The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-31 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

THE 0 U TLA W.
Three Vols. -
Bentley. _London : 1835.
The action of this tale, which is from the pen of
Mrs. Hall, author of the " Buccaneer," takes place •
towards the close of the reign of James the Second,
and making all due allowance for the claims of fiction,
adheres with laudable accuracy to the truth of his-
tory. A better period for the purposes of romance -
or one more crowded with startling events, and ani-
mated characters, could scarcely have been selected
and accordingly there is no want of either in the
" Outlaw." The hero is a bold, minutely pourtrayed
personage, of a somewhat saturnine disposition, but
nevertheless just such a one as is calculated to rivet
the attention of the reader. But, as in the case of
the " Buccaneer," Mrs. Hall's females are decidedly
her best creations. Her Rosalind Sydney is a very
delightful, life-like sketch, and interests our feelings,
at the very first glimpse we get of her, where she is
represented chatting with a favourite old Irish nurse,
Alice Murrough—a strange, mysterious sort of being,
who is not, however, much to our taste, inasmuch as
we can scarcely reconcile her highly figurative mode
of speech with that of real life, at any period, or
under any circumstances. Lady Sydney is quite a
different being, and we recognize her as genuine flesh
and blood, with her pride, her sternness, and that one
softening and redeeming trait of character—her idola-
trous affection for her son. The descriptions in the
" Outlaw" are good throughout ; and as there is no
dearth of incident in it, we doubt not that it will be-
come a favourite. Our unusually contracted' limits
will not admit of our giving extracts, or we would
subjoin the quaint and clever sketch of Sir Everard
Sydney's ornithological and zoological museum.

PERJURY.—At the Henry-street Police-office,
Dublin, a charge of perjury against a gentleman of high
rank in society, was heard on Monday. The case ivas ad-
journed till to-day.
THE WHALERS.—The expedition sails to-morrow
(Friday), under Captains Ross and Humphreys, for the re—
lief of the still imprisoned mariners in the polar region.—
Hull Observer.

The Secretary to the Highland and Agricultural So-
ciety of Scotland has, in answer to a letter from the se-
cretary to the Society lately formed, designated the Royal
Central Agricultural Society of Great Britain and Ireland,
informed them that the Highland Society is precluded by
its rules from joining in the formation of the new Society,
and that it is a fundamental rule of the Highland Society,
to avoid as much as possible any interference with ques-
tions of a political nature.
GREAT FIRE IN PARIS.--011 Saturday morning,
while the workmen of Mr. Perrotet,; bookbinder, No, 14,
Rue du Pot de Fer, Paris, were gone to breakfast, at about
half-past nine o'clock, a most frightful body of flame sud-
denly issued from a part of the buildings in which was the dry-
ing room, and where an immense number of sheets of dif-
ferent works were hung up. In a few minutes the whole
building was enveloped, and presented a most . awful aspect.
It is believed that the fire was occasioned by some of the
sheets in the drying room being hung too near the flue of the
stove, which was over-heated. Happily no lives have been
lost, nor has any very serious personal injury been sustained
by any one. The loss of property is said to amount to the(
enormous sum of 1,500,000 f. ; according to some, to
3,000,000 f.
ARNi A G H.—The formidable junction of Liberals
in the Reform Association, and the progress towards re-
action already made in one or two counties, now misrepre-.
sented by Tories, have rendered the faction so reckless and
desperate that they are endeavouring to get up an opposi-
tion in Armagh to Mr. Leonard Dobbin, one of the most
useful, intelligent, and indefatigable of the Irish represen-
tatives. It appears that the Tories are about to unbag a
Farnham Fox in that ancient city.--:Dublin Post.

