The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-08 00:00:00

T
b TRE I.NFANT SAPPIIO.—It
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er performance -On Monday

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er may be h
acceptable, we quote the for,.
v 4/ Review :—LouisaVinning was born at
~uushire, on the 10th of November, 1836, and is consequently
jllottile more than five years and a half old. Her father, Mr.
lyi'lll Vinning, evinced a precocious taste for music, and,
a child, was taken from his parents by Mr. Garrow, a
Devoe.
of Judge Garrow, and now a magistrate of Torquay,
Under the auspices of this gentleman, who was a
IpPil of the late Mr. Mori, his pr(-3•
astered and encouraged. Mr.
141141' Chapel at the age of twelve yeas.,
,
ih that capacity at various churches. months, the the intense delight Miss Vinning derived from m,
was first ascertained by the influence the sound of her father's
v
than her
had upon her; no sooner did he commence his strains,
her face beamed with delight, and her whole frame
r'loved in unison w t measure. She began to sing be-
re she could speaithk. One evening, in the summer of 1839,
when she was only three years old, the father was summoned
to
the couch of his sleeping child, to listen to the soft notes
the was unconsciously warbling. Struck with the novelty of
e melody, which the infant sang several times, he embraced
the oPportunity of writing it, and arranged a symphony and
fl.'epaniment for it, which he appropriately styled " The
o,ent's Dream." Whilst at play, she gives utterance to
her musical ideas by instinct, as it were, and many of these
f4,thehes of song have been transferred to paper by her
publication. When the little songstress attained
!rsaecond year, she was announced to sing in public as a
whh_ical prodigy, and she made a great impression upon those
heard her. The opinion of the "monster public" was
tre. °ed by musicians of eminence. The following is an ex-
ti:let from a letter to Mr. Vinning from the great pianiste,
I:, kind-hearted w
h Thalbergregret exceedingly I have
until no ad a spare moment to fulfil my promise in
(14i/1g to you, expressing the delight I had in hearing your
,-ar little girl sing so astonishing correct, and with so pleas.
a voice. She is, indeed, a most astonishing child, and
sicihie she will soon meet the patronage and encouragemer
leh her extraordinary talent undoubtedly claims." M
'1 i'tcheles, in a letter dated the 29th of March, 1840, says
a NZ appears to me, not only to be most liberally gifted v
ce of unusual compass, but also with a sen.'`•
tairpization, whether as concerns the '-
4,1 melodies, or of reproducir
Georllll4
ehig only three years old."
hge Smart adds the following remark, couched in language
star Is usual propriety and good sense :—" I beg leave to
afro that I consider her a most wonderful child, possessing
withN," feeling for music, with an extraordinary correct ear,
for time and tune; her singing is perfectly natural, and
in effort." After having sung at several musical parties
ears -,,11,110a, the fame of the " Infant Sappho " reached the
to . the Queen, and in August, 1840, an order was sent
Maher, father to repair to Buckingham Palace, where her
ehiftr,tY, after hearing her, expressed her delight, took the
Ih. her arms, embraced her, and placed in her bosom a
in it.,ll,ihcent diamond nd pin, without which she never appears
but -,„"ille• When singing,'
she dues not pronounce any words
More",e,relY the musical sound of the melody, restriblir
Pass f`he Italian accent than any other language:
titre, r°,4l C (which is the natural key) to A (which requires.
the sharps to restore the semitones to the true localities on
tllajO'r) with great precision, and can modulate from a
hiffer `°,a minor key, in which the localities of semitones
Or foilrs,lle is capable of singing, an air after hearing it three
41.°,1 04 'imes. She is a self-taught dancer as as a singe,
hirthd the occasion of the celebration of the Princess Mary's
10 be a 4, at the Duchess of Gloucester's, she had the honour
tioo.r
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shall be able to state in. this day
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F'xu.—On Friday afternoon, about three o'clock, a fire
was discovered in Mr. Hampton's patent amber malt ware-
house, in Grayson-street. Before the flames had obtained
any great head, the police fire-engines were in attendance,
and extinguished the fire in a few minutes. It is supposed
that it originated in a kiln which is chiefly used for the dry-
ing of malt upon the premises. The kiln was occupied by
cotton, which had been placed there for the purpose of being
dried, and, whilst undergoing that process, combustion took
place. The flames extended to the roof of the kiln, which
they destroyed, and then communicated with other cotton
which was in the upper room of the warehouse. Here some
two or three bags were destroyed, but the active operations
of the engines prevented further damage and subdued the
flames
A

KIFTII OF NOVEMBER CASUALITY.—James Bradley,
a youth, aged about seventeen years, was placed before Mr.
Rushton, on Saturday, charged with having committed an
offence against the law which prohibits the use of fire-arms
within the borough. A gentleman produced a hollow iron
tube, about half a pound weight. It had originally been part
of an iron gaspipc, but one end had been closed up, and near
this end a hole had been partly filled and partly drilled, so
as to make a rude sort of cannon, about six inches in length,
and half an inch in the bore. This the prisoner had dis-
charged in a piece of vacant ground in Burlington-street.
Such was the force of the recoil that the tube had ilown
distance of thirty-five yards, passed through the window of
Mrs. Barton's public-house, and struck a settle within one
of the appartments, after which it dropped near the feet of a
gentleman, who appeared as a witness. The prisoner was
fined 10s. and costs; in default of payment, he was to be im-
prisoned five days.

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LIVERPOOL CALEDONIAN FItEE SCHOOL.—On the 14th
ult., Mr. Thomas Macgill, ex-president of the Caledonian
Free School of this town, forwarded to •his Royal Highness
Prince Albert copies of two original anthems, written for and
sung by the children of the above school, at the celebration
of her Majesty's coronation and marriage. The anthems
were accompanied by a letter, stating that 350 children, of
Scottish parentage, were receiving education suited to their
sphere in life at these schools, and concluded as follows :
...

" Should your royal highness be pleased to direct that a bible,
with your autograph. be sent as a donation to the library of
this charitable institution, in token of your approval of the
sentiment contained in the anthems, it would have a happy
effect on the young minds of the scholars." In consequence
of this letter, his royal highness, through his secretary, Mr.
Anson. has forwarded a small bible to the school, and on the
guard leaf is the followinz inscription :—" Albert, Windsor
Castle, October 21, 1842."
THE NEW BANKRUPTCY ACT.—The Gazette, of Friday,
contains an order dividing the kingdom into seven districts
for the purposes of the act. The following relates to the Li-
verpool districts :