The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-07 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

FINDEN'S PORTS and HARBOURR of GREAT

BRITAIN. Part I.
Tilt, London, 1836.

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The engravings in this Number are fully equal, if
not superior, to au thing we have yet seen from the
" Cullercoats'," in particular, is quite a gem
in its way, the dark shadows in the back-ground set-
ting off the bustim3 groupcs in the foreground, which
consists of a flat, shingly sea-beach, in. the distinctest
.and most impressive manner possible. If the future
Numbers of this work are equal to the present, we will
venture to say that it will become, ere long, as popular
as tho best of Finden's landscape engravings.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Mark Philips, M.P.
for Manchester; Mr. Ewart, of Liverpool; Mr. Brotherton,
of Pafford ; Mr. Brocklehurat, of Macclesfield; Mr. Ains-
worth, of B‘olton ; Mr. Potter, of Wigan ; Mr. Fielden, of
Oldham ; Mr. Lister, of Bradford ; and Colonel Thompson,
of Kingston-upon-Hull; had an interview with Lord John
Russell, by appointment, at the Home Office, yesterday, at four
ce'elosds, to present addresses relative to the amendments now
before Parliament on the subject of the new beer trade. The
deputation was also accompanied by Mr. J. Bishop, Secretary
of the London beersellers; Mr. Joshua Green, delegate from
the beersellers of Liverpool ; Mr. T. Oates, from the Man-
chesief and the North of England beersellers; and Mr.
Lindsay, fffrrA. the Surrey retailers. His Lordship received
the deputation" most favourably, and after Mr. Mark Philips
and the several o:her members had addressed his Lordship
upon the present sit:a
tat
in
of the trade, and enforced the
views of the deputation, n which remarks they were followed
Mr. J. Careen, and Mr. Oates, his Lord-
by Mr. J. Vishop,
ship said he had made inquiries upon the subject, and at once
admitted the propriety and masonableness of the demands.
Before the interview had eoneluded it was announced to
those present that the House pf Commons had been
counted olt.
HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS.--The following
very gratifying announcement on the sub.;ect of the genera
health of the metropolis, was made in the Report at the
quarterly meeting of the Free Hospital,. Gra-Ole-street, os
Tuesday night, attested by the signatures of tine three sur-
geons, Messrs. Wm. Marsden, G. Jones, and Gay :
u The medical officers congratulate the governors and the
public on the fact of the metropolis having hitherto bee' quite
free from any epidemic diseases, and more generally hoolthy
during the present year than for many years past."
The General Steam Navigation Company's Packet,
the Attwood, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom house
this morning.
The Pilote de Calvados affords us the following
amusing anecdote :—" An old officer of rank died lately in
the canton of Harcourt, bequeathing a large fortune to his
nephew, on condition that he married within twelve months,
but not a young lady to whom he was known by the testator
to be attached. The year was drawing near to a conclusion,
when the nephew took the expedient of marrying an old wo-
man of eighty-five, with whom he, of course, does not coha-
bit, but whose poverty he has converted into comparative a u-
ence. The two lovers arc waiting anxiously for the death of
the good old woman.
AEROSTATION.—A balloon is being constructed
under the direction of Mr. Green, of such dimensions as to
be capable car carrying ten persons. The gores of silk by
which it will be formed are near 100 feet in length, the
centre being about eve feet in width, and verging at the ex-
tremity to nearly a point. When finished, the balloon will
be about 70 feet high. It is made of the best manufactured
silk ; the seams of the edges when joined together being first
cemented by a solution of liolia rubber, prepared 'by Mr.
Green himself, and, to give additional strength, are firmly
sewn together, about which several women are at present em-
ployed in Vauxhall Gardens. The net which will surround
it weighs 300 weight, while the whole apparatus, including
net, but without gas, ballast, or passengers, will weigh about
seven hundred. The gas will weigh about 2,0Q0155. The
machine will be completed in the course of a f.?W weeks, when
it is intended to afford the people iof England an opportu-
nity of witnessing the progress of the art of aerostation, when
the balloon will ascend from Vauxhall Gardens.
A clerk in the 'War-office at St. Petersburgh has
lately been tried by a court-martial for an assault, with intent
to commit murder, upon Councillor Aprejelew. It appeared
that having a deep-rooted enmity to the Councillor, Nicholas
Pawloff formed the project of stabbing his enemy on the day
of his marriage, and, to accomplish it, waited for him at the
