The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-05 00:00:00

A TOAST.

" Come ! a health ! and it's not to be slighted with sips,
A cold pulse, or a spirit supine;
All the blood in my heart seems to rush to my lips,
To commingle its flow with the wine !
Bring a cup, of the purest and solidest ware,.
But a little antique in its shape ;
And the juice it shall be the most racy and rare,
All the bloom with the age of the grape !
Even such is the love I would celebrate now,
At once young, and mature, and in prime,—
Like the tree of the orange that bears on its bough
The bud, blossom, and fruit at one time !
Then with three, as is due, let the honours be paid,
Whilst I give with my hand, heart, and head;—
Here's to her, the fond mother, dear partner, kind friend,
Who first taught me to love, woo, and wed !' "
There are some excellent papers in this number of
Fraser. The " Review of Macaulay's History of
England" is admirable, and some of the schemes pro-
pounded
in the "Loose Leaves from the Note-book of
a Schumer" are not unworthy of consideration. His
proposed scheme of colonisation seems perfectly
feasible ' • it turns entirely on the construction of
roads. The territory proposed to be colonised is to
be surveyed, and a complete system of main roads
laid down. The emigrants are to be employed in the
construction of these roads ; they will be fed, clothed,
and their children instructed ; their money wages will
be 10s. per week, and they will be' required to bind
themselves to serve until such time" as they shrill have
repaid their passage money, or until that sum shall
have been paid down for them by colonists willing to
engage their services for a term of years. Thus,
when there was a great demand for labour in the
colony men would be drafted from the roads, and their
passage money having been refunded, Government
would be enabled to' send out fresh emigrants from
the mother country. In like manner road-making in
the colonies might go on more' or less briskly as the
demand for labour at home fell.or rose. " If," says the
writer, " the Government would do this it might
immediately refuse every form of assistance, to the
able.bodied bibotirer at home, and save at once all ex-
penditure on him ; and it might proceed to put down
vagrancy with a high anclsfirm hand." The lover of
field sports will read with greatgusto, " Snow Pictures
by Lieut. Michael South." This paper is a lively narra-
tive of a month's adventures among the snows in•the
backwoods of Canada,during the Winter of 1846,
hunting moose deer. tis as interesting 'as Robinson
Crusoe. " The Swedenborgian" is a novel "of core-
troversial disvinity—good Of its kind, but the kind
itself is detestable. We have then an admiiably
written paper on " New Zealand, and its Recent Pr-o-
gress under Governor grey," who, by a rare combi-
nation of heroism and patience, has rescued that fine
colony from the destruction which seemed to threaten
it in consequence of the impolicy and injustice of '
Governor Fitzroy, "whose appointment," observes"
this writer, "to an office •requiring qualities the re-
verse of all with which he appears in his • pfiblie
correspondence and conduct 0 have been endowed
is perfectly unaccountable." Would be per-
fectly unaccountable, we' are inclined , add,
were it not • borne in mind that at the
time the appointment took _place Lord Stanley
was Colonial Secretary. There, is a passagein this
paper to which we would fain direct- the attention •or
the subscribers to the Church Missionary:Society, a
society in 'favour of which some prejudice' !night'
naturally be supposed to exist on the 'part of the con-,
ductors of such a magazine as Fraser's, but- truth
compels them to say—
me membersimprudently
yielded
ttiourthe hof e
WeEn rde tMissionary
t bbody
s
temptations of their position by exercising an improper'
influence over the natives. One reverend gentleman
claimed 9,276 acres of land, under seven different con-
tracts. The commissioners appointed for deciding.on the
justice of these transactions very properly reduced the'
amount to 3,638 acres.
" These culpable transactions have been but faintly
condemned by the'parent society. They cannot be ex-
cused by the natural desire of making a provision for
the large and healthy families with which God has
blessed them in the climate of New Zealand ;' nor can
they be defended on the pretext of ' encouraging the
natives to cultivate land atter a better method, and of
establishing for their instruction exemplary little COM •
munities.' _ . .

