The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-01 00:00:00

NEW MONTHLY.

There are many amusing, and some witty, articles,
in this Number, which is of more than average merit,
and which, had it but a little more of the rough, mas-
culine, healthy vigour of Blackwood, would take a
higher stand in the literary world than it does at pre-
sent. The " Portraits of Notorious Characters," is
full of smartness, and not unfrequently of wit. The
character of the " Penny-a-liner "—that is to say, the'
per: on who draws up " shocking accidents " fur the
newspapers, who dines on a "suicide," and whom a
"diabolical murder will keep in funds for a week—
is admirably drawn :

" The penny-a-lincr, like Pope, is known by his style.'
His fine Roman hand once seen, may be sworn to by the most
cursory observer. But though in this one respect of identity
resembling Pope, he bears not in any other the least likeness
to author dead or living He has no brother, and is like no
brother, in literature. Such as he was, he is. He disdains
to accommodate his manner to the ever-altering taste of the
times. fie refuse to bow down to the popular idol, innova-
tion. He has a style, and he sticks to it. He scorns to depart
from it, to gratify the thirst for novelty. He even thinks that
it improves with use, and that his pet-phrases acquire a finer
point and additional emphasis upon every fresh application.
Thus, in relating the last fashionable occurrence, how a noble
family has been plunged into consternation and sorrow, by the
elopement of Lady Prudcntia a month after marriage, he in-
forms you, as though the phrase itself carried conviction to the
heart, that the feelings of the injured husband may be more
easily conceived than described.' If' he requires that phrase
twice in the same narrative, lie consents to vary it by sayincs
that they may be imagined but cannot be depicted.' In
reporting an incident illustrative of the fatal effects of taking
prussic acid, he states that the 'vital spark is extinct,' and that not
the smallest hope is entertained of the unfortunate gentleman's
recovery. A lady's bag is barbarously stolen from her arm by
a monster in the human form.' A thunder-storm is described
as having visited' the metropolis, and the memory of the
oldest inhabitant furnishes no parallel to the ravages of the
electric fluid.' A new actress surpasses the most sanguine
expectation' of the public, and exhibits talent ' that have sel-
dom been equalled, never excelled.' A new book is not
simply published, it ' emanates from the press.' On the de-
mise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he
hod a hand 'open as day to melting charity,' and that, 'take
him for all in all we ne'cr shall look upon his like again.'
Two objects not immediately connected are sure to far as
the poles asunder ;' although they arc very easily brought to-
gether and reconciled in the reader's mind by the convenience
of the phrase, ' as it were,' which' is an especial favourite, and
constantly in request. He is a great admirer of amplitude of
title, for palpable reasons ; as when he reports that Yester-
day the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, M. I'., his
Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Dcpartment,
dined with, &c.' He is wonderfully expert in the measure-
ment of hailstones, and in the circulation of the number of
panes of glass which they demolish in their descent."
The " Man of no Principles "displays considerable
knowledge of life, and the workings of the political heart
—if politics have a heart. The idea has, we suspect,
been suggested by Galt's arch, satirical tale of the
" Member." " Subjects for Pictures," is by L. E L.
Why is this young lady always so fond of looking to
the gloomy side of humanity ? Life has many sorrows,
but it has far more pleasures in store for us, if we will
but hunt diligently for them. We have little sympa-
thy with those poets whose genius has always a frown
on its forehead. There is but one rational cause for
grief, and that is, want of cash. Surely L. E.' L.,
with her superior and marketable talents, cannot labour
under this afflicting dispensation ? Why, then, is she
always in the " doldrums "—she will excuse the
vulgarity of this phrase in consideration of its ex-
pressiveness—let her remember that life has two
sides, a sunny as well as a shady one, and that to
look perversely only to the latter, is to cultivate inge-
nuity and task invention, at the expense of health and
happiness. It is but fair, however, to state that
L. E. L's " Subjects for Pictures" are in a rather
more cheerful vein than is her wont. " Harry °Tear-
don" is a clever Irish tale by Mrs. Hall. " Acre-
, nouties, both real and fabulous," is in Leigh Hunt's
liveliest and most attractive style. We have read it
with infinite pleasure. " Records of a Stage Veteran"
lives many characteristic, theatrical anecdotes.

