The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-23 00:00:00

MR. LINTON'S OIL STUDIES.

Mr. Linton, so well-known for his taste and skill as a
painter, has just brought out a great variety of views re-
presenting the splendid scenery of Greece, Italy, and
Calabria. He has spent lately about fifteen months in
these countries, has painted the most remarkable scenes
in each, and formed altogether, perhaps, the most com-
plete and accurate delineations of the mountains, rivers,
valleys,
.and towns of those classical regions. We have
not space to enumerate one-half of them, as they pro-
bably are not fewer than three hundred in number, but we
can safely say, from what we have seen of part of the
scenery, that they form most interesting and faithful
representations of countries so admired and revered by
every scholar acquainted with the language of Greece
and Rome. The panoramic view of the plain and town
of Sorrento, and the bay of Naples, is an admirable like-
ness. So is the Mola di Gaeta, the view of Palermo, the
great vale of Megalopolis, Corinth, Syra, and the ravine
and plain of Sparta. . To a classical icholar, they inust
afford the • highest interest, as he can in a short hour
have a view of almost every pass and mountain and
valley, alluded to or described by the poets and his-
torians of antiquity. The exhibition is to be seen at
the New Water Colour Society's Gallery in Pall Mall, but
we believe admission can be obtained only by a ticket
from the artist, and we are not aware that there is any
intention of exhibiting the collection to the public.

A tailor, in High-street, Deptford, has placed
in his shop window a long list of names of persons
owing him money, together with the various sums, from
a pound to fifty-four shillings odd, amounting to about
7001., with a notice, that persons who have died or failed
in business are not included. Crowds of persons gather
reemd the window to see the list of creditors thus set
forth.
HART-STREET SCHOOLS.—Friday evening the
examination of the boys of those schools took place at
the institution, Hart-street, before the Rev. G. 11. Bower,
Rector of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, and a large number
of its supporters. The answering and general appear.
ante of the boys elicited general admiration. It ap-
peared, from the staterrent of the Rev. President, that
there were 370 boys in the school,- and that the institu-
tion was upwards of 100/. in debt, incurred by the recent
enlargement of the schools,, for the admission of 420
children. The Rev. Mr. Bower made a strong and feel-
ing appeal on behalf of the funds of the charity.
It is known to our readers that Lord Walde-
grave and Captain Duff have been sentenced to impri-
sonment in the Queen's Bench prison for a violent outrage
-m a policeman. A few days since a statement appeared
in a Morning Co temporary, embodying affidavits in-
tended to prove thak, Captain Duff had no active pars in
the cruel outrage ; and upon such representations a me-
morial to her Majesty, praying a remission of sentence,
was founded. We understand that the prayer of the
memorial has not been granted, the Secretary of State
for the Home Department having, upon a full considera-
tion of all the circumstances, declined to interfere with
the sentence of the Court.—Observer.

THE REGISTRATION.--It should not he for-
gotten that Wednesday next, Aug. 25t will be the last
day for leaving with the overseers objections to county
electors. The Tories bestow much atte-.-. don on those
matters ; and the friends Reform should not suffer
themselves to bq surpassed by their political adversaries.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
BR CSSELS,-AUG. 19.—Eleveli large chests,- containing
archives of the country, have just arrived at Brussels from
Holland. The Government has had them conveyed to
the repository of the public archives, Palace of Justice,
'where they will be opened in the presence of Commis-
sioners appointed fur the purpose. The average prices
in the regulating markets in the second week in August
show a decline of 42 centimes per hectolitre in the price
of wheat, 'and of 52 centimes in that of rye.
ANTWERP, AUGUST 18.—It is said that the Depart-
menvofTublic Works has obtained from that of War
the site of the building composing the arsenal at Mons,
for the terminus of the iron railway in the city of Mons.
The immense quantities of military stores in that arsenal
are to be sent to Antwerp. To effect this, plans have
been laid before the Government for the creation of two
magazines 120 yards long and 20 broad, near the old
arsenal.
This morning 147 young pigeons were embarked on
hoard the Belgian steamer Princess Victoria, for Lon-
don, where they are-to be let loose on Sunday next.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 20.—Last year there were in Bel-
gium fifteen persons above 100 years of age, of whom
nine were women One of these, Maria Theresa Mayer,
of Antwerp, .is 104 years old ; two others, Marie-Ann
Stafsin and Catherine Abranth, of Luxemburg, who are
above 105 years old.
ANTWERP, AUG. 21.—We have a letter from Bow-
lers of the 15th August, which says :—" The fine wea-
ther which we have had for some days has enabled the
farmer to get in the whole of .the -crops of rye and two-
thirds of those of wheat in the neighbourhood ; they
promise to yield abundantly, and it may be hoped that
corn will be at a reasonable price this winter."—Journal
du Commerce d' Anvers, Aug. 21.
BERLIN, AUGUST 11.—The unpleasant wet autumn-
like weather that we too have had for some time past
has changed for the better during the last two days, and
we hope that it will remain so, that our farmers may
not entirely lose the fruits of their labour. It is worthy
of notice, that this year appears an exact counterpart of
1816, at which time, while in the whole of central Eu-
rope the weather was cold and wet, and• the harvest in-
different, in Southern Russia the heat was uncommonly
great, and the crops of corn so abundant, that from that
year we may date the origin of the corn trade, and in
general, of the prosperity of Odessa. We have received
from that town precisely similar accounts of the summer
of this year, and thus we have a confirmation of our
statement made by several observers of natural. pheno-
mena,
especially by our Professor Dove, in an interest-
ing Essay on Meteorological Phenomena, communicated
to the Academy, that in every year an equal_ (1111011111, of
warmth is diffused over the earth, that it' in some partS
it is colder than usual, there is, at the same time, in other
parts, a degree of temperature above the average ; and,
lastly, if there were a free trade over the whole world, a
scarcity of corn could not happen, because a bad harvest
in one country would certainly be fully compensated by
a good one in another.
THE VAGUE, AUGUST 21.—The Staats Courant pub.
lishes a resolution of his Majesty, dated 31st July, this
year, containing regulations respecting steam-boats. No-
body is to establish steam-boats in the sea-ports, or in
the rivers and canals, for the regular conveyance of pas-
sengers or goods between two places in the kingdom, or
between a port of the Netherlands and a foreign port, or
for the purpose of towing vessels between certain places,
without obtaining a license, which is to be given in the
King's name by the Minister of Finance, after consult-
ing the Estates of the provinces interested in the matter.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AsisTexuam, Ace. 22
Moue,. bills.
Actual Mbt, ‘,2% per Cent .....«.».« 51 :2
jittn, ditto 5 per cent. ........ 104%, 101
Amon t Syndic, 4ki per ..... 91% 14%
Ditto, ditto, 3 per 757e
Commercial Company, 4i„, per cent 155% 1563(
Ditto (1835 and 18:37) 5 per cent.
Loan 18:17, 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month ..... C 7%
Two months 11 9734
ilamburgh, One month 35 21%
Two months 35 56
Dutch Papers, Aug. 21.
aElLtil AN *UND6-15auseacr, Ave. I:O.
Actual Debt, 5% per Cent.
Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent lOll4
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per 93
3 per
Thirtyaeven
—(1340) lOl%
Loan of City, 1.32, 4 per Cent. ........ 91
Society or Commerce, 44 per Cent 93%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per 74
National Society . ........
Exchange on London (short) ........... 11 95
...Brussels Papers. Aug. 20.