The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1845.

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we have taken 52 guns."
And so ends my young friend's account. The battle took
place a considerable distance above the bridge of boats
thrown across nsar Hureekee, where the Commander-in-
Chief s army is encamped, and many bodies must have been
deposited en the margins of the river, and on mud-banks in
the centre; notwithstanding which, the number which
reached the bridge is stated to have created the greatest
consternation in the minds of the Seikhs, in this their grand
army; but it is to ba hoped that the arrival of Ghoiab
Singh, who is stated to have brought 12,000 troops with
him, to be followed by about 15,000 more, with vast stores,
will induce them to make a stand whero they are, and thus
enable us to route them without, having far to go, so that it'
successful, which there can be little doubt of, we may gain
possession of supplies sufficient to find our army for a long
time, and of the 300,000 bullocks which have brought those
supplies, which would enable us to follow up the enemy and
attack him again, if he should rally to make a second stand.
Letters from camp describe the enemy's position as very
strong. The tete de pont is well constructed, and connects
the bank of the river above and below the bridge, the
enemy's batteries on the opposite bank protecting the bridge,
and giving a cross tire to their guns in the tete de pont. The
right bank of the river is also about 40 feet high, while the
left bank, where our guns must be placed, is almost on a
level with the river. The heavy guns for our army arrived
on the 3d; but it said that there is a deficiency of heavy
howitzers and mortars, and some say that a further delay
will take place to allow another seige train, on its way
from Agra, to arrive, when the attack will take place.
It is greatly to be regretted that these delays should
be necessary; for, although our troops are in the highest
spirits, and there can be no doubt as to the result
of any future encounters with the enemy in the minds
of our men and those who are in the possession of the means
of judging correctly, yet this abstaining from taking advan-
tage of our several successes, by advancing into the enemy's
country, appears so strange to the ignorant mass of the peo-
ple, that it is not possible to make them believe that the ac-
counts of victories which have for some time been promul-
gated by Government orders and our newspapers are true ;
the question being ever ready, "If our army has been victo-
rious, why does it not advance? The English generals must
be afraid to cross the Sutiej. And though they have,
perhaps, beaten some of the Seikh detachments, they are
afraid to go across and attack the grand army, which reaches
from Hurreekee to Lahore." Such is the way in which many
intelligent natives reason, and add that this was not the cus-
tom in Lord Lake's time.

FEBRUARY 20.
Again I am happy to communicate another victory
gained over the Seikhs on the 10th instant. The official
announcement is merely that we have gained a victory and
taken 66 large guns, and 100 camel swivels. From private
sources I am enabled to give you the following parti-
culars :

