The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-26 00:00:00

MUSIC.

7HE VOICE OF FRIENDSHIP. Sung by Mr.
W Harrison. Words by Eugenia Parham :I?o?fe ;
Music by H. St. Leger.
YOU LOVE BUT ME. Ballad, sung by Madame
Anna Tliillon. Words by Eugenia Parham Rolfe
Music by H. J. St. Leger.
The art of writing words for music is an art more
difficult than those who have never made the attempt
can imagine. It is not sufficient to be a poet—the
writer of a good song must be a musician also—must_ ,
have an ear for the " dulcet concord of sweet sounds '
—must eschew all harsh, guttural, hissing intonations.
These songs are written, not only poetically, but
melodiously, and we hope that Eugenia Parham
Rolfe will write many more ballads. The sentiment
of the words has been well translated into the uni-
versal language, music, by Mr. St. Leger, and the
accompaniments prove that he is not a mere dilettanti
composer of melody, but an accomplished, we may
add, a learned musician.

RAILWAY RETURNS.
RAILWAY Taarric.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:—

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Week
Last a
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. . 234
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May 17 Arbroath and Forfar ...
125
16 Bristol and Birmingham .. ..... .....• 4,197 2,142
18 Chester and Birkenhead .••..•• - •• • • 781 464
15 Dublin and Dr0gheda.......... •.• • • • 1,026 -
20 Dublin and Kingstown ......... ..... 1,002 99$
18 Dundee and Arbroath ... .. . •
•• -•. •• 277 242 17 Durham and Sunderland .•
000 194
17 Edinburgh and Glasgow . ... . .
.• • • • • 3, 2
001 ,4SO 18 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 5,431 '1,319
17 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .. ... • 2,373 1,554
17 Glasgow and Greenock.... -••. • • • • 1.0'..4 925
17 Grand Junction . 1-0,096 7,914
17 Gravesend and Rochester.... . ..... .. 294 17 Great North of England ...• • • .... 2,281 1,455
18 Great Western . .
17 Hull and Selby ..... -•• • • • ........ • • 1,369 952
17 Liverpool and Manchester
17 London and Birmingha7a ....... •• • • 23,549 17,241
18 London and 81ackwP11.........• •
17 London and Bri •• • 1,448 967
gklon .. . . 5,573 3,668
20 London and C7oydon ......... ••• • • • 1,754 413
17 London and Greenwich ........• .• • • 2,838 770
17 London and South Western ..... •• • • 7,369 6,469
18 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury . . 1,509 739
16 Manchester and Birmingham..
17 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. 7,365 4,844
17 Midland Counties .. •
• • 13,495 8,52 F, 17 Newcastle and Darlington .......• • • 1,420 ..;55
17 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,605 1,522
18 Newcastle and North Shields.. •. .•
16 North Union and Bolton and Preston I,Bll'J 1,314
119 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans-- ..• • . 5;848 5,997
17 9 Paris and Rouen . ..... ......... •• •• 5,547 5,981
Preston and W3Te...... •••• • • • •
:17 Sheffield and Manchester... •• •
17 South Ea5tern.............. ...... •
:, 17 Tall Vale • .... •• • - ...... •• •••• • • • • 1,130 949
Ulster . • . .....• • • • . 5
. .. .
- 28
18 Yarmouth and Norwich
17 fork and North Midland.. 241
..... •• • • 2,826 , 1,628

THE YARMOUTH CATASTROPHE.—Tive writer of
the horrible letter published last week it this paper is to
be summoned before the jury, to corre,borate or deny his
statement. His name is Warnes, and he is a solicitor's
clerk in the office of Messrs, fisher and Lucas, Yar-
mouth.—lpswich Express,
HERRING FISHERT.-.--We beg to remind those
prosecuting the herrir-g fishing, and others, that it is im-
perative upon thezr,, by the recent Act of Parliament for
they pro
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the registration of seamen, that before proceeding to sea
rifue themselves with the necessary registr
ticket y
f.rem the nearest custom-house, otherwise non-
e"..ormity to the requisites of the statute will be taken
' -advantage of by informers who are entitled to one half of
the penalty, which is very heavy. It were well, there-
fore, that those interested in this branch of our com-
merce guard against anything deteriorating their advan-
tage or speculations,—Rosshire Advertiser.
THE HELS LON CHURCH AFFAIR.—A subscription
has been commenced in Helston and its neighbourhood
to present Frederick Hill, Esq., churchwarden, with a
piece of plate, for the purpose of testifying approval of
the course he adopted in opposition to the proceedings of
the Rev. Walter Blunt, the curate. The sum subscribed
by each person is not to be more than half-a-crown nor
less than a penny.— West Briton.
DuNmow.—SINGULAR CHARACTER.—On Friday
last a strangely-behaved character was taken before the
Revds. J. 13.11. Chesshyre and C. Clarke, calling himself
William Louis Bourbon Patmore, the Royal Battue
Sportsman. Superintendent Redin deposed that the
prisoner was brought to him the day before, charged
with shooting at the deer in Hatfield Forest with
a blunderbuss. On being asked who and what he
was, he said he was the son and heir of the Duke of
Cambridge, Prince of Diamonds, Duke of Vergenus,
and brother of the Princess Royal. Mr. Redin, being
of opinion that his intellect was disordered, sent for
Mr. Grice, surgeon, who decided (after examinatien and
conversation) that he was certainly insane: he could not
be brought to speak on any subject without alluding to
his relationship with royalty. On searching him, some
extraordinary and curious documents were found ;
among others a book, made up of scraps of paper, pic-
tures from Punch, pieces of newspaper, decorated with
genuine unnbliterated postage stamps, which the lunatic
called his Royal Sportsman's Battue Licence ; he was
perfectly harmless and good humoured. By order from
the magistrates, the Superintendent conveyed him to Sir
John Lunatic Asylum, at Hexton.—lpswich
Zxpless.

