The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-25 00:00:00

Le Correspondant. No. 105. Charles Douniol.

As usual, there is apparent in the contents of thin
always able and often brilliant periodical an espe-
cial regard on the part of the presiding redacteur,
the one entrusted by the management, that ie, with
the responsibility of selection, there is still here
apparent on his part, an especial regard alike to the indiri•
dual interest of the themes descanted upon and to their
diversity when grouped together. The present livraison,
for example, setting forth with a comprehensive and lumi-
nous chapter, by Francois Lenormant, upon Prince Couza
and the Danubian Principalities, comprises within it
besides articles as various as—one by L. Villenne on Rural
Economy—a masterly contribution by Louis Joubert on
Ireland—a vory curious, an exceptionally curious,cri tic al sm -
vey of the Classical Pouts of China—Sauveur Jacquemond's
nouvelle of Menichino, and the Abbe Blampignon's sympa-
thetic review of the Count d'a Falloux charming gathering
together of the exquisite correspondence between Madams
Sivetehino and the Pere Lacordairo, There are aeveral
other papers in the number, not here particularised—papers
entitled respectively Jean Reboul, Les Ev6nements do Tunis,
Les Vierges de Verdun with Melanges Souvenirs du Govern-
ment Parliamentaire—this last mentioned by the Count de
Montalivet—to say nothing of four minor literary criti-
cisms of a rniscelleneous character, and the customary
monfhly record of contemporary events. As the penulti-
mate contribution of the livraison, there is, moreover, it
should be here especially mentioned, a rapid but compre-
hensive glance at the probable attractions of the forthcom-
ing Second Congress at Mechlin, otherwise Manes.

ECCENTRIC MONUMENT IN THE SAVOY CHURCH,
as described by " K." in the Athenteum.—lt is to
bo feared that there has perished in this church a monu-
ment, with an epitaph that has often amused me. The
monument, which was rather sumptuous, was erected about
1716, in honour of a merchant, whose name I forget. The
sole statement of the epitaph was, that he had bequeathed
£5 to the poor cf the Savoy Precinct, and a like sum to the
poor of the parish of St. Nary-lc-Strand, while at the side,
and occupying about half the breadth of the marble, the
money was expressed in figures, just as in a page of a ledges
with lines single and double, perpendicular and, at the bot•
torn, horizontal ; the whole being summed up, and in eaob
line two cyphers for shillings and one for pence. Tht
epitaph concluded, "which sum was duly pail by his exe-
cutors," Though there was nothing here intentionally
ludicrous, yet there was much to make a reader, even in
time of service, inwardly smile. The contrast between the
pomp of tho monument and the smallness of the bequest
which, and nothing else, it commemorated, and which it
must far have exceeded in cost ; the mercantile accuracy of
the figured statement, with its eight lines and thirteen
figures, and the express addition of what is usually left to
be understood,that the bequest was paid, formed altogether
an example of simple
quaintnese, which it were a pity to
allow to pass into complete oblivion.
PROGRESS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—The public
revenue of South Australia in the year ending the
31st of March, 1365, amounted to £691,545, an increase of
£133,515 over the previous year, but £35,000 of the increase
appears to be due to a change in the mode of making up the
accounts. The expenditure of the year was £675,465, an in•
crease of L 36,312, the chief increase being in immigration
charges. The exports of colonial produce from South Aus-
tralia in the first quarter of 1864 reached the unprecedenteo
amount of more than £1,0007000; nearly half of it being in
cerealE,