The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-17 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER LITERARY,

SCIENTIFIC, AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTION,
On Thursday evening Mr. West, of the Royal

Academy of Music, gave a lecture at this institution
on the ancient love of music and a plan for a national
musical education. The lecturer took a clever cursory
view of the real and traditionary evidence of the love of
music, and its influence among the ancients. He
showed its intimate association with the exercise of
devotion in all ages, Pagan and Christian. If Mr.
West's opinion be well-founded, and we fear it is so, his
remark is worthy of attention that, whereas in the pri-
mitive days of our Church the music often drew Pagans
within the pale, now it is more calculated to drive
Christians themselves out of the temple—indeed, a
good organ, tolerably well played, and loud enough
to stifle the dissonant uproar of the charity boys
and congregation would be an inestimable comfort.
Mr. West paid due homage to the masters of the
divine art, and selected Handel's passionate recitative
and air from Jephtha, " Deeper and deeper still,"
which was sung by Mr. Field with nervous
power and great tenderness of expression. The
lecturer himself exemplified the richness of
Mozart's musical imagination in " Non piu
andrai," and subsequently the brilliant fancy of
Rossini, as it bounds and sparkles in " Largo al fac-
totum," and in each of these trying pieces Mr.
West evinced the liveliest sense of his author,
and in the first elicited an enthusiastic encore.
Mr. George Buckland sang Russell's strange yet
powerful. song " The Maniac," with much judgment,
and at the conclusion of the lecture contributed
largely to the entertainment of the audience
by giving with much humour John Parry's
songs " Mama is so very particular," and Blue-
beard." Mr. West brought his lecture to a close by
referring to the wonderful effects of popular music
teaching in Switzerland, and expressed a hope that
similar impulse might diffuse the spirit of song
amongst our countrymen.