" The language of the Colonial Secretary is more
appropriate : • I would not hesitate,' ho writes, ' to
dispossess the whole body of the missionaries of the pro-
perty which they have acquired in this manner, if the
law would enable me to proceed to so extreme a mea-
sure. For the sake of our national character and of our
common faith, I contemplate with deep regret the use
which has been thus made of an influence which ought
to hare been devoted exclusiveiy to the highest and most
steered objects.'
It. is the duty of the managing body of the Church
Missionary Society* to institute a §earchiag inquiry
into this case, and (unless that society is intended for
the future to be merely a land-jobbing scheme) to dis-
miss with ignerniny from their service all those who
have acquired property in this manner, and made this
use of au influence " which ought to havebeen devoted
exclusively to the highest and most sacred objects."
The writer of this article also feels compelled
to admit that the conduct of Bishop Selwyn cannot
be defended. • In that opinon- we agree with him ;
but such conduct might have been expected, and when,
some seven years since, the proposition of appointing'
colonial -bishops' was' first mooted we strenuously'
oOposed the - scheme, and as one of our reasons for
such opposition we stated; by anticipation the very case
of Bishop Selwyn and the NeW Zealand authorities.
The case of Bishop Selwyn, 'however, will not; it" is
hoped, be without its effect on the Government. We
hope we shall hear no more of any colonial episcopal
appointments. The expense is enormous, and the
office is useless ; an' infant colony has about as much,
need of a. bishop as it has of an opera.-house-; it is' not
until population has increased and cities and cburches
have been built, and there is a body of resident clergy
permanently located each in his own district, that
episcopal superintendence can become necessary,
and such is not likely to be the case in any of
our Oceanic colonies for half a century at least.
Besides a variety. of excellent light reading, we
have as usual the current history of the month and a
retrospect of the past, and programme for the future of
Fraser's Magazine.

• , -MIRROR.
The first article in the'llfirror is entitled " The
President of the Young' Republic," and is an indig-
ntremonsttorance
Lamartine,wit
hthaenpde(c)palevaoigf Fvtrea,ncoe.4°Learnfor their
ingratitude
Rollin, to whom theyi have' -preferred "a' young in
Iriguing adventnrer," who has " enjoyed the support
,of such individuals. as Emile de Girardin ,and M.
Thiers, which ought alone to have eXclUded him rrOM
the confidence of his country, since a cause supported
by such agency must be bad." The ingratitude with
which Lamarthie and Cavaignac have beeir treated is
worthy of every reprobation, but ere' long France will
-recover her senses, when she will do Justice 'to
tier truly eminent • Men', and visit With
'condign punishinent, the Emile de G-irardins, ' the
drainer de Gassaignaes,'et hop genus omne, who ha've
fpr 4' time misled her. "Wbo s thato l‘noeiting et
the Door" ikan essay, moral,pelifical, philanthropical,
and philosophical, on the various persons who knock
at, the door during the course of the day... The
sketches of character are admirable. The lucifer=
thatch man, the traveller on commission, the can.
vasaer, the rate-collector, the scheifler, ' the 'borrower'
the governess; arndescribed in the true La Briiyere
spirit. Mr., Percy St: John` commences a new
manCe; entitled:" AdientUres of a" French Itiptib-.
licia.": His opening ',chapter
,presents, us with '
exact portraiture, for the 'accuracy of which we can
vouch froni our own persenal knowledge, of
the French capital in the month
.of July, 1830, just
before the " three glorious days," when the parti-
pretre, strong in the protection of that infatuated old
bigot -Charles X., and belieVing that Heaven itself
would work miracles, if such.were required, in sup'.
port 'a Polignac and the Jesuits, were' boasting
everywhere that in three weeks the King would reign
and govern; and that the Members of the 'Chamfer of
Deputies h
tietse? we
whoou wouldld.b pay ri
be imprisoned hi"'Vincendea, all
except unexpected
visit ''to
the colonies, and When the Liberals of all 'shade's we're
silently preparing ,for the ppn4st
.with
.arbitrary
power, which all parties felt must soon inevitably
The hero
occur, . and the advent of . which, all par-
talesY ouwnegreouhoiaseteenthineg.,
daughter of an
desirousvrier the ohter
old noble; the hero is a Carbonaro, the father
i)f the herOine an intimate associate of the Prince
Polignac. The brother of the heroine also in love
with the sister of the ;So that we already hive
materials, in the first chapter, kor a Most interesting
story. Hargrave jenpings gives us a paper on
"Pantomimes," which woUld ,havq delighted the
heart of ,Charles Lamb; and -W. H. Maxwell gives
, us an Irish story, " kitty. Comiurie Wake '"*told as he
only can tell, such stories. From a biographical sketch
of Pope Pius IX. we extract the following curious
anecdote of the infancy of Mastai• Ferretti:—
" The credit attached to miracles by the Present bblde'r
of the Holy. See has excited astonishment; and it may
be remembered that no small ridicule, as welfas-sur-
prise, was Caused by his implicitlelief in the miractildlis
sure which Mother Mmirina, the abbess of Minsk, was
said to have effected On the young Frenchman, Baupin.
The brutality of which that holy lady wits the victim at
the bands of the Czar. Nicholas, or his still mere barba-
tons satellites, doubtless excited a deep sympathy in the
breast of Pius IX., as, even beyond the pale of the
Roman Church, •it aroused indignation thronghout

. _.*,Coirespoudenee on. the AffaArs of New Zealand,
page .48. - • . „ ;