The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

MOORISH PRIDE.

"I was sitting with a French newspaper in my hand,
when I heard a noise without. My Russian travelling
companion had offered our Moor but a few halfpence for
his trouble, and the fellow would not accept so little. I
saw how small the sum was, and found that it ought to
be greater : the Russian said no, and opened the door.
The Moor laid the money on the step, put his foot on it,
and with a look which, on the stage, would have had its
effect, expressed his pride and anger. I would fain have
given the man more money, but the Russian placed him-
self between us, gave the servants a wink, and they turned
the dissatisfied man out of doors. And so that incident
was over.
" I, however, went out soon after into the street, where
I expected to find the Moor, and there he stood, sur-
rounded by a flock of ragged fellows. The money, which
the servant had laid outside the door, lay there still in
the same place. I tendered him about three times more
than had been offered him, giving him to understand that
it was from myself.
" His eyes rolled in his head. He pointed once more
to the few coins the other had offered him, showed me his
rags, and held my arm back. He would not accept any-
thing ; shook his clenched fist towards the house, and
went away, proud as a mortified noble. This first scene
in Malta put me out of humour."

THE WATER CURE IN CHRONIC DIS-
EASES : an E 3 position of the Causes, Progress, and
Terminations of various Chronic Diseases of the Diaes-
tive Organs, Lungs, Nerves, Limbs, and Shin ; ana of
their Treatment by Water, and other Hygienic Means.
By James Manby Gully, M.D.
There can be no doubt but that cold water is a
most important therapeutic agent, neither can there
be any doubt but that its therapeutic powers have
been too long overlooked or neglected by the legiti-
mate professors of the healing art. Of that which the
educated physician has neglected the uneducated em-
piric has been but too glad to avail himself ; and, acting
upon the principle that cold water is an universal re-
medy, and that it cannot be applied too freely or too
frequently, he has, by administering it not wisely nor
too well, done much towards bringing into disrepute
a truly valuable remedy, while by professing to do
that by means of cold water which all educated medi-
cal men know it is impossible to accomplish by any
remedy, he has disgusted them by his absurd profes-
sions and induced them to treat the cold water cure
with supercilious contempt instead of investigating
its powers with care and attention. Peeling con•
vinced as we do of the great value of cold water as a
remedial agent in many diseases, it is with unmixed
feelings of satisfaction that we have read this very
valuable, learned, and carefully written work by Dr.
Gully, who thus explains his objects in writing this
which may truly be called the Hydropathic Practice
of Physic. _ _ _

" I put this work forward as an attempt in the right
way of handling the subject of the water cure, with a
hope that it will be carried out by wore able observers
and writers. Until it is treated gravely, earnestly, and
truthfully, as a matter of scientific importance, it never
will obtain the footing in the opinion of the public which
it ought to have: for in this land of thinking heads,
nothing endures unless it addresses itself to sober
thought. It is not by " Tributes" and " Confessions"
of water patients that the water cure is to be per-
manently advanced: they are mere puffs indirect, which
may answer a temporary purpose by luring the same
class of credulous people who would swallow pills or
have their corns cut on the strength of " Testimonials"
in the newspapers. But productions of their class do
permanent injury to the establishment of a new and
philosophical mode of treatment; the thinking see
through them, and disappointment awaits the unthink-
ing, who expect to realise the glowing pictures they ex-
hibit: and thus a good cause is lost by bad advocacy.
Such advertisements, and those more direct which tell,
in lengthened. columns, of water cure establishments,
are precisely what the enemies of the treament would
desire:—

Hoc Ithacus relit, magno mercentur Atridre.'
Nor can the members of the medical profession be blamed
for refusing to acknowledge a plan of treatment so advo-
cated."

He explains the manner in which cold water acts on
the system, in enabling it to get rid of chronic visce-
ral disease in a succinct and scientific manner, with-
out attempting any of those marvels with the relation
of which the public have of late been amused, while
the profession has' been disgusted. Speaking of the
enormous quantities of cold water which some pa-
tients have been compelled to pour down their throats,
he says— _

" Yet in no case is it desirable to swallow the twenty
or thirty tumblers before breakfast which we are told
are so delightful and refreshing; it is to be hoped they
were tumblers of short measure."

