The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-26 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. LONDON, 1833.
Another of Miss Austen's admirable tales,
which needs no helping hand of ours to uplift
into popularity. It forms the thirtieth volume
of the " Standard Novels," and we much ques-
tion whether a more perfect one is to be found in
the whole series. Miss Austen is our best,
because our most scrupulous, domestic annalist.
There is more truth in her
„fictions than in half
theficts of Hume. They constitute a sort of
history of the private habits and peculiarities of
the middle classes, to which Miss Austen exclu-
sively confines herself. She never sacrifices pro-
priety to point, or allows fancy to get the better

of judgment. Her dialogues, which are her
main excellence, seem transcripts taken verbatim
from life, and strike the reader by their rigid,
unswerving verisimilitude. Not a speech, not a
sentence, but is in perfect keeping with the
character that utters it. What for instance can
be more appropriate than the pompous inanities
put into the mouth of Mr. Collins the toad-
eater, or the sententious, epigrammatic language of
Mr. Bennett the shrewd cynic ? The reader
might almost fancy that at one time or other he
had overheard their conversation. Yet though
i\liss Austen's dialogues have quite a matter-of-
fact air, there is nothing dull or trite about them.

e lends freshness even to a common-place.
She has also a fine conception of an oddity ;
delights in showing him up—in turning him
inside out. And all this she does in the quietest
and most unconscious manner possible, as if
she were the very soul of innocence and simpli-
city ! It is infinitely to her credit, that with a
talent for caricature, little, if at all, inferior to
Madame D'Arblay, she has yet had the good
sense to make it the slave, not the master, of her
judgment. It is the fashion of the present day—
one of the dullest, thanks to political economy,
since the Deluge—to underrate the intellect of
the novelist, just as if Pope's aphorism " the
noblest study of mankind is man," were worth
nothing. To those who thus ignorantly or
wilfully depreciate one of the rarest tnenta

faculties, whose high object it is to show forth
" the very age and substance of the time, its form
and pressure," for the amusement of the present,
and the benefit of future, generations, we would
recommend the works of Miss Austen. A few
years hence, when the age shall have slept off
the composing draughts administered to it by
Macculloch and the disciples of his school—who
by their writings evidently think it impossible
that a man may be prosed to death—such con-
summate works of art, as "Pride and Prejudice"
will be more highly appreciated than ever.

