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London, England, 1835-11-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1835.

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The
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.
Called
riAnse aarfttiecrle, Shall we overturn the Peers ?" is
Christopher North's usual fashion.
terad,,id as the old gentlern-sa may be, and. indeed ge-
t. IIY is, on literary matters, no sooner does he mount
iZstPelitical hoblw-horse, than he is all distrust, so-
that
try, and ptcjudice. Why does he take for granted
(~rei_ne Reformers are all panting for an opportunity to
ootrt 'maw the Upper House of Legislature ? Facts do
awarat:arraot this sweeping assertion. It is purely
on Kit's part. So far front desring to do
io 1, with the Peers, and vest all legislative authority
oh, ‘a Commons, the Reformers, even the most ultra
have
st, always strenuously protested against any
4111 folly being imputed to Them; they feel, and have
thousand times given expression to their feelings on
this
subject, that a second chamber is indispensable to
of Government. At the same time,
,Zweyer, they are equally desirous that that second
umber should be so constituted, as to further, rather
:than retard, the progress of rational improvement ; and
lioe.refore is it that they are so anxious to accelerate—
t.," overthrow, as Blackwood implies—but a reform,
Rouse of Peers. Till this be accomplished, vain
protibe all attempts to work out satisfactorily the great
b...ulem of Reform ; so the sooner it is set about, the
fr'etter, even for the Lords themselves, who will then be
seed from that weight of public odium which at pre-
m"_t attaches to them, and be restored to their proper
place in the ~.espect and affections of the community. It
tireelaely because we are Conservatives that we hold
or language, for we deny that those are so, who, in
de, ',O preserve the unjust privileges of an oligarchy)
kti tl'd peril the peace of tivo kingdom, and even the
hrt°.liarchy itself. With the remarks at the close of the
thi.ele, we wholly coincide. Let the Peers originate in
"vn House useful measures of Reform ; we shall
fir 7 the phenomenon with transport, and he the
to rank ourselves among their Lordships' most
~t t
hreP'uous supporters. " Strong's Sonnets" is a
eery
so-so
and in parts, eloquent, notice of a
so-so series of poems. The observations on the
proper nature and structure of the sonnet—that smiling
Itlieksand on which so many fine wits have been
Iv recked—show that the writer has evidently studied
the
tilsject with attention. In the tale, " Myself and
Arran," we have the materials for a broad farce
It'two acts. The sketch of Dr. Flop, though extra-
is irresistibly ludicrous. " Naples under the
uthons an&Bonaparte" is a prosy affair, the lead-
'g circumstances of which have been narrated in print
t least a dozen times. " William Pitt" is a continua-
l"' of a series of political papers, whose main features
flee uncommon assurance, and great powers of high-
, ewil abuse. The writer has made the discovery that
wilitt was not to be corrumed by personal ambition T."
.as ever assumption equal to this ? The " Trans-
:tens from the Greek Anthology" are, many of them,
tie, beautifully and feelingly rendered, particularly
tile one front Meleager to Zenophyle playing on
e lute, "'Eight days in the Abruzzi" is remark-
able for its flat contradictions to the very general ru-
mour---for years past—that these mountains are so
steel v:ith brigands, that it is dangerous to trave
th
touch them. The writer assures us that there is
wets the slightest cause for apprehension, for that he
alidered among their most savage and secluded defiles,
tt 411 hours, alone and unarmed. The descriptive parts
of this sketch are admirable. We take for granted
'hat it is the production of some young landscape
:Painter, of a Salvator Rosa turn of genius. Among
14ther interesting anecdotes, lie tells us of a cook whom
.1i
e Met with, at a little way-side inn among the
'‘bruzzi, who had all Sir Walter Scott's novels by
heart, which he had read and re-read a dozen times at
least, in translation. 'We subjoin a specimen of the
authors
- descriptive powers :
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icture was the blue, smooth lake—a picture six-
-teirty miles in circumference ; the chasing in which it was
.It, -was plain, and wood, and icy mountains. It was abut mid-
the sun was high and bright, the sky deep
.and cloud-
; and the landscape, which melted into the light, was a
iir Pageant, which nature had adorned with her richest inlig-
-11--toe. Round and round soared vast rocky mountains,
:„„-ele of the loftiest of the Apennines ; the never-melting
--„„"° ;vs crowned their kingly heads, forests wrapped their feet,
theft
