The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-06 00:00:00

THE MAGAZINES.

If the illustrations in St. Paul's Magazine were fairly
creditable, there could be no fault to find with the October
number. As they are, however, they serve only to disgrace
the reading matter. Mr.' Anthony Trollope's well-known
talent for describing a fox-hunt, is once again,
and now adventitiously shown to us in a
chapter of " Ralph, the Heir," but the wretchedy
executed drawing that accompanies the tale disen-
chants considerably the admirer of the author's
skilful, spirited descriptions of the field. The
" screw" of a horse that the artist represents as the
hunter of a wealthy squire, by no means reflects favour-
ably on the taste of the owner. Indeed, any one looking
at the .picture, might think that Ralph's father, when
the animal rolled over him, was only served right for
mounting such a quadruped. In the story of Ralph the
Heir, the working man's candidate, Ontario Moggs,
loses the election at Percycoss ; and Mr. Trollope reflects
on his fate by saying that he was ashamed to face the
town, in which so many agitators, supporters of his own,
would be the principal ones to greet him. Moggs, how-
ever, had " just manhood enough in him to make a speech,
and then he escaped by the night train " to London. The
workingman's candidate must have travelled homewards
in an additionally melancholy mood in consequence of the
weather, as Mr. Trollope says the day was a "foul,
rainy, muddy one, without a glimmer of sun, and with
the thick pervading melancholy atmosphere, which
forces upon imaginative men a conviction that
" nothing is worth having." By the -a'aithO'ress of " John
Halifax Gentleman," a series of sketches, entitled
"We Four in Normandy " are begun in this number of
St. Paul's; The authoress' well-known abilities as
an entertaining writer are as clearly marked
in her descriptions of foreign travel, as in her
social novels, and the particulars of the places rambled
over—Paris, Caen, Bayeux, in getting to the ultimate
resting-place, cannot but be read by all readers with
unusual interest just now. The authoress is very unjust
to herself, we think, in one little phrase. "We four " are
made up as follows : " Number one is a gentleman, num-
bers two, three, and four, are of the inferior sex." We
will not admit that all the three could be inferior in anylight
if the authoress was amongst them. Contributions on
" Officering in the British Army," advocating a revision
of the system ; on " Joan of Arc, and a memoir of La
Fontaine, are all excellent additions to the list of subjects
in St. Paul's.

THE LATE PROFESSOR MILLER.—In the late
William Allen Miller, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Che-
mistry in King's College, London, whose death was an-
nounced yesterday,. chemistry has lost an accomplished
votary and an effective teacher. Dr. Miller died of apo-
plexy on the 30th ult., at Liverpool, whither he had gone
to take part in the proceedings of the British Association.

A deputation, consisting of members of a com-
mittee of a proposed National University for Industrial
and Technical Education, waited upon the Right Hon.
the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House yesterday. Among
those present were Dr. John Mill, the Secretary, Captain
Charles Mercier, the Mayor of Kingston, Mr. Alderman
Gould, of Kingston, Colonel J. M. Carter, Mr. Alder-
man Thomas, of Swansea, and Mr. Braithwaite, ex-Mayor
of Halifax.

THE ATROCITIES OF THE CHINESE.-A letter

from Shanghai, speaking of the surrender of the converts,
says the torture they have undergone was a fitting pendant
to the murder of their teachers. About fifty seem to have
been arrested in the first instance, but many of these got
out through the (monetary) intervention of friends.
Regarding the condition of the remainder, the following
is a paragraph from a report by an English surgeon :
At the request of the French Minister, four Roman
Catholic converts have been removed from the yamen
to the foreign settlement. One is an old man over sixty
years. They have all been more or less tortured in various
ways, and present a perfectly horrible appearance ; their
bodies fearfully emaciated, and covered with gangrenous
sores, filled with maggots. One man has been placed on
a rack, and all his joints cracked. Another has been
beaten so severely on the hands and feet that
the tendons are exposed. There are still in
the yamen three men and six women (converts) but these
are in such a wretched state that the authorities dare not
move them. One of these women has had needles driven
underneath her finger nails, and her body sprinkled over
with drops of boiling oil. Another, a young girl aged
sixteen years, has had all her fingers chopped off by
.small
pieces. It is reported that they have suffered other indig-
nities too horrible for publication,-Guardian.
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