The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

TUESDA EVENING, NOVEMBER 7; 1848.

prisoner Stokes, though 62 years of age, was sentenced
to twelve years' imprisor,ment for sheep stealing. He
was taken ill of dysentery, of which he died; but Dr.
Baly said this was wholly distinct from Cholera; ver-
dict., " Natural death." In answer to the Coroner, Dr.
Baly said that there wns co fresh case of cholera, and
those who had been attacked were cell.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND THE BAR. —On
Saturday a numerous meeting of the members of the
equity bar was held at the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety
of petitioning the Lord Chancellor to render the sittings
of the courts at Lincoln's-inn more permanent. Shortly
before four o'clock the chair was taken by Mr. S. Lovett.
There were at the time about forty gentlemen, including
the Solicitor-General, present. The chairman, in open-
ing the proceedings, said that although ho was generally
in favour of publicity, he thought it would not be an act
of respect to the Lord Chancellor to sanction any retort
of the meeting to go before the public. He therefore
hoped that if any gentlemen present were attending as
reporters they would withdraw. The reporters then
withdrew. Mr. Malis, at the rising of the Vice-
Chancellor's Court on Saturday, requested the postpone-
ment of a cause in order that he might attend the meet-
ing of the bar respecting the proposed alterations of the
sitting of the court, and at the same time expressed a
hope that his flonour was favourable to the wishes of
the bar in ch siring that the sittings might be held as
long as possible at Linooln's-inn for the convenience of
the junior bar. The Vice-Chancellor said he was de-
cidedly of opinion that the new regulation for holding
the sittings at Westminster during the session of Parlia-
ment was the most salutary that could be come to. Ile
thought, moreover, that the juniors did not do them-
selves justice.
ENLARGING AND IMPROYING THE EASTERN COUN-
TIES TERMINUS AT BlSHOPSGATE.—Considerable im-
provement is being made at this terminus, to enable
trains to run into the arrival platform, and to protect
passengers from the inclemency of the weather. The
iron roofing is being lengthened, which will add much to
the convenience and comfort of the station. Another
large warehouse is being added to the present extensive
premises forming the goods depot at Bethnal-green.
THE BLACEWALL RAILWAY EXTENSION TO THE
EASTERN COUNTIES.--Much interest is excited in the
engineering world by the construction of the two stupen-
dous iron bridges of the Blackwell Railway Extension,
over the Commercial-road and Regent's Canal. They
are erected on a new principle, and in point of extent
are the largest railway bridges to be found in the vi
cinity of the metropolis. This branch, which was ex-
pected to have been opened in the course of this month,
will, it is said, be completed on the Ist January next
year. It is about two miles in length, and is formed on
brick arches. It joins the Eastern Counties line at
Bow. The gauge on the Blackwell Railway is being
altered to admit of locomotive traffic.
FREE BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.—Yesterday the
committee made a special report accompanied by an ap-
peal for assistance, in support of the institution in Glass-
house-yard, East Smithfield, for promoting cleanliness
amongst the poor by baths, washhouses, and cleansing
and purifying their dwellings, without a farthing of ex-
pense to those who resort to its advantages. During
the last twelve months, 33,655 had bathed, 34,843
washed 'and dried, and 12,610 bad ironed. The re-
ceipts of the baths and washhouses for the past year
were 294/. 65., whilst the expenditure amounted to
367/. ss. lid.
WESLEYAN MISSIONS. --- Last night the annual
meeting of the Southwark branch of the Wesleyan
Missionary Society was held at the South work Chapel,
in Long-lane; W. Atherton, Esq., in the chair. The
report stated that the total income of the parent society
for the past year was 108,6131. I Is. 4d., while the ex-
penditure during the same period amounted to 114,6061.
17s. 6d., leaving a balance of 5,993/. 6s. sd. due to the
treasurers. The income of this branch during the past
year had amounted to 4351. Ils. 5d., showing a falling
off of nearly 40/., as compared with the previous year.
The report concluded with an earnest appeal to the
meeting not to allow the missionary cause to decline
through apathy or want of funds.
TRANSIT or MERCURY.—On Thursday next, the
9th of November, a transit of the planet Mercury across
the disc of the sun will take place. According to the
tables of Lindenau, which are used in the calculations
for the Nautical Almanac, the planet will be in contact
with the limb of the sun at 11 h. 1 min. 55 secs. A.m.,
Greenwich mean time, and during the remainder of the
day will traverse his disc, appearing as a round black
spot, about 10 seconds of space in diameter. The
nearest approach of centres, 2 min. 45 sec., occurs at
1 h. 44 min. r.ar., and the sun will set in the latitude of
London, about eight minutes before the planet leaves his
disc, so that the ingress only will be risible. No other
transit will take place until the morning of the 12th of
November, 1861. A telescope of very ordinary power
will serve to exhibit the phenomenon.
COMMUNICATION WITH BELGIUM.—The Moniteur
Beige publishes the official announcement of the new
arrangement relative to the departure of the Ostend and
Dover Mail steamers, and which we have already made
our readers acquainted with in part. On and atter the
12th of November next the mail-boats will leave Ostend
every night between the hours of 10.30 P.M. and 3 A.M.,
so that letters will arrive in London at half-past 10 on
the morning following their departure from Brussels.
On and after the Ist of November the steamers will
leave Dover every night between the hours of 11.15 P.M.
and 3 A.M. So that the mails which leave London at
eight o'clock in the evening will arrive at Brussels and
Antwerp in ordinary weather at noon next day, and
letters for Germany can arrive at Cologne in the same
day.

