The Sun.
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Mr SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBPR 99 1839.

THE ARMY.

PRESENTATION OE PLATE, SWORDS, &C., TO OFFICERS,
BY OTHER OFFICERS, OR BY NONCOMMISSIONED
OFFICERS OR SOLDIERS.
GENERAL ORDER.
Horse-Guards, October 16, 1839.
Lord Hill finds it necessary to refer the army to the
general order of the 18th of January, 1810 (copy of
which is annexed). as well as to page 4,18 of the general
regulations and orders, and to declare that his Lord-
ship will hold every officer responsible for a breach
thereof who shall allow himself to be complimented by
officers, non-commissioned officers, or soldiers, who are
serving, or have served, under his command, by means
of presents of plate, swords, &c., or by any collective
expression of their opinion.
By command of the Right Honourable General
Hill, Coinmanding in Chief,
JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDER.
Horse Guards, January 18, 1810.
The Carumander-in-chief has directed the following
order, issued by the Genera! (Aker commanding his
Majesty's forces in North America, to be inserted in
the general orders of the army

" Quebec, October 4,1809.
" The Commander of the Forces has 1.-aely had occa-
sion to see in a Halifax newspaper a copy of an address
presented by the sergeants of the Ist battalion Royal
Fusiliers to Captain Orr, on that officer relinquishing
the adjutancy in consequence of being promoted to a
company. So novel a circumstance could not fail to
draw the attention of his Excellency, it being the first
of the kind that has come to his knowledge during the
forty-six years that he has been in the service ; and as
the first instance has thus (so far as he is aware at least)
occurred'on the part of the army, with the charge of
which the King has been pleased to entrust him,, he
feels himself called on, by every obligation of duty to
his Majesty and the service, to bear his testimony
against it, by a public expression of disapprobation.
" His Excellency does not mean in thii instance to
ascribe any improper motive to the sergeants ; he has
no doubt that their sole view was to express that rcgard
and gratitude towards an officer who, in the intimate
connection that had officially subsisted between them,
had very commendably conducted himself with kindnesS
to them, without departing from that strictness of dis-
cipline which was indispensable to the discharge of his
duty.

" But while his Excellency thus does justice to the
intention of the sergeants of the Royal Fusiliers, he
desires at the same time very seriously to observe to
them that, in presuming to meet in order to deliberate
upon the conduct of their superior officer, they have, in
fact, however unintentionally,' been guilty of an act of
great insubordination.

" It matters not that the design of the meeting, or
in whatever manner the address was unanimously as-
sented to, was solely to express their respect and es-
teem : the very circumstance implies discussion, and by
that discussion they rendered themselves obnoxious to
the imputation alluded to. Who, indeed, shall say
where:such a practice, if once introduced, shall end ? If
the non-commissioned officers of a regiment are permitted
to express their approbation of the conduct of the Adju-
tant, why may they not exercise the same right with re-
spect to their commanding officer ? or what reason can be
given why they should not be equally entitled to express
their disapprobation ? Indeed, should the practice be-
come general, the merely withholding of the former
would imply the latter.
" General Sir James Craig is the more desirous that
his sentiments on this subject should be distinctly un-
derstood in the Fusiliers, because it appears on the face
of the address of the sergeants in question that it has
been countenanced by the officer who then commanded
the regiment. The Commander of the Forces does no
more than justice to the character and services of that
officer when he admits that, feeling as be does the
dangerous tendency of the practice which he is cen-
suring, he also feels. himself the more bound to oppose
it, in the first instance, from the strength which it might
otherwise derive from the sanction which he appears to
have given to it. Lieutenant-Colonel Pakenham will,
however, believe that, though it was impossible the
General should avoid this observation. upon his error,
yet his doing so can by no means detract from the es-
teem with which he has been taught to view; his charac-
ter .as an officer, or the confidence which he should be
disposed to place in his service."

Signed) - EDWARD BAYNS, Adj,-Gan.,
To the British Army serving in North America.

