The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-01 00:00:00

stncl}ing was conce!ned, an ai parently idler fellow contd.
scarcely be tuned at Rugby. In the first place he was a great
fisherman, in the season, which lasted three parts of the year
in the Avon, and a great reader of novels and play:• riass
then did he acquire the reputation of being the best scholar in
the school; anti how was it that ' Play for Butler' (1. e. &
whole holiday for the bet exercise of the week) was oftener
proclaimed for him than fur any other boy ? I cannot answer
the question; but this I know, that awaking' in the morning:
he bid me cr some other boy fetch him half a sheet of paeer
and, taking. a novel or book of plays—often Slsakspeare, of
course—from- under his pillow, he would write his exercise off-
hand; and which, whether in prose or in verse, Greek, Latin'
or English, was almcst certain to be the best of the day. Then
I was given to understand that his proceedings at lesson •wern
much after this form :—He would ask the place, say a I) rti"
of a Greek play ; look out a few words in the lexicon, shut the
book, take a novel out of his pocket, and await the (*mice of bis
being called up. If he were called up, his author was beauti-
fully displayed by him • and when others were' Jame*
would often appeal to Lem for his interpretation of a ya,Fsgt,
In fact James was proud of his scholar, which be well joill"
have been.
" Alas! the: e are no pictures without shades. Butler
most unpopular in the school. In fa,t, partly because he' was
the son of a small shopkeeper in the small but beautiful village
of Kenilworth, and at Rugby as a foundation buy ; and partly
on account of his churlish temper, we of the same boardioN"
hr use voted him nothing better than a snob, and the ineatirtes6
of his personal appearancit gave a colour to our proceeding`'
ogee wou'd he offer to do us a verse or two, or construe an
over: but he wou d sit with his elbow on his knee, and Ins
face scanning on ore hand and a book in the other, for hours to'
get her, an.: never of en his mouth. My lumber was near htar
in the Echoer', ~laut 1 seldom heard them exchange a m ord ; ar'd"
it will be rememb.2rete, a good deal of the boy appeared in lb°
man. Vt'heu he fiisst commenced schoolmaster, he thrashed
his buys so much as to ure the s. hoot, and indeed nothing
but his high literary reputation would have re.e.qablished its
good name. lie, however, )vis, ly profited by the hint given
him by parents, that their elrila's-eti were not to be made vie:
tims of his spleen. The quern sib; iter odic pedagngurn fig!:
was at this time verified; fat the raaMar of Shrewsbury sehom
was then hated as much as he was aften:-ards liked by the r'
nerality of his scholars, his conduct towards them having ander'
gone a great change."

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[From an unusual press of matter, we are compelled to
defer the rest of the Magazines till to-morrow•]

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—NEWPORT, •JULY
The Queen Dowager will spend the coming winter ID
the Isle of Wigi.t. Steephiil Castle, the seat of
John hiamborougit, being absolutely engaged for the
winter residence of her .Majesty, who is 0, take posses'
sion on tln, Ist of October.— Hampshire Advertiser.
ARABIC AND SANSCRIT.—)Ir. Lewin &wring, son,
of Dr. Bowriog, M.P., won the first prize at liaileyburi
College, for Arabic and Sanscrit, after a severe collar'
titian, a few ilays ago.—quiesheed Übt:eiver.
LONGEVITY EXTRAORDINARY.-,-011 Thursday last,
at Dewsbury, died Flack Gibson, aged 76 yeltrf;
Almost up to the period of her death ,she ba,l enjorci
Uninterruptedly good health. She has ilty two brother
and three sisters, whose, respective ages are as follow
Joseph Wood, 84, Elizabeth Wood. 82, Sarah Crossley,
80, I tannah Barnes,. 74, William Wood, 70, and her own
age being added makes their collective ages 486 Yea 7,:
The first born of the family, Joseph Wood, serirca i"
yhe Egyptian and Peninsular wars against Nopoke°ll;
anti is now' receiving- a pension of 14d. per day.—L-le"'
Times.
Sours AND LIGHT.—Sir John Herschel says that-
thunder can scarcely be heard more than twenty or thirty rago
from the flash, but that lightning may be seen at a distance ,
200 miles.
LIGHT FOR ALL NATIONS ON THB GOODWII4I.
SANDS.—By a telegraphic report received on Saturday night"
at Watson's General Telegraph Office, information was for"
warded that " The caisson lately plated on the Goodwin
Sands burst during the evening."—B. L. WATSON, Superili"
tendent.

