The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-07 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1847.

Brune, in the summer of 1846 ; by an Officer of the
Squadron." The dispatches of Sir Thomas Cochrane
already published in this periodical gave the official
statement of the proceedings of the expedition under
his command. An account, however, by an intelligent
eye-witness of the events cannot fail to be gratifying,
more particularly since the public attention has been
directed so much to the proceedings of the enterprising
and philanthropic Raja of Sarawak, who has just
returned to his native land fora brief period, and by
whose zeal and energy a new field has been
opened for the commercial enterprise of our mer-
chants in the East. " Twelve Months on Norfolk
Island" contains not a very flattering description of
the state of the ultra-penal settlement, the recep-
tacle of doubly-convicted felons; indeed, although
richly endowed by nature, and possessing all the
choicest gifts of climate, scenery, and vegetable pro-
ductions, it might be made almost a paradise, it is
changed by the crimes and atrocities of its wretched
inmates, who are expiating and suffering the punish-
ment due to their former offences, into a hell upon
earth, disfigured by crime, rice, and misery. " Re-
collections of Waterloo," by a Staff Officer, is con-
tinued; the present part contains the account of the
great day, up to the meeting of the English and
Prussian Generals, Wellington and Blucher, after
the victory had been gained. " Justice for the Navy
Progressive," continues the list of the cases in which
naval officers are not placed on an equal footingwith those
of a corresponding rank in the sister service. " A
Tale of the Sea" is concluded ; the heroine, who
boldly visits her father in her widowhood and distress
is received to his home and heart, despite the oppo-
sition of her vulgar stepmother. A few weeks after
the mate, who by the death of a relative, is placed in
an independent position, being in possession of WU
per annum, declares his love, which is favourably re-
ceived, and they are married with the full consent
and approbation of her father, who settles upon her
a fortune equal to that of her husband. At his death
which occurs shortly after the birth of his first grand-
child, it is found that he has bequeathed his entire
fortune to his once deeply afflicted child, while his
unamiable relict discovers too late that her vexatious
conduct has been properly felt, and that 1,0001. is all
that she is ever to receive out of his ample fortune.
" Guard-room Stories" are also brought to a conclu-
sion ; the bombardiers escaping with a very slight re-
primand. " The Autobiography of Sir John
Barrow" is also finished; "Hints for the Military Stu-
dent," and " The present War in Kafirland" are
continued; and "The Old Six-pounder" relates his
Dublin reminiscences, while a Medical Staff Officer
offers his suggestions for the improvement of the ser-
vice. A new story is commenced by Mr. Curling,
the talented author of " John of England," which
promises to possess a great deal of interest ; it is
termed " Attack and Defence," to a knowledge of
which, embodied in an amusing tale, it professes to be
a sort of introduction. It is, therefore, properly ad-
missible into a periodical chiefly devoted to profes-
sional subjects, and will suit both the military and
the general reader. The time of action is laid in
the year 1645, shortly after the battle of Naseby, so
fatal to the fortunes of the first Charles. Sir Hilde-
brand Oldcourt, a fine old English gentleman and a
staunch cavalier, is, with his beautiful daughter and
a servant, attempting to gain the shelter
of his family mansion, Oldcourt House, a
vast, irregularly-built, thick-ribbed old manor-
house in Derbyshire, which he hopes to defend against
any force that can be brought against it ; they are,
however, closely pursued by four of the Roundheads,
who have outstripped their companions, and gained
so far, that escape had become impossible without a
contest. The veteran fearlessly risks the encounter,
but while he is engaging two of the pursuers, one of
whom he has felled to the ground, and his servant is
in fierce contest with another, his daughter is placed
in the greatest danger, but is happily rescued by a
young stranger, who, taking the weaker side, speedily
finishes the combat, and the fugitives make their
escape, leaving their four assailants dead on the field.
They have, however, but a brief respite, for their
place of refuge is closely beleaguered, so that there is
but little prospect of escape. The stranger gallantly
abides by those to whom his former services were
so valuable, and it is manifest that he will be the
lover of the fair Blanche. In the third chapter we
are introduced to a body of the Puritan soldiers, to
whom an order comes to do summary execution on
the malignant Oldcourt, with all his followers, sparing
neither man, woman, nor child, of the establishment,
in the event of his refusing to surrender. We augur
most favourably of this tale ; indeed were it the produc-
tion of an unknown author, the part already pro-
duced would afford the strongest evidence of its future
success. In Mr. Curling's hands we doubt not that
it will more than fulfil our expectations. We can
truly recommend the present number, which main-
tains the well-established character of the United
Service Magazine.

