The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-03 00:00:00

Fronde and his critic arrive are contradicted by
the plain voice of fact. No political sagacity, no
steadfast self-reliance, no patronage of fiducatioa,
can compensate for the darker shadows of his
career. Mr. Froude admits him to have been
without the gift

BenUcy's Miscellany. —euis magazine claims the
congratulations of its readers on attaining its forty-
fourth volume, a dignity which encourages it to
take,a survey of public offal's, and to express the
opinion shared by so many Liberals of the present
day, on the removal of Lord Palmerston's Govern-
ment. It will be entertaining to many English
readers to examine the character given of this
statesman by a German writer. It forms the sub-
ject of another article, entitled " Palmerston and
his Policy," and is taken from a Leipic publica-
tion. A concluding paragraph by the translator,
though disclaiming some of his opinions, endorses
the principles on which they are founded, and ends
with a vigorous denunciation of the fallen Whigs,
whom all other parties agree in distrusting.
" Going into Exile," is the continuation of the
story of the missing bracelet. The mystery is not
cleared up, but Alice Seaton, in her anxiety to
screen her lover and her sister, places herself in a
somewhat awkward predicamen,. Suspicion falls
on Gerard Hope, who leaves the country, but the
suspicion of the reader is rather directed to the
sister. It is an unfortunate fact for Alice's peace
of mind, that both parties declared their pressing
need of money On that occas.on. " A Lady in
Spitzbergen," is a title-to excite the emulation of
fair adventurers, but the traveller does not seem to
have found her expedition very prepossessing. The
grim solitudes of the northern seas had- few- attrac—
tions fur the lively Parisienne. Monkshood, in
his New Book Notes, takes for a subject a volume,
recently published in P.ais, on the Lives of Mary
Stuart and Catherine de Medicis. The eventful
lives of these two remarkable women have so often
filled the pages oft b e historian and biographer, that
little now remains to be said ; but the summary of
their lives is not without interest. A sketch of the

life and writings of Eugene Sue contains some curi-
ous accounts of his vicissitudes and engagements.
There is much that is melancholy in this brief and
business-like record•of the life and death of one
who should surely Lava been capable of better
things. ,‘ The story of the Ghetto" takes a retro-
spect of the Jews in Rome, which at the present
epoch will not be an unattiactive subject. "
onomic Fancies" display considerable ingenuity,
and some originality of design. " A Few Words
about South Austra'ia," presents that colony in a
most favourable light.

Colburn's United Service.—The opening article
.3 on "Our Position in India," and strongly advo-
cates a vigotous policy. Neveetheless, it upholds
some impracticable opinions, .and there is a want
of that large-minded and c naprehensive spirit
which is necessary for the government of millions
of a different race from ourselves. The writer
seems to consider that it is necessary for European
supremacy that all efforts to improve or en-
lighten the native population, to raise them
in the social scale, must 1)e suppressed and (Bs_
couraged ; that the more degraded and crushed the
native, the more secure will be the English rule.
" Whatever conduces to the greater self respect or
to the greater self-confidence of those to whom our
presence must be always a grievance and injustice,
from that moment we are acting to our own dis-
comfiture." No wonder that holding such opinions
he should say that England would be none the
worse if India were lost to her to-morrow. ge
forgets that he himself contradicts his assertions
when he states that the native is now what
century talways
h was, a contemptible foe; and that the
ury which 'las effected so much for us has done
nothing for him. The innate superiority of the race
will always show itself ; there is no need for the con-
staut use of the bayonet and cannonade. Where
the two races come together the European must
rule, and surely it should be the aim of a great
naticu to rule wolehily and well, a ecnsunamation
never to be attained if we look on our Indian pos-
sessions and Indian subjects with scorn and indif=
ference, and make it an object to debase and crush
them. The unpopularity of the navy is a sensible
article on a subject that is welt deseiviug the con-
sideration of those in author y, The m'sniange-
n
yad by successive
aolntoysfo
eafast
me nhe
seamen. The
a
the) most injurious
contradictory
orders that have been issued within a few 3 etrs are
sufficient to disgust the sailor and coast-guardsman.
Boardsf
feencttaon n of
thevAa f cd
mindsiinaitri
The present naval administration &capes the cen-
sure of its predecessors, and we hope it will continue
to consider the grievances of naval officers
and seamen with a view to their removal,
a task which is worthy of any amount of time or
trouble, as it is futile to expect that able and well-
conducted men will devote years to a service which .
offers them so few advantages for long service and
good conduct. 6 Cuba and the Slave• Trade " are
treated Of at length. The horrors of that abomin-
able traffic have been' so often detailed, that most
readers are familiar with them. Nevertheless, it is
somewhat startling to read that, " from close
picking in small space, the deaths are now com-
puted at 50 per, cent." It is .a sad reflection that,
after our lavish expenditure and ovnatant super.

