The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-08 00:00:00

Conspanioa for Oxford,"—together with a hun-
dred others of the same stamp, "quos nunc pra-
scrsbere longam ea." Under the head " Meta-
physics". we have " Beattie's Essay on Truth,
a much over-rated work,—" Philosophical Re-
flections on the Virtues of. Tar Water," which
reminds us of Dr. 3laginn's philosophical re-
flections on seeing a Hottentot in top-boots ;
" Collard's Logic for Schools" (what sort of
logic is that ?)—" A portable French Dictionary
of Philosophy," wherein every thing relative to
this world and the next is disposed of within the
compass of an ordinary coat pocket ;—" Geddes'
Essay on original Genius," which Dr. Parr has
praised, but which goes to prove that genius is
nothing more than an acquaintance with the Greek
and Latin Grammars ;—"John Fearn's Demon-
stration of necessary connection," a somewhat
equivocal title ;—" Harvey's Meditations,"
a work in which, to the best of our recollection,
the sentiment of Sterne, blended with the diction
of Ossian, is wedded to the twang of the conven-
ticle (though the author, we believe, preceded all
three)—" -Hill's Plan for Instructing Boys in
Large Numbers,"—" Knox's Essays," the most
trite and common-minded of its class—" Ozell
Logic," a quaint ordinary treatise by, if we mis-
take not, the Editor of Sir T. Urqhwart's Rabelais,
an author duly noticed in the Dunciad—" Watts's
Logic," a dry scholastic, but perhaps useful (to
those who can wade through it) treatise—and,
lastly, " Wotton's Ancient and Modern
Learning," a production which Swift has
so justly, but unsparingly tenahawked, in his
ironical and comprehensive Tale of a 'rub. In
" Natural History," we find " Abbot's account of
the flowers that grow in Bedfordshire;"—" Dod-
son's Rules for learning common Arithmetic,"—
Goldsmith's Animated Nature,"—an amusing
but deceitful guide--" Knight's Treatise on Ap-
plea,"—" Lambe's Cautions against Water-pipes
and Cisterns,"—" Levbourn's Mathematical
Questions, proposed in the Ladies Diary,"—and
" Mawe and Abercrombie's Gardener." Among
the " Books of Pleasantry," we find the follow-
ing exceedingly funny works :—" Buchanan's
Paraphrase of She Psalms,"—" Coleridge's
Greek Prize Poem,"—" Dantisci Joannis
poemata et hymni"—" Deliciat poetarum Bel-
gicorum"—" A very humorous disertation,
in which Anonymous endeavours to prove
that women are not men, and to which a woman
replies that they are,"—" Hobbes's (Thomas)
Ecclesiastical History in verse."—" Hermanni
(Parr's idol) poesis sacra,"—" Fl oogeveen Car-
mina Elegiaca,"—" Hoyeri Trageedie."—Mil-
ton's Sampson Agonistes,"—and " Sacra Lyrica."
Among the " English Miscellanies," we dis-
cover " the tons of Erin, or the cause of
the Greeks, by a native cf Bengal," a
Tragedy in which a woman hanging her
head, is beautifully compared to a bunch of
unripe grapes—" a Miss Carter's Poems,"—
" Florence Miscellany," a notable specimen of
the Della Crusca School,"—" Glover's Leo-
nidas," an epic now deservedly forgotten—
" Ireland's • Shakepeare Forgeries," which Dr.
Parr worshipped on his knees—" Poems by
Chandos Leigh," sad stuff—" Zeluco," a very
over-rated picture of life—" Pizarro and the
Virgin of the Sun," two dismal German melo-
drames—" Watts's Lyric Poems,"—and " G us-
tavus Vasa," by an ingenious Eton Boy.
Such taken from Dr. Parr's own catalogue, is
a fair sample of its value. We should add that
he praises those only among his contemporaries,
who lavishly return- the compliment. He pre-
fers Herman to Poison, because the former larded
him with eulogy... lie bestows notices ott the
most worthless works of the day-; while Burke,
• Sir James M'lntosh, whose well-known “Vin-
diciee Garnett" is passed without a word—though
immediately afterwards, Godwiit's pompous Pol.
