The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-10 00:00:00

TILE HUDSON RIVER.

aol thank God I was born on the banks of the Hild-
a:4l I think it an invaluable advantage to be born
and
_b_r,°.light. up in the neighbourhood of some grand
tail, "We object in nature—a river, a lake, or a 'noun-
our , We make a friendship of it- —we in a manner ally
Praelves to it for life. It remains an object of our
againe and affections—a rallying point to call us home
have after all our wanderings. "The things which we
It V°
learned in our childhood," says an old writer,"
itr 11P with our souls, and unite themselves to
ocuorrn:hooatiti is.s with the scenes among which we have passed
th„eatrlY days ; they influence th whole course of our
of though
and feelings ; and I fancy I can trace much
good and pleasant in my own heterogeneouss
11,11c1 to my early companionship with this glorious
need In the warmth of my youthful enthusiasm,
Zve
.to clothe it with moral attributes, and almost to
et:t a, soul.
I admired its frank, bold, honest, cha-
Waa lta noble sincerity and perfect truth. Here
841,6° EPecious, smiling surface, covering the dangerous
broad ar or perfidious rock, but a stream, deep as it was
trust%arld bearing with honourable faith the barque that
Jestieeu te its waves. I gloried in its simple, quiet,
ma-
turns eis';l flow ; ever straightforward. Once, indeed, it
°l3pq--84'm for a moment, forced from its course by
marchothvere: -efltghrino:igihntlaifiet,is, but it struggles bra7ly throug4
and immediately resumes its straightforwardmans
course zehold, thought I, an emblem of a goodt
or i
by adverse ever
errj°wered
esiirmeupwles,
and 'Lit is but momentarily, he soon recovers his
sad
teapnecees,enhde direct,
onwardintof
."11eurable career, and continues it to the
8 illigritange-- Washington frying.
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of Zetland by his
to —• la to be given to the Earl
dion.fi, (IP ZETLAND.—We understand that
Panr, enars, and others, in the
Mr. Forbes,
refouth on Friday next, the 12th currennetw. a public
bers of Par-
iaeall,dar, and several other Soitoh mem ,Th.
IllileaS are expected to beresent.-- hall, Grange-
Scotsmaaot,
which
'-- • R"a*PaßK.—Yesterday,
lately received the Royal assent, was issued
all
rights of
leo the,,,,
purchase and extinguishment of .
hts over
the and lemmas and other commonable rig
a short, act,
to
It
y of Surrey.
~..* e Bite of Battersea_ ark, in the count . provide
enacted that the Battersea-park Commissioners are to
Pay 1,500/. to the churchwardens of St. Mary, Batter-
be
lea, to be applied to such purposes as a vestry, to
eapvened for that purpose, shall direct, and thereupon
TEL
',rights
.of common are to cease and determine.
L, -ttLEQRAP/31C CONVENTION BETWEEN ENGLAND,
Gl' 114110 E, tBLGIII/4, AND PRUSSIA.—The vote of 30,0001.,
oat man in committee of supply by the House of
e -tll°fla, is intended to defray, to March, 1854, the
liVerk6e of laying down an independent line of telegra-
Ie wires from London to the Continent, and to enable
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'majesty's Government to join a convention recently
%eludlatied between France, Belgium, and Prussia, for
regung the transmission
of messages by electric tele-
trael)ll, and lately entered into by Messrs. J. and J.
4 r tt, inventors of the submarine telegraph, with those nations on behalf of the European Telegraph Company.
nix I"Na•—The advices from Vienna embrace a re-
kable statement of the downward course of Austrian
finance since 1846. It apears that the deficit each
x:ear from that period hasp been in sterling as follows,
itr,llBesli:
a7n0a6,50,331. in 1847, 4,511,064/. in 1848,
• '3190,5801. in 1849, 5,344,733/. in 1850, 6,222,363/.
344,733/. in 1852, making a total in six
yeah of 34,461,260/., or an average of 5,743,610/. per
i'utu• There seems, also, every probability that the
differe between revenue and expenditure will be
equally disastrous in 1853.
hnr,se-A-11Y.—A concession has just been granted by
ltf.-,-.-uscan Government to Messrs. Gandell Brothers,
r'aris. for a railway of 80 miles, from Florence to
Ste 2zo, the frontier town of Tuscany next to the Roman
t ,I'e- By its connection with the Northern and Cen-
htat hnes, it will open an uninterrupted communication
d"ween the northern States of Italy and the Roman
p°,llllDiPos, and proposals have been submitted- to the
lac for .ts ezteneion to Rome, a distance of about 200
re_ es.