THE CARNIVAL.

Evening Star, Issue 4135, 29 May 1876, Page 2

THE CARNIVAL.

The concert on Saturday night was attended by bo largest audience of the week. It is estimated • hat at nine o’clock, when the crush, was the (] greatest, there must have" been fully 6,000 persona if all ages and sexes present. The vocalists in the ifternoon were Hisses Jago and "Webb, and Sjessrs Denovan and Stewart, and in the evening thjjWbjpas nore vocal and instrumental music. The t Band supplied the music for dancing, i L vigorously kept up fora couple of hours. u Mr Hirsch delivered his lecture on dyeuw- ■* in / the evening, and also made some expgjg-a*. t meats with cochineal solutions, t ,] lucing bright, fast reds on wool. We space tor the whole of Mr Hirsch’s remarks, 1 j however seemed to command a deal of attention, I I and to contain much of novelty to ah ordinary I j audience. The lecturer commenced by pointing out j that colors are to the eye what musical sounds are I to the ear, and that differences of color aro pro- I I duced by different degrees of rapidity of ether I ] vibrations. He next illustrated the close connection { oT 1 botany, and meteorology, let blonV’cheihlfctfy 1 and mechanical science. Speaking about the I purple of the ancients, he said that at I Athens and Pompeii large quantities of the shells I btJLhA,Pmgum^emmlpm^an i d 1have been discovered in TSStps hlSlior ts‘'a I fie!BtSt'T dye-works, whence it is oonoludedthat the purple I was,derived .from these molluscs. Among the I Chinese, Hong-Pi, a-sort of-Brian O’bynn,'was the I first;to went a coat colored'blue like the color of | heaven. The lecturer then told hie audience how I scarlet was accidentally discovered,! I and;-the j legend of: Giiles Gobelin,who. is said-te have I • sold bis.-soul to thpr devil in exchange Tor Icnifn- I ’ teg ho »v to dye scarlet; how Gobelin siiocoencd T in cheating ,ttaqt devil out,of hia'bargain,' where- J upon he angrily Vanished. leaving -' behind a J terrible stihk/ much worse than that loft by Dr I Black on the occasion of. his/last lecture on j { chemistry. As an instance', of' the absurdity I of Government interference the leolu er read an I Act passed in the reign of Queen Elisabeth, en- | titled “ An Act. for the abolishing of oerteine deceitful Stuffe used in dyeing of clothes,” prohibiting I I the use of logwood, which Act was renewed after I sixteen years, with'the addition that the--person I offending was liable to imprisonment and pillory, J I and how in Gtetbahy by the Imperial) Diet held at I Eegensburg indigo was.declared, a “ damaging. mt-, I t'.ng, dovil's/and oorrosivo cplor.*’: We were qlse, | told;that.lie, English term Crimson is 'derived I -through the Italiad atid French' from I kernes, an Arabic word, signifying ” little wdnn;’*; I that; according to Professor; Uroobet, kermes is-the. |/oldest coloring material still in use, it having been knoVm in the time of Moses, being mentioned, by its ( Hebrew name .tola.. Mi;. Hirsch, concluded by I alluding to anittee. colors as the greatest triumph 1 of the moderh ohemistj 'these brilliant'oolbte-being■ I eAtraordinarily fugitive,however. . -n ■ ■ Thewoelpto were as'follows V . 1 • . ;-£■ I Doors ... .... ...... .../‘IB® ■8 * 0 I Bars ; ,»:c.. .> ... ; .... , 63 18 I Tlmumatrope ... ... ... ... ;01fc;;0 ; ‘'Gazette’ ... ...‘■'ld*l2 i Tß Air pistol•: . ....; ... ,: .vl; d.2,iQ Mba photographs ... ... ./j.. . 24 € Lithographs ... ... ... ... ... ‘ S &‘D Skating ;..' ... r .V. ... ... ' 0i 4/0 , Papyrogiaph ...- ... ... 2dl|o ; o’Kiel’s dogs ... t fi 11 6 ‘Gazette'isupple'menta' ... ... ' 0S ;0 ’ Turkish Baths Weighing-machine ... 410 6 Lithographs ... ... , ... ...-«» .0, 0* 0 • Total ... ' :... ' ... &288 16 2 ■ Which, added to the takings of the previous' data, ' amount to L 784 8s sd. The Carnival closes to-night with the Bruce auction. : At ameetingo'f the Committee hbld. oil Saturday i! it-was decided to, send the following letter; which .. explains l itsell/to the secretaryoif theServauts’ Home and- -the' 'hiaster of the Sailors’ Home:— ! *• With, reference to the written nndpersonal applil cations to the Committee of tbb. entertainments bn . behalf -of the tends of the Benevolent Institution -- *to continue thbm for another i evening ihfavor of the ‘Servants’ Home, I am directed: to.pay' that, , after having; given - the matter at- several, meetings 1 -its careful consideration, the Comthitteo doefe not i see ite way-’to Compty.with tha request .which 3 has been made. . The Committed .that it hat c . beeh elected by thq public,fpr a spacial object. Tlj{ . contributions and exhibits it has Bee u ablb to obtan 3’ - for -carrying: it QUt; the services Of 'the ladies and c gentlcihen which have so genferonsly and grattn ; tously been rendered, the ‘response which hhi heed so cordially givenby. the pnbiie,. hOvenlLbee? 1 for that-sne nnriHMfl^and-jtto-CQmmßtQeJ:wlß. I tim] B it wbuld be going beyond ite duties and Sskingroi mueh, not only from thaVgotndbsity of Messri 3 - Guthrie and Lamaoh,-but-lrom all those, jvho .havi - worked so hard to ensure a favorable result, if thi • eutertainiaentsiate continued ’ beyond*;; tho . timi i arranged. The Committee would further point bh tliai; the insurance over the exhibits expires oi e; Monday. aud that they must, on that d»y r bp-'fre turned to the owners, unless specially requests otherwise, in which case the Committed-*, jegbpon *> sibility wopld cease.. The,. Committee hopes tha k- the : ladies reprehentiiig the'. Berrianta’iSoihe jvfrjl 3. | notbonsider -tois tefusal a* indicating any desire t l r ’"T ni'r_hpjnagnb>i\t.eff^v<g ■: I will mdiyidually. be happy ,to do » f ■ something to help the fund y rl- tho public has nad a nttle broafcbilig ttme^ 1 j . The resolved that a fancy dises bal begiveu to.Mes*s.Guthrie and LCTnaoh.atthei i establishment, if available, in token of the apiai mateon of the public of the firm’s kindness fn cot 0 nechon with -the Carnival. Thb Mia. of the ba i>. was left for decision at a future meeting Th t “a“i?8 of contributors to the Bruoe auction-will b 0 111 las|! issue oft- the VCarniv*