The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-04 00:00:00

DEPA RTURES.

'1 he Duke of 31anchester, from Park-lane, for his seat, Kim-
bolton Castle; Viscountess Boyne, from Thomas's Hotel, Berke-
ley-square, for her seat in Shropshire; J. Feilden, Esq. and the
Misses Feilden, from Miyat t's Hotel, Lower Brook and Davies-
street., on a Continental tour; J. Jackson, Esq. from ditto, for
Essex ; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Annesley and family, from ditto,
for Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Ward, from Talke's Hotel (late
Miller's), Jermyn-street, for their seat, Shooter's-hill ; 11. A.
Addington, Esq. from Hawkins's Hotel, Dover-street; Mr. and
Mrs. Girdlestone, from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-
street, for their seat in Cambridgeshire; Captain and Mrs.
lolounsey, from Grosvenor-street, for Paris; G.lonel W. C.
Madan and Mrs. Madan, from Marshal Thompson's Hotel, Ca-
vendish-square, for Lichfield ; Wilmer Field, Esq. and Miss
Field, from ditto; Mrs. Batson, from ditto ; T. G. Corbett, Eir.
from ditto ; Lord Louth, from ditto; Rev. P. Berry, from ditto.

Yesterday was the birth-day of the Bineess
SOPHIA, when her Royal Highness comideted her fifty-
second year.

The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE ar-
rived in town yesterday morning, from their residence in
Busby Park. The Princess SOPHIA visited their Rocsl
Highnesses at their residence, in the King's Palace,
James's.

The Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER
came to town from their residence, in Bagshot Park; and
the Princess SOPHIA MATILDA from her residence, in
Blackheath—their Hoye! Highnesses proceeded to the re-
sidence of the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE.—The
Princes SorniA received the congratulations of her rela-
tives on the return of her natal day. About three o'clock a
very elegant dejeune, given by the Royal host and hostess
in honour of the occasion, was served. The Duke and
Duchess of GLOUCESTER, accompanied by the Princess
SOPHIA MATILDA, left town in the afternoon for their
residence in Bagshot Park. The Duke and Duchess of
CLARENCE returned to Bushy Park.

The Earl of ERROL arrived at Hampton
Court on Monday from Ireland ; his Lordship came to
town yesterday with the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE.

MARRIED—On Tuesday, the 3d of Novem-
ber, by the Rev. BEAUCHAMP ST. JOHN, JOHN WIL-
LIAM PANE, Esq., eldest son of JOHN PANE, Esq., M.P.,
of Wormsley, Oxfirdshire, to ELLEN CATHERINE, third
daughter of the Hon. THOMAS PARKER, (brother to the
Earl of MACCLESFIELD), of Enshatt Hall, in the same
county.

On Friday last, Lord CLIFFORD, accom-
panied by Sir T. D. ACLAND, Bart. qualified as a Magis-
trate for the counts', at the Castle of Exeter. His Lord-
ship is the only Catholic who has yet qualified in this
county since the passing of the Emancipation
Bill.—
Exeter Alfred.

The Judge Advocate-General and Lady
ANNE BacgErr gave a grand dinner yet.terday evening, at
their residence in Stratford-place to the Austrian Anthas-
stdor, the Loan CHANCELLOR, the Duke of WELLING-
TON, Viscount BERESFORD, Lord GEORGE SEYMOUR, Mr.
and Mrs. ARBUTHNOT, &e.

One of the Commissioners of the Customs
was engaged for several days last week at Southampton,
investigating the circums►ances attending the late extensive
seizure of smuggled silks at that port.
The biscuits made at the Victualling Esta-
blidunetit atiFeovil, for the use of the Royal Navy, will
in future, by anew process, be cut and marked at once,
with the KING'S arms, i❑ the same manner as sovereigns
are struck at the Mint.—Portsmouth Herald.

When Captain PELLEW commanded the Her-
. mange frigate, as she was riding quietly at anchor, by
some accidental circumstance, which was never yet ascer-
tained, she blew up. Captain PELLEW was pacing the
quarter-deck at the time and found himself suddenly trans-
ported to the poop of the Admiral's ship, which was lying,
at some distance, having sustained but a very trifling in-
jury. Nearly all else on board perished in the presence of
the fleet by this untoward accident.

The grand Hotel in the new town of St. Leo-
nard's, near Hastings, was opened on Thursday, and there
were various ceremonies and amusements in commemora-
tion of the occasion. An excellent dinner was served up
in the afternoon, at which Mr. PLANTA, and many
gentlemen connected with the county of Sussex, were Ke-
a nt. The well-known HENRY ANGELO, who, th nigh
a septuagenarian, still retains much of the wit and vigour
of his youth, amused the company with some humorous
songs, partiealarly one written for the occasion by his old
friend GEORGE COL3IAN.

