The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-13 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

In conseq'ience of a clerical error, the Account of
the Liabilities and A.sets of the Wink of England, published
in last Friday's Gazette was incorrect ; it should have
been as follo,vs :
An ACCOUNT of the LIABILITIES and ASSETS of the
BANK of ENGLAND, on the Average of the last Three
Months ending the 4th February, 1834.
LIABILITIES ASSETS.
Circulation £18,177,000 Securities £24,762,020
Deposits
--
£32,463,00 X 34,716,000

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SWAFFHAM SPRING COURSING MEETING,

FEB. 1 I.—Foe THE CUP.—Mr. Burroughes's Indian beat Mr.
Caldwell's Rustic; Hon. Mr. Rous's Mortimer beat Mr. Strad-
broke's Mariner; Mr. Buckworth's Beppo beat Mr. Burroughes's
Iago; Mr. Gurney's Ada beat Mr Chute's High! order.

WESTACRE SWEEPSTAKES.—Lord Stradbroke's Maria beat
Mr. Burroughes's Icy; Mr. Gurney's Annetta beat Mt. Chute's
Hyacinth.
SWEEPSTAKES FOR FIRST SEASON GREYHOUNDS.—Mr. Bur-
roughes's Ida beat Mr. Caldwell's Robin Hood ; Mr. Chute's
Hotspur beat Mr. Gurney's August.
MATCHES.—Lord Stradbroke's Marksman beat Mr. Cold w ell's
Rifleman; Mr. Gurney's Alonzo beat Mr. Chute's Hudibras ;
Mr. Buckworth's Brutus beat Mr. Burroughes's Inigo ; Mr.
Gurney's Acle beat Mr. Buckworth's Blunt; Mr. Chute's Hugo
beat Mr. Burroughes's Imogene; Mr. Gurney's Artist beat Mr.
Buckworth's Bacchus.

FEB I 9..—FQR THE Cur.—Mr. Burroughes's Indian beat Mr.
Buckworth's Beppo ; Hon. H. ltous's Mortimer beat Mr. Gur.
ney's Ada.
MATCHES.—Mr. Buckworth's Barber beat Mr. Burroughes's
Iris; Mr. —'s Baronet beat Mr. Chute's Hannibal; Mr.
Gurney's Alonzo beat Mr. Buckworth's Bachelor; Mr. Cald.
well's Briar beat Mr. Chute's Hybla ; Mr. Chute's Hannah heat
Mr. Burroughes's Ida ; Lord Stradbroke's Marchioness beat Mr.
Chute's Hero; Mr. 's Milkmaid beat Mr. Burroughes's Ivy.

Mr, 's Mount,qxink against Mr. Gurney's August, and
Mr. —'s Miniature against Mr. Gurney's Agatha—undecided.
The morning was rather wet—the afternoon fine, with a
frosty air. The hares very shy.

GLASGOW LOTTERY —Lord W. Lennox
was the Hon. Member reported in the Morning Papers as
speaking against the Glasgow Lottery, and said if no other
Member brought in a Bill he would, with a view of put-
ting an end to this gross case of delusion towards the
puhlic. Although a final Lottery was advertised he was
convinced such was not the case ; it was merely done to
gull the public.
MR. LONG WELLESLEY.—NOt a vestige
of Wanstead House, once the pride of Essex, remains
nor a single stone "to prate of its whereahout." There
is now only wanting the remaining lofty trees to be felled,
the whole of the ornamental waters to be drawn off, and
the grotto to be demolished, to render its once de►ightful
park a scene of sad and melancholy desolation. The seat
of hospittlity and social enjoyment has vanisl,e4, and
nothing is left to perpetuate its splendour. The admiration
and partiality of the neighbouring peasantry design tted
the place one of the wonders of the world, but not a fr,ig-
went is now seen to remind us of its former magnificence
and importance.
_ _ _

