The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-01 00:00:00

NATIONAL MAGAZINE.

The Retrospective Re Zew for this Month consists of a
criticism on D.. Jo!:nson's works, in which the writer is
pleased to discover every spe _ies of haibw:sat and absur-
dity. The grim oil lion of 80lt-court was, it seems, neither
poet, critic, pliFosopher, essayist, nor philologist. His ge-
n'us was nothing more than " the intensity of common-
place." That there is much " common-place', in John-
•on's writings ; especially in his Rambler, we grant ; but
this most always be the cese with those who write in haste.
and from the imperious necessity of the moment, in order to
furnish them with the day's meal and the night's lodging.
But will this sage Reviewer tell us that he who wrote the
Lives of the Poets, and the Introduction to Shakspcare's
Plays, was no critic ; that he who compiled that stupen-
ious work, the English Dictionary, was no Lexicographer ;
chat he who wrote " Rasselas" was no Phi!o:opher ?
We have no patience with such arrogant presumption !
Surly Sam has now taken his stand among the classics of
air language, and is not to be written down, even by a
critic of this " age of intellect." As an author of a sound,
vigorotis understanding, di ciplined by long acquaintatce
.with actual life—not the mere still-hfe of books—old John-
ion was withoitt an equal, and has had no successor.
Whatlean surpass the critical perspicacity of his remarks
in Pope, or the metaphysical acumen of those on Cowley.
And then his " Vanity of Human Wishes !" Is there
nothing here worthy of praise ? No splendid description
—no majestic march of versification ? Why, there is more
verling genius in this one poem, than in all the rhymes that
nave been ".whe'ped" since the clays of " Don Juan !" But
enough of this. " Alicia Gray" is a well-written story,
whose denouement is brought at•out with much tact. The
remainder of the articles contain little or nothing worthy of
particular comment. On the w",o!e, the Number—except•
ug tha idle attack on Johnson—is a fair enough average
one.

THE ARBORETUM BRITANNICUM, No. LL
THE SUBURBAN GARDENER, Nn. VIII.
THE ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE.
Longman and Co.
These publications do not properly come under the head
Goncral Literature, be:ng peculiarly adapted to supply
Aid) necessary information Agriculturists, Gardeners, and
Architects. They are all conducted by Mr. Loudon,
whose numerous works on these subjects are among th,
°est and most popular in the language.

THE RA IL WAY MAGAZINE. Wykl.
A rather interesting Number of a work devoted wholly
subjects of practical science. • The Article on the Glas
:ow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway, is worthy of the
.notice of our Northern Contemporaries. We have not
:puce left for any extracts.

THE STATISTICAL JOURNAL. Pixley.

This periodicAl has now reached a fourth Numhcr, anc
promises to be successful. The Right lion, the Speaker
of the House of Commons has thought so highly of it as
to sanction its dedication to hini. Among the articles in
the Number for January is one on the " Excise," arother

In addition to the informa'ion contained in the beforementioned ad-
dress relative to the population of Canada, we subjoin the following par-
ticulars. By the census of 1831 the population of Lower Canada is
thus classified The number of proprietors of real property is given at
57,891, and the extent of land occupied by them at 3,1081,793 statute
acres. The number of persons living in 1831 who were deaf and dumb
is stated to have been 408, the blind 334, and the insane 924. The
number of inhabitants professing the Roman Catholic faith in 1831 is
given (as before stated) at 403,472 ; the persons in connection with the
Church of England were 34,620 ; those belonging to the Church of
Scotland amounted to 15,069. There were only 107 Jews ; the re-
mainder of the population were Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, not
in connection with the Church of Scotland, and other sects. Th •
number of families employed in agriculture was 50,824, employing
among them as farm servants only 7,002 persons. There were in the
same year (1831) 2,503 families engages! in commercial pursuits, and
1,282 persons subsisting on alms. The number of inhabited houses is
stated to have then been 82,437—the number being built 1,458, and
the vacant 1,542 ; making a total of 85,437.
Table gives an z.ccount of the amount of the poputa-
tioill'ite fl
in the different rent counties of Lower Canasta :

