The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-03 00:00:00

MAGAZINE*.Lt-(CON TIN UED.)
BEN! LEY.

The present numb: r o Bentley .peris with a continue
ti•n of Brian O'Lutte" to ee ic, xit., welch is some-
wt at heavy ; but,
" Aliquando bonus dot male, Iloneru-,"
and when a tier. e- votuiue d b.t by bit :n
a naiseelian), it is inipoL-siede alit .11 the fragments
should be equally amusing. This is followed by an ex-
cellent magazine tale, entitled "Jeff Linton's Oak. or May
Day," being a May-day legend of 1738, and then the
arcane of " the Corner" are opened to us in a paper en-
titled " Tattersall and Tattersall's, with a glance at the
Lions and Legs of the Betting Ring." Albert Smith
follows with his glorious " Popular Z iology," the
subject of the present month's demonstration
being " The Boys in the Street," and admirably
does he dissect those said boys, and most learnedly
and scientifically does he demonstrate their
peculiar idiosyncracies, training them up from the tad-
pole state—" which reptile, " as he sagely observes,
"they somewhat resemble in their active wriggling and
love of water"—to their final destination, when "they
become grave and dull, and you would not " recogni-e
in the porter, the journeyman, or the carman any of the
eccentricities that marked their earlier career." Miss
Costello continue s her series of "Legendary Cities and
Towns," the subject of her present illustration being
the interesting old town of Lewes. A. Fibb
gives us a most amusing paper on social
Romancing, and Dr. W. C. Taylor contributes
a learned article on the Albigenses avid Troubadours.
Then we have a quaint treatise on the " Pump," from
the practised pen of Peter Prendergast; and then follows
a paper of a higher order than those we are accustomed to
meet with in Bentley ; it is from the pen of his Grace
the Archbishop of Dublin, and is entitled " The Danger
of Debating Societies to Young M.n." It appears there
exists among the students of Trinity College, Dublin, a
debating society entitled " The Historical Society, and
the Archbishop thus describes the occasion which led
him to devote his attention to this subject.
"The occasion of my offering these remarks was a letter
addressed to the Provost by a member of the Colleges (of
which the writer sent me a copy, as one of the Visitors),
in reference to one of the que"tions proposed fir debate, and
announced as such in the newspapers—. Whether a blembt r
of Parliament should vote in accordance with the expressed
opinions of a majority of his constituents when they differ
from his own?' And the writer deprecates the discussion
of such deep political questions by persons who cannot be ex-
pected to possess the requisite knowiedge. This he con- iders
as likely to generate a habit of talking without thinking,
and to weaken the action of the mind while improviug the
volubility of the tongue.' "
The Archbishop enters freely into the subject, and al-
lows that thepractice of debating may confer upon those
engaged in it a readiness and a fluency which they could
not otherwise acquire. He thus meets that portion of
the argument :
"But a premature readiness is more likely than the oppo-
site extreme to lead to incurable faults. And all the dangers
that attend this kind of exercise, the learner who is engaged
in it should frequently recall to his mind and reflect on,
that he may the better guard against them ; never allowing
himself, in one of these mock debates, to maintain anything
which he himself believes to be untrue, or to use an argu-
ment which he perceives to be fallacious.
" The temptation to tran,gress this rule will often be very
strong; because, to such persons as usually form the majority
in one of those societies (youths of immature judgment,
superficial, and half- educated), specious falsehood and
sophistry will often appear Superior to truth and sound
reasoning, and will call forth louder plaudits ; and the wrong
side of a question will often afford room for such a capti-
vating show of ingenuity as to be, to them, more easily
maintained than the right; and scruples of conscience, re-
lative to veracity and fairness, are not unlikely to be silenced
by the consideration that, after all, it is no real battle but
a tournament; there being no real and important measure to
be actually decided on, but only a debate carried on for
practice-sake.
" But, unreal as is the occasion, and insignificant as may
be the particular point, a habit may be formed which will
not easily be unlearnt aftermath, of disregarding right
reason, and truth, and fair argument. And such a habit is
not merely debasing to the moral character, but also in a
rhetorical point of view, if I may so speak, often proves hurt-
ful. It has often weakened the effect, to a far greater degree
than most persons suppose, of what has been written and
said by men of great ability; by depriving it of that air of
simple truthfulness which has so winning a force, and which
it is so impossible completely to feign."
The views of the Archbishop are in every respect new,
but they seem founded in truth, and at all events his
letter (which is addressed to Dr. Cooke Taylor) is
well worthy the attentive consideration of all
heads of colleges and other academical institutions.
"Tipperary Hall" is continued with as much fun and
fancy as ever. Verily, the mantle of Maginn has fallen
upon the shoulders of him of Tipperary Hall, and long
may this " broth of a boy," be he who he may, live to
wear it, for we are sure he will wear it worthily.
The pictorial illustrations of this number are, a scene
from "Brian O'Linn," by John Leech, and an admi-
rably engraved and life-like portrait of Washington
Irving, accompanied by a short biographical memoir.

