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JUNE 8, 1848.

metaphysical papers. " What is the cause of
Astonishment ?" is the subject of the present article.
The
lovers of fun and intrigue will be delighted with
the tale entitled " Trust not your Eyes in Love." It
would " adapt" into an admirable petite comedy.

FRASER.
The opening article in Fraser, on the subject of
the French Revolution, is the production of one who
has carefully studied and thoroughly understands the
subject, and is therefore well calculated to correct
the egregious blunders of the literary dandy who
perpetrated a shallow, self-sufficient, red-tape article
on this subject in the last number of the Quarterly.
As the writer in Fraser distinctly shows, there has
ever since the days of Beaumarchais been
al-
ways a strong Republican party in France, which
has ever counted among its members some of the most
clever and most honest men in the country. Not to
mention the illustrious Girondins, let us look at the
list of Republicans under the Empire, Berna-
dotte, Argereau, Jourdan, Carnot, Massena,
St. Cyr, and the honest, intrepid, and con-
sistent Dupont de l'Eure--to whom we add,
although he became celebrated at a later period—
Ber anger. Under the Restoration the Republican
party increased ; they made the Revolution; of 1830,
when they obtained judgment against Royalty, but
were cheated out of the fruits of that judgment by
the craft of Louis Phillippe. had he been commonly
honest he might have retained the throne which he
had acquired by chicanery ; but he chose to'govern
for himself and his family, and not for France and
the French ; consequently a desire for organic change
was manifested at an early period of his reign which
increased in intensity until it broke out on the 24th
of February.

" This desire for organic change was produced wholly
by the retrograde policy of the monarch and his ministers,
and hastened by the dissolution of the refractory com-
panies of the National Guard and the erection of the
detached forts.

" The breaking-up of the alliance with England for
causes purely personal and dynastic, the shameful fraud
and trickery used in reference to the Spanish marriages,
disgusted more thoughtful men than the masses of whom
we have been speaking. No sooner did the affair of the
Spanish marriages convert the entente cordiale into a
feeling decidedly hostile between the Cabinets of St.
James's and the Tuileries, than the animosity of the
National died away, thus proving that the former attacks
of that paper on England were mere attacks on the
Guivot Ministry, which had invoked the British alliance
as a guarantee of peace. But when the nation came
fully to know that the rupture of the alliance with Eng-
land entailed on France the burden and the shame of an
alliance with Austria—that Galticia, Cracow, and all
Poland must be sacrificed—the Pope thwarted and tra-
versed in every possible way—that the popular mind in
Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, and Germany, must be re-
pressed and controlled, and Jesuits and ultra-Catholics
be supported by a Calvinist Minister,—when the nation
came fully to know and understand these things, its in-
dignation knew no bounds ; and the sous-ogiciers and
subordinates of the French army openly cried out that
the system could not last, and vowed in their hearts not
to support it.

" Unfortunately, the corruption and depravity of the
social system of France became at this moment as patent
as the political was scandalous and servile. The names
of Teste, Cubielres, Pellapra, and Petit, will recur to the
reader ; nor can he forget the Praslin murder, nor the
scandalous trial of Frere Leotade at Toulouse. This
monster was one of a confraternity of monks established
in the town, and protected by the ex-Queen of the
French, a bigoted and narrow-minded, though in other
respects an amiable and a good, woman. The villain
enticed into his cell a poor bookbinder's apprentice-girl,
who had been delivering newly-bound books at the con-
vent. In that cell he ruined and murdered her, hiding
the body in the convent garden. His confraternity,
numbering nearly two hundred dissembling scamps,
swore through thick and thin to save the brute-beast in
human shape. Half Toulouse, men and women, believed
him to be innocent ; for his cause was sustained by the
power of money, and marvellously harmonious false
swearing. Bets of ten to one were offered and taken
that he would be acquitted about the middle of February,
and we:will not contend that interest and gold might not
have effected wonders under the old system. But the
Revolution of the 24th of February brushed away the
congeries of prevarications and evasions, and the scoun-
drel was sent to the hulks for life in the middle of April.
" Notwithstanding the existence of four hundred
thousand places, large and small, there needed but the
existence of a sound popular cry to upset the monarch
and his system. In the interval between September
1847 and February 1848 the call for Reform became
loud and general, and about seventy electoral banquets
were held in the departments. The offensive allusion in
the Kiag's speech to the Deputies who attended aroused
a spirit of defiance, increased and exacerbated by the
proclamation to put down the popular voice.
The rest is soon told. The last banquet was fixed
for the 22d of February, and on the 24th the Monarch
had ceased to reign and a Republic was proclaimed."
The " Anziourer of Munster " is concluded.
" Quackery and the Quacked " is a fierce onslaught,
by some regular bred professional, on mesmerism,
homoeopathy, and hydropathy, and "Whig Professions
and Whig Performance," a fierce denunciation of the
double-dealing policy of the Whigs on the subject of
free trade. In the current " llistory of the Month "
we are glad to find that justice is done to Lord Pal-
merston and to Sir 11. Bulwer, as regards their con-
duct in Spanish affairs. Even the language of Lord
Palmerston's first note, at which certain hypercritics
have cavilled, is fully justified. " Any reader of the
Duke of Wellington's Dispatches," observes this
writer, "will comprehend that you cannot deal with
a Spaniard or a Portuguese as you would deal with
the native of almost every other city."

