The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-15 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

THE NATURAL SON. LONDON, 1632.

The incidents of this little tale, which is
yet in its infancy, though few, are pleasingly
and even impressively told. The writer has
quick and keen conception of the picturesque,
and dashes off a landscape, with a few vivid
graphic touches, that we at once recognize as
genuine nature. The female figure, too, he de•
scribes with all the gusto of a sculptor ; his
heroine Circe,—a most appropriate name for
the heroine of a newly-fledged poet—is really a
most bewitching creature, full of life, love.
and sentiment. The scene where she provokes
the libidinous appetite of a grim old smuggler,
and is rescued by young Selwyn, the natural son,
is pourtrayed with singular vigour. But we
prefer the author in his softer moments: tograpple
with a smuggler, either in reality or fiction, re-
quires no ordinary address and energy. The
subjoined extract is very pleasing:—

Who could she be, that over her compeers
Had such an air, and majesty of mien ?
Scarce twenty springs made up her sum of years,
Yet never symmetry more true was seen;—
So moves a wild swan when its crest it rears,
And walks the desert waters—like a Queen :
Her snow-white arm gleamed through the filmy crape,
And oh! her foot—its little witching shape!

Agile, yet delicately feminine,
As airy Naiad by a woodland rill ;
Her stature, though not tall, was tempered fine,
Fair as the image of Pygmalion's skill ;
Her Parian shoulders had a droop divine,
Their symmetry encircled by a frill;
Whilst heaved her bosom 'neath the network white,
As glows the moonbeam through the veil of night.

CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY, No. L XXV,
LONDON, 1832.

The present volume of this delightfully varied
miscellany, which contains some of the best
writings— Lockhart's Memoirs of Burns fcr
instance—of some of the best writers of the day,
comprises the natural history, profusely embel-
lished with engravings, of butterflies, moths, and
sphynxes. For this curious and novel perform-
ance we are indebted to the practised pen of
Captain Thomas Brown, President of the Royal
Physical Society, who has furnished us with
some entertaining particulars respecting what he
quaietly calls " the indirect injuries to man-
kind from butterflies." The work will be com-
pleted in a second volume.

HOWARD'S SHAKSPEARE, No. XXIII.

This work now verges rapidly to a close, and
has more than fulfilled the high expectations to
which its first appearance gave rise. The pre-
sent illustrations are of the tragedy of King
Lear. They are of a high order of excellence.
Mr. Howard does more justice to Shakspeare's
tragedies than his comedies. lii the more im-
passioned scenes of King Lear, he exhibits him-
self to considerable advantage. Lear cursing
his daughters is forcibly conceived and executed :
the expression of the old man's countenance, his
striking attitude, and the significant wave of his
hand, remind us,—no slight compliment to Mr.
Howard—of Kean's Lear, when that impressive
tragedian is in one of his most fortunate moments.
The sixth illustration—Kent in the stocks—is
also well portrayed, and places Shakspeare's
finely-felt description vividly before the mind's
eye. When complete, this work will be a valu-
able appendage to the dramas of Shakspeare.

ASSIZES.-(RECEIVED THIS MORNING.)

OXFORD CIRCUIT—GLoucEsTER, AUG. 14.
William Drinkwater, a man of respectable appearance,
was indicted for stealing at Churcbam, on the 30th May,
16 ewe sheep and 10 lambs, the property of John Gurney.
The circumstances as detailed by the witnesses were conclu-
sive against the prisoner, and he was sentenced to transpor-
tation for life. The prisoner was a butcher, and Mr.
Baron GURNEY, in sentencing him, told him that it be-
came particularly dangerous to society when persons of his
profession committed the crime of cattle stealing, from the
means they had of making away with the plunder.
William lVagland was indicted for stealing two oxen
on the 10th of May last, the property of John Day.
By the evidence of John Day, the prosecutor, and his
witnesses, it appeared that the prisoner was entrusted by
him, the prosecutor, with the oxen, to take to market,
but that he stepped at Didmarton, in this county, and sold
them for 141., and immediately upon selling them, got
upon the Devonport mail, and went off in an opposite
direction to that in which he should have gone. The
prosecutor, on his cross-examination, declared, with muck
severity of manner, that the prisoner should have no mercy
from him, but that the law should go to the fullest extent
in punishing him.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that his master, the
prosecutor, was drunk when he gave him the order to
take the beasts to market, but that he desired him to sell
them for as much as he could get, if they should fall lame,
and that it was because the oxen bad fallen lame that he
sold them.

The jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to
transportation for life.

CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.

CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES.
COUNTRY.
Remaining at last Report,lsB6—New Cases,B2B—Deaths,267
Recovered, 315—Remaining, 1832.. Total Cases since the com-
mencement, 30,534—Deaths, 11,500.
(Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

There are small arrivals this week of all kinds of Grain, and
not much Flour. There is so thin an attendance of buyers to.
day that scarcely any business is doing, and the prices of all
kinds of Corn remain as on Monday. The Flour trade is dull
this week. Plenty of Foreign Wheat continues to arrive, by
which the importers must lose greatly.

ARRIVALS.

Wheat.
English 1,002 qrs.
Irish O4
Foreign 13,712

Barley. Oats. I Flour.
1 221 qrs. 1 1,353 qrs. I,s92sacks,
3,570 1 --
12 b rls.

478

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)