The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-07 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

ST. JAMES'S. 3 Vols. Mm timer, London, 1844.
As this is merely the republication, in three
volumes, of a tale that has already appeared in suc-
ce,sive Numbers of Ainsworth's Magazine, and been
the subject of more than one monthly notice in The
Sun, we need say nothing more of it on the present
cccasion, than that it is not unworthy of its author,
though, as a whole, it can scarcely be reckoned
among his most successful productions. It is decidedly
inferior in portraiture of character, and skill in the
handling of plot, to " Crichton," and in graphic vigour
to " Rookwood," but it is superior to the " Miser's
Daughter," and worth at least a whole cart-load of
such coarse, flash romances, as " Jack Sheppard."

EPHEMERIDES. Ncwby, London, 1844.

There are many sensible reflections scattered
throughout this volume, which is a collection of essays
—or rather fragments of essays—copied out, appa-
rently, from the author's common-place book. A
great variety of subjects is discussed, and among
them is that of " Clerical Celibacy and Auricular
Confessions," to both of which practices of the Romish
Church the author professes himself decidedly hos-
tile; and to do him justice, we must say that he gives
good and sufficing reasons for the faith that is in him.
We have been pleased with the following remarks,
which occur incidentally in a sketch of Soult and
Wellington :—" In reading history we are almost
tempted to believe that the chief end of Government
in promoting internal quiet, has been to accumulate
wester resources for foreign hostilities. Bloodshed
is the staple of history; and men have been butchered
and countries ravaged, as if the human frame had
been constructed with such exquisite skill only to be
mangled, and the earth covered with fertility only to
attract the spoiler."

IRISH BEGGARS..—The first thing that gives the
stranger an idea of the poverty of Ireland, is the im-
mense numbers of mendicants who besiege him for a few
pence. They meet him wherever he goes ; they cross
his path in all directions. They are generally most
deplorably clad. Clothing, properly speaking, they have
none. Your philosophy is puzzled to know how they
continue to keep together the mass of rags which is
attached to their persons. You are afraid they will drop
oif their backs while soliciting your charity. I could
not resist the suspicion, that many of the Irish mendi-
cants are actually in love with their rags, and that to put
them into a suit of new clothes would be to render them
altogether miserable. Of this I am quite certain that
they would never rest satisfied until they had made a
number of holes in their coat ; for a coat would seem
to them incomplete without a few holes in it. You
are struck with the fact, that many of the large per-
forations which you see in their apparel are very easily
susceptible of being mended, and that if they were
patched up, the appearance of this class of persons
would be greatly improved. The use of the needle,
however, is comparatively unknown to the Irish mendi-
cant. Nature has not made him a tailor, and he has no
notion of attempting to set at nought the purposes of
nature. That, he thinks, would be a reflection on
her. lie seems to find a peculiar pleasure in his tat-
tered garments. You will always see more holes in an
Irish beggar's coat than buttons on it. And yet, amidst
all his rags, there is the absence of that actual misery in
the Irish mendicant which you see in the English beggar.
You are surprised at the jolly-looking and often ruddy
countenances which you see associated with so much
outward seeming wretchedness. No one can be half an
hour in Ireland without being impressed with the convic-
tion, that the Irish possess constitutionally all the ele-
ments of happiness, and that, if their social condition
were but ameliorated, they would be the happiest people
on the face of the earth.—lmpressions of Ireland and
the Irish.