Justice, is introduced with respect) and Gibbon,
men who were really scholars in the most enlarged
sense, are not even mentioned or alluded to. The
truth is, Dr. Parr, throughout his life, was an
infinitely over-rated man. Ile did nothing for his
age, he has done as much for posterity ; at the
very hey-day of his fame he was at best but a li-
terary Gourmand : the learning of others as-
sumed no new shapes, no new combinations in
his mind ; it was not, as with Burke and John-
son, impregnated with thought and sentiment ;
as his information was received, so also
in due season was it reproduced—a shapeless
unformed mass. In his private character, how-
ever, the Doctor was all that could he desired.
He was an excellent husband, (and in this in-
stance he was sadly tried) ; an indulgent father ;
a devout, but not an austere, Christian ; a con-
scientious partisan ; and, except where his vanity
was concerned, a staunch enthusiastic friend.
With this praise let his admirers rest contented.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. s.—The subscriptions
to raise a fund for the erection of a monument to the me.
tuory of Mr. Canning amount this evening to 2,500/. At
a meeting of the Common Council held. this day, it was
unanimonaly resolved that the sum of 500/. from the cor-
poration funds should be appropriated to the same.
MANCHESTER, SEPT. 6.—The inquiry for
yarns has diminished again this week ; the recent advance
has, therefore, been too short-lived to produce all the good
that sas by some anticipated from it. There is a consi-
derable depio of gloom over the r.rn and raw cotton mar-
kets : the latter is deohicuily heavy, with rather an indica-
tion of a decline in the price, Twist has not yet fallen,
beiog already below a remunerating price. Neither does
improve, and many of the spinners, particulrily those of
low sii;enbers, have much diFeouragement to struggle
with. No,. 20's water twist may be bought at lOid., and
•
21's at 11fd,
,per gib. In goods there is considerable b
ness doing for the general country trade. Some descrip-
tions are of course more wanted than others, ambngst
which may be reckoned bleached quiltinge, which are re-
presented as being in unusual dernend: The silk manu-
facture, particularly in the branch of heavy and substantial
fabrics, bap ackluired a superiority over that of most other
places in England. It meets, therefore, avith a correspond-
ing attention front the buyeye, and that trade generally is
in a state of rapid intproreme!:,,t• 'pie price of calicoes has
I varied once or twice during the past ' week as much as
three-pence per piece, and the demand has accordingly
fluctuated in a slight degree; they are now, neWisver,
seti4 at recent prices, and with a steady market.
The table in the Maniteur specifies the quan-
tity
of shipping which belongs to French ship-owners,
and that which rs nariga.,,ed under a foreign flag. The
latter nearly doubles the foirear, being in 1825, as
400,140 tons ,c) 247,264.; and in 13226, as 4)2,672 to
2213,719. The number of seamen employed in navigating
the French commerciat navy, is stated, in 182 f.), at
.25,637 ; and 411826, at 22,551. This is exclusive of
the trade of France with her colonies, which employed, in
18ifi, 4.39 ships, measuring 10,00 tons; and in 1826,
54.2 ves.,els, with 127,026 tons, The seamen engaged in
this branch of commerce are stated, in the abate years respec-
-7,668. This
tivelv, to be 6,413 and statement tuflicates a
grey inwrovement in the French colonial trade within the
sport spaq,pf a twelvemonth. In comparing this account
of the shippin ,e.f France with that of England and of the
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United States of .11'merira, we both discover the great dis-
proportion between the extent a the trade of the latter two
countries and the former, and likeiviee ske great difference
hetwre; the,quantity of Lome and foreign vessels eTop;.2;.-ed
in each. Th:. whole of the tonnage employed in the
foreign cornmgrce.of France dill not amount, in 1826,t0 a
half of that employed by theti nixed States, and to little
more than a fourth of that employed by this country ; and
while abont half the foreign trade of France is car.,:ied on
by foraipers, .er4y one-third of that of Great Britain, and
one-tenth of that of tram-:!,4l brethren, ie en-
irossed by foreign 149ttca.6.,.-fivi.