The reason for which the Commander-in-Chief has
directed the circulation' of this order is, that he May
avail himself' of this opportunity of declaring to the
army his most perfect concurrence in the sentiments
therein expressed by the distinguished and ,experienced
officer by whom it was framed, on a subject which ap-
pears to have been by some very much misunderstood.
The circumstance of inferiors of any class of military
men assembling for the purpose of bestowing praise
and public marks of approbation on their supe-
riors implies a power of deliberation on their conduct
which belongs to the King alone, or to those officers
to who his Majesty may b pleased to entrust the com-
mand and discipline of his troops.
It is a procedure equally objectionable, whether in
the higher or lower ranks of the army ; and es the
Commander-in-Chief cannot but regard it as in prin-
ciple subversive of all military discipline, he trusts it is
a practice which will be for ever banished from the Bri-
tish service, as deserving of the highest censure, and he
directs officers in command to act accordingly.
By command of the Right Honourable the Com-
mander-in-Chief.
HARRY CALVERT, Adjutant-General.

SPORTING 1N TELLIGEN CE.

TATTERSALL'S—MoNDAT.

The amount of business transacted in the afternoon about
reached the average at this season. It touched equally upon
the Cambridgeshire Stakes and Derby, and comprehended
several horses, but in neither race led to any material change.
For the first-mentioned event the two favourites were at the
same prices quoted last against them from Newmarket. The
only noticeable feature in the betting 0.1 it was the introduc-
tion, at liberal prices, of Opera, Lanercost, Samarcand, Cara,
and Science. Speculation on the Derby was sufficiently defi-
nite to enable us to quote prices against Launcelot and Wardan
(the latter backed freely), but it left us quite in the dark as to
the actual position of Muley Ishritael—it is something between
16 and 20, and nearer than this we cannot venture to go. 25
to 1 was taken four or five times about Glenorchy, and the
taker would have gone on. Maroon was also in request at 33
and 35 to 1, and only 30 to 1 offered at the close.
The following are the latest prices:—
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES (MONDAY NtIT).
10 to 6 agst Mickleton Maid—taken
5 to 1 ag,t Hetman Platoff
12 to I agst Quo Minus
12 to 1 agst Lanercost
15. to 1 agst Opera
20 to I agst Science
20 to 1 agst Camelino
15 to 1 agst each of the following three in one bet :—Cara,
Samarcand, and Science—taken

15 to 1 agst each of the three in one bet :—Cara, Quo Minus,
and Lanercost—talcen twice over.

THE :DERBY.
9 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's lot
16 to 1 agst Launeelot
17 to 1 agst Wardan—taken
20 to 1 agst Angelica colt
24 to 1 agst St. Andrew—taken
25 to 1 agst Glenorehy—taken
26 to 1 agst Brother to Euclid
30 to 1 agst Maroon
30 to 1 agst Grey Milton—taken
33 to 1 agst Brother to Melbourne
40 to 1 agst Gambia
1000 to 15 agst Lord G. Bentinek winning Derby, Oaks, and
St. Leger—taken
25 to 1 :.gst Crucifix winning Oaks and St. Leger—taken

DUMFRIES RACES.—FninAY.
Fifty Pounds given by his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch.

- Two miles.
Alr; Ramsay's br c Lanereost, 4 yrs, Bst I 1 1b...( W. Noble) I
Lord Eglinton's br c Malyolio, 3 yrs, 7st I Ilb
Won by half a length.
Fifty Pounds given by the Marquis of Queensberry, added to a
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, for all cges. Two mites. 5 Subs.
Lord Eglinton's br h St. Bennett, 5 yrs, 9st Sib.
Sir J. Boswell's b f Rnna 3lari2, 3 yrs, 7st 41b .)
.. .
___

Wen cleverly.
Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, p.p., with 25 added by the
Southern Meeting; for two-year-old colts, Bst 31b; fillies,
Bst. Three-quarters of a mile. 3 Subs.
Mr. Alexander's br cby Young Blacklock (W. Noble) I
Lord Lainton's br c Shark, by Priam 2
Sir J. Boswell's br f Miss Nick, by Satan—Window- Shut 3
Won by a lergth.

