The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-01 00:00:00

THE LONDON MAGAZINE.

A periodical which is just what it purports to be—" a
Protons in politic; and a cameleon in literature." The
articles are all light, graceful, and amusing, without any
pretensions to higher merit than that of putting the
reader in good humour. The Bishop of Exeter figures
at full length, as one of the two illustrations which
.adorn it. We have just counted the articles in this
Number, which exceed forty ; so that among them he
must be a fastidious reader indeed who finds nothing to
produce a hearty laugh—a greater benefit than is to be
extracted from many works of much higher pretensions.

THE MONTHLY LATV MAGAZINE.
The Number before us opens with an article on a thread-
bare subject—Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's Copyright Bill ;
and this clever article is followed by another equally
clever, on a subject equally threadbare, entitled
" Purism," being nothing more than a resuscitation of
what the Tories call " The Newport and Monteagle
Job." The articles on Stenography and Medical Juris-
prudence are more professional, and therefore not so
generally interesting. The Law Magazine is Tory to
the backbone, and as a Tory organ very ably conducted.

PAUL PERIWINKLE, OR THE PRES S-
GA AV 61.6
One of the almost countless works of fiction which
the popularity of the " Pickwick Papers," " Nicho-
las Nickleby," and "Jack Sheppard" has called into a
questionable existence. It has reached the eleventh
Number, which is embellished by two illustrations from
the humorous pencil of Phiz. The illustrations for this
month are, however, as grim as can well be imagined.

THE TOWER OF LONDON. Part IV.
In the present chapters of this work occur some
striking dialogues between Lady Jane Grey and her
husband, alter misfortunes have begun to thicken upon
her ; and a graphic sketch of the Cauncil that east to
depose her and procla'm Queen Mary. The illustra-
tions by Cruickshank are neither better nor worse than
usual.

THE CATHOLIC MAGAZINE.
The only remarkable article in this number—at least
the only one which calls for any notice in the columns
of a newspaper—is on the " Religious Persecution in
Poland," which rages in that unhappy country to an
extent hardly credible. A proposal made by a Ca-
tholic Missionary for the substitution of the English
language for the Latin in the celebration of the Mass,
and the other rites and ceremonies of Roman Catholic
worship, has led to a correspondence little creditable to
the boasted liberality of the Missionaries by whom that
very sensible proposal has been opposed. The fallow-
ing extract from the article on religious persecution of
the unfortunate Poles, will serve to convey some idea of
the atrocities of which that doomed people are now the
I victims :

After the Czar Nicholas had destroyed or shut up many
churches and seminaries; after he had contrived, by in-
sidious and disgraceful means, to influence the election of
parish clergymen, and other spiritual pastors, and thereby
to render himself the virtual head of the National Church
in Poland, be directed all his violence, all his machinations,
against the laity, in order ro force them to embrace the
.Russo-Greek religion, and consequently, in order to de.
story, with the cherished creed of their ancestors, the
strongest link of their nationality,—that nationality which
he has sworn to uproot, in futherance of his nefarious de-
signs against liberty and knowledge. The commanders of
regiments had express orders, from the Czar, to enter
places of worship even during divine service, if they sus
pected any rebels, that is, any patriots, to be therein ; the
licentious Moscovite soldiery, helped by the Jews, took
full advantage of this permission, and generally selected
the most solemn part of the service for the signal of their
appearance. They seized, then, on the male portion of
the congregation, indiscriminately ; and, in some instances,
when a show of resistance was offered, massacred the
clergyman at the altar, as well as numbers of the people,
without distinction of age or sex. These barbarous acts
took place in almost every parish of Lithuania, particularly
Oszmiany, Kieydany, Blsa,gota, Uzwenta, and \Yornie,
in which the Cossaks, by the orders of their sanguinary
generals, Kabtukow and Knoring, (men infamous for their
cruelties in Lithuania) set fire to the churches during
divine service, and left the majority of their inmates a prey
to the devouring flames. At Oszmiany, the Cossaks rushed
suddenly into the church, and massacred the whole of the
congregation, with the officiating clergymen : these bar-
bar2.rians were afterwards seen tearing the car-rings and
other ornaments from the persons of the murdered women
and children, and exchanging them with the Jews for
spirituous liquors. At Bcysagota, the same regiment of
Cossaks attacked the church, dragged down the priest
from the pulpit, and carried off the congregation to the
fields, where they shot the clergyman, and, after having
shaved the hoods of the men, sent them, loaded with chains
to the frontiers of Persia. in spite of the cries and lamen-
tations of the widows and children of the unhappy prisoners,
who were destined to behold no more those dearest objects
of their affections.

