The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-11 00:00:00

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language under such circumstances may not only
be excused, but se€ms to be absolutely called for.

Summer Tours in Central gmrope, 1853-4. By
John Barrow, Esq. W. H. Dalton.

At the present time, when tourists are busy
making up their minds what route to select for
their annual excursion, the appearance of a work
of this sort is quite opportune. Already favour-
ably known as an intelligent and observant traveller
by his " Tour on the Continent by Rail and Road,"
the author fully sustains his reputation, and pre-
sents us with a valuable handbook for travellers in
Bavaria, Austrian Tyrol, North Italy, Savoy,
Piedmont, .kc., with a map of Central Europe.
Ample information is given respecting prelimi-
naries ; and, once started on the journey, the
reader feels he is fallowing a judicious and trust-
worthy guide. This is high praise ; and when we
add the book is cheap and portable, we are quite
sure tourists will hasten to purchase it. In an
Appendix an outline is given of a Summer Tour in
S witzerland, 1851.

Thorn's Irish Almanac and Official Directory, with
the Post-Office Dublin City and County Directory,
for the Year 1855. Dublin : Alexander Thom
and Sons.
An astonishingly cheap and valuable work, con-
taining au immense amount of information, com-
piled with judgment, and arranged with praise-
worthy care and skill. It comprises fifteen Direc-
tories—viz., a British, a Parliamentary, a Peerage
and Baronetage, a Naval and Military, a Colonial,
a Statistical, an Irish Peerage, a Government
Offices, University, &c., an Ecclesiastical, a Law,
a Banking, a Postal and Conveyance, a County and
Borough, and a Post-Office Dublin City and County
Directory, with other useful information. The
statistics of Ireland possess a more than Irish inte-
rest, indeed a large proportion of the Directory
does so ; and the work, we feel convinced, will
command, as it deserves, a large and remunerating
sale.

A Journov through f 7 o Mvitod Mato., aiva Part of
Canada. By the Rev. Robert Everest, late
Chaplain to the East India Company. John
Chapman.
The work of an observant but very prejudiced
tourist, who paints everything, with a few excep-
tions, in America couleur de rose. In his opinion
there is nothing like a republic, and nothing equal
to the republic of the United States. Fennimore
Cooperish—if we may be allowed the term—as he
is in the expression of his political views, he cannot
away with American slavery, and disapproves of
American repudiation and literary piracy. Not-
withstanding all defects, however, the book is
lively and readable, and, when one is disposed to be
angry, some bit of naivete anent the fair sex in
America soothes us into good humour. The
American ladies don't please Mr. Everest.

Speech delivered by the Right Son. Sir John
Pakington, Bart., M.P. Thomas Hatehard.
A speech to be read and pondered over.

The Purchase System and the stag: By an Of6.cer,
James Ridgway.
A summary exposure of the system, with prac-
tical suggestions.

The Encroachments of Russia. T. W. Graham.
A cheap and valuable history of the territorial
encroachments of Russia, since the time of Peter
the Great, with much useful information respect-
ing that country, and her insidious and lying
diplomacy. Anglo-Russians would do well to read
it.

English, French, Turkish and Russian Vocabulary,

Franz Thomm.

Intended for the use of the army, navy, and
travellers, and likely to be of service to members
of these classes at the present time.

Australia a Mistake. Edward Standford.

The author, a retired officer, late a resident in
New Brunswick, endeavours, and not altogether
unsuccessfully, to show that the latter colony is
the colony for the emigrant.

What shall I do with my Money ?
_By S. T.

Harvey. Washbourne and Co.

The sixth edition of a valuable little work, giving
a concise and well-digested account of the different
securities in this country for investment. Small
capitalists especially should buy it.

Boze Zbatve Polkse.

The second part of Krasinki's History of Poland,
a history which English readers will do well to
study.

Ballad of the Battle of the Alma. By Alfred B
Richards.

A third edition of this spirit-stirring, graphically
descriptive, and patriotic ballad.

Suggestions by John Tidd Pratt, Esq., for the
Establishment of Friendly Societies, with Tables,
the.

The eminent position and well-proved ability of
Mr. Pratt, as Registrar of Friendly Societies in
England, renders any recommendation of this
pamphlet unnecessary, while a summary of its con-
tents would be an injustice to the inquiring reader.
The pamphlet itself should be purchased and read.

Is the War Just F W. H. Dalton.

