The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-14 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN.

Str.,—As you have thought proper to publish a very
erroneous statement of the proceedings at Marlborough-
street, against Mr. Rawlins (as far as our Establishment
is concerned), which way suppose you copied from thy
Times, it is only an act of justice to us that you should
make the refutation of it equally public. Not doubting
but this will meet your imincJiate attention,
We are, Sir, your very obedient servants,
WM. STEWART, MORGAN, and CO.
White Horse, Fetter-lane, Nov. 13, 1829.

Lord ELDoN, when Lord Chancellor, had
upon one occasion a most difficult case before him for de-
cision. Two persons, one of whom was entitled to consi-
derable proper►y if he survived the other, were passengers
on beard the same vessel, which was unfortunately
wrecked, and all on board perished. The question was,
which of the two survived the other; and to determine
this, there was not a scintilla of evidence. His Lordship
more than once mentioned the case in Court, and lamented
the embarrassment he was in respecting it, but we never
heard whether he actually gave judgment upon it,—Dublin
Evening Mail.

The Dean and Chapter of Limerick met at
the Cathedral on Thursday, when they instructed their
agent to make a redaction of 20 per cent. on the glebe
lands this year.— Tipperary Free Press.

A Ontleman of this city was last week pre•
seated with a turnip, grown in a field belonging to Mr.
BROWNE, of Field Dulling, which contained a brace o!
very fine hares, and two brace of partridges; the turnip;
when taken from the earth, 'weighed upwards of 241bs.—
Norwich Gazette.

EXTRAORDINARY PIECE OF COAL.-
There is now in the possession of Air. SAMUEL. SUMNER,
coal merchant of this town, a piece of Portland hard
coal, from the Duke of PORTLAND'S colliery, weighing
fifteen cwt., and measuring in length fourteen feet : this
is the largest piece of coal ever known to have been
weighed at tLe Public Wharf Machine.—Leicester Journ.

A woman of the name of A LLEN, who keeps a
green-grocer's shop in Kist-lane, Walworth, whilst eating
a hearty breakfast on Thursday morning, fell back sud-
denly from her chair, and expired without a groan.

A very indecent dance, called La Chatuit, or
La Caucan, continues to be all the rage at several public
gardens intra and extra muros, in chKince of the salutary
hints of the police. A young man belonging to a very
respectable family has been correctionally condemned to a
fortnight's imprisonment, for having indulged in this
dance. The Chamber of Appeals from the Correctional
Police of the Court Royale has this day reduced the im-
prisonment to five days.—Journal des Debats.

A lithographic of Mr. O'CoNNELL's circular
on the subject of the Union :

" 17E32. --4111 SH VOLUNTEERS.

" It is intended to hold a public dinner in Dublin, to
celebrated tLe memory of the services of the glorious
Volunteers of Ireland, who atchieVed national independ-
ence. Lovers of Ireland of every religious persuasion,
and of every diversity of political opinions, are requested
to attend. The introduction of any irritatin; or party
topic will be studiously precluded. No offensive word will
be uttered derogatory to the religion (,r politics of any in-
dividual. Those who concur in the above object are re-
spectfully requested to signify their assent by letter directed
to No. 4, Suffolk-street, for DANIEL O'CONNELL and
RICHARD BARRETT, Secretaries pro tem.—Nov. 6."

The " Almanack of Genealogies" for the
year 1830, contains the following article :—" The son of
NAPOLEON, born the 20th March, 1811. When, in 1815,
the Congress of Vienna had decided that the son of NAPO-
LEON could never be the Sovereign of any country whatever,
his grandfather, the Emperor of Austria, FRANCIS 1., con-
ferred on him a donation of lands, and destined to that
purpose a quantity of allodial, or free land, in Bohemia,
producing an annual revenue of 400,000 florins. The
Lordship of Reichstadt was, moreover, raised to a Duke-
dom. The Dukedom, under the paramount Lordship of
Bohemia, became the majorate of the son of Narommx,
who, • in 1828, received the title of Duke of Reichstadt,
and tanked immediately after the Princes of the Imperial
family."—Journal du Commerce.

THE SULTAN MAHMOUD.—The rage of
the SULTAN for innovations, and an assimilation (so un-
orthodox in a MussuMinn) to European habits and Chris-
tian observances, is by some traced to his French extrac-
tion. It may not be generally known that the mother of
MAIIMOUD was a fascinating brunette, a native of Cher-
bong, in France, who, by some of the very common
occurrences in the piratical seas of the Mediterra-
nean, failing into the hands of the Turks, even-
tually became an inmate of the Seraglio. From her
great beauty and attractions she was elevated to the
rank of favourite Sultana, and became the mother of
the present SULTAN. It is reported of him that lie was
devotedly attached to his mother, and it is supposed that
from her instruction he imbibed that taste for Europeanistn,
his avowal of which has so often threatened his own life,
and at length neatly cost him his empire. On her death-
bed his mother obtained from him a promise that he would
send her jewels, and other personal valuables, to her French
relatives at Cherbourg. Not long ago two ships entered
the port of Cherbourg, laden with these articles, and rich
presents from the SULTAN, to the individuals designated
by the late SULTANA as her kindred.