It would be out of place in a newspaper to go mi-
nutely into the questions discussed in these pages.
Dr. Gully has brought to the advancement of the
principles of Hydropathy all the aid which truth and
science can afford. He has successfully combated
many of the old prejudices by which the advancement
is opposed, and has argued his case fairly, logically,
and clearly. Every professional man who wishes for
a scientific exposition of the principles of the cold
water cure should study this work, which is one of
the most valuable contributions that has of late been
made to medical science.

KNIGHT'S WEEKLY VOLUME, No. CVIII.
THE FOOD OF MAN. Vol. 2.
In this continuation of the description of vegetable
substances used for the food of man, we are presented
with, what we must be permitted to call, a delicious
little volume about fruit : a profusion of woodcuts,
scattered through the letter• press, embellish the ob-
servations cf the writer, and represent to us, one
after another, each species of dainty pulled from the
orchard-bough, the bramble, and the trailing branches
of the wall-trees. The pages are absolutely beau-
tiful with sunshine and greenery ; the chapters seem
to be nooks
" Where autumn basks, with fruit empurpled deep."
Beyond this Thompson's verses are realised to a still
greater nicety; the book, like the poet's garden,

" Presents the downy peach, the shining plum,
The ruddy fragrant nectarine, and dark
Beneath his ample leaf, the luscious fig."
Nevertheless, while we acknowledge this little volume
to be a preservative against Apemantus and his dish
oF roots, we rapt observe that some of the woodcuts

I are execrable libels upon the originals. Witness
thst of the gooFeberrie., like globular snail-shells, and
' intolerable apricots, like so many freckled
castinets. The descriptions which accompany these
illustrations have a threefold excellence. They are
crowded with anecdotes; they dilate upon the flavour
of the fruitage ; and they afford us an accurate know-
ledge of the properties of each. Here, therefore, is a
threefold attraction—to the blasé, the hypocondriac,
and the gourmand. Some of the anecdotes are laugh-
able enough, as that one about Frederick the Great,
who is described as " passionately fond of melons."
The monarch is indisposed, sends for his physician,
Zimmerman, and it is ultimately discovered that
he has been devouring three .or four melons for
breakfast. Zimmerman remotistrates, and the King
orders some of the fruit to be sent to him—either by
way of reprisal or excuse. ' Again, coffee is said
to
have been such a positive necessity at one period in
Turkey, that " the refusal to supply it in reasonable
quantity to a wife was reckoned among the legal
causes for a divorce?' Pity that Socrates did not
happen to be a Turk ! After running through these
pages, the reader will almost long to hear the invita-
tion of old Justice Shallow—" You shall see mine
orchard, where, in an arbour, we will eat a last year's
pippin of my own graffing."

