The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-15 00:00:00

and wholly trampled on by sixteen Monarchs, to maintain
whose existence they suffered, and fought, and conquered ;
and fifteen other millions shamefully mystified by their eigh-
teen rulers, in a series of documents called Constitutions, which
the breath of despotism is continually crumbling into dust.
" The thirty-four millions composing the population of the
States comprised in the Germanic Confederation, are divided
into about sixteen millions of Catholics, seventeen millions of
Protestants, eight hundred thousand smaller Sectaries, and
two hundred thousand Jews. The armed force of the Confe-
deration constantly under arms, and thus forming its peace
establishment, is about 300,000 men, of which number Austria
provides about 95,000, and Prussia about 80,000.
" These facts and data furnished by documents of the Ger-
manic Confederation, are texts from which to preach on kingly
perfidy and:national degradation."
With these extracts and observations we must dis-
miss the present number of the " Westminster Re-
view," although we feel that we have not done it all
the justice which it merits. It contains no fewer than
sixteen articles, all on very important subjects.

MAUNDER' S TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE.
J. J. Mason, London, 1835.

As we noticed this clever work on its first appear-
ance, we shall here simply content ourselves with ob-
serving that it has reached a sixth edition ; is very
materially enlarged, and in every respect improved; and
now contains a mass of solid, valuable knowledge,
which is to be found in no other work of the same

THOMAS'S LIBRARY ATLAS OF MODERN
AND ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY.—No. I.

London ; Thomas, Finch-lane ; and Sirnpkin and Marshall,

Stationers' Court.

The world has had its ages of gold, of silver, of
brass, and of iron ; and now that it has changed.
metals for paper, the present age would not be incor-
rectly styled, THE AGE OF CHEAP PUBLICATIONS.
Every day brings us some fresh proof of the enter-
prise of publiAers in every department of our litera-
ture, and. of the zeal with which they anticipate the
wants of the public at an expense which it is hardly
possible to believe offers a fail remuneration for the or-
dinary labour ; to say nothing of the risks run, and the
ruin which must follow, when large sums are embarked
in the publication of works which drop still-born from

the press. The publication before us is one of the
many instances of such an enterprising spirit. We have
here six beautiful little coloured maps, very carefully
executed, divided according to the treaty of peace in 1815,
and exhibiting the latest discoveries in the Northern Seas
and the interior of Africa, for the trifling sum of eighteen
pence I Can there be anything conceived cheaper
than this ? Three-pence for a coloured map of Eu-
rope, and two-pence for a plain one I—for we forgot to
say that plain copies may be had at one-third the cost
of the coloured. The whole work is to be completed
in twelve monthly parts, each part to contain six maps,
forming a complete atlas of ancient and modern geo-
graphy, so portable that it may be carried in the pocket
without inconvenience. We understand that it has
cost the publisher upwards of a thousand pounds to
prepare the original designs for this excellent little pub-
lication. We cordially recommend it to the public,
both for its own sake, and that of the useful know-
ledge which it is intended and well adapted to
inculcate.