The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-12 00:00:00

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.)

DUBLIN UNIT ERSITYMAGAZINE.

The number for July fully sustains the high cha-
racter of this talented and entertaining periodical.
The first paper, giving a full and clear account of the
modes operandi of that most marvellous of scientific
inventions—the electric telegraph—together with
some brief but lucid observations on the daguerreo-
type, the safety-lamp of Davy, electro-plating, and
others of the most noticeable of " the gifts of science
to art," is one of the best popular treaties we have
seen on scientific matters. A review of Townsend's
" Modern State Trials" is written by a masterly hand,
whose remarks on the duel cases of Stuart and Sir
Alexander Boswell, and of Lord Cardigan and Cap•
tain Tuckett, yield only in interest to those on Cour-
voisier's trial, in et hich he ably and conclusively vin-
dicates the much-vexed conduct of the eminent coun-
sel for the defence. He also gives a full account of
the extraordinary claims laid to the Earldom of Stir-
ling, which gave rise to one of the most remarkable
trials on record, and descants skilfully and tempe-
rately on the strange case of poor vanity-bitten
Smith O'Brien, profoundest self•donkeyher
whether in senatorial coal-hole or Antipo-
dean Gyarw. " The Old Man's Bequest" is
a very good story, and the few pages on "The Poets
and Poetry of Munster" are exceedingly well done.
To the writer, whoever he be, of the article entitled
" Agnes Sorel and her Contemporaries," we send our
affectionate greeting, as a fellow-admirer of that gen-
tle beauty which we first learned to love in Schiller's
beautiful drama. Several modern novels are well no-
ticed in a paper styled " A Flight of Lady-birds," and
a translation from the German, " The Mysterious
Compact," promises, when completed, to be a story
of the highest class of interest. In the " Portrait
Gallery" we are presented with a sketch of that true
ornament to his order and his country, the Earl of
Rosse. A Ballad anent a rebel wight of '9B, " Shamus
O'Brien," would have been more to our liking if the
grotesque spelling, intended to convey a correct notion
of Irish pronunciation, had been avoided. Indeed,
we wish Irish authors would reform this habit
altogether. Dr. Mackenzie has struck into the right
path in his recent clever work, and, to our mind, the
Hibernian stories in his " Mornings at Matlock,"
read all the better for his sparing to perplex the eye
with a barbarous medley of misplaced letters, rudely
and laboriously conveying a lame idea of the idiom
of the reciters or conversing parties. The concluding
paper, being a second notice of " Southey's Life and
Correspondence," is distinguished by the same ex-
cellences which has already elicited our admiration
for its antecessor. It beare the impress of the scholar,
the critic, and the gentleman—of one whom Southey
himself must have appreciated and esteemed, if they
have ever held companionship. Distinguished as is
the reputation which the Dublin University _Magazine
has long acquired for the literary criticism which con-
stantly enriches its pages, we cannot but pronounce it
fortunate in having secured the services of a writer of
such a rare combination of acuteness of intellect and
amiability of feeling. In a " Sonnet on the Poetry
of Wordsworth," the following quatrain struck us as
poetical and harmonious in no slight degree
Thou gentle Poet, she hath tuned thy mind
To deep accordance with the harmony
That floats above the mountain summits free,
The Concertof Creation on the Wind."

ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE. Edited by J.

Bernard Burke.

In reading the account of the trial of James
Stewart, of Clan Stewart, of Appin, in the year
1752, at Inverary, for the murder of Colin Campbell,
of Glencow, which appears in the present number of
St. James's, we were much struck with the de-
scription and the cause of the murder as detailed in
the following evidence—