human dwellings slumbered white and peaceful beneath
shadow. The outlines of the scenery were varied as well
as wild• We stood a good way above the level of the Water,
24 the side of a flattish, moory range of hills, the only incon-
4,derable heights about the ; and about halt a mile be-
'ath us, beyond a sandy plain, the inland sea rippled against
°ts shore. To the left rose a very fine and lofty mountain,
'steep and bare, with two conical summits, and snow lying in
e"e gullet's far down its face. This was the Mount Velino ;
1"4 on a rugged bill, among its roots, a tuft of cypresses
marked
the site of the
ancient prison-town of Alba. At the
foot of the mountain, a beautiful wooded plain, verdant like
'I4 orchard, came forward to meet the lake ; and through the
• bowers twinkled the roofs, church-towers, and castle of ikvez-
lj,it lake. Wthe gahen th
rden-e eye moved thence,
plain between hill stilland w alonater appeareug the brink, o
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e°trew ; white dwellings shone among the trees, a huge mis-
lined rock strode down like a promontory from the great
mountain-chain nearly to the a.lid beneath it stood the
north
of Celano, the largest on the lake. Round this left, or
'rth side of the lake, as far as Elie sight could distinguish, ran
a girdle of woods, gemmed with habitations ; and over the
Took
l_ of Celano were piled prolonged mountain-ridges, line
.ehind line, a perspective along leagues of snows, the border
of, an inaccessible icy wilderness. On the right side of the
lake the heights were less remarkable ; some headlands dipped
tight down into the water, and gloomy pine woods darkened
• the northern sides of the loping hills. Directly in front, be-
'o the east side of the lake, the view was hounded by a
I3g, distaxit mountain range, the celebrated Majella, which,
seen from so remote a point, presented a more gradual eleva-
) `too than the other mountains : fields of snow clothed it wide
and deep, and from its flat head two immense black rocks pro-
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THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-row.
rhe several articles in the present Number of the
`` 'Old Monthly" cannot be complained of as too long,
'and they are certainly sufficiently varied 'to suit the
'taste of the most fastidious ; yet we cannot say that
this periodical improves, as we had hopes it would,
under its present management. The conductors must
secure a class of contributors very different from the
hulk of those whose literary efforts they now patronize,
if they would ensure for their labours that reception
by the public to which they are, on their own account,
fairly entitled. Some of the papers are good, a few
very good ; but, taken altogether, they want humour
and elasticity, and occasionally force ; while in origi-
zality of ideas they are not a whit more inviting than
Roebuck's pamphlets.
The " Editor's Letter-box"--which by the way
purports to be an article liable to inscription anion?).
the papers of the month—does not altogether ple;l6e
bs• The idea is a good one, and not the wo,
-.se for its
, ant of originality ; hut, nevertheless.,
'e en. • fr • '
n inF 'enough hag nut
.... o.sre ;1 ...
.‘ made of it.
extracts from works of so
Why, - ~..anee, 4iv€l. iMertion to
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011.',,claY t th°, P . 4,''. ' Such carelessness as this is apt to provoke unmerited
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terpreted, we shall regret a misunderstanding for which
we are net prepared.
The " Editor's Postcript" and the " Principle of
Loyalty" are well conceived; but we should like them
better if the language were less rhetorical, and if more
pains were taken to give expression to the writer's pre-
cise and fixed l'irgs on the several political questions of
which he treats. We look for something tangible in
political essays ; albeit, the contrary is so general
among professors of the seience of government, that
we could point out several who have obtained distinc-
tion for pamphlets and addresses in which we have
looVied in vain for the expression of a definite opinion.
It is doing nothing to tell us that " fortitude is the
practicable attribute of the Premier ;" it is doing still
less to give a definition of " fortitude," and the various
ways in which the term is applied : we want proofs,
not definitions ; facts, not assertions. In fact, such a
form of conveying public instruction is, in our humble
Opinion,. extremely ill chosen. For our own part, we
candidly confess that vte do not• understand what is
meant by " idiot-like ambition running riot with true
patriotism," and " pretermined madness strutting upon
the political stage of the world with all the impotence
of legalized defection !" as applied to current events.