DOMBEY AND SON: Nn. XIII. By Charles

Dickens.
The number opens with a narrative of the farther ad-
ventures of Captain Edward Cuttle, mariner. Honest
Captain Cuttle bethinks himself of opening the sealed
packet left in his keeping by Sol Gills, seeing that the sti-
pulated time (a year) has elapsed. " The Captain, in
his honour, would as soon have thought of opening
the parcel one hour before the expiration of the time,
as he would have thought of opening himself, to study
his own anatomy." Previously, however, to carrying
his researches into the mysteries of the packet into
execution he has an interview with Mr. Toots, who
reveals his love for Florence in this wise : —"lf I
could be dyed black," said Mr. Toots, " and made
Miss Dombey's slave, I should consider it a com-
pliment. If at the sacrifice of all my property I
could get transmigrated into Miss Dombey's dog—l
—I really think I should never leave off wagging my
tail." Captain Cuttle can hardly credit an assertion
of such extravagant affection. "' Pm in such a state
of mind,' cried Mr. Toots, and am so dreadfully in
earnest, that I could swear to it on a hot piece of iron,
or a live coal, or melted lead, or burning sealing wax,
or anything of that sort ; I should be glad to hurt
myself as a relief to my feelings.' And Mr. Toots
looked hurriedly about the room, as if for some suffi-
ciently painful means
of accomplishing his dread
purpose." Shortly afterwards Rob the Grinder
gives the Captain warning, and goes his way, having
previously tweaked the midshipman's nose as a parting
indignity. Then does Captain Cuttle, in a solitude
like that of a second Crusoe, bestir himself as to the
sealed parcel. It is opened in the presence of the
oracular Captain Bunsby, and proves to be old Solomon
Gills' will—leaving the property to Wal'r, or, in the
event of his non-return, to Ned Cuttle. On entering
the„i‘ Everynstrura
letter,'ent-m said the
carloauprta,
imßunsby is assured of
the fulfilment of his prediction about Walter.
Aye, aye ?' growled Bunsby.
" 'For why?' growled Bunsby, looking at his friend
for the first time. ' Which way ? If so, why not ?
Therefore."

And now the citadel is stormed by the fell Mac
Stinger :

