The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-06 00:00:00

Mac Magazine.

This number commences with the first part or an
essay by Dr. Felix Eberty on " Good and Evil,"
the exact object of which it is difficult to define.
He enters into a consideration of he causes which
influence different individuals as to what is right
and what is wrong ; he has come to no conclusion
as 3 et, but perhaps in the second part he will in-
form us by what means we are to determine the
point without the aid of conscience. " Romsoe
Church: A Legend from the Baltic," by Prince Fre-
derick of Schleswig-Holstein, will be found inte-
resting by the lovers of the marvellous and the
horrible. The story appeared some years ago in
the " Casket." Prince Frederick's account is more
voluminous. Mr. Kingsley's tale of ‘,.e Ravens
hoe" is continued. Charles visits Lady Ascot
and finds that Adelaide has eloped with Lord
Welter; he recounts the history of his own
ruin, and then, unknown to the kind old
lady, leaves the house and repairs to London,
where he takes employment with a lieutenant in
the army as groom. Lieutenant Hornby is a fine
character as far as we can as yet judge of him. He
discovers at once that Charles is a gentleman, and
they become friends. Finding his groom seated on
a wheelbarrow ruminating one day, he thus ad-
dressed him :

" You mustn't sit and mope there, Horton," said the
lieutenant ; " it never does to mope. I knew it is infer-
nally hard to help it, and of course you can't associate with
servants, and that sort of thing, at first; but you will get
used to it. If you think I don't know you are a gentleman,
you ate mistaken. I don't know who you are, and shall
not try to find out, I'll lend you books or anything of that
sort ; but you mustn't brood over it. I can't stand seeing
my fellows wretched, more especially a fellow like you.
If it had been to save his life, Charles couldn't say a
se ord. He looked up at the lieutenant and nodded his head.
The lieutenant understood him well enough, and said to
himself,
" Poor fellow !"
So there arose between these two a feeling wbich light-
ened Charles's servitude, and which before the end came had
grown into a liking. Charles's vengeance was not for
Hornby, for the injury did not come from him. His ven-
geance was reserved for another, and we shall see how he
took it.
Lady Ascot was furious at finding that her nephew
had bolted, and endeavoured to trace him by the
ail of the detective pollee, but failed in her object,
for Mr. Scotlandyard, the eminent detective, only
furnished her with thieves and scoundrels who
answered to her description of Cha, les. Her indig
nation in reading his letters is highly amusing,
Mary arrives at Lady Hainault
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received. Her ladyship is
the nursery to see the children. She meets
Lord Hainault at the door, and takes it for s, good
sign that he goes to the nursery before leaving
home, but she retires to rest iu doubt as to her recep-
tion by Lady Hainault, with what cause the fol-
lowing extract will show :
She left the nursery with a thankful heart; but, never-
theless, she cried herself to sleep. "I wonder, shall I like
Lady Hainault; Charles used to. But she is very proud,
I believe. I cannot remember much of her.—How those
carriages growl and roll, almost like the sea, and dear old
Ravenshoe." Then, after a time, she slept.
There was a light in her eyes, not of dawn, which awoke
her. 11,tall, handsome woman, in silk and jewels, who came
and knelt beside her and kissed her, said that now her of
home was broken up, she must make one there, and be a
sister to her, and many other kind words of the same sort.
It was Lady Hainault, the long Burton girl (as Madam
Adelaide called her) come home from her last party; and
in such kind keeping I think we may leave little Mary for
I the present.
" Je Law 0 Beod; or, Cia,ps in the Solar System

filled up," by Professor Kellard, is a sketch from
recent astronomical history, showing how the law
laid down by Bode formed the basis on which
Adams and Leverrier founded their preliminary
hypotheses. The following novel mode of making
astronomical calculations is related by Leverrier

A medical practitioner residing in the provinces of France
had been addicted to astronomy from his infancy, and for
twenty years had been ruminating on the law of B, ,de ; and,
being led, by studying that law, to believe the possibility
of the existence of a planet between Mercury and the sun,
he had argued that, if there is such a planet, he must often
cross the sun's disk. Accordingly, whenever his professional
duties allowed him leisure during the day, he set himself
on the watch. On the 26th of March, 1859, he observed
the passage of the body he had been looking for. This cir-
cumstance is made known to Leverrier soon after the publi-
cation of the memoir referred to. He hastens down to the
country, and marches up to the doctor's residence. The worthy
man whose name is Lescarbault, submits to the astronomer's
cross-examination. He dema ,ds the record of the obser-
vations, and it is found covered with grease and laudanum,
performing the part of marker in the Connaissance des
',elms. He asks for the rough drafts of the calculations
which have led M. Lescarbault to the conclusion that the
planet's distance is half that of Mercury. "The rough
drafts I" exclaims the doctor. " Paper is rather scarce with
us. lam a joiner as well as a doctor. I calculate in my
workshop, and I write upon the boards; and, when I wish
to use them in new calculations, I plane off the old ones,"

If Mr. Buckle does not render his name immortal
by his genius he stands a fair chance of it, from
the attention paid to him by the critics. We have
this month part the third of the editor's review of
his work. A paper on " Serfdom in Russia," by
Nicholas Rowe, gives a history of the Russian serf
from the earliest time. " The Restoration—a
Fragment," is great nonsense; it has no plot, and
is very unnatural. A review of Mr. Alexander
Smith's former poems and his new one is the last
contribution.

Bailey's Sporting liagazine.
This number contains a portrait and a biogra-
phical sketch of the Earl of Portsmouth. The
agricultural interest is attended to by the " Gen-
tleman in Black." No. VII. of " Wild Life" takes
us to Australia, and the description of a kangaroo
hunt is an improvement on some of the American
adventures. An article on the subject of " Arbi-
tration" reviews the case of Captain Rhodes v. the
Earl of Cardigan. The case is already well known
to our sporting readers. The best paper in the
number is " The Wild Sports of Neilgherry Moun-
tains," in which an adventure with a wild elephant
is well described. A summary of cricketing, " Our
Van," and general sporting information, are
also furnished.