" Mungo Campbell, writer in Edinburgh, deposed that
he set out from Edinburgh on the 7th of May last, in
company with the deceased, Mr. Campbell, of Glenure,
to assist him in ejecting some of the tenants upon the
forfeited estates of Ardshiel and Lochiel, over which the
deceased was factor; which tenants, it was apprehended,
would not remove till legally ejected; that they went to
Fort William, and, in their return, they arrived on
Thursday, the 14th of May, at the ferry of Ballachelish,
proposing next day to eject some of the tenants of Ard-
shiel. The deceased, after waiting about an hour, and
communing with some of the tenants, crossed the ferry
between four and five in the afternoon. Glenure and
the deponent entered the wood of Lettermore, and coming
to a part where the wood was pretty thick upon both
sides, so that the murderer could have easily concealed
himself in the bushes, and where the road was so rough
and narrow that they could not ride conveniently two
horses abreast; the deponent went foremost, and might
have been about twice the length of the courtroom
before the deceased, when he heard a shot behind him,
and heard Glenure repeatedly cry out, Oh! lam
dead.' The deponent immediately returned to Glenure,
alighted from his horse, and also took the deceased off
his horse; then run up the hill from the road to see who
had shot him. He saw, at some distance, a man with a
short dark coloured coat, and a gun in his hand, going
away from him; and there was so great a distance be-
tween them, that the deponent thinks he could not have
known him although he had seen his face. As the depo-
nent came nearer he mended his pace, and disappeared
by high grounds being interjected between them."
Substitute the name of Mauleverer for that of Camp-
bell and the account would read as that of the most
recent Irish murder. In 1750 Scotland was in the
same unsatisfactory social state that Ireland is in
1850, and the necessary conclusion is, that if in
1850 we adopt precisely similar measures with regard
to Ireland, which in 1750 we adopted with regard to
the Highlands of Scotland, we shall have Ireland in
the same orderly, happy, industrious, and prosperous
condition as Scotland. We commend the attentive
study of the measures, so successfully adopted for the
regeneration of Scotland a century since, to our
legislators. The series of the " Heroines of the Peer-
age" is continued, and the Countess of Salisbury, in
honour of whom Edward 111. instituted the Order
of the Garter, is the heroine of this month. Among
the miscellaneous contents of the St. James's
Magazine of July, we should select as worthy of
especial commendation "The White Knight's Vow, a
Tale of the Desmond Wars."

THE BRITISH GAZETTEER.
The part issued for the present month reaches to
page 416 of this popular and valuable work. The
county maps are those of Huntingdon and Glouces-
tershire, and it is embelliihed by a beautiful engrav-
ing of Richmond Rail way BridvP.

THE BANKER S MAGAZINE.
One of the best a:ticles in the present number is a
statement of the glaring absurdities of the present
condition of the law' as regards the existing system
of pleading, in which the writer has availed himself of
the able pamphlet of Mr. T. Jones, a very able ana-
lysis of which appeared some time since in the Times.
Among other papers characterized by the usual ex-
cellence of this periodical, we would direct attention
to one on the " Progress of the Business of the Royal
British Bank," one of the soundest and most valu-
able institutions which has yet appeared in the Bank-
ing world.

COURTCIRCULAR.
The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow
Buckingham (Saturday) at
were issued yesterday from the Privy Council Office
to the Ministers and Officers of State.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
and his Royal Highness Prince George visited the
Lieut.-Colonel Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
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horseback yesterday morning.
His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, attended
by Mr. Birch, took a carriage drive yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and
the Princess Helena took an airing in an open car-
riage and four yesterday. The other members of the
Royal Family took their usual exercises yesterday in
the gardens of Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yes.
terday afternoon at a meeting of the Royal Com-
mission for the promotion of the Exhibition of the
Works of Industry of all Nations, to be held in the
year 1851.
His Royal Highness arrived at the new Palace of
Westminster at ten minutes past three o'clock, at..
tended by Lieutenant• Colonel the Hon. Alexander
Gordon. The Commissioners present were, Earl
Granville, Lord Overstone, the Right Hon. Henry
Labouchere, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir
Richard Westmacott, Sir Charles Lyall, Mr. Cobden,
M.P., Mr. Cubitt, Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. John Gott,
Mr. Pusey, M.P., Mr. R. Stephenson, Mr. Sheppard,
and Mr. Alderman Thompson. Mr. S. Russell and
Mr. Stafford Northcote, secretaries to the Royal
Commission, attended. Colonel Reid, chairman of the
executive committee, and Dr. Lyon Playfair were
present.
Mr. Cuhitt
The Building Committee of the Royal Commission
held a meeting, at twelve o'clock, in the new Palace
((,cfintWiremstatnin, Westminster,
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whichstep
Stephenson,
attendedon, xi r.
Brunel,by
and Mr.
T. S. Donaldson. Mr. Digby Wyatt, Mr. Owen
Jones, and Mr. H. Wyld were present. Mr. Scott
Russell, Secretary to the Royal Commission, was in
attendance.
Mr. Walker, Government Secretary of British
Guiana, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday.
Mr. F. Bernal had an interview with his Lordship
yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a general meeting yesterday, at their office in White-
hall-plane.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Bnard of Inland
Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.

CAUTION TO FARMERS USING PAINT...-.Some days
ago, the death of a young bullock, the property of Mr. pog_
son, of Long Clawson, as c iused by its licking the paint
from some gates before it Too dry.—Lincoln acrocru.

WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.
TO THE EDITOR OF' THE SUN.

