The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,- MARCH 2. 1854.

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BROOKES'EI.—The members of this club, following the
example of White's, will give a. grand banquet on Satur-
day evening next to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge. It is hoped that Lord Raglan will also be
present at the entertainment.

MAGAZINES FOR THE MONTH.

Blackwood.--If March fails to do so for once,
Maga comes in this month like a lion—seasonably.
The number just issued is glorious—glorious both
in vigour and variety. Blackwood has not for a
long while shown such energy of criticism as that
which its reviewers have here squandered upon the
nameless biographei:,of Mr. Disraeli—upon the two
Arnolds, Edwin and Matthew—and upon the last of
the literary Smiths, this time neither Adam, nor
Albert, nor Sydney, nor William, but Alexander.
A fourth instalment of the " Quiet Heart" de-
velopes yet more delightfully the charm of that
graceful narrative, while it reveals still more plainly
in every additional chapter the fair writer's gentle-
ness of heart and facile play of imagination. About
matters of internal interest to the people of Eng-
land, Ebony saith much anent " Die New Reform
Bill"—the Bill massacred betimes at the very out-
set of the session, instead of being reserved to have
its weazen snipped in the autumnal days with the
rest of the interesting throng of the Innocents.
About matters of external interest Maga is equally
garrulous respecting the Russian Church and the
Protectorate in Turkey. There are, moreover, in
the number of Blackwood for the present month—
an agreeable specimen of dramatic criticism in re-
ference to " Count Sigismund's Will"—a metrical
contribution in the form of a new version of " The
Song of Metrodorus"—an article on " The Epide-
mics or the Middle Ages"—and " News from the
Farm," such as will be found interesting enough
to the crowd of intelligent agriculturists. But
among all these ten papers in the current March
number of Blackwood, commend us to the three
vigorous and brilliant criticisms already specified.
They are criticisms in every respect worthy of
having emanated from Blackwood Reviewers ! In
the first of these—the one relating to that most
scurrilous publication entitled "Disraeli : a Bio-
graphy"—the anonymous slanderer, the literary
assassin, the stabber in the dark of another man's
reputation, is dubbed Mr. Randel Leslie! The de-
signation is admirably appropriate. It will stick
like a burr —as long, at least, as this con-
temptible volume of abuse is borne in the
public remembrance. From first to last the criti-
cism is flaying. Yet from first to last the reviewer
can scarcely find words adequately scornful in
which to give utterance to his contemptuous indig-
nation. At one time he asks, " What does the
blockhead mean ?" At another he protests that the
subject of his criticism has no more notion of lite-
rature than a Hottentot. At another he confesses
candidly that the impudence of this young whipper-
snapper has somewhat roused his (the reviewer's)
bile. Somewhat ! Nevertheless, though the writer
in Maga cannot for the life of him keep his temper
—he does not for an instant lose his capacity for
dealing swinging cuts with his literary knout—
varied every now and then with griding blows from
his political tomahawk. Notwithstanding much
that is genial in the commendations discriminat-
ingly accorded by Maga, further on, to what is ob-
viously meritorious in the poetic effusions of
Alexander Smith and of the two Arnolds,
namely Edwin and Matthew—there is abundant
evidence that the faults of the three young writers
are as clearly recognised, and that the reviewers in
Blackwood are not by any means prepared to tole-
rate the vagaries of those critical Guffaws and lite-
rary Choctaws who have for same time past been
outraging so very monstrously the common sense
of our generation. Mark this, gentle public !
Blackwood talks of tying up a Guffaw to the stake
and inflicting on him condign punishment. Nay,
the reviewer goes so far as to shape his promise
into a formal engagement, by declaring it to be " a
resolution which we intend to carry into effect
some fine morning." With that assurance before
us we close the March number of Maga—exulting
sardonically in the anticipation.

