The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-16 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

GERALDINE HAMIL.TON, A NOVEL.
TWO VOLS. rosr tiro. R. BENTLEY..
We have been much struck by the rare beauty
and tenderness of this story, which, we think
can hardly fail to find its way to the hearts of
readers in general, more especially to those of
the softer sex, to whom the interest particularly
addresses itself. The subject consists chiefly of
the progress through life, of a young lady under
circumstances of no ordinary trial, and even
temptation, all of which are rendered more per-
plexing by the harshness of a brutal father.
There are few things, we think, in what
may be called the romance of pathos, more
touching than the various scenes wherein the
heroine's mind, at once firm and gentle, is put
to severe tests; and it is impossible to peruse
such details without entertaining a high respect
for the talents and the heart of the authoress.
Whether we contemplate Geraldine in her happy
infancy, or in her melancholy seclusion in Ire-
land, or as a disguised fugitive in Portugal, or
as a humble dependant bowed down by sorrow,
and forced to assume a feigned name, or, in
short, in any of the trying situations of her event-
ful life, she is uniformly an example for her sex,
winning at once our sympathy and regard. The
episode of the idiot-heiress has all the appear-
ance of being a fact pressed into the service of
fiction. " Geraldine Hamilton " may boast a
lofty origin. When our patrician authoresses
write thus, they do a service to letters and to
pure morals.

Sunday night Vice-Admiral the Count DE
RossE MESROS, one of the oldest and most distinguished
officers of the French navy, died suddenly of an attack of
apoplexy, in the 85th year of his age. He entered the
service at the age of 15, and was constantly in active em 4
ployment.—French Paper.
The celebrated ANTONIO ScARPA, who be-
came Professor of Anatomy at the age of 22, and to whom
that science is greatly indebted, died at Pavia on the 81st
ult., of a disease of the bladder, notwithstanding he re-
ceived the most anxious care and assistance from his flume-
rous medical friends, many of whom were formerly bia
pupils. He has attained his 85th year.
WILLIAM the Third having one day asked
the CZAR PETER the Great, when in this country, how
he liked his hospital for decayed seamen (Greenwich),
the Czar answered, " If I were the adviser of your MA-
JESTY, I should counsel you to remove your Court to
Greenwich, and convert St. James's into an hospital."
_ _ _

Yesterday the Lusitania sailed from the
Broomielaw, having on hoard 172 men for Oporto, to

j.dn the forces under Don PEDRO. In the course of th!
present week another vessel, the Rival, will sail from the.
Broomielaw, having on board 472 men, destined for the
same port and service.— Glasyow Chronicle of Monday-..
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.—" We wit-
nessed a few evenings since at a private rehearsal, the per-
formance of Miss TUCKER (the young lady who made so
successful a debut at Kean's Theatre some titne back, as
Helen 111' Gregor) in the character of Lady Macbeth,
With a fine conception of nature, Miss TUCKER unites
many advantage of art,—a knowledge of stage propriety
and effect, which she displays with that natural ease that
shows it to be the result of genius, rather then of study.
Liss TUCKER is ayoung lady of considerable personal attrac-
tions, and possesses a voice of peculiar meloJy, with a
most judicious emphasis."
EXTRAORDINARY NERVE.--A shopkeeper
in Edinburgh had in his cellar a barrel of gunpowder ; in
the same vault he bad some mral, &c. His sister went,
one night last week, to get some of the latter article, and,
not knowing which barrel it was in, opened the gunpowder
first, and did not re-cover it. She presently alter re-as-
cended. " 'Where is the candle?" said the brother. "I have
left it sticking up in that black sand," was the reply. He
instantly descended, and, putting his bands together like a
funnel, he placed them round the candle, and thus extracted
it from the barrel of gunpowder ! 'When he came up stairs
he fainted.

