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

SHARPL'S LONDON MAGAZINE.

Under its new auspices, or rather its new arrange-
ments as to illustration, Sharpe proceeds well, and
without any sensible abatement in excellence. Besides
a very agreeable assortment of letter-press, it con-
tains some beautiful specimens of wood-engraving—
the very best of all being a delineation of " the moated
grange of Tennyson."

THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE.
Besides containing two neat engravings of "South-
down Rams," and "A Cart Stallion," the January num-
ber is replete with seasonable contributions. After the
disastrous seasons from which the country has re•
cently suffered so much, the agricultural reports ap-
pended to the magazine will be watched with pecu-
liar interest. It is in these reports, moreover, that
the care of the entrepreneur is manifested more con-
spicuously than in any other portion of the pe-
riodical.

TILE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY.
In the number just published there is a perceptible
improvement as regards the arrangement of the vari-
ous papers constituting the review ; arid there seems
to be in some measure an extension of the size of the
Quarterly. Brother Thomas Pryer continues his
lucubrations on " The Study of Masonic Antiqui-
ties," with an increase of ability and exactitude. The
miscellaneous intelligence is varied and compre-
hensive.

CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL.
From an entertaining account of the rise and
vicissitudes of the newspaper press of France, we
quote one excellent sentence:—" Society demands
from treatises, science ; frost books, ideas ; from
reviews, profound study of the questions discussed,
from special collections, to justify their title; from
daily journals, the speediest publicity, the most im-
partial views on all debates, documents, and facts—
the most rapid and dispassionate judgment on events,
institutions, men, and things." The sentence is from
the French. Among the articles for the past month
[ there are several of a superior character.

THE ECLECTIC REVIEW.
After a superficial reference to the anomalous posr
tion of the Presbyterian clergy of Ulster, and their
pertinacity in maintaining their regiuntdonuminterests,
the Eclectic gives a very lively and agreeable descrip-
tion of John Duncan's Travels in Western Africa dur-
ing 1845 and 1846, starting from Whydah, and passing
through the territory of Dahomey to Adofoodis
in
the Interior." The third article is a curiosity, sug-
gested by a still greater curiosity : it is a paper which
asserts the " Credibility of the Evangelists," and is
suggested by a book called " An Examination of the
Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evi-
deuce administered in Courts of Justice," and written
i
by Simon Greenleaf, LL.D., Professor of Law n
Harvard University. Clever as it is, we cannot in
think that it is battling too much against infidelity
with its own weapons—weapons quite inadequate for
the settlement of such august and awful mysteries as
the mysteries of the Christian religion. This is fol-
lowed by an historical chapter on King James IL and
the acquittal of the Seven Protestant Bishops in 1688 ;
by a criticism on Leopold Ranke's " History ?f.
Servia ;" by a notice of Hutton's " Five Years in
the East ;" and by an additional enforcement of the
necessity of national education. The most attractive
contribution for January will be, however, the com-
prehensive article on " English Schools of Art."

THE MIRROR.
The Mirror appears in a new dress this month.
The paper is of better quality, the letter-Press
is clearer, the double column arrangement has
been given up, and the Mirror now has as neat
an appearance as any of its monthly contemporaries.
The number opens with the first chapter of a
work, by Mr. Percy B. St. John, entitled "Maxi-
milian Robespierre, his Life and Opinions." Mr.
St. John undertakes to rescue the character of
Robespierre from the aspersions which have been cast
upon it, and to prove that he was honest, sincere,
humane, and virtuous—a task which, with all his
ability, Mr. St. John will find of somewhat difficult
performance. lie scarcely enters upon it in this
chapter, which may be considered as the bill of
indictment, from the charges contained in which he
is to defend his client. There is one accusation,
however, which Mr. St. John passes over much too
lightly, saying it is only worthy of notice as a curious
opinion—it is the accusation of M. Delaure "that
Robespierre was throughout an agent of the
emigration, and was secretly wishing for the counter-
revolution." The accusation was brought against
him long before the days of M. Delaure—it has been
often repeated since, and has never been satisfactorily
refuted. His personal connexions, his conduct dur-
ing the early days of the revolution, before the States-
General became the National Assembly, and during
the early days of the National Assembly, show that
his propensities were rather towards royalty than
towards republicanism, and it was not until all
chat ce of a restoration was gone, that he, to use the
words of Camille Desmoulins, " drove liberty mad
in order to disgust the world with her." Mr. St.
John himself shows that Robespierre was descended
from patrician ancestors, and had therefore a fellow-
feeling with the emigrants—that he was anxious
f peace even at the time the armies of

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