TAIT' S MAGA ZINE,.—
Simphin and Marshall.
Tait is by no means satisfied with the conduct of
the Whigs diiring the last Session of Parliament. His
summary of the proceedings of 'the Session of 1836 is
the severest attack that has been made upon them
since its commencement, even by the Tory Press. We
question the wisdom of employing such hard words as
he sometimes uses, in condemning the policy of men
whose faults ale wholly the consequence of extreme
caution. We admit that the Whigs have not treated
the Lords as they ought to have done—that they have
disappointed the expectations of nine-tenths of their
countrymen, in not reining in the insolence of the
Peerage ; but we maintain that there is yet time, as
there will be opportunities enough to remedy this
omission of public duty. " Humphrey Hawkins, who
could see things in that light,' is a capital article. We
shall be glad to meet with many such in the pages of
" Tait." The characters of Oki Ginger, the retired
drysalter, Poppy the physician, Pounce the lawyer,
and Verjuice the old gentleman's amiable housekeeper,
are quite in keeping with that of the hero of the tale.
" Tours and Detours in Scotland, in the Summer of
1836, by the Wards of Clapham," is continued in
this Number, in the same light-hearted sketchy style
which characterized the articles which have already
appeared from the same source, arid or} 'the same sub-

VsSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, I‘,P, .4_

ect. The chapter on " Scotch and English Poets and
Poetesses," is a choice September °Erin:. We accept
it, in the name of as many of our readers as read
" Tait," with every expression. of thankfulness. The
" Reviews of New Works" are numerous, and as usual,
each is made to comprise an admirable summary of the
work itself.

THE DUBLIN UNIVERSII'Y MAGAZINE.
Simphin and Marshall.
This is really a brilliant Number. It would Merit
that title did it contain nothing but the new chapter of
'`College Romance," with which its pages are en-
riched : but, in addition to the " Bribed Scholar," by
O'Brien, we have the " Fawn of Springvale," by the
author of " Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry ;"
a fine full-length portrait of . Sterne, filling an appro-
priate space in the " Gallery of Illustrious Irish-
men ; and the " Daughter. 3 of Time—an Eclogue,"
written in a strain worthy of our old dramatists. " At-
tractions of Ireland, No. II." is a still more interest-
ing article than that which preceded it. Our extract
from this Number shall be from the " Daughters of
Timc." We shall begin within a few lines of the be-.
ginning—here premising that we consider the close of
the poem, which we cannot possibly, quote, much supe-
rior to the beginning

CHANGE.
I prythee, peace, good Nther—
We are no longer infants to be hushed
By thine old nursery lullabies —we're grown
Too wise for dreams and visions; shrewdly believing
Just what we see, no more.

CUSTOM.
Father, thou hearest
The same old harpy voice, that oft bath howled
Upon the eve of Ruin—proclaiming lies
Which ever go before an empire's fall.
"Ps true, her dupes arc heedless of the Past,
And for experience substitute conjecture:
With wisdom's name she stamps base ignorance
To buy men's souls more cheaply. Thus she wins
The brainless many-mouthed—to repeat
Her new and strange proposals every hour—
If heard—still stranger follow : If denied
She rageth like a Bcdlamite—nor ever
Can mortal have one hour unteased by Change.

CHANGE.
Why, all thou seest is change—birth, growth, decay,
And death, and reproduction. Even herself
With eye reverted, hurried) down that stream,
Which, from the darkness of the future, rushes
Into the oblivion of the formless past—
The slave of Change. Whom blindly she derides
Prating prescriptive nonsense from old scrolls
And mummy cases while with queenlike air
She wreathes her parchment countenance in scorn,
Because the young waves still push on the old,
Nor stay to list the babble of her age—
Words oft repeated, till they pass for things
Of meaning long bereft.

