The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-07 00:00:00

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Mackenzie, who narrates this legend of diablerie
II the gusto of a true believer. There is also in tie
present number a graceful notice of that true poet of
the people, Robert Nicol, and the commencement of a
translation by the lair cditress herself; of Alfred
des Essart's novel of " A zzoli the Goat- hord.": In addi-
tion to the fashions, this number is illustrated by a
beautiful engraving by Austin of llayter's fancy-
portrait of Julia Mannering, and by a eveil-executed
wood- cut of Mated church.

A DESCRIPTIVE ATLAS of ASTRONOMY
and of PHYSICAL and POLITICAL GEO.
G RAPTI y; with Descriptive Later press. By the
Rev. Thomas Milner, M.A. Part V.
Tois, the fifth part of this valuable k t i COll.B_llS
a beautifully engraved and accurate map of the
British Islands, ppd a hydrographical map of the
world. The description of the sidereal heavens is
completed in this part, and that of the physical
geography of the earth commenced.

CM VARION PON. Part VI.
" The Coulisses," by Shirley Brookes, and "The
Barmaid," by Stirling -Coyne, -are the subjects illus-
trated by the pencil of Cravarni this month ; Vaux-
hall was promised, and albeit Albert Smith furnishes
the description, the sketch by Gavarni is postponed
until next month, and insteikd we have a sketch of a
masquerade group.

•
SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL.
We strongly recommend the attentive perusal of
the article ,741 Vancouver's Island in this magazine to
all those (if any Ouch there be) who entertain any
doubt as to the crass ignorance, combined with love
Of jobbing, which characterises those to whose hands
aro unfortunately entrusted the destinies of the Co-
lonial Empire of Great Britain.

THE NAN IN THE MOON.
We regret to see an announcement that the folding
sheet of wood-cuts, which has hitherto been a prin-
cipal feature of the Kan in the Moon, is to be discon •
firmed. This number is full of fun, pun, and joke.
As a specimen we give a
" TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
" A meeting was summoned the other day to take
place at the City of London Tavern, with the view of
presenting Mr. Urquhart with a splendid Britannia
metal tea-pot, and Mr. Chisholm Anstey with a superb
copper coal scuttle, as testimonials of gratitude for their
exertions during the session, now happily concluding.
"At the appointed hour the two gentlemen arrived,
and after waiting in vain for somebody else to come,
proceeded to business.
" Mr. Urquhart moved that Mr. Anstey do take the
chair.
" Mr. C. Anstey then explained to Mr. Urquhart the
object of the meeting.
" Mr. Urquhart, in a speech of three hours' duration,
presented Mr. Anstey with the copper coal scuttle.
" Mr. C. Anstey returned thanks.
" The waiter was here ordered out of the room for
laughing.
•• Mr. C. Anstey then, in a speech of four hours' du •
ration, presented Mr. Urquhart with the Britannia metal
tea pot.
" Mr. Urquhart returned thanks.
" The business being thus concluded, the meeting
went away in a cab."

LONDON,

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 6,—Last vvening thPirExcellencits

