The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-31 00:00:00

HALL'S NEW GENERAL ATLAS.

We are happy to perceive' that the first num-
ber of • this desirable work has just made
its appearance, ;n a style which does •no less
credit to the skill arid ingenuity of the
author, than to the enterprising spirit of its pub-
lishers. The Engravings are executed with great
dearness, and the several boundaries traced with much
perspicuity, which will render the present work,
when finished, a very superior source of re-
ference. The first map in this number is France
—the second Russia—and the third ilindostan:
On the first map we were pleased to see
the places where great battles were fought, ac-
curately marked, with the dates of the memorable
events, and the names of the heroes who com-
manded. This we think a great improvement,
as it combines Chronology with Geography.—
The science of Geography must, from its nature, be
in course of constant improvement; and works
of the present kind will be occasionally wanted.—
Indeed we think, were a knowledge of Geo-
graphy more universal, that people would greatly
benefit by learning the relative extent and re-
sources of nations, with many of which they
are at present acquainted only by name. Geographi-
cal information is as necessary to a commercial people
as good roads are to:travellers. But the utility of
the science is now too generally known to re-
quire observation. We shall only remark, that
this specimen deserves every encouragement; and,
if the succeeding numbers will be equally good
(of which the respectability of the publishers is
a sufficient guarantee), the work must be successful.
But the following preface will best explain the pre-
tensions of the work :
With every disposition to acknowledge the respective
merits of the various geographical compilations that have
appeared of late years, the Proprietors of the present work
de not hesitate to declare that they have undettakea it
from a full conviction of its necessity. The discoveries of
recent voyagers and travellers in every known region of
the globe, the nautical surveys and exploratory enter-
prises instituted by various governments and states, and
the important changes made in the demarcation of bounda-
ries between contiguous territories belonging to different
Powers, continue to supply a multitude of data for increas-
ing our knowledge of the earth and its divisions, natural
and political—and are daily.furnishing additions and amend-
ments for the published records of that knowledge. With
these materials the Geographer is enabled to supply the
deficiencies and correct the errors of his predecessors ; and
thus a new Atlas, like a new Cyclopwdia, may,by due care
and diligence, be made to possess all the advantages of its
prototypes without their faults, and must for a time claim
precedence as the latest compendium of a science which like
all others is incessantly, progressive.
From these considerations, and from the very natural
desire of applying to a useful purpose materials which had
been long accumulating, the present undertaking origi-
nated. In preparing the drawings, the best and most re-
cent authorities have been consulted ; reference has been
had to archives and to private collections not generally ac-
cessible, and the emendatory suggestions of experienced
travellers, both native and foreign, have been requested
and obtained. The greater numbr of the snaps are in a
very advanced state, and are engraved on such a plan as
to admit of all the alterations that fresh discoveries may
render necessary at any time previous to publication.
The work will be completed in Seventeen Parts, each
containing Three Maps. A part will be published every
month, price half a guinea. The size of each map has been
fixedjat.twenty inches by sixteen, those dimensions being
found most convenient fur preservation and reference, anti
in the chorographical delineations, as well as in the
ortkography of the names inserted, the strictest attention
to accuracy has been and will be unremittingly bestowed.

