The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-09 00:00:00

List.

His Royal Highness the Duke .of Cumberland
having, as we stated some days ago, remained in England
longer than he intended, for the purpose of assisting in the
House of Lords to defeat the arbitrary clause in the Stamp
Duties Bill, requiring that every person interested in the
property of a newspaper should be registered at the Stamp
Office, was to take his departure this morning for Ham-
burgh, in his Majesty's steam-ship Firebrand. His Royal
Highness will have been accompanied by Mr. W. Holmes,
Mr. F. Moore Holmes, and Mr. Jelf. —Morning Post.
The Duke of Devonshire will leave Chatsworth to-
morrow, for Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, where his Grace will
be joined by the Earl of Clare, and a select party of friends,
to enjoy grouse shooting.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are ex-
pected to leave Sion House, at Isleworth, on the 15th inst.,
in order to make preparations to receive their Royal High-
nesses the Duchess of Kent and the youthful Heiress Pre-
sumptive at Alnwick Castle, where they will arrive at the end
of September. His Grace has been attended by Sir Henry
Halford, who has recently pronounced his health to be much
improved.

OYSTER SEASON.—lndependent of the throng of
oyster vessels at Billingsgate, the number this year at Hun-
gcrford-market far exceeds any since its institution.
The Earl of Eldon was expected in town last night,
from the North. The venerable Earl entertained, on Wed-
H sday last, a numerous party of relatives and friends at Eldon
all, Durham. On the following day his Lordship gave an
excellent dinner to his tenantry: and on Friday morning left
for town. His Lordship enjoys perfect health.
One of the strong traits in the character of the late
Mr. Rothschild was humanity. Numerous instances have
been, and no doubt will be, recorded of his benevolent actions:
but probably there is none which will exemplify his prompt
manner of dispensing his charities than in the case of the in-
fant daughter of Scale, who was transported for the late rob-
bery at the Custom llouse. Immediately on hearing that the
poor child was bereaved of both her parents, one by the opera-
tion of the laws which he had transgressed, and the other by
sudden death from a broken heart at the conte.r.V:o:.:Lin of
'tier bUgbanCiste; tie-benevolent Jew immediately sent for
the child and sent her to a Christian boarding-school, and, no
doubt, would have befriended her had he been spared to see
her grow up. Her benefactor has settled his last account,
but there is little doubt that his family will complete his hu-
mane intentions.

The Bon Sens states that " The monamania of ar-
rests has got into the departments ; for that M. Victor Hugo,
wishing a short time ago to witness a fishing expedition on the
coast of Normandy, where he is at present staying, was pre-
vented from embarking by the Mayor, who demanded his
passport, and whose prosaic imagination could not comprehend
what the poet could want to go to sea at night for."
A young man, of one of the most respectable fa
milies in Paris, and placed in a house of commerce, was en-
trusted a few days since to go and take up a bill for I,ooofr.
Unhappily in his way he was tempted to enter a gaming house,
and there lost the whole of the money. Overcome with
shame and despair, his next step was to commit suicide, and
thus afford another instance of the fatal effects of a passion
for play.
HARROWGATE._During the past week numbers
of families of rank have arrived at the hotels here, and we ex-
pect a gay, although a late season. A ball takes place on the
22d instant under the patronage of the Earl and Countess of
Harewood, to celebrate the anniversary of the opening of the
Cheltenham pump room. Amongst our arrivals are Lord
and Lady Carberry, Lord Gillis and family, Lord Blaney,
Lord. A. Bruce, Mr. and Mrs. W. Camac, Mrs. Villiers Sur.
tees, Sir J. H. and Lady Dalrymple; Sir William Peacock,
Sir Robert and Lady Cunliffe, &c.

LITERATURE.

BERKELEY CASTLE.
3 Vols. Bentley, London, 1836.

