The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-03 00:00:00

LECTURES ON SCOTTISH SONG

AND MUSIC.

Mr. Wilson gave another entertainment last night at
the Music-hall, Store-street, when, laying aside the for-
mality of a lecture, he " strung his pearls at random,"
by delivering only the selectest of his songs to the audi-
ence. Many of theSe we had heard before, but though
thus numbering among the " bis repetita," they came
upon the air fresh and full of sweetness as at first.
Among those, however, not enlisting under this category,
was " My ain fireside," written by Mrs. Elizabeth
Hamilton, authoress of " The Cottagers of Glenburnie."
The warm, comfortable melody to which it is sung,
breathes the very spirit of a quiet soul, sit-
ting in contentedness by the rich ember-light of
a happy hearth. " Saw ye my wee thing?" is a loveable
little idyl, written one would have supposed by a Scotch
Moschus : the inquiries after the lost loved-one, with
her sugared lips and•persoual beituties, were no less choice
than the dulcet subject itself warranted. It appears
that the author of the fine ballad of " Auld Robin
Gray;" which speaks so feelingly, as the singer repeats
it, of the wreck and mournfulnessfof faded humanity,
long lay perdu, and Mr. Wilson stated, that so much
was curiosity on the stretch to ascertain its writer. that
15 guineas were advertised at the time, as price for the
divulged secret. Lady Ann Lindsay, it finally became
known, was the " veiled Isis " who gave it to
the world. " Will ye gang wi' me, Lizzie Lindsay ?"
went off in light-tuned triplets. " Where hae ye been a'
day, my boy Tammy?" furnishes a piece of fidgety ques-
tioning on the part of the old dame, and frank answers
on Tammy's, the inamorato's part, who confessed that a
" dimpled cheek and cherry mote " had led him astray,
and were confessedly no slight plea for such temptation.
The gathering tune "Pibroch o' Doniul Dhu"
.was a
singular performance. Near as can be imagined, the
voice of the clansmen assimilates itself to the continuous
drone of the bagpipe, and its effect, far from disagree- '
able, presents the idea, as the words are breathed chiefly
through the nostrils, and with dilated cheeks, of a cer-
tain stifled fiery, and resolute daring—a species of
doughty valour• bent upon prowess and dispatch : the
alto -tones were no less spirited, and seemed the very
rousing of the whole warrior in the man. The. room
was full, and the evening passed off with the usual eclat,
notwithstanding Mr. Wilson's voice was somewhat in-
firm from cold.
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OURNAMENT AT TURIN.
A letter from Turin, 23d inst., states :—" The
tournament promised as part of the fetes for the mar-
riage of the Duke of Savoy, but postponed in conse-
quenee" of the weather, was held yesterday. A large
circus
.had been erected by the city in the square of
Saint Charles. At one o'clock the two august fami-
lies, in honour of whom the fete was given, entered an
elegant pavilion, fitted up with great taste, and set
apart for their reception. The acclamations of more
than twenty thousand spectators saluted their
entrance. The four first ranks of the galle-
ries were occupied by ladies in the most brilliant
dresses. Behind them, in galleries ascending
gradually, thousands of men were placed. All
the windows of the pelace surrounding the square
were magnificently decorated. Around the fine
equestrian statue of Emanuel-Philibert, which stood
in the ruid.c,t of the arena, lances, javelins, shields, and
other warlike weapons, required for the jousting, were
tastefully arranged. Varlets in brilliant liveries stood
in raadine:s to furnish arms to the knights when
called for. The tournament was to represent
a splendid fete of chivalry, given in the four-
teenth century, at Constantinople, by the
_gay
and brilliant §uite of Jane, daughter of Amadeus V.
of Sav=oy; when she: came . to marry the Greek Em-
peror icildrOnichs. The chief of' the tournament on
the'present'Occasion
.was descended from the family
of that.Enipress,, being the Duke of Genoa, the King's
secon4S9l4,, Four bodies of knights, each 24in num-
ail:oflicers in the, army; •took part in the jotist.
Of .these,,-. the first and fourth • represented knights
belo4ng ,to orders -in existence at- the.* coin=
ment.tment the-' fourteenth century; the
arst being dressed as knights of Constantine
nid St. Lazare, and the fourth as chevaliers of the Or-
cer of Rhodes, and the French Order of the Star. The
second division were habited as Savoyards, and the
third as French knights of the period already indicated.
The young Prince, who figured as head of the joust,
was attended by a special quadrille of four knights,
with the four standard-bearers of the other quadrilles,
and three squires to execute his behests. The Prince
made his entry into the arena amidst the loud
sound of trumpets, accompanied by his knights, his
herald, his trumpeters, and his standard-bearer. Having
advanced to the King's seat to take his instructions,
lie gave the signal, and immediately all the knights
defiled in order before the royal pavilion. When all '
had resumed their places, each quadrille in turn ran
a certain number of courses, and went through thO
usual exercises of the manege. The other trials of-a
joust, such as running at the ring, leaping the bar-.
riers, &c., in fact, all the figures of a carrousel;
were executed with admirable fidelity. The yOung
Prince was remarked for the fortunate:bol4es With
which he performed his part in the 'sports;
?The
weather was fine, and the tournament conclucledwith
out accident.

