The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-01 00:00:00

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY

The present Miscellany contains an expressive
half-length portrait, accompanied by a short me-
moir, of Warren Hastings—a remarkable states-
man, who, after a season of comparative forget-
fulness, has again been brought into notice, by
means of Mr. Gleig's biographical details, and
the eloquent notice of his memorable career in
the East, that appeared in the last number of the
Edinburgh Review. The portrait, we repeat, is
a most expressive one ; the eyes exhibit a world
of thoughtful sagacity and vigilant shrewdness;
and there is a resolute determination and firmness
in the character of the close-shut mouth, that
forcibly reminds us of David's famous likeness of
Napoleon. But the forehead is the most notice-
able feature of the portrait It is broad, smooth
as alabaster, and swells up like a dome; in fact,
it is quite a Shakspearian brow, and indicates—if
there be truth in phrenology, which we doubt—
the very highest and rarest order of intellect. Of
the accompanying memoir, the less said the better.
It is a tame, business-like narrative, and utterly
deficient in that which is the very salt of biogra-
phy—discrimination of character. " Richard
Savage" contains one or two clever dialogues, in
which the idiosyncrasy of the uxorious Ludlow
is cleverly brought out. The " Night Shriek" is
a capital tale for a long winter evening, contain-
ing, as it does, both a mystery and a murder.
The details are wrought up with infinite tact, and
the denouement has the rare recommendation of
unexpectedness. "Ode on the Birth of a Prince"
is more to be commended for its loyalty than its
poetical fancy. It must be comforting, however,
to the author tit,, know that he is no worse a poet
than Sternhold arid Hopkins; and indeed we will
do him the justice to observe, that the Christmas
Bellman has often produced a more indifferent
Lyric. The " Family Butler" is full of nice
touches of character. "He is," says the author,
"a Tory and a Disciplinarian; thumbs the John
Bull on Sundays, and spells over the Times, with
one eye open, after his daily quart of stout. He
has a sort of sullen reliance on the immutability
of the Church and the Corn-laws. Butlers,
bishops, and landed proprietors he fancies to
be as naturally affinitive as cart and horse.
There may be horses without carts he knows; but
a cart can't move without a horse. No aristocracy,
secular or ecclesiastical—no butlers ! The
three things the family butler most detests to
see at.his master's table are, a bottle of the old
Maderia he keeps for his private drinking, a poor
relation, and an author. It puts him out of his
calculations, indeed, to find every now and then
a new novel announced by a Lady Clara, or a
new poem by a Lord John, for he owns he can't
abide to hear of the nobility descending to such
low-lived things." There is much of Leigh
Hunt's arch and ready observation of the minutia
of character in this sketch. " Merrie England in
the Olden Time" is here brought to a close. The
author should continue the series, and give us
more of provincial life than he has hitherto done.
Much pleasant . gossip may be gleaned by so di.
ligent an inquirer respecting the gipsies, the
sports of the may-pole, the morris-dancers,
and the Christmas mummeries in the old
Baronial Halls, which Washington Irving
has but lightly touched on in his Sketch-
Book. " Wanderings of a Painter in Italy"
promise well • but we forbear to giVe a
decided opinion till we have seen more of them.
" Giles Chaw-bacon " is humourous, but the hu-
mour is rather of too coarse a nature to please
generally. The illustrations are the best part of
the sketch. " Almacks " is a description in
which much truth is blended with more exagge-
ration. " Misadventures at Margate" is by Tom
Ingoldsby. It is in the mock sentimental style,
and happily ridicules some of Mr. Wordsworth's

infantile Odes to Betty Foy, Goody Blake, &c.
The poem commences as follows
I was in Margate last July, I walk'd upon the pier,
I saw a little vulgar Boy—l said, " What make you
here ?
The gloom upon your youthful cheek speaks anything
but joy;"
Again I said, " What make you here, you little vulgar
Boy?"
He frowned, that little vulgar Boy,—he deem'd I meant
to scoff,
And when the little heart is big a little "sets it off;"
He put his finger in his mouth, his little bosom rose,—
He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose!

