The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

THE ECLECTIC REVIEW.

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"The Marriage ,Law," " John Howard, the Philan-
thropist," " Apocalyptic Reveries," Herschel's Out-
lines of Astronomy,"" Stuart's Expedition into Central
Australia, "Dr. Harris's Man Primeval," and " The
Wisdom of the Hereditaries," are the subjects of the
articles in the Eclectic Review. In that on "Apoca-
lyptic Reveries," a deserved condemnation is pro-
nounced on Dr. Thom and other would-be biblical
expositors.

THE LAND WE LIVE IN. Part XXVII.
The romantic scenery of North Wales is beautifully
illustrated and described in this number of the Land
We Live in.

The BRITISH POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL,
ECCLESIASTICAL, AND HISTORICAL
GAZETTEER, Travelling Road Book, and
County Atlas.
This comprehensive work progresses steadily, and
gives full evidence of the continued research and in-
dustry which marked its early numbers. The present,
the seventh of the two-and-sixpenny parts, contains
three beautifully executed maps of the counties of
Northampton,l,eicestershire, and Surrey. It is also
embellished with an admirable engraving of the aque-
duct over the Avon near Bath. The spirited proprietors
appear to spare neither labour nor expense in carry-
ing cut the extensive design of the undertaking.

THE BANKER'S MAGAZINE' Journal of the
Money Market, and Railway Digest.
The number of this useful and practical magazine
for the present month contains many valuable and
important papers. The opening article, on the mis-
chievous effects of the unwise and impolitic Bank Act
of 1844, clearly and ably shows how unfairly that
Act operates in reference to the banking companies of
England and Wales. By a proviso in the English
Act, it appears that if two joint.stock banks of issue
unite, the circulation of the one which merges in the
other shall altogether cease; and if two united banks
should, on their union, adopt a new title, they would
both of them lose their previous right to issue notes
to the extent of their respective fixed issues. The
Irish and Scotch Banking Acts are free from these
unjust and penal clauses; and there appears to be no
sound reason why they should be retained in the Act
referring to England and Wales. " Statistics of
Pawnbroking and Monts de Pi 6.6" contains some
interesting information, extracted from a paper read
at a meeting of the British Association by Mr. Han-
ceck, Professor of Political Economy in Trinity Col-
lege, Dublin. There is a very full and able digest of
the New Bankruptcy Act, 12 and 13 Victoria, c. 106.
It has the usual quantity of important intelligence on
monetary and railway matters.

A SERMON, preached in Carlisle Chapel, Ken-
nington lane. By Francis Thornburgh, A. 8.,
Minister.
The 19th of last September was the day appointed
by the Lord Bishop of the diocese for public prayer
and humiliation throughout the district, in conse-
quence of the fearful ravages made by cholera in the
metropolis. The Rev. Mr. Thornburgh took occa-
sion, in the discharge of his ministerial functions, to
pronounce a discourse on that day which possesses
the merit of unaffected piety, unstrained reasoning,
and simple and elcquent language. He humbly
expresses his opinion that national visitations are
not necessarily national punishments; that
the scourge was probably less of a strictly
punitive character—less an exhibition of retributive
justice on this side the grave, than an awakener to a
keener sense of our utter dependence upon God, and
an inciter to the duty of a more implicit, unreserved
submission to his will.
" Nothing," says be, " in our personal capacities stays
our progress in the path of obedience, or cools our ardour
alter the precious promises and glorious prospects of a
Saviour's religion, more effs..qually than an unbroken
series of prosporitics. And what is true of individuals
separately, is no less true of them in the aggregate.
External good fortune exercises its injurious influences
alike upon the community."
Ile then, in very beautiful terms, instances the case
of the Church of Christ herself, who gradually lost in
piety what she gained in pomp, and that of Israel,
the chosen people, whose ingratitude was so notorious
for unexampled heavenly favours. " Britain, too, has
been signally blessed ; yet the Author of her glory
has been too little remembered,
" And, we guess, it is w ith this view she is, in mercy,
;.filleted. PeAilence comes to bring out before
us our Benefactor, end to put within our
hands, by an unusual method, a sense of
our dependence on Him, our need of Him,
and our obligation to Ilim. It is hard to recognise
clearly in the fall blaze, and so a cloud is bid to cast
over the land its dark shadow" :
Some admirable subsidiary remarks on the sudden
popularity of the topic of " the sanitary condition
of the poor," which, among the better classes, has
all at once become the theme of the day, are wound
up by the following truthful reply to the inquiry,
why a subject deemed before almost indelicate, is
discussed now with an interest universal as it is
hearty ?--
"_Fear has proved more powerful than love. It was
not the principle of attraction which drew, but
that of force which impelled. The subject of
the ' sanitary condition of the poor,' with which reli
glen is essentially connected, has been forced upon us.
We think upon it, we talk upon it, we are ready to
expend money upon it, simply because we cannot help
it. 0 pestilence, merciful pestilence, thou hast done
the work in a day that philanthropy has vainly essayed
to do for years! It was not the eloquence of life that
wrought the change; it was the silence of death. It was
not the oratory of the living voice; it was the dumbness
of the coffin and the shroud."

BANKRUPTCY COURT.—The floors of this court,
which were covered with the patent kamptulicon about
five years since, in order to deaden the sound, are un-
dergoing partial repair. The wear of this extraordinary
mechanical production appears to have given great satis-
faction.
CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 5.
—A Statutable Congregation
was holden on Saturday to receive the resignation of
the late Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Cookson ; and at a tn(eting
of the Heads of Houses, holden this day, the Rev. James
Cartmell, Master of Christ's College, was elected his
successor.
A man never loses by doing good offices to others.
—Eliza Cook's Journal.