The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-17 00:00:00

DANIEL AND ST. PAUL

" Daniel O'Connell hardly deserved the name of man ; no.
he was rather a compound of devilism, for it really seemed as
if the evil one had condensed all the bad passions of man's
nature into one individual. He was in the shape of a man,
but he had the mind of a :levil I"—Vide Mr. Horace St.
Paul's speech at Droitwicb.

" What a vile anomaly's Irish Dan,
" Heir-presumptive of Satan's clan 1
" He's huge and gaunt as a Greenland whale,
" And graced with a big, black, thundering tail,
" Has claws on his fingers, and eke on his toes,
" Vomits forth flames wherever he goes,
" (Which of course is always singeing his nose)
" Has scales all over his brassy hide,
" Red eyes, and God knows what beside 1—
" Such a monstrous fright, a man to call
" Were absurd—he isn't a man at all,
" But a perfect Devil I"—quoth Horac3 S. Paul.
Ah, Horace, Horace, if Dan, I trove,
Is all this and more ; say, what art thou ?
There's a certain animal usually found
Where thistles and such like weeds abound,
Who's famous among his fore-footed peers,
For a very thick head and very long ears,
Of which he's as proud, as he is of his bray
That might scare e'en Satan himself away !
Now if Dan's a Devil, I think we may call
This brute with propriety—Horace St. Paul !

LITERATURE.

EXCURSIONS IN THE MOUNTAINS OP
RONDA AND GRANADA. 2 Vols.
Colburn, London, 1838.

The most amusing portions of these volumes—which are
the production of Captain Rochfort Scott—is that where
the author describes his visit to the famous mountains and
plain of Granada, of which Washington Irving has furnished
us with such a glowing sketch, in his best work, the " Tales
of the Alhambra. 7 Captain Scott, however, by no means
speaks of the celebrated Moorish city in the same animated
terms as Mr. Irving ; on the whole, it disappointed his ex-
pectations ; the Hall of Lions, in particular, of which the
generality of our modern tourists have been in the habit of
speaking in such enthusiastic terms. Alhama, too, celebrated
by Byron in his translations of one of the elegies of its local
ports, disappointed our author, who seems :o have resolved,
in travelling through these romantic districts, " so dear to
legend and to song," not to have allowed his imagination to
get the better of his judgment. Throughout his volumes
he shows himself the cool observant traveller, qualities of
inestimable use to one who travels through countries over
which the poets and the novelists have shed such K. dying
splendour.

NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SPERM

WHALE.
Van Voorst, London, 1838,

Mr. Beale, the author of this little volume has here pre-
sented us, in a most compendious form, wit'i the best and
most practical account we have yet seen in print of the
anatomy, physiology, food, &c., of that valuable " monster
of the deep," the spermatic whale. To this he has added
a sketch of South Sea Whaling Voyages, which is full of
interesting details. The volume is embellished with a
clever frontispiece illustrative of the capture of a whale by
several fishing boats, one of which the angry leviathan has
tossed high in air.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY )
COVENT GARDEN.

Supplies to-day were very good, but the season now limits
the variety at Market. The quantity of Turnips at Marke
was very, large. The highest descriptions of Fruit miiintain
their prices. Plants, per dozen. 3s. to 3s. 6d. Cabbages,t
per dozen, ls. 6d. to 3s. Brocoli, 12s. to 14s. per dozen.
Onions, 4s. 6d. to 7s. per bushel. Scotch • Red Potatoes,
3s. 6d. to 4s. per bushel ; Devons, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. Apple s
4s. 6d. to 7s. Oranges, ss. to 20s. per hundred. Lemons,
Bs. to 10s.