" Hark! don't you hear, my little man?—it's striking
Nine, I said,
" An hour when all good little boys and girls should be
in bed.
Run home and get your supper, else your Ma' will scold
—Oh! lie!
It's very wrong indeed for little boys to stand and cry!"
The tear-drop in his little eye again began to spring,
His bosom throbb'd with agony, he cried like any thing I
I stoop'd, and thus amidst his sobs, I heard him murmur

Ah !
I haven't got no supper! and I haven't got no Ma' ! !
" My father, he is on the seas,—my mother 's dead and
gone,
And I am here, on this here pier, to roam the world alone;
I have not had this live-long day one drop to cheer my heart,
Nor ' brown' to buy a bit of bread,--no,—let alone a tart!
" If there's a soul will give me food, or find rue in employ,
By day or night, then blow me tight!" (he was a vulgarlioy ;)
"And, now I'm here, from this here pier it is my fix'd intent
To jump, as Mister Levi did from off the Monument!"

" Cheer up ! cheer up ! my little man—cheer up !" I
kindly said,
"You are a naughty boy to take such things into your head :
If you should jump from off the pier, you'd surely break
your legs,
Perhaps your neck—then Bogey 'd have you, sure as
eggs are eggs !
" Come home with me, my little man—come home with
me and sup ;
My landlady is Mrs. Jones—we must not keep her up—
There's roast potatoes at the fire—enough for me and you;
Come home you little vulgar Boy— I lodge at Number 2."
I took him home to Number 2, the house beside," The

I bade him wipe his dirty shoes—that little vulgar Boy—
And then I said to Mistress Jones, the kindest of her sex,
" Pray be so good as go and fetch a pint of double X !"
But Mrs. Jones was rather cross, she made a little noise,
She said she " did not like to wait on little vulgar Boys."
She with her apron wiped the plates, and, as she rubb'd
the delf,
Said I might " go to Jericho, and fetch my beer myself !"
I did not go to Jericho—l went to Mr. Cobb—
I changed a shilling—(which in town the people call " a
Bob")
It was not so much for myself as for that vulgar child—
And I said, " A pint of double X, and please to draw it
mild !"

When I came back I gazed about—l gazed on stool and
chair—
I could not see my little friend—because he was not there!
I peep'd beneath the table-cloth—beneath the sofa too----I
said, "You little vulgar Boy ! why, what's become of
you ?"
I could not see my table-spoons—l I ook'd, but could not
see
The little fiddle-pattern'd ones I use when I'm at tea ;
—I could not see my sugar-tongs—my silver w atch—
oh, dear !
I know 'twas on the mantel-piece when I went out for
beer.

I could not see my Macintosh—it was not to be seen !
Nor yet my best white beaver hat, broad-brimm'd and
lined with green ;
My carpet-bag—my cruet-stand that holds my sauce
and soy,—
My ro potatoes !—all are gone ; and that vulgar
DI!

I rang the bell for Mrs. Jones, for she was down below
" —Oh, Mrs. Jones ! what do you think ?—ain't this a
pretty go ?-
-That horrid little vulgar Boy whom I brought here
to-night,
—He's stolen my things and run away ! !"—Says she,
"And sarve you right ! !"

The rest of Ingoldsby's poem is in the same
droll style. Of course, he never again meets
with the "little vulgar boy," and goes back to
London impressed with a painful sense of the
roguery of boys in general, and of Margate ones
in particular. The moral he draws from his mis-
adventure is an impressive one, and we subjoin
it for the benefit of the more reflecting classes of
the community :
" Don't link yourself with vulgar folks who've got no
fixed abode,
Tell lies, use naughty words, and say, they 'wish they
may be blow'd."

SMALL WOOD'S MAGAZINE.
Among the minor periodicals this is decidedly
the best, usually containing several entertaining
papers, in verse as well as prose. The " Pic-
Nic Party" is a sprightly descriptive sketch, in-
troduced by some graphic details of the romantic
scenery in the immediate neighbourhood of
Mount Edgcumbe. The " Impenitent" is a sup-
posed narrative of a Jewish priest of the first
century, and has a truly tragic termination. The
" History of Venice" is the most sensible and
instructive article in the Number; and is the pro-
duction of Dr. Shepherd, who does not seem to
have spared research, in his endeavour to make
his history as complete as possible. If his his-
tory be completed in the same correct, impartial
spirit that it has been commenced, we think it
not unlikely to obtain the compliment of repub-
lication in a separate volume. Of the remaining
contributions, the ablest is a Lyric, entitled " The
Birth of Music."

