they belong to, and form
part of, his personal estate ; so that the difference of one
minute might involve a question as to the title of about
20.0001. ; a nice question for lawyers.—Guardian.
CARLISLE AND HAWICK.—It is now certain that there
will he a struggle between the Caledonian and North
British Companies for this line. The former company
will be supported by the Duke of Bucclauch, who stre-
nuously supports the Langholm route, and by the people
of that town; while tba Liddesdale line will receive the
support of Sir James Graham and Sir William Eiliott,
also extensive landowners, throngh whose estates it will
run, and by the town councils of Ha wick, Galashiels,
and Selkirk. Which of these parties is most likely to
be successful it would at present be unsafe to predict.
It appears that the expenses of the recent contest amount
to 10,000/. ; but the North British Company eoga4e io
defray the whole cost of the agproaching struggle
themselves.—Glasgow Daily Mail.
WAGES IN CANADA.—Bricklayers, 7a to 8s 641 ;
masons, Os to 7s ; stone-cutters, Sc to 7s ;• joiners, 54
to 7s ; carpenters, 6s 3d to 7s 6d ; tinsmiths, 5. t,-4 5.s 6d ;
ppariinntteerrss,(csoemtopo6ssit;orga:i n6e.rte.), 67: t; oditst;;)
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6s to 6s 843 ; tailors {mete), 4s to 5s ; ditto
to '
2. - suoomskors, 44 to 54 ; upholsterers, 5s to 6s;
coopers, 3s to 4s ; farm labourers (with board), 2: to
3e ; day labourers, 2s 3d to 3s Od ; boys and 12 to
13 (with board), 91 to is 34 ; rail vay labourers, 4s to
5q ; needlewornen (with board), is to 2e ; dressmakers
(with board), is 3d to 21; servant flak's (I,er montb),
12, 2d to 24s 4i ; serraLt boys, 12c 6.1 to 253; servant
men, 30a t, 50s. Toe addition of one-fourth to sterling
money brings it as nearly as possib'e into Hal fax cur-
rency—the standard by which all mercantile and mone-
tary affairs are settled here.
MUNIFICENT LEGACIES TO THE LIVERPOOL CHARITIES
—Mr. Thomas Watkinson, of Liverpool, who died on
the 14th inst., at his residence, Kensington, near Viet
town, and who lived and died a bachelor, has left about
60,0001. amongst his distant relatives and friends, The
father of Mr. Watkinson was a retired Liverpool trades-
man, and the son has not forgotten the charities of his
native town, having instructed his executors to distri-
bute 4,700/. amongst them as follows :—The Infirmary
and Lunatic Asylum, 5001. ; the North aspen-ary,
5001. ; the South Dispensary, 5001. ; the Northern
Hospital, 500/. ; the Southern Hospital, 5001 ; the
Blue Coat Hospital, 5001. ; the School fir the Indigent
Blind, 5001.; the Deaf and Dumb Institution, 1001 ;
the Ladies' Charity, 2501. ; the District Provident So-
ciety, 1001. ; the Female Orphan Asylum, 250/ ; the
Boys' Orphan Asylum, 250/. ; the Strangers' Friend
Society, 2501. Mr. Watkinson has appointed a doctor,
a lawyer, and a divine as his executors, viz., Dr. O'Don-
nell, Mr. Stone, and the Rev. T. Gardner, of Sta.ley,
to each of whom he has bequeathed a legacy of 1,0001.,
as a testimony of his personal regard, and for the trouble
they may have in winding up his estate.

SALE OF CHURCH PREFERMENT.—Yesterday, at Gar-
raway's Sale-room, Change-alley, Cornhill, Mr. Clark,
of the firm of Messrs. Farebrother, Ciark, and Lye,
offered to public auction the next presentation to the
valuable rectory of Woodham Walter, near Maldon,
Essex. The annual income of the living is derived from
the tithe-commuted rent charge, awarded at 560/., 45
acres of glebe land, residence, and fees, amounting to
6481. The value, according to the Clergy List, is 4371.;
the value in the "King's Book," 121. 13i. 16d. The
incumbent bas held thelving for nearly 40 years, and is
now in his 76th year, and, therefore, according to the
tables, it was stated by the auctioneer, hie life may be
expected to be only four or five years longer. The popu-
latien of the parish is 540, and the neighbourhood de
scribed as being very select. It was stated that the
advowson of the living could be purchased, as it was
held by a relative of the vendor of the next presentation.
Previous to putting up the property, the auctioneer
remarked that the Press frequently censured the sale of
the cure of souls, but that was not a matter for his con-
sideration, f r as long as it was legal to do so, he weld
continue to sell church livings as well as any other pro-
perty pat inter his hands—knocked down at 4,900/.
"TELEGRAM."—There has been a good deal of di—
cussion in the newspapers about this woad, and its elide-)
to be accepted as legitimately derived from the two
Greek words out of which the word " telegraph" has
been formed. In the course of that discussion it has
been several times stated, in letters to the 7ieses, that
the word "telegram" originatel in the columns of that
journal ; and the Times was evidently as well disposed to
"own the soft impeachment" as Mrs-. Malaprop c mad
possibly be. The statement, however, is altogether
erroneous. So far as we know, the word first appeared
in the Times, when giving the first despatch from Ceg-
liari, about two months at ; and then it was communi-
cated from the Foreign-office, not only to the Times, but
to the other London papers. So far as we can discover,
the word was first used in India, and appears frequently
in the papers relative to the mutinies in the East bodice,
laid before Parliament during the present session. The
earliest instance of its use that we have been able to
find is contained in a letter from Maj Birch, secretary
to the Governor-General, to Major-General Heersey,
dated Calcutta, April 21, 1857, which says :—" A tele-
gram to the following effect has this day been trans-
mitted to you." Subsequently to that date the word
appears frequently in the pa Dem—Mane/tester Guardiqn
INVENTION FOR SUBMERGING SUBMARINE CABLES.—
A rather numerous meeting of engineers was held at
the Town-hall, Manchester, yesterday morning, to re-
ceive from Mr. John Da la Hays ( one of the firm of De
la Haye and Bloem) an explanation of a new invention
for which he has taken out a patent for submerging huh-
merino electric cables. Mr. Richard Reber ts presided,
and Mr. De la Haye said his attention had been drawn
to the subject by the failures in laying the Mediter-
ranean and Atlantic telegraph cables. The pia, he
would adopt would be to encase a cable, prepared ike
that for the Atlantic Ocean, iu a soluble c enpound
(the composition of which he would not now mentian),
capable of fl iatirg it for a time on the surface of the
water. The coating he propcsed to use for this purpose
he supposed would hold it on the surface of the waves,
whilst about five miles of cable were pail out from the
vessel before it began to dissolve, and as it wouid die-
solve gradually, so the cable would sink gradually to 1
the bed of the ocean. By this means he calculated I
that there a onl I al.vays be about five miles of calls
'ling on the euiface of the eater in the wake of the
vessel, and tke remainder would describe an outline to
within one or two hundred feet of the bed of the ocean,
so that there would be comparatively little strain, and
consequently less liability of breakage. The cable would
descend into the ocean horizontally, instead of nearly
perpendicularly, Some questions were put to Mr, pe
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