The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-14 00:00:00

LE PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION,

Thirtieth Edition. Oliver and Boyd.
ti,l\lo wonder we see inscribed upon the title-page of
Yolume before us those golden characters of
14-Icb,.riieth Edition, which mark at once the fact of its
larr,Putable merit and of its undoubted popu-
sa"Y The volume appears to have grown into
tandard an authority as the best of Pinnock's
`l44„teehisras," as the latest reprint of Murray's
kr'atnniar," as the " Speaker " of Enfield, and the
Th 8? 13%11 of M‘Diarmid. It was a tribute to which
.
Ewing had well entitled himself, but which
;N Calvert seems resolved to render still more
labored than' ever by the care displayed by him in the
\"?till,ra of revision and the pleasures of improvement..
e't,,`"n the volume as it now stands before the pubh.c,
tetra ding to upwards of 400 well-printed pages, will
tiot,ltad still comprised a variety of rules, observa-
tio4°l and exercises on pronunciation, pauses, inflec-
teo,!! accent, and emphasis—giving the whole of th,e,
4,4nte and exquisite "Principles of Elocution."
god to these are, as usual, copious extracts in prose
itesisP,°?try, as the work itself purports "calculated to
god" the teacher and to improve the pupil in reading
are recitation." Among these extracts, however, we
fa,oßr!tified to observe not merely the old familiar
`ll/11,rItes of our school days, such as Campbell's
bab°,ll,ealinden " and Dryden's " Ode on St. Cecilia's
/„*---but Tennyson on "Freedom" and Shelley
110:, 8 " Skylark," the " Monkey " of Mary
lieaiand the "Excelsior" of Longfellow.
bk,:e,rB Blair, and Johnson, and Addison we
fro,' 'Jeffrey, and Hanlitt, and Carlyle. With passages
Gibbon and Robertson we have excerpts from
fro,..latn and Macaulay. Together with quotations
tb:4 Scott and Goldsmith we should have liked to
ri,ve others from Dickens and Bulwer Lytton—
ki,,,Lers as abounding assuredly in as noble sentiments
41'4.45 superb eloquence as any of their predecessors
domeither ancient or modern literature. Indeed, in
e 1 respects, we should wonderfully like to witness
,tile very radical alterations in a work of this de-
Xiption. We should like, for instance, to taboo that
; %minable " Camelion" of Merrick—and must con-
.llsa that even Wolfe's "Burial of SirJohnrepMetoitoiroen". ,
la% become a bore to us from the plague of
hearts
of these old " eternals," why not let our
I:titrts be rejoiced with such treasures of the
—ellect and of the soul as the
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mea,,,,
etulyson, or as the " Psalm of Life." by Long-
', uw, or as almost any passage from the gentle and
ravtitiful "In Memoriam ?" Allowances beingeinF made
f preference to which we are here objecting,
the
4"1 ,it must be admitted, is in every other respect
3, meritorious.
Th,

hY -ie new line of screw-steamers
Chagres
Liverpool t° • to
the Cunard Company to run from
The fleet is
1.42
2,000 tons bur-
,, New York, has just been advertised.
1 500 to
names
r._aiet et six vessels, each of from ,
about to be started
,I,u, and between 300 and 400 horsespowtenre,
re tot be the Andes, the Alps, the Taurus,
them
are already
4114
1, he Caucasus. Two or three of
monthly trips,
Eantndat,htehe Jura,
ftil:thelle eede'rnatirnaenthceemfier
ymthe alternate
commencement
itshteoyswaiillof npetrhfeorthonofl December next.
Ythey will ultimately sail twice a month on
men
to
New
yclednesdays, when there is no Collins'
Li-
ed sibtilr• The detention at New York is to bestaeas shoertfroasmp
p„'e, an t is contemplated that the entire passage
be per-
-1•,,-'l'rx,l to Chares, calling also at Jamaica, will
rZed in from] Bto 20 days.
vice_mmiral
11 '!-IRATii OF VICE-ADMIRAL PEALED.
9 years,
Aelltilteley Mackworth Praed died on the 6th instant, at
Almon Castle, Cornwall, at the advanced age of 8-
h -"ugh this gallant officer had served 23 years on full-pay,
_.
1,1 had never served at sea since the date of his post Fanok_
iire was consequently, in 1837, placed on the retiredlist
-f
:g officers, was transferred to the active list in 1840, pro
~ eteol to the rank of Vice-Admiral in 1846, and placed on
bronaotions on
e reserved half-pay list last year. Consequently there are
his decease.
_ ...
FATAL his
AccInENT.---Yesterday afternoon
. Langton, deputy coroner, held an inquest at the West.-
Zutuster Hospital, on the body of Thomas Burns,
(74 died from injuries received in being run over by an
iitevnibus. It appeared that the deceased, a stonemason,
aged 32,
b. e't in Gardener's-lane, Westminster, and on Saturday
DLllqtolitt‘lt last about ten o'clock, while passing, rather the worse
IZernuor, over Westminster-bridge, he staggered off the
ent, and fell head foremast under the hind feet of the
,itirvee sins Clapham omnibus, belonging to Mr. Rerder. The
Nrathto roes immediately pulled up, but the deceased was trampled
l the wheels of the vehicle passed over him. De"
1144. a was picked up, and without loss of time removed to the
t 5 11),Ia
sash-re he was found to he in a state of collapse, and
stzt4°e sustained frightful injuries, under which, notwith-
taq °R every medical attention was paid to him, he rapidly
(lay, ' end died about one o'clock in the afternoon of the next
I%.Verdict, " Accidental death."