The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-13 00:00:00

P A It I S.

(EXTEACT 01 A PRIVATE LETTT:R.)
Pants, NOV. B.—The Police of Paris—which is, perhaps,
politically, the best, and civilly the worst in Europe—has been
very busy for the last few weeks in seizures of prints and hooka,
winch accord unhappyly with the present system of Go.'
vernmont. A poor printseller, upon whose premises were
i found some copes of " Apotheosis de Nardeva," has been
denounced, and will probably undergo a conhnement of
twelve months for the sale of a picture which merely re.
presents the grave of. Napoleon -; and an Agent d'Affitiree,
m the Rue
,St. Augustin, has had all his effects seized
beeause there was. in one of his rooms a colossal bust of
Buonaparte, which had been sent to hint for private sale.—
I know not upon what law or principle this man's pro.
perty has been seized, but the effect is his ruin. When I
say that the Police of Paris is• only politically severe, I am
not speaking falsely. In no capital on earth are so many
murders and robberies perpetrated with impunity. It would
be a fair calculation, indeed, to say, that at least twenty per.
Sons are murdered In Paris annually, whose bodies are dia.,
covered anti exposed on the ream tie, but whose death remains
unavengcd by the apprehension and punishment of the min...
tiers. Speaking of this morgue, which has been so much
praised by some English travellers. I must say that there
cannot be a more filthy, disgusting, or immoral exhibition.—
There is now a new System of tuition in music in Paris, which
is all the rage. A. M. Sudre teaches what he calls a musical
language, which is applicable to every instrument. Pertains
of all nations may converse with each other in music in this.
Way; Without.the trouble of Yearning to speak a language. In
one of Mr. S.'s recent courses, a 'lurk, upon the flute, con.
versed for half an hour with a Frenchman, who played the
fiddle. The latier, of course, knew the Turkish language upon
principle, but not n•word could he speak. This system may
be very useful, if generally adopted amongst well.informed
musical, persons in Europe, because we know it is easy to
learn sufficiently of a language to form phrases in the course
of a very feW months, but that it requires years to be able to
utter them correctly or agreeably.

MELANctroLY Sinewatcx.—We have collect-
ed the following particulars of the loss of the ship Morreston,
an event which has left several of our fellow-citizens in the
deepest affliction :—The Morreston, which was built by Ed-
ward Joinder, Esq., of Kinsale, left this harbour on the morn.
ing of Tuesday the 20th ult., with a cargo of pigs ; a crew
consisting of the captain, pilot, four seamen, anti a boy, and
seven passengers.' She was accompanied by the George the
Fourth steam-packet for the entire of that day, the wind and
weather favourable; but wanting stern-sails, she was unable to
keep up with the George the Fourth, 'or the melancholy catas.
throphe which we are about to relate might have been avoided,
as she would have reached Newport before the storm commence
ed. Captain Brown, of the steam-packet, describes the gale
as the most tremendous that was ever experienced in the navi.
gation between Cork and Bristol. The lightat Lundy Island,
which the Morreston had passed, could not be seen at 200 yards
distance. Tice Morreston was bearing away for Cork, when
she was blown right on the island,and at a distance of not more
than 20 yards.from the abore,at ten p. m. she struck. The scene
which ensued cannot be described. One of the survivors has
strived in this city: he is the pilot, and a native of Paesage:
Ile stater that four persons only came on shore, one of whom
died immediately. The Captain and boy remain at Lundy
Island, and this mart came over in the Marquis of ihiglisea
packet. The manner in which his life was preserved is provi-
dential : he had clung to a plank, and was nearly washed ofit
several times, but still held on, while another person whom • he
could not distinguish, and who held, also by it, was struck ofr
and met a watery grave.—Among the passengers, we have' to
lament Mr. Samuel J. Newsom, of Patrick-street, who has left
a wife and a large family to mourn his death.—.We have also to
add the name of Mr. Edward Cleburne, son to Mr. Cleburne.
This young gentleman acted for sometime as Librarian to the
Cork Institution.—( Cork Paper.)