Rank of
Popula- tank of
fire St. Name of the
lion in
Law- County. tion in
DLL the St. Name of the Ninth.
Law-renec.
County.
1831.
retwe. to lee.
------ •-----
,----- ------7
r Faguenay ......... 8,314.1 r 13auharnois••• . 16,857
Montmorency.. 3,;43 i L'Acatlie
Orleans
North{ Portoeuf 12,350 "" u ficattee
[Champlain
Torrebonne 10,6•23 Nicolet ... ..... ... 1•2,5111
Montreal
ILa l'rarie 111,497 Slut!) ...' Missisquoi
4,31!) co
th
ai
Kamouraska 14,.'67
Chambly I *,,),3 I Shertord
Vereheres
Itouville
1 Richelieu 11.149 1 !Drummond l•r•C ~
•
Soutll.4 S. 1.1 mein) he.. Li.3o‘i 1 U Mogantic
icm,ka
...... .. 9,496 I [thispe
p Lotbin ere
Dorchester
[
I.'l-let
Rimouski ......... 1i.,001 „ i 2 Rivers i I
Queb.,,
St. Maurire
Berthier
1 ',909
•20,...!•25 6,0'20
North L' A ssom ption ... 12;767
Laehenaye . ... 9,161
I
Two Mountain,. 2.,9 5
Vaudreuil l'll •
The total seigneurial population of the county population, according I
[
the census of 1831, was 385,237, and the total of the township pop
lation 52,695. The seven counties from Ottawa to Megantic, inclusiv
either contain a mnio,its. —.--: • • • • ^ - '

The total seigneurial population of the county population, cording to
the census of 1831, was 385,237, and the total of the township popu-
lation 52,095. The seven counties from Ottawa to Megantic, inclUsive,
either contain a majority, or consist exclusively of population resident
in townships. Gaspe and Bonaventure are inhabited by a very mixed
population,
chiefly engaged in the fisheries. In the rest of the counties
the major part of the population is seigneurial. The inhabitants of the
seigneurtes may, for general purposes, be reckoned as French by origin ;
the inhabitants of the townships as English.
The total of the township population is not, however, to be taken as
the total of the population of English descent. The numbers inter
versed with the population of French descont are variously estimated
from 50,000 to 80,000 souls; of vhotn from 20,000 to 30,000 are in
the cities and towns. The remainder are dispersed about the country,
but always overborne (as in towns and cities), with the exception, per-
haps, of Beanhartiois, by majorities of French origin. In the county of
Two Mountains, and behind the seigneuries. on the north bank of the
St. Lawrence, pcs haps the inhabitants of British descent may be found
sufficiently condensed to claim, under another rule of division, to form
separate electoral districts; but, in general, they are so dispersed as
scarcely to make it possible for their influence to be felt in elections, ex-
cept by the adoption of some novel principle.
A table relativetathestateof the representation in Lower Cana:la is
given in the Appeni ix to the Report of the Canada Commissioners. At
the time that table teas drawn up, the number of representatives in the
House of Assembly was 88. The cities and boroughs sent altogether
11 representatives to the Assembly, and all the counties, with the cx-
caption of Montmorency, Drummond, and Ale antic, sent two repro.
sentatives each to the Iloasa of Assembly. The three just-mentioned
counties sent one representative earls, their population bring in 18:31
under 4,000. By the Provincial Act, set ling the representation of
the province, it is enacted that all counties shoulo have two Members
whose population at the time of the passing of the Act amounted to
4,000 or upwards; and that those under 4,000 should have one Mem-
ber only until they attained that number. The csoulty of MegantT
is the onl• one that now remains entitled to no more than one Member.
It js stated in the address of the Constitutional Association, that in
the period of five years, from 1831, the number of emigrants who ar-
rived at Quebec from the mother country was 195,000, of whom it is
calculated that 35,000 have sett'cd in Lower Canada ; thus showing
that the greater proportion of the emigrants only made use of Lower
Canada as a country of transit. From 1820 to 18:35, both inclusive,
the total cumber of emigrants who arrived at Quebee_was 211,159.
Of these, 53,252 came from England and Wales, 26,816 from Scotland,
and 128,578 from bel'nd, making a total of 258,601 emigrants from
the United Kingdom. The majority of the emigrants passed to the up.