LITERATURE.

POEMS, BY ELIZA COOK-
Tilt, London, 1839.
We have here a Second Edition of a Volutne of
Poems which we noticed, some months since in
favourable. terms, in The Sun.: The Authoress is
a young lady, named Cook; Whose genius richly
deserves the success it has met with. She has a
fine ear for the melody
of rhyme, is Eencrally
happy in her forms of expression, and does not deal
in that maudlin sentimentality in which so many of
our " Annual" versifyers are apt to indulge. The
present Edition of her Poems is illustrated with
several beautifully engraved plates, and contains
one or two minor poems which we do not remember
to have met with in the former Edition. We quote
one of these, which is just and tender in sentiment,
and graceful in expression :

I MISS THEE MY MOTHER.
I miss thee, my Mother I Thy image is still
The deepest irnpress'd on my heart,
And the tablet 30 faithful in death must be chill
Ere a line of that image depart. •
Thou wert torn from my side when I treasured thee most—
When my reason could measure thy worth ;
When I knew but too well that the idol I'd lost
Could be never replaced upon earth.
I miss thee, my Mother, in circles of joy,
Where I've mingled with raptaroui zest ;
For how slight is the tette!! that will serve to destroy
Ali tah ebafia
alirdy
Iwleeabrnsptuant itibl) km.ynee;
breast I
Some melody sweet may be IlJa.ting around—
Some strain may be played, and I shrink from the sound,
For my fingers oft woke it for thee.
I miss thee, my Mother; when young health has fled,
And I sink in the langour of pain,
Where, where is the arm that once
pillow'd my-head,And the car that once heard me complain?
Other hands may support, gentle accents may fall—
For the fond and the true are yet mine ;
I've a blessing for each ; I are grateful to all—
But whose care can be soothing as thine?
I miss thee, my Mother, in summer's fair day,
When I rest in the ivy-wreath'd bower,
When I hang thy pet linnet'A cage high on the spray,
Or gaze on thy favourite flower.
There's the bright gravel-path where I play'd by thy side,
• When time had scarce wrinkled thy brow,
Where I carefully led thee with worshipping pride
When thy scanty locks gathei'd the snow.
I miss thee, my Mother, in winter's Lang night ;
I rernemher the tales thou svould'rt tell___
The rotuanee of wild fancy, the legend of fright— •
Oh ! who could e'er tell them so well !
Thy corner is vacant ; thy chair is removed :
It :can kind to take that from my eye :
Yet relics are'round me--the sacred and loved--
To call up the pure sorrow. fed sigh.
I miss thee, my Mother I Oh, when do I not ?
Though I know 'twos Cue wisdom of Heaven
That the deepest shade fell on my sunniest spot,
And such tie of devotion was riven;
For when thou wert with me my soul was below,
I was chained to the world I then trod ;
My affections, my thoughts, were all earth.bound ; but now
They have follow'd thy spirit to God!

QUARTERLY REVIEW—No. 128.
Murray, London, 1839.

