The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-10 00:00:00

MONDAY

the Duke of Brunswick were invading France,
that he was, in fact, always ouposed to war and to
those who advocated it, and that one of the allied
sovereigns said "that if M Robespierre had lived they
would have had peace"—meaning, of course, peace
on the terms contained in the Duke of Brunswick's
manifesto. Napoleon was, it is well known, con-
nected with Robespierre ; and it was this connexion
which induced Louis XVIII. to write to the First
Consul, urging him to hasten on the time of restora-
tion, for Louis XVIII. no doubt considered that Na-
poleon, who had taken service under Robespierre,
was fully prepared to carry out the views of his
former patron ; besides all which, we have heard
it remarked, during the days of the restora-
tion, as a proof of the complicity of Robes-
pierre with the Bourbons, that the sister of
Robespierre was in the regular receipt of a pension
from the Government of the Restoration. Mr. St.
John quotes a passage from one of his reports to the
convention, as a proof that his talents have been
much underrated. " The man," says Mr. St. John,
" who could write an ironical passage like the follow-
ing could not be wholly contemptible :"
.. The False Revolutionist.—Full of fire for great
resolutions which signify nothing—more than inditierent
for those which might honour the cause of the people
and save the country—much devoted to patriotic forms,
and attached (like the bigots they war against) to
exterior forms, they would rather wear out a hundred
red caps than do one good action. . . . . Should
we act, they talk; should we deliberate, they commence
by acting; should we defend the territory, they wish to
go in search of tyrants beyond seas and over mountains;
should we retake our frontiers, they are for assaulting
our churches and scaling heaven! They forget the
Austrians to make war on devotees ; should we support
our cause by the fidelity of our allies, they declaim
against Governments, and prepare a decree of accusation
against the Great Mogul!"
Mrs. Crowe, who has recently joined the Mirror
corps, contributes a highly interesting tale, entitled
"The Two Women of Nuremberg," and Maxwell,
also a new hand here, commences one of his unrivalled
pictures of camp life, under the title of "The
Revelations of a Mess Table." The letter on
"The Choice of a Profession," by Cmlius, is full of
quiet sarcasm, and "A paper on Pantomimes," by Mor-
ris Barnett, is quite a propos to the season ; but we are
forgetting our old friend " Paul Pevensey," whose
adventures are continued in this number. Paul is
arrested as a spy by the miners out on strike, and
conveyed to their stronghold The account of a
strike in the colliery districts is admirable ; there is
something very graphic in the description of the
murder of the magistrate, and the reflections of the
writer on popular tumults are worthy the consideration
of the philanthropist and the statesman. 'Would that
the gentry of Ireland would ponder over the following
passage :
" The insurgents had been taught, through no one
knew what agency, to believe in the lawfulness of as-
sassination. Secret societies meeting sometimes in
remote and desolate places, as in the beer-shop and
ruined windmill above described; sometimes in the ale-
houses and crowded streets of the towns, drew up the
muster-rolls of death, distributed daggers, and coolly
inculcated the principle that to assassinate a rich man
was to remove a public enemy—consequently, a virtuous
rather than a vicious action. Still, to the credit of the
educated classes be it spoken, there took place no instance
of pusillanimous flight. The gentry firmly stood their
ground—confronted the danger—reasoned, when oppor-
tunity offered, with their misguided neighbours ; and
sought to impress them with the belief that their past
neglect and oppression ought rather to be attributed to
the operation of general laws, acting alike on all classes,
for the preservation of barbarism, than to any tyranni-
cal propensities in the possessors of property. Even the
murder of the magistrate, though reports of it spread
like wildfire, mixed up with innumerable exaggerations,
produced no difference in their conduct. They seemed
ready to brave the assassin's dagger, or any other form
of peril to which the circumstances of the times might
give birth, rather than ignobly abandon the posts, as
persons have at various times done in other parts of the
empire, where the consciousness of some deserving may
possiby inspire mere craven thoughts. An excited po-
pulace is terrible, but may often be successfully encoun-
tered by a frank and manly courage, upheld by the
consciousness of rectitude—as was proved again and
again by incidents which would all deserve to be nar-
rated, were it my object to give here a complete history
of the strike."
The Mirror begins the new year well. It is equal
to any, superior to most of its contemporaries.

FINE ARTS.
THE ART-UNION. No. CXV.

