The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-03 00:00:00

A LB U NI .

The prevailing taste in private circles, at pre-
sent, seems to be a rage for collecting scraps
in print or manuscript, 'to depoSit in a book
styled an ALBUM. Books, therefore, are ex.
pressly formed for the reception of wandering
fragments in verse or prose, ncrtnatter•w hat the
subject, or who may be,the author. These re.
positories of fleeting trifles that would otherwise
sink into the sullen waves of oblivion, are thus
preserved, and are found to he admirable helps
to, convOrsittion, morning or evenings, 'when
dull pauses occur, subjects become 'tiresome, or
have been amply discussed. ThiS fashion chiefly
prevails among the ladies. Hence it is proper,
that, like books in general, they should possess
a title.page, and we Have just met with a set of
prints, engraved on stone, us appears by a
gentleman named MILL, an amateur artist, who
in spirit, accuracy, and taste, may fairly stand
in competition with the regular professors of the
graphic art in works of this description. The
first of these prints represents an old woman in
the form of a Beggar, bearing on her wallet an
inscription, stating that 64 The smallest SCaArs
will be acceptable." At the bottom is the up.
propriate line from The Winter's 1 ale, 66 A
Snupper.udof unconsidered ttifles." The second
print displays a pretty Gipsey Girl, calculated
to steal hearts as well as other matters, with two
children in a bag behind, and " Seem's" on it
as the inscription, with the following stanza
below :

" O'er hill and dale with children twain,
Food (for the mind) intent 'to gain,
I wander forth forlorn
Then, courteous p;entlefolks, perhaps,
You'll give some literary scraps
Aly Marvin to adorn."
The next Print represents an old beggar man
in a ragged garb to excite cmnpassion, %visit it
label before and a quOtation from Hamlet—

V
, • • " A thing of shreds and patches."
• The next of the series exhibits a group of gro-
teque animals' feeding a sow, and is styled
David's sow. Then follows an illustration of
the old song,
it Sir Frog he would a Wooing go,
Whether his mother would let him or no, &c."
This is a very whimsical seem!. Sir Frog,
mounted on his charger, a portly lizard, ac-
coutred with arms and a bull-rush spear, is pur-
sued by his angry mother, issuing from her weedy
mansion. The remaining two prints, like the
latter two, seem to be intended as intermediate
embellishments of the ALBUM, one entitled,
The Phrenologist, gives a ludicrous figure
of a Professor of that ridiculous Science, rxa-
mining the head of a female, in order to discover
her characteristic Lumps, while three men, with
skulls of a very extraordinary formation, are
waiting to undergo the same fanciful operation.
" Last scene of all" displays a Concert, one per.
sou performing au accompaniment on the piano'.
forte to another who is singing. A groups' of In-
dies, entunoured with the sounds, are expressing
their feelings by rapturous attitudes. The whale
of these 'Prints are marked by a lively imagina.
lion, are pregnant..wit It humour, clod are well co•
loured. The set is obviously intended as .a
Christmas Present, for the fair collectors of scat.
tered literary trines, and are well designed to
embellish the pages of their several A.Lnests.

SiNour.Aic CLACUMSTANCE:74 Clays ago
we received information, on which we can depend, (but we are
sorry in the mean time that it is so imperfect), of a singular
circumstance, of which the following are the leading traits :
A young woman, it native of Greenwich, who bed, married a
German Baron, and resided some time in a town in France,
died and left two children—the father likewise died, and the
children were left in a destitute state; they bad been placed at
a boarding school. before their parents' death, but the teacher,
as no one appeared to dein) them or offered to deftay the
charges of their education, turned them out, and, but for the
humanity of an Englieh merchant, they must have begged.:...
The gentleman took them home, and utter they bad remained
a Short time with him, a person appeared, and having oh,
tamed an interview of one of hie clerics or servants; Offered him
4,000 francs to murder, or otherwise put Out of the way,
the two children ; bet informant cannot at preeent say ate-
tiler any reason was assigned, but it is supposed, he was the
children's tirade. The person to whom the offer was made
pre inmediate information; the transaction became the sub.
ject of investigation before a French Court ; but by ft palpable
corruption the ends of justice were frustrated, and the person
was discharged. The gentleman who had taken the children
under his care, fearful of future consequence*, judged it moat
prudent to send them to England. A person passed through
Dover, a' few days ago, on his way to Greenwich with the
two children, in search of their mother's relatives.—( Cinque
Path Herold.)
NO GuNs.--Notttithstatiding the many in-
tlent victims that have been seriously wounded in our neigh-
bourhood, from these infernalmachines, we find they are still
employed to shoot, without discrimination, whoever may come
within the range of their destructive operation. It is not quite
a year wince we had to mention the wounding of a 'poet. boy,
who had gone into the Car Wood, belonging to. the demesne of
Walton Ilan, to recover a stray sheep. A still more distress-
ing came, inasmuch as the wounds have been more desperate
and the labour of tho sufferer is of more value, occurred in the
same preserves on Saturday last. A youth, named William
Lloyd, employed in the factory of Mesers. German anti
and whose labour was the chief support of a widoWed mother,
went into the wood ia question, during the dinner-hour, and
coming in contact with the hidden snare of a spring-gun, was
dreadful, wounded about the legs. Some of the !duns
.with
whieb the gun was charged have been extracted, but others re;
mein in the flesh and about the bone., which it is impossible to'
draw one; and Amid the wounda finally heal up, it is greatly
feared the youth will be a cripple for life. It' neither battle.: pity, nor a sense of what is due to the outraged feelings of. the
public, are to have any effect in procuring the abolition of
these murderous instruments,, perhaps the fear of legal.conse-
quences may, in the end, lead to their disuse. If death were
to ensue in any of Cites,: cases, we know not by what;. process.
of legal; subtilty I.nyjurymati could recthicile it to his con-
science to bring in a verdict of justifiable homicide. We take
it, that if • any person were to shoot another by hand, •merely
because he happenzd to tread upon a certain spot in a:.field or
wood, no law ut trespass would save him from' the punishment
due to murder or manslaughter; and he must be a clever
casuist, indeed, who could point out the.rnorat difference be-
tween-this made of destroying felloweereature and that of so
placing a deadly inatrument as to produce the same elfeetwitb
equal •certainty. Entertaining these views, we think it for
from improbable, that a case may occur to call for a verdict
of aggravated manslaughter, for which it would be the duty
of a judge to sentence the etiminst setter of a spring-gun to
transperta tion beyond the seas. _(Preston Chronicle.),
HONESTI( _....Mr. I hro lAA( NICOL, ral
tprer in Forfar, was in 1815 under the necessity.
of compounding whit his creditors. They ,were
then so well convinced of his honesty, thot they
unanimously Rotted to discherge him'. Since that
time, by adhering to his industrious habits-
and
•
being more fortunate than formerly, ha has been
.enabled to retrieve= his affairs. The other week
he called a; meeting of his creditors, and -paid
them in full- Such instances of honesty seldOm •
occur, and it is bandy an act of justice to this de-
serving -individual to make. •the' circumstance
. _known. it is at, the express (leave Or his cre-
ditors that this cominunication is made.—(Stie-
//rig Joiirnat)

WEST INDIA DOCKS.
STOCK ACCOUNT for the Week ending Saturday, the 31st
of December, Mi..