TAXES.—'faxes upon every article which
enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed
under the foot : taxes upon everything which is pleasant
to hear, see, feel, smell, and taste ; taxes upon warmth,
light, and locomotion taxes on everything in the earth, or
the waters under the earth—on everything that comes from
abroad, or is grown at home; taxes on the raw material ;
taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the in-
dustry of man ; taxes on the sauce that pampers the rich
man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ;
on the ermine that decorates the judge and the rope that
hangs the ct intinal ; pn the poor man's tobacco, the rich
man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin and the i •
bands of the bride ; at bed or board, couchant or levant,
we must pay. The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the
beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed
bridle, pn a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pour-
ing his medicine which has paid seven per cent., into a
spoon which has paid 22 pee cent., makes his will on a❑
eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothe-
cary who has paid a licence of 100/. for the privilege of
putting him to death. His whole property is then taxed
immediately, from two to ten per eent. Besides the pro-
bate of his will, large fees are demanded for burying him
in the chancel ; his virtues ate handed down to posterity
on taxed marble, and he is gathered to his fathers—to be
taxed no 11191e.--.Eclinburyli Review.

FINE ARTS.

SCRAPS AND SKETCHEs, (;. UIKSHA.N

We have just been favOyrc‘.l with al! second
series of these initniahle sketches, whic, not-
withstanding his previous successes in the same
department of art, clearly prove. that Mr. Cruik-
shank's powers of invention are still uuexhausted.
As a spirited caricaturist, who, in addition to his
mirth-moving faculty of exaggeration, possesses
A profound knowledge of modern life and man-
ners, we know no artist of the present day su-
perior, or even equal to, this gentleman. He is
:he Hogarth of the nineteenth century, and like
his illustmiaus predecessor, brings to all his illus-
trations a caustic and masculine, though gro-
tesque and somewhat fanciful spirit of ridicule.

His caricatures too, even in their most exag-
f.erated style of humour, have generally the sin-
gular advantage of pointing a tale, or inculcating
a homily, in proof of which we may adduce his
" Gin-shop " in the present series of his
" Sketches," which, though it comes somewhat
presumptuously in comparison with Hogarth's
Gin-lane," will scarcely lose by the com-
parison. The conception of this masterly
illustration is spirited, versatile, and we
may even add original. The female figure
who presents the horrid draught is appropriately
represented by a skeleton attired in the mask of
beauty ; the wretched crea•ures who receive it at
her hands are in the last stage of destitution,
their arms flaccid and trembling, their features

paralysed, their eyes bleared and sunken, and their
tont ensemble disgusting, degraded, and piti-
able, to a degree that makes the spectator shud-
der. This part of the sketch, together with that
of the infant children whose size only betrays
babyhood, while in their countenances a strange
and awful old age is manifest, is hit off with
surprising power. Nor must we omit the fanci-
ful, but impressive, furniture and decorations of

this detestable hell. The spirit casks hung up
round the shop are fashioned like coffins ; the
vaults where the liquors are manufactured, or
rather adulterated, are represented by graves,
over which a cauldron, surmounted by a
Death's head, is seething, while fiends stand sneer-

ing round it ; and the watchman who enters, to
see that all is right within, is Death himself,
chuckling over his destined victims. We re-
commend this vigorous and imposing caricature,
in which, hov% ever, there is more matter for sadness

than mirth, to the notice of our readers; it abounds
in invention, and is worth a thousand of Air. Ir-
ving's maniacal lamentations. " Church and
State is a capital bit of sarcasm, and is perti-
nently (the Bishop of Ferns might, perhaps say,
impertinently) enough represented by two or
three jolly fellows seated over a good dinner,

the merits of which it is quite manifest that they
know how to appreciate. The venerable and ex-
uberantly-wigged churchman, who is smacking his
lips over a glass of wine at the head of the table,
looks the very incarnation of orthodoxy ; the
blessings of the tythe-system are manifest in his
goodly circumference ; pluralities twinkle in
his merry moist eyes ; " no Popery " curls his
lip into something almost intellectual enough
for a sneer ; and sixteen thousand a year betrays

itself in the reverential* demeanour of his
companions, one of whom, we regret to add,
seems far gone in that state, which the unin-
spired of the earth—who have no notion in what
strange and various ways the spirit of orthodoxy
at times condescends to reveal itself—have
agreed to call drunkenness. "An Unthankful
Fellow" is an irresistibly humorous caricature. A
man in the stocks, during a hard shower, is ex-
postulating with a fat beadle,—button-nosed,
great•coated, and umbrella'd,—who most consi-
derately twits him with ingratitude in being so re-
gardless of the parochial generosity, which has sup-
plied him with board, lodging, and washing gratis.
The face of the prisoner is deprecatory, his affair

of honour with the stocks having evidently dis-
agreed with his constitution. " Corporal Pu-
nishment," a fat man sweltering up a hill on a
summer's day, with the sun full in his face, and
the wind at a perfect stand still, speaks for itself.
It is quite punishment enough for a fat man
even to look at it. The remaining illustrations,
four in number, are equally clever in their way ;
unfortunately, however, our very contracted limits
prevent us from alluding to them otherwise
than in these general terms of praise.