The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-27 00:00:00

GREECE.

They write to us from Athens on the 10th inst. that
the new Ministry having threatened to resign, the Ring
had agreed to some concessions. M. Piscatory, the
French Envoy, returned from Constantinople on the 9th.
The Candiot insurrection being considered at an end,
the revolutionary Committee formed at Spezzia had
been dissolved. Lords Desart and Ranelagh left for
Constantinople on the Bth.
Admiral Ommanney still remained at Corfu on the
10th with the Britannia, Howe, and Vanguard, but was
shortly expected to sail for Athens.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Traffic returns for the week eliding August 23, 1841 :
Passengers £99B 7 5
blerehandize 487 7 6

1,485 14 11
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Darlington, Aug. 25. D. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY--The birthday of his Royal
Highness Prince Albert was celebrated by the band of
the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards performing a se-
renade under his Royal Highness's window, and soon
afterwards a Royal salute was fired in the Bachelor's-acre,
the peals of bells ringing merrily.
At twelve o'Clock the 72d Highlanders fired a feu de
joie in the Home Park, under the East Terrace, and at
two o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert lunched at
Adelaide Cottage, and heard a serenade performed by
Messrs. Harris, Elvey, Turner, French, &c. The follow-
ing rode down to the Cottage to pay their respecis to his
Royal Highness after lunch :—The Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland, Viscount Melbourne, the Duchess of Bedford.
Lady Caroline Somers Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Earl
of Fingal], Hon. C. A. Murray, and Col. Wylde.
The town will be brilliantly illuminated this evening,
and several dinners will take place in honour of the
day, at the inns.

rrhe Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their usual
walk in the forenoon, and in the afternoon her Majesty
and her Illustrious Consort rode out, attended by the
suite, in a pony phaeton, the Prince driving.
The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, the Ladies
Eleanora and Countess Paget, Lord Paget. Lieutenant-
Colonel and Mrs. Bouverie, the Rev. Lord W. Russell,
and Mr. George Edward Anson, will have the honour
of joining the Royal dinner party this evening.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by his
Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal,
and attended by the Hon. Miss Mitchell, left her resi-
dence, Marlborough House, Pall-mall, at one o'clock,
yesterday afternoon, in an open carridge and four, for
Kew, where her Majesty and his Serene Highness
lunched with their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Du-
chess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cam-
bridge. Her Majesty returned to town in the evening.
A Committee Meeting of the Lords of her Majesty's
most Honourable Privy Council was held yesterday after-
noon at the Council-office, to take into consideration the
grant of a charter to Huddersfield. The Lords present
were, the Lord President, the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, the First Commissioner of the
Woods and Forests, and the Chief Secretary for Ireland.
The Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Gosford, and
Mr. Brown, M.P., (Kerry), had interviews with the
Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office.
Mr. Wallace, M.P., had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi-
dence, in Downing-street.
Mr. Herbert Jones had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-office.

THEODORE HOOK, ESQ.
We regret to have to record the death of this eminent
wit and novelist, which, we understand, took place on the
night of Tuesday last. Mr. Hook's father was a well-
known musical composer, and much of his ready talent
appears to have been inherited by his son, who, even
in early youth, was remarkable for his facility of im-
provising songs, which he would furnish also with extem-
pore words, and sing at the piano with a skill and an
expression that made him a general favourite in the
fashionable circles. He first came before the public,
we believe, as a writer of melodrames and farces ; but
he was by no means excellent as a dramatist, for
his Tekeli, though it attained a certain popularity,
is sad stuff ; and his Killing No Murder owed
its success almost entirely to the admirable
acting of Liston. Mr. Hook's next efforts were political.
He was one of the chief contributors to the John Bull
at the period of its first establishment, and much of its
popularity was owing to his humourous prose
and verse, which he wrote with great spirit
and ease, though there was at times a rancorous
personality about his writings, which cannot be
too severely reprobated. Tired of politics, which
he understood but superficially, and never cordially en-
tered into, Mr. Hook next turned his attention to prose
fiction, for which his social habits and quick apprehension
of peculiarities in character eminently qualified him. He is
the author of upwards of a dozen tales or more, all of
which evince great knowledge of town life, great powers
of caricature, great ease and spirit of style, and, it must
' be added also, great negligence, both in the disposition of
incident, and the construction of plot. His " Jack Brag"
is perhaps his master•piece ; at any rate, the chief cha-
racter is drawn with more breadth and vigour than its
author ever evinced before or since ; and will give the
reader a clearer insight into his peculiar turn of mind
than any of his other productions. We have said that
Mr. Hook was a discerning judge of character ; we wish
we could add that he was a kindly and profound one.
But he seldom pierced below the surface ; it was with
manners rather than with emotions that he dealt ; the human
heart was a mystery that escaped his penetration, and which
apparently he did not much care to solve. The spirit
that pervades his tales—disguised though it is beneath a
show of broad drollery—is one of utter scepticism, as re-
spects the more elevated and generous feelings of huma-
nity. He is a decided satirist, quick and eager to point
,out the follies and vices of human nature, but slow to
believe in the existence of its good qualities. We may
add, by way of wind-up, that Mr. Hook was a max of
little or no reading, but of considerable conversational ta-
lent ; full of anecdote and arch repartee ; and in habits
of familiar intercourse with many of the most distin-
guished men of his day. Those who have had the good
fortune to be in his company, will long_ remember the
vivacity of his manner, and the arch twinkle of his eye,
when relating a droll story, and the heartiness with which
he enjoyed the wit and humour of others.