The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

MAGAZINES (CONTINUED).
THE SPOR7 ING RE VIEW.
Herring's high-mettled racer has degenerated—
poor fellow!—to the shop. Not even the questionable
dignity of a cab-hack, or the unenviable prerogative
of a cockney's Sunday job-horse ! No; the mise-
rable slave of a butcher's boy, to be pricked by one
rusty spur, to be flayed at the bending of the neck
by the chafing of a common meat basket, and as
Dickens says feelingly (enough to him just now)
" to be beaten about the head as though it was made
of wood !" The companion engraving, " The
Stalker's Home," is clever for the peculiar dispo-
sition of the lights. About the literary contents
there is, as usual, a rollicking, frollicking, dashing
merriment that is quite contagious, and which is
likewise a capital filip to dige,tion.

COLBURIVS thVITED
According to the United Service Magazine, the
new planet Neptune bears not the slightest resem-
blance to Cann►ng's knife-grinder—" Story, God
bless you! it has some to tell, sir ;" and the contri-
butor, who has become its mouthpiece, tells the nar-
rative of its discovery with all the zest of a lover of
hobgoblins and of an enthusiast in astronomic re-
search. " A Leaf from an old Log" has all the fla-
vour of a weavelly biscuit; it is a yarn of much
sprightliness. The " Tale of the Sea" appears to be
of indefinite length, for it continues to wind out coil
after coil without intermission. There is an admirable
article headed, " Justice to the Navy Progression,"
written by Tristram. We recommend the million to
read it, and to remember the glories of the British
navy at the same time. The following, we doubt
not, will be an interesting list to everybody:—
RELATIVE RANK OF THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMY

AND NAVY IN QUEEN VICTOKIX'S
Admirals of the Fleet ... ...with Field-Marshals.
Admirals ... „ Generals.
Vice-Admirals Lieut,-Generals.
Rear-Admirals „ „ Major-Generals.
Commodores of First Class
Commodores of Second Class
Director-General of the Medical „ Brigadier-Generals.
Department of the Navy
Captains, after three years as such „ Colonels.
All other Captains ...
Medical Inspectors of Hospitals „ Lieut.-Colonels.
and Fleets ...
Commanders... ...
Secretaries to Flag-Officers Com-
manding-in-Chief „ Majors.
Deputy Medical Inspectors of
Hospitals and Fleets ...
Lieutenants, Masters of the Fleeti
Masters, Chaplains ...
Secretaries to Junior Flag-Officers ~ Captains.
and Commodores of First Class I
Surgeons, Paymasters and Pursers,)
Mates, Assistant-Surgeons „ Lieutenants.
Second Masters, Mipstiipmen „ Ensigns.
The subsequent portions of the magazine are of
average ability.

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE REVIEW.
What we have throughout, from first to last, re••
cognised as clearly as God's sun at the noon-day the
Oxford and Cambridge Review has only now de-
tected. We mean about the principles, or, rather,
the no-principles by which ➢lichelet is actuated in
his literary compositions. Thus speaks the organ of
the two Universities :

"At length the mask is thrown off—or more charitably,
and, we believe, more truly—at length the plant is full
grown, the germ has reached its development,—Michelet
is an avowed infidel. It will be in the remembrance of
most of our readers that at a time when religious men in
this country, even good Churchmen, were more than
half inclined to look with favour on this powerful writer,
and to see in him simply an assailant of the abuses of
Popery and the villanies of Jesuitism, we came forward
to warn them against making common cause with one
whose assaults were in truth directed against religion
itself; whose weapons, while they seemed hurled against
the mere armour in which Popery stands encased,
pierced through to the very vitals of Christianity. We
proved, chiefly by the writings of M. Edgar Quinet,
whom M. Michelet admitted to be his alter ego, that it
was the spirit of the French Revolution, the spirit of
Voltaire, Rousseau, and Condurcet, which these well-
agreed joint-writers were endeavouring to propagate.
An .l now M. Michelet has openly proclaimed that this is
indeed the case—now at last he avers that he not only
goes the same lengths with his yoke-fellow, but that he
even goes beyond him ; for the first time he sets himself
to oppose Christianity, We are glad that it has come to
this. Henceforth the influence of Michelet in our own
country will be trivial—inappreciable. Ho may continue
to sway the mind of La Jeune France, but here, among
ourselves, he will be powerless. Even in France, we
are inclined to think, his popularity will suffer by the
publication of tho present work. He had better have
remained where he was, the advocate of a vague Pan-
theism, than have declared himself, as he now has, a
Deist, a mere Voltairist. Deist, negative, precise, and
cold, can never attract men. Pantheism, positive, vague,
and glowing, has at all times a charm, and for this ge-
neration, which is struggling out of selfishness into love,
out of exclusiveness into catholicity, it must of necessity
have a most peculiar one. Michelet, with all his power,
will scarcely, we think, win men over generally from
the poetic and imaginative, to the more intellectual and
logical creed. He will find his followers, no doubt—but
we should expect a division from henceforth in the
councils of La Jeune France—a schism between the
Micheletists and the Quinetists—wherein the former,
unless we are much mistaken, will be the- minority.
Even if Quinet himself succumbs to the stronger mind
and keener intellect of his ci-devant friend and present
adversary, the school of Quinet will remain ; in a na-
tion of warm and poetic temperament Deism can never
absorb Pantheism."

-All this is correct enough, but with a ludicrous
exaggeration in regard to the importance of M. Mi-
chelet. The writer need have no fear that such a man
as Michelet will sway the mind of La Jeune France,
while such a man as the young Count de Montalem-
bert is in existence. The leadership of La Jeune
France is the natural and avowed prerogative of le jeune
homme ! Michelet writes like one whose principle of
fife is galvanism ; the divine afflatus is not for the
'fike of him; his book-shelves are the very shambles
of literature; his own works, though for a while
adorned by an ephemeral glitter will, in the end, rot
and putrify, and be forgotten like the very garbage.
The magazine sustains its character.