The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-10 00:00:00

THE ART-UNION MONTHLY JOURNAL.

Among the various improvements which have been
latterly visible in this periodical, the most striking, and,
we are persuaded the most generally welcome, is the
introduction of portraits and biographical sketches of
the most eminent native artists now living. Beginning
with the present number, the two first are Mr. East-
lake and Mr. Lance. The new fairy tale, by
Mrs. S. C. Hall, entitled " Midsummer Eve,'
is continued in the most graceful style of that graceful
wrier, and is lavishly embellished with wood cuts by
Kenny Meadows, Measom, Franklin,iTopham, and others.
Some of them are beautiful, for instance the one which
seems to be an illustration to that line in the song oF
Arie:

" On the bat's back I do fly,"
another of the bridling of the frog, and another of a
garden snail. In the multitude of its engravings, and
the general sagacity of its literary contents, the Art- Union
maintains the character which it had long since acquired.

IL4W KING. Painted by Edwin Landseer. Engraved
_ _

by John Burnet.
Another of those brilliant compositions of sporting
scen,ry which Landseer can do better than any man
living. The horses are delineated with as much care as
when the artist had to acquire his celebrity, and the
figures are grouped with considerable skill. Mr. Burnet
has done justice to the original.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—There were present
yesterday evening, at her Majesty's Theatre, the Duke of
Wellington, his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baro-
nes Brunow and Mdlle. Olga de Lechner, the Count de St.
Aulaire, the Count de Noailles, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Ailesbury, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the
Marquis of Sligo, the Earl of Falmouth. the Earl of Munster,
the Earl of Aboyne, the Countess of Jarnac, the Earl of
Lovelace, the Viscount Duncannon, Count lioudriaffAy,
Count D'Orsay, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador,
Mr. and Mrs. De Burgh and party, who occupied the Duchess
of Cambridge's box; Lord A. Fitzclarence, Lord Foley, Lord
Gardner, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lady Freemantle, Mr and Lady
Augusta Wentworth, Lord Burleigh, the Hon. G. Byng, Sir
R. and Lady Howard, Sir H. Webb, Sir G. Wombwell, Bart.,
Colonel Wildman, Mr. and Mrs. E. Phillips, Major Baring,
M. C. W. Pack, M.P., Mrs. Pack Redding, Mr. A. Broad-
wood, M.P. Col. Bowen, &c.
A GHOST STORY, BUT not BY CHARLES DICKENS.
—A fellow, named Philip Emmerson, a coal porter, has been
for some time past annoying the inhabitants of Ipswich, by
personating a ghost. lie succeeded in frightening several
persons in Water-lane, leading from the top of St. Helen's
into the Woodbridge-road ; and in some cases, and particu-
larly with females, the cowardly miscreant proceeded to
personal violence. Notwithstanding the vigilance of the
police, who were upon the look-out for him, he
managed to escape detection until Saturday last. Just at
the witching time of night the ghost stopped a young man
in the above lane, and after indulging in a few antics such
as ghosts are prone to, he seized the young man by the
collar, tore the bosom of his shirt, and gave him a severe
blow on the wrist with a stone, cutting away a portion of the
flesh. He then attempted to escape. This time, however,
he had reckoned without his host ; the party assailed proving
a match for the aggressor. Imagining that ghosts are not in
the habit of inflicting blows, or rending shirt-fronts, he soon
recovered from the fright into which he had been for a mo-
ment thrown, and gave the would-be supernatural such a
chastisement as will probably deter him from indulgine in
such foolish and wanton tricks for the future. It is to be
regretted that no horse pond was near : a good ducking
would, no doubt, materially assist his memory if he ever feels
again an intention to indulge in such unpardonable sport.—
Ipswich Express.
A PRACTICAL PUSEYITE.--We have received a
statement of an occurrence which is said to have taken place
recently within a hundred miles of Totnes, which, if correct
is very discreditable to the party chiefly coneerned. The
child of a poor woman having died, it was taken to the
parish church for interment. Previous, however, to the
child being consigned to its final resting place, the parson
alluded to, inquired of the mother if it had been
christened, to which she replied in the affirmative. "I ex-
pect it was by some Methodist," said his Reverence.
The woman declared it was not, but that it was done by a
regular church parson. 'The interment was then suffered
to take place; but the clergyman's zeal for the non-
intrusion of dissenter's children in his churchyard and the
spiritual good of souls did not stop here. After the corpse
had been placed in the ground he told the woman to follow
him into the vestry, where he detained her, we understand
above half an hour, during which time he elicited from her
that her offspring was not born in wedlock, and that he
doubted its ever having been christened according to the
rites of the Church of England. After giving her a severee
lecture on this supposed breach of duty, he took her into
the Church, and there actually read over to her the service
for the Churching of Women, when she was allowed to de-
part. Could no other tirae be found for the exercise of
religious discipline than at such a distressing time as this?
—Plymouth Journal.
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spv,i•oerilstaleVrrynil Yankee, of the name of Huggins, an odd, long-
legged, sharp-faced, asparagus-looking animal, every portion
of his body being as narrow as the bead he bore on the top
of it. This fellow being rather in the pious line, and profes-
sing to know something about farming, the missionary had
brought him from Illinois to raise corn and vegetables, as
well as to assist him in his other labours; but he was such an
original, that the missionary himself stood no chance of being
noticed where he was. I never saw a Yankee that so com-
pletely came up to those quaint, drawling, vulgar, Jonathans,
the
is now so general. Ile always called
the Indians " critturs," had got all their interjections
and grunts, and used them instead of "Yes" and
" No." He certainly knew more about the Indians
than the missionary' did, and was more constantly
idea of which
at home, but Huggins,
who a motive for temaining
the habit of walking into,
who was alone in the world,
amongst them. Mr.
.Williamson was married, and
' to the Indians, so that
yN,Ya3nscr sitting down, would take
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• lomed to him, an la ter e im.
the women had got scuts
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psalm
-book
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d from.a I am' as
find out whar these ignorant critturs corned
of the Scrip-
turessartin as death that they are the old Philistines
bek "Some folks is considerable curious," he once s id to me " to
?" I asked him why
under arth is their birds (beards) gone
.f
e ? Stranger,"
he had not taken a young Indian girl to 'wife : they cant be the lost tribe of the Jews, ase w
h's Canoe Voyage up
up to missionarying."—Featherstonhaug
said he, .4 I allow them liar young painted Jizzabuls aint just
the Mining Sotor.
e Mr. William
Lockhart, Mr. William Baillie, Mr. Sm Sir ollat, Colonel Mutt., A deputation, consisting of Sir John Hop,
and Mr. Alexander Oswald, had an iuteryiew with Cx
Grey yesterday, at the Henze-ace.