The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—The Queen attended Divine ser-
vice this morning at St. George's Chapel.
The service was Nares in C (verse), Sanctus and Re-
sponses, Handel's Berenice ; and the anthem, " 0 Lord
who has taught us," Marsh. The Rev. R. Musgrave and
the Hon. and Rev. E. Moore officiated at the altar, and the
latter Divine preached the sermon from the 3d chapter of
Colossians, 23d and 24th verses. The Rev. J. Gore read
the former part of the service, and Mr. G. J. Elvey, Mus.
Bac., presided at the organ.
The Queen rode to the Chapel in a close carriage, at-
tended by Lady Cowper, the Marchioness of Tavistock,
Ind Lady Howick.
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The following personages were also in the Royal closet:—
The Hon. Mrs. Brand, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss
Pitt, Lady Fanny Cowper, Viscount Torrington, Sir F.
Stovin, Mr. Brand, Colonel Buckley, Viscount Melbourne,
Lord Glenelg, Hon. W. Cowper, Lord Howick, and the
Hon. Colonel Cavendish.
The following arrived yesterday afternoon :—Lord and
Lady Howick, Lady Cowper, Lady Fanny Cowper, Hon.
Mr. Cowper, Lord Glenelg, and Viscount Melbourne.
Colonel Phipps, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, had the
honour of joining the Royal dinner party yesterday evening.

The Duke of Cambridge presided at the dinner of the
Scottish Hospital on Friday evening at the Albion. His
Royal Highness, attended by Colonel Jones, returned to
his residence at Kew yesterday.
Colonel Greville, with despatches from Sir John Col-
borne, arrived at the Colonial Office at an early hour
yesterday morning from Canada. The despatches were
forwarded to Lord Glenelg at Windsor Castle. Despatches
f. om Canada Iv ere also received yesterday afternoon at
the Colonial Office.

Viscount Meibourne left town at four o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Earl of Euston had an interview with Lord Glenelg
on Saturday at the Colonial Office.
Viscount and Viscountess Howick left town on Saturday,
on a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.
Captain Hindmarsh (late Governor of South Australia)
transacted business on Saturday at the Colonial Office.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Saturday
morning for Hastings.
Lord Glenelg left town for Windsor Castle on Saturday
afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty.
The Earl of Minto has returned to town.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from Sir George Gipps, Governor of Nev South
Wales.

The Spanish Minister transacted business on Saturday
at the Foreign Office.
The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council were occupied on Saturday with an appeal from
Lower Canada, " Duchesny v. Pothier." Mr. Pemberton,
Queen's Counsel, was heard for the appellant. The Court
rose at two o'clock. The Lords present were—Lords
Brougham, Mr. Baron Parke, the Judge of the High
Court of Admiralty, and the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy.
Lord Howick, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
Lord Glenelg, visited Lord Melbourne on Saturday in
South-street.

Despatches, dated August 9, were received on Saturday
at the Colonial Department from the Governor of the Mau-
ritius,

Lord Glenelg transacted business on Saturday at the
Chancellor of the Exchequer's Office in Downing-street.
Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial
Department from the Governor of British Guiana.
The Ministers from Prussia, Austria, France, and
Turkey transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign
Department,

Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial
Office from the Governor of New South Wales.
The Neapolitan and Hanoverian Ministers transacted
business on Saturday at the Foreign Office.
Despatches were forwarded on Saturday from the Fo-
reign Department for the British Ambassadors resident at
the Courts of Stockholm and Copenhagen.
The Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief
transacted business on Saturday in Downing-street.
FASHI

ONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
The Earl of Shelburne, at Lansdown House, from Bowood
Park, Wiltshire; Lady Charles Somerset and the Misses
Somerset, in Piccadilly, from Brighton ; Lord Seymour, in
Duke-street, St. James's, from Melton Mowbray; Mr. Ville-
bois, in Gloucester-place, from Marsham House, Downham,
in Norfolk ; the Earl of Coventry and the Hon. Thomas Co-
ventry at Coventry House, Piccadilly ; Mr. Briscoe; M. P.,
in Piccadilly; Sir George Hamilton at the Pulteney Hotel,
Albemarle-street; Mr. Granville Vernon Harcourt in Mans-
field-street, Colonel Fitzroy in Bond-street; Mr. Fynes Twis-
sleton at the Albany ; Colonel Scott in Hertford-street ;
Lieut.- General Sir William Kier Grant in Wilton-crescent;
Mr. Edward Finch Hatton in Wilton•creseent; Colonel
Hugh Baillie and Mrs. Baillie in Mortimer-street ; Mrs. and
Miss Grey in Bruton-street; Mr. John Balfour in Queen-
street, Mayfair; Lady Agnes Buller, in Clarges-street, from
Suffolk ; Sir Thomas and Lady Elizabeth Reynell in Devon-
shire-place ; the Hon. Colonel Cavendish in Burlington-gar-
dens ; T. West, Esq., Mrs. West, and Miss West, at the
Berners Hotel, from Brighton ; Miss Clay, at ditto, from
Brighton ; Mrs. Hogg, at ditto, from Thornham Hall, Nor-
folk; J. Tovey, Esq., and Mrs. Tovey, at ditto, from Newn-
ham ; Mrs. Justice, at ditto, from Brighton ; Madame
Elliott, at ditto, from Brighton; Mr. Borthwick in Dover-
street.

DEPARTURES.
Mr. Sanderson, M. P., from Farrance's Hotel, for Heve.
Hingham Hall, Yoxford ; Admiral Gossclin and family, from
the Berners Hotel, for their scat Benges Hall, Hertford ;
Mrs. Herbert and family, from ditto,' for Baldock ; R. Mosely,
Esq., and Mrs. Mosely, from ditto, for Brighton.
CHANGES.
The Marquis of Downshire at his seat, Hillsborough Castle,
Downshire, from a visit to the Hon. Colonel and Lady Har-
riet Clive, at Oakley Park, near Ludlow; Lord and Lady
Waterpark, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Lichfield,
at Shugborough Park, near Lichfield. from their seat in
Derbyshire ; Lord and Lady De Saumarez, at Montpellier
Lodge, Cheltenham, from a visit to Sir Charles Morgan,
Bart., at Tredegar, near Newport, Wales ; the Earl of Fin-
gal, at Richmond, from attendance on her Majesty at Windsor
Castle ; their Excellencies the Marquis and Marchioness of
Normanby, at Burborough Castle, county Wicklow, on a visit
to the Earl and Countess of Miltown, from Phcenix Lodge,
Dublin ; Viscount Alfred, at Brighton, from a visit to Prince
Estcrhazy, at his chateau in Hungary.

Earl Spencer has arrived at Althorp Park, his seat
in Northamptonshire, from a visit to the Earl and Countess
of Leicester, at Holkham Hall, Norfolk.

The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort intend leaving
Arlington-street on Thursday next, for Badminton, near
Cirencester.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield left town
yesterday for Abingdon Abbey, Northamptonshire, where
they will shortly see company.
Lord Holland attended the Cabinet Council on Fri-
day, at Viscount Melbourne's, his Lordship's fall being far
from a serious one.

A great number of the nobility and foreign diplo-
matists in town made inquiries on Saturday at Ashburn-
ham House, as to the recovery of Count Pozzo di Borgo
from his recent accident.

