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'PA FINE ARTS.
VES FROM THE BOOK OF NATURE.
Lizars, Edinburih, 1814.
e Part befor- -f th;•

It ..e us of this publication which,
4001 e see by the prospectus, is to be issued in
kill: .My four-shilling numbers of folio size, con-
tiN not less than-twelve plates of sun-birds,
Igo, nof dogs, nine of humming-birds, twenty-
goit if foreign butterflies, and fourteen of British
ka: S. These plates are well designed, engraved,.
.i.tl, . coloured after nature, in the best style of
1
1,,' md the little, sketches of woodland and forest
en erY that are introduced into some of them,
4( .c°llsiderWoly to the picturesqueness of their
late t.
Fo: full descriptions of the different
i -8 the.
I my wri .0
,- reader is referred to Jardine's ‘ve!l
nary. • pork,
entitled " The Naturalist's Li-

a ~s• LITERATURE.
Z,? T°7117 OF THE EIGHT ENTH CEN-
TRY. Part 111. Chapman and Had, London, 1844.
4e author of this history, winch, by the bye,
theyh.4 ch too confident in its tone, is a German,
mle Schlosser, and the translation is from
ofbrn 111 of Mr. Davidson. It consi6ts of a series
411., 4raphical memoirs, necompan:ed with criti-
-4.4 marks on their writings, of the most emi-
4philosophers, poets, politicians,
.novelists,
'ktltl lin figured in Europe during the eighteenth
ry, and----as regards our English authors, at
41e, to -48 penned in a tone of decision by no
kt, 8 wz.rranted by the somewhat superficial
t tintAnce which M. Schlosser has with his
When, for instance, he comes to dis,
;•—•''te niceties of English style, he falls into
c-nost'eurious blunders possible; yet lie seems
e Perfectly unconscious that he is giving any
i leous'opinions, and insists, with emphasis, on
tlPu.rit"y and .dignity of the genuine English
11,4jus,add;mg, that these celebrated Letters
leG ahraYs ;remain a monument of talent on
1.11.1
°fll.teir style and language." Now, the
tad e of J'Anius is so far from possessing " purity
'414 '";'.l-ity," that, if it he remarkable for one
°lore than another, it is for the utter ab-
-44(1 le of these qualities. It is stiff, constrained,
'/41 Rrtifieial, and abounds in tawdry similies and
*44 ;1111', ruffian personalities. So perfectly aware
Mite author himself of the laboured and anti.
Lellaraeter of writings, that he expressly
th 0-1.;°4, in his 'memorable letter to Horne
:'!hat its ,composition cost him not less
41‘‘iiirilltnight's hard labour. Again, speaking
itio.-le-8 Style. M. Schlosser condemns it, as
uontbaitic 'and wordy • whereas, it is fuller
teaS than Ntx n•ds and is 'exuberant, not from
flit `4Bte) but !from' the astonishing affluence of
kt.oalltor's b pagination. We consider Burke.
ne °f it,
; treat masters of English compost-
k4ll'l wiwse rorks, notwithstanding their rich
NtPried onagery—which, however, is never
(,45 irc'lls or .oppressive—will last as long as the
'44''t.44.e en* ee hires. In reference to Mrs. rhrale,
Siiresie,sbra ied friend of Johnson, our author
fq tte-,;" that she " had received very little
~,uo-Zen • her youth," whereas she had been
err 3fully educated than the generality
Z,44i4..,-,.11`*12 men of her age, and was not unac-
n with the classics. Then, again, he
'',lbh-„'"(14 contempt of " Boswell's silly Life
' which is generally considered, and
g~altt)i'lc`el as one of the most skilful and fasci-
vr,ftte s of biography in this or any lan-
pintn.,, ! might, did space and time permit,
lilu-sgt I'4 any other errors of judgment in M.
4te that ambitious history, b.ut enough to
°Rliiat• 'll le present prejudices of it is careless and
I; I.nd full of .
'IIP

