The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-07 00:00:00

a ripe old age certainly, but still, though
dying in his eightieth year, dying then to
the profound grief of his multitude of admirers
not only in Germany but far and wide all through
the educated classes of Christendom. Jacob Grimm
was the elder of those two brothers—William, his
younger brother, having expired some little time
preciously. Now that they have both of them
passed away from the midst of us, we can turn only
the more gratefully to the reperusal of the charm-
ing works which are the fruits of their researches
in the old world lore of their romantic fatherland.
Here, in this collection of Gammer Grethol's Fairy
Tales and Popular Stories, we have grouped together
some of the most palateable and appetising of those
same fruits. The fun and frolic abounding in them
who coald well add to ? Well—yes ! there are
two who have shown that they could add to the
laughter-moving fun and frolic of the quaint
tales and fantastic stories here related by
.71 acob Grimm and William Grimm through the
lips of that dear merry old soul, Gammer Grethel—
two whose tickling pencils have capped the climax
of all this literary comica ity with the added grace
of their artistic embellishments, to wit, Ludwig
Grimm and our own inimitable George Cruik-
shank ! Witness this—(p. 260) Peewit's gulls
(tnen,'not birds) diving into the lake after imagi-
nary flocks of sheep !—(p. 219) the Cobbler and his
Wife grinning behind the curtain at the little
elves who are capering into their exceedingly small-
clothes !—or, again (p. 1), Dummling's Procession
of the Goose, treading heel upon heel!—or, far
and away, the funniest fancy of them all (p. 82)
the unhappy soldier who was the victim of
the Nose Tree--his nose (while seated under its
branches) growing, growing, growing miles upon
miles, trailed along the ground, over hill and over
dale. So that his two friends, who have missed him,
—stumbling over it—trace him by it gradually to
the very root (it matters not whether of the tree or
of the nose) after a long day's journey. Reading
the story, as here related, looking at the illus-
tration as here drawn—one is almost fit to die with
laughing :—imagining all the consequences of hav-
ing such a nose! The necessity of sending off
an express train, for example, in the event of the
tip of it itching, es the only possible means
of enjoying the luxury of having it rubbed !
With other kindred extravagances. Without
a doubt of it, the Grimms' version of Gam-
mer Grethel, as here translated by Edgar
Taylor, and embellished by those two congenial
draughtsmen Ludwig Grimm and George Cruik-
ehank, will prove, or we are marvellously mistaken,
one of the most popular additions Me. Bohn could
well have made to his Illustrated Library. Grimms'
Gamtner Grethel being, in fact, a worthy companion
volume to the Danish Legends and Fairy Tales o
Hans Christian Andersen.
23,

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sprinkling among them of divers maps, plans, and
illustrations.

To the Pyramids! —Under this title, one
"A. M." has just issued from Mr. Hogarth's esta-
blishment a droll series of lithographic sketches
in a folding oblong form—a succession of odd little
drawings of the draughtman's visit " To the Pyra-
mids," and of what there befel him in Upper Egypt.
Several of the "situations" are pencilled with a
good deal of humorous extravagance.

Ballooning for Military Purposes.

The members of the Ordnance Select Committee,
with General Sir David Wood, R.A. ; Major-Gen.
Sandham, Governor of the Royal Military Academy;
Brigade-Major Milward, and other officers, assem-
bled at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, yesterday
afternoon, to witness ascents with Mr. Coxwell's
large balloon, the War Department having sanc-
tioned a series of experiments in order to ascertain
the value of balloons when used to reconnoitre the
movements of an army in the field, or to obtain
information as to the position of an enemy's forces.
The whole of the available troops in garrison
had previously marched out in two diviaiens—the
Royal Marines and infantry, commanded by Col.
Mitchell, to Chislehurst, and the Royal Artillery,
commanded by Col. Travers, to Bexley Heath.
The monster balloon having been inflated with
35,000 cubic feet of gas at the Arsenal works was
removed by a detachment of Royal Engineers to
the gun park; and a rope attached to the balloon
having been lashed to one of the guns, Mr. Caxwell,
with Capt. Beaumont and Lieut. Grover, of the
Royal Engineers, took their seats in the car and the
balloon was allowed to ascend about three quarters
of a mile. At the expiration of one hour a descent
was made, and Mr. Colwell presented the following
report :—Time, 2.12 ; thermometer, 49 ; barometer,
29.1 ; view to the coast clear for 30 miles ; very
hazy inland; the river beautiful; Gravesend and
Purfleet clearly overlooked. Time, 2.22 ; ther., 49;
bar., 29.3. Slight oscillation. Time, 2.25 ; ther.,
; bar. 20.60. Clouds or mist to S.W. ;
splendid view for ariel photography.
Three subsequent ascents were made with Captain
Heyman, secretary of the Ordnance Select Com-
mittee, and ther officers, and the troops ware seen
-whilst returning home, headed by the bands of the
two divisions. Ultimately, about five o'clock, the
balloon was set free from the ropes, and conveyed
Mr. Coxwell and Mr. Glaisher across the river to
the Essex shore, where it descended. The experi-
ments are considered highly satisfactory.

THE WOLVERHAMPTON AND DUDLEY MYSTIC-
RIES.—At the city of Gloucester police-court on Mon-
day, Thos, Churchill and Henry Barnes, alias "the Match-
man," travellers, were brought up in custody. Superin-
tendent Griffin, addressing the magistrates, said it would no
doubt be in the recollection of their worships that a man
named Chenerry was some lime ago found dead in a house
at Wolverhampton, his body being far gone in a state of d -
composition, and that a woman named Rosannah Steadman,
who had lived with Cbenerry, was found dead in a house
at Dudley, her body also, like that of her paramour, being
much decomposed. On Saturday night he (Mr. Griffin)
eaw Churchill talking to a policeman at Gloucester.
Churchill said Barnes had confessed to him that he was con-
cerned in the Wolverhampton murders, and that he had seen
in the papers that the police were in search of him. Both
zoen were afterwards apprehended, and the prisoner Barnes
was found to correspond with the description given of " The
Matchman," the man who is stated to have cohabited with
Steadman. He (the superintendent) had written to Wol-
-verhampton. and Dudley, and asked the magistrates to order
the prisoners to be detained until replies were received.
Churchill begged that he might be set at liberty. Barnes
'wished to make a statement, but, having been cautioned by
the he
'therdere elsgiatrates, said he would defer what he had to say
got to Wolverhampton. The prisoners were
ordered to be locked up. Barnes told the superintendent
t is a native of Birmingham, and that he travels with
Tinge and " Vesuvians," and hence the nickname of "The Alatchman.'.
CONFEDERATE CRUISERS —N. lAURITIUS. Sept. 5.
—The Emma, Which arrived here from Nantes on
the 9th of August, states that on the 28th of Jane, about
four miles to leeward of Trinity Island, she passed a two-
masted screw steamer painted black outside and yellow in-
side, bearing the Confederate flag, and having about 140 men
on board. At the time she was close to an American ship,
apparently searching her. Another large ship, probably a
prize, was anchored in the bay, to which place the steamer
proceeded, and took shelter behind a cluster of small
islands, supposed on the look out for other Federal vessels.
London, Oct. 6—The Flying Spur, arrived in the river, re-
ports that on the 15th of August, lat. 34 S. long 18 E.,
miles, a screw 'steamer
Capeland bearing E., distant 40
came off towards her, showing English colours, asking if she had seen any American ship ; being answered in the negative, the steamer hauled down the English colours and hoisted tho Confederate flag. She was brig rigged, ap-
parently a very fast vessel, and with a great number of men
showing on her decks.