The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-02 00:00:00

.EVI_INING EDITION'.

MAGA ZINE DAY.

BLACAWOOD'S MAGAZINE.
" Ten years of 'Whig Government" is a triste
recapitulation of the Collies and iniquities of the
trnes since their accession to office under Earl
eYm and is dished up in a style admirably calcu-
lated to suit the diseased palate of a Tory. The
tiZst heinous charge which the writer brings against
e Whig party, and on which he insists with sin-
gular earnestness, is their system of economy—a
system which must naturally be abhorrent to a set
of
men who during the late war embarassed the
isheulders of John Bull with a load of debt amount-
:g to some seven or eight hundred millions. Any
endeavour to reduce this oppressive burden ourY
u'lscientious Tor scribe looks on as "an enormous
Peril t,
1,44,0 the safety of the State." Excessive taxa-
-4 causes him not the slightest misgivings ; when
titea Gt ; 4ntry is taxed up to the chin, then he conceives
19 is happy and contented ; but when the load
\\;loniewhat remitted by the economical notions of a
ttthisattGary Government, then he begins to be filled with
apprehension of consequences. Verily,
eil•8 Sound logic, and satisfies us that experience,
be Ich makes even fools wise, has yet to produce a
-.ll,heial effect on the understanding of the Tories.
Deltau e Q.uinuey's Revenge" is a stirring ballad by
but. It is vigorous and unaffected in its tone,
rio eiletunbered with some awfully prosing antiqua-
tenit'incltesm which are constantly calling off our at-
iof 'll from the text. Who cares two straws to be
that °llted in a long note, stuffed with hard names,
teed the " the monks of Newbottle were of the Cis-
tinkt,ett„ order
_,,
Mr. Moir should leave such dry,
lon.illibteresting details to the Brittons, and such, like
well- ling bookmakers. " Louis Philippe is a
Xio-„led biographical memoir of the present
oe esi Prance—the most sagacious that ever sate
the ..e ,throne of the Bourbons. We agree with
tin;ilter that on this monarch now hang the des-
feariB,o°f Europe. His position is one beset. with
"iffieultres ; but we have confidence in his
to the and shrewdness, and believe him to be equal
pants e etriergene_,.
It is an easy thing to take ad.:
let si.ge of a nation's ferment, as Napoleon did, and
thoselPAthe does of war ; but to restrain and muzzle
Prey ";°gs, when they are mad to bound upon their
POvi,,, '8 a task to which men only of first-rate
,re .
It' en of mind, backed by indomitable resolution,
,ceoloil:it. Our readers will be pleased to read anhis d
fuo„..—Tf the domestic habits of Louis Philippe and
The :--
taloon! daily assemble after dinner in one of the palaceLadi
where the Queen and Princesses with. their
urge s sit round a table, generally eagaged rnfenreeeha.
titabliewhisich they send to be sold at some fair
!itledb°`).l,ects. The diplomatic persons, and others een;
•I it their rank and circumstances to the " entree,"
resoetliteallod
----that is, who are expected to pay
ally sto the Royal Family in the evening, occasion-
their resent themselves, and the ladies are invited to take
etsae seats round the table, where the Queen and Pri -
toet, receive them with great affability. The gentle-
irel'eafte Paying their respects to the Queen and her
of a'e generally addressed by the King and the Duke.
Perle,e4ns oo such topics as have an interest, from their
are thmeal inforination, on the passing occurrences. Those
teven "family receptions ;"and they are graceful, and
l'''Portant things, and well worthy of imitation.
Ditaiiu4°ther form of Royal intercourse and Royal hos-
of the'l is still to he spoken of, and with similar praise
4114,,i gond sense and good feeling of the King. In the
r,",' he leaves the capital and resides at Neuilly,
hle,u'ladi and Fontainblcau. The day at Fontain-
Nt'h;t,/I"gb, from the circumstances of that magnifi-
the tire and the adjoining forest, it is perhaps among
tes showy specimens of the Royal country life, yet
at:o u'es teem all, Each guest is attended with coffee
ithr as he rises in the morning. He then walks
40thl" enlace grounds, or follows his inclination at
fe till eleven, when he is summoned to a deleuner
11,,,11: 4, 74 ette. He now goes to the " scale de reception,"
4l1:,1—le meets the Royal Family and their other guests.
hter,''lt movement is to the breakfast-room, where an
44104‘41.11tuent is laid out on a grand scale, sometimes
f4et „"lug to a hundred covers. This breakfast,.T
4114'11 early dinner, begins with soup, and finisheosfwtiltlel
4,tctl: and coffee. An intimation is then. g
Lare,e4'cri;s of the day, whether hunting inivetlnte noble
at-
the tiding through the surrounding or at-
t'h the military mancouyres ; there is something fori
iteti -'ite or es,..ry one. Horses and carriages are. at the
a), and every one is free to follow his own
co,mis the general meeting at six, when
`llO-,18 Providei in a superb style ; and the evening of
tcloy4e',ec.abla and kviimated day is spent in music and
tftil ''stion. Such is the result of power in the hands
h E:l'e who know how to wield it ; who, having learned
kti -;:/,eitienee the true uses of life, know how to mingle
1111:gle‘7i"ioyenent with rational pomp ; and who, having
the value 4`l'caag mankind, with sense enough to know
reign the lesson, know that an European Sove-
''Rard:,: reAels at once national respect and popular
throne t'Y adopting the sulky seclusion of an eastern
are the Lome Philippe is fortunate in his family. They
er,tail,eh`l,aast that Europe lins seen since the memorable
l`zes ;aTuel of the sons and daughters of the excellentte
'4ktir,„e tier time terrace at Windsor ; perhaps h
I one
assemblage of youth and beauty from
is
now
thirtvAatep'age, ever known. The Duke of I
well He is tall, and. though of a ratherr slight figure,
His c'oun:
'etla -`"le and graceful in his movements.
Lsth tlep
'LS handsome.' He is also an acc.omplished per"
English and other tongues with fluency,. am
Iv( " aformed on the general topics of the time.
es
much Third Chapter of Turkish story posess
later 'lf the romantic interest of one of Gibbon's
It volumes of the Decline and Fall of Rome.
f4re"'ett:hes vividly the vicissitudes that befel the
ft°llB city of Bagdad in the seventeenth century.
tlev'''i'sw of an Unpublished Tragedy," gives some
tente'i h extracts from a play which, it seems, was
11,n; to Christopher in manuscript, and which he
the on the point of committing to the flames, when
ftweld critic's heart relented, and he preserved a
Pre,°f the scenes which he deemed most worthy of
eagianta ation to " the pensive public." The 4‘ Cau-
irc,rl War" is a notice of Mr. Bell's book on
geo:sia. We cannot too cordially approve the
of spirit in which it is penned, which is one
tiltialified admiration of the brave mountaineers
}ikv Caucasus, who for upwards of ten years
7.barbat';‘,e.ateti back, horde after horde of Russian
" The Circassians," observes the Re.
lrontei 4'
have still kept their colossal enemy on the
'llro4,:rs of their lovely country ; have made every
fEbi deadly to the invader ; and now, at the end
°ffE :.,tenth year of the war, which has cost the lives
deter "s of thousands of their enemies, are still as
minedtees as ever to die rather than wear the fet-
teen r. the Czar," " Ten Thousand a Year" has
is e s and passages of superior merit, but the story
N',l/;11° out to a most intolerable extent. For
tifik's.:, together we have nothing but prolix twaddle,
44,,e`1 up with quotations from Homer, Horace,
knplalm and Bishop Hall. The author's serious
on Sober vein is his best, when he is just hovering
et) t! borders of the pathetic. His humour is
eh se and strained, and his sketches of aristocratic
ea ~';acter fall wide of the mark, from their sheer
ktt
titre avagance. Lord Dredlington is a very Grub-
ter, 't conception, and the French Marquis no bet-
at The most evenly sustained personage in the
is Gammon, for such a creature as Titmouse
t..'l existed, even in Cockaigne. " The Devil's
ridge\Valk" is a lively poem, in imitation of Cole-
- 't
well-known jeu d'esprit.

