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

EVEN ING SUN

n°w before us. On a social winter evening, in a
1411.1ighted drawing-room, here may be found
c.ertaiu
and abundant recreation, amid the pauses
the dance, when conversation has begun to
1,44ig, or the senses have had their fill of music.
ruin time to time, as leisure and opportunity
P:rinity we may be tempted to return to the
Psideration of this graceful collection of Me-
41lions,

STETWANO,
„This is a fancy-portrait of one of the charac-
theB ja Shakspere's play of the Tempest—viz.,
if drunken sailor, Stcphano, who is consoling
itt'self for his shipwreck by a dram ; and is re-
Ppented just at the moment when he has got
bottle to his mouth, and is exclaiming,
s„" ell, here's my comfort!" The scene is the
tja"shore of the enchanted island, along which
vre strewed portions of the cargo of the doomed
uesse], whose- masts are visible rove water, close
liderneath the projecting point of a range of
st'itY, perpendicular cliffs, against which she has
'illicit and foundered. The scene is cleverly de-
thdleated; but it is the figure of Stephauo that is
tilte redeeming feature of the picture. The ar-
tists (illr. Melling) has hit off Shakspere's no-
and of this character with singular exactness
ielieity. He has thrown au admirable ex-
be-ssion of tipsy gravity into his rough, weather-
unaten countenance ; and given such a glorious
inissttetdiaess to his gait, that there can be no
a-111'14g the particular stage of intoxication at
as ;,'I he has arrived. His very cap looks drunk,
his'i'lg°es streaming loosely away at the back of
the ,ettd„; and there is an evident indecision in
to 1,;-44act of his legs, which seem half inclined
ture"u.unt) heels upwards, into the air. The pic-
4ushib coloured lithograph, and is so ingeni-
be attl carefully executed, that it might easily
both is-s'aKen for an oil-painting. The tints are
oftb "road and vivid ; and the deep, clear, green
has r.e,sea, in particular, which the hushed storm
of -'4Bed to agitate, will remind the spectator
pi,,,tle Of Claude's richly-coloured sea-shore
we The present attempt by Mr. Melting is,
iu llnderstand, the first that has yet been made
a d 'rl,glalld to lithograph in colours ; and as it is
wilicidedly successful one, we feel convinced it
"t be the l.

• `, LITERATURE.
- PICTORIAL SHAKSPERE.
In th. C. Knight, London, 1842.
Lave „Is Part, which is the Thirty-ninth, we
Poeta le conclusion of Shakspere's Minor
Sixth B„.' to which are added a Postscript to the
Pt°lurne, referring to Mr. Collier's forth-
pietnng edition of Shakspere, and a second Sup-
_real
elltarY Notice to the Roman plays of the
,
ramatist. The Part is embellished with
P °P°riate engravings.

3101VALDi. A TALE. Moxon, 1842.
;:e author of this tale, Washington Allston,
it tulerican artist tells us that he has allowed
bei° lie by him in manuscript since 1822. It
%dug's to the Radcliffe and Monk Lewis school,
Peatewod uld have been very popular had it ap-
ac, before the Waverley Novels. The scene
kiiclue tale is laid in Italy, the hero is a painter,
site the story of course includes the usual requi-
A BtO such tales, love, jealousy, murder, and un-
forn,ing remorse. That the English reader may
the ' an idea of how highly this tale is prized in
the nfa,t,ive city of the author, Boston, we quote
vvhizowing extract from a criticism upon it,
terti appears in a copy of the Boston Daily Ad-
froin cold Patriot, received by the last arrival
by a
fLue
„, United States. It is written evidently
, and in the first person hen:—
lished I first heard that Washington Allston bad pub-
si an original tale, I felt and expressed regret. So
an .
ciate, lofty a reputation in art should not b. e asso-
the L'! with mediocrity in literature ; and anything but
mgliest success must seem failure compared with the
ta.clard he has himself erected. But we have read the
and mediocrity and failure are still as remote from
,15 name as before he wrote. And more ; for we have
.
oW evidence that in literature and in morals he lives in
Pure an atmosphere as he does in art. " Monaldi" is
Zialdwork of genius. There are touches of description which
come only from its author ; and skill and taste in
thrignage which it is surprising that a man who has used
11113tncil so much more than the pen should possess.
i'v".Y should such a tale have been allowed to slumber
or near twenty years in a portfolio ? And now it comes.
inly lone ? Why are are not those nights, which, we
qt a
"tar, are so often lengthened into the morning, employed
Ilualetimes in pictures like this, which all readers may
Noy, instead of being consecrated to those which only
tf‘h' prosperous gentlemen and their friends can indulge
44 the luxury of ? How few of those who see with ad-
o--ea the paintings, are capable of seeing in them the
ral elevation with which they are conceived and which
ole ' are intended to communicate. The language of the
is intelligible to all. Is not the lesson needed ? Are
eft multitudes sacrificing life vainly, in a selfish pursuit
4fame of which art or literature is the means, whose
o.is.tence would be saved to themselves and the commu-
, if they could be convinced that he only can succeed,
tie loves his art for his art's sake ?