The subject of Life Insurance Companies—an
interesting theme to the majority—is shrewdly dis-
cussed in the present Number. The Reviewer re-
cominends the exercise of a wholesornesCaution to
those who may be thinking of insuring their lives
for, the benefit of their surviving relatives ; and
dives a whimsical account of the mode of starting a
new Company ; of the prodigiouslourish of drums,
and trumpets with which it is ushered into being,
as Tom Thumb was ushered into the presence of
Queen Huneamunica ; and of the •est capital in
vested iiiit, which is but too ioften in nubibus—
\-
that is to say, i'nvestetl'in the flank of Cluudland,
where the late 'Mr. Coleridge's' chief property lay.
" It has been not an unconimon.praetice," we are
told, " adopted by some Companies that do not
require its to blazon at the head of their advertise-
ments long lists, of noble. patrons, honorary presi-
dents, and trustees—patrons who can afford
them no patronage—trustees who have no
rinse— presidents who never preside--in
short; nn array of grand names that are mere de-
coy ducks." On the whole—always provided that
due caution is used in the selection of an office—
the Reviewer is favourable to the principle of
insuring, observing,—
We cannot consider these institutions in any other
light than as great public benefits, of which almost
every class of society may avail themssives with advan-
tage to their rising families. Like all other ht'man in-
stitutions, they are liable to be miscondueted and
abused ; the good, however, we are satisfied, greatly
predominates. Take, for instance, a case of very com-
mon occurrence : suppose a clergyman, happy in his do-
mestic circle, educating his children liberally, and with
his 4001. or 5001. a-year distributing consolation to his
parishioners. Possessing only a life interest in his in-
come, no sooner is the thread snapped than beggary
stares his family in the face—the widow and children
are at once turned out upon the wide world, or doomed
perhaps to receive a grudging pittance from some rela-
tion. Now, all this might have been avoided by an ap-
propriation of some 501: or 601. a-year out of the life
income, through the instrumentality of an assurance
office. - It is the same in almost every walk of life.
Lawyers, physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, marry-
ing young, and solely dependent on their practice; officers
of the army and navy, who can lay by a pittance of
their pay ; clerks in public offices, in banks, and count-;'
in ;-houses ;:tradesmen and artificers—in short almost
every description of persons may profit in this manner,
of a very
and a great mass of misery be avoided by the sacrifice
small portion of income. Even the highest
personages of the realm, not excluding Royalty itself,
may profit by these offices, when embarrassed in pees-
niary matters ; by them the pressure of debt may be re-
lieved, and. the creditor satisfied, and incumbrances on
entailed estates removed, on reasonable and honourable
conditions, infinitely preferable to what can be had from
turning to the common run of money-lenders.
" Travels in North America"—what a hacknied
theme this is T.—gives a sketchy notice of Cap-
tains Nlarryat's and Murray's late travels in that
quarter of the globe. Both works are favourably
spoken of, though one or two sly sarcasms are thrown
out at the latter gentleman's occasional dandyism
and ignorance; and we are glad to perceive that a
favourable, and even kindly, tone is adopted to-
wards our brethren in the United States. How
different from the spirit that influenced the " Quar-
terly " in the days of old Gifford ! Then, America
was coolly consigned to unmitigated damnation, as a
country of political quacks and commercial adveln-
turera, without judgment, principle, or ho-
nesty of any kind T. In the review of
" Bishop Butler's Life "—whose famm,".,4lAa-
,Jl "',,
logy" is the text-book , at Cam /1 ; 7 _r.c.ge!, apa,, no
wonder, for it is the shrewdest, profbindeShs and
most argumentative theological treatise' der penned,
and is only to be adequately appreciatedifter several
attentive readings—an anecdote is .gkven, to'the
effect that David Hume once oalledjenAhe Bishop,
in order to consult with him respecting. his
Essays on Human Nature; Islissi tslftr,, however,
sceptical
been a belie.ver !"
happened to be out, whereumnt le eviewer re-
marks, in a perfect paroxysin of 03 tt;'"'had Butler
been within Hume might have I
just as if the habitual turn of thought of an acute
metaphysician, like the author of the " Essays,"
were likely to be changed by an hour's conversation
With an English Bishop ! " Reports of the Nen-
dicity Society" furnish the ground work of a most
amusing article, highly spiced with anecdote, and
characteristic sketches of the customs of town-men-
dicants, many of whom, have made quite a science
pursuit wonderful
pofowbeegrsgionfg :n vaeundtidoenvealriodpeinigiettliitisty. In some of the
earlier Spanish novels, especially Guzman D'Alfa-
rache—we remember reading several piquant details
respecting beggars, and the diverting, tricks they
n. the habit of playing off on the grave
Hidalgos of Castile ; but our London professors of
~,
the science of mendicancy would seem to excel even
these in cunning and adroitness. The following
passage will amuse :
The ! ,
various modes of exciting compassion are in-
finite. To pass over the different established methods
of simulating diseases, from the last stage of a jaundice.
upon which the patient. has lived in comfort for years,
witht of the more ordinary ways of work-
ing the aid of a little soap, we will for the
to the more active performer . svho subsists upon con-
vulsion
presento n thet noticefits,
two ,
feelings of the tend e resali edvarioateseudiri,ekdee,septaeterhieaeol ltyfihnei ner
have
bosoms b
towns. Two, or, if they car, b
age,att ne
r to accomplish--.for to
discriminatinginfallible charms for eye of the mother,
amabsiolousbpntaocebsiysni.eigebssl b,eaae—rbseicneeosaploitkfdtetiril_beec,utrlet samei matter
fa l
expand-
ingb the hearts and purses of the dear, good women, es-
ecnw,oouridarebenbuonuytietoldbineg.
flintcpoernei es-
pecially leymsootsietilovest those who
.w
fhae:
TheirrOpen, Sesame in did they know all.
Theare generally hired at so much a-day,
and sits with them displayed asleep
in lap—no bad representative, especially
e the
her capacious
ati
pseudo-mother
nu gds o-m
when she woman is comely, of the teeming goddess her-
self. Conversations have been overheard as to the rate
at which the young creatures had been reeled, and sur-
prise has been expressed by an old practitioner at the
large sum given by one not so well versed in the
market. " How much did you give for your's ?"
A shilling a-piece." " A shilling a-pi,ce !
Vy, then you've been done, übbies is riz ; one ,

