The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-16 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

RISE AND PROGRESS OF TIM BRITISH
P 0 WER rot. IL
Atm, Lotidon, 1837.

We noticed the first volume of this work when it
made its appearance some five or six months back,
and may extend to the present, and as we perceive
the concluding volume, the same praise which we
awarded to its predecessor —namely, that it is compiled
with much skill and diligence. and contains a multi-
tude of valuable facts and documents, which will fur-
nish some future historian of our oriental colonies with
useful practical data. Mr. Aubcr's—the author—
incidental memoirs of some of the most ptominen:
among the native Indian Princes who figured towards
the close of the eighteenth century, arc well written, with
tact and conciseness. The volume is embellished with
an excellent map, showing the extent of our territorial
possessions in India about the period of the year 1781.

HISTORY OP ENGLAND.—VoL. I.
Rickerby, London, 1837.
A new edition of Hume's well-known history, to
which is prefixed an essay on the " Study of His-
tory," by the Rev. Mr. Stebbing. The work is pro-
posed to be carried down to the reign of William the
Fourth. It is cheap in price, and nearly got up.

tIISTORY OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF
JOINT STOCK BANKS IN ENGLAND.
Morrison, London, 1837.

The author of this work is Mr. D. Gavin Scott,
manager of the National Provincial Bank of England
at Ipswich—a gentleman perfectly familiar with all the
details of the important subject which he has under-
taken to elucidate. To bankers, and to all who take
an interest in banking affairs, his treatise will be of in-
calculable service. his views arc clearer, and more
concisely expressed than those of Joplin ; while they
have the great advantage of being all of a practical
kind—based on principles of which experience has
tested the utility.

THE EVILS OF QUARANTINE LA IVS.
BY CAPTAIN WHITE, LATH OF THE -EAST INDIA courm's

SERVICE.
Effingham Wilson, London, 1837.

The leading object of this work is to prove the folly
of all quarantine laws, as modes of preventing the
spread of cholera, or any other disease which is now
deemed pestilential. We are not sufficiently acquainted
with medical science to pronounce any decided opinion
on the merits of a question which has baffled the ut-
most skill of the College of Physicians ; but from the
fervour with which Captain White expatiates o►► the
evils likely to be prevented by the adoption of his
views by the legislature, we can have no doubt of his
individual conviction that he is seeking to benefit the
whole human race. We never saw his pamphlet on
cholera, and therefore there is much in his present
work, having reference thereunto, that we cannot fully
comprehend.

BRITISH COLONIAL LIBRARY, Voz. X.
Whittaker, London, 1837.

The volume before us, which, we understand, is the
concluding one, of Mr. Montgomery Martin's elabo-
rate work on the British Colonies, contains, among
other useful matters of information, a statistical and
condensed account of the island of Ceylon, one of the
most valuable, perhaps the most so, of our Oriental
possessions. It is also embellished by two maps, the
first of the island, and the second, of our Colonies in
Southern Africa. In addition to these recommenda-
tions, we have a spirited engraving, from a sketch
taken on the spot, of Colombo, one of the principal
sea-ports of Ceylon.

BRITANNIA INGRATA.
Boone, London, 1837.

This is a poem dedicated to the achievements of

the heroes of the Peninsula, by Major William
Mackie, a gallant officer, who was himself engaged in
many of the battles which he recounts ; and in a well-
written preface expresses his regret that the veteran ac-
tors in the Spanish, Portuguese, and South of France
campaigns, have been unjustly thrown into the shade
by those who fought at Waterloo—a battle which
England bears vividly in mind, while she has almost
forgotten its splendid predecessors in Spain. The
gallant author's poetical remonstrances on this subject
are written in a bold, flowing, and nervous style, and
display throughout much skill and grace of versification.

FINE ARTS.

PORTRAITS OP THE CHILDREN OF THE

NOBILITY.
Longman, London, 1837.

This is a very elegant work, both as regards its em-
bellishments, and the poetical illustrations that ac-
company them. It consists of a series of portraits of
the children of our nobility, and is dedicated, by per-
mission, to the Queen, by the fair editor, Mrs. Fair-
lie. Some of these portraits, those, for instance, of
the youthful family of the present Duke of Beaufort,
are engraved in the highest style of art, by Thompson,
who in his line is one of the most skilful artists of the
day. The poem, in illustration of the Beaufort por-
traits, are from the pen of Lady Emmeline Stuart
Wortley. The likenesses of the junior members o'
the Somerset family are also ably executed ; and to this
picture—perhaps the best in the work—is attached a
copy of verses, written by James Smith, in his
Sprightliest and most epigrammatic manner. We have
no doubt, from its nature, that this splendid quarto
will be in high favour with the aristocratic classes.

William BeHairs, Esq., has been appointed Exon
of her Majest)'s yeomen of the Guard, in the room of Thomas
Der nzy, Esq., who has resigned.

At. Annan Bank, parish of Applegarth, on th,
morning of Friday last, a child of 20 months of age, be
longing to Mr. White, Annan Hill, was found drowned in
a ditch, a short distance from the house of its affcctionatF
and now sorrowing parents. The little innocent had gone
to the door unperceived, and although its absence was im-
mediately noticed, still it was too late to prevent the fatal
resul t.—Dumfrics Courier.

George the Third, for years after the commence •
ment of his reign, went to the theatres in state from the
Palace along the Strand, and up Southampton-street, but
the progress of the procession being impeded one night ii,
the latter street by the barrier being dosed, the Kiig took
offence, and ever after went by the circuitous route of St.
Martin's-lane, through Long-acre, and down James-street,
Covent-garden.
MR. GLEIG S " TRADITIONS OF CHELSEA
COLLEGE."—In these volumes our readers will find a treat
such as they might expect to have prepared by the Author '
of" The Subaltern." The work commences with a verb
curious account of the origin of the College ; having satis
factorily, but briefly disposed of its history, Mr. Gleig ther
proceeds to give us its traditions, which be does in his own
easy and attractive style. He also puts us in possession of
numerous " tales of the wars," which ho has collected from
the mouths of the veteraus in the Hospital, and which en-
chain our attention, not more by their own intrinsic merits
than by the light they throw upon the habits and conversa-
tion of the brave men, whose next step from the noble institu-
tion at Chelsea will probably be into the grave. Into the rich
field of adventure which the author has here laid open, we
must not suffer ourselves to be betrayed, otherwise we should
find it difficult to know where to stop. Here we leave the
work in the hands of our readers. Stories of military life
and adventure are always interesting ; and stories of this
description, which come recommended by the name of Gleig,
need no eulogy from us. " Chelsea College" is worthy of
general perusal, and it must secure it.—St. James's Chronicle
Last night, about half-past six o'clock, a large
crowd assembled in Fleet-street, and much alarm was
created in consequence of a mass of flames having been per-
ceived to issue from the upper part of the premises of Mr.
Hughes, proprietor of the ahmode beef house, about four
doors to the west of Temple-bar. Two or three engine:
arrived in a short time. 'lle throng, which at first had
collected to an inconvenient degree in that usually crowded
locality, was soon dispersed by opening one of the water•
springs in the street, which flung its liquid shower to a con-
siderable height and distance. By the activity of the fire-
' men the flames were soon suppressed.