4 iiRATIONAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE
OF COMMON PRAYER OF THE
cuußcti OF ENGLAND, 6-c, 6-c. 6-c.
This Charles Wheatly,' M.A., 6-c. London : Tegg•
ittill,lS is a new and cheap edit.ion. of a most
t.,1',4h1e vvork, a standard publication among
Det;e,,tflts of Divinity. It is considered by Cora-
'l.:‘ Judges as the first and most corupsruehen-
ita th'ereittiSe of our national Liturgy, And long
gral
oralp:lrattio religion holds its place, as. an.inte-
Ntli the British Constitution, it will be
1,,.11%1(;,,ect`l 4s a clear exposition of her rituals. and
'Th4t Ile 'toeoee.monies. We consider that it can-
_,l'ot'4rititt',,,,whe,,wile.el3473.cxitr.peulated at the present mo-
uoetri-' t() rd Tractarians are .endea-
ish complexion to the
estuhilleks °r tle a R°mh
of England, and to
nece 'B,l the ie Church
de.• sSarily e principle that the Sacraments
a„strous ~f• °tiler grace.
alnaydman who is
Scriptural
halh°:-Ity;,fktrewting the yEavlueery
130oCe„1:.t forth, - iularies which that Church
c'orulloht to study " Wheatlyu'st Pore -'s:e°,lllltion Prayer" with attention. B
t.i,nr einr:,e,milY is it encumbent on candidates
`"Q j°ll- -"'"On, not only to be acquainted witht
to (Ater of. her,
eial religious services, bi.i
oriZalaine Loth care the history of their
lalents'
~ll,u,d‘ trace the various improve
Period 4.Ll'ell have taken place at different
ern, the It i 8 quite indispensable that tht sys-
itoow le order
a , and the spirit of our Liturgy be
tuirii ri
and alp'
by those who serve and.n
this ster at th
t fl—e altar. In order to accomplis rkeii.(thjec" le work under notice affords every
IveilltY) nor coulds
"d we recommend any other s:,
;IN Calculated to give a clear elucidation of it
Chtir,al Parts and divisions. We consider. thel
/ctie" of England as the most scriptural
ei, Obal Church in the world, and therefore we
,11,,,,..
ror...ut too highly estimate all her established
te..!litilaries. And we are convinced that if as-
4tors would study, i
til,(l,k of Common Prnavalli.,:'nprejudiced way, the
it, Q,,,tY Wheatly's retrial:l,S and examine atten-
ketY would think and speak
comments upon
eak of it more favour-
they than they have hitherto (Line. We have
tivt 'te.ry little on the merits of this most instru.c
I'Neonnnentary, feeling that any panegyric
t ,& COLIN add nothing to the exalted characo-
hcq
~Lnch it has already acquired. But we dif we der that our time has been ill employednu-
14t: `4ke this opportunity of apprisingouarwor_
WhieTilireaders of the re-appearance of k
PPro >
Os for many years, obtained the cordial
)ts() h,41(41 of the heads of the Church,. and been
is Prii--44.1-111 service to the clergy in general.
eutio
n j''s at Oxford, and the typographical exe-
"s infinite credit to the publisher.

