The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-12 00:00:00

one that fills no mean position in Parisian society.
" Le Concierge " is indeed a personage who
possesses much power of annoyance, and
whose good offices it is essential to the
comfort of the " /ocataire" to secure. " Sporting
Life from L0nd0n,"...4 Lord William Lennox, shows
what can be seen awl-enjoyed by the London resident
at a moderate expense in any description of sport,
and the great facilities given by " the rail," which
permit the man about town to participate in all the
held sports. " Hunting in the Forest of St. Ger-
main& ' exhibits a striking contrast to the modus ope-
randi in France and our own country ; and " The
Seasons of Forty-five and Forty-six" eives some good
hints for the amendment of the game-laws, although
we confess we should be disposed to go rather farther
than the writer. Altogether the number will afford
a rich treat to a very numerous body of our coun-
trymen.

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE REVIEW.
" The Chapels Royal, being No. 3 of the Churchese
of London," exhibits the prevailing feeling of the
Oxford and Cambridge in the strong:stiig ha
close The
writer, who signs himself " Ridley, is
stickler for forms and ceremonies, and elevates
matters of trivial import into
thTa
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inoculated tmagni-
tude. He is evidently strongly
a-
rian views—a Puseyite of the first water—for
no less than twenty-three morpages he proses in
t the informalities and
a strain of whining
omissions observed a t ctahnet
Chapelsa Royal, which he
traces back to the time of the Revolution of 1688,
asserting that William the Third was not a Church-
man at all, but a Presbyterian at heart, who had no
sympathy with Anglican Episcopacy, to which he only
con formed as a matter of state policy. The two first
Georges he sets down as still more insensible to the merits
of the Ecclesiastical System. He lashes himself into
a state of virtuous indignation, because the prayers are
what he terms " talked or preached," in place of
being said (by which he means chanted) or sung.
The Bishop who preached, not having knelt down
when he entered the pulpit, but merely leant over
the cushion, excites his bile in the strongest degree,
although he states that he considers private prayer
in the pulpit as an innovation of a puritannical
period in the church's history and one of very doubt-
ful propriety, as it is out of all order to offer up
prayer at all in the pulpit. We could not have con-
ceived that any rational man in his sober senses could
possibly drivel out such ridiculous twaddle. A royal
duchess attending the St. James's Theatre on a
Friday, a double fast, as he expresses in
italics to mark the enormity, and the Opera
on Saturday should be debarred according to
this formalist from attending the mid-day service.
And he asks, " Why should the Church give way to,
and thereby countenance such profanity ?" It is hard
to tell whether it is the attendance of the Royal
Duchess, at the Chapel Royal, or the performance of
the morning service at raid-day that he designates in
these terms. Indeed he does not in his strictures, by
any means, spare the highest personage in the realm--
the admitted head of that Church, of which he appa-
rently prafesses himself to be a member—but unhesi-
tatingly states that our Sovereign Lady is grievously at
fault in those respects ; while even the Bishop of London
himself comes in for a share of his censure " for
conniving at, if not participating in, such irregu-
larities." But that at Whitehall is still worse.
There is no exhibition of a cross in any part of it !
Nay, horribile dictu, the entrance is not at the west
end, but the noath ! ! The altar is not at the east, but
at the south !!! Can any good be hopei for in a
country that tolerates such awful profanity ?
We trust that the friends and relatives of this singu-
larly unhappy gentleman will pay close attention to
the state of his health, and not suffer him to remain
too long by himself. We entertain many serious
misgivings as to the state of his mind. There are
many other articles, to which we have not space to
advert, but none are characterised by the out-
rageous absurdity of that to which we have
just alluded. " The Country Curate's Tale "
is told in simple and pleasing language ;
and there is a resume of the proceedings which took
took place during the recent election for the Chan-
cellorship of Cambridge, with which the general
reader is already acquainted, but which is properly in-
chided in a periodical devoted to the interests of the
Universities.

THE PLOUGH.
A useful number to the agriculturist. The chief
article, that on " Leases," by Professor Donaldson,
conveys many sound truth; that should be atten-
tively perused and maturely considered, both by the
owners and occupiers of the soil. It traces the mode
in which property in land was originally acquired,
viz., by the priority of occupation, and the subsequent
labour bestowed, and the tacit acquiescence of the
remaining portion of the community in the title thus
obtained. The two great classes—the nobles and
serfs—who, in times of old, were alone interested
in lands, and the gradual springing up of an
intermediate class who obtained grants for a specified
time; the injurious effects of any extraordinary sti-
pulations or restrictions by which the lessee would
be fettered in the free enjoyment of his holding. tiro
person can be induced to expend his capital or labour
in the improvement of the land, unless he had
the certainty that himself or his children would he
permitted to reap the benefit thereof. Convince him
of that, and he at once becomes anxious to bring his
tenement into the highest degree of fertility and
cultivation. It is to the want of this certainty of
tenure, that many of the evils under which our Irish
brethren have been suffering may be traced ; and the
Professor clearly points out the advantages, to the
landowner himself, of adopting a liberal policy with
regard to his tenantry. The " Notes on Turnip
Husbandry" give some valuable hints to those who
have recourse to that crop, which will be more
extensively used in consequence of the failure of the
potato, as to the nature of the soil and the descrip-
tion of manure best adapted therefor ; and there is
a long article on the agriculture of Northumberland;
which is worthy the attention of farmers in all parts
of the kingdom. One of the plates gives an improved
plan for a cottage for a farm labourer.

THE FARMERS' MAGAZINE.
A collection of reports of many meetings of the
farmers' clubs in various parts of the country, and
the proceedings of the Royal Agricultural Society of
England. There are also articles on the cultivation
of carrots, parsnips, best mangold wurzel, and other
descriptions of produce, which will be interesting to
the occupiers of land. An account of the "Presenta-
tion of a piece of Plate to the Rev. H. Bond," ex-
hibits, in the strongest light, the feelings entertained
by the tenant farmers as to the injurious effects of a
superabundance of game to their properties, and also
the moral and social evils arising to the peasantry
from the practice.