WESTMINSTER REFORM .SOCIETY. The usual
monthly meeting of the members of this Society was
held last evening at the York
.Hotel, Upper Wellington-
street; Mr. Geesin in the chair. The minutes, of the
last meeting were read and approved. Mr. G. Pouncey
begged to suggest that some gentleman should move a
r, solution to the effect, that although the Society de-
precated the violence and crime perpetrated lately in
this country, under the name of liberty, yet still they
would never cease agitating legally, until a more fair
representation of the people was carried, believing that
retorm was certainly necessary. He would not take
upon himself to move the resolution, as, since a rego-
lution condemnatory of General Evans had been placed
upon the books, he could not but feel that the promi-
nent position he bad formerly taken in the Society's
affairs bad been altogether altered. The Chairman
thought nothing had occurred to cause the observation
made by Mr. Pouncey. lie believed no member of the
society was more respected than the gentleman in ques-
tion. Several members impressed upon Mr. Pounce).
the benefit which might accrue to the society from the
resolution appearing in his name. The matter was,
however, eventually referred to the Committee of Ge-
neral Purposes, which would have its meeting next
Monday, when that committee would convene a general
meeting of the society upon the subject. After the dis-
posal of some private business, thanks were voted to the
chair, and the meeting separated.
TEE WEATHER.— We had a heavy fall of rain,
sleet, and snow, on Friday morning, and at daylight all
the hills within sight of our elevated city were covered
with the white mantle of winter. Towards evening a
keen frost set in, which continued till Sunday morning,
when the wind changed from north to west, and brought
a fresh, which still continues but with nly a slight
abatement of cold.---Caledonia; Mercurr
PIG IRON AT GLASGOW.--We had some prospect
of an impiovement in the early part of the week, but
prices have again gone back, and quotations are flat at
42s 6d. for mixed Nos., cash.
EXPENSES OF THE SWISS SONDERRUND WAR.—
Colonel Abys, the Chief War Commissioner of the Swiss
Confederation, has just presented to the Federal Direc-
tory a report upon the expenses occasioned by the war
of the Sonderbund, which terminated about a year ago
in the signal discomfiture of the Roman Catholic cantons.
It appears that the expenses amount to the sum of
4,876,582 f. (Swiss).

