The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

THE RAILWAY REGISTER.

The paper on the "Ability of the Public to make
the Projected Railways" is a very valuable contribu-
tion, and the most fairly written dissertation on the
subject we have yet seen, for while, on the one hand,
it shows the utter groundlessness of the fears of the
panic-mongers, it on the other hand exposes un-
sparingly the fallacies and absurdities of Mr. J. T.
Hackett, who has done the railway cause infinitely
more harm by his injudicious advocacy than the
panic-mongers could possibly have done it by their
attacks. From this admirable article we extract the
following observations on the oft-repeated fallacy
about" the rich becoming richer, and the poor becom-
ing poorer," a fallacy which for ages past has been part
of the stock in trade of platform orators and mock
humanitarians :

"That the rich are becoming richer, and the poor
becoming poorer, that the wealth of the country is being
heaped within a few hands, is a common preju lice, as
old, at least, as the time of Solomon, and nut the less a
falsehood. Instead of its being true that the wealth of
the country is in fewer hands, the truth is that the wealth
of the country is in more hands, and the march of events
is in favour of a wider distribution. What makes the
capitalist is not his money, but his intelligence; in most
leading cases, he began life with little or no money,
and though his money is now an instrument to him for
doing great things, yet his intelligence is his real
strength. His just conduct of his Own operations, his
proper appreciation of the proceedings of others, his
economy in applying
.his own means, his power of com-
manding and combining the means of others, and his
skill in directing his operations to a right end—all these
give the capitalist his power. What the other classes
want is not money, but the essential qualities enume-
rated above. Look at the money hoarded by these latter
the means they squander in self-indulgence or careless
waste; look at the sums placed in savings' banks, and so
abstracted from the money opera! ions of the working
classes; last of all, look at the lean societies, benefit
lodges, sick clubs, co-operative stores, harmony has,
and building companie•4, where the funds are, almost
without exception, embezzled. and absorbed by the
managers, and the objects of foundation utterly frustrated
in a greater or less number. of years:"
" Gleanings among Mum and Miners" contains much

r useful information as to the present stake of many f
the mines of Cornwall and Devonshire, and the paper
on " American Railways" is a valuable contribution
to railway statistics. The present number fully
maintains the high character which the Railway
Register has deservedly acquired.

ATURE.
THE PARLOURLITE
NOVRELIST. Vol. 1V.,--Mans-
field Parh.
This neat reprint, in one small volume, of Miss
Austen's chef d'eure reflects great credit on the
typography of Messrs. Simms and M'lntyre, of Bel-
fast, the printers of this series of novels and romances.
The type, although small, is beautifully clear, and
the book is got up in excellent style. As to the
work itself, it would not be one whit less a work of
supererogation to review "Mansfield Park" than i
would be to review " Waverley" itself.
T,

No. IX. .13y

WE KNIGHT 01% GWYANE.
Charks Lei Pr.
Decidedly the best chapters that have appeared of
.his capital " Tale of the tine of the Trnion," are
contained in number nine. Bagenal Daly is one of
the most felicitously conceived, and one of the most
spiritedly delineated of all the characters created by
Harry Lorrequer. The story has now reached its
central interest : ruin has fallen upon Maurice
Darcy, the noble hearted Knight of Gwynne : he is
bereft of his possessions by the perfidy of his soli-
citor, who has committed suicide through remorse
of conscience and dread of retribution. Gwynne
Abbey, and the lands attached thereto, have vir-
tually fallen into the hands of a miserable parvenu,
in the shape of Mr. Hickman O'Reilly : and the
feelings of the reader are fully aroused in behalf of
the bankrupt hero of the fiction. All the accessories
of this plot are very skilfully introduced, and the
varied dispositions of the personages in the story are
developed with a skill attributable, firstly, to the
intuitive powers of Mr. Lever, as a novelist,
and, secondly, to his long practice and expe-
rience as an author. Already is the "Knight of
Gwynne" superior as a whole to any of his previous
productions ; it is more characteristic of Ireland and
the Irish than " Harry Lorrequer"—it is more com-
plete as a romance than " Charles O'Malley"—it pos-
sesses a more concentrated interest than " Jack
Hinton"—and is more fascinating, both in description
and incident, than " Tom Burke." Mr. Lever has
evidently buckled up for the composition of a book
more enduring and unique than any his lively ima-
gination had hitherto evoked. In this laudable en-
deavour he has—if he only proceed as he has com-
menced—succeeded. The account of Tate Sullivan's
farewell of the picture gallery in Gwynne Abbey is
admirable, and Phiz's illustrations of its denouement
inimitable. As the autumnal evenings close in, a
number of this serial would impart an exquisite zest
to a bottle of Madeira and a dish of walnuts.

