The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-23 00:00:00

NAPOLEON'S FAMILY.

Napoleon's mother (or, as she was called,
Madame Mere) spends her winter at Rome, and
her summer in Albano. She is constantly oc-
cupied in works of charity, piety, and benefi-
cence, and leads a very retired life. Strangers
are seldom admitted to her society ; °illy, her
brother, Cardinal Fesch, pays her daily Yizits.
The cardinal employs the remainder of his time
in the performance of the duties of his office and
holy functions. Neither of them possesses more
than a middling fortune ; Madame has bestowed
a great portion of her's upon her family and the
poor ; and the Cardinal is dependent on the
lowance of the Pope, and the sale of his gallery
of pictures, which he parts with one by one.
Count Survilliers (Joseph, the Ex-King of Spain).
has become a citizen of the United States of
America since 1814, (query 1815) and applies
himself there to agriculture on a large scale. His
eldest daughter, Zenaide, has married his nephew,
Prince Musignano (the son of Lucien) ; and his
younger daughter, Charlotte, married another of
his nephews, Charles, the son of Louis (the
Ex-King of Holland), who, if we mistake not,
is author of the American Ornithology. Both
these young couples have left America, and
settled at Florence, in order to be nearer to
their mother, the Countess Survilliers, As for
Count de Saint Leu (Louis), the state of his
health, which continues to be unfavourable, does
not prevent his principally devoting himself to
literary occupation. He -had purchased, out of
his private fortune, several estates in Holland,
chiefly in the vicinity of Haarlam ; but, after the
fall of Napoleon, these were sequestrated, and
never restored to him. His consort, Hortensia,
the daughter of Josephine, passes the winter in
Rome, and, for some time past, she was in the
habit of spending part of her time at her
beautiful country seat at Aremberg, on the
banks of the Bovensea (the Lacus Lemanus),
in Switzerland. The Prince de Canino (Lu-
cien) has this long time resided at Rome, and
on the property from which he derives his title.
In the year 1827, he and his family inhabited
the small town of Smigaglia, near Ancona. He
has lost the greatest part of his fortune by un-
successful speculation, and sold even his palace
at Rome, to his brother, the Prince de Mont-
fort (Jerome).—One of his daughters (the same
whose hand King Ferdinand of Spain solicited
when Prince of Asturia) married Prince Ga-
briell ; another married Lord Stuart. The Prince
de Montfort (Jerome, ex-king of Westphalia)
spends the summer in the marshes near Ancona,
and the winter in his palace at Rome. His
union with the Princess Catherine, the sister of

the present King of Wurtemberg, and niece to
the Emperor of Russia, renders his house the
rendezvous of all strangers of distinction from
the north who visit Italy. The Russian and
Wurtemberg Ambassadors are never absent from
the Prince's parties. His children are educated
at the College of Siena. The young Princess .
Eliza, daughter of the Princess Borghese, mar-
ried, after her mother's death, the son of an Ita-
lian nobleman, the richest proprietor at Ancona.
She is very lively and witty, and is said to bear
the strongest resemblance to NaFoleon. Her
father, Prince Felix Bacchiochi, resides at Bo-
logna. He is rich and respected. Owing to
political considerations, the Countess Lepano
(Madame Murat, ex-Queen of Naples) has not
yet been able to obtain permission to join her
relations in Italy ; she, therefore, resides in Aus-
tria. Her eldest daughter married the Marchese
Popoli, a nobleman of Bologna, and her youngest
sister Count Rasponi. Achilles, her eldest son,
went to Florida, where he bought much landed
property. Lucien, the youngest, is in South
America.

Should more buildings, as is talked of, be al-
lowed to be erected round the Regent's Pa, k, we doubt
how long that present delightful area will be considered as
the lungs of London.

Part of the new buildings at the British Mu-
seum are said to be suffering from the inroads of the wea-
ther, owing to the unfinished state in which they have
been allowed to remain.

AMERICAN NANY.—The Government of
the United States did not bestow any serious attention
upon the increase of its maritime power until the year
1915. The greatest number of vessels in the public ser-
vice during the revolution did not exceed twenty-five, of
which there were five frigates of 32. guns, twelve ships
mounting from 24 to 28 gems, and eight front 10 to 16
guns. The Act of the 29th of April, 1816, appropriated
an annual sum of one million of dollars to the increase
of the naval force ; but, in 1820, this appropriation
was reduced to five hundred thousand doll's a-year._-
4 thenceum.