TNy, MUSIC;
-vb0,44-I,7VRE OF. PLAYING THEPIpARNINO.-
.11-P4% UPON PHILOSOPHICAL
ql.leB' the S1:I Ye Change.A
iiIP-- —3, dis la d in Four Positions, and ther A
to
0-
Syßtent applicable.
ail ice,,s
a_•, , e and . .
IJQ„." Tinpreltended and executed. Form
'Y na Combinattons, Major or Mino
er
d, u
bn
ytvejrs.a
F.
Works '-nd
, -neley 4 h
variety of useful
'''
.-.Ce 41 r , 2 Ut Or of a
1; kr
'',lce 1r
,rent is certainly a clever man, but_
10rt,:,, .eitt rliany other clever men, he bath un.n
Plav-"atelY a crotchet. His crotchet is that
bi
14stT,CIA The piano-forte, the thumb should ctelit ~i'l• consecutive notes, and the pre-
cis„workfatexer.
cis under review, consists of a series o
ITiit,l" object of which is to introduce this
it' . Illay be called the system of thumbing
1,\,,,t opposition to the system of fingering
10 readily admit that notliing could be more
'sur. ti
teachers
Of b -lan the prejudice entertained by
bittli;one times against the use of the humb.
Itild
at prejudice has long since been exptloded,.
h tt the prescnt day there is not a teacher of
...11Y Pr
Iti ii etensions to science who would hesitate
44k.eeting his pupil to use the thumb, even in
viqo Ing the black keys, whenever it can be
lilvae..,without awkwardness. While, therefore, we
t4;:-,,ttlii .lityt,t) Mr. Danneley great praise for his in-
we cannot but entertain a doubt as to
Av.- Practical utility of this portion of his labours.
At,Lhave, however, great satisfaction in being
4iic- to bestow our unqualified approbation on
1, )th
tram Part of Mr. Danneley's work. His plan
4 posing the lessons into all the different
Itil,!. is admirable, and although some difficulty
h,,sf Pelhaps be experienced by junior pupils at
th,te Yet aPPlication and practice will overcome
th ' and they will be amply repaid for the pains
the' have taken by the rapid progress which
rs y will find themselves enabled -to make in
..0,,,
''-euence as they advance in their studies.
lhe N k • .
the Tor
theconiparned with directions for
iro use of " ocular time monitor." A me-
noille of Mr. Daaneloy's invention, which

seems quite as well calculated to answer the pur-
pose for which it is invented as any other metro-
nome, and which, being much cheaper than those
at present in use, is therefore in that respect
better. A metronome is an instrument of in-
estimable value to the student who has attained
to some degree of musical proficiency, but
it is a dangerous instrument fora mere pupil.
The beginner who uses a metronome is apt to
trust for time exclusively to the eye, and to
neglect the ear, the consequence of which is that
when called upon to perform without a metro-
nome the unhappy wight is placed in a situation
similar to that of the boy, who having learnt to
swim with corks found himself once upon a time
in deep water without them.

LAYS OF THE PALACE.
Monro and May, London, 1842.
These are very agreeable melodies, and quite
within the compass of the most limited voice, as
they seldom rise above the octave. The song in
E flat, " My Leonore," will afford the singer the
most display. We cannot say much on the score
of originality; as we played each song we were
strongly reminded of some old favourite—for in-
stance, the first part of the duet " Music at
Night Fall," is very like " Gentle Zitella," and
we were strongly reminded of a few bars from
that pleasing song of Barnett's " The Guests
were bidden," on commencing the last duet.
The accompaniments are well under the bands
and written in a scientific and effective manner.
The " Lays" form a thin quarto volume, got up
with considerable neatness and elegance; they
are dedicated, by express permission, to Prince
Albert; and are embellished with several pictu-
resque plates, illustrative of the subjects of the
different melodies.

THE SIEGE OF BOLTON.
TO TAE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I have been at the siege of Bolton; for
nothing but some such cause sue^gests itself as
adequate to the phenomena. And is it not a
siege ? not carried on perhaps by an enemy with-
in gun-shot, but by one working on a wider radius,
and making his blockade by sea upon the means
of life.

Many sights it has been my chance to see, and
I think I know what is the minimum of help with
which 'horse, ass; dog, hog, or monkey can sus-
tain existence, and where it must go out fbr want
of the appliances and means of living. But any-
thing like the squalid misery, the slow, mouldy,
putrefying death by which the weak and the
feeble of the working classes are perishing here,
it never befell my eyes to behold, nor my ima-
gination to conceive. And the creatures seem to
have no idea of resisting, or even of repining.
They sit down with Oriental submission, as if it
was God and not the landlords that was laying
his hand upon them. And when their honour-
able representative in parliament gave descrip-
tion to their sufferings, " liar" was the best word
applied to him by the organs of the tyranny.
Did you ever set eyes on a pennyworth of mut-
ton? Come here, and you shall see how rations
are served out under the landlords' state of siege.
It might bait a rat-trap; though a well-fed rat
would hardly risk leis personalities for such a
pittance. Pennyworths of mutton, and half-penny
worths ofbread cut off the loaf, arc what the shop-
keepers in Bolton deal out to the inhabitants of
their Jerusalem. I saw a woman come for one
half-penny worth of bread, which was to be the
dinner of herself and children twain ; and when
I reflected that of this transparent slice, the other
half was gone to buy the landlords' sack, asto-
nishment possessed me at the endurance of that
bearing ass the public, and the extent to which
ignorance and divisions will prop the rich man's
robbery.
I saw another mother of a family, who said she
had not tasted meat for many months; and on
one of the children being sent off to the butcher's
for some of that strange luxury, she was disco-
vered making efforts to intercept the messenger.
Her anxiety was to instruct the boy to bring
back nothing but one pennyworth of bacon; there
was a to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
for which she had conceived the idea of spinning
out existence by means of the remainder of the
fund.