The materials for this tale have been drawn—so the
author, Mr. Grantley Berkeley assures us—form the
Evidence-house of Berkeley Castle, which, he says,
contains enough to " furnish forth many like volumes."
We hope, for the amusement of the novel-reading
public, that he will avail himself of these additional
materials ; but we hope at the same time that he will
turn them to better account than he has done in his
present volumes, which, although they show evidence of
talent, are yet written in a loose, rambling style, and
show an utter absence of the constructive faculty, the
most necessary for a novelist to possess. Read by fits
and starts the book may serve to wile away an idle half-hour
pleasantly enough ; but the want of sustained interest
in the incidents, and of dexterity in the disentanglement
of the plot, if plot it can be called, must ever prevent it
from being perused continuously, as we peruse the
novels of Scott, or Galt, or IVlorier. The best parts
of " Berkeley Castle," arc decidedly the descriptive.
The author gives an animated, indeed a picturesque,
sketch of the interior of the old Cathedral of Glou-
cester, as it presented itself in the fifteenth century, the
period at which the events described in his novel are
supposed to have taken place ; and pourtrays the scenery
in the neighbourhood of the Castle, and especially the ,
coming on of a sudden thaw, with much vividness and
truth of effect. The dialogues, too, of his lower per-
sonages are invariably natural, and frequently felicitous
in their humour. But these, though valuable
auxiliaries, are not the main requisites of a good novel.
In such a work we look for invention, passion, skill in
the anatomy of character and the unfolding of a
mystery, but these are scarcely to be found in the work
before us ; in lieu of them there is much descriptive
ability, occasional shrewdness of observation, as in the
remark that " when girls dress above their station in
life, it is an outward mark of contempt for the males
that should match them, and but as a sign held out
over the door of an inn or hostelry, that there is good
entertainment for their betters ;" and here and there
touches of pathos, as in the following passage :
" Having re-entered the garden, and gazed again at poor
dear Isabel's window, my eyes filled with tears, as I thought
upon the many happy times her smiling face had thence looked
down upon me, as my voice reached her, to view the basket of
fish killed by my rod from the neighbouring ponds ; or to ad-
mire the callow captive bird of just sufficient age to receive its
food, and be tamed by her gentle hand.
" On yonder sheltered border, was the place where she
had so frequently gathered the earliest crocus ; and even
now, the same primrose roots that had been her particular
care. flourishing as it seemed in obedience to the touch of her
fostering tenderness, and which she used to watch over so
constantly, were again budding forth their red and yellow
blossoms. In vain—she could not see them now. As I
stooped to gather a bud that was more advanced than the rest,
a single impression of her pretty little foot appeared in the
soft mould around it, and on looking still nearer into the clus-
tering leaves, it was also evident that a primrose had been ga-
thered,-probably but the day before.
" No sounds, no words, no letter, could have conveyed more
or so much of desolation to my heart, than did this one cir-
cumstance, trivial as it may, and probably will be deemed, by'
the cool insensibility of casual observers. But there is some-
thing (to me at least) so homely and so touching in a chance
remembrance of this fort—unstudied, unadorned, and unex-
pected—that, were I called on to name the one thing of all
others which would most dispose my mind to enter a world of
melancholy reflection, it would be, that the person whom I
most loved on earth, should, in her absence from the spot
where we had met in happier hours, leave but a similar trace
of her gentle step.
" Some years after the date of these facts, I remembered
to have walked upon the sands of the Severn, beneath Sharp-
!Was Point, with one, who, like her footstep, has since been
swept away by the great tide of eternity. As she then left
me to return to her home in the opposite forest, though well
aware that we had every chance of meeting again, I stood for
some time pondering over the print of her last footstep, ere
she was lifted into the boat, with sensations so melancholy„
that even the expectation and knowledge of approaching feli-
city had not power to drive them away. The heedless wave'
of the returning tide effaced the mark on the faithless sand,
with scarcely a sufficiency of its latest ripple to sweep over
the tiny site ; and so much did this observance then incline
me to dream over the perishable nature of all earthly impres-
sions, that had not a warning voice from the Point above re-
called me to some sense of my immediate situation, I might
myself have been swept away into futurity; to have solved,
when little prepared for it, the great secret of existence."
The best character in " Berkeley Castle" is unques-
tionably that of old Ingram Watts, which, from its mi-
nuteness of detail, has been drawn, we suspect, from
some living original, with whose quaint peculiarities
the author is familiar. The scene where the old man
gets drunk, while devoutly protesting against drunken-
ness, and is afterwards locked up in his room, is full Of
humour, and will occasion a hearty laugh.

FINE ARTS.

FINDEN S PORTS AND HARBOURS OF

GREAT BRITAIN.—PART
Tilt, London, 1836.