" which becomes •
The throned monarch better than his crown ;"
and though the reviewer would fain extenuate even
his cruelty and injustice, the deaths of Sir Thomas
More, of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, are
unanswerable contradictions to the endeavour to
paint Henry as an upright and much-maligned sove-
reign. Frederick Tennyson contributes somegraceful
verses on Roseleavee, displaying some amount of
poetic feeling,yet somewhattoodreamyand mystical.
" Teneriffe—a summer above the clouds," is the
title of an interesting and instructive paper,
founded on the experiences of Professor Piazzi.
Smyth, Royal Astronomer for Scotland, who re-
cently ventured on an expedition to the Peak.
His scientific observation will of course be read
with the greatest advantage in the original volume,
but the article before us gives a summary of What
is most remarkable in it, as well as a few introduc-
tory pages ,
.on the characteristics of that lonely
island, which well deserve attention. Church-
yards are a favourite subject for the thoughful and
reflective. Even if the writer confines himself to
the niE re practical view, there is always something to
attr set ihe curious and speculative reader in the
different modes and ceremonies with which the
varying nations and races have interred
their dead. There is much to engege the
reader in this paper, and the extracts
from the different works on the subject
give it a variety and freshness. The writer com-
ments on the miserable failures which have always
attended the attempt to withstand the Creator's
law of dust returning to dust. "Surely," he
exclaims "it is better a thousand times to bury
our dead from oar sight than to preserve a hideous
mockery of the beloved form." The method of
urn sepulture excites equal indignation. "Only
think of a man pointing to half-a-dozen urns on
his mantlepiece and chellonier and saying, There
the wicksu cease from troubling, and there the
weary are at rest.'" Epitaphs and monumental
inscriptions must necessarily find a place in such an •
article, and an interesting selection is made ; some
long and elaborate, others brief and emphatic, like
the " Miserrimus," which inspired Wordsworth.
or the happier " Ernigravit," which marks the tomb
of Albert Darer. Among the celebrated writers
who have lent their aid in commemorating the dead
are Ben Jensen, Pope, and Walter Scott ; but
few inscriptions can be more impressive than
the plain stores that cover ths resting-
placss of John Howard and the "Man of
Ross." The papers on Natural History
are continued, and tell us SAME) of the peculiarities
of man-of-war birds, boobies, and noidies. "Con-
sumption in the Guards" is the title of a paper
which treats of thejquestion of military sauitary re •
form, which has lately attracted so much public
attention. " Catarina in Venice" is the first part
of a Study on the Lagoon, written in a dreamy
style, not without ability and interest. The most
attractiveof the remaining papers is one on Petrie's '
Ancient Music of Ireland. The rich variety and
the mournful pathos of those beautiful Celtic airs ,
must be familiar to most lovers of music. There
is much truth in the following remarks, which,
treating of the great principles of:Art, are equally
applicable to the sister arts of Poetry and Paint-
ing in the present day :
" But it is not only on account of its historic interest •
that we plead for the study of national music. Our loving
care is justly claimed by the pure and beautiful melody
to be found among the still surviving relics of ancient
song. Arising, as this music has done, from the breast
of man in his untutored state, these songs, at first the
improvisation of some unknown artist, caught up by his
children or companions, and chanted from place to -
place, have gradually taken the form of purest melody,
in which natural feeling speaks forth simply, unfettered
by rules, and unrestricted by conventionalities.
Time has borne witness to the truth of the assertion
`that it is by force of Melody and not Harmony, theta,
work endures successfully throughout all ages.' And
yet how little is this truth acknowledged in the present
da,y when it is the complaint of all who think and speak
truly on the subject, that the great value pl'ced upon
the technical and mechanical part of the art has brought
our composers to a strange state. Their productions
are no longer music; they wander far without the com-
pass of human feeling, and we can give them no re-'
sponse from the mind and from the heart.' This ten-
dency in the present day to substitute mechanism for •
thoughtful work, and the mere show of 'truth for truth '
itself, is to be lamented in other arts besides that of
music. For the spirit, be it good or evil, which animates •
one art will tell ia all ; aa3 on the truth or falsity of
this animating spirit it is that' the greatness of art
depends."