The Sun.
London, England, 1833-03-09 00:00:00

TAIT'S MAGAZINE.

This Magazine, after narrowly escaping a
" naufragium" or shipwreck, equal to that which
Erasmus has so forcibly described in one of his
Colloquies, has at length reached terra firma
safe and sound. It is a capital number, much
too good to have been plunged " full fathom
five," like the father of Ferdinand, in the waters
of the German Ocean, without hope of recovery.
Leigh Hunt, we perceive, figures among the
contributors, in a pleasing little paper of the
Indicator school, entitled the " Wishing Cap,"
which is marked by considerable variety and
sprightliness. "On the Effects of Abolition and
Commutation of Tithes" is a very useful, prac
tical paper, the author of which holds strong
opinions, and expresses them with temper but
with energy. " The Poetical Works of John
Wilson," pierces to the marrow of its sub-
ject. A fine tact, and unerring apprehen-
sion of the beauties of the Professor's
poetry, are visible in every line. It i•
not often that 'Tait puts forth such elegant
and eloquent criticism. He is strong, rough,
and sensible, but seldom refined or graceful jr.
his poetical notices. " National Education" i-
a good (though not an original) idea, turned to
excellent account. " Maynooth" is an agreeable
bit of tittle-tattle. " Works and Life of the
Rev. 11. Hall" is a passable notice of one of the
greatest dissenting divines that modern times
have known.

THE FEMALE NOBILITY OF ENGLAND.
—The Fif h No. of the •• Portrait Gillery of Distin•
guished Females," with Memoirs, by J. Buarox, Esq.,
was published on the Ist of March. The Poi traits and
Memoirs already issued of this interesting publication, in
citric! Countesses GOWER, CHARLEVILLE, BELPAST
(iUILYORD ; Marchioness of LONDONDERRY; Ladies
ANNE BECKETT, DOVOR, J. THYME, GIMLET, J. A.
PEEL, CHOLMONDELEY, SLC. &e. And asit is publishinp
in half a•crown numbers, every fortnight, uniform with
LODGE'S Portraits, the work will be completed within the
present year, in 24. numbers, each containing three
engravings.

PERSONAL ESTATE TAXES.—A return has
been laid before Parliament, on the motion of Mr.
CHARLES KEMEYS TY NTE, of the Su me paid in the variou•
counties of England to the above tax (fur what period i.
nut stated), by which it appears that Middlesex
1,2601. Ils. I ld. ; and E-erx, 1/. The average of ti c
counties seems to be about 60/.

REVISING BARRISTERS.—It appears I))
the
:uwno,
rtee!quuti rries laid
dt pbeforeiy t
hteh e a I•u
n-10.
,vsie of
n ces
amt
e,Commons,cpe t
n selstat t
of
t
barris•ers empl-yed to revise the list of voters, as mid.,
the Reform Act, is 30,5001. ; of this about 19 000/. nut)
be put down to the score of salary, and the rest as expenses.
There is an amusing story told of a poor
woman who ;Ince went with a pe:ition to the house of e
Cabinet Minister, and after tellitig her story to the b4l
porter, and slipping the neeessatj hall-crown into hi
hand, received this romfottitile assurance, " Aly Lord
be sure to do it, for by never dales nobody nothing."

