The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-04 00:00:00

THE MAGAZINES.

Dublin University Magazine.
" An Only Son" is continued at some length, and
in this number the scene is changed to India, where
Locksley has arrived. We are introduced to some
new characters, in the persons of Rosa Barrington
and her cousin Florence. They are amusingly de-
scribed, and Florence promises to be an attractive
heroine. Locksley has an enemy in Mansfield,
who is watching to prove him wrong in some way
or other, and will doubtless, before long, invent or
find some cause for complaint. Locksley is a very
determined disposition, but rather hasty in some
cases ; thus he acts often to his own disadvantage,
as in refusing the appointment offered to him by
the Governor. This instalment, on the whole, ill
interesting. There is an instructive paper, called,'
" Three Social Lights of the Eighteenth Century.
It refers to Mrs. Delany-, Mrs. Piozzi, and Dr-
Alexander Carlyle. It is observed, with great
truth, that "if a practical knowledge of mankind
could be gathered from many volumes of biogra-
phical memoirs, we of the present day should have
little left to learn regarding our forefathers in the
eighteenth century. Time and the printing-press
have done nearly as much for them as personal
intercourse and the newspapers have done for the
prominent characters of our own day. If they had
no photographers to multiply their personal, or
cunning correspondents to draw out their mental,
likenesses, they have found plenty of kind friends
and admiring descendants to put together the dry
bones of their former selves, and to embalm forever
in printer's ink the stories erewhile left to moulder
away in mildewed manuscripts and half-forgotten
traditions." The works referred to have all
recently appeared, and many may be glad to read
this elaborate criticism, which is, for the most part,
very fairly written, while they are still fresh in
their memories, while those who have not read them
may gain a good insight into their contents. " A
Saturday Night in the Black Country" is a short
sketch that is very well worth perusing. The
description of the scene at night is very striking.
"So soon as the shades of evening drop
darkling down, the country becomes a confla-
gration as far as the eye can reach ;
volumes of lurid flames issuing from a thousand
furnaces shoot up the empyrean. For twenty miles
round the horizon glows with fervent heat, the
stars look pale and lustreless, and even the silver
moon is shorn of half her beauty, the firmament is
a red-hot roof, the very soil is alight with innumer-
able fiery horrors, and its every acre sends up to
heaven its separate tribute of lurid glory. A journey
by night through this strange region is a spectacle
that can never be forgotten. It is a type of the
nether hell, and the end of the world seems at
hand." " The Month's Chronicle" contains the
usual summary of events at home and abroad.
" The History of the Earth and its Inhabitants" is
a scientific paper that will be very acceptable to the
learned reader • there are two plates to illustrate
the subjects referred to. There is a third part of
" History of the Knights of Malta," which
is entertaining from its historical interest; and
" Cornwall and Mines" contains some infor-
mation that will be of service tp the general
reader. The first article is called The
Dublin Exhibition of 1861," and endeavours
to attract attention to the claims of Ireland in this
respect. "This Emerald island has in her own
quiet way absolutely taken the lead in this matter
of exhibiting. In the score England marks two,
Scotland plain zero, Ireland is now fairly launched
in her third."

Colburn's New Monthly.
Lord Stanhope's recent " Life of Pitt" is the
first subject discussed. The criticism on the work
is favourable, and the article will repay the
reader for perusal. " East Lynne" continues to
occupy a large share of the pages, but it is evi-
dently approaching its conclusion. The murder
is traced to Sir Francis, and the consequences
threaten to be fatal to old Justice Hare, whose
emulation of Brutus does not do him much credit.
It is scarcel.y necessary to dwell so much on the
minutire of the trial, and the contents of many
pages could be summed up in a few lines.
" Paris in its Cynical Aspects" is the title of
paper founded on a recent French work, which
shows the worst features of the neigbbouring
capital. Sir Nathaniel gives a place among his
Note Worthies to Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle,
who seems to have possessed some really estim-
able qualities, in spite of her folly and vanity.
An essay on "Irish Fairy Lore" comments upon
the malice and cruelty generally attributed to
the " wee folk" in the sister island, which offers
a singular contrast to the legends of other coun-
tries. The story of " Granville de Vigne" is con-
tinued in rather a dilatory fashion, and the ques-
tion of " Why is she an old maid ?" is answered
by the second part of Miss Bushby's tale. There
are also papers on the " American Difficulty," and
on "Modern French Historians," and a charming
little lyric, entitled--