At 7 a.m. of the 10th, our army, under the command of
the Commander- in-Chief, approached the enemy's intrenched
position on this aide—in fact, the tete de pont in which
they had upwards of :30,000 men, and between 70 and 80
guns, most of them of large calibre, defended by a deep
ditch of six feet, and wide in proportion, with a breastwork so
contrived that six ranks could fire at the same time on an
advancing enemy I
As our force advanced, it was furiously cannonaded by the
Seikh artillery, which did considerable mischief among our
ranks. But our howitzers and heavy guns soon told among the
enemy's guns, and succeeded ere long in blowing up the
bridge of boats, and thus destroyed the communication be-
tween the beleaguered foe and his friends on the right bank.
Anticipating defeat, and that we should pursue them across
the bridge, the enemy had covered it with combustibles and
large quantities of gunpowder, in order to blow it up after
their own safe arrival on the right bank; but they reckoned
without their hosts. By the fire of our howitzers or mortars
the bridge was blown up so as to destroy it sufficiently to dis-
connect the Seikh force on this side from the right bank and
their friends there, and deprive them of all succour; but in-
stead of being moved by this to make greater and more glo-
rious efforts to conquer, the being caught is their own trap
seems to have paralysed them.
They appear, however, to have stood so long as their guns
remained in their po:,eession. About ten o'clock our infantry
advanced to the storm, and by some accounts it is stated that
they moved on sooner than was intended. The leading bri-
gade,
commanded by Brigadier Stacy, in which were her
Majesty's 10th and 53d Regiments, was momentarily checked
by a tremendous shower of round, grape, and shrapnell,
from the Seikh batteries, when the divisions under
Generals Smith and Gilbert were pushed forward, but, from
the same cause, did not make much progress, till the horse
artillery galloped to the front, and by their animated fire
checked that of the enemy ; and the ‘ehele line were not
long in penetrating the enemy's intrenchments on all sides,
and driving them from their guns at the point of the
bayonet I As I have mentioned before, the bridge had
been destroyed previous to this time, but the Seikha at-
tempted to retreat by the ford breast deep, when three
horse artillery batteries were brought up, and, as emphati-
cally stated in the account, " destroyed them all ;" and the
river is said to have been choked up with their dead bodies,
scarcely any of those who belonged to the force in the tete
de pont having been so fortunate as to escape to the other
side. An account which I have just seen says, the Seikh
intrenchments were as strong as it was possible to make
them, consisting of three consecutive ramparts, with a ditch
outside of each, which explains how six ranks could fire
upon their assailants at once. It is to be presumed that the
outer rampart was the lowest, the second a little higher,
and the inner one the highest of all. The whole of our
troops, European and native, bore themselves in the most
noble and gallant style ; and the little Goorkhas (the Nus-
seree and Sirmoor rifle corps) were the admiration of
both Europeans and our native regular battalions, and
are said "to have fought like devils." It is impossible
to conceive that men could have evinced greater bravery
than was shown by every branch of the army, during the
late momentous struggle. The enemy's defences are shown
to have been wonderfully strong—a triple rampart, with
ditch, defended by about 20,000 men and eighty guns !—and
they made a most resolute resistance from seven till past
ten o'clock, pouring into our troops an incessant fire of
great guns and musketry; and whilst our men were exposed,
without any shelter, to their murderous discharges, their
opponents were protected by their breastworks. At half-
past ten our gallant fellows got into their intrenchments,
and then began the retaliation on our part, and before noon
all the enemy's guns were in our possession, and in a brief
space afterwards not a living Seikh was to be found. The
enemy's loss is estimated at from 15,000 to 20,000 men,
the latter number being understood to constitute their
force at the the de pont, of whom scarcely any are sup-
posed to have escaped. General. Grey's division is said
to have crossed the Sutlej on the 10th, 'and the main
'body of our army was expected to cross forthwith
at Khoonda Ghent, which is the next to Ferozepore,
and the one at which General Grey's division crossed. The
rumours in camp were various, some stating that Raja
Ghoolab Singh had declared for us, and that the Governor-
General was inclined to accept the terms offered, and that
there would in consequence be no more fighting; others,
and I am of their opinion, say we shall be at Lahore about
the 21st (this day), and that it would be as impolitic as it is
opposed to the opinion of Sir Henry, to enter into any sort of
treaty with Ghoolab Singh or any of the Seikh chiefs. Th e game
which Ghoolab Singh has been playing has been a deep one.
He refused for a long time to join the Ranee, or take part in
the outrage against us. He has evaded all the entreaties of
his mistress and the soldiery to come and take the manage-
ment of the war. He thgaight it most prudent to allow things
to take their course, while lie prepared to take those mea-
sures which the march of circumstances rendered most advis-
able. In pursuance of such considerations. he got together
a large quantity of provisions, and came slowly on towards
the capital. Just as he approached it, our victory occurred
at Aliwal, where he affected to have disapproved of all the
hostile proceedings against us; and, it is said, immediately
made overtures to the Governor-General, who will not, I sin-
cerely trust, be duped by Ghoolab Singh, but proceed to take
advantage of our brilliant successes, and annex for ever the
Paulen') to our empire in the east.

