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

TBE SU NI N N, Tll tT s Ai
.Wv-ENING, APRIL

could move it had passed through my legs, and bounded
right over the limber waggon, horses and all, flying a long
way to the rear, doing no harm. I could not help lookinglf.
down to my legs to see if both were there and all
did think one of them must have b ' for
but, through God's mere,-
"A . passed in-e- Knocked to atoms,
without a scratch.
„...KKiers had been taken, amongst them a Euro.
,umn deserter, formerly belonging to the Horse Artillery,
from which he deserted eighteen years ago, and has been
ever since in the Seikh service. He says they have been
most handsomely beaten, but at the first fully expected to
beat us.
" Our loss is 151 killed, 814 wounded, and 18 missing; and
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 near Hureekee, where the Commander-in-
Chief s army is encamped, and many bodies must have been
deposited on 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 be hoped that the arrival of Gholab
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 where they are, and thus
enable us to route them without having far to go, so that if
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 fire 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 is said that there is a deficiency of heavy
howitzers and mortars, and some say that a further delay
will take place to allow another serge 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 Sutlej. 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 side—in fact, the fete 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 !
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 lung 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 bad 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 in their own trap
seems to have paralysed them.
They appear, however; to have stood so long as their guns
remained in their possession. 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 shrapnel],
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 whole 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 ! As I have mentioned before, the bridge had
been destroyed previous to this time, but the Seikhs 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 it impossible
to conceive that men could have evinced greater bravery
than was shown by every branch of the army, during the
to have been wonderfully st,-,n
late momentous struggle. The enemy's defences are shown
they made
ditch, defended by -^
Ouuandguns !—and
.u, . men eighty
—a triple rampart, with
ten o ost resolute resistance from seven till past
::,ock, pouring into our troops an incessant fire of
shat 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 estimal,ed at from 15,000 to 20,000 men,
the latter number being understood to constitute their
force at the tete 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 Bboonda Ghaut, 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 Ithe 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. The 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 thought it most prudent to allow things
to take their course, while he 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
Punjaub to our empire in the east.

THE INDIAN MAILS.
ALEXANDRIA, banal 20. ''he 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 ith, 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 vid Trieste seems to find great favour with the
passengers from India, and the last Austrian steamer, which
left on the 18th, carried upwards of 20 of them. besides
other passengers. The Marquis of Sligo, after having been
more than live 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 Pacha 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
ann;tombe carried
eGovernment.to effect, her Majesty's Consul-General
in Egypt has received orders to offer the station-houses to
cannot

!!s,,,r2iffremegiers
THE SPRING TESTIMONIAL.—An amonnt 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 from 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, baying bad Iseven or eight hours for
the transaction of business in Exeter. The pcople of Exeter, of
the death of Edward Thomas
Esq., of Stoke Edith Park, which event took place on Mon-
Foley, .)
The deceased gentleman was eldest
cOlirwiSee.rreeogeirveeteqtuoalaanencoommuncoedation.
present Lord
son of the late o •
Foley, and cousin of the
Mon-
day last, at his seat
EasdwahouNd'er.
olTey,

with
'DIE SCOTTISH HOSPITAt. Yesterday the Quar-
terly Court of the Governors and Friends bf the Scottish Hospital
was belch at the Mee of the aficient Cotpotationi Crane-court,
Fleebistreety to receive the report in reference to an address to the
])tike of Sutherland, on his Grace's resignation 'of the ;presidency,
er In the chair. Major Adair, ,
the secretary, read the minutes
rePly of the Noble Duke and on other business. Dr. Web-
MU previous meeting, and stated that, in conformity with
tie resolution unanimously agreed to, the address (which was
beautifully written on satin, in illuminated 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. donations,
3771. 12s. annual subscriptions, and that the total receipts were
1,3781. 17s. The sum of 9721. 18s. had been given away in relief, and
after paying all expenses there remained 2941. 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-pre:l-
- 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 Toted to the Chairman.

APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—We have
the gratification to announce that the preliminaries for a matrimonial
alliance have been definitively arranged between Viscount Fielding,
eldest son of the Earl of Denbigh, and Miss Pennant, niece of the
Earl of Cardigan, and heiress to the Downing estates and property
in Flintshire. 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 Brudenell, sister of the present Earl of
Cardigan. Her father died in 1835, and her grandfather in 1841,
whereupon becoming entitled to a large fortune, she was made a
ward in Chancery, The bride is exceedingly beautiful, and will
attain her eighteenth year in August next. Her laconic, real and
personal, will exceed 10,00011, per anntiln, The gierriage is AppOinted
W tag plAce tlra KU CI image
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111 A GAZINES.
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 safeguardsof 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
citizens 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 au-
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-
plays in these two republics by the advocates
for 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 hes 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 arb 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 !'. . . . .
" 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' "
rhe 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 uninviting. 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 fewres;dl"; good life and
history of Antonio Perez, minister and victim of
Philip IL 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
" Memoirs 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 foretels 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. Prom 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 pap the Church. If he is ruined, the whole Church
income, independent of the small portions of glebe land, must
perish with him.

