The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-10 00:00:00

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.)

THE MIRROR.
The Mirror this month opens with a terrific on-
slaught on the " House of Malignants," by which this
saucy writer means the noble and learned and gallant
Lords and the exceedingly plops and charitable Bishops,
who congregate at Westminster to keep Jews out of
Parliament and to defend their own privileges. Our
writer is no great admirer of privilege. According
to him—

" Privilege means injustice. It degrades one class in
order to load with honours another which can already
scarcely stand beneath its titles and its dignities; it robs
the poor to enrich the wealthy ; it takes the food from
the hungry to fatten the pampered; it even deprives the
industrious of their labour that the idle may live in ram-
pant luxury and pride; it denies clothing to the naked
that the obese forms of the Peer and his minions may be
swaddled in purple and fine linen, while it drags down
the miserab►e wretch deeper and still deeper in the mire
of misery, and poverty, and degradation, that the ptiff,d-
up Peer, the stalking Bishop, the fruitless branches of
Royalty, with all the cloud ot satellites that hangs about
them, may be carried to a still higher eminence ot dignity
and wealth. Yet we, the first nation in the world—the
wisest, the most honourable, the most civilized, the most
charitable, and the most generous, still continue to foster
with tenderness and respect this spawn of iniquity, to
lick the feet that spurn us, to quaff with pride and plea•
sure the poison that is destroying us."
Mr. Percy St. John continues his " Adventures of •
French Republican," and in the present instalment
gives us a most stirring description of the erection of
the barricades of St. Mery in 1832. At that time the
Carlists aided the Republicans in their outbreak, not
from love of liberty, but from hatred of Louis Philippe,
and many a smart carriage from the Faubourg
Germain might have been seen forming the foundation
of a barricade in the Rue St. Martin. King James I.
is the subject of the royal biographical sketch, and the
excellent " History 'of Music" is continued.

THE BRITISH POLITICAL, COMMER-
CIAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, and HISTORI-
CAL GAZETTEER, Travelling Road-Book,
and County Atlas.

We are much gratified to observe the steady pro-
gression of this highly valuable and useful publica-
tion. We have just received Part V., being the second
of the large 2s. 6d. numbers. It contains beautifully-
executed maps of Shropshire, Nottinghamshire,
and Cambridgeshire, besides being embellished
with an exquisite engraving of " Ivy Bridge," a most
picturesque viaduct on the South Devon Railway.
The present part contains interesting historical re-
cords of Boscobel, Salop, where Charles the Second
retreated after his defeat by Cromwell at the
battle of Worcester, and where the Royal Oak
was long exhibited to the curious visitor which
gave effectual concealment to Royalty during the
pursuit of the Republicans; also of Bosworth, near
which was fought the memorable battle, which put
an end to the contest of the Roses, between Henry
of Richmond and Richard III.; altogether the
present is fully entitled to the merited commenda-
tions bestowed upon the preceding parts.