The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

actions,

"Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way."
The Lady of Glynne has many merits; it is sus•
tained by lofty principle, and rendered attractive
by considerable talents, whle the freedom and
freshness of its style, invest it with a charm and
a grace, and the tone of deep feeling with which
it is pervaded, declares its spirit to be that of
the true and the genuine.

Rides and Reveries of Mr. .zEsop Smith. Edited by
Peter Query (Martin F. Tupper). Hurst and
Blackett.
Many readers are already familiar with these
essays, from their having appeared in the pages of
the Dublin University Magazine ; but they are here
presented in a concise form, with several additions.
They are the production of the talented author of
"Proverbial Philosophy," whose former work ob-
tained so large a share of public favour. They
possess a quaint originality, and display consi-
derable knowledge on an immense variety of
topics. The style is vigorous in many parts, and
in all it is flowing and unconstrained. The thought-
ful and studious who desire to dwell upon subjects
of importance, and weigh well the causes of effects,
instead of being merely sati,fied to behold the re-
sults produced by such effects, will delight in this
volume, wherein is displayed a correct judgment
in most things, and an independent spirit which
shrinks not from boldly avowing its honest convic-
tions. It is not every one who cares for such
writings, but for those who appreciate them an in-
tellectual garner-house is here provided, stored
with the harvests of no barren soils. The purport
and tenour of these compositions are well illus-
trated by the following observations on galloping :
" Sometimes rashness is the truest wisdom ; see Clive
and Lake and Gough and Napier passim: and when it's
no use considering because things must be done, give
them their heads.
" That same independent daring and dashing spirit
of galloping is in old .ZEiop's very blood and bones ; to
be a wild Arab, free as the air he breathes—to court
rather than shun the report of eccentricity, simply be-
cause it leaves him so much the freer to do as he likes—
to be one of the incompreheasibles of society, licensed to
have his own way and to speak his own word—to leap
your ditches of etiquette, break your fences of usuality,
4nd make a dash at the current truth of any sort when and,
as fast as he wills—that's the same spirit which my gal-
lopping Brenda infuses into me when she makes me an
exulting Bashi-Bazouk I "
The subjoining remarks on self-knowledge are very
striking, and contain assertions that are verified by
the experience of every day :
" Seldom, seldom inleed, few and far between are
Truth's domiciliary visits to some folks : 'and rarer far
than swan's song, the scarce heard murmurs of that an-
gel's tongue. There are people, Peter, the most unplea-
sant, censorious, and annoying iu the world, who have
no idea that they are not general favourites with all folks;
there are men intolerably mean, who would be astonished
to hear they are not specially laudable for liberality ;
women, of exasperating tempers, who verily believe
themselves most gracious and desirable ' • and even
children, Peter, as our little Jenny there knows, who
suppose themselves infallible judges of every knotty
point."
The " Coursing Canzonets," as the verses which
were written in the saddle are termed, are some of
them very pleasing. They are spirited, and flow in a
lively strain, and are brilliant or humorous as
the subject may suggest. It was the crowning
pleasure and darling pastime of .sop to be mounted
on his horse at an early hour—
" With glad and grateful tongue to join
The lark at his matin hymn."
His wanderings are now over, but there may be
many who now and hereafter will hold them in
remembrance, and regard the reveries of the rides
with a favourable glance.

THE VICTORIA CROSS.

(From the Gazette of last evening.)
WAR OFFICE, Nov. 18.

The Queen has (seen graciously pleased to signify her
intention to confer the Decoration of the Victoria Cross
on the undermentioned Officers and Non-Commissioned
Officer of her Majesty's Army, who have been recom-
mended to her Majesty for that Decoration, in accord-
ance with the rules laid down in her Majesty's Warrant
of the 29th of January, 1856, on accaunt of Acts of
Bravery performed by them befeore the enemy during
the late War, as recorded against their several names,
viz. :

17th Lancers—Quartermaster Sergeant John Farrell,
for having remained, amidst a shower of shot and shell,
with Captain Webb, who was severely wounded, and
whom he and Sergeant-Major Berryman had carried as
far as the pain of his wounds would allow, until a
4tretcher was procured, when he assisted the Sergeant-
nAjor and a private of the 13th Dragoons (Malone), to
carry that officer off the field. This took place on the
25th October, 1351, after the charge at the battle of
tiaklara, in which Farrell's horse was killed under

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Military Train, 3.1 Battalion—Ensign and Adjutant
James Craig (late Sergeant Scots Fusilier Guards)—
For having volunteered, and personaly collected other
volunteers to go out under a heavy fire of grape and
small arms, on the night of the 6th September, 1855,
when in the right advanced sap, in front of the Redan,
to look for Captain Buckley, Scots Fusilier Guards,
who was supposed to be wounded. Sergeant Craig
brought in, with the assistance of a drummer, the body
of that officer, whom he found dead—in the performance
of which act be was wounded.
Military Train, sth Battalion—Lieut. George Symons
(late Sergeant, Royal Artillery), for conspicuous gallantry,
on the 18th October, 1851, in having volunteered to un-
mask the embrasures of a five-gun battery in the advanced
Right Attack, and when so employed, under a terrific fire,
which the enemy commenced immediately on the opening
of the first embrasure, and increased on the unmasking of
each additional one ; in having overcome the great diffi-
culty of uncovering the last, by boldly mounting the
parapet, and throwing down the sand-bags, when a shell
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Right Attack, to a spot near the Redan, where Lieut.
and Adjutant Dyneley was }sing, mortally wounded, and
for dressing his wounds in that dangerous and exposed
situation. N.B.—This officer was mentioned, iu General
Sir James si rupson's Despatch of the 18th Sept., 1855, for
couragehis in •
going to the front, under a heavy fire, to Al'
sist the wounded.

THE Two MEN KILLED BY THE BREAKING OF MACIII.
VERY.—INQUEST.—An ii.quest was held yesterday at
Greenwich on the bodies of the two men killed by the
breaking of a travelling crane in Messrs. Humphrey's
'ar'torY• The particulate have already appeared in
The Sun. A verdict of accidental death was returned.
TESTIMONIAL TO VALOUR.--Amongst the soldiers who
received at the hands of her Majesty the Victoria cross,
as a reward for distinguished services, was George
Walters, formerly a sergeant in the 49th Regiment, but
who at the time of the diatributien was a constable is
the R division of metropolitan police. The cross wag
awarded to Walters for having, at the risk of his own
life, saved the life of General Adams before Sebastopol.
A few days since Walters, who has been appointed a
foreman at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, received from
Mrs. Adams a handsome gold watch, with a suitable
Punt of his gallant bravery
inscription, as an acknowledgment
in raving the life of her husband.