Per province, and some proceeded to the United States. The number oi
actual settlers who arrived in the country between 1825 and 1331 was
only 23,406. The following table exhibits the amount of the births,
marriages, and deaths in 1833 and 1834:
1833. 1834.
Births , 25,247 26,114
Marriages . . • 4,783 4,598
Deaths . . . 10,793 15,714
In the first year the proportion of births to the po:sulation is 1 in 221,
of marriages lin 107, and of deaths lin 47. In 1834 the proportion
is shown to be: births, 1 in 191 ; marriago, 1 ill 111 ; and death,,
in 321. The number of men from 18 to 59 year; of ?ge embo,ned in
the militia, for the defence Of the Lower Province, in 1633 amounted to
94,337 ; the number of battitliotiS was 88; of companies, 1,040; an,:
of muskets, 8,004- The population of the counties of the Upper Pro-
vince, in 1834, was as follows: Ottawa, 13,9351 Eastern, 25,105 ;
Johnstown, 28,061 ; Bathurst, 22,079 ; Midland, 44,392 ; Newcastle,
27,404 ; Home, 55,540 (including Toronto, 9,252); iiii3Otra, 27,347 ;
Gore, 34,618; London, 38,330 ; Wert rA, 12,752. Total, 311,903.

ZI]VE.

THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGA
Simpkin and illarslaill.
The first portrait in the " Gallery of liht trious Irisi
men" for the New Year, is that of James, Duke of Or-
monde, so celebrated for the part he played in the great
Irish rebellion of 1641—a rebellion now well known to be
wholly defensive on the part of the Catholics of the North.
Even Lord Clarendon, the apologist of the Governor nt, in
his " Historical Review or the Affairs of Ireland," says—
" About the beginning of November 1641, the English and
Scltch forces in Carrickfergus murdered, in one night, all
the inhabitants of the Island Gee (commonly called Mac-
Gee), to the number of above 3,000, men, women, and
children, all innocent persons, in a time when none of the
Catholics of that country were in arms or rebellion." And
his Lordship adds emphatically—" Note that this was the
first massacre committed in Ireland on either side." In
another part of the same work he says—" In Derry's
county the neighbouring English garrisons of the county of
Cork, after besieging and pillagng all that country, mur-
dered above 300 persons in cold blood before any rebellion
began in Munster, and led 100 labourers prisoners to Ca-
perquin, where being tried, they were by couples cast into
the river, and made sport to see them drowned. Observe
that this-county is not charged with any murders committed
on Protestants." In the teeth of these facts, which are
well attested, the author of the sketch before us, with mar-
vellous impudence, throws the blame of O'Neill's rebellion
upon the Catholics—affects utter ignorance of the forged
letters addressed by the Government to that brave but un-
fortunate Chieftain—and has the effrontery to represent as
a hero possessed of every virtue, a man who exceeded his
master in duplicity—who alternately tried to sell the King
to the Parliament and betray the Parliament to the King—
who was only consistent through life in his hatred of the
Catholics, to whom he first owed his influence, and subse-
quently his life. In the list of Ireland's illustrious sons,
neither the philosopher, the statesman, the divine, nor the
warrior, can wish to see the name of James Duke of
Ormond. That he had some qualities of a statesman we
admit. He was vigilant, subtle, and well versed in the
arts of petty intrigue ; but though not deficient in moral or
personal courage, he had no true elevation of mind—
sported with the lives and fOrtunes of men without necessity
and without compunction—and at last fell the victim of a
policy, which as it had no definite object but personal ag-
grandisement, and was based on no sounder principles than
what the chapter of accidents might turn up, could not be
expected to be successful. Cromwell took Ireland before
Ormonde had time to sell it, and thus robbed treason of
its reward. The " Roman Catholic Oath" is a subject
long since exhausted, and upon which it were better for
the Conservative party that nothing had ever been written.
The " Ghost and the Bone-setter" from the MS. papers of
the late Rev. Francis Purcell, of Drumcoolagh, is a sketch
after our own heart. We subjoin an extract :
Well, Terry Neil, for that was my father's name, began to feel his
heart growl's' light and his purse heavy, an' he took a bit iv a farm in
Squire Phalhn's ground, just under the mild castle, an' a pleasant little
spot it was; an' day and mornin' poor crathurs not able to put a foot to
the ground, with broken arms and broken legs, id be cumin' ramblin' in
from all quarters to have their bones spliced up. Well, yer Honour, all
this was as well as well could be; but it was customary when Sir Phalinsid
go anywhere out iv the country for some iv the tenants to sit up to
watch in the ould castle, just for a kind of compliment to the ould fa-
mily—an' a mighty unpleasant compliment it was fur the tinants, for
there wasn't a man of them but knew there was something quare about
the ould castle. The neighbours had it, that the Squire's ould grand-
father, as good a gintleman, God be with him, as I heer'd, as ever stood
in shoe leather, used to keep walkin' about in the middle iv the night,
ever sinst be bursted a blood vessel pullin' out a cork out iv a bottle, as
you or I might be (loin', and will too, plase God; but that doesn't sig-
nify. So, as I was sayin', the ould Squire used to come down out of the
frame, where his lacthur was hung up, and brake the bottles and glasses,
God be merciful to us all, an' dhrink all he could come at—an' small
blame to him for that same; and thensif any of the family id be cumin'
in he id be up again in his place, loaking as quiet an' innocent as if he
didn't know anything about it—the mischievous ould chap.
Well, your Honour, as I was sayin', one time the family up at the
castle was stayin' in Dublin fur a week or two; and so, as usual, some
of the tinants had to sit up in the castle, and the third night it kern to
my father's turn. "Oh, tare an ouns," says lie unto himself, " an'
must I sit up all night, and that old vagab qui of a sperit, glory be to
God," says he, " serenading through the house, an' doing' all sorts iv
mischief." However, there was 110 gettin' aft', and so he put a horrid
face on it, an' he went up at nightfall with a bottle of potteen, arid ano-
ther of holy wattles.
" Oh, blur an' agres," says my father, "isn't this a hard ease," says
he, "that ould villain, lettin' on to be my friend, and to go as'ecp
way, an' us both in the very room with a sperit,'' says ha " The crass
o' Christ about us," says he, anti with that he was goin' to shake Law-
rence to waken him, but he just remembered if he roused him that he'd
surely go off to his bed, an' lave him complately alone, an' that id be
by far worse.
But there was one place thing I forgot to tell you. He couldn't help,
in spite as' himself, lookin' now an' thin at the piethur, an' he imme-
diately obsarved that the eyes as it was follyin' him about, starin' at
him, an' winkin' at him, wherever lie whit. All of a suddint the storm
stopt, as silent an' as quiet as if it was a July evenin'. Well, your ho-
boils, it wasn't stopped for three minnitcs before he thought he
hard a sort iv a noise over the chimnry-piece ; and with that my father
just opened his eyes the smallest taste in life, an' sure enough he seen
the ould squire gettin' out iv the picthur, for all the world as if he was
throwin' an' his ridin' coat, until he slept chine an' complatc oat av the
chimly.piece, an' thrun himself down an the floor. Well, the sliaveen
ouid chap—and my father shought it was the dirtiest turn iv all—before
he beginned to i'o anything out iv the way, he stopped, for a while, to
listen wor they both asleep ; and' as soon as he thought all was quiet,
he put out his hand, and tuck hould iv the whiskey bo tie, an' dhrank
at taste a pint iv it. NVell, your honour, when he tuck his turn out iv
it, he settled it back mighty cute intirely in the very same spot it was in
before. Well, your honour, my father was asy enough until the sperit
kern past him so close, God be marsiful to st, all, that the smell iv the
sulphur tuck the breath (lane out iv him ; an' with that he tuck such a
tit iv eoughin' that it al-a-most shuck him out iv the chair he was
sittin'
" Ho, ho!" says the squire, stoppin' short about two steps' aft and
turnite round facin' my father, "is it you that's in it ? An' how's all
with you, Ten y Neil ?"
" Atyour honour'issarvice," says my father (a, well as the fright is
let Mai; for he was more dead than alive), " an' it's proud lam to sec
yoiartfaiiour to-nights'? says he.
"'Well," says the sperit, "although I was as sober .1 most men—at
laste as most gintleman"—says he; " an' though I was at different pa-
riods a most extempory Christian, and most charitable and inhuman to
the poor," says he; " for all that I'm not a' asy where lain now," says
he, " as 1 had a right to expect," says he.
" An' more's the pity," says my father ;
wish to have a word with Fattier Murphy ?"
" Mould your tongue, you mishera'sle blig,-;ard," says the squire
" it's not iv my soul I'm thinkin'—an' I wondher you'd have the impi
tence to tall to a gintleman c ,nsarnin' his sow); and when I want th,
fixed," says he, slappin' his thigh, " I'll ga to them that knows what be
longs to the likes," says hs. " not my sowl," says he, sittin' down
opposite my father; " it's not my sawl that's annoyin' me most—l'm un
asy on my rght less," says he " that I brsick at Glenvarloch cover the
day I killed black Barney."
My father found out Miller it was a favourite horsy that fell undhcr
him, afther leaping the big fince that runs along by the skm.
" I hope," says my father, " your honour's n•a unasy about killin' iv
him ?"

