The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-03 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS MAGAZINES.

The National Miscellany opens with a paper on
" A New Street in Old London," which is the street
leading from London-Bridge to St. Paul's Cathe-
dral, which has been completed, it is stated, after
an outlay of 200,0001. The subject of " War Cap-
tives" also furnishes an interesting article, which
is likely at present to attract attention. There is,
generally, something superior to the average in the
style of this serial.—Sharpe's London Magazine has
two very pretty engravings—one of a scene in
Albania of a shepherd " leaninc, his boyish form
along the rock," as it is describe% in the accom-
panying stanzas from "Chuldu 11.1.1.1." Thu ‘A.-.112.
represents Constantinople. " Harry Coverdale's
Courtship," by the agreeable writer of " Frank
Fairlegh, ' continues with undiminished vigour.
The " Studies of Great Authors" contains a
criticism on Arinsto. A lively summary of a news-
paper, by Alfred Cole, is amusing and satirical. Of
course there are two or three papers on Turkey
and Russia, but there are also some subjects of
more novel interest.—Newton's London Journal
continues to form a "Repertory of Arts, Sciences,
and Manufactures, with Descriptions of New Patent
Inventions." For those engaged or interested in
scientific pursuits this must form a. valuable work
of reference.—The Journal of Progress is a periodi-
cal recently commenced with very meritorious ob-
jects. It professes to be a record of moral, social,
industrial, and political economy and statistics,
dame schools, juvenile reformatories, public wor-
ship, and Sunday places of recreation. On the last
subject some very sensible remarks are made, truly
objecting to the inconsistency of those rigid moral-
ists who, because they can have fresh air and
recreation every day, do not prize them as
they should. It is never by arbitrary denial or
coercion that the lower classes will be taught
to prize the Sabbath. A somewhat ungenerous
attack upon the objects and purposes of " Hard
Times" we are sorry to see, as the rest of the jour-
nal appears to be written with sense and impar-
tiality. An opening no doubt exists for the publi-
cation, which we trust may prosper.— Home
Thoughts has been considerably enlarged, and is
now threepence. This is a decided improvement,
as before it was so very similar to the long-esta-
blished and excellent little work, The Family
Friend. One of the most striking additions to
this miscellany is the description of character by
handwriting. All who desire to ascertain their
own unknown qualities have therefore now only to
write to the cheirologist of Home Thoughts, who
will answer them from a single word ! A story
with the attractive title of "The Lost Heir" is
progressing in this serial.—Our Friend is another
of those cheap publications which are calculated to
counteract the evil effects of pernicious literature.
We would advise the editors of these little works to be
careful that they make them sufficiently interesting
to attract those who have been accustomed to more
exciting works. It is not of course to be wished that
they should lower their tone or their sentiments,
but in their strict avoidance of this they are likely
to fall into the opposite error, and make them
good but dull.—The English Cyclopcedia has reached
the conclusion of the second volume of natural his-

toryand geography. The two last partsare published
at the same time for the convenience of subscribers.

—fiand/ey Cross continues with unabated sport-
ing interest.—Le Follet has now four plates instead

of liree—an additional attraction to its fair readers.

The Penny Post is a useful little miscellany, chiefly
suited for the young.—The Railway Miscellany is
a light and lively melange of sketches and criti-
cisms, romance and farce. A comparison between
our chief writers is one of the most interesting
features. They are selected two by two---uleber
in-
dividual criticism being generally more just than
the comparison.—The popular edition of Macaulay,s
inimitable Essays has reached the sixth n
and next month, for the price of seven sbillin,,
these magnificent displays of knowledge an
quence may be obtained complete ! and aosl

