The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-05 00:00:00

MAGAZINES-(CONTINUED).

Fi:ASEd.
Fraser this month op-ms with an elaborate review
of the recently published work of the Chevalier
Bunsen on Egypt. The review, like the work and
the subject, is somewhat heavy. We have then a
" Chronicle of Kenilworth Castle, its Heroes and its
Heroines." It is needless to add that this is a most
interesting paper—that man must be ingeniously dull
who could on such a subject write a stupid one. A
sequel to the Boar- built in Briitany follows, under
the title of " Love Passages in tie lite of Perron the
Breton ;" and then we have a vigorous sketch of
Perico, the Alexiean Vagabond." Sam Slick gives
la a capital Yankee paper, " Judge Beier'. Ghost."
The following is the history of the meeting of Stephen
Richardson, the hero of the tale, with the ghost of
Judge Beler
This hapi ened twenty-five years ago next March,
and at that ti,ut, it was still little more than a hridle•
path, and the tries lapped 'cross it in places. Now in
that hollow two large hemlocks had got canted well
over on one side. windfalls like, and were catched by two
largespruces on the other ; so there was just room to
Stoup law dawn on the saddle, and squ,.rze under, and
Much as ever, too—almost a scrape. Having rid that
Way in the morning, I knew the track, kept to the left,
bent forward on the neck of the horse, and went through.
Just as I cleverly cleared it, old Beier sprung right on
the crupper, seized me round the waist, and yelled just
as he (lid when he gut out of the lake, first in one ear
and then in the other. Oh, how the woods ru:ig His
breath was so hot it most scalded rue, and the scream
Cut me through the head like a knife ; and then he
clasped me so tight round the body he near about
bquerz±d the wind out of me. If I didn't sing out its a
Pity. and the more I hollered the louder he shrieked. I
Wulf' pretend for to go for to say that I warn% fright-
ened, because that wouldn't be :rue ; I was properly
bkeered, that's a tact. I expected every minute to be
clawed off, and plunged int,i the lake. I didn't know what
to do. Human strength I knew was of no avail against
supernatural beings, so I took to prayer.
" ` Our Father —' says I.
" The moment I said that he let go yelliu', and seized
ale by the nape of the neck with bis teeth, and bit right
through the grizzle. Oh, it was a powerful nip that !
the pain was enough to drive one mad, and I fairly
roared like a bull, it hurt me so.
" In the meantime the horse began to rear and plunge
Most furiously ; tor the poor dumb anima knew as well
as could be it had a (ghost-rider besides its lawful master
to carry. At last it kicked so like old scratch it sent us
both flying heels over h(:ad, the judge on one side and
toe on the other of it. I tortunat.-ly held on to the rein,
and jumped up like wink n, and the horse stood head to
biro, snorting and blowing like a porpise. I shall never
forget that scene the longest day I ever live."
AlbeitL Stephen is convinced of the existence of the
ghost, there are divers sceptics, amongst others
Yarson Rogers. In the following col;oquy Stephen
°Y unanswerable arguments overcome; the parson,
and sets for ever at rest the vexata quastio of the
existence of posts :
" Were you quite sober that night, Steve?' said he;
You know loiks sometimes see double on St. Patrick's
Cyr

k" ' Seer says I. 'parson; I not only see him but felt
"'el, too. Look here where he left the marks of his
teeth on me!' and I stripped and showed him the scars.
1)0 you believe now?' says I.
“ ' I never heard that ghosts had teeth before, Steve,'
Said he, most provokin' cool—' no, never.'
" ' Did you ever see one?' says I; • so come, now,
answer Inc that.'
(6,
' I'l(4' says he, 'I never saw one, and never expect to.'
~ `- 1 Ho have Vague can you tell, then,' says I, ' whe-
.aer they teeth or not? But I have seen um!, no
Ye. wind ; and I can swear they have teeth— plaguy
;Liu') °ties, too—breath as hot as a tea-kettle, and claws
"sj°ng and as strong ai a bear.'
1,. Stephen,' said he,.'' my sun, I didn't think you
-ere so easily frightened
'Frightened' says I, and I began to get cross with
-- . fool '1 punter, as if I would go for to tell a lie, or be such a
• us not to know what I was talking about—' Fri:Alt-
'.
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to7sd.l;ei.--sr it?' said
said I; ' it's more than ever you could do
though you have been preachin' against the
t..
bueni and all his imps ever since I was born. But do
1 ,°ll go to Beler's Lake on St. Patrick's night, and if the
i'""ge is to home, and a talking and a stirring under
tattler, do you ondervalue him as I did, and say you ain't
:.` into believing
of bun, dead or alive, and if he don't frighten you
n
.11,
:** --: eelieving what you hear, and believing what you
. , and into knowing the difference between a bite and
kiss,
* h.•then you are a braver man than I take you to
----I that s „11..
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7
4 said h-1a,1,1, go with you the next 17th day of March,'
. • ~
!,
,_,l- :Zhank you,' says I, ' I'd rather be excused.'
L!'" ii„ '', lIIALIT go with or without you, just as you please,
'll' W '',ue I-7th of next March, if you will first go to Nick
tLana,
04 '. St and see that Colonel Brown's crazy boy (the
tu that roasted his brother) is well chained up. It's
.( Shy °Pillion that that mischievous maniac broke loose, or
wir woP„.,ed out that night, and attacked you; and the only
1 kii" is that, with his superhuman strength, he didn't
•‘ Ste Yea- You had a great escape. But as for a ghost,
.. '!------ -* '
tarson, says I, ' do you believe the Bible?'
s' , A'elt' says he, ' I do.'
1 ghost - )l, then,' says I, ' believe in Judge Beler's
4: and h' I have seen him, and heard him, and felt him,
- tin, "aye the marks to prove it. You are Parson Rogers,
. t You?'
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s
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i Well so you are• but how do I know it? Be-
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those I've seen you, heard you, and felt you. Well,
I. ats the way I know the ghost. I, tell you I have heard,
I ae", and felt Judge Beler's ghost.
The Earl of Ellesmere and Mr. Monckton Milnes
.0' are the literary legislators who sit for their portraits
.4 this month, and justice is done to each of them.
Morgan Rattler furnishes a coarsely overdone puff of
4 the Covent•garden Opera speculation ; and the
•* number winds up with an elaborate paper on colo-
:, • 'ligation, in which Lord Grey's plans are eulogised
;•:. ; Most highly, but not more highly than they deserve.