church door, and, upon his coming out with his bride, plunged
a dagger into his body. The wound happily was not mortal,
and the Councillor soon recovered. The Court sentenced
Pawloff to be degraded from his rank and nobility, to have his
sword broken over his head in a public place, and to be sent to
hard labour in Siberia.
Mr. Haylis, one of the oldest freemen of the city
of London and belonging to the Grocers' Company, was
thrown from his gig a few days since, near Portsmouth,
dashed against is tree, and killed on the spot. He was nearly
eighty-five. It vras remarkable, that a few days prior a
gentleman said to him " if he continued to drive the pony.
he then had, it would some day break his neck."
The following resolution was unanimously passed on
Tuesday evening, at a numerous meeting of the South
Lambeth Division of the Borough of Lambeth Reform As-
sociation :--" Resolved—lt is the opinion of this meeting,
that a Reform of the House of Lords is absolutely necessary
for the salvation and prosperity of this country."
The Post-masters are suffering to an enormous ex-
tent from a very prevalent disease in the nature of influenza
amongst their horses especially in the southern districts of
England. At Hounslow some masters have as many as 16 or
18 horses ill in their stables. The disease is pf about six-
weeks' standing, the earliest time for a cure.
The heat of the weather on the 2d of this month
had had a bad effect on the health of the soldiers who had
arrived from Delft. Several of the men fainted, and two, not
receiving relief in time, died. Several were obliged to he left
behind on the road from Delft to Rotterdam.—Dutch Papers.
LOVE AND SUICIDE.---A gentleman, aged 32,
receiver of the register duties at Aux-le-Chateau, in the Pas-
de-Calais, a few days since, came to Paris to celebrate a mar-
beautiful, and amiable lady, which had
riage with a young,
been projected by the two families, though the parties most
interested had never seen each other, On his arrival the ex-
pectant bridegroom hastened to the house of his intended, and
was received with so much kindness 'by her and her friends,
that he returned to his hotel almost intoxicated with hopes of
future bliss. The impression he male upon the young lady,
was not, however, so favourable, and the following morning
her father waited upon the aspirant to her hand, and at once
destroyed all his anticipations of happiness by informing hint
the young lady declined his suit, as she felt that she was as yet
too young to marry. Though the communication was made
with the utmost delicacy, and with expressions of the regrets
of the father and his family, and their hopes that the union
might take place on n future day, the blow was too severe to
having hung him-
be borne, and the rejected lover, within half an hour after the
fatal message, was found dead in his room,
self by a napkin to the door of his dressing-closet. He was the
only son of a widow, and would have inricrited a fortune of
300,0001. at the death of his mother.—French Paper.
A very useful arrangement has just been entered
into at the Bank of England, which will save the merchants
generally much risk and unneceary trouble, and which ouatht
to be made 'crenerally known. Merchants having duties to pay
on imported goods arc now at liberty to make their payments,
whether by draught on their private banker, or by money, into
the Bank of England upon e the account of the Receiver-
General of his Majesty's Customs," and certificates to that
fact being transmitted by of messengers at ten and two
o'clock daily from the Bank to the Custom-house, correspond-
ins, entries may be passed without the danger which is insepar-
able from the transit of bank-notes and coin. •
A CURIOUS FACT.-000 .-000 day last week, a gentle-
man in the evening at a respectable ion. After
ersrit.is;s
If with a slice from a sirloin of beef and a
rieihiisei:dgest it arrived
•imivesie
business,
, d who had occasion to visit our ancient city on
copious draught from Sir John Barleycorn, he strolled out into
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much
rnblisteredrequested
a
certain quantity of plaistcr for blisters. The young 011apod,
not very experienced, considering that there could be no difs,
ference between
p dtster for blister and blister forplaister, (the
other not having explained for what purpose he wanted it),
served him with the latter. The gentleman returned to his
inn, and when he retired to bed applied the plaisthr to the
soles of his feet; and after passing a very uneasy night, dis-
covered that his little mole-hill blisters, which gave him so
much pain the evening before, were become mountains during
the night. Being quite unable to stand, my worthy host was
despatched for the druggist, and an explanation took place
between the blisterer and the blistered, which ended by each
vehemently declaring that the opposite party was alone to
blame.—ilerejord Times,