The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-02 00:00:00

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PORTSMOUTH, Nov. I.—Wind N.E. to N.—Sid. Pio
Nono, Nleyden, Vulparai,o.
COWES, Nov. I.—Wind N.—Arrd. Sience, Howland.
St. Mary, United States.
BrisT,,l„ Nov. I.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Countess of
Durham, Quebec. Sid. Pomona, Watkins, Trinidad
OFF PLYMOUTH, Nov. I.—Davenport, MlCenzie,
Quebec for Hull.
GLOUCESTER, Nov. I.—Arrd. Nicaragua, Quebec.
CORK, OCT. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Averon, Cro-
tena, New York; Pageant, Darkins, New York.
BELFAST, OCT. 31. —Wind N.E.—Arrd. 29th, Sir
Colin Campbell, Campbell, Quebec; 30th, Jeune Adele,
Luco, Paimbceuf.
FALMOUTH, Nov. I.—The Norma, late Rikkers, from
Laguna, was towed in here to-day, with loss of boats.
bulwarks, stanchions, yards. sails, &c., has experienced
a hurricane on the 24th of September, in let. 46 N., lon.
51 %V., during which the master and four men were
washed overboard.

MARKET NEWS --(THIS DAY.)
NNW° ATE AND zsan arn Azar..
Our market was ht avy to-day, for each kind of
meat, and prices were with difficulty supported. Beef,
from 2s 2d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 33 to 4s 4d; Veal, 3,
to 4s; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d per Blbs, by the
carcase.

John'sArrd.
, New Brunswick, and sailed for Hull. THE MAGAZINES.
fr,m the River, Index, May, St. Kitts. S:d. Lonuu. I BLACKWOOD.
C,po of Good Ilopa ; Albers, Rio Janiero ; West- a_^,idedly the most felicitous contribution in the
ininster, New York. 'ut back, Parrock Hall, for November number of Blackwood is the article entitled

" What is Spgin About ? " The writer i 3 no superfi-
cial observer of the progress of events in the Penin-
sula. His scrutiny penetrates through the murky
atmosphere which has latterly enveloped Madrid, and
which is principally attributable to the misrepresen-
tations of the Herald() and the other mendacious pub-
lications in the pay of Narvaez and Christina. That
our estimate of the importance of the Carlist move-
ment in the northern provinces, is coincident with
that of Blackwood, we need scarcely declare after the
appearance (now some eight or ten days since) of the
leading article, in which we tracked the rise and
progress of the great cause under the ban-
ners of the indefatigable and heroic Ca-
brera. Naga takes precisely the same view
of the chances in favour of Montemolin, and certainly
the patriotic dream of Escosura seems to be very
rapidly approaching its realisation. By the amalga-
mation of the Carlists of the vielle and of the lende-

main (for there are both), with the vast party of the
Progressistas, the miserable creatures who uphold
the ricketty power of Valencia and Rianzares must
inevitably and speedily be outnumbered. Especially
is this the case, now that the most distinguished and
enlightened Progressistas Escosura and Olczaga,
and we might even say Espartero among the fore-
most—have recognised the accuracy of the opinion
expressed more than a year back by a Spanish gentle-
man of intellect and patriotism—" Las voluntades de
tedos se acordarian facilmente silos que los dirigen
supieran dar un egemplo de nutgitanimidad, sin aban-
donar lo que es deber y prudencia guardar." That
prototype of patriotic plasticity has been afforded, and
the result must very soon be conspicuous in the
events which are now on the eve of transpiring in
Catalonia and the adjacent provinces. Our
old friend Dunshunner revels in an absurd
caricature of " Germany and its Parliament." The
deductions of the writer are something miraculous
after his acknowledgment that the infinitessimal divi-
sion and sub-division of Germania into thirty-eight
independent sovereignties is subversive of all
nationality, and incompatible with the maintenance
of a prolonged tranquillity. The political article in the
number is an earnest demand for " Conservative
Union," preceded by an eulogistic allusion to the late
leader of the Opposition, the gallant but headstrong
Bentinck. The excessive empressement with which
Ebony entreats,Sir Robert Peel to abandon the idea
of ever again leading those country gentlemen of
England who are still infatuated with Protection, is
to us marvellouslydroll, and will prove, we doubt not,
equally funny to the illustrious Baronet himself. It
is as wild an entreaty as though some little cantan-
kerous urchin were to implore the moon not to come
down and gambol with it in the nursery. Never
fear, say we, Sir Robert has no ambition ever
again to bestride the Rozinante of obsoleteism. In
the course of an entertaining paper on " The Naval
War of the French Revolution" we meet with a
very ingenious calculation of the forces at Waterloo
—the Allied Forces being described as merely 40,000
strong, of raw recruits of all nations and languages,
and tactics and uniforms, while Napoleon's army is
said to have consisted of 80,000 veterans ! Will the
truth never be admitted ? Shall the perverse spirit
of the notorious charlatan, Colonel Mitchell, infect
even the honest heart of Blackwood ? Why history
deies a disproof of the fact that Napoleon's
army (composed of conscripts hurriedly collected
together by the Pere Violette during the Hundred
Days) was outnumbered from the dawn of the 18th
of June, 1815, and that on the evening of that day,
when the Prussians arrived on the field of battle, the
allies were very nearly two to one when contrasted
with their antagonist! Let the truth be spoken at
all hazards. Fiat justitia ruat cadum. It has be-
come the prescriptive right, as it were, of those Eng-
lishmen who are vain-gloriously disposed to belaud
the Duke of Wellington until the ignorant would
imagine him to be at last a demi-god in the science of
war. History will say whether the General who was
fighting for five years in the Spanish Peninsula against
a few of the superfluous or supernumerary legions of
France, and who afterwards (by the help of a vast
preponderance of numbers and of the convenient
treachery of Grouchy and Fouche) gained a single
battle in Belgium, is to be even named in the same
breath with the great warrior who conquered nations
in Asia, in Africa, and in Europe; who at different
times vanquished Egypt, and Italy, and Holland, and
Germany, and Spain, and Portugal, and Prussia, and
Austria, and Russia; whose banners floated in
triumph over all the great capitals of the Continent,
over Milan, and Rome, and Naples, and Berlin, and
Vienna, and Madrid, and Lisbon, and Moscow; who
from a sub-lieutenant of artillery became an Emperor
and a King, and who gave laws to the millions of
Europe through a code which invests him with the
glory of a Lycurgus or a Justinian. History will
speak—in a voice of thunder. After the final portion
of "Life in the Far West," there is a graceful
memento of one of the most youthful and promising
contributors to.pkiehtennd. we mean_ the late_i, Creoroe
Frederick Ruxton." " Satires and Caricatures of
the Eighteenth Century" is a pleasant running com-
mentary on the comic memorials of the reign of the
Georges, by Mr. Wright—a work already criticised
by ourselves. There are two poetical contributions
in the current number ; one by W. E. A., called the
"Danube and the Euxine," full of vigour and
melody ; the other "A Call," which evidently testifies
that the lady who panned the verses has no " call"
whatever herself to the art of poesy. Besides the
articles already enumerated, there is a notice of the
Castlereagh Papers, and a slashing review of the
feuillitonists in a chapter headed a " Parcel from
Paris." So much for the variety and excellence of
Blackwood in November.