The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-03 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING S Ny

GRAVESEND STAR and BLAC;KWALL
PACKETS.
Packet and Railway Fare Included in one payment upon every
Passage.
N.B.—No other Packets call at the GRAY'S or GREENIIITHE
PIERS.

FROM THE NEW TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND.
WEEK DAYS.—At 7,7 L 814, 9%, 1111, 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 712,
7, 716, and 8.
SUNDAYS.—At 7, 71, 81,/, 11%, 1,2, 3,4, 5. 6. 611, 7,71 A,
and 8.

FROM THE BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL.
The Trains starting One Quarter of an Hour before each of
these times.
WEEK DAYS.—At 9, 936, 1036, 11, 11%, 12, 1%, 2%, 3%,
h. 6,7, and 73‘ •
SUNDAYS.—At 8)6, 9,9%, 10%, 11, 136, 236, 336, 4)4, 5,
, 7, Bill 736.
Fares.—To or from London—Fore cabin, and Second Class Rail-
way, 9d. ; Saloon and First Class Railway, Is.
To or from Blackwall and intermediate Piers—Fore Cabin, 6d. ;
Saloon, 9d.
Packets for Excursions.—Apply to Mr. W. Morgan, Star Office,
Fenchurch-ctrect Terminus of the 131ackwall Railway.
Tickets.—For Twelve months, 41. 45.; Six months, 2/. 15s. ; Three
months, IL 15s. To be bad of the Collectors on board the packets ;
Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend ; or of Mr. Saunders, Brims-
wick-wharf, Blackwell.

LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, and NEW-
CASTLE-UPON-TY :fE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
REGISTRATION OF SCRIP.

The Act for incorporating the Subscribers in this Company with
the Subscribers in the Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway
Company, and for amalgamating the two undertakings under the
style and title of the "Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-
Tyne Junction railway Company," having received the Royal assent,
all persons holding Scrip Certificates for Shares in the Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle-upon• Tyne Junction Railway Company,
are requested to transmit them to the Secretary, at these Offices, on
or before the 20th day of July instroit, with their names, professions,
and residences distinctly written in full, in order that the same may
be correctly entered in the register of the Company.
The Secretary will give an acknowledgment ;for the Scrip, rnd on
the completion of the registry each 25/. share will be exchanged for a
certificate for a 201. share, under the common seal of the Company.
An early notice will be given of the first meeting of the Company,
at which registered shareholders alone can vote.
By order.
W. H. INGRAM, Secretary.
22, Parliament-street, Westminster, July 1, 1840.

PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, in a Cause STEPHENS against
STEPHENS, the Creditors of JOSEPH JONES STEPHENS, late
of Enfield, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, why died in the
month of November, 1841, are, on or before the 31st day of July
next, to come In and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN WILSON,
one of the Mast:rs of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southamp-
ton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London; er, in default thereof, they
will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree.
E. G. RANDALL. Plaintiff's Solicitor,

56, Welbeck-street.

VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
No. IS, KING WILLIAM-STREET, CITY.
Sir JAMES DI-KE, Alderman, M.P., Chairman.
BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Benjamin Barnard, Esq. Thomas Nesbitt, Esq.
Charles Baldwin, Esq. John Nolloth, Esq.
B. Donkin, Esq., F.R.S. Charles Phillips, Esq.
Aaron Goldsmid, Esq. Major-General Robert,tion
James Law Jones, Esq. Daniel Sutton, Esq.
John Knill, Esq. O'B. B. Woolsey, Esq.
Life Assurances are effected by this Company on every description
of risk, on a profit or non-profit scale.
Credit of half the premiums for the first five years allowed on Poli-
cies effected for the whole term of life.
Payment of Premiums so arranged as to meet the convenience or
wishes of the Assured. A Policy may be made an absolute security.
Advances continue to be made to Assurers on real or undoubted
personal security, for terms of years, repayable by instalments.
Particular attention is requested to the detailed Prospectuses of the
Company

WILLIAM RATRAY, Actuary and Secretary.

MAG A ZINES-(CON TIN UED).
BENTLEY.

