The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-02 00:00:00

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"Annals of Great Britain from the A.cessioti-.44,31:'
Gorge the Third to the Peace of Airtiens.:-Feiw ~,..,e,,-
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have heard of this work, fewer seen it, airtsl:itill.4, 44,11-'.:,;* 4
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read it. The most intelligent booksell ;in L• • ^ti''.'7..4;A:t V
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was, a week ago, unaware of its existence'' -\4•._ - -
of the Table" is a light, piquant essay on Beet' - ..
fruits, sweetmeats, &c., that go to make up Tarfarvt.tc,;w4l .
English dessert. " French Fashionable Lail' (Two
Hundred Years Ago" will remind the reader of the • .
agreeable and desultory ana of the French memoir
writers of the last century. The " Suniassie" is an .
Eastern story, common-place in incident, and by no - -
means remarkable for ease or vivacity of manner.
" Concerning Dog-stealing" is a feeble attempt at the
facetious suggested by the report of the Parliamentary
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Committee on this subject. The following " Vision - -
of Hoar Frost" may perhaps amuse our readers :
I raid, " Oh! time of frost and rain,
No charm thou wear'st for me ;
Nought, till summer comes again,
Is beautiful to see!
The snow, albeit without a stain, . .
Dims the visions of my brain,
And brings me thoughts funereal,
When it lieth. like a pall,
Veiling earth's sweet, friendly face,
And a mournful silence fills
Every familiar place ;
And the hollows of the hills,
Where the streams in summer-tide
Like happy living creatures glide,
Are still, and cold, and vuiceless now, •
Save when dreary tempests blow
With a fitful icy breath,
Souading far, yet sad as death!
" Why is Autumn called most sad?
He is like a king
In a robe of triumph clad,
Gayer than the Spring!
In his woods the trees are (light
With a splendour rich and bright,
From their boughs there fall in showers
Leaves of warmer hue than flowers.
Down upon the earth they fall,
Frequent drops of living gold,
Like some fountain magical
In Arabian groves of old,
Dropping with a pleasant sound
Where the grass was sun-embrown'd.
The winds that herald him breathe low,
An'l wake new glories as they go;
Merrily the brooklets leap,
And the streams are wide and deep.
" But in days of frost and snow, .
When the streams are still,
And the woods no longer glow,
And the air is chill,
I could weep for all the gloom,
Like a mourner at a tomb.
Earth's heart grieveth like my own
For the gladness that is flown.
Dreary season, saddest time,
Gloomy days of storm and rain.
Binding even song's glad chime
With a weary, leaden chain !
When I hear of lands far hence,
Where the summer's influence
Burneth through the livelong year,
I could weep that I am here,
And my inmost heart is stirr'd,
Piling like a captive bird."
Thus my fretful spirit said
Only yesterday ;
Now those darker thoughts are dead,
Now my heart is gay !
Oh, the pomp mine eyes have seen !
Oh, the glory that hath been I
Every branch and every spray
Wore a radiant garb to-day;
Nut its veil of summer green,
And yet as beautiful a dress,
White, and dazzling in its sheen, •
Wondrous it; its loveliness ;
And the sunbeams, gliding through
Knotted oak and beechen bough,
Made the upland's woody height
Seem a region of delight ;
The very silence made it seem
Less like truth than some fair dream !

THE TRINITY HOUSE.
T 6 THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I am glad to find, from a recent article in
The Sun, that the local imposts upon British shipping
have begun to attract your attention. The returns
just ordered by her Majesty's Government of the
amount of harbour dues, and other local charges
levied in the ports of the United Kingdom, is certainly
one step in the right direction. But this step must
be accompanied by a stringent inquiry into the
" doings" of that irresponsible body of monopolists
which somewhat irreverently continues to style itself
the " Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most
glorious and undivided Trinity."
I transmit to you a copy of the reprint of an ar-
ticle on the " Trinity House," which appeared in the
last Number of the Westminster Review. The abuses
which that article exposes are these-
1. The unreasonableness of the rates at the present
time;
2. The illegality and injustice of the appropriation
of so large a portion of the surplus tolls to the soi-
disant " charitable purposes" of the Corporation ;
3. The rotten borough system under which the
corporators of the aforesaid guild or fraternity are
elected ;
4. The scientific incompetency of the acting Tri-
nity Board ;
5. The extravagant expenditure for the services of
the Central Board of Management; ,
6. The illegality of the system of electing Cabinet
Ministers as honorary Elder Brethren : a mere
shabby subserviency to the "powers that be," and
directly opposed to a clause in the 7th and Bth Wil.
111., c. 21, which clause expressly forbids the election
of civilians to the office of Elder Brothers of the tri-
nity House

