The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-21 00:00:00

THE

Sc.ii —1,1v4..rp00l stov,ri is in very liole thmand, even
ut 4:• 9d. lo ss. per sack.
Tobacco-12.i. is generally asked for Cavendish, but
there is little do!rg therein. We have heard that the
article -has been declined at ltd. per lb. No operations
in leaf have come to our knowledge.
Exchanges on London—Colonial Bank-90 days,
per cent. prem.; 60 da3 s, 1 per cent. prem.; 30 da
ptr cent. prep,.—Jaaleieit Bank-90 days, pr; 60 •
days, per cent. prem.; 30 dais, 1 per cent. preen.
MerAants' dais, to 1 per cont. dis. On
New Ye ik there is no inquiry for bills.

IRINIDAD.

The necessity of some provision for guarding the
moneys, papers, and other personal effects of parties
dying intestate, and having no relative in the colony
interested in their preservation and good keeping—
until some heir or creditor of the deceased should
have hid time to obtain an order from the court for
the judicial administration of the - property—was,
owing to several occurrences, occupying considerable
attention in the public mind.

BARBADOES.

The Bill fc,r establishi❑g an inland post has passed
the House of Assembly. The salary of the postmaster
is fixed at 3001. per annum. _ .

The Barbadian says that the sugar crop for the
present year in this colony will exceed 40,000 hhds.
That is of the sugar made ; whilst the consumption in
the island is estimated at less than 3,000 hhds. The
weather in Barbadoes i 3 represented as " all that the
planters could wish."

BERMUDA.

The Bermudian pubiishes a number of paragraphs
which show that Bermuda is " coming out strong "
as a potato-prcducing country, and that she is now
actively competing with native growers in the New
York market, one of the cheapest and most extensive
vegetable markets in the world, in the articles of po-
tatoes, onions, and tomatoes. This is certainly a new
turn to West India industry. One of the paragraphs
mentions the superior quality of the potato, as well as
the abundant return from seed planted. A small por-
tion of the crop has reached other colonies (Trinidad,
for example), and the improvement in the quality of
the article, which was formerly good, but rather waxy,
has been the subject of general remark. We sin-
cerely trust this potato-growing enterprise may be
successful ; and though we doubt the possibility of
the Bermudians finding a sufficiently remunerative
market in the sea board cities of the United States,
where prices at times rule very low, they may cer-
tainly count upon all the West India colonies as cus-
tomers, at rates which will insure them a very consi-
derable annual revenue from this edible. There are
several instances of planters reaping fifteen to seven-
teen bushels from one bushel of seed, and ten
bushels from one of seed may be mentioned as a com-
mon occurrence.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert left Osborne at
eight o'clock yesterday morning, attended by Dent.-
Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, and embarked on board the
Royal yacht Fairy for Gosport, wh,re a weird train
aas in readiness to convey his Royal Highness to
London.
His Boyal Highness proceeded immediately to the
Great Exhibition Building in Hyde-park, and presided
at a meeting of the Royal Commission, which was as-
sembled there.

The Prince returned by special train to Southampton
at a quarter past Fix o'clock.
Her Majesty, their Royal Highnessees the Prince of
Wales, Prince Alfred, Pried-ss Helena and Princess
Louisa, accompanied by the Earl of Liverpool, Sir Ha-
milton and Lady Seymour, and attended by the usual
suite, embarked at five P.M., in the Fairy, at Osborne
pier, and proceeded to Sontharnptom to meet his Royal
Highness on his return from London. The Royal part
returned to Osborne at half-past seven o'clock.
The Earl of Liverpool, and Sir Hamilton and Lady
Seymour, were the only addition to the Royal dinner
party yesterday.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer bas returned to
his seat, Mickleton Hall, near Doncaster, from Drumoor.

2111L1TAItY I.V TELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, AuG. 19.—The examination of the
non-cotntnis:•ioued officers, &c., attending the Superior
District School, established in this garrison, took
place this day in Anglesey Barracks in the presence
of the Major-General commanding the district (Lord
F. Fitzclarence) and other officers of note.
The subjects of examination were the following:—
Arithmetic--Proportion, Vulgar and Decimal Frac-
tions, Interest, &c.
Algebra—Simultaneous and Quadratic Equations.
Field Fortifications—The construction sad use of all
kind of Field Works.

Permanent ditto—Vauban's first system.
Descriptive Gso,graphy—Europe, Asia, Africa, and
America.

SUN,

LONDON,

LITERATURE,

Season.

