NOTES ON NAPLES.
The Court Circular, the other day, contained a statement that the hand of the 1st Life Guards was in attendance during Her Majesty’s dinner, and played, amongst other pieces of music, a “Mélange” by Binder, named “Souvenir de Naples.”
Mr. Binder’s medley we may suppose to have been one of a descriptive character; such as the celebrated Battle of Prague. In the latter composition, our grandmothers used to hear the “groand of the wounded;” in the former the Royal dinner party probably distinguished the groans of the tortured, and the rattling of the prisoners’ chains. Such sounds “most musical, most melaneholy,” would necessarily constitute the strongest effects in the performance of any accurate harmonic recollection of Naples.
QUESTIONS FOR THE ADMIRALTY.
Is a screw steamer, if a man-of-war, a male screw or a female screw?
Does the screw principle involve any economy of coals?
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