The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-22 00:00:00

LAYS OF THE SEA. Personne.

This little volume of poems is prettily imagined_
the notion is very graceful indeed ; and will appeal
warmly to all who have any recipients of their l•we
upon the waters; and scarcely an English family
but can number a sailor among its members. The
look of the book is unambitious—the ideas are un-
ambitious—and the character of the metre is un-
ambitious. However, though modesty is a valuable
foundation for any lyrical composition, that modesty
may be carried too far, by rendering the thoughts
maudlin, and reducing the language to great
poverty. A little more anxiety to be excellent and
pathetic would have prevented that terrible bathos
in the second line of what is intended to be a
mournful piece:—
" I miss thee, 0, my brother !
With my papers all before me!"
Personne should be a little more circumspect before
venturing upon the hazard of a poetical publication.
It is casting a rose-leaf upon troubled waters.

SELF-INSTRUCTION FOR YOUNG
GARDENERS. By J. C. Loudon.
On the anniversary of Washington's death, namely,
on December 14th, 1843, died John Claudius Loudon
—a man whose integrity of character and amiable
bearing had endeared him to a staunch cluster of
acquaintances, while the assiduity of his studies and
the sterling excellence of his writings had already
acquired for him an European reputation. As an
enlightened botanist, his opinions have long carried
with them great authority, and his very name is now
as intimately associated with that science as Herschell
with astronomy, Lkebeg with chemistry, Whewell
with mathematics, or Murchisson with geology. Not
however that, like those illustrious philosophers, Lou-
don has achieved any extraordinary discoveries in the
subject to which his whole intellect was devoted—not
that, like them, he has made any grand innovations in
a long-established system ; but that, animated with a
sincere anxiety for the " diffusion of knowledge"
among a class who were hitherto excluded from
it by the abstruseness of its expositors, Loudon
' elucidated the obscure, and systematised what had
previously been given in a desultory and disjointed
manner. In the present volume we have, according
,o the editor's preface, John Claudius Loudon 's
' Last Legacy to Gardeners"—the text being under
his widow's supervision, the sections upon mechanics,
hydrostatics, and hydraulic:, being furnished by Dr.
damieson, those on architectural drawing, and
geometrical projection, and perspective by Mr.
Robertson, besides several other interpolations from
similarly authoritative sources. Surrounded by all
those accessories of talent and industry this work
could not possibly be more practical in its application
or more accurate in its details. For young garden-
ers, for forresters, for bailiffs, for land stewards, and for
farmers in general, it will prove a perfect vale mecum
a resource on all doubtful points—as useful for their
guidance as the shafts are to the plough. Although,
with Mrs. Loudon, we must ever regret the decease
of her husband, before he had still further embellished
this self instructor, by appending to it diquisitions
upon drawing trees, flowers, and landscapes, together
with several other accomplishments, we can discover
no single deficiency sufficiently important to mar the
symmetry, or abstract from the completeness of the
volume now under consideration. Its plan is ori-
ginal and ingenious, its style is comprehensive and
lucid, its success in all respects is entire. We can
cordially and honestly recommend it to all horticul-
tural and agricultural students.