NEWRY CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.—The
Consecration of this splendid edifice will take place on
Wedne-day, the 6th of May. The ceremony, which will
be performed by the Roman Catholic Primate, assisted by
the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, the Right
Rev. Dr. DorLE, and all the Bishops of the provino'of
Ulster, will, intked, be truly imposing, and the public,
we are assured, will be delighted and edified by the power.
ful eloquence of the Right Rev. Dr...D,A-LE, who preaches
on this interesting occasion. We cannot conclude these
few remarks, without congratulating the ittb;:bitants of
Newry on the beauty and elegance a this buildiug, whicir
reflects the highest credit on their taste and liberality.—
Louth Free Prom.

LITERATURE•

THE FAMILY LIBRARY, No. I.
LIFE or NAPOLEON.

Mr. Murray, in his Family Library, has got
hold of a speculation which we shrewdly sus-
pect will be among the most popular he has ever
undertaken. Learning, fancy, genius, expe-
rience, all these various advantages he has
pressed into the service of his Miscellany, which
being, besides, brought out in a particularly cheap
form, cannot fail to become popular. Among
the contributors we find the name of Mr. Lock-
hart, who is advertised to write the life of Cer-
vantes—a piece of biography admirably adapted
to that gentleman's satirical and humorous
powers—of Sir W. Scott, who is to give us the
life of that most chivalrous, romantic, and adven-
turous warrior, the Earl of Peterborough—and
of Mr. Southey, who furnishes the memoirs of
General Wolfe. Thus strengthened in one de-
partment alone, to say nothing of the talents that
are brought to bear on almost every subject con-
nected with the Belles Lettres or the Fine Arts,
the FP.inily Library cannot fail to become a
favourite.

The present Number, which is the first, con-
sists of Memoirs of Napoleon (which are to be
concluded in a second volume.) These Memoirs
seem, for the most part, to be digests of the
works of Scott and Hazlitt, chiefly following the
first, and have been collected, abridged, and
condensed with much judgment and discrimi-
nation. They are also strictly impartial in their
spirit ; we see no outbreaking of aristocratic or
republican feeling throughout them ; they may
safely, therefore, be committed to the band of
South, by whom they will be strongly relished
for the amazing interest, variety, and fulness of
their details. Of the character of Buonaparte
they give a faithful and acute representation, and
throw new light on the events of the first Italian
campaign which he undertook against the Aus-
trian veteran Wurmser. This portion of the
Memoirs is told with surprising spirit, and has
greatly attracted our attention.

We regret to announce the failure of a com-
pany of corn merchants and maltsters, at Stowmarket,
whose very extensive connections will, we fear, involve
many agriculturists of this county in serious distress.
The duty due to Government is said to be 9,oool.—Bury
Herald.

KING'S BENCH.—Bernasconi and others v.
Farebrother and Wilton. In this trial, which was not
concluded when we went to press yesterday, the Jury at a
late hour found a verdict fur the plaintiffs, with nominal
damages against the defendants of one shilling.

The wheat on the ground generally in this
county a fortnight ago had, we think, a better appearance
by far than we recollect it to have had fir many years
past. The late wet weather and cold winds have made it
look yellow generally, both on the Downs and in the
Weald, but warm and dry weather will, we have no doubt,
soon again alter its appearance. The oats are come up
well, and do not seem much affected by the wet. The
barley, where it was put in forward, came up well, and
has a very healthy appearance. The flocks have now
nearly done I nnbing, and we think there are more twins
this year thin usual, but from the late very wet weather
some of our farmers have lost a great many lambs. Now
that the Swedish turnips are finished, feed is generally
speaking short, yet most of the flocks are in very fair con-
dition. The wet weather has almost stopped the plough,
but the meadows have been rolled and laid up for mowing
in excellent condition. The seeds look well on the ground
and beans and pease are as yet looking very well.—
Brighton Gazette. _ _

The paintings which adorn the ceiling of
Whitehall Chapel, which are the admiration of all who
resort to that place, have been lately valued at 86,000/.
They are not painted on the ceiling, as is generally sup-
posed, but are en canvass. They are painted by RUBENS,
who was sent for to this country by King CHARLES the
Second, for the express purpose of executing them for that
building, that being the King's banqueting-room. They
are in a very high state of preservation. They are to
be taken down from the ceiling of Whitehall Chapel, by
cpmmand of the KING, and are to be placed in the Na-
tional Gallery.