THE LIFE OF CARDINAL WOLSEY. By
John Galt. Bogue's European Library.
A biography of Cardinal Wolsey I and written
by John Galt ! Aware as we were that the present
volume is nothing more than a reprint; familiar as
we werewith its merits; intimately as we were ac-
quainted with the various circumstances of Wolsey's
career, and the different characteristics of Galt's
style, we must yet confess that the bare announce-
ment o f this republication had for ourselves an ex-
traordinary attraction. To those who are only aware
of the author's powers through his fictions, the pre-
sent work will be matter of actual astonishment. In
his novels Galt was all sprightliness or pensiveness,
all drollery or sentiment. In this memoir he writes
like a ripe historian. Take his " Entail," for example,
with that most fantastic and harmless of all idiots,
" Wattie ;" with that most comical of all conceits,
the " Wee Betty Bodle ;" with its strange and haunt-
ing pathos. We could scarcely picture to
ourselves, in a day-dream, the same pen
writing the "Entail" and the " Life of Byron."
nor the same pen writing "The Life of Byron"
and the "Life of Wolsey." The first is all domestic
extravagance ; the second, all ruggedness; the third,
remarkable for its philosophical tone, its comprehen-
siveness, its melodious diction, and its sustained
rhetoric. Nevertheless, what it gains in dignity
it loses in naturalness ; while it conveys an accurate
view of the great Ca'rdinal's position among his con-
temporaries, it fails in affording us a pictur-
esque and distinct view of his character as a
companion, as a friend, as a master, and as a man.
In this respect we are certainly disposed to think
with the industrious editor, Mr. Ilazlitt, that it is in-
ferior "in those personal and domestic details "
which impart such a peculiar charm to the narrative
of Cavendish. While we must consider that the
editor has acted judiciously in inserting the
principal portion of the volume by George
Cavendish in the present work, both as
footnotes and as a supplement, we must
candidly confess that we are not disposed to welcome
the modernising of the text of that charming bio-
grapher. As well might one attempt to modernise
Chaucer or Gower with success. Cavendish's de-
scriptions are invested with a peculiar interest from
the very antiquity of his manner ; and the removal of
that ostensible antiquity removes the main consci-
ousness of its authenticity during the perusal—just
as an old medal would look spurious if newly
lacquered, and an ancient suit of armour if burnished
and trimmed. As it is, however, the addition of
"Cavendish's biography to the present edition of Gait's
work is a very judicious and important addition.
It renders this book the most complete history of
Cardinal Wolsey yet published—the one written by
Fiddes is contemptible in comparison. The most
perfect
man is that
discriminatii;ty sakpe
n of
htl
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character of this
fiothsu
won-
derfulr
fol-
lowing lines relieve his memory from two imputa-
tions, which would otherwise amount to moral blem-
ishes of a heinous description :
" Lofty and sour, to them that loved him not,
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
And though he was unsatisfied in getting,
(Which was a sin), yet in bestowing
He was most princely."
From pride, therefore, he is "exonerated by the
greatest of poets, while of avarice he presents us
with his own palliation. Every scholar will be
grateful to Mr. Bogue for this republication.

WAVERLEY NOVELS. Abbotsford Edition.
• Vol. XL
To speak of the subject-matter of these volumes is
of course utterly superfluous ; it is enough to say
that their extrinsic adornments—letter-press, bind-
ing, engravings, &c.—are, for the most part, ex-
cellent—that this edition is not unworthy of its name.
Yet, were we disposed to be critical, we might take
exception to some of the wood-cuts, intended as illus-
trations of the text, which appear to great disadvan-
tage beside the beautiful landscapes, or the accurate
delineations of old armour, coins, costumes, &c., with
which the volume is richly adorned. Whatever the
artists may have thought to the contrary, the repre-
sentations of the imaginary scenes are not the least
important, or the least arduous part of their under-
taking, for whereas the other drawings only repre-
sent places or things, these are, or rather should be,
embodiments of the ideal. Who has read the pages
of a romance—of a romance traced by the graphic
hand of Scott—without forming in his own mind a
conception of the passing scenes so vividly portrayed.
therein. The artist, then, who attempts to copy
these pen-and-ink designs with his pencil, has not
only to stand the test of ordinary criticism, but
to risk a comparison with the ideal already fa-
miliar to our fancy—it is a hazardous endeavour, and
no wonder that, in some instances, it has failed en-
tirely. The eleventh volume of this splendid edition,
(splendid, notwithstanding the blemish to which we
have referred), contains the stories of " Anne of Geier..
stein," and " The Fair Maid of Perth"—the Fair
Maid of Perth "- the latter chapters of which, re-
cording the mournful fate of the hapless Duke of
Rothsay, are fraught with such melancholy and thril-
ling interest—an historical romance from the pen of
him whose histories read like romance, and whose
fictions like reality. The Scottish tale is embellished
with various representations of old armour from the
Abbotsford collection, and coins of the monarch to
whose reign it refers ; while the Switz s.'cori is
adorned with specimens of the costume of the dif-
ferent cantons, admirably executed. Besides the
portraits of the author, which form the frontispiece,
this volume contains eleven steel engravings from
drawings by Stanfield. It was, perhaps, unfortunate
that two countries should be illustrated in the same
volume, so similar, and yet so dissimilar, as Scotland
and Switzerland. But, however dubious the line of
demarcation, the artist has defined it well. He has
imperceptibly, but forcibly, exemplified the distinc-
tion between the rugged beauties of " the land of
brown heath and shaggy wood" and the sublimer
grandeur of the land of mountains. This may be
seen by comparing the view of Ben Lawers—a beau-
tiful engraving, where the mountains in the distance-
seem melting into the sky, and the trees absolutely:
growing in the foreground—with a " scene fro m
Mount Pilate," which—only a scene from a v ast
picture—only a fragment of immensity—forcibly im-
presses us with an idea of the magnificence of the
whole. Again, dis distinction is apparent, on
contrasting the beautiful views of Perth and /la ucerne.
The "fair city" on the banks of the "am plc Tay,"
surrounded by the varied landscape Scott has so ad-
mirably described, presents a beautiful 'picture of
repose ; and, even though bathed in the silver moon-
light, the dark tinge of the " brown heP.th" is discern-
able on the hills,
,and the whole scene has a warm.
colouring which contrasts forcibly with the back-
ground of " Lucerne," where the " mountains:piled cm
mountains," are covered with the " Alpine snow, Ira..
perishably pure." En revanche for our criticism on
the wood-cuts, we must observe, that there is one, a
portrait of King Rene, from a painting suppose:d to
have been done by himself, which is of peculiar 'ex-
cellence ; and, among others of average merit, is a
likeness of the "Fair Maid of Perth, wherein she
tiat
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appears fully entitled to her flattering appell• *Con.
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its close,
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of useful and interesting information. Beyol id all
these advantages, it is published at sixpence !

