The Sun. — 1825-05-20 (London, England)

MSS.; but the verses are all kept distinct, and arranged in columns, with a large margin between them, each column containing from 42 to 44 lines, occupying the breadth of the roll, with the exception of a small margin at the top and bottom. The roll .(being the last doubtless of twenty-four distinct rolls or volumes) never contained more titan the last book of the Iliad; of this (tile outermost part having been destroyed by use and time) the first 126 lines are wanting, and the marks of the thumb in unrolling the volume are visible in some of the other folds or pages, and have obliterated a few words ; the remainder is quite perfect to the end of the book. There is a numerical letter in the margin at every hundred lines, and also the names of the interlocutors (as in a drama) wherever they occur, and a monogram (doubtles for it oorryc) wherever the poet is the narrator. From a hasty collation of the text with the best editions of the poet, several readings were discovered which differ flaini the received text, but not materially, and but few absolutely new : four lines are omitted altogether; of these, two, which seem necessary to the sense, have been supplied in a posterior, but an early hand-writing, the letters of which are of the small Greek , form ; and two, which are not necessary ito the sense, have not been so supplied. The same hand has made a variety of correc' tions of the text in the margin and above the original text, where the readings differ from those in the now received text, and in particular places has supplied the accents, which being done in a careless manner, and with ink less bright and clear than that of the original writing, has defutmed the MS. considerably; the subsequent addition, however, of these accents is in itself a rely curious. circumstance, and may give rise to much speculation ; the grave accent is but seldom denoted, and the acute not always, nor in all instances, according to its received position among us. It is impossible at present to ascertain the date of the ns., but it is no doubt the oldest classical MS. extant. It is now stretched upon two thin deal boards, a the width and length of the roll, by which means it is preserved from injury, and is rendered very easy of collation. We hope to see afac simile of it published in the manlier of the Codex- Alexandrinus, by Dr. Woide, or of the Codex item, by Dr. Kipling; and it would not be unworthy of the University if it issued from its press, and under the accurate eye of its very learned Greek Professor. —(Cambridge Cif °aide.)  • When Bor.l v.tit retired from Ca Win gene, at the time it was besieged by Morilel, he proceeded to Jamaica for the purpose of endeavouring to obtain whatever supplies were to be met with, in order to render every possible aid to the Patriot cause. Some Spaniards, who had taken up their residence in that island, and . who equally hated and dreaded Bolivar, formed the horrible project or procuring his assassination. To effect this diabolical purpose, they bribed a negro, who was to watch his opportunity, and, stealing upon the Patriot Chief while he was asleep, to dispatch him without noise This wretch, under cover of the darkness of the night, entered the house where Bolivar had fixed his abode, and reaching his usual bed-room, he silently approached a hammock, and stabbed to the heart the individual lying there, who immediately expired. —The unfortunate man, however, who wax thus assassinated, proved to be, not Bolivar, but his private xecretary—the former having on that very imrning removed to another house. The murderer was almost immediately apprehended, anti a few days afterwards hanged. He confessed having been bribed by some Spaniards to perpetrate the deed,—but through, as it appeared, the guarded manner in which they had communicated with him, he was unable to state their names; suspicion, however, rested upon some Spaniards who a few days previously had quitted the island. Bolivar, on hearing of the assassination of his secretary, exclaimed, "The Spaniards 'by their crimes hasten the completion of our independence; the i'certainty of this is a consolation undc.7 my present heart-rending affliction." II