The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-01 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION

LITERATURE.

GUIDE TO TRADE-711E SHOE-
-IllA.KEl?—lam 11.—B1 .144“,:s DErzia.
Knight ond Co. London.
hi. his As. the continuation of a ..eries of pub-
Jations on trade and professs. The first
.e believe, was entitled the Milliner," and
te a lengthened detail of the mysteries oi
leestart advantageo' setti:ig off the female form to tin
which we have no doubt have
thefound of use to lathes in eneral and to
il g ,
)le Milliners in particular. The present num-
rer---the second n the " Shoemaker," will be
.:.11114 equally useful to both man and woman. It
Awritlivritten by a practical man well acquainted
hide the by
and art of trenching, cutting, ul
eB, Measuring for every species of boot, shoe,
with p' and slipper, and is agreeably interspersed
1, aanusino• anecdote and salutary advice to
rerfi'arrukaster and man. The following. judicious
teak Bwe recommend, not only to master shoe-
/ hers, but masters in all trades :
to be 4" 41,431 been of opinion, and have observed such
a pro generally the truth, that where the employer shows
one Per consideration for the man, there the man is most
sto serve. I recollect a master shoemaker saying
bat
ralisiyrne My hearing, that the way to keep men sie
liePbe,was to keep them poor; and, acting up to this . be-
the "'let was the situation of his shop? lie had twice
or ~nantbpearirsof hands he required ;
do Treea closer bad but two
of legs to close in a week, when he could
totn;gshet Oakine; a hoot:Oen might get two pairs of bot-
than c.e when be could put through his hands more
s to.tilzl pay
tight :etc° the number—and so on. On the Saturday
no one man before what he called his
sorry:tot"a‘ if any individual workman had finished the
14 the °lint Of his week's labour at three or four o'clock
Ele o,."eaing, he could not obtain his money till some
alto heurs after, till the slowest or most careless had.
together theirs, and then the whole party were paid
Lbaight br,:. Thus, at about ten or eleven o'clock at night
'Jacks ''een some eighteen or twenty men ranging theirre
I„4ltas f°,ag,the shop wall, and waiting like so many.me
%aetr,„-r the demand of their bills, and the receipt of
take C't,r,Y amount. The man of family after this had to
ho,;"ttle sum home, send his wife at the worst possi.
*hen area market, or perhaps wait till Sunday morning,
gone, k
,a ehoiee of a good and profitable selection was
there de the thorough bad look of the thing. Now,
/rot raj eattoot be the slightest advantage made to aceruc
1,1,!Y person s hanner of acting, does it not seem strange that
ua c "lying the least authority over another should
440: himself, and particularly so as it is more
do nottl:."lnderance than otherwise. The journeyman will
help; tng for such a master but what he really cannot
he watatild'evihere he is a thoughtful and determined man,
beeo,,l '°°K out for what connexion he can make towards
e—M•pnigo),heita,Owa master, and perhaps take away some of
Tlies„T best customers.
tnaker -)Joined anecdote proves that a clever shoe
ue 11%Y with impunity disobey
ttitpa , ,the command
About 1 epic/am :-
14ers htwentY years ago there was in the employ of
tasit,rrs' •-'avis and Gann, foreign order boot and shoe.-
l'is4?daf Gracechurch-street, London, a person who, it
44(1 a ;I,' e'uld cut up more hide leather is a day, and sort
ales t°o-3e it ready for the maker, than any other three
ales
4G in the same time. Nor were his employersb
4,,kl4ry'-erate of his merits, for they gave him twice the
giant other individual engaged on the premises.b,o_e
Neter fUal afterwards began business as a bespoke
tocee,ll°,' himself, and, as might be expected, was_ v
t,ansk,,4l; After a few sears, however, he left it off,
'ilia /41, 'ng his premise; in one night
,into another
t4ke:dsrade entirely, so that when the snutters were.
wioci"'n in the morning, instead of boots being_
.in.
alai t,s'w, as usual, there was now seen nothing but lots
'ived ,",tne great chagrin of another biscuit-baker who
tcrue'dcl9 next door and who had some little time before
thQ allf, 1° accept the'sum of three thousand pounds from
Prior "%maker for his business ; the parties having had a
hr'kettlerstanding to this effect, which being afterwards
fiised u 7 the biscuit-baker, the shoemaker at once deter-
d'ltra,l:,l3,an, and soon and secretly accomplished, the above
aarlie,,;",niagician-likc sort of revenge. Mr Moxhay, the
1411 tUji clever man of the world, is yet living, and is
adv4e und respected in the city, having first made his
frorti fr"l a shopman to a shop of his own, and then.
the 0 eots to
biscuits, and now, besides his biscuits, he is
n.er of several' first-rate merchant vessels, bearing
eights to and from the East.

S NA?,
° BY SIR JOHN HANMRR, BART.
Moron, London, 1841.
J villoticed a small volume of poems by Sir
andsli,-ITI-oner several months ago in The Sun,
ma of them in terms of praise ; and we
1%14,0,411'11 perfect justice, speak in equally fa-
lin„te terms of the volume of Sonnets now
ELlrt7 °in our table, which display much of the
etill tooughtful spirit of 'Wordsworth, and are
ease nier recommended to us by their uniform
;IN V' grace of versification. But few of our_
Lene,e-;11 Poets have attained to any great excel-
ritei.° that difficult—and, in inferior hands, im-
-ler4tle--species of composition, the Sonnet ;
`listiti,-,"; itanmer is one of these few, and the
-"1311 is an enviable one.

