The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-13 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Sixpenny Magazine contains a variety of
interesting articles; the fourteenth pen and pencil
sketch relates to Caresbrook Castle.—Le Follet
comes in great force this month, the fashions for the
ball-room being particularly elegant.—.Routledge's
Illustrated Natural .History, part 46, abounds with
woodcuts, and an immense quantity of valuable
information.—Good Words is, as usual, highly in-
teresting, the contributions, both prose and verse,
being of first-rate excellence.—London Society well
sustains its title of being a magazine of light and
amusing literature; this month's number is fully
up to its predecessors both for variety and interest.
—The Paris Elegant and Journal of .Fashion is
sure to please our fair readers, as the designs for
dresses, to our thinking, are strikingly attractive.

Baton's Publications.

The Christmas Annual is a very attractive pub-
lication, and one that is sure tq meet with a very
large circulation, as it abounds with tales, poems,
&c.—all relating to merry Christmas. The Dic-
tionary of Science, Art, and Literature has reached
its 49th Part, and the Curiosities of Savage Life is
replete with interest. The Book of Garden Man-
agement contains much information that will be
found of service to amateurs at this season of the
year; and the Book of Home, Part 4 and 5, is de-
voted to billiards and chess. The _Englishwoman's
Magaztne is certainly one of the cheapest and best
periodicals published, and the illustrated Bible is
certainly one of the finest specimens of typography
ever presented to the public.

Cassell" Publications.

The Illustrated Exhibitor and Illustrated Natu-
ral History, published by this firm, continues to
maintain its character for profuse and beautiful en-
gravings.
The Quiver and Family .Newspaper con-
tain a variety of excellent tales, in the latter of
which a new story, by Mr. Smith, entitled " Warp
and Weft," has just commenced.

TETE MASBOROUGII BOILER EXPLOSlON.—Yes-
terday the adjourned inquest on the bodies of the nine men
killed by the boiler explosion at the Midland Iron-works
was held before Mr. John Webster, coroner, at the Prince
of Wales Hotel, Masborough. The accident occurred on
the 3d inst., and was caused by the boiler bursting, as is
supposed, in consequence of the water being allowed to run
too low. The inquiry consequently took the shape inci-
dentally of an investigation into the conduct of George
Radford, who had charge of the boiler at the time when
the explosion occurred. Tho jury, after a consultation of
about an hour, returnel a verdict of "Manslaughter',
against Radford, accompanied by a strong censure of
Ogley, and a wish that more care should be exercised in
the management of these boilers,

PATTERN POST BETWEEN THIS COUNTRY AND
FRA.NCE.—Samples of seeds, drugs, &c., whiCh cannot be
sent in open covers must for the future be enclosed iu bags
made of linen, paper, or other material, tied at the neck
with string, Closed transparent oiled-silk bags must no
longer be used for this purpose, as the officers of the Post-
office in France are all instructed to treat packets of this
description as letters, upon the ground that they are herme-
tically closed, and cast be =wined.