The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-01 00:00:00

TAIT.

The foreign relations of England almost entirely
monopolize the attention of Tait for September. First
of all, in the additional instalment of the series of
papers relating to " The Governments of Continental
Europe," Russia is shown to have advanced during
the last hundred and fifty years to a degree of
power and magnitude by no means justifying the
contemptuous phrases of Mr. Cobden. Since the
accession of Peter I. in 1689, the number of inhabi-
tants has increased from 15,000,000 at that early
period to 58,000,000 on the death (in 1825) of Alex-
ander. Then, under the suggestive title of " Lord
Palmerston, Austria and Italy," another writer gives
his views in reference to the political prospects of the
Roman peninsula. Mr. Macgregor 's remarkable
letter to the Prime Minister in regard to the
" -United States and the British American
Fisheries" is reprinted elsewhere in the ma-
gazine. Added to these somewhat important
papers, Tuit comprises a number of lighter articles—
one a description of " A Day with a Lion," and ano-
ther furnishing additional particulars in reference to
" The Loves of an Apothecary." Several of the
criticisms on recent works—according to the wont
of the magazine under consideration—are searching
and impartial, besides being copiously illustrated by
well-chosen quotations.

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.
The much-vexed question of the nationality of
poor Tyrone Power is set at rest in a biographical
notice of that lamented ornament of the stage, com-
menced in the present number, by one who knew him
long and well—the late manager of the Dublin
Theatre, a writer well known to the readers of this
excellent periodical by his interesting contributions,
" Leaves from the Portfolio of a Manager." Ac-
cording to this authentic authority, "William Grattan
Tyrone Power was born near Kilsnacthomas, in the
county of Waterford, on the 2d of November, 1797
a soil favourable to the growth of theatrical genius ;
the same county having given birth, at an earlier and
a later period, to Dorothea Jordan and Charles Kean."
Power passed his childhood, after twelvemonths old
with his widowed mother at Cardiff, in Wales, where
there was " a gentle.men of the name of Bird, dis-
rise to an
tantly connected with the family through his wife—_
a person of high respectability, who conjoined the
omfacbyoowkslethllerß,
iprdublgisahveer,. and post-
tripleerroneous report, propagated afterwards with all the
master.
as
te
ra.
activity of malice, that Power was born a Welshman,
and brought up as a printer—two. facts highly ho-
nourable in themselves, and which an independent
"Teahtie"insti
't such as he possessed, would never have shrunk
spin ,
from acknowledging they had been true." Details
are then given of his. early theatrical career,
and his African expedition, till we leave him, at the
age of twenty-four, compelled to fall back on the stage,
" still without the slightest inclination fur the line of
acting in which he was soo? to
,distance all compe-
titors, and with no percept.ion whatever of his own
peculiar strength." " Sir Jasper Carew" and
" Clough Fionn ; or, the Stone of Destiny" are con-
tinued, and articles are devoted to the autobiographies
of Jerdan and Miss Mitford, and to " Hanna's Life
of Chalmers," continued from the July number. The
first round is given of tg A, lyinpi Shot at the United
States," and the political paper rejoices in the title of
" Ireland : Its Garden and Its Grave. The writer's
panacea for Ireland is—to Protestantise her. "lore
easily said than done !

ENGLISHMAN'S. No. 11.
There is an article in this newly-launched periodi-
cal well worth reading, which treats of " Newspaper
Literature." It controverts some of the positions
advanced by Mr. Jerdan in his recent autobigraphy.
A series of " Unphilosophical Criticisms" is com-
menced, the first number being given to Shakspere's
Dramas, on Ancient History ; and the remaining papers
are well written.

BANKER'S. No. Cll.
Contains the usual amouut of valuable notices on
commercial questions, and of statistical information.
The subject of " Dangerous Life Assurance" is treated
of in the opening article.

COLONIAL, AND ASIATIC REVIEW.
Among several papers replete with information, we
recommend the perusal of one on the subject, at pre-
sent so important, of " The American Fisheries," and
the article entitled " Justice to the West Indies—
Free or Slave Sugar." Those on " The Rival Roads
of Panama" and " The Madras Railway" will be
likewise found suggestive.

NEW TON' S LONDON JOURNAL.
No. Gen-41X.
This eminently practical compendium of matters
relating to the arts, sciences, and manufactures of the
day, contains descriptions of several new patent in-
ventions, and a few other articles of scientific interest.

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICUL.
TURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.
The twenty-ninth number of this valuable. periodi.
cal appears this month, and. contains a variety 0
papers deeply interesting to agriculturists, on such sub.
jects as the fattening of cattle, manure!, the manufae
ture of sugar from beet-root, top-dresimg, &c.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Excellent Sylvanus Urban continues with ac-
customed perspicacity the record of late antiquarian
discoveries in the pages of the good old Gentleman's
Magazine. About the most interesting contribution
in the current number for September is the continua-
tion of the "Wanderings of an Antiquary." In the
United Service Magazine there are some attractive
extracts from the journals of the late Major Edward
14acready—the brother of the "eminent Tragedian."
The usual assortment of readable and entertaining
papers may be found at pleasure in Chambers's
Edinburgh Journal. Among the poetical scraps in.
traduced we observe one from the pen of Mrs. Alaric
Watts. Chambers's Pocket Miscellany gives, among
ostler enthralling narratives, an account of the cele-
brated "Darien Expedition"—the miseries caused by
which in Scotland were commemorated so feelingly
in his last work by Eliot Warburton. The new
Instalment of Longman's eminent serial, The