the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Clereedon re—
ceived the following personages at dinner at the Vice-
regal Lodge:—His Royal Highness Prince George 0
Cambridge, and Colonel Forster, A.D.C.; Lord ate
Lady Jain Russell, the Earl and Countess of Clancarty
the Lord Chancellor and Mrs. Brady, the Archbisho;
of Dublin and Mrs. Whately, the Earl of Charlemon:.
Lieutenant-General Sir Edward and Lady Blakeney,
and the Hon. Captain Foley, A.D.C.; Colonel and Mre.
White, the Recorder and Mrs. Shaw, the Attorney-
General and Mrs. Monahan, the Solicitor-General. Me.
and Mrs. Ale Donnell, Mr. Robert Shaw, Mr. Ennis.
Mr. Corry Connellan, the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby,
Grey, Lord John Russell's private secretary, and Cal.
tain Henry Ponsonby, A.D.C., in Waiting.
This evening their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant
and the Countess of Clarendon, Lord and Lady John
Russell, Mr. Cony Conellan, and Irlr. Grey will be en-
tertained at dinner by the Chief Secretary, at his
Lodge, in the Phoenix-park.
On Monday Lord John Russell drove in one of tht
Lord-Lieutenant's private carriages to an estate of the
Duke of Bedford's, at Ardsallagh, in the county of
Meath. The Noble Lord was accompanied by- Lady
John Russell and Sir William Somerville, with whom his
Lordship returned in the evening to join their Excellen
cies the Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess of Clarendon,
at a select party at the Viceregal Lodge.
The freentan's Journal of this morning gives the ful-
lest ing as what purports to be a speech delivered by Lord
Clarendon yesterday, to a deputation which waited upon
him, or rather, as it was intended, upon the Prim(
Minister
" Mr. Beazley, of the county Tipperary, a gentleman
who some time since published a pamphlet, suggesting a
plan for ' converting poor-rate into capital,' and who had
1. 'rated an agricultural association, comprising 17 parishes,
in the county where he resides, having: requested an in
terview with Lord John Russell, for the purpose of ex-
plaining his project generally, and request some advance
from the public funds, fur the purpose of carrying our
the experiment in his own locality, half past twelve
o'clock yesterday was appointed for the purpose
Accordingly Mr. Beazley attended at the Viceregal
Lodge ; but the Premier being occupied with some other
public business, the Lord-Lieutenant received Mr.
Beazley, who was introduced by Alderman T. O'Brien,
31,P. Having explained his views at some length, to
which his Excellency listened attentively, Mr. Beazley
presented a written abstract of his plan, which the Lordt
Lieutenant said he would read attentively. His Excel-
lency did not hold out any hope of a loan or advance being
made for the purpose referred to. He said the state of the
public revenue precluded that mode of proceeding, and
commented in strong, and indeed severe, terms on the
was,e, plunder, jobbing, and misapplication of public
funds, recently In Ireland, when advanced from the cof-
fers of the State. Public liberally and private benevo-
lence were alike, in most cases, grossly abused or wholly
perverted in their application. Landlords had applied for
arid obtained immense sums for the alleged purpose of im.
proving their lands and affording employment, neither of
which they did; and thus the intention of the Legislature
was not carried into effect, nor the condition of the agri-
cultural population in any degree improved. Tben, with
respect to boards of guardians, they had not, in most
cases, administered the poor-law with such efficiency as
was desirable; and under the system which, in many
cases, prevailed, the most flagitious abuses had sprung
up. Thus, for instance, within the last few days the
Government ttAd ascertained that in one district there
were some buedrede more persons chargeable for out-
door-relief than the whole numerical population of the
district. His Excellency, we understanil, expressed his
marked reprehension of this state of things, and ob
served how difficult it was to meet the necessities of the
country or advance its material prosperity when, instead
of actual and sincere eoeoperation from those most in-
terested, there was, generally speaking, so much to cen-
sure in their proceedings.
"The deputation having thanked his Excellency for
the great courtesy and patient attention with which he
had favoured them, then withdrew.
Yesterday wording the Birkenhead war-steamer ar-
rived in Kingston harbour from Cork, with 179 con-
victs on board. The prisoners were guarded by a body
of constabulary, and, on the arrival of the steamer in
the harbour, the convicts were put on board the Fes
taniee 13omanjee transport ship, which lies at anchor,
eff the east pier. The vessel will sail in a few days for
New South Wales.
Yesterday Mr. M'Manus was brought by steamer
from Cork, and lodged in Richmond iiridewell. It is
said the charge against the prisoner is high treason.
Joseph Gaffney, a tailor, from Manchester, who- had
been arrested and confined in Newgate since Saturday,
was yesterday discharged. The prisoner was taken up
as one of the " suspected persons," but on inquiry it
was ascertained ho was all right, and therefore he was
set at liberty.
Informations have been returned by the magistrates
of Thurles against Captain Scully, James Scully, and
others, for firing at, and wounding a keeper named
Carroll, who, in guarding a disputed farm, refused to
allow the Captain and his assistants to drive cattle upon
it. This occurred on the 30th ultimo. The keeper is
dangerously wounded by shot in the back.
The weather and harvest reports from the country
this morning are not so favourable. The accounts of
the potato rot are certainly serious; but, nevertheless,
the late fine weather has redeemed a vast deal of the
other crops.

In Dublin the weather has been variable for the last
day or so.
Owing to the high wind of last night, the mail from the
other side has not arrived.

