The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-20 00:00:00

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.

APPOINTMENTS THE WE
W The CambridgeshireFOR
Hounds, onENSUIN
MonG day,E
atK. Hayley
°p(l,iT ; and Friday, at Childerley-gate—at Half-past Ten.
....Ir. "%lure's Fox Hounds, Tussday, at Stowlangtoft
1):.,13nCY ; Thursday, at Kennet Bell; and Saturday, at
b'ough Green—at Half-past Ten.
arl Fitzwilliam's Hounds, on Monday, at Ashton
(4"; Wednesday, at Hammerton Grove; and Thurs-
Y, at the Kennel—at Ten.
Puckeridge Hounds, on Monday, at Gilstone
tit Wednesday, at Pevereila; and Saturday, at Watton
Half-past Ten.
',4e Brighton Harriers on Monday, at Patcham ; Wed-
at the Race Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke—at
Wed-
Half Ten.
uiTlle Brookside Harriers, on Monday, at Newmarket-
tit t 1" Wednesday, at Ashcombe, the alternate Wednesday
put-e,retennel ; and Friday, at Telacombe Tye—at Half-
tairr 11°Yaton Harriers, on Tuesday, at Barkway Toll
The„, Thursday, at the
Harriers,hrift—at Half-past Ten.
•
I,4uoddingt on Tuesday, at the Kennel;
• "IdaY, at-Zenn aF
41The Earith Harriers, on'Tuesday, at Dog House Drove,
it;t3n ; and Friday, at Swavesey Mill—at Ten.
Town Crputlennore Hounds, on Monday, at Pickworth
u"'"iay, at Witchley Warren; Thursday, at Park
arid Friday, at Leesthorpeat a Quarter before
Sir no
.crti 4•lchattl Sutton's Hounds, on Monday, at Falling-
Br ; Tuesday, at Welton Mill ; Wednesday, at
r„a Thursday, at Half-way House, on the Newark.
Kevitvick-thorn Bar ; and Saturday, at Stapel-
•'' !Hoot--At Eleven.
/7%,,w`d'rd Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Bradley
bnrt,t, ;, W"'inesday,-at Kingsforth House; Friday, at Bly-
tit Lel.leltl.H all; and .tSaturciay, at Swallow Cross-roads—
.

LITERATURE.

EMMANUEL, 1829.

In his hurry, no doubt, to improve the pre-
sent generation, the Editor of this religious
annual has forgotten how to spell its name.
Tha word " Emmanuel"—as appears by the
following passage from Isaiah (cap. viii. v. 8,)—
should be spelt with an I instead of with an E.
" He shall pass through Judah, and the stretch-
ing out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy
land, oh, Immanuel." We should not have
noticed this defect, had not the Editor, in a
Preface full of learning on the subject of the
word Immanuel, observed, " the very title of
this annual betokens godliness"—and conse-
quently a full and perfect acquaintance with all
points of religious and biblical orthography. But
this is not the only mistake the zealous Editor has
fallen into. In another part of his preface, he says
" the work is devoted entirely to religion, and
subjects connected with religion, all tending to
edification." On coming to this emphatic
passage our joy was extreme. We imagined
that we were going to peruse a book in which
the "edification" should be both intellectual and
spiritual, interesting, and it might be original.
With this impression on our minds we sud-
denly encountered the following passage, which
being one of the most " edifying" in the book,
is naturally enough placed first ;

" A fading scene, a filling scene
Is this false world below,
And not a heart has ever been
That bath not proved it so."

Great and " edifying" as is the discovery that
this world is both " false" and " fading," we
regret to state that it is not original, inasmuch as
in a letter written by Ikey Solomons from Botany
Bay, and inserted in the daily Papers a few
months'since, the same sentiment is enforced. But
this is far from being the only sample of edifica-
tion Immanuel contains. In the same poem oc-
curs another instructive morceau, which would
have bcen still more instructive had it not been
manifestly taken from Gray's well known line,
" the paths of glory lead but to the grave."

" Our pleasures are but fainting hues
Reflected o'er the waves—
Our glories—they are phantom views
That lure us to our graves."

In another poem, entitled " The Sceptic Re.
proved," occurs n third specimen of edification
which the Editor had doubtless in his eye when
he composed his prefatory homily
" There is a God to whom all bow
_By whom all being's given ;
Whom seraphs love—whom angels dread,
God of the living and the dead ;
Whose power is every where outspread
O'er earth, o'er bill, o'er heav'n."

Without meaning for an instant to im-
pugn the dazzling originality of this sweet
stanza, we would just beg leave to ask its
author—a gentleman who rejoices in the name
of " \V. H. Leeds,"—what he means by the line
" whom seraphs love, whom angels dread ?"
Does he mean to insinuate a scientific distinc-

tion between the two grades of seraph and angel,
or does he mean to put them in juxta• position
with each other, or has he any meaning at all ?
Seraphs, it seems, love, but angels only dread
the Creator—a nice discrepancy, which forcibly
impresses upon us the truth of Pope's line,

" Your true no-meaning puzzles more than wit."