" 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 for 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 instrument of public appeal ; let the clamour of
the streets be On@ received with the slightest respect, and
the game is begun ; property is the chase, the hounds 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 Culloden. 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 Olinn 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 IL 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
present number gives us the "Reflections of a Pier-
glass,"—reflections which are
"Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull."
The article on gaming, gaming-houses, and gamesters
is concluded, and Mr. 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 Ambrosianae Take for a specimen the
following .
SONG BY THE WHISKEY DRINKER.—" WHO'S FOR
A SHY AT THE SIEGE OF LAHORE, MY BOYS?"
AIR—" Paddy O'Rafferty."
Have yon not heard of the fighting in India,• boys?
Sure 't was at Moodkee a beautiful shindy, boys.
Better than hunting the fox from his cozy Shaw
Was hunting the Seikhs from their camp at Ferozeshah,
At Alival, too, we complately astonish'd 'em,
Over the water we coax'd- and admonish'd
Though bullets fly fast as bad eggs at the pillory-
-0 we are the boys that can spike their arti▪ llery !
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 I who's for a shy at the siege of Lahore, my boys ?

Hardinge '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 serve the Queen and the East India Company?
Shew them our soldiers the right sort of men are all;
Fight for the Crown, and the Governor-General.
Chorus.
Come to the Sutlej, &c.

m.
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 fins tete du-pong, my boys.
If the powther is scarce, and the &.^ans they won't play on it
Try the could steel, and push on with the bayonet !
When once we are over, 'tis we'll have a slap at all
Their camps and their camels, Macir cash and their capital
Chorus..

Then come to the Sutlej,wherel.oud the guns roar, my boys!
Come ere the fun and the fighting's all o'er, my boys 1
Come where there's honour arid plunder galore, my boys!
Oh! who's for a shy at the si. age of Lahore, my boyar,
TAIT'S Af-' IGAZ/NE.
Tho article on " The I Me and Correspondence of
worldcs
pt
Isgaleyent:i
genius
sr reawit
ashsesrbt i etlloo tbs efor
David Hume," which is col icluded 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
admire in his works, as
classes, either from his history or essays, and though he
has ven great offence both to the political and religious
toodouihc.h to
well as in the whole teinour of his life, that no culprit
ever found so many persons ready to forgive him. He
never brings forward his peculiar opinions merely for
like Gibbon, and oftehe rs of that class, whose ob-
-12,1 public feeling than to ar-
rive at the truth, and who e igh ted in turning into ridicule
principles of belief calculated to console the mind in the
deepest distress, and raise the thatights of frail mortals
to another and a better state of existence. If Hume at
his y outh, and endeavouring
Thheir ,
review reasoning
of hfiascwulotri faculties led
any time offends in this reap act, h© appears to be only
collowing out those philosophica'i disquisitions on which
ic.is:ibl,iisihevethweoerreie
j.s,u6wsathit.che
Mr. Barton does r
fu himi full
man, j
bu . t ;atticoef in
h this respect, and
-,erhaps, the bes t accouinstvnaoriteodnlaybdofatbhiee
him to b..
-r-o'rb. 'some :hisorpli writings, he was one of
nciple.s. of commerce, and
more to the subject might
.tenoritemp?rary and intimate friend
altogetherltwhifoeerkso
soundest
works.
tnjhdiuesdsigt:vit,
Judging
.gni
ant
I:.
e. i .
~ ,
ti 0 n
had
e `thatalth of Nations."
Adam Smith, in his wor. k onttn
have
dehfea
far sue
directed s his
hisal 0 .
of standard pfodae-
We are not aware of ally 'ar
0911 where the eyiki a m 94, I°P°IY aucl the bleiyAge of

free trade are painted out with such force as in the fol-
lowing brief extract:—" National 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 dichsinge, Which the Creator of the world
has intended, by giving them soils, climates, and geniuses
so different from each other ; asel 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 tobecome
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 the
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. We 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 our agriculture has hereto-
fore laboured, is the want of that organization, and 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
teaitcgot
suchhivbi
et
dyu
irswst uto
erublmad experience.na
crhkeTa vehoveer e
manufacturer
ylealenmi
itsum fapd
ere
etluuevt
mret
eemerr
nlelynto
sot
khta
ssohpaaertwloeeues san
n,
around
irvaseiaint
vhnoeoonuwgat
has obi
smo about
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 agri-
culturist has his eyes buried in the sod he treads. He leaves
inventions and markets to other people. He desires states-
men, who know that world of which he is so ignorant, to pro-
tectteharet
earth
ha,
mi a
sme,
hpi in
so God'sug plough
father
w name,
taahmn
wheels
, ag
r pa onoadrnf
grandfather
peasant, and
fourat
ehesra dhorses, thrashing with
his hands or a windmill, and expecting that thirty millions of
people will require no more food in the present century than
fifteen in the last."

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as he drops to the ground, which guinea he utClaree 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. Ile
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.
sesscd 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
ho 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 the high cha-
racter of the magazine. We cannot, however, resist
quoting the following admirable apology for philau-
thrope literature, from a paper entitled " Our Village
as it ought to be :"
"llete 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 " °Wel 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 Leigh
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."