The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-14 00:00:00

TU-PITA.

Tu-Pua came down to the boat with his attendants,
carrying four large live pigs, as his present to Captain
Cater, articles of food beings as in Japan, the first offering
of friendship. He had been fellow passenger in his cabin,
with Mr. Williams and myself, for ten days, and his be-
haviour has always been most correct and considerate. lie
had his servant with him, and generally appeared well
dressed in various European costumes, of which he seemed
to possess an ample wardrobe. To-day, however, he cam(
to dinner as a Kannaka chief, in his lava. lava only, apolo-
gizing, on account of the great heat, for dispensing with
clothes above his waist.

He would much like to go to England. "My heart is
burning," he said, "to see the world. f I had not tried
to see as much of Englishmen as possible, I should have
been like all the Kannakas, and have thought there was ro
country like Samoa."
Ho seemed to have a pretty good idea of the relative posi-
tions of the different countries of Europe, and asked many
questions about the Crimean war.
Many other extracts we might select as evidences
of the delightful character of this volume, bat the
above will be sufficient to attest the interesting
nature of the Cruise made by the author on boar,;
H.M.S. Fawn among the Islands of the Pdc"P
me.

Thpirates of the Foam. A Novel. By C, F.
Armstrong, Esq., author of " The Two Midship
men," &o. Three Vols. Newby.
As may ba inferred from the title, these volurue.s
contain a series of desperate adventures and perils
by sea and land. The hero is found in his child-
hood half-drowned on the sands at Ramsgate. A
little later on, when travelling in a railway car-
risge, another traveller shows him a new perfume

which he is taking to Rimmel, the great perfumer,
and asks his opinion. The unsuspecting hero in-
hales the perfume, and becomes unconscious! His
pockets are immediately rifled, and his fellow-
traveller decamps at the next station. Soon after-
wards the luckless adventurer falls into the hands

of enemies, who confide him to the care of the captain
of a ship bound for Jamaica, as a harmless maniac.
This vessel is named the Foam, and the crew prove
to be pirates. The recurring adventures are as sur.
prising as any we have enumerated, being at the
same time of a more desperate and bloodthirsty de•
scription. We have said enough, perhaps, to allure
some readers, and to deter many others from
further acquaintance with the pirates of the Foam.

Chapters of College Romance. By Isaac Butt,
Esq., Q.C., MY., author of "History of Italy,"

&c. First Series. One Vol. Skeet.
The learned compiler of these very interesting
records bids his readers not to be startled by the
title, College Romance. He goes on to give the
following very happy definition of his theme
"There is romance," he says, " wherever there is
deviation from the modes of acting or of thought
that are common among men; there is romance wherever
there is a disinterested act; wherever there is a high
and ardent spirit to break through, by one eccentric
effusion of its native generosity, the dull monotony of the
selfishness of ordinary life. There is romance wherever in-
terest is sacrificed to feeling—wherever there is love or
triendship. Then, why should there not be romance ill
College ? Are there not within its walls young hearts ever
whom the world has not yet thrown its deadening
spell, to
wither up all their feelings into the sear insensibility of
what the world calls prudence ? Are there not there younglrishmen to whom their nativity has attached the epithet
of wild, and who certainly possess the birthright of being
enthusiastic. There is, then, romance in college, and thesepages will present you with much that is sad, and much
that is gay, chequered just like the world in which we live,
with all the strange mixtures of mirth and misery, with the
alternate lights and shadows of gladness and sorrow.'
The narratives contained in this work are
said to be founded on truth. "It has so 118 P.
petted," says Mr. Butt, "that I was much'
very much longer an inmate of Alma Mater
than falls to the average lot of her sons; and, since
I have ceased to sojourn within her chambers, Beni"
dent, or perhaps I should say inclination, has throWn
me very much into the society of college men. Mani
strange incidents have thus come to my knowledge;
some of them relating to events in which I took
share, others to those that had happened long he'
tore my day, and some few that have taken place
since. It has often occurred to me that these incl.'
dents, if collected together, would form a curious
and interesting commentary on the wayward follies
and the vain ambition of youth ; and for years lem-
ployed my leisure hours in collecting materials for
such a commentary. On the appearance of a maga-
zine bearing the name of the University,' it imme-
diately suggested itself to me that its pages
would be the fittest medium for presentil
the result of my memoranda to the public.
Such is the origin of the histories contained in this
volume, the first of the series. The opening story
is entitled " The Billiard Table," and chronicles the
trials and troubles of a gambler and his victims. It
is a stirring narrative, abounding with startling
incidents and vivid emotions. No. II.—" Beading
for Honours"—relates the melancholy results of an
over devotion to study. No. III.—" The Mariners
Son ;" No. IV., " The Murdered Fellow ;" and No.
V., " The Segar—Arthur Johns;" are, as their
names indicate, tales of very different characters,
but capable, some of them, of exciting intense
interest.

BOOKS RECEIVED.
A Woman's Ransom. By the author of GrandmotheeB
Money. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett.
For Better for Worse. Edited by Edmund Yates. 2 vols.
Maxwell and Co.
Anecdotal Memoirs of English Princes.
Davenport Adams. 2 vols. Newby.
Desk Book of English synonyms. By John f;herer.

