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THE SUN,

some of the most ultra-proposals of M. Proudbon.
If that scheme were carried into effect we might see a
peer of the realm inheriting his title, indeed, from his
great grandfather, but absolutely stripped of the pro-
perty with which to support that title, because his father
and his grandfather had died before his great grand-
father. Then again, what can be more absurd than the
attempted development and extension of the annoying,
unstatesman-like, and unjust system of licenses;
or what more suicidal than the imposition of a tax upon
coal, the only effect of which would be to check the full
development of the industrial resources of the country?
But those bungling attempts at financial legislation are
all indicative of the Socialistic tendency of their pro-
posers; they are all taxes upon capital, they are all in•
tended to act as " heavy blows and great discourage-
moats " to mercantile and industrial enterprise, and to
ruin the merchant and manufacturer, who is an object
of equal hatred to the Young Englander, who exclaims
with my Lord John Manners,—
"Let laws and learning, wealth and commerce die,
But give us still our old nobility ;"
and to the idle, labour-hating Socialist, anxious to prey
upon the industry of others, who ,xclaims with M.
Prcudhon—La propriete c'est le vol. We therefore
draw the attention of the mercantile and manufacturing
community to those propositions, and leave it to them to
decide whether they thick the Gladstones, the Card-
wells, the Smytbes, and the other Young Englanders, of
whore Fraser's Magazine is the avowed organ, fit and
proper persons to be trusted with legislative power. The
others papers in Fraser are of an interesting character,
and among them the " Episodes of Insect Life," and
the review of Cipriani Potter's edition of Mozart's " Piano-
forte Works," are worthy of especial commendation.

LONDON,

for their religion, but if they be still affronting the Go-
verament under which they have protection, I must and
will look to it.—fo. 42." " This from gr. Howe, and he
from I.l*. Steward Maydston, who heard the discourse."
It would be 'Well that' those who now-a-days contend
that parties, under pretence of developing their religion,
may "affront" with impunity the Government under
which they have protection, should study well these
words of the -greatest statesman which England has
ever produced. They d' dare the true theoryof religious
liberty, which we take to be equality 'for all religions
under the supremacy of the State.

THE BRITISH GAZETTEER. Part XXIV.
The present number of this truly national work fully
maintains its high character for accuracy and copiousness
of informatioo. It is illustrated by an engraving of the
Reading station, and by a map of Liverpool, beautifully
engraved on a large sbale.

THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF SHAKSPERE,
from the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed ; with
Glossarial dotes, Life, 6-e. Vol. I. Edited by William
Hazlitt, Esq. George Routledge and Co,, Soho-

square.
A small-sized and cheap edition of the works of our
great dramatic poet has long been wanted, for all the
good editions that have as yet been published have bean
large volumes, with ponderous foot-notes. Mr. Hszlitt, in
this edition, has made a judicious selection from the va-
rious readings cf the principal commentators of Shak-
spere, and only given foot-notes to explain those words
which have now, either become obsolete or entirely,
changed in their. signification. The work is to be com-
pleted in four-shilling volumes. The first volume con-
tains The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night,
The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Measure
for Measure.

THE CLASSICAL GAZETTEER ; a Dictionary
of Ancient Geography, Sacred and Profane. By Wil-
liam Hazlitt, Barrister, of the Middle Temple. Whit-

taker and Ave Maria-lane, 1851.
This is a most carefully compiled dictionary of all the
name of the provinces, cities, towns, and nations that
are met with in the classics, giving their situation, their
modern appellation, and a short account of their history
and the remarkable circumstances connected with them.
The compiler tells us in his preface, that the materials
for the work " were not ready at hand, subsisting in
some similar form of combination, but had to be col-
lected, by laborious researches, extending over several
years, from works as various in period and language as
they were different in, their plan, and, to a large extent,
nontradictOry in their .general theories and in their par-
ticular definitions; allocations, and identifications." It
will be evident that great labour and research were ne.-,
cessary to produce a work of this description, but the
task could not have fallen into better hands. Accustomed
from early. life to literature and literary pursuits, having
learned from his professional studies the art of weighing
evidence, -Mr. Hazlitt possesses peculiar qualifications
for the proper performance of such a task, and he has
produced * work which will henceforth take its place by
the side of Lempriere as the great authority in all
matters relating to classical geography.

