The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-19 00:00:00

OYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL. GARDENS
ill et The Props iet,r has great satisfaction in announcing that he
has ,ucceeded In forming an engagement with 711071 S JULLIEN to
give a series of SIX GRANO CONC ..RTS, commencing THIS DAY
(Monday!, Jii y 16th, arld concluding on Saturday, .luly 21st, in
which the principal celebrites of Mona. Jullien's Orchestra will ap-
pear, together with several artistes of Eurooean renown, engaged by
Mons. Jullien during his la:t visit to Germany, Italy, and France,
who will have the honour of m--king their first appearance on thi,
occasion Tw, Military Bands et the Guards are *No engaged.
f ming, with Mons. Jultien's Orchestra, the mat munificent En-
Fernble rle 11116111 C Militaire ever presented to the public. Princl-
ral instrumental nerformers :—!/ essts. Baumann, Lavigne, Waite,
Arian, Colltnet, Fr soh, Howell, Sonnemberg, Pepin', Simar, Prat-
ten. &a.: The following artistes of continental renown will make
their flr-t ap earance :—M ons I eloup, cornet-A-Piston (from the
Guides of the King of the Belgians) ; Herr Reichert. flute (from the
Conservatoire of Brussels) ; Herr Nebish, trombone (from the Royal
Chapel of the King of Saxony); Signor Martini, ophicleide (from
Le Scala and the Consery toire of Mil n) : Mons Guerin, bomber-
done (from the Guiles of the Inv-algal Guards, Paris). In the Zon
ayes' Pas its course, the trumpet parts will be performed by MM.
Constant, Charles, Modrut, I egrand, H. Rovin, and A. Bonin. The
Repertoire of New Music, comrosel by Mons. Jullien since his last
Concerts at Covent-garden, will include the Zonsves' Pas de Course
or the As anit Gahm ; I.a Rose et la Viol-tte Valse, dedicated to
their NT ajeqi es the Queen of F.ngl Ind and the Empress of the French ;
the Bel eof the Village Valse, with Echos on the Lake. The Con-
cert will conclude with the Allied Armies Quadrille. performed at
Drury-lane and Covent-garden Theatres for seventy consecutive
nights, before the most crowded audiences ever assembled in those
national establishments; arranged expressly for military music
and for introduction into the meant cent Spectacle of Sebast..pol
Principal Cornet, Herr Koenig. Conductor, Mons. Jullien. Admis-
sion, Is.

THE END of the VACATIONS.
Parents and guardians in London and the country are re-
minded of the advantages derived from procuring' Dress for Youths
and Juveniles at the establishment and Branch Establishments of
E. OSES and Sox.
Young Gentlemen about returning to School or College are tho-
roughly equipped with the most fashionable and comfortable attire
From the largest stock in the world of new materials and style
the most satisfactory selection may be made.
Self-measurement, sent gratis, will enable all who reside at a dis-
tance to procure the most artistic tit.
Schools and private families in the neifrhbourhood of the metro-
polio waited upon by the most accomplished cutters, and orders
attended with greater despatch, correctness, and economy than at
any other house.
E. MOSES and Sox • have a vast assemblage of novelties in Dress
for the season ; they compri,e every new design, both in Fabrics
and Manufacture. Every class of purchasers will find the most
pleasing provisions for all their requirements in Dress, Hata, Hosiery,
800. s and Sboes, &c.
he Emperor's Cape, made cnly by E. Moses and CON, and now
universally appreciated, is liobt, waterproof, and gentlemanly. its
price is 265. plain ; richly immed with silk, 32a.
The Goods in the Wholesale Clothing, Shirt, and Boot and Shoe
Departments are the moat advantageous investments which Mer-
chants, captains, and Emigrants can make.
CAlrrlox.—E. Moses and SON beg to state thoyhave no connexio,
with any other house in or out of London, except their own Esta-
blishments, as follow :
London City Establishment, corner of the •Minories and 2.lAgatu
. agate
the church).
London West-end Branch, New Oxford-street, corner of Hart
street.
Country Branches—Sheffield and Bradford, Yorkshire.
Colonial Wholesale Branch—Melbourne, Australia.
The establishments zee closed from sun, et on Fridays till sunset or.
Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock.
Tarroarsivr.—Shoeld any article not give satisfaction it will be ex-
changed or, if preferred, the money returned without hesitation. Al,
goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no
abatement can be made.
A New Book, with lists of prices, system of self-measurement,
and other intormation, may be had on application, or post free.
lei on parle Francais. i Qni si penis Italians.
Hier spricht man Deutsch. • eon se habla Espagnol.

