The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-01 00:00:00

MAJOR'S CABINET GALLERY,

We have just this instant received
number of this delightful work—one
most attractive and valuable of the day.
we have not time just now to do it Pi'
shall reserve our comments for some moi
day.

LITERATURE.

BYROIQ'S LIFE AND WORKS. yak

LONDON, 1833.

The present volume (the fourteenti
prises the sublime and equably sustains'
of Cain ; the horrid prosing stuff called "
which Lord Byron mistook to be a
the " Age of Bronze," a pungent,
satire in his Lordship's best style; and tl
ing tale of the Island founded on Captail
well-known narrative of the Mutin.
Bounty ; and (all things considered) -
affecting verses Lord Byron ever penned,
we mean, which were suggested by the
lion of his thirty-sixth year. The ilk
as usual, are two in number, engraved
Findens, from designs by Turner. Bot
gravings are good, but Turner's design
Field of Waterloo, is one of the most
productions we ever saw. There is ri(
head nor tail of it.

CHAMBERS' HISTORY OF SCO
Two VOLS. LONDON. 1835.
A very useful little work, the resu
diligence and labour on the part of
Mr. Chambers. It will make a capit.
history, as it is remarkable for the cleara
simplicity of its details.

LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLO
The present (which is the thirty•nintl
of this miscellany, consists wholly of.a
on Heat," from the pen of the learn
The treatise is an elaborate one, an(
many matters of curious scientific in
We give an extract or two :

" HEAT AND LIGHT.
" Innumerable operations of nature proceed
and as effectually in the absence of light as
present. The want of that sense which it is
affect in the animal economy in no degree
other powers of the body, nor in man does •
interfere in any way with the faculties of
Light is, so to speak, an article rather of lurta
positive necessity. Nature supplies it, there(
unlimited abundance, nor at all times and pi
ther with that thrift and economy which sl
observe in dispensing the objects of our
pared with those which are necessary to our
beat, on the contrary, she has yielded in the mosl
eel plenteoutinesh. Heat is everywhere prof!'
object that exists contains it in quantity wii
limit. The most inert and rude masses are
it. Whatever we see, bear, smell, taste,
of it. To its influence is due that endless so
which are spread over and beautify the
globe. Land, water, air, could not for a
exist as they do, in its absence; all would
into one rude formless mass—solid and
The air of heaven, hardening into a crust, svo'
the globe, and crush within an everlasting for
contains. Heat is the parent and the nurse
beauties of organization ; the mineral, the
animal kingdom, are its offspring. Every
tore is either immediately produced by its .
tamed by its influence, or intimately depencle
Withdraw heat, and instantly all life,
and beauty, will cease to exist, and it may be
' Chaos has come again.'
" SEEK') OF TFLAVILLING.
"The swiftest flight of a carrier pigeon doe,
the rate of twenty-six miles an hour. It
that the velocity of a high wind is at the
thirty to thirty-five miles an hour. The
on the Manchester and Liverpool Itailvit
known to travel about six. and-thirty miles
it is stated, in the evidence before a Come
House of Commons, the steam-carriages,
common roads at a speed exceeding forty in'

Accounts reached town yesterdays
informed soure •, which enab'e uR Co
fine fact. that Mr. STANLEY has been rem'
Secretaryship of Ireland. He is, it aPPear*
Lord GODZAICH at the ial.office. fle'!fter,
poor black slave 4 ! Colon
Morniny Reg'