The Earl of Mount Edgecumbe arrived at Mivart's
Hotel early on Saturday, for the purpose of being present
at the christening of his grandchild, the infant son of
Viscount and Viscountess Valletort.
The remains of the Right Hon. Robert Cutlar
Fergusson, Judge-Advocate-General, were shipped on
Thursday last from the Custom House, having been brought
over from Calais, to be conveyed to the family mausoleum
at Craigdarroch for interment. Lieut.-Col. Henry Fer-
gusson, late of the Grenadier Guards, the nephew of the
deceased gentleman, attended the remains to Scotland.
The relict of the deceased and her children are still in Paris.
LOCHABER, Nov. 27.—The Master of Grant,
M.P. for Inverness-shire, is now here on a visit to his con-
stituency in this district. His reception has been most warm
and cordial. Mr. Grant attended divine worship at the
Church of Kilmanivaig on Sabbath last.—lnverness Herald.
THE WEATHER.--•Till Wednesday
afternoon have had sharp frost for a fortnight. On the day
abovewe
named it commenced to freshen, and now as 've
are going
to press, showers are descending in considerable abundance. The change will b„in favour of the farmers.— ,rnrernem
Herald.

LITERATURE.

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LARDNER'S CYCLOPEDIA. No. CVIIL
Longman, London, 1838.
The present volume of this pcpular miscellany forms the
fourth of the " Lives of Eminent Statesmen," and contains
a biographical account of Cromwell from his earliest child-
hood down to the period of the decisive battle of Wor-
cester, where—as Mr. Foster, the author, justly observes—
" a crown vanished from the grasp of the first Charles."
The Life is penned in a spirit of impartiality, very uncom-
mon with the chroniclers of that stirring period ; and enters
with singular and most interesting minuteness into details
of Cromwell's domestic habits, which help us to something
like a clue to the many apparent anomalies in his public
character. We have not merely an outline, but an elabo-
rately painted full-length of the Protector. The striking
peculiarities of his nature are analysed with considerable
subtlety and acuteness, and without the slightest appearance
of dogmatism ; for Mr. Foster does not insist on the correct-
ness of his own views, but, placing a vast variety of cha-
racteristic facts before us, leaves us to draw our own in-
ferences from them. But what we chiefly like in his bio-
graphy is this—namely, that though it is, of course, a
record of the achievements of the conqueror, it is still more
a philosophical disquisition on the idiosyncracy of the man ;
and having said this, we need scarcely add that it is the
most satisfactory memoir of Cromwell we have yet met
with. The style in which it is penned is less acceptable
to us. In some places it is quaint, and betrays much ef-
fort, especially where the author essays the descriptive ; and
in others, it is bald and over colloquial, which is not sim-
plicity, but the reverse. These, however, are venial de-
fects, easily to be remedied ; viewed as a whole, it does
infinite credit to the research, the skill, and the sagacity of
its author. When the Life is completed, we shall enter
more at length into an analysis of it, but till then this
brief notice must suffice.

THE ONLY DAUGHTER. 3 VoLs.
Colburn, London, 1838.

