The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-02 00:00:00

The opening paper " On preserving the A►to-
nymous in Periodicals," however plausible it
may appear in theory, would, we fear, turn out
on application to be something like Mr. Owen's
" Labour Exchange System," wholly impractica-
ble. And this, for reasons which must be ob-
vious to every one who is at all acquainted
with the nature of periodicals, and the
peculiar delicacy, so far as personal strictures
are concerned, of many of the topics which
they are, perforce, as it were, called on to
handle. Had there been no such thing as ano-
nymity in literature, we should have lost the
finest specimen of prose satire extant—we mean
the Letters of Junius. Hazlitt, too, would
never have committed himself in some of those
delightful sketches of character (especially that
masterly, but, in some respects, cutting one of
Wordsworth) which threw such a charm over the
pages of the London Magazine. Besides, would
Mr. Bulwer himself have ventured on " The Con•
versations ofanA mbitions Student," if he had been
required personally to avow many of their quaint,
far-fetched, though in the majority of instances,
poetic and finely-conceived thoughts ? We ap-
prehend not. " The Politician" is a clever
essay on Reform, and Church Reform in parti-
cular, which, to give it greater point and viva-
city, is thrown into the form of a dialogue be-
tween an apoplectic pluralist, and a young,
intelligent parishioner. Of course the poor
parson has the worst of it. We like much the
energy and downright plain speaking of the
subjoined remarks:—
" But let us now speak boldly. Now, while the Mi-
nisterial project is yet unconcluded—now, while we are
not forced to accept nothing but the Bill '—now let us,
from one corner of the kingdom to the other, in every
periodical, in every public meeting—now, let us declare
that a Church Reform, which merely exchanges tithes for
an equal payment to the same amount, which alters the
mode of collecting, but leaves the total to be collected of
the same number of figures, is not Reform enough. Re-
form in the Church has this principle of life—Reduction.
Without reduction it is a mere caput mortuum. I insist on
this, the more especially, because I apprehend, though
not bleat with the same lights as Mr. Pelham, that the
Minister ial project is only to do away with the ugly sound
tithes,' and that the handsome word dignity' is to
be supported by the same extortion and the same injustice
as at present. The resuscitation of the Ballot, the favour
it receives throughout the whole kingdom, the certainty
that it will be carried in the next Parliament, is, I
repeat, a warning to all legislators—that they cannot
effectually silence one demand by granting another. A
mere alteration in the tithe system will only give additional
power to the existent cry for alterations in the whole
establishment; a little water curbs the fire for a moment,
but we all know with what effect. Better put it out at
once-1 mean the fire—not the Church Establishment !
It is a notable fact that the ministers of the Church are
now the most odious part of the whole people—they are
the oligarchy of the oligarchy—the hated of the hateful.
By their teazing, and worrying, and fretting, and bump-
ing about on their bits of blood in election matters—by
their imprudent recklessness of that reputation which
ought to be so dear to a Christian pastor—the reputation
of respect, founded upon love—which has led them to
take part with the Newcastle persecutors, and to consider
that to have served the people is sufficient crime in a can-
didate to arouse all their fiercest opposition—by their sup.
porting men of the most worthless private character, solely
because their principles are opposed to the popular interest,
they have concentrated against them a resentment equally
just and universal. The aristocracy will be forgiven
easier than the priesthood. An aristocracy was meant
to be a barrier to the desires of the subordinate classes,
but the priesthood of Cl(rist were meant to take part with
the poor ; their mission was to exterminate the Pharisees
—it is the Pharisees they have succeeded. .'dais le bon
temps reindra. The public feeling now effervesces; it is
a wholesome liquor, but it will not heep long."
" The Doctrinnaires in Office" is a very
meagre, common-place affair, wholly made up
of 0. P. Q.'s letters in the Morning Chronicle.
The most superficial reader can see, at a glance,
that the writer leans on others, not on himself,

For support. "On the Difference between Au-
:hors and the Impression conveyed of them by
;heir Works," is as true to life, though in a

different style of excellence, as one of Cobbett's

landscapes. In this well-digested paper, we find
an observation which we quote for its point and
sagacity—" It requires a more muscular mind

than ordinary to recover the shock of finding
a great man simple." Equally delighted are
we with the writer's graphic sketch of our
late King, whose notions of gentility are now
only to be found at the east end of the town,
on a Lord Mayor's Day. On the 9th of next
November, at least four George the Fourths
will ride or strut in the procession. 44 Asmodeus
at Large," has, as usual, some smart sarcasm,
and truth of description. The Apostrophe to Ox-

Lord-street, " The street ythe middle classes, busy
without uproar, wealthy without ostentation,"
with the " odd country-cousin bonnets that peer
into thy windows, which are lined with cheap, yel-
low Shawls, price 1/. 4s. marked in the corner," is
penned in a happy spirit of grave banter. " Pro-
posals for a Literary Union" is mere humbug ;
luckily, however, it is unintelligible. The
" Nymph of the Lurlei Berg" is a tale neither
better nor worse than the usual run of Magazine
fictions. " Young Napoleon" contains more

;han one passage marked by eloquence and
ust sensibility.,

THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
There is not, perhaps, any one article in the
present number exhibiting first-rate ability ; but,
on the other hand, there are few that fall much
below mediocrity. The articles entitled " De-

Idle at the Cadran-Bleu," and " Lives of the
Polish Heroes," are the best. The " Letter to
the Editor of the Examiner" is written with
' some spirit, but surely it must be by an error
of the press that it is subscribed as from a
" Radical Parson," for a more thorough-going
Morning Post tirade we never met with ! The
writer says, for instance, "Be for once con-
vinced, against your wishes, that in all country
squabbling about tithes (I know nothing of the
London clergy)
the parsons are the considerate
and self-denying gentlemen, the tithe payers,
the unreasonable and bullying knaves." There are
other expressions which equally prove the subscrip-