THE INDIAN MAILS.
ALEXANDRIA, MARCH 20.—The Hon. East India Com-
pany's steamer Akbar, with the Bombay mail of the 3d inst.,
reached Suez en the 17th. The mails arrived at Alexandria
this day, and the English steamer Iberia, with the London
mail of the 7th, not having yet made her appearance, Cap-
tain Lyons, the Hon. East India Company's agent in Egypt,
sends on to-day the India mail to Malta, in charge of a
special messenger, by the regular French steamer which
should have sailed early this morning, but was detained until
this afternoon for this purpose.
The route raid Trieste seems, to find great favour with the
passengers from India, and the last Austriin steamer, which
left on the 18th, carried upwards of 20 of them, besides
other passengers. The Marquis of Sligo, after having been
more than five months travelling in Egypt and Syria, also
left for Trieste by the last Austrian steamer, on his way to
London.
The transit through Egypt is now entirely and exclusively
in the hands of this Government. The I'acha has tried to
obtain possession of the station-houses in the Suez desert, but
the Bombay Steam Fund, to whom they belong, strongly
object to this, and have given orders to their agents in
Egypt to demand their restitution, and to give them in
charge to a disinterested party. In case this arrangement
cannot be carried into effect, her Majesty's Consul-General
in Egypt has received orders to offer the station-houses to
the Home Government.
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-11 Z JPRIts:G TESTIMONIAL.—An amount exceeding
3001. has been subscribed as a testimonial to Spring, the pugilist.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—Yesterday, the Great
Western Railway Company commenced running an additional ex-
press train. It started tom Paddington at half-past six o'clock in
the morning, leaving Exeter in the evening, so that now a person
may leave London in the morning and return to his home by ten or
eleven o'clock in the evening, having had seven or eight hours for
the transaction of business in Exeter. The People of Exeter, of
course. receive equal accommodation.
We regret to announce the death of Edward Thomas
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Foley, Esq., of Stoke Edith Park, which event took place on Mon-
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THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL. Yesterday the Quar-
terly Court of the Governors and Friends of the Scottish Hospital
was held, at the Office of the ancient Corporation, Crane-court,
Fleet-street, to receive the report in reference to an address to the
Duke of Sutherland, on his Grace's resignation 'of the :presidency,
with the reply of the Noble Duke,' and on other business. Dr. Web-
ster in the chair. Major Adair, the secretary, read the minutes
of the previous meeting, and stated that, in conformity with
the resolution unanimously agreed to, the address (which was
beautifully written on satin, in iluminated letters) had been
presented, and that his Grace had forwarded an answer.
The Secretary read the letter. The account showed that,
during the quarter, there had been received 3691. do:ations,
3771. 12s. annual subscriptions, and that the total receipts were
1,378/. 17s. The sum of 972/. 18s. had been given away in relief, and
after paying all expenses there remained 294/. 7s. The Chairman, at
the conclusion of the proceedings, directed the attention of the Court
to the Charitable Trusts Bill, observing that some steps ought to be
adopted by them upon the subject, and that petitions were forwarded
from the Royal Hospital and other institutions upon the subject. Mr.
Nesbitt then moved, and Mr. Morris seconded, the appointment of a
committee, to act in conjunction with the president and vice-presi-
dent, for the purpose of protecting the interests of the Corporation
from the operation of the Act. The resolution was agreed to ; and it
was stated that 32 pensioners had applied for the 101. pension, the
number of vacancies being 34. The Court then separated, thanks
being voted to the Chairman.

APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—We have
the gratification to announce that the preliminaries fora matrimonial
alliance have been definitively arranged between Viscount Fielding,
eldest eon of the Earl of Denbigh, and Miss Pennant, niece of the
Enfi of Cardigan, and heiress to the Downing estates and property
in Flintahiro. The lovely bride elect is daughter of the late David
Pennant, Esq., of Downing (grandson of Thomas Pennant, the his-
torian), by the Lady Emma Bruilcnoll, sister of the present Earl of
Cardigan. Her father died In 1833, and Ler grandfather in 1841,
wiicr,•upoil t,) a larg,, fortune, she was made a
ward in Chancery The bride is exceedingly beautiful, eel will
attain her eighteenth year in August next. Her income, real and
personal, will exceed 10,6601. per anntiln. Tll6 marriage 13 appointed
to bake 14ACI) on the Bth at June,