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THE GOVERNMENT AND Tll TURNPIKE TRUSTS.
—lt is stated that the Government intend to deal with
the general question of turnpike trusts the next afs-
siou of Parliament, and are endeavouring
formation to enable them to do so withee to obtain
.t. A cin nrcl-
u-
lar has just been addressed to the clerks of the different
trusts, calling for various returns connected with the
working of their local Acts, and the management of
highways in general. A particular account is required
of the cost of collecting the tolls and maintaining the
staff necessary for a turnpike board, which are enor-
mous compared with the amount actually laid out in the
repair and support of the roads. In Essex, the trustees
have come to the resolution of applying the funds in
hand to the paying off the debts of the board, and abo-
lishing the trust, by the striking out their Act from the
Annual Turnpike Continuance, Bill, leaving the roads
to be repaired by the parishes.
The Basingstoke Canal Company held, yesterday
their half.yearly general meeting at the Gray's Inn
Coffee-house. The minutes of the last general meeting
were read and confirmed, as also was the statement of the
,
receipts and expenditure of the bcompany for the past
year. On the motion of Mr.a proprietor, it was
Lan
resolved that the sum of 1,5001., now invested in Ex-
chequer.bills, should be sold out, and that amount in-
vested in debentures of one of the great railway com-
panies. A committee of three was at the same tune no-
minated for the purpose of selecting the railway com-
pany in whose debentures the investment should be made.
After some other formal business had been transacted the.

meeting separated.
COVENT•GARDEN TH EATRS.—Amongst a numerous
list of fashionables present at _othe representation of
Royal
Haydee last evening were the f owing:—ths
Highness Prince George of Cambridge, Duke of Devon-
shire, Earl of Cardigan, Earl and Countess of Harring-
ton, Count Kielmansegge, the American Minister, Lord
William Lennox, Baron Rehausen, BaronAndrian,
Marquis of Donegal, Lady Caroline Sanford, Lady Bul-
teel, Lady Domville, Mrs. Gore, Sir Archibald Mac-
donald, Sir Henry Webb, Sir J. East, Major Gage,
Major Buckley, Captain De Bathe, IL,. Mr. Vernon
,
Hon. Mr. Bosville, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hawes, J.
L. Clayton, Esq., Sandford, Eq., Sir Benjamin Smith, Baring, Esq., Lord Adolphus Fitaclarenee, Henry Henry
Greville, Esq., &c.
THE NEW POSTAGE STAMP.—Yesterday an adhe-
sive tenpenny postage-stamp was issued to the public.
It has an octagonal edge, within which is an oval.shaped
lozenge; around the rim is inscribed " Postage Stamp,
Tenpence," a raised bust of her Majesty, white on a red-
dish-brown ground, a:cupying the centre.
cuoI,FRA. PEnTs.—Tbe troops in this garrison
have received orders to wear the " cholera belts" for
the future. They are composed of flannel, and cost 2s.
—Athlone Independent.
Andrew Govan, IN'I D. a "character"of
, Greenock,
'ately died there. He lla4 ehil4ilea a great contempt . . .
fpr dress and clam:illness, and rffeared So poor that
many per.,a-$ had known hiM when his cireum-
who
stanees seemed butter, frequently bestowed alms on him,
which he thankfully accepted. Ile has left more than
2,000/.