Considering the superior way in which the engrav-
ings of this periodical are executed, it is remarkably
reasonable in price, each part costing only half-a-crown,
The object of it is to give views, drawn on the spot by
landscape-painters well competent to the task, of the
most remarkable headlands, bays and fishing stations
on the coast. The present Part contains Tour engrav-
ings, by the Findens, one of which—a sketch of 13eln"
borough from the South-east—is far better than the
common run of such pictorial illustrations. The fore-
ground, with a brisk tide running up to the foot of the
steep cliff on which the Castle stands, and the fishing-
boats making their *way out to sea, is natural and sPi'
rited in execution. There is, however, something stiff
and artificial in the heavy mass of black clouds which
backs Bamborough Castle.

------ ..f
TEAS OF A SUPERIOR QuALIT I.
2, BUCK LERSRURY, CHEAPSIDE.
Good Full-flavoured Breakfast Tea 6d.: per lb'
Ditto, strong and rough 4
Fine Pekoe kind, rich and strong 4ss. Od. to .
6d:
to 4
43:5..
8d .4d
Rich Pekue Souchong ss. Od.
Fine Flowery Pekoe 6s. Od.
Good Green Tea
Fine Hyson
Finest ditto
Good Coffee • ls. 6d. to is. Bd.
Mocha ditto
._.
Small Boxes, weighing 121 b. net, imported expressly for Families es

PLATED CORNER DISHESI
with Strong Silver Edges and Handles.—A Set of Four Plate,.
Corner Dishes and Covers are offered, complete, for Nine Guineas.'
or a set with richly, ornamented Edges, Handles, &c., for Ten G4l'
neas. The Handles take off the Covers, so as to form Eight Dishy
when required. T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Goldsmith, Si
versmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London.
N.B. A variety of Secondhand Watches may be selected "In'
all price Two Guineas each, Warranted.

BIRTHS. f
On the 7th inst., at Sussex-place, Regent's-park, the lady 0 of.
J. Vanzeller, Esq., Consul-General of her Most Faithful 31sies
of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Fulham, Mrs. Park Nelson, of a daughtebre.rt
On the 6th inst., at Upper Harley-street, the lady of ft°
1-1:dr" Esq., of twins. his
On the ~ at Naples, the lady of J. Kennedy,
Britannic Majesty's Secretary of Leg:J.:on, ot"-a-gon.
the
buly
On the 29th ult., at Templemore, county of Tipperary,
of Major D'Urban, 25th Regiment, o a son. J.
On the sth inst., at Eusemere Hill, Ullswater, the lady to

Bristow, Esq., of a son. '4Trs, r'
On the 30th ult., at the Grove, Stanmore, Middlesex,
Clutterbuck, jun., of a son.

MA RR lED. 4lst
On the Bth inst., at Perrivale, Captain John Wetherell, we-
Regiment, youngest son of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick ,ate
therall, G.C.H., to Eliza Henrietta, only daughter of the '
Major Broad, of the Royals.
On the 4th inst., at gt. Andrew's, Plymouth,
second daughter of H. Thompson, Esq., to George Henry
Esq., of Spring-gardens, Westminster. j Air'
On the 4th inst., at Sunninglaill, Berkshire, the Re' J. to
Geldart, LL.D., Regius Professo-
rof the ivi aw, Casubridgr,
,if O-
Mary Rachel, daughter of the late W. Desborough, Egl''
ingford Grey, Huntingdonshire. n co
On the 6th inst., at St. Mark's, Kennington, John, eldest° of
daughter
J. P. Trenerry, Esq., of Gibraltar, to Emily, eldest
~
the late J. Blak 1 ' s ey, Esq., of Kennington. ----------
Helen Cathege„:

DIED.
On the sth inst., Sarah Elizabeth Gertrude, wife of °lifer
Lloyd, Esq., of Cardi .0 of
On . • gan'
the 6th inst., Ann, third daughter of J. Keigall, •"gq"
Kensington, aged 15 months.
a.O , of
On the 29th ult., in Gloucester, William Tivyning, "s 1 of
Bryn, and of Lampeter House, Pembrokeshire, a Captin o
Royal Artillery, and a magistrate for the above county.
London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG' °I-I'l.
112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the
of Middlesex. .