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

THE BANKERS' MAGAZINE.

The present number contains much useful informa-
tion on the statistics of banking, besides affording a
compendious record of the statistics of the money-
market during the past month.

FINE ARTS.
THR HEROINES OF SHAKSPERE.
Part VIII.
Nothing that we have already said in commenda-
tion of this charming serial is inapplicable to the
present part. " Hero"—that graceful creation of our
master-bard, that beau ideal of maidenly modesty
and holiness, 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 modern in the costume, but,
with this minor fault, the plate is not to be cavilled
at. Maria is, if possible, better; there is visible in
the lip and eye all the archness of the damsel who
played practical jokes on Malvolio, who flirted with
Sir Andrew Ague-cheek, and bantered Sir Toby
Belch. Lavinia, the heroine of that ghastly drama
Titus Andromicus, 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 cheeks—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.

OLD ENGLAND'S iuTi'HIES. Part XXXV
The nearer this periodical approaches to our own
times, the more interesting and valuable does it be-
come to our thinking. An emblazoned sketch of St.
Stephen's, Walbrook—the scourer of so many pasqui.
nades upon its churchwarden, and one of the master-
pieces of our great architect, Sir Christopher Wren
—is the frontispiece. When we say that such elys.
racters as Newton, as Defoe, as Marlborough, and as
Addison are delineated in this part, we need not
subjoin that the number is most instructive.

THE PICTORIAL GALLERY OF ARTS.

Part XXIII.

In lavish embellishment this remarkable publication
still keeps pace with the preceding numbers. When
we remember the labour of the artist, of the en-
gravers, of the printers, of the compositors, and of the
editor, which must have been expended upon it we
are amazed at its cheapness and excellence.

TIIE WARMTH. OF TWO BLANKETS FOR THREE-.
PKNCE.—Few persons are, we apprehend, aware that two
sheets of imperial cap brown paper, pasted at the edge
to form one (and at a cost less than 3d.), if laid over a
bed with one blanket under, will produce more warmth
than three ordinary blankets, or over a single coverlet
will be warmer than one blanket only, and will last, with
a little care, the whole winter.—Library of Secrets and
Wrinkles.

ROBBERY IN HYDE-PARK.—Information was re-
ceived by the police yesterday that between nine and ten
o'clock a gentleman named Miller, residing at Kensing-
ton, was proceeding across the western part of the park,
towards Kensington, when, at a lonely part, he was
attacked by two men, who knocked him down, and
robbed him of his purse containing six sovereigns and
`eleven shillings in silver, with which they made their
escape.

LORD SHREWSBURY AND MR
O'CONNELL.

The following very interesting communication, from
the Earl of Shrewsbury, has been forwarded to us by
Dr. John Shiel, of Ballyshannon, to whom it is ad-
dressed :

"Alton Towers, Nov. 30, 1846.

"My dear Sir,—l am sorry to learn, by your favour
of the 25th, that there can be any party in Ireland so
base and so ungrateful, as to be endeavouring to preju-
dice the people against O'Connell, under the plea that
he has sold his services to the Government for an equi-
valent in patronage.
"In whatever difficulties he may be placed, I have
sufficient confidence in his honesty and integrity, to be
convinced that he will never barter his independence for
anything short of justice to his country—and that he
may live to see the triumph of that cause which he has
so long, so ably, and so energetically advocated, as a re-
ward for his unrivalled activity and devotion to a great
principle, is what we must all sincerely desire—though
we may differ, and differ widely, in opinion, on the de-
tails of those arrangements by which that principle is to
be carried out.
" Did we require a proof of the honesty and sincerity
of his estimation of the means which he called forth
for the accomplishment of his end, we certainly now
have it in the honest indignation with which he has
rejected an appeal to physical, as long as even
the most distant hope existed that moral force could
be brought to bear upon the question ; and as far
as I can Corm a judgment, O'Connell's character and
reputation never stood so high before the public in Eng-
land as it does now ; not only from his just conceptions
of his duty as a loyal subject, but from his unwearied
and unremitted exertions in thecause of humanity during
the appalling visitation with which it has pleased Provi-
dence to afflict his unfortunate country. It is, therefore,
doubly surprising to us, that amongst those whom he
has so long been, and still is, endeavouring to benefit
and befriend, there should be found any so devoid of
feeling and gratitude as to malign and calumniate him
—the more especially in a moment in which his exer-
tions seem the most likely to be crowned with success,
and that a kind and merciful Providence may at length
look down with complacency, or with pity, on his suf-
fering countrymen, and, through his instrumentality,
raise them from the state of degradation which has so
long lowered them, in spite of the splendid qualities of
their nature, in the scale of social beings, is still, and
again, the earnest prayer, dear sir, of your most obe-
dient humble servant, " SH REW SBU RY.