Sin,—l have read with much I ,Leasure your excel-
lent article on the proceedings in Parliament respect-
ing Westminster Bridge, and hea:•til'y join with you
in thinking that the public are much indebted to Sir
Robert Inglis for having defeated 1.0 silly a plan as
that produced, although it received the sanction of
our sapient Chancellor of the Exchequer, who seems
resolved to prove, beyond the pos sihility of any
future doubt, the truth of the adage, with how little
wisdom the affairs of a great country can be admi-
nistered.

His brick-dust budget—his pen; )y-in-the-pound
contribution for paying off the National Debt—his
insincere or ignorant proposals respecting the stamp
duties, promising to reduce taxation!, but really in-
creasing it—his savings' banks pr( tject—in short,
every proposal he ever made on an in iportant subject,
since he has been Chancellor of the Exchequer, for
he made a most excellent Secretary, shows that he is
utterly incapable of grappling with arty subject be-
yond the mere routine of office. It is to be hoped
that the majority of 138 against 15 will teach him
a little modesty in pronouncing his opinion upon
subjects of which he knows nothing.
On the subject of the Westminster Eridwe, will
you permit me to draw the attention of the public to
a proposal I made some years since, in a letter ad-
dressed to Mr. Phillips, the Secretary to the Metro-
politan Improvement Commissioners.
Having most carefully examined the ground, I en-
tertain no doubt that if the plan were properly carried
out, it would pay every shilling of the expense and
contribute something handsome towards the erection
of a new bridge; and I would submit to every dis-
interested person, that my opinion as to the expense of
improvements is entitled to consideration, from the
fact that the result has proved how correct it was
when placed in direct opposition to that of the archi-
tects and surveyors of the Woods and Forests, on the
subject of the expense of my plan for the improve-
ment of Westminster.

In my letter to the Commissioners I suggested
that a new street should be built upon the south side
of Richmond-terrace, and of similar character, lead-
ing to the proposed new bridge, and upon the other
side of the river, to form a new street from the bridge
to a central point in Westminster-road, from whence
several roads diverge.
The property which would be destroyed is of very
trifling value, except the river frontage necessary for
the bridge and the houses in Parliament-street; the
double frontage in the street from Parliament-street
to the bridge would be very valuable.
No injury would be done to the owners of pro-
perty upon the north side of the river, because both
aides of Bridge-street ought to be destroyed. I pro-
posed that the south side should be swept away, the
north side pulled down, and the future buildings set
back to a suitable distance, erected in a style corre-
sponding to the new building. and used for Govern-
ment offices, approached on Palace-yard side by a
flight of steps, for then it would be easy to level the
ground opposite Westminster Hall, which would very
much improve the appearance of that building and of
Westminster Palace.

On the south side of the bridge there is no doubt
that property would be injured, but this injury would
be much lessened by the formation of a street con-
necting the approach to the new bridge with that of
the old one. In this, as in all really useful street im-
provements, the principle of economy is to make the
improvement extensive.

While upon the subject of improvement, permit
me to draw your attention to the marble arch, for a
paragraph has gone the round of the papers, stating
that " a great design of Lord Lincoln's, extending the
Mall to Charing•cross, is to be entirely sacrificed."
Now, some ten or twelve years since, I proposed to
one of the Committees of the House of Commons on
Metropolitan Improvements. (and the Committee
thought so well of the plan that they printed it in
their report) to sweep away all the buildings between
the Mall and Charing-cross, and to build a crescent
facing the Strand, with a royal entrance to the Mall,
in the centre of which should be placed the marble
arch.

But at that period removing the marble arch from
the front door of the Palace was considered akin to
pulling down the altar and the throne, and the pro-
posal was unheeded. Now the arch is considered by
every person as an incumbrance, and its removal is
become necessary. May this be the fate of other
absurdities, greater, if possible, than the original
erection of the arch in such a situation, and still
more opposed to the spirit of the age.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
RIGBY WASON.
Corwar, July 8, 1850.

TESTIMONIAL TO VISCOUNT
PALMERSTON.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—If there is one thing more than another that
makes your paper exceedingly valuable to a British
public, it is the bold, consistent, and unflinching ad-
vocacy of popular freedom which has ever been the
characteristic of your spirited journal. Therefore, Sir,
I feel confident that it I can ttarow out a suggestion
chat will be the means of doing honour to so distin-
guished a statesman as my Lord Palmerston, it will
find a place in your widely circulated columns.
Sir, on Saturday last you gave publicity to a letter
from a gentleman in Bloomsbury in reference to this
subject, and as that gentleman omitted to state what
the amount of the subscription should be, and the
mode of collecting it, permit me to undertake this
task. First, I propose that the subscriptions be uniform
in amount, and that it be of such a sum as all classes
of her Majesty's subjects can cheerfully subscribe; and
then I propose that the charge be sixpence, as this is
a sum that mechanics, tradesmen, merchants, and peers
can contribute, and would be the means of giving an
opportunity to a noble and generous people of con-
futing the groundless assertion of Lord Stanley, that
the policy of Lord Palmerston is adverse to the people
of England. The next question of importance is as to
the mode of collecting the sum. What I propose is,
that a central committee be formed in London, consist-
ing of the following noblemen and gentlemen, with
power to add to their number:—

