The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-02 00:00:00

GLASGOW, FIBRUAZY 26.

STOCK Elcsiiasoz. —The sales are—Aberdeen, 231.—Ayr and
Galloway, 413.—Caledonian, New,;49s.—Direct Northern (scrip), 575.
—Dundee and Perth, New,o4/. —East efFife, 59s.—East:Lothian Cen-
tral, 52s.—Edinburgh and Glasgow;lialves, 20 —Edinburgh,:Leith,
and Granton, Quarters, 16s.9d.—Edinburgh and Northern, 16s. 9d.
Newport, 61.9 s and Perth (New Co.), 525. 6d.—Ditto
New, 14s. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 2. —Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkland Junction, s%—Kilmarnock, and
Ayr Direct, 375.—Manchester and Southampton, 225. 6d.—North
British, New, Quarters (scrip), 28s.—Scottish Central, 221. ls.—
South-Eastern and Doter, New, No. 4, 83s.—Stirling and Dunferm-
line, 775. 6d.

FOREST or DEAN.—We are informed that, in obe.
dience to instructions received during the past week, the
keepers of the forest will very speedily remove the present
cause of complaint by greatly reducing the number of the
deer, and that in future the preservation of the deer will be
kept within reasonable limits.—Gloucestershire Chronicle.
THE NEW PAINLESS OPERATION AT THE COVEN..
Tay HOSPITAL. —A surgical operation was performed under
the influence of ether, by Mr. Laxon, in the presence of the
other medical officers of the institution, at the hospital in this
city, on Sunday, Feb. 14. The subject was a little boy
named Henry Jackson, a native of Coventry, but d
been living at Bedworth, with his grandmother. He was
admitted to the hospital on the 22d of December, being then
very ill and suffering under the effects of stone in the bladder,
with which he bad been afflicted for the last three years.
Upon applying the instrument by means of which the ether
is inhaled, the boy appeared to become insensible in about a
minute and a half. The operation was then commenced.
The boy struggled considerably at first, but did not appear to
suffer pain, as he did not give utterance to any sound what-
ever, The inhalation being continued, he speedily became
oblivious to all pain during at least a quarter of an hour, the
operation being unavoidably protracted to that period by the
large size of the stone. IN' hen the operation was over, and
the boy had recovered his consciousness, he declared himself
quite ignorant of everything that had taken place.—Coventry
Herald.
THE CON FESSIONAL.—CONSPIR ACY AMONG THE
CLERGY.—The Romanizing clergy in Oxford and other places
have lately adopted a plan of leaving open churches half an
hour before each service, and half an hour after it, for the
purpose of receiving confession. They alio contemplate
establishing confraternities, first in the metropolis, and aft er-
ward in provincial towns, the internal policy of the " society
being reserved from the eye of the world to
anti-
cipation and defeat of their plans."the expedients
for corrupting the Protestant laity is to b
One ore vent the e
the establishment
of " well-selected lending libraries" for scientific and literary
works, with a judicious admixture of theology and ecclesias-
tical pamphlets of a certain sort. Dissenters are to be ad-
dressed with soft words, instead of "tongue-hammers," until
the principles of the society are adopted to a sufficient extent,
to put down what the prospectus terms, " the discordant
confusion of tongues," and substitute "the deep and well-
toned harmony of the one Catholic church 1"
Fore-women
•
foreqtrowle—Oxford Chronicle.

