The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-02 00:00:00

SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE.

This miscellany preserves its character with much
ability, discussing interesting matter about some of our
most interesting colonies, awl does it moreover in a
very interesting way. St. Helena, Prince of Wales
Island, Canada East and West, Cape Colony, and the
Sardwich Islands, are severally described by gentlemen
very competent for the office of narration. A tale of
Australia is continued by Mr. Leigh, ani the editor
bims•elf contributes two sterling articles upon suzar, both
as a natural production and as maaufaetured from
maple. There is, ho ',ever, one blemish about this num-
ber of the Colonial—and an intolerable blemish it is :
we allude to a wonderfully silly " Suggestion for pro-
moting Emigration to the British Colonies," in which,
for no ostensible or earthly purpose whatever, O'Con-
nell, Cobden, and W. J. Fox are introduced—we had
almost said lugged in neck-and-crop—with some sple-
netic remark about these three gentlemen " wallowing
in the mire, like the sow.'' Mr. Campbell had better
be a little more cautious in what he pens for the future,
or, at the least, not parade his name with such singular
documents. Otherwise the articles are well selected.

ASCENT OF THE WETTERHORN,
The journals of Berne and Zurich recently announced,
that the central peak of the Wetterhorn, one of the
highest points of the Bernese Oberland (highlands),
had been Ascended by a young Erelishalan, the son of
Dr. Speer, an ascent hitherto unaceomplished, and by
no means devoid of dangers and difficulties. We
(11Ioniteur) have much pleasure in being ab'e to afford
our rea lers the following personal narrative of this bold
and hazardous enterprise :
" The valley of the Grindelwald, situated in the heart
of the Bernese Oberland, may, without any doubt, be
regarded as the formidable rival of that famous locality,
upon which the immense masses of the monarch of all
European mountains raise their gigantic forms. Although
the valley of the Grindelwald may have no reason to
boost in the presence of Mont Blanc, it is, nevertheless,
the iooality.around which the giants of the Alps are as-
sembled as to concert.
" This valley is bound, on the south, by three moun-
tains, the highest of the whole chain, with the exception
of Finsteraarhorn ; on the right, by the Bigger, or
' Great Giant t' in its centre are situated the 'Mitten-
berg ; and, on its left, the three summits of the Wetter-
horn' (Weather Peak). The first of the three, the
Bigger, is 12,000 feet in height, the second 13,291 feet,
and the last 13,184 feet above the level of the sea. 'Seen
from the village of Grindelwald, they appear like a
ice, knownn:hidhr
:yd,u
egat hnhwedt
won-
derful succession of rocks, raising their lofty crests,
almost perpendicularly, to an elevation of several thou-
sand feet. These immense black masses of mountain
twthheiehoNaoreseoasveor-f
generallypcta are
s,
rpt
scuerrdoe of crowned
Grindelwald,
the
withe
peaks plainsthemselves of snow a; n
whilst
ice,h i
ls
iaectiienni
intermediate
the
dai
atbtteituhned boundary
valleysryuomf
whichmt hi
summits
its'4c4teilhnaewttiiilv`d'in of ' lower and higher gla-
ciers
in
separate the three mountains. Until late years, it was
were inaccessible ; and yet, experiem-e had proved the
contrary, as regards one of them, the Shret.khorn, or
'rerrorpesk,' which had been aFeended by three Swiss
naturalists and their guide, after innumerable dif icul.
ties and dangers, They had left there an indisputable
proof of their appearance, by planting a fl ;g, that I was
at length able to discern, by the aid of a telescope. This
egplolt is not yet believed amongst the guides and the
ebtanioili-blititers of the Grindelwald.
" This summit, until then =mended, of the great
peak of the Wetterhorn, was nevertheless, an object
of ambdon to me for several months-; but, it was only
on my arrival at Interlacken, that I set to work for the
purpose of. Obteining information as to the possibility of
my enterprise. Of the goidee who dwelt in the place,
only two were good mountaineers, arid I learn. d from
ono of these, that all the attempts to ascend the Wets
• terhorn, frain Giintiewald. had been vain ; and that the
only pos,ible plan was to amend to t4ritnsel, situated at
an elevation of 6,570 feet upon the aoulhern inclination
of the great chain, where we might find the most Its
trepii and adventurous mountaineers of the Bernese
Wierland, the men by whom the invincible Jungfrau was
happily conquered some years ago. Acting, thertfore,
upon the advice of this guide, whom I immediately
engaged, we set out from Interlacken, on Thursday, the
14th of Jul), at six o'clock in the morning, and ar-
' rived at Carindewald. at ten o'clock. 1 had then CM)
opportunity of satisfying myself respecting the informa-
tion I had obtained with regard to the guide. I found
it ( xact in every particular, We consequently left
Grielewald, the following morning, advaneing
througii die great Schiedeck, passing at the f-et of the
gia,ii-rs of Schwartawald and Rosenleni, and arrived at
Niering,en, at eight o'clock at night, We again quitted
' this place, at an early hour on the following mdruieg,
continuing our aspect above the valley of the Aar,.pass-
ing through the villages of Int, grand, Guttanem, arid
by the celebrated cascade of Aar, to lian&cig, ginpe
our departure from Meringen, we had been constantly
mounting, as was shown by the large heaps of snow,
and the numerous iseelenehes which- we found on our
passage, and which retarded our progress disagrepebly
THE UNION. enough. - • -
This, the second number of this new candidate for " The vestiges of vegetation sensibly diminished in
public favour; is an improvement on its predeceseor, proportion as we approached 'Grinasel; the Alpine rose,
Equal to it in variety, it is superior to it i i the character alone, floerished in those wild regions, whilst iinFeense
of its pa,p• rs. The first paper—" Shall Warren Hug,. !alien rocks, a few blackened pines, and the roaring of
tings have a statue?"--is a wall-written, but sinnewli it oieuracrable mountain torrents bore a mdaocholy teeti-
unjustly-severe critique on the Indian Government of ir,ny to the fury of the various elemeats by
that (with all his faults) great man. The writer (lAA we were suri-trunded. On our arrival at Gritusel,
that he is unworthy of a statue because lie engaged council of Aar WAS held between the 'host (an old and
the Rollins war; but if the bring engaged in all L4lOlllll mountaineer),eetaineer), three of my guides, and myself,
seas; is to be deemed a sufficient plea for d-nprivoig an l upon the weans to .he etgiploYed, as well as the possible
otherwise ',Teat man ef a statue, we, fear that the whole results of oar enterprise. It terminatcd favourably,
scheme as actornitig .the notries of Parliament -Nith Two of the in 1. couragr.ous guidf?s, I. lann, and G,t,
statues must be itbandoued. (peed liana! le consented to accoua ian •
411 griogi,dvro wbuld bek me, and, as

