The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-20 00:00:00

MACAULAY AND BULWER.

" Though these Illustrious men have ceased to belong
to the Senate, which their oratory as much adorned, as
their achievements in the closet enriched the realms of
mind, we must append some few particulars of their
public lives, premising that both were prominent mem-
bers of the progressive party in politics, the former in
the Radical, the latter in the Whig, interest.
Sir Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton was
created a Baronet of the United Kingdom in the year 1838.
He was the son of General William Earle Bulwer, of W ood-
tilling and Heydon Hall, Norfolk, by the only daughter
and heir of Richard Warburton Lytton. of Kuebworth,
Herta (who by Royal licence, in 1841, resumed her pa-
ternal name of Lytton). He was born in 1805, and
married, in 1827, the daughter of the late Francis Mas-
sey Wheeler, Esq., of Lizz .rd Connell, in the county of
Limerick, and grandson of Hueb, Lord Massey. Was
Member of Parliament for St. Ives in 1831, and sat for
Lincoln from 1832 to 1841. He assumed the additional
surname of Lytton after that of Bulwer in 1844, in
compliance with the will of his mother, representative of
the families of Lytton of Knebwortb, and Robinson of
Guersylt. His literary works are well known and very
numerous, embracing social and historic romance (as
" Pelham" and the " Last of the Barons"), history pro-
per (" Athens, its Rise and. Fall"), innumerable tales (as
"Lelia" and " Pilgrims of the Rhine"), poetry, satiric
and epic (" New Timon" and " King Arthur"), essays
(" Student"), politics (" England and the English"), and
the drama (Money, Richelieu, Lady of Lyons, &c.), being
by far the most eminent and successful dramatist of
modern days, and in that capacity most appropriately
presiding at the farewell dinner to the last of great mo-
dern actors, Macready, on the Ist March.
The Right lion. Thomas Babington Macaulay, son of
Zachary Macaulay, Esq., was born in 1800, and ap-
pointed Privy Councillor of Great Britain in 1839. He
was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, February,
1826, and elected a bencher in 1849. Ho has been a
commissioner of bankrupts; a commissioner, and subse-
quently secretary to the Board of Control; fifth mem-
ber of, and legal adviser to, the Supreme Council
of India; was Fellow of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge ; Secretary at War from 1839 to Septem-
ber, 1841; elected Lord Rector of the University
of Glasgow in 1848; professor of ancient history in the
Royal Academy in 1850. He is the author of " The
History of England from the Accession of James IL," of
" Lays of Ancient Rome," and of many articles in the
Edinburgh Review. He was Member of Parham nt for
Cattle in 1830, for Leeds in 1832, and for Edinburgh
from January, 1840 to 1847."
With a variety of interesting particulars such as
these, the compiler of the present volume contrives to
render his chapters singularly delightful and attrac-
tive. To any traveller on; he Eastern Counties line
of railway the book will be found the most agreeable
anion.

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COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, JUNE 19
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
Juno 13. Magician cutter. J. S. Parker, Esq., from
Lymington; Aurora cutter, Le Merchant Thomas, Esq.,
from St. Helen's.
14. Beatrix schooner, Sir W. P. Carew, Bart., from
Portsmouth.
15. Geuntlet cutter, W. Peareth, Esq., from Sandgate.
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6.Wizard critter, William Delafiold, Esq.,
Portsmouth.
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18. Plover cutter, Major Martyn, from Antwerp.
19. Sy ren cutter, Rev. R. P. Har top, from Southampton.
SAILINGS.
June 18. Maritana cutter, James Gee, Esq., for
Guernsey.
19. Resolution schooner, Duke of Rutland, Portland,
and other western ports.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Drift, Wizard, Elizabeth, Stella, Brilliant, Osprey,
Livlock, Turquoise, Seagull, Aurora, Gondola, Spider,
Merlin, Nautilus, Plover, Ripple, Coquette, Titania, Ma-
gician, Syron, Laelia, Leda.
The Bill for extending the provisions of the Public
Health Act to West Cowes, it is understood, is to be
read a third time in the House of Commons this (Friday)
evening.
Mr. Ranger is to open his court at the Medina Hotel
on the 25th instant, to fix the boundary for the town of
East Cowes, on the Public Health Act being extended
to that town.
The hay harvest has become general throughout the
Isle of Wight; the crops are good, and the weather as
fine as could be wished.
Though barley and oats have advanced full 20 per
cont. within a very short period, the same complaints
continue of the ruinously low prices which they produce.
Reports are already spreading of the appearance of
the potato blight; wo have not seen it, and we beiieve
that what some represent as the plague spot is only the
damage done by the late high wind, and that the crop
never looked better. In fruit, peaches, nectarines,
apricots, pears, and plums are a said failure.

CREMORNE GARDENS.—The ascent of a female
aeronaut new to the metropolitan public attracted an im-
mense concourse of visitors at this favourite resort la't night,
and well were they repaid for their visit. Mdlle. Palmyre
Garneron, with a self'-possession that
must place her in the
front rank of aeronauts, is youthful, calm, and quiet in her
demeanour and arrangements, and with a pleasing and
graceful smile bid adieu to the visitors punctually at the ap-
pointed time. The elegant balloon was distinctly visible for
some period es it moved gracefully along at an unvaried al-
titude, and judging from the smoothness of its passage, her
first trip from Cremorne must have been as delightful to her-
self as it was satisfactory to the public. The new perform-
ances by the celebrated equestrian troupe, "Le Cirque Na-
tional de Francs," were of the most brilliant character, and
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pier man's jacket, who endeavoured to prevent him from an-
noying the pasengero.
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