The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-04 00:00:00

by his brother, Charles Vane, Marquis of London-
derry ;" and we are not the less disposed to pay a just
tribute to the genius of the erudite and accomplished
critic because we differ from his reasoning and his
deductions : the heartiness and sincerity of his style,
the captivating gracefulness of his language, is
calculated to win admiration where it cannot secure
conviction. The sweet and simple little poem by the
llev. George hill we cannot avoid extracting :
SONG OF THE BADMAN PEASANTRY ON MAY-EYE.
Silently the evening shadows
Fall around our muirland home,
And the mists o'er fields and meadows
From their secret chambers come.
Brothers! though our limbs are weary—
Sisters! though cur cares increase—
Yet our hearts are light and cheery,
Yet our suns descend in peace.
Now the lark has ceased his singing,
Wearied, since tht dawn of day—
But the primrose-haunts are ringing
With the blackbird's softest isy.
Now we feel the inspiration
Breathed by twilight's magic hour,
More than they of loftiest station,
More than they of lordliest power!
Oft wo meet on green Coulkeeny
Wheu the toilsome da'aik was o'er—
And by thy lone walls, Dun-einey,
Have we heard the Atlantic roar.
Oft, when Autumn's brec zy weather
Called to life the reaper train,
Have we stood and toiled together
On Moyarget's corn-clad plain.
Pleasant ware the days of childhood
\VII.II we roamed o'er bill and glen—
Primroses in Cousl's wikl wood
Not fresher than our hopes were then!

Why, in foreign climes to wander,
Shall we leave our native streams?
Would not their beloved Meander
Still reproach us in our dreams?
Ohl Rathmohan, still we love thee,
Through all times of hope or fear—
For the heaven; are bright above thee,
And our fathers' graves are here.
" Philip Marsden; or the Experiment," is continued,
and contains many touches of deep feeling and pathos.
" The Undergraduate" is also continued. The last
paper of the series fur this month would demand more
time and space than we can afford at present to
bestow upon it—it is a review of " Lord Cloncurry's
Memoirs." This patriotic and high-minded noble-
man has favoured the public with a volume entitled
" Personal Recollections of the Life and Times, with
_ _

Extracts from the Correspondence of, Valentine Lord
Cloncurry," a work likely to prove of great value to
the future historian of Ireland. We fully concur in
the well-merited tribute to the memory of the late
Dr. Cooke Taylor. Few men contributed more
extensively to the science and literature of his age and
than the lamented Dr. Taylor.

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THE BRITISH GAZETTEER.
Part the sixth well maintains the reputation which
the preceding numbers have fairly won. The county
maps are those of Warwickshire and Cheshire, and
the illustrations consist of engravings of the Univer-
sity Gallery and Tai lees Buildings, Oxford, and of
Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Brandon-hill, Clifton,
the latter, especially, being a beautiful print. The
diligent editors of this work have a deserved claim
upon public approbation and support for their supply
of varied and useful matter, both statistical and histo-
rical. On completion it will doubtless be the Gazetteer
of Great Britain.

ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1850.
Zadkiel is early in the field as an almanac writer.
The fearful scourge under which we are still suffering
was expressly predicted by him in his almanac for
the present year; and in the number for 1850 we
find foretold a revMtation of the cholera in the ensuing
summer. May the seer prove to be mistaken ; but,
unfortunately, his predictions generally turn out
correct. There are some very curious vaticinations
in the new number relating to the French President,
the Czar, &c., and an interesting essay on chrono-
logy. The author's sincere and indefatigable exer-
tions to dispel the prejudices of the worldly-wise
against stellar influence have rendered the sale of this
work so extensive, that a particular notice of the
superior manner in which it is got up is uncalled for.
May we hint to him that a republication (perhaps in
an abridged form) of Ramesey's work, and an en-
larged edition of his own Grammar, might not
unworthily occupy Lis leisure ?