The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-01 00:00:00

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MORNING "maims!,

4tt!binne, he seemed to think I was ecserving i!st
w t!lit the last time I was at his house, 1 mentioned something
),otit.Count Woronz4, and he fancied 1 had been sent by
orf,nzof to communicate it. Yet there was about him a
middeal of sympa,hy, (it. intelligent sympathy: a curi,us
re too, of what as natural and what waq factitious. lie
a
la sort of systematic plan for gaining people. I was quite
surprised to find the interest he had shown towards me. The
tartieulirs did not immedirtely occur to my thoughts, nor did
I immediately gather up the threads of them till long after-
wards. He had many projects for marrying me to ladies of his
attlustintance.
Bentham relates several anecdotes of the
younger Pitt, all which prove that he was a man of
cold, stern temperament, and impenetrable re-
serve. How different from his great rival, Fox,
the most social, affable, and kindly of beings !
fro Rhymes for the Corn Kings " are, we presume,
m the pen of Ebenezer Elliott. They are not
m hishappiest manner. The truth is, he has
Worn the subject threadbare. " Tories, Whigs,
and the Law of Libel" is a fierce assault on Mi-
nisters for their recent Chartist prosecutions.
law
writer observes, " the Whigs inherited the
4w of libel from the Tories; they have carefully
Preserved it, and rendered it snore stringent ; and
when they are turned out of office, as they soon
Must be, they will restore to the Tories their ori-
ginal instrument of torture for political offen-
ders, much improved fur their purposes." This
rumnark has some truth for its basis, but it is too
munch exaggerated.

MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
This periodical would be far more popular
tt'au it is, were it not for the frequency of its
essaysl. on subjects so vague and mystical, as to
7eeP the reader in a constant state of perplexity.
the present Number, for instance, we find an
article entitled ".Foreign Aids to Self-Intelli-
gence, designed for an Historical Introduction
to the Study of Ontological Science,
preparatory
,
a Critique of Pure Being." We have read
thist article with some attention, but candidly
;rifess that we can make little or nothing of it.
There is, here and there, some acute reasoning
there
it, but sense is so mixed up with jargon, and
,lere is such an obvious want of a lucid arrange-
ment of ideas throughout it, that we are com-
pelled to abandon in despair the task of getting
?lbe writer's meaning. "On the Date of the
ti?.trOduction of. Painted Glass," informs us—and
,11s is its only merit—that the " use of painted
glass. for the ornament of churches was estab-
eshed in the fifth century," which is a much
earlier date than we,should have thought of as-
-I:ghtling to this o: amental experiment. The
"iPlomacy of. Society" is an ingenious es-
ay, not wanting in a certain free and
sY play of arch humour. " English Wits" is
li
l'zi.enioir of Congreve, accompanied by a brief
I,`l.'tieisni on the works of this witty comic dra-
sitiStt WllO still continues to charm us, de-
iNte the clumsiness of their plots, and the gler-
-11,7 itaprobabilitv of all their chief personages.
dan le Critic is right when he observes that Sheri-
was a close imitator of Congreve. Had the
other
never written the " Double Dealer," the
would never have written " The School for
Sandal." On the " Christ Rejected, of West,"
a
so graceful poem by the Rev. Robert Oxlad—a
?Inewhat unmusical name for a singing bird of
efiltassus. " Leaves from the Fragment of a
-`e" is a prose tale of average merit.

TEE POLYTECHNIC JOURNAL.
orl:ne first article of F. Winslow, Esq., " Author
the Anatomy of Suicide," &c., contains some
„flgular facts, illustrating the wonderful changes
;(11.°duced on the animal frame by cold. Indeed,
singular are they, that but for the respectable
tCiles by which they are attested, we should
e classed them with the tales and lies of the
tinchausen school ; and, notwithstanding the
authorities we believe many readers will still be
se
ore)tical, so contrary are many of them to the
ionary laws of nature. In short the treatise is
snoteresting, not only in this respect, but for the
11,11_11(1 practical advice it affords to persons who,
necessity or choice, remove from one tem-
perature to another. " The popular practice,"
;7s
it he writer, " of waiting till a degree of cool-
oress leas taken place before quitting a hot room,
th before going into a cold bath, is dangerous in
Per extreme. It is questionable whether any
1:1.8,0n ever received an injury from cold after
efnng a heated assembly, if he left while he
4i-iltinued warm, and either by exercise in the
r) or by a warm covering, kept up that warmth
8,1)111e degree till lie arrived at home." On the
datnority of Dr. Currie, nothing can be more
1,, ingert.us for persons in a state of perspiration,
tl° \vial t) bathe, than waiting on the edge of
,ile bath, or at the water side till they are per-
`47 tll- cooled. They ought to plunge in at once, to
klld sudden chillness, often of the most dange-
r,tis character. The following are a few of the
Iti
,001,t remarkable instances given of the effect of
Bomare affirms that on the Andes there
r()e found some of the bodies of the first ccuque-
pars of South America, arrested by cold on their
,„,!Sage. to Peru in quest of gold. They are still
,78,erved with all they carried with them, and
a ..,tne various attitudes in which they were frozen
surprised by death some 300 years ago.
Et„altk 'Walton, on the authority of Gesner, gives
a- account of some large breams being put into
thPond which was frozen next winter into one
they
of ice, so that not one could be found, yet
ksel Were all swimming about in spring as lively
w.'lver• Captain Franklin saw a carp leap about
til,lll great vigour after it had been frozen for
,)41.tYsix hours, with others that had been split
Piwith a hatchet like a piece of wood. And,
peie°lling to Gangin, quoted by Fletcher in his
dilYsiology, there is a people in Moscovy who
l: every year, about the 27th of November, and
ie not restored to life till towards the end of April !
Neire is a curious article also on the duration of
PAat in the United Kingdom, from which it ap-
and lrS) that in the northern districts of England
in Scotland, there is coal sufficient to supply
e current annual draught for a period of 1,727
Years,,i: independent of the vast beds in Wales,
4eh would supply all England for 2,000 years
h, e• The present generation may, therefore,
C,L satisfied that they shall have coal fires at
e4st for the duration of their lives.