FINE ARTS.
THE ART JOURNAL.

No less than three splendid engravings are devoted
by the Art Journal of this month to the illustration
of the Vernon Collection. Lee's delicious woodland
scene, called " The Cover Side," is, fur, one, admir-
ably copied by the graver of Cousen, Egg's capital
painting of " The Victim" from an incident in the
story. of " Asmodeus," by that of Sangster, and Rip-
pingille's " Reflection," by that of Hunt. -The last-
mentioned seems to us somewhat inane withal; but the
second is in the true spirit of Le Sage, and
of a delightful humour. Theodore Gericault is
the " great master" whose features, career, and
performances are here either recorded or pic-
torially depicted. Among other sketches, we
have an exquisite woodcut of his famous " Wreck of
the Medusa." Karl Girardet's picture of " The
Huguenot Service Interrupted," is also powerfully
represented. Among•the drawings illustrating "The
Domestic Manners of the English," we fancy, if we
mistake not, that we recognise some engravings
familiar to us long since in " Knight's Pictorial His-
tory of England. • The examples given for April of
" The .German Artists" are from Jager, and some of
them in the highest degree commendable—as, for
example, " Joseph Acknowledging his Brethren."
The literary portion of the number arrests the atten-
tion as of more than usual interest, and deserving of
very general circulation.

THE PICTURE GALLEUY. Part 11. Richard
Bentley.

A very curicas engraving, taken from the original
painting at Hampton Court by Honthorat, leads off the
second instalment of The Picture Gallery, with a re-
presentation of the family of George Villiers, the first
Duke of Buckingham. As in most Flemish pictures,
the baby is pourtrayed as the most venerable in coun-
tenance. Never was there such an old-fashioned little
oddity of an infant depicted in bib and tucker. Sir
William Beechey's admirable portrait of the old Earl
St. Vincent is the subject of the next plate, which is
every way wonderfully characterised. The likeness, as it
is pretended to be, that follows, is, to our thinking, little
less `than than a caricature, and a caricature of one of the
grandest heads mortal ever had, that of the great Ludwig
Beethoven. " Henry VIII.," as he appeared the year
before his death, namely, according to the painting pre-
served in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, is the personage
displayed in the last illustration. What is meant in the
letter-press by describing Beethoven's house as " glisten-
ing all over with a species of green sunshine?" We
should like also, to know, very much why the writer
quotes—

"'Twas lore that taught a monarch to be wise,
And Gospel light first beam'd from Boleyn's eyes,"
as an " elastic couplet"—why " elastic?"

COMPLETE WORKS OF SFIAKSPERE.
Part VII. Willoughby and Company.
Measure for Measure is the play given in the last in-
stalment of this admirably cheap and excellently edited
edition of Shakspere. The notes are masterly in their
condensation and completeness. All that we regret in
the publication is the very glaring meanness of the em-
bellishments.

THE ARABIAN. NIGHTS' ENTERTAIN-
MENTS. Part 111.

A considerable improvement is mible in the wood-
cuts contained in the present number of this reprinted
periodical. One or two of the illustrations, indeed, are
not unworthy of Cham, partaking more of the French
than of the English style of embellishment.

ADVENTURES OF DON QUIXOTE.
Part X.
A profusion of indifferent engravings scattered through
a cupital reprint of the masterpiece of Cervantes. We
suspect the wood blocks have been already over-used,
otherwise they would do a little more credit to the ori-
ginal designs of Tony Jobannot.

PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. No. XIV.
The present number of this exquisitely got up bo-
tanical work, by Lindley and Paxton, contains beautiful
coloured plates, of the false scarlet sage, the Earbadoes
cherry, and the three-coloured randa, besides numerous
wood engravings.

