The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-02 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--( This Day.)

LONDON, Feb. 2.—Wind this day at noon, S.E.;
light breeze, with fell of snow.
POItTSMOUTII, Feb. I.—Wind N.N.W. to W.N.W.—
Arrived —Johannes, frotn Iquique ; Nariir, from Laguna
fmoraille:tnburg. Put back—Raserve, from London for Ja-

Or DOTI% Feb. I.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived—States,
from Shields for Havannah; Napolitani, from Shields fir
Monte Video.
SHIELDS, Feb. I.—Wind N.—Sailed—States, for Ha-
♦annah. The Sir Henry Potticger, which drove on the
Stones, 30th ult., has been towed off without apparent
damage.
SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 1. Arrived—Colombo (s), from
Alexandria. The Sarah was run down by a brig off Ta-
rifa, on the 26th ult.; crew landed at Gibraltar the next
day.

DOTER, Feb. I.—Wind N. Y.—Arrived—Alexander
Coehrane, from Algoa Bay,
MARGATE, Feb. 1.—The Emerald, from Grimsby to
Jersey, which struck on the Longnose Rock last night, has
become a total wreck ; crew saved.
WIIITBT, Feb. I.—The Eleanor of Sunderland, came
,
•
ashore this morning, and is a totalwreck; mew saved.

towed back last week
(ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH)
Morning.
LIVERPOOL, Tucsiay
Wind S.S.E.
Arrived—Douro (s. e.), from Lisbon ; Patience, Trieste,
The Rosiue. Claypole, from Liverpool, for Jamaica, was
Resolute. ,
In coming up the liver the hawser of the
Rosins Claypole broke, and she drifted against the great
landing-stage, and lost bulwarks and stanchions.
The Florine, from Liverpool, for Melbourne, put back
with lose of mainyard. -
, with loss of rudder, per steam tug

THE MAGAZINES.

Blackwood wan with an article on the condition
of women, which makes a fierce onslaught on the
class of books professedly devoted to feminine
. readers, and treating of their capacities, position in
life, means of usefulness, drc. The writer, though
some of his remarks are founded on truth, and
though no doubt many exceptional cases contradict
general assertions, appears to overlook the tin-
' doubted fact that there are great numbers of women
who, though they may not be left in the extremely
isolated position supposed an indispensable prelimi-
nary by him, are yet called upon to maintain them-
selves, and find it extremely difficult to procure a
livelihood. There is also another class ab we them
in the social scale, who have the same deficiency
mentallyas the former have physically—the want of
some serious interest, some rational pursuit. And
surely it is well for rational creatures sometimes to
give a thought. t.) the aim and object of their exist-
ence, their capabilities, influence, and duties.
Human beings of average intelligence, do not usu-
ally remain in the tranquil state of ignorance and
innocence preferred by the critic, and if they do not
turn their reflective powers to some sensible end
they will probably employ them in a less worthy
course. However, there are some correct views of
life and nature introduced. " What will he do
with it " is continued with unabated interest and
ability. The less pleasing fiores of the dramatis
persona are chiefly prominent in this number,
though wo catch a glimpse of our old friend and
favourite Waife, and a shadowy glimpse of the re-
v.ored Sophy, by way of refreshment after the
manoeuvres of Jasper Losely and Mrs. Claw). We
meet again with George Vipout Morley, the stam-
merer, who exercised such a baleful influence on
the fortunes of Sophy and her grandfather, though
with the best intentions towards them. The
reader's interest is especially directed to him in this
instalment, and it is with satisfaction we find him
at last about to enter on the path of his fervent
wishes and worthy ambition. A glance is given
us, too, of the fair and mournful Lady Montfort,
whose earlier fortunes, apparently, have a tale to
toll. An amusing paper entitled, "People I have
never met," treats of some classes whom nobody
meets, or more properly, who never own to their
peculiar titles. Foremost among" these great un-
knowns are the " Author of a really bad book,"
and the " ugly, di agreeable baby." Following in
the train of the. e illustrious impossil-des, we en-
counter the " man who wishes to hear the truth,"
and the " man who knows his place," arriving at
length at the mystical "man whose word is as good
as his bond," though in his case the author is forcal
to make an exception, as he Lal known several