There is a practice now becoming very prevalent among
some of our great publishers, which we cannot but think, is
" more honoured in the breach than the observance." We
allude to the practice of ushering a new work into notice,
' under the auspices of some popular writer, who stands god-
father to it—that is to say, announces himself in the title
page as its editor—and affixes his formal imprimatur upon.
it, as a production worthy of his and the public's patronage.
Thus, Mr. Ainsworth chaperoned " Nick of the Woods,"
Miss Landon, " Duty and Inclination ;" Mr. Gleig acts
as gentleman-usher or master of the ceremonies to the work
before us ; and Mr. Theodore Hook, in the plenitude of
his benevolence, has dry-nursed, heaven knows how many
puling literary babes! Now we object to this practice for
two reasons—first, because there is a strong smell of
quackery in it ; and secondly, because it is tantamount to,
a confession that though the productions thus chaperoned,.
have many points of excellence, yet on the whole, they are
not strong enough to stand upon the ground of their own
unassisted merits. We commenced " The Only Daugh-
ter," under this impression, concluding also, that it.
had received many finishing touches from the more.
practised pen of its editor ; but after an attentive!
perusal of it, we find we have been mistaken, for so far
from its not being able to stand on its own intrinsic worth,.
it is a work, not only of considerable promise, but shows
far greater ability than Mr. Gleig has ever exhibited in any
one of his numerous fictions. It is clearly, there-
fore, not retouched by him, but is in reality what he de-
clares it to be in his prefatory advertisement—namely,
" the production of a mere girl ; of one brought up in se-
clusion, unacquainted with the world, and therefore desti—
tute of stores from which to draw in the construction of
her tale, except those which her own genius and an intui-
tive perception of right and wrong in human character
could supply." The ignorance of the world to which Mr.
Gleig here alludes, is visible throughout this tale, whose
leading personages are altogether the creations of a high-
toned, and romantic mind. Ruth Annesley, in particular,
who, without the slightest wavering or regret, sacrifices love.
to friendship, and gives up the man of her choice
to ler young friend Helen, is purely an imaginative con-
ception. Such a character never yet had—and probably
never will have—its counterpart in real life ; nevertheless,
while we acknowledge it to be a mere idealism, it takes a
strong hold on our feelings, from the lofty, impassioned en-
thusiasm that hangs over it like a sacred halo. Helen
Campbell is a more life-like creation, but still, even here,
there is much of that exaggeration in which young writers
are so apt to indulge, before practice and an extended com-
merce with mankind have rectified the errors of an ardent
fancy. Colonel Faulconbridge is another imaginative con-
ception, nearly, if not quite as much so as Ruth Annesley,
but rivets our attention for the same reason. We have
mentioned the leading defects of the work : its merits are,
first, the ardent, generous tone of feeling that pervades it ;
secondly, the skill and simplicity with which its incidents
are handled ; and thirdly, the uniform spirit and elegance
of its style, which go far to redeem the want of nature go
generally prevalent in its dialogues. We have said that
the authoress is prone to exaggeration ; in proof of this
charge, we quote her description of a gentleman's smile,
I which is a striking instance of that tendency to overdo the
simplest matters, and give them undue importance, which
is one of the chief characteristics of nine out of ten inex-
perienced writers :

" The gentleman was what is generally called a fine looking
man of forty—that is to say—he was extremely dark—ex-
tremely tall and straight, and without any peculiarity of figure
or feature, either handsome or otherwise. The general ex_
pression of his face was excessively quiet, and even cold, but
when Miss Annesley turned round from time to time with a
gay sentence or a sportive appeal, he would reply with a smile
so splendid and peculiar as to be startling. It was the rarest
of human smiles—it was not his lip alone which it rested on,
although the row of brilliant teeth which it revealed illumi-
nated his countenance of itself; but every feature brightened
under its influence, and his very forehead became bland and
polished under the momentary effect of its magic. The dark
and sombre character of his face dissipated instantaneously be.
fore that beautiful smile, and something blazed up through it
which by some free masonry of feeling went straight to your
heart, from the con viction that it sprang direct from his. And
then instantly, as the transient excitement which had called it
forth vanished, the sunbeams died away and left the surface
they had illuminated pale, and dark, and ordinary as before,
with no other distinction than might be found in an air of
aristocratic breeding, which was remarkable, even in his own
elevated rank,"

BOOK OF BIRDS.
Rickerby, London, 1838.

This is a very clever little book, adapted for the perusal
of " Young Naturalists," and penned in an easy, sprightly
style. The anecdotes scattered throughout it are full of
interest, and calculated to take a strong hold on the young
reader's attention. The work is embellished with a variety
of pleasing wood-cuts, and, we think, is very likely to be-
come popular.

FINE ARTS.

PORTRAIT OF BURNS,
Hodgson and Graves, London, 1838.

We have here a full length portrait of the great poet of
Scotland, engraved, in his best manner, by Burnet, from
an original painting by Allan, in the possession of Mr.
Nasmith. The picture represents Burns seated in his
father's cottage, in an old arm chair, and busy in the com-
position of the far-famed " Cotter's Saturday Night." His
fine, manly countenance beams with intelligence, and there
is a fire in the expression of his large, thoughtful, dark eye
which at once betrays the poet. The engraving is exe-
cuted with marked care in all its details.

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