The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-30 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

THE MYSIOR.AMA.—A. Second Series of this
interesting little Work has just been published
by Mr. LEIGH of the Strand, fully equal if not
superior to the first in point of execution. It
consists entirely of Italian scenery, and pre-
serves that almost endless variety of landscape
which constituted one of the principal features
of the former. Series. The transposition of any
one of the cards effects a complete change in the
picture, and the views may thus be multiplied
ad infinitum. It is designed with considerable
taste, and altogether does great credit to the
Artist, Mr. CLARK. The leading features of
Italian scenery are very well introduced, and
the romantic beauties peculiar to the delightful
regions of Italy form a constant and pleasing
variety. The idea is not, however, altogether
new ; the French have, we believe, long been
amused by similar changes of heads, and, in a
still more remote quarter, the Chinese have for
the amusement of their children a toy composed
of moveable boards, which, by being reversed,
present to the eye a constant assemblage of
sprawling dragons, and other monsters of the
Chinese school. The Mysiorama has, however,
the merit of being an improvement upon the ori-
ginal idea, and from the beauty of the design
and execution, is calculated not. only for the
amusement of children,• but willialso afford a
seasonable gratification, to persons of a more ad-
vanced age, and more matured intellect.

GRF.TRY, the celebrated musical composer,
who died a few years since at Paris, relates in
some memoirs which he has left of himself, the
circumstance of his first and last interview with
Rousseau. " I was at the representation of the
Fausse Maxie, when some one said to me, There
comes Rousseau !' • I flew to meet him. How
glaii I am to see you,' said he ; ' it is long since
I imagined my heart to be inaccessible to the
tender impressions which your music revives in
it. I wish to become acquainted wi4 you ;
or rather, I know you sufficiently by your
words, and I am desirous of being your friend !
0 ! Sir, ,my fairest reward is that of pleasing
you by my talents." Are you married ? Yes.'
' Is your wife, as I have been told, a woman of
genius ?' ' No.' I thought 110t.' 4 She is the
daughter of an artist, who never speaks but as
she feels : nature is her guide.' I thought as
much ; I am fond of artists ; they are children of
nature. I should like to become acquainted
with your wife. I shall call to see her ' very
often.' We continued together the whole of the
performance, during which he pressed my hand
twice or thrice, and we went out together. Little
did I think that it was, the last as well as the
first time I should see him. In the rue Francaise,
the pavement was broken up,and the stones thrown
into a heap. Rousseau seemed 'not to perceive
them. I laid hold of his arm and said, ' Take
care, M. Rousseau.' He drew back furiously
with the words, Let me use my own faculties 1'
I was thunderstruck. The coaches parted us ;
he took his way, and I mimic, and we never after-
wards spoke to one another." •
SCARCITY.—To a stranger in this town, the
Word scarcity" would appear quite a paradox,
when he beholds the bustle at our quays, ship-
ping wheat, oats, meal, and flour away in full
cargoes ; yet, notwithstanding, the poor famish,
for potatoes, their only subsistence, is at a famine
price, namely, eight-pence per stone ! and how,
or where, is the eight-pence to be had; when em-
ployment is so scarce, and such numbers without
means to purchase? There are yet full two
months to come before the new crop of potatoes
may be expected to come freely to market,
during which time, if some relief be not afforded
by the interference of Government, thousands
must perish !—(Galway Paper.)
ASCENT OF R. GREEN:—On Friday afternoon
Mr. Green made another aerial excursion from Coventry,
accompanied by a Mr. Brooks of that town, who, we under-
stand, paid fifty guineas for his seat in the car. After a voyage
of fifty minutes' duration, and notwithstanding the weather was
very tempestuous, the extent of their journey did not exceed
fifteen miles, as they landed in a field belonging to Mr. Taylor,
at Granborough, without the least accident, and returned to
Coventry the same night in a chaise and four. The barometer
being injured at starting, Mr. Green imagines the greatest alti-
tude of the balloon was about one mile from the earth.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Mr. WEARY, a re-
spectable farmer residing near Liskeard, with his wife and
daughter, were unfortunately drowned on Saturday morning
last from the following circumstances :—Mrs. "Weary, being in
ill health, was advised to try a change of air, and for this pur-
pose went to St. Germains to embark for this place. Mr.
'Weary's brother, who is a shipwright in the dock-yard, accom-
panied by Mr. AVarn, a sawyer, was there in waiting with a
shore-boat and took them on board. When they came nearly op-
posite to Polbathick lake, the breeze became fair for their sail-
ing, and Warn went forward to step the mast; whilst in the act
of doing this the farmer, who was sitting in the stern sheets,
rose to give placei to his brother, in order that he might steer,
and incautiously, being a very heavy man, sat down on the
lee gunwale. The superincumbent weight instantly upset the
boat, which filled and went down; leaving the parties floating.
Warn and his companion being excellent swimmers, and re-
taining their self-possession, immediately looked round, and
seizing an oar each, went to the assistance of the others ; and
bidding them keep up their spirits, Warn placed an oar under
the mother and daughter (a girl about nine years of agn), and
Weary another under his brother; in this situation they re-
mained above half an hour, when the farmer sunk through ex-
haustion, and his daughter dropped from the side of her
mother, to whom she tenaciously clung, and the waters closed
over her. Warn still supported Mrs. Weary, until an
hour and a quarter after the accident, when Mr. Creak, a
farmer, who saw the boat upset from a great distance, came
up, and took them on board. They immediately rowed to
a culm vessel,- which was moored round the next point,
and used every means in their power to restore suspcicd
animation in the woman, but without effect. The bodies of the
father and daughter were picked up on the reflux of the tide.
Mr. Weary, finding his strength fast going through his exer-
tions to preserve his unfortunate brother, reached the shore
with difficulty before the arrival of Mr. Geak's boat ; but too
much praise cannot be bestowed on the persevering humanity
of Warn, who regardless of personal danger, remained by Mrs.
Weary to the last moment.—(Devottport Journal.)
SELF-DESTRUCTION.—On Saturday morning the
body of a young woman, a servant girl was dis-
covered suspended by the neck from a tree,
at the back of her mistress's house in Pepper-
street, in this city, and quite cold. She had
slept in the house the preceding night, is
supposed to have left her bed by five in the
morning, made her way to the fatal spot un-
dressed, and with her shawl perpetrated the
fatal purpose of strangulation. No distinct cause
could be traced to account for the awful occur-
rence, but from the evidence adduced before the
Coroner's inquest, the Jury returned a verdict
that she put a period to her life in a fit of tern-
, porary derangement.--(Chester Courant,June 29.)