MEMOIRS OF HORACE WALPOLE. EDITED BY
ELIOT WARBURTON, ESQ.—The new work entitled " Me-
moirs of Horace Walpole and his. Contemporaries," edited
by the distinguished author of "- The Crescent and the
Cross," has just appeared, in two handsome octavo volumes.
" The biography of Horace Walpole (says Mr. Warburton
in his Preface) is now for the first time presented to the pub-
lie. There are few names with which we are more familiar,
and yet there are few public persons with whose private
life we are less acquainted, though there are abundant mate-
rials to render his biography as instructive as amusing. The
biography of Walpole is inseparably connected with that of
his associates and, illustrious contemporaries. The import-
ance as well as the interest of his memoirs is thereby consi-
derably increased. The social life of the period must be
passed in review before we can fairly estimate the man who,
more than any other, embodied its peculiarities, its graces,
!and its defects. Society created his fame, and at the same
time sapped its best resources. Walpole was like. Voltaire,
l'enfunt gcite du monde qu' it gate."
WESTMINSTER FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.—An
^estate of 24 acres, at. Reigate, Surrey (making about 130
allotments), has just been purchased for this society. It is
admirably adapted for building purposes, and it is expected
that each allotment will pay the member from 7 to 10 per
cent. In the borough only the society has nearly 100 mem-
bers, and in a political point of view the purchase is most
important, as so many new voters will be added to the
registrar as to counteract the great influence of Lord Somers.
It is confidently asserted that the " independent" electors
will be enabled to return a liberal after the next general
election.

METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL.—The anniver-
sary festival of this truly catholic and most useful charity
took place at the London Tavern, I3ishopsgate-street, yester-
day evening, the chair being filled by Mr. Alderman Salo-
mons, in the absence, from indisposition, of Lord Dudley
Stuart, M.P. The objects of the institution are to provide
gratuitous daily medical and surgical advice, and appropriate
medicines and treatment, for poor sick persons, of all creeds
and countries; and an important feature in the management
and one which is said to be almost peculiar to the society
—is, that, even without a governor's recommendation, the
necessitous sick have only to present themselves at the doors
of the institution at once to receive all the advantages it
affords. Mr. Alderman Salomons made a warm and ener-
getic appeal to the numerous company by whom he was sur-
rounded on behalf of the hospital, and the toast of prosperity
to it was drunk with much enthusiasm. In the course of the
evening the Secretary (Mr. Nash) announced a list of dona-
tions and subscriptions which amounted to nearly 1,5001. A
selection of songs, duets, &c., was performed by Miss Thorn-
ton, Mr. Genge,- Mr. Sporle, and Mr. Buckland.
None of us stand alone in the world; none of us
can sink ibto an abyss of misery without dragging others
after us.. —Eliza Cook's Journal.
THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION AT STOCKPORT.—
WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The jury empanelled to inquire
into the cause of the deaths of the 20 individuals who lost
their lives on the above occasion, re-assembled at the Warren
Buckeley Arms Inn, Bridge street, before Charles Hudson,
Esq., coroner, to resume the investigation, and also to re-
ceive the report of two professional gentlemen engaged by the
jury to examine the construction of the boiler, and to give
their opinion upon the probable cause of the explosion and
the serious destruction of human life. Considerable interest
appears to have been taken in the matter, many of the
principal manufacturers and scientific gentlemen in the town
and neighbourhood being present in the jury room. Mr.
Oldham, solicitor, of the firm of Coppock and Oldham, ap-
peared to watch, the case on thepart of Mr. H. Marsland, the
proprietor of the mill; and Mr. R. B. B. Cobbett, barrister
at law, Mancheiter, attended on the part of Mr. Morris, the
maker of the boiler. Several witnesses were examined, and
as oeyeral mere remained 0 be ,o, the laved WM ficlimatil.