AFFAIRS OF HONOUR IN " OULD IRELAND.""
Old Sir Capel Molyneux (not the last Sir Capel, but hi,s,
predecessor) was one of those "butchers of a silk button',
who would not allow friendship to cool in the very beat of
a rencontre. When about 80, he took offence at sornethioi
said by the late General Mahon, then a youngster tore
Major in the 9th Dragoons, quartered at Armagh ; and
invited the Major to come out to Castle Dillon, to be s°2t:
and then to breakfast with what appetite he might. luel
fired a brace of pistols, the young soldier taking bed to
shoot wide of the grey bead, while the palsied hand of the„
old man was a sufficient security against anything but that
which, they sly, may kill the namely, a chsn
shot. Six rounds were exchanged in this manner, the the
cock stepping out at each interval during the reloading of t'"'
pistols, to interrogate " Mahon," as he familiarly accosted bit
about his father's agricultural pursuits, and to enlighten
im
upon the relative virtues of red arid white Norfoles. At lasii
the young Major got tired of the am vsement, and sent s
whizzing by the Baronet's ear, which brought him
toe
" 1 hank you, Mahon," said he, " that was well meant; b.
come alung now, we've had enough of it. hly hand's not Its
this morning. Let's finish it some other time." So saying't
took the Mejor by the arm, and they walked together into
breakfast-parlour, inhere ady Alolyneux. a pious woman. v 2,
waiting with the family prayer-book open, and wonder'
" what in the world had kept them so long ? '
A letter from Lussac, in the department of the
ronde says A dreadful tempest has suddenly: destr°j„e
our standing crops ; the whole are destroyed. Our cosoahuf-re
which is one of the richest in the department, and bc ith
agriculture has made immense progress, is overwhelmed 'coo
consternation. The hail, the wind, and the rain niece rob
vioient, that it is impos,ible to describe the devastation 17);
they have caused. The country will long feel Vie effeal° of
Lord and Lady Winchilsea are on the V:Lord-
-I:,aving Eagland fur the Continent. It is said that vit. etinet.
Ityplie, at the Foreign-office for his passport Olt, seelu-
tiay. The noble pair are, we believe, now enjoyiog
regret to
sion of his Lordship's delightful seat 'in Kent.--10 e re.- to
be compelled to state that we have received no authority
contradict the report, which we noticed last week, of a lady of
rank having been found in possession of jewellery lost by Lady
Augusta Gordon. As the name of the lady implicated in this
scandal is in every person's mouth, we think it right to entreat'
the of the Earl of Winchilsea to a report in which he
must feel the deepest interest.—Observer.
SI3tPL2 r.I:IIIiTH.—A ludicrous mistake occurred at
a funeral in Alarylebone. The clergyman had proceeded with
the service until he tame to that part which says, " Our de-
pari ed brother or sister;" he then turned to the mourner who
stood nearest to him, and asked whether it was a brother or
sist. r? The man, imagining it referred to the relationship t.°
himselt, very innocently replied, "No relation at all, Sir-0011
an acquaintance."—John Bull.
" A DISCERNING ' PunLic."—Never was there It
greater farce than to talk of the public thus. The public thus
is a mo-t unjust. illiberal, led-by-the-nose booby ; a fooli,lll
goose, without uiscei nment, without sense, without hones!)'
without any good quality—a proof of a bid' may be found la
their support of that great, lubberly, ill-conducted, villainon:
print, the Kentucky Mercury, while this paper, managed with
so much taste and oiscretion, is left to perish for lack of patron-
age ! " A discerning public," forsooth ! The public is little
better than a long •eared donkey.—Kentucky Warder.
The General Steam Navigation Company's vebsel
the Columbine fie m Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-
it. five o'clock, p.m., yesterday, with the Dutch mail.
LUXURIES OF LUNATlCS.—Government allows 30."
6s.Bd per annum toße:blem Hospital, for the maintenance'
(in food and clothing) of each criminal lunatic. Ilan
this piece of information been known to the " old ladies
of the empire, we should have heard less of Oxford a
his pretended lukuries.—Berwich Advertiser.
THE FLAX. TRADE.—In accordance with a retoht
lion come to at the meeting of Flax Spinners, recently;
held in this town, all the flax establishments in Leeds*
with the exception of one, have commenced running
only five days in the week. The consequent reduction
in wages, will amottnt, in the aggregate, to betwixt 8001'
and I,ooa. weekly.—Leeds
DEATH OF A MONKEY FROM EATING LucuErt;
MATCHES.—A few days ago a monkey, the property ot
a tide-waiter in Leith, met its death in rather an extra--
o. (finery manner. Being on beard a vessel in the Docks.
along with its owner, who was on duty, it fell in with
some lucifer-matches, which it commenced eating.
Finding itself growing sick the poor animal went to its
master who was asleep and awakened him by french'
opening his eyelids. No relief, however, could he a
ministered, and the creature expired, after suffering con-
siderable pain.—Scotsman.
VISIT or THE PREMIER TO ROBS SIRE.--We are
informed that extensive preparations are in progress at
lledcastle, the seat of Colonel Burnie, 31. P., in this
county, in expectation of a visit from Sir Robert Peel,
itnnaediately after the prorogation of Parlialaent. Sit
Robert is passionately fond of Highland scenery, and :4
the Glasgow banquet he spoke in terms of the warineto
admiration ef a short tour he had whet a youth in the
Western Highlands. There tire diffezences o' op' nOO
here as elsewhere, as to the public character and conduct
of Sir B. Peel, but come when he may amongst tits, be
will receive "a Highland welcome."—dos.;-s'iire Adver-
tiser.
PEDESTRIANISM.—An extraordinary match took
place, at Day's Cricket Ground, on 31onday last, at
six o'clock in the evening, when a man named B.
Cootes, undertook for a wager of 501., to run 1 swipe
stalk 1 mile—wheel a barrow 1 mile—trundle hoop
,
1 inile—walk backwards half a mile—hop 100 3 taxis--
leap over 50 hurdles, ten yards apart—and pick Ap 4°
stones, 1 yard apart—being eight various feats in ,on'
g
hour ; which he accomplished, having one minute. 3°
,„,-..conds to spare; and he was not at all distressed. It
is saj in the sportin
circles that he can be. backed for
100 L to 60 ?It loot six miles against any horse in t bis
county, eac,,l to take one hundred leaps.—Salisbury
Het tibl.