Yesterday 'afternoon, between one and two
o'clock, the neighbourhood of Lombard-court, Holborn,
was in a very exciied state, in consequence of a respect-
able-looking female, about thirty years of age, attempting
to destroy her infant, under the following circumstances :
The wretched woman is named ELEANOR f HostrsoN, and
has only recently been married to an industrious mechanic.
At the hour shove stated she entered the shop of a Mrs.

H.,tartts, a grocer in Lombard-court, corner of St.
Andrew-street, with a fine male infant at her breast, ap-
parently about three weeks or a month old. She had not
been in the place more than a few minutes, when she took
the infant between her arms, and squeezed its little body
together with all her strength. On Mrs. HA R Is scream-
in; out, WILsoN, one of the parish constables of St.
Giles's, who was passing the door, ran in and most provi-
dentially saved the life of the poor little innocent, as its
unnatural parent was in the act of suffocating it. The un-
fortunate woman, who appeared quite sober, but in a wild
troubled state of mind, was immediately conveyed to St.
Giles's workhouse, where she at present remains. The
• child was also carried thither by WILSON, where every
possible attention has been paid to it by the surgeon, Mr.
SAUNDERSON, who entertains: hopes of its ultimate re-
covery. 'I he mother continues perfectly silent to all
questions, and the cause of her unnatural attempt, up to
the present moment, is quite a mystery.
A widow lady in this city has in her posses-
sion a beautiful bird (a mule between a canary and a gold-
finch,) in the highest health, spirits, and plumage. He
sings with as much vigour as he did fourteen years agn,
now having attained the great age of fifteen years.—
Glasgow Free Press.

THE MARCH OF INTELLECT.—A few days
ago, a lady at Worcester, having detected hey female ser-
vant in a falsehood, rebuked her for it, and asked how she
could so far forget herself, when she was answered by her
polished domestic, " that she really could not help it, it
came so apropos!"—Worcester Herald.

JOHN WILKES did not stand upon ceremony
in his duels. When asked by Lord TALBOT how many
tunes they were to fire, WILKES replied, " Just as often as
your Lordship pleases; I have brought a bag of bullets and
a flask of powder."
A LARGE ORDER.—A gentleman dressed in
the first syle of fashion, called a few days since on an emi-
nent wine merchant in this town, and required to taste
samples of the finest ports in his cellar, as he had invited
some friends to dine with him, and wished to treat them
with a superior glass of wine. lie was accordingly fur-
nished with a taste from several binns, and after fixing on
a wine of high quality and flavour, which the merchant
assured him was of the most approved vintage, he ordered
a pint of it to be sent to his residence, with a bottle of
cider, at fire o'clock precisely.—Cheltenham Chronicle.
ANECDOTE OF EX-SHERIFF PARKINS.—

When Mr. Ex-Sheriff first came to New York (for he had
been there before), he went to the house of an Irish gen-
tleman, with whom he had formerly some acquaintance in
Europe ; the gentleman was not at home—consequently,
he addressed himself to the lady of the house, and asked
permission to send his b iggage there for two nights. This
was politely assented to. Well, night succeeded night,
and week succeeded week, and month succeeded month,
till three months had passed away, and still the Sheriff
remained. In toe mean time the Sheriff's visits became
known ; and the Irish gentleman, when he went on
'Change, was regularly quizzed by his brother merchants
every day, with, Well, Sir, how is the Sheriff?" " The
Sheriff with vou yet, Sir ?" " A pleasant compinion
the Sheriff, Sir." " When is the Sheriff geing to leave,
Sir?" " Can't tell, Sir?" " Why don't you ask
him ?" ?aid one. The poor Irishman—bored thus all
around—" Sir," said he, " the hospitality of my coon-
tiler:: does net allow me to ask that question till our guest
has been with us a year and a day; and then, Sir, we
inquire if we are to have the pleasure of his company for
a year longer."