The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-05 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,

gold dust imported from San Francisco within that
per od amounts to about 220,000 dollars, and it is said
that to buy it up there 100,000 dolls, have been sent
thither, chi( fly from Callao, as well as from here.
Other foreign vesiels have obtained charters for the
United States at ps 18 for copper in bars, and would do
well in that or the California trade now.
Exchanges—On London, at 90 days, 43k, bar silver
10i; hard dollars, 10i per cent.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING.

Accounts from the south report the rapid progress
of emigration. All classes, gentle and simple, are
flying to the shores of America. In Waterford
numbers of farmers have voluntarily abandoned their
holdings, giving " leg bail" to the landlords for the
rent. In the same quarter 89 families, consisting of
over 400 persons have been ejected from the property
of the Earl of Donoughmore.
Notwithstanding the cessation of the fires in Down,
it is proposed at an early day to hold in Down-
patrick a county meeting for the purpose of adopt-
ing, on the part of the residents of Down, measures
to crush the spirit of incendiarism now prevalent in a
portion of it. Viscount Castlereagh, Lieutenant of
the county, is expected to preside.

MAGAZINES,&c.—(CONTINUED.)

THE NEW MONTHLY

Mr. " Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour " introduces
us to some new characters, but says little of the hero
himself. The enormous losses Mr. Sponge is sup-
posed to have sustained are to be accounted for, we
are told, on the same principle on which a merchant
declares he has lost " twenty thousand on this" and
" forty thousand on that," simply because he did not
make it. One of the most interesting tales in the
New Monthly is entitled " The Perils of the Poor ; or
the Lost Snuff-box." The interest of this tale, es-
pecially when the secret is discovered, which does not
happen until the conclusion, is of a most painful cha-
racter. There is, however, one thing in this article
to which we must most decidedly object. Its author
strongly censures the promotion of common soldiers
to the rank of officers; however meritorous they
may be. Some of his objections appear at
first sight sufficiently plausible, as where he
observes that want of education renders the
elevation of the intruder painful to himself as well
as annoying to the gentlemen with whom he is com-
pelled to mingle. This may to a certain extent he
true, but the remedy is a simple one. Every soldier
in the army should be instructed in the rudiments of
education. It is not necessary for a man to know
Latin and Greek in order to converse in a gentlemanly
manner. If the rudiments of education be provided
for all men in the ranks, the vicissitudes to which all
soldiers, and especially those few who obtain the
envied promotion, are subjected, will do the rest.
A man who by his own exertions has elevated
himself in the social scale is, to our
thinking, far better entitled to the epithet " noble"
or " honourable," than are a multitude of those who
only derive it from their ancestors. The very narra-
tive in:which this system is reprobated defeats its own
purpose. The hero of this heart-thrilling tale, the
soldier made officer, is endued with a nobility of soul
and a delicacy of feeling rarely to be met with even
in the highest ranks. We have dwelt so long upon
this tale (and those who read it will not wonder at
our delay)] that we must content ourselves with a
general commendation of the remaining contents of
the New Monthly.

other sensation beyond that of supreme indifference in
a mind so immeasurably above the reach of his own
mediocrity. As to the assertion that Dickens will be
forgotten when the name of Cowper is borne in
honourable remembrance, it is about as silly as though a
similar taunt hadj been directed at Cervantes in
reference to some poetic minnow of Castile, whose
fame has long since been hushed in the slumbers of
oblivion. A word to Mr. Gilfillan—let him main-
tain, if so he pleases, that Mr. Samuel Brown is a
second Dr. Johnson, that Mr. Aird is a second
Spenser, and that Mr. Bayly is a second Milton,
but—unless he wishes to render himself exqui-
sitely ridiculous—let him abstain altogether from
deriding the glory of Byron by an inuendo, or from
attacking the genius of Dickens in the Billingsgate
of criticism. A laboriously careful review is given
in Tait of Alacaulay's " History of England." One
suggestion seriously offered by the reviewer strikes
us as particularly facetious—namely, that a statue
of the maid of Orleans should be erected on Wa-
terloo-bridge at the expense of the English Govern-
ment. " Miranda" is continued by Mr. Percy St.
John, and the current chapters will not be the less
interesting from the circumstance that they recount
events taking place in the very thick of the great Re-
volution. M. Guizot's pamphlet on " Democracy "is
noticed in a strain such as might be expected from
an eminently democratic publication. Among the
most entertaining contributions in the number is the
article on the " State of Music on the Continent."
Others, such as the consideration of " The Pestilence
and Sanitary Measures," and the analysis of " Dr.
Chalmers's Posthumous Works," will be found
worthy of an attentive perusal.

DOLMAN.
Anotber of the simple, but touching, and power-
fully-written stories of a Roman Catholic priest, is
contributed to Dolman by the editor. It is called the
" Dying Burglar." The new serial "The Catholic
at Sea"—a rather odd and dubious title by the way—
is continued ; and another serial, fraught with many
caustic touches of sarcasm, is commenced—we mean
" The Confessions of a Puseyite." A brief and, to
our thinking, a rather indifferent Latin poem,
celebrates the renown of the heroic Archbishop
Affre. Above all, the papers contained in the
February number of Dolman, both in interest and
ability, are those relating to Pius IX.—one a trans-
lation from the Courrzer de l'Europe, describing:the
personal appearance and private life of the ruling
Pontiff—the other affording a sketch of the present
posture of affairs in central and southern Italy. In
its other departments the magazine sustains its well-
earned reputation.

UNITED SER VICE.
This is a more than usually interesting number of
the United Service Magazine. Among its contents
are an article on "Military Education," " The Field
Artillery of the principal European rmies," a con-
tinuation of "The Sack of Rome in 1525," by Jacopo
Bonaparte, translated by the French President ;
another instalment of "The African Cruiser ;" " The
Smuggler's League," a tale of thrilling interest ; the
conclusion of " Hofer's Last Campaign ;" " The
Dutch in the Indian Archipelago ;" and other papers
of varied interest and ability.