The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-05 00:00:00

to receive.

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday Mary Martin Larkin, a young female
in the employ of Jo.rph Harri., a furrier, No. 8,
Thurlow-street, Blackfriars-road, was brought be-
fore Mr. WEDGWOOD on the charge of stealing a
sable boa, value four guineas, the property of her
employer.
Tire Magistrate committed the prisoner.
In the course of the day a gentleman from the
oVce of Mr. Harmer, the solicitor, attended at the
ice, and addressing Mr. CHAMBERS, alluded to
the case of the two boys, who were brought before
him by Colley and Currie for selling unstamped pub-
lications, but who were ultimately discharged upon
the discovery of a gross conspiracy, formed by the
men above-named, to entrap them into the commis-
sion of the offi.nce in order to obtain the penal
awarded by the Board of St.mps. The applicant
said that lie had attended at different police offices in
the metropolis on behalf of PiWeral persons charged
with vending the Poor Man's Guardian and the
Cosmopolite, two unstamped publication., and who
were convicted upon the evidence of such men as
Currie and Colley. The object of the present appli-
cation was to ascertain whether the Magistrate-
would be pleased to investigate the cases of those
unfortunate persons who were convicted, anti now
lying in gaol, on the testimony of such characters as
the men he had named. In the gaols of the county
of Surrey alone the applicant bad been informed
there were between 30 and 40 persons now confined
for selling unstamped publications.
Mr. CHAMBERS expressed his readiness to comply
with the applicant's request on the subject ; but
from what reason he could not tell, neither of the
men alluded to had, he believed, brought persons
before him for selling publications prohibited by law;
if they had, he would cheerfully enter into their cases,
in order to obtain their release.
Mr. WEDGWOOD recommended the applicant to
obtain a list of the convictions obtained against per-
sons by Colley and Currie, and submit them to the
Secretary of State. The applicant intimated his
determination to make application at all the police
offices, in order to obtain the necessary information
to submit to his Lordship.

THE MAGAZINES.

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
There are some sketchy, pointed remarks on
Mr. Stanley's character as a statesman in the
" Politician" of this month, in which the writer
takes leave to speak his mind freely :
" Mr. Stanley," he observes, " detects every fallacy in
an adversary—he embraces every blunder in a law —no-
thing can be happier than his replies or more infelicitous
than his motions—he hastens to commence and never
calculates how he is to proceed—his Bills are brought
into the House wi.h a vast flourish of trumpets; they
vanish in all tie skulking obscurity of defeat—he compro-
mises the Ministerial wisdom by rushing into a motion, I
and the Ministerial dignity by as suddenly forsaking it.
Yet this perilous friend would be a terrible foe; be is the
only man on the Ministerial B-nclies capahle of replying
to Peel. To take his counsels from the Ministry would
be an incalculable blessing—to transfer his voice to the
opposition would be an irreparable misfortune."
These remarks are characterized by singular
acumen. Mr. Stanley was never so happily
sketched before. " Count Pecchio's Notions of
England" is an amusing, good-humoured work,
much too severely handled by the " New
Monthly Reviewer," who, however, is far
from exaggerating matters when, in comment-
ing on some of the Count's opinions on
the subject of education in England, he says,
" The ordinary course of education is com-
prised within six vols.—four of them Latin
and two Greek. For what else we know, we
teach ourselves when our education is over." The
Modern Platonist—an ambitious cognomen—is
a revival of a series of papers entitled " Conver-
sations with an ambitious Student in 11l Health,"
which appeared some months since in this Ma-
gazine. The present essay is "On 11l Health
and its Consolations," and contains many sub-
tle, ingenious thoughts, strung together at ran-
dom. It is penned throughout in a mild, phi-
losophical spirit, and bears few or no traces of
the sensitive querulousness arising from disease
" Fragment of a Romance," by Godwin, is
founded on the old Legend of the " Seven
Sleepers." It is merely a first sketch, and
scarcely affords an opportunity fur comment.
" Men and Books" is pleasant gossipping very
much in Leigh Hunt's manner. It is desultory
as befits the subject. The anecdotes about Miss
Burney and Dr. Johnson are delightful reading.
Asmodeus at Large" contains one fine,
thoughtful passage, depicting the feelings sug-
gested by traversing the streets and squares of a
great city alone by midnight. " Letter t
is
o
the Editor of the Quarterly Review"
a most truculent attack on Mr. Lock-
speech,
by the author
hart's parts of speech,
of " Pelham." A strong animus prevails
throughout, occasioned, as it would seem, by
the Quarterly editor's disparaging allusion to the
" Disowned," and his commendations on Mr.
Morier's Zohrab. We do not see why praising
Morier (granting even that the praise be over-
done) should give Mr. Bulwer pain ; still less
why calling the author of " Granby" clever
which he is—should throw the author o
" Pelham" into a nervous paroxysm. Yet so
it is, so—jealous, we were going to say, but let
that pass— so sensitive are even our most ac-
complished authors. Mr. Bulwer stands al-
ready on such high ground in the realms of
fiction, that it is lamentable to find him thus
vexed, because another also attempts to make
a settlement in the same . expansive regions.
As for his contumelious reference to Mr. Lock-
hart as a novelist, it will have not the slightest
effect on the reader's mind ; for who forgets that
in Matthew Wald (a most striking,