BLACK WOOD.
Under the guise of a magazine article, the whole-
somest principles of benevolence are inculcated in the
paper "On Pauperism and its Treatment." Although
we cannot detect any coincidence between the writer's
views on political economy and the great system re-
cently introduced into the British Constitution by the
Imperial Parliament, we are eager to express our own
coincidence in those philanthrophic sentiments which
have evidently dictated the contribution. At such a
crisis, when almost a moiety of the population of the
United Kingdom is suffering from the agonies of starva-
tion, when Government is advancing to Ireland alone a
sum of not less than 10,000,0001., when throughout the
diversities of society, from our Sovereign Lady down to
the simplest handicraftsman among her subjects, the
good work of national charity is prospering, it is grati-
fying to see the abilities of a publication like Blittood
directed to so useful and important a purpose. How-
ever erroneous may be the opinions of the contributor as
to the instruments most advisable to be employed for the
distribution of imperial bounties, we are not loth on that
account to acknowledge the excellence of the aim of the
proposition. Little permanent benefit, however, can be
anticipated from the unanimous efforts making in behalf
of the Irish, unless a betn r disposition be evinced by
them for the reception and application of that assistance.
',Ve are far from alluding to the peasantry themselves,
for we know by their patience and long suffering, during
the storms of external; agitation and the anguish of do-
mestic dearth, that they are an enduring, unrepining,
gentle, and eminently religious race. The speech de-
livered from the throne, by the lips of her most gracious
Majesty Victoria, contained an eulogistic allusion to this
noble spirit of endurance of the Irish peasantry under
afflictions which would have rendered other men morally
distraught and in no manner prepared to bend slid:mut
a struggle or a murmur to the pitiless casual-
ties of vegetation and the terrible decrees of
an omniscient and all-merciful God. It is
to the absent landowners, to the smaller resident land-
lords,-and the larger tenant-farmers, that our observa-
tion is peculiarly applicable. Unless these men exhibit
a better inclination to co-operate with the Legislature,
the evils of penury and scarcity cannot be permanently
eradicated from that hapless island. While the robust.
and thriving sons of the latter class are actually tha-
t:ltched as la_Nagrers to the public works, for the purpose
of fining tbete-sywo maws and pockets at the expense of
the humble destitute, it were madness to anticipate any
effectual advantages to accrue to the country indiscrimi-
nately. Out-door relief, enlargement of poor-houses,
distribution of seed to the amount of 50,0004, wholesale
manufacture of soup under the supervision et: M. Boyer,
complicated commissariat, and ten millions of money,
will be wholly unable to restore happiness and prospe-
rity to the desolate hills and valleys of Hibernia, if these
things are continued, if these men are permitted to
thrive on their damning trade with impunity, if
this heinous crime—the defrauding of the poor—one of
the four great crimes crying out to heaven for vengeance
—be connived at, and allowed to pass unpunished. Men
like these are traitors not only to this country, but to
their race and kind. In little truth, they are nothing
less than assassins and homicides. Call things by their
right names, and those are the names we should givo
them. Speak from the heart the language of the heart,
and we should exclaim with Emilia, in Othello :

" 0 that there were in every honest hand a whip:
To lash such rascals naked through the world."
The opening article is followed by a narrative translated
from the Danish, and called " The Poacher ; or Jut-
land a hundred and thirty years since." " A Rids
to Magnesia" is a pleasant description of a scene but
seldom described, and consequently one that is doubly
agreeable from its novelty. Since the period of Sir
Stamford Raffles the Spice Islands, in the Indian Ocean,
have continued to attract more and more attention, both
from the central character of their position, and the rich-
ness of their productions. Any additional account of
any individual island in that magnificent archipelago is
hence of a remarkable interest, and from these reasons,
as well as from the admirable manner in which iit is
compiled, the contribution in relation to Java is not the
least attractive in the number. Building upon an ec-
centric fabric of the romantic and the real, from a theme
which Cooper and Walter Scott, in his " Peveril of the
Peak," and Robert Southey, in his " Oliver Newman,"
had already exhausted, a certain writer in Blackwood
has thought proper to favour the public with his remi-
niscences of travel, and has christened his lucubration
" The Cave of the Regicides." An euphoneous title
enough, and one calculated to raise goblin phantasms in
the imagination of the populace, but stale, marvellously
stale, to speak truly. Whatever may be the ideas of
this individual as to the " usual buffooneries," as he elo-
quently styles them; of Thomas Carlyle, we defer to him
whether it might not be advisable to copy somewhat of
the purpose with which that , great writer always in-
vests anything that proceeds from his pen. Let him
look well to the beam before he becomes parlous about
the mote—let him look to his own literary sins before ho
presumes to turn critic. In the commencement of the
paper headed " Latest from the Peninsula," there is a
1 crushing review of the recent " Overland Journey to
Lisbon," by Mr. T. M. Hughes. The sarcasm is caustic
and excoriating: Ebony evinces a matchless aterbityz
old Christopher lays his crutch about him lustily. The
criticism is not altogether unmerited, and as a piece of
satire is delightful. Among the verses insert& in this
number, the following epigram is not bad:—
" Bait, hook, and hair, are used by angler fine ;
Emina's bright hair alone were bait, hook, line ;"
though we doubt whether the verb and the nominative
case in the second verse agree in ',umber. The next is
better. " l'sra.day" says the writer " was the Yost to
elicit the electric spark from the magnet; he found that
" Around the magnet Faraday
Is sure that Volta's lightnings play;
But bow to draw them from the wire?
Ile took a lesson from the heart:
'TN when we meet, 'Lis when we part,
Breaks forth the electric tire."
The short poem, " To the Stethoscope," is beautifully
conceived, and from the exquisite melody and fanciful-
ness of the opening passag, a vie anticipated a metrical
gem but seldom found in a mazszine. The close, how-
ever, is so wretched—it is such a miserable anti-climax
in st)le, that we were singularly disappointed. To-
wards the commencement we find this graceful conceit:—
" 1-c stars which bloom like flowers on high,
Ye flowers which are the stars of earth."
Towards the conclusion comes—
" Life shall sometimes sound a blast,
But it shall be but Tantivy !"
0, for a corner to enshrine that " Tantivy" in the
bathos .of Martians Scriblerus. The au vokur, au
voleur, au voleur, au voleur of Sganarelle, in the " Pre-
cieuses Ridicules" of Moliere, is not more droll. A
letter on the " Divining Rod" (little less disagreeable
than a letter from a creditor), and a humorous re-
minder of the Nodes, called " form Catullianse,"
terminate the March number.

