The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1862.

THE MAGAZINES.

Fraser's Magazine.

The tales, " Thalatta! 'Thalatta!" and " Barren
Honour," are both finished in this number. A. K.
H. B. has an essay, termed " Going on," in which
he moralises upon change, decay, inconsistency, ill
nature, andimanv other ills that flesh is heir to. Mr.
Ruskin gives a sequel to the papers on Political
Economy, which appeared in the Corshal Magazine.
" Political economy," he says, " is neither an art nor
a science, but a system of conduct and legislature,
founded on the sciences, directing the arts, and im-
possible, except under certain conditions of moral
culture." And he states his intention of pursuing
the subject at his leisure. There is a readable
article on " The Reign of Terror ;" and the remain-
der treats of " Hungary," " Homeric Translations,"
and the International Exhibition.

Temple Bar.
This instalment of " Captain Dangerous" is
scarcely equal to the last. The hero leaves Jamaica
after a quarrel with his mistress, the washerwoman,
and arrives in the low countries, where he saves a
rich Cockney from drowning, and enters his service.
" English Art from a French point of View" is a
translation by the editor of the first of a series of
articles on the English pictures in the International
Exhibition, contributed by Theophile Gautier to
the DI oniteur, and does justice to our great masters.
Thus, " In landscape, Gainsboraugh combines with
a purely natural expression a kind of Idyllic dreami-
ness, recalling the innermost yearnings of the soul.
How often must a wearied imagination, a jaded
fancy, sick of the tumult of towns, and tired of a
mundane career, have built for itself, with less
freshness and poetic feeling, it may be, but yet with
equal enthusiasm, such a retreat as Gainsborough's
"Cottage Door." How much real happiness seems to
dwell in this charming little nest, all hung with
garlands, which a stray sunbeam comes furtively
seeking through the deep shadows of the trees
What tranquil dreams one might indulge in to the
music of the rivulet's murmur, as it runs before the
cottage threshold !" Under the head of "Amusing
Mossoo," Mr. Edmund Yates passes judgment on
London entertainments, being particularly hard on
music halls; and the interest of "Aurora Floyd" is
well sustained.

sances. One on the pottery, porcelain, and glass:in
the International Exhibition follows. There is
also a short notice on "patent Law Reform," and
descriptions of recent patents.

The Notional Magazine.

A photograph of Balmoral is given with the pre-
sent number. Severil tales are progressing. " The
Moralities of French Literature" are held up for
condemnation, and the International Exhibition
receives a share of attention.

Routledge's Illustrated Natural History.

The denitens of the sea are still being delineated
and described. The first part of the present num-
ber, treating of such grotesque specimens as sea
urchins and sea dragons ; the latter the more grace-
ful forms of shells.

Church and State Reeew. Saunders, 0 tley, and Co.

This is the first number of a new review, which,
though chiefly devoted to ecclesiastical matters,
does not wholly ignore secular concerns. Thus we
find articles on " Retrenchment," and on " The
Civil War in America," as well as on such topics as
"Hymnology," and " Marriage Licence, Special
and Ordinary." The form is similar to that of the
Saturday Review, but it is double the price, and
contains doubli the,4unntity of matter.

since they dare perversely to derive all the truths
of religion from the native energy of human reason,
they assign to each one a certain primary law as it
were, according to which he may think and speak
freely of religion, and manifest that honour and
worship for God which is best suited to his inclina-
tions. But they arrive also at that degree of
impiety and impudence, that they endeavour to
attack Heaven itself, and take away God himself
from the midst of it; for with marked iniquity and
equal folly they do not fear to assert that no supreme,
all-wise, all-provident divine will exists distinct
from this universe, and that God is the same with
nature, and therefore obnoxious to change ; and
that God becomes man and the world; and that all
things are God, and that the very nature of God
has substance, and that God and the world are one
and the same thing, and that hence spirit and
matter, necessity and liberty, the true and the false,
good and evil, and the just and the unjust, aro the
same; than which certainly nothing more mad,
nothing more impious, nothing more repugnant to
reason itself, can ever be imagined or devised. But
of authority and law they prate so rashly as im-
pudently to assert that that authority is nothing
more than the amount of numbers and of material
strength, and that right consists in material fact,
and that all the duties of men are an empty name,
and that all human facts have the force of right."
The document proceeds in the same strain to a
wearisome length.