THE MAGAZINES.
BLACKWOOD.
The manifestations lately made by the small republic
in Europe, and the great republic—the "model repub-
lic" in America—have been of more service to crowned
heads than their vast armies, and all the other safeguards
of monarchy together. In Switzerland, scenes disgrace-
ful to any Government have been exhibited year after
year, the inhabitants of one canton have been arrayed
against another without any sufficient cause, Catholics
and Protestants, plebeians and aristocrats, have been at
different times contending for the mastery. Jesuits have
been plotting against the disciples of Calvin, and a civil
war actually broke out, with much loss of life, because
Lucerne preferred a system of education which some of
its neighbours considered wicked and damnable. Great
anxiety still prevails throughout the country, and the
chizens are ready to rush to arms because there is no
head, no executive Government, which can combine the
heterogeneous elements, or control the factious and
meddling cantons. The picture furnished by the great
republic, however, completely eclipses its elder sister.
The Swiss pay their debts, they are content with their
" area" of mountains and valleys, they do not quarrel
with their neighbours, or abuse their best friends ; they
do not appeal to the first chapter of Genesis as an as-
thority for sanctioning robbery, or a settlement in any
rich country that takes their fancy ; and they do not at
the same time encourage slavery, and commit blasphemy
by offering up thanks for the blessings of freedom.
Much might have been made of the late dis-
play's in these two republics by the advocates
tor absolute monarchy, as well as limited
monarchy. But we have seen nothing worthy of
attention till we opened Blackwood this month. In that
number we find an article entitled "How they Manage
Matters in the Model Republic," which has the merit of
novelty, as well as a very fair proportion of moderation.
The writer dates his effusions from New York; and
though his strictures are severe, and his language will
sound harshly in the ears *of Whigs and Democrats, of
the representatives of the Atlantic as well as of the
Western States, they have themselves only to blame,
for he quotes from the official paper published at Wash-
ington, and condemns them by their own words. He
gives extracts from the speeches, as published in that
Government paper, and certainly displays of oratory
more disgraceful, ludicrous, and unprincipled, never ap-
peared in any reports of the proceedings of a legislative
body. The public owe a debt of gratitude to the writer
for these elegant extracts, not one-tenth part of which
have appeared in any European journal. We transcribe
one as a specimen. The speech was made by Mr.
Kennedy, a democratic representative from Indiana, one
of the insolvent States:—
" Sir,' says Mr. K., when the British lion, or any other
lion, lies down in our path, we will not travel round the world
in blood and fire, but will make him leave that lair.' . .
" After this mysterious announcement, he inquires—
"' Shall we pause in our career, or retrace our steps, be-
cause the British lion has chosen to place himself in our path ?
Has our blood already become so pale, that we should tremble
at the roar of the king of beasts? We will not go out of our
way to seek a conflict with him ; but if he cross our path, and
refuses to move at a peaceful command, he will run his nose
on the talons of the American eagle, and his blood will
spout as from a harpooned whale. The spectators who look
upon the struggle may prepare to hear a crash, as if the very
ribs of nature had broke I'
" Once more into the lion—or lioness—for it does not ap-
pear exactly which this time!
" We are one people and one country, and have one inte-
rest and one destiny, which, if we live up to, though it may
not free us to follow the British lion round the world in blood
and slaver, will end in her expulsion from this continent,
which he rests not upon but to pollute 1' "
Vhe writer thus sums up his character of the people
among whom he dwells:—" If a man wishes to form a

