The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-29 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

DR. BROOKES'S GENERAL ATLAS OF
MODERN GEOGRAHY,
Containing 34 Maps, with the New Discoveries and Terri-
torial Arrangements.
W. Darton and Son, London, 1836.
A collection of Maps, remarkable for their accuracy,
and also for containing all the most recent geographi-
cal discoveries. The compiler is Dr. Brookes, who
has performed his task with most commendable dili-
gence. From its convenient size, this work is admi-
rably adapted to lie on the table of the historical
student, as a book of reference.

ENGLISH ANNUAL.
Churton, London, 1836.

We have here another of the fruitful family of the
Annuals ; endowed with a very personable and pre-
sentable exterior ; full of various prose and verse of
more than average merit; and by no means wanting in
the number or the excellence of its embellishments.
The " English Annual " is, in truth, a very creditable
sample of its class, as the public will not be slow to
perceive. Contrary, however, to the wont of these gay
ephemera, its literary department is, as a whole, better
sustained than its pictorial. Many of the tales de-
serve, and would assuredly obtain, admission into the
very best periodicals of the day, especially one entitled
" Walstein, or a Cure for Melancholy," whose only
fault is, that the drift of it is not quite so evident as
with a little more pains-taking it might have been. It
is the production of Mr. D'lsraeli, a man of genius,
of taste, and of feeling, as a novelist, but a most exe-
crable politician. " Vevay and Clarens," by Mr. St.
John, is a vivid description of scenes immortalized by
the pen of Rosseau, and proves how interesting a
trite theme may become in the hands of a man of ta-
lent. " Lucid Interval of a Mad Prisoner," is also a
striking tale from the pen of a practised writer, to
whom we are indebted for an able series of papers
that, if we mistake not, appeared some time since in
" Fraser's Magazine." As regards the engravings,
they are creditable to the artists, being skillfully exe-
cuted, if not in a first-rate manner.

HISTORY OF THE WEST INDIES.
Whittaker, London, 1836.
The little volume before us is the production of
Mr. Montgomery Martin, one of the most able statistic
writers of the day, to whose unwearied industry and
research we are indebted for that popular work, the
" History of the British Colonies." His account of
Jamaica, which is exceedingly minute and faithful, is
introduced by a map of that island, neatly engraved by
Walker. The most interesting portion of the volume
is that which describes the indigenous forests and
exotic trees of Jamaica.

STORY'S SONGS. Fraser, London, 1836.

A very tolerable collection of gentlemanlike poesy,
just calculated to wile away an idle half hour, then to
be thrown aside, and forgotten. The author has skill
in versification, and if not remarkable for the absolute
sagacity of his ideas, is at least worthy of praise for the
easy, and we may add, musical, flow of his numbers.

TORY NEWSPAPERS.—The most extraordinary
exertions are making throughout the whole of the counties of
Devon and Dorset, and parts of Somerset, to exclude any
but Newspapers in the Conservative interest from all the great
inns on the principal lines of road in those counties, and it is
said by many persons, who are supposed to know something of
the matter, that Conservative newspapers are supplied to those
establishments gratis, the expense being defrayed out of the
Conservative fund —Bath Herald.
SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Yes-
terday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, a respectably
dressed female was observed by two labourers walking along
the bank of the Regent's Canal, towards the Harn psted-
road. They had not passed her above 100 yards when one
of them, turning round, discovered that she had suddenly
disappeared, He expressed his apprehension to his compa-
nion that all was not right, and they immediately hastened to
the spot, where they observed a bonnet and shawl lying
upon the bank, and, upon a nearer approach, saw the unfor-
tunate woman floating in the middle of the canal, and appa-
rently kept on the surface by the inflation of her clothes.
Otis of them immediately jumped in and brought her in
safety out of the water, arid conveyed her to a cottage not
far distant, where she was promptly and kindly attended to
by the inhabitant, and her clothes taken off and dried.
When first taken into the house, the poor creature, who was
apparently about 22 or 23 years old, appeared in a most de-
plorable state of mind, but after a short time she became
more composed, and stated her name to be Ellen Forder, that
her parents were respectable tradespeople, residing near lox-
ton, and that the had left her father's house about ten days
since with a young man, who was a clerk in a banking esta-
blishment in the City, and Ow had paid his addresses to
her ;Tozegy for upwards of eighteen months ; she said he had
induced her 0 leave home under the promise of marry-
ing her, and that he kok her to some apai tments which
he had provided in Somers' Town, where he effected her
ruin. He visited ber constantly till Wednesday, and on
Thursday she received a letter from him, stating that he
could not see her again, as he was about to reside at Ham-
burgh, and should leave London that day. He proposed that
the wedding should take place last Monday, but in conse-
quence, as he said, of not rpreivinK amPfiIPIIPY Which he ex-
pected, he begged it to be postponed for a wppi pf twp. The
unfortunate creature stated that, not daring to go to her friends,
whom she believed to be e eliasnpriitpd at hcr conduct that
they would turn their backs upon her, and seeing ligt means of
getting a living but in the streets (a life at which her nature
revolted), she 114 determined to put a period to an existence
which must be herept;Or rpi47,prable. A gentleman present,
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after
,bearing the poor gn :".‘°X3'; lOra4 ;R intpr edp for her
with her frlendt, i.:
;','Mich was grate.... 7 f'CPl4elll and, having
procured a coach, he proappded with her home.
D
, gltirrpprr, Nr. Power, the
According to letters from
actor, had been compelled ,from sudden indisposition, tp give
up his engagement there,