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

THE MAGAZINES, &c.
BL A CKWOOD.
Mega is adorned this tuouth by, at least, three
very remarkable contributions. Another part of
Christopher under Csnvass" No. 9, attests in
eloquent accents, that the intellect of Professor Wil-
son is still characterised by much of its pristine
rigour, while under the mellowing influences of age
his taste has become more then ever exquisitely
subtle in its appreciativeness. Two separate conver-
sations between North, Talboys, and Seward, the
first
in the camp at Cladich, the second in the van
---_-(though hew the second can come under the title
of Dies Boreales, seeing that the " Time" is " Mid-
night" we cannot conjecture)—imparts to the reader
a."bier anslysis of some of the more majestic beau-
of the muse of Milton than can be extr:cted
m the whole of the weak and elaborated criticisms
°f Arldiso The •about "Paradise
L„,„ o• conversations
here referred to would have rejoiced the heart
Oth, f ii!lehardson—not the novelist, but the friend
a
.Cromve,
Cromwell Secretary. Next of the three ar-
l" of importance in regard to position,
i
• foremost in point of interest, is the continuation
o Sir 13alwer Lytton's glorious "Novel," recounting
die
the fortunes of the ill-fated Nora, the miserable
Egerton, the eccentric B.iccabocca, the bril-
e"nt Violante, the gentle Helen, the dreaming li
"rd, the practical Richard Avenel, honest
squire Hazledean, simple-hearted Parson Dale, poor
deed John Burley, good-natured Dr. Morgan, and a
~,crosvd of other personages as diversified as any ficti-
"us multitude ever grouped together since the time
when Le Sage penned his incomparable novel of
novels--" Gil Blip." 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 rEstrange—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.
91e ChM of the present instalment—bringing us, we
fear, to the very verge of the conclusion—!s a start-
g 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,
1,11 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 " 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-
haps, the ablest statement yet put forward in behalf of
the present Administration. A second instalment of
liikotie 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
curious chapter upon " gold," in reference to the
important interests of Taxation, Emigration, and
Poreign Dependence.

F RA SER.
Under the comprehensive and suggestive title of
"sold and Emigration," the writerof the introductory
article in Fraser for August has grouped together a
very valuable store of facts relating to the precious
metal—especially
interesting to all whose inclinations
are bent towards Australia. 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 mor7, in 1851 to
‘22soo,ooo—and this, according to Wyld a estimate,
an authority beyond the chance of contradiction.
Fraser ingeuiously remarks upon the effects of gold
cla prices, that—
`' The invention of the London Clearing. house, which
settles monetary transactions averaging three millions
daily,
by means of two hundred thousand pounds in
Ink•notes, was equivalent to the opening of gold mines
Etr richer than those of California and AustrAlia.,,
The influence of gold is subsequently spoken of at
Borne length as affording a wholesome incentive very
recently to emigration.
. At first the rush was to
California,2
across the isthmus of Panama, or round
Cape Horn, between adventurers from England and
_ar.nerica..-.IIOW the . struggle has been to reach the
I:el_glabourhood of Bathurst by crowded vessels of
the'
leaving the port of London and the coast of
ii United States. In the additional chapters of
: 31ktia," the Rev. Charles Kingsley has borrowed
... conceite
Il from Mr. Jandce—anent the "east wind."
free, tzt contribution entitled "Familiar Epistles
.....„ Ireland," '
Oliver
room twenty reminds one of the literary tomahawk-
yorl3:ears ago in the pages of " Regina," when
full glor e was the Boanerges, and when, in the
are Terence
flourished as
Flynnritic. The correspondents y °f fluelleydom, Plantagenet Yellowplush
now-a-days
A, mtie -" and Dennis Moriarty, Esquires.
happil more of
Y perceivable in the
gentlemanly feeling is
thantone of these gentlemen
very w"
at any time perceptiblein the bearing of their
vigorous—and vulgar—predecessors. " A
Fortnight
in
North Wales' -makes a pleasant read-
able_,Paper enough. After which we have a some-
what elaborated review of the " Memoirs of Lord
L,angdale." The" Autobiography of Captain Digby
i`elraild," as our Yankee brethren say, " progresses,
'Jut its
Progress just now happens to be rather slow
and uninteresting. The " Sketches of Rome" dis-
play personages to us such as the statesman Azeglio,
the preacher Ventura, and the demagogue Ciceroac-
euio• " Uncle Tom's Cabin," the name of the closing
article, is simply nothing more nor less than Mrs.
o
otowe's work reviewed. Prior to this Fraser contains
4 critical chapter about " Art and the Royal Aca-
demy," and a series of running commentaries on
Austrian poets, including such names as those of
Lemiu, Seidl, Bauernfeld, Castelli, and Grillparzer I

