The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-01 00:00:00

glance at the bottom, to be a demand for one-third of his
income.

John Bull, Dr.
'co the Tax Collector General of the British Government.
To Assessment for the Interest of the Debts contracted by
the Government in the time of your Great Grandfather.
To ditto ditto in the time of your Great Grandfather.
ITo ditto ditto in the time of your Grandfather.
To ditto ditto in the time of your Father.
To Assessment for the expenses of Monarchy, including
485,0001. to the King, and 218,8221. to the Royal
Family.
To Assessment for Pensions to retired Foreign Ambassa-
dors, poor Relations of the Nobility, &c.
To Assessment for the Military , Naval, and Civil Dead
Wright.
To ditto for the Annual Expenses of Government.
To ditto for the Expenses of Collecting the Revenue.
To ditto for the Expenses of the Navy.
To ditto for the Expenses of an Army of the same extent
as was required in time of war, now necessary to pre-
serve order and insure collection of the Revenue : viz.—
Infantry, to shoot and bayonet the riotous and disaf-
fectrd, if required.
Dragoons, to sable and trample down ditto, ditto.
Artillery to discharge grape and round shot on ditto,
ditto.
Yeomanry, chiefly required for the benefit of the Irish.
How, we say, would sturdy John Bull look first at
such an account, and then at the presenter of it? Perhaps
the items might not be so plainly expressed as in the above
account, especially as the last item ; but the purpose of
them all could not be concealed. John would soon find
reason to class himself among those for whose sake the last
item was found necessary."

FRASER'S MAGAZINE.
This is a clever number, pungent and satiri-
cal as usual, and not devoid of personalities,
though these are not carried to so outrageous an
extent as they have been at times. "An Eng-
lishman's Remonstrance to a Whig Aristocracy,"
is full of false reasoning, half concealed under
a showy specious manner, as if the writer were
really in earnest in his speculations. " Hum-
bug" is a clever squib of the Beppo or Whis-
tlecraft school. " Discoveries of Modern Geo-

logists," is a serviceable, scientific dissertation
to those fond of such pursuits, but to the
multitude at large, it will, we fear, be caviare.
His non plebecula gaudet. The " Gallery of
Literary Characters " comprises a portrait and
biographical sketch of Morier the oriental no-
velist, who, if he at all resemble his picture,
must he astonishingly like what the Duke of
York was at his age. The writer briefly pro-
nounces Mr. Morier to be the first novelist of his
day. This flagrant put!' will never do. With the
exception of his first part of Hajji Baba, Mr. Mo-
rier never soars above the respectable. He manu-
factures characters,apparentlyfrom the recollection
of other books; does not draw them from life,
as if he himself had seen and known his ori-

ginals. Hence his " Zohrab, the Hostage," with
the exception of one or two bits, is as cold and

•eless as the dry bones in the valley of Ado

nijah. Masters and Servants," is a most
valuable essay, and should be read again and
again with attention by our fashionables at the
West-end. The exposure of the tricks of the
servants of wealthy men, and their interested
alliance with their masters' tradesmen, is most
complete, and ought to be the means of saving
many a rich man's pocket. We extract a cha-
racteristic anecdote. The remainder of the
articles we must dismiss with the brief remark,
that the majority of them are worth reading :
" This mode of obtaining business militates against the
purchaser and the fair trader, as will appear from the fol-
lowing story :—This same fishmonger was very desirous
of obtaining the custom of a very wealthy man, who was
a great eater of fish, and who gave very splendid dinners,
and was considered a very good judge of it ; which in-
duced others to purchase at the same shop as he did. Such
a valuable customer was not to be lost without a struggle
for it, and the battle was commenced. Another fish-
monger in the neighbourhood had got in (as the phrase
is) ; How was he to be got out? was the question. The
fishmonger sent the best of fish, and charged very fair
prices; and the nobleman was very well pleased with the
mode in which he was served, and was even known to be
strongly prejudiced in favour of the in fishmonger. Nil
desperandum,' said the out fishmonger ; I have got
the cook on my side ; he is my intimate friend ; he and I
have come to an understanding;—the in fishmonger shall
be out in a very few weeks;' which prediction was ful-
filled as truly as the foretelling and coming of the last
comet. The cook commenced his operations by finding
fault with turbot, salmon, cod, and john dory; but it
would not do. The nobleman was one of those rand
aces in our nobility who trusted to his own judgment ;
and was even more than once known to have ordered his
coat without consulting his valet on the colour. The
cook now boils, but spoils all the fish ; and was at one
crisis of the warfare well-nigh receiving his full weight of
chastisement, by being discharged for bad cookery. At
length an expedient was hit on which succeeded. It was
concerted that the out fishmonger should be apprised every
day what fish was ordered of the in fishmonger for the
family, and that tie should send in the same sort of fish
and quantity, but of inferior quality ; not stinking fish,
but a second-rate fish, which they knew would not please
the nobleman. This was cooked, and substituted for the
good fish, and made to appear at table as the same sent in
by the regular fishmonger. The nobleman, not suspecting
the trick, at length yielded the victory to the cook and his
confederate, who of course was recommended to serve the
family, as being the first fishmonger in Christendom ; and
he now declares that he owes all his fortune to this cir-
cumstance, as it led to the formation of one of the finest
connexions in his trade."

BLACKWOOD'S _EDINBURGH MAGA.

ZINE.

The dumber of Blackwood for this month is
excellent, and, as has often occurred, we are
compelled to praise it as a literary production,
whilst we condemn its politics. There are only
two political articles strictly to be so called. One
is a continuation of the tirade against the Whigs
on the subject of Ireland, begun in the number
of last month. The writer says—
" It is, therefore, of incalculable importance, that it
should be constantly repeated, and generally known, that
it is the Whigs and the Whigs alone who hare brought
Ireland to this pass ; that it is their ambition and agita-
tion which has for half a century distracted that unhappy
country ; that it is their principles which have been dis-
seminated through its ruthless inhabitants; their political
machinery which has been there erected with such unpa-
ralleled consequences, and their system of misrule which
has almost extinguished every vestige of order throughout
the land. For 30 years past, all that the Whigs recom-
mended and contended for has been done for the Emerald
Isle. Ttiey recommended the relaxation of the Catholic
code, and the Catholic code was relaxed ; they strenu-
ously contended fur Catholic emancipation, and Catholic
emancipation was granted ; they incessantly inculcated a
conciliatory system, and a conciliatory system was pur-
sued ; they boasted, if they had the government of Ire-
land, they would soon render it tranquil, and they obtained
the government ; they contended for a wide extension of
the electoral franchise to the Catholic, and the extinction
of the Protestant corporations, and they have carried both
these objects."
The joke of this would be excellent were it
not upon quite so serious a subject. A doctor
advises a particular operation, sanctioned by the
experience of ages, to be performed upon a
patient, but his ignorant relations resist its per-
formance till frightened into it by the extremity
to which he is reduced, and when at length
it is performed, and the patient does not at once
recover from the effects of their mismanagement,
from his birth, they abuse this adviser. No
doubt that the Whigs did suggest all the improve-