HA YMARKET TH EA THE.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kern re-appeared here last
night for the first time this season, and w ere received
with a heartiness of welcome which must have thrilled
their souls with delight. The Wife's Secret was repro-
duced on the occasion, and wa; performed in the
usual style of excellence which distinguished
these favourite actors. Nor was the applause eon-
fined to them ; the careful portraiture of the crafty
steward found in Mr. Webster's personation of Jabez
Sneed a masterly representation ; while the pert
vivacity and sly humour of Mrs. Keeley exhibited
the equivocal character of Mud to perfection.
The old and pernicious " star" system is henceforth to
be wholly discountenanced at the Haymarket, and
Mr. and Mrs. Kean have willingly, and we think very
creditably to themselves, cc-operated with Mr. Web-
ster in abating the nuisance. The practice hitherto
neither answered the vanity nor contriLuted per-
manently to the avarice of tl.e actor, while it crippled
the best energies of the most liFeral managers.; and in
that light Mr. Webster may be truly ranked as one
of the first, if he be not the ry who hai sup-
ported the legitimate drama for many years past.
Such disinterested devotion to the national drama
ought, and no doubt will, procure fur the talented
lessee of the Haymarket that public support which
his genuine English spirit so eminently merits. We
cordially wish him success. Mr. and Mrs. Kean are
now to be regular members of the company, and the
successes which they gain will give a permanent
lustre to the establishment. According to the bills
they will act four times a week. Sir E. B. Lytton's
Money is announced for to-morrow, and on Saturday
Mrs. Kean will play Viola in Twelfth .INT;ght for the
first time since many years, and will also act in the
favourite drama of the Ransom.

MAGAZINES, bcc —(CONTINUED).
"UNITED SERVICE.
" The Military Career of General Cavaignac" is
concluded in the preakent number. A clear and suc-
cinct account is given of his eminent exertions in the
cause of order during the eventful days of June,
when France was tottering on the verge of anarchy.
The confidence and esteem of the French nation may
yet be even more signally bestowed upon him than
when he reaped his first reward after those glorious
services, in the: decree of the National Assembly,
"He has well deserved of his country." The "Re-
quiem upon Duelling" is worth perusal. Among
other very sensible remarks on the subject, the fol.
lowing is worthy of observation :—" An erroneous
distinction is too often attempted to be drawn between
a written and a verbal apology, and has been .the
occasion of most serious mischief. A gentleman's
word should- at all- times be considered as valid as his
signature, nor should a written apology ever be in-
sisted on, unless where there exists an avowed neces-
sity for sending it to some absent party concerned,
and in that case it should not be refused, because no
gentleman can olject to state in writing what he is
verbally willing to avouch. The manner ordemand-
kg it makes the whole difficulty ; for a forced re-
cantation, or eating of words, is ever as unpalat-
able as Fluellen's leek." Of the valour sometimes
displayed by the heroes of the sod, an instance is
given which occurred some years ago at Bourdeaux.
In a duel between two merchants, one of the parties
fell on the first-fire, and the seconds immediately ap-
proached, supposing that he was mortally wounded.
After a close inspection they found he had not been
struck at all, his antagonist's ball having glanced
aside and lodged in the trunk of a tree ; but he was,
nevertheless, dead, having, it is supposed, anticipated
by his terror that fate which he might otherwise have
escaped.. The other was wounded in the right arm.
" A Visit to the United Service Institution in 1848 "
will he found a useful companion to those inclined to
inspect that interesting collection of martial imple-
ments and models. There is also a very well written
and agreeable episode of the Peninsular war, en-
titled " A Visit to Santana," from which we shall
make no mutilated extracts, but recommend it as a
bonne bouche to the reader. We would direct the
attention of the professional peruser to the letters on
the subject of the Royal Horse Artillery, and on the
establishment at Warley. For the consolation of the
Peace Congress, we are also informed that the effec-
tive strength of the French army is half a million
of men, the budget for the war depart-
ment being fixed at 432 millions of francs,
and that of the navy at 152 millions.
But the gem of the number is the:first article, " The
Sack of Rome in 1525." The actual assault of the
city by Bourbon. and his ferocious soldiery is not
comprised in the present portion; but the lucid and
masterly exposition afforded of the state of affairs, as
subsisting at that period between Francis I. and the
Emperor, makes us look forward with pleasurable
anticipation to a faithful portraiture of that thrilling
event. It is taken from a translation into French by
Prince Louis Napoleon, of a relation of the sack by
Jacques Bonaparte, a contemporary writer who lived
at the Court of Rome. A preliminary dissertation is
given on the genealogy of the family, which proves
its antiquity and noble blood. So far back as the
year 1170 it was among the first at Treviso, and the
names of several members appear with. distinction in
the Italian annals of the succeeding centuries, till a
Louis Bonaparte passed into Corsica in 1612, at the
time of the war between the Tuscans and the Ge-
noese. He fixed himself at Ajaccio, and was the
head of the Bonapartes of Corsica—the ancestor of
those meteor •kings of modern Europe. Are we ye+
to see another ?

