The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-10 00:00:00

" TIME-TABLE OF A RICH SEPTUACENARY.

- • Years.
I will begin with the years which, from the require-
ments of our common nature, or from my ha-
bitual waste of time, may be considered, so far as
regards any serviceable purpose, to have been--
absolutely lost. Including the somnolent periods
of infancy and childhood, and making allowance
for the sluggish habits of my whole after-life, I
calculate that I have slept, and doled, and dreamed '0"
away nine or ten hours in every twenty-four,
which, for seventy years, absorbs about
At school, with tutors, at college, I spent about
twenty years, and having forgotten, in two or •
three, all the Latin and Greek and nearly every-
thing else that I had learnt, except my collegiate
vices and expensive habits, I cannot put down for
actual loss of time less than 134
Wasted, not iu doing nothings, for that would em-
brace nearly my whole life, but literally in doing
nothing, two hours a day, about
Expended in stag, fox, hare, and badger hunting;
M coursing, racing, cockfighting, fishing ; in
shooting birds and beasts of all aorta—as I
always was an indefatigable sportsman, and began
the work of destruction when I was ten years old,
I cannot reckon this waste at less than six hours
a day, which, in sixty years of 313-days each, for -
on Sundays I killed nothing but time, amounts to 14
(N.B.—Estimating my slaughter as au amateur
butcher at the very moderate number of only two
lives a day,exclusively of the intiumerablwara,,e
that I have maimed and lacerated; reeving most of
them to die in anguish, I find that in sixty years
(excluding Sabbaths) I have, for my mere amuse-
I_npGmgrsatoeemmasn:otbsn,ii,tdiiinnnednggsato:rcoeletdcrneaeaturrlyes thirty-eight thousand of
In
two hours pefrrodmiemm,yorenatrbaonuet
entrance at college to the
ys,telecpannot have puffed out less than
but stay, let me reckon greic on
does the sum total—do ing-bouts. yatchinhurdle-racing, drink-'4
ylounginguwp_a
wasted
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' moral in this paragraph. Several
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of the other contributions. are clever—for instance,
the one on Southern Africa by Lieutenant Colonel
Napier.

110 W ITT'S Ju RNAL.
Among the biographical notices of the poets of the
people, William Howitt, as vlitor, has not forgotten
the life of Thomas Cooper the ingenious author of
" The Purgatory of Suicides." The biography is
interesting, and proves Mr. Cooper to be a man of no
mean accomplishments. A similar attraction will be
found in the memoir of " Albert the Artizan," written
by Goodwyn Barmby. Several lett6rs, by the same
contributor, about the state of affairs in Revolu-
tionized Paris, will be found in the journal. They
are, of course, more than curious at such a period of
legislative transformations. Besides the articles al-
ready enumerated, we are glad to see a republication
of some of Mrs. Howitt's lively descriptions of " Ger-
man Students' Life"—a theme of peculiar interest at
this moment, when the students of Germany are in-
volved in the turmoils of their Athqland. Recently
they have anything but augmated- their reputation
by participating in the infamous expedition of con-
' quest, butchery, and spoliation against Denmark in
the duchies of Holstein and Schleswig.

CHAMBERS'S EIII.I7BURGH JOURNAL.
We would particularly direct the attention of the
multitude to a paper published in Number 225 of this
admirable journal (the fourth number in the April
part, just completed). The article ie delineative of
the life, the fortunes, and the character of " The Beth
Postboy." Ralph Allen, at first a poor postboy in
that city, and ultimately the wealthy proprietor of
the estate called Prior Park, a noble, generous, and
intellectual man, the friend of Addison, Steele, Gay,
Pope, Arbuthnot, and all the famous luminaries of the
reign of Queen Anne. His princely residence, near
Coombe Down, now a Catholic college called Prior
Park—a structure more like a palace than a seminary,
and situated in a landscape as exquisitely beautiful as
any spot on the lakes of Como or Geneva—will for ever
remain a monument of his industry, his taste, and his
munificence. A great variety of agreeable contribu•
tions are, as a matter of course, grouped together in
Chambers's Journal, which, from the period of ita
commencement up to the present time, has been a
repository of instructive and entertaining literature.