FROM A CORRESPOND EN T. —A remarkably
clever and novel invention has
.just bee. patented by feßsr,
Cook, Rowley and Co., of Liquorpond-street, coach-builders
to her Majesty, and which eall be found of very considerable
importance to the comtOrt mid health of all those who have the
good fortune to ride in carriages, and more particularly to the
fair sex and the invalid. Every one is awai e what a very un-
wieldy affair the present glass frame or folding shutter is to
open carriages, and that the occupants may be drenched with
rain ere they can screen themselves behind its ponderous folds.
This invention is to supersede the old method, and is certainly
eminently adapted so to do. It is termed a spring German
shutter—is simple and elegant in its construction, and under the
perfect control of a chil i ; consequently, in case of accidnt,
or the necessity of continually getting in and out, its advantages
arc 'manifold and of great merit.
Mr. Bapge, M.P. for West Norfolk, gave a
splendid banquet, at the Clarendon Hotel, on Monrav ins day. to the
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the lion. Oc {Dune
First Life Guards, Sir henry Smith, Mr. Eaton, M.
Hon. C 9 aptain Duncombe, Colonel, Wood, M.P., Colonel Bush_
Brooke, Fector, M.P., Sir John Tyrrell, Ai.
Neeld. M.P., Mr. Round, Captain Boldero, Mr. Hodgson,
Mr. Blackstone, Mr. Burroughes, Mr. Chute, and Viscount
Ingestric.
Lady
Elteapnreosernitl:tans •
Lord Stanley :Intl his sister,
wood, arc the members of Lord Derby's family a
ins at Knowsley. Lady Stanley remains at Lord Skelmeis':
dale's, Lathom House.
Lord and Lady Sussex Lennox have arrived on
a visit to Mr. and Lady Louisa Tighe, at Woodstock House.l
Ell; Lordship's health, which has been for some time in an
impaired state, is somewhat improved.
Lord Clifford, after an absence of nearly twelve
mor.ths on the Continent, returned to e' brook his seat in
Devon, at the close of the past week. There have been a great
number of men employed for some time making improvements
to that beautiful estate.

THE ESSEX LANDLORDS.—At Chehnsford,
on Friday, there was a strong muster of those persons who
suppose themselves interested in perpetuating the iniquitous
Corn-laws. Lord Western of course played first fiddle. There
were there also the following gentlemen :—Lord Rayleigh, T.
W. Bramston, Esq.; M.P., J. J. Tufnell, Esq., T. B. Len-
nard, Esq., IL C. Haselfoot, Esq., J. Nortidge, Esq., J.
Roggis, Esq., and R. Schneider, Esq. Sir J. T. Tyrrell, G.
Palmer, and C. G. Round, Esqrs., were prevented attending.
Petitions in support cf the Corn-laws were of course adopted.
POSTAGE.—A Scotch paper intimates thatheco
col-
lectors, surveyors, and other officers connected with
as-
sessed taxes,
have received orders not to pre-pay eirtletters
of intimation, or any correspondence they may Barel with the
lieges.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, accompa-
niedu) by Lady Augusta Somerset, arrived at Beaufort s uofase (n
parties
ai
11Ionday from Badminton, for the season.
will be giv by the Noble hike and his amiable Duchess
of ore Easter.
The Marquis and !lioness of Dovmshite
intend receiving a select parlAylarellillsborough Castle, Down_
shire, Ireland, until after the a.,aster recess, when aw family
leave for. Hanover-square.