or t'otber I only give sixpence for mine, and
they feeds 'em and Godfrey's-cordials 'em and all,
afore I takes 'em, into the bargain." A real
mother with a fine family is a prize to a male practi-
tioner. " Many vagrants," says Mr. Kncvitt, " con-
sider picking up a woman with five or six little interest-
ing children alinost a fortune to them, and they remain
with them a certain time when they leave them." In
London, parents send out their children, when they.are
old enough, to gather alms : if the poor little things do
n:,t bring home the required sum, they are severely
beaten. A first theft is often committed in
order to make up the amount. The begging-letter de-
partment is another of the most successful. If the cha-
ritable could but see, as we have seen, whole packets
of letters in the same hand, but each setting forth a dif-
ferent catalogue of misfortunes, found on the same
practitioner, and intended to be used, like some medical
prescriptions, grout occasio postulet, the very sight of a
begging letter would, at once, freeze their charity, how-
ever warm it might be.

The slang dialogue in the above passage, where
one mendicant practitioner is represented saying to
another, " A shilling a-piece ! Vy, then you've
been done, or babbies is riz—l only give sixpence
for mine," reads exactly like a bit of Boz. It must
certainly be an excerpt from the Pickwick Papers.
In the article headed " Life and Character of
lEschylus," there are some clever speculations on
the subject of Pythagoras, and the doctrines taught
by this most original of all the Greek philosophers.
But the best and most eloquent of the Pythagorean
system is to be found in Ovid, who in his " Meta-
morphoses" has " discoursed most excellent music
upon it. " French Orators and Oratory," gives a
lively and graphic account of M. Thiers, and the
style of speaking in which he most excels. The
Reviewer--a fact, indeed, which is undeniable—
allows that he possesses considerable talents, and of
a marketable order, but adds that " his lack of dis-
cretion will always prevent him from making a safe
spokesman for any party." Of " Post-office Re-
form" we have already taken occasion to speak in
The Sun. " British Policy" is of course a virulent
attack on IVlinisters, who are politely called " ass-
born," and assured that their system of Government
is the most pernicious that ever was instituted.
We gather from this that the Tories have but
slender hopes of sunning themselves upon the
Treasury- beneh, or their chief organ would not be
quite so reckless in its abuse. The advice given
to these worthies by the Reviewer is, to act "on
fixed principles"—which is very superfluous advice,
for the " fixed principles" of the Tories have always
.been to get as much as they could for themselves ;
and should they ever again find themselves in
office, sure we are that they will not neglect this
corner-stone of their political creed. As a whole,
the present Number of the Quarterly is one of
average merit—nothing more.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS
PLATTER, A SCHOOLMASTER OF THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Translated front
the German.

