The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTHWARK.—Dominicho Lombardi, a sickly-
looking Italian boy, was charged with annoying th©
family of a Mrs. Harris, whose husband is suffering from
bronchitis, by playing on an organ and using abusive
language when desired to move away.
The case was made out by the evidence of the prose-
cutrix, who stated that the abandonment of the nuisance
rather than punishment was the object of the prosecu-
tion.

Mr. A'Beekett asked the accused if he could speak
English, and was answered by a shake of the head. The
magistrate then addressed him in his native tongue, and
he stated _ip reply that he had come over here from the
neighbourhood of Parma, and had been six months in
London; that he was sent hero by a padrone he had in
Italy to another padrone in Leather-lane, who sent him
out about the tows to play the organ, and to give him
what money he got in return for his board and lodging,
He should like to return to his own country rather than
remain hero to be subjected any longer to the ill-
humours of his padrone if he did not bring him home at
night what he expected.
Mr. A'Becket, perceiving that the unfortunate boy
looked extremely ill and half famished, ordered him to
be provided with some food, and said that as ho had ex-
pressed a wish to return to Italy, he should lose no time
in communicating with some of those benevolent gentle-
men who interested themselves on the behalf of poor
boys who wore inveigled away from their native homes
by their heartless fellow-countrymen for gain.

THAMES.—Mary Ann Kirwan and Mary Wernham
were charged with aiding two men not in custody in
committing a garotte robbery.
Captain East, a powerful man, stated that ho was
passing along the Minories, on the way to his ship,
at a late hour on Monday night, and was accosted
by the prisoners, who entered into conversation with
him, and he walked a short distance with them on
to Tower Hill, where they were accosted by two men,
one of whom struck him a violent blow with his
fist, and the other, at the same moment, seized him
by the neck, compressed it tightly with his hands so as
to nearly produce suffocation, and flung him right over
on his back. He struggled hard to get away, but the
fellow held him down by the neck, while the other vii.
lain was kicking his hat along. The woman Kirwan
made a snatch at his watch directly he was held down,
detached it from the guard, and ran away with it. By
a powerful effort he released himself from the grasp of
the ruffian, threw him off, and called out "Police" as
loud as ho was able. The two women ran away, and he
pursued them and overtook them 20 or 30 yards from
the spot where he was attacked, and gave them into cus-
tody. The watch was afterwards found in the mud.
Witness was quite sober.
This evidence being confirmed the prisoners were
committed for trial.

DublinUnicersity.—The first article in this month's
number is entitled " A pilgrimage to Quilca in Ve
year 1852." It gives a very detailed account of the
old " belongins "of that place. Several celebrated
characters have been connected with this place—
Swift, Sheridan, Stella. Henry Brooks was born,
bred, and buried in the parish, and therefore it must
be interesting to all to peruse a sketch so associated
with the memory of the departed great. The tomb
of Henry Brooks is thus described :
" We landed in the glebe meadows, where we
found they had secured the attendance of a very
old and wrinkled woman, that she being the nonoge-
narian of the parish, might point out the precise spot
where H. Brooks was buried, for seventy long years
ago she, as a young country colleen, went with the
whole county side to meet the funeral coming from
Dublin. There indeed is no tomb or monumental

cable, but in the absence of all such decayable
matter, God's sun shines perennially on the spot, and
every evening its descending beams will come to visit
the old ruin, and with their rich and tender light
rest on the good man's grave, bathing the green sod
in day. There are wild flowers too growing there,
planted by no human hand, the common yarrow, the
yellow mellilob, and the wild pansy. Descending
from the mound which holds Brook's dust, I found
myself repeating Campbell's fine lines—
' But fling his ashes to the wind,
Whose tongue and pen has served mankind.
And is he dead, whose glorious mind
Lift's mine on high,
To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die.'"
A sketching tour of five weeks in the forests of Ceylon
is very interesting ; it contains much information
concerning the objects met with there. There is a
second part of the biography of Tyrone Power, which
enters into all the particulars of his celebrated career.

The Colonial. —Chapter IV. of the " Overland
Route" describes the journey from Suez to Aden
and Bombay. The new Australian gold regulations
from the Sydney Government Gazette will afford
useful information to the numerous visitors to the
gold regions. The first part of a drama entitled
"Head Quarters, or Manners in the East," is lively
and amusing. The " Financial and Commercial
Statement for the Month," and the " Summary of
Colonial and East Indian Intelligence," contain a
variety of instructive and entertaining accounts of
events and opinions.