If you are curious in human misery, if you are
anxious to know what a shabby tyranny can
bring the rank and file to suffer, come at your
leisure to the " leaguer" of Bolton, and see what
the people sleep upon, if they do sleep. Chopped
dirt, the sweepings of a hen-house mingled with
a proportion of sparrows' nests to show that men
had heard of straw, would be the best represen-
tatives of what they huddle upon in corners and
call it resting. And all this because Sir Having-
Greedy votes in the House of Commons for clos-
ing honest trade as the means of doubling his
rents.

I have not heard of any women in Bolton eat-
ing a child. They do not look eatable. Disease,
either active or in waiting, is in their faces and
in their limbs. A decent hyaena would not take
the trouble of " enticing them into the woods and
there devouring them." And this is what the
English and their families have come to, to keep
their aristocracy in coach horses.
The Minister meanwhile and his associates,
are racking their tender " hearts" to find a re-
medy. As in O'Connell's celebrated story of the
horse, " Will they try corn?" They will try
anything, except allow the sufferers to keep
themselves; for that would interfere with the
plans of those, who being rich already, use their
riches as the means of doubling them by confis-
cation of the poor man's bread.
There is danger in these schemes. Already
people of all kinds are parodying the sentiment
of the Italians, " Ad ogni uomo puzzica questo
barbaro dominio ;" which may be translated for
English use, " Neither man nor woman will
endure this dynasty of clod-hoppers." It wants
nothing but for the privates of the regiment to
know what hurts them, and to get rid (as they
are doing fast) of the various false lights thrown
out to induce them to run in every direction that
will preserve the evil ; and a quicker end than
pleasant, may be put to mischiefs, which nobody
would remove by an earlier application of the
prudential virtues.
__ _

Yours, very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Bolton, Jan. 7, 184'2.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the
Bank of England, from the 12th of October, 1841, to the 4th
of January, 1842, both inclusive, published pursuant to the
Act, 3 and 4 W. IV., cap. 98.

LIABILITIES. ASSETS.
Circulation .......Z16,632,000 Securities £22,680,900
Deposits 7,948.000 Bullion

£24,560,000
Downing-street, !an. 6, 16

£27,459,000

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert
walked to-day in the Home Park and Slopes, both in
the forenoon and afternoon.

The Earl of Lincoln took his departure from the
Castle this morning.
Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot, and the Hon.
Mrs. Bouverie, will have the honour of joining the Royal
Dinner Circle at the Castle this evening.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and her
Royal ll)ghness tho Princess Royal are in excellent
health.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left
Beaudesert, Staffordshire, the seat of the Marquis of
Anglesey, on Thursday morning, on a visit to her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager, at her residence, Sue
jury
Hall. His Royal Highness took his deparo%ce from
Sudbury Hall for town at six o'clock v'sterday morn-
ing, and arrived at the Eustor..-.7,,,,juare terminus of the
Birmingham Railway at 't‘nree o'clock yesterday after-
noon. His R.oyt'l. Highness immediately proceeded to
Cambridge ;louse, and in the afternoon visited her
ROY Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Glouces-
.LerHouse.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta
Somerset, arrived in town yesterday from Kew. Their
Royal Highnesses visited the Duchess of Gloucester at
Gloucester House, and in the evening returned to Kew.
Lord Stanley arrived in town yesterday afternoon
from a visit to the Duke of Buckingham, at Stowe, Bucks.
Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing.. street.
The Right lion. Sir Charles Grey had an interview
with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
The Earl of Haddington arrived at his residence in
the Admiralty yesterday evening, from Brighton.
Sir James Graham arrived in town yesterday, from a
visit to the Duke of Buckingham, at his seat, Stowe,
Bucks.

Lord Wharneliffe arrived in town yesterday evening,
from his seat, Wortley Hall, Yorkshire.
Despatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were
received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

About half-past twelve o'clock this day the
neighbourhood of Lincoln's Inn-fields was the scene of
great excitement, from a poor maniac, who lives with an
aged mother in an attic in Sheffield-street, endeavouring
to throw herself from the roof of the house. An indi-
vidual passing saw her strugglini, with the old woman at
the top window, when he rushed up stairs, but, before
he could get to the attic, she had broken away from her
mother, and ran along the leads of the house, towards
Lincoln's Inn-fields. He followed and seized her, when
a dreadful struggle ensued. Madness nerved her with
extraordinary power ; and the roof and gutters being
one sheet of ice, it is probable that both would have
been precipitated into the street, but for the timely
arrival of two policemen of the F. division, when she
was with some difficulty secured and removed to the
station-house, after getting some restoratives. _