low idea of his species, let him spend a week or two at
Washington ; let him go amongst the little leaders of
party in that preposterous capital, watch their little
tricks, the rapacity with which they clutch the meanest
spoils, and wonder how political profligacy grows fat
upon diet so meagre and uninvitintr. He will come away
with the conviction, already indorsed, by the more re-
spectable portion of the American community, that their
Government is the most corrupt under the sun." We
have in this number a continuation of the " Student of
Salamanca," which we believe ftw read ; a good life and
history of Antonio Perez, minister and victim of
Philip 11. of Spain ; the "Crusades," founded on one of
Michaud's works, and an interesting history of the
Marquis of Wellesley's government of India. There is no
political article, but, by some legerdemain, the opinions of
the editor on the changes going on in the commercial
relations of this country, are thrust into a review of the
Mt moirs and Correspondence of the most Noble Richard
Marquis Wellesley." After stating that the abolition
of the corn-laws will throw a fourth part of the land out
of cultivation, and drive all the gold out of the country,
he thus fomtels universal ruin

"But the true conspirators see deeper. They know, that
a revolution in the food of the people is the immediate fore-
runner of a revolution in the state. From the moment
when foreign corn is admitted free of restraint, the confi-
dence of the farmer must be shaken. From the farmer, the
shock will instantly reach the landlord; his rent must be di-
minished. To one-half of the great proprietaries of the king-
dom, a diminution of rent, even by a third, would make
their possessors personally bankrupt. Their mortgages and
loans must be repaid ; and nothing would remain. The land,
lord now pays the Church. If he is ruined, the whole Church
income, independent of the small portions of glebe land, must
perish with Lim.

" Then will come the agitation for a still more daring pur-
pose. It will be asked, why must the system of English life
be artificial? Because we have twenty-eight millions ster-
ling of interest to pay, and fur this we must have taxes. But
why not sweep the national debt away, as France did in her
day of royal overthrow ? A single sitting of the Convention
settled that question ! Why not follow the example? Then
will come the desperate expedient, and all will be ruin on the
heads of the most helpless of the community; for the national
debt is only a saving bank on a larger scale, and nine-tenths
of its creditors are of the most struggling order of the empire.
Of course, we do not anticipate this frightful catastrophe
under the existing Government, nor, perhaps, under its im-
mediate successors, nor under any Government which knows
its duty. But, let the " pressure from without" be once an
acknowledged principle; let agitation be once suffered as a
legitimate instrursent of public appeal; let the clamour of
the streets be once received with the slightest respect, and
the game is begun ; property is the chase, the hounas are in
full cry, and the prey will be torn down."

BENTLEY.
The present number opens with a short narrative of
the manner in which the escape of Prince Charles
Edward was effected by Flora Macdonald after the
battle of Cullodtn. The paper, which is from the pen
of Charles Whitehead, is illustrated by a portrait of
the heroine of 1745," engraved by Freeman, from the
original portrait by Allan Ramsay. The amusing
adventures of Brian O'Linn are continued, and we have
a valuable historical sketch of the Seikhs and the Pan-
jaub, by Dr. W. C. Taylor. The account of the rise of
the power of Runjeet Singh, and of the anarchy which
followed, upon his death, in 1839, are particularly in
teresting at the present moment. D. Canter continues
his Outpourings ; and in this, his twelfth libation, gives
us his reminiscences of poor Liston. "The Mermaid,
from the Danish of H. C. Andersen, translated
by Lady Duff Gordon," is a fantastic story,
illustrated most fantastically by Leech. Alfred Crow.
quill continues the " Old Manorial Chamber," and in the
pre sent number gives us the "Reflections of a Pier-
glass,"—reflections which are

"Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull."
The article on gamint.T, gaming-houses, and gamesters
is concluded, and lUr. Albert Smith continues his " po-
pular Zoology" by an appendix on gents, and a sketch
of the zoology of the ballet-girl. The number concludes
with "Tipperary Hall, No, 3," which bids fair to rival
the " Noctes Ambiosianae." Take for a specimen the
co'.

owing :
SONG BY THE WHISKEY DRINKER.—" WHO'S FOR
A SHY AT THE SIEGE OF LAHORE, MY BOYS?"

