The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-17 00:00:00

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LAW

aura POLICE.

A marriage, it is said, will soon take place between the
Earl of Mulgrave, only son of the Marquis of Normanby, and
Miss Russell, niece of the Dowager• Duchess of Cleveland.
Viscount Cranbourne, eldest son of the Marquis of Salis-
bury, after a lengthened tour in Italy and the South of France,
has arrived in London.

The Earl and Countess of Jersey have issued cards for a
grand entertainment on the 27th instant to her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester.
The Earl of Chesterfield left Chesterfield House yesterday,
for Hooton Hall, on a visit to Sir W. Massey Stanley during
the Liverpool races. The Countess remains in town.
The Countess de Salis and Miss de Salis leave in a few
days for Switzerland, where her Ladyship purposes to stay
some time.

atZSCZLZANZIOTTS.
On Monday the usual annual fancy fair and fête 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 ironmastere 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 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-
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 lyeshire 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 arid sound, has a.pkilied 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 si-uple, that there is
really hat (Ey any thing to bl 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 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
rAusic at_ oight 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. .

To ANGLERS.—The new edition of Walton and
Cotton's Angler, or, Contemplative Man's Recreation,
hAng a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds. fish, and fishing,
with lives of the authors, &c., is illustrated by Major's
76 engravings and wood-cuts. This correct and ele-
gtntly printed volume is now published by H. Wash-
bourne, 18, New Bridge-street, in a very handsome and
appropriate style of half-binding in morocco, at 125., and
in whole morocco at I6s. The former edition, inferior
to this, was published at 18s.
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 ofjustice, 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 spot.
THE LONDON COFFEE AND EATING-HOUSE KEEPERS'
ASSOCIATION.—On Monday the 15th half-yearly meeting of
the members of the above Association was- held at Ander-
ton's Hotel, Fleet-street, to receive the report for the past
half-year, and to elect officers for the year ensuing, At eight
o'clock Mr. Hare, the President, was called to the chair. The
report was read by Mr. Abbot, the secretary, from which it
appeared that the members of the Association had increased
during the past year, and that the profits of the steamboat
excursion, the entertainment at the Eagle Tavern, and the
ball at Willis's Rooms. had yielded .a profit of nearly 100/.,
whilst the handsome subscriptions at the dinner by the Mar-
quis of Westminster (the patron), the chairman (Henry
Warburton' Esq., M.P.), and other gentlemen, demanded
their thanks. The report was adopted, arid gave great satis-
faction Mr. Kirton (the late Vice. President) was elected
President; Mr. Binmore, Vice-President; •Hutriphrie4
Treasurer; and the Committee and other offiCers having been
elected, a vote ofthanks was giv'au to the &airman, and -the
meeting separate 4, - •

Pubt.to w.aie.se4
The King and Queen of the French, the Queen of the Bel-
gians, and the Royal family, arrived at Dreux on the 12th.
All the Paris theatres remained closed on Saturday night,
that being the anniversary of the death of the Duke 01
Orleans.
The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, to which the
fifth election of M. Charles Lafitte for the borough of Louviers
was referred, has reported that the offer of M. Charles Lafitte
for the branch railway to Louviers having been withdrawn,
there is no longer any reason why he should not be admitted
to take his seat. The question was expected to come before
the Chamber on Monday.
The Paris and Lyons Railway Bill, the debate upon which
we mentioned several times list week, passed the House of
Peers on Saturday with a majority of 75.
The quarrel between the Cour Royale and the Council of
Advocates has not been adjusted, the Council having resigneo
in a body. A new election took place, when all were elected
by a majority of 496 to 5. A great many members of the
Chamber of Deputies, professors, and other members of the
profession, long retired from business, attended to give their
votes, and among others M. Gerard de Bury, the oldest mem-
ber of the French bar, who is now in the 99th year of his age.
Accounts from Christiania, of the sth inst., announce that
the anniversary of King Oscar's birth-day was observed
there with extraordinary rejoicings.
The reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, Prince
Rupert of Saxe Coburg, and his Royal Consort Princess Cle-
mentine, have arrived at Vienna on a visit to the Duke Fer-
dinand of Saxe Coburg. They intend to remain about three
weeks in the Austrian capital.

In the Court of Bankruptcy the case of William Bromley
was further heard, and adjourned at the bankrupt's expense
till the 28th of October. In the course 'of the hearing the
following dialogue took place. Mr. Sturgeon, counsel for
Bromley, assured the Court that the bankrupt's property had
cost him upwards of 120,0001., the whole of which will come
to the creditors. Sir C. F. Williams--I should be very glad
if 120,000 half crowns would come to the creditors. Mr.
Humphrey, who represented the assignees, here said that
there would not be one shilling in the pound.
The commission for the Oxford Assizes was opened on the
15th. At ten o'clock, Mr. Serjeant Atcherley took his seat
in the Civil Court, and Chief Justice Tindal proceeded to
charge the grand jury in the Crown Court at eleven. There
are fourteen causes for trial, and the calendar comprises the
names of thirty prisoners, who severally stand charged witl:
the following offences :—Cutting and stabbing, 1 ; horse-
stealing, 2 ; larceny, 15 ; highway robbery, 2 ; stealing from
the person, 3 ; sheep-stealing, 1 ; manslaughter, 1 - assault
on constable and issuing base coin, 2 ; rape, I—the bill in
this last case has been ignored by the grand jury.
At Bow-street, Mr. Charles Pembroke, of 35, Ely-place,
Holborn, was brought up in custody, charged with sending
a threatening letter to Mr John Buller Yarde Buller, with in-
tent to provoke a breach of the peace. The case was taken in a
private room, before Mr. Twyford, who ordered the defendant
to put in bail, himself in the sum of 4001., and one surety in
2001., to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for twelve
months. The bail was found.
At Worship-street, four finely-grown, but exceedingly sun-
burnt young Lancashire women, very neatly and pictu-
resquely attired, were placed at the bar before Mr Broughton
for final examination. They had been charged on a previous
day with singing some dolorous ditty, collecting crowds, and
begging in the streets. They stated that they had been em-
ployed in the coal mines, but were thrown out of bread by an
Act of Parliament. The clerk, by direction of the magis-
trate, wrote to their last employer, to know whether their
statement was true, and received an answer, stating that
great number of young women have within these last few
months been deprived of employment by the operation of
Lord Ashley's Act for excluding females from coal-mines,
and that the statement of the girls was likely to:be true. On
reading the letter, Mr. Broughton expressed his conviction
of the truth of the prisoners' statement, and ordered a suffi-
cient sum of money to be given to each of the girls from the
office poor-box to carry them comfortably to their native
place. The prisoners expressed their gratitude in the warmest
terms for the magistrate's kindness, and promised to set out
immediately on teir journey home.
COttairt ---rissurohtliZza.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Salisbury with their company at
dinner on Monday, at his Lordship's mansion in Arlington-
street. Among the distinguished personages who were in-
vited to meet their Royal Highnesses were—the Duke and
Duchess of Buccleuch, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury, the Marchioness of Londonderry, the
Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Brown-
low, &c. The Marchioness held a reception at a later period
of the evening, which was attended by nearly four hundred
members of the aristocracy.
The Earl of Cardigan has subscribed the sum of 1004 to-
wards a new church at East Ardsley, near Wakefield.
Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn have left town for St.
Leonard's-hill, near Windsor, on a visit to Mr. and Mrs.
Harcourt.