The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-08 00:00:00

THE BANKERS' MAGAZINE.

The present num: er ..ontains much useful informa-
tion on the statistics of banking, besides affording a
compendious record of the statistics of the money-
market during the i a t month.

F i NE ARTS.
THE ILL LY ES OF SHAKSPERE.
t VIII.

Nothing that we have, already said in"i c a l e t o
ourt h commenda-
tione of this ch“aHrmeritt:Lstehraiatlgirsaoionfoar
preationof
that beau ideal of maidenlyc modesty
present part.
that Hero who exclaimed with such a
simple and affecting dignity—
" One Hero died defiled; but I do live,
And, surely as I live, I am a maid,"
is here pourtrayed with infinite elegance. Perhaps
there is something too inodt-rn in the costume, but,
with this minor fault, the plate is not to be caviled
at. Maria is, if possible, batter; there is visible in
the lip and eye all the archness of the damsel who
played practical jokes on Alalvolio, who flirted with
Sir Andrew Ague-cheek, and bantered Sir Toby
Belch. Lavinia, the heroine of that ghastly drama
Titus Andronticus, that grim tragedy which so re-
volted Robert Burns, that he petulently flung it in
the fire after its first perusal, is here delineated with
surprising delicacy. She is pourtrayed as she is des-
cribed when— _

"Fresh tears
Stood on her choeks—as doth the honey dew
Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd."
The artists are evidently striving to do justice to the
poet, and the engravers are endeavouring to do justice
to the artists.

The nearer this periodical app roaches to our own
OLD ENGLAND'S WuIcTHIES. Part XXXV
times, the more interesting and valuable doesit
..be-
come to our thinking. An emblazoned sketch of S.
Stephen's, Walbrook—the scourer of so many pasqut-
nides upon its churchwarden, and one of the master-
pieces of our great architect, Sir Christopher Wren
—is the frontispiece. When we say that such cha-
racters as Newton, as Defoe, as Marlborough, and as
Addison are delineated in this part, we eed not
subjoin that the number is most instructive.

THE PICTORIAL GALLERY OF ARTS.

Apt XXIII.
In lavish embellishment this remarkable publication
still keeps pace with the preceding numbers. When
we remember the la's: ,ter of the artist, of the en-
gravers, of the printers, of I 1:e compositors, and of th-
editor, which must have been expended upon it we
are amazed at its cheapness and excellence.

CURIOUS CASE OF SOMNASIBULISAL—Between five
and six o'clock on Monday morning, one of the watchmen
in the employment of the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway Company was considerably surprised at seeing
a man in a night-gown and cap proceeding along the
railway from Ordsall-lane station towards Hunt's Bank.
He immediately hailed the intruder, who, however, took
no notice of the summons, but proceeded with all the
gravity imaginable, as if in the fulfilment of some im-
portant mission. On being laid hold of, it was found
that the stranger was sound asleep; and, on inquiry, it
was ascertained that he had proceeded in that state from
his house in Ordsall-lane to the point at which he was
stopped. It was fortunate that he was seen by the watch-
man at the hour is question, for, but for this, the chances
are that he would have been run over and killed by au
train.—Manchester Examiner. .