The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-22 00:00:00

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LITERATURE.

MRS. HALL'S IRELAND,- No. XX VL
How, London, 1842.
The present is a double Number, and contains
—in addition to two excellent maps of the
counties of Donegal and Mayo—views of that
romantic locality entitled the Kelleries, in Gal-
way ; and of Achill, a large, wild, thinly-
peopled island, lying a mite or two off the Irish
coast of Mayo. • This last view is very carefully
finished off, even down to its minutest details ;
and the group in the mountain foreground,
consisting of a sportsman, and a pretty-looking,
bare-legged peasant-girl, who is leaning with a
free and easy air against a little what., shaggy
pony, produces a very pleasing, and p:cturesque
effect. The work, we understand, will be com-
pleted in one more Number.

DUBLIN REVIEW, No. XXVI.
Daman, London, 1842.

The chief defect of the Number before us—a
defect, by which this
.Review has been char:ie•
terised almost ever since its first establishment
--is the general tediousness and want of spirit
and variety of its articles. True, they contain
information, and of no uninteresting nature, but
this information is put forth in so tame and life-
less a manner, that it loses at least half its value.
This is particularly the case with the notice of
" Faber's Foreign Churches," which it is quite a
task to read, though it is by no means wanting
in a certain sort of knowledge, compounded in
nearly equal proportions, of theology and Ins-
tory.
_ The review of " Palmer's Letters to Wise-

man" is another heavy article; but as it is on a
subject in which many people are interested just
now—namely, Catholicism, it willow. suppose, find
attentive readers. " Spain and her Resources,"
speaks of Mr. Prescott's account of the reign of
Ferdinand and Isabella in just such terms as
that eloquent and impartial history deserves. In
the course of his notice, the Reviewer gives a
brief, intelligent, biographical sketch of the
&mous Cardinal Xirnenes—one of the most illus-

trious statesmen that Spain ever produced, and
whose whole chequered career is a romance of
the wildest character. In an article, headed
" Depopulation, Fixity of Tenure," the Reviewer
gives the fidlowinc, anecdote :—" The Right Hon.
J. W. Croker, who is generally considered one
of the principal conductors of the Quarterly, and
whom, from his long absence from Ireland, we
may now set down as an English Conservative,
when first he came to London, wrote a work on

the condition of the Irish peasantry, which a
literary friend once declared to us was the best,
most vigorous, and most scathing exposure of the
iniquities of the Irish landlords that he had ever
read. It was soon withdrawn, and we have never
been able to get a copy." The remaining articles
are of average merit.

The Cheltenha►n stag-hounds, on Tuesday, had a
narrow escape of adding another item to the long cata-
logue of " dreadful railway accidents." The meet
had been the Rising Sun, and the stag having given
its pursuers a smart run thence in a circuit round
the town, crossed the railroad near Badgeworth, just
as one of the Gloucester trains came up. The ►ore-
most dog was instantly crushed beneath the carriages,
and had the train been a few seconds later, the whole
of the pack must have shared the same fate, as the
hounds were at the moment coming full speed down
the bank, but the engine being at full speed also, the
train had passed before they crossed in pursuit, fol-
lowed by such of the field as were up at the time.
'The stag was captured all safe at Badgeworth.—
Cheltenham Looker-on.

MEDICAL PRIVILEGES.—A, paragraph, which ori-
ginated, we believe, with the Globe, recently appeared
in our columns, to the effect, " that degrees in medi-
cine or diplomas in surgery, of Scotch Universities
or Colleges confer no privileges out of Scotland, do
not qualify to hold medical or surgical appointments
under the New Poor-law Act—the Militia or Prison
Acts of Parliament." We have since referred to the
Prisons Act, 4 George IV., c. 64,. and we find by the
33d section that the latter statement is wholly untrue.
We are inclined to believe that the statement relative
to the Militia must be also untrue—for no such regu-
lation exists in the army, the navy, or in the East
India Company's service, in which medical men with
Scotch degrees or diplomas stand on the same footing
as English. The Globe added " the Poor-law Com-
missioners have recently dismissed all those who hold
Scotch diplomas from their offices under them as un-
qualified." 'We are enabled to give a decided contra-
diction to this, and we believe not a single dismissal
has taken place.— Gloucestershire Chronicle.
DEAN PARK, NEAR WANSFORD.—The Earl and
Countess of Cardigan have been receiving a succession
of visitors, including Lord George Paget, Lord Maid-
stone, Hon. Cel. Anson, Mr. De Burgh and Mrs. De
Burgh, and some of the leading members of the Mel-
ton Mowbray Hunt, who have formed the circle.