By W. FI•

Groombridge and Sons.
A Spring and Summer in Lapland. By an Old Bushman.

Groombridge and Sons.
How I Won My Spurs. By J. G. Edgar. Illustrated.
S. 0. Beeton.
The Boy's Own Volume. Illustrated. Edited by the
Publisher. S. 0. Beaton.
Scenes from the Drama of European History. By W.
Davenport Adams. Virtue Brothers and Co.
The Tiger Prince. By William Dalton. Virtue Brothers
and Co.
The Gentlewoman. Chapman and Hall.
Knowledge for the Time. By John Timbs. Lockwood

and Co.
The Life of Goethe. By George Henry Lewes. Seaond

Edition. Smith, Elder, and Co.
The Sporting Rifle and its Projectiles. By Lieut. lames

Forsyth, Smith, Elder, and Co.
Lost but Not For Ever. By the Rev, R. W. Vanderkiste.
Nisbet and Co.
The Last of the Cavaliers. New Edition. Richard
Bentley.
What is Your Name? By Sophy Moody. Riebard

Bent ley.
The Destiny of Nations : as Indicated in Prophecy. 331
the Rev. John Cumming. Hurst and Blacked.
The House of Elmore. By the author of Grandmothcr'S

Money. ChApman and Hall.
England's Workshops. By Various Writers. Groom-

bridge and Sons. -
Poems. By B. H. Farquhar. F. Pitman. Ar
Marjorie Fleming : a Sketch. By John BrONVII,
author of Rab and his Friends. Edmonston
an
Douglas.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—Tbio J)1/3rf

The December session of tho Central Criminal Co. art
commenced this morning at the Sessions House, Old l3ai-
uefore the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Aldert 'JO
Finnis, the Recorder, Russell Gurney, Esq., Mr. AlderZ
Besley, &c.
Owing to the short time that has elapsed since the las;
session the calender contained a list of only 50 prisone"' for
trial.

The, grand jury having been sworn,
The Recorder, in delivering his charge, said there were
only four cases affecting human life, and only
charge of wilful murder, in which one of theln a
a young woman was
charged with causing the death of her infant &lid.
The question for the jury in that case was whether that
violence was actually inflicted by the prisoner for the potaur-
pose of causing death, or whether it might arise i
ignorance and accident. There was also a case in which a
woman was charged with the manslaughter of her husband'
He thought if they were satisfied the injury was inflicted by
the prisoner they would have no difficulty in returning
a true bill. There was also a case in which a sir get
at a Music Hall in the neighbourhood of `Yell-close-square
was charged with the manslaughter of a mariner. Err
the evidence of the surgeon it appeared that had the "e.,-
ceased not been drinking the blows might not have cause,
death. If the Jury were satisfied that the death was cause'
by the blows it would be their duty to send the case for fa!'
ther inquiry. The other case of manslaughter was that is
which a cabman was charged with causing the death of a°t
elderly lady, and the only question in the case was whetbe
the prisoner was driving in a furious and reckless manner,
and thus caused the death of the deceased, or whether it
was the result of accident.

MAKING A FALSE DECLARATION.
Richard Farnham Ridley, a gentlemanly-looking marir
aad who had held a commission in one of lI.D ta
I. Regimes
of Dragoons, and served in the Crimea and Indian `Vary
for which he had received medals, was indicted under the
18th section of the Unnecessary •Oaths Declaration Of
under the following circumstances.
It appeared that he had applied to Mr. Strutt, a solicitor
in Adelphi-terrace, introducing himself as acquainted with
Mr. Strutt's son, an officer in the army in India, for the
purpose of raising a sum of money under his reversional
interest under the will of Mr. Farnham, to pay off his debts
and, in consequence of his representations, an appliotioo
was made to the British Mutual Loan and Investmeo,
Society in Bridge-street, Blacktriars, for a loan of X 3(),;
£3,003), and the statutory
which was afterwards advanced by them on a proziliBB°,riad
note and mortgage of the reversion (represented to be Ir°r" -
out prisoner had previously assigned his interest in there'
prisoner guilty,
version to Mr. W. F. Newt()of Mayfair,for £l5O. ,
eclaration. Is afterwards turn
Newton, cle
The Jury found the •
to eight months' • imprisonment. and he wits4enterl'

DEATH OF Mr. GODFREY, PANDIIIASTER OF TO
COLDSTREAM GUARDS.—A large number of our readers
will hear with regret of the death of Mr. Godfrey, 1"
veteran bandmaster of the Coldstream Guards, whiell
;9°lll°
honourable position Ito had filled for nearly 40 years.
of the most popular instrumentalists of the day had bee°
under his tutorage. Mr. Godfrey was, Wo hear, in his 7,5t4
year, and had the esteem of his officers, and likewise thcs°
under his command. He was only ill a few hours.
THE LATE GALE.—M. Leverrier, Director of t 13(?
Paris Observatory, states in an article that he has publishl
on the late gale, that it assumed the form in Franc 743
a terrific cyclone, whose centre moved southwards.
damage effected by it seems to have been fully as great
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