Ii ~ BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. .
144 i "le present Miscellany there is. a brief me,
V .°I. Louis Philippe, drawn evidently from
41, /11-11 e source ac that in Blackwood—namely,iie
tititsl'lme lately published in America, under
1)1e,1 °,l " France, its King, Court, and Go • t
at
Govern-
the I: This memoir will be read with int,resver
thitilP,resent crisis, when the attention of
.e isy
live —,1,41_g man in the wide European communityve
NI e" on the monarch of the barricades. \
pil V h modern history in vain to find out a
man
tl,ii, whose single decision, whether for goodv
071
qll is
8° much depended, as depends just 110‘
nc
lilt i i Pi!liliPPe. Let him give but the word, a
sl
will ..urricane
tioti!,4 during of
war, prompt at his summons
stillt ',weep over the civilized world, never to -
the life-time of the present genera-
\4lltc, i There can no longer be any such thin..! as_
tst merely between France and England
ibit„.°l-Itegt---.if there be one, which God forbid l
N:,ria, trernblit a
Ali,' be Canning' s " war of principles," in which
for her Hungarian and Italian
41)(i'e,,s,sinns, Prussia for her Rhenish provinces,
kr,-"ussia for Poland, must all equally take a
The,: °lin Clink" maintains its usual level tone.
It hi - '.- 18 interest in the narrative, but it is not of
notl.l.Y wrought character. We are pleased, but
Iticir`ited, for Mr. Hooton's calm judgment is
q.- tot tspieuous than the play of his sensibility.
PletiuY Pa:kkes" progresses as rapidly towards coni-
i%.°ll all a new town in the back-woods of Arne-
Nrld LT, he cc aspirators are now preparing for their
month,"'iv-tip of the Parliament-houses, and a few
11,:ltr ib "ence w, I may, expect to arrive at the de-
uy et-ent...._that i's to say, the discovery of the plot
I.4:Ltatitiie Kit v Janne." The illustration by
4xii"silank Cont sins one good figure, that of an
°4-
an`l 4 k ; but Guy Fawkes is a
alarm . mon