DOUGLAS JERROLIND'S SHILLING
MAGAZ E.
We have two additional chapters of " St. Giles and St.
James" in the present number, in which the plot thickens.
Snipeton, has removed Clarissa from Dovesnest, and
has taken a cottage for her at Hampstead.
Old Crossbone visits them there, and in pursuance of his
plan to raise himself in the world by aiding in the &-
signs of St. James or Clarissa, he persua.'ss cld
Snipeton that it is absolutely necessary for her
health that she should take horse exercise, and
induces him to take St. Giles into his service as groom.
Crossbone takes St. Giles with him to the inn, at Hemp-
stead, to give him instructions, and while there a man,
"
who has fallen from his horse, is brought in senseless.
Among the crowd assembled is Tom Bla,t, who under pre
tence of assisting the wounded man picks his pocket, and
a portion of the plunder to St. Giles, who indig-
nantly rejects the offer. Just at that moment they
learn that the man has recovered and Must goes off,
not however without w
remi
where nding p
tooor
c S9met. Gil
upones that
him," " he
shall always
and poor St. Giles feels that he is in the vil-
lain's power, and seems to exist only by suffer-
ance. Juniper Hedgehog this month addresses
his epistle to Lord Nugent. The eccentric cabman is
eloquent in his denunciations of death punishment.
Nothing will satisfy him but the total and immediate
abolition of the gallows. " Benjamin's Mess," by
mocPauk
l
Bell, is a withering piece of sarcasm on the
philanthropists—the quack humanitarians, who make a
trade of their pretended love for the poor, by selling it,
diluted into a throe-volume mawkish novel, at the rate
of 1/. 1 ls. 6d. a lot. The "Researches in Belgravia"
are amusing; while the paper, entitled " The Present
and the Future," furnishes matter for deep thought. As
a sample of the poetry, we quote the following sonnet
by E. M. Collins :
JUNE.

Summer, and stillness; ev'r3 joyous bird
Pours a half-wearied song; the leafy glade,
Panting with flowery fragrance, to its shade,
Invites the wayside wanderer : there is heard
No sound amid the forest depths, save when
The rushing streamlet by the breeze is stirred;
Or the bee murmurs in the meadows, furred
With mess and starry flowers; or, from some glen
The tired cuckoo lifts a pleasant voice;
Or the lone woodlark sings his hidden strain.
Oh! bid the poor, the lowly one rejoice,—
Upraise him from his penury and pain ;
That from the choking courts and alleys dim
He may come forth, and join the universal hymn
In addition we have two very interesting tales,
" Mrs. Edens's Sixpence," and the " Star in the Dark,'
besides a goodly ,,ri•-e'smi on new books

THE DUBLIN k...:v.. VPL..3AI Y MAGAZINE.
We are surprised that just such another article as the
one entitled "Forest Dreams," the first contribution in
this number of the D n
üblin Uiversity, ha not ben
written long since ; possibly it has, though,s supposing
that to be the case, we have never previously encountered
so much of amuFing tittle-tattle anent forest scenery
and its associations grouped together in a e singj
__ paper.
The writer has evidently entered into thebehol subjedct with
genuine gusto, and assuredly would never one of
Gasper Pa
mot sylvan landscapes unmoved. There is
sotto us a more glorious spectacle in inanimate nature
than that of a woodland : whether it be in undulation
with all its " storm of boughs" in a hurricane, or glow-
ing with a lustrous perple-green in the sunset, or when
" --- the tinkling show'rs of autumn l
ntereaves,"
give promise of its nakedness in
wi. The
r of the "Forest Dreams" hdas
hi enstirelyhol entered
dreame
into these sentiments, and poure we soul
out in a panegyric on the world of boughs. Cousin-
out
to hini in feeling is the contributor of " A
Day's Deer-stalking with the Ilarkgraf of Baden ;" a
smart, rattling, cheerful scribe is he ; and as good a
trencherman as a rifleman we would wager. He has a
faculty for seeing everything through a bright medium.
and gladly would we enlist him as a companion on one
43f those husky, yellow, fl,nnelly night,. in November,
when Englishmen, and especially dwellers in Cockaigne,
are presumed to avo a predisposition to the c,.mmission
of f do.,
superfruo-se. But that we cordially believe such to be
as au we would recommend to his consideration
to put ths
incentive to good humour, and as a volume likely
surliest amongst us on
each other better terms with
of all comical conceits
with existence, that most comical
Life." 13oz terneeits, the " Miseries of Human
ItAz. of his works !—that Scrooge's
—that most exquisite as, in his " Christmas Carol,"
neice's husband
such an extent " that be was
oeinrything
times indulged in it laugh, he had 1 and that he some
to get up OW the
another votary of jocose and stamp 1" Just such
wersity Sportsman to be . es, we take our Dublin
now,
-
now and theernmt4o'
,appears
to him to be suggestive of' 5
for the purpose
ludicrous
insomuch that he is compelled yet mezocrlls
:din t forsake the regular drift of his narrative
this very
ruit; but, seeing
of obliging us with adventitious jokesatainvcei
pleasant
face-
tiousness. We are puzzled whether to
peculiarity as a blemish or an embellishment;
that the article has altogether afforded
glimpse of Continental sport, we can readily pleas
make allowances for over-discursiveness, 0Y afforduntot
pf the actual discursiveness of the eircnir)tonoasiticcaLS
deeribed. William Carleton, some of whose
accomnany those of Banim and Gerald Griffin in thsewlll
yeh pt
brary Of Irish fiction, pursues the " uneven tenour of his
Bay as the teller of a tale of Irish famine,
Black Prophet. It promises to thrill with interest and
to freeze with horror, and altogether is destined to find
a numerous party of admirers among
those who revel
M. G. Lewis Harrison
in the perusal of sirs. Radcliffe,
Mrs. Shelly. Towards
,
Ainsworth, Eugene Sue, and
the conclusion of a rather invidious criticism of " Russia
under the Antoeat." a remsrkAle brave of volutnei,,
penned by a noble Russian, named Ivan Golovine, the
reviewer avails bimselt of the opportunoy for paitege
using that most questionable of Autocrats, the Etn.
peror Nicholas. As we.. might an innovator in
natural history attempt to convince us that
the hungry wolf is compassio:-:zte? Abe ser-
pent guileless, or the carrion crow of the i:=l2...i2i*