The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-24 00:00:00

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against COPE, the Creditors of JAMES COPE. of
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ing little volume, called " The Story without an End,"
v. hick is embellished and produced in a style of incom-
parable elegance. The Times may with truth say, " This
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racteristics of G iethe," and the " Tour of a German
Prince ;" she has, moreover, lately published an extremely
judicious volume, entitled " Selections from the 0:d
Testament," which may with great propri,ty be designated
the " Beauties of the Hebrew Scriptures."

ENCHANTED MOUNTAIN.—III Persia there
is an arid and very steep mountain, not far from the town
of Kom, which presents, as it is approached, a new form,
and seems to change its structure and appearance. The
summit always appears in front in every position that may
be taken, and would appear to the beholder to turn on an
axis as he himself moves from place to place. This species
of enchantment doubtless arises from natural cause., and

is probably occasioned by the different perspectives which
the mountain presents. 'We thus see in nature's self what
has been so much admired in the ingenious pictures which
present different objects according to the point of view
from which they are beheld. The soil of the mountain
consists of a black and areillaceous earth, which much
This enchanted mountain, which is called, by the Persians,
" Talestne," and from which the word " talisman" has, no
doubt, been formed, has a great number of openings on
the whole of the surface ; and the inhabitants of the vici-
nity state, that travellers who have gone up to examine
them have been ingulfed in the moving sands.—La Lon-
terne Magique.

The career of Licut. Bowers has been
strange and varied. He was left an orphan in early chi!d-
hood, exposed to the tender mercies of unknown relations,
or the uncertain kindness of friends. Au hereditary dis-
position in him for the " service" (in which his father
was drowned), induced him at eleven years of age to
venture on a truant voyage to the North Seas in a whaler,
since which time (1795) he Las almost lived upon the
ocean,—during war, serving his Majesty ; in peace, work-
ing or commanding in merchantmen, as master or owner ;
sometimes occupied in the steady and respectable traffic of
regular commerce, sometimes in the dangerous South Sea
fishery, but mostly engaged in the contraband trade on the
Western coast of South America. The narrative of a
life of such vicissitude cannot fail to interest every one,
and the " Naval Adventures" of Lieutenant Bowers pro.
mice to become as popular as " Captain Chnmier's Life of
a Sailor."

DUTIFUL WIDOW.—The clerk of a large
parish not five miles from Bridgenortb, Salop, per-
ceiving a female crossing the churchyard in a wi-
dow's garb, with a watering can and bundle, had the
curiosity to follow her, and he discovered ber to be Mrs.
whose husband had not long been interred. The
following conversation took place:—" ! Mrs. —,
what are you going to do with your watering can ?"
" Why, Mr. I have begged a few hayseeds,
which I have in my bundle, and am going to sow them
upon my poor husband's grave, and have brought a little
water with me to make them spring." The clerk re-
plied, " You have no occasion to do that, as the grass will
soon grow upon it." "Ah ! Mr.P that may
be; but do you know my poor husband, who now lies here,
made me promise him on his death-bed I would never
marry again till the grass had grown over his grave ; and
having had a good offer made me, I dunna wish to break
my word, or be kept as I am."—Stockport Advertiser.
ATTACK UPON A SNAKE.—Before we left
Diudigul, a circumstance occurred to an English officer
commanding a small out-station in this district, which
may be considered not undeserving of record. He was
early one morning taking his customary ramble, before the
sun bad attained a sufficient elevation in the heavens to
drink up the freshness of the dews which glittered around,
when, upon passing a small ruined building, his attention
was suddenly arrested by the appearance of something with
which his eye did not seem to be at all familiar, moving
in a deep recess of the ruin. He approached it cautiously,
fearing, as lie could not distinguish the object very ckarly,
that it might be a tiger, or some other animal equally d
gerous. Upon close examination, be discovered it to be
an immense snake, filling with its voluminous folds the
whole recess. Determined at once upon its destruction,
but knowing he could do nothing single-handed against a
creature at once so active and so powerful, he made the
hest of bis way to the guardhouse, and ordered half-a-
dozen soldiers to the spot, armed with their muskets, and
having the bayonets fixed. They were six strong, deter-
mined Englishmen. They made no objection to encounter
so unusual an enemy ; on the contrary, they were pleased
at the thought of the sport, and, being formed in line,
advanced steadily to the attack as soon as the word of
command was given, and simultaneously transfixed the
monster with their bayonets, firmly pinning it against the
wan. Being so roughly disturbed from its slumbers, the
enormous creature uncoiled itself in a
such was its prodigious strength, that with one mighty
position, and still kept Ws few seconds, and
sweep of its tail, it dashed five of its assailants to the
stooping or dodging,.
earth. The sixth, who was vest. its bead, rn iintained his
terrific adversary against the
wall, adroitly avoiding the lashes of his ponderous tale by
as circumstances required, until the
animal, exhausted with pain and exertion, lay extended at
full length ul'un the earth, almost motionless. By this
time the five soldiers who had been struck down having
d their feet, wounded the vanquished snake with
the butt-end of their muskets upon the extremity of the
tail, where the inosculatiou of the vertebrie is less firm,
recovered
thus disabling it so completely that it was soon deliatched.
It measured upwards of fifty feet in length, and was full
three in circumference... Oriental Annual.