The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-09 00:00:00

LITERA TITRE

Dublin University Magazine.
"Linglake's Narrative of the Crimean War" is
the subject of the first article. It is said that
the first volume which is devoted to the eonsidere,
tion of the causes which led to the war, the author
of Eothen has set before us everything that the
hungriest reader will care to know. The second
volume, it states, devotes almost too much space to
the description of the battle of the Alma, but the
whole account is done so artistically, that one is
fain to pardon Vs diffuseness. "In language
clear, stirring, elaborately simple, yet flowing
with an air at unsteadied grace, and pregnant with
sound thought in many thinks, the writer US
brought before us the strange ebbs and flows of a
most chequered
.struggle, as it moved on here and
there over a
.wide field, from minute to minute,
during several beers of noise and bloodshed and
wild uncertainty." It is observed, in conclusion,
that for some reasons Mr. Russell's and N:lpit:r's•
sketches may be preferred, but a full, true, and sug-
gestive account of the battle of the Alma, these
almost Homeric pictures of Mr. Kinglike wilt fur-
nish to the general reader. A new story is com-
menced called " Bella Donna; or, The Cross before
the Name." It is very romantic, and will most
likely prove exciting as it proceeds. "Abhrain on
Bhudeil" is a spirited sketch in verse, by
Hyacinth von Carolan. "Little Flaggs, the
Almshouse Foundling" is continued, and this in-
stalment is very eventful, as we meet with various
changes. Mary escapes from her tormentors, but
the last passage leaves her in the grasp of a rude
hand. This reminds one of a passage in Oliver Twist.
" Sterne and his Dog" is continued in the same
style as formerly. "The British Newspaper" is a
suggestive article, that will repay perusal. Various
other subjects are met with in this periodical that
will prove attractive and interesting.

Bentley's Ilitseellany.
The editor's historical romance of "Cardinal Pole"
proceeds with interest, and chronicles in this in-
stalment the important event of the Royal marriage.
A paper on " The Hermit of Gauting" relates the
adventures of an eccentric and by no means attrac-
tive character. We have also an account of a man
whose life is of a more active kind—Benito Suarez,
the present President of the Republic of Mexico.
We have another biographical paper in an outline
of the career of Madame Schroder-Devrient, a dis-
tinguished dramatic singer, recently deceased. The
narrative of "A Visit to Russia," and the description
of A Summer in America," are both continued.
There are fresh instalments of two tales, and a
pleasantly-written paper on " The Channel Islands
and their Legends." Monkshood, always one of the
cleverest writers in this periodical, contributes a
very readable essay on " The Advantages of Im-
pudence."

