The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-02 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tait's Edinburgh contains interesting arti-
cles on the " Manchester Education Scheme," end
" How to Teach and Preach to Colliers." The spe-
cimen given of the pitman's sermon will doubtless
surprise many, though it can readily be believed that
such discourses are easily comprehended, and, there-
fore, suitable to the colliers. The Sportsman is em-
bellished by two plates, one a portrait of " Nancy,"
the other entitled " The Run of the Season." The
Ladies' Companion has its usual variety of subjects.
Among them may be noticed " Pages from the His-
tory of Genius," a most interesting biography of
Mozart, by Maria Norris, and " The Woman of the
Writers," by Mrs. Cowden Clarke. The Gentleman's
Magazine and Historical Review contains an article
on " Alfred the Great," and a paper on " Puppets."
It is somewhat strange so much of this maga-
zine should be devoted to historical researches
and the obituary, which makes it more suited to the
taste of antiquarians than to ordinary readers. The
Eclectic Review has articles on the " Railway to
India," the " Arctic Expedition," and various other
subjects of general interest. The review of the Life
of Lord George Bentinck is written in a contemptu-
ous and uncourteous style, unworthy of the author
and the subject. The second number of the British
Journal promises well for the future as a lively and
amusing melange. The Public Good and the Poetic
Review are accompanied this month by the Biogra-
phical Magazine, the first number of which contains
sketches of Jean Paul Richter, J. M. W. Turner,
Lord Palmerston, and other celebrated characters.
The Follet plates are, as they always are, excellent.

THE QUARTERLIES.
THE QV ARTERLY REVIEW. No. CLXXIX.
A remarkable article appears in the current num-
ber of the Quarterly, in the course of which the
reviewer endeavours to fix the authorship of Junius
upon Lord Lyttelton. The argument is altogether
very ingenious, and is one evidently elaborated
throughout with considerable care. It displays,
moreover, some exceedingly curious research on the
part of the writer, who has entered upon his subject
con amore, and has closed it with a settled, stubborn,
obstinate, inflexible conviction. That conviction is
that Lord Lyttelton was Junius. The reviewer
manifestly set himself down deliberately and with the
determination prepense to prove that Junius was no
other than Lord Lyttelton. Before he goes very far
into the question he makes it a personal one. He
conceives that here and here only can the public find
any clue to the mystery. He has said he thinks
Lord Lyttelton and Junius are identical, and there-
fore they must be identical. Now, with all possible
regard for the ability displayed by the writer of the
paper under consideration in the course of his argu-
ment, we cannot—we must avow it—but regard this
same " therefore" to be a most unmitigated and bare-
faced non sequitur. We have paid every attention to
the reasons adduced in support of the hypothesis, and
yet, while acknowledging the remarkable force of
some among those reasons, we are compelled in
simple truth, and in defiance of all the dogmatism of
the reviewer, to discredit the correctness of the sup-
position that Junius was no other than Lord Lyttel-
ton. For reasons which it would take too long in a
little notice of a Quarterly Review to enumerate, we
are still more and morelsatisfied that Junius, after all,
was no other than Sir Philip Francis. Yet the
article upon this ever-interesting subject in the cur-
rent number before us is eminently deserving perusal.
So, also is the lively and gossiping paper which pre-
cedes it upon the subject of " Physiognomy." The
following passage is admirable
All theories of physiognomy must,be, from their very
nature, limited in extent, but it is to the first artists in
the world that we are indebted for the only safe basis
on which they stand. In that philosophy of the fine
arts which the Greeks have left us we alone find the
rudiments of a true study of physiognomy. It is their
principle of comparative anatomy which, by strictly
separating the physical attributes of Man from those of
the animal, has established the real characteristic of the
human form. And it is by the same process that we
are led to the first sure step in physiognomy; for,
following it, wo must soon distinguish two portions of
the countenance which may be pronounced to be espe-
cially the human being's own, since the inferior creature
possesses them in such limited measure as to be said not
to possess them at all. Its profile takes, without excep-
tion, the form of a wedge, more or less blunt or acute.
That of man presents a comparatively perpendicular
line, rendered such by the addition of a forehead above
and a chin below—the wedge shape being only ap-
proached by those savage races whose state of life is
nearest that of the animal, and even in them never so
much as totally to obliterate the better type. Accord-
' ingly, the average development of this upper and lower
portion will be found the indispensable requisite on
which the intervening features depend for giving us that
pleasure which is produced by a rightful specimen of
humanity. No matter how perfect those features if one
of these conditions be egregiously failing—no matter
how imperfect if they be there. Many a man has a face
we care not to look at again till he takes off his hat;
while, on the other hand, S:. Neot, the martyr, with his
head sawn off above the eyebrow, and represented with
the unidealised features of the early German masters, is
still no animal, for his chin saves him. And these por-
tions, we must remember, are more especially man's
own, as being inalienable and unchangeable—the same
in sleep or in death—the outward indications of that
energy and intellectual power which are so awfully his
own for triumph and for temptation:'
A delightful contribution relating to " Kew Gardens"
will be read with curiosity and, we are satisfied, also
with satisfaction, by all those who are acquainted
with that most delightful of almost all retreats in the
neighbourhood of our metropolis. The review en,-,
titled " Memoirs on Russian and German Campaigns,
and the other surveying the political career of
" Louis Napoleon Bonaparte," the Prince President
of France, elected by 7,500,000 votes—are tincturediden
with the old Tory views of the old Tory Quarterly.
They are not the less worthy of our examinationremoved
this, however much they may happen
to
sympathies. beyond the circumference of our
Henryron,
Be-
sides some 16 Notes" relating
~nry to Sir for
Baronet, and a criticism of " s History.ooh,
Hoefliegtahhie;
Roman States," there is a powerful artie,,l nen t
High-
land Destitution and Irish Emigration,
important contribution in the current number of the
Quarterly.

THE RIFLE CLUB AT THE STocg EXCHANGE,_
proposed Rifle Club ;
About ninety members of the Stock Exchange have sign-
fled their intention of belonging to the
it is to be armed with double-barrelled rifles of the value of
ten guineas each.
ESTABLISHMENT OF A RIFLE CORPS.--CHELTEN-
mug, SATURDAY.—There has been a public meeting held
here, at which a rifle corps has been established to " act:under
such
Governmentorganization
may andthil3 rulesthink
fit
tfor
provide.pract i as her Majesty's
The chair was
taken by E. G. Hallewell, Esq., M.P. The following reso-
lution was adopted :—" That in consequence of the unsettled
state of affairs on the continent of Europe, it is deemed ex-
pedient that the population of this kingdom should place
itself in an attitude of national defence, and that as the
recent improvements in the rifle are likely to render it a
most important arm in future warfare, a corps should be
formed in Cheltenham, to be called the Cheltenham Rifle
Corps.' " A committee and officers of the club were also ap-
pointed, including a chaplain—an office which was suggested
by the Rev. Francis Close, who also offered to undertake it,
and his offer was accepted.
DUCHY OF CORNWALL. —RiChard Taylor, EFCI.,
has retired from the office of Mineral Surveyor of the Duchy
of Cornwall, and has been succeeded by Professor Wariogton
Smyth, of the Museum of Economic Geology.