The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-11 00:00:00

comic cuts), an extraordinarily large and boldly-
executed wood engraving, taken from Ward's well-
known picture of "The South Sea Bubble ;" other-
wise, of Change Alley, as it appeared on the burst-

ilia of that deplorably gigantic Bubble Company•
Printed on toned paper and embellished (besides the
gratis flyleaf just mentioned) with three large wood-

cuts, illustrative of letterpress either simply enter-
taini)ig or instructive as well as entertaining, Cassell's
Magazine, nevertheless, seems too good in one
sense to achieve the wide success requisite
for the securing of the popularity of any
such penny weekly publication. The commence-
ment of a serial tale called " Anne Judge, Spinster,"
by the author of " Grandmother's Money," leads
off, and is followed by the initial instalment of
" Mrs. Malachite's Maxims." There is a curious
account of the Rise of the Great Plague in London
two hundred and odd years ago in Ashlin's-place,
Drury-lane—a srcap of verse--a bundle of anec-
dotes, some of them rather old and threadbare—
and (to finish up with) the moiety of a tale about a
Lighthouse. Still—for all that—it hardly looks
like a permanence. The toned paper, we can't help
thinking, has been rather over-done of late among
the periodicals—besides which, the wood engrav-
ings, as they here appear on the toned paper, look
smudgy and indistinct. Why not revert to old-
fashioned white, and crown each number with a
simpler, bolder, blacker, and less filagreed heading ?
TILE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW—nOW in the third
number of the New Series and the Fortieth of the
Old—continues still under the Editorship of John
Morley to flourish as a monthly misnomer. The
misnomer, by the way, being none the less of a mis-
nomer by reason of the curiously-worded intimation
heading each fresh issue of this now strictly inter-
calary publication for the first day of each succeed-
ing month, to the effect " The Publication on the
15th for the present suspended." According to the
system, therefore, now regulating the issue of The
Fortnightly So-called--its mode of appearance is
one, as just now remarked, not so much inter-
mittent as intercalary. As a Fortnightly, it holds
on to its original title, so to speak, by the eyelashes
—the publication which could alone justify its con-
tinued claim to the title of Fortnightly being, as
naively intimated, " for the present suspended."
Apart from the mere name of it, however,—and
according to the trite Shaksperian deprecation of
blame of any kind ever being supposed for one
moment to accrue from any such comparative trifle
as a Name, as hinted by Juliet's old threadbare
query, " What's in a Name ?" apart from the mere
title of it, this soi-disant Fortnightly assumes to
itself still, by right, a very high place among the
ablest of our more intellectual periodicals. That
high position it assumed at once upon its being first
of all inaugurated among those first-class periodicals
as a sort of English double to the Revue des Deux
Mondes, under the direction of Mr. G. 11. Lewes,
the Biographer of Goethe and the Historian of
Philosophy. That position it steadily maintained,
and, in some respects, at intervals, materially
strengthened and widened during the period of his
responsible Editorship. At the turn of the year,
however, came that change in the fortunes of the
Fortnightly which resulted, by reason of the failing
health of its main projector and conductor from its
very commencement, Mr. G. 11. Lewes, in the trans-
ference of the Editorship from his more than simply
competent hands to those of Mr. John Morley, not
of Mr. Henry Morley, but of Mr. John Morley, as
his successor in the conduct of the new periodical
The third instalment of the publication under his
management shows him to have fairly warmed to his
work both as Editor and as one of his own principal
contributors. The Second Portion of his series Of
biographical and critical papers on Edmund Burke
evidences this more especially. It is rather too dis-
cursive, however, in the manner of its treatment of
the theme taken in hand to our thinking—being
almost valueless, indeed, as a consecutive narrative.
Captain Whyte Melville's " White Rose" is al"
vanced by four additional chapters. Miss Cobbe
weighs in the balance of her judgment two rather
pertinent queries now in the latter half of the nine"
teenth century—" 'What is Progress ? and, Are
we Progressing?" Frederick Harrison, following in
the wake of Mr. Bagehot, descants upon " Our
Venetian Constitution." Besides these, and 3
cluster of minor notices, there is a very curious paper
in this new number of the Fortnightly, by Professor
Beesly, on the " Amalgamated Society of Carpen-
tors," and a review, by J. Cotter Morrison, of gr•
Hepworth Dixon's "New America," under the ulnr
exact title of " Religious Utopias cf the Unite°.
States."
VACHER'S PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION is hardly
as well up to time as usual—the new issue of it
for March making no mention whatever of the lat 5
important Ministerial changes, but announcing,
hitherto, that Lord Carnarvon has the Colonies, bl'
John Pakington the Admiralty, Lord Crataboroe
f
India, the Duke of Buckingham the PresidencY.°
the Council, Stafford Northcote the Board of 'Trade/
and so forth. A revised edition would be most ac-
ceptable to the subscribers to Lacher long bef°
April, and it is much to be hoped, therefore, that 1'
will be speedily announced.

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CO"1:1113 Qitro ‘asi•

HER MAJESTY, &c•

WINDSOR CASTLE, Sunday.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince
Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry of
Prussia, arrived at Windsor Castle at 20 minutes
past six o'clock last evening from Buckingharo
Palace. Her Alajesty was attended by the Duchess
of Roxburghe, Lady Susan Melville, Lady Caroline
Barrington, the lion. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon'
Florence Seymour, Major-General Hon. A.
Hood, Colonel lion. A. Hardinge, Mr. Legg, an'.
Capt. Schroetter.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended 1-3 Y
Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle last eirell
ing from Greenwich-park.
The Queen, their Royal Highnesses Princes:
Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and the ladies ,1 ,0
gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine sere
ce ti P
morning in the private chapel.
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The Rev. C. Kingsley, chaplain in ordinal'
Queen, preached the sermon.
Lady Bagot arrived at the Castle yesterday,
he
had the honour of dining with the Queen andt
royal family. Crystle
The Rev. C. Kingsley also arrived at the
yesterday.

THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
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to
one of our contemporaries this morning, rel3tirter
the Prince3B of Wales, is not authorised-
Royal highness is suffering much from the
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tism in the knee, from which, as stated in the
bulletin, the recovery must necessarily be sloW"th
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Queen is coining to London to-day.

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countess at Heron Court, near Christchurch. ror seat
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days past all hopes have been given up of her recoverP_ve
The lion. Mr. and Mrs. Bulwer Lytton 11'`, .
arrived in town from -Lisbon, and are stopping At the itil
andra Hotel, Knightsbridge, W. a n 11/1
ARCHBISHOP MANNING has recently wr--te, 0 11,
essay on Rationalism in England, which will fortri taro oler-
troductiou to the edition the Archbishop has been ,_su'o of
intending of the Charge lately delivered by the 13isi"°' a,
Orleans on Atheism and the Social perils attendiog '
This work will be published by Mr. Ileutley. oi'
Lady Franklin, wife of the celebrated 11'
gator, is now in Rome with her niece, Mit,s Cracroft.