The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

THE LAND WE LIVE IN. Part XXVII.

The romantic scenery of North Wales is beautifully
illustrated and described in this number of the Land
We Live in.

The BRITISH POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL,
ECCLESIASTICAL, AND HISTORICAL
GAZETTEER, Travelling Road Book, and
County Atlas.
This comprehensive work progresses steadily, and
gives full evidence of the continued research and in-
dustry which marked its early numbers. The present,
the seventh of the two-and-sixpenny parts, contains
three beautifully executed maps of the counties of
Northampton, Leicesterhire, and Surrey. It is also
embellished with an admirable engraving of the eque-
duct over the Avon n- ar Bath. The spirited proprietors
appear to spare neither labour nor expense in carry-
ing out the extensive design of the undertaking.

THE BANKER'S MAGAZINE, Journal of the

Money Market, and Railway Digest.
The number of this useful and practical magazine
for the present month contains many valuable and
important papers. The opening article, on the mis-
chievous effects of the unwise and impolitic Bank Act
of 1844, clearly and ably shows how unfairly that
Act operates in reference to the banking companies of
England and Wales. By a proviso in the English
Act, it appears that if two joint stock banks of issue
unite, the circulation of the one which merges in the
other shall altogether cease; and if two united banks
should, on their union, adopt a new title, they would
both of them lose their previous right to issue notes
to the extent of their respective fixed issues. The
Irish and Scotch Banking Acts are free from these
unjust and penal clauses; and there appears to be no
sound reason why they should be retained in the Act
referring to England and Wales. " Statistics of
Pawnbroking and Monts de Pi 6.6" contains some
interesting information, extracted from a paper read
at a meeting of the British Association by Mr. Han-
cock, Professor of Political Economy in Trinity Col-
lege, Dublin. There is a very full and able digest of
the New Bankruptcy Act, 12 and 13 Victoria, c. 106.
It has the usual quantity of important intelligence on
monetary and railway matters.

A SERMON, preached in Carlisle Chapel, Ken-
nington. lane. By Francis Thornburgh, A. 8.,

Minister.

The 19th of last September was the day appointed
by the Lord Bishop of the diocese for public prayer
and humiliation throughout the district, in conse-
quence of the fearful ravages made by cholera in the
metropolis. The Rev. Mr. Thornburgh took occa-
sion, in ti.e discharge of his ministerial functions, to
pronounce a discourse on that day which possesses
the merit of unaffected piety, untrained reasoning,
and simple and eloquent language. He humbly
expresses his opinion that national visitations are
not necessarily national punishments ; that
the scourge was probably less of a strictly
punitive character—less an exhibition of retributive
justice on this side the grave, than an awakener to a
keener sense of our utter dependence upon God, and
an inciter to the duty of a more implicit, unreserved
submission to his will.

" Nothing," says he, " in our personal capacities stays
our progress in the path of obedience, or cools our ardour
alter the? precious promises and glorious prospects of a
Saviour s religion, more effectually than an unbroken
series of prosperitics. And whet is true of individuals
separately, is no lees true of them in the aggregate.
Exrernal good fortune exorcises its iljurious influences
alike upon the community."
He then, in very beautiful terms, instances the case
of the Church of Christ herself; who gradually lost in
piety what she gained in pomp, and that of Israel,
the chosen people, whose ingratitude was so notorious
for unexampled heavenly favours. " Britain, too, has
been signally blessed; yet the Author of her glory
has been too little remembered,

" And, we guess, it is with this view she is, in mercy,
r.ffincted. Pestilence comes to bring out before
us our Benefactor, and to put within our
hands, by an unusual method, a senso of
our dtpendence on Him, our need of Him,
and our obligation to Him. It is hard to recognise
el,arly in the full blaze, and so a cloud is bid to cast
over the land its dark shadow"

Some admirable subsidiary remarks on the sudden
popularity of the topic of " the sanitary condition
of the poor," which, among the better classes, has
all at once become the theme of the day, are wound
up by the following truthful reply to the inquiry,
why a subject deemed before almost indelicate, is
discussed now with an interest universal as it is
hearty ?
".Ft or has provt d more powerful than love. It was
not the principle of attraction which drew, but
that oF force which impelled. The sutj• ct of
the ianifary condition of the poor,' with winch reli
gion is essentially connected, has br en forced upon us.
We think upon it, we talk upon it, we are ready to
expend money upon it, simply because we cannot 1.1,1 p
it. 0 pestilence, merciful pestilence, thou host done
the work in a day that phi!anthropy has vainly essayed
to do kr years! It was not the t loquence of life that
wrought the change; it was the silence of th-ath. It was
not the oratory of the li%ing voice; it was the dumbness
of the coffin and the shroud."

BANKRUPTCY COURT.—The floors of this court,
which were covered with the patent kamptulicon about
five years since, in order to deaden the sound, are un-
iicrgoing partial repair. The wear of this extraordinary
m:chanical production appears to have given great satis-
faction.

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 5.—A Statutable Congregation
was hold,n on Saturday to receive the resignation of
the late Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Cook. son; and at a meeting
of the Heads of Houses, holden this day, the Rev. James
Cartinell, Master of Christ's College, was elected his
successor.

A man never loses by doing good offices to others.
—Eliza Coulee Journal.