Al. Short is appointed police magistrate in the
room of Mr. Bond, deceased.

ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.—We understan I that
Mr. Batty has made another accession to his 'already
talented and numerous Company in the per gam of
Monsieur and Madame Steinbreecht, and four sp leadidly
trained horses from Berlin, which are said to exc iel any-
thing ever seen in the school of the menage. T he gen-
tleman is Stalmiester (or Master of the Horsey u , his
Majesty the King of Prussia, and, with his b,orses and
attendants, arrived in London, from Bern!, by w ay of
Hamburgh and Hull, on Saturday last, and_ will ap pear.
forthwith, at the Amphitheatre. Mr. P.iatty has also,
since the arrival of the camels, made r.tnother act lition
to his stud, having purchased two sple•adid zebras,, which
will be introduced in the forthcoming spectacle, s sfford
irg another proof of the tact and enterprise w' Ain b has
charaqexised his proceedings thr9ugh, life.
____

SPECIAL MEETINGS
of both companies were next successively held, presided
over by Mr. Barlow, at which
The CMAIBMAN explained that the sense of the share-
holders wa3 to be taken on the propriety of giving the
directors power to treat with the Great Western Com-
pany for the sale of the two line&

- The same report was submitted and adopted by both
meetings. The following is its substance :
The report stated that the directors, in order to carry
out the intention of the shareholders, and the early con-
struction of the lines, thought it best to call in the
assistance of another company rather than to depend on
the making of calls upon the shareholders. To curry
out the scheme promptly and successfully they applied
to the Great Western Company to purchase, instead of
leasing the line. In order, however, to give effect
to any ,arrangement for selling the lines, it
was necessary that they should go to Parliament.
No terms with the Great Western had been come to,
nor could the directors state what those terms would be,
or the probable result of any future negotiation.
Resolutions, giving the directors power to treat for
the sale of the line, and authorising them to apply for
a Bill to effect the same, were severally agreed to.
The shareholders then separated.