TURLOGH O'BRIEN. No. Vl.
The fortunes of Sir Hugh Willoughby are ap-
proaching nearer and nearer to the critical and
decisive moment. Hence it is that the story possesses
such a peculiar interest, and arouses so much
curiosity. The writer's descriptions of the streets,
customs, costumes, and tenements of old Dublin—
namely, Dublin towards the close of the seventeenth
century—are excessively clever. His brush has
somewhat of the manner of Rembrandt and Teniers
combined, though its painting is sometimes terribly
smudged and tarnished by the hurry of his fancy and
by the distressing abundance of his language. The
struggle between Tisdal and Deveril is described
with much power—the attention of the reader be-
comes literally breathless during its perusal.

THE ARGENTIIVE REPUBLIC. By Col. T.

Anthony King.
There is something so blunt, and honest, and even
chivalrous, in the character of Colonel King, as deve-
loped by this remarkable volume, that the reader can-
not fail to be interested in the narrative of his adven-
tures, and cannot hut repose an implicit reliance
upon the authenticity of his statements. Little was
known respecting the merits of the intestine wars
which have so long ravaged the Argentine republic,
Bolivia, and Uruguay, before the appearance of this
important work ; and that little was piecemeal and
confused. To Englishmen, enjoying the blessings of
a free and liberal constitution, such vicissitudes as
those which have illustrated the History of the
Argentine Republic will ever be peculiarly
enthralling and attractive. The spectacle of
a nation struggling to maintain its integrity,
and to realise its independence, is the most
solemn and instructive that can well be conceived.
Such a spectacle is the one presented to us in these
four hundred and forty-two pages. The endeavours
of the citizens of that republic to relieve themselves of
the yoke of Spanish and Brazilian domination, are
recorded with circumstantial candour and explicit-
ness in its chapters ; and the writer is a man eminently
qualified for the duty of historian, both by the native
vigour of his intellect, and from the circumstance of
his having been ps.rsonally implicated in these en-
deavours during a period of twenty-four years. The
narrative is one of bloodshed, and rapine, and cruelty; it
is penned with charming simplicity ; and is rendered
vivid by the agreeable minuteness of its survey.
Colonel King informs us, that having forsaken his
home in the United States, for some unexplained rea-
son, in 1817, and in the fourteenth year of his age,
he found himself unfriended, unknown, and penny-
less, cast among a people of whose language he was
altogether ignorant. After wandering about Va and
Baltimore in a state of extreme destitution, our ad-
venturer was received into a kind of piratical vessel,
but in a few weeks was again cast adrift in the har-
bour of Buenos Ayres. Here he appears to have
been hospitably received by a publican named
Flusk ; was subsequently engaged as a shop-boy by a
French perfumer called Coquelet ; and was ultimately
welcomed into the Republican army as bandero, or
flag-bearer, the most subordinate rank in the profession.
He afterwards obtained a commission as ensign in
the corps of General Ramarez, and by indomitable
perseverance and unflinching resolution raised himself
step by step to the honourable position which he at
present occupies. We admire the innate strength of
mind which these facts evince, and we admire still
more the beautiful simplicity with which they are
recorded. We must not foolishly consider Colonel
King in the light of a mere mercenary, although he
is a citizen of the United States fighting in the
Argentine service. "I was born," says he, "upon
the soil of a free country, and reared under the pro-
tection of her flag; civil liberty is my heritage, and
for that I am ready to fight in any quarter of the
world !" Civil liberty is my heritage ! That is a noble
expression, and it is the key to the character and
disposition of Colonel King. We do not possess
the leisure to follow him through the intricacies of
the startling and extraordinary occurrences which he
witnessed during his campaigns as an Argentine sol-
dier. We shall leave the author to describe the bloody
and dreadful scenes of which he was no indolent
spectator, confident that his volume will be enshrined
in many a library, and perused by many a lover of
the more eventful features of modern history. San-
guinary deeds have unhappily been repeatedly perpe-
trated in the territories of the Western hemisphere ;
those noble regions of the globe have been often dark-
ened by martial crime : but among the annals of those
iniquities a more direful picture is not presented than
the one here given of the civil conflicts by which the
Argentine Republic has been devastated.