A fourth specimen of edification occurs ii

" Hospitality, a simple Tale ;" in which, after
exhibiting simplicity to an extent that ruder
critics than.ourselves might be apt to term fatuity,
the Editor goes on to say, " I record this

legend for the public good :"—a, truly praise-
worthy resolution, and which the public will
no doubt appreciate as it deserves. There would
be no end to our notice, were we to go on enu-
merating the many samples of edification in
which " Emmanuel" abounds; siffice it to say,
that from the " Essay on Marriage," in which
we are assured, with a gravity worthy the occa-
sion, that " lovely woman was abstracted from
man himself, and is therefore part of his very
existence," down to " Lines spoken by a Cha-
rity Girl," in a bib and tucker, at a dinner in
Somersetshire, wherein the author informs us
that " crowned charity" is
" The Queen of virtues all,
The grace and glory of a Christian mind,
The God ralected on distressed mankind !"

from, we repeat, the marriage down to the dinner
party—from. the word " Emmanuel" in the first
page, down to the word " Finis" in the last—
all is brilliant, novel, and versatile edification.
The contents, too, have a very sparkling
character. We have an " Acrostic upon Adam
and Eve," thrust in between " The First Grey
Hair" and the " Ark on Mount Ararat ;"
" Lullaby" placed cheek by jowl with " Holy
Associations ;" " Marriage" with " Come my

Beloved ;" " The Conflagration of York Min
ster" with the " Opening of the Fourth Seal,'
and a " Hymn of Charity for the Poor," ii
which occurs the sonorous couplet—
• " Let me endure when inerc•iiess
The inward gnaw of hungriness;"

with the " Beauty of Holiness, by the Rev.
W. Shepherd." Nor tilust we, while summing

up the graces of " Emmanuel," forget its em

bellishments, which consist of a front view of a
Methodist Chapel somewhere near the Me-
tropolis, and the figure of a fat cherub

flying down from Heaven with a damask
table-cloth in her hands. On the whole,
whether we look to the exceeding discretion that
has selected 50 awful a subject as Religion to fill
up the pates of a seven and sixpenny pocket-
book annual, or the tasteful reverence that has
thrust a drawing-room Acrostic betwee❑ a poem
on the " Beauty of Holiness" and a " Paraphrase"
of a " Chapter of St. John," we shall find abun-
dant reasons to coincide in the sagacity,of the sati-
rist's (pinion, that " Fools rush in where Angels
fear to tread." In this spirit of unqualified re-
spect we take our leave of the Rev. Mr. Shepherd
and his poetical flock in " Emmanuel."

THE WINTER'S WREATH. ---LONDON, 1529.

This, if not the best, is among the best of
the present Annuals. in the elegance of its
letter-press, the variety and grace of its prose
and verse—to which the names of some of our
most popular living authors are, we perceive,
attached—it is fully equal to any of them, while

in its embellishments, especiaPv its landscape
scenery, it is little. inferi r PVeit the " Keep-
sake" or the " Landscape Annual." We have
seen few engravings more delicate and highly
finished than the " View near Derwentwatcr,"
with the fine cataract of Lodore in the distance.
The small fragment of the Keswick Lake gleam-
ing like silver in the lbre-ground, with the cattle
standing mid-deep in its waters, and the husband-
man carelesslyreclining beside it at the foot of stall
and branching elm ; the glen-like little walk by
its left bank, opening a sweet and chequered vista
into the depths of the wood beyond ; the dis-
tant peak of Skiddaw, half shrouded in vapour,
and embellished by the sparkling cheerful tor-
rent that leaps headlong down it ; these various
objects are worked up, by Mr. W. Havel], in a
spirit worthy of his eminent abilities as a land-
scape painter. " II Cavaliere Pittore" is another
exquisite engraving, full of grace, and ease, and
variety ; a praise which, with equal justice we
may extend to the " Sunset View on the
Welch coast." It is astonishing what life
and animation a glimpse even of the human
figure will throw into the most tame and
monotonous landscape, and Mr. Stephanoff has
judiciously availed himself of this advantage.
The old fisherman bawling in his net., while he
stands chattering to some rustics near him,
gives infinite relief to what would otherwise be
an insipid sun-set—even with the bold Welch
coast, and " old Conway" in the distance to
give it animation. Of the literary articles, illus-
trative of the different embellishments, we may
speak in high terms of commendation. They
are for the most part neatly and eleverly penned,
and will no doubt " win golden opinions" for
the Editor and Publisher of the Winter's
Wreath.

THE ENGLISHMAN'S ALMANACK FOR 1830.

This Almanack is framed on a plan alto-

ther novel, and we think extremely useful. The
old aphorisms for the management of health are
abandoned, and we find highly important direc-
tions substituted for treating persons who are
apparently dead from drowning, or who have
taken poison. This is a species of information
that we should think ought to be within the im-
mediate reach of all families. " The English-
man's Almanack " does not confine itself to lists
of Officers, Places, &c., but gives in addition
many curious particulars, which will be found
no less useful than interesting.
We allude to the ages and crests of the
Peers—the jurisdictio►i of the Police Offices,
&c. &c.

