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

ItIISCIIIMANEOUS.

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 800,0001. sterling. They annually export produce
in valne 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-
land for 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 pushing 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 methodof teaching in Mr. Jameson's own
words : _

" Teaching by this method is so simple, that there is
really hardly any thing to la/ 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 yefirs 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.

ITALY.—A correspondent writes on the 4th instant
from Bologna :—" A third sentence has been pronounced by
the court-martial upon more of the persons compromised in
the political events of the province in 1843. It has been sent
under seal to Rome, and its confirmation is daily expected.
It comprises about forty persons, several of whom belong to
the higher classes of society. We are informed that there
are some condemned to death, but that they are all out of
the reach of justice, and sentenced in default of appearance."
DANTZIC, JULY 2.—The kind of blockade on the
Russian frontier often leads to very unpleasant events. Thus,
the servant of the Russian superintendent on the Russian
frontier, who has sometimes acted as a spy in Prussia, and
given information of the smuggling of goods, was lately shot
while he was walking with his master, A. willow bush,
which extended to the place where he was sitting, concealed
the murderer, who escaped. It is not ascertained whether a
Prussian or a Russian committed the crime. The ball passed
through the man's head, and killed him on the spqt.
EXTRAORpINAB,Y SVCMS qz 4 V/Mt ANGLER IN
LAx Nr-vmII3,3iERE.—A lady, who, by the bye, is no
novice with th.o rod and the line, and who is gimost daily
on *the nneen of lakes, fro'n morn till slight, trolling for
pike, spinning minnow for char, qr bobbing for perch,
one day last week hooked•no less than twenty-six pikes.
—Westmoreland Gazette,