A Letter—a last desperate appeal, in iact—to
Lord Palmerston, by some well-meaning but over-
credulous gentleman, who thinks, on the whole, it
is not. We are disposed to respect the author,
whoever he may be, but he must excuse us if we
are at this time of day a little curt in our notice of
such an appeal.

Assault of Sebastopol.
Messrs. Chapman and Hall have published under
one cover two large and well-executed Typographi-
cal and Panoramic Sketches (by Captain M. A.
Biddulph, R.A., acting as assistant engineer in the
trenches) representing the advanced lines of attack,
and the Russian defences in front of Sebastopol,
with descriptive and explanatory remarks—the
whole giving a clear as well as a correct notion of
the present state of the siege at a cost of the least
possible trouble.

London Price List of British Mines.
Under this title Messrs. Benjamin Lambert and
James B. Brenchly, share-dealers, Threadneedle-
street and Old Broad-street, have arranged to issue
a list every Wednesday, containing the latest and
most accurate information respecting British mines.
Judging from the impression before us, the list is
likely to be regarded as a valuable boon by specu-
lators and shareholders.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

As soon as the Duke of Wellington arrived at Spit-
head on Sunday morning a steam-tug went alongside
with the dockyard workmen, and her repairs were com-
menced immediately. In the afternoon she sent her
foreyard on shore, and next morning a lighter brought
her broken bower anchor to the dockyard. The work-
men are employed upon her eight and day, but it will be
eight or ten days before she will be again ready for sea.
The master of the George Hurlbut (the ship which ran
into the Duke) takes all the blame upon his own vessel.
He says he had just gone below when the ships closed
with each other so rapidly that the man at the helm be-
came confused with the number of lights shown by the
fleet, and put his helm a-starboard, and so caused the
accident. The emigrants have been allowed to live on
board the Dryadpiulk while the ship is repaired, which
is being done by a private builder.
The St. George, Calcutta, and Powerful were to leave
Spithead yesterday for Dover, to salute the Emperor of
the French as he passes. After remaining a few days
at Windsor, it is expected he will visit Portsmouth and
review the ships,left at Spithead. The Bellerophon, 80,
Captain Lord G. Paulet, is being stripped by parties of
men from different ships, while her own crew have been
granted 15 days' leave.

ARRIVAL OF THE DTJNBAR.
The transport Dunbar, Mr. Charles Scott, master,
Lieut. Richard Hoops, R.N., Admiralty agent, arrived
at Spithead yesterday morning, 78 days from Consr
tinople, with sick and wounded invalids from the ;Ft:
Gib-
war. She left Corfu on the 15th of February, d
Mrs.
rbaolutanrcton
Athtetret!ilaotftelkripairacch; hwaevrienghlnin
, and
hAsgrtßilleNry.); l Mrs.
la an -American 'OlOOP-et- - home
Vengeance and
Hee
Ia" D lyarthas brought ii
the transport Payla. he' el? ,
the 34th.Reirurtet",
-in c arbe of
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t o , Mrs
Apderigri, -48t11 Regiment •
invalids ; Quartermaster,,J, _ „_, ~ )
• Medical- ,Charge tieorge .ralatiano,
Lieut.
Lieutenant-fJ.,l4,l3acua Itoyal Artillery;h,
Civil Surgeon in
Ander.-
cEdhihlvraer:(RGerystifflit
d three children (34th Regiment) ; Mrs. M.
.Rowan an
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Buchanan
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anC Commander a
f7,:luerr
A. Reay and two children (34th Regiment) ; Mrs.
combo, four children (57th) ; Mrs. Grace, ditto . Bat.
Walkor and four children (71st) ; Quarterm
son's three childreh (48th) ; invalided troops,"er
women, 151 ; children, 266. Invalided l4B ;
jesty's ship Modesto at Corfu 2 able from her Ma- 1
fuom the steam transport liabiana, No.seamen, 1 stoker
servant born on the passage, ii l6O, and 1 civil
34th Regiment., lof the 71,1 ; died, 1 man of the
12 children. She vas ordered , 1 woman of the 34th, and
as ordered by electric
terday afternoon to - j
gallant freight. She proceed to Chatham to laud h '
her
but up to 6 o'cl I anchored at 8a m off Portsmouth,l
oc c. at night . .
what-
ever, we are assured b no military authority
off to her from the a competent authority, had been
Breton, who has ass department under Major-General
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,u asserted that "as soon asa vessel is
dot ° riteo4 Odell
- . P!14(1 bilhi,c4 ki_bletty (Asktant-
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