The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-27 00:00:00

EUROPE.

Germany... ...... £816,718 Spain .. £62,472
Netherlands 389,910 Fiance .. 43,186
Italy 191,081 Turkey 27,829
Russia 141,997 Prussia 626
Portugal 96,625 —Leeds Mercury.
LIBRARY OF IRISH ROMANCE.—Mr. Ba-
nim's celebrated story of "The Croppy," we understand,
will form the February number of the " Irish National
Tales," a collection of the most celebrated works of modern
Irish authors, publishing at only 4s. per volume, bound,
and intended to accomplish, as far as possible, for Irish
story, what Sir Walter Soott has done for Scottish na-
tional history. The Edinburgh Review, in speaking of
Mr. Banim's tales, justly says, " that the genius of the
writer, like that irregular offspring of fire, the potheen
his native land, has not only a strength, but a wildness
of flavour about it, which it would be in vain to look for
in productions more amenable to the gauge of criticism.
The author is one of the most masterly painters of national
character that have yet appeared in Ireland."
DEMORALISING EFFECTS OF OPIUM IN
CHINA.—Our Indian subjects will he more likely to suc-
ceed in conquering China by the demoralising effect of
opium than we should by force of arms. The horrible
scenes described by M. Gutzlaff are most appalling. Mr.
Marjoribanks says the palace of the Viceroy of Canton was
burned down by the opium pipe of his secretary ; that the
Emperor's eldest son died from excessive indulgence in the
use of it ; and that all persons of wealth are addicted to it.
To such a pitch has the smuggling trade arrived, that one
of the Viceroy 3 recommended it should be legalized. It is
said that the amount paid for this deleterious drug is
nearly four millions sterling a year, mostly from Bengal.
If once legalised, the poppy, like tobacco, will be univer-
sally cultivated, all ranks will become enervated and reck-
less, and the western mountaineers, recently and perhaps
still in a state of rebellion, will once more conquer and
overcome China.— Quarterly Review, No. 100.
DOVER HARBOUR.—It is not in the re-
membrance of any one that the bar of shingle, at the
entrance of our harbour, has ever accumulated to the
extent it is at present. For the sake of record, it has
been measured, and ascertained to be 740 feet in length
from the South Pier—the width 170 feet, and in depth
11 feet, from the South to the North Pier. Some little
idea may thus be formed of the amazing bulk of beach
which invariably collects at this spot whenever the wind
blows strong between the south and west point; but
whence it comes, or whither it goes, no one cin positively
ascertain. As a proof, however, that it does not come
from I)ungeness, nor go beyond the South Foreland, we
are told that, at these places, the beach differs in quality
from that which is on our shore ; and if, as some suppose,
it is a complete vortex, from Shakspeare Cliff to the South
Foreland—thence to sea—and returning again, by the
effect of the tides—beach would have been found en
sounding; but, strange to say, none can be discovered
below low water mark. We have the satisfaction, how-
ever, of knowing, that his Grace the Duke of Wellington,
as Lord Warden and Chief Commissioner of the Harbour,
will not fail to use his best endeavours in employing the
most effective means for remedying the disadvantage 80
long prevailing.—Kentish Observer.