The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-07 00:00:00

THE RAILWAY REGISTER.

In the present number we have several articles,
setting forth improvements in the working of rail-
ways, such for instance as the Geometrical Railway,
by Mr. Greenhow ; the Resilient Atmospheric Rail-
way Tube, by Clarke and Varley ; the Short Close
Tube Traction, by Mr. Swinburne ; and Mr. Pil-
brow's, of the improvements which he has recently
introduced into his system of railway traction. In
addition to these contributions, Mr. Hyde Clarke, the
editor, furnishes a valuable paper on the Theory of
Investment in Railway Companies, and on the ability
of the resources of the nation, monetary and physical,
to meet the demands which must necessarily be made
upon them to carry out the railway system.

THE ART UNION.
In addition to the usual contents of the Art Union,
we have in the present number a beautiful engraving,
by Laugier, of Luca Giordano's famous picture of
Charity, which was one of the gems of the Aguado
Gallery.

THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE. No. X. By

Charles Lever.

A faint glimmering of hope appears in the gloom
of Maurice Darcy's prospects and, from a mysterious
intimation made to Bagenal Daly, by the robber
Freney, during the confinement of the latter in New-
gate, there is some probability of the old Knight's
property being restored to him, and his various rights
recognised by the miserable parvenu O'Reilly. One
of Lever's happiest descriptions of the society en-
countered in a sea-coast watering-place in Ireland is
contained in this number. Paul Dempsey is one of
those execrable nuisances so capable of being an
acquisition to a farce, and a terrible bore in reality.
Phiz has delineated the bathing•scene at Ballintray,
with a caravan labelled " Fumbally—a Panther with
only two spots from the head to the tail," "little frescoes
of naked children," the "fat lady with the black
bathing cap," and " pretty Miss Boyle of Carrick-
tnaclash, with one stocking on," in a spirit of drollery
true to the text of Harry Lorrequer. From the fol-
lowing, or some later number, we may anticipate a
narrative of our old favourite Daly conniving at the
escape of Freney, and we hope a description of a
triumphal return of Maurice and his family to
Gwynne Abbey. The liveliness which is the chief
characteristic of Mr. Lever's writings, and which
constitutes not their smallest attraction, is preserved
throughout this fiction with singular felicity. We
have already particularised the present as promising
to be the very best of the fictions produced by this
accomplished author; that opinion is only confirmed
with every successive chapter.

STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE.--A short time ago a
resident in Dornoch had a lien which hatched four birds,
and then died, leaving the little ones to themselves. In
this dilemma one of the little birds was put with a cat
who had kittens, but took kindly with the orphans; and
upon this being observed the other three birds were in-
trusted to the same nurse. The cat is now most zealous
in her charge, defends the young brood from all aggres-
sors, and the little birds run after her through the house.
If any other cat comes near, she defends the feathered
foundlings, who come under at night, and, in fact, dis-
charges all the domestic duties 'to chuckie.—Jobt o'
Groat Journal.