CHRISTOPHER TADPOLE. By Albert Smith
Part I. _ _

This is the first number of a new tale by Albert
Smith, and if this may be considered as a fair
specimen, " Christopher Tadpole" will be quite as
popular as his elder brother, " Titus Ledbury." The
tale opens with a prelude, the scene of which is laid
in the city of Chester, and most quaintly and graphi-
cally is that quaint and picturesque old city described.
We are introduced to the coffee-room of an inn,
where we find a certain Mr Gudge, a doer of dirty
work for noblemen and gentlemen, and who, if we
mistake not, is " cast" for one of the principal parts in
this story. He is joined by a gentleman and a young
lady ; the latter is taken suddenly ill and dies in
giving birth to a male child, which is committed to
the care of Dr. Aston, an apothecary, residing in a
town in the salt district of Cheshire.
" Dr. Aston was still a bachelor, but from having
brought the whole parish into the world, even to those
who now had great grown-up boys and girls of their own,
he might be looked upon, and indeed was so, as the head
of a very large family. And he was not only the medi-
cal attendant, but he had become the confidential friend
of nearly all his patients, who sent for him as often to
allay family irritation as to heal recognised corporeal
complaints. lie lived in a small house, quite in the
centre of the town, opposite the great inn, and next the
bank ; and an old housekeeper, with an odd groom, or
footman, or, indeed, assistant upon a pinch, formed the
human portion of his establishment.
" He was very clever in his profession, from long ex-
perience ; but put no trust in uew-fangled remedies
which from time to time we read of; for he had seen
so many things start up to cure everything, and quietly
tumble down again after a short noisy life—with names
that nobody but chemists who had written large books
and almost chrystallised or sublimed themselves in lab )-
ratories by long study could understand—that he only
believed in the old-fashioned drugs whoso virtues cen-
turies had tried. So that when a crack London physi-
cian once prescribed Terrosesquicyanuret of the cyanide
of potassium' upon being called in to a patient, Dr.
Aston waited until he was gone, and then said, he would
rather trust to rhubarb. And the patient got rapidly
well."

The first chapter opens with a grand scientific meet
in at the Parth'non of the town in which the doctor
resides, and here the author indulges in his talent for
good-humoured quizzing. his sketches of " the
scientific gentlemen " are admirable. He also makes
this meeting the vehicle for introducing a charming
little romance, entitled the Story of the Pepur Gate.
The proceedings are interrupted by a messenger who
COMM tg fetch the doctor tO a inAn on whom A lump

of rock has fallen in a salt mine. This man is
Fletcher, with whom the doctor had placed the child
to be taken care of, and the child is in the mine with
him. In the next chapter we find Mr. and Mrs.
Gudge vulgarising in Hyde Park, Mr. Gudge fixing
himself upon Sir Frederick and Lady Arden, to their
great horror and annoyance, and Gudge actually
terrifying Sir Frederick intosending him an invitation
to his aristocratical fete. Whence comes the power
of Gudge over Sir Frederick ? The latter is the
gentleman" of the prelude.