LAW INTELLIGENCE-.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH-Crum DAT..
JUDGMEN.T.---THE KING V. LEWIS NATI! tf AND

ELIZABETH HIS WIFE.
Mr. GuttNEY moved the Judgment of the Court
upon these defendants.

The assault of which the defendants were
found guilty was committed upon a young woman
only 17 years of age, their servant.
The Loan CUISF JusTicv. having read his

notes on the trial, the male defendant put in it n
affidavit, stating that he had a very large family,
entirely dependa►it upon his labours for support,
and that he had for some time past been labour..
jug under extreme ill health. Ws wife, who
stood by him on the floor of the Court, seemed
much concerned for her situation.

Mr. ADOLPHUS, iu mitigation, said. the (le.
fondants were a young couple, one '23 and the
other 2'2 years of age, and they had a family of
four children. The expences tiad already been
very oppressive.

Mr. GURNEY rose in aggravation.

Mr. Justice BA yLKy then delivered the judg-
ment of the Court, in the course of which he
severely reprobated the unjustifiable violence,
which they shewed towards the you'll; girl,
whom they ought to have protected, and sen-
sentenced the defendant, Lewis Nathan, to one.
month's imprisonment in the Marshalseai and or.
dered his wife, Elizabeth;to be fined one shilling
and discharged.

BOW-STRFET- (rists DAY.)

YOUTIITUL DEPitAVITY.-A lad, named Geo.
Stevens, not more than 1.5 years of age, but who
is well known to the Officers as being the asso-
ciate of a most daring gang of thieves, who infest
the Theatres, was charged with attempting the
”ockets of several gentlemen at Drury-lane
Theatre, last night. So dexterously do these
young tuaranderi manage their conduct, that,
notwithstanding the utmost vigilance, they aro
with difficulty secured. - The prisoner was cum*
witted.