The Sun.
London, England, 1816-02-07 00:00:00

PROVIDENT 11A

A pretty numerous meeting took place on Mon•
day at Mr. Honms'llooms, Covent,Girden, ro
consider the propt iety Gf establishing a Bank to
receive the savings of 'industrious person:—lo
improve them at interest, and to return them to
the depositors whenever. required, according to
their wants, or for their advancement in life.—
Mr. BEAtimoWt, who proposed the plan, declared
himself to be convinced that more might he done
. to.- improve the morals, habits, and comforts of
the working class, by the establishment of Parish
hanks, then by 'any other interference of their
wealthy neighbours. The success of similar so-
clerics in Scotland, although or but recent loutt-
&rim), he considered to be a proof of their con-
venience inol benefit to the public. but in tieor•
land they had facilities of intiking money yield in-
terest %solidi we had not in Erigl :Od—the Bankers
there; allowing interest on deposits Hbdve 101. it
was only necessary to clah the weekly saving; of
many persons together, and their weekly contri-
butions immediately produced interest. The
custom with the Bankers in England was dif-
fereor. In the Provident Bank already establish-
ed here, they were obliged to wait until. it suit-
ed to buy into the FundO, by which interest was
lost, and expense incurred. Mr. Beau MONT then
said, there was a mode of investment open to
them, by which the savings might be put out to
interest in England, as promptly tree- from ex-
pense; and' to the WI as securely as in Scotland.
By an Act of Parliament, 33 Geo. Ile. cap. 54,,
Friendly Stiricties enrolled according to that. Act
have a preference given to than over ati other
Creditors in recovering sums of money belonging
to them from the estates or their 'Treasurers or
other officers, should they die or become hankrnpt
or insolvent; They had therefore only to, elect
from amougithe most opulent of their neighbours,
inch. of them to-he Treasnre'ts as were willing to
receive the weekly aniMilits and pay interest
thereon. They might lie :e sit minty Treasurers,
that not more than two or three lomdred pounds
should be in the hands of one person or firm,
when, if it turned out that they ‘sere deceived
by appentanee-s, and that a Treasure! shonld be
hisoivent, they woitm still he secure, inovided his
goods, stock, and debts owing to hint were sutii-
dent to cover the deposits in his hands, ao.l it
was unlikely that any person would .be chosen
Treastirer, unless his visible property exeeeded ten
times 2-or 3001: The amount of the debts owing
by the Treasurer to others they need not regal{,
as they Would be prior claimants. The plan was
warmly supported—, Committee of Mrnagtment
tippointed,'. and the books ordered' to be inonedi-.
ately opened..

• SAYING 11,04x.-4-tritirly evening, 're nre happy
to state, there were received Iron, IA) depositors,
one hundred and tifty-two pounds, itialiing the
total snot deposited in tour ;sights, four hundred
and forty.tOur pounds twelve shillings and 3.1)"...
pence.-(Bcdfirst Nates Letter.) .
114%liNt SAVING 8ANK....70n the evening of the
27th instant, this Blink opened to receive, de-
.
posits,,whetin we are happy to learn, the receipts
amounted to the soul of sixty-one pounds faurieeu
shillings and two-pence, from one hundred. until
four depositors. (--Ibid).

A troop 61 disniontited ttirasNiers dailyparade
the strtoi, with cards of ilsitstinii, frmu 4 Cuti-
cles!, to pat take bf her fioilden B:iniiitet on Va.
leutine's Day, Next AVedue4day, when the wh,ei
of Fortune- will Open with Two Prigs 'of 'B,OOO
Gnitieits, Two of 20,0001, and many ThOusands of
o.tlier Prizes of varied values—All of Sterling
Money,—with 'less than Two Shanks to a 'Prize
and this is the only Lottery, for ,there will be uo
small Oue.to follow 4, •45• of littc Yeurs,

THE SUN REVIEW.

(Nu. CSIX.)

The Ps.Oiri-Por.TE CuMPASIONi or, a Popular Vitnv of thc
Meienct. hod Practice of Mus,e. pp. Sher.vood and
Ncte!).. 'Price Gs. bea.rels.

