The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-09 00:00:00

AIMS WORTH'S MAGAZINE. No. 41.

This month's Number is an attractive opteirneii
of the varied matter and entertainment which Mr.
Ainsworth so well understands the art of perioiieallh.
providing for his readers. It cominstices, however,
inauspiciously, with a wretched etching of " The
Incantati al,' pertaining to a story called "
logician and the Favourite," in the very worst
taste and composition of the very careless artiit
whose nom de guerre is Phiz. The Arabian astro-
loger is a sort of White Conduit Howe masquerade
caricature of " Merlin," or " Mother Goose"—a lett
handed impostor, destitute of all interest, dignity, or
character. The Royal favourite is a private-theatrical
piece of chivalry, mean, spider-legged, and insipid ;
an occasional Hamlet, enacted by some his-
trionic tailor. How ou Ai a monstrosity can
have been permitted to find an asylum within
covers that are adorned by the spirited allegorical
composition of Tony Johannot (making all allow
ances for its heraldic absurdities, which, by the way,
are far less permanent and less ludicrous th9n the
stone anomalies which disgrace the front of the two
new Houses of Parliament), we ere at a loss to un•
derstand. The sprawling monster at the top of
Phiz's perpetration is, we suppose, meant to be very
appalling; but it is a vile libel on any one of the
wooden dragons, or crocodiles, sculptured out of
wood, within the bills of mortality, at any " well
accustomed tea-gardens." The story is sufficiently
well told, though it has no great pretensions to ori-
ginality. It relates to an incident in the early life
of the gallant D'Evereux, Earl of Essex (the ne-
phew of Dudley, Earl of Leicester), whose romantic
passion for the veteran El;zabeth was so savagely re-
paid by the vindictite Queen, and so penitentially de-
plored by the haughty and domineering but popular
mistress, the only limitation to whose marvellous
power in England appeared to be, that which forbade,
even to the intense self-will and concentrated
despotism of a Tudor, the resuscitation of that life
which her ungovernable pride and unscrupulous
jealousy had violently sacrificed. The story is an
interesting episode cf astrological divination, common
enough, however, in the history of the great men and
women of the 16th and 17th centuries, in the romantic
life of the ill-fatld English Governor of Ireland. It
would be but a bad service to the general ruder to an-
ticipate the interest he will assured ly feel in the progress
of this brief nrrrative. "Ana," or "Anatbe," is another
of those essays towards the illustration of classical to-
pography, in which Mr. W. Francis Ainsworth
iuswTohrethstohrays
already approved himself so uc e
of " Maude Doughty', is continued to a satisfactory
and spirited conclusion. " Cove Beach in the
Bathing Season" is a good sketch, in one of the most
beautiful of the beautiful coasts of Ireland. It is a
graphic and well maintained contrast, also, between
the bathing accommodation provided on the shores of
England and of Ireland, respectively. Let the fol-
lowing extract speak for itself :
" Imagine it high water, and endeavour to divest
yourself of English prejudice. To be sure, the beach is
open, commanded by the passers-by in the rear, and the
telescopes of half the ships in harbour in fr-nt; but
then, the strand, for a mile and a hilf, is grouped wiiti
women of all ages and conditions, from the mot fasti-
dious city belle to the shoeless water carrier—age and
infancy, beauty and deformity, fashion and p)vertv,
gracefulness and decrepitude, congregated without diS-
tinction. There are no machines—the wooden box's in-
tended to serve as substitutes being " few and far
between," and invariably private property, but each in-
dividual having selected a spot, free from rough stones
and inequalitLs, to bathe in, with the most perf:.et sang-
froid proceeds to the task of disrobicg tu:rsel"—the
shelter of a rock, a wrap-cloak, or sheet, being thrown
penance-ways over the head and shouliers, to answer
the temporary purpose of a cabinet de toilette.' Pre-
sently the margin of the river is alive with the most
grotesque masquerade imaginable : here a party of
ladies in blue bathing gowns, and green oiled skin caps,
mince down the strand in slippers; there a baud of