"Paul Pevensey" is concluded in this number, and
will, we should imagine, be published separately, in
which form it will become one of the most popular
novels of the day. Amongst the new contributors
to this number, we find Hector Berlioz, who furnishes
the first part of a rhapsody entitled " Euphonia ; or
the Musical City." This is an excellent number of
the Mirror.

VANITY FAIR. By 11'.:31. Thackeray.

The author is evidently preparing for his catas-
trophe, but still the interest is kept up, and his
sketches of character are as piquant as ever.

THE ECLECTIC REVIEW.

The Eclectic Renie iv, for June, contains eight anti •
des of singularly diversified character. The first,
upon " Congregational Polity," is, of course, tinc-
tured with those peculiar religious principles of which
this magazine is the organ; it contains, however,
some very admirable remarks in reference to the
Christian church, in the truth of which Christians of
all denominations must concur. Presuming that the
Almighty has instituted a church, the writer of the
Eclectic thus pertinently inquires of those who would
attempt to alter or amend such an institution, why
they should not proceed a step further :—" Since the
government of the church was planned by precisely
the same authority that fixed the laws of nature, why
should the innovator," he asks, " confine his improve-
ments to the former ? If capable of amending the laws
of revelation, why not bestow upon the laws of nature
a few salutary reforms? Let him mend the broken
planets, clear away the spots of the sun ; or
carrying his reforms through the whole universe,
marshal into more orderly groups the hosts of stars ;
and then—let him try his hand upon the Kingdom of
ieaven." The second article contains an elaborate
ofand the very interesting criticism upon the "Exhibition
Academy." This paper also contains a new
word, or
of a
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picture. ‘,
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" The Life of Lo " Erman's Travels in Siberia,'
Lord Chancellor Ilardwicke," and
cannot apply one very diversified articles, but we
Poets," give occasion to four
very interesting and v
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in a style that makes the most licentious works
the feuilletonists appear modest and correct, we sof
can-
not but express our astonishment that a religious
publication should sum up its criticism of such a
work by advising, as the Eclectic does here, the issue
of " a cheap edition."

GAVARNI IN LONDON. No. 111.
" The Crossing Sweeper," " Carmen and Coal-
heavers," and "The Orange girl " are the portraits
of London life limned by Gavarni in this number.
From Albert Smith's physiology of the Crossing
Sweeper we give the following characteristic " bit :"
" We have been favoured with the apparition of
strange sights. We once, in a single stroll, saw a Jack
in the Green tossed over by a bull, a tipsey man upon
two wooden legs, and a cabman with an umbrella. But
we never saw, nor did anybody else:t a policeman in
spectacles, a waiter in boots, or a Crossing-sweeper with
a new broom. There roust be some dEpot at which the
brooms are bought second-hand, for they are all stumps.
And yet they answer their purpose very well. The
only place in which we ever saw th sweepers engaged
in establishing a crossing, under grat difficulties, was
in the new Oxford-street. Now it is being paved; but
before this, in wet weather, the thoroughfare resembled
a by-street in Venice, with a canal of mud instead of
water flowing through it. And as often as they swept a
passage the bulwarks of mud rolled slowly over it again
until they met; so that at last the sweepers gave it up
in despair. The two sides of the street were almost as
foreign. to each other, at that time, as the opposite sides
of the British Channel; the inhabitants saw what their
vis-(1-yis was about, but knew no further."