The market reporter of a morning paper gives the
following very gloomy account of the potato crop:—"To
those who question the extent of the potato rot, we
wish they would, as we do, visit the several markets of
Dublin, where prices are from sd. to 6d. per cwt. Yes-
terday morning—almost the beginning of the week—
one farina dealer bought fifty tons at 7d. per cwt., or
291. 3s. 4d. for the whole. Potatoes are now examined,
same as eggs, and classed accordingly in two, three, or
four kinds; what, therefore, is carefully selected and
charged high for table use, is not a fair criterion to judge
a crop by. We say that more than a third, probably
one-half, of the crops are infected—that, from the close-
ness of the weather, and great lightning at night, the
disease is beyond doubt progressing, and that the
amount will be far greater than 1846-7."

NATIONAL GALLERY . VERNON CO LLE CTION.—
Yesterday the following was issued:--The Gallery will
be closed on Saturday, the 9th inst., for the vacation,
and will be re-opened on Monday, the 23d of October.
The Vernon Gallery will be closed for the same period;
the previous arrangement by which it was proposecrto
be closed till the lst of May having, by the wish of Mr.,
Vernon, been abandoned, in order to afford the public'
greater facilities.

THE PREVENTION OF RAILWAY Ac CIDEICTs.—
A correspondent of the Reporter suggests the follow-
ing plan for the prevention of accidents upon railroads:—
If a dial plate (to show by day and night), with hour and
minute hands, without the going part, were to be placed
at each station, simply for the purpose of indicating the
time that the preceding train bad passed, it would in-
form the engine-driver and guard when caution was.ne-
cessary. For instance, suppose the dial plate were flied
at minutes past one, and the engine-driver and
guard's watches were then half-past one, they would
know that they were within ten minutes of the preceding
train, and so on. A person at the station should alter
the hands as each train passes. Had this plan been
adopted. the late accident on the Lancaster and Preston
line, and perhaps other accidents, might have been pre-
vented.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—The incalculable advantages
to De derived by keeping faith with the public has been
most powerfully illustrated in the case of Messrs.
Drummond, Greville, and Co., Sporting Printsellers and
Publishers, 72, Princess-street, Leicester -square. London.
These gentlemen have met with such extraordinary
patronage from all parts of the British dominions, that,
notwithstanding the numerous competitors whom their
late successes have brought into the field, they have
succeeded in accomplishing to the very letter of their
prospectus, -every hope they held out to the
public, and all persons interested in the same
will receive a post-paid letter containing every
information they require in a few days; and they
beg leave to apprise their sporting friends they have
engaged a first rate artist to make a drawing of the
Doncaster Race Course at the moment of the coming in
fbr the Great Doncaster St. Leger Race, from which a
plate will be engraved by that celebrated artist Mr.
Charles Hunt, exhibiting correct likenesses of the three
first Horses and their Riders, and proof impressions
from the same, 30 inches by 24, beautifully coloured,
will be ready for distribution as speedily as possible
after the race, at half the usual cost.—N.B. They re-
spectfully invite their friends to an intellectual feast, at
the Parthenium Assembly Rooms, St. Martin's-lane, on
Friday and Saturday, the Bth and 9th inst., at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon and three o'clock in the after-
noon of each day ; also on Monday, the 11th inst., at
three o'clock in the afternoon. When they promise to
every one present a mental gratification.
CUSTOM-HOUSE SALEs.—Among the voluminous
returns called for previously to the prorogation of Par-
liament, is one of the sales which periodically take place
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teken by the Crown as seizures, and sold for what they
will obtain at official sales. This return is to include
various particulars with respect to the profit or loss to
the Crown, which has accrued during a certain specified
period of time. It is not improbable that it will be found
that a loss will be shown with respect to the result of
such sales during the early portion of the year, which
will not be surprising, when it is considered that during
the time trade was in a mo't depressed and uncertain
state, that the amount of fancy articles of merehandize
imported was great beyond precedent, and that when such
articles as were detained for undervalue were brought
to sale, there was such a glut already in the market, and
unwillingness to purchase, that it was all but impossible
that any other result than a trifling loss and deprecia-
tion of the real value of the goods in the market could
have occurred.
Tut: ROYAL FREE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday even-
ing a meeting of governors of the above charity was
held in the board-room of the institution, in Grays Inn-
road ; the Rev. Dr. Rice in the chair. The 'report stated,
that during the past week, there had been received
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the foundation, twenty years, of 260,000 who have had
' unrestricted admission, on the sole ground of disease and
' destitution. Two large wards, completely fitted and
furnished, are at present closed for want of funds.
The report concluded by an energetic appeal for assis-
tance.