CUSTOM.
These words, 0 Father,
Are justice, order, and prescriptive right,
The truth of God—thy sanctioned usages,
The accumulated wisdom of experience,
The aggregate of maxims, morals, laws,
Tried rules and principles, which constitute
The very structure of the social state :
Thy work of ages, Father. She would sweep
Enactments, rights, conventions, ancient landmarks,
In one vast wreck : And on the ruin build
The structure of some shallow theory,
A bubble blown from her own idle breath.

CHANGE.
She calls abuses sacred : and maintains
The fallacies of unenlightened ages.
The moss-grown dungeon and the noisome cell,
Whose air is reeking with the tears and sorrows
Of many generations ; the worn fetter—
The chartered usurpation. Such the toys,
The doting treasures of the Beldame's age—
Crimes, long-continued, pass with her for right;
Moss, cobweb, rust, are sacred in her eyes;
Oft repetition, truth.

CUSTOM.
Father, 'tis easy_
For those who love not and not understand
The set:led fabric of the social state
—Beneath whose sheltering bulwarks man hath grown
To what he now deems wisdom—to find fault,
The imperfection of all human things ;
To point out errors, and then cry " pull down,"
Nor wait to think if they can build anew;
Such is her boasted wisdom. Even now
While walking sadly, my accustomed rounds,
To guard the outworks of the ancient world;
She burst upon me, with her smutted face,
Her tattered cap awry—red arms akimbo,
Blood-thirsting eye, and meretricious throat,
That with seditious warwhoop urgeth on
Her yelping pack of bull. dogs.
CHANGE.
'Tis thy blindness
Creates these phantoms to thy reverend eyes,
Unused to the full day. Thus have I seen
The owl reel frightened front his mossy turret,
And wheel blind circles in the laughing dav,
The scoff of all the woods ; scared by small birds,
Who, if 'twere night, had sated his foul maw.
TIME.
ye
Ale:Pr usualmryaotlsul consequencet oleisoftensrovobserve
deeaocprodt oetuofrn. childish, ruiri willtacontests.
wrong,
Tlheard
YFo
ge
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One side of questions—and not see the other.
Thou Custom superstitiously opposed
Even to improvement's name. Thou Change, the dupe
Of every quack who cries the last state nostrum.
Thou Custom art a courtier ; Change a clown,
Who loves low company, and hates his betters.
One stands stiff-laced with cloistered dignity;
Maddening the vulgar with strange orac!es.
One for the coin would venerate the rust,
The other fling both rust and coin away.
Thus for six thousand years ye've moved together
With the harsh creek of some disordered wheel
Whose adverse sides move contrary—though borne
One self-same way by a superior power—
Good engines—though blind guides.

THE SCOTTISH MAGAZINE.
Baldwin and Cradock.

