The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-09 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

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ILLUSTRATIONS OF HEAT'H'S BOOK °II
BEAUTY.
We have just received a copy of these Illustrations:
but as we noticed many of the more prominent one:
in our review of the Annual to which they are AP'
pended, a few days since, we may be brief in our prof',
sent remarks. " Villa Ilealle, Naples," is Cilifi !
worthy of praise from the two female figures ill 111'
foreground ; one of whom is in a recumbent position,
full of ease and grace. " Ilrancesca"
has a Lodi
countenance, such as " youthful poets fancy when the/
draw," all sweetness and serenity, without a trace°
C' raving.
successful in
the insipid. Her long, lustrous, black hair fin,;vs dol"
her swan-like neck in natural wavy rinio,ets—an effec,t,
by no means easy to achieve in
is from a design by 1'4147 /, Honoria
giving expression 4.-
..o female beauty. The flowing 0111
line of this D who is very succes.
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agure is in the artist's best manner.. The
_,ountess is more remarkable for quaintness of CO:
tume than anything else. It is, however, tolerably
well engraved. Of the remaining Illustrations we have
already spoken.

ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE PICTURESQUE

4NNUALS. re-
As we noticed these illustrations also when we
viewed the " Picturesque Annual," we may be brief
in our present observations. " The Irish ga°d
shows a pretty young female face peeping out r 001
of
beneath a most unbecoming mantle, the thick foldf
which about the head are engraved with singular 5, the
The " Custom House" is a full front view of one cu
finest public buildings in Dublin, and with the gr°;lifes s
in the fore-ground, the quay and the shipping' 1:il-ainil,
the subject of a very animated sketch. " Lug
ever
County Wicklow," is as lovely a scene as ever
has
conceived or painted by a Claude. The glean'tal nt
little lake, with the thick, hanging woods, the is,,es
mountains, and the delicious valley or glen thatiy.
beneath them, are replete with picturesque beau l„r
The other engravings of the " Picturesque Ann'hey
have already been mentioned in such terms as ta
deserve.

PORTR AND HARBOURS OF GREAT
BRITAIN. PAR? 3.
Tilt, London, 1836. ggll
Each Number of this work contains five plate,' re.
engraved by the Findens, illustrative of the 01°'.10,(1
markable sea-ports and harbours of Great Britain In the
accompanied by brief literary descriptions. arto
present Number, which is the third and of follqu,
size, there are two striking engravings of I)°llsvi.
borough Castle, taken from different points °,` vie
teriave
That from the eastward presents the most Picture-ct'he
sketch, with its long, rugged range of rocks, °n
see,;
summit of which the castle is built ; the spraYeY. ou,
and the vessels wearing off the coast under the ler,
ence of a stiff breeze. The distant groupeS °f the
men who are hauling a small boat to land, break
s 4.
monotony of the scene, and give it an air of great in
mation. Considering the number of engravf'tbey
each of these Parts, and the skill with which cog
are executed, the work is remarkably cheap' co
no more than a monthly magazine.

MEMORIALS OF OXFORD. No. 46'
Parker, Oxford, 1836. geld
This work furnishes us with the moat detailed try
minute account of the topographical and other Pe-pr,
liarities of Oxford, of any we have yet met with' the
Ingrain, President of Trinity, is the editor ; an've to
labour of superintendence is evidently one Of I°ll the
him, for this is the forty-sixth Number, and 54poe
subject does not appear to be half exhausted. f $
are only two plates in the present Part ; one is ':
tig
dull, formal college, St. Edmund's Hall, whic'''still
if it were not gloomy enough in itself, is made ot;
more so by a funeral which is passing along the cot
or,
and the other, of St. Alban's Hall, who; elte".jog.
though quaint and old-fashioned, is still very

THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.)
0
CITY, TWELVE O'Ci„- 0
„zed
Our arrivals this morning are French and ria,r„d ou
Mails ; also a Mail from Lisbon, by the Alerl---01,r' ales,
the 31st October, and ship letters from New South "
4th May ; Cape of Good Hope, 10th September ;
cutta, 15th, 16th, and 29th:June ; and Bombay,
Otbo
the
From the Cape of Good Hope Papers we extras
following : at 8
" EMIGRATION FROM THE CAPE.--It is kllO-
- tabout
number of men, women and children, who have left °r•
the
to leave, the Colony, to settle or wander sornewher% 0
interior, is considerable ; but this is all that is k°°"jaa°
the public respecting them. Various reasons are :5,15.°
for their flight, respecting their designs, and final °W-
THE FUNDS.
Consols which closed yesterday at 88f afor tI, "e Jo'
cloivO
count, opened at 88 1 I—for Money, ,
88 1, vono,
as yet ; Exchequer Bills 4 to 2 discount ; 5.51
par to ; Bank Stock, 204 205 ; India, 2.5'1, !PO,-
*
Spanish Active closed at 191 at present 19 treepe
sive, 51 ; Deferred, 81 ; Portuguese, 541 ;
Cents, 34i 35 ; Dutch, 53f.
HAL.F-PAtS- eO5
Consols, which were in the morning at 881, andA „cove'
88, may be quoted at present at 88i 1 for the frstocr,o
.
Exchequer Bills, lid., 5 disct. ; 2d 4 disct. ; Bank
205 ; India Bonds, 1 prem. ; India Stock, 255. Pat
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 19,1
- 4
sive, 8 ; Debentures, 54 ; Three per Cents., 33t,,4
sxtcaer
Stock has receded 1 per cent.—Colombian, 22 ;
221 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53. al%
THREI O' CL
Consols for the Account, 81Ik 1.

Monday, at eight a.m., the thermometer,--
as ° a at 18
adturaresetastiFon a few miles south-west of this
indicated 26 degreesbset g
Bot •
ante Gardens, it fell low previous Aow ,
so as 16 degrees• ... „nor,.
Contemporary
states, that at six o'clock on Mondal -iotli•
'n the ; lannEddoinnbuthrgeh at the same bot to
1 g thermometer at the Botanic Gardens there odr
cated 15 degrees. At Blair Tummock, at 7a. 0b,..1„ oils
grees. At Mainhill, at half as
fairly up, 24 degrees. At the Botanic Gardens at l thatr'of
' o
30 degrees. Last year the coldest morning wes_A at I"
the 19th of January, when the
p I 8, when
thermometer atom. - tbe
degrees. In 1833 its lowest • or degrees °°
point was -.)
19th of December.—Scotsman. ntlie
T h 1,14::. ri
a.
ty
eern, Pendergast,
.. and
the
,ki ;ids t
,:
When the new Barristers were about to be called °onecl,
tofirst day of Term, in Dublin, the Lord Chancellor 51;0
in the le
taining the names of the neweßahrirmiste‘rism,
,as
~ three,
udew:ll
addednrowcaLie‘ntlrey3'nea.jadsglsibtFi;:it'lanseicitieg°rtht°'et..i. t
the 5.-throd
detain us long, for they are chiefly lunatics." It that the
cases set down in the ordinar way for hearing 000
Noble Lord referred to ; the mistake, however, was theloo%
of a considerable titter among the gentlemen of
robe.—Dublin Post. , ec,i,oo
BRITISII LEGION.--The estimates for the. J-'ol,lels
have been made out up to the 31st of the month, by_., oot,
it appears that there will be then owing to the Legi°"oo,ol
including the expense of the depot at Santander) a there
upwards of 86,0001. sterling. Besides this large i
to o'n/0
will be due
to the officers and men of the two war-steamers, the
__ issaeo
11. and the Reyna Gobernadora, no pay having been
to them for the last fourteen months—both surnsiartlieg
in Spanish money upwards of 10,000,000 reals--a '
St
sum in the present financial state of Spain.
call'te' 1
Every arrangement is making by ivi. Le ino 0
Paris, with the British Government, to tarry his ,f for
having the mail packet station between Calais 110'..ce of
tern, ~,,oh
land transferred from the narrow and difficult entra`;‘. 010
Dover to the commodious port of Ramsgate early 'l'
,r's
next season.
This day is the 385th anniversary of Lard the 3!
°)'9ll'
day in London, the first celebration of which Wes
eo
day of November, 14.53. 1 rtletr
'-
An exceedingly splendid and verybeautif°
ut .o3m
was observed at Derby on Sunday evening, abo
notes before 8 o'clock.—Derbyshire Courier. Ad t°
The late frost in the neighbourhood, vve are ;oral
learn, has not materially injured the potatoes, g beta,.
to get OP vibieP
speaking, which the farmers were unable
the frost set in. This is attributable to the sn°T.,jleac"'
covered the ground to the depth of several inches.
. elparo
clesfield Courier.
Yesterday morning, about one o'clock, a rulilecida, 11
named Bodd, of the M division, committed.; 0 datfo:
jumping into the river, near London-bridge, wilt in st. 5
His body was found at seven o'clock, fkatig
viour's dock.