The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-25 00:00:00

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, h. ft. ; colts Bst. 71b., fillies

Bst. 41b. T.Y. C.
Mr. Rogers's St. Laurence
Mr. Theakston's br. C. by Wrangler—Ajax's dam 0 2

CATTERICK BRIDGE (YORKSHIRE) MEETING.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22.—The Craven of 10 soya. each,
p.p. for 2-yr-olds 6st., three Bst., four Bst. 91b., five
9st., six and aged 9st. 41b. Mares and geldings allow-
ed 31h. Mile and a quarter. (Nine subs.)
Colonel Cradock's b. c. 3 yrs 1
Mr. Riddell's Zodiac, 3 yrs «tii 2
Duke of Leeds's Jenny Mills, 4 yrs 3
Produce Stakes of 25 sovs. each, h. ft. for colts Bst. 31b.
fillies Bst. Two miles. (Twelve subs.)
Mr. Metcalfe's Giglet, by Wanton 1
Mr. Rormthwaite's br. c. by Blacklock 2
Sweepstakes of 30 sous. each, 10 ft. ; colts Bst 3lb.,
fillies §st. Two miles. (Six subs.)
Sir E. I)odsworth's by St. Patrick 1
Mr. Riddell's Prince re
The Richmond Club Stakes of 20 sous. each, p. p. ; for
yearling colts Bst. 31b., fillies Bst. One mile.
Colonel Cradock's ch. c. by Figaro 1
Duke of Leeds's ch. f. by Blacklock

HENRY BROUGHAM, Esq., M. P., passed
through this town on Sunday last from Harrowgate, on his
way to London.—Sheffield Courant.

A new musical instrument, called the " Kal-
lifthorgan," the invention and manufacture of a Mr.
FIELIG, has been exhibited at a private house in King-
street, Covent-garden, preparatory to its public exhibition
at the Opera-house, in the performance for the Musical
Fund. This instrument is played upon in the same man-
nes as a piano-forte, by means of a finger-board; but
the sounds are produced by a bow upon catgut, and the
effect is excellent. The idea, however, is said not to be
new.

MINSTER RELICS.—In addition to a variety
of toys, such as snuff-boxes, work-boxes, time-piece eases,
walking-sticks, &c. made out of the oak which formed
part of the choir of the Cathedral, we understand that a
joiner of York has made a violin, which has been tried
by an eminent professor, who has declared that it is pos-
sessed of tone, &c. to give it rank as a very excellent in-
at r u ment. —Doncaster Gazette.

A HlNT.—Never accustom the orderly poor,
if you can help it, to a workhouse. It is as absurd and
as prejudicial as sending youthful depredators to a prison.
The poor will almost always be content out of the house
with half of what would maintain them in.

LII ERATURE.

TRAITS OF TRAVELS. MIMIC VOLS. LONDON..
1829. _
Mr. Grattan, the author of these amusing
trifles, is the same gentleman to whom we are
already indebted for two series of Highways and
Byeways, a collectio►► of stories remarkable for
their vivacity and descriptive qualities. The
present volumes possess, though in an inferior
degree, the same peculiarities ; they are slight
and entertaining, now and then impressive ; but
for the most part are content to be simply pleas-
ing. They consist of a variety of Tales and
Essays, flung together without order or method,
but why therefore they are called " Traits of
Travels"—a name which it seems the author has
had nothing to do with, having resigned the
baptismal portion" of the work to his enterprising
Publisher—we are wholly at a loss to conceive.
Among the most impressive of the tales, we
may mention the one entitled " A Bone to
Pick," which regards a species of Irish revenge,
of a truly original complexion. A Mr.
M'Ronan, of the west of Ireland,'is married
to a Miss Sullivan, a lady of high birth and exces-
sively vindictive feelings, by whom he has two sons.
Unfortunately he is of an irritable, peevish, and
splenetic, turn of mind ; is perpetually quarrelling
with his wife, and never fails to wind up all his
disputes with " a►►d here, my love, is a bone for
you to pick." These petty aggravations his wife
never forgets, and accordingly when on his death-
bed calls him to her, and resolving to break his
heart through his pride, falsely accuses herself
of adultery, asserting at the s•smc time that one
of his sons is illegitimate. With a refinement of
cruelty she refuses to tell him which, and he ac-
cordingly spends the rest of a wretched life in
vain endeavours to ascertain which •is the natural
and which the lawful child. This tale is power-
fully worked up, and though_ short, is replete
with tragic interest. In fact it is one of those
fiery few that might fairly have been lengthened.
Among the remaining stories in the co,lection we
may mention " The Tea-pot Gentleman," which
though of particularly slight texture, is amusing
and even dramatic, and the " Essay or Review"
—aut quocunque alio nomine gaudet—entitled
Night-mare, which contain some splendid visions,
translated from the works of M. Charles Nodier
—a
gentleman however who, we may assure Mr.
Grattan, is not so little known to English readers
as he seems to imagine. As a specimen of the
description in the " Traits of Travels" we give
the following graphic details of the Trappists of
Catsberg in the Netherlands :