110TVITTS JOURNAL.
Weekly and monthly in its form of publication, Mr.
Howitt's periodical offers attractions to a large body of
readers. Its very title is a sufficient indication of the
spirit in which it is conducted, and forms a guarantee
that in its pages the cause of the people will not merely
be respected, but sedulously and energetically advocated.
We have already observed upon the distinguished cha-
racter of its contributors, and we may here repeat some
of the names which will be discovered in the March part,
viz.:—R. H. Horne, Silverpen, Thomas Cooper, Hans
Christian Aildersen, Dr. Bowring, and Dr. Smiles. The
editor himserf evinces remarkable industry. Although
the engravings are rather indifferent, the literary con-
tents are sufficiently meritorious to compensate for
that single deficiency.

THE TRAVELLER'S MISCELLANY.
There has long been a necessity for a periodical answer-
ing exactly to the size, exactly to the character, exactly to
the talent, and exactly to the arrangement of the Travel--
lees Miscellany. In all these particulars the first number,
now lying before us, is admirable. Are amusing narra-
tives wanted, drollery, gossip, pleasant and sparkling
compositions ? Here are abundance. And for informa-
tion—the pages are crammed with it. We know not
publication more fitted to beguile the stages of
journey, the transit of a steam-packet, or the inter-
stations of a railway trip than this excellent little
magazine. It is as effectual as the most facetious" com-
panion in scaring away the hvidi diaboli, vulgo, blue
devils." It is better than any guide book, in respect to
the miscellaneous information most useful to travellers.
We would especially note the " Theatrical Guide," the
" Callender for the Current Month," the " Catalogue of
Exhibitions and Amusements in the Metropolis," the
" Excursion Guide," the " Time Table," the Post-office,
Passport, and steam-boat Guides," cunt ca.teris paribus.
They are as copious and compact as the magazine itself
is worthy of commendation.

THE PARLIAMENTARY VOTE BOOK. By
Robert O'Byrne, jun.
A laborious and faithful exposition of the votes of the
House of Commons' legislators during the last session.

EXPERT ROBB n Saturday information was
ERS .- —l3 .
expert robbery
which ot
of 0 k
place on Friday, a
cash-box, contain
ganedx
containing ~ U. given to the policeo,fortheinfonllootwesm
the robbery gentlemanly
previously to
nears for a few days p
at the Fountain Tavern, Clapton. It ail.
who represented himself to be a commercial
traveller,ieekiegman,
ahna'd frequented the house to dine, and on most oc-
casions had done so with the landlord or landlady, in the
bar-parlour. On Friday he came as usual, bringing with
him a carpet-bag. Whilst dining, some one came into the
bar, and kept the landlady in conversation for some time.
Dinner being over, the supposed commercial gentleman paid
hie reckoning and departed. Shortly after this, it was dis-
covered that the cash-box and its contents had been carried
off; and another box, exactly similar in appearance, substi-
tuted for it, and which, on being examined, was found to
contain nothing but sand.

POLAND. GRAND MEETING TO-NIGHT ON
Ac C OW, AT FREEMASONS' HALLe,, Tern:ive
MASSIIIS OIP
R
NOLTIIAMPTON IN lIIE CIAII. W
un-
feigned pleasure, that the friends of Polandp are going to take
a step which cannot but be approved by every upright man,
and
exercise a great influence both in England and on the
Continent. It is to mark with public indignation the recent
violation of the treaty of Vienna, and to petition the Crown
on the annexation of the Republic of Cracow to Austria. The
tyranny of the three despotic powers of Russia, Austria, and
Prussia, will be powerfully exposed by many public charac-
ters, including several Members of Parliament, who have
determined to take a part in the manifestation of feelings
excited throughout the civilised world, on account of the
destruction of the last relic of Polish nationality.
"An affair of honour" between a distinguished
disciple of Esculapius and a gallant captain, arising out of a
dispute at a late meeting of subscribers to the Chepstow
Agricultural Society, was prevented on Tuesday last by the
interference of a constable, who arrived at the field of battle
[ just as the combatants were prepared for the affray.—Bristot
Journal.
We have authority to state that the Mrs. Butler
announced to give readinF,s at the Hanover-square Rooms,
to-night, is not the Mrs. Butler, late Miss Fanny Seuble.