OrniVAL OF AGRICULTURE, and
st,he
cietTrq;oscrf 1i."4 of the Highland and Agricultural
Srviiand.
o-
L111111:11 the third number of the new series of
4%,,!tilie-.ailuartedrl publication, which chrom-f.
ul7:(-1!.mr ableY manner. the progress o
"Illefin'ttPl improvement, to whic.ll,itcannot he
eel „,I°lo • northern neighbours have given a
tLl'c pal,,TPu 'Sc. The contents of the present part
g'keia-"ed, and interesting to those engaged in
,111t1,-4' ctipations, or interested in land. The
LltitZliPe!,' is an examination of a plan of pre-
"'Orel spy
d of all kinds, by which the productive
cttte -of the plant may be increased to a great
b"iilit,' Without the application of manure to the
then 6-le.secret is held by a German farmer in
til:e'r'tuunr) 1)1 Mavence, who has made
R-•xlellt3 the subject for a series or years.
ell:detle'vver thinks that some of the results
ht.l,t 14-4, 11) aY be true to a certain extent, but that
t,'ltiBt,,-et'•lents must be received very cautiously,
7tiottltieoe:tl.ll:tl).l3s,mall tinge of Charlatanisin in them,
the assertion, that by the applica-
,,Obs ~I•ne Process abundant crops of potatoes
cyJece 6 town on the sands of the sea-shore ! The
Possessor of the s cret being to sell
often to the su.piciou or rather mag-
1. Diu ttl
le effects of it. Toe Tani Worth and
'is L'n-'Ol speeches are examined at some length,
°tice, concluding with the following pas-
tlttrVi7in:tiatiever variety of opinion may exist as to the
OrOached
by our present Ministers at these
th,'n,es, there can be none as to the example which
Witti4.lllve set to the aristocracy and all landed pro._
th, 8The 'march of improvement has commenced
t h'.s been put to the plough—and, such is
-tn‘ 'of the times, in more especially as it
.con-
i're 1,"`,1(1 manufacturing interests, that we neither
,44Calt nor turn back even if we wished. Much
Ztl"tt,' achieved for agriculture, but much more re-
De achieved. The discoveries of the last
!ve wf,ep ears far more than outstrip the last fifty ; nor
11try" the smallest doubt that in the next ten dis-
-4.- /4114 improvement will go on in a three-fold
kllta,L°°l( to what has been done by drainage and
ttira-r :°B', by the use of steam, by the ingenuity
I,ikt implements' by better breeds of stock, by
the ht ,t,_g in- feeding! And yet these
hole" Ats—capable of adding a third more to
Produce of the country—are as yet co.n-
tttN4iLto Mere districts of the. land. Old prep-
lie,ther4 .‘"roughout whole ccainties adhered to, and
th 4 teems as if these improvements had never
14dL" heard of. At one time it was supposed that
rd had one interest and the tenant another.
tb,4%-„P,sition admitting of general application, the
"Ikt Their interests are inseparably
ib absurd.
Logether, and their prosperity will and
,t4ll64stillilitual• In fact, this truth is so potent, that.
I,,,:apger be misunderstood, and, therefore, it
het e "'" classes, in every district throughout the
Ith °F PP ire, to make common cause. Hence the
Pti;4l% us sling associations, where landlord and
nelißh , Tan one table-land, and for one especial
.Y meet and consult together ; and it is
tt aye t
Itiottk° See how these institutions are annually,
4at `IOIY, extending, not only in point of num-
-I.e•bt• \°` resPectability' ; so much so, indeed, that,.
ltob,,!°oll",,,„e,ars, either a landlord or a tenant, who is
'eti,-,;`ed with them in their endeavours after
11,iuth., 'Of, will he a rara avis in terris. The lead
te:hsh,a'en by Scotland ; and it is an honour to
is,i'llvie4teian Proudly lay claim, far more worthy to
tiil„,vielort.-lall feats of arms or extent of conquest..
4°,ver the obstacles of nature ; and it is a
'OA ‘"c cause of humanity."
Ath
"WVDENCE BETWEEN BURNS
‘till„t ;„ AND CLARIIVDA.
,ivlai-fttar correspondence between Burns
tk)C.teli.-`l4 Mrs. M`Leliose, which has been
1,41.; 44ali !-1
to by the biographers of the
:llnch Allan Cunningham vainly en-
,,'441-,v,e, -,"),Procure for his edition, is now, we
',111,„t first time, published in an au-
s6er°-'''• Considering that the attachment
iktt: ie,:al'arkable individuals for each other,
Sh-!.rtai,,relY Platonic character, their letters
tip,;.sii,„lY) many of them, among the most
,_ have read,
41E, we ever remetnuer to fll, e y
pr,, c'n the side of Burns, who in-
LNltittiihjitY ti•eely in the wildest flights of
lek xtravagance. We cannot say
kiltlN Col-arrespondence has greatly in-
tlitltile.o% for it abounds in errors of taste,
R~ls, fit e'si6intliV, notwithstanding that so
hed~i andllurns
npon love, friendship, kindred
n like
11, few tone
ft a pretty matters, dull and
'‘t • 01'• - degree, As for Burns, there are
I•bill‘te Ins letters, whether to men or women,
kti h
-15 kit -een able to read with patience, so
ti,1111814 re,4,11,1 iolated are they in their style,
tiretrut'„'Le with tawdry tinsel imagery,. in
,
4." and nature have not the slightest
Is •
hie i.-Plstles to Clarinda are by no means
bet specimens of letter-writing.