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N arts "O. ;10. as
to be amongst them. At some spots stalwart, it4l:sl:t'd,
up attendants sre carrying out invalids by fislpi`. bi
others, groups or chit.iren are dipping hand r biakik
laughing as gleefully as if pLying at
corn-fields; here an ,‘Li cowc,ts at t 1,7.
while her maid, with a woolen bow t..-.ttipc.ri-cs
shower bath; and bcy .nd, a party a:e ex,
selves in evolutions. of which the inethodeat
a Bright.,n machine can kiln wiequat, id.'a, plunging,.
floating, swimming, (firing. wbh :I; :I,:
Byron's South tira
My "Theatrical 11,-colections" hy D. i,
Meadows is a poor affair. " Adventures HeieiVar4.l
the Saxon," by T. Wright, continue,: to improve. A
fine subject, a noble epoch (A.D., 1079), and well
treated. The best paper in the number i., d+-cdedly.
the "Catacombs of Roane"--a terrii.,le but grapto.4.
story of romantic love, perils above g,-0,11)(1 arifi
faithful passion and rewarded Oa!:
e,mital lire. Tim% review o, " "
feature of this number. We , i,-•"
Mr. George Raymond's e.,rnme;.,•.s
•et(ers from Mts. Clive. Horace lkr*ok. -1
1,.t rfrct.m.nendation is, that it. is ‘•
series."

PARLIAMEN CARY BUSINESS.

FRIDAY, JCNE 6.
The following Bills were read a third time and pa:4sta :
Edinburgh ai.d Hawick Railway.
Great North (f England and Richmond Railway.
North BritiNh Railway.
Yarmouth a►qd Norwich Railway.
Lowestoft Railway and Harbour.

The West Cornwall Railway Bill 1T4.4 reported. and report
referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders.
The London and Greenwich Railway Bill—Report consi •
er-,1, amendments agreed to; Bill to be engr sed.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Shields Railway (T:. re-
mouth Extension, &c.) Bill—Further proceedings on c-iaside-
ration of report resumed ; amendments made ; Bill to be
engrossed.
Eastern Counties Railway (Cambridge and Bury St. Ed-
mund's Extenions Bill)—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill
ordered to be brought in by Mr. Eliot Yorke and Air. Ward.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Worcester Branch
and Cheltenham Extensions) Bill—Read a second time and
committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection.

RAILWAYS.
Select Committee on Group QQ.
➢lr. Dickinson (West Somerset),
Colonel Fox (Tower Hamlets),
selected and added to the Committee.
The Hon. G. Cavendish discharged from attendance on the
Committee.
Select Committee on Group Z.
Mr. R. Yorke (York),
selected, and added to the Committee.

Group YY, comprising Briitol and Gloucester Rsilway
(No. 2) Bill, referred to the Select Committee on Group
TT., &c.

Si. Helen's Canal an,l Railway Bill, comprised in Group
VV., referred to the Select Coinnthtce ozi Group TT.. &c.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFIVE.
Scottish Midland Junction Railway,—Report,
June 9.
Ulster Extension Ilailway,—Repoit on to committed Bill,
Monday, June 9.
Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway,—Report, Monday,
June 9.
Aberdeen Railway,—Report to be considered, Tuesday,
June 10.
Clydesdale Junction Railway,—Report to be considered,
Tuesday, June 10.
Caledonian Railway,—Report to be considered, Tuesday,
June 10.
Cornwall Railway,—Report, Monday., June 9.
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (Cumnock Branch)
Railway,—Report, Monday, June 9.
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Railway,—Report,
Monday, Jane 9.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway.—Re-
port, Monday, June 9.
Oxford and Rugby Railwly,—Report, Monday, June 9.
Eastern Union and Bury Railway (No. 2),—Report to be
considered, Tuesday. June 10.
North Woolwich Railway,—Report to be considered, Tues-
day, June 10.
Newcastle and Berwick Railway—Third reading, Monday,
June 9.
Trent Valley Railway—Third reading, Monday-, June 9.
firighton, Lewes, and Hastings (Ktyiner Branch) i?:.ilway
—Third reading, Monday, June 9.
Belfast and Ballymena Railway—Third reading, Motnla
June 9.
Waterford and Limerick Railway Report, Monday,
June 9.
Bridgewater Navigation and Railway—Report to be con-
sidered, Monday, June 9.
North Wales Railway—Report, Monday, June 9.
Eastern Union and Bury Railway ( No. 2)—Report to be
considered,' Tuesday, June 10.
Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway—Report to be consi-
dered, Tuesday, June 10.
Select Committee on Group F, adjourned till Tuesday, June
17, at twelve.

ATTFMPTFD SUICIDE AT THE INFANTRY BARRACKS,
WINDSOR.—On Thursday, a soldier belonging to the 2d Battalion
of the Coldstream Guards, rationed at Windsor, attempted to
commit suicide, by shooting himself in bis barrack.room. It ap-
pears that the young man, whose name is Gemerston, and who is
not more than sixteen years of age, formed one of the band of
the regiment, but, in consequence of some misconduct, he was
reduced to the corps of drummers. This evidently preyed upon
his mind, and induced him to attempt the clime of self.murder.
Shortly after the return of the battalion from tl e Park, on Thum.
day morning, the report of a musket was heard in his room, upon
entering which the young man was found lying on the floor, with
the discharged piece by his side, to the trigger of which Wag at-
tached a cord to enable him to fire it of with his foot. The ball,
which was discovered in the wall of the room, had fortunately not
taken effect. The man was taken to the black hone ; and an in..
quiry being instituted, he was yesterday sent away from the
regiment.