Fraser.—Fraser's Magazine for this month opens
with a criticism on an " Essay on the Plurality of
Worlds." The writer of the essay argues that their
existence is proved by astronomy, by geology, by
zoology, and lastly from the nature of maii, and
his relation to the Deity. In the criticism it is
observed that it is curious and not unimportant in
viewing this subject, to remark that in all ages the
belief in the plurality of worlds has been general,
not only among the credulous or ignorant, but
among poets and philosophers. The paper gives a
succinct account of the author's arguments, and
copious extracts. "Villecaain's Memoirs" give us
some interesting sketches of the fortunes and mis-
fortunes of Talleyrand, Narbonne, and several of
their contemporaries. The readers of Fraser will
remember the series of articles on Icthyology, which
were recently completed. A. new series of
the same kind, on the feathered tribes, com-
mences in this number, entitled " Gallinaceana."
The first instalment treats of peacocks and guinea
fowls. These papers afford much information on
natural history. " General Bounce" is continued at
some length without any remarkable incident. An
article on the British Jews, which is written with
much justice and tolerance, is worthy of attention.
" The Decline and Fall of the Corporation of
London," of course, occupies a place. The reports,
remarks, evidence, accusations, and criticisms on
this subject will soon be sufficient to fill a volume
equal in size to Gibbon's. A very agreeable and
entertaining sketch of the life of Beaumarchais will
well repay perusal. There are also remarks on
" Dutch Literature and Oxford Reform." A
short paper concludes the number, entitled
" England at War." It is to he hoped, for
the credit of Fraser's consistency, that the me-
mory of all its readers will prove as conve-
niently defective as the writer's—for it is as-
serted with the greatest effrontery that they are
glad to testify their good opinion of Napoleon 111.
since he became Emperor ; while it is certainly
within the last three months that he has been the
subject of some of the bitterest remarks of Fraser.
The same judicious writer congratulates the coun-
try on possessing " a firm and united Ministry,"
and " the best administrative talent the country
affords." Truly, we ought to be grateful for this
writer's information, for we were not aware of our
Ministers' unanimity and satisfactory administra-
tion any more than we were acquainted with the
full extent of Fraser's consistency.

Dublin University.—The article most deserving
of notice in this number is " Our Portrait Gal-
lery," which contains an account of Captain
M'Clure, R.N. The details of his memorable
career are ably described, and a very good idea is
obtained of the difficulties and dangers which the
intrepid discoverers of the North-West Passage
have had to surmount. An excellent chart of the
Arctic Regions is affixed to the memoir, which is
a great advantage to the reader. The following
extract is from the commencement of the article :
"It is with no ordinary feeling of pride and pleasure
that we claim the Discoverer of tho North-west Passage as
a countryman, and place him in " Our Portrait Gallery."
" His father, Captain M'Clure, of the 89th Regiment,
served with great distinction under Abercrombie in Egypt,
and was beside that brave general when he fell mortally
wounded at the battle of Aboukir. In 1806 he married
Jane, only daughter of the Venerable Archdeacon Elgee,
rector of Wexford, but survived the marriage only four
months. The posthumous child of this union was Robert
John Le Mesurier M'Clure, the subject of our memoir;
born in Wexford, at the residence of his granfather, Arch-
deacon Elgee, January 28th, 1807, where he remained for
the first four years of his life, under the care of his young
mother, who had the singular destiny of being wife,
widow, and mother in one year, and before she had attained
the age of nineteen. The sponsor for the fatherless child
was General Mesurier, hereditary governor of Alderney, a
man of immense wealth and noble character. A peculiar
friendship had existed between him and the elder M'Clure;
they were brother-officers, and Captain M'Clure had once
saved the general's life in Egypt. From this a promise
arose, the general having then no children, that should his
friend ever marry and have a son, he would adopt him as
his own. Accordingly, when young Robert was four years
old, General Le Mesurier wrote to claim him, in fulfil-
ment of this promise, and he was taken to Alderney by his
uncle, the present rector of Wexford, who describes him
as being then singularly attractive, and remembers well
the fearless pleasure manifested by the child, even at that
age, at being on the water for the first time. From that
period till he was twelve years old, young M'Clure resided
in the princely residence of the governor, as the adopted
child and son of the house. But then, an unlooked for
change took place in General Mesurier's family. After
twenty-three years of childless marriage, his lady presented
him, in three successive years, with three sons, the youngest
of whom is now the inheritor of his father's vast wealth
and munificent spirit.
" Young M'Clure was sent to Eton, and from thence to
Sandhurst, but the military profession was distasteful to
him, and in a short time, with the love of adventure in-
stinctive to his nature, and the rashness of sixteen, he left
the college with three young noblemen, fellow-students
there, and proceeded to France, determined never to enter
the college walls again.
" With undiminished kindness, General Le Mesurier
now allowed him to select his own profession, and shortly
after he was appointed midshipman on board Lord Nelson's
old ship, the Victory.
" With such associations he began his naval career.
" During the next ten years he served in various parts of
the globe • his animated, elastic nature, full of life, energy,
and mental' force, along with the extreme fascination of
andh the
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" In 1836, he had already served six years as mate, and
passed his examination as lieutenant, when, not being on
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high official, then present, exclaimed, M'Clure, you are
just the man we want. There is an expedition fitting out
for the North Pole ; will you join ?'
" The young officer was unable to pronounce at once.
He retired to the ante-room, and sat down on a chair to
meditate. The old porter, who was by, asked him ' What
he had on his mind ?' M'Clure told him. Well,' said he,
`I saw Nelson sitting on this very chair, thinking just like
you what he would do, and he took what they offered him.
Do you do the same." M'Clure accepted the omen, went
back, and volunteered to join the expedition, then setting
out under command of Sir George Back."

" British Spinsterhood Abroad" presents an
amusing sketch of the eccentricities performed by