t lA.I rlll . i'V 4131/VOGIOII7 Past V.
,r 1 e 1,4 Longman, London, 1844.
;t!ltli.. aye here the Fifth Part of a translation
1i\,%43' Pert of Lady Charlotte Guest, of several.vea
l'13,1,1(11(1- Wel,ll manuscripts which
of }i-'4itPjt of the habits and superstitionsgol
‘Nt.ll-'11.3 during the earlier periods of ft-
,,,lttli, s'.l,Q The translator has executed her task
111 tili(!, at k'are, arid has added several short
tilt 4 notes which clear up all that is obscure
text.
iit
.'€IP,S /V ' RIVAL. Part IL
D IA A JO U
Salleke Murray, London 1844.
11(-)tj
' , eed the re-publication of the former
tii,,i, 0 flied
00 Journal some few days since in 1 h
.li3; - Present Part contains an account of
Viq t()P's journey to the holy city or Benares,
kkl4,,tll%teh,(! 11.idoosYhold in such veneration, and
lk.', tfitlll, t'on of the city of Delhi, for many
c','N'ti, „I.4lvourte reidence of the Mogul Ern-
-11%4t rtc"th the vast extort of whose magnifi-
itifl4llyl43 he was much struck, as traveller;
t3' w' 41. e. The Journal is lightly and grace-
'44l4e, titter,
and in a spirit of the most entire

