The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-21 00:00:00

EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY,

Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1837.
The present volume of this entertaining and '
digested miscellany contains the Life of Henry
Eighth, together with an historical view of his r!
and brief biographical sketches of the most en''
men of that stirring period. The work is stx
founded on authentic and original documents, Or
which have never before been published ; and 15
production of Mr. Patrick Fraser Tytler, one of
most industrious and scholar-like writers of the.
We are glad that this gentleman does not allow hi'
to be dazzled by the false glare which romance an“
own showy qualities have flung around the charof Henry. The splendour of the Field of the f
of Gold, and the chivalric rivalry between the fr
and English monarch, does not blind him to the tr
or prevent him from seeing that Henry had nothW
the true generous spirit of chivalry in his nature;
he was vain, capricious, and arrogantly ostentat“),.
youth ; a sensualist and a tyrant of the deepest a;
age ; and throughout life intensely and hopelesslYv
fish ;—that, in short, he was a bad King, and
roan. The volume is embellished with an adrlll
likeness of Henry, which we suppose is taken e
one of Lodge's Portraits, and is printed in
kably distinct and elegant type.

PERKINS'S ELEMENTS OF BOTAIVII.
Hurst, London, 1837.
A useful elementary treatise on one of the 117°6
tereming of studies, accompanied by a variety °f
executed plates, illustrative of the various pile°
in the botanical kingdom.

NAPOLEON IN COUNCIL.
Cadell, Edinburgh, 1837.
A translation from the French of Baron 111
by Captain Basil Hall, and containing an accOtil
the various public opinions delivered by 130113
in the Council of State. To some future hiogri3i
of the Emperor this work will supply much sa
materiel.

The large oak at Ashton, the property °Cot;
Exmouth, which is considered the finest
been sold for sixty guineas, and will be felled as 5.° , i
barking season commences. About thirty years 51,.c,5e
sold for 1001., but a Chancerysuit opportune ajigh
oppor
sived it from tho axe of the feller till the present eflesci,
period. The late Mr. Ellett, of the Turk's Ilog
Thomas, offered 701. for it several years hack. 111,,e2 f(
the trunk (a straight column) in gross timber 15 ' ,bOY:
g.tiroonuorfl
aitllisvitslivteonrsty—felevt in the cOO% s
which height it girths about two feet ; at six feet be ad
Times.e.sinterenircur 111°
On the morning of Tuesday last a P°c°,ossi
the name of Charles Felstead, living at Mile r hi°
mference. It is t
wieli, went to the well to draw a pail of water for
It
and as he was stooping to catch the full pail, by s deeP
lie fell into the well, which was about eighty by
es
the descent his head was dashed against the brie" ose
by the force of the blow the scalp was severed fro rile be
He was dead in all probability before he reached be b 4
and it was a quarter of an hour before tho body c° 501
out by creepers. An Inquest was held on the occa,, oft
Mr. W. Wilde, Coroner for the city, when the J'lri
a verdict of " Accidental Death." nSit
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HUNGARY.—Letters from Ogram assert in 01,6
that the banditti chief Sehubri, having lost all alvith 't
action in which his whole band was destroyed, lit iota' 1
maining hand taken a pistol and shot himself, 15 0,10
vow which he had frequently repeated, that hovc 4
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fall alive into the hands of justice. ea tri J
The following painful occurrence liapPen , lo
the other 1
c.ay. iwo boys, about 14 years of ogb"; the
trying pistol-shooting, and in returning- home t Ole,
School, they observed another boy coming out -3„ di'le,l
One of them immediately said (no Soubt Ifortllol-0
" Come, let us seize him as a prisoner ;'' nut; 1)8rt v
prehending him, presented the pistol, and firou.,.„d dr°
shot entered the under-lip of the schoolboY,:loogew
three of his teeth, one of which penetrated his otbef it,
teeth, no doubt, broke the force of the shot Adcgr I
might have been killed on the spot.—.Edifibm.r9'
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FRENCH EGGS.—The long cases in In'ot ocol
are sent ove contain about 4;000 eac, and it is ci,
for from 60r to 100 of these to arrive by one vess