The Lae Magazine.—The first article in this
number is on Charitable Bequests, in which the
writer observes that "Few Acts of Parliament have
given rise to a greater number of disputed points than
the statute 9 Geo. 11. c. 36, commonly called the Sta-
tute of Mortmain." Several cases are cited, and the
conclusion states that, if the recommendations of the
Committee of the House of Commons appointed to
inquire into the Law of Mortmain, are carried into
effect, the question under discussion will not arise ;
for in their report presented last session, they
propose to relieve all descriptions of property
given for charitable purposes from the restric-
tions of the Mortmain Act. An article on
Marine Insurances gives a clear account of
them. There also Notes on Leading Cases, and a
list of events of the quarter, which gives the names of
the lawyers in the new House of Commons.

The Farmers' Magazine and Monthly Journal of
the Agricultural Interest.—This publication is in-
tended for the use of those connected with agricultural
pursuits. To those thus engaged it must be of essen-
tial service, as it contains varied details of the requisite
knowledge. Three articles on American machines,
on the science of manuring, and the cultivation of
flax, form the greater part of the contents.

Newton's London Journal.—Among the Patents
mentioned in this repertoryiof arts, sciences, and
manufactures, is that of W. 'Squire, for improve•
ments in piano-fortes ' • and W. W. Collins, for the
manufacture of steel. The rules and instructions

issued under the, New Patent Law Amendment Act
find a place in, the. Scientific Notices. ,Tlierq is a
List of Gr4nttunder the new law, and there are two
plates of the chief patents described in the magazine.

Memoirs of the Baroness D' Oberhirch. Written by
herself, and edited by her grandson, the Count dm
Montbrison. 3 vols. Colburn.
In introducing these memoirs to our readers, we
cannot do better than transcribe the passages in
which, with a very charming simplicity of manner,
Madame D'Oberkirch introduces both herself and her
memoirs to our notice : _

Th The pages which I present to my reader," she
tells us, " are not memoirs, they are rather recollec-
tions. I have never had the slightest pretension to
be a bel esprit, or to occupy a niche in the temple of
fame. .1 write that I may pass over in my mind the
principal events in my life ; they are deeply interest•
ing to me, nor will they be less so to my daughter.
I know not in what light they may appear to others.
I speak little of what concerns myself personally,
just as much as is necessary to make me know and to
prove that I have seen what I relate. My thoughts
and my reflections are exclusively my own—l am not
accountable to any person for them. My recollec-
tions are dear to me, because I alone have a right to
them. To divulge them would be to diminish the
happiness they afford me. These pages, then, are but
as a casket in which I place them, whence I may
draw them forth in my old age.
" I write these pages in 1789, in my thirty-fifth
year. I kept in 'B9 a journal, in which I minutely
detailed my travels with Madame la Comtesse du
Nord (the Grand Duchess of Russia) to Paris, and
from thence through Brittany, Normandy, Picardy,
Holland, and the Electoral States. I observed the
same practice in 'B4 and 'B6 during two visits I made
to Paris, whither I was drawn by the kindness with
which Madame la Duchesse de Bourbon deigned to
honour me. I combine these journals and these notes
to form the history of the first thirty-five years of my
life. I speak in it of those that I have known—of
facts of which I have been the witness—of the re-

markable personages of this century with whom I
have been intimately or distantly connected, or with
whom I have had either personal or family con-
nexions. I add some of the letters which have been
written to me by H. I. H. Madame la Grande
Duchesse Marie Feeierowna. This august princess,
spite of her abode in a foreign land, still entertains for
me the deep and tender affection which sprung up in
our infancy, and is good enough to write to me some-
times. My respectful devotedness to this amiable
princess is one of the most profound sentiments of my
heart. As these memoirs may some day meet the eye
of the careless or the cold, I would scruple to inter-
weave in them that part of our correspondence which
is solely confidential. I cannot, however, resist the
desire of making my daughter and her children
ecriee;etoa with alio noble mind, this tender heart,
and this pure and lofty imagination, which the highest
degree of worldly honours has never for a moment
been able to corrupt, and which unconsciously reveal
themselves in this correspondence."
The above remarks dictated by the partiality o
friendship, are fully verified by a glance at the con
respondence to which they refer. The wife of the
Grand Duke Paul, Marie Feederowna, during her
youth, while residing with her parents at Montbe-
liard, and bearing the appellation of Dorothea of
Wurtemberg, had been constantly associated with the
young daughter of the Count de Weidner, and a most
tender affection existed between them from their early
years. When the one had been removed from
her home to the Imperial Court of Russia, as the
bride of the heir apparent, compelled to abandon
i
her religion and her very name, she still regarded wtiht
' the same warm tenderness the friends of h e ?;eoctio m
and her letters to her early companion,
Madame D'Oberkirch, continued to indicate
warm scene
warm affection, and the same familiarity
.rwhich had
here por-
trayed by her friend, is indeed the most fascinte ing
and loveable of women. -When some years afteru
e their
e
hieswvsited d
marriage, the Grand Duke and Nrd ifei'
title of Count and Countess a_ ,
and mingled in the gaities ,of the early reign of
Marie-Antoinette, Madame D Oberkirch hastened to
join her friend, and participated with her in the bril-
liant course of festivities with which the French
grill welcomed their illustrious guest-.
Sovereigns Her
diary kept during this period, is necessarily one
of the most attractive portions of her memoirs.
The simple tastes and domestic habits of the Baroness,
rendered the laborious routine of gaiety somewhat
irksome to her, but the companionship of her beloved
Princess enchained her at Paris. In a most
graceful and natural manner she comments upon the
various remarkable personages around her, and en-
livens her pages with the anecdotes of the day—pages,
however, remarkable throughout by the purity of sen
timent and womanly delicacy by which they are char-
acterized. The closing passages of the third volume
are overshadowed with the gloom of the impending
Revolution---au event which to Madame D'Oberkirch
must have been iin especial calamity, imbued as she
had been from childhood with the most exaggerated
notiontee iectiin high birth and genealogical