specimens whose bon'd was good for nothing, and
wht se word might be presumed to be of equal value.
A tribute to ti e legal merit and practical utlty
of Lot cl St. L-onards' "Handy Book," is followed
i.y an interesting plper of travel-4 in L.nz.bar and
East Africa, by the author of " The Pilgrimage to
Mecca," Captuu Burton, who has again
stetted on a journey into the interior of
Africa, and from whom the readers cf
Blackwood may, therefore, anticipate more pages
of plea!ant rArospections. Mr. Smith's thought-
ful and remarkable work of Thorndale' is
analysad and reviewed in a symp ith's'ng and
appreciating spirit. A paper on tho Poorbe:ih
Mutiny is full of interest, and shows the &Sects of

promplitudc and decision. " A familiar epistle
from Mr. John Company to Mr. Jelin Bull" states
the case of the East India Company in the most
ftvourable tranwr, but scarcely Eucc:.:el; in proving
is cause juA.

Fraser.—Fraser is scarcely so br:lli wt as usual
this m:rith, although it is not devoid of articles of
interest. It opens with a ci.itcism on Mr. Smith's
recent work, " Th9rndal-3," of which it speaks in
terms of cordial encomium, although demurring to
rho extremely philos,phic nature of the act.)rs in
the book. Th. history of the romantic life of L.lcly
Strathmore's daughter is brought to a conclusion,
showing how 11.3 r ti.inh father and crafty stepmother
st:nt her from their home, and left her to wander
through the country alone and unfriended. It

tolli us, tGo, ho.v she found a home and shelter
among the kindly hQsrls of "the Dean," and how
she found love and hippiness, though in a very dif-
ferent sphere from the life she had pictured among
the halls of Glainmis. A paper on the "Physical
Geography of the Sea"' is full of interest fir the

lever of natural science. It is founded on Mr.
Maury's careful and laborioue work. The second
paper on the " Life and Writings of Henry Field-
ing" concludes the rezord of his active and memor-
able life, giving also some brief criticisms on his
literary achievements and peculiarities. The writer
is evidently familiar with his subject, and the ques-
tions that have been raised upon it,-and is a sincere
admirer of the genius of his author, while making
ready allowance for his failings and eccentricities.
" The Grumbler" reappears in full force, attack-
ing meatiness in all its phases, though he certainly
gives that term to acts which, however blameable,
are not generally so described. For instance, he
asserts that overpaying a oabman and bribing a
►ail way porter is mesn, explaining himself by the
reasoning that it is taking undue advantage of your
poorer neighbours, who will be unable to do so, and
consequently will not be attended to. His logic
is certainly correct in this, and he is no re's so, attri-
buting much real meanness and commercial dis-
honesty to a lavish and reckless expenditure, but
he becomes occasionally extravagant in the heat
of his arguments, aid thereby destroys the effect
of his just indignation. " A Ride in Mexico" is a
pleasant record of a traveller's impressions of
people and things in that glowing clime, though
without any of the adventures with "males gentes"
which we usually anticipate in a journey through
Central America. " Word ab )ut our Theatre,"
cantains some severe dramatic criticism on the
present decadence of the art and its representatives.
Tile critic censures those innovations of modern
times, burlesques of high and standard works. It
is remarked that it is from no want of public en-
couragement that the drama has declined. "Never
was more money spsut upon our theatres than
now. There are in London some seven-and-twenty
of them, all more or less flourishing." In conclu-
sion, after treating of the various causes that have
led to the present state of things, and the means
by which it may be mended, the writer pays a
genial tribute to the true mission of the drama,
one which is beginning to be felt and acknowledged
notwithstanding all impediments from prejudice
and untoward circumstances :