SPORTSMAN.
The most attractive features in the Number
before us are decidedly the two illustrations—one
of which is a portrait of Satirist, the winner of
the Doncaster St. Leger for the present year;
and the other, a pleasing sylvan sketch, repre-
senting a fatigued sportsman resting under an
old oak, by the side of a brawling streamlet
which washes the roots of the tree. There is
a long reach of perspective ingeniously managed
in this plate. The literary articles are neither
better nor worse than usual.

SPORTING REVIEW.
This Monthly Chronicle of the turf, the chase,
and rural sports in all their varieties, contains in
its present Number, a map of the meets of the
Burton hounds; and two spirited likenesses of
Cigar and Lottery, the celebrated steeple-chasers.
This last is a coloured plate, and being skilfully
executed, shows to advantage. Among the
literary articles, we find some diverting " Recol-
lections of a Sportsman's Life ;" a clever sketch
or two by Lord William Lennox, under the title
of " Gleanings from my Travelling Journals ;"
and a sprightly description of the " Beaufort
Hunt," which is the first of a series of papers
illustrative of the "Sporting Life of England,"
from the pen of Mr. John Mills.

THE SPORTING MAGAZINE.
This is an excellent Number, and contains a
greater variety of sporting articles than have ap-
peared for months. " The Recollections of the
Woods and Waters of Canada" maintain their
character for animated description and inte-
resting details of deer and wolf-hunting in
the extensive regions of Upper Canada.
" Anecdotes of American Horses," " Sketches
of Western Sport," and " Irish Races," are
highly characteristic of this publication, so long
a favourite with the sporting world. It is rich,
also, in engravings, being accompaniedby three
cuts, representing the " Meet of the Calpe
Hunt," the "Leap of a Stag over a precipice,
with a Hound hanging at his neck," and " Three
celebrated Greyhounds, the property of Mr.
Daintree." In addition to these, there are two
beautiful maps of the Heythrop and Southwold
countries, with short descriptions of the different
places of meeting.

FARMER'S MAGAZINE.
A Journal that honestly fulfils the object of
its publication—namely, acquainting the farmers
with all the most recent and valuable improve-
ments in agriculture.

WEST INDIA MAIL.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 29.—1 t has blown tremendously
here to-day from the southward and westward, with in-
cessant and heavy rain. Her Majesty's packet Crane,
Lieutenant Hill, with mails from the West Indies, arrived
during the afternoon, bringing dates from Barbadoes to
the 28th October, Jamaica 2d, and St. Thomas's 7th
November, with a freight of about 8,000 dollars and
fourteen passengers—no news. Her Majesty's packet
Sheldrake sailed from St. Thomas's on the 6th inst., the
day previously to the Crane, and therefore may be hourly
looked for.

The Montrose steamer, with mails for the Peninsula,
left at noon, but in consequence of the tempestuous
weather, and heavy sea experienced on opening the
Lizard was compelled to return to port, and will now
await a favourable change.
Among the numerous vessels which have run to this
anchoragefor shelter, during yesterday and to-day, are
the following :-28th. Amity Hall, Ford, from London for
Jamaica ; Nesbitt, Marlow, from London for Jamaica ;
Ealing Grove, Falconer, from London for Dominica ;
Panope, Candler, from London for Alexandria.
29 th.—Hebe, Younger, from London for Ceylon ;
Scotsman, Barclay, from London for Jamaica ; Moun-
taineer, Strickley, from London for Mobile ; Joseph Cres-
tale, from London for Syra ; Azorian, Phillips, from
London for St. Michael's ; Ann and Elizabeth, Roberts,
from London for Bilbao ; Minerva, Guff, from Maldon
for Lisbon.

We quote the following from a journal of this Island :
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AGRIGULTURAI. REPORT FOR AUGUST.
" The month of August has been wet. The rains
which at the commencement of the month were partial
and light, became, during the last fortnight, more gene-
ra and constant.

