The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-27 00:00:00

AN' ENGLISH LANE.

"Ward looked up gratefully at the overarching trees,
and the intense blue sky seen through their autumn-tinted
foliage. The hedges out of which the huge trunks sprung
were almost smothered in wreaths 9f travellers' joy—the
blossom nearly over, for it was the end of autumn, but the
bright silky tufts children call old man's heard, well sup-
plied its place. Flowers of any kind were fa more rare
than they had been a few months earlier, though mountain
ash, service, and other berries gave colour to the hedge-
rows ; while on the bank below the grey old trunks throw-
ing out gnarled roots here and there, sometimes in the path-
way itself, were covered with ivy, and the bright
upspringing fronds of polypody, that in the chequered
sunshine looked like fabled heaps of gold—the pro-
perty in former times of the crooked, distorted trunk,
a fierce and cruel dwarf, who had tried to gain forcible
possession of the bright damsel beside him, and failing his
attempt, at the hour of his own transformation had changed
her into that graceful trembling mare's tail. There were
still a few yellow flowers, the flea •bane with its golden
stars, the ragwort, and others ; but the absence of variety
among these was atoned for by the luxuriant growth of
ferns. The hedge bank ended in a wet ditch, and sloped
up on the near side in a grassy, spongy mound, the true
soil for ferns and water plants; from the grand spreading
crown of the male shield-fern, reminding me always of the
plumed head of an Indian warrior, to the delicate black-
stalked trichomanes, they abounded—the brightly varied
shades of the shield-ferns, from rich green to the pale
yellowish tint of the young fronds, varied with the broad
green satin ribands of harts-tongue, that clung close to the
bank and formed the foundation of this mass of verdure, to
appearance only. Look a little closer, if you are not afraid
of being entangled among the long pendant briars that
hang from the hedge, and almost conceal the ditch itself,
or the stronger, more redoubtable thorns of wild rose, that
guard the scarlet hips from all depreelators. If you can dare
all these, and plant your foot firmly on the other side of the
ditch, underneath those closely-clinging leaves of harts-
tongue, you will find mosses of all kinds, full of living
creatures ; and, again, below, on any patches of stone, where
the bank is very wet, the shiny mysterious liverwort—a
plant to my mind associated with witcheratt—there is such
a weird uncanny look about it."

The Edinburgh Review.

In " Solar Chemistry," the first article in this
number, we find an account of some curious experi-
ments as to the nature and chemical action of light,
though the writer admits that " the more the ques-
tion of the physical constitution of the sun is con-
sidered, the more does it appear that we have no
right to make up our minds concerning it, either in
one way or the other." That which follows, on
" The Herculanean Papyri," shows how disap-
pointing has been the result obtained from this
supposed mass of literary treasure. "In general
literature, whether Greek or Latin, it proved a corn.
plete blank. Not a single one of the longed-for
authors appeared among its remains ; hardly even
a single fragment of their writings. It was found
to be a class collection, in the narrowest sense of
the phrase, its contents being exclusively philoso-
phical, and indeed confined to one particular school
of philosophy—the Epicurean ; and the authors
expehe be-
ing for the most part entirely unknown, except
sou-
members of one of the least literary of tlae
phical sects of antiquity." In " The Mausoleum of
Halicarnassus" we have a disvihqiutisiLion on that fa-
pietc especial reference
e Messrs.rence
fa-
mous monument of antiquity,
to the recently published works on
Newton and Ferguson, with the former of which
the writer finds fault on account of its. costliness and
the omission in it of engravings of important sculp-
tures. " The English in theh Eastern, Seas" chiefly
treats of Borneo. Mrs. Olip ant s Life of Edward.
Irving forms the subject of paper,. and,. Sicily," '°
be found on " The M SH mans in Sicily,"
Supernatural," " The Legend of St. Swithin,"
"Hops at Home and Abroad," ""since Eugene of
Savoy," and " The American Revolution."

THE DFSPERA7E POACHING AFFRAY

IN NOITINGHAM.

On Saturday morning, Charles Maltby, William
Smith, and Absolom Bickley, three of the poachers
connected with the affray in Nottingham on Wed-
nesday night, were brought up on remand before
the town bench of magistrates at the police-court.
The case had been adjourned since Thursday, to
allow the attendance of Brooks, Lord Chesterfield's
gamekeeper, who had been seriously injured on the
head with a life-preserver, he not being able to at-
tend that day ; he is still in a precarious state, and
was not able to be present at the examination.
Superintendent Horne and Constable Rudkin
gave evidence to the effect that when they entered
the public-house to apprehend Walker and Worth-
ington, Bickley said to Walker, "Do you mean to
go, Tom ? " Walker replied " No." Bickley then
rejoined, " Up, and at 'em," and immediately struck
the officers, ultimately escaping with Walker. This
morning, however, he was apprehended by the town
police.

- The Bench said they would summarily convict
Bickley and Smith, who were each sentenced to one
month's imprisonment with hard labour, in default
of not paying a penalty of £5. Upon being removed
both the prisoners looked at the police-officers end
said, " They shall pay for it when we have done.

Maltby was remanded for a period not exceeding
eight days.
Mr. Lees again applied for bail.
Mr. Buttery appeared on behalf of :the Earl of
Chesterfield, stating that his lordship's own surgeon
was attending the keeper, and was uncertain
whether the wounds world not prove fatal, an they
were of a most dangerous character. Ho should,
therefore, oppose bail_
The prisoner was then removed.

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