AIR--" Paddy O'Rafferty."
have you not heard of the fighting in India, boys?
Sure 't wa§ at Moodkee a beautiful shindy, boys.
Better than hunting the fox from his cozy shave
Was hunting the Seikhs from their camp at Ferozeshah,
At Alival, too, we complately astonish'd 'em,
Over the water we eoax'd and admonish'd 'em.
Though bullets Ay fast as bad eggs at the pillory—
() we arc the boys that can spike their artillery !
Chorus.

Come to the Sutlej, where loud the guns roar, my boys!
Come ere the fun and the fighting 's all o'er, my boys
Come where there 's honour and plunder galore, my boys;
0 ! who's for a shy at the siege of Lahcre, my boys ?

llardinge 's a hero ; bowld Gough is another, boys,
Don't they call Napier " the diva's own brother," boys ?
Ne'er in the East such a gallant commander was
Since on the Indus the Great Alexander was.
Under Sir Harry Smith foes we could thump any;
Who'll save the Queen and the East India Company?
Shew t hem our soldiers the right sort of men are all;
Fight for the Crown, and the Governor-General.
Chorus.
Come to the Sutlej, &c.

Rid the Ranee of her Punts and her Punches, boys !
Serve them a mouthful of lead for their lunches, boys!
Down at their river we will not stay long, my boys !
Smash into smith'reens their fine tete du gong, my boys.
81.oud the guns roar, my boys !
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e fighting's all o'er, my boys!
plunder galore, my boys !
Try the could steel, and push on with the bayonet !
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Their camps and their camels, their cash and their capital.
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TAIT'S MAGAZINE.
The article on " The Life and Correspondence of
David Hume," which is concluded in this number, forms
the most interesting feature in the magazine. It is a
topic suited to all tastes. Hume is well known to all
classes, either from bis history or essays, and though he
has given great offence both to the political and religious
world, there is still so moth to
admire it his works, as
well as in the whole tenour of his life, that no culprit
ever found so many persons ready to forgive him. He
never brings forward his peculiar opinions merely for
display, like Gibbon, and others of that class, whose ob-
ject see ms rather to be to offend public feeling than to ar-
rive at the truth, and who delighted in turning into ridicule
pruicip
• ' les of belief calculated to console the mind in the
deepest distress, and raise the thoughts of frail mortals
to another and a better state of existence. If Hume at
any time offends in this respect, he appears to be only
following out those philosophical disquisitions on which
his genius was bent from his youth, and endeavouring
to establish theories which his reasoning faculties led
him to believe were just. The review of his works by
Mr. Barton does him full justice in this respect, and
altogether is, perhaps, the best account not only of the
life of this wonderful man, but of his varied and able
works. Judging from some of his writings, he was one of
the soundest thinkers on the principles of commerce, and
had he direct"d his qttention wore to the subject might
have far surpassed his contemporary and intimate friend
Adam Smith, in his work on the " Wealth of Nations."
We are not aware of any part of that standard produc-
tion where the evils of monopoly and the blessings of

- free trade are painted out 'with such force as in the fol-
lowing brief extract:—" Nationcl exclusiveness in trade
is as foolish as it is wicked ; no nation could profit itself
by stopping the natural flood of commerce between
itself and the rest of the world ; commercial restrictions
deprive the nations of the earth of that free communi-
cation and exchange, which the Creator of the world
has intended, by giving them soils, climates, and geniuses
so different from each other ; aud like the free circula-
tion of the blood in living bodies, free trade is the vital
principle by which the nations of the earth are to become
united in one harmonious whole." It would be impos-
sible to say as much for the principle for which he con-
tends in fewer words. "Antonio Perez and Philip Llie
Second" contains a vivid picture of Spain during the
reign of that cold-blooded tyrant, to whom we owe
chiefly the horrible cruelties that disgraced England
during the reign of Queen Mary. Wu may refer the
reader also to the brief article on Scottish entails, in
which the injustice and absurdity of the system are fully
exposed. The "Politics of the Month" exhibits little
novelty, and is deficient in that vigour and boldness
usually displayed. The following contrast, however, is
well drawn :

