The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-01 00:00:00

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

Miss Landon figures among the contributors
to this number. Her " Calendar of the Sea-
sons," with rather too much attempt at effect,

contains many poetic passages, and some few
shrewd observations. The Improvisatrice avows
herself an ardent admirer of London, and says
she never wishes to go further from it than a
hackney-coach can take her. Of a raw Ja-
nuary morning she observes, " it requires to be
well aired before it is ventured into." This is
well said. The prattle about spring and St.

Valentine's Day is lively and arch en oug
too palpably an imitation of Leigh Hunt
must protest, however, against her enco
dheisestaiitlora;t
tto e
aLsghoeannddtyolensmiidanensouafibntemhueetrs.ttreewlentt
he
s la s s ehs ri
sure
or
euv
vsa
t
dry in
der. An autumnal afternoon is well
quartern loaf, or dropping down
port
par
The touch about the German story in
itfhhee
hveanzaturdresefolhi
ethlheg sunny s
baked

lightslbii
isaer,.,capitaloubuhrjHitherto -
my
Lorraine views • there are darker shades. A'
November towards the more densely populated d
tude
is like winding through a German story. N°6l
well be more gloomy than a November evening
city ; and yet it has a strange, though saddening
ment. The air is heavy, as if that fine and sub
ment were, by some strange process, becoming
London sketches have been its,
together; there is neither rest nor quiet; you
and hear not your own voice. There seem!
thing as sympathy or relaxation in the world
g ir.
Pleasure
labour of life oppress you with their visible pr(
is weighed down
The crowd jostle on ; the reck not of each ofi
t 0 metaphor, there seems no place for the
the careworn 1
are a ways the careless. The gre
rentleo of life flows through those restless streets,
by toil i n g dra;Tasch;n hardships
a rTadhnsexi lial :using ;
bledt and unresting. There are no flowers on it:
passes
pea vchcwtehesha
asonthal
es
°lyekoPdsent-olganuni
t. .
unknown dkuvssesneeu:ohni;
wfilsere
business.
roach.
ddana ir meds
t,; r andailaghs
passengers
gycanrp;
met waters,—no sunshine on its banks ;--or t'
gentler
i ns, graces, and sentiments of existence. r'
upon you, and around you. You turn to s,„.enlet
street ; you seek to escape the tumult and the et
You find yourself on one of the bridges. let
rays on each side, and the vapoury lainfi' i
faint and unnatural light on the dark arches w -cuj
hung in air. Below is the river, gloomY, sel° -1
—a river of smoke.. No purer element ever ro
such "darkness visible." The dense mass °f
ings lifts its shadowy outline on either side, ere
confused, and heavy. Crime and misery r's,,civi
most on the mind. You feel what a weary v"; 0
is that whose moaning thunder comes perpetual
ear. The black river is as Avernus, with hell
illil?,
banks. I know not how it may affect others, s.h%
the impression upon myself. I felt afraid, ever%
and oppressed to the last degree of sadness. 0
in after-life scarcely for fog, night, and November."
as full of facts as Maculloch's Theory
His slice'
and about as dr Poor Kean !
y.
The Early Days of Edmund Keoafn;
repaid
's ea
bitter humiliations he underwent in in
ignor
days. Even by the members of his ow" a
fession he was either wantonly or
misunderstood and mi esented.
who could appreciate his genius envl a
the 111
and did their best to keep him down ;
hin
who could not, des • d and laughed
pise
i.• like
scorn. After all, there is nothing
r bly thr°
common-place to get a man comfortably di
• • al Aa
srepr T.
elf
the world. " Confessions of a Politic
'd him for the ri
,i 44 Geri
turer" are tame and wire-drawn ; 911" nto 11
Duelling," a tale, barely respeetable--
more. _

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JOHNSTON'S EDINBURGH 111116'
White'sZlNE. t 001
There is very little room for comet
of
f
number, for it consists for the most part 001
tracts—well selected, and which form verY 3,fj
able reading. Miss Edgeworth's " Helen ;
Lockhart's " Reginald Dalton,"--a, cap,
life-like, though now half-forgotten/ 11°;-]
aua
Mr. Leih Hunt's ~ Indicator;
prose and verse, are all pressed into the se
of the number, and constitute its chief att
tion. We should not, however, omit to ill't
an original ballad, entitled " Sir Wa i
"Church and School," grave ands
which is conceived in a generous, man desertl
worked out with much skill, and paYs 0
homage to the memory of the greatest
terEngland has known since the
Sh Xs
akspeare.

