The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-06 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

DEAL, MARCH 3.—Wind N.N.E., moderate.—Arrived and proceeded
fur the River, the Teazer, Airth, from St. Michael's; Ocean, from
Messina to Stetting; Cynthia, Turner, from Harfleur. Sailed the
Keine Castle, for Madras. March 4.—Wind S.S.W., moderate.—Ar.
rived and proceeded fur the River the Liffey, from Buenos Ayres; Pal-
mira, Loader, from India; Aurora, Cox, from India; Black Nymph,
Wilson, from Africa; City of Edinburgh, Thompson, from Sydney.
Came down from the River and sailed the Rosabel, Abbott, for Tene-
rifre; Turner, Lovett, fur Baltimore; Flarewood, Cole, for Charleston,
The Palmira and Black Nymph remain.
PORTSMOUTH, Maslen 3.—Wind E,S.E. to S., fine.—Arrived her
Majesty's ship Actoon, having on board 376,500 dollars on merchants
accounts—sailed November 2, Rio Janeiro January 3, Bahia February
16. On the 2d ult., in lat. 34. bO. long. 28. 7., spoke the American
brig Congress, of and from Boston, for Rio. The Sultana, Scott, from
Terceira, for London—sailed February '2l. On the 24th, in lat. 45.'20.
long. 16. 43., was struck by a sea, which threw her on her beam-ends,
carried away boats, bulwarks, stanchions, wheel, tiller, sails, &c. 4.
Wind S.S.E. to W., hazy, with rain.—The Quebec spoke on the 28th
ult., off the Lizard, the American ship Draper, from Baltimore, Bremen.
START, MARCH 3. Off, the Venus, Andrews, from Batavia.
JERSEY, MARCH 3.-Arrived the Damon, Ferrell, from Cadiz.
KINSALE, Maucis 2.—Arrived the Reliance, Splale, from Ceara.
LIZARD, MARCU 3.—Off, the Draper, from Baltimore.
Cosec OF CORK, 11Ancn '2.—A large ship (700 or SOO tons) painted
ports, yellow sides, lost foremast, bowsprit, main-top-mast, had a jury-
mast and main-top-mait rigge.l, was passed five days since, about 100
miles west the Blosquets, another ship in company with her.
BRISTOL, MARCH 4.—Arrived the Maria, and William, St. Michael's.
Cowgs, Maucit 4 —Arrived the Talma, Thomas, from Matanzas ;
and Osprey, Frees, from Rio Janeiro.
SCILLY, Mancu 3.—Arrived the Vank, from Paraiba; and Arcturus,
from Honduras.

CORK, MARCH 2.—Arrived the Mary,tarden, from Gonalves.
PLYmorITH, Mancu 3.—Arrived off port the James Cruickshank,
from Demerara.

FALmovrn, MARCH 3.—Arrived off port the Pink, Popertz, from
Pernambuco.

The Enterprise, Roberts, from Bury to Ramsgate, struck on the
Manacles, 2d inst., and sunk—crew saved.
The Providence, Rose, from Itcche.ter to Newcastle, was on shore
near Flamb:o' Head, 2d inst.—crew and stores saved.

The Thornley, N'erill, from London, put into Scarborough with con.
siderable damage, having been on shore, bound to Hartlepool.
The Rival, INl`Lean, of Aberdeen, from Newcastle, is totally wrecked
—crew saved.

The Brodene, from Bergen to St. Übes, w•as abandoned at era,
on the 41iit ult.

The Swallow, Patten, from Limerick to London, is on shot° at Islay,
and full of water.

The Lentillta, Catliero, from Messina to Antwerp, is on shore at
Scilly, and full of water crew saved.

The Enterprise, Pidgeon, from Gombln, put into Scilly with damage,
and leaky, having struck on Bacon Ledge, bound to London.
The Lyon, M'Carthy, put into Scith four feet water in her hold, hav-
ing struck a rock ; cargo discharging.
The George Canning, :Harvey, from Macao, put into Plymouth,
much strained, having been on her beam ends, bound to London.

Earl and Countess Grey have arrived in Berkeley-
square, from their seat, Hall. The Noble Earl and
Countess slept at Lambton Castle en route to town.

TH/F,Rs' HISTORY OF TIIE FRENCH R EVO-
LUTION, IN WEEKLY ONE-SHILLING PanTs.—About twenty-
two Numbers of this admirable work have now been published
with the utmost regularity, at the rate of one Number per
week. The success which we understand it has met with,
afford; incontestable evidence that the public have not lost all
relish for books of a higher order than those now published
in such profusion, and that a few bold adventures of this de-
scription may go far to rectify the vitiated taste of the day.
Until this work appeared the great bulk of English readers
remained in lamentable ignorance of the great causes and
consequences of
the great French Revolution—the real
_cha-
racter and intentions of the actors, such as Robespierre, Dan-
ton,ugiit ai
to regard theproper point of view in which we
oconduct. Thiers is a writer of uncom-
montd others,
theira nd
discrionsttioo, judgment, and impartiality ; his style is
at once vigorous and plain. The Editor has acquitted him-
self !).dmirably by appending numerous notes which serve to
I clucklat9 rho text.—Edinburgh Observer,

MAGAZINES.