"maybe your honour id

" Flol I your tongue, ye fool," said the squire, " an' I'll tell you why
I'm unasy on my leg," says he. "In the place where I spend most iv
my time," says he, "-except the little leisure I have for looking about
me here," says he, " I have to walk a great dale more Ora,' I was ev,..x
used to," says he, " and by far more than is good for me either," illy,
he ; " for I must tell you," says he, " the people where I am is uncom-
monly fond iv could wather, for there is nothing b tther to to be hal ;
an' rnorever, the wather is hotter than is altogether plisint," says he;
" and I'm appintcd," says he, " to assist in carryin' the wather, an gets
a mighty poor share iv it myself," says he, " a mighty troub'esome,
warin' job it is, I can tell you," says he; " for they're all iv them Fri,
prisingly dhry, an' dhrinks it as fast as my legs can carry it," says he;
but what kills me intirely," says he, " is the weakness in my leg," says
he, " an' want you to give a pull or two, to bring it to shape," says he,
" and that's the long and short iv it," says he.
" Oh, plase your honour," says my father (for he didn't like to handle
the speerit at all)," I wouldn't have the impitence to do the likes to your
honour," says he; " it's only to poor crathurs like mys-lf I'd do it to,"
says he. _ .

" None iv your blarney," says the 'squire, " here's my leg," says he,
cockin' it up to him, " pull it for the bare life," says he; " and iv you
don't, by the immortal power powers I'll not lave a bone in your cars
cish I'll not powdher," says he.
When my father heered that he seen there was no use is pretending,
so he tuck hold iv the leg, an he kep punt' an' pulling, till the sweat,
God bless us, begin to pour down his face.
"Pull, you divil," says thesquire.
"At your service, your honour," says my father.
" Pull harder," says the squire.
My father pulled like the divil.
" I'll take a little sup," says the squire, reaching over his hand to
the bottle, " to kee,r up my coutne," says he, an to be ye:),
wake in himself intirely. But, as cute as he was, he was out here,
for he tuck the wrong one. " Here's to your good hearth Terence,"
says he ; " an' now pull like the very divil,'' an' with that he lifted the
bottle of holy wather, but it was hardly tr his mouth, whet he let a
screech out, you'd think the room id fairly split with it, an' made one
chuck that sent the leg chute aft' his body in my father's bawls ; down
went the squire over the table, an' balg wint my f,ther half way acr ,ss
the room on his bank upon the flare. Whin he kern to himself the
cheerful mornin' sun was shinia' through the wii.dow slathers, an' he
was lying flat on his back, with the lej iv one of the great ould chair
polled elute out iv the socket an' ti3ht in his hand, pintin' up to Vt.
ceilin', an' ould Larry fast asleep, an' snorin' as loud as ever. My Lithe:
wint that mornin' to Father Murphy, an' from that to the day of Iv,
death he never neglected contissic.n nor mass, an' what he tould.was bet-
titer believed that lie spelt° av it hu'. seldom. An', as for the squire,
that is the speerit, whether it was that he did t-t like his liquor, or b;
rason iv the loss iv his leg, he was never known to walk again.
The 4. Orphans of Dunasker," and the " Convicts of Lis-
namona," are continued in this Number. The " Memoir

P,;', Lloyd, late Provost of Trinity College, Dublin," is
from a pen fully competent to so important a task. We
have read it with lively interest. We recommend the
Diamond will be Trumps again" as an aurpropriate melody
for the after dinner exhiliration of poor Colonel Verner.
The ex-Deputy-Lieutenant of Tyrone and Col -niel Blacker
might manage to sing it as a duet—now that through the
indulgence of Lord Mulgrave they have been released from
the performance of mo:e onerous duties than those entailed
upon them as officers of the Grand Lodge. As a whole
this Number is duller than usual. In general the articles
are too long and too elaborate for the subjects of which
they treat.