The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-01 00:00:00

PARBURY'S ORIENTAL HERALD.

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In the present Number of this periodical we find a very
sensible, well-timed article, entitled " Russia, in reference
to the East." " It is undoubted," well observes the writer
of the article to which we are alluding, " that the intrigues
of Russia are at the bottom of all the feuds and dissensions
of the native Powers throughout the East. Commencing
with Turkey ; it is known, it was her emissaries who
kindled the flames of revolt in Greece and in the Egyptian
provinces ; that it was her emissaries who sounded the
tocsin of civil war in Persia ; her emissaries, who scattered
among the devious tracts of the regions of the Caspian, are
employed in the ceaseless vocation of sowing discord among
its chaotic, turbulent, and inflammable masses ; and that in
our own empire of Hindostan there is no native Court free
from her hirelings and her spies, whose province it is to
excite suspicion against England, to detract from the
standard of her merits, to sap the foundation of her moral
influence, and to pioneer the way for Russian ascendancy."
In another place he says—" Boundless in its desires, the
policy of Russia is transparent or opaque, direct or oblique,
bold, cautious, subtle, as circumstances require it. In the
face of day she blots from the tchronicles of ages Poland :
bends beneath her yoke Turkey : occultly propels the
march of the elements of war in Persia : fearful of her
very life in the attempt creeps—nay, let us say, crawls
amidst the pasturages of the wild Toorkman, or, returning
westward, scales with her legions the cloud_capt Caucasus,
now unknown, invisibly to all the wori,d, now under the
false and astounding pretext of the privileges of treaty.
Everywhere, and on all sides, 'rises her curling snake-crest.
She is in China, she is in Japan, along our whole north-
western frontier of Hindostan, she confronts us, now at
Lahore, Cabul, Cashmere, at last under the walls of Herat."
This is all but too true ; yet the remedy is not difficult.
Let England but rouse herself, and the influence of Russia
in the East and West will so quickly disappear as soon to
become a were reminiscence. Fire but one broadside in
the Black Sea, and the diplomatic giant will be reduced to
the dimensions of a dwarf. We know too well of what
metal the strength of England is made, ever to despair of
the triumph of our country in an open contest with the
barbarian power of Russia. " Steam communication with
India," and the notice of " Mr. Shore's notes on the former
Misrule of India," are articles worthy of public attention.
The other papers, though interesting to those immediately
connected with Indian affairs, contain nothing to attract the
observation of a general r(lader.

THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL.
Colburn.
'Chore is an excellent Article in this Number on the
decline of the Turkish Empire, to which we regret our very
confined limits will not allow us to do justice. The one,
however, which sill attract most attention is entitled the
" Progress of Duelling ;" and wo are greatly mistaken if its
effect upon the minds of officers of the two services be not
very salutary. The other papers are so exclusively pro-
fessional as not to fall within the ordinary range of news-
paper criticism.

MONTIILY MAGAZINE.
Smith, Elder, and Co.
Y This miscellany, as is dul announced in a notice to cor-
respondents, is henceforth to be under the sole guidance of
Mr. Heraud, author of " Judgment of the Flood." We
wish this gentleman success in his undertaking. He is a
first-rate blank verse writer—though too close an imitator
of Milton—and no indifferent poet ; he will therefore, we
feel convinced, raise the character of the " Monthly," whose
present number is by no means an excellent one, containing

only one really clever article, entitled " The Rutagh's Pro-
phecy," which is an Irish tale told with feeling and spirit.
As for " Alfred de Rosana," though it is in parts of no
ordinary merit, it is far too much spun out.

THE LONDON MONTHLY MISCELLANY
Thomas Miller, author of " A Day in the Woods," &c•
has contributed some beautiful verses to the present Num-
ber of this very amusing periodical. The author of the
" Provost of Bruges" has also enriched its pages with a le-
gend in verse. " Mr. Sykes and his Sweetheart" is a capital
story well told—which is more than can be said of the man-
ner of telling some of our best stories. The " Firstborn,"
by J. F. Triebncr, contains some lines which are exquisitely
beautiful.

THE MONTHLY LAW MAGAZINE.
The only article in this NUmber at all interesting to
any but members of the Bar, and those who are ready
to fight knee-deep in mire in defence of Toryism, is
~on
the difference between the law of divorce in Eng-
land and other countries. It' enumerates diffisul-
ties, but does not shoW in what way they ere
to be effectually remedied. The " North American
Boundary Question" is merely made the handle for
an attack upon the Ministry. It is a pity that publica-
tions intended to be professional, should be perverted to
serve the narrow interests of faction.

THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE.
The appropriate embellishment of this periodical, for the
present month, is a short-horn bull, the property of Earl
Spencer, hardly less docile and good-humoured in appear-
ance than his noble owner, which is certainly saying a great
deal for him. The articles, we understand, are all written
by experimentalists in the noble science of agriculture, so
that farmers generally will not fail to profit by their perusal.
This is a cheap and at the same time a very well-conducted
periodical.

THE ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE.
Longman and Co.
We recommend to the especial notice of artists and ama-
teurs two articles in the present number on the " Poetry"
and the " Philosophy" of Architecture. To such. persons
we leave to pronounce what judgment they please respecting
them ; well aware that upon such subjects there is likely to
arise an abundance of learned discussion, for the publication
of which we have neither room nor inclination. The pre-
sent Number is double, and includes eleven articles, all
stated to be " original."

THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE. Wyld.
Prefixed to this Number is a very beautiful coloured map
of the London and Dover Railway, showing its junction with
the Brighton line, and the relative density of the popula-
tion along the entire district through which it passes. It
is accompanied by a❑ article from the pen of the editor,
who, notwithstanding the attacks which have been made
upon him, is unquestionably well conversant with all the
subjects upon which he undertakes to express an opinion .
We do not, however, agree with him upon all points,
avid we may be allowed to'cite the article entitled" Govern-
ment and the Railways" in the present Number as an ex-
ample. We are prepared to maintain that railways destroy
the corrective of competition, and that nothing but the vi-
gilance of Parliament can protect the public from the evils
created by the worst monopoly that, without the constant
supervision of the Legislature, ever as established in a
great commercial country.