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

THE SUN

leaven of uneasiness Was so strong within him, that it turned
up his bile, and he forthwith caused an advertisement to be
inserted in the daily journals, stating that he had employed
a solicitor to bring an action against the proprietor of The
Sun for the levelling observations of his correspondents.
There was more in the proceeding than was meant. Mr.
Cochrane never mended to bring an action against Mr.
Young, and Mr. Young is not the man to be frightened at a
shadow. So a parcel of Mr. Cochrane's friends called a
meeting, and they summoned him to their presence. Then
and there Mr. Cochrane admitted that he had travelled
through Kent and Sussex as. a minstrel ; that he per-
sonated Juan de Vedra ; that he wrote a book ; that he re-
ceived money from the public—only ho said that the book was
not of such an infamous character as had been described ;
still he would not have written what he had printed upon
more mature deliberation, and he must attribute the
publication to youthful folly. With regard to the money
which he had collected (some 501. or 601.), he said he had
presented it to the Spanish refugees. Now, we ask whether
such a man as this is a fit person to represent the important
city of Westminster ? We look upon Mr. Cochrane as a mere
adventurer; a sort of place-hunter, to whom any situation
would he a god send. We must look to men of character,
talent, and station, to represent our metropolitan boroughs,
possessing as they do immense and enlightened constituen-
cies. We do not require your Quixotic adventurers ;we
want a man acquainted with commerce, statistics, and figures,
and, above all, well read in the history of Europe; and if
we may draw a conclusion, after reading Mr. Cochrane's
speeches, he is a mere surface man—a person of small-talk—
with no mercantile knowlege, and with just tongue enough
to humbug an old woman and blarney a young one. Mr.
Coclirane's doom is sealed. He will not be the future repre-
sentative. for Westminster. We give bins this timely hint,
that he may save his money.

PARLIAMEN TARY BUSINESS•
From the Votes and Proceedings "of the House of Commons.)

SATURDAY, FEB. 27.
NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a
second time:—

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3.
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction De-
viations.
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley (Stourbridge and
West Bromwich).
THURSDAY, MARCH 4.
York and North Midland (Hull Station and Branches).
Newcastle and Berwick (East Coast Line, Blyth, Seaton
Sluice, and other Branches).
Newcastle and Berwick (Cramlington and Percy Main, and
Killingworth, and other Branches).
York and North Midland (Harrogate Branch Extension

and Terminus).
York and Newcastle (Hartlepool Dock and Railway, and
Great North of Ergland, Clarence and Hartlepool Junc-
tion Railway, Lease and Purchase).
York and Newcastle (Wearmouth Dock Enlargement).
York and Newcastle, Newcastle and Berwick, and North

British Amalgamation.
Eastern Counties (Enlargement of London and Stratford
Stations, and Amendment of Acts).
Direct London and Portsmouth, Brighton and Chichester,
London, Brighton, and South Coast, and London and
South-Western.

Great North of India.
Swansea Valley.
South Wales.
Vale of Neath.

