The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

" Order and :.ecurity for life and property had neverI
cased to prevail since the accession of the. new Pope.
tipp,intment wee the signal f •r murder and rob •
bony to recommence th:-ou;;h.,ut the P. pal States. We
lire 1 in the c.ty and 11,-stal with al irra every morning
the night's dL.sterf. Now it was an oil advocate who
had been murdered, and his house robhed: next, it was
Macbean, the English banker, who bringing 4,000 dol-
lars to Rome ha'l been waylaid outside the gate to Civita
Vecchia. Then it was Mr. Maepherstn, the well-known
artist, whose apartments, in the densest part of the city,
had been entered and cleared of 2001. worth of valuables.
People dreaded an application to Rassi fur redress or
friendly int:rierence ai an aueico d- Rossi,' but, in the
language of insurance companies, a life doubly haz urchins.
The parliament of laymen created by I'io Nono, such as
it was, having been prorogued, the public voice could
find no other exponent. The premier, who wrote news-
paper articles himself, would not tolerate other jour-
nalists in reply. He wanted to suppress Punch' (Don
Pirlone) for caricaturing him, but when he viewed him-
self depicted with desperate charcoal' on every stable
gate he saw it was useless, and braved unpopularity with
unblushing front.
" One of the most exasperating of his bravadoes
against the Romans, and which more than all his accu-
mulated sins in the estimation of these who marked at
the time the beating of the public pulse, and watched the
current of the town feeling, sealed his doom, was an ar-
ticle from his pen against Carlo Alberto, whom, under
the insulting term of 11 Re Sabando or Le Roi Savoyard,
he attempted to denigrate in the most odious colours.
We marked the furious eye and gesture of the Univer-
sity students engaged in groups in its perusal. If Rossi
had ventured but on that single act we felt at the time
that he had done quite enough in the prevalent excite-
ment. He had ' snuffed himself out by an article.'
" But the chamber of lay deputies, such as it was, had
to be met on the 16th of November. Not a single sup-
porter could be count on in the Senate House, though
composed exclusively of men chosen forproperty, loyalty
to the Pope, and freedom from merely popular tendencies.
He called in, heaven knows why, from various country
barracks, seven hundred Carabineers, a force like the
mounted gendarmerie of FIaLICQ. These men he actu-
ally harangued in person the night before his death,
calling on them to act against the people in the event of
any disturbance. The ten thousand National Guards
heard in the morning that the city was not considerei
by Rossi in sufficiently safe keeping without a garniture
of regular troops. Every shopkeeper who shouldered a
&block took this as a personal insult. The frantic fury
with which in Juvenal, Tacitus, and Suetonius we find
this same Roman people gloating over the strangled
body of Sejanus is merely proof that human nature is
not changed, and if the same causes produce the same
effects atter the lapse of centuries, it is sheer folly to lay
the blame on Republican principles."
Alison's fallacies anent the fall of ancient Rome,
which he attributes to the free importation of corn,
are exposed in a most complete manner—not only his
politico-economical fallacies exposed, but also his pre.
tensions to classical scholarship. The writer thus
concludes :
Perhaps we have been wasting space in disproving
Mr. Alison's scholarship. There are blunders of such
a nature, that one of them instantly betrays the mere
superficial reader of the classics. At page 45 of this
volume we find the following specimen of Mr. Alison's
Latinity, which, in a re-edited essay cannot be set down
as an error of the press. Mr. Alison's words are: When
the Mantuan bard wrote

• Smpe magma mus
Sub terram posuit domes atque horrea fecit.'
" The writer who can foist such a hideous false quan•
tity upon Virgil, needs no elaborate refutation, when ha
dabbles dogmatically with classical literature."
The " Inedited Letters" of IVlrs. Piozzi are continued.
The present batch relates to the publication of her
anecdotes of Dr. Johnson. Mr. W. Cooper gives us
an interesting paper on the " Snakes and Serpent
Charmers at the Zoological Gardens," and in the
course of it states that he was informed by the elder
of the snake-charmers, that the reptiles used by them
in their exhibitions are deprived of their poison fangs
before they are exhibited. This at once explains the
whole mystery of snake-charming. The other ar-
ticles in this month's Bentley are above the usual
average. It is an excellent number.

THE NEW MONTHLY.
Besides additional chapters of " Hester Somerset"
and of "Anatole de Salis," the New Monthly is en-
livened by more of the comical adventures of
" Soapey Sponge." A delightful paper on " The
Empress Josephine's First Court" contains some
most entertaining anecdotes in relation both to her Im-
perial Majesty and to the Emperor Napoleon. In his
latest " Song of the Months," J. E. Carpenter, one
of the most graceful of living lyrists, tells us wby
he loves September. All sorts of amusing gossip
are, as usual, crammed into the " Note-book
of the Habitue." Those who delight in travelling
without the trouble of leaving their arm-chair, may
do so in imagination readily by scanning the con-
tributions on " China, Tartary, and Thibet," on
"Kreuznach Spa," and on " The Boundary Commis-
sions in Canada." A review of the remarkable work
lately produced by Dr. Knox is entitled " The War
of It ices." Of genuine magazine articles, light
sparkling papers capable of being perused with an
evanescent pleasure, there are three, The Magic
Maze," "The Great Little," and " The Ringing
Saddle." These, with a sagacious article by Dr.
Hamilton, of Plymouth, on the " Advantages and
Practicability of Forming a Junction between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans," and some miscellaneous
notices of literature, make up the contributions to the
current number of the New Monthly.