LOVE'S TRICOLOR.
Br W. CHARLES KENT.
I.
A BLUE BELL on her baby lap I threw
When first we were together,
Couched on the fragrant meadow where it grew—
That showery, sunbright weather I
All April in the skies,
May gleaming through her eyes
Sweet birds singing,
Blossoms springing—
Buds upon the heather I
11.
A purpling rose I placed within her hand
That young life's summer token ;
Her girlish soul my soul could understand—
The maiden spell was broken I
Soft love-light on her face
Revealed it dimpling grace:
Warm heart-flushes
In her blushes
Told the words just spoken.
111.
A waxen-white camellia on her breast—
Ah, well do I remember I
My love laid down where calm she lay at rest :
'Twas in the bleak December:
Dead, dead her heart's love-fire—
Mine only may expire
In death's sleeping :
Life- long weeping
Shall not quench its ember.

Colburn's United Service Magazine.
The number for this month contains an interest-
ing epitome of a series of articles by Capt. Aresin,
attached to the Austrian General Quartermaster's
Staff, on the invasion of England. Capt. Aresin
enters into a full desrription of the preparations
made by THE NAPOLEON for the invasion ofEngland.
He then compares the facilities of that time with
those of the present for the transportation of troops.
He has taken considerable pains in the compilation
of the articles, but his ideas of the geography of the
coasts of England and France are somewhat vague.
This is of course excusable in a foreigner ; never- '
theless a careful study of the map would have ob-
viated the defect. The opinion of a third and dis-
interested party is generally considered to be im-
partial, and we certainly concur in the justice of
the following remarks :
"A war with England, even on English ground, cannot
be compared to a continental war. Misfortune strengthens
the energies of the English, and even if a democratical
party existed it would disdain to arrive at power by foreign
arms and treachery to its country. In Ireland Napoleon
might have found supporters—in England not one. After
a successful landing, Napoleon might have destroyed the
arsenals of England, and even sacked London ; but that
would not have conquered England. From the Lands-end
to the Shetlands every Englishman would have risen as a
determined foo to the invader. 1805 would have antici-
pated 1812 (the burning of Moscow)."
The concluding remarks on Napoleon the Third's
policy in the East are anything but complimentary
to his honesty, which is indeed but a slender reed
to depend upon. In an article on the loss of life
from shipwreck the various modes for saving life
at present in use are considered, and further con-
trivances suggested. We have also a paper on the
relative rank of naval officers, and a review of the
Autobiography of Sir James 11I'Grigor," who con-
trived, during his
and other regiments, to incur the displeasure of
commandingservce
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often to act without orders. He, however,
succeeded in gaining the esteem and friendship of
the Duke of Wellington. A sketch of the history
of St. Domingo, from its earliest colonisation, is in-
teresting. The author ssearsvSiougeon of the 88th
service
condemns its so-called an-
nexation to Spain, and says that it was owing to the
barbarity
of the Europeans that the cruelties prac-
tised by the negroes and mulattoes during the in-
surrection were so revolting. He remarks,—
" That the negroes had nirany wrongs to avenge, we
cannot deny, and that it was the cruelties inflicted on them
that made them in turn so cruel, is equally true. Even
female slave proprietors forgot the softness of their sex in
their relations with the unfortunate negroes • one of these
ladies was one morning informed by her steward that a
negress in supplying the sugar mill with canes, had been
unfortunately caught up by the machinery, and her arm
wrenched off; he said it was with difficulty he had pre-
vented the entire body from being drawn in. The lady
listened coolly and said, it would have been no great loss,
only that my syrup might have been spoiled.' Another
lady ordered two of her slaves for a slight offence to to
thrown into a cauldron of boiling sugar. A Dominican
planter bought at a high price a female quadroon in the
island of Martinique; this woman nursed one of his chil-
dren and was nursinz a second, when his wife became jeal-
ous of Sophy—that was the name of the slave ; the husband
declared that her suspicions were ill-founded, and she re-
quired in confirmation of his assertions, that he should fire
a pistol shot at Sophy ; the poor slave bent to avoid the
Wow, and received the shot in her hand ; the infuriated wife