The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-01 00:00:00

THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL.

A very creditable number, full of variety and

light pleasant information. Our contracted
limits prevent us, as we would wish, from giving
extracts, we must therefore content ourselves
with this brief notice.

EDWARDS'S BOTANICAL REGISTER,
Continued by JOHN LINDLEY, Esq.,

Professor of Botany in the University of London.—No. 7

Vol. 11. New Series.

This month's Number contains a fine
specimen of Argemone * Grandfflora, from
Mexico, flowering from June to September.—
It is one of the most ornamental, hardy
annuals we are acquainted with, and far
superior to any other of the poppy tribe, except
Eschscholtzia Californica; communicated by
Mr. Barclay, of Bury Hill, whose importations
of fine plants have enriched our gardens, and
whose exertions are unremitted in support of
botanical science. Pimelea humilis, a very
pretty green-house shrub, from New Holland; it
is cultivated without any difficulty in peat and
loam, and propagates readily by cuttings ; com-
municated by the Countess de Vandes. Ca-
mellia japonica punctata, is a very beautiful
variety of the genus ; it was raised from seed in
the garden of Edward Gray, Esq., of Hornsey.
The flowers, when they are fully expanded, vary
from three to four inches in diameter, and are of
a very delicate blush-colour, almost white, striped
and slightly spotted with pale rose, in the man-
ner of what is known by florists as a rose-flake'
carnation. Each successive Number of this
superior work tends to render the value of
Mr. Douglas's researches in North America
most conspicuous. Perhaps from the la-
bours of no one man besides himself a
greater or more variable supply of orna-
mental hardy plants been introduced to this
country ; and plants, too, be it remembered,
eminently calculated for the climate of Great
Britain, approaching, as it is supposed, so nearly
to that of the North-western portion of the
American continent ; and as the particular soil
each plant has been accustomed to is specified by
Mr. Lindley, they may flourish as gaily on the
fertile margin of the Thames, as on the rude
banks of the Columbia and Multnomah.

So called from Argenza, or a cataract of the eye, which
it has been thought to cure.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND returned to
town yesterday afternoon from a visit to his MAJESTY, at
the Royal Lodge in Windsor-park. The Duchess of Cum-
BERLAND took an airing yesterday in Hyde-park. Her
Royal Highness entertained the Princess ESTERHAZY to
dinner on Sunday, at her residence in the King's Palace,
St. James's.

A Cabinet Council was held about four o'clock
yesterday afternoon at the -Foreign-office, which was at-
tended by the Loan CHANCELLOR, the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON, Earls ROSSLYN and ABERDEEN, Lord ELLEN-
BOROUGH, Mr. Secretary PEEL, Sir GEORGE MURRAY,
the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and Mr. lIERRIES.
The Ministers sat in deliberation ne it an Lour and a
half. The LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON, and the Earl of Rossixii arrived in town shortly
before the assembling of the Council. The Duke came
from Walmer-castle, Kent.

In the evening a messenger was sent off with
despatches from the Foreign .office for Mr. GORDON, our
Ambassador at Constantinople, and also for Mr. DAWICINS,
our resident in Greece ; the messenger also took despatches
from the Colonial-office for Sir FREDERICK ADAM, the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian. Islands.

The Governor and Deputy Governor of the
Bank of England attended yesterday afternoon at the
Treasury, and had a conference with the Duke of WEL -
lINGTON and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.

Despatches were sent off by a King's Mes-
senger from the Foreign-office on Friday night, fur Lord
flEYTEssuar, at st. Petersburgh.

DEvtnEux.—This new work, by the dis-
tinguished author of "Pelham" and the " Disowned," is
exciting an extraordinary degree of interest. It is set
forth as the autobiography of Count DEVEREVX, whose
life was one of stirring adventure and constant excitement.
" Men of all grades," says the hero, " and of every
character, have been familiar to me. War—love—ambi-
tion—the scroll of sages—the festivals of wit—the intrigues
of states—all that agitates mankind, the hope and the fear,
the labour and the pleasure—the great dram of vanities,
with the little interludes of wisdom, these have been the
occupations of my manhood—these will furnish forth the
materials of that history which is now open to your sur-
vey." The details of a life of such varied and extensive
experience could scarcely fail in such bands as Mr. But-
wxn's, to furnish a rich literary repast, and we think the
author may be congratulated on this new proof of great
and extraordinary powers,