The body of a respectably dressed middle-
aged female was last evening taken nut of the ornamental
piece of water in the Regent's Park, by Sergeant Hooker,
3 D., and policeman Saunders, 111 D., and conveyed to
the St. Marylebone Infirmary, where it now lies awaiting
the Coroner's Inquisition. On her person was found
18 shillings and a few halfpence. It has since been
ascertained the unfortunate female resided in East-street,
Manchester-square.
SPAIN.—The Royal Calendar for next year
announces the eldest daughter of the late King Ferdinand,
Isabella IL, horn the 10th of October, 1838, having suc-
ceeded, according to this record to the throne of her father,
who died 20th of last March. Maria Louisa, her sister,
was born the 30th January, 1832.
As some men were clearing a cesspool in
Wellington-street, St. Benedict's, they found at the bottom
three chamber lamps, which appeared of great antiquity.
Not supposing them of any value, they were sold at a
small price. One of them being sent to a jeweller's to
be cleaned, it was discovered to be silver, of curious
workmanship, and at least 300 years old. ^ Norwich
Mercury.
EXTRAORDINARY HOPPING.—On Tuesday
last, in the Castle-green, a fine young man, for a wager
of a sovereign, covered the length of a hundred and one
yards in twenty-nine bops. The wager was a hundred
yards in thirty-two hops. The first twelve hops averaged
full four yards each. The feat is, we believe, without a
parallel.—Hereford Times.
Mr. Phipps, Mr. Scott, and other Magis-
trates of the Devizes Division, assisted by Mr. Ludlow,
one of the Magistrates of the Melksham division, have
been busily engaged in examining evidence relat ng to the
four men who are in custody, on suspicion of setting fire
to the ricks of Mr. Compton of Urchfont ; and from
what was elicited, they thought it necessary, on Wedtb s-
day, to proceed to Urchfont, where they examined some
witnesses on the spot. In short, they are acting with a
vigilance and promptitude in this business which do them
infinite honour, and entitle them to the gratitude of the
whole neighbourhood. But such is the lawless state of Ureb-
font, that—notwithsanding the wretches of that parish
must be aware that they are narrowly watched, and that
a most awful punishment awaits them in case of convic-
tion,—on Siturday night last they had the temerity to set
fire to another barley tick, the produce of about twelve
a.-res, the property of Mr. Butler; and whilst the flames
were raging, they gave evident symptoms of the delieht
they took in the scene ; and early on Sunday morning,
actually danced in triumph around the expiring
embers ! I About a load of the barley had, by great
exertions, been preserved from the fire, and was placed a
short distance from where it formerly stood, and it is a
fact, th it while the better portion of the parish were
engaged in their devotions on the Sunday forenoon, an
attempt was made to consign this remaining part of the
rick t, the fl mes. Perceiving, however, that they were
observed, they went off without accomplishing their pur-
pose.--A great number of the labourers of this parish
appear to be in the last stage of demoralization ; and some
of the women would di-grace either St.G les's or Billings•
gate . their threats and imprecations, on the apprehension
of the men now in custody, were truly horrid. The pay-
masters, although very severely burthened, are in general
kind and attentive to the sick and necessitous ; and i
high rate of wages is given to the labourer ; but,--and
this is one way of accounting for the state of the parish,
nearly the whole of the wages is spent at the a!e-house !
Salisbury Herald.
A PARISIAN DANDY IN 1790.—The
Ladies' Magazine for the above year contains the follow.
ing Paris Fashions for June for Gentlemen. The coat of
velvet cloth, with sky blue cape, buttons of goat's hair.
The hair one plain curl, en ailes de pigeon. The cravat
of fine cambric, as well as the ruffles and frill, which are
in large plaits. Waistcoat of orange casimir, trimmed with
D....A.,,, also or orange casitnir, with
ribbands of the same colour as gaiters, white silk stockings,
and shoes tied with black ribbands, forming roses. A
large made up stick, ornamented, and concraiing a tuck.
[How have 44 years changed the costume in Paris. A
dandy of 1790 would now attract a greater crowd in the
Boulevards than a mountebank !]
SUPPLIES FOR PORTUGAL.—Since the Ist
instant, the following vessels have been fitted out for
Lisbon by the agents of Donna Maria in this country :
March. Captain James Adams, with 2,500 muskets,
1,000 sets of clothing, accoutrements, &c. ; Osprey,
William Payne, 700 muskets, 1,800 great coats, 3,500
shirts ; Isabel, Captain Stone, 1,500 muskets, 3,000
pairs of boots, 2,000 great coats, 6,000 shirts; from
Dublin per Castor and Union, 1,000 muskets, 1,000
sets of accoutrements.-- Glasgow Courier.
DARING ROBBERY.----EXTRAORDINARY
LEAP.-At the Stockport Police Court, on Wednesday
last, Charles Wilson was charged with stealing a truss,
containing 21 pieces of spun silk handkerchiefs, the pro-
perty of Mr. John Legh Newton, silk.tnanufacturer,
Waeerleo-road. He was secured and taken to the Wel.
lington Bridge Inn and a constable sent for. On being
placed in the tap-room, with Bell for his keeper, who for
an instant only had turned his back to the prisoner, he
threw up the window sash, and had the daring to leap a
distance of 38 feet to the ground ! Bell could hardly be-
lieve that his bird had so instantaneously flown ; but,
nevertheless, Wilson was again secured before he had
well recovered from the shock given to the system, occa-
sioned by the fall. Fears, however, being entertained
that the prisoner must have received some injury, he was
c trried to the Dispensary, which is close by, when it was
found that he was "all right," and a removal to the town's
prison would not be attended with any danger. On his
way to the New Bailey, Wilson told E Want, the officer,
that he did not jump through the window because he hail
committed or knew anything about the theft, but that lie
disliked to be scandalized by being placed in the lock-ups;
nd when before the Magistrate he denied also any know-
ledge of the felony. He was committed to Knutsford for
trial.—Macclesfield Herald.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—MURDER.— Yes-
terday afternoon an inquest was held at the Rose and
Crown Tavern, Union-street, before Mr. R. Carter,
coroner for Surrey, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Bed-
well, aged sixty-three, late of Southwark-square, whose
death was occasioned by a stab on the left side, infi cted
by the band of her husband. Since the dreadful occur-
rence took place, the husband of the deceased has been
confined in the county gaol, where it was found necessary
to kt ep a strict watch upon him, owing to the excessive
state of Irritation of mind under which he has laboured
ever since. We gave the particulars of the murder at full
length, in our paper last week. After hearing evidence,
in which there was little or no novelty, the Jury, without
hesitation, returned a verdict of wilful murder against
the deceased's husband, who will be tried at the next
Surrey Assizes, which commence at Kingston on the 9th
of December. A fact was mentioned i❑ the room, which,
however, did not come out in the course of the investiga-
tion, confirmatory of Mr. Bedwell'a insane state of mind.
He has been for a great number of years master of a
merchant ship, and recently on a homeward bound voyage
from Constantinople to England, he betrayed suAt decided
symptoms of insanity, that it was found necessary to take
the command of the vessel out of his hands, he being
totally unfit to manage it, and place it in those of the
chief mate. The parish authorities were bound over to
prosecute.