- .
The author of " Wild Sports in the West " continues
" Brian in the present number. He gives us
two chapters, which are full of stirring incident. "tßrian
O'Linn" promises to be one of the best of Maxwell's
novels, Mr. Henry Curling contributes a paper entitled
" Chronicles of the Cinque Ports," which is replete
with antiquarian lore. Alfred Crowquill contributes an
icteresing tale, entitled "The Portrait," and Miss Cos-
tello gives us some graphic sketches of Switzerland.
" Jacques Bonhomme " is the title of a paper by Lady
Duff Gordon. And who is Jacques Bonhomme? per-
chance the reader may ask. Why, Jacques Bonhomme is
to France what John Ball is to England, the impersonation
of the national character ; and whoever -wishes to know
the true character of the French people—that is of the
sound and thinking portion of them, in fact, the great and
powerful majority, which is quiescent from its very
strength, which has but to will to be obeyed—should read
this paper, Jacques Bonhomme is an excellent fellow with
sound good sense and a warm heart, somewhat preju-
diced perhaps (and so is John Bull for that matter), but
sound at the core. We have a great liking for this said
Jacques Bonhomme. We have a very valuable paper
on the " Albigenses and the Troubadours ; and Mr.
Albert Smith continues his demonstations of " Popular
Zoology." The tourists are the subject of the present d is•
section. The following account of the doings of the con-
ventional tourist in Paris is true to the letter:—
"At Paris he goeth to Meurice's, or Lawson's, and seeth
the sights by rule, as they are put down in the handbook.
He formeth his notions of 'Paris in this wise. He stayeth at
an English hotel, and is waited on by English servants. Ile
meeteth nought but English people at the table d'hote; he
bath an English lacquais de place, and readeth the English
papers. He buyeth even English things to take home with
him, at shops where they write up "English spoken here,"
and speaketh English himself, all day long. And then he
sayeth to himself, "when I get home I will write a book
upon Paris and its4eople." He thinketh it right to dine
once at Verey's, or Vefour's, and once at the Rocher de Can-
vale; and delighteth in ordering the dinner himself, albeit,
he maketh wild shots at the dishes, and if there is a party of
three or four, amazeth the garcon, by ordering a portion a
piece, for everybody. He cloth not much like the French
theatres, but goeth as a duty, and laugheth with the audi-
ence, as do many at the French plays in London ; but be un-
derstandoth not a line be heareth; and therefore doth he
prefer Franconi's. He findeth that his best clothes, brought
from London, produce not the effect he desireth in Paris ; and
thereon riggeth himself out in the Palais Royal. But he doth not
approach nearer to the Frenchman for all that ; and when he
goeth to the Messageries, in the Rue Notre Dame des Vic-
toires, and asketh," Esker eel e ar oon diligence,mossieu,poor
Genave ?" he is disgusted to hear the clerk reply inconti-
nently, " Yes, sir, every morning at eight o'clock."
Everard Clive contributes a clever Plutarchian parallel
of Jugurtha and Abd-el-Kader. This paper is illus-
trated by a portrait of the Emir, drawn from the life,
by De Rozetti, an artist in the French service, while a
prisoner in Abd-el-Kader's camp. The following de-
scription of the personal appearance of this celebrated
Arab chieftain, which is quoted as for a forthcoming
work by Count St. Marie, may prove not uninteresting
to some of our readers:—

"His costume is very simple. He wears the Arab haich,
fixed on the top of his head by a string of camel hair. Over
his woollen shirt he has a white burnouse, and over that an-
other burnouse, striped white and brown. His legs are en-
closed in yellow morocco boots. His beard is black, and un-
shaven, like all the Arabs who have made the pilgrimage to
Mecca. He is deeply marked with the small-pox. His
features are prominent and decided, and his full black eye is
expressive of extraordinary firmness of character."
A glorious " Tipperary Hall," redolent of fun and
frolic, learning, wit, and poetry, concludes this, one of
the best numbers of Bentley that has yet appeared.

scarcely approached as ho is in the latter. We renew
our acquaintance gladly with the •• Cabinet of Gems and
Curiosities;" those for July being culled from Hogg,
Drayton, Barnefield, Milton, Shakspere, and others; but
we ccnfess ourselves surprised that, in treating of the
nightingale, any reference to Keitts's glorious ode to that
melancholy songstress is omitted. Among the " Mis-
cellaneous Gems" we have dainty fragments ; and what
a delicious thought is that from Marston's " Gerald"—
" A statue's silence—is the sculptor's voice."
The verses to the Rose, by Samuel Gower, are likewise
brimming with beauty. There are some lines, entitled
" The Picture Gallery," which we are fain to attribute
to the accomplished actress Miss Vandenhoff—can our
conjecture be correct ? In the " Voices from the Past,"
there is discoverable not only melody but feeling ; the
writer had the perceptive faculties well developed we
should imagine, and deep susceptibilities for the beauti-
ful and tender. "0, how I love to listen," and " I can't
make up my mind," by I. H. I. are of a contrasting
excellence, the former pensive, the latter playful. The
poetical contributions which are, however, the most to
our mind in this number are entitled " Sunlight upon
the Waters," from the pen which produced the "Rural
Sonnets." From the number of composite phrases
scattered through these sonnets upon sunlight, we
should imagine that the author has latterly become im-
bued with a fondness for the Anglo-German diction of
Carlyle, for example, " atoms-shatterV," " radiance-
flush'd," " stormleatur'd," and the like. Nevertheless,
this somewhat rugged concomitant does not deteriorate
either the music of the metre or fantastic delicacy of
the imagery. After dilating upon the lustrous min.
gling of sunlight and water in the rainbow, comes this
charming sonnet :-
1 " Lo ! on a lesser scale 'tis still the theme,—
Spangling in dew- drops o'er the bladed grass;
Bright'ning the shallows of the pebbled stream,
Thro' which the naked-footed urchins pass;
When in some reservoir, or large, or small,
It draws the basking inmates to the brim,
As, on their scales of gold and silver, fall
Th' exhilirating rays in which they swim ;
Or when some well-oar'd boat, in swift advance,
Quickens the strokes from which the waters glance;
Or when, to take her bath, th' imperial swan
Flutters, for glee, the surface in her track,
Stoops her arch'd neck, down-diving, and, anon,
Showers liquid brilliants o'er her plumage-ruffled back."
Such is the description of poetry introduced thus plenti-
fully into the pages of Hood, and we ere singularly
mistaken if this difference from the ordinary run of
magazine literature does not prove acceptable to its
purchasers. Though we are haunted by the " Bush-
ranger," and the " White Cloud," anti " Nell G Wynne,"
and the " Seige of Antioch," we are so well satisfied
with the other portions of this periodical that we close
the number with satisfaction.