THE LATE M. HAREL.
The vicissitudes of a player's life were proverbial,
even before Geld.mith's charming narrative of the
strolling comedian, with which, we presume, no Eng-
lish reader is unacquainted. Far more interesting. how-
ever, would be the details of the hopes and struggles of
the eventful life, just closed, of the highly-gifted, but
unfortunate, gentleman named above. We hope some
pen worthy of the task may, before lot g, give his me-
moirs to the world; but, in the meantime, the reader
will not be displeased to read the following biographictel
sketch of the deceased, which we borrow from a con-
temporary, and which, from his long connexion with
the drama, is not inappropriattly placed here:—" M.
Hard, who died about a fiatnight ago, was born in
Normandy, in 1790. He was of a good family, and
was, when very young, made Sub Prefect of Soissons.
On the return of Napoleon from Elba, M. Hard,
who was then only twenty-three years of age, was made
Prefect of the department of the Landes, but on the
Restoration he was exiled, and was not permitted to
return to France until the year 1821. M. Hare! wrote
successively for the ./Vain Jaune, the Mine: ve, the Cour-
rier Francais' and the Constitutionnel up to 1827, when
he contracted a liaiqm with Mlle. Georges, and took an
interest in theatrical affairs. In 1828 he obtained the
privilege for the Odion Theatre, and in 1832 purchased
the Porte St. Martin Theatre of M. Crosnier. In this
speculation, notwithstanding occasional successes, he
was a great loser; and at length, all his pecuniary re-
sources being exhausted, he was overwhelmed with debt,
and judgment was obtained against him by 150 creditors.
In order to preseve his personal liberty, without which
he could not carry on the business of his theatre,
he took care never to go out until after sunset,
but the remedy was ineffectual, for the recors
(Anglice, Sheriff's officers), accompanied by the corn-
missary of police, frequently found their way into the
theatre during the rehearsels. The danger having
become imminent, M. Harel had a trap made near the
prompter's place, and it was so contrived, that by press-
sing a spring with his foot, it would lower, and carry
him with it into the regions below. As soon, therefore,
as one of the myrmidons of the law made his appear-
ance, M. Hard pressed the spring, and disappeared. In
vain would he have been searched for in the place to
which he descended. But, in order to prevent any officer
from venturing upon the stage in pursuit of him, he got
a paragraph inserted in the newspapers, stating that
there were traps all over the stage, unknown except
to the performers, and that an unfortunate recors, whilst
pursuing M. Harel, had fallen through one of them, and
had broken his leg. This was quite sufficient to pre-
vent any attempt being made in that way. In order
that M. Harel might be apprised when any new judg-
ment had been obtained against him, nearly half
the clerks of the huissiers were in his interest, for he
gave them free admissions to his theatre. His per-
sonal liberty being secured, it was next necessary to
prevent a seizure being made at the theatre, for this
would have prevented his bringing out his pieces,
and he was constantly going on, in hopes of a succis.
He had an ingenious mechanism made, by which all the
dresses, properties, &c., could in an instant be re-
moved from one flight to another. Thus, when an officer
came to effect a seizure, he was shown into an
empty space. On his leaving that to proceed to
another part, everything contained in it was
whisked off to the place that he had quitted, and so
on, until the officer, finding nothing worth seizing,
went away. The receipts of the theatre being almost
nominal, M. Harel was about to strike his flag, when.
he heard of the arrival of Van Amburg and his lions
at Havre. M. Harel engaged him, and for a time there
was at the Porte St. Martin what the French call a
succesfou. But as the novelty wore off the receipts di-
minished, and some new gag—to use a theatrical term—
was to be tried. It was announced in one of the journals
that a superb lion had been landed at Havre' of such a
ferocious nature, that even Van Amburg would not dare
to undertake the taming of him. Two days afterwards
the same journal stated that Van Amburg's pride had
been roused, and that he had set off for Havre to under-
take the task. A third article announced that he had
succeeded, and would appear the following evening, at
the Porte St. Martin, with the new lion. The theatre
was crowded to the ceiling. A fine black lion appeared,
and obeyed all the orders of his master. The shouts
of the audience were tremendous. The lion was only
one of his former menagerie, which had been dyed
black for the purpose. The trick was never found out,
and M. Harel had a few more good houses on its strength.
It is related of M. Harel, that one day, when completely
destitute of funds, he went to the Minister of the Inte-
rior, to implore M. Thiers to advance him 10,000 f. M.
Thiers sent out word that he was too busy to receive
him. M. Hare], who was in the cabinet of the Secre-
tary, wrote—" lam a desperate man—l have a brace of
pistols with me, and if you refuse to receive me, I will
blow out my brains here.' M. Thiers was alarmed, re.
ceived the applicant, and gave him the 10,000 E. At
length all the expedients of this extraordinary man were
exhausted. He was compelled to give up the theatre,
and went on a strolling expedition into the country with
Mlle. Georges, and a wretched company of tragedians.
He had, indeed, previously shown a desire to
live a more tranquil life, and had written an 'Eulogy
on Voltaire,' for which be obtained athe chief prize at
the French Academy, and some theatrical pieces, which
were rather successful. His strolling expedition was a
miserable failure; he returned broken in health and
stricken in spirit, and the curtain finally fell upon his
• strange eventful history' in an asylum for the insane,
when he died at Chatillon, near Paris, in his fifty-sixth
year. Many witty things and clever savings are attri-
buted to M. Harel, and there are many, the credit of
which has been taken by other men, but which were
really his—as, for instance, the remark so long attri-
buted to Talleyrand, that La parole a ere donned Phomme
pour deyuiser sa pensee."