To MAKE FRUII TREES BEAR.—Make holes with
a potato fork, eighteen inches apart, all over the apace oern-
pied with the roots. Dissolve one ounce of nitre in three gal-
lons of water, and the holes. Should the tree have more
fruit than you think it can sustain, mix one gallon of blood, one
Gallon of water, and one of po• ash, and when it has settled
pour it off; put one gallon of this delicate liquor to a gallon of
water, and fill rp the holes vrit, it.

UPSIiT OF A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE.-- On Mon lay
afternoon, an occurrence that might have been attended with
fatal vmsequ, nces, took place on the experimental railroad , n
Wimbledon-common. Some gentlemen, desirous of testing the
practicability of Prince's patent wooden railway, a short time since
obtained a plot of ground near to the windmill, about a mile in
length, and with a curve of about two miles in circumference, the
whole formng a firure of nine. lhe sleepers and flat wooden
rails have been some time laid down on the straight lioe, and
several experiments have been made. On Monday a trial was to
be made prior to a grand experiment on the ensuing day. The
engineer, it appears, became intoxicated, and, without taking the
precaution to ascertain whether the wheels were in a correct
position, started the engine. The locomotive had traversed but a
few yards, when it went offthe rails, tore up the turf in its course,
and ultimately turned over. The engineer escaped injury, but the
damage done amounted to nearly 11001. The secretary gave the
engine.driver into custody, and he was taken to the police station-
house at Wandsworth. The secretary attended to prefer the
charge, but it appearing to the inspector on duty that the ens ne-
driver was not then so drunk as not to know what he was about,
he refused to entertain the charge of the drunkenness, and as the
secretary could not charge him with wilful damage, he was set at
liberty.

DEATH FRr.M HYDRoiPHOIII A.-- 011 XVV,i !f- -,1..y.
about noon, Mr. William Baker, a tradesman, living at Whitehall.
place, Forrest's-gate, West Ham, Essex, tiled under an attack of
hydrophobia, brought coa from the bite of a dog six weeks ago.
The unfortunate man was in the yard of Mr. Robert Ransom, a
wheelwright of the neighbourhood, when the animal, which was of
the terrier breed, bit him while he was patting it. The next day,
as the animal had been yelling all night, it was shot. The wound,
11 which was but a small puncture in the fore finger of the right
I hand, bled a little, and it healed up, nothing more being thought
of it. On Sunday evening last Mr. Baker first c mplained of
headache and sickness, which were the first symptoms indicative of
the approaching attack. About six o'c.ock the following mooning
as he got worse. •Mr. Vincent, surgeon, of Stratford, was sent to,
when Mr. Garland, his assistant, attended. Mr. Baker then com-
plained of a difficulty of breathing and swallowing, and of severe
pains in his stomach. S .me medicine was prescribed; but, in
consequence of violent spasmodic affections of the throat, he was
unable to swallow. Mr. Vincent saw him about noon, when he at
once ascertained, as the symptoms had then much more advanced,
that he was suffering from hydrophobia. Soon after, he frequently
exclaimed—" Seize him! Bite him!" which he accompanied with
exclamations like the bowlines of a dog. On Wednesday morning,
about one o'clock, he became so frantic, that it was found necessary
to tie him down to the bed. The paroxysms of the attack were
most appalling from one o'clock till about ten minutes previous to
his death. After Sunday night he was unable to take anything.
SUDDEN DUATH AT BRIGIIT.PN.—A coroner's in-
quest was held at the White Horse Hotel, on Tuesday morning, to
inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. George
Overton, hair.dresser and perfumer, East-street, Brighton, when
William Walker, foreman to the deceased, deposed that about half.
past eight o'clock on Saturday evening the shop bell rang vio!ently,
and on going down stairs he saw Mrs. Overton sup..orting the
head of the deceased, who was lying behind the counter, where he
had fallen whilst in the act of serving a gentleman with some good,.
Deceased did not speak, and died in a few minutes. He had been
subjected to disease of the heart for some years. Verdict..." Died
by the visitation of God."
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benchers of the inns of Court assemble in their respective halls to
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