The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-05 00:00:00

DOLMAN.

The accomplished editor, Mr. Miles Gerald
announces his resignation of the editorship of this
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Catholics cannot fail to prosper. Mr. Keon intimates
his withdrawal in the following terms :
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cessor's task will be less arduous than our own has been.
It is also pleasing to know that the future editor has ex-
pressed the Caine views and principles which have won
for ourselves the favour and the confidence of so many,
and that our whilom province may continue still to be
administered in an entirely kindred sentiment. If it be
so administered, we shall nut be wholly absent from these
pages ; more rich in leisure than while; exercising the
manifold duties of editorship, we hope to seize an oc-
casional opportunity, more or less frequent, of addressing
the public through an organ, with which we have had
the good fortune and the happiness of being connected."
The opening article in the present number is a
mournful story, entitled the " Miser's Death," by the
Rev. E. Price—to whom all success in his editorial
capacity. It is told with a touching simplicity. Prom
the next paper—a biographical essay upon Chris-
topher Columbus—we shall make one extract. This
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parted from the bar of Sakes, near Palos, in the presence
of a prodigious multitude of spectators. Notwithstand-
ing the vastness of the enterprise, the instruments for
its prosecution were miserably disproportioned. Three
vessels comprised the fleet : one, La Santa Maria, com-
manded by Columbus himself ; another, La Pinta, by
Martin Alonzo Pinzon ; and the third, La Nina, by his
brother Vincente Yanez Pinzon. The two latter ships
were merely caravels and the whole convoy carried only
one hundred and twenty men. Providence seems in-
deed to have smiled propitiously upon the endeavour :
the Great Spirit which had germinated such a craving in
the mind of Columbus to explore the Atlantic, glassed its
awful billows before him, strewed its surface with sun-
beams and tokens of encouragement, and cooled its
atmosphere with refreshing breezes. And Christopher
responded to the beneficence of the Deity ; throughout
his long life he responded to it ; his piety was not inter
mittent or eccentric, it coloured his whole soul, and lent
a new majesty to his majestic nature. His Journal, com-
menced immediately after his departure from Palos, in-
dicates the incessant and intense awe with which he re-
garded the great On of eternity: its opening paragraph
is written, .In N. D. nostri Jesu Columbus
appears to have rendered the dre,ldeel pa sage across the
ocean less perilous Ly- certain nts iii the astro-
labe, for according to the intimation of Beauchamp (fling.
Univ. tom. ix. 286), " Cost ainsi rine son genie createur
perfectionna l'ai t nautque, count de melt, e son grand
pro jet a csecutio," The eircuni,tancos which accom-
panied that first entrance int 3 the watery realms of the
western ocean may he succinctly catalogued. On August
5, a rudder was damaged, and, on the following day,
they repaired the accident ; on Aug. 13, they reached the
Canary Islands, provisione.l themselves anew, and, on
September 6, quitted Goinera. Here the altercation of
Christopher, with his mariners, commenced ; and when
we is fleet upon his various devices to decrease their de-
spondency, and to exalt their anticipations ; his falla-
cious reckoning in the common log-book; his ingeuiPtis