The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-04 00:00:00

LITERATURE. .-
ILLUSTRATEDitiIe London,
42N. NEWS.
This is a weekly journal; it is got up with
singular care and skill, and is so various and
entertaining in its matter, that 114 readers lint
must find in it something to suit •their tastes.
Not a few of its original prose article, which are
devoted to the topics of the day,- display hu-
mour, reasoning, and a quick faculty of observa-
tion; while of its poetry, it is enough to say that,
generally speaking, it is far super-nolo the ordi-
nary run of poetic wares. But the roost remark-
able and popular feature in the'" London News"
is the excellence and variety of its illustrations;
those which represent the Queen's Visit to Scot-
land are among the choicest'
specimens of wood
engraving we have seen for many a day. As a
specimen of its humorous versification, we quote
the following lines on the late " Doncaster St.
Leger race" :
_

A race! a race! at rapid pace,
And Doncaster is now the place,
Upon the best of courses.
For Doncaster their speed men spur,
it ►-ill make many a donkey stir,
E'en let alone the horses !

Oh.! many a man ere this da,y week,
Although no ditcher's fate he d seek,
Will wish he'd been a hedger!
And through our brain a thought will; range,
That there 11 be an uncommon chane
In cash books, through this Leger!
The man who looks you thro' and thro';
With " I'm as good a man as you'''—
A flash, bold, slang, dead-setter,
Will drop his chops, and mutter, " Pish,
As good as you !—I only wish
I'd never been a better!"
The horses start ;—Where's Rosalind?
There's Seahorse !—such seahorse yqu'll find
As proves at sea on few decks !
The Post calls Rosalind a host,
But Rosalind's not near the post !
And what becomes of Julia?
Where's Attila ?—whiat nowhere found!
The odds are veering round and round ;
How hard a prophet's fate is!
Oh, Attila, thy heels are light !
But, being fairly out of sight,
Why what becomes of Yates?
"Where is the Queen Victoria? where!
Why, in the Highlands, taking air. .
Ha! then a million on it!
If she's in any Scottish place,
The little mare that wins the race
Is sure to be Blue Bonnet!
Ay ! there she is! the mare has won
For Scotland and Lord Eglinton
A triumph for the North.
Most gallantly she cantered in,
And thought it Policy to win
As first, instead of Forth !
They say her jockey, by the bye,
is nothing but a living Lye;
And not a soul can doubt it.
But we affirm, upon our word,
That no lie ever yet was heard, •
With so much truth about it.
Now, brother Prophets, mind your eye,
While we propound this prophecy,
And wisdom sure begins it.
We here predict of the next race,
The horse that has the foremost place,
Will be the horse that wins it !

LEITII ROADS, SEPT. 30.—The brig Evander, of
Abvrdeen, 130 tons register, Roberts master, from
Grangemouth to Hull, with a cargo of pig iron, wink
yesterday morning, at four o'clock, about five miles to
the eastward of lnchkuith. So rapidly did the water
rush into the vessel that the master deemed it.proper to
hoist the boats out, get the crew's elotheS and his own
into them, and betake themselves to them. They lay by
for an hour and a half, when the vessel went down head
foremost. The stern blew out with a report as loud as
that of a heavy piece of ordnance. There was a fresh
gale from with a heavy sea running at the time.
One of the boats got safe into Leith harbour, and the
other with difficulty gut into Pettycur in Fife.—Caledo-
nian Merc 14 rp.