MOST EXTRAORDINARY DUEL.-011 Fri-
day evening, Mr. the son of Sir J. B—x,
and. Mr. S—., the second son of a celebrated barrister,
happened to meet in a tavern in Duke-street, when a dis-
pute took place between them with respect to the late
trials in Cork. A duel between the two gentlemen was
determined on, and they yesterday morning met at Donny-
brook. Mr. was accompanied by Mr. B—E,
and Mr. B—x by Lieutenant T— . The gentlemen
fired three shots each, when Lieutenant T— called upon
Mr. B----E to know if his friend was satisfied. Mr.
B--E declared that he was not, and that his friend
should remain on the ground until he had received an
atonement for the outrageous insult that had been offered
to him. Lieutenant T-- immediately said to Mr.
B—e, " You are a blood-thirsty scoundrel, and you
must fight yourself upon the spot." The challenge was
immediately accepted by Mr. B—E, and the seconds
and principals changed places, Mr. S— acting as the
friend of Mr. B—E, and Mr. B—N as the second of
Lieutenant T—. Upon being placed on the ground,
the signal agreed on for a mutual discharge of pistols was
" make ready, and fire." Mr. B E misinterpreted the
signal, and discharged at the words " make ready," upon
which Mr. B—N called out, that he had fired before his
time. Mr. B E then said, "My opponent shall have
every opportunity for firing at me." Mr. B—E then
walked up deliberately towards his antagonist, and when
within a short distance of him Lieutenant T— dis-
charged his pistol, and the ball passed between the thighs
of Mr. B—s. The, moment Lieutenant T— dis-
charged his pistol he flung it at Mr. B. E, and struck
him with the butt end of it. The instant he ,did so he
perceived that he himself had been wounded in the hip,
from which be then saw the blood flowing. The parties
were carried off the ground by their respective friends, and
it is said that the first principals in this extraordinary duel
intend meeting again. The police should be on the alert,
for there has been too much of this unpleasant affair.—
Dublin Morning Register.

We understand that Mr. M'LEOD of Gea-
nies lost fifty sheep in one morning of last week, from a
cause equally unsuspected and extraordinary. His shep-
herd drove the whole flock on the farm of Geanies, con-
sisting of 200 Cheviots, black-faced, and lambs, into a
field of barley stubble, where there was a plentiful growth
of grass. The sheep remained in the field during the day,
and appeared all well when put into the fold at night.—
Next morning, on the shepherd entering the fold, he was
amazed to find the ground covered with dead and dying
sheep. The cause of this extraordinary mortality is as-
cribed to the flock having eaten some of the barley ears,
the aunt of which had produced inflammation in the
throat or stomach, during the process of rumination.—
What renders the circumstance still more extraordinary is,
that not one of the black-faced sheep nor lambs appeared
to have suffered any injury, while out of 60 Cheviots h 0
died.— Glasgow Herald.

A farmer, who some years ago held one of
the best farms in Essex, aid lived, on handsome indepen-
dent property, like a squire, recently died in London in
the most abject penury ; his wife, who hail contrived to
support the family, earned her pittance by hawking about
te.t ten or twelve miles a day, and had just 9,1. in the
honse at her husband's death. The corpse of the deceased
was carried into the country in a common road waggon to
rest beside its ancestors, who knew better days, and were
spared the sad spectacle of witnessing their posterity re-
duced to the extremity of distress.—Kent and Essex
Mercury.

LITERATURE.

LIFE OF OLIVER CROMWELL:
EDINBURGH, 1829.

An impartial, a strictly and honourably im-
xtilir.l, life of this distinguishud republican, who
has been more the subject of praiSe and abuse
than almost any man that, with the exception of
Napoleon, has either preceded or followed him,
is yet a desideratum in English literature. With
the Royalist party, Cromwell has always been•
and is to this day, a demon ; with the republi-
cans he is an angel. Neither schism will corn-
iromise one iota of their opinions, or lower their
exaggerated tone to the level of common sense
Ind good feeling, hence we have yet in a grew
degree to learn what was the extent of the Pro-
tector's faults—vices he had none, if we except
that equivocal one of ambition—and what the
range, spirit, and character of his virtues. Mr.
Godwin has of late attempted to supply this de-
sideratum ; but he has speculated so much in
his history, thrown so much more of ingenuity
and fanciful opinion into it, than of Useful prac-
tical judgment, that he has.little, if at all, eluci-
dated the character anti motives of the very ex-
traordinary statesman of whom he treats. Adhnc
sub judice lis est.
The author of the present volume, which
forms the forty-seventh number of Constable's
Popular Miscellany, has presented us, so fur
as we can at present judge, the history being not
yet completed,with a very temperate, unassuming,
and impartial history of Cromwell. He has
investigated his subject evidently with an eager
wish to come to the truth himself, and to
im-
part it to others ; and so far deserves the respect
and gratitude of his readers. To style his work
makes few or no pretensions; but the sound
sense of his numerous inferences more than
counterbalances the homeliness of his diction.

