The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-20 00:00:00

THE STORY OF GINEYRA.

A plea Sing, though somewhat free, translation
of a well-known and much admired story in
Ariosto.

SIR WALTER SCOTT.—We are most sin-
cerely rejoiced to hear that this illustrious person has so
far recovered froth his late severe illness as to be able to
proceed on a visit to Lanark, accompanied by Mr. Locx-
HART.—Edinburgh Evening Post.

Mr. CALCRAFT, the Member for Dorset-
shire, has been prevented by severe indisposition from
attending his Parliamentary duties since the first division
on the Reform Bill.

An entrance, composed of Portland stone,
from the Strand to King's College, is nearly finished. It
is, however, too narrow, and does not accord with the
magnitude of the College, and will on the whole be incon-
venient, and have a mean effect.

The new church of St. Dunstan, in Fleet-
street, i• getting on rapidly, though the progress is hid
from public gaze by the front walls of the old church, which
remain standing.

The late thunder storms have been very ge-
neral, and have done much mischief; at Upton Gray, near
Basin,,,stoke, not less than 1,000 panes of glass Were de-
stroyi•d in a short time in the green-housed and conservato-
ries of J. 11. BEAUFOY, Esq.

In Oxfordshire the appearance of the crops is
most favourable, and there is every prospect of a most
abundant harvest.

'uch dissatisfaction is felt in Hertfordshire,
as well as in some other counties, at the militia being called
out f,r training just at the edge of harvest, instead of a
period when so many able-bodied men were out of ern-
ployment.

A barrister on circuit lately received a brief
from a solicitor to defend a prisoner charged with felony:
upon examining the document it was found to contain
only these words :—" 'There can be no doubt of the pri-
soner's guilt; you are requested to take care that if eon.
vieted, he is convicted according to law." The prisoner
was found guilty, and the Counsel returned the brief,
marking upon it, " convicted according to law."—Exeter
Gazelle.

On Monday evening a fatal accident occurred
to Mr. J. 'WHITE, a tradesman residing in Porter-street,
Newport-market. He had gone to sup with a party of
friends in the neighbourhood, and at supper time, when
laughing heartily at a remark one of them made, a piece of
meat in Mr. WHITE'S mouth suddenly choked him. The
agony it caused threw him into convulsions. Surgical
assistance was promptly procured, but without success, and
he was removed to the Middlesex Hospital ; but every at-
tempt to relieve him proved ineffectual, and death termi-
nated his sufferings at three o'clock yesterday morning.

A small field of very forward wheat in Surrey
was cut more than a week no ; in a week or ten days at
the furthest the wheat harvest will have become very general
in the southern counties.

ANECDOTE or GOLDSMITH.--Colonel
0,310011 E, of Cloghan Castle, in Ireland, told the editor
an amusing instance of the mingled vanity and simpli.
city of GoLnsstirx, which (though perhaps coloured a
little, as anecdotes too-often are) is characteristic at least
of the opinion which his best friends entertained of GoLD-
SMITII. One afternoon, as Colonel O'MooitE and Mr.
Bu,gE. were going with Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS, they
observed GOLDSMITH (also on his way to Sir JOSHUA'S)
standing near a crowd of people, who were staring and
shouting at some foreign women in the windows of one of
the houses in Leicester-square. " Observe GOLDSMITH,"
said Mr. BURKE to Mr. MooftE, " and mark what passes
between him and me by-and-by at Sir JOSHUA'S." They
passed on, and arrived before GOLDSMITH, who came
soon after, and Mr. BURKE affected to receive him very
coolly. This seemed to vex poor GOLDSMITH, who
begged Mr. BURKE would tell him how he had had the
misfortune to offend him. BURKE appeared very reluc-
tant to speak, but, after a good deal of pressing, said
That he was really ashamed to keep up an intimacy
with one who could be guilty of such monstrous indiscre-
tions as GoLnstrrii had just exhibited in the equare."--.
GOLDSMITH, with great earnestness, protested he was un-
conscious of what was meant. " Why," said BURKE,
did you not exclaim, as you were looking up at these
women, what stupid beasts the crowd must be for staring
with such admiration at those painted jezabels ; while a
man of your talents passed by unnoticed?" GOLDSMITH
was horror-struck, and said " Surely, surely, my dear
friend, I did not say so ?" " Nay," replied BURKE, "if
you had not said so, how should I have known it?"--
« That's true," answered GOLDSMITH, with great humi-
it ~ lam very sorry—it was very foolish :I do recol-
lectly "
that something of the kind passed through my mind,
,but I did not think I bad uttered it."—Boswell's John-
son, by Creker.