No doubt the Editor means something superlatively
fine; but, unfortunately for us, we are among the dull
of comprehension.
" Reform your Universities " is a very sensible
article on a subject worn nearly threadbare.
The writer tells us nothing new, but we concede him
the merit of putting what has been already before the
public in an inviting, and altogether, a very satisfac-
tory form. In the correctness of his opinions we cor-
dially concur ; and we have hopes that, in a very short
time, the Legislature will take measures for remedying
one of the most degrading grievances of the Dissenters.
" Patriotic Songs of Spain" would please us better
if it were longer. The vet ses arc full of fire—of that
unextinguishable patriotic fire, which glows brightest
in bosoms which in infancy have been taught to glow
with a martial ardour, borrowed from the memory of
chivalrous ancestors. In this sentiment principally
consists the riches of old countries over new—riches
of immense value when glory is to be gained in the
battle-field.
"Between Decks," " On Bores," "The Serenader,"
" The Omnibus," and' Tom Moore at Baunow," are
all articles of a class too common to entitle them to
any especial notice. Thousands as good are written
and forgotten every week in the year ; and we should
say the best of them are such as never appear in print.
" The Poems of Shakspeare," " An Essay on the
Moral Effects of Fiction," " A Day at Cowper's
Tomb," " Mr. Public Instructor Roebuck," and
" Notes from the Diary of a Sub-Editor," though
greatly differing from each other, are, nevertheless, ar-
ticles of considerable merit. But even in them we
find nothing remarkably striking, with the exception
of one remark on the article on Shakspeare.
As we have been so severe on the " Old Monthly"
for November, perhaps the editor will excuse us if, by
way of reparation, we offer him what censors are least
sparing of—namely, our best advice with regard to all
forthcoming Numbers. Now, albeit we are not fond
of long articles, yet we hold that vety short ones are,
in general, neither entertaining nor instructive, and
therefore we arc for papers of a moderate length—say
from four to ten, or even fifteen pages—always provid-
ing the subject be interesting, and the manner of treat-
ing it be well chosen. Mere paragraphs are to be
met with everywhere ; and though we sometimes hear
of silks of so fine a texture that a lady's dress might
be enclosed in a nutshell, yet would it be impossible
to compress a cargo of serviceable linen into the same
compass. Variety is as requisite in the length of Ma•
gazine articles as in the subjects of them. Again, no
maximum should be fixed in the price of literary con-
tributions, and nothing should find its way into a
Monthly Periodical, merely because it may be had
gratis, or because the writer happens to have some
influence, literary or political. Every thing should be
punctually paid for—the least valuable contributions
according to the ordinary price, and those of especial
merit at a rate sufficient to insure the assistance of the
writers. It may be regarded as an axiom in literature,
that what is had for nothing, is in nine cases out of
ten worth nothing. We make these observations
in utter ignorance of the internal nianAgt,Meilt of
the " Monthly," and we trust Choy will be received in
the spirit in which they are offered.

TAir S MAGAZINE.
Simpkin and Marshall, London.
