The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-03 00:00:00

THE MAGA ZINES, &c.
BL CKWO OD.
Mega is adorned this itiont';l by, e.t hrisl., three
very retrarliable contributions. Aeother .3art cf
Cerie:opher under Cenvase" NP. 9, atiest:3 jn
ekqtvnt accents, teat the intellee:, of Peoessor Wil-
s?n is still chatacterised by much of its pristine
while under the mellowing influences of age
t,l taste has beet-me more teen ever cequieitely
sutele -
- • • - appreciatiVeneSS. 1%10 Seti!:srate conver-
s_atiami between IC, orth, Talboys, aw:t Seward, the
fire t in the camp at Cledich, the st-eorld in ate van
---_, i(t)4.('Ugh how the Cal come the title
Borecdes, seeing that the " Titue" is "
_i_ght" we cannot coejecture)—imparts to the reader
;leZnler analysis of some a the more majestic beau-
"ftlit3 muse of Milton than can be extri.cted
from
of.— the whole of the weak and elaborated criticisms
L 1
Allison. The converseeions about "Paradise
j-,18t" here referred to would have rejoiced the heart
c/i r ~,Richarlson—aet the novelist, but the friend
iroaiwell's Secretary. " Next of the three ar-
ticles of importance in regard to pomition,
tit foremost in point of interest, is the continuation
of Sir Butwer Lytton's glorious "Novel," recounting
the fortunes. of the ill-fated Nora, the miserable
;I:tie:7 Egerton, the eccentric Iticcahocca, the brit-
Violante, the gentle Helen, the dreaming
Leoneed, the practical Richard Avenel, honest
Squire Hizledean, simple-hearted Parson Dale, poor
deed John Burley, good-natured Dr. Morgan, and a
"ewd of other personages as diversified as any ficti-
tious multitude ever .grouped together since the time
when Le Sieee Penned his incomparable novel of
novels—"Gil Bias." The mystery surrounding the
career of Audley Egerton—pointing him out as the
father of Leonard, the destroyer of Nora, and the
betrayer of Harley ]'Estrange—is all explained with
very" masterly lucidity and with a natural and per-
suasive pathos that every warm-hearted reader will
at once recognise and bow down to as irresistible.
The close of the present instalment—bringing us, we
fear, to the very verge of the conclusion—is a start-
ling incident that renders us breathless with anxiety
for the fate of the beautiful Violante. The third of
the more noticeable papers in Blackwood for August
is the last article in the number, a political paper—
very enthusiastic, very vigorous, and very mistaken,
in which a variety of chickens are counted before
they are hatched—the writer exulting somewhat
loudly on what he believes to be the triumph of Lord
Derby's Government. The argument is a .6 pendant"
to a former one in which the elections were looked
forward to with many sanguine anticipations. If the
author of the paper is mistaken in regard to his facts,
as we believe him to be, he is at any rate mar-
vellously clever in the manner of their arrangement.
In this respect he must be allowed to have written, per- .
.hapse the ablest statement yet put forward in behalf of
the present Administration. A second instalment of
4' Katie Stewart" reveals yet more plainly the skill of
the story-teller. A pleasant gossipping contribution
is the one entitled " 'The Moor and the Loch," and
hardly -less agreeable the criticism headed "From
Stamboul to Tabriz." Besides these, Maga contains
a curious chapter upon "gold," in reference to the
important interests of Taxation, Emigration, and
Foreign Dependence.

F RA SE It.
Under the comprehensive and suggestive title of
"Gold and Emigration," the writer of the introductory
article in Fraser for August has grcuped together a
very valuable store of facts relating to the precious
Metal—especially interesting to all whose inclinations
are bent towards Australis. Among the most ex-
traordinary of the particulars here commented on, is
the astonishingly rapid increase during the last ten or
,eleven years in the produce of gold—from 5,000,000 in
1840, to 17,500,000 in 1850, and, still mote, in 1851 to
22,500,000—•-anl thi?' according to Wyld's estimate,
11,,,n authority beyond the chance of contradiction.
Fraser iogenic - • n ly r-marks upon the effects of gold

