The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-01 00:00:00

to its fascinations, could hear it as pronounced to me by its
loathing, yet never to be emancipated, slave
Jack's history of himself was too disjointed, toopassionate,
too much embellished by lingering self-love, to be very in-
telligible, had not circumstances, at which he but dimly
glanced, since come. to my knowledge. One thing only I
gathered beyond the shadow of a doubt, that amid all he
had lost by his mad infatuation, (and that all comprised
everything precious in the eyes, or to the honest ambition
of man,) the loss of his cousin Lady Julia's affections and
'hand, had sat down most heavily on his seared and withered
heart. His passion for her (notwithstanding the natural,
scepticism which his conduct might inspire) had main-
tained a long and dubious conflict with his ruling demon,
and now, even now, on the mention of her name, a lurid
flush passed over his wan brow, and a scalding tear rolled
down his hollow cheek.

It was, however, no soft tear of regret for a beloved
object in a better world—for Lady Julia lived—and had
long been the happy wife of a deserving husband—nay,
surrounded as she was by a blooming fence of rosy scions
from a worthier and a holier stock, could bend on her lost
cousin the unmoved, though gentle glance, of an alienated
guardian angel. She had, indeed, enough of the angel in
her, to entreat her virtuous husband to exert his indirect
influence for the extrication of her cousin, and to re-open
to him those paths of honourable ambition closed against
him by the resentment of her indignant father. But these
benevolent efforts failed—for the reformation which baffles
the smiles of Hope, will rarely he effected by the frowns of
Despair.
Jack fell lower and lower in the scale of demoralization.
The victim became in turn the spoiler ! Some short
feverish years were passed in alternations of opulence and
beggary; but even these excitements were long gone by,
and Jack was now a puny driveller in his once daring war-
fare, playing for stakes below contempt, partly front inve-
terate habit, partly for daily subsistence ! Why dwell
longer on the revolting picture? Relief was beyond my,
power ; remonstrance utterly hopeless with one whose
heart and understanding had long anticipated every sugges-
tion of friendship—who groped his degraded way amid a
noontide blaze of better light, against which his eyes had
only been closed by a desperate and successful effort.

The Pastoral of the Rock, by Maister Hogge, may
be very interesting, but it is too quaint and too far
north for us. We dislike even beauty in masquerade
—on the principle

That Beauty unadorned 's adorned the most.
The " Cooper of Thorsund and his Family" is too
long for us, and perhaps for the Magazine.
An article on " Country Banks and the Bank
of England" is written with much knowledge
, of the business, and deserves far more awn-
, tion than we can spare—it wilt well repay the
perusal of those who have any doubt on the sub-
ject, so important to the vital interests of
the country. The following is an txtract de-
scriptive of the benefits derivable from Couriry
Banks, compared with the delusive promises, but
monopolising policy, of the Bank of England :
An English Country Bank—it is only of the English
Banks that we have to speak—exists for the following. ob-
jects :-1. To transact, as far as its services may be ne-
cessary, the pecuniary business of the community in general.
2. To lend money to the community in general. 3. To
receive money in the shape of loan from the community in
general. And, 4. To contribute its portion to the general
currency of the country. These, so far as regards the na-
tion, comprehends the essential., of its business.
With respect to the first object. If an individual wish
to vest his money in the funds, he has only to carry it to
the Bank, and the latter, through its town connections,
will buy him stock, and afterwards receive for; and pay
him the interest. It will, in like mariner, sell his stock
for him. If he wish to send a sum of money to any part
of the kingdom, he cannot send sovereigns or bank-notes
without great risk and inconvenience; hut if he take them
to the Bank, it will draw him a bill for the exact amount
he wishes to pay, which he can transmit by letter. If lie
receive a good bill from a distant part, or take one in the
course of his business, and need small notes in exchange
for it, the Bank will supply Mtn with them. If he have
a sum of money which he thinks it net safe in his own
keeping, the Bank will take charge of it, and return it at
a moment's notice. If lie accepta bill, and make it pay-
able in London, at the house drawn upon by the Bank, he
Las only to take his money in proper time to the latter,
and it will take up his bill in London when due. This
applies to individuals who keep no banking-account. If a
gentleman, merchant, manufacturer, tradesman, or farmer,
think good to open such an account, he carries his money
to the Bank daily, weekly, or as he pleases, in bills, notes,
or whatever shape it may bear, and the Bank returns it to
him, or his order, in whatever way he wishes. The Bank
honours his cheques, if he draw them—it supplies him
with notes if he need them—it furnishes hini with bills if
be want them to pay at home, or to send to any part of the
oountry—it makes payments for him in cash in London,
'if necessary he-accept bills payable either at it, or in
toncion, it takes them up for him : after taking to it his
good hills, whether payable in London or in various other
places, he has no farther trouble with them; it pays iticit
their amount, :mud .-oiegariee tUe yayokant of .Therrt where
made payable—and it manages fpr him his property in
government securities.
With respect to the second object. If an individual
wish to borrow a snull or large sum of money for a short
period, the Bank will, almost at a moment's notice, lend it
to him on the joint personal security of himself, and one or
two friends : it will do this if he keep no account with it.
If he open an account, it will at almost any time make
him the necessary advance, on such security as we have
named, and generally on merely his own personal secu-
rity. It wilt iee.4 him a sum, on,the personal security of
liiiniself and his friends, to remain constantly in his hands ;
which suni, if he be in small business, constitutes, perhaps,
the greater part of his floating capital, or perhaps nearly
the whole of his capital of all kindS.

With respect to the third object. Any man, poor or
rich, can at any time vest any sum of money, not perhaps
below twenty pounds, in the sank at interest, with a rea-
sonable ce inty that the security is good, that his interest
will be putict.u4)ly paid, and that lie can regain his
money at any tiniis wet:4i on, without the least delay or
trouble.

With respect to the fourth object, no Bank keeps the
community abundantly supplied with circulating medium
of all kinds, whether needed for use in its neighbourhood,
Or for transmission to distant parts of the country.
This plain description forms, perhaps, the most conclu-
sive proof we could offer, that the English Country Banks
yield benefits to the Empire of the most gigantic and inva-
luable character.