A clever Number of a very promising periodical,
which has established its head-quarters at Glasgow.
As a matter of course, considerable space is devoted to
subjects purely local ; but, the articles on general sub-
jects are of a class to do justice to the good sense, zeal,
and literary ability of the conductors, be they few or
many. " Young Germany," the " Provincial Mana-
ger, by a Respectable Vagabond," and the " State of
Ireland," are all excellent articles in their way. The
following extract from the second of these, is all that
we can afford space for in our notices of this month :
" The theatrical manager is a curious kind of cross-breed
between the respectable man, or man of business, and the re-
spectable vagabond, as we have on a former occasion described
these two classes. He has the aversion to'settled common-
place labour of the latter, with the eye to the main chance of
the former. Like all players, the work-day raiment of this
world; as seen by the honest light of day, has no attractions
for him ; he needs tinsel and paste jewels glittering in the
cross-lights of a hundred lamps. He is not satisfied with
thinking plain thoughts, and speaking plain words ; he must
strut under the influence of passsionate or imaginative excite-
ment mouthing bombast phrase, amid buzzes or laughter.'
4 He is sophisticate' the plain food nature bestows is insipid
to his palate, without the piquant addition of sauces. Like
our whole tribe, he is fonder of stimulating dreams than of
languid realities ; he is the dog who prefers the softened and
fairy-like image in the moonlight water to the real bone. That
poor dog has been injuriously dealt with—made an object of
mockery and insulting comparisons. He was a poet ; and
poets, and all akin to them in habits, if not in genius, ought to
cherish him as such. We ought to adopt him as our crest,
for he is the badge of all our tribe. But to return to our ma-
nager (who may in some of his moods be more fittingly compared
to the dog in the manger), while one half of his life is revelled
out in dreams like these, the other is devoted to pursuits which
bear a resemblance to thoec of the denizens of real life.
He is sssnsible of those natural impulses which prompt
kings to bend the wills of whole people to their sway, generals
to marshal men, and concentrate their energies for the carrying
of one point, the merchant to combine exchanges, and add
gold to gold. The manager finds no footing on the pre-occu-
pied ground of business life, and strives to rear his structures
on the shifting and shadowy materials he finds within the walls
of a theatre. He does not exactly say, with Milton's hero,
that it is better to feign in a certain nameless place than
servo anywhere ;' but he takes a pleasure in playing the part
of legislator, general, or merchant, among the volatile denizens
of our fantastic republic.
,‘ This strange combination of seemingly incompatible cha-
racters in one person, betrays itself at a very early periOd of
the career of him who is predestined to attain in after-life the
'managerial dignity. I have frequently amused myself with
watching its gradual and unconscious development. Your
future manager is rarely a first-rate actor, but he must be one
above mediocrity. His energy raises him above walking gen-
tlemen and supernumeraries, his want of fine imaginal
keeps him from attaining the rank to which his energy would
seem to entitle him. For a long time we find him retained
as the regular occupant of the heavy tragedy, or the genteel
characters ; that it, he plays the secondary parts when a bet-
ter actor is present, and the first parts when no better actor
is to be had. He seldom remains long in one company.
There is something about his acting, neither decidedly
good nor decidedly bad, that renders it impossible either
for the public or the manager to estimate his precise
value. He is generally over-rated at first, and under-rated
afterwards. He is warmly received, but the public favour
soon cools, and with it cools that of the manager ; our hero
finds it expedient to look round him for a new engagement.
Thus tossed about, and constantly picking up new associates,
he insensibly acquires an extensive knowledge of the peculia-
rities of character, and a crie.cl of dealing with them. He

becomes a kind of referee and arbiter in the disputes which
arise from time to time ; his activity is found available in get-
ting up and managing theatrical funds and similar business.
He feels himself of importance among his fellows ; and he
feels that this is not owing to his histrionic powers, which are
still, according to his own opinion, far from being duly ap-
preciated. He has by this time become a stumbling block
in the way of the manager, for that dignitary must, from the
very nature of his tenure of office, bear like the Turk no
brother near the throne.' An explosion takes place, and our
hero finds himself so circumstanced, that' he has no resource
left but to avail himself of the impression entertained by a
pretty extensive circle of actors of his business talents, to
draw together a company of his own, and set up as.manager
on his dwn account. This daring adventure is facilitated by
the habit he has contracted of not trusting altogether to his
theatrical talents for conciliating public favour, and prepping
up his questionable claims to applause by conciliating a num-
ber of private friends and patrons. He generally succeeds
in finding some honest citizen, who has felt his overpowering
sense of his own dullness alleviated by the condescension of a
more volatile companion, and who unites his purse-strings to ,
let him have a fair start. .

" Once a manager he becomes another man. He feels that
the whole fortune of his little state rests upon his Atlantean
shoulders. He is pUtTed up with the importance of his posi-
tion, and, at the same time, depressed by a sense of its respon-
sibilities. He becomes grandiloquent and patronising to the
tradesmen be employs. He is the courtly gentleman to those
whose patronage he hopes for—blending a sense of-his im-
portance as proprietor and dictator of an establishment,' with
a desire to amuse and conciliate every stranger he meets. In
his transactions with performers whom he wishes to engage in
his company he is a perfect courtier and diplomatist. flis
voice is low and timid in its tones—he paints the popularity
and respectability of his establishment in the most glowing
terms—he evinces a delicate and discriminating yet flattering
sense of the excellencies of the party whose services he seeks
to obtain ; no novice can withstand him.