THE BANKERS' MAGAZINE.
The present number opens with a "Review of the
recent Parliamentary Inquiry on the Commercial
Distress of 1847." Anything that relates to the
amendment of our monetary code, under which the
country has sustained such severe losses, and witnessed
such fearful distress, and so general a depreciation in
the value of every description of property, must ever
be a subject of the deepest interest Co all—more
especially to the banking and commercial classes.
No apology is, therefore, due for returning to a ques-
tion which has been discussed with great ability and
sound judgment in the:pages of the Bankers' Maga-
zine. The public are not wearied of the controversy.
It is par excellence the question of the day,
and on its solution will chiefly depend
the future prosperity and happiness of the
nation, whether we are to see our industrious classes
fully employed and fairly remunerated for their labour,
and, as a natural result, loyal, orderly, and contented,
or suffering the most bitter privations, and spending
their hours of compulsory idleness in listening to the
inflammatory harangues of mischievous demagogues,
and easily seduced from their allegiance and love for
a government under which they have experienced so
much wretchedness, and all the evils of the most
griping poverty. Our contemporary well remarks
that "it is not to be permitted that an inquiry con-
ducted with so much care—resulting in the collection
of evidence of so conclusive a character—and sig-
nalised by the adoption of the most important Parlia-
mentary report (that of the Lords' Committee) which
has appeared upon the subject since 1819, and that
report distinctly in opposition to the present law,
should be converted into a weapon of offence in behalf
of those ♦ery opinions which this occasion, and these
materials have done so much to invalidate." It ac-
cordingly attacks the arguments that have appeared
on the subject in a daily morning journal,—which it
completely demolishes with weapons drawn from the
armoury of the bullionists. " Letters to a Branch
Manager" are continued—" Discounts" are the
subjects of the present epistle. There is a second
article on the " Statistics of Railway Expenditure,"
from which it appears that the total amount of share
capital actually paid up on the Ist December, 1847,
is 121,641,584/. 6s. ld., and the total debts of the
several companies 'at the same period, 39,514,895/.
83. 7d. Thus we find more than 161,000,0001.
already embarked in those important undertakings,
which are so perseveringly attacked by some mis-
chievous and designing men. It also estimates that the
future calls,to be distributed over threeyears at least, will
not amount to more than 45,000,0001., or 15,000,0001.
per annum at tha otitiide. This estimate is founded
cn the clear and accurate calculations published in a
provincial contemporary, to which we have already
alluded. Various "Railway Statements" are given,
including, ofcourse, the important " Bear".destroying
statement prointilgated by the directors of the North-
Western Company. There is also a well-written
paper on the "Law of Cheques," and a mass of valu-
able intelligence of the usual character. Among the
communications will be found a powerful letter from
Mr. Salt to Sir Robert Peel on the subject of the
late currency debate on Mr. Herries's motion. The
present number fully maintains the high character of
this excellent periodical.