JUSTICE CRESSWELL'S " LENIENT SENTENCI."—
Captain Philip Partridge, the late master of the Jar-
row, %Nilo was tried last week at the Old Bailey on
three indictments, charging him with the murder of
three Spaniards, and who was convicted of an assault
only upon one of his victims, and sentenced to six
months, imprisonment and hard labour, was removed
to the Penitentiary, in pursuance of his sentence, on
Tuesday morning. In June, 1838, he was convicted
of manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court, and
sentenced to twelve months imprisonment and hard
labour in the. Penitentiary. His victim on the pre-
vious occasion was a boy named DavieS, who was sub-
jected to the most barbarous usage on board the ship
Vigilant, of which Partridge was commander, and - -
who died on the voyage. A French seaman .belong-
ing to the Jarrow, the last vessel comnianded by Par-
tridge, was severely flogged 1:•, his order on the coast
of Africa, and next morning he threw himself over-
board and was drowned.
CHELMSFORD UMON.—This parish continues to be
greatly encumbered by casual paupers, of whom upwards
of 90 were admitted between the last two board days.
These itinerant beg,,,,,-ers still flock to this place,
owing to the indiscriminate charity given by
individuals, who should recollect that they pay
a second time by the increase of the poor-rate, occa-
sioned by the eneouraretnent afforded to vagabonds to
continue their periodical visits. It appears to be an
invariable rule with these people to collect, in the day
time from door to door, w hat they can, and in the evening
to take up their abode in the Lnion-house, Where they
obtain two meals ; and-there are at this time instances
of some remaining in the house for several weeks, and at
the exclusive expense of this parish. The present in-
mates amount 226. Not more than four of the whole are
able-bodied.—Esser Herald.
TILE UTILITY OF A REGULATING GOVERNMENT.—
You have seen it stated in the journals, thas the tube
of the artesian well is at length finished, and that the
water now flows clear from the orifice. This desirable
result has been obtained merely by causing the water
to rise to a greater height from the mouth of the well
before it discharges itself than it did before. At the
orifice it is still muddy and sandy. The tube is now
of great strength, the municipality having seveul
months ago voted an additional stun of 60,000 f.
for a tube which would resist the pressure the
sides of the well. It appears, however, that more
than a month elapsed before the formalities of the ap-
probation of the Government to this grant could be
terminated, and in the meantime the sides of the well
continued to fall in, and to form a thick mass at the bot-
tom which can never be removed. In vain was this
result predicted. The Government authorities would
not move out of their regular jog trot. This is only
one of an immense number of inconveniences aris-
ing from the necessity of having every municipal
grunt confirmed by the Ministry. It seems rather
hard that municipalities cannot dispose of their own
funds as they please, and it was one of the proposed
reforms of the Revolution of 1830, that this harass-
ing and prejudicial control should no longer be ex:
ereised ; but, like many other promised reforms, it is
still unaccomplished. Under the existing syskteetm,
oar
town cannot make a new street, or a new
• obtaining the consent of the Minister,ld
a The worst
even appoint a manager to its theatre, wlinitilitairomu'iti:lfiarhsst
sometimes elapse before this can be ha
six
d•
months.—Letter
were delayed.
.11,1hiineirsst.er iFnotrhiNsv that
ant of his sligritai.oantuctirer:
fi,e liv.iee)ar:);),ill)adri,luebiNllaens
months.—Letter from
tPhreesis;rii.)upbroslisis
Psi La _
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A FORTUNATE RENCONTRE.—The Journal du Pas
de Calais gives the following relation :—About eleven
o'clock on Wednesday evening, as the Calais estafette
mail was coining down the hill from Beauvais at ills
usual pace, it came in contact with a cart, which was
overturned by the shock, and all who were in it were
thrown out. A child had its face very much torn,
and one man had a leg and another an arm broken.
At the cries of those sufferers the inhabitants of the
i eighbouring houses came out, and were so violent
against the courier that he was on the point of taking
his pistols in his own defence, when a post carriage
came up with two gentlemen, to whom the courier
appealed for protection. They both alighted, and, by
their judicious interference, appeased, the
.enraged
people until the proper magistrate could be sent for.
He having come, and made an investigation, the cou-
rier was allowed to proceed on his journey. As he
was resuming his seat, one of the bystaltdert, to his
utter astonishment, informed him that the gentlemen
who had so effectually interposed in hig be were
no less personages than the Prince de Joinville and
one of his Aides-decamp, on their wept() Eu.—Ga-
lignani.
Lord William Vane Poulett parUliased Down-
ham-hall, Suffolk, a seat of the liar Ba lof Shannon.
—,esoex Herald.