The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-03 00:00:00

MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED).
TIIE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.
tel'irthaeelresLnt number opens wit.i a beautifully writ-
" Pnilip Ar,nyLige, or tll,l, Blind Love."
The author manifestly possesses deep and passionate
feeling, and no ordinary descriptive powers. He
. paints one of those fine old country mansions, the
glory of our native land. In this we are intro-
duced to the heroine, Stella Brandreth, a fair child,
springing up in grace and loveliness, but afflicted
with that deepest deprivation—the loss of sight.
She was not born so. "Fur six years had the little
child looked on the beautiful sky and seen the flowers,
and then a shadow grew over her vision ; gradually it
darkened and darkened, and the world grew
dimmer, until at last she saw it no more, and all the
visihleearth was become to her like a scene once be-
held in a dream, and then shut out for ever." Gentle
and subdued she was, as became her helpless condi-
tion ; it seemed as if He who knew how dependent
her whole life must be, on the affection of others, had
endowed her with that irresistible beauty which wins
love, and the meek spirit that preserves it." There is
the father, a learned man, cold and stern, a man in
whom " mind held pre-eminence over heart." Her
twin-brother, a fine bold manly boy, 1.:1,1 her amiable
but delicate and fast fading mother, " who clung to
her blind child with a passionate fervour, an all
absorbing love, that almost atoned for the loss of the
blessed gift of sight." That loving mother dies, and
the stricken girl is left desolate indeed. She springs
into womanhood, and is almost compensated for her
Bad bereavement by a soul to which music was as its
very breath, and a voice that spoke of mind, of
feeling, of passion, such as came from no angel's
her
but from a woman's heart. She travels with
her father and then meets with Philip Armytage,
Who is " that Pariah of real life, a poor gentleman,"
151 one well calculated to gain a woman's best affec-
tions,
particularly those of a " young, beautiful, blind
girl, whose lonely, dreaming heart, yearned for an
ideal, round which to hang, as a garland, all its flowers
of love and fancy." Love steals on them imper-
ceptibly, and it is not until they are about to part
that they discover the real nature of their feelings to-
Wards each other—the depth and intensity of their
mutual love. Philip proposes to the father, but is
firmly rejected, and informed that a man without
riches should never be the husband of Stella Bran-
dreth." She is taken away, whither he knows not,
but he determines to gain for himself that worldly
Wealth which will enable him ultimately to obtain
big dearest wishes. He becomes a barrister and an
author, and gains fame and reputation, but can hear
I°' tidings of the loved one. At length
he meets her restored to sight, fond, faithful,
and confiding as ever ; her father is dead, and she
is possessed of wealth, but which is of no value in
comparison with the object of her young heart's best
raections. They are united, and their visions of
but
are more than realised. It is, however,
ill a brief and passing season of felicity. They
revisit the old mansion, the scene of her
Childish joys and sorrows, and there are struck
with lightning, which renders her once more
hopelessly blind. She is still, however, dear as ever
10 her husband-lover, who watches over, cherishes,
and, if possible, loves her more deeply for her griev-
t9s affliction. She is, however, speedily taken from
Iro, and yields her pure spirit to her Creator,
murmuring, his name. He sinks beneath the
low. For a time his noble mind is a
Wreck. But at length reason is restored
With declining health, and he is summoned
tii°Join her whom he had loved with such fervour and
tensity. «Neophytus the Monk" is continued.
t. Yamil Bey has landed near the monastery with an
overpowering
force ; the aged Egoumenos surrenders
his
authority to Neophytus, who becomes chief
of his brethren at a season of unexampled danger
a 1 1d
difficulty. The Bey has invited the
Souliote captain to return to his allegiance, and
threatening
him in reducing the rebellious Pacha, but
the most bloody vengeance in the event
of his refusal. A message of the most scornful de-
fiee is returned by the Novice, Irenaeus, who
life the fatal duty, willing to sacrifice even
brother
itself in the cause of duty. his high-minded
° other sends him forth to certain death without one
word of dissuasion, and the noble boy is butchered
,er refusing to give the Bey information which he
°ll,iihands of the numbers of the Souliotes and monks.
~""!4e, destruction of the monastery is then detailed,
rteat;yithstanding the fierce and vigorous resistance of
a Is inrnates ; the Souliote captain, Anagnosti, with
survivor of his gallant band, and Neophytus, the
thee of his monastic brethren, escaping from
in il, 'us. An excellent article on "Architecture
efse at (1,14
gives an account of the works of the
rated James Gandon, the designer of the Irish
tomCour House, the Royal Exchange, and Four
frel4`ts, Ring's nns, Carlisle-bridge, &c. " Leaves
statesh," Life of Prince Talleyrand, ' detail that wily
tiro 'lll's plan for the territorial settlement of
whe,,Pei and carries us up to that exciting period
e, " the restoration of the Bourbon's is
. Lent ined on, and the Provisional Government
is established. The history of tractarianism
ors as it
may well be termed, the Counter-Refor-
nlationary Movement in the Church of England," is
given in " The Bishop of Ossory's Charge.", A
pleasing, gossiping " Chapter on Angling,' on the
foundation of the well-known work by " Ephemera,
of Bell's Life," will be perused with much
interest by the lovers of the gentle science.
" Irish Rivers" is continued, with a second
article on the Boyne, written in the same spirit
that has distinguished the former contributions.
a spirited memoir of the Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas in Ireland accompanies a portrait of
that Learned Judge, which, however, is less happy
than others that have graced the gallery of illustrious
Irishmen. The poetry consists of " file Viking," a
spirited translation from the Swedish of Geijer,
by William Lander, and two pleasing transla•
tiens from the ()les of Horace. "Free trade and
Currency
Reform," exhibits sounder political views
on the great question of the currency than we are
accustomed to see in the Irish periodical. The mis-
chievous effects of the Bill of 1844—that fatal mea-
sure which has fettered our energies and paralysed
our industry—are well exposed ; which has driven
41_1e Bank, while its coffers are overflowing with go,
limit its accommodation aid to disturb our com-
mercialo and trading operations, by which the labour
„the Country is supported—the national wealth
in°"uFed. It truly says, "If commerce and trade
lioguish, labour cannot flourish. There is no divi-
sion of interest, the productive and distributive
Classes depend upon one another for support. These
's,as constitute the great bulk of the community,
e_eu• the wealth of the nation depends on their
real rtions and it is, therefore, for the gene-
,, good that their exertions should be allowed
-111 freest scope, and he in every way possible pro-
ed from sudden checks and long depressions." It
stt'' Possible to controvert this g
~great truth or to dis-
il from the following views
..,` Public opinion has set in this direction, in an extra-
CTnary degree; and instead of the 'Currency Question'
regularly
confined to one or two newspapers, it is now
discussed, despite the distaste which has
hitherto
been manifested, by one-half of the press of
England and Scotland—discussed, too, in an enlightened
211)11'4, and generally on sound principles. The question
has made so much progress within the last six months,
that no efforts of the supporters of the present system will
b 0 able to turn the tide of public opinion. The principles
Of Sir Robert Peel are found to be unsuitable to the po-
sition and wants of this country; unsound and dangerous
in their tendency, and producing, when inoperation,imsequences precisely the opposite of those which it
was so confidently all,,ged would follow their establish-
ment. These are the opinions held at the present time
by a very large proportion of the leading bankers, mer-
Olants, and manufacturers of the -United Kingdom.
The
14ilure of Sir Robert Peel's Bill is complete; it has
failed in every particular ; it has, in reality. effected
nothing which was sought to be effected by it. It is
Prcitiounced to have been unsuited to the old circum-
-4ts4e.-i of the country, and still more unsuited to the

