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

DOLMAN'S.

A pleasing description is given by Mr. Jerningham of
" the once-in-a-hundred-years Jubilee of Liege." And
as this jubilee occurs but once every century, being, in
that resp„;et, according to the editor's happy phrase,
" like the bloom of the aloe-tree," we fancy Dolman
could scarcely have commenced with a paper more pe-
culiarly palatable to its readers. The immense multi-
tudelm ne
s(as we may term them) present, the
s
ceremonies, the variety of the cos-
eeeminent men, who are there assembled
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together from all quarters of the earth, must render the
occasion in the highest degree impressive, and must, for
the time, altogether fill the imagination. " Loiterings
in the Channel Isles in 1845," are delightful notes of an
excursion to Jersey, Guernsey, and Sark. For the gra-
tification of such among our readers, as may be tempted
to take a similar trip, we transcribe one paragraph :
"It has occurred to me that the following list of expenses
might be useful, as showing the trifling cost of a month's
visit to these interesting islands :—Fare from Southampton to
Jersey (fifteen hours), li. ls. ; expenses on board, 65.; board
and lodging at Bree's, Bath-street, for a fortnight, at 11.55.
weekly, including servants, 21. 10s. ; a pint of Port daily, at
ls. 6d., 11.1 s. ; a bottle of Cognac, Is. 6d. ; fare to Guernsey,
ss. ; a week's board there, li. Bs. ; a pint of Port daily,
Os. 6d. ; bottle of Cognac, Is. 6d. ; fare to Sark and back,
in a fishing boat, 2s. ; two days at Sark, 10s. ; porterage
throughout, ss. ; cigars, 10s. 6d—Total expenses, 101."
Our loiterer has a very agreeable way of depicting the
panorama of scenery, and personages encountered on his
journey. His staff is a steady one, and points out the
most interesting features of those Anglo-Gallic islands:
his scrip—is more valuable, we opine, than that apper-
taining to the majority of railways. The poetry inserted
in this magazine is almost always of a higher order than
is usual in periodicals. In proof of this we would
transcribe " The Dumb Girl's Warning" but for its
length. Here, however, are three most delicious stanzas,
signed with the initials E. B. M. K., and are admirably
suited for music:—

.
it I LOVED HER.
"I lcAYed her when her girlish face,
With smiles and blushes rife,
First sunn'd with its all-matchless grace
Wheni‘ly elsefro unmheenrvyloeudnigifeh;eart's secrecy,
As saints ascend the skies,
The telltale truths resistlessly
Would haunt her timid eyes.

" I loved her when the festal throng
Her joyous laughter woke;
Some bidden rill the flow'rs among,
Less sweetness would evolve:
And later, when the passive shade,
Of thought her features wore,—
A twilight's wealth o'er summer glade !
Still dearer than before.

"I loved her when my plighted bride,—
Half fear, half tenderness—
We dared the tempest to divide
Our hearts' deep trustfulness:
now, when
her -nd
Yearsf and constancy
faithful vow—
Oh ! most I love her now p,
ButThn we proved
eantveon tendril to the guardian tree--
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f, and earnest paper,
we would particularly direct attention to the passages
dilating upon the proofs of the existence of a Deity as
exemplified by the mechanism of the celestial bodies; the
description of Galileo looking from his chamber at
Padua into a night sky; and the scene between the great
astronomer and the poet Milton, near Florence. " /'.
Sound of Home" is, to our thinking, a beautiful
fragment: the writer, we would wager, has a warm
heart. The Rev. C. Plowdon, a ".Memoirs of the Jesuits in
pßussia"royeat attractive
tiv
e continued,toallnan Catholic readers. There
and will, as a matter of course,
is also a paper upon " rope Pius 1X.," which will be
welcomed by the same section: we observe that the
writer speaks in very eulogistic terms of Pius. The amnesty
om
recently published appears to have rendered the present
Pontiff a most popular sovereign. We hope he will
continuo the same system of graceful and spontaneous

lenity.. Several reviews fill up the remaining pages
of Dolman for August ; —the one on Mrs. Bray is,
in our opinion, amazingly good-natured. We have seen
many a criticism on infinitely better writers penned in
language not half so eulogistic, and judicions criticisms
too ! This, however, is generous weakness after all ;
and if the proverbial frigidity of the critic is
wanting, the elegance of the schelar is apparent. The
talent of this magazine has mellowed in the year and a
half which has now elapsed since its commencement,
and it is as large in promise as ever.