ST. LUKE'S, MIDDLESEX, and ST.
LEONARD'S, SHOREDITCH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Snt,—Your columns being at all times open for tht
redress of both public and private grievances, it is re-
spectfully trasted that you will aid us with your power-
ful advocacy under the following circumstances. Fm
years past the above two parishes have been litigating
regarding the right of way along the well-known tho
roughfare called Shepherd and Shepherdess-walk,
leading from the Eagle Tavern to Wenlecli-f. rm.
Under the impression that the parish of Saint
Luke's would waive their claims for the sake of
public convenience, Mr. Rouse, the spirited proprietor
of the Eagle Tavern, in conjunction with Mr. Alderman
Challis, have expendel upwards of 20,0001. in improving
the neighbourhood ; but, alas, Eagle-terrace and Albert-
terrace are both built on the margin of the boundaries
of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, and the Board of Guardians
of St. Luke's talk of running the workhouse wall within
a few feet of these splendid erections, not only destroying the
value of the property, but inflicting a serious inconvenience
on the public, who have enjoyed thisright of way from
time immemorial. The recent decision of the Court of
Queen's Bench has confirmed the right of St. Luke's so
to do if they think proper, bat it is to be sincerely hoped
they will reconsider the matter before they inlet so
serious un injury upon the public, to say nothing of
the private interests of Mr. Alderman Challis and Mr.
Thomas R.ruse, than whom more kind-hearted and be-
nevolent men do not exist. Sheperdess-walk leads
direct into the very heart of Islington and Holloway, and
it is calculated that upwards of three thousand individuals
connected with various duties in the City pass night and
morning. Surely in this age of metropolitan improve-
ment the parish of St. Luke's will see the propriety of
joining heart and hand for the mutual benefit of both
parishes. Should, however, such a plan not be adopted,
an appeal to the Legislature will not be without effect.—
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN SAPPS.
Shepherdess-walk, July 11. 1844.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
The quotations, with scarcely an exception, agree with those
returned on Monday ; in fact, there was so decided a majority
of layers in a very small company, that business was almost at a
stand-still. We subjoin the prices of the horses honoured with
a notice :

DERBY.
10 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lot—take 12 to 1
13 to 2 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—take 7 to 1
15 to 2 agst Mr. Crockford's Rattan—taken to bOl., and
afterwards offered
16 to 1 agst Mr. Quin's Loadstone—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's Cockamaroo—taken to 251.
30 to 1 agst Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein—take 33 to 1
30 to 1 agst Mr. Lichtwald's Leander—take 33 to 1
40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Saddle Bow—taken to 50/.

40 to 1 agst Mr. J. Osborne's Mount Charles—take 50 to 1
Mr. Osbaldeston's Monk of Dree (in the Derby and St.
Leger), and f by Camel, out of Elizabeth (in the Oaks and St.
Leger) arrived in town yesterday en route for W. Butler's
stables at Newmarket.

I he Mr. Maher, whose death we announced a few days since,
was not the nominator of the two horses named for the next
Derby.
TRING STEEPLE CHASE—WEDNESDAY Nam
All have accepted exe,pt Cheroot.
By the kind permission of Earl Jersey, the match between
Mr. Parson's Ghuznee and Mr. Burford's Beeswing was de-
cided in the Home-park, on Tuesday. Ghuznee won cleverly.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Crawley and Horsham hds, Monday, Capel Village ; Thurs-
day, West Grinstead ; Saturday, Pound Hill, 101—Cheshire
hds, Monday, Abbey Arms ' • Wednesday, Wryne Hill ; Thurs-
day, Wilkesley Village; Saturday, Wrenbury, 101—Essex
Union hds, Tuesday, Hazelaigh Hall ; Saturday, Totham
Maypole, loi—Montgomeryshire hds,Tuuday, 13wyllthGwallay;
Friday, Car Howell Village, 10—Mr. Roe's hds, Tuesday,
Creycombe Village ; Friday, Kingstone Village, 10—Tiverton
hds, Monday, Bainpton Down; Friday, Dulverton—Tickham
hds, Monday, The Squirrels, Stockbury ; Thursday, Wickling
Wood, 101—Mr. Candler's hds, Monday, Old Hills; Wednes-
day, Bishop's Wood; Friday, Ham Bridge, 101—Hereford-
shire hds, '1 uesday, 10th mile-stone on the Abergavenny Road ;
Friday, Wall Hilts, 10—United Pack, Tuesday, Buckley, 9
Brighton harriers, Monday, Thunder's Barrow; Wednesday,
Patcham ; Friday, Dyke, 11—Mr. Trelawney's hds, Tuesday,
Ivybridge, 101—Brookside harriers, Monday, Newmarket
Hill; Thursday, Te!scombe Tye, 101—Essex and Suffolk hds,
Tuesday, Gol Grove ; Friday, Little Elent:ey Hall, 101—North
Warwickshire bds, Tuesday, Kenilworth Castle; Friday,
Meridens, 101—Warwickshire bds, Monday, Bearlav Village ;
Tuesday, Oxhill Village; Thursday, Mitford Bridge; Satur-
day, Red Hill, 104—Ayrshire hds, Tuesday, Enterline Gate;
Friday, Auchans.