" She came so
he had been meditatinV
air from the neighswbiftl-
ourhood of the East India Docks,
that Captain Cuttle
g,
ehaeandgesod stiloenotnlye,
olifkehoarrruorshainngd
her
found himself in the very act of
sitting looking at er, before the calm face with which
yu't the moment Captain Cuttle understood the full
opened from the
dexis;m4eßnat of his misfortune, self-preservation dictated an
attempt at flight. Darting at the little door which
parlour on the steep little range of
who only souggsiitl
cellar-steps, the Captain made a rush, head-foremost, at
the latter, like a man indifferent to bruises and contu-
sions,to hide himself in the bowels of
succeeded, but for thep
the earth. In this
norttoheeawcohu—ldelpariombeadblhyimhavaes
pinning
dispositions of Juliana
hialthat
and Chowley, who him by the legs—one of
those dear children holadanninitngagebeffl
ecnrteies. In the mean time,
their friend, with lame
Mrs. Mac Stinger, who never entered red upon any action of
importance without previouslyinverting Alexander Mac
Stinger, to bring him within the range of a brisk battery
to cool as the reader
down
sol
afifr first alipeaheal beheld and then
Furies;
rite, as if on this
occasion it were a sacrifice to the
de-
posited the victim on the floor, maderiaetst;hand having _
e Captain with
him,h
performed si sitting
a strength of purpose that appeared to threaten scratches
to the interposing Bunsby."
By Bursby's intervention the Captain ho would
kwe
otherwise have been a lost man) issaved, Mrs. Mac
Stinger is decoyed away, and even _ ,
teh
conveyed safely to t Midshipman
he Little
.e traps are
the terrible locality of Brig. p
the from
lace, In fol-
lowing chapter Mr. Dombey, still so starched
in his pride that a slightly condescending bend
of his head " rustles and crackle
s his stiff cravat,"
has a quarrel with his second
w e. The differ-
ence between them is told with wonderful1
and effect. Cleopatra, moreover, is gradually
power
. sinking
from the results of her paralytic seizure, In
i
is re-
moved with her daughter and Florence to Brighton
for change of air. At Brighton the rich mother and
daughter encounter a poor mother and daughter, in
the persons of good Mrs. Brown, and Carker's former
mistress. Chapter the forty-first is beautifully
headed
"New Voices on the Waves," and recounts the death
of Cleopatra. Besides this, it narrates a visit paid to
the old school where little Paul Dombey toiled of
yore at his studies, by Florence and Mr. Toots. We
are of course introduced again to Dr. Blimber with
his learned legs (a sort of clerical pianoforte says our
author, further on), to Mrs. Blirnber, to Cornelia, to
Mr. Feeder, 8.A., who has his Ilerodotus stop on,
and in full play, to Briggs, and Tozer, and Johnson,
and the rest, all of whom are "still grinding
in the mill of knowledge," to Bitherstone
(no longer Master Bitherstone of Mrs. Pipchin's),
and even to the weak-eyed young man " whose im-
becility of grin at sight of Mr. Toots is feebleness of
character personified." After leaving Dr. Blimber's,
Mr. Toots—valorous Mr. Toots—actually—pops the
question. Florence, of course, though in the kindest
manner, will not understand his words as a proposal
, for her hand ; whereupon Mr. Toots breaks away in
despair, wishing her good bye, and assuring her "it's
of no consequence, thank you ; it's not the least con-

sequence in the world." Mrs. Skewton's death is the
principal event, however, in the number, and is
described with a truth that is horrible.

HO WITT'S JOURNAL.

The second volume of this popular miscellany pro-
ceeds swimmingly, though, with all submission to the
taste of the editors, we could wish its pages were
cleared of the fag-ends of personal quarrels and con-
tentions. A glimpse of John Barnard's great picture
of the Mississippi is afforded in the first engraving.
Redgrave's admirable painting of The Deserter is
scarcely done justice to in the second; a portrait of
Thomas Bewick, the reviver of wood engraving, is
given (though not after the most complimentary
manner), in the third ; and a sketch of the Primrose
Gatherer is the fourth. The last mentioned is de-
cidedly the most agreeable ; but the letter-press has
immeasurably the advantage this month over the il-
lustrations ; and this principally owing to the
graceful and appropriate contributions of William
and Mary Howitt themselves. Thomas Miller has
some dainty lines, telling us how " May was first
made," and certainly, with him, we admire the ma-
nufacture.