OVER- POPULATION AND ITS REMEDY.
By W. 7'. Thornton.
A theme of more vital consequence, nationally and
individually, or one that has been more frequently
mooted, could not possibly have been selected. Its
importance is self-evident, as upon it depends the
happiness or misery, the prosperity or indigence, of
society at large ; while, at the same time, it has so
repeatedly afforded materials for the disquisitions of
many sagacious minds as, to a very considerable ex-
tent, to have allayed the curiosity of political students
and philanthropists. So many quacks have arisen
and tendered their nostrums as an infallible remedy to
such exuberances of the human race, that
men have become somewhat chary of lending
an ear to any new-coiner in the same field.
John Bull has so very often become unconsciously
the jack-pudding of statistical jugglers of this nation,
that he dreads some time wakening up from a second
Nlalthusian deceit., to find himself a general laughing-
stock. But John Bull may, in the present instance,
approach without trepidation—he will here find no
fantastic or impossible theory—he will here find no
vagary of the imagination, but, on the contrary, a '
candid and enlightened effort of reason. Instead of
advancing some novel and impossible scheme, Mr.
Thornton has contented himself with a careful inves-
tigation of the opinions of his predecessors. On this
he has built up a very sensible plan of affording
remedy in case of over-population—a plan which is
founded upon a substratum of facts, accounting for
the maladies which have to be eradicated. As a sen-
sible and clever essay upon this most interesting sub•
ject, the present book deserves all possible attention ;
and the tact of selection displayed by its author, is
only equalled by the extreme modesty with which he
offers his opinions.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, arrived
o'clock
docakt
t
Buckingham Palace at ten minutes pastthree
yesterday, in a carriage and four, from the rja.ddli,nigintocne
terminus of the Great Western
andstern
the Princess Alice, were in another carriage
rand‘i"f.,l ur
accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
The royal suite occupied three carriages and four, and
!onsisted of the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting ;
the Maids of Honour in Waiting, the Marquis of Or-
monde, Major-General Sir Henry Wheatley, Admiral
Sir Robert Otway, Colonel Buwles, Colonel Buckley,
and Colonel Bouverie. A party of Light Dragoons
formed the escort.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort were received at
the Palace by the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the
Horse, the Marquis of Granby, and Captain Francis
Seymour.
The Queen held a Privy Council at half-past three
o'clock. It was attended by his Royal highness Prince
Albert, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buecleuch, the
Earl of Haddington, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Ro-
bert Peel, the Earl of Abordeen, Sir James Graham, the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Earl of Ellenborough, the Earl of
Ripon, Lord Granville Somerset, the Earl of Lincoln,
the Earl of Dalhousie, the Earl St. German's, the
Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Lord Steward, the
Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the
Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert.
The Queen in Council was pleased to declare the Most
Noble Walter Duke of Buccleuch, Lord President of her
Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and his Grace
took his place at the board accordingly.
Her Majesty having been pleased to deliver the cus-
tody of the Privy Seal to the Right Honourable Thomas
Earl of Haddington, the oath of Keeper of the Privy
Seal was administered to him, and the Noble Earl took
his place at the Board.
The Queen having been pleased to appoint the Right
Hon. Henry Earl of Harewood to be Lord-Lieutenant of
the West Riding of Yorkshire, his Lordship took the
appointed oaths.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
Hon. James, Earl of Verulam, to be Lord-Lieutenant of
Hertfordshire, the Noble Earl took the oaths appointed
to be taken thereupon.
The Queen's speech, on opening the session of Par-
liament this day, was arranged and agreed upon.
The Hon. William 13athurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
Iler Majesty gave audience to Sir Robert Peel.
The Court was attended by the Vice-Chamberlain, the
Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of _ the
Household, and the Marquis of Anglesey, Gold Stick in
\Vaitinc.

WINDSOR, W3i:DNEsDAY.—Tbe unfavourable state of
the Weather throughout the forenoon, prevented the
Queen and the Royal family from taking their usual
early airings.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch left the Castle
this morning at two o'clock.

The Qacen anti Prince Albert, aocoinpsnipti by t h
Prince of Wa:es, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal,
and the Princess Al:ce, aqd attended by the Vi,countess
Jocelyn, the Dowager Loy Lyttelton, , the Maids of
Honour in Waiting, the Marquis of Ormondo, Major-
General Sir Henry Wheat!ey, Bordes, Admiral
Sir Robert Otway, Colons; Buckley, and Colonel Bou-
verie left the Castle, escorted by a party of the 2a Re-
giment of Life Guards, commanded by Lieutenant Tot-
tenham, fOr the Slough station of the Great Western
Railway, to proceed by a • special train to town. The
royal party occupied five carriages and four.

The Duke of Buccleuch, Lqrd President of the Council,
attended yesterday at the Privy Council-office, White-
hall.

Prh Castelcicala has returned to town from.Lei-
cestershire to attend the opening of Parliament. The
Pi ince transacted business at the Foreign -office on
Monday.
The Earl of Dalhousie, President of the Board a
Trade, arrived in tow n.yesterday morning from Scotland.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
general meeting yesterday at the office in Whitehall-
place. There were present the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, the Bishops of Winchester, Ely, Lland;,ff, Oxford,
and Rochester, the Earl of Bessborough, the Earl of
Chichester, arid the Right Hon. Sir
_George Grey.
Mr. Freshfield had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial- offico, from
the Governors of the West India Colonies.
Sir John Hope had an interview with Sir George
Clcrk, yesterday, at the office or-the Board of Trade.

Sir Robert Peel had a full dress dinner party of forty •
oue tnerulers of the House of Commons, (including tie
Right lion. the speaker, and the mover and seconder of
the address,) at his residence, in Whitehall-gardens,
yesterday evening.