The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-02 00:00:00

O VERLA.ND MAIL.

The following appeared only in part of our yeter-
day's impression

PARIS, THURSDAY.

The French telegraph conveys the following
news brought by the Indian mail, which left
Malta the 26th, and reached Marseilles the
29th. On the 16th of April, General Pollock
joined Sir R. Sale at Jellalabad, re-establishing
on his march the authority of Thorabaz Khan
Sullpoora. He was to march on Caubul as soon
as he was joined by Colonel Boulton. General Eng-
land had re-united troops, forced the passes, and joined
General Nott at Candahar. Captain M'Kenzie had
arrived at Jellalabad, with offers from Akbar Khan
to release his prisoners on conditions. The answer
was not known. Elphinstone died on the 23d of
April.

China news is of the 19th. On the 10th of March
the Chinese, 10,000 or 12,000 strong, tried to retake
Ningpo, while another force attacked Chinghae. In
both instances they were repulsed with considerable
loss.

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REPRESENTATION OF THE COUNTY OF BUCKS.—
W. E. Fitzmaurice, Esq., has started as a candidate,
upon Conservative principles, for the representation of
this county, vacant by the decease of Sir W. L. Young,
Bart.

THE CONNECTING LINK OF MEN.—A sagacious writer
in the
.Times said yesterday, that "it is a mischievous
doctrine that the exact sciences form a connecting link
between men of all nations and ages." The exact
science is only another phrase for our knowledge of the
external world. Astronomy, for example, is one of the
exact sciences ; Geography is another. Now if there
be any link which connects men of all nations and ages,
it is surely the common knowledge of the planet we
inhabit in common, and still more the knowledge of the
sun, the moon, and the starry orbs, which all the gene-
rations of men have beheld, in all time and in all I
place. The external, world is the connecting link between
all human beings, and the exact sciences, which treat of
a part of that external world, have as good 'a right to
come in for a share of the honour, if it be an honour, as
any peculiar doctrine which has been known only for a
short period, and of which the knowledge is confined to
a limited space. We were not before aware that the
sttire of the Times against the British Association Ivy
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written with the gall of bigotry.

FIRST PERFORMANCE
SINI'S " STABAT MATER" OF ROS-
i Tins COUN -
TRY, AT TILE ST. JA1....1 N
The far-famed Stabat THEATRE.
, :tinter of Rossini was per-
formed yesterday.D.':orning for the first time, as a whole,
in this countr-;,, at the St. James's Theatre, Signor Ga-
bassi ts".;nducting, M. Tolbeque leading the
orchestra,
Pz‘moiselle Lutzer, Mademoiselle Pacini, Signor Mario,
and Herr Staudigl sustaining the solo parts, the choral
musics being performed by one of the most efficient and
excellently-drilled chorusses ever heard within the walls
of a theatre. The Stabat Mater, as most of our
readers are doubtless aware, is a Catholic service, dedi-
cated to the Virgin, and descriptive of her sufferings at
beholding the crucifixion of her Son. Parts of the
Stabat Mater of Rossini have already been given at va-
rious concerts this season. We protested against the prac-
tice at the time; we protest against it now, as unjust alike
to the composer and to the audience. It is only as a
Ivhole that a composition like the Stabat Mater can be
judged, and as a whole we have no hesitation in declaring
that the Stabat Mater of Rossini is one of the most
sublime compositions to be found in the whole range of
sacred music. From its high continental reputation we
were prepared to expect a grand, an original, a thought-
ful work. Our highest expectations have been surpassed
by the reality. The composition opens with a grand
choral introduction, " Stabat Mater dolorosa," which is
succeeded by a tenor solo, most effectively given by
Mario. This solo is a very remarkable composition ; it
seems almost like a choral movement, and yet there is no
chorus. This is followed by a duet, "Quis est homo
qui non fleret," for a soprano and a contralto, beautifully
executed by Demoiselle Lutzer and Mademoiselle Paein!
and then follows one of the most magnificent composi-
tions ever heard--a bass solo, with aceumpt!niweihod-
tetlde-
scriptive of the intense anguish of the Virgin at
ir.kg the death throes of her Son on the crieestsi_y
p soul-bar
of no composition so thrilling,
so
peccatisc"n sum gentis."
rowing as this sublime air,We know
Staudigl entered fully
an intensity to
Maestro, and his clear deep tones
gaveout every effect in-
the music which completely brought
into t;hl;rinspirstions of the great
To this succeeded a chorus
tauded by the composer.
and recitative,
s, " Staudigl taking the
c " Eia Mater tons
without accompaniment, in fact a
chant,
chorus is evidently intended to con-
veythe solo part.
the idea of Christ's Disciples, who are standing
The