lis corroborated by the Art-Union Journal. The pic-
ture represented a carouse of Flemish peasants, and
was stated to be a veritable Rubens. It will perhaps
be remembered by our readers that several weeks
since we doubted whether the painting ever came
from the easel of Sir Peter Paul. In accordance with
this opinion, the Art- Union terms the picture " a
coarse, ill-painted repetition of the scene by a painter
of very mediocre ability as a copyist." There is also
a clever critical synopsis of the private collection of
the Marquis of Lansdowne, in Lansdowne House,
Berkeley-square. The miscellaneous critiques and
paragraphs are plentiful and judicious.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
MARYLEBONE.
(Before Mr. F. BALLET.)
Yesterday Mr. BAILEY held a Court in the vestry-
room, Gordon-square, for the revision of the list of
voters in the parish of St. Pancras.
In consequence of some misunderstanding, notice
had, on the previous evening, been given to all the
parties interested, that the revision would take place
at the vestry-rooms recently erected at the work-
house, St. Pancras-road, and the result was, that when
the revising barrister was about to commence the
proceedings in Gordon-square, only two persons, in
addition to those officially employed, were present ;
one claiming to be enrolled on the Conservative inte-
rest, and the other to correct an error in the list as to
his residence. In the meantime a considerable num-
ber of claimants and others had assembled at the new
vestry-rooms in St. Pancras-road.
Mr. M.Gahey, ♦estry-clerk, after adverting to the
mistake which had been committed, craved a post-
ponement of the proceedings. He stated that in-
formation had been sent to the returning officer that
the premises in which the Court was now met had
been disposed of, and a new building taken possession
of as a vestry-room at the workhouse. It had also
been intimated to the parish that the revision would
take place in the new premises, and, accordingly,
almost all the parties concerned would attend there;
but, finding no one present, they would probably,
leave again. He believed that many questions of im-
portance were likely to arise in the course of the pro-
ceedings, and it would not be right that these should
be decided in the absence of the persons interested.
Mr. Green wood (who attended for the Conserva-
tives) had no objection to a postponement so far; but
he suggested that the general business, such as the
correction of the lists, should in the mean time be
proceeded with.

- Mr. BAILEY thought they might go on with the
correction of the lists, and at the same time the cases
of any claimants who might come forward could be
attended to.

This arrangement was accordingly agreed to. The
Court proceeded to examine and correct the overseers'
lists ; and occasionally, as a claimant came in, his
case was taken up and disposed of. All other claims
and the objections to parties remaining on the roll was
postponed till Friday.
The only claim which possessed the slightest inte-
rest was the following :
Mr. C. Le Blanc claimed to be enrolled as a voter,
as occupier of the premises, 50, Tavistock-square,
for the preceding twelve months, in consequence of
having married the then occupant in the month of
February last.
Mr. BAILEY said there was no clause in the Act
which gave the right claimed in this case.
Mr. Greenwood—No such right could be claimed
under the Act. It was not possible that Mrs. Le Blanc
could convey to her husband a right which she did not
herself possess—the right of voting.
Mr. Le Blanc—The same might be said with re-
gard to freehold property, which, if acquired through
a wife, conferred the right to vote.
Mr. BAILEY—The 18th clause in the Act, which
referred to 40s. freeholds, applied only to counties.
As to cities (not counties in themselves) and boroughs
it was laid down in the 35th section that all rights
acquired since 1831 were excluded. Mr. Le Blanc
claimed a right to vote in virtue of the occupancy of
the lady he had married. This was not recognised
by the Act, and he must, therefore, disallow the
claim.

The claim was accordingly rejected.
On the overseers' lists being revised, the Court
adjourned till Friday, at eleven o'clock, then to meet
in the new vestry-room, Old St. Pancras-road. This
day the Court sits in the court-house, Marylebone-
lane, to take up the lists, Scc., from the parish of
Paddington.
The number of persons who have given notice in
St. Pancras of their intention to claim are—in the
east division, 10 ; south division, 7; west division, 6 ;
north division, 27; in all, 50. _ _ _

The objections lodged are—in the east division, 56;
south division, 41 , west division, 102 , north division,
70; in all, 269. The whole of these objections have
been made by the Conservatives. Yesterday no agent
was in attendance on the part of the Liberals.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.

NUMBER OF DEATHS FIMM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 2, 1647.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 317
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... ... .., 150
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 169
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ... ... ... ... ... 227
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... ... 29
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ... ... ... ...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &e. ..• •••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ...
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... ... ...
Old Age, or Natural Decay ... ... ... ••• 35
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance ... 110
Causes not specified ... ... ... . ... ... 3

... 4

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 1,143

Population Average weekly Deaths
Enumerated, Deaths, 1842-6. in the
__ .