BLACK WOOD'S MAGAZINE.

We have just received this Magazine, which, it seems,
narrowly escaped shipwreck in the North seas, on its passage
from Edinburgh to Londea. Had it gone to the bottom,
the intellectual faculties of the finny tribes would no doubt
have been greatly benefited by such a prodigious cargo of
mind being diffused among them ; but the public would-
ha% e lost the best Number that has appeared for some
months. " How to avoid Fighting a Duel" is a series of
characteristic anecdotes strung together with infinite tact
end humour, all of which have truth to recommend them.
The sketch of the military Bobadil who turned Methodist,
in order to get creditably out of a duel in which he had
involved himself, is as full of fun as Smollett's scene between
Pallet and the Doctor on the ramparts. We recommend
this admirably told anecdote to the attention of Mr. Peake,
who could make a first-rate farce out of it. " Thiers" pos-
sessess great and striking interest as a biographical sketch
of one of the most remarkable French statesmen of the day ;
but wo demur to the spirit that pervades it, which is
captious, splenetic, and prejudiced in a high degree. The
writer, who it is plain to see in every page, is intimately
acquainted with M. Thiers, speaks of him as a mere bust-
ling, unprincipled adventurer, who will not hesitate to make
any sacrifice for place. Not content with thus abusing the
man, ho must needs extend his abuse also to the author.
Thiers's History of the French Revolution
.Ire pronounces
to be meagre, contradictory, inefficient, and unphilosophical.
That it is unphilosophical, we grant ; but as a full, spi-
rited, and, on the whole, impartial record of facts, it is be-
yond all comparison the best history we possess of the Re_
‘olution. Thiers does not pretend to enter into the philo-
sophy of his subject ; the turn of his mind is any thing but
speculative or theoretical ; lie is simply a dexterous, quick-
witted, sagacious narrator of actual events. The only de-
fect we find in his history, is his evident leaning throughout
towards the Girondists, who were a mere set of canting,
pedantic visionaries, with just wit enough to raise the devil,
but not spirit enough to drive him from their presence when
raised. M. Thiers is constantly lauding the wondrous elo-
quence of these political sophists, and as constantly under-
rating that of Robespierre ; yet judging only from the spo-
ci►nens which he has furnished us with, of the oratory of the
Girondists and that of the sanguinary leader of the Jaco-
bins, we should say that in tact, sagacity, and a quick ap-
prehension of the character of his countrymen during the
period when he held sway over them, Robespierre beats all
his political contemporaries hollow. But even he is a
miserable creature as an orator, being clever only in com-
parison with the Girondists, whose eloquence consisted in
nothing better than showy, bombastic allusions to the Re-
publican virtues of Greece and Rome. Nothing ,indeed
has struck us so forcibly as the utter deficiency of elo-
quence, in its higher and nobler acceptation, among the
orators of the Legislative Assembly and the Convention.
The French historians, we know, point out Mirabeau as
the model of what a popular speaker should be ; yet when
we come to examine calmly• the specimens they have given
us of his eloquence, what do we find there ?—nothing but
tinsel declamation, tawdry puerility, and common-place
clap-trap appeals to the passions of an aroused populace !
There is no high-toned, sustained sentiment, nothing to
instruct, or begot matter for reflection—no pouring forth of
a rich and vigorous imagination—all is showy, superficial
and worthless, like the penny spangles on the dress of Har-
lequin. Yet France had energy in those days—tremen-
dous, invincible energy—but it was not, as There and Nlig-
net suppose, intellectual, but solely physical. It was the
strength of her right arm, not the vigour of her under-
standing, that saved her from the armies of the coalition.
" The Picture Gallery," which is continued in this Number,
recounts the sufferings of a young college pedant, who per-
mitted himself to be wheedled out of mathematics into
matrimony, by an artful, buxom widow. " Canada and
Ireland" is a political diatribe, written in a very intempe-
rate spirit, as if by some dyspeptic Ultra-Tory. In the
ar:ide entitled " Practical Working of Trades' Unions,"
there is some sound reasoning, mixed up, however, with a
very copious alloy of prejudice and sophistry. Guizot
and Milton" is an attempt to show, by a variety of pas-
s ,ges culled from the works of a Bishop of the eighth cen-
tury, that our English Homer is an arrant plagiarist, both
in the design of his Paradise Lost, and in the execution of
some of its choicest passages. 'The essay is ingeniously
written, and at first we thought the writer was in earnest ;
but on reflecting on the character of the Bishops of the
earlier ages, we fea persuaded that none would ever have
had grasp of mind enough, or sufficlent freedom from con-
ventional prejudice, to have taken that lofty , intellectual
view of Satan that Milton has done. The eighth century
was not the age of religious toleration or enlightenment.
A Bishop of that period, if he had ventured to pourtray
the Devil in poetry, would have made him a black ugly
giant with a tail and horns, not: a " fallen archangel," ex-
pressing thoughts fitted to " slander through eternity."
The essay, we strongly suspect, is a hoax—a solemn quiz
upon the ignorance and credulity of the reading public.