The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-06 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

Arrelderly man named John Nichols was brought up by Baines, a con.
stable of the F division, charged wltli being drunk )sat night in Mon.
mouth-street, and attempting to throw himself under the wheels of a
cabriolet. The prisoner had been in custody upon a similor charge on
a former occasion, and while in the cell the Inspector on duty had to put
handcias upon him to prevent him from committing self destruction.

In answer to the charge the prisoner said he was a furniture dealer in
Lambeth and had suffereegreat losses in his business, which so affected
him at times that he did not know what he was about.
Mr. Twvsono directed the constable to take charge of him and
liver him up to his friends.

LITERATURE.

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. No. 111.

Nicholas Nickleby is greatly improved this month. The
account of the school establislnoent of Mr. Wackford
Squeers, and of his domestic peculiaritiesf is touched off
with uncommon spirit in Boz's most graphic manner. But
the liveliest chapter in the number is that wherein the author
describes the flirtation of the amiable Miss Fanny Squeers:
with young .Nicholas, which is a scene provocative of
iaextinguishahle laughter. As for the hard, griping man
of business, old Ralph Nickleby, there is rather too much
of the unmitigated and immitigable scoundrel about him.
One or two softening traits of humanity should be thrown
iato this character—for even the Devil himself is not so
black as he is painted—if only as a sacrifice to p:obability.
The plates abound in humour as usual.

THE NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF
SCOTLAND. No. XVIII.

The present Number of this valuable work contains the
greater portion of the county of Kincardine, together with
the conclusion of the account of Dumfries-shire, which was
left unfurnished in a former Number. We are happy to
perceive that Kincardineshire, though rather unfavourably
situated in some respects, is not behind the contiguous
districts in the improvements which have been going on
during the last forty or fifty years. If due allowance
be made for the bleakness of the climate, and
the other natural obstacles with which the cultivator of the
soil has to contend in this quarter, it may be doubted
whether any part of Scotland is entitled to take precedence
of this county in point of agricultural improvement.

With respect to the executio❑ of the present Number,

it may be remarked, that it is in general creditable to the
contributors of the various articles, almost all of which
are written in that plain and unostentatious style which
befits statistical subjects, We are, however, bound to
except from this praise the account of the parish of
Garrock, which, besides being three times as long as

it ought to be, is rendered perfectly ridiculous by ap
in-
fl of style, compared to which, the highest flights of
Macpherson's Ossian are as nothing. We would recom
mend to those who have the superintendence of thi
work, to be more careful in revising the papers beforo
they are scat to press, than they appear to have been
in the preparation of the present Number. In the
account of the Parish of Fordun, we find it gravely
stated as a fact, that John of Fordun, the author of the
Scotichronicon, is mentioned " l.y Bode," though in the
next sentence we are told that " it is generally believed
that he was a priest in the Church of Fordun, in 1377.
We may also observe that to say that the sea has " flown,"
as it is expressed in the account of Nigg, is hardly excus-
able in a clergyman, and one, too, who is almost within the
sound of a college bell.

RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LORDS
AND COMMONS. 2 VOLS.
London, Coll urn, 183 g.

The second series of this popular work has just appeared
in a'eollected form ; but as many of the " Recollections"
contained in it, have already been published in the " Me-
tropolitan," and were noticed by us from time to time in
our usual monthly reviews of the Magazines, we need say
no more on the present occasion than that the author has
acted wisely in republishing them, for they are very in-
teresting.

TREA TISE ON FLY-FISHING.
London, Simphin, 1838.

Though we are no anglers, having never bet once in our
lives caught a minnow, which must have caught itself—for we
have not the vanity to suppose that we caught it—yet we have
perused this lively little treatise on angling with pleasure,
for it is penned in a succinct and unaffected style ; is undo-
faced by technicalities ; and contains not a few descrip-
tions—chiefly of the scenery in the romantic neighbourhood
of the river Dove—which in simplicity and animation may
vie with Cotton's sketches of the same picturesque lands-
cape. Some of the author's notes are, however, startling,
especially the one wherein he relates an anecdote of a
perch having been caught in Dalswinton Loch, by " swal-
lowing its own eye"—which is a statement that, notwith-
standing all our faith, we cannot prevail on ourselves to
swallow. Those who wish to learn the particulars of this
extraordinary case, will find them fully explained in a long -
note attached to the tenth page of the treatise.

An incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon last by
the taking fright of a powerful horse which at one time placed the lives
of a number of individuals in imminent danger. On the animal was
mounted a youth whose shoes were furnished with a pair of spurs, the
points of which appear to have penetrated deeply into the horse's sides.
The animal became restive, and started off at a frightful speed ; the lad
clung with arms and legs twitched close, and unconsciously forced the
spurs into the skies of the affrighted animal. Ou arriving near St.
Mark's Church it took possession of the pavement, when every instant
it was expected that come of the numerous foot passengers on the west
side would be knocked down, but fortunately no injury occurred until
the infuriated animal with its youthful rider arrived at Stonebow, where
not being able to keep in a direct line any longer, it made a leap at the
open window of a shop, and on thrusting forward its fore legs stuck fast
for a second or so before it could recover itself, and the lad slipped oft-
unhurt. Had the horse made a clear leap into the shop the boy must
have been dashed to atoms against the wall above the window, it not
being sufficiently high to admit a horse and its rider. The horse escaped
without the least injury.—Lincoln Gazette.
Great interest has been excited relative to the case
of the man who was shot from the 11,inbow. . Lyon, the constable, with
Mated, have used every exertion to find the Lieutenant, but hitherto
in vain. From all that we have heard nothing appears to induce us to
think that the Waterman intended to rob the ship, and we regret his re-
fusal to comply with the request of the Marine.—llanyshire Indepen.
dent.

We alluded on Monday to a tithe affray that oc-
curred at Waterford on the previous Friday, in which the police were
sadly bruised and beaten, It happens rather remarkably, that in an-
other quarter of the same country, a few days before, some women were
arrested for obstructing the Sheriff in a tithe seizure, and for throwing
etc nes at the police.
IRELAND.—We have no news from Ireland to-day.
By our correspondence there, as well as by the Iri0) journals, we see
that the bitterness of the tithe-war is undiminished, and it would ap.
pear that so great is the existing antipathy to tithes, that the hostility of
the people is confined to neither sex nor age.
ANCIENT RELIC.—A very rare and curious sword
blade was lately sold by auction at Lochnell, where it had remained for
nearly a century. It was dug otit of a tumulus in Beregonium, the an.
cient capital of the Caledonians (the Selina of Ossian), by General 'Wade'ssoldiers,
the military
of road in that district, and was
Lochnell, who ever regarded it as
the "sword of Luno, which
orledsieenrtse presented tohe Sirn
constructing (Dm sutnrcuacntincgintalli,be
gave no second wound." It is evidently of
great antiquity; and being a single-handed sword, goes far to establish
the herculean strength and power of the ancient Caledonians. A single
glance at the relic will convince any one that it never could have been
handled "by the sons of Ettle men " The blade, which has unfortu-
nately lately lost about an inch off the point, measured three feet four
inches in length; its weight is two lbs. fourteen ounces and a half; its
breadth near the hilt two inches ; and when the sword was complete,
with handle, &c., bolero being corroded, it could nut have weighed less
than six or sevtn 11:S.—Edinburgh Courant. •