THE DISCOVERY OF HUMAN
REMAINS,
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS —(SUND AY).
It is impossible to describe the sensation that has been
created throughout the neighbourhood of Haggerstone,
Kingsland, and Hoxton, since Saturday morning, when
the appalling discovery of human remains and pieces of
coffins were made. Throughout the whole of Saturday
and yesterday were to be seen in the immediate vicinity
of Wallis's-fields numbers who had been drawn there
anxious to witness the remains of those whom they
feared might turn out to be some of their own relatives.
From inquiries made since the case was brought
before Mr. Broughton at Worship-street PoliCe Court
on Saturday, the following particulars were ascertained:
Richard Pray, a foreman to Mr. Gold, of Worship-
street, said that Mr. Liddiard, churchwarden of one
of the City churchcs; had employed his master
to clear out the vaults of a church in Friday.
street, Cheapside, and that the human remains
and pieces of coffin in question were brought from
that church. Inquiries were then made ,in Friday..
street, when it was ascertained that the vaults of
St. Matthew's Church had been cleared out as
stated by the man, and that the building itself was un-
dergoing repair. Upon the church doors was posted
the following notice, which also tends to confirm the
statement made by Mr. Gould's foreman, as to who gave
the order for the removal of the remains:-.--" St. Mat-
thew's, Friday-street. Notice is hereby given that there
will be no service in this church on Sunday, the 6th day
of September, 1846, in consequence of repairs. Dated
Friday, September 4, 1846. Signed W. Liddiard and
John Mair, churchwardens."

Mr. Jeremiah Long, the senior churchwarden of St.
Leonard's, Shoreditch, has spared no pains in try-
ing to find out the perpetrators of, to say the least,
such shameful desecration. He has also exerted him-
self to find out the friends of the ;persons whose
remains have been discovered. There is no doubt
that the publication of the names on some of the
soffin-plates will bring forward their relations this day
at Worship street, when the case is to be again ht ard
by the magistrate. Waller, the beadle, was sent oil
Saturday by Mr. Churchwarden Long to take charge
of all the pieces of coffins and remains of bodies he
could find. Upon his return to the field, he found that
a vast quantity of bones, pieces of coffin, &c., had
been deposited in holes made in the ground. He, how-
ever, found about two or three bushels of remains,
which he took possession of, and the same were interred
in the consecrated ground belonging to the parish in the
Hackney-road. _

Th• remains of the coffin; prove that some of them
were of recent construction. One is only eight years old.
The plate has been cleaned, and has been found to bear
the following :—" E. C. Connell, died 21st of February,
1838." Another has the following inscription :
" Master John Ingleby, died the sth of February, 1834."
A third plate bears the name of " Ann Webb, died," the
month, and also the year, are, however, not perfectly
legible.

'The police, and also the parish authorities, are making
every endeavour to find out the friends of the deceased,
so as to bring the offence home to the proper parties.

REPRESENTATION OF NORTH LEICESTERSHIRE.
-It is understood that at the next general election Lord
Charles Mkinners will resign the representation of tho
northern division of this county, in favour of his ne-
phew, the Marquis of Granby. This will create a
vacancy in the borough of Stamford, which will be filled
by Lord John Manners, who will leave Newark, for
which borough the succeeding candidate will be John
Henry Manners Sutton, Esq., of Kelham Hall.
JURY LISTS.—On Sunday, the list of all men quali-
fied to serve as jurors for the ensuing year, commenc-
ing the Ist inst., were posted on the doors of the different
atetropolitan churches, as required by the 6th Geo. 4.,
c. 50. All objections will be heard by the justices in
petty sessions for the parishes in the county of Surrey,
at the Court-house, Newington-green, on Friday,_ the
25th inst. ; for the parishes in the borough of West-
minster, at the Guildhall in the Broad Sanctuary, on
the 24th inst. ; and fir tho parishes within the Holborn
Union, at the board-room of the workhouse, Little
Gray's Inn-lane, on the 29th inst.
ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—
On the afternoon of Friday last, w idle the half-past two
o'clock train was on its way to Oxford, and when within
about a mile of that city, a cow which had strayed upon
the line from a common through which it passes, was
knocked down by the engine and killed inst;:ntly.
A few days ago the nest of a Guinea hen, contain-
ing 113 eggs, WM found in an outhouse at Clitheroe.