We gladly hail so able a " collaborateur" on this-
important topic. The number is in every re-
T'Pect a good one.

DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE.
Without in any particular manner diminishing the
.!!'aracter it has already acquired as a general maga-
Ain of e
light literature, Dolman is becoming month
lifter month more and more peculiarly the organ of
the Catholics of England. It has achieved for itself
the standard
considerable share of popularity among
standard periodicals as a vehicle for literary
strivinainment and for literary research ; it is now
g
to bring the original intention with which it
ras manifestly started to a mature and visible deve-
ZTent• This intention was clearly to render
callna„n's :Magazine the mouthpiece of our Roman
rnt:oe;lse!ltr;tut
4entlemani_.
co frellow-countrymen, and to do so with the
y forbearance, and the most liberal
Differ as we may on doctrinal points we
enlighetteanraPrinciple so much in accordance with the
ent of these times. And actuated by that
0,0 principle .Dolman's Magazine must be singularly
• .Ptable to the religionists for whose behoof
it IS
especially printed, and welcome, too, as
Lln intelligent and superior periodical to those
7,1:?4 have no ethical sympathy whatever for the pe-
P _ liar creed of the body spiritually subservient to the
I:4l3acy. The opening article for June is a caustic
eaper, upon " The Architectural rehitectural movement in the
stablished Ch
It i,signed Scott IN asmyth Stokes.
not without ability. Mr. Jerningham contri-
butesTh atlively chapter of biographical gossip about
Empress Maria Louisa ;" but, to our thinking,
t:_de.ea. 1: somewhat too gently with the character of this
heartless sise Princess. The indefatigable editor, the Rev,;
4,4 t r
.0, pursues his serial upon the " Penal Laws,"
n continuation arrives at the most
iotereatin crisis in the religious bigotry of the
the /torsi oentury—ne.mely, the first gleanings of
ignorant'
_cons flagration which was ignited among the
'ma( the depraved, by that eccentric fire-