MISCELLANEOUS.
Sharpe's London Magazine is visibly improved. It
now boasts two steel engravings in place of the
unfinished wood. cuts which formerly adorned it. One
of the engravings of the present number, " Gosp?rt—
a Flag-ship saluting," is a very favourable specimen
of its superior embellishments. Among the literary
contents of Sharpe is an imaginary sketch of the
"Early Days of Guttemberg." Varietyis charming
we are told, hence :the varied contents of the Belle
Assemblee must render this magazine very charming
in the eyes of its fair readers. The number for June
contains no less than thirty eight different. papers.
Among these are poems by„CamillaToulm.m,Mrs.
Abdy, and others ; literary and theatrical criticisms ;
some very intelligent remarks upon the important
subject of " dress;" an interesting " Recollection of
the Gifted" (Mrs. Inchbald), by Elizabeth Youatt,
who excels in that peculiar style of composition ; and
tales and fragments innumerable. Besides the in-
dispensable plate of " fashion," the Belle Assenzblee
contains an engraving of " Anah and Aholibamah,"
the heroines of Byron's " Heaven and Earth." The
eleventh number of The Land we Live In is filled
with a very graphic and interesting account of Bir-
mingham, embellished with a very beautiful engrav-
ing of the town, and innumerable other illustrations.
The Family Herald, as usual, contains an abundance
of light and amusing reading. The facetie, whether
original or select, are sufficient to bend the sternest
visage into a smile. We had imagined that the body
of magazines was complete—that every individual
class and company was duly represented by a monthly
organ, but it seems we were mistaken. A new peri-
odical has just made its appearance, bearing the for-
midable title of the Ethnological Journal; a maga-
zine—so says the title-page—of Ethnography, Phre-
nology, and Archxology, considered as elements of
the science of races ; with the application of
this science to education, legislation, and social
progress. The magazine is edited by Luke
Burke. Simmonds' Colonial Magazine contains its
usual articles of colonial information ; and the Church
of England Magazine furnishes its ordinary collection
of serious reading for the four Sundays of the month.
The most interesting article in Lowe's Edinburgh
Magazine is the conclusion of a paper with a very
attractive title, " Pictures of Dr. Chalmers, from the
memory of one who loved him." The thirtieth number
of Knight's Monthly Volume contains the first half of
what promises to be an interesting work, entitled
" Secret Societies of the Middle Ages." This first
volume contains histories of the Assassins, of the
Templars, and of the secret tribunals of Westphalia.
liowitt's Journal contains a pleasing variety of prose
and verse, tales and fragments. In the critical re-
marks upon. Rowton's female poets, we are gratified
to find //ow/ttspeaking in decidedly high terms of
the poetic merits of Mrs. Southey. This eulogium is
especially gratifying after the correspondence which
took place some time back between Mr. Howitt and
Mrs. Southey. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal is as
attractive and interesting as usual, which announce-
ment, to those who know what its usual attractions
are, will be commendation enough. The opening
paper contains some very suggestive remarks anent
" Youth and Age," and is followed by an exquisitely
pathetic little tale, " The Coral Fishers of Torre del
Greco ;" but immeasurably the most interesting
article i
. n the June number of Chambers
is entitled " Adventures of an Author of
the Last Century," which gives a very attractive
narrative of the mind of the author of the " Vicar of
Wakefield," abbreviated from Mr. Forster's recent
work, "The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith."
Follet is admirable as a mirror of fashion ; some
of the illustrations in the present number are pecu-
liarly graceful. The Colonial Church Chronicle and
the Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal contain their
usual ecclesiastical intelligence. The Repertory of
Inventions and the Farmers' Magazine afford their
peculiar readers a very satisfactory amount of infor-
mation. Ainsworth's Magazine and the .2\ ew
Monthly Magazine for Jane have not reached us.

_tither Ain north's Magazine nor the New
Monthly Magazine have arrived. We have received
also No. 11. of Mr. Rodwell's serial of Old London
Bridge, but as No. I. has not yet reached us, we
are prevented from examining the merits of the open •
ing chapters.]

DISTRESSED BRITISH SUBJECTS IN FRANCE.—
The General Steam Navigati©n Company's ship Tourist
brought over, yesterday, troni Calais, 203 adult British
subjects, deprived of work in France sine the revolution.
They were embarked on board the ship Agincourt, at
Blackwell, passages having
been provided for them to
Sydney by the Emigration Commissioners. The Relief
Association formed for the purpose of assisting these
industrious but unfortunate artisans, have also provided
liberally for their comforts.
THE SOUTHAMPTON PORTION OF THE INDIA MAIL
arrived yesterday by the Tagus, Captain Evans, in
charge of Lieutenant John Davies, R.N., Admiralty
agent. She brought 213,000/. in specie.