J. A. Roebuck, Esq.
Lord Dudley Stuart
R.. Osborne, Esq.
A. J. Cockburn, Eiq.
Sir Benjamin Hall
Lord Alfred Paget
William E wart, Esq.
ioffic Leas l for
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mbaankkeeras,ptpriaiedietsimor,f,annd
tlhiceemnseind
and subscription-books be deposited in the temporary
v
Loudon and different parts of the United Kingdom.
And, Sir, mark my words, that amongst the v.-ry first
to make application for subscription-books will be the
tradesmen of Wakefield, in Yorkshire, Manchester.
Southwark, and Montrose. I further propose that every
subscriber record in the subscription-book his name and
township, for the purpose of having all the subscribers
printed and presented with the piece of plate; for, as
there will be ample means to meet this expense, my
object is to do good as much as honour by giving em-
ployment to a number of that important branch of trade,
the compositors and printers of London.
I further propose that a highly influential and well-
known friend of popular freedom be selected to receive
the different collections obtained by tradesmen, to for-
ward the same to the central committee in London, and
at the time of presenting the piece of plate to Viscount
Palmerston the said gentleman be deputed to represent
the subscribers of the town in which he shall reside,
and by so doing it would form one of the most interest-
ing and noble events that has ever occurred in this or
any other country.
The next proposition I have to make is that the piece
of plate should consist of a silver candelabrum, designed
is the following manner:—The base work to be a repre-
sentation of Great Britain, with the waves dashing
against her shores ; around the outside edge the
following words inscribed:—

Sir Jamea Duke
Alderman Humphery
John Abel Smith, Esq.
Lord James Stuart
Baron Rothschild
George Thompson, Esq.

" When Britain first, at Heaven's command,
Arose from out the azure main,
This was the charter of the land,
And guardian angels sang the strain—
Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves,
Britains never shall be slaves !"
On the top and centre of the island is an oak, the boughs
forming the branches for the candlesticks. At the base
of the oak is the figure of a negro kneeling. with his
hands clasped and uplifted, his looks directed towards
heaven, with expressions of thankfulness to Almighty
God for bin safe deliverance from accursed slavery
through the noble and untiring exertions of Lord Pal-
merston. The emblem of this design is as
follows:
The island represents the country his Lordship is called
on to govern; the first verse of " Rule Britannia' repre-
sents that he has never truckled to foreign despots, but
maintained the dignity and freedom of his country
unsullied; the oak represents the firm and unflinching
character of the Noble Lord; the liberated negro repre-
sents the strenuous exertions the Noble Lord has made
on behalf of the oppressed and degraded African. And
I have no hesitation iu saying that if this design is
carried out it will prove worthy of this distinguished
diplomatist. And upon the day of presentation what a
noble spectacle would it present to the world by his
Lordship's saloons being lined on each side by those
Members who voted in approbation of his Lordship's
policy, and in the centre, headed by Mr. Roebuck, those
choice and noble spirits gathered from the different
cities, towns, and districts of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, to commemorate a glorious
triumph over a foul and deep-laid conspiracy of foreign
despots. Tne malice and chicanery of home-bred ene-
mies, and the flsgr int apostacy of unsuspected friends,
for the purpose of crushing one of the most noble, ge-
nerous, eloquent, and patriotic statesmen that ever lived
in the tide of times.—l am, Sir, &c.

INVENTOR.

London, July 9, 1850.

RUTLAND ASSIZES.—Up to last night there WAS
not a single prisoner for trial, and it was not known at Oak-
ham that thers would be any business' at Nisi Prins; the
probability is, therefore, that it will be a maiden assize, as
was the case last summer, when Justice Coleridge was pre-
sented with a pair of white gloves. It is expected the
Judge will reach Oakham to-morrow morning by the 8.35,
A.M. train from Peterborough. and shortly after proceed to
Church, esc,,rted by the sheriff (the Hon. William Middle-
ton Noel). The Castle has beets whitewashed acid thcaughly
claaasette-r,Lincoln Xercury.