The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-01 00:00:00

LAW MAGAZINE.

The " Metropolitan Police Bills," throws out some
serviceable suggestions, of which some of our Police
Magistrates would do well to avail themselves. There
is but too much truth in this remark, which occurs in-
cidentally in the course of some observations on Quarter
Sessions—" At present, thanks to the highly culpable
carelessness of the Benchers of our Inns of Court, any
person may be called to the bar, without the slightest
reference to his moral or intellectual fitness, his attain-
ments or abilities, his aim or object." In the article
entitled " The House of Commons," there is a sour,
envenomed spirit of party manifested throughout, which
is anything but reconcileable with common sense or jus-
tice. Still, whatever be its political defects, it is im-
possible to deny that the " Law Magazine" is a journal
conducted with much talent and energy.

THE SPORTING REVlEW—Ackermann. THE
SPORTING MAGAZINE—Pitman. THE
NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE_Spiers.
The number of Sporting periodicals is becoming so
great, and there is necessarily such a sameness in much
of their contents, that we are constrained to notice
the principal of them under one head. Those enume-
rated above appear in the order in which we estimate
them severally. They are tastefully embellished with
two engravings each—those of the Sporting Review
being executed with a degree of care which reflects
credit upon the artist. The articles by Nimrod are
excellent.

UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL.
There are some curious facts stated in the " Exami-
nation of the law of Storms," which is a scientific paper
of no slight merit. " Past and Present State of• Fort-
ifications in Europe," gives an elaborate account of the
progress that this art has made during the five or six

last centuries. To military men it vhil prove nccepta} le
r sling ; but will be caviare to the generality of readers.
" Joe Sims, a Galley Yarn," is another of these rough,
vigorous, naval sketches which have been so popular of
late years, but are now on the wane in point of attrac-
tiveness. Altogether, the Number is a fair average one,

THE SPORTSMAN.
A spirited number of a very clever and uniformly
well conducted sporting magazine. The embellishments
are both by Beckwith, and do credit to the abilities of
the artist. The first is " Lottery," the winner of the
Cheltenham and Liverpool steeple chases, from a paint-
ing by Turner, and the second is " Pike-fishing" from a
painting by Giles. Both are full of character, and, by
all true sportsmen, will be valued at more than the
price of the number.

THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE.
The title of this periodical is enough to obtain for it
the most extensive patronage, the more especially as it
abounds with information, commercial, statistical, and
agricultural, of great importance to the practical farmer,
not in one only, but in every branch of his business,
The present Number, in addition to a series of very in-
teresting papers on cattle-breeding, draining, manuring,
&c., is embellished with two well-executed engravings
by Beckwith, the one an enormous specimen of the short
horned bull, bred by Mr. Baker, of Rutlandshire, and
the other the winner of the Goodwood Cup for 1839.

THE CATHOLIC MAGAZINE.
We are no admirers of religious controversy, and
have, therefore, no sympathy with the conductors of
periodicals in which it forms a leading feature. We,
moreover, know enough of Catholicism to be perfectly
sensible that as a religious system it is by no means
what the contributors to the Catholic Magazine would
represent it. They appear to know nothing of the Ca-
tholic religion beyond what may be gathered from an ob-
servance of its rites in England ; hut we can tell them
from a more extended acquaintance with it, that it is
elsewhere a very different affair. At the same time we
admit that the writers may find an apology for their
zeal in the rabid attacks made upon them by ignorant
bigots of the Church of England, who know about as
much concerning the tenets and practices of the See of
Rome, as they do about the religious system of the
Persian Fire-Worshippers. A Catholic Magazinemay
be necessary to counteract the effect of the absurd
ravings of the " Churchman" and the harlequin exhi-
bitions at Exeter-hall, but the honest Christian
will be greatly deceived if he select eitt.er one
or the other as an unerring guide. We may ob-
serve, however, that " 80-Peep" is more than unu-
sually sarcastic this month, and as the world is
always full of ill-natured people, his article only wants
circulation to have a world of admirers. The " biogra-
phical memoir of the late Abbott of La Trappe" is very
interesting, as showing the domination which religious
or rather superstitious enthusiasm frequently establishes
over the most cultivated minds. From the notes for
the month we learn that Catholicism is rapidly gaining
ground in every part of England. Among the recent
converts at Weymouth we find the name of Mr. George
Gustavus Monk, son of the Rev. Mr. Monk, author of
several religious works. The reported rumour of the
building of a Catholic cathedral in London, which was
to have been consecrated by the Pope in person, turns
out to be a hoax which some wag payed upon the fa-
natics assembling at Exeter Hall. The Editor, with
well sustained mock gravity, deprecates a rumour which
might have qualified a whole batch of the " saints" for
strait waistcoats in St. Luke's.

MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
There is a very judicious essay on " Milton," in this
number, which is the production of Mr. Heraud, who
sounds the depths of his subject, and brings up thence
much valuable ore. No modern critic, however, has
yet equalled Dr. Channing on this point. His analy-
sis of Milton's prose and poetry, is, on the whole,
more satisfactory than any other with which we are
acquainted. It is not so showy or animated, but
more consistent and argumentative, than Macauley's,
in the " Edinburgh Review." Of the remaining arti-
cles, (which are few) in the number, the most enter-
taining is the digest of some new works, under the
appropriate name of " Library Monologue."