Trawl fish have lately been very scarce, but the
boats brought in a better supply on Tuesday morning.
Gurnets in particular were very plentiful ; and sprats
have been hawked about the town for several days, at the
rate of a penny a quart. The mackerel season has com-
menced. Several of our larger boats have been fishing for
some days off Plymouth. Two Hastings boats on Monday
took some fine fish, the first 1,300, the other 500; which
were sold at 31. per hundred. In consequence of this,
other boats made immediate preparations to depart
for the fishing grounds. We heard yesterday that
some of our fishermen had been successful off
Plymouth, and had taken about 4,000 mackarel to the
Loudon markets, but that owing to a large supply at the
same time from other parts of the coast, they did not
realise more than ISa. per hundred.—Brigliton Gazette.
AMERICAN HONOUR.—The Americans have raised
a loan, but it is out of their own pockets. They have been
lending each other money, but it is only to decoy others to do
the same. The accomplices of a thimble-rig proprietor lend
money to each other for the purpose of drawing on the by-
standers to play the game. Such is the intention, no doubt, of
an American loan, raised out of the pockets of the Americans.
If other nations are inclined to trust them, the Yankees will
make themselves safe, and then—repudiate. If, by chance,
the pea is discovered under the right thimble, the proprietor of
the " rig" instantly commences a row, upsets the table, loses
the pea. pockets the cash, and, in a word, repudiates. In
fact, repudiation is a convenient mode of disposing of sundry
small claims ; and as America has tried it on a large scale,
_ we
strongly recommend its application to smaller matters—such as
tailors' bills, and the claims of one's landlord.—Punch.