A. correspondent complains of the paucity of
labourers on the South Devon line; he observes there
is work for hundreds of men, and suggests that it would
be better employment for our agricultural labourers,
especially our North Devon end Dartmoor and Exmoor
peasants, to leave the plough, and try their hands as
navvys. He gives an inaance of a Dartmoor man,
whose earnings were only 4s, per week, but now, by
working on the line, he earned, in the last fortnight,
11. 17s. From the number of railroads in hand, and
projected, the employment is likely to last for years.—
Western Times.

EDINBURGH CHAIR OF ASTRONOMT.—We under-
stand that the Government have appointed Mr. Smith, astrono-
mical observer, Cape of Good Hope, to the chair of astronomy in
our university, vacant by the death of Professor Henderson.—
Edinburgit Witness.
DETERMINED SUICIDE THROUGH A WIFE'S MlS-
coN.DucT.—On Friday an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, at
lie Bell Tavern, Church-row, Aldgate, on the body of Samuel
Baton, aged forty-three years, who committed suicide. Thomas
Blendall .Warwick, of No. 11, Church-row, stated that the de.
ceased lodged in his house. He was an ostler in the service of Mr.
Nelson, of the Bull Inn, Aldgate. On Thursday afternoon, be.
tween five and six o'clock, the deceased was missed from his work.
Witness became alarmed, and, on going up stairs to his bedroom,
witness discovered the deceased suspended by a rope to the top of
the bedpost. Witness called for assistance, and the deceased was
cut down, He appeared cold and quite dead. Witness met the
deceased in the morning. He seemed rather excited. He had a
rope in his hand, and said "he should not be alive by night."
Witness remonstrated with him, but he did not make any answer.
The deceased had had much trouble with his wife, and had been
parted from her for several years, in consequence of her bad con.
duct. He paid gs. a week to the parish for the support of his wife.
The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity."
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—It will be recollected that
a few days since, a gentleman of the name of John Quincey Harris,
who was formerly the representative of Newcastle-under-Lyne in the
Mouse of Commons, was committed for trial at these sessions for
an assault upon his brother-in-law, Mr. Thomas Roberts, a solici-
tor. Upon his examination at Bow.street, doubts were raised as
to the state of his mind. Subsequently to the committal he was
visited by some medical gentlemen, by whom he has been pro-
nounced insane. The necessary certificate of this fact having
been duly signed, the unfortunate man has been since removed by
his friends to a lunatic asylum.
FATAL STEAM-BOAT' ACCIDENT.—On Friday an
steamer. having been swamped under
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After a long inquiry the jury decided on a verdict of " Accidental
death ;" adding it as their opinion that, if greater care had been
observed by those on board the Shannon, no loss of life would have
occurred; and further expressing their hope that some provision
would be made by the Steam-boat Company for the relatives of the
deceased.
THE LATE THOMAS HOOD AND THE PREMIER...-.
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The following is abridged from a notice by Mr. S. C. Hall, in the
Art. Union of Saturday :—" Mr. Hood's existence was a long dis..
ease rather than a life; yet his temper, unemblttered by continual
pain, remained ever cheerful and kindly, turning, to the very last,
his own sad suffering into jests, and forcing those who wept over
his agony, fierce as it was (till he was overtaken by the last dull
sleep that continued for three days preceding his death), to smile
at the witticisms of his conceits, however strangely mingled with
the consciousness of his situation, and his solemn forecast of the
rapidly-approaching hereafter. Nor were such terrible contrasts
reserved for his death-bed only. Even when the ' Song of the Shirt'
was knocking at every heart In Great Britain, its author was
panting for breath ; and soon after he was confined to his bed, and
literally propped up by pillows to write wit. And so he struggled
' on, through successive paroxysms of illness, till the last few months
found him working amidst the very crisis and beatings of heart
disease (more than once even in the intervals of delirium !) at the
monthly chapters of his last novel—doomed to remain, like his
life, a great fragment. But it is all over with him now. He is
released from labours never remunerated in proportion to the
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andWAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.---011 L ar-
rivals of grain are very small this week. There is a poor show of
wheat to-day; all descriptions are 2s. per quarter higher, and very
fresh parcels bring extreme rates. Barley is scarce and' dearer.
Oats, shelling, and beans, have not varied. Malt and other articles
steady.

DEATH OF WILLIAM LAIDLAW, ESQ.—We hare
to reeord with genuine sorrow and regret, the death of Mr. Wil.
ham Laidlaw, author of the exquisitely simple and pathetic Scot-
fish ballad, " Lucy's Flittin," and various contributions to natural
history and general literature, besides being peculiarly distinguished
for his long and confidential intercourse with Sir Walter Scott at
Abbotsford. Mr. Laidlaw died on Sunday morning, the 18th inst.,
at Contin, in the county of Ross.—lnverness Courier.
THE THAMES TUNNEL.—In reference to a para-
graph, furnished by a correspondent, which appeared in our paper
of Friday, we are requested by the Tunnel authorities to state,
that the story of the robbery described as having taken place in
that thoroughfare, is entirely destitute of foundation. We are
also assured that the tunnel is not the haunt of loose women, and
that it is constantly watched by a police force of its Ten Grafton.
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