Lord DuNDAs has presented the Reverend
TitanAs BARCLAY, Minister of Dunrossness, to the church
and parish of Lerwick, vacant by the death of the Rev.
Joint Mx.srztEs.— Caledonian Mercury.
We are sorry to learn that Dr. DAVIDSON,
of Muiri.:ouse, one of the Ministers of the Tolbooth Church,
is dangeroub:ly ill. A report of his death was current in
town on Saturday, but that event had not taken place at a
late hour yesterday.,— Caledonian Mercury.
The Resurrection-men, as appears from the
Liverpool Advertiser, have been again at work in that
town and its neighbourhood. A surgeon, in practice there,
has been ordered to find bail for participating in the exhu-
mation.
The Trustees and Faculty of Rutger'aCollege
of New Brunswick, New Jersey, by
an unanimous C
vote, on
the 27th September ult., conferred the degree of Doctor of
Divinity on the Rev. Jose( RITCHIE, A.M. Minister of
the United Secession Church, Edinburgh.— Culedanian
Mercury.
DESTRUCTION OE A GREEK STEAMER
BY FIRE.--On Monday afternoon, the Irresistible, one of
the veesels lately built for the Greeks, and intended to have
been sent ant immediately, to Lord COCHRANE, sailed from
Limehouse, for the first time, on an experimental trip, as
far as the Nore and back again. She proceeded admirably,
until, on her return, lifter Gravesend, she was discovered
to have caught fire. IrOtnediately, every possible effort
was made by all on board, to ascertain the cause and pre-
vent the further action of the conaagration, but unhappily,
without success. At nine o'clock la,,t night, the steam.
vessel was burnt to the water's edge. Two of the men on
board, in their efforts to secure the steam apparatus from
explosion, (in which they providentially succeeded) were
severely scalded. The vessel was estimated at about 9,0001.
On Wednesday a fatal accident occurred on
the Queensferry-road to a very respectable and useful mem-
ber of the College of Justice, Mr. Dow, well known in the
Parliament House as a short-hand writer. Riding with a
friend, his horse took fright somewhere near Blackball.
He was seen on the road to the
theistnort of ths, aendt vilclinging
lage, his
horse at full gallop, his feet out of irrup
with his hands to the saddle. On turning into the new
road, he was thrown, and, falling on his back, received so
much injury, that lie expired next day.— Caledonian
Mercury,
DUBLIN, OCT. 27.—NEW CATHOLIC As-
soclATioN.—sir TnemAs ESNIONDE, Bart. in the chair.
Several letters of census returns were read. Mr. O'Cos-
Natr, in alluding to the appointment of Sir Awr.Hotnr.
Haler to the Irish Seals, said, that it was hinted that this ,
gentleman was of no political character—that he came here
with the express understanding that he would take no part
whatever in religiotis or political transactions. This was,
no doubt, a good resolution, but it would he doubly good
if kept ; but he (Mr. O'CosNnt.i.) knew *be party that
would get about him when he came to this cotmtry, and it
would be difficult for liberality to get an audience.
considered this appointment an injury to Lord PLUNEETt
and the country. He then gave notice of a motion that
the Catholic Priests throughout the .country he requested
to transmit to the Association the names of two laymen in
each parish to collect the Catholic rent ; and he a/so gave
notice of a motion concerning the census. Amount of Ca-
tholic rent since list return, bll. ss. Sd. After some other
routine butliDess, the Meeting, adjourned.—Dublin Even-
ing Post.
On the 23d inst. the United "ussociate
Presbytery of Edinburgh met at East Linton, and cr4ined
Mr. GEORGE PATERSON to be joint pastor of the United
Associate Congregation there. The service was performed
in the parish church of Prestonkirk.— CaledonianMercury.
There is a prospect that the winter mackarel
&hely in Mount's Bay will prove more favourable-than the
to
pilchard fishery has done. Some of the boats belonging
the Bay had good catches on Wednesday morning, and on
Thursday mooing one boat took about three thousand fish.
—Exeter Alfred.
We are informed that the Kent and Canter-
bury Hospital has received a legacy of 100/. (thtee duty'
of
ten per cent. deducted), Wreathed by tbe lar.
Ihrtalsort, of Lenham, in this county —Maidstone

Journal.
The young man wit° shot himself at Graves-
end, died on Friday, the ball having passed through bid
head, notwithstanding which, he 'survived a week from the
time of committing the rash act, and was perfectly col-
lected. Hia name, we understand, is HART, and his friends
are respectable farmers in Suffolk.—Maidstone Journal.
On Thursday last, at day-break, A large covey
of partridges, in taking flight over this city, came in 01?-
tact with the front of Mr. CHARLES WILLS'S house,
Magdalen-stieet, which lies been lately whitened. 'lle
concussion was so great; that two were killed on the spot,
and tw'b so stunned, that they were easily captured—the
remainder of the covey cleared the parapet.--E :reter
Alfred.