TAIT'S.
Tait's Magazine for November opens with a pleasant
ramble by the river Dee. Then follows "A Bundle
of Books," by George GilfiHan, once a constant con-
tributor of Tait, but whose contributions now are
assuming the < character of "angels' visits." The
" Bundle of Books" is a well-written criticism upon
a number of recent publications, which, however, only
fills two pages, and which, interesting though it may
be, we are by no means disposed to consider as an
equivalent for Mr. Gilfillan's exquisite " Literary
Portraits,"—exquisite and attractive, notwithstanding
occasional blemishes. Why is the series discontinued?
A long list of authors and authoresses yet remain
well worthy to take their place beside those who have
gone befoie. "Miranda" is continued with undi-
minished spirit. The meeting of the long-separated
husband and wife on the taking of the Bastile, and
the liberation of the prisoners, is
detailed with an ex-
quisite pathos. Aninteresting article on "The
Character of Lady Macbeth" endeavours, in opposi-
tion to long-established prejudice, to prove that Lady
Macbeth was "a beautiful, fair woman, about twenty-
four or twenty-five years of age, with large dark blue
eyes, an extremely lofty forehead, and a profusion of
auburn, or chesnut hair." " What Macbeth is to the
rest of Shaksper.e's writings, and Shakspere himself
.to other. dramatic poets, Lady Macbeth is to the play
in which she appears ; that is, she is the crowning
beauty and excellence of the finest work of art
in the world." So says Mr. James Augustus
St. John, the writer of the article in
question, an
article well worthy of perusal, and which will be
especially interesting to those who may happen to
differ from its opinion. The concluding passages
we recommend to the consideration of one Mr. Birch,
who has recently made himself notorious by his com-
ments upon Shakspere. "In Shakspere," says Mr.
St. :John, I find more religion than in a thousand
homilies." A notice of Cabet, the French Commu-
nist, articles on the Revolution, on the Currency,
on Emigration, poetry and criticisms complete the
contents of Tait's for November.

CHAMBERS'S 'EDINBURG-11 .40URNAL.
Chambers' is too well known to require comment
and most certainly too well appreciated to need com-
mendation. It is enough for-us to say that the No-
vember number is as good as its predecessors. Its
contents present the ordinary melange of the inte-
resting, the agreeable, and the instructive. An
article on " Great Men," one of those truthful and
instructive papers which form the most valuable cha-
racteristic of Chambers', concludes with the follow-
ing suggestive observations:—

1-"flie world may be captious, neglectful ; much
grievous wrong may sometimes be a consequence of un-
worthy jealousies; but, on the whole, a man's chief
enemy is himself. When Horace Vernet suffered the
indignity of having his pictures refused admittance to an
exhibition in the Louvre, did he fly into a passion, and
go and kill himself as an ill-used man? No. Without
muttering a word of complaint, he exhibited his pro-
duction; elsewhere, and lived to Ee at the head- of the
French school of painting—a lesson worth taking by
ethers besides artists. We repeat au advice formerl

offered—NEVEß COMPLAIN: the world flies from. ill-
used men. Go on, true soul! faint not in doing the
work before thee; but do it quietly, and have the rest
'o Him who overshadows us with the wings of Provi-
dence! Remember that the mall oprressions of coteries
are but transient, and act with slight .effect on the truly
ereat—great in sontim, nt as well as rim fleet. We aro
each of us Gri trial, and it conscious of rectitude, need
not fear the verdict of the tribunal."
The most attractive paper in the present number of
Chambers' is a little tale by Leitch Ritchie. called
" Quaker Love," an exquisite little tale, fraught with
a deep interest and naturatpathos, rendered peculiarly
powerful by the simple and unpretending manner of
the narrative.

111E11?0PULP I AN.
in addition to its ordinary quantum of ficti-
tious tale* and light poems, the Metropo-
litan for November contains an ir.tertstuig
6bstract of the " Lite of Lod Chancellor
llardwiclie,' and an able end Lttractive criticism upon
American Poetry, and inure ep eially Li)ngfellow's
poems. The magazine is also adorned with a beauti-
ful steel engraving of the American poet. One of the
poems here given as a specimen of Longfellow'i
writing* is so admirable in its style, and so elevating
in its tendency, that we cannot refrain from trans-
,erring it to our columns, although many of our
readers are no doubt already familiar with it. Iti,
a tale, however, that will bear twice telling. "We
doubt not," says the writer of the criticism in the
Metropolitan, " that this poem has-inspired many a
youthful heart with high hopes end indomitable
resolves. To the an also of little faith, sinking
beneath the waves of life, it is fitted to come as an'
inspiration and celestial voice.".