MANIFESTATION OF THE SPIRIT.--WC
have heard much of late of manifestations of the spirit in the
south; an I perhaps, if rightly named, they should have rather
been called manifestations of madness or fanaticism ; but
in the chapel of the Rev. Hugh Hart, on Sabbath even-
ing last, a manifestation of the spirit, to the very spirit
and letter of the word, did occur. " People," said the
Rev. Hugh Hart, " psople need not, to get to hell, abuse
themselves with drink, and ruin their constitution as well

as their soul—they may go to hell fast enough, and yet
attend church three times every Sunday," and then went
on with a tirade against hypocrisy, which was descrilwd
as worse than open drinking. I don't like to contradict

you, Sir, but you are fairly wrong," roared out a man
standing up in the body of the chapel; " you are wrong,
I assure you, Sir." The audience were astounded—the
Rev. Hugh Hart maintained his equilibrium and intona-
tion, and went on, when two of his officials speedily
ejected this candidate for the " tongues," who turned out
to be a quack, whose name bespatters the walls of the
city.—Aberdeen Observer.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(T DAY•)

FROM LLOYD'S.
DEAL, Nov. 25. —Wind S. W., light breezee.-110
outward-bound remain.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 25.—Wind W. to N.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 24.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W.'
fresh breezes and squally.—Arri#ed the Hope, Hicks, foul
Labradore.

FOWEY, Nov. 24.—Arrived the Royal Adelaide, from
Quehee.

BRIDPORT, Nov. 24.—Arrived the Calypso, Grosso'
from Miramiehi.

BRISTOL, Nov. 25.—Arrived the Rokeby, and Ci(gr
cord, Johns, from Quebec; Good Hope, Skymer, fog°
Naples ; and Freedom, from Smyrna.
GLOUCESTEk, Nov. 21.—Arrived the Triton, Foster'
from Deni 4.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 24.—Arrived the Warsawi
from N.tv Orleans ; Nautilus, Copeland, from New York;
Pekin, Hutchinson, and Egyptian, Mortimer, from Que.
bee ; R. W. Harris, Feny, from St. John's, New Brun?'
wick . Alexander, Russell, and Rye, from Mirarnichl,;
Jo n Atkins, Wilson, from Bay Chaleur ; Marv, Pipet
'rom Crania; and Adelaide, Retford, from Lisbon.
port t le Harkaway, from Virginia ; and Charlotte, Slos°'
fro n Quebec.