With the commencement of a new year, the Art-
Union enters upon a new career of enterprise and
excellence. Both in the beauty of the embellishments
and the appositeness of the literary articles, there is
already visible a very remarkable and laudable im-
provement. It is intended, according to the an-
nouncement contained in the prospectus, to issue
every month in the magazine " two full engravings
and an engraving from a statue," these engravings
being copies from originals lent by the munificence of
their distinguished, and, in several instances, illustri-
ous owners. In the number for January, for example,
there is an effective engraving by J. Brown from the
picture of R. Thorburn, being a portrait of H.R.H.
Prince Albert; and the original painting has been lent
by her Most Gracious Majesty. "Landseer's Breakfast
Party" is admirably transcribed by Finden ; and the
graver of W. Roffe, has given a delicate and exqui-
site representation of the Psyche of Sir R. West
macott. Besides the critical purtion of the Art-Union,
which, be it observed, displays as hitherto both matu-
rity of judgment and refinement of taste, there is a
delightful contribution by Mrs. S. C. Hall. Not
" Midsummer Eve," that being already completed,
but the opening of a new serial called "Pilgrimages
to English Shrines." illustrated by foot-notes and
woodcuts from the pen and pencil of F. W. Fairholt.
, This instalment recounts a pilgrimage no less inte-
resting than one to "The Burial Place of Hampden"
the patriot, not the bishop elect of Hereford. The
other departments of this monthly journal are filled
with discrimination, and, what is not less important
now-a-days, compactness.

A SERIES OF MODERN MAPS. Parts
and XI V. By John Sharpe and J. Wilson Lowry.
This excellent succession of maps progresses in a
manner which promises the fulfilment of the various
merits predicted in the advertisement. The engraver
is as painstaking as the supervisor is intelligent.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday the Queen and
Prince Albert took their usual early walk.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, walked out yesterday
forenoon, and the Prince of Wales and the Princess
Alice took airings in the afternoon.
Prince Albert enjoyed the spert of shooting yes-
terday morning. His Royal Highness was accom
panied by Lord John Russell, and was attended by
the Marquis of Ormonde, Mr. G. E. Anson, Colonel
the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Colonel Seymour.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived
from Frogutore House at the Castle yesterday after-
noon, and visited her :Majesty and Prince Albert.
Lord John Russell left the Castle yesterday after-
noon, for his residence in Richmond Park.
This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert took
their accustomed early walk.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise.
The Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court and the
dome.stic household attended Divine servic this morn-
ing in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon.
and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.

MINISTERIAL MOVE-1-11ENTS

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
attended a meeting of the Trustees d the British
Museum on Saturday.
At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday, the
prayers were read by the Rev. J. Povah, the lessons
by the Rev. T. Helmore, and the communion service
by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The sermon was preached by
the Rev. Di . Irving. The musical service was Men-
' delssohn's. The
anthem was "Rejoice in the Lord"
(Humphrey). Mr. George Cooper presided at the
organ. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Lord
and Lady Ebrington, Lords Sandwich and Canter-
bury, were among the nobility present.

The Lord President of the Council is expected to
arrive at
.Lansdowne House to-morrow evening, from
Bowood, in order to meet his colleagues at the Council
appointed for the following day. Viscount Palmers-
ton, who is at Broadlands, his seat near Romsey,
comes to town either to-morrow evening, or by the
express train on Wednesday morning. The Right
Honourable Sir, George Grey, Bart., has returned to
London from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire, where the
Right Honourable Baronet was called to attend the
obsequies of the Earl of Harrowby, uncle of Lady
Grey- The Earl of Auckland returns to his official
residence at the Admiralty to-day. The Right Hon.
Sir Charles Wood and Lady Mary Wood come to
town this afternoon, from visiting the Marquis and
i)larchioness of Lansdowne, at Bowood. The Earl
Grey, accompanied by the Countess, leaves Howick
Ball, Northumberland, to-morrow morning, for
Belgrave-ware. The Marquis of Clanricarde is
expected to arrive from Portumna Castle, County
Galway, to-morrow. The Marchioness and Lady
Emily de Burgh have returned from visiting the
Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle.
The Right Honourable T. B. Macaulay is in town,
and the Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, who
is staying with his family at Brighton, will be in
town for the meeting of the Cabinet. The Right
Honourable Sir John CamlHobhouse comes to town
from his seat in Wiltshire to-morrow evening. It is
uncertain whether the Lord Chancellor will be suffi-
ciently restored to health to assist in the deliberations
lof his colleagues of the Cabinet. Lord Campbell has
come to town.