The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-04 00:00:00

ment, will be perused with advantage at a moment
when those great instruments of civilisation and of com-
mercial development are becoming more permanent):y
tirough less gradually distributed throughout the world,
than at the moment when the stagging system was in its
zenith, and Capel court was the paradise of speculators.
The worthiest contribution in the number, and the most
carefully compiled, is the one relating to Peru, and sug-
gested by " Tschudi's Traveh' in that territory. In
diversity of subjects the Ecclectic has frequently been
more remarkable, but in soundness of information very
seldom. •

SPORTING REVIEW.
Many of the most accomplished and lively among the
-rivals and contemporaries of Nimrod are retained upon
this clever periodical. Hence, it is scarcely surf rising,
that under the conduct of its able and assiduous editor
its contents" should be characterise) by so much ability.
As a continuation of the editor's serial, " The Hand-
book of the Chase," the present chapter anent holiday
hunts is lively and agreeable. Two capital engravings
are prefixed to the number—one being the ninth of T.
F. Herring's series entitled " The High-mettled Racer,"
introducing the " favourite" in the stubble•field with a
harrow at his tail; the other being a beautiful moonlight
sketch inscribed " Make Ready." Lord William Lennox
contributes a pleasant paper, showing the advantages of
" Goodwood as a sporting residence." For his Protec-
tionist Grace the Duke of Richmond the article will be a
very titbit. Craven has evinced his industry and liveli-
ness in his gossip about the "Spring Races Generally,"
and his account of the " Cockney Contrivances Apud
Dianam." About the diversities of "Sportsmen and
Sporting Men," but especially the latter, Harry Hieover
still runs on very delightfully, displaying a perfect
familiarity with his theme and a ready perception of
character. As a whole, the Sporting Review for March
is inferior to few of its predecessors, and superior to a
very large majority.

THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE. Part XV. By

Charles Lever.

Mr. Paul Dempsey cuts the most conspicuous figure in
the present chapter, and although a " fellow of infinite
humour" in his way, Paul is such an egregious pry, and
is withal so irredeemably vulgar, that we are disposed to
regret his undue prominence in the narrative. As an
additional and crowning degradation to the proud lady of
Maurice Darcy an execution is put in the Corvy, and the
Lady of Gwynne with her daugher are compelled to fly,
under the protection of the officious Mr. Dempsey. A
very laughable equivoque, though of rather questionable
delicacy, takes place through the inquisitiveness of that
intolerable eavesdropper. By peering into the bed-
chamber of Helen Darcy he beholds what the artist has
facetiously styled a pose plastique of mother and daughter,
the latter in most becoming dishabille; and misconstruing
some casual allusions to Forester to be allusions to him-
self (P. D.). credulously conceives himself to be the
object of Helen's affections. From this blunder we an-

ticipate some rare drolleries. The number begins with
a midnight carousal between an attorney, one Mr. Peter
Nickie, and his parasite, and closes with an interview
between Con Heffernan and Lord Castlereagh. Ther©
is a strange improbability, by the way, in such a" born
nat'ral" as Paul Dempsey improvising half-a-dozen
humorous stanzas in a heavy snow storm at nightfall!