" As usual, on the first few days of August, work on
the estates suffered some temporary interruption—the
labourers generally devoting a day or two to the com-
memoration of the anniversary of their freedom.
" The sugar crop has been taken off ; many estates,
however, leaving over large fields of cane uncut. As
the ensuing crop promises to be large—the planters in
general have considerably extended their plantations—
but a short period will intervene ere the manufacturing
process is resumed. Weeding, manuring, and restoring
plants have been the general work of the month.
" Coffee picking has been commenced; the trees are
loaded with berries.

"More emigrants trom Barbadoes have arrived this
month; and we are glad to see a few more of our planters
bestirring themselves in the promotion and encourage-
ment of this source of advantage to the colony. We
have now upwards of one hundred of these labourers
from Barbadoes, and it is pleasing to note that their ge-
neral conduct is exemplary, and that their attention
to, and performance of, the work assigned to them, have
been highly satisfactory to their employers."
The schooner Maid of Erin, Incledon, master, on the
voyage from St. Lucia to this island, was boarded by a
piratical brig, on the 4th instant, and plundered of her
stores, which compelled her to put back to St. Lucia.
The Palladium of the 14th, gives the particulars as fol-
lows:

"On the 3d of October, at 8 A.M., slipped from the
Castries wharf—made all sail for Barbadoes, with a light
breeze from the E.S.E. At 6 P.M., Diamond Rock bore
N.W. 15 miles—all night light winds and fine weather.
At daylight St. Lucia bore W. 32 miles. At 8 A.M.,
saw a sail ahead bearing from the S.E., she steering
west, with fore-topmast and topgallant studding-sails on
the larboard side, and ringtail. At 9, she took in an
studding• sails and wore ship, and hauled to the N.E. to
cross my bows—hauled his square foresail and mainsail up
hoisted French ensign, with one man on the main top-
gallant yard, with a burgee in his hand, two men look-
ing out on the fore top-gallant yard. When she hoisted
the French ensign I hosted my English to the gaff end.
She.fired a gull with shot across by bow. I did not like
her manoeuvres, and took in gaff top-sail and fore-sail
She fired a second shot as she lowered her stern *
with four pulling, and two sitters with cutlasses
and pis-
,
tols. On coming alongside I asked what they wanted ?
They replied water. I said I could give them one
that they need not come on board, for I cask,
but
Tbrd, took charge
Barbadoes. Five men then jumped on was bound to
loifyethseteeveks,sefel
baanttlhesouorf
gin, vegetables, half- They took all my
fish, four large
a
tubs of water, and two barrels ddressed to persons in
Barbadoes. At 1111. 30M. they le ft my vessel, cleared
the boat of plunder, hailed and told me to make sail for
my port. On asking them, where from and whither
bound they only answered that they were bound to
Porto Rico. On leaving, she set all sail, and steered
S.W., until 2 p.m., then in all studding4ail, tacked to
the N.N.W., and at five was out of sight. At noon, lat.
14 3 N., long. 60 30, W. by obs.—Barbadoes Liberal.

duringtheWe are informed, upon good authority, that
Courtth of Queen'selast term
B
criminal informations were tiled in
her Majesty's Attorneye-aGehn,
ebrayl, Siiigr,/nziserainlckuePloLlloconkg,
and William Swann the younger, charging them with
bribery and corrupt practices at the election for this bo-
rough, in September, 1839, when the Hon. M. Manners
Sutton was first returned. These informations have been
filed in pursuance of a resolution of the house of Com-
mons in the last Parliament, and will probably come on
for trial at the next Assizes.— Cambridge Advertiser.
THE CANTERBURY BANK.---The last proof of
debts against the estate of Messrs. Halford and Co.,
amounte to 25,0001., making, with about 70,0001. proved
on the former occasion, a total of 95,0001.
DISTRESS IN PAISLEY.—We; regret to state
that the destitution of Paisley is still on the increase, the
number of additional persons thrown upon the relief
fund last week amounting to no fewer than 950. The
unemployed now amount to—Males, 1,850 ;dßarr.
dependents,
4,625 ;—females, 1,392 ; dependents, 2,784 total,
10,651. Including Johnstone, Kilbarchan, an
head, they are not fewer than 11,215.—Glasgow Argus.