The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-22 00:00:00

MALTA.

Malta, in its soil and climate, belongs to Africa—in
its population, perhaps, to Italy—in its garrison and
commerce, to Europe—Lnd in its manners and habits,
to the East. It is a medley of the three quarters of the
Old World ; and, for the time, a medley of the most
curious description. The native carriages, peasant
dresses, shops, furniture of the houses, and even the
houses themselves, are wholly unlike anything that has
before met the English eye. Malta, in point of religious
observances, is like what St. Paul said of Athens—it is
overwhelmingly pious. The church-bells tolling are
all day long. Wherever it is possible, the cultivation
of the ground exhibits the industry of the people.
Every spot where earth can be found, is covered
with some species of produce. Large tracts are em-
ployed in the cultivation of the cotton plant—fruit-
trees fill the soil—the fig tree is luxuriant—pomegra-
nate, peach, apple, and plum, are singularly produc-
tive. Tines cover the walls, and the Maltese oranges
have a European reputation. The British possession
of Malta originated in one of those singular events by
which short-sightedness and rapine are often made
their own punishers. The importance of Malta, as a
naval situation, had long been obvious to England,
and when, in the revolutionary war, the chief hostili-
ties of the war were transferred to the Mediterranean,
its value as a harbour for the English fleets because
incalculable. Yet it was still in the pos-
session of the knights ; and, so far as England was
concerned, it might have remained in their hands
for ever. A national sense of justice would have
prevented the seizure of the island, however
inadequate to defend itself against the navy of Eng-
land. But Napoleon had no such scruples. In his
expedition to Egypt, he threw a body of troops on
shore at Malta ; and having either frightened or
bribed its masters, or perhaps both, plundered the
churches of their plate, turned out the knights, and
left the island in possession of a French garrison.
Nothing could be less sagacious and less statesman-
like than this act; for, by extinguishing the neutrality
of the island, he exposed it to an immediate blockade
by the English. The result was exactly what he
ought to have foreseen. An English squadron was
immediately despatched to summon the island ; it
eventually fell into the hands of the English, and
now seems destined to rennin in English hands so
long as we have a ship in the Mediterranean.—The
Overland Passage.

SIGHT AND HEARING.-39, Albemarle-street, Picca-
dilly. Newly-invented spectacles, telescopes, opera-
glasses, microscopes, &c. Patronised by Generals Sir
Edward Paget, Sir Evan Lloyd, Frederick Maister,
Clayton, Galway, Grosvenor, Morrison, Dyott, Robert-
son, and Mackenzie ; Major-Generals Sir H. Elphin-
stone, I'. Fyers, D. Macleod, Hamilton, and Wemyss ;
Liwt.-Generals Sir Henry Boaverie, Sir J. Macdonald,
Sir R. Barton, Sir T. Dallas, Lord John Hay ; Admirals
Sir George Cockburn, Sir George Munday, Sir G.
Martin, Sir James IL IVhitshed, Sir D. Gold, and
Ross. By the use of these newly-invented spectacles,
imperfect vision becomes preserved and strengthened,
and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight
at the most minute occupation, and can see with those
lensei of a much less magnifying power, nor will they
require the frequent changes to further helps ; also
newly-invented achromatic waistcoat-pocket telescopes
and opera glasses. Every kind of telescope of larger
size with increasing powers, for shooting, sea purposes,
and, upon stands, fur astronomical purposes, with the
same celebrated lenses, the powers are so great, and the
lenses so bright and brilliant, that minute objects at an
extraordinary distance are brought completely tinder the
eye.
,Sportsmen, tourists, and sea-side visitors will
have * great treat. Their invisible voice conductor gives
immediate relief to old standing extreme cases of deaf-
ness. Caution—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians
and aurists, are not in any way connected with a person
of the same name in their immediate neighbourhood, nor
in any part of the country. To prevent mistakes be
cautious and observe, only to be had at 39, Albemarle •
street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel.

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LONGEVITY OF ARTISTS.—In a work of which M.
Legincourt is the author, it is observed that artists are
not long lived. Among four hundred artists, more or
less celebrated, since the time of Raffaelle to the present
time, only one-fortieth of that number have attained to
the age of 70 to 99 years—these are,Vincont, 70 ; Rey-
nolds, 70; Lairosse, 71; Lebrun, 71; Poussin, 71; Cham-
pagne, 72; Terburg, 73; Salario, 73; Pannini, 73; Jou-
vert, 73 ; Vernet (Joseph), 74 ; Reynault, 75 ; Ostade,
75 ; Leonardo da Vinci, 75 ; Guereino Bourgeois, 74 ;
David, 77 ; Schnyder, 79 ; Bakhuysen, 78 ; Greuze, 79;
Carl Vernet, 79 ; Teniers, 80 ; Cousin, 80 ; Bellini, 80;
Primaticcio, 80 ; Jozepin, 80 ; Lagrar6e, 81; Grassi, 81;
Albano, 82; Claude Lorraine, 82; Tintoretto, 82; Bauze,
82; Gentileschi, 83; Barroccio, 84; Jordaens, 84; Mig-
ttaro, 85; Richard, 85; Crayer, 87; Marratti, 88; Coy-
pel, 89; Bellini (Giovani), 90; Calabrese, 90; Vien, 93;
Titian, 99.—Art-Union.
It is said that Mr. Colburn has in the press a new
work by the author of " Coningeby."

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