" The great curse under which cur agriculture has hereto-
fore laboured, the want of that organization, anti rapid cir-
culation of ideas, by which one mind influences others, and
improvements are suggested, considered, and put in execu-
tion with promptness and decision. The agricultural mind of
England is a sluggish cloddy mass. To excite it to energy
and activity would havo seemed utterly hopeless, without
some such disturbance of all its elements as we are now
about to experience. The manufacturer looks around among
his neighbours to mark every improvement that can save a
farthing per cent. on his outlay—he looks abroad over all the
earth to find out any nation that will give him a farthing
more than its neighbour for his completed fabric. The agt
culturist has his eyes buried in the cod he treads. He leaves
inventions and markets to other people. lie desires states-
men, who know that world of which he is so ignorant, to pro-
tect him, in God's name, a poor peasant, and let him till the
earth, as his father and grandfather did before him ; using
htliisehsaanmaes
or a windmill,
withf
people will require no more food in the present century than
fifteen in the last."

as he drops to the ground, which guinea he declares he
has found), intending to rescue him from Blast and place
him at school. In the mean time it is announced that
the candidate opposed to St. James has withdrawn, and
the young noble attends at the town hall, imagining
that he is to walk over the course for the borough of
Liquorish. Not so, however, had determined Ebenezer
Snipeton the old usurer, the husband of Clarissa. He
at the eleventh hour proposes Mathew Capstick, Esq.,
of the Tub, (our old friend the muffin-maker), as a
fit and proper person to represent the borough of
Liquorish in Parliament ; and, as Snipeton was pos-
sessed of that necessary article in borough elections—
gold--of which Blast had deprived Tangle, Capstick of
course becomes the member for Liquorish, and just as
he was declared duly elected the Rev. Dr. Gilead
announces the lost box of guineas had been found con-
cealed in one of his fish-ponds. The present portion of
the novel concludes with the chairing of Capstick. We
have devoted so much space to our old friends St. Giles
and St. James, and Capstick, that we must content our-
selves with observing that the other papers in the pre-
sent number are good, and fully sustain tLe high cha-
racter of the magazine. We cannot, however, resist
quoting the following admirable apology for philan-
thropic literature, from a paper entitled " Our Village
as it ought to be :"
"Bete we may just put in a word in reply to a charge
which we have heard preferred against our modern philan-
thropic literature—that it would make social improvements
a substitute for religion. This is not true; but we would
measure the depth of religion by the extent of its benevolent
operation; we could conceive of it as not merely a shut-up
doctrine, but as a spirit, with life and love, raising and re-
fining all life and practice. 'We propose social improvements
as instruments to be swayed by such a spirit, and, with re-
gard to that form of religion which refuses to employ them"
we say it may be very comfortable for an individual who is
satisfied with it; but it is not the religion required in order
to realise even ' Our Village as it ought to be.'"

THE UNION.
This is a good number of The Union. The opening
article, a " Comparative View of the Rise and Pro-
gress of Liberty in England and France," is an admir-
able specimen of the philosophy of history. We look
for its continuance with much interest. " Late for
Lectures," is a good sketch. " Young Oxford and
the Fair Maid of Meath," which is illustrated by Phiz,
is an amusing legend of the " ould Ireland." The
Review of Leigh Hunt's Stories from the Italian
Poets" is admirably written, and we are delighted to
see the reviewer take up the cudgels in behalf of Dante
against the namby-pamby sentimentalism of Leigli
Hunt, who,

" Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,"
would fain,

" Damn with faint praise"

the glorious old Florentine. We cannot, however, agree
with the reviewer in his depreciating estimate of the
" Gerusalemme" of Tasso. Notwithstanding the dictum
of Boileau, we cannot but confess that we prefer—
" Tout le clinquant du Tasse a tout l'or de Virgile,"