A very serious accident was admitted into the Sus-
sex County Hospital early on Thursday morning. At
about half-past two that morning several men were em-
ployed in removing some earth on the railway near flay.
ward's Heath ; and as the engine used on the oe'easion
was passing from one set of rails to another, it knocked
down the breaksman, John Hobbs, a fine muscular fellow
about 24 years of age. The engine passed over his arm,
and while he was falling must also have caught his head,
on which a large scalp wound was inflicted, laying bare
the bones of the skull on the left side. The poor fel-
low's right thigh was also broken, and the right arm was
so smashed that it was necessarily amputated imme-
diately he was brought in at half-past five. Hobbs is, of
course, in a dangerous state.—Brighton Guardian.
I3oaouGn OF MORPETH.—A seizure of pepper, be-
longing to three respectable tradesmen, having been
made by the officers of Excise stationed there, about five
weeks ago, and a report of the proceedings, calculated to
do them serious injury, having been industriously circu-
lated, it is right to mention that the article so seized has
been tested in the usual manner, and that the owners
have received an intimation, during the present week,
that it is genuine and unadulterated.—Tyne Mercury.
INFANT SAPPIIO.-I'he concert given under the
patronage of the Mayor and Mayoress, at Clifton, on
Saturday last, was numerously and fashionably attended;
and on Monday, such was the anxiety evinced to be pre-
sent at the closing performance of this interesting little
warbler, that the Assembly• room, Prince's-street, was
crowded in every part, 1,100 persons being present.
The Infant Sappho is now at Bath, but will, we under-
stand, pay another visit to Bristol.--Bristol Mercury.
The public will be glad to learn that ax arrange-
ment has been made, by which the letter-bags between
this city and Oxford will be carried by the Prince of
Wales coach in place of by carts. This will amount to
a restoration of the old Oxford mail, the absence of which
has been severely felt upon the road.— Worcestershire
Chronicle.

CIDER AND PERRY.—SO plentiful is cider and
perry this year, that both articles are now being offered
in this town at 255. per hogshead, and many of the pub-
licans are retailing it at 2d. and 3d. per quart.—Worces-
tershire Chronicle.

ALTERATION or POLICE DISTRICTS.—SoIIIe ma-
terial alterations are contemplated in several of the
police districts of the metropolis, which are at present
widely scattered and badly distributed. Sir James Gra •
ham has issued orders to the Chief Magistrate at Bow-
street to make a survey of his district, in order to ascer-
tain its extent, and the second clerk and messenger
intend measuring it during the ensuing week. On
Thursday and Friday last Mr. Henry, one of the Magis-
trates of Queen-square, was closeted with Mr. Hall, the
Chief Magistrate of the metropolitan districts, for several
hours, examining each other's districts by the " Post-
office Directory," and preparing a report to be presented
to the Home Secretary. As far as we can learn it is
intended to increase the Bow-street district by adding
Leicester-square, Pall-mall, Haymarket, St. James's-
street, and part of Piccadilly ; the present district being
bounded by the east side of St. Martin's-lane. It is very
clear that the Bow-street district will bear increasing,
for its size, as compared with any other district in the
metropolis, is most absurd. It would appear almost
impossible that three Magistrates should find anything to
employ their time in a district scarcely a mile square—
commencing at Temple •bar and finishing at Charing-
cross, bounded by the Thames, and running up St. Mar-
tin's lane to Broad-street, St. Giles's, thence along Hot.
born to the top of Chancery-lane, and concluding in
Lincoln's Inn ; while two Magistrates have to do the
duty of districts like Marylebone and Clerkenwell many
miles in extent. Yet it is a fact, that Bow-street has a
greater number of night charges than any other office
in the metropolitan districts, owing to the fertility in
Drury-lane and St. Giles's for pugnacity. On Monday
mornings there have been continually from 50 to 75 night
charges, many of which, however, ought not to have been
sent before the Bench. The Bow-street district will,
however, well bear enlargement, and we have little doubt
such is the intention of Sir James Graham with respect
to it, as well as Queen-square.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.--A farmer named Lishman,
of Fenwick, Stamfordham, Northumberland, was on the
29th ult., whilst riding upon his horse, dragged from
the back of the animal by six men (disguised), who
robbed him of two pocket-books, containing 105/. in 5/.
notes of the Bank of England and of the Union Bank of
Newcastle on-Tyne, a stamp receipt for 100 L, and two
receipts of the Northumberland and Durham District
Bank for 2001. and 500/.

REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF LONOEVITY.—John
Richards, who has attained the astonishing age of 110
years, is now staying at Mr. Heslop's, the Bricklayers'
Arms, New Quebec- street, Portman-square. Although
the old man has long passed the term Scripture assigns
as the duration of human life, his faculties are little
impaired, and his appearance is that of a hale man of
seventy or eighty. For more than forty years he followed
the occupation of a sawyer ; he has known poverty,
suffered no little from accidents, and not very long ago
was run over. Notwithstanding all this he looks as if
his life was not yet at its close, and his cheerfulness is
as remarkable as his years. The evening of his days,
or it might be more proper to say the midnight (a clear
midnight it is), is rendered comfortable through the
liberality of a gentleman in his native county, Devon.
We trust Richards will equal the longevity of Parr or
Jenkins.

EDUCATION.—Last evening a public meeting was
held at Trinity Chapel, Trinity-square, Southwark, for
the purpose of taking measures for the promotion of
" popular and unsectarian education." The announce-
ment that Mr. Pritchard, the late British Consul at Ota-
heite, would attend, drew together a large concourse of
persons. From statements made by the Rev. James
Sherman, a Dissenting mihister, who took the chair, it
appeared that British schools had been erected in the
neighbourhood, in which some hundreds of children were
in course of instruction. Still much remained to be done,
as thousands were labouring under the sad effects of ig-
norance. Large subscriptions in aid of educational ex-
tension had already been received, and grants had been
made by societies. Mr. Pritchard gave a long biogra-
phical account of himself, from the time he engaged as
Sunday-school teacher till the recent disturbances at
Otaheite. At the close of his address a collection was en-
tered into, and a subscription of 250/. was announced.

At an election dinner, lately, a voter said he had
never received a bribe to the extent,of a farthing. Oh !
Smith, how can you say so?" observed another voter,
" when I know that Mr. W. sent you a hare."—" Aye,
that's true enough ; but it was full of maggots."—
"
Well, then," was the rejoinder, "if it were not bribery,
it was corruption."
GUANO.—IMPORTANT..--We understand. by war-
rant from the Right llon. the Lords Commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury, dated the 17th ult., guano, im-
ported from Ichaboe, or other places on the west coast
of Africa, in British ships, and sold for the first time, is
directed to be passed free of the auction duty of one-half
per cent., hitherto charged on the sale of that articley,
and that the Commissioners of Excise have issued diree-
L ti.olls to their officers accordingly.—Liverpool Courier,

BANK RETURNS.
From the London Gazette of Tuesday.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth
Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank
Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and
Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur-
day, the 26th day of October,Average
PRIVATE BANKS. Amount.
Abingdon Bank, Abingdon-Knapp and Co £27,601
Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co 14,532
Ashford Bank, Ashford_Jemmitt and Pomfret 11,504
Aylshara Bank, Aylaham-R. and E. Copeman 7,059
Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford
and Hunt 43,423
Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade
Bank, Baldock-Wells, llogg, and Lindsell ... 33,407
Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Drake and Co 14,578
Basingstoke and Oldham Bank, Basingstoke-
Cole, Seymour, and Co.
Bedford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard
Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford-
Trapp, Halfhead, and Co.
Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and
18,619
Crane
Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford
Bank, Bicester-Tubb, Wuotten, and Co 26,053
Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-A.ttwoods,
22091
Spooner, and Co
Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming-
ham-Lewis, Moilliett, and Co ............. 16,886
Blandford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak . 8,520
Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 71,759
Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co 14,453
Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-E. &J. Sealey 9,780
&istol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 42,047
Droseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and
Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 23,936
Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett,
Parrott, and Co.
Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market
Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co 81,216
Banbury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney 42,173
Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 53,900
Bath City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son
Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton
Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 36,962
Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and
Lloyds
Yorkshire-H.
Bradford Old Bank, Bradford,
and A. Harris
Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and C 0... 63,260
Bridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry 25,272
Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West,
and Borrer
Burlington and Driflield Bank, Burlington-
Harding, Smith, and Co
Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds-
J. Worlledge and Co
Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms-
grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Briggs,
and Co. 14,94u
Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and