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DEATH OF LORD HENRY RUSSELL.--). eSterclay,
morning, about five o'clock, at the Governor's House,,,Getieri-
vvich Hospital, the Right Hon. Lord Henry Russell, .Command*
in the Royal Navy, aged 26 years, fifth son of John, late ,Dnlc.e
ofj Redford, K. G. by Georgiana, daughter of ' Alexander,
fourth Duke. of Gordon, K.G. His Lordship married; iniltlfy
1841, a daughter of Admiral Sir Robert Stopford,
Governor of Greenwich Hospital. A serious: • aceidet& betel
Lord Henry when a Lieutenant on board her •Majesty'l-Ship
Melville, 74 guns, at Portsmouth harbour; a bleck :feltwhile the
ship was being stripped, and struck his Lordship.,with great vio-
lence on the head. This circumstance led te or accelerated the
distressing event. Before six o'clock expressp!yrgrgilispatched
in all directions to the relatives of thedeeeased, pa,rtieularly
to Lord John Russell, who was at Woburn Abbey. .
The Antwerp Company's steam-ship, Princess
morning,
after Captain Minter, arrived here' yesterday
after a short passage of nineteen hours. The Earl of Essex
and family, Mr. Mildmay and family, Mr. Tierney,;.&c., were
amongst her passengers.
The proceedings in the case of the late Madame de
Feucheres excite great interest in Paris. At tresent the evi-
dence seems, in favour of the claim of the husband, and ninety-
nine out of a hundred hope he may gain,
_ for his conciliar has
throughout the affair been admirable. Everything turns upon
the legitimacy or illegitimacy of Madame de Feucheres. It
is asserted that she was not in any • way related to the family in
the Isle of Wight, whose name, it is said, is Daw not Dawes.
Mr. Dawes, front whom she is supposed to have taken her name,
is said to have been a man with whom she' hied as a mistress,
and who was an officer of some rank in the English army.
A Berlin letter, in the Wursburg Gazette, states
that the following presents from Queen Victoria to the King
and Queen of Prussia had been korwarded through the Prus-
sian Consul in London, viz., a miniature cradle in gold, with a
purse suckling the Prince of Wales ; a toilette apparatus in the
form of a pistol, and opening with a spring ; a snuffbox in
mosaic gold, representing the baptism of the Prince of Wales;
four canisters of snuff; a dozen of knives and forks with gold
handles, ornamented with brilliants and other jewels; a stone
vase containing rare Indian fruits ; and two legs of mutton of
remarkable size. • Part at least of the account appears to us to
be something like a hoax of the journalist.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—THE LATE CASE OF SUSPECTED
SUICIDE IN HYDE PARK.—Last evening an inquest was held
at the sign of the Old King's Head public-house, in Knights-
bridge, before Mr. Higgs, the Coroner for Westminster, on
view of the body of Mary Parkinson, aged 49 years, a single
woman. John Winnett, a bricklayer, stated that about five
o'clock on Friday morning last, as he was crossing the east end
of the Serpentine-river, on his way to his work, he saw the
body of the deceased, face upwards, near to the south shore;
he threw off his coat, and wading in to thedipili of about four
feet, succeeded in getting the body ashore ; it appeared to have
been in the water about an hour. The deceased had a bonnet
and cloak on ; her apparel was not disordered or torn. She
was searched, and nothing was found in her pockets buts. por-
tion of an old song. Mr. Joseph Winn, a tailor, stated that
the deceased was his cousin; she had been a cook in several
respectable families, but had been out of a situation for three
months. She left her home on Thursday morning last to look
for a place, and was not seen again alive by her relatives. She
had lately been in a desponding state of mind, seldom answer-
ing any questions put to her. She was in great distress through
being out of a situation so long, and had parted with every-
thing she possessed to support herself. She had stated in wit-
ness's hearing, and on different occasions, that rather than she
should come to extreme want, she would make away with her.
sell. She had been much respected in the situations she had
held, and about three years ago was much better off. Her
friends heard of her body being found through a paragraph
which appeared in the daily papers. There were no marks of
violence about the_ body. Verdict--" That the deceased
drowned herself while in a state of temporary insanity."
Prince Esterhazy, when travelling in Switzerland
last summer, arrived in the evening of August 26 at Wallen-
stadt, between Zurich and. Ragatz, alighting at the Hotel du
Cerf, chose his rooms, and ordered his supper. While this
was preparing, the Prince took a walk on- the banks of the
lake. Being struck with the beautiful situation of the Hotel
de he entered it, 'and, finding
.that he should have
More enjoyment there, sent a note to his courier at the Cerf,
and desired him to pay all charges, and remove his equipage
and baggage to the Aigle. This letter fell into the hands of
M. Hubert, the landlord of the Cerf, who opened it, and re-
fused to suffer the removal, and afterwards meeting the Prince,
treated him with great personal insult. The Prince com-
plained to the Viee-Prefect, but could not obtain any re-
dress. The affair was at last arranged by the Prince pay-
ing a heavy charge for his rooms andaupper, ordered, but
nut eaten, at the Cerf. He, nevertheless, gave liberal gra-
tuities to the waiters. Travelling, afterwards, by the steam-
boat Minerva, the Prince made an entry in' the vessel's book,
relating all that had passed, and adding some severe reflec-
tions upon the conduct of M. Hubert. Being informed of this
entry, M. Hubert required the Captain of the Minerva to erase
it. As the Captain refused, M. Hubertapplied to the Tribunal
of Sargani for redress. This Court ordered the erasure of the
entry, and that the Captain should pay the costs, but refused to
award anything to the complainant by way of damages. Against
this decision zn appeal was made to the Supreme Court, which
recently decreed that the Captain was not responsible, as the
author of the entry in the vessel's book was known, and there-
fore quashed the former judgment, ordering M. Hubert to pay
'all tte costs, which amount to more than three times the sum
he had obtained from the Prince,

