The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-03 00:00:00

for the salt you take, in order that it may not become a
custom, and the village be ruined.' They said, ' What
harm will this little quantity do I' He replied, The
origin of injustice in the world was at first small, but
every one that came added to it, until it reached this
present magnitude.' "
In " The Dead, as described by Homer," we are
given many valuable opinions concerning ancient
customs relating to the departed. The ideas of
many of Homer's passages were taken from the
Hebrews and Egyptians. " Era Dolcino and his
Times " is very interesting. It is well ob-
served at the commencement that these unhappy
fanatics excite more compassion than those cele-
brated spirits who were advanced in their profes-
sion, and more impressed with their mission, were
crowned with the wreath of martyrdom. The
latter fought in an acknowledged cause, for an
avowed purpose, but the former did not know why
they were sacrificed, and for what they struggled.
It is remarked at the close of these accounts of the
works of that sect of which Fra Dolcino. was an
apostle :

"The province of its mßst able men was, in fact, but
that of carrying out sincerely the two or three truths,
whatever those were, that had taken hold of them,
while to the mass of their followers, faith in their leader
was the animating principle. We must view the
matter as it appeared to them. Were they true to their
light ? If so, all honour to their memories. We may
easily enough slight the value of the things they did, by
looking at them from amid the multitude of enlarged
and complicated duties which our instructed eyes
have learnt to regard as portions of our daily
task ; but the heroism which sustained Dolcino and his
Margaret, and many besides on their bare mountain-
top, and made all other parts of duty seem to them in-
significant, was the effect of a strongly-concentrated
view of certain rights and certain wrongs. They stood
and watched their hour for Christ, doing in the time
Many a fierce and blameworthy act, but not conscience-
stricken, because their consciences were so partially in-
formed. It is to be hoped they had many an ennobling
aspiring thought, unquenched even by the necessity of
self-preservation and warfare ; and the mountains and
valleys where those great thoughts were born and
nourished will never cease to impress the traveller's
mind with a sense of their indomitable courage and
their strong hope in immortality."

The United Service commences with a long notice
of General Sir Howard Douglas's essay on " The
Principles and Construction of Military Bridges,"
together with some interesting extracts from the
work, showing the difficulties experienced by troops
in crossing rivers during the Peninsular war. We
find in this number three articles written by
Frenchmen—viz., the continuation of" A French
Account of the War with China," which maintains
its character for impartiality and exactness ; the
conclusion of Prince de Joinville's "History of the
French Navy, from its First Formation, since the
End of the War, down to the Present Time ;" and
notwithstanding that he inclines, from national
prejudice, to undervalue the British fleet, he
nevertheless occasionally shows that his " wish is
father to the thought," in comparing the two
squadrons when in the Mediterranean. He is,
however, a thorough seaman, and his essay may,
therefore, be looked upon as a fair history.
" French Remarks upon the Invasion of Britain
by Julius Caesar" bears the stamp of novelty, and
the topographical sketches of the country, and
other information regarding the south-east coast of
England some nineteen centuries past, may lead
the tourist to moralise when he thinks what " is now"
and what " has been." " Notes by the Youngster of
a Gun Brig" are no better than they were last
month, and unless they improve greatly, we hope
to see no more of them.

The Colonial and Asiatic Review.—The first
subject treated of in this number is "Jamaica
Distress and its Remedies." " India and the
Gold Question" is continued from the first
volume of the magazine. The social condition of
Melbourne presents a melancholy account of the
state of affairs of that city. " The Overland
Route" gives us a description of Ceylon. There is
an article on the " Euphrates Valley Route to India,"
which promises next month to touch on the anti-
quities and resources of Asiatic Turkey and Wes-
tern Africa. The remainder is chiefly devoted to
subjects of colonial interest.

The Sporting .Revietv.—The first plate in this
number is entitled " The Passions of `the Horse,"
in which a mare is represented caressing her foal.
It is the first of a series of plates after designs by
J. F. Herring, igen. The design is perfect, and the
engraving well executed. The other, entitled
" The Second Fox," represents a fox dead beat,
with his brush trailing on the ground, endeavour-
ing to part company with a hound who is in as sad
a plight as himself and evidently the staunchest
of the pack, who is close upon him, but unable to
improve his acquaintance. with him. A case in
point on this plate, written by A. Softun, describes
in an amusing manner the feeling of different
sportsmen when, at the close of the "first run,"
the master of the pack asks his friends if they shall
" try for another." " Scenes at Home and
Abroad," by Lord W. Lennox, represents an
amusing scene on board of a man-of-war, in which
the bully of the midshipmen's mess is forced into
a mock duel, nolens volens, when the coward is
shown in his true colours.