The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-09 00:00:00

AN ABRIDGEMENT OF ZU3IPT S LATIN

GRAMMAR.
By the Rev. J. Kenrick, M.A. Fellowes, 1834.

A re-abridgement of this school-book would make it of
infinitely more service to children. At present it is too
long—too critical—too full of nice distinctions, above the
comprehension of mere boys. One hundred and eighty-
two pages of a book intended for a simple abridgment of
the detail of the first principles of a language, is rather an
extraordinary quantity. For our part, on looking it care-
fully over, we were not struck by any superiority which it
might claim for facilities of being learned over a Lilly's,
Whettenhall's, Ruddiman's, or a hundred others.

THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND MAGAZINE,
M'Phun, Glasgow ; Simpkin and Marshall, London.

Heaven help us ! will the demons, bigotry and fanaticism,
with their attendant horrors, never be banished the earth ?
Will the mantle of religious and fraternal love never en-
velope the human race ? Are we always to continue tor-
menting each other in this world, and dooming each other
to eternal perdition in the world to come ? Ought such to
be the conduct of Christians indeed? Yet now—now in
the nineteenth century, a land which boasts its superior in-
telligence over the most favoured on earth, sends forth a
publication, intended as a vindication of a national church,
in which will be found all the bloody rant, and perversion
of sacred scripture, recorded in the drum-head sermons of
Cromwell and Claverhouse ! It is inexpressibly painful to
us to speak in this manner of any periodical, but we must
perform what we conceive to be our duty to the public.
The Church of Scotland must be very weak and very de-
fenceless, if she need such assistance ; and we intreat the
members of her venerable synod to look to the evils which
must result to them from being considered the supporters,
if not the authors, of such firebrands now being attempted
to be hurled among the people.

A few days ago a man named Archbold went to the
Armagh Branch of the Provincial Bank and requested a check
on Belfast for 2001., but having counted down the money, it
was observed that there were 1601. of it in notes of the Water-
ford Bank. The clerk asked him where he had got them,
when he answered from his brother, and hurried out of the
bank ; however, he was followed and taken into custody, and
1,350/. in notes found on his person, the chief part in his boots.
He had a female with him to whom he had been lately mar-
ried, and it was supposed it was their intention to proceed to
America. He has been committed to Armagh gaol.—lrish.
Paper.
The Wachler, a Swiss paper, gives an account of a
great musical festival which has taken place at Sulgen. The
number of performers, vocal and instrumental, exceeded 1,000.
The choral society of Thurgovia alone amounted to 700.
Amongst the spectators attracted by this interesting meeting
were the Queen Hortense and Prince Lucien Bonaparte. This
musical fete did not pass off without a slight tincture of poli-
tics. The Pastor Bion addressed the meeting in a fervid
spirit of patriotism, and in the course of his speech compared
the present situation of the country to that in which it was in
Ministers arc," he said,
"f0r1397 us"wThhaet tihloetehsateofoftiGieessFloerrexivgans for our ancestors. Shall
we," he added, "like degenerate Swiss, bow down our heads
under this new yoke ?" Unanimous cries of " Never, never,"
burst forth from the assembly.