LONDON ALMANACK.
, xis Se°ll, London, 141.
Porii heful Work of every-day reference, a great._
'otritlcLl)f Whose contents have been carefully
nicareu from public documents and the commu-
-I°4 of official authorities.

St ‘17,,Y 1 -------- -
' "c•-rt IN THE UNITED STATES.
This , Ward, _London, 1841.
Nies to °'llllle cousists, for the most part of re-
the Bgriuteissitliztransmitted by the Committee
Foreign Anti-Slavery Society,
thr" -Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade
the ughout
1 the World, from which we deduce.
.!° thillpe`ancholy fact that this nefarious traffic is,
I,terit, - „Pdresent day, prosecuted to as large an ex-
"4l'4 4..'
with as many instances of atrocious bar-
Y, 48 at any former period.

THE SPECTATOR.
Ore ha Sherwood, London, 1841.
tt e .
":.(liti" °ll ofre here the five first parts of a New
trtY tl the Spectator, whose principal peculi-
Aro it is illustrated in acrography—au
1)c yr €lnent in the art of engraving made about
4:l.ll,tl;ietterraseeaigi(!, by Mr. Louis Schonberg, a native
The specimens before us possess
414witi, freedom and boldness of pen and ink
it,c)re )8' or etchings, which, indeed, they much
v.ZselY. resemble than wood engravings.
i nts handsomely bound, and is of a
-"tvenie size.

A 0 _
RAMA OF ST. JEAN D'ACRE.
Vi- we

tew -'re
kttra °I this Panorama.
favoured— yesterday with a private
which will be sure to
1)41;it attention, if only from its subject. As at
thert;ng it exhibits great skill and spirit, b.u,
,ttiti44-ttre occasional marks of haste abouetorint_
Mete li.xtin doubt from the artists' anxiety
~,";'ttilZ,i'e%re the circumstances
of the
ile sn'tnent of the fortress should be forgotten.
to
recent
r(ii'l(o.7'''4,l"lt'r is supposed to stand on the extreme.
to
tit -: we
iand o which Acre is situated, just
t() the -illltetioll of its two sides which are open
`ll4le:ea, and form a strongly fortified salient
t4Nuu-41e thus commands a view of the. wholefre_
r°14.1141, both directions, the immediate o _
t:C3,' ) ' r:eitin* occupied by the works of the
envtl4-'' \Ow occupied
represented busily serving
''e th,7.111.s Direct tly in front, which appears to
tcss,t,i centre point of attack, are tour. stfeanl-
'reth' 8 ; to the right are the British ships ob
war,the
t,etti 'est among which, and conspicuous.
tju' "dnus broadsides they are tiring, are
the
‘.ft\v, 71' and the Princess Charlotte ; to,
.1.1
ye 1 ext to the steamers, are the Austrian
r(kissr 8; and lastly, a Turkish ship of se% en 3
Walker,
wikuptis, commanded by Rear-Admiralthe rank of
114,1-Ihtile Sultan has lately raised to .
'kr La- At the back of the spectator is seen a
tli(!e Portiou of the devoted city ; and in distance,so
often summits of the mountains of Cannel—so
4 s l'eferred to in Holy Writ—tog-ether with
1444-,,ll°NvY heights of the Lebanon. The whole
111e:rala is full of incident, and stirring with
pie,
a degree not often wittiesed in these
theirillgs- The figures of the Egyptian troops,
Ntli viaried grouping, and resolute demeanour,
wade the broadsides and shells from the ships of
kre are Making
i)arponrtray dreadful havoc among them ;
ed with sim_rular animation ; but that
Eit)eettif the picture which will most rivet the
llowa ter's attention, is the explosion of the great
tiress.el. Magazine, which produces a truly inl-
Air. ge effect by reason of its vigorous colouring.
41: urford has been not less fortunate in his
whi'tnation. of the shattered state of the walls,
ruder are crumbling to pieces in all directions
The T.,the irresistible cannonade of the besiegers.
tiali:needing and mangled corpses of the Egyp-
qh,::tyllich meet the spectator's eye in whatever
lie,;', [1.04 he turns, add greatly to the ghastly
saw 1),1 of the scene. We had no idea till we
V(liri.iTins Panorama,, of the great extent and pro-
s; 1-;s strength of St. Jean :D'Acre, which on a
Ivithg_tance at its array of forts and walls bristling
Tiit_c.annort in all quarters, would appear to be
't! impregnabl.
IN.

_____,_______,............,„,„,„
ti4Nit/P,ItNIENT OP HATFIELD.—After the death
Third ",eld, who attempted to assassinate King George the
f
.Ntit, his relations, who reside in the neighbourhood
l o
hi,r
~,"I,ell, applied to the authorities of Bethlem to
rrarree.
treet".._linis delived up to them for interment, but thei
vi 8 not granted. Au intimation was made that
tliel,eoet7urnriernraein,tiewaovuinldg undertake the whole of the exper sea of
it to the friends of the deceased to
asce:
tsrZsi?ot for the interment. Arrangements werseatur.
y inng.ly made for the funeral, which took place on -
crown of t.
tly"tlieebdueri4l- d S Andrew's, Holborn. .
et f t death of Lady \Vigram, a large accession
th,°tr to he
devolves to the present Baronet, who assumed
r
itob_.!rne and bearings of Fitzwygram.
trii", was Member for Wexford at the period of the
The late S
Vist(olluilltaind. grandson of Margaret, sister of the first
.40Itus,