The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-01 00:00:00

Hown.rs JOURNAL.

Weekly and monthly in its form of publication, Mr.
Howitt's periodical offers attractions to a large body of
readers. Its very title is a sufficient indication of the
spirit in which it is conducted, and forms a guarantee
that in its pages the cause of the people will not merely
be respected, but sedulously and energetically advocated.
We have already observed upon the distinguished cha-
racter of its contributors, and we may here repeat some
of the names which will be discovered in the March part,
viz.:—R. H. Horne, Silverpen, Thomas Cooper, Hans
Christian Andersen, Dr. Bowrincr, and Dr. Smiles. The
editor himself evinces remarkable industry. Although
the engravings are rather indifferent, the literary con-
tents are sufficient* meritorious to compensate for
that single deficiency

THE TRAVELLER'S MISCELLANY.
There has long been a necessity
for a periodical answer-
ing exactly to the size, exactly to the character, exactly to
the talent, and exactly to the arrangement of the Travel-
lees Miscellany. In all these particulars the first number,a
now lying before us, is admirable. Are amusing narr-
tives wanted, drollery, gossip, pleasant and sparkling
compositions ? Here are abundance. And for informa-
tion—the pages are crammed with it We know not a
publication more fitted to beguile the stages of a
journey, the transit of a steam-packet,
or the inter-
stations of a railway trip than this excellent little
magazine. It is as effectual as the most facetious com-
panion in scaring away the lividi diaboli, vulgo, " blue
devils." It is better than any guide book, in respect to
the miscellaneous information most useful to travellers.
We would especially note the " Theatrical Guide," the
" Callender for the Current Month," the " Catalogue of
Exhibitions and Amusements in the Metropolis; the
" Excursion Guide," the " Time Table," the Post-office,
Passport, and steam-boat Guides," cum cateris paribus.
They are as copious and compact as the magazine itself
is worthy of commendation.