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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE.
44. thaw agree entirely with the Farmer's Magazine,
'l' a deficient harvest or a recurrence of the potato
4 1
llnirrain would be productive of consequences the
',• Zer,y supposition of which is appalling : and we do
believe that if it be ever advisable to ad-
press orisons to the Deity for any temporal
ssing, it is surely advisable to addre-s such orisons
ur the continuance of the present favourable and
already
weather. Upon the advantages that have
resulted from the beautiful month of May
Just terminated, the Farmer says :
r "After rather a heavy tall of rain the temperature
b° 5e graduilly, and the moisture and warmth c.-mabined
ore wrought an amazing alteration in the appearance
thv country. Tnt spring.sown ctops stand as well as
4014 possibly be desired. The wheat plant, though
backward. wears a h,ithlty and vigorous aspect, and
,14 Zr!nist,s tar better than could have been clit'si
Grl4 the extretne 1 •ngth trid severity of the winter.
has grown amazingly. and all the green crops are
f "nant. A far, t, a jment can be
• erm,d
I. at thiss early p?nriod,eretore theas harvesttri promises to be
abundant.',
i..E t..a.rnestly is it to be hoped that all our hopes
► does not
be reali-ed. Although the writer
in"e,s, not appear very sanguine as to the diminution
litttunaeoyprice of corn, before the time of harvest has
arrived, he still thinks that " under certain
co
3081Thinations" when' may easily decline 203. or even
Der quarter. Unless it decrease more than this,
'e shall yet have to pass through a severe, if not a
Protracted, ordeal.

THE BANKER'S.
One of the principal features in this month's
number of the Banker's Magazine, is, as a matter of
Course, the odious and miserable financial blunder_s
in
cf
' Sir Robert Peel. Every alternate page displays
conspicuous characters the words " Bank Restriction-
Act," and these words are plentifully accompanied
• by animadversions upon the reprehensible measure
they indicate. In speaking of the almost uni-
, versal obloquy now showered upon the enactment
of 1844' one of the contributors to this commercial
P°riodical observes, that it was eulogised on its mi..
introduction as an admirable scheme, by nearly,
411 the press, " with a very few exceptions., It
elnnot be forgotten that among those very few ex-
* cePtions, we ourselves were numbered from the very
':lit'et• Speciously as the innovation upon banking
transactions was introduced by the then Prime Ali-
11:ter, we recognised in it, from the first, those
,i
ernmas and miseries and dangers which have re-
. ;tlItlY come to pass. IVe perceived and proclaimed
• ‘tiat.the Bill was intended to direct the currency by
eeh
r ra anical agency, when the agency was required
thhe most flexible and elastic. What has been the
e of experience in developing the influences of
t..-e-Eneagure is tolerably well expressed in the follow-
br sentences
The recent fluctuation in the rate of interest within
tht:w.nitniths, from two pc-r cent. to twenty, has dis,,elled
' rid
they were under on this subject. They see
rit%"Y enough that the Act, instead ol equalising the
iti. of intereta d the value of money, must, whenever
suderettnents come into effect, produce more violent and
gyst„, `-thanges thau could rea ouubly occur under a
-In which exercise of wisdom and
expe,h,ne would penult the
e"NNuI on the part of those who have tee practic .1
A. tun ot the rate of inter. •.t in their hands.
UPOn ;11"(fd and accurate report of the debate
coons 18 -.lMPortaiit subjt..ct in the flotbe of Com-
continu giv'ti in the ane Nue. The Magazine
bank. " be the J:ld and temperate organ o; the
banking
world.

the Wln R Al ONTiILy
1 ith a eharact,--ris:k: likeness of the ctia!riiia2i . -,
i ,ompai,3•7
London and Nort-i IW"eistLe trnii-IRYaili‘7:::-.°L7D "t.
4" a singular accumulation of informa.:,ion . uputi_we
railway lutters, the present part is embellished (
to the
use the word advisedly) with agenerous appeal •
rtilwa bl' •
behalf y pu ic—and a vast public 1
, of Thomas Gray. We quote the sensible and
reasonable propositon of the Railway Rei•ord:—
theriThe feratation of a p-tirly railway subscription,thoai,i,
p'su,ggested oh the prp,eiple
ing the paid.
tip railway eapitAl of the country. Suplys,
,f a p nny per p 'um , -
to ba 401)41,1-up capital of estqhlioled r4llwly comp ~:,,,.,.
tioll, tr*h-re anotit 47,000.0001, a p,nny subierip-
-44 buggested, would yield 47,000,000 of ponce;