, Tois is it eery ingenious, well-arranged, and
useful work, and it gives as much pleaSure' to he
aide to announce such a contribution to the taste
of the day. We are not among those who would
expetienee any very serious alarm at the preva-
lence of musical studies in England..
.Eireininitcy
and dissolutenessi. loss of national vigour; and of
personal virttr.., have, we know, been coimected
with the idea of this prevalence, and that tact by
many worthy and weli-meaning persons. But the
authorities of the past are strongly against their
dreams;of the future. The passionate nod deep
de'otion of the Geeek to music, however it might,
initis idler hour have Adminiitered to his idler re-
' laxatiott, yet seems never to have diminished his
spirit for the time when the • lyre was to be
exchanged for the spear. All that tells us of
, :the Prince of Macedon) the very initdel of in-
defatigable perseverance and valour,;, brilliant
and luXuriant up to the extreme of romance, tells
us of- his ardour for music. . The anecdote of his
failtef's rvotonstratiog with him for condescend-
ing to learn, in his general 'devotion to the art,
aii instrument so imperfect as the flute, while*tha
lyre, with its whole enchantment of power aml
expression„Lty before him, adds the teat lumpy of,
a nom as little as any that ever lived, tai be he-
gilded from the solid and the politic by. the t.eak-
nesses of sympathY and the heart,. And thils
the More peculiar, as if there be a danger in mu-
sic, it is in that stile of softness and expression,
and rich oat-pouring of the feelings, and elo-
quent tenderness of voice and languages that
so naturally mid peculiarly is combined with the
aceompaohnent of the harp anti the lyre.—
fu our own day, lias the character of Scotland
failed in the field, or on the sea--in the .struggles
of the State, or in the put ides of private life,
front the touching sweetuess of its native music?
Even in Ireland, the parent of snide of the most
exquisite compositions that have eser come from
human feeling, where is the evidence that there
has been a failure of national boldness, of the gal-
lantry ofthe soldier, or the endaratice of bardahip,
from the deliciousness of her national songs. We
dwell upon this point with the more interest, that
*this moment Scotland, the patron and producer
of so many noble and patriotic plans, is busied
in forming a great schoollor the encouragement of
music. Her first object is, of course, sacred
mosic. All the test will follow with the regniar
progress of taste; and we do not despair of seeing
her ancient musical distinction reviving day by
day in melodies worthy of her genius anti name.
Italy, has fallen, but who ascribes with any shew
of reason her de.g,raation to 'her music. Pro-
fligacy, public and private,- would shake a State,
it there was not a lute within its limits. We wish
to see this admirable example adopted among our,.
selves. There is a Prmligitius quantity of musi-
cal rulvat, as there is at every other species, latent
in England. We ate coming to the time when
our genius must lie turned to other arts than those
of ar, and we speak ,it in perfect sincerity), When
we say, that we scarcely knotra present of More
serious value that! could he flunk to . the - lower
orders than a taste for music. There are persons
who will stare at t his, and go through the old topics
of such thing:'' being beyond their sphere,'' gi ring
them high notions, " withdrawing them from their
Work, &c." But it should he remembered, that
when the relative superiority is maintained the
respect will exist equally relative ,f that the peasant
or servant will generally have too Much to do to
attain any thing beyond a very limited approach'
to excellences that the Iterson who is forced to
live on the wages received front a master will not
feel his obedience less due, because he may happen
to pity the fiddle ; that no labour is so cheerfully
undertaken as 'that which is relieved by grateful
relaxation ; that no relaxation is equal in its (le.'.
light, its facility, its innocence, and in its allay-
ing power to music ; ant! in addition to all, that
where we have'ilie means of harmlessly lighten-'
ing the natural trouble* Of life to ;tor fellow crea-
ttires, it becomes almost a solemn , linty not to
deny!to 'them the indulgence intended fur all by
the scheme of Providence, who, among the ne-
cessities, has provided so richly for the pleasures'
of rational life', has made all creation .

",licauty to our eyro anti music to our ear."

«'e ijiiliice
the imitation of Trance, and the
foppery-of, using its language, but it would give
04 signal pleasure to be able to announce the es-
,tablistunent of a " Coll%erViliOire" in 1;011(101r,
for the musteal justruetion of all such poor per-
sous. as tlise44vered an eminent genius for the Sci-
ence, unit for all those others who, being in more
fortunate ciretimltancesi might avail themselves
of the institution on the payment of a small stun.
belicvo tbilt the Idea Liss 9:4 to be adopted by

Inille ()four higher Amuteurs to be eagerly enter-
ed I);_mn, and fol!owett up with 'the tuu'ltificence,
that I;....!migs to the British nnme.

The Treptise in queQtiott we have already clta-
raeteritNl as ingenious. Jr rnns of course too
deeply into theory tor its to make extracts from
its more scientific parts. We give merely a few'
parigreplis as an example of its general spirit
and stile:—

" Jt is an cstnb!ished fact that bartnony may
exist independentlrof instrament ; the latter in-
deed are the only true andfixed measures of it.
The music of 'the voice when good is superior in.
its effects to that of any instrument, because the

tone is more natural, theeefore more gratifying in.
itself, tvbile by the on :on of sense Ivith sound,
by Means of words, the mind is entertained while:
the car is delighted. it follows, that to prodne,e
fine vocal music, it is not only necessary that the
coniposer should be profoundly skilled in Om
science;` but that he,shotild also" be acquainted
with human nature, and possess the power of
trdtismitting his ftelings to others."

The chief point on which the Author rests, and
whieh,he'considers as the foundation of Lis sys-,
tem is, '' that it is in the properties of the !Inman
tlie human'ear, and the human mind, that
'tee are to seek for the primary laws of melody and
harmony." All ihis is extremely well conceived.
and followed up with a variety of dextrous con-
elusions. The reference of all excellence in the in-
struniental to its standard in the voice, is con-
verted into a real discovery by the use made of it
in the subsequent pages, and in this the stye-
rimity of expression to execution, the great
ground of all hope of 1111USiCal
!idle laid anti provided for. We perfeetly.reCont--
mend the work.