The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-03 00:00:00

PICTORIAL SHAKSPEARE.

The present Part, which is the Forty-ninth, of
this admirable and well-digested edition of
Shakspeare, comprises the fifth number of a
biographical memoir of the great dramatist, ac-
companied by several choice illustrations of the
scenery on the banks of the Avon. The Memoir,
which exhibits great pains-taking, is from the
pen of the editor, Mr. C. Knight.

THENEW MONTIILY BELLE ASSEMBLEE.

The usual series of interesting tales, and
metrical pieces contribute their complement to
form an entertaining Number. Some picturesque
writing appears in several of the former, and an
attractive portrait of Edderline, one of Mr.
Wordsworth's female heroines, forms a graceful
frontispiece.

THE LONDON JOURNAL AND REPERTORY

OF PATENT INVENTIONS.

The patented improvements which appear in
thiS Number, chiefly relate to cotton and calico
manufactures, and the oil trade. Three patents
have been sealed, for refining and purifying the
latter product, either from the whale, cocoa-nut,
or palm. These also, as they enter into the com-
position of candles, are the subject of other im-
proved processes. Among others registered, the
most remarkable is one for preparing coppice-
wood, brambles, gorse, heath, and other fibrous
matter, of the nature of wood, for feeding
cattle, by reducing them to a fine powder, de-
stined to be mixed up in considerable quantities
with their ordinary thdder.

REIDUCTION OF RENTS.—The rents must be re-
duced, but generally the landlords will hold out to the
last moment. However, there are some proprietors al-
ready setting an example, as you will see by the fol-
lowing paragraphs from the provincial yapers :—"Ma-
jor-General Dickson has most considerately set the
example of an abatement of 25 per cent. in the rents
of his tenants at Clounlahard, in this county—a dis-
trict comprising 6,000 acres—and instructed his agent
Daniel Dickson Power, Esq., to purchase bed cover-
ing, &c., for necessitous objects on his e.state."—Lime-
rick Chronicle. " Wm..Beamish, Esq., of Beaumont,
near this city, last week visited his estate near Bor-
risoleigh, county Tipperary, and remitted 25 per cent.
on his rents, besides giving 31. an acre for the purchase
of lime, with other sums for materials for building
slated houses, and premiums for the neatest cottages
and best crops—in all, a sum amounting to upwards
of 500/."—Corh Examiner.
The Marquis of Waterford has about 40,000 acres
of land in the county of Derry, on which there are
about 800 tenants, but until this season there had not
been anything done by them, in the way of draining
their land on any regular system. By advice and en-
couragement, however, held out to them by Mr.
Beresford, agent to the Marquis, upwards of sixty of
the tenants have been and are thorough draining on
Mr. Smith of Deanston's system, and have already
completed upwards of 16,000 perches of drains, filled
with broken stones.—Cork Reporter.
The works for raising the Telemaque from the
ground, where she has so long lain, off Quillebceuf,
are, according to the Journal du Havre, going on
slowly, but surely. Her hull is within three feet of
the surface at low water, and is kept ready in that po-
sition. As the river at this spot is only about 29 feet
deep, and the vessel measures in her own depth 21
feet 6 inches, she must have been raised already above
four feet from the bottom. A man has walked on her
side, as she lies, from one end of her to the other,
having the water no higher than his waist. All the
tackle holds strong and steady. At the date of the
last accounts Mr. Taylor was engaged in arranging
the apparatus, so as to act with greater force, and is
said to have declared that, in four days, the Tele
maque would be above water.
On the 24th inst., as a corporal of gendarmerie of
Vio, in the Upper Pyrenees, was returning to the
village of Artaguan with one of his men, the latter
raised his carbine and shot him. The assassin fled to
shorta , distance, where, after divesting himself of his
cloak, sword, and hat, and deliberately tying them up
in a bundle, he blew out his brains with a pistol. As
the corporal was within 300 yards of Artaguan, per-
sons soon came to his aid, but he survived only two
hours, declaring with his last breath that he knew not
to what cause to attribute his murder. It is supposed
however, that the murderer was actuated by vengeance,
as he had undergone a slight punishment on the re-
port of the corporal.
Mr. Higgs held an inquest yesterday evening upon
the body of Thomas limber, aged 48, formerly tailor
and draper, but latterly a commercial agent, in Tot-
tenham-court-road. Thomas Jones Rowe, 55 Thames
Police, said that he found the deceased yesterday
morning, about half-past three o'clock, lying athwart
the chain of the police barge Investigator, which is
moored between Strand-lane and Arundel stairs. He
towed the deceased ashore to the latter place, and, on
examination, found only a pocket-book, some loose
papers, a comb, and some tobacco upon him. From
the addresses upon the papers the deceased's friends
and relatives were traced. Mr. Burrows, of 15,
Fludyer-street, Westminster, said that deceased and
himself had been drinking till a few minutes before
twelve the preceding evening, in the Hampshire Hog,
Charles street, and he accompanied him as far as
Whitehall, when he left him, after making an appoint
meat to see him early in the morning. He (deceased)
was then a little tipsy, but not much so. Deceased
appeared in good spirits. Mr. Fox, of the Hampshire
Hog, confirmed the preceding witness. The Jury,
after a • lengthened consultation, returned a verdict,
" Found drowned, but how he came into the water,
there is no evidence to show."