This is a very varied and readable Number, and
would richly deserve a favourable notice, were it only
for the essay on " Church Establishments," which is
full of point and argument ; and is, moreover, quite h
con more production, at least we judge 0, lYom the
spirited style which it is penned. In the amount of
its practical informatioo, it is superior to anything we
lase read on the subject, even in the paget t Oat
Edinburgh Review. We extract the 'opening .para-
graph, as a specimen of the ttuthoe4 mode of treating

the subject
K1.0.ut0,...-and yet we have many a great blessing i—
heroilitary Peers are the first in the seentid 'class., they *eve
always distinguished; but since the C,'orernonV linse Was
reformed, the Lords are twice Messed. That', liave done Vet
the Church; and they hare, With aiAnterste`a
for themselves. Talk of the journals era 'the Y..,ther scribes
and talkers against the hereditary kiioeors I—they arc but
t 4
heralds and trumpets to the tell;'- of the Peerage:
Reform was propose47-.llity would not concede Itelloritt fe
the Commons this they laid the train let their V:vii hez
form. They blustered 1-flightily against it eteii% iltl rowed,
and vowed :—sis.ty or a handl' sve* threatened,
then the o;-,,,osition Lards 4,..Akaoa, Church Reform passed
the Commons,, rat attellent ; and it ;,as resisted, as were
'.calf a seem to of the last sess:,n,
issuing conWettutielly
from parliamentary Reform, isy such rotet'Veangt, the Lords
tbroUght they were conservative; 4,ol6ottuly they IraYe',4een
affording proofs of high eritlVe% anti misdemeanours =the
feit, their own eotistitntibtal existence. Mnk is 'WV! Versatile
in respect to custiaffit ot all kinds; :Yelt It! Those regarding go-
' vernment he is fixed Ws ijikei',Ateon of the revolving wheel:
--hence, the'endttragr t 7 hereditary
pressi.tm is tiNtiikt. Profession 14islators. The ex-
s. 'oy inheritance have long been
d.screclit.: it was the practice in many countries l---in Egypt,
in tit?: East, &c., it continues. In England, we have escaped
that curse among our tradesmen' and manufacturers; but it
flourishes among our Peers, tvhot in right of their heirship,
pass laws—or obstruct their pining. What Bishop Heber
says of castes, is partieutaii,Y fitting to the present conduct of
our lordly legisiativ th'ste—‘ The system of castes, a system
which tends Incort: than anything else the devil has yet
invented, to o.zstroy the feelings of general benevolence, and
to make nine-tenths of mankind the hopeless slaves of the re-
ril."..inder.' A hereditary king is sufficiently humiliating ; and
this practice is only supported because it is insisted that the
ignorance of the people is so great, the nonsense
so infuriate, and tht anbitkm of ‘•
e of partis;;„,
Uldr ea,
overwhelming, that it is bet tbr to res-
by blind chance, than •
to tome person provided
pular apprehens;- noose the best according to the po-
clstl so lilindand
-.LI of the best. But this peaca-Sake compro-
mi‘ ise,
, those who use it, cannot have credit in favour of
....reditary legislators. A senate, or Second Chamber, or
whatever such part of the legislative machinery may be called,
admits no such fearful consequences as those adverted to in
respect to royalty. In fact, there is no reason, except the
drudgery of custom, to authorize such a solecism. In ancient.
times, the great lords were immense proprietors of land :
now many of them have become State paupers, and most of
theta look eta the Sizte 'to provide places for their children and
relations. Some never 'had: any land : arid it is among the
growing absurdifiei.OfhiS hereditary House, that, while corn-
' monera must'baVe a property qualification to be entitled to be
elected to tlip Commons' How of Parliament by their fellow
citizens, and to legislate—any. man, by being a primogeniture
rionr "Itirrint-6foLo nn the!

the amazing difficulties that a man; has even to pass
such a trifle as a Turnpike Act ; and will convince
even the most enthusiastic admirer of Parliamentary
usages, that there " is something rotten in the state of
Denmark " as respects the present method of dealing
with private Bills. The article is a-valuable, well-
timed exposl!. " Abdy's Residence and Tour in the
United States," is one of those well-digested notices
of new publications which are so frequently met with
in this periodical ; where the Reviewer does not, as is
too often the case, show off his own sagacity at the
expense of the subject of his criticism ; but places
his merits and demerits fully and fairly before our eyes.
The extracts arc remarkably well selected, and just of
a fitting length. The " Great Christian Republic" is
an intelligent essay, whose title sufficiently explains its
nature, from the pen of William Howitt. Passages
of it display much of that impassioned eloquence, which
gained such general popularity for .the ." History of
Priestcraft." In the criticism on " Robert Nichols's
Poems," ample justice is done to the merits, apparently,
of a rising young Scottish poet. We have read a few
of the extracts, and they seem to possess much merit,
though to our unpractised Southern ears, the broad
Doric dialect of the Lowlands is anything but melo-
dious. We can tolerate it in Burns and Scott, and in
the " Noctes" of Blackwood,. but elsewher; it is abo-
minable. The " Confidential Correspondence between
Lords Brougham and Lyndhurst" is a pointless at-
tempt at the facetious in verse.

FBA SER' S MAGAZINE.
Fraser, Regent-strect.