London, Wertheim.

Thomas Platter was born on Shrove Tuesday in
the year 1499, near to Grenchen, in the district
and
,parish of Visk, a considerable village of the
canton St. Gall. Master Thomas, as he is called,
was a goatherd, a travelling scholar, or rather beg-
gar for a scholar, a student, a rope-maker, a He-
brew professor, an armour bearer, a schoolmaster,
a professor, a printer, and again a professor, at
Basle, in which situation he died in 1582. The
outline which he gives of his own history, for the
benefit of his son Felix, is an amusing and instruc-
tive book. It would form a noble chapter in the
volume describing those persons who have acquired
knowledge under difficulties. Master Thomas
studied Hebrew as he walked backward spinninc,
yarn, by a primitive method, now almost exploded,
we believe, in England. Master Thomas stole hours
from sleep to study, and kept himself awake by
putting sand in his mouth. Master Thomas began
a goatherd and ended the owner of four houses in
Basle, with a house and farm, and was professor
there forty years. As the fag of a begging
scho,ar Master Thomas wandered through a great
part of Germany, seeking instruction from renowned
men, and visiting the peat teachers of that time.
We hardly know whether to treat the book as a
fiction or a reality ; if it be a fiction it wants those
circumstantialities, those numerous well worked up
details by which authors seek in general to give
verisimilitude to their tales ; if it be a real history it
is a very instructive one, and we recommend it, not
only as an inspiriting example, but as giving an excel-
lent picture of the manners of several classes at the
beginning of the 16th century. Be it a fiction or a
real history, it is an entertaining little book, which
grown men and women, as well as boys and girls,
may read with advantage.

THE LITERARY WORLD. Vok, I.
Berger, London, 1839.

A weekly periodical, conducted on the plan of
the " Mirror," and containing in each number,
much lively and useful reading, together with one
or woodcuts very fairly executed. The first
,volume is now lying before us, and we have been
pleased with, the skill and taste shown in the selec-
tion of materials. The Editor is Mt. Timbs who,
it seems, had the principal managoemmt, fur eleven
years, of the " Mirror."

MANN'S AUSTR4LIAN PROVINCES.
Smith, London, 1839.

We have in this compact and well-digested work
the-result of six yearS' residence in the Australian
provinces. The authcir, Mr. Mann, describes their
capabilities of - colonization, and details at some
length their history, trade, population, extent, re-
sources, &c. At the end of the volume there is an
account of New Zealand, of the character of whose
inhabitants the author speaks in terms far from
discouraging. A map of Australia, Van Diernen's
Land, and some of the adjacent islands, greatly
adds to the utility of the work.

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE OF
INSANITY.
Henderson, London, 1839.

The laws and statutes relating to insanity in all
its forms are laid down in this work with much
perspicuity, so that he who runs, may read.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
• Fraser, London, 1839.
T.hote !who entertain an idea of emigrating to
our colony of Western Australia, will do well to
avail themselves beforehand of the information con-
tained in this work, in which they will find abut:-
dance of useful hints and suggestions. The author
is a gentleman named Ogle, who seems to have de--:
voted much time and attention to his task, and has
furnished us with a complete manual for emigrants
to the settlement and its dependencies, together
with the most correct map extent. Speaking of
the earlier voyages of discovery along the Australian
shores, he says :
" Among the most daring and talented of the navi-
gators who explored the coasts of that vast continent,
were Flinders and Bass ; the former a midshipman, the
latter a surgeon, who came out with Governor Hunter.
Left to their own resources, these daring youths fitted
up a boat, eight feet long, which they aptly named the
Tom. Thumb ; and, accompanied by a little boy,
set sail, and examined- every inlet and cove, and ex-
tended their survey twenty miles beyond the limits
reached by the officers of Government. It was not till
the year 1797 that Bass, in a whale boat with six men,
ascertained Van Diemen's Land to be an island, and
gave his name to the straits which divide them. Fem
voyages can compete with this daring exploit. Six
hundred miles were traversed in an unknown sea by
seven men in an open boat., three hundred miles of coast
were added to our geographical knowledge ; and the rela-
tive position of Australia and Van Diemen's Land es-
tablished ! In 1804 the indefatigable Flinders obtained
a colonial brig, which was lost in Torres Straits, in
company with the Cato ; their consort, the Bridgewater,
sailed away, leaving them to perish. They removed
. from the wrecks to a dry sand, large enough to contain
the men and provisions ; and having erected tents, and
secured all the stores they were able to recover from
the wrecks, they selected Flinders to go in an open
boat to Port Jackson, two hundred and fifty leagues,
which he accomplished, and triumphantly returned with
a ship and two schooners to their rescue !"