MAGAZINE-DAY.
BLACK II 00D.
Under the guise cf a magazine article, the whole-
somest principles of benevolence are inculcated in the
paper "On Pauperism and its Treatment." Although
we cannot detect any coincidence between the writer's
views on political economy and the great system re-
cently introduced into the British Constitution by the
Imperial Parliament, we are eager to express our own
coincidence in those philanthrophic sentiments which
have evidently dictated ,the contribution. At such a
crisis, when almost a moiety of the population of the
United Kingdom is suffering from the agonies of starva-
tion, when Government is advancing to Ireland alone a
sum of not less than 10,000,0001., when throughout the
diversities of society, from our Sovereign Lady down to
the simplest handicraftsman among her subjects, the
good work of national charity is prospering, it is grati-
fying to see the abilities of a publication like Blackwood
directed to so useful and important a purpose. How-
ever erroneous may be the opinions of the contributor as
to the instruments most advisable to be employed for the
distribution of imperial bounties, We are not loth on that
account to acknowledge the excellence of the aim of the
proposition. Little permanent benefit, however, can be
anticipated from the unanimous efforts making in behalf
of the Irish, unless a better disposition be evinced by
them for the reception and application of that assistance.
We are far from alluding to the peasantry themselves,
for we know by their patience and long suffering, during
the storms of external; agitation and the anguish of do-
mestic dearth, that they are an enduring, unrepining,
gentle, and eminently religious race. The speech de-
livered from the throne, by the lips of her most gracious
Majesty Victoria, contained an eulogistic allusion to this
noble spirit of endurance of the Irish peasantry under
afflictions which would have rendered other men morally
distraught and in no manner prepared to bend without
a struggle or a murmur to the pitiless casual-
ties of vegetation and the terrible decrees of
an omniscient and all-merciful God. It is
to the absent landowners, to the smaller resident land-
lords, and the larger tenant-farmers, that our observa-
tion is peculiarly applicable. Unless these men exhibit
a better inclination to co-operate with the Legislature,
the evils of penury and scarcity cannot be permanently
eradicated from that hapless island. While the robust
and thriving sons of the latter class are actually die-
patched as labourers to the public works, for the purpose
of filling their own maws and pockets at the expense of
the humble destitute, it were madness to anticipate any
effectual advantages to accrue to the country indiscrimi-
nately. Out-door relief, enlargement of poor-houses,
distribution of s: ed to the amount of 50,0001., wholesale
manufacture of soup under the supervision of M. Soyer,
complicated commissariat, and ten millions of money,
will be wholly unable to restore happiness and prospe-
rity to the desolate hills and valleys of Hibernia, if these
things are c, ntinued, if these men are permitted to
thrive on their damning trade with impunity, if
this heinous crime—the defrauding of the poor—one of
the four great crimes crying out to heaven for vengeance
—be connived at, and allowed to pass unpunished. Men
like these are traitors not only to this country, but to
their race and kind. In little truth, they are nothing
less than assassins and homicides. Call things by their
right names, and those are the names we should give
them. Speak from the heart the language of the heart,
and we should exclaim with Emilia, in Othello:
" 0 that there were in every honest hand a whip,
To lash such rascals naked through the world."
The opening article is followed by a narrative translated
from the Danish, ant called " The Poacher ; or Jut-
land a hundred and thirty years since." " A Ride
to Magnesia" is a pleasant description of a scene but
seldom described, and consequently one that is doubly
agreeable from its novelty. Since the period of Sir
Stamford Raffles the Spice Islands, in the Indian Ocean,
have continued to attract more and snore attention, both
from the central character of their position, and the rich-
ness of their productions. Any additional account of
any individual island in that magnificent archipelago is
hence of a remarkable interest, and from these reason!,
as well as from the admirable manner in which it is
compiled, the contribution in relation to Java is not the
least attractive in the number. Building upon an ec •
centric fabric of the romantic and the real, from a theme
which Cooper and Walter Scott, in his " Peveril of the
Peak," and Robert Southey, in his " Oliver Newman,"
had already exhausted, a certain writer in Blackwood
has thought proper to favour the public with his remi-
niscences of travel, and has christened his lucubration
" The Cave of the Regicides." An euphoneous title
enough, and .one calculated to raise goblin phantasms in
the imagination of the populace, but stale, marvellously
stale, to speak truly. Whatever may be the ideas of
this individual as to the "usual buffooneries," as he elo-
quently styles them, of Thomas Carlyle, we defer to him
whether it might not be advisable to copy somewhat of
the purpose with which that great writer always in-
vests anything that proceeds from his pen. Let him
look well to the beam before he becomes parlous about
the mote—let him look to his own literary sins before he
presumes to turn critic. In the commencement of the
paper headed " Latest from the Peninsula," there is a
crushing review of the recent "Overland Journey to
Lisbon," by Mr. T. M. Hughes. The sarcasm is caustic
and excoriating: Ebony evinces a matchless acerbity:
old Christopher lays his crutch about him lustily. The
criticism is not altogether unmerited, and as a piece of
satire is delightful. Among the verses inserted in this
number, the following epigram is not bad:—
" bait, hook, and hair, are used by angler fine ;
Emma's bright hair alone were bait, hook, line ;"
though we doubt whether the verb and the nominative
ease in the second verse agree in number. The next is
better. " Faraday" says the writer " was the first to
elicit the electric spark from the magnet; he found that
it is visible at the instants of breaking and of renewing
the contact of the conducting wires; ansi only then.
" Around the magnet Faraday
Is sure that Volta's lightnings play;
But how to draw them from the wire?
Ile took a lesson from the heart :
'Tis when we meet, 'tis when we part,
Breaks forth the electric fire."
The short poem, " To the Stethoscope," is beautifully
conceived, and from the exquisite melody and fanciful-
ness of the opening passages we anticipated a metrical
gem but seldom found in a magazine. The close, how-
ever, is so wretched—it is such a miserable anti-climax
in style, that we were singularly disappointed. To-
wards the commencement we find this graceful conceit:—
" Ye stars which bloom like flowers on high,
Ye flowers which are the stars of earth."
Towards the conclusion comes—
" Life shall sometimes sound a blast,
But it shall be but Tantivy !"
0, for a corner to enshrine that " Tantivy" in the
bathos of Martinus Scriblerus. The au voleur, ate
voleur, aft voleur, au voleur of Sganarelle, in the " Pre-
cieuses Ridicules" of Moliere, is not more droll. A
letter on the " Divining Rod" (little less disagreeable
than a letter from a creditor), and a humorous re.
minder of the Noctes, called " Horse Catullianze,"
.erminate the March number.