BIRTHS.
' On the 20th of March( in Macquarrie-street, Sydney, Nevi
South Wales, the lady of I'. W. Flower, Esq., of a son.
On the 28th ult., at the Lodge, Carmarthen, the lady of IL
Downman,R. Esq., of a son.
On the 29:h ult., !tlrs. C. H. Collette, Porchestter-plane,
Hyde-park, of a ,Yari.
On ttie 30th ult., the wife of Alexander Henry, rsq., °f
John-street. Beilford-t•ow, of a SCI 3.
On the 30th ult., in Alyddelton-square, the lady of John
Cuxhead, Esq , of a son.
On the 30th ult., at Cloxiesley-terrace, Islington, the I td!
of J. H. Kettlewell, Esq., of x daughter.

314 XI.ED.
On the 2641 ult., at Paris, Oscar Oxholm, Esq., Gentlemr
of the Bedchamber. Captain in hi; Alajesty the King of Dei
mark's Life Guards, and Knight of th,e Datincbrog, to Adelaic e
Maria, the i:aughter of G B. Kay. &-q.,of Acton, Alidalese
x.
On the 28th ult., Mr. William John, t, on of the late Mr. W.
Blake, of Duff.at-hill, Croydon, to Miss A:m Sarah libbutt,
of
the same place.

DIE TI
On the Bth of March at the New Zealand gnmPanY'a *set'
tlement of Nelson, New Zealand, Harry A ngehr Bell, aged 21.
On the 25th ult., at Baldoyle, Dublin, Itulyert Swift, F-s`l"
barrister-at-law.
On the 26th ult., in York-buildings, Major Tho:nas Dodd,
late of the itc.iyal Artillt ry, aged 75.
On the 29th ult., at Paradise-terrace, Llicgton, Mr. Edward
Brooker, aged 60.
On the 29th ult., at St. Agnes Villas, Bayswater, nit% B.
P. Cook, late of Duke-street, Manchester square.
Cu the 29th ult., at Highbury- place, :Aar: Ann •Sophi th 4 -
wife of Henry Hunt, Esq.
On the 31st ult., at Forest-hill, Kent., Mary Ann, you Inget
daughter of John Donaldstm, Esq.

Loi.t,uu i ruucll unit f übil,bc;l by TiuLWO Y
No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Oftioe, No. 112, Sir, infl,
the County
of Middlesex, Monday, August P 342.