The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-06 00:00:00

BAIL KS.

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On Bombay, 60 days' sight is Hid

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTI-
TUTION.

We attended the other day at this institution, in order to
hear the musical lectures which Mr. Horn—the celebrated
composer—is now giving there. Unquestionably these lec-
tures form the most attractive feature of the institution, and,
if followed up with spirit and perseverance, bid fair to obtain
extensive popularity, and draw numerous and fashionable
audiences. But surely the proprietors of the Polytechnic
are not acting with their usual judgment in changing the
subjects of the lectures once a week 1 They should allow
each lecture to be continued for at least a month, so that the
public may have sufficient time to become acquainted with
its peculiar merits. When we last heard ➢ir. Horn, the
subject on which he was expatiating was American music,
more especially that of the negroes in the• southern slave
states of Yankee•land. The subject was evidently new to
the majority of the audience, who listened with the deepest
attention ; and we shall not soon forget the impression which
the lecturer produced by the exquisitely simple and pathetic
manner in which he sang the air, " O'er the lake, and by
the willow," and the hearty and cordial spirit which he
threw into another favourite negro song, entitled tl.e "Ohio."
Such a lecture, containing, as it did, a world of novel and
curious information—to say nothing of the beautiful melo-
dies which were interspersed throughout it—would inevita-
bly, had it been allowed fair play, have gained on the atten-
tions of the public ;-but before it had time to produce the
requisite impression, the proprietors directed some other
musical subject to be substituted for it, greatly, as we happen
to know, to the surprise and vexation of many, who were
anxious to go and hear it. Mr. Horn's lectures, we repeat,
need only to be generally known to become generally
popular ; he is incomparably the best musical lecturer we
have ever heard; and the proprietors of the Polytechnic In-
stitution will not be consulting their best interests, if they do
not allow each of his lectures sufficient time to produce an
impression on the public mind. We will venture to say that
if the subject of "American music" had been allowed a
month's run—to borrow a phrase from the theatre—it would
at the expiration of that period have become a general
favourite, and filled the institution to overflowing.

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THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
On Saturday the members of the Royal Academy of
Arts gave their anniversary dinner at their apart-
ments in Trafalgar-square, which was attended by a
numerous assemblage of guests of the first rank and
talent, among whom were his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, the Lord President of the Council, First Lord
of the Treasury, Secretaries of State for the Home and
Colonial Departments, Secretary at War, First Lord of
the Admiralty, Commander of the Forces, Master of
the Horse, Speaker, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Pre-
sident of the Board of Trade, Lord Chief Justice of the
Court of Queen's Bench, Master of the Rolls, Vice-
Chancellor of England, Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas, Lord Chief Baron, Solicitor-General,
Chairman of the Board of Customs, Chairman of the
Hon. East India Company, Governor of the Bank,
Master and Warden of Dulwich College, Pre-
sident of the College of Physicians, President
of the College of Surgeons, Portuguese, Sar-
dinian, Sicilian, Danish, and Swedish Minis-
ters ; Dukes of Bedford, Richmond, Beaufort, Suther-
land, and Cleveland ' • Marquises Northampton, Angle-
sey, Westminister, Normanby, Exeter, and Granby ;
Earls of Burlington, Brownlow, Eldon, Howe, Clarendon,
Cawdor, and Dartmouth ; Viscount Palmerston ; Lords
Besborough, Monteagle, Sudely, Prudhoe, Colborne,
Brougham and Vaux, Abergavenny, John Russell,
Francis Egerton, Charles Townsend, and Mahon ;
Bishops of London, Lichfield ; Right Honourables F.
Baring, H. Labouchere, C. W. Wynn ; Sirs R. H. Inglis,
J. Swinburne., G. Phillips, H. Wheatley, Willoughby
Gordon, H. Ellis, T. Baring, E. Ryan, T. D. Acland,
W. James, J. Lubbock, J. Knight Bruce, G. Staunton ;
Rev. Sydney Smith, Colonel Wylde, Captain Seymour,
Messrs. J. Morrison, J. Neeld, E. R. Tunne, S. Rogers,
C. Babbage, J. Cartwright, Hampden Turner. B. Hawes,
T. G. B. Estcourt, P. H. Howard, J. H. Hip-
pisley, R. Vernon. S. Jones LOyd, T. Grenville, Sydney
Herbert, C. Kemble, A. Milne, D. Barclay, H. Elohin-
stone, R. J. Murchison, C. Dickens, H. Hallam, J. H.
Green, &c.

FALMOUTH, FRIDAY
.NIGHT.-1 he packet Pen-
guin, Lieutenant Leslie, arrived here this morning from
the Brazils. She left Rio (le Janeiro March 13th. Pas-
sengers—Edward Porter, Esq., her Majesty's Consul at
Bahia; Mr. and Mrs. Dufrere and family; Mr. and Mrs.
Villeneuve and sons ; three Misses Samuel and servant;
Mr. Haak and servant, and five miners. Had on freight
about 20,000/. there is no political news by her;
the affair of the arrangements of the new Ministry are
in the same state as reported by the last packet, but
Considerable concessions had been made by the Finance
were—the Daphne, Pearl, and
,
Minister for the removal of restrictions on shipping.
commercial transactions very heavy. The next packet,
at
ere
the Swift following, had not arrived out at Rio. Her
sMhiltops thente t Rio
R I late remained (by letter of Feb.
Video): the Alfred, Curaccoa, Gorgon,
112Crescent.Iiasjte,y'ms
sftro
iArdent, and Racer. Affairs in the River Plate unchanged.
EXTRAORDINARY NATURAL CURIOSITY.—The head
and horns of a most extraordinary and gigantic Durham
ox, recently arrived at Windsor Castle for the inspec-
tion of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, in the highest
state of preservation, having been prepared, by a pecu-
liar process, with the greatest care, so as to cause it to
resemble, in every respect, the head of the singular ani-
mal when alive. The ox, which was bred at Enerdale, in
Cumberland, stood 18 hands high, and its carcase, when
one
ton, eleven hundred and
most extraordinary por-
tionare the horns, which are
large round as the body
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of a good-sized man) near their base, and four feet each
in length. The horns, from tip to tip, are exactly four
feet across. The head and horns, when detached from
the body of the beast at the time it was slaughtered
(then six years old) weighed 3601b5. The head, upon
its arrival at Windsor, was deposited in the apartment of
Majesty at the Queen's aviary, in the Home Park, under
the care of Mr. Walters, the superintendent of that
establishment, for the inspection of Prince Albert.
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.--Another
class of carriages is about to be introduced on this line of
railway, superior in accommodation to the present second-
class carriages, but inferior to the first. The passengers in
them will be sheltered from the weather. The carriages now
employed in carrying the second-class passengers willin
future be employed in carrying a third class of passengers at
lower fares.—.Liverel Times.