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Putnam's Monthly.—We have here the pleasant
variety
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entertainment.
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is especially to be noticed, and that is the
great superiority of the poetical contributions to
those usually found in the pages of our serials.
Certainly, if America cannot boast of rivalling our
great poets, she eclipses us in the second-rate
ones most especially since the modern mania of 2
mys-
ticism has seized our writers, and our readers will
admire what they cannot understand. In America,
as yet, there is some connection in ihe sentences and some clearness in the ideas ; how long it may'
be before the mental fog extends acrossdie Atlan-
tic none can tell. The somewhat puzzling question
of " Is Man One or Many ?" is the title of the first
article, which contains an analysis of the races of
mankind, founded on a recent work entitled
"Types of Mankind." An account of some Spa-
nish peculiarities, in which, of course, a bull-fight
is included, is called " Cosas de Espana," and is
entertaining rather from the liveliness of style than
any great novelty. " Herr Regenbogen's Concert"
is a sketch evidently written by one who appreciates
music. A story, with the pathetic title of " Hard
Up," succeeds in interesting the reader in the for-
tunes and misfortunes of a young theatrical author,.
who, sad to say, is left at the conclusion-Faj,in,
worse off than at the beginning. - There are nur:i)
attractive articles, the most interesting pfthe,m be-
ing
‘fNatural Diplomatists." It is shown
how strangely some characters appear to be en-
dowed with this power i
which developer
through all difficulties—while others, it whose posi-
tion or ancestry would seem to entailon them,
prove remarkably deficient. As a specimen of the I

contrasts so frequently occurring Maria Louise and
Josephine are cited. The following extract is from some verses on
" THE JEWISH CEMETERY AT NEWPORT.
" How strange it seems ! These Hebrews in their graves,
Close by the street of this fair sea-port town ;
Silent beside the never-silent waves,
At rest in all this moving up and down ! •
The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep
Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath,
While underneath such leafy tents they keep
The long, mysterious Exodus of Death.
" And these sepulcural stones, so old and brown,
rthbruoriwanl-raceo wn.
And broken by Moses at the mountain's base.
Are Thatlike
pavetb e wt
aibthl e voefl
" Closed are the portals of their Synagogue,
tillage Ls tahwe,i
No Psalms of David now the silence break,
No Rabbi reads the ancient Decalogne.
In the grarid dialect the" Prophets spake.
"They liVed in narrow streets *and lanes obscure,
Ghetto or Judenstmss, in mirk and mire ;
Taught in the school of patience to endure
The life of anguish and the, death of fire.
' All their lives long, .with the :unleavened bread
And bitter herbs of exile and its fears,
The wasting famine of the heart they fed,
And slaked its thirst with -marah of their tears.
" Pride and humliation'hand in hand
Walked with them through the • world, where'er they
went ;
Trampled and beaten were ihcky as the sand,
And yet unshaken as the,continent.
"For in the back-ground, figures vague and vast,
Of patriarchs and of prophets rose sublime,
And all the great traditions of the Past
They saw reflected in the coming time.
"And thus for ever with reverted look,
The mystic volume of the world they read,
Spelling it backward like a Hebrew book,
Till Life became a Legend of the Dead."

MASSACRE OF THE CREW OF THE HARRINT
-CONFESSION OF THE PIRATE CHIEF.