" Within the walls of his theatre, the manager appears in
a ve7y, different light. He there assumes the despot's frewn ;
the irrevocable nature of Jove's decrees is a joke to his;
Justice Midas was hut a faint type of him. The liveliest sou-
brette may not talk above her breath if he forbids; the trun-
cheoned hero and the crowned king bend in mute homage
when the tail of his dressing-gown rustles angrily past ; even
call-boys tremble like mice in their holes as he approaches.
He is uncontrouled sovereign of the realms of pasteboard and
paint. From the foot-lamps to the back wall there breathes
not the soul who may with impunity even question his com-
mands. The scene does not glide with less hesitation along
its rail at the push of the scene shifter, than to the animated
puppets of the st.lge hasten on hearing the manager's voice to
the place assigned them. He stands in the centre of his do-
main, and secs all around him, scenes and human beings,
moving in implicit obedience to his will ; the whole wide stage
and all and everything upon it seem but a more enlarged
body, every part of which is filled up and animated by his mind.
What wonder that under these circumstances he should feel
the whole merit of the performance centering in himself ! That
lady's voice is sweet and tuneful; the.deep bass of that gruff-
looking personage makes the innermost recesses of the shilling
gallery dance and quiver; the pathos of one, and the power of
another actor are overwhelming ; there is the music of form
and motion in the lithe gestures of that dancer ; . and the
scenes around us bespeak the hand of one who has drunk deep
of the beauties of external nature, and can express them boldly.
with the brush : but the manager feels that his is the master
mind which has mingled all these ingredients into one luscious
draught—that all these talents arc his by conquest'—that Ile
alone it is in truth who paints, dances, sings, and plays for the
delight of the audience. No wonder a mere mortal man thus
situated should grow dictatorial and arrogant. He labours
under the same glorious hallucination as kings; and if nature
had but gifted managers Kith sufficient power to know their
own characters, and compare them with those of others, the
kings of tragedy, instead of being the most inefficient and
tedious characters on the stage would, from the exquisite
fidelity of their representation, become the most attractive.
" We must not blame the manager for being dictatorial :
as we have said before, it is the only way to rule that strange
community, a company of players. Free governments and
representative systems may do well enough among those whO
have permanent dwellings and occupations, who, having been
born and bred among " their own people," have a thousand
ties to unite them to their kind ; but in the camp or on the
stage, they would be strangely out of place. Let us reflect
that, in order to make a good actor, it is almost indispensable
that he should be the creature of impulse ; that the great ma-
jority of actors are without education, and that their scrambling
-mode of life exposes them to manifold temptations ; we must
see at once that the iron will' of a Nicholas is necessary to
keep them toe-ether, and at work. Bentham himself must
have admitted—nay, Bentham was a national being—but
Robert Owen himself could never have dreamed of a theatri-
cal company governed by the principles of the new moral
world.' The manager has •to keep ignorant conceit in its
proper place; he has to deter. those whose moral sense has
been scared, but whom necessity often forces him to employ to
stop a gap in his ranks, from conducting themselves in such a
manner as would confirm the popular prejudice against tho
actor's character; be has to bind the dilatory and thoughtless
to prompt and simultaneous action ; he has to produce mo-
tnentancous and startling effects, with nerveless, discordant,
and tardy instruments."

THE ASIATIC JOURNAL —Allen and Co.