" You also inform me that a pension of 1001. a year
was offered to good Father Mathew. There is no price
at which the services of that extraordinary man could be
repaid ; bnt, surely, a much larger sum would be well
spent in enabling him (and that I am sure is all that he
desires) to carry out a scheme which has iorie, and will,
doubtless, continue to do, more towards eradicating
crime and bettering the social and physical condition of
the people than any that could be devised ; and we must
still hope that Government will not neglect to avail itself
of so easy a means of attaining so great an end.—
Dublin Evening Post.

THE LATE MARQUIS of AILSA,K.T.

Probate of the will of the late most Hon. Archibaild
Marquis of Ailsa, of the United Kingdom, Earl of Cas-
sillis in Scotland, of Cullean Castle, Ayrshire, ,North
Britain; of Whitehall-gardens, and of St. Margaret's,
Lsleworth, Middlesex, has been granted by the Preregn.
tive Court in London, to the executors and trustees, Sir
David Baird, Bart., Colonel Jonathan Peel, and Sir John
A. Cathcart, Bart. The personalty in England, and
within the provinces of Canterbury, was estimated for
duty at 160,0001. His grandson, the present Marquis
of Ailsa, eldest son of the deceased Marquis's eldest
son, the late Earl of Cassillis, succeeds to the entailed
estates of Cassillis and Cullean, and by the law of Scot-
land there is a power possessed of making provision
from entailed estates for the wife and younger children,
of which his Lordship availed himself; and has charged
the entailed estate in Scotland with the payment of
3,5001. per annum, which he has settled on his relict the
Marchioness, and has made a large provision for his
younger children. All the unentailed estate, property,
and effects, heritable and moveable, real and personal,
carriages, horses, pictures, plate, furniture, &c., to be
held in trust, and that his relict, the Marchioness, may
either enjoy a life interest from certain estates or a sum
equivalent, and the selection of any part of plate. and
the furniture, books, and pictures not specifically dis-
posed of, for her own use absolutely, and a sum of
2,0001. for mourning. Besides the furniture, plate, and
pictures at Cullean Castle, there is te be transferred
there a piece of silver:plate, with an engraving repre-
senting what was termed by the family " his father's
battle;" also the following pictures as heir-looms, viz.,
Mary Queen of Scots and James her father; Louis XIV.
introducing King James to his Queen; Buonaparte; Gil-
bert, Earl of Cassillis; the Lioness in the net. Tbe Mar-
quis has left to the children of the late Earl of Cassillis
a legacy of 4,000/. to eaeh, and to the children of Lady
Ann Baird, 2,0001. each, and like legacies to others of
his family, as well as specific bequests of pictures ar,d
Flat!. To his executors 5001. each, and liberal legacies
to his servants. The residue to his grandchildren n
certain specified proportions. The deceased Marquiis
made a will for England and another for Scotland, both
of even date—the 11th September, 1843. His Lordship
attained his seventy-sixth year, and died on the Bth of
September last. He was created Marquis by King
!lam IV. in 1831. The Earldom of Cassillis was made
in 1509.