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

TU-PUA.

Tu-Pua 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 been most correct and considerate. ID
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 ICannaka chief, in his lava lava only, apolo-
gizing, on account of the great heat, for dispensing wills
clothes above his waist.

He would much like to go to England. "My heart is
burning," he said, "to see the word. 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."
He seemed to have a pretty good idea of the relative posi-
tions of the different countries of Europe, and asked many
questions about the Crimean war.
Many other extracts we might select as evidences
of the delightful character of this volume, but thl
above will be sufficient to attest the interesting
nature of the Cruise made by the author on boar
H.M.S. Fawn among the Islands of the p

The Pirates of the Foam. A Nov i
e • By C. F.
Armstrong, Esq., author of if The Two ivildship
mAsenm,"ay&,-;:).9
inTfherrreeedVforolam.
tihre title, these volumes
contain a series of desperate adventures and peril:,
by sea and land.
rno hero is found in his child-
hood half-drowned on the oands at Ramsgate. A
little later on, when travelling in a railway ear-
tinge, another traveller shows him a new perfume

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which he is taking to Rimeael, the tTreatietTumer,
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 into 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
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 by the
title, College Romance. He goes startled
onarttoled give
the
following very happy definition of his theme
"There is romance," he says, " wherever there ig
a deviation from the modes of acting or of thought.
chat 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 young
Irishmen 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 thew
pages will present you with much that is sad, and trawl'
that is gay, chequered just like the world in which we live,
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 so hap-
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, sines
I have ceased to sojourn within her chambers, acci-
dent, or perhaps I should say inclination, has thrown'
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 plane
since. It has often occurred to me that these
dents, if collected together, would form a curious
and interesting commentary on the way ward follies
and the vain ambition of youth ; and for years I em-
ployed my leisure hours in collecting materials for
such a commentary. On the appearance of a mega'
zinc bearing the name of the University,' it imme-
diately suggested itself to me that its page°
would be the fittest medium for presenting,
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. Reading
for Honours"---relates the melancholy results of an
over devotion to study. No. III.—" The Mariner's
Son ;" No. IV., " The Murdered Fellow ;" and No'
V., " The Segar—Arthur Johns;" are, as their
names indicate, tales of very different characterF,
but capable, some of them, of exciting intense
interest.