Afacmillan's Magazine
Contains some interesting articles. To the philolo-
gist, Professor Max Muller's lecture " On the
Science of Language," which he delivered at the
Royal Institution last month, wi,l prove attractive.
A paper by Dr. T. L. Phipson, F.C.S., " On the
Chemistry of the Sea," contains not only scientific
information for the learned, but some statistics
which will amuse the general reader. It is curious
to observe that there are cases where the continuous
influx of fresh water into inland seas, combined
with an efflux of salt water, causes the sea or lake
in the course of time to become fresh, as in the case
of Backal Lake, in Siberia, the change being gra-
dual. The fish and plants which were originally
indigenous to salt water seem to change their
nature with the change of element, and shoals of
herrings are to be seen disporting in the fresh water
as naturally and happily as their ancestors did in a
primeval age. The second and concluding part of
"A Visit to Lutzen in October, 1862," by Herman
Merivale, takes up the account of the battle after
the fall of Gustavus, and Mr. Merivale enters into
a long dissertation on the character and history of
Wallenstein, of whom he entertains no very favour-
able opinion, considering him to be a humbug. The
misery which the thirty years' war brought upon
Germany is well described in the following ex-
tract :
And so farewell to Wallenstein and to Gustavus--cha-
rectors over which the imagination lingers, though one was
assuredly both worse and lower than his reputation : the
other so far elevated by fate and his high purpose above the
ordinary sons of men that he loses something of mere
human interest. Such as they were, they left no successor
behind
them. Except the short-lived hero, Bernard of
Saxe Weimar, no subsequent personage of that war has
made any appreciable mark in history. Uneontrollei by
master spirits, the contest lingered on, bloodier and more
indecisive, till, out of the two parties, the one bent on sub-
jugation, the other on independence, a mere confused and
mangled residue remained, with scarcely voice enough left
to expend in feeble groanings for peace at any price.
Famine, sword, and pestilence had uprooted a whole gene-
ration. Equal honors may have occurred in barbarous
countries, but never, assuredly, in a civilized and
Christian community like that of Germany, where num-
berless active pens were engaged in chronicling them. Its
population, say some authorities, shrank from 16 or 18
millions to four millions. Whether this be accurate or no,
one curious evidence of the extent of depopulation is to bs
found in its forest history. The country had thriven se
greatly in the 15th and 16th centuries, that its vast sylvan
riches were beginning to show symptoms of exhaustion. In
North Germany numerous edicts were issued before Imo
1600 for the preservation of the woods. It is recorded of a
oertain Duke Augustus of Saxony, that, on his walks, he
always carried a hollow brass rod filled with acorns, to drop
one by ono into the ground There are three things, Me-
lanethon used to say, which will fail before the end of the
world comes : good friends, good money, and firewood.
The Thirty Years' War effectually adjourned these com-
plaints to another age. The forest covered again whole
traots which had been under cultivation. What with the
diminution of people, and what with the increase of wood,
no need of the old kind seems to have been again felt until
the middle of the 18th century; and it is said that the
forest had then become so overgrown, that the tempestuous
seasons which prevailed 1780-1790, destroyed many square
miles of them. Germany went back in cultivation and in
political spirit and independence, even more than in
mere numbers; it required a Frederic the Great to raise
her again after a hundred years, and that but partially;
and even the Germany of the 19th century, in which politi-
cal lags so far behind every other class of thought, bears
the impress of that long reign of darkness and terror which
broke down the medieval spirit of self-government.
"The Water Babies" is brought to a conclusion. It
is, of course, our want of perception, but we con-
fess that we can make neither head nor tail of this
wonderful production from first to last—in fact, the
last, i.e., the moral, is rather more ambiguous than
the story itself. "Vincenzo, or Sunbeam Rocks,"
is continued. " A Gossip about Oysters, and their
Natural and Economic History," should be read by
parties after an oyster supper. " The Russian
paper "On Sermons and
Politicalp
Preaching,"
ae hia gP Press,"
y,
"tahnedß:v. Canon Robinson, complete
the number.

FATAL COLLISION.—The barque Tuspan, of and
from Havre for the West Indies, came in collision with the
City of Peterborough, from Cochin for London, on the sth
instant, about 200 miles south of Scilly. The latter vessel
went down with the captain (Wright), the first mate, and
three of the crew. The others, eight in number, got on
board the Tuspan and were saved. The Tuspan has arrived
at Bristol for repairs.

GREAT INCREASE IN THE EXODUS FROM LITER.
POOL. —The Government emigration officials at
Liverpool have j oat issued their usual monthly return of
the number of emigrant ships which sailed from the Mer-
sey in the month of February. From the tables we learn
that there sailed, " under the act," during the past month
14 ships for the United States, having on board 4,230 pa::
eengers ; to Victoria, three ships, with 937 passengers
and to Queensland, one ship, with 291
a total of 5,528 passengers. The nunibetrhoe
with
or vessels not under the act, which left the portwith
passengers—makingf,siort
ships,
676 pas-
sengers, were—to the UnitednSetsahtelps:
• with 23 passengers;
passen-
gers; to New South Wahles3oo
passengers; to South Ame-
rica,to Victoria, one ship, with
passengers; to Africa, one ship,
four ships,
wi
hand to West Indies, one ship, with 10
with 12 passengers;
a grand total in ships, under and not
underth.tehatcht,
those
ef passengers—making
028 t
h 8
e souls.
previous T These t
h, skew figures, wanhene increaseo m -
pared with
of 1,397, and of 3,920 over the corresponding period of last
year.
THE:NIIIRDER OF MR. FITZGERALD.—At the
Limerick Assizes on Saturday, true bills were found
against Matthew and Dennis Dillane for being accessories
before the fact to the murder of Mr. Francis Fitzgerald.
At last assizes a true bill was also found against the Pri7
soner Cooke, who stands charged with harbouring one ne of
the murderers, James Walsh, and he will be put on his trial
at the conclusion of that of the Dillanea.