The sketches of the later history of British India
arc continued in this Number. They are by no means
so animated as the ettbject would warrant. Most of
the descriptions, even of battles, arc tame mid spirit-
less—for mere dry details, that would pass very well
in a general history of a country, read very heavily in
a series of sketches purporting to be written for a
The " Fakeer of the Cliff" is by. far the
Ma-
gazine.most interesting article in this Number. The Notes
for the Month have been carefully selected, and arc ar-
ranged with more than usual care. She following ac-
count of the British establishment at Cliivia Punji,
will be found interesting. We copy it from a very
clever article, evidently written by a person well con-
versant with the state of the Indian population :
" Notwithstanding some instances of treachery and vindic-
tiveness, which occurred upon our first attempt at coloniza-
tion on the Kasiah bills, the opinion formed of the native
character is altogether highly favourable ; •the inhabitants be-
ing described, by all who have had an opportunity of observ-
ing them, as an honest, industrious race of people, possessing
many admirable qualities, which only require to be drawn out
by favourable circumstances. Their religion is rather of an
ambiguous nature. The brabmins, who have visited them,
have not been a little scandalised by the slender catalogue of
their deities; and though they contrived to make many of
the rajahs entertain high notions of their sacred character,
and the influence which they possess in heaven, and ought to
possess upon earth, they were unable to extort a confession of
belief in pll that is contained in the shastras. Beef, to the
Kasiah, being. almost a necessary of life, and always a luxury,
which it required too strong, a degree of self-denial to relin-
quish, one important dogma of the faith it was found impossi-
ble to establish ; and while guilty of the sacrilege of slaughter-
ing the cow, the brabmins must despair of bringing them into
the pale of their religion. The chiefs, however, of these hill
tribes are very desirous of being considered orthodox; the
Jynthea family were at least half converts to the brahminical
faith, and the Rajah at Chirra baasts himself a full descendant
from the sun or moon, and to have been a Rajpoot from ever-
lasting : his great grandfather, however, was known to be a
cow-eater. All the Rajahs, who obtained any possessions upon
the plains, instantly became strict adherents to the dictates of
Brihm, striving to conceal, by every device, the heresy of thelle
forefathers, while those who remained on the hills continued
to follow the rude religion of their ancestors, and soared above
the prejudices of caste. The governments of the Kasiah
tribes were all more or less democratic republics—every man
possessing nearly an equal vote, each republic being headed
. by a leader, who was assisted by a standing council ; the
leadership was usually hereditary, the succession devolving to
the sister's son, to the exclusion of the direct line, either male
or female. They burn their dead, but have fewer superstitious
ceremonies than the people of the plains. After cremation,
the ashes of the deceased person are collected, and preserved
1 in earthen jars, whiCh are enclosed in a stone coffer, over which
the relatives erect a rude sort of monument, consisting of se-
veral immense slabs of stone, sometimes amounting- to seven ;
the wealth of the individual being indicated by the' number of
these stones, which are placed in an upright position, the tallest
occupying the centre : some of them are twenty
feet ns-i
iE.i
4nd of proportionate breadth. The houses of the Ka IS are
built in a good substantial manner, and, withoneremarkable
indifferent 'exception, they appear to be by no means
..to the
comforts of life. As yet, however, they seem to pa% e termed
TO idea of the luxury of cleanliness, being excessively dirty,
both in their houses and their persons, neither washing the
skin or changing their clothes as often as must be necessary,
both for health, and the comfort of the unfortunate stranger
who may happen to come in contact with them. This con-
tempt for decent attire is accompanied by anincongruous love
of finery ; few are so poor as to be without a silver ornament,
and those who are sufficiently wealthy, are decked in trinkets
of gold. There does not appear to be many distinctions be-
tween the Rajahs and their people, the former contenting them-
selves
with clothes of a less dingy description than those of
their suite ; their houses are in few respects better ; and the
prin • cipal portion of their revenues being derived from fines,
the sources of their wealth are not very extensive. Though
not disobliging, the Kasialis are plainand even blunt, in
their manuers: their countenances assimilate very closely with
those of the Malays, whom they somewhat resemble in the
vindictiveness of their character : they are, however, a good-
humoured, cheerful race, not quarrelsome with each other,
but having little command over their passions when provoked.
Accustomed to hard labour from their childhood, they are
stout, active, and willing to work ; the women being equally
hardy and pains-taking as the men. Though not deficient in
capacity, they have advanced very little, by their own unas-
sisted endeavours, in any of the useful arts, having no written
language, and speaking a barbarous dialect, which is only em•
ployed in oral communication, their accounts being kept by
notches on a stick. They have not as yet contrived any means
for the transport of weighty or bulky substances, all their bur-
thens being carried on the back. . The heaviest loads are con-
ueyed in this manner, by means of a sling, constructed of split
bamboo, which passes across the forehead, and encloses the
hurthen ; and many will travel a distance of twelve miles,
along a very bad road, laden in this way, with a burthen of a
hundred pounds in weight. They have done little' or nothing to
remove the difficulties which nature has placed in the way of
egress and regress; not, apparently, perceiving the great
advantage which would result from opening thoroughfares
', throughout the country. They have not yet discovered the

use of the saw in cutting:planks, but are very expert with the
cleaver and the adze ; sliming, indeed, that there is nothing
they cannot accomplish, under the super'entendence of skilful
and experienced persons. Their fondness for gay clothing,
and the large sums which the welilthy arivaugst them already
expend in the purchase of ornaments, wilt doubtless stimulate
the whole coinmonity to exertion, now that gn 1.:6r a prospect
of increasing their wealth is opening before &era."

