The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-04 00:00:00

SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE.

Instead of being deteriorated by any preposterous
fragments of verse, we find the February Number of
Sintmonds's Colonial peculiarly characterised by the
excellence of its prose articles. The editor has looked
up his contributors through a clearer speculum than
in the preceding number. The magazine no longer
contains anything in direct violation of all the prin •
ciples of good taste in literature. " Life in the
Jungle," and the " Sketch of an Australian Convict,"
are amongst the most meritorious papers ; and the
Colonial Intelligence is grouped together with the
imps' amount of care and discr►mination.

7HE SPORTING REVIEW.
With a couple of clever engravings, the " Otter,"
and " Who's up for the Rescue ?" the Sporting Re-
riew has its average number of sprightly and amusing
articles. The old band of contributors, including
Craven, Scribble, Harry Hieover, Cecil, and
Ozonian, remains undiminished, and that is a gua-
rantee that the magazine is in no measure deficient
in talent, or drollery, or sound and useful informa-
tion upon sporting matters.

THE MAN IN THE MOON: Edited by Albert

Smith and Ang;s73.Reach.
This, the second number of "The Man in the
Moon," is a glorious sixpennyworth of fun. As a
sample, take
" ANOTHER WRETCHED RIDDLE.
4, Why is a surgeon, since the mother discovery, like s
swindler ?

"Because he cuts off without payile (Pain). ,
" N.B. We are convinced that our readers wont stand
many more or these."
The illustrations, too, are excellent. " The Foreign
Gentleman in London; or, the English Adventur,e,s of
M. Vanilla" engraved by the celebrated " Cham of
the "Charivari," is worth snore than is charged for
the whole number

KNIGHT'S WEEKLY VOLUME• No. CLX•
BRITISH WORTHIES. Vol. X.
We have so repeatedly noticed this periodical on
its original publication as " Old England's Worthies,"
that nothing remains for us to observe saving that the
reprint is clear, and of a more convenient size, than
in the former appearance of the biographies.

upon religious subjects,
THE ECLECTIC BE VIE IE
The proportion of articles for February is—three
Each of
those articles has an importance and an excellence of
its own, but, to our thinking, the most importan ted to
t and
the most excellent of them all is the last,
devo
and five otherwise.
a consideration of the "Characteristics of Crime." It
is suggested by the volumes lately written by Alex-
ander Dumas and Aurelius Ritter Von Fenerbach.
Highlands,"
Despite the repulsiveness of the theme, the reviewer
Border," are
has penned his observations with so much grace, and
has illustrated his criticism by so many felicitous
sagacious ideas, that it possesses a considerable '
degree of fascination. "Lunacy
.Relieved by Musi-
cal Exercise" is clever and curious. We are glad
to find the reviewer dissenting from that rash decla-
ration
of Thomas Moore's, that " music is not an in-
tellectualand‘,Th ething.
agreeable and entertaining chapters upon Neu.
Y and
field exercises. " The Fawn of Sertori 19
uus, the
" Preadamite Barth," and the "Correspondence of
John, fourth Duke of Bedford," are admirable • •
" Minstrelsy
o
criti-
cal articles.
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LONDON ALMANACS.
specimens of cheap but lavish
almanack. is not the least
of the peculiar sports of England,
illustration,
striking. Besides a variety of minor embellishments—
astronomical, ornithological, and botanical—there are
THEuAstmr
ao/tnLigoLnt,Uh
et:
iThsußnibAcearTuoLthi'?Dui
Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Persia, Africa,
India, South America, North. America, Norway, and
twelve enravina
Switzrland, namely, of hunting the stag,
the otter, the
fox, the wolf, ;the wild boar, the wild ass, the lion, the
tiger, the wild horse,, the buffalo, the bear, and the
„ .
chamois. The animation of these woodcuts is really ad-
mirable, and the graver and the pencil have been equally
well handled in their production. In addition to what
we have already mentioned, there are twelve historical
,ketches of various merit, some of them being worthy of
the high advancement of the art of engraving.
Whether
we examine it as a meteorological, or an utronomical or
an agricultural, or a mercantile alnianack, we find each :le-
partment elaborately drawn up, and with a large supply
of miscellaneous information, the publication presents a
very useful and interesting appearance.

n POISONING.--Last night, information
. reached the
poic-loSffiticelN
•astnrdeetf,amweirYe suffering from the
lO
of
ffering & man named
been employed to carry coals
Docherty, residingtGh. tlit
effects of poison, and, 1 ' consequence, medical aid was sent
to them; but they are still not out of danger. According to
into a house, the locality of which he will not tell, and in the
cellar he found a quantity of
oatmeal, Which he carried
away
—athinnes
i i ii
gwf e h
with him. This was made into cakes yesterday, and Docherty's own account, he had
imme-
diately after the family had partaken of them, they became
seriously ill, the presumption being, if the man's account be
correct, that the meal had been mixed with arsenic, for the
purpose of destroying vermin. Docherty, who did not him-
self partake of the cakes, has, in the meantime, been taken
into cuatody.—Glasgov; Herald of Monday.