The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-17 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, MAY lf.—The King set out the day before
yesterday in the morning for his seat at Ardenne. The
agent of. the Cashier-General at Arlon absconded on the
9th of this month, leaving a deficiency, it is said, of
250,000 francs, which is supposed to be of three years
standing, and to have been hitherto covered by very un-
lawful means.

LUXEM 0 URG.—M. Marchard, conductor of the
public works which the province is causing to be exe•
cuted, shot himself through the head with a pistol on
Friday last, at Chatillon.

CAESTRAY, MAY 12.—The works on the iron railway
from this town to the French frontier, are carried on
with the greatest activity, and advance rapidly, so that
we are persuaded that they will be completed next
month. Equal activity is observed on the French terH •
tory towards Lille, for we are assured that the works
are carried on every evening by torch light.
ELU lAN I UNDS...BRUFSELS, MAT 14.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan. 5 per ..... 103
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per 93%
3 per Cent ......
Thirtyseven
(1840) 104%
Loan 01 City, 1232, 4 per Cent ......... 94%
Society's! Commcrce, 4 %per F 6
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7B
National Society .........
Exchange on Londe eshort)
—Brussels Papers, May 15.
AUSTRIAN FUN DB....VIENNA. MAY 6.
Five per C,,sits. sletailiques
Fear per Cents
Three par Cents.
Bank shares 1672
HAMBURGII BORSENHALLE, MAY 13.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares l7OO
Anglo-Russian Loan llO 109%
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 102%
Inscription, Ist series lO3
Russian a per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series —
Ditto in Certificates f9
New 4 per tent.
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ......... 51 50%
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Polish Bonds... ........ ••••••••••••••••••
• New Tickets ~, 172
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 78% 79
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURGH, MAY 13.-13 8%, Two months 13 G.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, MAY 10.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent.
Prussian English Bond:, 11230, t per cent 102% 102%
Exchange on Landon
Prussian State Gazette, May tt

From the best information received by the last mail
from Hamburgh the loss of the three principal fire-
offices in London are-300,000/. sterling, 200,0001.,
150,0001.—a sum much greater than was at first antioi-
pated, but which will be paid in the course of this week.
The losses of the Hamburgh fire-office and the Prussian
fire-office in Hamburgh, are much heavier than the above.
MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.----ViSCOURt Emlyn,
eldest son of the Earl of Cawdor, will shortly lead to the
hymeneal altar Miss Sarah Mary Cavendish, second
daughter of the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, chief equerry
to her Majesty. • Miss Cavendish is one of the Maids
of Honour to the Queen, and a cousin of the Earl of
Burlington.
'Upon Wednesday evening, the Rev. Mr. Fraser
of New York, so well known as the claimant of the estate
and title of Lover, was waylaid on his road from Inches
House to Inverness, and most barbarously knocked
clown, beaten, and bruised by two young men at present
unknown. He was discovered sometime thereafter lying
insensible between two dykes, and immediately conveyed
to his lodgings, where instant medical aid was obtained;
but up to Thursday night, when we received the last.
accounts, the Rev. Gentleman, we are sorry to say, was
in a very dangerous state.—Ross-shire Advertiser.
KINMEL PARK.—We have much pleasure in hav-
ing it in our power to announce that Lord Dinorben has
issued the necessary instructions for the rebuilding of
the mansion, &c., at Kinmel Park, partly destroyed by
fire. Workmen are employed in clearing the ground,
preparatory to the work being commenced, which we
understand will be immediately proceeded with.—Car-
NCI rvon Herald.

I. THALBERG'S CONCERT.—On Friday morning
M. Thalberg gave a concert in Willis's-rooms, which, of
course, attracted a crowded and most fashionable au-
dience. The performer exhibited, as formerly, his un-
paralleled execution, and his feats elicited the usual de-
monstrations of admiration and astonishment. M.
Thalberg performed a fantasia on airs in the Sonnam-
bula ; variations on the second finale of Lucia di Lam-
mermoor; a new grand studio ; and a grand fantasia
on the introduction and first finale to Semiramide.
In all these pieces he displayed the powers which we
and fellow-critics have already tasked ourselves to
describe. We heard it said that he was improved
since his last visit ; and it may be so, though we were
unable to perceive it. He had, as we thought, formerly
reached the acme of mechanical dexterity, and now he
could do no more. We are very far from saying that
the merit of M. Thalberg's performance lies entirely, or
chiefly, in its mechanical dexterity. He plays with ex-
quisite expression, refinement, and effect ; but these are
not the qualities on which he reckons for his success.
They are qualities of which those who applaud him most
furiously make no account whatever. He plays a charm-
ing bit of melody with the utmost delicacy and beauty ;
it passes unnoticed. He puts on a twenty-finger power,
flies over the keys like lightning, and produces a com-
plication of sounds which were never before heard f!om
a single instrument, and straightway the room is in a
tumult of applause. This, we have often said, and we
say it again, is the abuse of music. It is the perversion
of the most captivating of the arts into an exhibition of
equal value to that; of tight-rope dancing. That M.
Thalberg is an artist of the highest class, no one who
hears him can doubt.; but we should like to see him ex-
hibit a little more feeling of the dignity of his art.