" We first entered a small square parlour, on the ground
floor, of which a few common articles composed the furni-
ture ; but all were extremely neat, and I found one of the
rush-bottomed cherry-backed chairs, as luxurious a rest-
ing place as a couch of velvet, had I been visiting a pa-
lace : such is the advantage of things being in keeping
with places. The Chamberlain left me for a few minutes,
most probably to 'report progress' to his superior, for the
prior himself soon made his appearance. He was an ex-
tremely good-looking man, of about forty, dressed like
those I had first observed, with the exception of his head
being covered with a close leather cap, and the brown
cloth of his robe being of a texture not so coarse. After
a short conversation, I proceeded under the direction of
the reverend ciceroni, who waited outside, to examine the
remainder of the house, beginning with the little chapel,
which was very plain, having none of the disagreeable
pomp of Catholic churches in general. We next walked
through the narrow corridors, on each side of which
were ranged the little cellular divisions where the monks
went through the mockery of repose; for there can be
little of its comfortable reality in the four hours' rest
snatched between eight o'clock and midnight, when they
rise again to pray and chaunt, without changing an article
of their clothing from morning till night, or night till
morning. Their very shirts, of coarse horse-hair, are
worn for a fortnight together. The beds on which they
lie down are most ingeniously uncomfortable, being too
short for even a common-sized man, and I have no doubt
but their possessors often wish for a couch of the Pro-
crustes fashion, with one-half the capabilities of his cele-
brated machine. A scanty rug covers the straw on which
these self-tormentors stretch themselves ; and no other
furniture of any kind adorns their cells, the dimensions of
which do not exceed six feet square. A small aperture
is cut in each door, to admit a literal mouthful of
air, and on each is inscribed the name of its omit-
pant—' Brother Francis,' Brother Ambrose,' Brother
Symphorien,' Brother Placidus,' and so on. 'We
next visited the refectory, where a table was laid . for
about forty. Beside each plate, of the coarsest earthen
ware, was a mug of the same material, about the size
of a small drinking glass. These were filled with beer; a
scanty bit of brown'-bread was beside each plate; a still
smaller portion of cheese ; and I found that these, with an
undressed sailed and a soup made of water, onions, pota-
toes, and parsley, composed the entire repast. But it
must be observed, that at the period of my visit the Trap-
pists were living well. They had bread and milk for
breakfast, besides the dinner lux-uries which I have enu-
merated ; but they never eat meat, poultry, or even fish.
On the Ist of October their Lent of nine months was to
commence; and during the whole of that time they allow
themselves but one meal a day, excluding totally the in-
dulgences of milk and beer, and wholly living (if it can be
called so) on vegetables, bread, and water. In every room
the word Silence' was painted on the wall, and I figured
to myself these unsocial Cenobites, placed at their lonely
board, and, in the coarse, though scanty indulgence of
appetite, discarding those convivial accessories which raise
eating men above grazing brutes. But the whole system
of Trappism goes to degrade mankind to its lowest pos-
sible level. Beggary, needless filth of person, perpetual silence
(except to the few who must use their tongues to keep
their commerce open with the world), seem the funda-
mental principles of the order. They herd together for
no conceivable purpose that might not be effected by each
man singly, and by thus congregating they give a scope to
imagination, or malignity, for odious imputations, which,
after all, may have no reality in them."

The Duke of CUMBERLAND 'shed the
Princess AUGUSTA yesterday. His Royal Highness ho-
noured Prince ESTERHAZY, the Austrian Ambassador,
with his company to dinner on Thursday, at his residence
in Chandos-street. There was a numerous party to meet
his Royal Highness.

A survey is ordered to be made of every
description of stores at each of his Majesty's Dock-yardr.
Two clerks from this establishment are nominated to pro,
reed to Portsmouth to take an account of the stores at
that yard ; and two clerks from Portsmouth are to make a
return of the stores in this yard. The return is to be made
by the 25th of June.—Plymouth Journel.

On Tuesday thirty rounds, single shotted,
were filed from the Gloucester's stern guns, in the pre-
sence of the Port Admiral and other Naval OWeera, in
order to ascertain the strength and stability of the m na-
mental work on her stern. The result was, the greater
part of it fell overboard before the firing ceased.

The General Quarter Sessions for this county
commence on Tuesday next, the calendar for which Kg
sents at present only 12 names, and most of the offences
of a trifling nature.--,-Dorset Chronicle.

It is remarkable that out of upwards of 140
prisoners tried at the last Gloucester Assizes, not one was
committed on a charge of poaching.--Oxford Journal,
, • !:
At the assizes for this county,, just terminated,
no less than 38 persons have been tried'for Offences against
the Game Laws.—Stockport Advertiser:.

ANONYMOUS LETTER.--Tile following dia-
bolical and cold-blooded epistle Was received a day or two
ago, through the post-office, by one of our manufacturers: --.=
" Prepare to meet thy GOD. BELLINGHAM."
" Take this as Notice, for Tyrants shall be rooted from
the earth; theeand others are doomed to die as PFRCIVA t,
did."— Stockport Adversiser.