The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-09 00:00:00

GRAND FETE.

The ball announced to be given by Mr. 111-LT ox Jot.-
t.trrE, is on account of the coming of age of his second
son, on the 1411) instant. Great rejoicings will take place
among the tenantry, who will be entertained with roast
beef, plum.pudding, and home-brewed October. Tempo.
nary rooms are now building on the lawn: one room 30 feet
by '3O, and thirteen high. AU . the shrubberies will be illu-
minated. AU the neighboUring Nobility and Gentry are invited:
Bands of musie—cookis and confectioners, en masse, from Lon-
don. A portable kitchen will be 'tickled to the regular establish.
mont. All the grounds are to be lighted up with antique and
globular lamps. All the grand suite of apartments will exhibit
a blaze of splendour far excelling the Rte of the preceding year:

NATlONALSocmy.—Yesterany the General
ComMittee of the National Society for the Education of the
Poor in the'' Principles of the Established Church, held their
meeting at St. Martin's Vestry-room :' present the Bishop of
Lownox, Right Hon. Sir J. Thenot., Archdeacon Porr,
Rev. Dr. I3Lr.L, J. WATSON, Esq. and other Members of the
Committee. Some free schools were united to the Society,
and several grants of money were made towards the erect-
ing, enlarging, and fitting up of School Rooms • amongst others,
2001. towards building a Sunday-school at Leeds, and 1001.
towards building a Boys' School at Carmarthen, where there
is already a School ibr Girls; and 1001, towards building a Girls'
School at Ely.

COMPOSITION OF TILE BLOOD.-Sir EVERARD
Homt; in delivering his introductory Lecture on the Physic).
logy of the Blood, on Tuesday, at St. George's Hospital, ex.
planed a discovery made by him on the component parts of the
blood in the year 1810, a fact which is known but to few of the
Profession. Sir Everard's new theory is, that carbonic acid gas
forms a large proportion of the blood, and that this fluid is of a
tubular structure. The immortal Harvey, the discoverer of the
circulation, and Hewson and Hunter, who have most studied
the composition of the vital fluid, failed to make this important
discovery; and should time, the only test of truth, prove the
justness of this new theory, Sir Everard may be ranked among
the first physiologists of the day. He asserts that carbonic acid
gas exists in the blood in the large proportion of 2 cubic inches
to an ounce, and that it is given out in large quantities from the
blood of a person after a full meal, and very little from the
blood of a feverish person. The fact of the appearance of the
tubes passing through every particle of the blood, Sir Everard
was led to discover by observing the growth of a grain of wheat
daily through' a miscroscope ; he first saw a blob, and then a
tube passing from' it ; the blob was the juice of the plant, and
the tqbe was formed by the extrication of carbonic acid gas.
Reasoning from analogy, lie examined a globule of blood, and
found it composed of similar tubes, which he was enabled to
inject under the exhausted receiver of an air.pump.

The matriculation list of our Unlversitywanted
only a few names of 2000 last week. To this, it js believed,
may be added 200 who, have not yet matriculated, so that the
students attending all the classes may be estimated at 2200.1
The classes are fuller than in any preceding session ; and
the number of students altogether, we believe, is about
one half greater than at Oxford or Cambridge. We under-
stand the Parliamentary grant for erecting the new buildings
is now exhausted, and that application will he made in the
ensuing session for thirty thousand .or thirty.five thousand
pounds more to complete the work. The acknowledged
utility of the establishmeat, not to Edinburgh only, but to the
whole kingdom, leaves no room to doubt that Parliament will
grant the.additional sum required. All who have examined the
parts finished under the present grant will admit that the mo-
ney has been laid out with admirable taste and judgment.
The interior front on the north side may be referred to as one
of the finest specimens of an ornate yet pure and classical style
of architecture In existence.—..(Edinburgh Courant, J'an..l.)
TAVERNIER mentions having adiamond on which
was engraved the arms of Charles I. The Sophy
of Persia and his Court were extremely surprised
at the art of engraving so hard a jewel : but, says.
Tavernier, I did not dare to own to.whorn it be-
longed, remembering what had formerly hap-
pened to the Chevalier de Reville, on the subject
of that King. Reville having told the Sophy that he
had commanded a-Cornpany of guards in the ser-
vice of Charles, and being asked why he came into
Persia, replied that it was to dissipate the chagrin
he felt on his master being put to death, and that
since that time he could not endure to Hive in
Christendom. The Sophy fell into a rage, and
asked. Revile, how it was possible, if he was Cap-
tain of the King's guards, that he and all his men
should not have shed the last drop of their blood,
in defence of their Prince ? Reville was thrown
;into prison, and remahtad there 22 days, and
escaped at last by the intercession of some of the
Sophy's household,

P C) E 1' It, Y.
II )

ON THE NEW YEAR.
Another Year has wing'd its airy flight,
Still wrapt the future in mysterious night,

An eager haste we feel ;
'We long—we hope--and e'en swift Time seems slow—
Enquiring ask, while yet we would not know,
What may this year reveal ?
What may it ! one short year may send
To his long home, a lov'd, a valued friend ;
Bring others to our view—
Lay hundreds low in death—Alas replace
Full many a well-known and, lamented face,
By forms entirely new.

A year may bring the wounded mind repose,
O'erwhelth the happy with unniunber'd woes ;
May cease the captive's doom :
A fleeting year, ere it is past and gone,
May add fresh beauty tO the form of one,
Decay another's bloom—

May ope to sorrow, Pleasure's blissful door,
Make the poor wealthy, and the wealthy poor:

Thus change the forms of fate—
May shover profuse, from Golden realms above,
On private homes the joys of peace—and love—
Bring discord to a State.

Could we look forward but through one short year,
IloW would the smile alternate chase the tear,
The tor its place supply ;
How one sad hour would view the mind perplext,
Perchance reliev'd and free from care the next,
Ere yet that tear was dry.
But though weak man alone can truly see
What hath been—is—and not what yet may be,
Well fondly paint the best ; •
We'll bid the radiant dawn of hope appear,
Through its fair glass we'll view the opening year,
And while.we hope—we're blest.