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

FRASER.

on the late Joseph
A paper by Cyrus Redding,
Mallord William Turner, will be read with interest
by all lovers of the fine arts. Mr. Redding on various
occasions accompanied turner on his sketching tour,,
and he shows us in this paper, when Turner worked,
and how he worked,
and the marvellous facility he
possessed of turning every little bit of scenery to ex-
cellent account. The
opening article, on Mr. Ben-
jamin Disraeli as lenderand
legislator, does
ample justice to that
distinguished politician ;
and the article on the state and prosperity of
England takes a much more common-sense view of
the state of affairs than that taken by the alarmists.
The Rev. Charles Kingsley gives us two additional
chapters of "Hypatie," in one of which he introduces

us to a horde of Goths who have with them a harem
of Greek girls ; seldom have we read any descriptions
more meretricious than those which Mr. Kingsley
gives of these Greek girls in general, and of Pelagic
in particular. Had these passages been written by
Eugene Sue or George Sand, all parsonical eyes and
all parsonical hands would have been uplifted
in horror at the abomination, but proceeding as
they do from the pen of a Reverend Gentleman,
we presume that, like the Confessions of St. Augus-
tine, or the Temptations of St. Anthony, they may
be read for the edification of the devout. The His-
tory of the Hungarian War is brought down to the
battle of Herrmanstadt. It appears that even at this
early period of the war Gorgey Was artfully pre-
paring that treason which he afterwards so foully and
so fatally accomplished. The remaining articles in
this number are all of great merit.

ROYAL MILITARY.
The February number, being the fifth of this pub-
lication devoted to the interests of the united service,
contains, in addition to the usual amount of military
intelligence, several very readable articles. The
topics in Our Haversack" are well handled, and not
one of the least interesting is a letter written by th.?
Emperor Napoleon to his brother the King of West-
phalia, communicating the disatrous results of the
campaign of Moscow. The editor gives a decided
preference to Deane and Adam's revolvers over Colt's,
and considers their rifles superior to any of the
French improvements, or to the deadly and far-
ranging needle-gun.

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.
Reviewing is in the ascendant in the number for
the present month, separate articles being devoted to
the consideration of M. de Bacourt's " Correspon-
dence between Mirabeau and the Count de la Marck,"
of Carlyic's Biography of John Sterling ; of Forster's
work on " The One Primeval Language ;" and of
sundry recent contributions to the circulating libra-
ries, headed " A Budget of Novels." In the last
mentioned paper "Ravenscliffe," " Florence Sack-
ville," " Mrs. _Mathews," Herbert Melville's " The
Whale," " Cecile, or the Pervert," and " John
Drayton," pass under notice. A couple of pages are
given to the lamented Eliot Warburton, and we have
a biographical memoir, illustrated with a portrait, of
Henry Brooke, the author of Gustavus Vasa, and the
The Fool of Quality, an Irishman of eminence and
repute, some hundred years since. The political paper,
" Ireland under Lord Clarendon," is very cleverly
written, but we cannot coincide in the unfavourable
views put forward by the writer with regard to the
policy which has characterised the Viceroyalty of that
distinguished statesman.