FRASER.
The opening article of Fraser will be read with
great interest. It is a carefully digested resumi of
all the various systems of National Education at pre-
sent in operation in the different countries of
Europe, and it contains more really useful informa-
tion on the subject than is to be found in all the pon-
derous octavos and lengthy letters with which the
public has of late been bored on the subject. This
article is followed by a romantic Mexican tale, " Mate-
siete, the Hunter ;" and then we have a paper on the
" Condition of Authors in England, Germany, and
France," from which it appears that pencraft in Eng-
land is more amply remunerated than in other LITERATURE' IN
countries, always excepting those brethren of the
AN ANTIQUARIAN RAMBLE' TEE
quill who devote themselves to the concoction of STREETS OF LONDON. 2 rofs
dramas, for whom France is a very El Dorado, and Thomas Smith.
written than those
which fact fully accounts for the monopoly of Pleasanter books cannot well be
wrf
ancient cities,
dramatic manufacture which France at present descriptive of the ancient localities By John
enjoys. Lord John Manners is the literary legis- ,with all their historical associatiohnes.ol
d piles of brick and
later who sits for his portrait this month. The recollections are connected with the
illustrious personages
Soo many personal
' bouterements, so many inei-
article is elaborately written ; the author treats his mortar, so many anecdotes a
subject evidently con amore, but he rates far too are combined. with the clecTentger
have transpired in the
highly the talents and the influence of this interest- trineonrtes
do fi i
aani d attractiveni
e
ing, but, cartes, not altogether disinterested enthu-
the imagination is carried back threw,
ecl"turnric(nsldbayrittig
siast—if enthusiast he be. The political article for more sight of the crumbled
"16" land drawings
the month treats of Lord George Bentinck's desti- lintels. The late keeper of the priors was fully con-
tutu shareholders' relief Bill, under the title of in the British Museum, Mr. Smith,
and he has
d a rteersa of an anti
" The Great and Comprehensive Measure." The scions of the fullness of this fhasicsi,n,:._,,,,k
for a
Rainy
que rnstrop.olis, thatt.le
writer evidently began his article with the shown by his former writings,
_. 11
" he pos
f selecting. his materials from
intention of going " the whole hog " in Day," and " Nollek.ins and has Times. that
praise of the proposition of " the stable mind," ceased all
the capabilities o
d. .
but as he went on, his common sense revolted at the thoisreneecenemenisio
rl qualified by his profsssional pur-
stupendous fully (and if not folly the something
nsuits, 'aesr'wePll as by. his domestic manners, ,to glean
worse) of the proposition of his hero, and he ends by
so the most interesting, if not
ntheLnainods tmireco
A.fititde, f
what
t s'
confessing that he "cannot much lament the issue." associated with the history
th..ispeculiar. abilities
tore with isarimination. He was,
He, however, throughout argues as if that proposition
ofplaYdon, ,the most venerable city
were to advance money to the Government to con- Lthen
hich from age to a.e
most gigantic and extraordi.:
struct national railroads, instead of being what it in the British islands,
the contemporary and ex
and
nthoebrleertharaenuLa„,fonrdothned?dis
really was—a proposition to advance money to share- nary of civilised.
holders to rig the market with public money, over Boadicea,
of our national fortunes has revolved
the expenditure of which the Government was to theid. tre
fluctuated.gtc
whether we cunt emplate Landon, in regard
have no control. The question as to the propriety oras the spot in which our Edwards and
at
our sovereigns,
impropriety of the Government undertaking the con- tiolenrys, and Richards, have dwelt, as the scene of
struction of railroads in Ireland as great national
Charles's decapitation, of Lady
,Jane Grey's imprison-
works for the national benefit, was not brought be- anti and execution, of Cromvreli's summary vengeance
the canted point round w
fore the House by Lord G. Bentinck. It was '
upon the Long Parliament, of James's flight, of
brought before the House some years since, William's entrance, or of the fourth George's de-
by Lord Morpeth, at a time when it would baucheries; whether we consider it in relation to
have been advantageously carried into effect, because the poets it has harbioured, from o!sl Chaucer to blind
then private enterprise had not entered the field. At Milton, and so on. to am e Byrohn, or in reference to the
that time the proposition was rejected by Lord G. statesmen and philosophers
Sirvi Thomaso have been numbered
Bentinck and his party, out of the mere spirit of fac- amongst its denisens, fromta
tion, and it ill becomes them now to complain, unless Bacen, and from yecreunlcaes
idnotwhnewards; or, in allusion to
they first cry peceari. In the following observations its military reminiscences
its artistic reminiscences Marlborough seal
on the measures to be adopted for the social regene- Prince Eugene,
and
Flaxman;
or its reminiscenceslitesreaences in the ages
ration of Ireland, we entirely concur, and we trust ino then ga rets of Farquhar and Joheson,rwye mast always
that landlords of Ireland, when they read the senti-
look upong it as invested with a charm in praise of which
ments of this, the organ of the Tory party (they al- the most extravarsant panegyric could scarcely be
ready know the opinions of every other party in the counted as hyperbolical. Under all aspects London is
empire) will, instead of indulging in vain complaints fraught with interest, even in its rookeries as connected
or vexations, because fruitless, opposition to the Go- with Turpin and Howard, and its prisons as associated
verninent measures, set their shoulders to the wheel, with Sheppard and Mrs. Fry. And even in those dege-
an
d aid and assist those who are doing their best to nerate regions investigation would prove by no means
regenerate their country. The writer says— uninstructive. From the le western boundaries of Houns-
low, to the eastern limits of Bow, from Highgate and
.‘ The te,nures by which land is held, in property and
Hampstead in the north, to Dulwich and Peckham in
in occupancy, in Ireland, exhibit such a mass of confu-
the south, taking in the whole circumference from those
sion anti complexity as car .not he p n, paralleled any where
suburbs, there is scarcely a single point which does not
else throughout the world. Ih. is ,
must be remedied
t beconceded
The right of sale, in whole or in part, m. a s
nine prove attractive as the home or the haunt of some re-
markable individual. Mr. Smith, indeed, was so con
leases for hundred
to every Irish proprietor ; and soil of the fruitfulness of his subject that be has
converted into pro-
and ninety-nine years, and such like, cordoubtless restrained his inclinations
Ireland should inclinations, and has restricted
party. Nor is there any just cause whyt En land. If his antiquarian rambles to a continuous line beginning
not in every other respect be assimilated
oupong her, it with Hyde Park-corner, and ending with the Tower.
English rights and immunities be conferred' m t .
In his pilgrimage, therefore, he comes successively
is but fair that she should pay English tax es. eorfeheor
upon Charing-cross, Waterloo -bridge, Temple .bar,
fore her extreme poverty, and the backward state
in
le.
Blackfriars, Cheapside, and London -bridge, branching
population, have afforded excuses for a tardiness . , off occasionally as circumstances required, or as the
gislation which could not stand a moments' baapartiat