RICHARD LALOR SHELL.

Memoirs of the ROI Hon. Richard Lator Shell. By W.
Torrens M'Cullagh. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett, for
Henry Colburn.
It cannot but be a matter of congratulation among the
admirers of the late Right Hon. Member for Dungarvan
that the office of his biographer has devolved upon his
,friend Mr. Torrens M'Cullagh. That gentleman has, in
unaffectedly acquitting himself of his task, proffered a
genial tribute to the memory of an incorruptible patriot,
an illustrious orator, and an enlightened statesman ; and,
while so doing, has contributed materials of no common
value towards the future political history of his genera-
tion. We accept these two volumes precisely as they are
intended to be accepted by their author, for no more and
for no less scarcely so much as the elaborated narrative
of a life, as a painstaking endeavour to illustrate by a re-
cord of undoabted facts and indisputable opinions the con-
sistency of Mr. Shell's conduct throughout the whole of the
chequered phases of his career—from the earlier mani-
festations of his youthful capacity in the ardour
of the dramatist and the • enthusiasm of the dema-
gogue, to the later evidences of his ripened powers in the
practised skill of the debater and the intuitive adroit-
ness of the diplomatist. Mr. M'Cullagh has recounted to
this end no more than was absolutely requisite for the do.
monstration of the moral of this consistency. We look in
vain into his pages for those Boswellian particularities
which constitute so much of the secret charm of the
greatest biography in our own, or perhaps in any other,
literature. That monopolising admiration which em-
braces not only the genius but the very eccentricities of
the hero it undertakes to commemorate. That insatiable
reverence for a departed associate which discovers food for
itself not merely in his more elevated characteristics and
distinguishing idiocyncrasy, but in his personal peculiari-
ties, in the colour of his coat, in the mobility of his fea-
tures, in the freaks and oddities of his deportment.. A
plenary homage such as this, it is, which has preserved to
us not only the axiomatic wisdom and conversational apoph-
thegms of Doctor Johnson, but every minute detail of his
habits and of his household. So that as Mr. Macaulay
has reminded us in a celebrated essay, we become as much
familiarised as ever could have been Mrs. Thrale or Miss
Fanny Burney, with the old doctor's favourite cat, Hodge,
with his housekeeper, blind Mrs. Williams, with his black
servant, Mr. Francis Barber, with his querulous dependant
or pensioner, Mr. Levett, nay, with the minor peculiarities
of the Sage of Fleet-street—his thirst for tea, his Feve of
orange peel, his appetite for pig-and-plum-sauce, his
snuff-coloured coat, his scrubby old scratch wig when in
undress, his slouching walk, the twitchings and contor-
tions of his countenance, his sweatings and grantings over
the dinner table, his deadly hatred of prigs and bores, his
profound piety, and his tender love for little children. We
know all this and more—how much more !—thanks to the
inimitable and laborious minuteness of the incomparable
biographer. Vainly, however, we repeat', may the readers
of the present lively and agreeable memoir of Shell,
look to Mr. M'Cullagh for the like kind of purely anec-
dotal, or simply gossipping, or exclusively personal, infor-
mation. A biography of Dutch-like detail is not the kind
of biography our author hero undertakes to produce—it is
not by any means the sort of narrative any one could rea-
sonably expect from him under the circumstances. The
undertaking is altogether something more serious and sedate
in its general character. It is not so much the picturesque
account of the development of the fame and fortunes of a
self-made man, as the phrase runs, nowadays—though it is
that too—as it is (we repeat 3t) the vindication of his per-
sonal disinterestedness and political consistency.
Looking down a catalogue of the memorable years which
have elapsed since the first outbreak of the French Revolu-
tion, we may take in, according to the old scriptural
phrase, at " a span,"' between
1791 and
the life-time of the man now under our consideration. An
interval of very nearly sixty years, within which he con-
trived to do good service to his country, while building
up for himself no fleeting or unenviable reputation.
Richard Shell was born on the 17th of August, 1791, at
Drumdowney, a small country-house, near Waterford—
the eldest sonof Edward Shell, of Bellevue, by his wife Ca-
therine, one of the daughters of the family of the Wear-
thys, of Spring-house, in the county of Tipperary. As a
boy, Shell passed the most part of his time on the banks
of the Suir, under the happy shade of Bellcvne. Meditat-
ing oven then (Lean's of p 0.127 wad heiork—an embryo
Aschylus, a budding Demosthenes. Early enough in life
he began to pick up, in that same beloved retreat, morsels
of French and scrape of Latin, under the guidance of the

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