The new Act relative to Weights and Measures
comes into operation to-morrow.
EUGENE ARAM IN SHILLING PARTS.—Mr.
Bultver's fascinating Romance, founded upon the strange
fate of Eugene Aram, the scholar of Knaresborough, is
now in course of publication by Mr. Bentley, in Weekly
One Shilling Parts, to be succeeded by other works of
fiction by the same great master ; each work to be com-
pleted in Six Parts. This design must obtain universal
favour, and will unquestionably command a most extraor-
dinary sale. The first number is illustrated by a steel plate,
from a design by Pickering, representing the trial of Eugene
at the moment he is delivering his memorable defence. Sir
Walter Scott has vindicated the high genius manifested in
this Romance ; and we cannot better conclude these brief
remarks than by quoting the few emphatic words he pro-
nounced on rising from its perusal :—" I can hardly cork-
ceive a greater proof of talent than this, that a writer
should take for his subject a story known so well as
Eugene Aram ;' and that he should be able to work it
up in so artful a manner as to produce such intense in-
terest. I read late ; I could not lay it down ; and twice
t has spoiled ray night's rest."
The New Municipal Corporations—Great Triumph
of Reform and Death-blow to Toryism—American Presi-
dent's Message—War between the United States and
France.—For ample Particulars of, and Comments upon,
the above Important Subjects, Read the Dispatch of Sun-
day next, Enlarged Edition of 48 Columns, without Extra
Charge.—Dispatch Office, 139, Fleet-street.
BAUBLES.--The Reformers of Hull are anxious
that all the ostentatious frippery of the defunct Corporation
should be sent adrift as soon as passible. An appropriate
suggestion has been made, that the ant!.ique " maces" should
be put forthwith into the crucible, ai:d converted into
grateful testimonials to Viscount Melbourne and Lord John
Russell.—Hull Observer. _ _ _ _

The Manchester mail was overturned on Monday
morning last, on its way to Carlisle, immediately after cross-
ing Lowther-bridge. The driver was severely injured and
the guard was also much bruised, but none of the passen-
gers received any injury.—Whitehaven Herald.
ATTEMPT T 9 OUTLAW AN UNITED STATES
SENATOR.—We learn from the New Orleans papers that
a very extraordinary movement is making in that city to
denationalize the Hon. Alexander Porter, one of the sena-
tors in the Congress of the United States from the state of
Louisiana. It appears that a memorial is receiving sig-
natures, setting forth that Judge Porter is not entitled to
a seat in the National Legislature, not being a naturalized
citizen of the United States. The memorkxlists allege that
several of them have called on the senator to exhibit the
proofs, if lie have any, of his citizenship, and that he has
replied that he does not recognize their authori,V to make
the demand, and expresses his willingness to .r,efer the
matter to the decision of the Senate. The question, so
far as we can gather it from the meagre details it; the
papers, is of considerable complication, and one which will
involve the constitutional citizenship of a great many pro-
minent individuals in Louisiana, and test severely some of
the provisions of the naturalization laws in their application
to that state. Of the character of the present movement
there can be very little room for mistake. It is partizan
altogether, and would not have been thought of but for the
particular politics of the senator. Judge Porter is an Irish-
man by birth, but it is strikingly singular that the question
of his American citizenship should be mooted at this late
day, when it is notorious that he has filled, without any
scruple of his right to do so, many of the most important
and responsible offices in the State. He was even a mem-
ber of the Convention which framed its constitution, has
been repeatedly elected to the State Legislature, one of the
most efficient and prominent judges of the Supreme Court,
and is now a member of the Senate of the United States, in
which body he has held his scat an entire session, without
the least suspicion from any quarter that lie was not legally
entitled to the place. This is really all we profess to
know on the subject.—New-York Paper of Nov. 26.
TILE NEW NOVELS.—The following is a list of
the most popular Novels just published.—" The Outlaw,"
by the author of " The Buccaneer" (Mrs. Hall) ; " Chro-
nicles of Waltham," by the author of " The Subaltern (Mr.
Gleig) ; " Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry," by.the
author of " The Chaperon, (edited by Lady Dacre),
" Belford Regis," by the author of " Our Village" (Miss
Mitford) ; and " Apes Serie," by the author of . " Th 9
Heiress."