BANILKUPTCY ANALYSIS FOR 1844.-Ale merchants
4, apothocuries 9, attorneys 3, auctioneers 9, bakers 9,
bankers 4, booksellers 10, boot and shoemakers 10,
brewers 8, brickmakers 5, brokers 8, builders 44,
butchers 14, cabinet-makers 11, calico printers 4, car-
penters 241, carpet manufacturers 4, cattle dealers 7,
cheesemongers 6, chemists and druggists 15, clothiers 5,
cloth manufacturers 4, cloth merchants 2, coachmakers
5, coach mei omnibus proprietors 5, coal merchants 11,
commission agents 10, contractors (road, railway, and
gas) 3, cooks and confectioners 4, corn merchants and
dealers 1.7, cotton manufacturers 3, curriers 10, cutlers
3, dairymen 3, dealers 15, earthenware dealers 3, eating
and coffee,-house keepers 3, engineers 6, engravers 2,
farmers 7,. flannel makers 2, fruit merchants 4, farriers
4, glass merchants 3, grocers 53, hatters 6, horse dealers
3, hosiers 4, innkeepers 22, ironfounders 11, iron-
mongers 19„ jewellers 7, lacemon 3, leather sellers 3,
lime burners 2, linendrapers 23, linen manufacturers 2,
livery-stable! keepers 7, lodging-house keepers 5, ma-
chinists 2, •maltsters 7, market gardeners 2, mercers 2,
merchants. 38, millers 19, milliners 3, money scriveners
5, musical. instrument makers 2, nail manufacturers 2,
oil merchants 3, painters 2, paper hangers 2, paper
makers 3,. pawnbrokers 3, plumbers and glaziers 13.
printers 5,. printsellers 2, provision merchants 4, saddlers
10, sail-cloth manufacturers 3, ship brokers 3, ship-
owners 7„ shipwrights 4, silk manufacturers 4, silk
throwsters 4, silversmiths 4, soapmakers 2, stationers
12, straw-bonnet manufacturers 2, surgeons 13, tailors
28, tallosv chandlers 7. tanners 3, tea dealers 8, timber
merchant s a, tobacconists 4, toymen 2, trimming makers
2, upholsterers 9, victuallers 47, warehousmen 10, watch-
makers 4, wheelwrights 1, wine and spirit merchants 36,
woollen.d tapers S, woollen manufacturers 3, woolstaplers
2, worsted manufacturers 3, worsted spinners 3, various
76.-Total, 1,064.
DEATH: p ROM POISON.-MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.-
Considerablo surprise was excited on 'Change on Satur-
day, by a re port that Mr. Louis Schwabe, the celebrated
manufacture r of figured silks by the jacquard loom, had
met with phis death, under circumstances which led
to the sus pi. -.ion that he had been poisoned. For a con-
siderable tit ae the rumour met with but little credit, but
unfortunately it proved too true. The deceased was a
gentleman+ :much respected in this town, and was well
known th ro ughout the commercial world for the ener-
getic perm. veraaco with which he pushed forward the
improvemei it of the silk manufacture by means of the
jacquard k orn. It appears from the inquiries which
we have keen enabled to make, that Mr. Schwabe
had recent/ y lost a valued relation, and appeared de-
pressed in spirits in consequence. He was taken ill or,
Friday nigl it, or early on Saturday morning, and in end-
sequence e f the symptoms which exhibited themse,ives
medical ass istance was called in, and the stomach,-pump
used, but b e died at about half-past seven o'clo,:le in the
morning. An inquest was held on the body yesterday
at the hears e of the deceased, but out of respect to the
feelings of I iis family the coroner (MT:. Chapman) deter-
mined that the proceedings should, be private. We can,
therefore, , merely state the result, which wo believe to
be, that the deceased came to his death in. consequence
of having ti iken oil of vitriol, being at the time in a state
of temporsu• y insariity. The deceased, we understand,
was about 44 Yea.,:s of age.
EXPRR INTENT S IN WOOLWICH MARSHES.-Lieut.-
Colonel Danse7i, C.B. Assistant Director of the La-
boratory Dep irtment of the Royal Arsenal; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Chalmer, Assistant Director-Gene-
ral of Arline
of ry; Major Hardinge, K. 11., Assistant-
Directorthe Carriage Department, attended in
the Marshes; yesterday afternoon, to witness expori-
rnents with an invention submitted by Lieut. Pen-
rice, of the Royal Engineers, as a substitute for the
present case a used for shot fired from field battery
guns. 'rite invention consists simply of a coil of wire,
of about hall an inch in thickness, formed similar to the
elastic coils sf wire introduced in easy chairs and cushions.
The diame b aof the coil is made equal to the bore of the
gun from inch it is to be fired, and the outside covered with
strong ht :own paper pasted together. The inside is
then fill, d with musket-balls embedded in sawdust,
and attir !lied to the usual wadding with wire. A light
six-pour ,der gut was brought within two hundred I
yurus of the tan set, and a number of rounds were fired;
but in almost every instance the balls, or a great
portio.j of them n, struck the ground before they went
the whole lens ;th. Two rounds of the common case
sh.,t were fired to compare the effect, and they appeared
to, answer far better than the invention submitted fur
cz.,:periment on this occasion. Experiments were
afterwards ca ~rried on with shot fired from the same
gun to teal , the efficiency of marine glue, used as adhesis e power to attach 6-pounder shot tks '
w""en wlid ding, instead of attaching them, as tit
tea , kit it slips of tin, which are apt to g'ot
rusted by action of salt water, or broken by rubbing
on each c t aer when used for field service. Tvoelve
rounds we 3:e fired with this invention, and they appeared
to answer the purpose remarkably well, and the aim
waa "w' 41 taken by Lieutenant the Hon. C. Devereux
that ever y one of the twelve shot entered the tar got at
two hunt' tred yards' range.
The ) Jowager Princess of Hohenzollern-Hechin-
gen died at Vienna on the 7th inst., after a long illness.
Princ s Frederick of Nassau, uncle to the reigning-
Duke, a' id a general in the Alstrian army, died lately at.
Vienna, of a disease of the heart, aged 46.