By far the most amusing article in this Number, is
one furnished by Nimrod, the same gentleman, if we
mistake not, who contributed, a few years since, two
admirable papers to the " Quarterly Revie'v," on the
subject of the " Turf," and " Fox-hunting." He here
gives us the substance of his post-prandial reminiscen-
ces, under the title " Bacchanalia Memorabilia," and
very memorable they are, such as once read are not
speedily forgotten. The Paper is purely anecdotical,
and contains some whimsical details of the bibulous
zellievements of the old Welch Squirearchy. The
following passing notice of two hard-drinking Welch
parsons may perhaps amuse our readers. We have
few such in " these degenerate days."
" He was the friend and companion of the younger days of
my father, who, by the by, lived to see four generations of his
name, all issuing from one parent stock ' • and they exchanged
dinner-visits about twice a-year during the latter years of their
lives. But some foresight was requisite on these occasions.
Previously to fixing upon a day with " the doctor," two or
three hard-headed neighbours were to be secured to meet him,
as my father could not half sit him out. Again, it was awful
to see him put into his carriage at night, to go home,—for he
WAS twenty stone, plumb weight. Both doors were thrown
open ; and, by the coachman meeting him in front, and the
footman in the rear, he was, from practice, rather scientifically
hoisted in.
" Not more than twenty miles apart, but among the moun-
tains, lived another rector, of similar calibre, who also drank
his wine by measure. Being one by on a visit to a neigh-
bouring squire, when a very small glass was set before him
after dinner, he pulled the servant by his skirts, and thus ex-
postulated with him : ' What is this glass for ? Does your
master wish to keep me here all night ?' The celebrated John
Warde, of fox-hunting fame, rather improved upon this. On
a very diminutive glass being set before him, he also halloaed
the footman back, and, placing it on his stomach—one of very
considerable dimensions, as all the world knows—asked him
if he thought they were any thing like a match?' But the
Welch rector was as famous for eatinr, as he was staunch to
the bottle. This preaching thirty-five minutes,' said he at
dinner one Sunday to his curate, will never do : here's a fine
goose roasted to a rag, and not a drop of gravy in it.'
" Your readers will bear in mind that I am alluding to
times long since gone by ; and although I have not been lately
amongst them, there cannot be a doubt but that the Welch
clergyman has matched with ' the march,' and.. that such a
rector as this, such a diamond in the rough—for he was a
good man, good to the poor, good, in short, to every one but
himself—is likely to become a black swan. Could any one
believe, however, that, since the days of Squire Western,
such a scene as the following could have taken place at a gen-
tleman's table, but which actually did take place at his? • A
stranger at his board asked his curate to take a glass of wine
with hint, and the invitation was accepted. But on the order
bein[F given to the butler to fulfil the contract, the rector sang
out, in an audible voice, Wine I give him (the curate) ale.'"
The " Gallery of Literary Characters" contains,
this month, a portrait of the Earl of Mulgrave, author
of a passible novel, entitled " Matilda." The slight
memoir attached to it is remarkable for nothing but
its Billinsgate personality. The " Greek Pastoral
Poets" contains some able enough translations, from
Dion and Moschus ; though the learning contained in
the article is scarcely more than might be supplied by
any fifth-form boy dt Eton or Westminster. The
" Cognate Cities" is well written) both tts respects
mattok allrl 1416.111-tor. It is, however, too long. " Re-
collections of Sir Walter Scott" give some interesting
details of the youthful Clays of this fifst of Modern
• t • • to,well
authors, .3e rem :scot, kvas Oa .y ac-
qtlailiteki With Scott, who appears to have left an inde-
lible impression on Isis mind. The anecdotes, one
and all, tell highly in ttiVottt o lit bOnhontnue, and
mauly frankness o' character. " National Hymns," by
J. Humid' are the ofd Who
is
st'rMiAg iftitt, in spite of nature, to be a poet. His
hymns arc sad stuff, of the Stcrnhold and Hopkins
style of writing, though paittru4 elaborated. The
" State of Pt ttiev" id of course a truculent attack on
lh Whip, and all things Whiggish.

leriodical.

THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAG'AZ_
Sitstpkin cowl iltdrAtrk Statitintr
We are greatly pleased with the general tone of the
l'oVembk•Y:NtiinlYer of this periodical. It is throughout,
with the tNee:i;tiot thro litgor passages
aitoc The Present is not a (..;risis," most
creditable to the judgmenti and the critical discernment
of its unquestionably able tqlitoi: the very article
•in which *e tt pauag:d6,it flit
Wrtl4_li of a most redeeming character; perhaps
we ought to say of a character which entitles it to b'it'e
its errors spoken of with tOspetti What, tof etatiipie,
cast IJe tftlet than the following observations, taken front
the article tlklestion, which aYg Pffergcl 1 y the WtitOt
as 'elleabkg 'aauses of the present wretched condi-
,lon of Ireland :—" There can be no doubt in the
mind of any one who Will talie the ifoithie tt) feitd iitir
national history, and to make himself acquainted, not
by theory, but by practice, with our national character
and circumstances, that this country has never been
properly governed. England has acted not only un-
justly, but, as in such cases usually follows, unwisely
towards Ireland. No pains were taken to improve her
enforcebeneae
al the
tloawthweitll subjectll ifo
people ;no endeavour was made at SaMe time to
;rmtiilteyy, andwcr oorteeilitdaetreitlymeti
either
subdued by force? 9r
encouraged
in sedition, but no
....,cnsive or permanent endeavour was made by Eng-
land/to communicate to this kingdom the blessings of
religious truth and social comfort.
In no part of the empire does the uncertainty of Pu-
nishment produce so much mischief as in this country.
Man will always consider rather the chance of escape
than the probability of punishment ; but if there exists
one class of mankind who possess this disposition in a
higher degree than the rest, it is the Irish peasant. The
English nation ought long since to have been as intimately
acquainted with our national character, resources,
wants, and circumstances as their own ; and this know-
ledge would ere now have afforded them means of
doubling the wealth and power of the empire ;. but
that ignorance and crime; which resulted in a great
_ _ • . • was

IiVE,

energetically applied himself to overcome the ignorance
and superstition which were the root of the evil, by
active and moral education."
All this is unfortunately too true of the past govern-
ment of Ireland by this country. England's great
mistake has always been her reliance upon the loyal
devotion of a fraction of the people of Ireland, instead
of adopting such measures as, by placing all upon an
evality, would have secured the confidence of all alike.
She sought to govern Ireland through the foul and
corrupting agency of a faction ; and she now reaps the
only reward which such short-sighted and unjust
policy can be presumed to merit. But it would be
unjust towards England to assert that she was cogni-
zant of all the crimes committed upon the people of
Ireland in her name. True, it was her duty to have
watched over the administration of justice in a country
• robbed of its nationality by the force of her arms ; but
in all else she was either wholly passive, or the blind
instrument of such of the Irish themselves as sought
the ascendancy of a party ; nor was she ever an
active participator in the crime of which she is here
accused. Ireland was in truth her own oppressor.
The Orange faction alone regulated the move-
ments of the sword of justice in that distracted
land. The ignorance and superstition of Ireland were
shared alike by the worshippers of William 111. and
the believers in transubstantiation ;—and the great
error of England was the committing to either of these
factions the government of the other. But England
has lived to repent her of her past neglect of the righ-
teous claims of Ireland. She mow sees the e'Ytent of
the evils which in her name have been perpetrated
against the liberties of the majority of the Irish people;
and she has resolved, cost her what it may, that the
inhabitants of Ireland shall enjoy equal rights with
each other, and the common blessing. of an uniform
system of education. The dominion of faction draws
to a close in Ireland. Thanks to the firmness of his
Majesty's present Ministers, the anomalies which
marked the so-called administration of justice in that
country are fast disappearing ; and the profession of a
certain form of religious and political faith is beginning
to be no longer necessary to the extension of legal
protection to any class of his Majesty's Irish subjects.
According to the great principle of all Representative
Governments, exclusive privileges, If conceded at all,
are the right of the majority and not of the minority ;
and therefore the Orangemen of Ireland may be well
satisfied with the Catholic population for claiming no
more than a political equality with them. Henceforth
England will endeavour, so to adjust the balance, that
none shall have grountls for charging her with sectarian
partiality or political bias. Her object will be the
promotion of the general good, not the advancement of
the interests of a fanatical section of the population.