Blackwood.
Art and Faith ; or, the Harmony of Science and Scrip-
ture.
Atiltrreea.dyßlir. George 'Troup.
'Troop
Jameshas
very
fre
displayed his literary abilities—abilities which have
stood him in good stead at different times, as editor
now of the Glasgow Daily _Mail, and now again of
Tait's Magazine. His present volume shows in a
somewhat remarkable manner the scope and versa-
tility of his intelligence. No more comprehensive
commentary has yet appeared upon the vast and
almost bewildering subject of the Great Industrial
Exhibition. The production reminds the reader in
every sentence of the astonishing progress made of
late years in the advance movement of practical civil-
ization. A. brilliant evidence of this is efforded in
the very initial chapter itself—a chapter which calls
to remembrance, in a vivid and startling manner,
the difference observable of late years in modern tra-
velling. Reference has already been made in our.
leading columns to the enlightened opinions express Eel
by our author upon the subject cf the British Nestth
American Railway, by which enterprise the advan-
tages of modern travelling would be so very marvel-
lously and inestimably increased. Upon a variety of
other subjects, Mr. Troup displays, in the charming
little volume under consideration, no lean extended
and elevated amount of information. Occasionally he
may evince a rather over weening anxiety to ptose-
lytize ; but even this we are disposed—in spite of
many evident prejudices—to respect as an additional
proof of his sincerity and earnestness. Scarcely any
one, however comprehensive his knowledge, can rice
from the perusal of the work without having secured an
increase to his stock of intelligence, or without int'fing
recognized the tokens of a mind deeply imbued with
the responsibility devolving upon the present, and
increasingly, of course, upon after generatione. If
for nothing else, the work would he welcome,
inasmuch as it is thus far a provocative of serious
meditation. But, in addition to all this, the volume
is remarkable, as affording a clue through the laby-
rinth of doubt and unbelief, separating to many people
the seemingly incongruous study of Science and of
the Scripture. The notion is not a new on e—indeed
the project was adventured upon in a less popular
form, and with more ostentatious erudition, several
years ago, by no less a personage than Car dinal Wise-
man. It is not, however, through the medium of
the more abstruse departments of ecience and
literature, that Mr. Troup is here endeavouring
to trace analogies between the records of divine
and human knowledge. His endeavour is more
directly adapted to the popular appreciation.
He writes upon the subject—a subject ever enthral-
ling no less to the ignorant than to the philoso-
pher—somewhat in the same homely but delight-
ful strain which Robert Hunt has adopted in his
picturesque compositions. George Troup describes
in this manner " silver in and out of the mine?' He
has a beautiful chapter upon " lodine." He ha 3 an-
other upon " Forest Trees," that good old Mr.
Evelyn would not have disdained to applaud. He
has another called suggestively " Snatches from. the
Loom," and another " The Fleece and the Clutli,"
and another " The Fuel in the Earth," and another
" The Seed in the Furrows." Expressions like those
are of themselves sufficiently attractive. But the
volume abounds in other subjects equally comme:nd-
ing it to general examination. The lover of botanical
research will find himself in this manner rousedi to

luriosity by the chapter upon " Weeds and Wild
Flowers." The lover of entomology will turn not
less willingly to the chapter upon "Art and In-
sects." The metallurgist will have an interest in the
one on " Gold and Silver," and the lapide.f`y 'in the
one on " Diamonds and Pearls." Indeed the volume,
compact though it is, presents to its readers scarcely
less diversified
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some ones) than- Were aft#led to the visitor to the
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