• 00 prices, that—
' Th„ invention of the London Clearing•house, which
Betties monetary trarsuctiocs averQr.,ing three millions
,
'144, by means o; two hundred thousand pounds in
bank•notes was quiva,int to the open:ng of gold mines
far rich,,r than thobe of C alifornia an('. Australia."
The
influence of old is subsequently spoken of at
some length as affording a
wholesome incentive very.
recently to emigration. At first the rush was to
California, across the isthmus of Panama, or round
Cape Horn, between adventurers from England and
4na. erica—now the struggle has been to reach the
ne
elongkbourhuod of Bathurst by crowded vessels of
Z_
United
leaving the port of London and the coast of
United States. In the additional chapters of
a c.":3-9aPet:itiiar the Rev. Charles Kingsley has borrowed
The nezrorn Mr. Jlrndy ce—anent the "east wind."
from Inland, reminds
entitled "Familiar Epistles
ing twent
paver yoyrkYears
reminds one of theliterary tomahawk-
ago in the pages of "Regina," when
flourished as a
fall glory O.fe fivras the Boanerges, and when, in the
t aognedneent t
sYneolwlowa-pdlunsils
curitlice.YciT°limeteoPriraens
are Terence. Flynn and Dennis "'Moriarty, Esquires.y
little more of gentlemanly feeling is
thaPnPi perceivable in the tone Of these gentlemen
was at any time perceptiblein the bearing of their
vet
-E, 27 rigorous—and vulgar—predecessors. it A.
rtnight in North Wales" makes a pleasant read-
able_ PaPe.r enough. After which we have 2, some-
at elaborated review of the " Memoirs of Lord
Langdale;' The " Autobiography of Captain Digby
as our Yankee brethren say, " progresses,"
• but its progress just now happens to be rather slow
and uninteresting. The " Sketches of Rome" dis-
play to us such personages as the statesman Azeglio,
ths preacher Ventura, and the demagogue Ciceroac-
chi°. ,s Uncle Tom'o Cabin," the name of the closing
article, is simply nothing more nor less than Mrs.
Stowe's work reviewed. Prior to this Fraser contains
a critical chapter about " and the Royal Aca-
demy," and a series of running commentaries on
Austrian poets, including swab names as those of
'AMU, Seidl, Bauernfeld, Castelli, and Grillparzer

TAIT.

We mi s Thomas de Q-;incey—not long ago first
in the list of Tait's contributors. Where is be ?
'Wkly has he no pQnsion ? It were sad for a man of
unquestionable genius like the Opium Eater, to be
forgotten. As another instalment of the series of
papers about "The Government of Continental
Europe," the comments on the kingdom of Prussia are
this month brought to a conclusion. Saveral stories,
constituting magazine articles somewhat of the old-
, fashionvd style, light, gossipping, and sometimes
sparkling into a very good semblance of vivacity,
lend their charm to the current number—such arti-
Pies us "The Stinctuary," or as "The Loves of an
Apntlarcarv," or as "Old Roads and 04.1
The last-n; entioned is this time descriptive of the
"tlchihg era, and recalls many a pleasant gallop over
the cri)p macadamized highroads of. Lt;gl and to. our
recollection. S,:vertil of criticismsin Tad are
US usual minute and yet comprehenEive.

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
Bentley eotnrunces with a memoir of Lord Jeffory,
with a portrait. Professor Creasy's history of " Un-
successful Great Itien" r-aches its sixth number, with
that of "-The Wise cad chivalrous Montcalm, the lust
and best of tte Paladins of France beyond the
western wave," as his biographer styles him. A
chapter on rats is highly interesting, in which the
character; habits, and general history of this obnoxious •
animal are carefully explained ; few persons, notwith-
standing its übiquity, are acquainted with the origin
or 1.1.,e of the rat, who is not a native of this country,
and, indeed, the author goes so far as to state his
beli.f that it has emigrated from Persia, and gradu-
ally colonised the whole of Europe. The tale of " A
Race for an Heiress" is poor, and endeavours to show
that. %when an heiress is in TEstion all feelings of
honour, affection, and truth must be necessarily eat
aside.

COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.
"Notes on the War with Burmah," by an Officer of
the Bengal Army, is continued. " Musings and
'-rulbing about the Goodwin S)nd3," by Robert Por-
'"
,"us. contains some account cf the system on which
"w rcckage carried on, the behaviour of the Deal
boatmen when vessels are in distress on the sands,
Ind other particubirs. We have also a history of
Japan and its neighbours. A letter from Lieutenant-
Colonel Beamisn on Captain Norton's projectiles can-
not fail to prove attractive to all who take any interest
14 the long range of fire-arms which has created
,
a sensation of late, and we feel ashamed to think
that through the prejudice and p:,rty feeling which
xisted (end still exists) in the committee at AV()01-
tvich, that foreign ...ztates reap• the benefit of the dit-
coveries and labours of our countrymen.

COLI3URN'S NEW MONTHLY.
ThA number before us exhibits a great variety.
- - The first article, "Tile Day Dream," is a moat
meliiic-hely and' absurd story, the more so on
neco .a: of it, ex e:ding improbability. An Eng-
lish gentleman, G. Vansittart, endeavours to
ameliorate the condition of the Irish pea-
santry ou a certain estate ; after much toil and
trouble he succeeds beyond his hopes. Suddenly
fanatical priest returns after a long absence, is in-
dignant at the change, denounces the benefactor from
the altar, and causes him to be murdered. `it's)
fourth number of "Female Novelists"contains a very
good criticism on the author of "Olive." "A Day's
limiting at Baden Baden" does not pay anY compli-
ments to the German style of carrying on such
amusements. " k-, A Q
o-imper to Killarney, via the
Cork Exhibition," affords much
information concern_
ina the country, and describes at great length the
grne.ral characteristics of the lower classes met with
on, the way. Young Tom Han it Heartaches and
. 1-1 Irses" has some very eaten ' . chapters on the
t absurd pretensions of some a
could-b 9
b 9 grand folk,i
• I
%tad their thorough failure, ,411idTh'e Linden for
. .