COBBETT'S MAGAZINE
The most useful article is the one on
ipc
cation, Physical and Intellectual ; thed As
diverting, that " On Suicide Considerehe
hee
Matter of Taste." Between these two,
and tail of the magazine, lie a variety:f°
intermediate ones, none of which OP
particular notice.

A°
ALEXANDER'S EAST INDL-
A
ZINE. f COI
" Some Passages from the DiarY but th
are sprightly, and drawn from life; onotis'
number, as a whole, is heavy and rion°t

thewhose r mostve p franticfe s o
b enthusiasmasro o
a less lovely mistress. The literary contend
agreeable and miscellaneous. Ai
_,,p$011:111
GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZIN-DV" cs 01
l Its chief merit consists in a likelle—f shi°!:
for
Queen of Prussia. As for the ineilsaiasoalit_ii''
on
nr April, we leave their merits to beptiptly'
by the loungers of Bond-street and
DR. LINDLEY'S LINDLEY'S BOTANICAL
GISTER ; DO;1$11;
OR, ORNAMENTAL FLOWER-GARDEN AND, Saelillal:_lde
No. 2of Vol. VI., New Series. Eight ee'°ble
d The splendid novelties of the vegets of til''
om, introduced through the inediun'odleir,
most beautiful work by Profess°. oollfri:
t oarfkAsbtaeriainrgcl. maa of°
almost exceed belief. Month passesus
prese°ts or if 6
and still each succeeding one
new subjects, undiminished in hrilherwirle
terest. In the present number we hawbite',,,
dCalifornianeep_yell ow
ab
nudl bulbous upsa plants,e_y et
ow
which, with some other plants hictriaccieltcherdsllie'i6l
the Horticultural Society from trtienit4
country, form quite a new class of -resolve(
objects of great interest ; reP tune I,e
at Midsummer, which is their s of
,s#.4
flowering, the fritillaries and toliPs hardy
ey
Spring. They are probably quite
unless tliof
tulips, like which they are treated ;able
should prove that their bulbs are c311',00,1;
of living all the year round in the oPelo;de0:
a property we can hardly anticipate, °
Calif(l the
how dry and mild a climate is that' of
compared with England. in the 01110 llb'Y
Horticultural Society, we are told2i,abtla'4ll,ll,
been planted in the open border, in a,Pt"witli cc:le
soil, in a cold frame, where they gre" olg"
* From the Greek, in allusion to the c"
pression from which the petals distil hood'

t

siderable vigour, flowered beautifully, and pro-
duced abundance of seed. A list of the species
yet unintroduced is enumerated for the benefit
of collectors. Some valuable instructions for
the cultivation of bulbs are embodied by the
and Rev. William Herbert, in his de-
scription of the " Sulphur-coloured Ismene," a
fine ornamental bulb which was raised from seed
at Spofforth four years since.
T 1

he few remaining magazines will be noticed
tomorrow,

PARISH OF LAMBETH.-(THIS DAY.)

1,. ___....._
h his morning a Vestry was held at the School-room,
.1 ere.illes'-buildings, Lambeth, for the purpose of
efing officers of the parish for the ensuing year.
The Rev. Dr. D'Ovizr, the Rector, was in the chair.
When the question was put that Mr. Robert Wat-
z nore be re-elected Vestry Clerk, at the usual salary,
be five
hundred guineas, Mr. Fall moved an amend-
at the salary be three phundred ounds, and that
dente clerks which Mr. Watmore was obliged to employ
alld pay out of his salary, be paid by the parish.
long
hick discussion took place upon that question
had not terminated when our Reporter left.

ASSIZES.-(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)

MIDLAND
CIRCUIT.—WARWICK, MARCH 31.
This THE. KING V. JOSEPH ALLDAY.
this waS an indictment, removed by certiorari into
uecnirt, for a libel.
„air. RILL and Mr. WADDINGTON were for the prose-
clef:sue'
.and Mr. Sergeant GOULEURN conducted the
illeeprosecutor, Mr. William Weston, was formerly
livih,..Ainelican merchant, but is now an accountant,
kucis in Birmingham. The defendant is the editor
Proprietor of a monthly journal, known by the
1, of the Argus which is printed in the same town.
4,4,...gie month of September last, the defendant pub-
dru.,7: in his magazine, an article, in the form of a
liars-4 was which the prosecutor, under a ludicrous
tuche, was made to appear, and to soliloquize ; and in
tobh-is°lilth:luy he was made to exclaim—" That he had
Itee7 his friends of their money, intrusted to his
th Ping; that he had blasted their peace, and ruined
'fame, in which he gloried."
• the. this
the present prosecution was instituted; and
t3"7 having found the defendant guilty, he was sen-
%ai-. to e
s -
ld be
shay la
a fine
paid of 301., and be imprisoned until
fl.