letter dated Athens, July 22, supplies the following
copy of the confession made by the chief of the gang of
pirates who not long since murdered the crew of the
Harriet in the Levant. His examination took place on
board the French -steam-corvette Chaptal. The pirate
deposed :
" In the course of the month of March last I left Cots.
stantinople for Syra, in the Galaxid, Captain Epami.
nondas. Having arrived at Syra, the Sub-Commissary
of Police, Angerinos, ae well as another Samiot, cowl.
Belled me to go to Athens. The next day, Strati, the
hCaodmnmoisrasay
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aPnoali_thce, atsewnht for me.
atl wantedltold
was
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a seaman on board some merchant vessel. He sail that
there was just then no work for sailors, but that it I
would retinal in a-few-days he would put me up to some-
thing good. He would send me, he said, to Chalcie,
where I should see Colonel Giorgiades, who had written.
to me to come to an understanding with the police com-
missary, Strati. This letter is at Chalcis with my other
effects.
" One day when I was at Strati's house he showed inn
a letter which he had received from Stamati. The first
page of the letter was addressed to me. Stamati directed
me to conform to Strati's instructions in all points, and
that some day I should be great and my children after
me. Strati forbade me to reveal aught that he had said
to me, and then advised me to join the war in Thessaly
and to go to Chalcis. He recommended me to go by
the coast of Cape Douro, and to seize and sink all the
French and English ships I could find, as those nations
were opposed to the enterprises of the Greeks.
Strati hired a goelette, with a crew of five men, in
which I embarked with 28 others, of whom 25 were
Samiots. The captain of this vessel' came from Stylida,
in the Gulf of Zeitonni. Strati gave me 20 drachmas,
but none of the men who embarked with me received
pay : they only had provisions for two days. I was ap.
pointed chief of the expedition, and I alone knew its
object, which I did not reveal to my companions until
we had fairly left Syra, which we left three hours after
sunset in the evening. The next day we arrived at about
four or five miles from Gabrios, on the coast of Andros.
"At that place we were becalmed until midnight.
About three hours before daybreak, just as a breeze was
rising, our men saw an English schooner. I was asleep
at the time, but they called me. I ordered my eight and
twenty men to follow me towards the schooner, and we
boarded her. We had previously hailed the ship, and
found that it was English, and that the crew also were
natives. When we got on board, we made all the men
go do pan into the captain's cabin, and then we demanded
all the money on board. The English produced three
pounds sterling, two watches, a telescope, two oom-
passes, and a barrel containing a small quantity
of rum. We then ordered all the crew on deck,
and there we massacred them with our knives, and
cast their bodies-into-the-sea;---- I gave no order to
kill those men, nor did I kill one myself. We had
meant to sink the schooner, but we abandoned this in-
tention, fearing to be perceived by other vessels. After
the massacre we went to Chalcis, where I landed with
my 28 companions, and we paid a visit to our com-
patriot Colonel Stamati Giorgiades, but did not find him
immp. The next day we went to Bourgi, where we
found Stamati, his son, and another person. The same
day we went back to Chalcis with Stamati in a barque
which belonged to him. We stayed a month with Sta-
mati,- to whom we told our adventures, and he approved
our conduct. Of the 21 men who followed me 18 left
Chalcis to go to Stilida. Stamati advised me to become
a pirate, and to go to the Anatolian coast, there to wait
till a fitting opportunity presented itself for attacking
Samos. We left Chalcis in a perame, touched at Tsoura,
Tynos, and Myconi, and thence went to Samos. Re-
penting of my conduct, I made my submission to the
governor of the island, and reported to him all the cir-
cumstances attending the massacre of the crew of the
English schooner.

ANOTHER POACHING, AFFRAY
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.DERBYSHIRE.

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No sooner have we finished recording the closing act
Derby-
shireofth the late
encounter in South Derbyshire, and which, though
happily not attended with fatal consequences, was of a
most serious nature.
It appears that on Sunday evening, about six o'clock,
a party of four poachers left Derby, armed, for thelock,
ur-
pose of taking game in the preserves at Bretby Hall, p
the
seat and training-quarters of Lord Chesterfield, which is
situate about nine miles from Derby, and three from
Burton. There is no doubt that the poachers had a
traitor amongst them, for Lord Chesterfield's keeper,
James Dawson, received information that they would
pay a visit on Saturday evening, and prepared accord-
ingly. About two o'clock on Monday morning Dawson
and the other keepers saw four men coming towards
them in what is called " The Philosopher's Plantation."
On seeing the keepers, one of the poachers said, "Heigh
up, lads, here they are ; go into them," and set two dogs
at the keepers; the dogs flew at the keepers, and a vol-
ley of stones were thrown at them by the poachers. The
poachers then closed in upon them, and a determined
struggle ensued. Two of the keepers,
.George Astle and
Samuel Baldwin, received very severe injuries. Even
tually, after a hard conflict, three of the poachers were
secured, the fourth making his escape. On them was
found nets and bags containing four-and-a-half couple of
rabbits. After the affray two bludgeons, one marked
with blood, were picked up on the spot, both belonging
to the poachers. At eight o'clock on Monday the
prisoners were conveyed to Burton-on-Trent police-sta-
tion, and on Tuesday morning, at eleven o'clock, they
were brought up for examination at Burton-on-Trent,
and were all committed for trial.
The prisoners gave their names as William Wright,
William Wall, and Joseph Dakin.