The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-16 00:00:00

AMERICAN REVELATIONS.

A Tonal. OF I\IoDEsTY.—Mr. Bennett, editor of the
New York Herald, says, " I mean to make the daily news-
paper the great moral and intellectual engine of modern
days. Its capabilities—its power—its influence—never
have been fully tested. Founded on the cash and specie
system, and conducted on the principle of a division of la-
bour, I shall be enabled, by its increasing profits and great
revenue, already large, to concentrate upon my establish-
ment all the available and original talent of the country.
Beyond the reach of broken banks—of rascally politicians
—of ignorant booksellers—of bigoted clergy—of each class
of society alike—my great purpose is to raise the daily
newspaper press to the highest rank in literature, taste, mo-
rals, and independence. In two short years, out of a beg-
barly 500 dollars and a vigorous constitution, both mentally
and physically, I have attained a position from which I can
eontroul and manage my future advances in civilisation just
as I please. The miserable nexspaper editors around me
I despise as Ido the dirt under my feet. They are igno-
rant, silly, vain, empty, whiskered, lazy, licentious, corrupt,
and wicked. lam only in the beginning of my career, mid
they know it. With the great and independent public on
my side what care I for all the opposition that the O'llag-
gerties, the Webbs, the Hamblins, the Westerns, or the
Hoyts, or any other loafers' may raise to my progress.
Thus do I more in the race of immortality, with all the
pretty women, cash dealers, and philosophers, cheering me
onward." _ _ _

TO LEARN BESIpNATION.-•"Slibillit to be shaved.
CHARlTY.—Spending ten dollars in your own amusemen,
that twenty-five cents of it may be devoted to some charit-
able purpose.
CAUTION.—It is said that red noses are among the many
injurious effects of tight lacing—" A word to the wise' &c.
THE HAIR.—A modern writer has discovered that the
human hair is a vegetable. He does not say how it should
be cooked.
ENIGMA.—Eleven great men, fifteen celebrated women,
twenty4hree extrordinary children, thirty-two fine pictures,
a new manner of cooking oysters, the best way of making
coffee, a great improvement in the cultivation of grapes,
ten fashionable bonnets, and the substance of one hundred
books, may all be expressed by a liquid in common use 'and
of only one syllable.
OF EXTREME ImrowraNcE.—Here is glorious news for
all parents whose children are possessed of noses. We al-
ways thought that the nose was meant for higher purposes
than mere sneezing, and now the secret is out. An eastern
paper says :—" Important to Nurses.—We have been much
amused by beholding one of the readiest modes of silencing
squalling children we remember to have either heard or
read of. So desirable a piece of knowledge is worthy of
being universally known, and we therefore give it publicity.
'rake the child in its cross fits, and press your finger g:mtly
and repeatedly across the cartilage of the nose, and in less
than a minute it will be asleep."
BODILY STRENGTH.—A friend of ours says be is grow-
ing weaker and weaker every day. He has got so now that
he can't raise five dollars.
CAUSES FOR MARRIAGE.—One man marries a woman
because she looks well when she dances—Lhc never dances
afterwards. Another man marries because she has a hand-
some foot and ancle, which, after marriage, he never takes
the trouble to admire. A third marries for love, which
wanes with the honeymoon. A fourth for money, and finds
that his wife does not choose to die, to complete his satisfac-
tion. And a fifth, being old in wisdom and years, marries
a young woman, who soon becomes a suitable match for
him by growing old with grief.
CARDS.-" Can you leave me your card ?" asked one of
me the other day. " I really can't, for I have not got
one." " Not got one," said he in astonishment. No, I
have not—l never had an engraved card—and I don't think
I ever shall. Every body has his card. My bout black
has his engraved card, and it is a very neat one too. I
carry my card in my face. If you cannot read J. G. Ben-
nett there there's a fault in your eye—that's ail. My ex-
quisite squint is as good as a card. God Almighty en-
graved it."
RAVENNA.—This town in Ohio stands on a fixed and
moderately elevated tract directly on the dividing line be-
tween the waters which run into Lake Erie and the Mis-
sissippi. The old Court-house is so situated that the rain
which falls on the north side of the
_roof passes into the
Cuyahoga, and is discharged into the St. Lt to the Gulfrence ; whiof
le
that which falls on the south side passes int
Mexico, so that this house, in a rainy day, is a fountain of
for two opposite hemispheres of the globe.

In addition to the entertainments of the Colosseum
on Thursday next, and the two following nights, Brabant
himself will appear in. his favourite part of Tom Tng in
the Waterman, Mr. Green undertaking the part of Robin,
for the first time, Mr. Braham also sings " Here's Vic-
toria, our Queen, for ever."
PoRT OF LONDON.—It appears the number of
of ships and their registered tonnage which have entered
tyoeinri, ag e,eit ofh cargoes6B,o
tans ; the London docks in the first six months of the present
foreign
the
s ports,t.has Katherinebeen 3Dsooe,kosf
2t3h3e
vessels of the tonnage of 56,820 tons ; in the West India
Docks (we are unable to4obtain this item) ships, of the
tonnage of 84,600 tons ; and in the East India Docks 46
vessels, of the tonnage of 25,700 tons. The returns which
we have been enabled to obtain show that in the first six
months of 1836 there entered the London Docks with car-
goes 400 V essels from foreign ports, of the aggregate ton-
nage of 74,100 tons ; the St. Katherine Docks 230 ships:,
of the tonnage of 53,330 tons ; the West India Docks
On Tbursday--:-
*evening last -Sir Robert Peel enter- ships, el the tonnage of 88,158 tons ; and the East India
tabled a numerous dinner party at Drayton Manor, and Docks 49, of the tonnage of 29,990. From these state-
t the company were several gentlemen from this • rnents it will appear that in the number of vessels whi.4l
amongs
own. On the following morning the Right lion. Baronet have entered the four principal docks there has, in the periol
left Drayton for the shooting-box of the Duke of Rutland referred to, been a very small falling off, as compared with
on the Derbyshire hills, near Castleton, where he is expected the similar period of last year. The total reduction has
to remain for several days. Sir Robert, we are glad to say, been about fifty vessels only, and the aggregate amount of
is almost entirely recovered from his lameness, and will be tonteige has fallen off from about
'245:600 tons, in the first
enabled to take the field with his usual spirit and vigour.— sin months of 1835, to 235,120 tons-in the first half-year of
Rimini:oam Grzette. 11837, or rather above 10,500 tons.

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