The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-21 00:00:00

THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH.
The Era—The characters (male) are the Hero, a Burgo-
master, a Cross-bowman, a Giant with a treble voice, a
Dwarf with a bass voice, several Monks, good, bad, and in-
different, a Mediaeval Beggar, a Pope, a Physician, an Alder-
man, a Professional Assassin, a Curd, an Italian Painter,
Thieves, Robbers, &c.
Fen►alcs—The Heroine, a Flemish Painter, a Busybody, a
Domestic, a Female Dandy, a Roman Matron, an Italian
Princess, an angelic Cripple.
Among the more Dramatic Scenes are : The Lovers' Meet-
ing—The Duke's Banquet—A Mystery—A Struggle with a
Leopard—The Hero rescued from a high Tower by means of
an Arrow—The Bloodhound—A Man Hunt—Suffocated
by his Sweetheart, and saved by his Foe—A Walk from Hol-
land to Venice—A desperate Fight with a She-bear—The
Crowded Gibbet--On the Rhine—ln the Rhine—The Siege
in a Bedchamber —Seven to Two—The Assassin's living
Hand pinned to the Door—The Colossal Robber spitted on
two Swords—Medieval Justice—The Dead Man's Meal—
Servant to a Beggar, and Master to a Count—The Robber's
Mill—The Fatal Bed—Strange Escape by the Sails of a Mill
—The MedimvalShipwreck—Executions in Rome—The Fatal
Letter—The Goddess of Beauty a Boy—The Suicide baffled
by the Assassin—The Ordeal by Cold Water—The Preaching
Friar—Meeting of the Living and the Dead—The Mediaeval
Curse—Wife and no Wife—The Hermit's Cave—Strange
Meeting of the Hermit and his Wife—The Wife's Repulse—
Meeting of the Hermit and his Child—The Wife's Victory—
The Plague—The Cross of Wood Ashes—The Lover's United,
to part no more.
Trubner and Co., GO, Paternoster-row.

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rrilE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE
fully explained in J. GROSS3IITH'S
" GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES."
The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex -
perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi-
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Intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all
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examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin-
ciples."

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SPERMATORRHMA.
By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E.,
And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the
Cure of Strictures of the Urethra.

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