The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-29 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

The Voice of Harmony in Creation. Selected and
arranged by Mary Jana Est oot t. Longman
and Co.

This is a volume of excellent quotations, prose
and poetic, illustrating music in all its mediums,
in its philosophy, power, effects, and varieties.
The song of bards, the peal of the organ, the chime
of the bells, and the choir of the angels, are set
forth in the language of the finest arid purest
authors ; from Job to Burns. Great taste and
refined perception are exemplified in the selection,
which constitutes, not only a valuable text refer-
ence, but also a charming and classical work to
beguile a spare hour or two.

It is worly of notice that the peculiarly pliable,
yet firm, style of the binding of this velum?, is a
great improvement on the ordinary method of
()covering the pages of our current literature.

Job Morbid's Pilgrimage. A Burlesque, Dramatic

Fragment, by D. R.M. Longman. and O.
Byron will certainly not lose much by this bur-
lesque on his great-st work, and the public wiil
gain in about the same degree ; as the brochure
contains, as far as we can see, neither wit nor ori-
ginality. We beg the author's par,lon if we under-
rate his production ; but we think he must have
publiAied more for his own gratification than that
of others.

,lINATICS IN SCOTLAND. —A. bill of the Lord-Advo-
cate and Sir G. Grey regulates the care and treatment
of lunatics, and makes provision for the mainte-
nance and regulation of lunatic asylums in Scotland. It
contains as many as 103 clauses. It constitutes a gene-
ral Board of Lunacy Commissioners in Scotland, to he
nominated by her Majesty, 'one to be chairman of the
hoard (unpaid), and two to be paid commissioners. This
Board will administer the lunacy business of the country
according to a mode of procedure described in detail.
MISS MADELINE Sonva.—On Wednesday morning,
I says the Scotsman, Miss Smith was transferred from
Glasgow prison to the East Jail in Edinburgh. her in-
tended removal was kept strictly private, both here and in
Glasgow ; and it was consequently effected without the
slightest stir or excitement, She was conveyed by the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in a first-class car-
riage, aczompanied by Mr. Stirling, the governor, and
by the matron of Glasgow Jail. At the Haymarket
station a cab was in waiting, and she was quietly driven
through the streets to the jail, no one excepting the
prison officials having the slightest idea of her arrival.
A MAN KILLED IN A QUAuREL.—Gteat excitement
was occasioned in Reading yesterday by a man bein7,
killed by a fellow-workman. Two or three gangs of
mowers had been employed in the King's Meadows,
and about 7 o'clock one gang charge i the other with
having gone beyond the line laid down for them to work
to, thereby depriving them of earning so much money as
they would otherwise be able. A fierce quarrel took
place, which ended in the death of a man named Law-
ranee. Three persons were taken into custody.
INGENIOUs SANITARY A RRANGEMENT.—Near the Ob.
aervatory of Washington there has existed, on the banks
of the Potomac, a malarious swamp covered with parasi-
tic herbs, the exhalations of which have on many occa-
sions produced fever in the neighbourhood. It occurred
to Lieut. Maury (whose name is honourably known in
connection with numerous public services of great merit)
to oppose to these noxious exhalations plants possessing
a considerable power of absorption. He accordingly had
planted a quantity of the helianthus grandifiorous, and
these have been completely successful in absorbing the
dangerou; gases, and altogether averting the fever visi-
tation from the spot where it had periodically oc-
curred for years.—Mechanics' Magazine.
PUOILISM.—JAMES BROCKES AND DANIEL MORRIS,
Fon 1001.—This affair, which was interrupted on Tues-
day last, was appointed for decision on Saturday. 0"
that day the men and their backers betook themselves to
the Lower Hope, below Gravesend, where a game of
cross-purposes came off, but no fight took place.
Firstly, due notice not having been given, the commi—
sary was not in attendance with the ropes and stakes
and, secondly, the delay again occasioned the attend
mace of the police—so that the second ineetiog wa3 a,
indecisive as the first, and bets are qancelled.