The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-01 00:00:00

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.

The much-vexed question of the nationality of
poor Tyrone Power is set at rest in a biographical
notice of that lamented ornament of the stage, com-
menced in the present number, by one who knew him
long and well—the late manager of the Dublin
Theatre, a writer well known to the readers of this
excellent periodical by his interesting contributions,
" Leaves from the Portfolio of a Manager." Ac-
cording to this authentic authority, " William Grattan
Tyrone Power was born near Kilaiacthomas, in the
county of Waterford, on the 2d of November, 1797
a soil favourable to the growth of theatrical genius ;
the same county having given birth, at an earlier and
a later period, to Dorothea Jordan and Charles Kean."
Power passed his childhood, after twelvemonths old,
with his widowed mother at Cardiff, in Wales, where
there was " a gentlemen of the name of Bird, dis-
tantly connected with the family through his wife--
a person of high respectability, who conjoined the
triple avocations of bookseller, publisher, and post-
master. The intimacy with Bird gave rise to an
erroneous report, propagated after wards with all the
activity of malice, that Power was born a Welshman,
and brought up
as fi printer—two facts highly ho-
nourable in themselves, and which an independent
spirit, such as he possessed, would never have shrunk
from acknowledging if they had been true:' Details
are then given of his early uphill theatrical career,
and his African expedition, till we leave him, at the
age of twenty-four, compelled to fall back on the stage,
" still without the slightest inclination for the line of
acting in which he was soon to distance all compe-
titors, and with no perception whatever of bis own
peculiar strength." " Sir Jasper Carew" and
" Clough Flom] ; or, the Stone of Destiny" are con-
tinued, and articles are devoted to the autobiographies
of Jerdan and Miss Mitford, and to "Hanna's Life
of Chalmers,"
continued from the July number. The
first round is given of "A Flying Shot at the United
S States," and the political paper rejoices in the title of
"Ireland : Its Garden and Its Grave." The writer's
panacea for Ireland
is—to Protestautise her. More
easily said than done !

ENGLISHMAN'S. No. 11.
There is an article in this newly-launched periodi-
cal well worth reading, which treats of " Newspaper
Literature' It controverts some of the positions
advanced by Mr. Jerdan in his recent autobigraphy.
A series of " Unphilosophical Criticisms" is com-
menced, the first number being given to Shakspere's
Dramas, on Ancient History ; and the remaining papers
ar© well written.

BANKER'S'. No. CII.
Contains the usual amouut of valuable notices on
commercial questions, and of statistical information.
The subject of " Dangerous Life Assurance" is treated
of in the opening article.

COLONIAL AND ASIATIC REVIEW
Among several papers replete with information, we
recommend the perusal of one on the subject, at pre-
sent so important, of " The American Fisheries," and
the article entitled " Justice to the West Indies—
Free or Slave Sugar." Those on " The Rival Roads
of Panama" and " The Madras Railway" will be
likewise found suggestive.

NEWTON'S LONDON JOURNAL.
No. CCXI,IX.

This eminently practical compendium of matters
relating to the arts, sciences, and manufactures of the
day, contains descriptions of several new patent in-
ventions, and a few other articles of scientific interest.

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICUL-
TURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.

The twenty-ninth number of this valuable periodi-
cal appears this month, and contains a variety of
papers deeply interesting to agriculturists, on such sub-
jects as the fattening of cattle, manures, the manufac-
ture of sugar from beet-root, top-dressing, &c.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Excellent Sylvanus Urban continues with 'his ac.
custorned perspicacity the record of late antiquarian
discoveries in the pages of the good old Gentleman's
Magazine. About the most interesting contribution
in the current number for September is the continua-
tion of the " Wanderings of an Antiquary." In the
United Service Magazine there are some attractive
extracts from the journals of the late Major Edward
Macready—the brcther of the "eminent Tragedian."
The usual assortment of readable and entertaining
papers may be found at pleasure in Chambers's
Edinburgh Journal. Among the poetical scraps in-
troduced we observe one from the pen of Mrs. Alaric
Watts. Chambers's Pocket Miscellany gives, among
other enthralling narratives, an account of the cele-
brated " Darien Expedition"—the miseries caused by
which in Scotland were commemorated so feelingly
n his last work by Eliot 'Warburton. The new
instalment of Longman's eminent serial, The