The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-01 00:00:00

coup r MAGAZINE.

The engraving attar: bed to this month's Number is
a portrait of Lady Elizabeth Reynell, which bear
marks of haste on the p art of the artist. The lights and
shades of the countent mce, in particular, are harsh,
and ill-defined ; 'and t. Else hair has a stiff, wiry look

about it. Of the literary contents of the " Court
Magazine," we can merely say that they are neither
better nor worse than usual.

THE STATISTICAL JOURNAL.
Pixley.
This is the third Number of a periodical ad-
mirably adapted to suit the convenience of Politicians,
Members of Parliament, Magistrates, and other public
functionaries ; and if conducted with care and ability
ought very soon to arrive at an extensive circulation.
The great study of the editor should be to simplify his
tables as much as possible, and carefully to avoid
drawing general inferences from isolated facts. By
never allowing himself to make statements for the
truth of which he cannot produce official documents,
his journal will, in a short time, be looked upon by all
as an authority. Among the articles in the present Num-
ber we find one on Prison Discipline and Prisons of
Ireland—Parliamentary documents—Excise—on Man
and the developement of his faculties—Statistics of
France and several other excellent papers. The following
extract is from an article on the relative consumption
of ardent spirits in England, Ireland, and Scotland.
The Scottish distillers may find it their interest to
look to it :

' " Thus it appears that the quantity of spirit consumed in
England, is 9h pints per head on the population ; in Scotland,
two gallons and seven pints per head ; and in Ireland, 1 5-7
gallons per head. Those who are accustomed to refer to the
passion for ardent spirits as the fruitful source of disorder and
crime, will be startled to find that in Scotland, where the
people are, to say the least, as industrious and moral as in any
other part of the empire, the consumption of spirit is carried
impossible
to a point which is absolutely astonishing. It seems
to deny that intemperance is the primary cause of many crimes ;
every man's experience satisfies him of the fact. To what
then are we to attribute the comparative absence of disorder
and crime in Scotland ? May it not be, that the evil tendency
of habits of drinking is, in a great degree, controlled and
counteracted by the strong religious feeling which prevails so
universally amongst the people of that country.
" If we take into consideration the quantity of spirit dis-
tilled illicitly and smuggled, the consumption of the article in
Scotland and Ireland would appear still greater in proportion
to that in England, than it does from the above accounts,
because it is notorious that the violation of the revenue laws is
carried to a much greater extent both in Scotland and Ireland
than in England. The criminal returns for the respective
countries suffciently prove this fact. The number of
eersonl committed fo: trial, or bailed in England and Wales
in 1836, for assembling armed, &c. to aid smugglers was nil;
for assaulting and obstructing officers employed to prevent
smuggling, 3. In Scotland, in the same year, the number of
persons committed for trial, or bailed for the first offence, was
nil ; for the second, 8. In Ireland, in 1836, the number of
persons committed for trial, or baile 1 for the first offence, was
16 ; for the second, 6 ; for assaulting and obstructing revenue
officers, 7 ; and for offences, connected with illicit distilla-
tion, 586.
" It is surprising to observe how little malt whiskey is im-
ported into England from Scotland; the whole quantity being
no more than 347,462 gallons, exceeding by only 37,714
gallons the amount annually consumed of that pernicious com-
pound " British brandy." This discovery will, doubtless,
mortify many who, like ourselves, imagine that the Islay or
Glenievet they
.drank was the " pure malt" whiskey the
deelcrs announce it to be. The circumstance can be accounted
for only by supposing. that the English dealer knowingly pur-
chases the inferior article, and charges his customers the price
of the superior one ; or that the Scotch distillers pocket the
the price of the superior article, and supply the English dealers
with the inferior one. However it may be, it is to be hoped
that some spirit dealers will take measures for procuring the
best malt whiskey from Scotland ; and if they act honestly,
they will have no reason to complain of the want of public
patronage."

THE ARBORETUM BRITANNICUM,
Nos. XLIX. and L.
Ridgwaii and Sons.
An excellent work, of which only a few Numbers
now remain to be published, when the price will be
raised to non-subscribers. The plates, plain and
coloured, are beautifully executed.

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