The spirit of the nation generally has taken each
umbrage at the threatened suneressaion of all other law
in Ireland by that whirls maintain, the internal discipline
of an army, that we at length ruin some hope of •
seeing the most obnoxious, and 'retire impolitic, pro•
visions of the Bill, viz., those !sting to courtsmartial
and private imprisonment—considerably modified lay MO
nisters, if not wholly abandoned, in the progress of th
measure through Committee. There is not an Irish
Member of the House of Commons at all conversant with
the character and dispositions of his countrymen, who
will not tell you, that however popular the army may ho
among the Irish when employed in its peculiar or execu-
tive line, there is no one circumstance so calculated to
reanimate, in all their force, the dreadful ass ciations and
antipathies of 1798, as the revival on any txtensive scale of
the courtamartial power. Names, with the vulgv, are en-
dowed with magic influence. The name of a courtmar-
tint, in connexion with the trial of Irish political ottaices,
recalls to the unforgiving peasantry the most terrible
images of tyrannical, arnitrary, and licentious domina-
tion. The pickettings, the whippings, the cruel con-
finements,—all descriptions of tortute applied for the
discovery of crimes which rnig'tt or might not have been
committed, will rise to the mind's eye of the suspicious
multitude, on learning that they are again to have their
houses burst open by military force, and their persons
•übjected to the sentence of a red-coated tribunal.
Though no two beings could be tare d's.timilar than the
affieer of 1833 and he of 1798, nor any Governments
more distinct in spirit than those of the two periods re-
ferred to, it will be impossible to tl the attention of the
Irish poor upon such facts as these. The cry will he
4• The courtsmartial again !—the curse of Ireland be upon
them, and her bloodiest ventteance." It is lor.ily less
from our conviction of the inefficacy of that speeies of
trial as means of pacifiv:tien for bid dad, and of its ten-
.4encv to ruin the relations between the army and people,
that tve deprecate this particular portion of the Bill, than
from our distaste for its unconstitutional character, and our
Iread of its practical example. If no otl'er and more ap-
propriate toaterials existed in the country, we say, t fee
the troops for jurymen, they are better than imponity to
wilt. But allowing that resilent gentlemen will not
act (as indeed we have heard that souse of those in an
inland district have sent away their arms to a county
town, rather than run the risk of defending their houses
from the Whitefeet !)--but suppose a.ore,. gentlemen ti o
lacardly to aid an the vindication of public, justice, and the
lish barristers, as report says, too much in-pined by patty
feeling, what objection can be made—fir no rational one
has been made to our proposition that a given number of
the Judges should form a standing special commission, and
proceed from county to county, wherever ootrageous in-
subordination might show itself, trying and punishing
offences against the peace of the realm ? Against the
powers vested in the Lord Lieutenant, anal to be exercisrd
on his responsibility, for putting down the selfish agita-
tors, to whom so much of the peasant violence must of or-
eersity be imputed, there is less reasonable matter of com-
plaint, because it is probable that the sound enjoyment of
the right of petition will not he capticiously, as it could
not safely, under the eye of Parliament, be interfered with.
Whatever serious opposition may be encountered by the
Ball, we presume that even in the Committee the prevail-
ing sense of the House of Commons will be in favour of
Ministers.— Timer.

It is generally said of a fire, that unless the loss of pro-
perty amounts to an unusual extent, it brings more to in-
surance offices than it takes away. It is not feria chvious,
we think, that litigated policies act to a still larger extent
in an exactly opposite way. In rases of fire insurance
this may often be unavoidable. No one expects an in-
eurence office to pay without r gid inquiry, where there
ire reasonable grounds to expect either haul on the part
of the insured, in the first instance, or wil:111 burning af-
terwards. But this does not apply, or at least with any-
thing like equal force, to cases of life insurance, when it
generally must be the fault of the insurer+ tLat they
incur any greater hazard than they are previously aware
of. When we See insurance offices refusing to pay losses
upon life policies, they generally appear to be taking ad-
vantage
tish etyh erierl sot": vneelaocracuredwi the
valnjuryntag e
doneof what
to
whose benefit such policies are entered into, is grievous
sod irremediable. It is barely passible, and that is all,
survivors, rtvhiev o lair
,
that a person entering into an insurance on his life
may have about him the seeds of some mortal dis-
ease, which he wilftely conceals, and which the skill of the
medical officer of the insurers cannot discover. But the
truth is, that if medical skill amounts to anything, the
fault in such cites must generally lie at the door of the
latter ; but who, on the other hand, knows well enough
that he is not employed to dimin.sh the business of the
.ffice, but to assist in bringing grist to the mill—the !m-
-ettles§ of life insurance h :ring been found so profiialile,
that an endless competition is kept up among the 'Ace.,
through their agents, in all corners of the kingdom, to
.braiu in-urances at almost any risk. Upon tbe whole,
.bile such is tbe case, we do not see that any great in-
justice would be wrought by life insurfla tieing compelled
to abide by their bargain when they have male it. Such
a compulsory measure, it would render Cie.'s mire
cautious in the first instance, would, at all events, save in-
lucent parties, at least, from the seri ms con•riurrwes
which are, in aunst cases, liieiy to follow, fi.un the breach
uf what may, with truth, be called a so!eum engagement.
—lllortand Herald.