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ST. ALBAN'S, FEB. 6.—Our annual Steeple
Chace is fixed for Thursday, the 13th of March. Th•
stake is open to any horses carryine 12st. each, four miles
across the country, &c., and will close on the Saturday
previous. Colonel Charitie will officiate as umpire, and
Mr. Colon in as clerk of the race. Is is not unlikely that
the day's sport will be increased by a ladies' race, four of
the softer sex having been for some time in training.
FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday, a labourer,
named C ISPV, in the employ of Mr. Prime, builder, while
eneaged in finishing a large ice well, built by Mr. Rhodes,
at the back of the Tile Kilns in the Hackney Road, missed
his lot from a ladder in descending the well, and tell
upwards of 30 feet. He was taken up dreadfully muti
lated, and conveyed to the London Hospital, where th.
poor fellow shortly after expired. He has left a wife and
family.

NMI

LITERATURE.

FROLICS '.'F PUcK, 3 VOLSo
LONDON, 1834.

If a relish for our fine old English legends
be not altogether lost, this work he popular.
It is written in a spirit of glorious earnestness,
as if the author really believed the marvels he
was relating. Whatever other defects the work
may have, want of imagination is certainly not
of the number. There is enough in these three
volumes to set up half a score of poets for life.
They are also not without some pretensions to
...)riginality, though the leading idea on which
'hey are founded, namely, the mission of Puck,
I,,iyhactoimt misatnd of
hatsvo2eeeuninn Titania,most love,
is to fin
a Variorum
out
ilor
version of an agreeable incident in one of
Chaucer's tales. The author, whoever he is,
is evidently well versed in German romance,
especially in that portion of it which treats
of the legendary and supernatural. Hoffman—
that strange grotesque mixture of the frantic
and the imaginative, whose works we scarcely
know whether to laugh at or admire, who treats
even a common-place in a way so as to give it
all the zest of originality—is one of our author's
principal favourites, as every second page of these
volumes bears abundant evidence. Yet lie is no
servile imitator. He can think for himself, and
describe for himself; though he has always some
high German fancy or other floating in his
brain. The introductory portion of his work
is written with remarkable grace and spirit, and
betokens poetic faculties of a very superior
order. It is difficult to make fairies speak like
fairies ; ShAcypeare is the only Engligh
writer we know of who has done so ;
and we pay a high, but not unmerited
compliment to the author of the " Frolics of
Puck," when we say that, like our great drama-
tist, he has made his " gay creatures o' the ele-
ment" speak just the orthodox dialect of Fairy
Land. The wild snatches of verse tao, which
he has put into the mouth of his tricksy
spirit Puck, are worthy of that eccentric
original, whom the late Sir William Curtis used
to describe as one of the most " unaccountable
characters" he had ever read of. Possibly the
pert, pragmatic Utilitarian may turn up his nose
at these imaginative volumes ; those, however,
of our readers who have the slightest relish for,
and sympathy with, the sallies of fancy and feeling
will read them with strong interest. That they
will meet with any very extensive circulation, we
will not say ; they have fallen on evil times, when
men's minds are too much intent on steam-
coaches and rail-roads, to pay the fitting atten-
tion to the charming little denizens of Fairy
Land ; still they will excite attention, if not,
from their subject, at least from the elegance
and simplicity with which they are written.
For our own parts, we can conscientiously de-
clare that we have not met with a work equal to
the " Frolics of Puck" for this many a day past.
It is worth all the fashionable novels that ever
were, or ever will be, penned. We subjoin an
extract, which is in the most marked manner of
Hoffman, and worthy of that author's happiest
efforts:—
" Left to his own reflections, and those unaided by the
bottle, Alf was in no very comfortable mood He wish d
fir all manner of things, high and lacy, possible and irn
pos,i',le—for fortune—fir an estate—for a cup that by
some fairy sleight would constantly replenish itself when
empty, so that he might have no stint in his potations.
But a man soon grows tire! of empty wi-hes. As a last
hope of solace, he had recourse to his beloved fid 4, and
fir once fount this potent charm unable to score his at-
tention; he played, it is true, but the action was mech.,
nical, and it was soon evident that his thouehrs went no,
with the muiic; his eyes were fixed on the fire, and, a.
is usually the case with people who indulge in that agree
,ble amusement, his fancy shaped the glowing embers into
a variety of illusive appear totes ; there were capes an
e ivies, drakes and dromedaries, bears with two heads, and
elephants with none, and the more he watched, the more
vivid grew the resemblances. At length the fire, becom-
ing hollow, fell together, and thrust for,card a single red-
hot ember, in which too bright eyes seemed to be twink-
ling. The illusion wis wonderful. Alf incon•inentl
stinted in his play, though be did not the more let go
either bow or fiddle, and stared at this strange appearance
with might and m tin.
" Still the eyes twinkled,—twinkled,—twinkled,—
when presenly two large black ears protruded from either
side. Alf quickly drew hack his ch dr, muttering halt
Cloud, and half to himself, he needs a long spoon who
sups with the devil.'
" Still the eyes twinkled,—twinkled,—twinkled,—
and now a nose and mouth made their appearance; then
a pair of portentously long arms ; then a misshapen trunk;
then a ptir of wiry legs ; till a complete little black figure
peered at him from out ti,e embers, with a grotesque, yet
malic:ous leer that made him start up and hastily place the
chair between himself and the fireplace. Leaning over
the hack of the seat, he fixed his gaze intently on the ap-
parition.
" Still the eyes twinkled,—twinkled,—twinkled,—and
the black colour of the goblin brightened into a vivid
orange, then into a crimson; and then again it successively
faded into green, into purple, into blue, and finally so-
bered down into grey.
" Be exclaitned Alf, it's the little grey man
David talked of; Puck himself! '
" At the mention of his name, Grey Mantle bounced
from the fire, overturning poker, tongs, and shovel in
hi, flight, and perched himself upon the back of the chair,
from which Alf had retreated in a prodigious hurry.
There the little fellow sate, puffing and blowing, much
like the frog in the fable, rut oath infinitely better success,
for he dill contrive to swell himself into the size of a ow-
, derately_g,rown baboon, without any apparent damage to
his skin (rout the process of infl ttion."