DUBLIN UIVIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
Foremost among the articles in the Dublin University
Magazine for February, is a review of " Carlyle's Crow-
well"--men adequately matched—the rugged self-
opinionaters of the pen and of the sword cheek-by jowl.
It is interesting alone as a first specimen of Irish leniency
towards the Protector, but its merit is deteriorated by
sundry misgivings as to the excellence of the style of
authorship created by the writer of these two powerful
and noble volumes. What the reviewer thinks the bad-
ness of Carlyle as a book-man, is in our estimation his
contrasts of especial goodness ; we mean the density of his lan-
guage,
the Richter-likehis thought,eleast
of
h the
essbnoelsds and
sudden and
humanising
etrirts of his logic. In these respects Thomas
Carlyle is a vast arid wonderful 'e casts the
stones ;
l
stones of hi, irony at the
,juggernautsgernauts of history,''steat
of .prostrating ohimsdf before them in adorat loit ui •
the stones which he thus hurls are as pornircus and ir-
resistible and crushing, as the fragrnetits of St,inbenge ;
his tongue is ever eloquent with savage maledictions
—but they are maledictions upon the godless and the
despot ; his love La lavish and inten,e—but it is re•
stricted to greatness, and to goo iness, arid to beauty ;
his symbols are uncarveu and unpolished—but they are
vivified with truth : his words are rude and barbsrsus,
but they are honest. Hence his powers are singularly
apportioned to the consideration of a " great earnest
man" like Oliver Cromwell. Other than in the above
exception. the reviewer is plain-spoken and judicious.
With him, as with all diskissionste students o that
great epoch of the great Oliver, the man stands forth a
vindicated hero—" the world-great thing" of B ,glish
history. No longer now does Cromwell loom opon US
through the darkness of past days, under me,liums
and epithets the most malign ; he stands before us the
grand, solid bodiment of a man without strategies or
subterfuge—a doer of large deeds—a thinker of large
thoughts ; with probity of heart to back him ; a God-
lover and a man-lover after his rough, nervous way.
The huge marble effigy of Cromwell, so to srsk, had
been obscured with the incrustations of inimical and
false reports. In chipping off these inerus'ations, and
displaying that huge effigy us in very trots it was
at first, Carlyle has acted nobly. Though we reverence
the old adage de ;watts nil nisi bonum we cannot
but say that this sixth collection of the poetic:4 re-
mains of Mrs. James Gray have no prodigious claims
upon our estimation. Number-two of the '• Miscellanea
Mystics," are singular eccentricities enough ; but inure
enthralling to. us is •• A Peep ar the Mysteries of the
Heidelberg Students:"—it is a prep worth some little
trouble to obtain, and the descriptions are dashed off
with agreeable• sprightliness. , Ot th© verses scattered
through this number of the Dublin 17niversity, we would
fain (but for our lack o;'spsce) transcribe those entitled
" Ali Pacha and Eminah." there is a nerve rininimi
through them that we like amazingly. The golden
story about " The Poor Doctor," is simply done, but
inculcates a moral, and is pieturesque withal s so also
in some measure is the c,neiudilor portion of the
" Captivity and Adventures of Joseph Pitts." A saga-
cious glance at " Servia—Her Revolution and Present
State," and avert' superficial political summary on "The
Late Crisis." form limits either way of this eioni
number, which is, altogether, very read:tile, very en-
tertaining, and not wholly uninstructive.