•

CLARA CAMLRON ; or, The Belle of Ow

This is one of the most attractive novels of the
season, full of sparkling incidents and lively sketelles.
It treats
.of the varied adventures of a young girl
singularly gifted in mind -and person, as she pursues
her way amid the highest-Circles of the land. Her
story is one of painful interest. Her character is
ably drawn. First a devoted maiden, then a digni-
fied coquette, next a faithful wife to one she had
married far policy, not affection ; at last, an exalted
martyr, sinking under the weight of forbidden love,
maintaining through all her own reputation and the
wurld7s respect. The Countess St. Clair, her aunt,
is a frivolus lady of fashion, with little to interest
save her gay and airy spirit. The Earl of Desmond
is a suporior character. In his youth he committed
.n unfortunate error, which well u4;11 wrecked hip,
peace fox ever, and winch in reality caused himself'
and the unfortunate Clara many a year of suffering.
They were engaged in early life, but their day reached
near its meridian before they were uni•ed. It is a
questionable 'satisfaction, however, to learn of mar-
riages thus heralded by death, an incident too often
met with in the novels of the present time. But in
this one there is the excuse that, without such a con-
tinuation of events, the conduct of Clara could not
have shone forth so brightly as appeared under such
favourable auspices.

THE TUTOR'S WARD. By the Author af" Way-
faring Sketches," kc.
This is a very interesting tale, though it follows
the present custom of melancholy adventures befalling
its heroes and heroines. As in Mrs. Norton's pathetic
history of " Stuart of Dunleath," in Lady Ponsonby 's
touching " Clare Abbey," in Miss Jewry's clever
tale of " The Cup and the Lip," in Mrs. Daniel's in-
teresting novel of "Fernley Manor," and many others
lately published, the author has decreed that the cha-
racters he pourtrays shall indeed tread a thorny way.
It is very powerfully written, and the incidents
striking. Its moral may be seen from the following :
" His worshipped idol! What words are these to be
used from human clay to human clay! Who shall say
what judgment they will not call down? Let men look
to it who would scorn the making of graven images and
the exalting of carved idols, to worship them. Let them
look to it, whether the love of any earthly King hath
not set itself supreme in their affections, so that their
spirit bows before it, forgetting all other adoration."
This idea is well carried out in action as well as pre-
cept. The characters are well drawn: the passionate
and poetical Arthur, whose unchecked idolatry hur-
ries him to such fearful lengths ; the subtle and ma-
licious Juliet; the gentle and charming Millicent,
whose unparalleled sell-devotion and generosity al.
most make us ready to pardon and excuse her human
worship; the selfish and thoughtless Stephen Aylmer,
who so ill deserved her unchanging affection. The
minor personages cf the story are also well distin-
guished, though the view the author takes of human
nature is not always the brightest. The following
extract is a sample of the power of the style in which
it is written :
" But Arthur had his treasure. He fled down the
stairs—he passed out into the dark night twain. He
held in his hand the death warrant of ner whole life's
happiness. And had he no remorse, self-elected mur-
derr,r as he was; had he no thought, save for his own
selfish love, his own soul's satisfaction? If by the
will of Heaven, the ono solitary and adored hope had
been killed within her heart, then for her needful chas-
tening, doubtless was it done; but who appointed him to
be its slayer? Oh, at the last hour, many that have
walked through the world with smiling faces and stain-
less hands shall come out convicted as murderers of the
deepest dye, each one—each one who has ever destroyed
the happiness of another; and are the sea sands more
innumerable? Had the dark earthly passio'n that twined
round his soul so enveloped that immortal being in its
deadly coils, that he could be no longer sensible of those
holier influences that fail not in every time of strong
temptation to come as a merciful warning in some one
shape or other? Hark I even now that ♦oice from
Heeven speaks, which though varied its tone, disguised
its sweetness often, yet nevk-r is silent in those tremend-
ous hours, when ant el and demon struggle for the
deathless human spirit.
" Arthur stood one moment only on the threshold of
his home, and i❑ that moment borne towards him by the
obedient wind floating to his charmed ear, there came
the ringing music of the sweet church chimes, that night
by night thus told the expectant world that Christmas
tide drew near."

The interest never flags from the first moment, when
the unhappy mother of the Tutor's Ward appears to
her old lover, the dreaming John Forde, to the con-
clusion, when the curtain is drawn over the joys and
sorrows of the varied scenes, there is not a wearisome
page. The change in the bright and cheerful Millicent,
who so earnestly desired to see the world, to the self-
sacrificing yet mistaken heroine of her after life, is
well drawn. It cannot fail to attract the attention it
merits so well.