The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-27 00:00:00

Gibraltar since last dates : —Brig Diana, 17 days,
from Liverpool; brigantine, Henry and Margaret,
15 days, from Cardiff; schooner, William, 16 days,
from Liverpool ; schooner, Dart, 26 days, from
Liverpool; steamer Cadiz, six days, from London;
steamer, Colletis, 7 days, from London ; brigan-
tine, John and Mary, 27 days, from Liverpool ;
steamer, Weasel, 81 days, from London ; steamer,
Ferret, 8 days, from London ; steamer, Massilia,
41 days, from Southampton ; brig, Trio, 22 days,
from Hull ; brig, Frederick William, 15 days, from
Liverpool.
Accounts from Mazagan to the 14th have been
received. 96 mules laden with specie had reached
that town from Rabat ; three of them with gold,
and the remainder silver. The money was handed
over to the Governor, who gave the bearers a re-
ceipt for the amount.
Trade in grain was very brisk. Several vessels
had taken cargoes and sailed for ports in the
United Kingdom.
The British brigantine Maria Teresa, and
schooner Gazelle Meihod, sailed on the 14th, laden
with beans, for Liverpool.
The screw frigate Blanca, 37 guns, destined to
carry General Echague to Port Rico, arrived at
Cadiz, from Ferrol, on the 14th. The steam-sloop
Liniers had also arrived at Cadiz, from Tangiers.

Gibraltar Exchanges, on the 21st, were quoted,
on London, 90 days' date, 501 ; Paris, sf. 30c. ;
Marseilles, Of. 31c. ; Genoa, sf. 32c. ; Madrid, eight
days' sight, t- dis ; Cadiz, par ; Malaga, par ; Seville,
dis. ; Alicante, 2 dis. ; Valencia, par ; Barcelona,

prem.
Freights to London and outports in the United
Kingdom, Brazil and River Plate, Gulf of Mexico
and. Havannah, 12 dols. per ton and 10 per cent. ;
Malta, Leghorn, Genoa,and Marseilles, 4 to 5 dols.
per ton and 5 per cent; lead at less ; Spanish pil-
lared dollars, 3 per cent., no demand.

Historical Memoirs of the O'Briens. By John
O'Donoghue, A.M. Hodges, Smith, and Co.
Owing to the facility with which researches can
now be made into the ancient history and condition
of Ireland by the publications of the Archaeological
and Celtic Societies, the author has been induced to
compile this volume, being of opinion " that a con-
nected history of one leading family of the. Celtic
stock, and its fortunes, would better illustrate the
condition of the country, and throw a clearer light
on the weak and pitiful authority pretended to be
held by the Norman colonists of Ireland over its
people down to the seventeenth century, thatt
could be obtained from the disjointed and uncon-
nected pieces of history published by the society."
Although purporting to be a memoir of the O'Briens,
the work is by no means devoted exclusively to the
history of that family ; in fact, the pedigree of the
O'Briens, so frequently distinguished in the history
of Ireland, is traced as a guiding line to which
to attach remarkable events in Irish history.
The English reader must make allowance for nation al
feeling so natural to a son of Erin when dilating on
national wrongs, brought about, as seems to be the
law of nature, by internecine contentions. So it
ever has been, and we suppose ever will be. Until
the advent of St. Patrick, of blessed memory, who
not only " gave the frogs and toads a twist, bill
banished them for ever," Ireland had been go-
verned by one family for upwards of fourteen hun-
dred years. After the introduction of Christianity
down to the beginning of the eleventh century,
a period of nearly six hundred years, the throne
of Ireland was filled by a succession of the descen-
dants of Neall, and it was not until religious per-
secution and the machinations of the priestcraft
excited the people one against the other that
they lost the prestige which a united nation must
always command. The study of the history of the
Irish brigade in Flanders while in the French
service might be beneficial to some of the would-
be volunteers for Papal service. They would then
learn that foreign mercenaries are valued according
to their prowess, employed onthe most arduous ser-
vices, used as long as convenient and, in the end,
turned adrift, while their hard-earned honours and.
rewards are bestowed on native merit or demerit, as
the case may be. What right have foreign hirelings
to expect rewards beyond their pay ? There is
much historical information of interest to be met
with throughout these pages. The author has de-
voted care and time to the compilation of this
memoir, which deserves a place in the library, not
only of the Irish, but of every archeological
student.

Charente's Graduated Course of French Studios :
Exercises. Longman.
This is another volume of the exercises adapted.
to M. Charente's excellent course of grammatical
and idiomatic exercises on the French language. We
have before had occasion to commend the system on
which these educational works are constructed, for
they do not aim, as so many books of a similar
character content themselves with doing, at rapidly
imparting a superficial acquaintance with a few of
the most prominent features of the French lan-
guage. They endeavour to make the student
thoroughly familiar with its structure, its idiomatic
and colloquial expressions, and especially to impress
upon him the distinctions which exist between
the French language and his own tongue, by the
careful comparison of French and English syntax,
and by a part entirely devoted to Gallicisms and
Anglicisms. The series has been adopted by the
War-office for the use of the gentleman cadets of
Woolwich and Sandhurst, a sufficient testimony to
its efficiency and value. The volume before us con-
tains the whole of the exercises, corresponding
with the four parts of the grammar. Each part
can, however, be obtained separately, or the Yunior
and Advanced Course are procurable in two sepa-
rate volumes. The care and attention which M. de
Charente has devoted to the compilation of this
course of exercises must have been very consider-
able. The general approbation which has hitherto
attended it has been well earned. In the preface
he tells us that the system on which it is founded,
and which he terms an application of the principle
of " division of labour," has been long in use in
France, though but little practised in England.
" To learn well rather than quickly, to arrive by
an uninterrupted succession of short, easy, and
graduated steps at a sound and lasting knowledge
of what we learn, is the proposed object." We con-
gratulate M. Charente on having been the one to
introduce such a sound and sensible system of in-
struction, and we do not doubt that the circulation
of his grammatical works will be extensive.

Spring Buds and Auturnn"'Leaves. By A. W.

Hurst and Blackett.

This is an unpretending little volume of verse'
written b 3 a lady at long intervals of time, some
the poems being dated 1814. They have not much
poetic talent to recommend them, but they are silo:
ple and melodious, while the domestic feeling an
elevated tone of the authoress command the respect
and sympathy of her readers.

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