M. Beranger has written a letter, praying the
students of the schools to excuse his proceeding at their head
to the ceremony of inaugurating the statue of Moliere on the
15th, as they had requested. "My character, my
tastes, and my habits," says M. Beranger, " have
always kept me away from public solemnities, where
I should Lind myself ill at ease and unable to utter a
single word." The poet also expresses his regret at having
been from home when the students visited him lately, and
laments that any collision should have taken place afterwards.
The following passage in the letter would seem to intimate
that the poet still coot noes his compositions:--" Persuade
those generous young men to leave in his corner—which, thank
Heaven, is not the gloomy corner of the misanthropist—the old
philosopher and sung-writer, still faithful to his convictions and
his sympathies. The dreams which he still makes there will
prove, he hopes, to your generation, which will so long survive
him, that to his last moments he was occupied with the happi-
ness and glory of his country."
It is said that the will of the late eccentric Mr.
Thompson, of the Priory, Ifampstead, who left a large sum of
money to Mr. Barnard Gregory, at present a prisoner in New-
gate, is disputed, and the question is about to conic before the
Prerogative Court.
CROMWELL'S NOSE.—Cromwell's nose became a
grand point of attack with the Royalists, in the civil wars of
Charles the First, when they failed against the " Parliament
Men" in the field. One of Sancroft's correspondents is thus
humorous upon the topic in a letter, that is preserved in the
Bodleian Library :—" One, in a discourse about the Lord's
anointed, stuck not to say, he thought Cromwell the very
some.' ( This was in 1650.) And shall that oily nose at last
go for the Lord's anointed? No, we have better terms to ex•
press so much desert by. It is the saints' minimum quoddam 71C1•••
t urale : a Nol-with-the-whisp—the Commonwealth's nail
me tangere—that which people rather gaze at than delight in,
and wherewith they are mastered, like a company of jackdaws
in the night at the sight of a torch ; were that quenched, they
would be at their nest again. It is Samson's foxes' firebrands,
and all beaten together into an intolerable nose—the Devil's
breeches turned wrougside upwards, and clapped by mischance
to the General's face I But flies must not be too bold with
the candle fur scalding their wings : it is, God knows what ;
and do what I can, I must leave it the same I found it."
This is a tolerably strong philippic against the Oliverian nasal
organ !
FRENCH LAW FOR ENGLISH RESIDENTS.—The
Correctional Tribsnal of Tours was engaged on January 6th,
with the trial of a Mr. T an English gentleman, mov!ng
in the first society of the town, for ill-treating his children. It
appeared that this gentleman, who was a person of good for-
tune, had discharged his valet for some fault, and the latter,
out of revenge, went and lodged the above complaint against
him. The commissary of police, accompanied by a medical
man, proceeded to Mr. T—'s residence, and found on the
backs of his two little girls same black and blue marks. Mr.
T— at since admitted that those marks were caused by a
small horsewhip, which he used for correcting his children.
On the trial a number of persons came forward, and bore
testimony to the general good health of the children. Several
English ladies declared that they had seen the.little girls about
the time of the Commissary's visit, and that they appeared to
be both gay and cheerful. 111. de Noe, Captain in a Hussar
regiment quartered in the town, declared that a kinder man
than Mr. T—could not be found, but that it was the habit in
England foe parents to correct their children with a rod or
whip. He had himself been educated at a public school in that
country, and knew it to be a fact. After a lengthened sitting
the Court deliberated for half an hour, and then declared that
Mr. T--, having been proved to have given blows to his chil-
dren, be fined 50f. and pay the costs.— Galignani's Messenger.
ARREARS OF CASES IN THE COMMON LAW COURTS.
—Yesterday Hilary Term commenced, at which time the
arrears of the three Common Law Courts were as follow :
In the Court of Queen's Bench there is a list of 74 rules for
new trials standing for argument, the earliest of which was
moved in Michaelmas Term, 1942. In tho special paper of
the same Court there are 24 cases, whilst in the peremptory
paper there are 47 rules. In the Court of Common Pleas
there are in the remanet paper six enlarged rules, and twenty
others for new trials, all of which latter rules were obtained in
last term, and would probably have been disposed of but for the
new business introduced into the Court by the registration ap-
peals, two of which remain for the consideration of the Court.
There are ten causes in which demurrers are to be argued. In
the Court of Exchequer there are 30 new trials which were moved
for in November last. In the peremptory paper there are seven
cases, and 13 in the special paper. These lists will be increased
by applications, which, according to the practice of the Courts,
must be made within the first four days of the present term,
arising out of causes tried at the sittings after last term. There
is a diminution in the arrears, and it is evident that they have
been materially decreased by the somewhat recent Act enabling
the Courts to decide similar matters out of term. A rumour is
rife among the profession, that a measure will he brought
before Parliament for the purpose of lessening the labours of
the Court of Queen's Bench, by creating an additional Court
for the disposal of the ordinary business, and to be a Court of
Appeal in criminal matters. The measure alluded to is said
to be deemed necessary, as the business of the Court of Queen's
Bench is cf a very heavy description, and partly to be attri-
buted to its exclusive jurisdiction in criminal proceedings. By
an Act which came into operation on the Ist instant, the
Crown-office is thrown open to the profession and a number of
offices abolished.

The last of the four-horse coaches, whose excellent
appointments, accommodation, and speed, used to be the glory
f Maidstone, ceased running on Saturday last, up to which
day Mr. Coastworth hadspiritedly maintained with his coach,
the Favourite, an unequal competition with the steam-carriages
on one side of the old London-road and the steam-boats on the
other. The inconvenience to the residents on the line of road,

e need not say, w ill be severely felt.—Maidstone Journal.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-
office for the Governor of South Australia.