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

COURT MAGAZINE.

This fashionable miscellany runs its course
rejoicing, we are told, as was to be expected
under the auspices of so accomplished a lady as
Mrs. Norton. The embellishments are, as
works of art, eminently beautiful. The portrait
is Lady Sophia Sidney, eldest daughter of his
present Majesty ; and the landscape, Windsor
Castle, taken from the most picturesque point
of view. This last engraving, forms the first of a
series, to be entitled the " Landscape Gallery,'
which is a great additional attraction to a work
of this nature. The literary department is very
happily diversified.

LARDNER' S CY CLORXDIA,No. XXXVI.
LONDON, 1832,

Forms the third volume of Mr. Gleig's Me-
moirs of eminent Military Commanders. With
his lives of Sir Ralph Abercrombie and Sir
John Moore we find no fault ; they are agreea-
bly written, though in too laudatory a fashion,
as if it were flat blasphemy to breathe a word to
the disparagement of an English General ; but
his account of Lord Clive is so preposterously
panegyrical, as to be quite offensive. He lays
on his flattery not delicately with a rouge-brush,
but, like a bricklayer, with a trowel. It is high
time this fulsome style of biography were put an
end to. It is an affront to the living, and no
compliment to the dead.

ENCYCLOP4EDIA OF COTTAGE, FARM,
AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE.
The sixth number of this work is published

this month. We have already, we believe,
stated, in the heads of the edition, that the ob-
ject of the work is to improve the dwellings of
the great mass of society in the temperate
regions of both hemispheres." The present
number contains fundamental principles and
models, and miscellaneous designs for Farm
Houses and Farmeries, with four lithographic
plates, and nearly 150 engravings on wood.
We are hardly competent to form an opinion
upon many of the almost numberless points
discussed in this book ; but, as far as we are, we
have no hesitation in recommending it to the
attention not only of architects, but of all gentle-
men seeking to improve the condition of their
tenantry.

VALPY'S CLASSICAL LIBRARY.
No. XXX V.

This number forms the second volume of
Potter's translation of the Supplicants, Her-
cules, Heraclitlm (the feeblest and least inte-
resting of all the dramas of Euripides), Iphi-
genia in Aulis, Rhesus, and the Trojan
dames." The translation of these tragedies
is sadly deficient in fire and poetry, but
it is, we believe, the best we have. Potter's
choruses are the quintesence of tame, flat prose,
which, by some unccountable misnomer, has been
baptized poetry.

THE LAW AND PRACTICE OF ELEC.
TIONS (FOR SCOTLAND).

AS ALTERED BY THE REFORM ACT,
By CHARLES F. F. WORDSWORTH, Esq.,
Of the Inner Temple.

If Scotland wanted Reform in its representa-
tive system more than any other part of the
United Kingdom, now that it has obtained
it, its inhabitants want instruction in the
mode of claiming and exercising the rights
conferred upon them, more than those either of
England or Ireland. We are told by some
Scotch papers, that in parts of the country there
were electors who actually were not aware that
they had more than one vote. Mr. Words-
worth, whose works on the law of election in
England we have favourably noticed, has pub-
lished the book named at the head of this article
upon the Law of Election in Scotland, which
we must, in justice to ourselves, say, would have
been reviewed before, but for the pressure of im-
postponeable matter, which has for some time
flowed in upon us. It is a complete election
manual, and includes the practice in election pe-
titions. The notes referring to the authority of
decided cases are numerous, and as far as we
have had an opportunity of verifying them, ap-
pear to be very correct.

On the 7th October Lord PONSONBY, the
new English Ambassador to the Court of the Two
Sicilies, arrived at Rome.

SEED WHEAT.—A gentleman (says the
Newry Teleyraph) who has himself proved the excellence
"of the following steep for seed wheat, has obligingly com-
municated it to us for the information of our farming
friends :—" To as much pickle of salt and water as will
steep one barrel (20 stone) of wheat add 211bs. of blue-
stone; then add 111►. of bluestone, with as much additional
pickle as will steep a second barrel; and continue to add
bluestone and water for every additional barrel of wheat in
the same proportion with a shovelful of roach Time to every
third water, the lime to be put into the water before the
wheat. If the weather is dry, steep the wheat 36 hours ;
if wet, 24 hours; when it is to be dried with roach lime,
preparatory to sowing,"