The following extracts will point out some
more of the many useful articles of intelligence
in this deservedly popular Almanuek

" MAY.—PolsoNs.—This is the time to remind ❑n-

wary persons of the danger of eating or chewing herbs or
plants indiscriminately. The following, which are finni- •
liarly grown in our gardens, are very poisonous, and have
produced death :—Monkshood, wind-flower, bryony, tra
yellers' joy, meadow saffron, totter-worth, spurge, olive or
widows' wail, spurge-flax or garon, wild cucumber, imperial
crown, black and white hellebore, euphorhiutn, hedge-
hyssop, daffodil, Barbadoes nut, crowfoot, solanum, savin,
squill, stave-acre. If any unpleasant symptoms should
arise from eating any of these vegetables, it will be neces-
sary to produce vomiting; by giving plenty of sugar and
water, milk, gum-water, dissection of linseed or mallows.
When the poison is thrown off, give strong coffee.
" Deadly nightshade, the fruit of which is easily dis-
tinguished from a black grape, by the former being double
and the latter single; purple fox-glove; rose bay ; rue ;
hemlock, which is distinguished from parsley only by hav-
ing no odour until it is bruised in the Sneers, and then
having a disagreeable one ; henbane, and opium-scented
lettuce, are all narcotic poisons, and require the same treat-
ment, when taken as opium or laudanum.
" CnNTAGION.-In case that any disorder of a con-
tagious
nature should make its appearance in any hospital
ship, boarding-house, or other place where large numbers
are assembled, it becomes necessary to give the healthy
persons every chance of escape from it. Fumigation is
one of the securities. Indeed, throughout the summer,
there are few large structures, thickly inhabited, which
do nut require that the air should be relieved from impu-
nities of one sort or another. To guard against
contagion, as also for the general purposes of puri-
fication, the following has been found an admirable receipt:
—Take two parts of powdered manganese, elitto of com-
mon salt; sulphuric acid, three parts; and water, one
part. Put the manganese and salt into an earthen vessel
into the room or building which you wish to purify ; then
pour upon it by degrees the sulphuric acid, and next the
water. Fumes will ascend in great abundance. If you
cannot procure the manganese, the other ingredients will
do by themselves ; and if you put some fire under the
vessel, the fumes will come off id greater quantities. This
is a fumigation which families might also use in summer
in houses not very much exposed to a thorough air.
" Porsolcous Musmtooms.—ln cooking mushrooms
for the table, always boil with them an onion stripped of
its outer skin. If in the process the onion becomes either
black or blue, do not use the mushrooms ; if they are
harmless, the onion will remain white. But cases may
occur in which poisonous mushrooms are taken. Observe
that they do not manifest their action until from 12 to 24
hours after being swallowed. You must excite vomiting
by giving doses of tartar emetic (six grains in a tumbler of
water, of which two table-spoonsfull are to be taken every
five minutes.) When the stomach is evacuated, give
castor oil. Should you be unable to produce vomiting,
give a clyster of tobacco-water ; also make the patient
drink sugar soil water. Should any pain be felt in the
stomach, apply fomentation, of decoction of mallows, lin-
seed, camomile, &c. Use also the hot bath. Give a
few drops of tether in water when the poison is evacuated,

" A RMY. —The amount of the land forces voted for the
service of the year 18i9 was 89,723 men, exclusive of
the men employed by the East India Company. The sum
voted for the whole expences of the army, including every
charge connected with it, was 6,336,2311. The British
army is composed of 103 battalions. About 20 of these
are in the service and pay of the East India Company, and
54 more are disposed of in the Colonies. Four battalions,
on the' .iverage, are constantly on their passage to relieve
the regiments on foreign stations, leaving 25 battalions
(exclusive of Guards) for the service of the United King-
dom. The casualties in the army, according to Sir Henry
Hardinge's estimate, amount to about one-eleventh or one-
twelfth of the whole forces annually. The Mutiny Bill
underwent an alteration in the Session of 1829. The
clauses, which used to amount to 168, are now condensed
to 77, and the Bill is rendered more concise and plain. It
enables General Commanding Officers in a district to
order district Courts Martial instead of regimental Courts
Martial. The oath is the same for all members of Courts
Martial."

The Earl of ABERDEEN, 'Viscount MEL-
viLLE, Lord ELLENBOROUGH, Mr. Secretary PEEL, and
the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, had interview,,
with the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday at the Treasury.

The Austrian Ambassador had a long confe-
rence with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday. The Ame-
rican Minister had an interview with the noble Earl yes-
terday at the Foreign-office.

Lord HILL, as Commander of the Forces,
held a levee yesterday afternoon at his office in tln Horse,
guards. This being the first levee held for several weeks,
his Lordship'having been absent from town at his country
seat near Shrewsbury, it was numerously attended, up-
wards of 40 general and other military officers being present.
The Duke of WELLINGTON returned to
town yesterday morning from Hatfield, Herts.
Earl BATHURST has left town for his seat at
Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

Sir G. MURRAY returned to town yesterday
,rom a shooting. excursion,