The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-01 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

AmsrEanam, Auo. 30.—. The Java Papers, from 19th
March to the 19th April, contain loug lists of nomination•
and appointments made by the Governor-General in
Council. Besides the nominations, the Java Papers to the
end of April contain only a few ordinances on local mat-
ters. The events in the Netherlands were known up to
about tb. middle of December, and there is not i❑ these
papers the slightest indication that the knowledge of these
events had been followed by the least disturbance whatever
in B ttavia, or in the rest of the island.

Tint IlaGuE, AUG. 28.—Their Majest;es, accompanied
by Prince Albert of Prussia, set out this morning for Til-
burg. The Prince of Orange and Prince Frederick, who
set out on Friday, passed through Breda on their way to
Tilburg the same day. The Princess of Orange and het
two sons, Prince Frederick and Prince Albert, left thi•
town yesterday.
_ _ _

It Is said that a new Protocol has been Lrought he re
from London.

AMSTERIIAM, JULY 29.
Actual Debt, 2 per cent 36 ito37 14
m,I Aort Syndic, .2 per cent.
Ditto, ditto, 34 Mi: cent,
—Dutch Papers, Aunt 30.

MAGAZINE DAY.

PLACKTV 0 OD' S MAGAZINE.

A good average number, but assuredly not
equal to the last, even though Professor Wilson
—who now bids fair to become more popular
than he has ever been as a poet, and whose
" Unimore" we can assure the Learned Professor
has produced a deep impression on the public
mind—contributes a lively little fairy tale, with a
sly moral pinned on to its tail, entitled the
" Wishing Tree." The repetition of the ar-
ticle " On Parliamentary Reform, and. the
French Revolution," which stands prominently
forward in the number, is now becoming quite
nauseous : the language of this essay is vigorous
and the arguments adroit, though fallacious ;
but there has been too much of it. An " Hour's
Talk about Poetry" is a lively rambling prattle,
de omnibus rebus et quibusdanz aliis. We
quote from it a few spirited cursory remarks on
the " Greek Drama :"
" And here again bursts upon us the glory of the Greek
Drama. The Athenians were as wicked, as licentious, as pol-
luted. and much more so, we hope, than ever were the Eng-
lishers ; but they debased not with their gross vices their glori-
ous tragedies. Nature in her higher moods alone, and most
majestic aspects, trode their stage. Buffoons, and ribalds,
and zanies, and rude indecent clowns,' were confined to
comedies ; and even there they too were idealized, and re-
sembl-d not the obscene samples that so often sicken us in
the midst of the acting of a dreadful thing' in our
theatres. They knew that with other ministrations,
thou, 0 Nature !' teachest thy handmaid Art to Booths
the souls of thy congregated children—congregated to be-
hold her noble goings-on, and to rise up and depart ele-
vated by the transcendent pageant. The Tragic Muse was
in those days a Priestess—tragedies were religious cere-
monies—for all the ancestral stories they cell orated were
under consecration—the spirit of the ages of heroes and
demigods descended over the vast amphitheatre; and thus
were 2Escbylus, and Sophocles, and Euripides, the guar.
dians of the national character, which, we all know, was,
in spite of all it suffered under, high indeed, and for ever
passionately enamoured of all the forms of greatness."