7,865

22,952

Sons
Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam-
bridge—Messrs. Forsters
Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and
32,035
Co
Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and
22,201
Sons
Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La 3,531
Colchester Bank, Colchester—llound,C Green,
and Co.
Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex
Bank, and liadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester
—Mills, Bawtree, and Co 46,711
Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co. 47,20,
Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wuod-

cock -
City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co
Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co.
Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh,

and Co
Cardiff Bank, Carditf—Towgood and Co
Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon-
mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon
Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank,
Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co.
Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs-Evans
Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co.
Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak
Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co
Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizei—Hughes,
Locke, and Co
Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co
Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew,
and Co.
Doncaster Bank and Retfurd Bank, Doncaster—
Cook, and Co.
Dover Union Bank, Dover—Latham, and Co
Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton-
on-Tees Bank, Darlingtonßackhouse, and

Co
Devonport Bank, Devonport—bodge aid Nor-
man
Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank,
Dorchester—Williams and Co.
East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster,

and Co.
East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton,

10,15(
19,80(

48,78'

and Co.
Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank,
Chelmsford—Sparrow, Walford. and Co
Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders, and Co
Fakenhana Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk-
beck, and Co.
Farringdon Bank and Bank of \Vantage, Far-
ringdon—Barnes and Medley
Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight
Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co
Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and
King
Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King 18,551
Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... 13,567
Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... 29,9:9
Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder,
and Co.
Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford—
Matthows and Co.
Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware—
s. Adams and Co.
Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull
—Smith, Brothers, aid Co.
Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting-
don—Rust and Veasey
Harwich Bank, llarwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co 5,38 a
Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead—
Smith, and Whlttingstall
19,567
Honiton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co.
Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank,Hitchen—Sharples
and Co. 37,516
Hereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross
and Arcbrenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan
and Hoskins 31,026
Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co.
Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk,
Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley
Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich—
Alexanders and Co.
Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall,
and Mercer
King on and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J
Davies and Co 24,038
Knighton Bank, Knighton—J. Davies and Co 8,830
Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank,
Knarosborough —Terry and Co 20,578
Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson,

49,893
36,530

23,453

8,556
14,743
6,517

.. 36,592

and Co.
Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gotch and Sons
Lam peter Bank,Lain peter— Jones,Evans, and Co,
Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C
Harvey and Son
Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co
Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williarns, Brown,
and Co.
Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and
Congleton Bank,Lvek—Fowler,G aunt, and Co.
Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby
L, we 3 Oil Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co
Lichfield Rink, Lichfield—l aliner and Green
Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co
Llandovery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando-
very—David Jones and Co.
Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle-
tons and Cradock
Lymington Bank, Lytnington—C. and S. St
Barba
Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis
—Gurneys and Co.
Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis—
Massey and Co.
Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst

21,624

19,79

76;495

41,943
9,057
8,823

4,40 G
53 232

36,428

3,345
29,750
42.38 G
20,540
99,410

22,682

39,818

13,916

11,855
6,804

and Co.
Manningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co.
Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts
Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl-
borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank,
and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner
and Pinckney
Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank,
nalborough—Ward, Merriman, and hillier
Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and
Wi11iam5.........
Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co
ricultural and Commercial
Monmouthshire Agricultural
Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co
Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon
Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank,
and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth
—Bromage and Snead .........................
Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport
—W. Williams and Sons..
Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton
Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and
Newark Bank, Newark—Handley, Peacock,
and Co
Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock.
Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham-
mond, and Son
Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and
Dyson
Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—llarveys and
Hudsons

17,396

12,620

10,950
19,036

29,533

13,410

7,757
26,453

51,314
36,461

.... 40,632

Norwich and Norwich Bank, Norwich—Gur-
neys and Co 71,208
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not-
pmgham—Hart, Fellows, and Co 10,600
Nun; atop Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and
Co . ,
Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Harris, and
Co 24,066
New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and
Co
Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co 28,173
Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os-
westry—Croxon and Co 15,575
Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell
oxforitsykKuot*Nrd—Robinson, Parsons, 13,826
33,608
Old Bank TOnbridge, Tunbridge and Tonbridge
Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge
Wells and Sevenoaks , Bank, TonbriOge—
Beeching and Sons

4,904