CORK AND PER3IOY DIRECT
RAILWAY.
An adjourned meeting of the share and s2ripholtlers of
the Cork and Fermoy Direct Railway Company took place
yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of
determining whether, under the provisions of Lord
Dalhousie's Act, the company should be dissolved or
not. The first meeting took place last Monday, and
was adjourned till yesterday in consequence of there not
being a sufficient number of votes present to constitute
the meeting according to the provisions of the Act. The
meeting was advertised for twelve o'clock, but it was
nearly one before E. J. Spieres, Esq., took the chair.
The minutes of the meeting on Monday last, having
been read by the secretary, were confirmed, and the
scrutineers then proceeded to take the remaining votes.
In answer to a question from a shareholder,
The CrtainmAN stated that they had 1,7491. in hand,
that there would probably be claims for expenses to
the amount of 300 L, which would leave them a balance
of somewhere about 1,450 L

The SECRETARY said that this was independent of Mr.
Sherlock's elahn. That gentleman had already had 5001.,
and he had been requested to send in his claim, but had
not done so.

A SHAREHOLDER, in answer to a question from the
Chairman, stated that he did not know what the amount of
Mr. Sherlock's claim would be, but it would probably
amount to 3,0001.
The CHAIRMAN said that the London solicitor had
had 4004 on account, and he understood that he did not
intend to make any further claim. Mr. Sherlock had
had 5001.

At two o'clock the SECRETARY declared the number
of votes to be 605, which number not being sufficient
legally to constitute a meeting for a dissolution, the
meeting broke up.
A meeting of shareholders was then constituted, Mr.
Valentine in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN havinr, read a statement of the pre-
liminary expenses, which he said he considered all would
think reasonable,
A resolution was proposed and adopted to the effect,
that it be a recommendation to the directors to divide
10s. a share, reserving the surplus for the settlement of
any other claims that might Le made, and after those
claims had been settled to return the remainder to the
shareholders.

The CHAIRMAN said if he got back 15s. a share he
should think himself well off.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting broke up.

DEATH OF Ma. TERNAN, THE ACTOR.—This
gentleman, so well known in the theatrical world, expired
on the 17th instant, after an illness of many months, at
the early period of 42 years.
FIRE IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.--On Saturday
night last, the establishment of Messrs. Nicholson, fur-
riers, north side of St. Paul's Churchyard, was placed
in great jeopardy, a fire having been discovered under
the flooring of the first floor. A strong smell of smoke
and great heat had been observed throughout the day.
The firemen and engines from Watling-street and Far-
ringdon-street were procured, and after the exertions of
the firemen for an hour and a half the danger ceased, but
great damage was done to the building, and also to that
of Mr. Purday, adjoining. The fire had been smoul-
dering some days, and originated from one of the lower
flues.

NELSON COLUMN IN TRAPALGAU-SQUARE.—By the
death of Mr. J. Ternouth, the sculptor, another delay
has occurred in the completion of this long deferred debt
of gratitude to the great hero of Trafalgar. Mr. Ter-
nouth was one of the four artists entrusted with the
modelling of the bronze bas reliefs for the base of the
column. He had made his design, and sent it in to the
Woods and Forests fur approval, before the retirement
of Lord Lincoln from the head of that department ; and
nothing has been done to further the completion of the
monument since Lord Morpeth's appointment, and this
not from any dislike or disinclination on the part of his
Lordship, but simply from the circumstance that his
time has been fully employed on matters of greater and
more immediate moment. The designs for the four
great battles, St. Vincent, the Nile, Copenhagen, and
Tiafalgar, are as yet without official sanction ; but this
delay, we trust, is only temporary. A.new artist should
benominated at once to succeed Mr. Ternouth; or to
complete his design, if fit for its purpose, and sialiCiently
advanced to be available. Mr. Ternouth had worked in
the studio of Sir Francis Chantrey, was a gentleman of
modestand affable manners, and of some talent in his art.
ThillußDEtt or Cor.ms.—There is every reason
to Suppose that this horrid deed has been avowed by the
•perpetrator.Platts, at present a prisoner in Derby gaol,
on charge of the wilful murder of George Collis.
Rumour is various as to the perst n to whom confession
has been made, but from all we can learn it seems that
a turnkey, hearing sobbing and lamentation from Platte,
went to him, when he immediately commenced a confes-
sion of the murder, stating that he had first stabbed the
unfortunate Collis, and then knocked him on the head,
afterwards cut up the body, and carried it to the cess-
pool where it was found. It will be h'ighly satisfac-
tory if this rumour be confirmed, as we have no doubt
i"ill be, although at present it lacks authority.—Derby
Ceieiee.
'-EnAst ATTOTtNEYS AT P
gistrates rt OLICE-COURTS.—The ma-
kouthwark Pollee-court have issued a
caution to the public, rogue
stingall
person: to apply for
information to the magistrate,
in
and known afieers of the
Court, and not to loiterers
the avenues of the Court.
This stOp has been found necessary
prisoners and their friends being s:ari fin consequence ofaud
obtained under pretence 01 ch.fendino.'tyled of money,
em, by sham at-
torneys hanging about the Court.
COUNSEL'S OPINION ON TILE WELLINGTON SA
TUTE.—Lord Morpeth has made, perhaps, as goarda" move as possible to obtain the judgment oft the " com-
petent persons" on Mr. Wyatt's triumphal statue. His
Lordship has, we -are informed, addressed a circular to
all the Royal Academicians, requesting that he may be
favoured with their opinion as to the effect of the statue
on the arch.—Athencer

