The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-05 00:00:00

JONATHANIANA.

WHO BUT US !—A condensation from the N. Y. Vat.
:—Spring in New -York ; Summer in New York ;
Autumn LI New York, are all sui gene is,—each as peculiar
to New York, as New York is peculiar to all the cities ir
the world. But Winter,—winter 'is the time when al
things are huidled together in New York !—it is the time
of times ; in which every thing is done ; in which ever:
thing else is intended to be done ;—t ;e time when mei:
think in a hurry, rat in a hurry, drink in a hurry, dance ir,
a hurry, seep in a hurry, dream in a hurry, love if.
It hurry, get married in a hurry, grow old in a hurry.
die in a hurry, and are buried and forgotten in
hurry!—Look at our Broadway in N.•w York hen
for this month past, and he thankful th,t Heaven ha.-
given yen eyes to behold the magnificent spectacle
from the Battery to Harlem Broadway and the grea:
Avenue, morning, noon, and evening, all the same, has
been crowded length and breadth, from the extren-J
ends and extreme sides, with thousands mating upon fwt,
or upon runners (where is the difference ?) either to set
or be seen by the passim! crowd. Talk not of Hyde-park.
Cheapside, Oxford, Regent, or Newgite streets, in London.
Speak not of the Corso in Rome, or of the Stado Toledo in
Naples. Broadway against them all in fashion, beanty,
number, and variety. In anything that lives, moves, and
has a being, he it visih!e or invisibly, real or unreal, we
challenge its eauai in London, Paris, Rome, or St. Peters-
burgh. If it be things instead of men, why then wr
throw out a broad, r challenge, and defy an approximation
to equality. But for the sleighing !—Come the four quar-
ters of the world to see it, and having seen it they she];
hide their diminished heads and blush. The glory of
sleighing can be seen no where but in New York. Ever%
vehicle that can move is put in motion. The huge mini
busses that throng Broadway in other times are all placet
upon runners, moving to and fro with the speed of steam
engines. Belles that makes the heart jingle, and bell,:
that jingle in the ear, are both upon the move, and each
in great demand. Wine-pipes and hogsheads, doonlrames.
and window-shutters, are metamorphosed into sleds and
sleighs, each moving, Gilpin-like, to reach and outrun all
who are before. Go a-head !—New York against the
World !

Look. OUT !—CLEAR THE WAY THERE !—The Nen
Jersey folks are going it like a hurricane on the railroad
principle. No horse-power—no steam—no canvass—no
thing hut real perpetual loco Act) and faiimity. Heat
what the Monmouth Enquirer s.tich to the point :

‘• As to the locomotive, it is unlike unythin,r ever con-
structed, and a description can therefore give but a fah.
idea of it ; but we will try to explain it a little. There
are upwards of 500 springs, about an inch and a half wide.
as thick as a shilling, and 11 fect long, mule of steel, th,
same as the main spring of a watch ; these are wound
around a number of spindles placed perpendicular in two
trunks, hang on each side of the rail ; the spindle:
le minate at the cog-wheels, all of which each side work
into each other, and into a set of wheel works, which works
into and turns the wheel that sits astride of the rail, and
this puts the whole machine in motion. There is also for
guiding an 1 balancing a small wheel before and another be-
hind the main wheel. It must be evident that these 500
springs (and the number may be increased) possess an im-
mense power, which if brought to bear on a single point, or
wheel, will send a locomotive with the velocity of a tornado."'
STOP THE DOG THIEF ?.--30 DOLLARS REWARD.—.I
Will give the above reward to any person who will convict
the thief that stole my Dog Tiger ; he is a yellow or cream-
coloured wire-hair Terrier, about three-quarters bull, of the
largest size ; had a chain collar on his neck, with the name
L. Jones, 16, Dumain, engraved on it. Should this adver-
tisement meet the eye of the thief, he is requested to untie
the dog and let him come home, for if he is detected he
will be severely handled by RALPH JACOBS,
11, St. Philip-street.
MULTUM IN PARTO.—We have very often seen this
Latin phrase employed, but never so appropriately as it may be
in the case of the BowcryTheatre, provided the report of the
Daily Express be true. That paper informs its readers
this morning that the stage of the theatre is four thousand
feet wide ; and the edifice itself being only seventy-five or
eighty feet in width, simple people like ourselves, who never
go to the theatres, may well be puzzled to know how so
great a stage is contained within a house so little. Perhaps
they fold it up like a pocket map !
A WIDOW BEWITCH'D.—The Newburgh Gazette—no
doubt its editor is an ill-natural, musty, snarlish, snappish
old bachelor—says that, in a late fire in that village, a
buxom widow—fat, fair, and forty—whose local habitation
and all her stock of worldly gear was enveloped in the de-
vouring element, being vociferously entreated by her friends
from without to make her escape, and come out of the
flaming tenement, " Indeed," says she, very coolly, " that
I shan't, until I have found my curls r —Penn. Sentinel.
MONEY WANTED.—We wish that some of our uncles in
India would leave us 10,0001. when. they die, as a London
s mstable's did him. John Barnes, " a knight of the long
pole," lately received 10,0001. from an old uncle in India,
whom he had forgotten long ago.
They are selling ice in Calcutta for a dollar an ounce ;
but that isn't much—we would have given two dollars for
the ounce that tripped us up the other morning, if we could
have had it before we stubbed our toes against it.—Nero
York Express.

" The Londoners are going a-head of us Yankees in
the India rubber line. They have found that it makes
first-rate candles! One Dr.- Birbeck, or Birkbeck, has
made a great lot of 'em, and we are told they burn cle-
verly. After this, we guess there's no limit to the uses of
the article. Camitchozic pills, by and by, will be found a
sovereign remedy for the cholera."—New Orleans Echo.
TOT HOMINES QUOT SENTENTIZE.—There is much
'hrowing about of brains among the Journalists of the
'es touching Andrew Jackson's new gold dollars. One
As it as " classical—beautiful." Another, as "

nently graceful,—the eagle especially of a novel and deli-
cate design." Another, Major Noah, says, " The dollar
looks like a Brurnmejum medal ; the Goddess of Liberty
a poor shivering half dressed wench, like one of the nymphs
of the Five Points ; and the eagle a fac simile of a huge
turkey buzzard, all wings and crop ;"—whilst another de-
dares that the Imperial Bird of Jove, surrounded by a
shower of stars, is "exactly like Mooney's goose, all fudge
and fooster, in the middle of a swarm of gallinippers !"
" AWFUL !—A wife, and nine children, and flour fifteen
dollars a barrel."—Boston Transcript.—" And twelve dol-
lars per ton for coals ;—fortunate that we, friend Walter,
have no Little Responsibilities to feed and keep warm !"
—Gloucester Telegraph..—" We are not. sure of that.
We have ten Little Responsibilities which lie at our feet
every night—and, sooth to say, it costs us a deal of trouble
to keep them warm this cold weatber."—Boston Tran-
script.—" Then go and buy one of Dr. Ransom's patent
toe warmers. But who shall minister to the affliction of
a shilling loaf that may be carried into the waistcoat
pocket ?—Tell us that, friend Transcript with your ba-
chelor indifference to the woes of housekeeping."—New
York Daily Ad.
" OH GERTRUDE, GERTRUDE !"—A lady in Vermont,
named Fortune, recently, at one birth, presented her hus-
band with three fine daughters ; thereby verifying the old
saying—" Miss Fortunes never come singly."