Mr. MAXWELL, M.P. for Lancashire, was
speaker who followed Mr. BROERLENDR6T, reported
a Mr. BERNARD or BES.ESFORD.

ELECTION PETITIONS.--The petitioners
not having entered into the requisite recognis awes for
prosecuting, the following petitions, the orders for t4king
hem into consideration were respectively di.cli4r4rd :
Lincionderry city, Harwich (two petitions) Barnstaple,
(three petition.) arid Warwick.
MEMOIRS OF THE IRISH UNION.—Sir
rciel7iiiichw..or eigthe
mosttru evrort:nitnfutihains,d ltgpurilan
.TlOrriNtoArilianßoAlßa Ri
deve-
lops all the hidden springs that produced that legislative
,ncorporation of the two countries which was with so vouch
difficulty established, and which has now again become
he soliket of public discussion. This work is especially
valuable as a revelation of the secret views and sentiments
.ind private motives of the leading characters who have
-olooged to one of the most remarkable histories of modern
times.

BANKING IN ENGLAND.—OIt this difficult
aulject, in which the interests of the community are so
deeply involved, there is in the present number of the
New Monthly Magazine an article front die pen of an
eminent financial writer, which gives a general view of
the foundation of banking credit throueliout the coun't-Ye
Yhowi how the currency is affected by the syteein now
adopted, and investigates particu'atly the nature of t,.a
Bank of England monopoly with reference to the its-
p,rtant question of how far it is xpedient to restrict or
to abolish it. The article deserves the most attentive
perusal.
The first intermediate Session for the trial of
prisoners charged with felonies and other crimes corn-
wiLted in the county will be held at the Sessiens-house,
Cterkenwell-green, on Monday next. There are nearly
eighty prisoners fir trial, who have been couiniitted to the
New Prison since the list Old Bailey Seseions; the next
Sessions of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery at the
Old Bailey will cons.-quently be very dight, ct:d the dui:44
the Judges, the Recorder, awl the C enrmin &root,
will be considerably lessened. The Thames Police Alie
gistrates have, for the convenience of sailors and others
about to go fusee, sent (with one exception) all their corn-
initments to the intermediate Sessions. The new arrange-
inent will deuhtless prove of greet benefit to than who
ire unable to remain long ashore to prosecute.
NATIONAL DEBT.—By a return made to the
House of Commons under the Act of 27 Geo. 111., it
appears that the National Debt has, sines the passing of
that Act, had additions made to its amount by the funding
of Exchequer Bills in 1826 and 1829, to the orient of
13,605,0001. ; the annual charge lot which, inclining
management, is 467,681.
Several persons are now ernployeu in putting
,he walks in the grounds con,ignoue to V:reinia water in
:rder, and in preparing the Fshing-timple for the re,ep,
tion of their 111aJcsucs, and their distinguished vißiters,
in the fine weather. The beautiful grounds of this rural
stated days for 'he admissi,n of the publio in the summer.
retreat will
atbet.,
noe eprixe;ie;ni,t
mboyno•
GODWIN'S NEW NOVEL, "DELOItAINE,"
:Trel"dlit'rkiserinp ga
coultet,hiengernwiogueeie
eloquent, and piolound, and in si,ivi ns of extraordinary
interest and excitement that (ionwiti's genies displays
itself. The first and second vr,lutnes of •Di raine' are
ich in sentiment and thought, eloquent, wise, and beauti-
al. The third abounds in situations st in-
and
his
erest, which suspend the breath, and blench the cheek.
:rittn:fie (ikn) lei I"AjESTY.
on
and make the flsh creep, .ind the blood curdle. Such are
he scenes in the boi.kseiler'e shop
-outlier with the horseman, nn the mid to Ghent; the
nsenvery of the presence of TRAVERS, in the mansion of
its relation, and the itanerrs and ase..p
et in the dilapidated
astle on the Rhine. c W ec.rectiy recollett anything equal
c
o these in producing the ,fee, line of terror, except Mal
MS. ,Standard,I yam of Caleb Willis at Bruges. The en-