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

TU-PUA.

Tu-Pita came down to the boat with his attendants,
carrying four large live pigs, as his present to Captain
Cater, articles of food being, 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 boon most correct and considerate. He
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 came
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. If 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 no
country like Samoa."
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questions about the Crimean war.
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Many other extracts we might
of the delightful character of t
above will be sufficient to attest the interesting
nature of the Cruise made by the author on boarJ
H.M.S. Fawn among the Islands of the Pacific

The Pirates of the Foam. A Novel. By C, F.
Armstrong, Elq., author of " The Two Midship
men," &e. Three Vols. Newby.
As may be inferred from th© title, these volumes
contain a series of desperate adventures and perils
by sea and land. The hero is found in his child-
hood half-drownf2d on the sands at Ramsgate. A
little later on, when travelling in a railway car'
r4ge, 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 iato 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 a
further acquaintance with the pirates of the Foam.

Chapters of College Romance. By Isaac Butt:,
Esq., Q.C., M.P., 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
a deviation from the modes of acting or of thought
that are common among men; I here 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
friendship. Then, why should there not be romance in
College ? Are there not within its walls young hearts over
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 these
pages will present you with much that is sad, and ranch
that is gay, chequered just like the world in which We
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 se l'81).
pened," 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,
dent, or perhaps I should say inclination, has throws
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 a
share, others to those that had happened long be"
fore my day, and some few that have taken lilac!
since. It has often occurred to me that these inci-
dents, if collected together, would form a curious
and interesting commentary on the wayward follies
and the vain ambition of youth ; and for years I Oa'
ployed my leisure hours in collecting materials for
such a commetitary. On the appearance of a mega-
zinc bearing the name of the ' University,' it jolt"-
iiately suggested itself to me that its Pegg
would be the fittest medium for presentog
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.—" Reath'
for Honours"—relates the melancholy results of en
over devotion to study. No. III.—" The Mariner's
Son ;" No. IV., " The Murdered Fellow ;" and No.
V., " The Segar—Arthur Johns;" are, as
names indicate, tales of very different characters,
but capable, some of them, of exciting intense
interest. their

BOOKS RECEIVED.
A Woman's Ransom. By the author of Grandmother's
Money. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett.
For Better for Worse. Edited by Edmund Yates. 2 vols.
Maxwell and Co.
Anecdotal Memoirs of English Princes. By W. IL
Davenport Adams. 2 vols. Newby.
Desk Book of English Synonyms. By John ,Sherer.

Groombridge and Sons.
A Spring and Summer in Lapland. By an Old Buehm'•

Groombridge and Sons.
How I Won My Spurs. By J. G. Edgar.

Illustrate,d.

S. 0. Beeton. -
The Boy's Own Volume. Illustrated. Edited by the

Publisher. S. 0. Beeton.
Scenes from the Drama of European History. By W. 11.

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. Seond
Edition. Smith, Elder, and Co.
The Sporting Rifle and its Projectiles. By Lieut. Jam
Forsyth. Smith, Elder, and Co.
anderkiete.
Lost but Not For Ever. By the Rev, H. w. V
Nisbet and Co.
Richard
The Last of the Cavaliers. New Edition.

Bentley.
What is Your Name? By Sophy Moody. Richard
Bentley.
The Destiny of Nations : as Indicated in PropheoY. 13/
the Rev. John Cumming. Hurst and Blackett.
The House of Elmore. By the author of Grandrnother'B
Money. Chapman and Hall.
England's Workshops. By Various Writers. Groonl'
bridge and Sons.
Poems. By B. H. Farquhar. F. Pitman.
Marjorie Fleming : a sketch. By John Brown, 14•:° 1
author of Rab and his Friends. Edmonston 011
Douglas.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Da Y.

The December session of • the Central Criminal Co' art
commenced this morning at the Sessions House, Old Bail eY,
before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Aldertt
Finnis, the Recorder, Russell Gurney, Esq,, Mr. Alden/ 011

Bosley, &G.
Owing to the short time that has elapsed since tho las;
session the calender contained a list of only 50 prisoners for
trial.

The grand jury having been sworn,
The Recorder, in delivering his charge, said
there v /ere
only four cases affecting human life, and only one of tha m
as
charge of wilful murder, in which a young woman w
charged with causing the death of her infant c
The question for the jury in that case was whether that
violence was actually inflicted by the prisoner for the
:pur
pose of causing death, or whether it might arise ~.rom
Ignorance and accident. There was also a case in which
woman was charged with the manslaughter of her husbisnd.
He thought if they were satisfied the injury was ialicted by
the prisoner they would have no difficulty in returnia
a true bill. There was also a case in which a sin ger
at a Music Hall in the neighbourhood of Well-close-squere
was charged with the manslaughter of a mariner. Die°
the evidence of the surgeon it appeared that had the
ceased not been drinking the blows might not have calleea
death. If the Jury were satisfied that the death was caul
by the blows it would be their duty to send the case for Al;
ther inquiry. The other case of mansia:ighter was thst
Bn
which a cabman was charged with causing the death of r
elderly lady, and the only question in the case was whotbe
the prisoner was driving in a furious and reckless man Der.,.
and thus caused the death of the deceased, or whether 1"
was the result of accident.

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MAKING A FALSE DECLARATION.
Richard FarnhaLa Ridley, a gentlemanly-looking msl3'
aad who had held a commission in one of H.M. R?giniciPs
of Dragoons, and set-ved in the Crimea and Indian Watt
for which he had received medals, was indicted under
tit°
18th section of the aanecessary Oaths Declaratitzt Act'
under the following circumstances.
It appeared that he hao. applied to Mr. Strutt, a sot icitor
Adelphi-terrace, introdvcing himself as acquainted
in Witil
Mr. Strutt's sou, an officox' in the army in India, for tho
a sum of ,money under his reversionary
pinutreproesset under si
draeirtnhge will of Mr. l'arnham, to pay off his debt
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DEATH OF Mr. GODFREY, BANDMAASTER OF OP
COLDSTREAM GUARDS.—A large nurnbgr c. oar rode°
will hear with regret of the death of Mr, 'Godfrey, thh°
veteran bandmaster of the Coldstream Gum As, /v°l33ic;
honourable position he had filled for nearly 40 yetu s• 5
been
of the most popular instrumentalists of the day' lad ,iti,
e
under his tutorage. Mr. Godfrey was, we hear, in h
i 9 `1",
year, and had the esteem of his officers, and limewiso
under his command. Ho was only ill a few hours. be
THE LATE GALE.—M. Leverrier, Director of t a
Paris Observatory, states iu an article that he has publisheof
on the late gale, that it assumed the form in Franc,%o
a terrific cyclone, whose centre moved southwards. 'l'm
damage effected by it seems to have been fully as grellt
France as in England. a sos'
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