The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-06 00:00:00

BENTLEY.

The present is an excellent number of the Miscel-
lany, the papers are numerous, are all well-written,
and the charm of variety has been effectively secured.
The opening paper, " A Sketch of the Siege of Moot-
tan," by John James Cole, will be read with much
interest. Mr. Cole was assistant-surgeon in the
allied army—that army which was created by the
genius and exertions of Major Edwardes, of whom we
have an engraved portrait in illustration of the article.
Mr. Cole was with Major Edwardes during the whole
of the Mooltan campaign, and has, in this vivid
sketch, recorded his•reminiscences of it from the rais-1
ing of the troops by Edwardes and Courtland, to the
moment when the fl sg of England waved' upon the
walls of the captured city. Mr. Robert Bell's
admirable novel, of " The Ladder of Gold,',
is fast drawing to a conclusion ; in the present
instalment we learn that Crickey Snaggs is the nt:!-•
tural. son of Raggles, who had intrusted 5001. for his
use to the care of Richard Rawlings, and this Ri..
chard Rawlings declares is the death-bed secret of
information
of Lord Charles Eton, acting on the
of Bogey, had attempted to make so much. Lord
Charles Eton himself has been most dangerously, if
not mortally, wounded in his duel with Henry 'Win-
ston, and his danger brings out the character of Lord
William, his haughty uncle, in a much more amiable
light ; the ice of aristocracy is thawed by grief, the
proud noble discovers that he has a heart, and the
lord becomes a human being. In this mood of mind
he appreciates the quiet, unobtrusive virtues of Mar-
garet, and for the first time in his life treats her with
kindness. The author of " Lord Bacon in Adversity"
contributes a pleasant, gossiping zoological paper on
lions, and Abraham Elder a " screaming" co-
micality entitled " The Prince of Zooloo,"
which we commend to the perusal of all
well-to-do tradesman who may chance to be afflicted
with an emigration fever. Mr. Drummond Wolff
continues his amusing sketches of Spanish life, and
in the present instalment gives us an animated
description of a bull-fight. The " Inedited Letters
of Mrs. Piozzi" are continued, as is the amusing
paper by Mr. Charles Leaman on "Trout-fishing in
the United States," and the comical biography of the
Louisiana " Swamp Doctor." We find also in the
present number a translation of the Count de Monts-
livet's recently published memoir, "King Louis
Philippe and his Civil List ;" but seeing the Count de
Montalivet was himself the Intendant of the Civil
List, and is, therefore the person of all others, next to
Louis Philippe himself, the most personally interested
in making out a "good case," we must confess that it
would have been inure satisfactory to have had the
evidence of some unbiassed person in corrobora-
tion of the statements of the Count de Montalivet.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Nov. 5.
Her Majesty walked this morning in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took their usual walking and
pony exercise.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert • went out
shooting this morning, accompanied by Lord Sey-
mour, and attended by Lord Byron, Colonel the Hon.
C. B. Phipps, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, and Lord Sey-
mour, will join the royal dinner circle this evening.

Sir George Grey arrived in town last evening from
his seat, Fallodon, Northumberland.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived at his
official residence in Downing-street yesterday even-
ing, from his seat, Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire.

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and at work on this line cc far as Rye. In consequence of an
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extensive slip near Hastings the line will not ,be opened
fur traffic for at least three weeks. It is satisfactory to be
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enabled to state that the Commissioners of Railways are of
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opinion that the whole of the alterations made by the South-
Eastern Company, but objected to by the London, Brighton,
and South Coast Company, are consistent with the public
safety, and not prejudicial to the public interests, and that
as to some of the alterations, they. arc calculated to improve
the line.

RETIRING PENSIONS or JUDGES.—Lord Denman
is the only Chief Justice, and Mr. Justice Erskine the only
Puisne Judge in England, now enjoying a retiring pension.
There is at present no judge from the common law courts in
Ireland receiving a retired allowance. In Scotland the Lord
President of the Court of Session and two other judges have
at present retiring pensions, and there are no less than five
ex.-Chancellors at this moment in the receipt of the retired
allowance—viz., Lord Brougham, Lord Lyndhurst, and Lord
Cottenham in England, and Sir Edward Segden and Lord
Plunkett in Ireland.
MADAME ANNA THILLON.—We understand that
this tascinating artist will appear, in conjunction with Mr.
Hudson, the celebrated Irish comedian, in a new musical
and dramatic entertainment, to be given, in the course of the
present month, in one of our leading concert-roolust