SrANGATE CREEK, Nov. 25 —Arrived the Bdellietal
Nebolson, from Odessa; Sceptre, Howes, from Zinte;
Starling, Annard, and Amethyst, Thompson, from Pd:
lermo ; Martha, Robson, from Messina; St. JoseP"
A legro, from Genoa; James, Cole, and Superb, Williaaol
from Denia ; Hermanos, Echevarria, from Salon ; 3'l'4
N ptune, Ygerthe, from Barcelona.
RAMSGATE, Nov. 25.—Arrived off port the SprigbtlP
Newton, from Lisbon.

DARTMOUTH, Nov. 24.—Arrived off port the Wilva-
rart, Winter, from Berbice; and Ruchera, from Que"ec•
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 21.—The Henrich, Visser, from
Norway to Carolinzyl, was stranded on the 2d inst. The
Orion, Waysund, from Hawburgh to Naatz, irsl
stranded on the 2d inst., at Guist.

The Mary Ann, M'D mn-11, at Exeter, was driven oa
shore near Brideford, on Sunday, and, it was feared, would
be wrecked.

The Catherine, Brune, from Ghent to Leca, was abaa•
(loped on the 4th inst., off the Weser.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The Cleveland, Morley, from Bombay, has arrived jo
the Downs; sailed 26:h June, and from St. Helena, 29th
Septejnb-r.

The Helen Man, Benson, from Launceston, has arrive!
in the Downs; sailed 13th July.
HOBART TowN.—Arrivals.—The Tamar, from Por.t
Arthur, 24th May, and sailed 2d June, for Macros:lle
Harbour ; the Harlequin, from Sydney, 17th June ; t"
Defiance, from Sydney, 19th; the Prince Regent, fro'',
unceston, 22d.

Departure.—The Blackbird, for Sydney, 19th June.
LAUNCESTON.—Arrivals.—The Freak, from Hobert
Town, and Prince Regent, from Sydney, 9th June; the
E izabeth, from Sydney, on the 11th, and sailed the 19th,
for whaling ; the Leslie, Ogilvie, for the Cape, 18th.
BOSIBA r. —Departut es.—The Runnymede, for Trinco•
m +lee, sth June; and the John, Craig, for the MauritiUS
22d June.

j We regret to learn that in the neighbourhood
of Winchester, Alton, and other parts of Hampshire'
highway robbery is becoming extremely prevalent.
LIVERPOOL CORPORATION INQUIRY.---.
This investigation, which commenced three weeks lig°l
still continues. The inquiry into the constitution and
in tnigement of the Dock Estate has occupied nearly MI"
half the time of the Commissioners. The I:st three or
f air days have been devoted to the hearing of the con-
plaints of individuals against the corporation, and suggeP
tons for the better government of the town. The CAn"
missieeners expect to close their labours this day.
The execution of John S,allan, convicted at
the last assizes of setting fire to premises at Great Slid'
ford, in this county, and respited till the 7th of December
next, will take place that day.—Cambridge Paper.
A farther advance has taken place of three-
pence per day in the wages of workmen in the collier/6
and ironworks in this vicinity.—Shrewsbury chroniele•
Dr. Cartwright, Dean of Ripon, preaching 01
H m
a sermon of King Junes
.'s promisesmade to Palle
ment, which were then the common aibject of discos6e_
and complaint, said, " that the King's promises were fir.
donations, and not to be too strictly examined or urged,
and that they must leave his Majesty to explain his ow"
meaning in them." The King was so delighted with
‘lsai he rewarded the author with the bishopric of
Chester, as an encouragement to 'ether clergymen.
JUNIUS FURTHER IDENTIFIED. —li is