The report of the Committee on Lighthouses in
1834, is an enduring monument of the diligence and
perseverance of Mr. Hume. But there ought td be
another Parliamentary investigation, and I am glad to
see that Mr. Hume has given notice of a motion to
that effect next session. If Mr. Hume perseveres in
his motion, the Government can scarcely refuse a
Committee, and then, it is to be hoped, that the
Augean stable on Tower-hill will at last undergo a
thorough purification.
The shipowners ought to feel grateful for the able
manner in which you have advocated the reduction
of those local charges which now press with peculiar
severity ; and on th!s account I have preferred trust-
ing to your impartiality to give an insertion to my
letter, rather than address myself to the evening jour-
nal, which, although professedly established as the
advocate f the British shipowner, is so curiously
unhappy in its endeavours, as almost to deserve the
reproach cast upon an Athenian orator, of whom it
was said, " Those whom he charges with being
wolves he takes care not to bite, and the sheep, which
he professes to guard, he is the very first to devour."
I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient
servant, CHRIS. RICHARDSON.-
Field House, Whitby, Aug. 27, 1844.

A FISII WORTH CAPTURING.--The Bay of Luce
Wigtownshire, whether from depth of water or other-
wise, has long been famed for the superiority of its
flounders. Fresh water locks and rivers furnish different
kinds of trout ; and it is the same in the open sea, as
regards the distinctions between genera and species. In
Luce Bay there is a variety of flat fish, alike large and
tempting to the palate—say from five to six or more
pounds, rivalling in delicacy the finest sole. Still thatis no-
thing, compared to what we are about to relate on conipe-
tent authority—the testimony of Mr. J. Irvine, taekarnan
of the Balcarry fishery, kindly forwarded to us by onr
antiquarian friend, Mr. Train, of Castle Douglas, On
Monday, the 19th, the precise date of our last publica-
tion, a fish was caught in the beautiful bay named above,
of the flounder species, which measured from head to
tail four feet three inches ; in breadth twenty-two inches
from the tip of the one fin to the other ; and in depth of
chest or body six inches, and weighing .511bs I Mr. Soon,
innkeeper, Auchencairn, not only saw the fish weighetand
measured, but he partook of a portion of it, which he, in
common with others, considered excellent. Of the facts of
this case there can be no doubt, and the only difficulty con-
sists in accurate scientific classification. On consulting
must either have been a specimen of
rst!eliejetbweondnth:ctilr
Baron Cuvier's " Animal Kingdom," the highest
authority on such a subject, we have arrived at
the conclusion that the marine stranger &scribed
b waters,ee genus,rxi
the
sui c:haiteMediterranean,
cutting
attainstritrtiannhgtaeoadug great
oessototri
esaaeirzneer
oapmanrnetdovuri
sow;
previously
lgfyihntthpoeir
une
seas, but of which there are smaller species in
y
which is also shaped and finned like a flounder. Pre-
amination to some individual curious in natural history.
Since the above was written, we have received from
Glenluce five flounders, which together weighed 191b5.--..
Dumfries Courier.

EXTRAORDINARY SPEED BY THE GREAT WESTERN
Prince William of PrenTsoia,ndwenhto.)—lefHt ius Royalio h-
nessHiin a special train,
RAILWAY.—(From a Corr
turday afternoon, at seven minutes before fourrs o' 1 k-,
arrived at the Slough station c octet
to Windsor, upon a visit to the Queen, in t
lie;
tiorouurs
,and seven minutes, the distance being exactly 100 miles!
The Proserpine engine attached to the three carriages
comprising the special train, which was driven by Mr.
Gooch, the chief superintendent of the locomotive- de-
partment of the Great Western Railway Company, pro:
ceeded along some portions of the line at the rate of
sixty-five miles an hour! His Royal Highness reached
the Castle, from Slough, in one of the Queen's carriages,
and was in the presence of her Majesty and the Prince
Consort within two hours and a half from the period of
his departure from the Bristol terminus.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.—The Lord Mayor hes
issued the following notice for regulating the closing of
the various stalls, booths, &c., on each night of the con-
tinuance of Bartholomew Fair. " Magnay., Mayor—
Notice is hereby given, that Bartholomew Fair is ordered
to be closed on the night of Tuesday, the 3d, the day of
paoclamation, at 11 o'clock ; of Wednesday, the 4th of
September, the first day, at 11 o'clock ; of Thuraday, the
sth, the second day, at 11 ; and on Friday, the 6th, the
the third day, at ten o'clock. And any person keeping
open any exhibition, booth, or stall, after these hours
will be
my
b eproceeded .
B. againstcrooDfmorAtNh.e same. By order of the
Lord „

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