THE FROLICS OF PUCK.—Tnis new work
of fiction will be published to-morrow, and the author pi
Chartley's new novel, entitled 6‘ The Old Maiden's TAlifl
man," early next we k, by Messrs. Bull and Churton,
Elolles street. Agents for Scot! ind, Messrs. Bell and
Bradfute, Edinburgh ; and Ireland, Mr John Cumming.
Dublin. 0 ders should be transmitted forthwith to secure
the early copies.
Col. Maberley has been excused from further
attendance on Mr. Shell's Committee, and Sir Eardiey
Wilmot added in his place.
It is understood, in the circles of the Corps
D:plomatique, that Viscount Palmerston has declined to
recede to any further deliberation upon the affairs of the
Netherlands, in the present state of affiirs in that coun-
try. On dit, that it is in coesevence of this res.lution,
formally communicated hy his Lordship to the representa-
tives of the Notthern Powers, that the recall of Baron de
Wessenberg hy the Austrian Court is to be attributed. In
the mean time the Diplom vista will hold an occasional
conference at the Russian Einbas-y, as they did during a
former suspension of the cot I,rences at the Foreign-office.
It is confidently rumoured that some part 01
the tail has mutinied a/ainst the head

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Within the last twelve months 300 houses
have been built in Stockport.
NEW INVENTION IN THE STRAW • HAT
MANUFACTURE —We understand that Al..ssis. J. and A.
Muir, straw tiat-manufacturers, Greenock, are manufac-
turing straw in the handloom, by the common process of
weaving. The be .uty and simplicity of the process have
been greLtly adtnired by those who have seen it, and th.
invention will entirely supersede, is a very short time,
the plaiting of straw for the manufacturing of ladies' sir ,w
ipotiners. The straw bonnets, in the ensuing season, by
this invention, will exhibit an endless variety of figures.
Glas,goto Chronicle.