imp .ssible from circumstantial evidence to establish stronger
pro ifs that Sir Philip Francis was the author of "Junieja
Letters" than Mr. T•iylor has already done, in a nit
interesting volume published some years ago, and whica
was further confirmed by an extended article on the subject
in the Edinburgh Review, said to be written by the late
Sir Jimes Macintosh. Unless the ce'ebrated COPY °
" Junius's Letters," bound in vellum expressly for the
author, and sent to him by Mr. Woodfall, the publisher'
could he produced, in the possession of any other perso°'
Mr. Taylor, however, with additional industry and to
in this long contested cause, is preparing to Pobli:
further identities, tending to prove that John Calcrtot;
Esq., the well-knotvn army agent, was the colleague 0'
Sir Philip Francis in the concoction of these letters. II
Mr. Watts (erroneously designated Watt in alu
the Journals), the proprietor of Byfield House Acadetoi,,4t
,
Barnes, whose only daughter recently met her death PI
swallowing in a moment of excitement a too copit.
draft of Eau de Cologne, is the brother of Mr. Al°
A. Watts.

A most daring attack was made on the
, Keepers of J. E. A. Starkey, Esq., of Spye Park, on the
night of Wednesday last. The Keeper being on the 10
out for poachers, soon discovered a man whom be 'VI'
about to take into custody, when he was immediate'l
surrounded by about twenty others, all armed with sword',
bayonets, bludgeons, &c. They rescued their companil
and then took the Keeper's rifle from him, which one °
them had the hardihood to snap at him, but fortunately
it missed fire. They then proceeded to tie his blind!
behind him, and after having hound him to a tree,
him all night in that deplorable condition. Mr. StarkeY
has offered the following very handsome reward, viz. 50
guineas on the conviction of the man who seized the ride;
50 on the conviction of him who snapped it at the Keeper ;
and 10 guineas for each conviction of any of the other
parties present.—Salisbury Herald.
TRICKS IN ALL TRADES.—A young aspv
rant to the ministry of the Church of Scotland was called
upon to hold forth, in a neighbouring parish church so
frequently and unexpectedly, that be at length began to
find some difficulty in causing the work of composition to
furnish a supply equal to the dem Ind. But although he
was lacking in sermons, it will be seen he lacked nothing
in wit. Accordingly, that the produce might keep pace
with the consumption, he came to the conclusion, that
there could he no harm in borrowing from wiser heads;
and in due time began, among others to quote more than
largely from Blair. All this might have passed off very
well, had it not turned ou: that, among his most a,tentive
auditors was an " auld Judas o' a wife," who had hap-
pened to get hold of a stray volume of Blair—with the
contents of which she was as familiar as her name.—Ale
got smoothly enough over matters fur the first Sabbath ;
but on the second—horribile dictu—what was his sur-
prise, on giving out his text, to behold, with a side-
glance of his eye, the old woman sitting in a sly corner,
and with most provoking composure, open up the very
volume which contained, at least, the gist of his discourse.
" What did you do in such a critical dilemma ?" inquired
a sympathizing reverend brother, to whom the preacher
(now a most respectable miniver of the Church) had many
years afterwards been telling the story. " What did
do?" he replied, " why I quietly stole a march on the
old woman—l just turned over twa leaves, and after that
she coudna cast saut on my tail."—Stirling Journal.
1 EXTRAORDINARY TURNIP.—A turnip of
the globe species, of extraordinary size and symmetry, was
pulled about ten days ago from a field on the farm of Mr.
James Hood, Kirkland Hill, E ist Lothian. When
pulled it weighed, shaw and all,
27
others lea. It
oft extraordi-
nary
37 inches in circumference, 12k inches in diameter, and
10 inches in depth. From there measurements, the beau-
tiful symmetry of the turnip may be easily conceived.
dimensions taken from the same field, although none
letiliemmdesrostla:Lietohl:wteblelfep‘rvoeplintioanneyd as the one we have
described.— Scotsman.

BLACK GAME IN WALES.—His Grace the
Duke of Newcastle very lately received from Scotland several
brace of black grouse, which have been turned out at
Haford. They were brought into Wales by a Highlander,
and it is hoped the breed will be allowed to increase, that
Cerdiganshire may once more be stocked with so fine a
description of game.

The immortal Locke was a first-rate piquet-
player, being fir more distinguished for that taiimt in
Oxford than for his metaphysics.

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