REAT WESTERN and WYCOMBE

RAILWAY.
The first general meeting of the proprietors of this
company was held yesterday at half-past eleven o'clock.
Frederic Pratt Barlow, Esq., in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said, the present meeting was for the
transaction of the ordinary business of the company,
preliminary to the special general meeting, which was to
succeed it.. The directors were not under any obliga-
tion to call the present meeting for several months, but
as a special general meeting was to be held at the close
of the present one, and as the power of the directors
ceased on that day, it was necessary to hold the general
meeting for the election of directors before the special
business could be gone into. When these two lines
were originally proposed the state of the railway world
was much different to what it was now, but from the
altered times and the condition of the money market,
and in order to relieve the shareholders of frequent
calls for the construction of the line, it was thought best
that an arrangement should be come to with an
established company. But to make a treaty of the kind
referred to, the directors wishcd to be placed in the
position and to have the power to do so. The directors
hadfound the directors of the Great Western Company
willing to treat with them; and although he (the Chair-
man) was not in a condition to lay any terms before
them at present, he had no doubt that some satisfactory
arrangement would be come to. All that was required
at present was for the shareholders to give the directors
power to treat, and for that purpose had the special
genetal meeting, which was to follow, been convened.
The SECRETARY then read the report :
" Whilst your directors have much pleasure in being
able to announce to their shareholders the success at-
tending their application to Parliament for a Bill for
making a railway from Maidenhead to Wycombe, and
from West Drayton to Uxbridge, the Act for which has
been granted and the royal assent given thereto in July
last, they cannot but regret that the outlay should have
been attended with so heavy an expenditure compared
with the magnitude of the undertaking. The Bill had
to encounter a strong opposition in the Committee of
the House of Commons, of fourteen days duration, with
the London and Oxford projected Railway.
"The. directors have convened the first general meeting
of the proprietors of the company, for the purpose of
conforming to the clause of the Consolidation Act, to
effect which resolutions will be submitted for your ap•
provaL"
Mr. DELLONY moved the adoption of the report.
Mr. THOMSON seconded the motion; which was put
and unanimously agreed to.
Resolutions were then submitted and successively
carried, appointing Frederic Pratt Barlow, Esq.; Robert
Wheeler, Esq.; A. F. Paul, Eq.; George Emery, Esq.;
Francis Parker, Esq ; and William Rose, Esq., direc-
tors, with 400/. a year, and nominating the secretary,
Mr. J. H. Wilson, at 1001., and two auditors at 5L each.

GREAT WESTERN AND UXBRIDGE RAIL-

WAY.
The meeting next resolved itself into a general meet-
ing of the shareholders of this company. Mr. Barlow
in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said the same report which had been
adopted by the Great Western and Wycombe meeting
would do for the present one, and the explanation he
had given of the affair of the one company would suffice
for the other.

The report was then submitted and unanimously
adopted.
The resolution appointing tile same directors as those'
appointed for the previous company, and fixing their
remuneration at 2001. a year, were agreed to, and the
salary of the secretary fixed at 1001.
This terminated the general business of both com-
panies, and