TAI T.
We miss Thomas de Qaincey—not long ago first
in the list of Tait's contributors. Where is he ?
Why has he no pension ? It were sad for a man of
unquestionable genius like the Opium Eater, to be
forgotten. As ancther 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. Several stories,
constituting magazine articles somewhat of the old-
fashioned style, light, gossipping, and sometimes
sparkling into a very good semblance of vivacity,
lend their charm to the current number—such arti-
cles as "The Sanctuary," or as " The Loves of an
Apothecary," or as " Old Roads and Old Travellers:,
The last-mentioned is this time descriptive of the
Coaching era, and recalls many a pleasant gallop over
the crisp macadamized highroads of England to our
recollection. Several of the criticisms in Tuit are
" usual minute and yet comprehensive.

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
Bentley commences with a memoir of Loy d Jeff Pry,
With a portrait. Professor Creasy's history of " Un-
successful Great Men" reaches its sixth number, with
that of " The wise and chivalrous Montcelm, the last
and best of the Paladins of France beyond the
western wave," as his biographer styles him. A
chapter on rats is highly interestin, in which the
character, babas, and general history of this obnoxious
animal are caretully explained ; few persons, notwith-
standing its übiquity, are acquainted with the origin
or use of the rat, who is not a native of this country,
and, indeed, the author goes so far as to state his
belief 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 question all feelings of
honour, affection, and truth must be necessarily set
aside.

• COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.
"Notes on the War with Barmah," by an Officer of
theßengal Army, is continued. " Musings and
Cruising about the Goodwin Sauds," by Robert Por-
'as, contains some account of the system on which
Zr"k2ge is carried on, the behaviour of the Deal
clahnen when vessels aro in distress on the sands,
and other par ticulay. We have also a history of
'aPAn and its neighbours. A letter from Lieutenant-
Colonel Beamis4 on Captain Norton's projectiles can-
in to prove attractive to all who take any interest
the long range of fire-arms which has crelted
that
a sensation of late, and we feel ashamed tothink
enat.through the prejudice and pr.rty feeling which
z
...il3ted (and still exists) in the committee at Wcol-
. rch,.that foreign States reap the benefit of the die-
wveries and labours of our countrymen.

COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY.
The
number before us exhibits a great variety
4-he first article, "The Day Dream," is a most
melancholy and absurd stork, th, more so on
autoAr, of it, ex er,ding improbability. An Eng-
lish gentleman,, G. Vansittert, endeavours to
, ameliorate the condition of the Irish pea-
81IntrY en a certain estate ; after much toil and
frouble he succeeds beyond his hopes. Suddenly a
fanatical
priest returns after a long absence, is in_
diKnant at the change, denounces the benefdctor from
the altar, and causes him to be unordered., The
fourth number of "Female Novelists" on a very
Rood criticism on the author of c; Olive. " A Day's
Hunting at Baden Bedew" does not pay Any compli-
kents to the German style of carrying on such
alnusernents.
" A Scamper to Killarney, via the
Cork Exhibition," affords much information concern-
.ing• the country, and describes at
great length the
gmeral chfiracteristics of the lower classes met 'with
on the was. Young TOM liall'y 4 ; HeArtaches an,
1.1 n ~..
~Sf-S utts BOUM very entertaining chapters on the
absurd Tor atemions of some 'would-b. grand folks,
and their thorough failure. "The- I:,lectiun for