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

LITERATURE.

THE DELAMERESOF 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 equaltly
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
meting chart:own Mrg. 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 Johv, 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 ,hem 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 thau the useful. It supplies
the student with history, with anecdote, with memoir,
with poetry, and the drama—it teaches him to appre-
ciate the Leautiful 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 ever) -
thing that is most graceful with everything that is most
wise; and while it details the eloquence of Cicero and
Pericles, the half Christianity of Socrates, or the philo-
sophy of Aristotle or Plato, it associates them in the
naiad with the magnificent recollections of the Forum or
the Capitol, or the lees severe beauties of the Groves of
Acathanc. 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 Goon Hom—By the arrival of the
Monarch from the Cape, with advices three days later than
those previously received, we find that trade continued ex..
tremely 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-
r r sadredb
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
se:de:a:re:fit Oswego. They were principally in the flour
From,
California
their liabilities are stated at 200,000 dollars.
station had ifornia the accounts are only one day later,but they
a description of further rich discoveries. Advices
had
ordered
reported that the British
of leodu.fdrotmheJa:nriarica to the 6th of January, at
commander of that which
mceoirres Admiral on the
mg a court of inquiry at Kingston
the purpose Express from Nicaragua, for
learn from a clerical correspondent, on the
at vessel for firing •
THE ARCHES' COURT.—we
Gladstone has been for into the Prometheus.
MIL GLADSToN
pendent, that the Rev. J. E.
the instance of the Bishop Yf cited into the Arches' Court, at
derstand, was put into the tbaLondon. The citation, we un-
Wednesday afternoon.—Advenrtdi
bends of the Rev. Gentleman on
AN AVALANCHE IN Dean
rains of Tuesday evening occasioned YaSni".----The heavy
cotton mill of Messrs. Hibbert and serious accident to the
Derbyshim A large piece
of
reel:J.ll ()Fit, of New Mills,
liberated from an eminence having fairelan'eil had become
building, damaged a large portion of it, and downde upon the
wards of forty looms. Fortunately the accidensttrred up_
about five o'clock on Wednesday morning, just previouappened
arrival of the woikpeople, otherwise the consequences
the
have been disastrous. Near 200 hands will, we regret
say, be thrown out of employment for at least three months.
—Macclesfield Courier.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE —WORKSOP, TEttras..
DA/.—This morning the nuptials of Sir Cornwallis Ricketts,
Bart., of Beaumonde Leyes, Leicestershire, and Lady Caro-
line Augusta Pelham Clinton, third daughter of the late and
sister of the present Duke of Newcastle, were solemnized in
the fine old abbey church in this tAp. His Grace the Duke
of Newcastle gave away the bride. After the ceremony the
bridal party returned to Clumber, where a recherche dejeuner
a.
etford station la fourchette was provided. The happy pair left Clumber
in the afternoon for the R . of the Great Nor-
them Railway, whence they proeeeded by the express train
to London, en route for I'
will spendthe honeymoon.
oundosk, near Windsor, where they
.
A SCOTCH INVENTION.---OO
ingenious townsman,
Dr. Dewar, has invented a machine
a be, at one end of w te
the reporter's short hand notes are placed, and at the other
end of which, a few yards off, they produced at the
ordinary rate of speaking, in clear, boag
for being put into the bands of tie long hand, ready
printer. An experi-
ment made on Thursday night (including
the speech of
Mr. Arthur's, slightly condensed, in our report of the Free
Presbytery's meeting)
was quite successful. To give an
idea of the advantages that may be secured by this machine
we may mention that four columns of thet
reports by the Times may be produced comfortably tiimed for
in a
couple of hours by one reporter; whereas, ' under the
pre-
sent laborious and cumbrous plan, nearly eight hours would
be consumed in the task by an ordinary re t por en—Aberdeen
i Harald.