MONTH); 3' REPOSITORY.
We are afraid, from the complexion of the koresent
Number, that this periodical will feel the loss of its
late editor in more respects than one. There is le.,s
original matter than usual, and what is, is not of first-
rate quality. " Reason in Duelling," thong,h the Op-
posite of what its title would imply, passable. The
great praise bestowed on the talents of a writer who
poured forth a quantity of bombastic. rubhiah in . •
the Times, under the style and title of llunny-
mede, is not calculated to give us a veryhi?„:l; idea of
the writer's taste or critical powers. Iu " Ccitical
Notices" we find a variety of very indifferent articios, -
and " The Past Session" contains many harsh and un-
just remarks on the Government generally, -and on
Lord John Russell in particular.

COURT MAGAZINE.

. The Number before us contains two engravings, one
a portrait of Lady Vyvian, and the other a sketch of
the Marquis of Sligo's fine park at Westport. The
former is finished with great skill and delicacy, and is
the portrait of a very lovely woman. Of the literary
contributions, consisting, as usual, of tales, essays, and
criticisms, the best is a striking narrative, entitled the
" Hazard Table." Of the remaining tales, the less
said the better.

LONDON and EDINB UR Gil PHIL OSOP II ICA L
MAGAZINE.
R. Taylor, Red Lion-court.
A learned article, from the pea of '2,lr. Ivory, takes
the lead in the present Number. It is entitled, "On
such Functions as can be expressed by Serieses of
Periodic Terms," and its Weet is to show the ge-
ncral inapplicability of the differential mode of inves-
tigation adopted by La Place, in his theory for the
attraction of spheroids approaching to spheres. Those
who stand up for the unrestricted theory of the French
geometer are called upon to. reply to this paper. There
is a spice of controversy in some of the succeeding
articles, to which we have no objection. Nothing is
better calculated to elucidate truth, if it is conducted
without those acrimonious personalities which have too
often shown the littleness of the greatest men. In the
present case, we are bound to express our de-
cided disapprobation of the disingenuous conduct of
Mr. Hudson towards Dr. Apjohn. The other papers,
which are, for the most part, strictly scientific, are of a
superior order. Among those discoveries which are
almost every day rewarding. the labours of the persc-
vering inquirer into nature, we find one announced in
the account of the proceedings of the British Associa-
tion, which is likely to be attended with most important
results. A: Crosse,' Esq., of Broomfield, Somerset,
has, by an ingenious application of the voltaic battery
to water impregnated with various mineral substances,
succeeded in producing twenty-four different minerals,
and among these crystalline quartz. He repeated these
experiments a hundred times, and always with the same
results. He is fully convinced that it 'is possible
to make even diamonds, and that at no distant period.
every kind of mineral will be formed by, the ingenuity
of man. We may find that the aichyrnists were right
after all. The account of the Sivatherium Giganteum, an
enormous fossil animal of'a new ruminant genus, lately
found in a valley of the Sub-Himalayan mountains, is
highly curious and interesting.