DESTRUCTION or Full.—The slaughter of salmon
in the Teviot and its tributaries has been, and is still,
carried on to a disgraceful extent, hundreds of fish

being taken daily, and that vs.ithout the smallest hind-
rance being offered.—Kelso Mail.
BURGHLEY HOUSE, NEAR STAMFORD.—The Mar-

quiS and Marchioness of Exeter are entertaining a dis-
tinguished circle. There was to be a grand ball at
the Assembly Rooms, Stamford, last night, under the
auspices of the Marquis of Exeter, Marquis of Granby,
M.P., Earl of Lindsey, lion. Colonel Lowther, M.P.,
and Lady Eleanor Lowther, Sir J. Trollope, Bart„
M.P., and Lady Trollope, Dowager Countess of
Lindsey, &c.

VELOCITY or SOUND.—In a still night, the voices
of the workmen at the distillery at Battersea may be
heard at Westminster-bridge, an interval of three
miles. The watcli-word at Portsmouth, it is said, can
be heard at ltyde, in the Isle of Wight, a distance of
four or five miles. The echo in Woodstock-park is
repeated seventeen times by day and twenty by night.
The artillery, at the siege of Genoa by the French,
was heard at Leghorn, a distance of ninety miles.
The firing at the battle of Waterloo was heard at
Dover, at a distance, in a direct line, of 140 miles, of
which 110 were over land, and the remainder over
water.—F. TVinslozv's Health of Body and Mind.

DEATH OF A POLICE SERGEANT WHEN ON DUTY. li
—Mr. Wakley held an inquest yesterday at the
King's Arms, Frederick's-street, Regent's-park, on
the body of Andrew Allen, a sergeant of the S division
of police. It appeared from the evidence that the de-
ceased, who generally enjoyed good health, went on
duty on Saturday night last, shortly after which he
was proceeding, accompanied by one of his men, along
the Hampstead-road, when opposite the Reservoir he
suddenly began coughing, and spat up a quantity of
blood. Continuing to do so, and complaining of feel-
ing very ill, he was assisted towards home, which he
had reached within a few yards, when he sank down
upon the ground. He was immediately carried in
doors, where he evinced no signs of animation, and on
a surgeon being sent for, life was pronounced to be
extinct. Verdict, "Natural Death.'
EXTRAORDINARY tRY CASE OF POISONING OF SEVEN
CHILDREN.-7The following extraordinary case of poi-
soning seven children, belonging to St. Saviour's
Charity School, in the Borough, occurred yesterday
morning, and in one instance has already terminated
fatally, while the lives of six others have beers put in
great jeopardy. It appears that a boy named Wm.
Chambers, belonging to the school, who lives with his
parents in Castle-street, in the Borough, was going
thither, and on his way he picked up a small packet
in the street, which contained a considerable quantity of
powder of a yellowish cast. He took it with him to
the school, and having tasted some of it himself, and
finding it to be sweet, he gave a portion of it to six
others, named Westwood, Lester, Clark, Field, Wood,
and Tallby, who also partook of it. On their leaving
school, at twelve o'clock, the boys were severally taken
ill with sickness and vomiting, and acute pains in the
bowels. Mr. Wood, surgeon, of Worcester-street,
was immediately sent for, and a portion of the powder
shown to him, which he pronounced to be arsenic.
Prompt measures were adopted, and the usual antidotes
administered, but Westwood, having taken a greater
quantity than the others, sunk under it, and expired
in the latter part of the day. Chambers, the boy who
found the powder, and another named Lester, lie in a
very dangerous condition. The four other boys, who
had partaken more sparingly of it, are in a very ex-
hausted state, although strong hopes are entertained
, that they will recover.
DESTITUTION.—On Friday, the inhabitants of the
eastern portion of' the city, particularly in Monteith-
row, were put into a state of alarm by a crowd of up-
wards of 200 miserable individuals walking en masse,
with a board exhibited before them, having a placard
affixed " Public Begging." A committee of three
were in front with a tin box in their possession, having
an aperture in the lid, and a strong padlock in
front, which was presented at each door as the
cavalcade moved along. The leading parties were,
on the complaint of the inhabitants, taken to the
police-office, which had the effect of dispersing the
crowd. We understand this course was resolved on
on Monday evening, and that nightly meetings were
to be held to divide the proceeds. Seven of the most
active of the parties were taken to the police-office,
and, on Saturday, brought before Bailie Hastie,
charged with the offence of public begging. They
pleaded destitution as their only excuse; and the
case was remanded for farther consideration.—Glas-

gOW Aryus.
LORD BYRON'S NURSE.—Mrs. Bye, who died on
Friday week, from injuries she received by the acci-
dent on the Birmingham Railway, was a person of
more importance than was at first thought; she was,
before her marriage, Mary Gray, who succeeded her
sister, and became the second nurse of Lord Byron,
"gaining," says Mr. Moore, "an influence over his
mind against which he rarely rebelled," though his
mother had no influence over him.--Munchester. Paper.