DEATH.—On the 2d instant, at Mansfield,
aged 41, Mr. JAMES BOADMAN, a dwarf about three
feet in height, who travelled in a caravan, as a spectacle
for the curious, and was exhibited at Mansfield statutes.
On the Saturday, the body was very respectably interred
in the church-yard, by the proprietor of the caravan, and
his place on the earth would have soon been forgotten,
had not the sexton discovered, on Wednesday, that the
grave in which they had laid him had been disturbed. An
investigation took place, and the coffin was found empty,
except containing the shirt in which he had been buried.
—Derby Reporter.
The great importance of steam vessels to ship-
ping in the port of London was perhaps never more strik-
ingly exemplified than in the case of the Severn, a large
East Indiaman, on her way up the river to the St. Katha-
rine's Dock, on Saturday last. When near her journey's
end, she let go her anchor, which from the softness of the
bottom could not hold her, and she ran aground. A
steam-boat belonging to the Irish Steam Navigation Com-
pany went to her a sistance, and drew off by main force
tt,is fine ship, which otherwise must have been lost, as the
tide had just turned. In all probability, from 8,0001. to
10,0001. was saved by steam in this single invance—and
there have been many of a similar kind.
_ _ _

The independent electors of Drogheda have
nominated a candidate pledged to support Repeal, and we
believe the example they have shown will be considered
deserving of general imitatias throughout Ireland.—Dub-
lin Morning Register.
EXPENSE OF THE RUSSIAN NAVY.—The
expense of supporting the Russian navy scarcely ever ex-
ceeds 25 millions of rubles. The pay of the officers is so
extremely low that the Government make them a hand-
some allowance in the shape of table-n:oney. The pay of
the sailor is about half-a-crown a month, and their rations
are on a most economical scale; when afloat, they receive
daily a pound and a half of biscuit and a glass of brandy.
They reeeiof b
receive fuutrttehre,r,3o
poundsnce am
oo month,
ptbe,als poundsl2pounds
of s aolit.
oxaetf:
5 pounds
me il, and 1 pounds of salt, and their ordinary beverage
is a fermented liquor called quass.—.Nautical Magazine.
SAGACITY OF A PONY.—On Saturday
se'nnight Mr. JONATHAN GAIN, of Lumpsfartn, in this
island, sold a pony of the Shetland breed, which he had
had in his possession about seven years, to Mr. WILLIAM
PAnwlcx, of Hayling Island, who immediately took him
home. On Mr. GAIN going out of his house on Wed-
nesday morning he found the pony at his gate, having made
his escape from his new toaster, swam across Ilayling har-
bour, and returned without leave or license to his old quar-
ters. The animal whilst crossing the harbour was seen by
the Preventive men, who, mistaking his cranium for a cask
of spirits, immediately made after him, when to their as-
tonishment the supposed cask on a sudden landed on the
opposite shore, and galloped off without further molesta-
tion.—Portsmouth Paper.
LIMERICK (CITY) ELECTION.--The
people are alive and patriotic in old Limerick. Too
much credit cannot be given to the Political Union of
LACYvpI ewith
,avthese
they t
e plea-
sure
that city for the bold and national part it has taken.
With corporate thraldom, they have flung off SPRING
le toelaim not
citizenship
shi vand, in his place, have determined on returning
'F ii oaitanoAa sbe Moo
could
ol
—the newE A
N srepresentation
. A better e
not
selection will
patriotichu-
man
con-
fer on Colonel
people; but as an Irishman, we exult in the glorious pro-
ject they have in hand. And our admiration is not
diminished by the knowledge of the intention of the citi-
zens of Limerick to give MooRE, as a colleague, Colonel
Dc LACY EvANs —as brave a soldier as ever drew sword,
avowed
and as staunch to the popular interest in Parliament
as he was to his colours in the field. What heightens
pleasure
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friends
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SUDDENEATII.—Yesterday evening an in.
Dtt boththe repealeesael objectsofu n
oonp.t_i I r rp
Morning choice
are our
quest was held at the Yorkshire Stingo, on the body of
RGESr
Gloucester-place, a Proctor of Doctors' Commons.
residedHe ter-place, and was taken very ill on
Tuesday evening, after returning from the house of Mr.
ADAMS, of York-place, with whom he had been dining.
Ira went to bed, and his housemaid ran for a doctor, and
on her return found her master had expired.— Mr. Cox,
of Montagu-square, surgeon, said that he bad known at.
deceased for several years, and he had suffered froin emu..
I paints in the head. Water on the brain was the caost
, of his death. Verdict--Died by the visitation of Gud.