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

LITERATURE.

The Voice of Harmony in Creation. Selected and
arranged by Mary Jan© Estcott. 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 b rds, 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 and 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 worthy of notice that the peculiarly pliable,
yet firm, style of the binding of this volumf-, 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. RM. Longman and Co.
Byron will certainly not lose much by this bur-
lesque on his greatest work, and the public will
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 pardon if we under-
rate, his production ; but we think he must have
published more for his own gratification than that
of others.

LUNATICS Is 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 108 clauses. It constitutes a gene-
ral Board of Lunacy Commissioners in Scotland, to be
nominated by her Majesty, lone to be chairman of the
hoard (unpaid), and two to be paid commissioners. This
Board will administer the lunaey business of the country
according
_to a mode of procedure described in detail.
MISS MADELINE SMITH.—On Wednesday morning,
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, accompanied 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 QUARREL.—Great excitement
was occasioned in Reading yesterday by a man being
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.l the othet 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 ARRANGEMENT.—Near the Ob
servatory 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 tumorous public services of great merit)
to oppose to these noxious exhalations plants possessing
had
planted considerable power of absorption. He accordingly
planted a quantity of the helianthus grandifioro?s, ano
these have been completely successful in absorbing the
dangerous gases, and altogether averting the fever visi-
tation from the spot where it bad periodically oc-
curred for years. —Di echanics' Magazine.
PUGILISM.—JAMES BRODSES AND DANIEL MORRIS,
Fort 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 camp off, but no fight took place.
Firstly, due notice not having been given, the commis
sary was not in attendance with the ropes and stakes
and, secondly, the delay again occasioned the attend
ance of the police—so that the second meeting was as
iudecieive as the fiat, and beta are cancelled.