The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-17 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

THE WAVERI.EY NOVELS—NEW EDITION.
ANTIQUARY, 2 Vots.—EDlNnunali, 1829.

The same praise which we have already be-
stowed on the former Waverley Novels we may
extend to this, namely, that it has been adini.
rably got up as regards its embellishment, and
the style and quality of its letter-press, and has
further the advantage of being enriched by
notes from the author, which clear up and
illustrate whatever may appear mysterious, from
local or other causes in the text. In his few
pages of prefatory matter the author denies the
charge of having drawn the shrewd, satirical,
but well-intentioned Oldbuck from the life; one
or two traits only at the most, he asserts, are
drawn from recollections of an old friend long
since dead. We learn that the circulation of
these unrivalled tales, like the Fame of Virgil,
" Vires acquirit eundo." We are happy to
hear it; they merit universal diffusion.

The Duke of WELLINGTON an& the Earl of
ABERDEEN witnessed the performance of Miss FANNY
Kamm.; as Belvidera in Venice Preserved, yesterday
evening, at Covent-garden Theatre.
The Duke of WELLINGTON arrived in town
yesterday from a visit to Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. HOPE,
at their seat, Deepdene, near Dorking.

Yesterday was the birth-day of Prince LEO-
roLD, when his Royal Highness completed his 39th year.
His Royal Highness came to town in the afternoon from
his residence at Claremont, and dined with the Duchess
of )(JST, at her residence at the King's Palace, at Ken-
sington. Them was a select party to meet his Royal
Highness.

The Duchess of CUMBERLAND, attended by
Miss Cooriß, came to town yesterday morning, from her
residence at Kew. The Princess ESTIRIIAZY visited her
Royal Highness at her residence in the King's Palace, St.
James's. The Duchess left town at five o'clock on her
return to Kew.

The Spanish Minister transacted business with
the Earl of ABERDEEN at the Foreign-office.

Despatches from Mr. DAWKINS, our resi-
dent in Greece, were brought to the Foreign-office by a
Messenger, who arrived in town yesterday morning from
Ancona, with despatches from Sir FIt.RDIRICK ADAM, the
Loid High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, for the
Colonial Office.

THE EXCLUSIVES.—Whatever surmises may
be made respecting the Authorship of this Work, we un-
derstand such cautious measures have been taken as to
prevent the possibility of its being brought home to the
actual writer. Mr. COLBURN is the sole possessor of the
secret; the printers have had no connection whatever with
the writer, and the original manuscript has been destroyed.

WORTHING.—On Sunday her Royal High-
ness the Princess AUGUSTA attended Divine Service at the
Chapel of Ease. On Monday the Royal visiter took her
favourite walks on the Esplanade, and visited CARTER'S
and STAFFORD'S libraries. We are happy to have it in
our power to state that the Princess is in the full enjoy-
ment of health. The town is still filled with company,
and, at this advanced ►eason, we never recollect to have
seen it so gay as at present. Her Royal Highness the
Princess AUGUSTA has visited Park-crescent during the
past week, and has spoken highly of its situation. The
Princess paraded the different walks for nearly two hours;
and we hear that it is the Royal intention to revisit these
grounds, accompanied by Lord and Lady MARYBOROUGII,
and other persons of distinction .

A correspondent who addresses us on the two
great questions which now occupy the country, viz.—the
evils supposed to result front the abstraction of the small
note circulation, and the general complaint of a decay in
trade and manufactures,—seems to have given, in a few
short sentences, as intelligible a view of the true state of
the case as has lately fallen under our observation. lie
says—" The evils which some persons declare to have
arisen from the Withdrawal of the 1/. and 21. notes, al-
though no one has pretended to explain the modus ope-
randi towards such a result, it is far more reasonable to
ascribe to the original over issues and long continuance of
that paper in circulation, which gave to the needy and
wild speculator and projector a temporary power and im-
portance to which the natural state of society did not en-
title him. Hence the many expensive establishments, and
extravagant styles of living, the necessary abandonment
of which gives rise to such loud complaints and lamenta-
tions upon the fallen state of commerce and trade, which
has probably merely returned from a false excitement and
forced production to the actual demands of society." In
another passage our correspondent expounds with equal
clearness the principles of credit. " Paper aceomoda-
tint'," he observes, "is seldom or never denied to those
who are men of substantial property and regular dealing;
and if those who are not such obtain it, it is generally to
serve some unjustifiab!e purpose of monopoly and gain, to
the injury of the established trader and the breaking up
of the usual safe routine of business. With regard to the
desertion which has been very frequently made of late,—
that money is scarce in the country, ana plentiful only in
London,—if this be the case, it is obvious that nothing
more is necessary than to find out a safe and legi!imate
channel, and it will flow rapidly and in abundance from
the capital, which is always the
depot of unrequired
wealth to every corner of the land. The distrust which
still keeps this vast hoard locked up comparatively from
employment in the country, proves,
perhaps, no more
than this—that the late wanton and irregular issues of
country bank-paper have so unsettled the bounds of credit,
that the capitalist, being quite unable to judge Where lie
may trust safely, recu4eatt)trtut at All Times., •