The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

BILISCIELLIIIVEOI7S.

On Monday the usual annual fancy fair and fete champetre
in aid of the funds of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum took
place on the grounds of the Asylum, under auspices of the
most cheering description.
The quarterly meetings of ironmasters were held during
the past week as usual ; there was less previous anxiety as
to the result either with respect to demand or prices than is
usually the case. During the last quarter the trade has been
in a healthy state, the demand steady, and the prices for all
description of iron fair and remunerating.
The population .of Newfoundland at present amounts to
nearly 100,000 souls, altogether of British birth or extraction.
They consume annually the produce of other countries to the
amount of 800,000/. sterling. They annually export produce
in value to one million sterling, and there are employed in its
fisheries alone not less than 20,000 active, enterprising, and
able- bodied seamen.
From all accounts the 12th of July, long notorious in Ire-
landfor orange outrages, has passed off this year without any
disturbances. There were Orange processions in several
districts, but generally the usual demonstrations were not
attempted.
The accounts 'of the weather and crops in the north, and
particularly in Scotland, are highly favourable. The weather,
says the Fifeshire Journal, is still delightfully dry and warm,
and is pushin; forward the crops rapidly. Should the present
weather continue, barley would be cut by the middle of
August, if not sooner. Better weather for the hay crop was
never known ' • the, yield is light, but the best hopes are en-
tertained of a heavy after-crop.

MUSIC.
COLOUR MUSIC. By D. D. Jameson.
This is a most ingenious attempt to facilitate the
acquisition of the art of playing at sight, by substi-
tuting distinct and definite sensations, which, being ,
the language of nature, are at once understood,
for the arbitrary mnemonics in use. Mr. Jameson,
observing the " correlations" which exist between
colour and sound, has applied them to the art
of teaching music, by giving a separate :colour to
each of the keys of an octave
.of a pianoforte, so that,
in fact, an octave is a prism. Instead of the ordi-
nary musical notation he employs coloured notes,
answering to the coloured keys ; the height of the
note indicates the octave, and the length the time—
the rests are indicated by the blank spaces. We
give the method of teaching in Mr. Jameson's own
words :
" Teaching by this method is so simple, that there is
really hardly any thing to be, described.
" The instrument being prepared, the learner- should
touch keys of the same colour and height as those on
the paper; making their length, in time, on the instru-
ment, equal to their length in space, on the paper; ac-
centing according to the intensity of colour; and paus-
ing for times equal to the blank spaces."
The method is so ingenious, and, at the same time
so simple, that we are not surprised when we are told
, that—

" A child, eight years old, who could play the piano-
forte, but was previously unacquainted with colour-
music,
was taught in two minutes, to play new sound
music at sight by it."
What Hamilton has done for the acquisition of lan-
guages—what Wilhem 'has done for the acquisition of
vocal music, Mr. Jameson has done for instrumental
music. We strongly recommend his system, and
wish him that success which his talents and ingenuity
so richly merit.
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Baltic Stock .
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3lrr Cent. Cons. • 99W.
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ew 3% per Cent lO2
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Long Annuities to expire
Jan 160 12%

Indian Stock 285
Ditto Bonds ........
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities 98%
Ex. Bills, I,OOW. 80 pm.
Ditto 5001.. 80 pin.
Ditto Small 77 pin
Bank Stock for Acct —
Consols for Opg 99%
India Stock for. Acct 285
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Oct. 185'►

Jan. 1960

• FOREIG
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Belgian: 5 per Ccht
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 64 per Cent 6
Claw', 6 per Cent'
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1824 ..............
Cuba Bbndst, 6 per Cent
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 18.45, 5 per Cent —
Mexican, 5 per. Cent 35%
Ditto, 6 per Cent,
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent —

'Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Ditto, New Ditto... —
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Russian, 5 per Cent... -
Ditto, Metallic —
, Spanish, 5 per Cent ...... ....., 92. li
Ditto, 3 per Cent 33%
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Exchange —f. —c.
trench, 3 per Cent. —f. —c.
Dutch,.2% per Cent......
/Ditto,* per Cent ........101%

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday Mr. Baker held
an inquest at the Spotted Dog, High-street, Poplar, on
the body of Joseph Good, aged twenty-eight, a foreman
on board the Royal mail steam-packet the Thames, re-
cently arrived from the West Indies. Joseph
Farrer, another foreman, stated that whilst he was
employed in taking off the floats from one of the
paddle-wheels, he saw the deceased, who was in a
state of intoxication, come across the deck of the
vessel and stand upon the sponson of .the paddle-
box, where witness was at work. He had not been
there above a minute, when by some means
his foot slipped and he fell from a height of eight feet
into the water and immediately sank. The drags were
instantly procured, but the tide running up at the time,
upwards of half an hour elapsed before the body could be
recovered. Mr. Bains, a surgeon, of Poplar, was promptly
in attendance, and for tvi o hours and a half used every
means to restore animation without effect. The man had
but a few minutes previously to the occurrence sent a
message on shore for his wife to come on board to him,
and she was on the point of embarking in the boat when
the accident took place. The jury returned a verdict of
" Accidental death. '
DEATH OF THE EARL OF KINTORE.—We regret
to say that this nobleman died on Thursday evening, at his
residence at Keith-hall. His Lordship has, since the melan-
choly events that have lately taken place in his family, been
in a depressed state of mind. This affected his health, and
last season he relinquished his darling amusement—fox-
hunting, for which he was celebrated in this and the neigh-
bouring countie3 for many years, and sought to recruit his
constitution in the milder air of the Continent. He re-
turned some time ago, and for a short time had been trying
the benefit of the spas of Strathpeffer, but without any ad-
vantage. The immediate cause of his Lordship's death, we
understand, to have been an injury that he had received in
the chase, many years ago, and which, although partially
cured, had left effects from which his Lordship never alto-
gether recovered. His Lordship was accounted the boldest
huntsman of the day, and a letter which, some months ago,
appeared in our columns, evinces the ardour for the field that
animated him, even after he was unequal to the boisterous
task. This devotion to the chase formed his Lordship's ex-
ternal character, and by that, many were apt to judge him.
But- few knew the "pearl of price" that was contained
within. Few noblemen can boast of equal kind-heartedness
and generosity. His tenants idolized him, and, to our
knowledge, many a one will now miss the kind hand that,
- -unknown to them, supplied their wants and distributed un-
EXTirtAORDINARY SUCCESS or A FAIR. ANGLER IN
sparingly the gifts which Providence had assigned to him,
LASE WINDERMERE.--A lady, who, by the bye, is no with • • it•
out permitting ever to come to light by whom the
novice with the rod and the line, and who is almost daily means were supplied. His Lordship has left two sons by his
on the queen of lakes; fron morn till night, Strolling for second marriage, one of whom, a minor, succeeds him in the
pile, spinning minnow fOfoiechar, or bobbing for perch, title and family possessions. His Lordship was in his 50th
one day last week hooked no less than twenty-six pikes. year.--Aberdeen Herald.
—Westmoreland Gazette.