seeing that this much lauded Virgilian gold is about as
genuine as German silver. The concluding article, en-
titled " The Holy Coat and German Catholicism," is a
history of the most remarkable intellectual movement of
the last two centuries—the new German reformation.
Much misapprehension exists as to the tenets of Ronge
and the German Catholic Church, and as both have been
purposely misrepresented, it may not be, perhaps, out of
place to give the following short extract, showing what
those tenets really are :
" The great principle announced by the German Catholic
Church is that of 'freedom of opinion and the right of pri-
vate judgment.' The proximate cause;as has been seen, of
this announcement now, is a flagrant outrage by the Roman
Church on Common sense and common decency, from which
men, who could exercise private judgment, and whose power
of forming opinion was not annihilated, revolted so utterly
that even a tacit acquiescence in the monstrous claims
asserted by the Church could no longer be enforced.
"One great doctrine which German Anti- Romanist Theology
teachers profess, and to which the new body of noncon-
formists hold, is, that theology as a science is, like others,
subject to improvement, and must yield to change; and,
further, that religious forms are not independent of the state
of society and progress of civilisation."

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.

Whilst thousands have been expended in the endea-
yours to discover a north-west passage to India, which,
like Gratiano's reason, when you have found it is not
worth the search, the valuable Indian islands, Borneo
and Celebes have been entirely neglected ; sad at the
present moment we are actually better acquainted with
the geography of the uninhabited and uninhabitable Mel-
ville Island than we are with that of the largest and
most fertile island in the world, which is situated in the
midst of the Indian seas, the Island of Borneo.
We are delighted to find, however, that public attention
is becoming gradually awakened to the importance of
this fine island, and the country is indebted to Captain
Keppel and Mr. Brooke--to the former for his interesting
narrative of the recent expedition of the I)ido to that
island for the suppression of piracy, and to the latter for
his philantrophic endeavours to introduce amongst the
inhabitants the two main elements of civilization, Chris-
tianity and commerce. The opening article of the Dublin
University Magazine for the present month is devoted to a
review of that portion of Captain Keppel's work, which
relates to the labours of Mr. Brooke. Those labours have
been crowned with great and deserved success. Piracy has
been suppressed, and the " Son of Europe," as the natives
call Mr. Brooke, is now Raja, Prince, and feudal proprietor
of a considerable portion of the country, and is the
agent of Great Britain in his adopted home. The fol-
lowing description will give some idea of the importance
of Borneo in a commercial point of view :
" The soil of this island is one of the most fertile in the
world, producing rice and sago of the best description, nut-
megs, and every kind of spice; it has also camphor of the
first quality. Antimony is one of its staple commodities;
and it possesses iron, lead, gold, diamonds, and—more valu-
able still—coal. The climate, though near the line, is, like
that of Ceylon, temperate; and Captain Keppel reports it as
healthy."

We have a third paper on the " Insurrections and In-
surgents of Italy," bringing down the history of the
struggles for Italian freedom to 1831. " Glinting of
the Shannon," the third of the series on Irish rivers,
gives us some waphic pen and ink Sketches of the pic-
turesque scenery of that most magnificent river, and
this paper is followed by some pleasant recollections of
the Burschenshaft of Germany, The concluding ar-
ticle is a review of Mr. Butt's book, entitled, " Protec-
tion to Home Industry," in which all the old exploded
fallacies of the protectionists are reproduced, as if they
were new discoveries, and of course lauded to the skies,

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would recommend the entrepreneur to be tot a tog_
more cautious in her selection. Informatiow might be
easily combined with fiction—they might aliernatsezmh
other, and lend a new variety to the publica::., ;
SI2IIIIIONDS'S,COLONIAL.
Charles klooton, we perceive, has joined the corps or;
this Magazine ; his very first contribution proves that
he will be an acquisition. Though some may la-member
his " Rides, Rambles, and Sketches in Texas," alien
they appeared some years back in Tait, they will not
regret a reliewal of that acquaintance. " Arctic and
Antarctic Discoveries" is a valuable paper ; it is replete
with facts, newly arranged and accompanied with sen-
sible comments. The " Tale of Australia" advances
both in extent, interest, and ability ; so also do the
" Reminiscences of the Island of Cuba." " Emigration
and Colonisation" is deserving of serious consideration;
but so indeed is the entire number, which is good in
more than one particular.