" It is impossible that, possessing as we do the noblest
drama in the world, and with the great love of the stage
inherent in the people, this state of things should go on
much longer. The want of a better stage is felt by all
thinking men to have become intolerable. As an engine
of popular education, especially of that instruction of the
heart which in these times is too much neglected for that
of the head, it is invaluable. As an amusement, the
mull has never devis'.d one that can compete with it.
We waste our money on opera, but the drama is our
natural element. An Englishman cannot go on for ever
" hying down his understanding at the door," as Lord
Chesterfield said he must do, when he enters the Opera
House. At no time were good theatres more longed
for. People begin to find that they trey read too much,
that they may be too much alone ; that to be trans-
ported out of the round of their own persecuting and
petty earcs into sympathy with the creatures of the
dramatists' fancy, and to be moved to tears or laughter
in company with their tato% -men, is better than to have
a smattering of all the alogies."
➢lr. Cyrus Redding's literary recollections form the
subject of a paper which gives some pleasant gossip
about the celebrities of half a century ago. The
clever writer who takes the name of Shirley eon
tributes a paper on the character of the late Sir
Charles Napier, full of interest, and written with
spirit and feeling, rendering honour due to the
great man and brave soldier. We must not omit
to mention that Leigh Hunt gives us a Tapiser's
tale, after the manner of Chaucer, supplying a
blank among the lelends of the Canterbury Pil-
grims.

Bentley's Miscellany. —The opening article in
this Miscellany is on the future government of our
Indian Empire—a weighty question which is not
easily discuisol within the limits of a magazine
article. Dudley Costello's story proceeds in its
usual style, chronicling some events of great im-
portance to the heroine. Her mother is repre-
sented as almost fiendish. An interesting memoir
of Mademoiselle Rachel's career traces her fortunes
from her humble origin to the summit of theatrical
celebrity. A sketch, entitled "Queen Stork,"
relates how a young lady assumed the arduous office
of director of a boy's school, during the illness of
the principal, and her successes and difficulties.
" Thanatos Athanatos " continues its rambling
records of thoughts and reflections suggested by
the King of Terrors, showing him sometimes as the
skeleton of grim legends; and again, as in the more
graceful and genial early tradition, as an angel,
crowned with flowers. " The By-ways of History'
give us a paper with the curious title of "Pro-
testers who were never Protestants," a large class,
including many eminent and worthy names, fore-
most amongst whom the writer claeses the two
distinguished friends, Sir Thomas More end Eras-
mus. The class he alludes to are those who upheld
the necessity of reform in the ruetcans and manage-
ment of the Church of Rome, though not in its
doctrine, ard that many such existed at the time
of the Reformation, who would have asserted their
opinions with greeter force ifLuther had never
rebelled against the Papal authority. " Count
fkrace's Sporting Exploits" is the title of the
recital of the adventures and fears or
'taelephants
French
sportsman, who professes to hive " 'l
in Ceylon, lions in Africa, tigers in India, hippo-
potamuses at the Cape, reindeer iu Norway, black

bears in Ru3sia," and to have only one object left
unattainei—shooting white bears in Spitzbergen.
"Season the Second" continues the melancholy
recital of Selina Dalrymple's debts and extravz..
gance. The reader loses all interest in her, when
she continues her mad course of expenditure, and
this appears hardly natural. She must have been
worse than thoughtless and fond of excitement, to
have wilfully increased debts which amounted to
such a frightful sum. A criticism on the memoirs
of Berangor suitably fills a place in Monkshood's
new book notes. From the poEtical department
we extract the following graceful verses, suggested
by a touching story told of the great sculptor
Danneker, who, it is said, when sinking into
dotage, used to send his,love to his chef d'ceuvre the
statue of AriLdne.