The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-01 00:00:00

FRASER.

It is evident, from the tenour of the only political ar-
ticle in the present number of Fraser, that, namely, which
is entitled, " What are we to Expect?" that the.oldTory
party is completely disorganised. The writer admits
that the Protectionist opposition, either through their
own misfortune or the faults of their leaders, fall as short
of the Ministerial party in moral power as they exceed it
in numerical force, and that the breach which has severed
Lord George Bentinck and Sir Robert Peel is quite irre.
concileable. It is evident, moreover, that the Tory party
dread Sir Robert Peel, and accordingly, this writer,
speaking in their name, endeavours to persuade the Right
Hon. Baronet either to retire altogether from public
life, or to accept a peerage. We hope he will do neither.
The House of Commons is the proper field for his exLr-
tionA, and as the moderator of parties in that House,
" sitting apart and watching for his country's welfare,
like some ()mete created to advise," his position may be,
perhaps, as this writer says, " irksome," but it will be
most useful and most honourable, and although " it may
prove a source of inconvenience to others(" that is to say,
to the incompetent, and incapable, and disappointed, and
selfish, who aspire to be statesmen, but who possess not
the requisite ability for the due performance of the func-
tions which may devolve on them), to have the most ac-
complished administrator of affairs that this country
has of late years produced, present in the House
of Commons, to puzzle them by questions and to expose
their short-comings—yet the presence of such a one
cannot but be of vast service to the country, and there-
fore we hope that Sir Robert Peel will continue in the
House of Commcns. Cunningly is the temptation held
out to the personal friends of Sir Robert Peel to desert

" Between the younger members of the late Cabinet and
the heads of the Protectionist party there is no feud which a
little explanation on both sides could not speedily end."
And why is this temptation so' held out ? Evidently
because the Protectionists feel that they are absolutely
without any man of administrative talents among them.
The junior members of the Peel Cabinet are, therefore,
to be invited to join the Bentinck party, in order to teach
them the business of administration, and to be sacrificed
immediately afterwards. In the meanwhile it seems the
Whigs are to be tolerated as warming-pans for the Pro-
tectionists:— _ _

"The Whigs must have fair play; that they will manage
matters well for any length of t►me, in promoting the
people's interests, while they maintain in their integrity the
great Institutions of the country, we rather hope than anti-
cipate. If they do, they shall have our hearty support ;
and if they do not, they may rely upon it that we will tell
them of their backsliding, and use our best endeavours to
turn them out; and then it will be seen how far the Pro-
tectionists deserve the good opinons which, at the present
moment, we entertain of them."

Such are the present purposes and views of the remnant
of the once compact and powerful Conservative party.
The article on" Literary Legislators" is continued. The
elaborate notice of Mr. Disraeli is concluded, and fol-
lowed by a notice highly eulogistic, but not more eulo-
gistic than just, of Mr. Mackinnon. The most readable
paper in the number, however, is the article entitled
" Holland House and its Inhabitants," which is full of
amusing gossip, ant;quarian, artistical, and biographi-
cal, of the far-famed Holland House and its inhabitants,
from the days of Sir Henry Rich, who began its con-
struction in the time of Queen Elizabeth, to those of its
late accomplished occupants, the late Lord and Lady
Holland.

DOLMAN.
Apart from its peculiar views upon religion, Dolman
is, as usual, of a character very attractive to the general
reader. There is no sectarianism, or intolerance, or
acerbity in its pages ; insomuch that the most earnest
opponent of the Roman Catholic Church may, without
any diminution of his zeal, say taus much in commenda-
tion of this organ of the Roman Catholics in England.
We observe that the editor extends the field of his his-
torical reminiscences in regard to the penal laws against
his ancestors in the faith, by going back from 1779 and
1780 to the reign of Queen Elizabeth. His revelations
are mournful enough. Such cruelty and bigotry as he
records is hardly comprehensible in this age of humanity
and toleration. Upon the life and character of the
Empress Josephine there is a very charming
article, but it could scarcely be otherwise. Jo
sephine was worthy of being the wife of the
Great Napoleon, both in the gentleness of her heart
and the elevation of her mind, in her dignity and
her beneficence. The character of the Empress Jose-
phine is conspicuous in that age of greatnes.s, and it, is as
fascinating as it is conspicuous. A story entitled
" Kathleen Connor" follows ; and the next paper is one
styled " Thu Cradles of Gold and Wicker" by an Os-
cotiv. The contribution is illustrative of the insufficiency
of mere birth to render any one either eminent or
happy : it contrasts the careers of King Louis XVII. of
France, and of a base-born child named Jacques, whom
we should take to be fictitious, but that the writer
states to the contrary. Jacques is described as having
attained great eminence and as being still in existence.
We suspect that the writer had M. Thiers in his mind's
eye when delineating the aaracter. Those who can
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DOMBEY AND SON. No. V. By Charles Dickens.
Never was any work of fiction commenced with so
much evichnce of genius, and goodness, and eloquence
as this. If the fifteen numbers which are to come be
enly comparable with the five already published, Dombey
and Son will be the masterpiece of Charles Dickens; and
that is saying much—that is saying that it will be a
noble addition to the literature of our country. In the
last chapter in the present number there are sentences
that should be written in letters of gold. Tiny Tim and
Little Nell are ideal beings that the mind of a poet alone
could have imagined, but Tiny Tim and Little Nell are
cyphers to Little Paul Dombey. And Little Paul dies.
The description of the young child's death, given iu the
part before us, is one of the most exquisite and touching
descriptions in the English htuguage. We do nOt enTY