The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-05 00:00:00

TAIT.

After another article on the all-important Colonial
Question in regard to "Canada," we have in Tait a
very curious and readable paper, on the " Architec-
ture of Liverpool Esthetically Considered." In it
the writer calls for an improvement in the elegance
of proportion in our public buildings—instancing,
as a cause for emulation, the changes already effected
in the domestic utensils coming from our manufac-
tures. "A Night in the Neighbourhood of Der-
went Water," though a rather, long title, is a some-
what brief chapter, penned in a poetical mood. The
" Adventures of a Russian Droski Driver in a Ceme-

tery," is of a very different, and altogether of a much
more entertaining character. The most agreeable
paper, however, in the number is the one recounting
" The Expedition of Alexander to the Oasis of Jupiter
Ammon "—a scholastic compilation from the accounts
of that famous and (even as regards Pagan mytho-
logy) blasphemous enterprise, furnished by Plutarch,
Diodorus Siculus, Arrian, and Quintus Curtius,
sprinkled with interjectional criticisms on Mr. Bayle
St. John's work about the " Lybian Desert." A
contributor of the extraordinary name (perhaps a
soubriquet) of January Searle gives us a capi-
tal; article delineative of Huddersfield. It looks
as though it were suggested in some measure by the
mention of Wolverton in Sir Francis Head's bril-
liant book " Stokers and Pokers." " The Gold
Seeker of Guazacoalco" is appropriate just now,
when so many are dreaming of the Mormon diggings
of California. The story will be concluded in May.
One of the best criticisms we have seen for a consi-
derable time is the review of " Layard's Nineveh," a
work which would scarcely fail to render even the
most indifferent comment interesting. Mr. Percy B.
St. John is close upon the termination of his historical
romance of " Miranda ;" and the reader will be more
than ever disposed to regret the circumstance from
the extraordinary attraction of the instalment just
published. In the chapters before us, among other
exciting descriptions, we have a vivid account of the
devilries perpetrated in the massacres of September..
" Miranda " promises to terminate like " Zanom" in
the midst of the Reign of Terror. In the " Political
Register " we observe that Tait exults in the " for-
tunate" termination of the campaign in Piedmont.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. THE SMALL-PARCEL
COLLECTING QUESTION.—CROUCH V. THE LONDON AND
NORTH-WES'T'ERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—An action was
tried at the Warwick assizes, and a verdict returned for
the plaintiff—damages 491. This has decided the right
of the carrier to sue for lost parcels. The first action,
brought in the Exchequer of Pleas, which is on a more
extended scale, is expected to come ou for trial at the
sitting after next Trinity Term, when, it is stated, the
entire question of small-parcel delivery will be set at
rest. Mr. F. A. Lewis is the attorney for the plaintiff
in both these litigations.
Mr. Frederick Wordsworth Haydon, son of the late
lamented artist, has been appointed by Lord John Rus-
sell to a landing waitorship in the Customs Department.
It will be recollected that Mr. Haydon's eldest son re-
ceived an appointment under the Crown at the hands of
Sir Robert Peel when he was in office. It is with much
pleasure that we have to record this proof of kind feel-
ing on the part of the present Prime Minister towards
the family of this gifted and lamented gentleman.
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NEWSPAPER STAMPS AND ADVERTISEVENTS.—
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hsatanaldmftppes2nyin Scotland,
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A return to the house of Commons, procured by Mr. J.
newspapers the year
exclusive
408 f
Brotherton, M.P., shows that the aggregate number of
stamps; and in Ireland,
penny stumps issued for nteow.s
8,704,236 halfpenny
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increased stamps. 7 0 64
exclusive of
exclusive of 44i6n,77,041287468,h7aa61m8f
67,476,768. The
number
umlbsoer,
The amount of stamps issued in England')
to 7,028,956,
disnvgteortisements (at ls. 6d. each)
whichsince
Londoniccehl
paid
24i2d f
papersroonm 8 5603c,,i08r8c88u8,11aa7t
duty to the amount of 64,7911. The number of English
provincial papers in 1848 was 238, paying advertisement
duty to the amount of 60,3201. _
num-
ber was 97, payinc, 17 5 1.; In Scotland the
b and in Ireland, 117, paying
10,3421.
Lord Brougham lefttown
Paris. It is the intention of the yesterday
Noble o evening,rd t
o pass
thefor
Puri
Easter recess in the French capital. Lady Brougham
remains in town.

The Earl of pinto, the Hon. Capt, Elliott, R.N.,
the Ladies Elliott, and suite, embarked at Blackwell
yesterday morning, on board the General Steam-Navi-
gation Company's steura,ship.Giraffe, forßotttrdatp.- - -

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We have heard with great pleasure that tlieVicaficicii;
occasioned iu ' the 24th Regireenti;byi-the 'dreao -I
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slaughter to which they were. 0xp05e..,.4n L05i,,...#
Chillianwallah, on the 13th of Jantiarycgre- (9,114, 4
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up by officers of the corps,: and that,l in‘ctiiiPqh ,
Major Paynter and Brevet Major Harriswill succeed to
the Lieutenant•Colonelcies,and Captains Blachford and
Brown to the 'Majorities. Brevet Major Harris is one
of the oldest Captains in the - army, with tno less than
forty-two years of full pay service; and by this arrange•
went he will obtain the unusual but well merited promo-
tion of two regimental steps in the same Gazette.
Lieutenant-General Lord Fitzroy Somerset will re-
turn to London on Friday morning. His Lordship
having proceeded to. the Netherlands, to be present at the
funeral of his old comrado in arms, his late Majesty,
who, it will be remembered, was employed during the
Peninsular war upon the staff of his Grace the Duke of
Wellington.