SPIRIT OF THE PLAYS Of' SHAKSPEARE.
HENRI- IV., PARTS I. and 11.

Mr. Howard, as we have often had occasion
to remark, when commenting on his excellent,
and, in many respects, characteristic Illustrations j
of Shakspeare, is very happy in his groupings. j
They are contrived with infinite grace and adroit-
ness
: indeed, whatever be the number of his
personages—and his delineations are frequently j
crowded with them—they never create confu-
sion, but have always plenty of elbow-room.—
With regard to spirit, Mr. Howard shines to
j particular advantage in illustrating the serious
and more chivalrous portions of Shakspeare's
Dramas. In pourtraying humour he is infinitely
less at home ; he becomes stiff, forced, and
heavy—hence his Falstaff, in the present series
of his Illustrations, is Falstaff only in his size.
He is corpulent, but no humourist, at least not
the humourist that the great dramatist has made
him. His countenance wants that rich, oily,
self-satisfied look of jollity and jocoseness, which
those who are in the habit of reading Shak-
speare, cannot tail) one and all, to ascribe to him.
In Bardolph, too, Mr. Howard has equally fail-
ed. We see nothing of the expressive rubicund
nose, which cost Falstaff a " fortune in foot-
links ;" nothing of that bludgeon-like proboscis
which stood boldly and significantly forward,
like the painted forepart of an Admiral's
-As. -Mr. [Toward has pourtrayed this
notable old debauchee, we see nothing but
a very foolish-loOking, common-place, elderly
gentleman, with a nose large indeed, but
devoid of character, standing out in front
of a face eloquent of burglary. We limit
this censure, however, to the artist's illus-
tration of humour. Whenever he has to deli-
neate sentiment or passion he does it-with marked
felicity ; in proof of which we may adduce No.
7, of the First Part of Henry IV., where Hot-
spur and Glendower, and some one or two others,
are busy parcelling out the lands, which, like
the Ministerial flatterers of King Pichrocole,
they already anticipate as their own. Nothing
can exceed the marked character of' this illustra-
tion. It sufficiently tells its own tale without
any comment from us. The face of Glendower is
particularly well defined. The Meeting of
Hotspur is another spirited sketch, full of ex-
pression
beyond what we should conceive it pos-
sible for an outline to pourtray. In the second
part, Lady Percy's Expostulation with North-
umberland,qfter the Death of her Husband, is
characterized by a just and graceful pathos, happily
illustrative of the text from which the idea is
taken. Altogether the two numbers, with the
exception of the defects we have noticed above,
are such as would do honour to the pencil and
the invention of any artist of the day. They
fully support Mi. Howard's previous reputation.

An association, similar to that of Paris and
other places, for offering legal resistance to the levy of
taxes not voted by the Chambers, if such an attempt
should be made, has been formed in the department of the
Aube, under the denomination of " Association Troyene."
—Galignancs Messenger.

A few days ago a promising youth, of the
name of LINDSEY, having neglected to pay a fine imposed
for drunkenness, was placed in the stocks fur one hour, in
front of the Guildhall, in Exeter. He appeared satisfied
with his situation, smoking his pipe with great apparent
delight, and calling passers to witness the representation
of a new piece entitled the " Child in the Wood."

On Saturday morning, the body of a young
woman was found lying on the beach at Joppa, seemingly
left there by the receding tide. She appears to have been
about twenty years of age, small size, and small features,
was dressed in a red striped gown, and black hat, and her
petticoats were pinned about her alleles. From the appear-
ance of the hotly it did not appear to have been long in the
water. It having been since learnt that the deceased was
a servant in Portobello, and had been seen in company with
a man who was in a state of intoxication, we understand a
precognition into the cause of her death is going on before
the Sheriff.— Caledonian Mercury.
LANDLORDS AND TITHE-OWNERS.—The
following is a copy of a circular to all the occupiers of one
of the most extensive parishes in the county of Essex; and
the worthy gentleman is the only resident incumbent in
the hun4red, and farms his own glebe lands, of upwards
of 200 acres, with as much economy and ability as the
Kleist experienced farmer, and, consequently, well knows
the justice of the generous act, and the expediency of the
example he is setting :
_ _

My dear Sir, --I have fixed on Monday, November 16,
for my tithe audit; and, as I feel persuaded that the difficul-
ties the agriculturist has at present to contend against can
chiefly be mitigated by forbearance on the part of landlords
and tithe-owners, I shall be disposed to ramit SO per cent.
this year on your usual payment, though such a considera-
tion is not made without great personal inconvenience on
my part.—l am, dear Sir, your's faithfully,
THOMAS SCHREIBER.
Bradwell Lodge, Oct. 27.