The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-26 00:00:00

TITX SUN, ,LONDON, ,WEDNESDAY

THE QUARTERLIES.

The Edinburgh Review. No. COIL
The contents of the current number of the Edin-
burgh will be found rather substantial food by the
devourers of periodical literature. Substantial
food enough, we repeat, from the first to the last of
the eight contributions—from the paper relating to
" Mormonism"—that fantastic nutriment supplied
(to the soul) not as iu the " name of the Prophet
Figs," but as in the name of the Prophet
Smith—down to the article referring to certain
curious statistics in regard to the aliment for the
body; in other words, to the free-trade treatise en-
titled " Consumption of Food in the United King-
dom." To the last-mentioned article—the politi-
cal article in the new number of the Edin-
burgh—we have already referred in our leading
columns, and referred, too, in terms of earnest
commendation. Altogether, we feel assured that
it will be found to be an argument especially
deserving a perusal more than merely cursory or
superficial. It abounds, as we have before stated,
with incontrovertible proofs that the establishment
of the Free-trade system in 1846 by Sir Robert
Peel has been a really wonderful benefaction to
the working classes throughout the United King-
dom. A boon to every one indeed, more or less,
throughout the community, from the highest to
the lowest, but especially, and above all, to the
poorer members of our population. Demonstrated as
all this is minutely and unanswerably by the statistics
plentifully strewn through the argument of the
Edinburgh reviewer—that argument is summed
up laconically enough in the announcement that
from 1847 to 1853, the Free-trade system has—
Added nearly a third to our bread !
Nearly doubled our sugar !
Added a third to our coffee !
And nearly doubled our tea !
So much for the dreadful calamities which
we were told must prove inevitable on the
abandonment of the corn laws, and the rend-
ing away rapidly thereupon of the whole of
the web woven by the intricate principles of
protection. About the liveliest paper in the num-
ber of the Edinburgh just issued is the one criti-
cising the " Memoirs of Moore," or rather wel-
coming those Memoirs with a genial, but at the
same time an almost apologetic, cordiality. Al-
luding to Moore's culpability as a political satirist,
the reviewer says very truly, butwith an amusingly
Johnsonian sententiousness—" He who combines
party warfare with pecuniary profit may expose
himself to a certain measure of moral reprobation."
The deplorable Croker Episode in the course of the
work's publication is spoken of in becoming terms
by the Edinburgh. Speaking of a principal por-
tion of the entire production, the critic writes
wittily : " The Diary,' in fact, taken in its
general character, might bear to be prefaced
by an inscription which we remember to
have read upon a sun - dial near Padua,
Horas non numero nisi serena.' " It is an apt
quotation, well remembered. It precisely hits off
the peculiar character of Moore's Diary—a tissue
of drollery woven out of a weft of gossip and a woof
of anecdote. An elaborate essay on "John Locke"
comprises analyses at once of his character and of
his philosophy. A curious chapter from Religious
History is penned anew in the paper relating to
the " French Protestant Refugees." The subject of
the " National Gallery" is again taken into serious
consideration by our northern contemporary, while
in the contribution immediately following, the half
real and half fictitious records of " Benoui" and
" Castellamonte," are reviewed under the title of
" Recent Italian Autobiographies." Besides the
contributions to the Edinburgh already mentioned,
there is an able argument on the opinions ex-
pressed by the Judges of England on the subject
of codification.

Thy ART-UNI{"►N OF LONDON.

We were enabled yesterday to give only a few of the
earlier prizes drawn. The following is a list of the
fortunate prize-holders, up to those entitled to works of
art to the value of 101.:

ENTITLED TO A WORK OF ART OF THE VALUE OF TWO
HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS.
Hewitt, J., Leamington.
ENTITLED TO A WORK OF ART OF THE VALUE OF TWO
HUNDRED POUNDS.
Black, E. H. M., Halifax, N.S.
ENTITLED EACH TO A WORK OF ART OF THE VALUE OF
GNE HUNDRP .4-14 TD rIFTT POUNDS.
Laing, Mrs., New Amsterdam I Saunders, Mrs. W. Burton.
ENTITLED EACH TO A WORK OF ART OF THE VALUE OF
ONE HUNDRED FOUNDS.
Cooper, T., Rotherham Kelley, T., Manchester
Harrison, G., Brooke-street Ness, —, Hunsley
Jay, J. T., Ado Shipton, Chesterfield
ENTITLED EACH TO A WORK OF ART OF THE VALUE OF
EIGHTY POUNDS.
M`Kewan, D. H., New
Kent-road
Pardoe, M. J., Caraccas
Phillips, E.G., London-road
Phipps,W.S.,Blackfriars-rd.
Tillet, John, Milton-terrace

Coleridge, Rev. E.
Ellison. T. Barnsley
Grice, W. W.,North-st.,Wat.
Griffin, John, Banbury
Jackson, N., Stamford
Jones, C., Old Kent-road
Massey, W., Wotton
ENTITLED EACH TO A WO