The appeal of Viscount Walsh and M. Voilhet de
St. Philbert against the decision of the Correctional Tribunal,
condemning the former as Director, and the latter as responsi-
ble editor of the Mode, Viscount Walsh to three months' im-
priginment and 3,000 f. fine, and M. Voilhet• to two months'
imprisonment and 2,000 f. fine, for an infraction of the layi, by
announcing the opening of a subscription to ,pay previous
tines, came on yesterday before the Cour Royale.—The judg.
ment was confirmed.

ROYAL LIBRARY, WEYMOUTH, APRIL 30.—The
following ladies and gentlemen landed at a late hour last even-
ing, from the ship Madagascar, Capt. Villier, from Calcutta
Jan. 6, and the Cape, March 4:—General W. S. Whistle,
C. 8., and Lady; Colonel Grieve . Capt. Keating; Capt.
Saay ; Airs. Sparling ; Miss Stambridge; Stambridge, Esq.,
and Lady ; Montgomery, Esq., and Lady; C. J. H.
Grahams, Esq.; J. Sweeder, Esq. ; Pike, Esq.
The funeral of Don Antonio Fernandez Espartero,
the brother of the Regent, was performed with much pomp on
the 19th.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
The Chester Cup has excited so unusual an interest amongst
the south country speculators, that a considerable number of
the subscribers to the room took wing from Newmarket after
the Friday's racing, and others from town yesterday morning;
in fact, so numerous were the departures that the muster yes-
terday afternoon at the Corner was at least fifty per cent. below
par, and business flat and unimportant. A comparison of the
prices below with those published on Monday as the latest in
St. James's, will show that the variance is very slight indeed
in the established favourites, and that the only novelty in the
day's proceedings, was the reappearance of Mr. Ferguson's
Fireavray, on the strength of having ran a decent second to
Great Wonder, for a Queen's Plate at the Curragh last week,
beating several others, his jockey riding 7 lbs. overweight.
The general prices at the close were as follows :
CHESTER CUP.
7 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Marshal Soult
7 to 1 agst Mr. Holmes's Vulcan
7 to I agst Mr. Greville's Rory O'More
10 to 1 agst Mr. Kirby's Lanetcost
11 to 1 agst Mr. C. St. Paul's Jolly Tar
IS to 1 agst Major Hay's Retriever
( All these odds were taken' to small sums.)
THE DERBY.
3to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Attila-7 to 2 taken
5 to 1 agst Mr. Trelawny's Frederica c.-11 to 2 taken
Bto 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Canadian—. 9 to 1 taken
16 to I agst Lord Westminster's Auckland—take 18 to 1
25 to '1 agst Mr. G. Clark's Lord of Holderness—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Roger's Tiptoe
25 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Ballinkeele
30 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Chatham—taken
40 to I agst Mr. Ferguson's Fireaway—taken
1000 to 15 agit Mr. G. Clark's Baronet--taken
OAKS.
6 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Dil-bar
25 to 1 agst Mr. Shackel's Meal—taken