The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-11 00:00:00

,ion of grass land, which is done by many
statutes. The conclusion he comes to on
:his point is for us remarkable and pleas-
ing. He • recommends the Legislat,re to let
the land alone, and cultivation will soon follow.
The following extracts, on a different subject, will
give an idea of the pamphlet, and of the author's
mode of handling his subject :
It must be indifferent to the agricultural interests,
whether payment for manufactures exported be made in
other manufactures, in gold and silver, or in the direct
products of foreign land. If payment be made in foreign
manufactures, then so many British- workmen are put
out of employment, and the market•their supplies would
have opened to landlords and cultivators is lost to them,
just as much as it would have been by the direct impor-
tation of the products of foreign land. If payment be
made in gold and silver, they will be necessarily re-
exported, as soon as in excess above the demand. It is,
as if payment were made for German goods, by means u
Spanish 'goods re-exported : the Spanish goods must
have been previously obtained in exchange fur British
goods exported, but which are replaced by the German
goods imported, to the detriment of some British ma-
nufacture in the same degree that the exportation of
nine other had been advantageous; and the home-market
for agricultural products is as much cut off in one case, as
it had been promoted in the other. Gold and silver are
only valuable merchandise in a small bulk, serving the
purpose of international money. What really takes
place in coreign commerce is, that it makes foreign land
a kind of conquest in favour of our manufactures, in
the same manner as the extension of our colonies • or
as would do, the more productive culture of the laud
of the United Kingdom. The power of the empire is
strengthened by an increased manufacturing population,
without either -detriment or advantage to the agricultu-
ral interests. •

This inevitable order of things may be rendered con-
fused and difficult to trace, but cannot be prevented un-
less by the destruction of all commerce ; for while any
portion is allowed to exist, the results, in so much,
cannot be defeated by any device of legal enactments.
Mistaken laws, made in the intention ofprotecting landed
interest, may cripple and even destroy trade and manu-
facturing industry dependent on foreign relations, but
cannot enable landlords to seize upon their profits ; it
they could, these sources of wealth would long rinee
have ceased to exist.

There are other passages of the work which arc
as good as the one we quote, but we cannot also
quote them, and must conclude by recommend-
ing the pamphlet to public notice.

THE DEER-SLAYER. 3 VG/3.
Bentley, London, 1841.

The Deer-Slayer is no other than our old friend
Natty Bunippo, who has already figured in so
many of Mr. Cooper's American tales, as Hawk-
eye, the Path-finder, Long-stocking, and Pale-
face. He is here pourtrayed in his freshest and
earliest manhood, when he has 'but just betaken
himself to the wilderness, and is known only by
his skill in shooting the forest-game. His cha-
racter is sustained with remarkable spirit, and
with a degree of freshness that we must confess
surprises us,/considering how often the author
has delineated it. There is but little incident in
the story, which is too much an echo of Mr.
Cooper's former tale, the Path-finder; but what
there is, is skilfully wrought up, and in one
or two instances, with startling dramatic ef-
fect. The principal scenes are laid, as usual,
in the depths of American forests, and
by the side of hushed, secluded lakes, rarely tra-
versed but by the canoe of the prowling Indian—
in order, of course, to bring out the prominent
features of the Deer-Slayer's idiosyncracy. The
mingled shrewdness and simplicity of this volun-
tary dweller in the woods; his innate sense of
right, and almost romantic notions of honour,
are finely developed; but unfortunately the in-
terest of the story centres exclusively in him ;
when he is away from the scene of action, it
flags; for we care little for the subordinate per-
sonages; we have met with most of them before,
in Mr. Cooper's " Prairie," and they were
scarcely worth reproducing. Judith Butter
may, perhaps, be deemed an exception ; but
however true to nature this portrait may be, it
is by no means one calculated to rivet attention.
The descriptive portions of the story are admi-
rable throughout.