The article on the " Life and Writings of the late
Sir James Mackintosh" is deserving of special notice,
for the correct and impartial estimate which the Re-
viewer forms of that justly celebrated, though greatly
over-rated individual. Sir James was a great man in
his way ; but he was by no means the great man for
which his friends gave him credit. We agree, how-
ever, with the Reviewer in the opinion that the study
of his character would be less useful, were he what the
world is pleased to call a man of first-rate genius. The
ascent clambered by Sir James is open to all ; and by
diligent study, and perseverance in the paths of moral
rectitude, there are few incapable of attaining that
literary eminence which formed the basis ',of his cele-
brity, and the foundation of the honours so liberally
conferred upon him.
The Reviews—and there are several very able ones,
including " Frithiors Saga," " White's Belgic Revo-
tion of 1830," and " Miss Martineau's Tracts"—arc
all excellent ; entering fully into the spirit of the
works, and carefully analysing the designs of their
respective authors. In this department, the " Dublin
University Magazine" displays uncommon care, great
liberality of sentiment, and occasionally a depth of re-
search seldom met with in the pages of a Monthly

THE PARTERRE.
Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange.
One of the most amusing and neatly got up of the
minor periodicals, consisting chiefly of tales, light
essay§, anecdotes, and scraps of poetry, which we
like the better, as the majority of them are of an anti-
sentimental character. Many of the tales arc selected
front Various sources, but the few that are original pos-
sess much merit. We subjoin a lively extract
MONEY—A fish peculiarly difficult to catch.
Tilt GRAVE—An ugly bole in the ground, which lovers and
oets wish they were in, but take upcommon pains to keep
out
of.
Monam—A beautiful flower, that flourishes only in secret

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SENSIBILITY—A quality by which its possessor, in attempt-
ing to promote the happiness of other people loses his filVtl.
A YOUN© MAN or TALENT—An impertinent scoundrel who
thrusts himself forward ; a writer of execrable poetry ; a per-
soh without modesty ; a noisy. fello*; a speech maker.
LAitilft---A. learned gentleman, who rescues your estate
from your enemy, and keeps it himself.
Mt DtAs----An expression used by man and wife at the cons-
theileettietit Of a quarrel.
Witittitiiiii--,,A man employed by the parish to sleep in the
upoi Alf.
1-10iik§ft —An eteellent joke'.
iliNfigf—A peli@tt *lid Oncl9 work for his own teeth by
to if" Out,thoie of, othtir peor,"l6
fl ti iiii4ow of hope.
ReitAt. I
.fiteiiiliitsiiBel and tpirtip.
PBOS,PECTDS AND INdEx—Appdiiddeist iB,a; literary Work
the former showing what it ought to be, tile igift4 iiliai is. ,
Orivittvv--Eatmg yourilYat With a silver fort, .:'.Aliei
ftitir litge ittti V.:lid i 6 Weller,
TAO. li Filifq§ei AttiidE,M entression used by a Pm
oilier, he is gomg 10 lie ithfietlitietit,
Ugemssily OritNice.4-:-...din opinion, tliti killtlineki Of *MA
it outeged from the ttrodel.
Titt ild.ff Nfoiiiiiethri4 Cilit.r./ VIA/ NtAs EVEIi giEN-7
ever y man's own child. . , . . .
TiPlli
.Suox—An article worn in winter` ty. ijigli-tiAc-
-64pg latilesi, who could rather die than conceal the beailif .4
their led:
WifNksi-Boi—,in ii diiiirt 64 itisOdei e kiwi of s
of pverbaillory, where
a po g,cin is Alig6d id redeitd ever
iy speelel insult
liiotii tielti# allie to fe§dilt it:
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MONTHLY REP 0 tit Iran r.
Charles Fox, Paternoster-row.
IA turned with some interest to the promised con.
tinuation of the analysis of Hazlitt's literary character,
but have been disappointed ; for instead of telling us
what Hazlitt was, and wherein his excellence as a
writer mainly consisted, the critic puts us off with
some stale, musty, metaphysical speculations of his
Own. Of the remaining articles in the Number, the
best is the Essay on " Organic Reforms," from the
Pen of Mr. Fox, the Editor.