The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-30 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

TILE DELAIIIIRES j OF DELAMERE
COURT. By the Author of " The Duchess." 3
Vols. Newby.
This is a very amusing and interesting novel, the
events of which are supposed to take place at the
commencement of this century. The characters are
varied, the pride of high birth in the representative
of an ancient family being contrasted with the equally
great pride of wealth in one who has raised himself
from poverty to be one of the chief merchants of
England. Mary Staunton, the heroine of the tale, is
the daughter of the manufacturer, and though some-
what self-confident in her opinions is a very fasci-
nating character. Mrs. Delamere and Lady Carpen-
ter are equally attractive, and though we cannot say
the same of Miss Blount, Mr. Toppings, and others of
the same class who constitute the society of the re-
tired town of Delamere, and introduce themselves
into the tale more frequently than is desirable,
Uncle John, the missing relative of the Delameres,
is the most extraordinary character in the book,
having been absent twenty-seven years, and supposed
dead, he presents himself to his astonished relations,
representing himself as penniless, and takes up his
abode with them telling them strange tales of his life
in India. We will not disclose the conclusion, but
subjoin the following extract :
" Classical information is like novel reading—it fur-
nishes rather the agreeable than the useful. It supplies
the student with history, with anecdote, with memoir,
with poetry, and the drama—it teaches him to appre-
ciate the beautiful in art and nature—it familiarises
him with descriptions of castles, and
palaces, and
temples, the cool portico, the long colonnade—it holds
up to his admiration heroic deeds, and paints with the
truthfulness of reality the beauties of blooming nymphs
and shady trees and sparkling waters—it connects every-
thing that is most graceful with everything that is most
wise; and while it details the eroquence of Cicero and
Pericles, the half Christianity of Socrates, or the philo-
sophy of Aristotle or Plato, it associates them in the
mind with the magnificent recolleCtions of the Forum or
the Capitol, or th© less severe beauties of the Groves of
Academe. All this, though admirable as a system of
education for the man of taste, the orator, the aristocrat,
the happy few who, born to the possession of supera-
bundant wealth, can pass life in endeavours to add to its
charms, is worse than useless for the many who are com-
pelled to provide by labour for life's necessities. Yet
of these last is formed the mass of the community; and
the talent which may suffice for gilding the acanthus
leaf is but a sorry means of subsistence for him who, ere
he reaches the capital of the pillar, is forced to hew out
its shaft and fix firmly its base."

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—By the arrival of the
Monarch frOra the Cape, with advices three days later than
those previously received, we find that trade continued ex-

tremefy depressed, and that the aspect of affairs generally
had not in any way improved, business with the interior
having been in a great measure stopped by the Kafir war.
The accounts from New York by the Franklin
contain nothing of much importance. There was increasing
ease in the money-market, and the quarterly statement of
the New York City Banks, just published, showed an im-
provement in their condition, their stock of specie having
increased 1,320,000 dollars, while their circulation had de-,
creased 92,000 dollars. The recent pressure was, therefore,
considered to have,been entirely surmounted. A failure had ;
taken place in the interior, the firm being that of Lewis and
Beardsley, of Oswego. They were principally in the flour
trade, and their liabilities are stated at 200,000 dollars.
From California the accounts are only one day later,but they
contain a description of further rich discoveries. Advices
had been received from Jamaica to the 6th of January, at
which date it was reported that the British Admiral on the
commanderthe oaf tchleartievaelsseclorforrestiproinndgeinnt7 the Prometheus.
Gladstone has been been formally cited into the Arches' learnMß- GLILDSTONE.—THE ARCHES' COURT.—We
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the instance ofs the Bishop of London. Thectihtaet iocitation,
Rev. Court,
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derstand, was put into the hands of the Rev. Gentleman on
Ax AvALAric E
Wednesday
IN DERBYSHIRE.—The heavy
messrnsi.nfioccasioned a serious accident to the
yains of Tuesday even •
cotton mill of
, oth3erT?srening,
Derbyshire. A large rybert and Allcock, of New Mills,
liberated from an einin:niceeee of rock which had become
the accident happened
building, damaged a large luFviog fallen down upon the
about of forty looms.
just previous to the
consequences might
Fozrtion of it, and destroyed up-
five o'clock on Wednesda natelY
arrival of the workpeople
hands
have been disastrous. Near 200
say, be thrown out of employment for ats_will, we regret to
—Macclesfield Courier. least three months.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE
IViroEKEO,, rri
DAY.—This morning the nuptials of Sir Cornwallis ' "-Hußs-
eyes Leicestershire, Ricketts
Bart., of Beaumonde E ~ and Lady Care'
lina Augusta Pelham Clinton, third daughter of the late -
Duke of Newcastle, were and
sister of the present solemnized in
the fine old abbey church in this town. His Grace the Duke
of Newcastle gave away the bride. After the ceremony the ,
bridal party returned to Clumber, where a recherche dejeuner
a la fourchette was provided. The happy pair left Clamber i
in the afternoon for the Retford station of the Great Nor-
thern
Railway, whence they proeeeded by the express train
to London, en route for Roundoak, near Windsor, where they
will spend the honeymoon.
A SCOTCH INVENTION.—Onr ingenious townsman,
Dr. Dewar, has invented machine, at one end of which
the reporter's short hand a notes are placed, and at the other
end of which, a few produced at the
yards off they are
ordinary rate of SD r. in ''
-ea ung clear, bold long band, ready
for being put into the i ' '
Jands of the printer. An experi-
ment made on Thursday night (including the speech of
~
Mr. Arthur's, slightly condensert of-the Free
Presbytery's meeting) was d insucocuer rfer.o
To
give
an
quite
idea of the advantages that may be secured by this machine
we may mention that four columns of theyt e u,,
pused for
reports by the Times may be produced c ty tll in a
om.or a 4 y
couple of hours by one reporter •
, whereas under the pre-
sent laborious and cumbrous plan, ne ?
arl y eight hours would
be consumed in the task by an ordinary reporter.—Aberdeen