A PSALM OF LIFE.

WHAT THE HEART OF -THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE

PSALMIST.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to.morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act—act in-the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints in the sands of time—
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate:
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

MISCELLANEOUS.
In its first article, one on the " Anglo-French
Mediation in Italy," the Eclectic Review very truth-
fully, and at the present moment very appropriately,
remarks—" It may be politic in the adversaries of
freedom to affect supreme scorn for revolutionary
governments, and the most unbounded confidence in
the return of things to their old condition. They are
very far from being sincere. They tremble while
they mock and insult, and pray for nothing so ear-
nestly as that the experiment of democracy may
prove a failure. Liberty is infectious, so that the most
firmly rooted despotism will be unable to maintain itself
if surrounded by free states." Again, after, according
to a theory of his own, attributing the liberal move-
ment in Italy to the influence and example of England,
this writer justly observes—" Nations act and react
upon each other, and the beneficial influence we are
now exerting beyond the Alps is only a tardy repay-
ment of the benefits we formerly received from the
republics of the middle ages." The Farmers' Maga.
zinc, by some most astonishing accident, contains a
portrait of Surplice, the winner of the Derby /
for what cause the high-bred racer comes into the
Farmers' Magazine we are quite unable to surmise.
The engraving will, however, we doubt not, be as
welcome to the readers of this periodical as the por-.
trait of any " short-horn" upon record. The Sport-
ing Magazine contains a representation of " Twilight
and Wyandotte," and " After the Gallop," in which
latter engraving clouds of smoke seem to be issuing
from the nostrils of the wearied horses. Sharpc's
London Magazine is gradually but visibly improving
Mrs. S. C. Hall and Miss Pardee are among the con-
tributors, and the editor continues his new tale in a
style worthy of the author of " Frank Fairlegh."
"Eton" forms the subject of the new number
of The Land we Live in, which is ernbel•
lished with a very beautiful engraving of the
" distant spires and antique towers" of Eton
College. Gavarni in London contains as usual three, illustrations—" Fancy Balls," " The Potato-can,' and " The Foreign Gentleman in London," of
which the "Potato-can " is infinitely the best.
Glad as we are to meet with any new work by
Thomas Miller, we are grieved to find what promises
to be an agreeable serial, called by such a name as
The Mysteries of London, a name which is
thoroughly hacknied, and the associations of which
are by no means agreeable. However, if a rose by
any other 'name :may smell as sweet, perhaps the
floral freshness of Thomas Miller's style may be
undimmed by the uncongenial subject which it has
pleased him to associate with it. This remains to be
seen on a further development of his work. The
Drawing-Room Magazine contains some pictorial and
pen-and-ink work-patterns, and a few light tales and
poems calculated to please, the inmates of the boudoir.
Very different are the contents of the Repertory of
Invention. Its very beautifully engraved platea
display "calculating machines," " improved steel
pens," " modes of suspending windows," and
" pressing flour," &c., &c. The Colonial Church
Chronicle contains some very suggestive " Hints on
Catechisms." The Patent Journal bears a very close
resemblance to the Repertory of Inventions. The
Musical Treasury for IN ovember contains "Rossini's
Overture to La Gazza's Ladra " " Gildron's March,"
and a humorous song of " The 'Spider and the Fly,"
sung by Mr. Henry Russell.

The second (or October) number of Albert Smith's
Poppleton Legacy has been seat to us by the pub-
lisher, instead of the third (or November) number.