The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-07 00:00:00

THE MIRROR.

Mr. Percy St. John finishes his vindication of the
character of Robespierre in the Mirror for this month.
It is an ingenious piece of special pleading, nothing
'tore, as throughout Mr. St. John takes for granted
all the matters in dispute, without tendering one
%tom of proof in support of his assumptions. St. Just
and Robespierre are mutually the compurgators of
each other's character; St. Just is called to prove
that Robespierre was the mildest, the most humane,
?aid the most religious of men; while Robespierre, in
his turn, is called to prove that St. Just was the most
;upright of human beings. Certainly Mr. St. John
has not succeeded in his attempt at whitewashing the
characters of the victims of the 9th Thermidor. We
iatave in this number a continuation of the " Biogra-
PnriictainSketches of the Kings of England ;" a well-
Wte paper on " Communism and Socialism ;"
slashing review of Maxwell's pamphlet on Ireland ;
and several other articles of merit.

TAE NEW MONTHLY BELLE ASSEMBLEE.
Edited by Mrs. Newton Crosland, late Camilla
The legend of "Bleeding Heart-yard," by Dr.
Shelton Mackenzie, with which this number opens, it
Just the sort of tale to be told over a sea coal fire of a
"fflutetes evening. It is admirably wrought up by Dr.

Mackenzie, who narrates this legend of diablerie with
all the gusto of a true believer. There is also in the
present number a graceful notice of that true poet of
the people, Robert Nicol, and the commencement of a
translation by the fair editress herself, of Alfred
de.s Essart's novel of " A zzoli the Goat-herd." In addi-
tion to the fashions, this number is illustratel by a
beautiful engraving by Austin of Hayter's fancy
portrait of Julia Mannering, and by a well-executed
wood-cut of Thaxted church.

A DESCRIPTIVE ATLAS of ASTRONOMY
and of PHYSICAL and POLITICAL GEO-
GRAPHY; with Descriptive Letter press. By the
Rev. Thomas Milner, M.A. Part V.
This, the fifth part of this valuable work, contains
a beautifully engraved and accurate map of the
British Islands, and a hydrographical map of the
world. The description of the sidereal heavens is
completed in this part, and that of the physical
geography of the earth commenced.

GA VARNA IN Lul‘ DUN. Putt VI.
' The Coulisses," by Shirley Brookes, and "The
Barrm:id," by Stirling Coyne, are the subjects illus-
rated by the pencil of Gavarni this month ; NT-aux-
in v.as promised, and albeit Albert Smith furrdsl:ei
e description, the sketch by Gavarni is postponed
in xt month, and instead we have a sketch of a
masquerade group.

SIMMOIVDS'S COLONIAL.
We strongly recommend the attentive perusal of
the article on Vancouver's Island in this magezine to
all those (if any such there be) who entertain any
doubt as to the crass ignorance, combined with love
of jobbing, which characterises those to whose bands
are unfertunately entrusted the destinies of the Co-
lonial Empire of Great Britain.

THE MAN IN THE MOON.
We regret to see an announcement that the folding
sheet of wood-cuts, which has hitherto been a prin-
cipal feature of the Man in the Moon, is to be discon-
tinued. This number is full of fun, pun, and juke.
As a specimen we give a
" TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
" A meeting was summoned the other day to take
place at the City of London Tavern, with the view of
presenting Mr. Urquhart with a splendid Britannia
metal tea-pot, and Mr. Chisholm Anstey with a superb
copper coal scuttle, as testimonials of gratitude for their
exertions during the session, now happily concluding.
" At the appointed hour the two gi.-ntlemen arrived,
and after waiting in vain for somebody else to come,
proceeded to business.
" Mr. Urquhart moved that Mr. Anstey do take the
chair.
" Mr. C. Anstey then explained to Mr. Urquhart the
object of the meeting.
"Mr. Urquhart, in a speech of three hours' duration,
presented Mr. Anstey with the copper coal scuttle.
" Mr. C. Anstey returned thanks.
" The waiter was here ordered out of the room for
laughing.
Mr. C. Anstey then, in a speech of four hours' du-
ration, presented Mr. Urquhart with the Britannia metal
tea pot.
" Mr. Urquhart returned thanks.
" The business being thus concluded, the meeting
went away in a cab."