CHRISTIAN REFORMER.
, Sherwood and Co.
" Notices of Sir James Mackintosh's Theological
Reading and Opinions," the first article in the prer
sent Number, is very ihteresting ; but so short, that it
is little more than a whet to imblic curiosity on a sub-
ject on which the public are na:u.aly anxicui to know
all that can be known. Vt'e hope, there:ore, the
" Notices" will be continued.
'inc paper headed, " On Paul's wi.3l) to change his
voice," turns upon the interpretation, of the words
cc?,;vgas 1'71: (tn V Yil/ IL , which the autilor contends,
with great ingenuity, and we should also bay success;
should be rendered, " use my voice instead," as if the,
apostle had said, I wish I could address you orally
instead of writing to you.
We recommend the perusal of the speeches deli-
vered at the late meeting of the Weskit' Unitarian
Society, held at Bristol, to those bigots who pretend
to deny the name of Christian to the Unitarians. If
this sect, so much spoken against, were better known,
there would, we are persuaded, he more of that Chris-
tian charity which they eminently. exercise towards
other sects, extended to them. The speeches to which
we have alluded also display a very
.great degree of
talent, and show that the speakers are men of .highly-
cultivated minds.
Fr;)m the article entitled " American Intelligence,"
we copy the following. pretty and pleasing verses:—
THE WINGED WORSHIPPERS,
[Addressed to two Swallows that flew into a Church during
• Divine Service.]

. -

Gay guiltless pair,
What seek ye from the fields 'of Heaven ?
• Ye have no need of prayer—
Ye have no sins to be forgiven !
Why perch ye here,
Where mortals to their Maker bend ?
Can your pure spirits fear
The God ye never could raend ?
Ye rover knew
The crimes for which we come to weep ;
Penance is not for you
Blcss'd wmdcrers of,the, upper deep. .

To you 'Cs given
To, wake sweet Nature's untaught lays ;
Beneath the arch of Heaven
To chirp away a life of praise.
Then spread each wing
Far, far above, o'er lakes and lands,
And join the choirs that sing
In yon blue dome not reared with :lands.

Or if ye stay
To note the consecrated hour,
Teach, me the airy wav,
And let me, try your envied power.
Above the crowd,
On upward wings could I but fly,
I'd bathe in yon bright cloud,
And seek the stars that gem the sky.
'Twere Heaven inCood
Through N
fieldsnt uNature's
c,
s
of tracklesscharms
01;fehe
feed,
t to soar—
On
And Nature's own great God adore.

THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE,.
The Commutation
.of Tithe's Act for England and
Wales only received the Royal Assent on the 13th of
August ; and yet here we have a copy of it verbatim,
Su subdivided and arranged as to leave nothing doubt—
ful respecting the legal construction of its most abstruse
provisions. This is a new feature in Magazine intelli-
gence, and deserves to be highly prized by the agricul-
turalists, for whom this work is chiefly intended. Be-
sides the usual quantity of
.agricultural reports, letters,
miscellaneous hints to the growers of such and such
d2scriptions of grain, the rearers of such and such
breeds of cattle, &c., this Number is embellished with
two very fairly executed engravings.

A young man of a wealthy family, having outrun
the liberal allowance made for his support in Paris, had re-
course to the Israelites, who very generously gave him 3,000 f.
for his bills to the amount of i2,000f. The bills became due,
but the improvident youth was unable to take them up ; war-
rants mere issued for his arrest, and be, rather than be confined
within the walls of the new building in the Rue de Clichy,
kept himself concealed, coming out on Sunday to enjoy the
society of his gay associates. This went on till a short time
ago,4vhen, one Sunday evening, while he was in full glee with
a party, two or three men were observed to station themselves
under an opposite gateway, with the evident intention of
watching the movements of the debtor. The hilarity of 'the
thoughtless youths was undisturbed, and the punch continued
to circulate till they were interrupted by a message to one of
them, a medical student, requesting him to come to the assis-
tance of a female in the house, who had been suddenly taken
in labour. The young doctor went out, and ere long returned
ith a smiling countenance. lie had not only safely delivered
the lady of her burden, but conceiving an ideas-or the escape
of his friend, who was beset bY the harpies of the law, he re-
eommerded him to suffer himself to be enveloped in linen and
carried out on a litter, as if he were the female above men-
tioned, about to be taken to the Lying-in hospital. This was
done, and a small trunk, so wrapped up as to represent a new-
born infant, was placed in his arms. The ruse succeeded, and
the vigilance of the sentinels was completely diverted by the
offer of 5 francs a-piece, if they aeuld assist in eonve)ing the
mother and child to an asylum ; but which they declined, de_
Glaring, that they were engaged on a different duty.—Galig.
nani'Lffessenger.