The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAIT... MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1846.

talk, tells piquant anecdotes of the late Justice Parke,
and or Miss Mellon, and of Theodore Hooke, and an
annonymous contribution in "A First Evening in Na-
ples, and "La Festa di Santa Brigida"—(we imagine both
papers proceed from the same pen)—gives us some
pleasant off-hand sketches of Neapolitan scenery and
Neapolitan society. For some time past we have ob-
served a marked improvement in this periodical, and the
present number more than sustains the character of its
predecessors.

(of which latter we ou raolves have already given a ifa-
vourable notice), have suegested a theme to one of the
contributors of the !üblin University, which he has
treated in a capital article, leading off the Au-
gust number. The delineations of an uncommon
race of beings in a dig ;ta,nt quarter of the globe ; the
account of their domest is manners, of their recreations,
their religious ceremon ies,dispositioo,features, language,
dress, and general charetctei is always a subject of the
utmost fascination; brit the; fascination is infinitely en-
hanced when the narrator writes in a good-humoured
and agreeable strain. Sucl t is the case in the specimen
before us, and the reviewec r has rendered his composi-
tion equal in attractiveness to a passage of romance. In
the subsequent pages of tin s magazine, however, we are
presented with veritable pied :es of fiction, among others,
the continuation of Mr. Carl.eton's vivid tale of an "Irish
Famine," and " Signor .T or mica," a pleasant fiction, in
four chapters. Now that; fehe French metropolis is in an
unusual state of animatio a from the elections, and from
the recentattempt upon th. ;King's life by Henri, the paper
entitled " Paris in 184 6" will be devoured with
an appetite. Nor has the recent recurrence of the July
jubilations detracted from . Who interest with which any-
thing relating to that 131 iriant city will be regarded.
With no city in the world,. :perhaps, are associated more
reminiscences of glory and a home than Paris—the glory
of Charlemange, Henri 1V.., le Grand Roi, and Napo-
leon ; the glory of the Ch amp de Mai and 1830 ; the
shame of its double capi tole .tions, and the devilries per-
petrated in its precincts during the Reign of Terror.
Paris is indeed tesselated w ith grandeur and meanness,
and the writer of this article has felt this whilst penning
his lucubrations. "Strav Leaflets from the Oak of
German Poetry"—alway's right welcome—are this
month peculiarly so. Sot no of the verses are inimitable.
We cannot refrain from quoting a very elegant sonnet,
addressed to Sir E. Bulwe.' Lytton, by Kenealy, and we
do so the more readily, as they are a favourable speci-
men of the poetry admitted 'lnto the magazine :
" Like the young Moon, when down from Heaven she came,
To court the slumbering She pherd, as he lay
Nooked in a dell amid the IA dmian hills,
Filling the spot with an anib rosial flame
Of light ethereal from her a .ver.ray—
So to my soul comes genius : from the skies,
And such immortal splendou 1...3 there instills
As charm the young, and gl ad the old and wise.
0 Venus—souPd—Hiss onus i—Minstrel—Sage—
Weaver of dreams of lil;ht from olden love—
How shall I thank thee for the enchanted hours

Pagsed with thy spirit ?er thegolden page?
So Plato rnus'd—so Sh: ►kspere wrote of yore—
So dreamed of loYe, Rousso tan, Clarens' lakes and hovers.

" Political Prospects" is a marvellously sombre and
long-winded lamentation: on the hopeless position of
national affairs. The Dub lira University might have saved
itself the trouble of writing: :such unnecessary expressions
of grief. It will meet withi :few sympathies, either in its
indignation with Sir Robimt or its melancholy forebod-
ings as to the Russell Ord inet. Its intolerant spirit,
moreover, :is here and them developed in a manner ab-
solutely ludicrous. It scorns the Maynooth grant, as
another "attempt to give to Popery an ascendancy" in
Ireland, as if Popery was not already in the ascendant
among a people more than. ei/ ;ht-tenths of whom number
themselves in the pale of r.hat church! Again, it speaks
of Popery being " aggrandise d in Ireland " by that same
grant. As well might we tat; 1k of a pauper at the street-
corner being aggrandised br the gift of a few halfpence!
The literary portion of the. magazine is, however, of ex-
ceeding merit.

what had passed, telling her now that she had sworn, if she
told, God would strike her dead. She was then allowed to,
go. Since that time such has been her misery that she could
no longer bear it, and on Monday last she made her dis-
closure. Yates was a young man of low stature, and slender,
while the accused young men are tall and strong. Breacon
and Barker, as we have said, are in custody, but Raine, one
of those charged with having committed the crime, has net
yet been secured.—Sunderland Hemet!.