The author, after giving a cursory account of
the earliest Australian settlements, proceeds to offer
some useful practical suggestions to the emigrant
preiious to his making the voyage. The ship, he
observes, in which he proposes to sail, should not
be less than four hundred tons ; she should carry
no cargo whatever between decks, and ought to be
full six feet six inches under the beams on that deck.
The emigrant should also write down all questions,
and the answers to them, which relate to-the cabin,
privileges, and. diet, as well as the number of cubic
feet for goods lie is allowed without any payment,
and the price for every extra cubic foot; he should
moreover ascertain if filtering machines are supplied
on board, and without these he should not embark.
The author adds, that Neither owners, brokers,
agents, nor captains, are to be generally trusted.

On the subject of cabin passengers we have the fol.
lowing remarks :
" The part of the ship usually allotted to them is the
after-part, that is, the part nearest the stern, comprising
the cabins under the poop.deck ; and on the main..
deck, from the sternmost cabin to between the after
and main hatchways. The stern-cabins are considered
the most eligible, being retired, and having more light
and air, and being generally the quietest. The cost of
the passage must depend on the space rzquired, the na-
ture of the accommodation, and the number and age
of the:passengera. In first-class ships—and no other should I
be permitted to make the voyage—the charge for a
man or woman is 701. or 80/., and for every child above
fifteen years of age two-thirds of that amount. For two
sisters, or a man and wife, occupying- the same cabin,
the charge is less. For that sum they are supplied with
fresh provisions, wine, and every necessary, with forty i
cubic feet of stowage, in addition to every thing they
choose to place in their own cabins.. They bava to find
the fittings of their cabins, bedding, linen, and furniture?
Of the climate of Western Australia, and the
advantages which it holds out to settlers, Mr. Ogle
speaks in the warmest terns of praise. It is in a
position highly advantageous, he tells - us, whether
considered in regard to Europe or to Asia. It is
nearer, by one apan!h's voyage, to the f,r.,,rmer than
Sydney, and is only twenty-five days', sail from
Madras ; and when steam-communication has been
established, less than half that time' will be neces-
sary to convey the exhausted . Eurnriean, from the
enervating climate of Hindostan to the invigorating
and healthful air of Western Australia. The coast
of the colony extends for two thousand miles, and
abounds in the finest harbours. The climate: is dry;
and adapted to most constitutions, and the northern
part is calculated to grow cotton, sugar, opium, tea,
coffee, and all the products of a tropical 4:litnate.
Altogether,- the author considers it,---especiallythe
northern division, which is • usually design3ted the
settlement of Swan -River—the most impoitant co_
lony which has ever been founded by Great :Britain_

ATTACK ON THE JUNG OF THE
FRENCH'S CARRIAGE, BY A LUNATIC.

