The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-04 00:00:00

SIMMOIVDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE.

Instead of being deteriorated by any preposterous
fragments of verse, we find the February Number of
Simmonds's Colonial peculiarly characterised by the
excellence of its prose articles. The editor has looked
up his contributors through a clearer speculum than
in the preceding number. The magazine no longer
contains anything in direct violation of all the prin-
ciples of good taste in literature. " Life in the
Jungle," and the " Sketch of an Australian Convict,"
are amongst the most meritorious papers; and the
Colonial Intelligence is grouped together with the
usual amount of care and discrimination.

7HE SPORTING REVIEW.
With a couple of clever engravings, the " Otter,"
and " Who's up for the Rescue ?" the Sporting Re-
rieze has its average number of sprightly and amusing
articles. The old band of contributors, including
Craven, Scribble, Harry Hicover, Cecil, Castor, and
Oxonian, remains undiminished, and that is a gua-
rantee that the magazine is in no measure deficient
in talent, or drollery, or sound and useful informa-
tion upon sporting matters.

THE MAN IN THE MOON. Edited by Albert
Smith and Angus B. Beach.
This, the second number of "The Man in the
Moon," is a glorious sixpennyworth of fun. As a
sample, take
" ANOTHER WRETCHED RIDDLE.
Why is a surgeon, since the tether discovery, like a
swindler ?

" Because he cuts off' without payin' (pain).
" N.B. We are convinced that our readers won't stand
many more of these."
The illustrations, too, are excellent. " The Foreign
Gentleman in London ; or, the English Adventures of
M. Vanilla" engraved by the celebrated Chain" of
the " Charivari, ' is worth more than is charged for
the whole number

KNIGHT'S WEEKLY VOLUME. No. CLX.
BRITISH WORTHIES. Vol. X.
We have so repeatedly noticed this periodical on
its original publication as " Old England's Worthies,
that nothing remains for us to observe saving. that the
reprint is clear, and of a more convenient size, than
in the former appearance of the biographies.

The proportion of articles for February is-
-
THE ECLECTIC RE VIE if.
upon religious subjects, and five otherwise. Each of
those articles has an importance and an excellenceand
of
its own, but, to our thinking, the most important
the most excellent of them all is the last, devoted to
three
a consideration of the "Characteristics of Crime." It
is suggested by the volumes lately written by Alex-
ander Dumas and Aurelius Ritter Von Fenerbach.
Despite the repulsiveness of the theme, the reviewer
has penned his observations with so much grace, and
Relieved by
has illustrated his criticism by so many felicitous and
sagacious ideas, that it possesses a considerable
deg Ere
aand c
"Lunacy Musi-
calurious. We are glad
to find the reviewer dissenting from that rash decla-
rationxee of fascination. iniastion. clever
of Thomas Moore's, that " music is not an in-
tellectual thing." " Wild Sports of the Highlands,"
and " The Minstrelsy of the English Border," are
agreeable and entertaining chapters upon poetry and
field exercises. "The Fawn of Sertorious, ' the
" Preadamite Earth," and the " Correspondence of
John, fourth Duke of Bedford," are admirable criti-
cal articles.

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minor embellishments—
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Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany,
Persia, Africa,
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,h,tches of various merit, some of them being worthy of
the high advancement of the art of engraving. Whether
we examine it as a meteorological, or an astronomical, or
an agricultural, or a mercantile alnaanack, find each Ivo
partment elaborately drawn up, and with a It trge supply
of miscellaneous information, the publication • ' -
presents a
very useful and interesting appearance.
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POISONING.—Last night, information iteached the
P°Dolcicheerotffiy,ceth
were suffering front, the
effects of poison, and, in consequence, medical aid was sent
in
to them; but they are still not out of danger. Accordi
rig to
residingat the
HighwDocherty's own account, he had been employed to carry coals
into a house, the locality of which he will not tell, and i in the
ife•astnrdeet, family
of
a man n tuned
cellar he found a quantity of oatmeal, which he carried away
with him. This was made into cakes yesterday, and h 3une-
diately after the family had partaken of them, they b teams
seriously ill. the presumption being, if the man's acco- ant be
ro:-.!! 1,1,1 fm. the
purpose of destroying vermin. Docuerty, who aid „, ox him-
self partake of the cakes, has, in the meantime, be( ki taken
into custody.—Glasgow Herald of Monday.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the Rouse of Commons.)

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3.
The following Railway Bills were presented, read a first
time, and ordered to be read a second time:—

North British (No. 1)—" to empower the North British
Railway Company to construct certain Railways in con-
nexion with the North British Railway, and with the Had-
dington and Kelso Branches thereof; to make certain altera-
tions in the Hawick and Kelso Branches; and to alter and
improve the Leith Branch of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith
Railway, and for other purposes."
Southampton and Dorchester Railway Acts Amendment
(Weymouth Branch)---" for making a Branch Railway front
the Southampton and Dorchester Railway at Moreton to
Weymouth, and for other purposes."
Caledonian and Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Amalga-
mation—" to amalgamate the Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock
Railway with the-Caledonian Railway, and to authorise the
raising of additional money by the said last-mentioned Com-
pany."
Caledonian (Lease or Purchase of the Glasgow, Barrhead,
and Neilston Direct, and Glasgow Southern Terminal)—" to
effectuate a Lease of the Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston
Direct Railway and the Glasgow Southern Terminal Rail-
way, to the Caledonian Railway Company, and to authorise
the said Company to raise money for these and other pur-
poses."

Norfolk (Branch from Norwich to Aylsham, with a
Branch to North Walsham)—" to empower the Norfolk
Railway Company to make a Railway from the Norfolk
Railway, in the county of the city of Norwich, to Aylsham,
in the county of Norfolk, with a Branch therefrom to North
Walsham."

Newmarket and Chesterford (Extension to Thetford)—
" to enable the New-market and Chesterford Railway Com-
pany to extend their Line of Railway to Thetford, in the
county of Norfolk."

Regent's Canal Company (Paddington and Limehouse
Railway and Branch)—" to enable the Company of Pro-
prietors of the Regent's Canal to make a Railway from Pad-
dington to Limehouse, with a Branch therefrom, and to
amend the Acts relating to the Regent's Canal."

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a
second time on Monday, Feb. 8 :
Aberdeen (Brechin Branch Deviation).
Arbroath and Forfar and Scottish Midland Junction Con-
necting Railway.
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction (BUrnley and
Colliery Branches).
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (No. 2—Extension from
Bury St. Edmund's to Newmarket and Ely).
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester (Extension to Wakefield,
and Junction at Methiey with the Wakefield, Pontefract
and Goole, and the York and North Midland). ,
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Branch
from Oldham to Ashton and Guide Bridge).
Huddersfield and Manchester (Deviation and Alterations
in Oldham B, anch, &c.).
London and North-Western (Lease and Purchase of the
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, and the
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway).
Aberdeen and Great North of Scotland (Amalgamation or
Leasing).