HONESTY OF A HACKNEY COACJIMAL—On
the 30th of last May a Gentleman left in the
hackney coach No. 529 (Charles Davis driver),
a tortoise-shell snuff-box, lined with gold ; on the
outside lid t►n enamel head of King Charles
(from Vandyke), surrounded with chased gold.
The owner of this box was set down at the
Theatre, and in removing the straw the next
morning honest Jarvis found the lost property,
which he immediately delivered to the Commis-
sioners for hackney coaches. A few evenings since
the same Gentleman hired a coach to bring him
home from the Theatre, and on the coachman
letting him out, recognized him, and enquired if
he had not lost a snuff-box, five months since,
which, upon the gentleman's describing, proved
to he the same. It was satisfactorily identified,
and the honest man was rewarded with two
guineas. In justice to the coachman's honesty,
we feel much pleasure in recording this fact.

Among the many accounts of foreign parts
that now almost daily isstie from the press, none
will l~e pernsed with more pleasure and advan-
tage than the unassuming volume which we have
now before us ; and there are few ,that we can
more conscientiously recommend to the perusal
of our Readers. The eouutries of which it gives
us a short but pleasing account, are less known
to the generality of Readers titan many Jnirts;of
Asia or of America, having been but seldom vi-
sited by those who travel merely for amusement.
This is, indeed, so Much the case, that but few
persons are, perhaps, aware that the country now
denominated New Russia, and Colonized by the
Empress CATHARINE 11., and her grandson, the
reigning Emperor, comprehend titoSe regions
long known under the name of Little Tartary.
From the present Work we find, however, that
New Russia includes the Governments. of Taw.-
rida, Ekaterinoslav, Chervon, Bessarabia, a part
of Moldavia, all countries conquered by CATHA-
in NE I 1., during the course of her successful wars
against the Turks. The principal towns in those
parts are. Odessa, Perekop„Simferopol,Bashrisaraf,
Karasubazar, kaffa,.&e. Of these the most con-
siderable is Odessa, which, though- built only
in the year 1794, rose rapidly to • Such come-.
quence under the administration or its founder,
the present Duke de Richelieu, that it now con-
tains no less' than 40,000 inhabitants. Long in-
habited. only by tribes of wandering Tartars, the
greatest part of this extensive country was a
barren waste. The fertility and richness of the
soil, and the many noble streams by which these
provinces are watered, induced the Russian Go-
vernment to colonize them, and large.grants Of
land were allotted to each village. • It is, in.,
deed, the opinion of the fair Author"---an opinion
apparently well-founded, that those allotments
have been, in almost every case, much too con-
siderable, many villages having no less than
100,000 acres. Besides the Russians that have
been transplanted here from other parts of the
empire, foreigners have meti with liberal en-
couragement. The population presents, there-
fore, a motley assemblage of Russians, Tartars,
Greeks, Bulgarians, and Germans, each, ad-
hering to their own national manners, dress
opinions, &c., but 'all obedient to the
of the Russian Goiernment. The Tartars,
however, form the bulk of the population, for
the Crimea. The total amount of inhabitants
appear to he /60,000, of which no less 'than
186,000 are Tartars.—Tho limits of a notice
such as the present do not permit us to enter into
all the interesting details contained in this use'-
ful volume. The merchant, the agricul-
turist, the manufacturer, will find in it informa-
tion that must interest then); awl to those who
might feel tempted to emigrate into those parts,
it must prove highly valuable. Before we dis-
miss the work, we must, however, in justice to
its fair author, declare that very fur from feeling
the least disappointment in -the *eipectatiOns
which the title had led us to entertain, we, on
the contrary, Were highly gratified with its con.
tents, and. Could not bat Andre' the plain and
satisfactory manner in which subjects, which sel-
dom or ever form a portion of female. inquiry,
had Wen treated by the author.