ADDITIONAL .DETAILS.
(From the Paris Papers of Sunday.)
The name of the woman whit (see The Sun ,af tester-
day) threw a stone into the King's carriage on 'Friday
afternoon, turns out to be Girondele, and not Girodet,
as already stated. Her age is thirty-one years. She is
a native of Brononvilliers, in the departme ht-of the
Maine. She bad lodged in the Rue de Li' le, Paris,
since the month of June last, at which period, she left
her place of cook to a private family.
ImmAliately after committing the offence agoinst the
King and Queen, she. was taken into custody, and
brought to the Conuiergerie. Every thing about her
betrayed, at first sight, misery and derangement. She
wore on her head, instead of a cap, a red handkerchief,
which was in great disorder, and otherwise covered with
rags. No papers were found on her person, to show
who and what she wag; It was with difficulty, in the
midst of her incoherent replies, that her name could be
collected.

It was remarked to her ibat
. the stone thrownw' "Alt
the King's carriage seemed ie some sort
"lish
tt.ime and
its sides, and that it must have req.:
Ir hon into
all
labour to give it that appearance. S7l:eulansc"ieked with
the volubility which characterised all her ...0 ePics
yes ! I have carried it a long time. I know t. !I; r
ell I
know well that it is polished." The Attorney-Go.
having interrogated her briefly, expressed his convietn,
that she was out of her mind. Two eminent physicians,
Drs. Chomel and Vignardonne, were accordingly sent
for to examine into the state of her mental and bodily
health. They declared, as will he seen presently, that
she laboured under an absence of all intellectual faculty.
The following is the report of the physicians :
" We, the undersigned, Doctors of Medicine of the
Faculty of Paris, were called in by the Prefect of Po-
lice this 18th of October, at a quarter to tea o'clock
at night, to examine a woman named to us, Stephanie
Giroudelic, who had been arrested in the afternoon for
having thrown a stone at the King's carriage. When
introduced to her, we examined and interrogated her.
It became evident to us during that examination that
she was labouring under mental alienation. The
causes to which she attributed her resolution—the
means even that she employed to carry it into execu-
tion—the expression of her countenance—the regularity
of her pulse--left us no doubt respecting her mental
condition.

" In witness whereof, &c.,
" CHOMEL and VIGNARDONNE."
M. Gilles, Commissary of Police, has addrc.;sed to
the Prefect of Police a report, frem which the following
arc extracts :

"In compliance with—the order addressed to me by
M. Holy d'Oissel, substitute of the King's, Attorney-
General, I this morning took out of the prison of the
Conciergerie Stephanie Girondelle, arrested yesterday
evening, the moment after she had thrown a stone into
the King's carriage. I conducted her to her lodging in
the Rua Lille, where I proceeded to the strictest exami-
nation of her etrecis. They contained nothing of a
suspicious character. This woman was in the habit of
performing her religious duties. The only books she
possessed were the Imitation of Jesus Christ, Christian
Thoughts, a Prayer-book, the Episties and Gospels, and
some pious pictures and images.
" On our way, in the carriage in which I conveyed
her, she wept several times, and her eyes became blood-
shot. I asked her the cause of her grief ? She replied,
that she would rather die than be tormented as she
had been during several months, by people whose voices
she heard night and day, even their whispers, no mat-
ter how far distant they were, so fine was her sense of
hearing.

" She said also to me, that she should have been very.
sorry had she done harm to the Queen, for she had tic
such wish. Afterwards her mind . wandered. Setnc
times she told me that she had heard the King say seve-
ral times to the persons who were about him, Why
do they follow this woman ? Why do they torment
her ? I wish that they would let her alone.' The
King, however,' continued she, did not punish them.
It became necessary, therefore, that I should thro7.7 a
stone, at him, which I have done.'"
Dr. Pasquier was on Friday evening summoned to
attend the Queen. The result of his exarnination of
his illustrious patient dissipated all apprehensions
respecting her Majesty, to which this melancholy Lffair
had given rise.

NV° shall close these extracts from the Paris Journals
with one remark. The affair in question has afforded a
new proof that, however heated by politics or by disease,
no single head in France has ever yet harboured for an
instant a thought hostile to the Queen of the Frecch,
nor for a moment betrayed ignorance of, or insensibility
to, her sweetness, her benevolence, her piety—in a worl,
her trunscendant virtues.