The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-27 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

GREAT BRITAIN FOR FORTY YEARS.
LONDON, 1834.

This little volume contains much valuable
information, wholly of a practical character, re-
specting the past and present commercial re-
sources of the country. The chapter which will
be read with the most attention, and which is
most likely to produce a salutary effect, is the
one entitled " Capital Produced by Labour," in
which the causes of many popular errors on the
subject are fully and satisfactorily explained.

The "Duty Paid List," published by the
cuvoms, gives the quantities of wines cleared during 11
days, ending with Friday se'nnight, as follows :—Sberry,
87,675 gallons, equal to 811 butts ; Port, 98,938 gallons,
equal to 860 pipes; Madeira, 10,423 gallons, equal to
113 pipes ; French, 7,640 gallons, equal to 166 hogs-
heads ; Cape, 11,679 gallons, equal to 127 pipes ; all
others 15,354 gallons, various. Total, 231,709 gallons.
On the Thursday and Friday the quantities of Port and
Sherry alone were, of the first, 25,818 gallons, or about
225 pipes ; of the other, 24,692 gallons,or about 220 butts.

Pursuant to public notice, a numerous and
highly-respectable meeting of the yeomanry and others at
Highworth and its neigobourhood took place at the
King and Queen Inn, on Wednesday last, the 19th inst.
James Crowdy, Esq., was called to the chair, when a
petition to the House of Commons for the total repeal of the
malt duty teas unanimously agreed to.
FIRES IN GERMANY.-There are frequent
fires, not only in Spanish Bavaria, but even in our neigh-
bourhood. On the toad from Manheim to this city, you
piss through many villages, in which you see houses 1 ttely
burnt, and others new built ; of course they were all in-
sured. In Odenwalde there are even places in which the
houses lately rebuilt by the Insurance Company, are again
burnt down.—Frankfort Paper. _ _ _

The infant hon. Charlotte Maria Barrington,
whose melancholy death we detailed on Tuesday, was
born the 16th December, 1826, and was, consequently,
in her eighth year. She was the eldest daughter of the
present Viscount Barrington by the hon. Jane Elizabeth
Liddell, daughter of Lord Ravensworth. Lord and Lady
Barrington reside generally with their family at their seat,
Beckett House, Berks, and had arrived only at Lord
Charles Townshend's, in Cavendish-square, to attend the
Drawing-Room, three or four days prior to the melancholy
nt.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, FEB. 25.
The sales to-day are estimated at 3,000 bags, of which
1,000 have been taken on speculation. Prices remain as
before, but the market appeals firm.
FEROCITY OF A DOG.—A t New Boling-
broke a few days ago, a dog which had broke its chain
fastened on its master's child with such ferocity, that it
could not be got off until its throat was cut ; and when in
the agonies of death, it sprung up and seized the mother
of the child.---Boston Herald.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.-011
Wednesday week, a party of moue ping relatives left Shef-
field with a corpse, intended for interment at Ecking,on,
but where, from some extraordinary neglect, there being
no clergyman in attendance, a female was under the p iin-
ful necessity of performing the funeral service.— York
Courant.

THE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE-(Mr.
Buhver's new production) has just app-ared ; the concep-
tion of the tale is in the purest and most refined spirit of
poetry, and the incidents of the narrative strikingly inte-
resting. Its unique and costly embellishments admirably
illustrate the lovely scenes through which the Pilgrims are
made to wander.

The funeral of a female disciple of the St.
Simonians took place at Lyons a few d iys ago. There
was nothing wrapped round the corpse but a piece of light
blue calico, and the coffin was borne by four women.
Upon the pall there was the following inscription, " New
Faith—Eternity."

We have accounts from St. Domingo to the
sth ult. Very great alarm prevailed throughout the
island in consequence of its being generally expected that
an expedition from France against the republic would ap-
pear, and that all the ports would he blockaded. The
whole island was in consequence in great excitement, and
preparations were making for defence at every point. The
leading parties at Hayti appear extremely desirous that a
commercial treaty with France should be concluded.

ISLE OF SKYE.—Mr. Donald Macdiarmid,
a native of the Island of Skye, emigrated to America
many years ago, and settled in South Carolina as a mer-
chant. By perseverance and success in business, be
reaiiaed a considerable sum of money. About ten or twelve
years ago, Mr. Maciliarmid remitted 1,4001. to a gentle-
man in Skye, but without mentioning the object he had in
view in doing so. After a silence of many years, Mr.
Macdiarmid's friend received a letter from him in the lit-
ter end of the year 1831, pointing out the manner in
which he wished his money to be appropriated. He
directed that certain sums should be paid to some friends
in Skye, and that 1,0001. should be laid out in endowing
•4 school for the education of poor children in his
native parish of Portree. Mr. Macdiarmid died up-
wards of a year ago, and a reverend gentleman in
Skye has since received a letter from his executors,
stating that, in addition to the former endowment of
1,000/ Mr. Macdiarmid had bequeathed the further sum
of 1,0001. for the purpose of establishing another school
in Portree.— Greenock Intelligencer.

STRANGE BEDFELLOW.—On the morning
of Saturday week, an old woman, residing in a house on
the Castle Hill, was unspeakably surprised, on awaking
from her night's rest, to find a strange animal lying at
her back, with one of its paws over her shoulder. Scream-
ing with affright, she left her bed, and, seizing a towel,
beat the poor animal with all her might, when, with one
bound, it sprung to the farthest corner of the room, and
at length took refuge in another bed which stood in the
same apartment. When the poor woman had a little
recovered from her alarm, and had dissipated the idea of
in. being a visiter from the nether regions, she remem-
bered that a collection of wild beasts was at present exhi-
biting on the mound, and began to suspect that her lodger
was one of the number. She immediately went and called
upon Mr. Wombwell, when it was discovered that one of
the kangeroos had made its escape during the night, and,
going up to the Castle-hill, had found this poor woman's
door open, and, upon examination, finding that it could
be as completely accommodated beside her as in its own
den in the menagerie, betook itself to rest, which was
broken in upon in the morning in the manner we have
mentioned. The kangeroo was returned to Mr.Wombwell,
who remunerated the old woman for its night's lodging.—.
Edinburgh Paper_