The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-07 00:00:00

SPORTING REVIEW.

Scarcely any merit is visible in the embellishments
for October, though there is a certain spice of the
season in the plate by Scott, entitled " Hard Hit."
Cecil, Oxonian, Castor, Gelert, Saron, Scribble, and
Hawthorn, with the other contributors under the odd
noms de guerre, are industrious, and generally lively.

SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE.
Though poor Charles Hooton no longer animates
the Colonial with his vivid sketches of North Ameri-
can scenery, the magazine, under its spirited editorship,
sustains its character as an intelligent organ of the
colonial interests. Sierra Leone—the white man's
grave—and Malacca, are severally mentioned in sepa-
rate contributions ; and there is a minute description
of Gutta Percha, a commodity which is gradually
effecting a revolutioa in the trade of the bootmaker.

FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW.
Among the most generally interesting portions of
the Freemasons' Quarterly for the present October,
is the part devoted to a commemoration of " the late
Brother Daniel O'Connell." It must be remembered,
however, that that great man was no longer a Free-
mason at the period of his decease at Genoa. The
quarterly organ of the mystic order prints a letter
from a person who declares that in his opinion the
expulsion of O'Connell " was among the great faults
committed by the Grand Lodge of Ireland." We
presume that is published as a sort of reparation to
the manes of the departed Liberator.

LOWE'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
The first and most popular paper in the present
month will, we are satisfied, be the one respecting the
" Restoration of the Jews." It has doubtless been
suggested by the enterprise: of Sir Moses Montefiore,
and the return of the Baron Lionel de Rothschild as
representative for the city of London.

QUARTERLY JOURNAL of AGRICULTURE.
Among not the least important of the various pub-
lications of the Messrs. Blackwood is this Quarterly
Journal of Agriculture, and the transactions of the
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.
And important as it has hitherto been during the
time when the agricultural interests of Great Britain
were stunted by the baleful principles of the system
commonly called Protectien, it becomes doubly and
trebly a matter of interest now that the farmers
of England, Ireland, and Scotland, are brought
into wholesome competition with those of
foreign countries. Ever since the passing of the
great measure of commercial emancipation, intro-
duced to Parliament by Sir Robert Peel, the welfare
of our farmers and landowners has become doubly
a matter of consideration with the multitude. The
invidious barriers heretofore raised between them and
the popular affections have been demolished. Industry
in all its branches has been placed upon an equality,
and henceforth the lucubrations of the Quarterly
Journal of Agriculture—one of the most distinguished
agricultural organs in the country—will command
more general and more serious consideration. The
very best paper for the present quarter is that upon
the condition of the agricultural as compared with
the manufacturing population.

FINE ARTS.
THE ART-UNION JOURNAL.

Two exquisite engravings—one by Wildblood, the
other by Hall—are the principal embellishments in
the October number of the Art- Union. The first is
from the graceful picture of Pollack, called " The
Mother's Welcome," beautiful in outline, beautiful in
finish, and beautiful in sentiment. The second is
from Baily's celebrated composition, " The Sleeping
Nymph ;"—it —it is of infinite delicacy; worthy of the,
genius of the sculptor of " Eve at the Fountain.
Mrs. S. C. Hall's fairy tale of " Midsummer Eve" is
continued without either any diminution of fanciful-
ness on the part of the writer or her illustrators. The
woodcuts scattered through the tenth part of this
imaginative series are characterised by their usual
refinement. Among the most valuable contributions,
both in a literary and pictorial sense, in the present
part of the Art- Union, " The Exposition of Indus-
trial Art at Brussels, in 1847," is conspicuous. It
merits more than a cursory perusal, as showing the
progress of industrial art on the continent, and as
forming a fresh elucidation of how artistic ability may
be applied without degradation to domestic decora-
tions. An interesting account of an exhibition of
modern pictures at Amsterdam is furnished by a cor-
respondent. In an admirably toned paper on "Picture
Dealing," we are glad to perceive that our estimate
of a painting recently exhibited in St. James's-street