1841. Five Summers. Week.
West Districts... 301,326 . . 137 ... 153
North Districts.. 376,396 ... 175 ... 194
Central Districts 374,759 ... 173 ... 207
East Districts ... 393,247 ... 212 ... 273
South Districts .. 502,483 ... 244 ... 316

Totals... ..... 1,948,211 ... 940 ... 1,143

Males • • •
Females ~.

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males ... ...
Females ... ...

Total .

589
554

.. 1,454

MONKLAND AND KIRKINTILLOCH, BALLOCHNEY,
AND SLAMANNAN RAILWAY COMPANY. - The half

yearly meeting of this company was held at Glasgow,
on Monday; T.! Hill, Esq., in the chair. The report
stated that there was a balance over the expenditure for
the half-year, ending the 31st of July last, of 10,4401.
10s. 3d. An increased expense of working had been
caused by the increased wages and cost of fuel, and the
large amount of interest. The free balance was equal to
a dividend at the rate of nearly seven per cent. on the
capital of the companies, as fixed for the amalgamation,
with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company. The di-
rectors much regretted that the continued withholding
of funds by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company, and
the non•arrangement of various matters, rendered it
impracticable for them to declare the payment of a divi
dend. The directors had felt called upon to institute
proceedings for the recovery of the first instalment of
the Slamannan and Borrowstowness Extension line. The
dispute with the Edinburgh and Glasgow could not be
settled until the sitting of the courts on the 2d of
November. _ _ _ _ _

WHO's GOT ALL THE MONEY ?—lt is very eviden
that some avaricious fools are playing the same game
with the gold that was played a little while ago with the
corn, and that people are holding, and holding, and
holding their cash, even at its present high value, in the
hope that it will become more valuable still by the in-
crease of the panic. We give them notice that they
will burn their fingers ; for, some fine morning, the
panic will begin to subside, and money will become as
plentiful as it now is scarce, when they will turn round
and say what fools they have been not to part with their
money at a good profit when they had the opportunity.
The tact is, that people are frightening each other out
of their wits by a mutual want of confidence, and the
,s
shock rebounds to the quarter in which it originates.
Punch is disgusted at seeing all the peoplebausseathere
trembling, and screaming round him
ourpittionflea;
happensa se
satelaitdtilne bit
ess aonfd an
epressure,
re-
quires wthhilohugohnliyt a
ytheeryate:" smoothly;Tak e a)s• otuhrey time, say
ag
te
gentlemen, 1 ermusehn , ttoa ksteh your
ydu won't get on any better trying
afsorweli
ali to squeeze qoune eze
togethereaeh
other to death, so you may
firmly and quietly."—Punch.
A CHILD ATTACKED, BY A Lioiv.—On Monday
last, a little before ten o clock, a very fierce attack was
made by the lion Nero, in Mr. Hilton's menagerie, at
Nottingham fair, upon a child, three years of age, the
daughter of Mr. Chittock, the owner of a caravan, attend-
ing the fair. The aunt of the child, Miss MTherson,
the lion's queen, was in the act of walking in front of the
den ofthe animal, carrying her niece, when the lion sent
forth his paws through an opening at the lower part of
the caravan, and seizing the child's head, tore it fright-
fully both behind and on its forehead and face, and be-
foreit
.could be liberated, which was done by main force,
one of its arms was dreadfully lacerated, and its right
ear literally torn off, as it only hung by a little skin. A
cry was raised that the lion had got at liberty, and the
women shrieked and ran over each other towards the door
for safety. At length the keepers succeeded in calming
all apprehension on this head, and the real cause of
alarm became understood. The child was conveyed to
its mother in the caravan, and surgical aid was obtained.
While in London, Mr. Hylton removed the lion from his
own caravan, and there were no locking bars on the den
in which Nero was exhibited, which was, in fact, the
cause of this mischief. The lion's queen and a man who
assisted her to drag the child from the lion's claws, both
had wounds inflicted upon their hands by the animal, as
he struck at everything within his reach. The child lies
- with little hope of recovery.