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

THE SUN,

" 0-r.hr and :.ecusity for life and pro2erty had mver
1,-.:aasiqi to Fevail sinco the aci.o..ion nt the Ilt,W Pope.
app';ino„-ncart W 3. th, frr murder and rob•
bery to ree.orou.nee threnlioiet kale P.palAt-ob. We
iivel in tire eay and h rtol with al.,ral every moming
the nigh disastnre. Now it was I aivocafe who
had b::en murdered; and his house rob eu: next it was
Macbean, the English banker, who bringing 4.000 dol-
lar, to R)rae had been waylaid out:.,ide the gat-, to Civita
Vecchia. Then it was MI. Macy!;:-rape, the well-Kneen
artist, whose apartmen s, in C-ie derize.A part cf the etty,
had been entered and cleared of 200/. worth of valtrabl.oi.
People dreaded an application to Rossi fur redr:.ss or
friendly int,Tierence a, an amino (la Reset,' but, in the
lauguage of insurance companies, a lif; climb!). lota irdcus.
The parliament of la3men (Tested by Pio Norio, such as
it was, having been prorogu:-d, the public voice could
find ho other exponent. The premier, who wrote news-
paper articles him wlf, would nut tolerate nth. r jour-
nalists in reply. He wanted to suppress • Punch' (Don
Pirlone) for caricaturing him, bat when he viewed
hiin-
self depicted with desperate charcoal' on every stable
gate he sa-w it was useless, and braved unpapularity with
unblushing front.
" Ooe of the mast exasperating of his brataloes
against the Rom Alic, and which noire than all his :,cen-
raulati.-d sins in the ,stimajon of those who marked at
the time the beating of the public pulse, aail watched the
current of the town te -ling, sealed his doom, was an ar-
ticle from his pen against Carlo Alberto, whore, under
the insulting term of 11 Pe &Lando or Le Bei Savoyard,
he agempted 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. It Rossi
had venturtd but ou 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 he count on in the Senate Iloupo, though
composed exclusively of men chosen for proper ty, loyalty
to the Pope, and freedom f, °ln merely popular tendencies.
He called in, heaven knows why, from various country
barracks, seven hundred Carabineers, a force like the
mounted gendarmerie of France. These mon 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 conaidere
by Rossi in still:joie:4 sate keeping without a garniture
of regular troops. Every shopkeeper who shouldered a
firelock took this as a personal insult. The frantic fury
with which in Juvenal, Tecitus, and Suctonius we find
this same Rowan people gloating over the strangled
body of Sejattus is merely proof that human nature is
not changed, and if the same causes produce the same
effects atter the lapse cf 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 specim&l 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
• &ape exiguus mus
Sub terrain posuit domes atque horrea fecit.'
" The writer who can foist such u hideous false quan-
tity upon Virgil, needs no elaborate refutation, when he
dabbles doginstically with classical literature."
The " Inedited Letters' of Mrs. Piozzi are continued.
The present batch relates to the publication of her
anecdotes of Dr. Johnson. Mr. W. Cover gives us
an interesting paper on the " Shakes 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
b: fore 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 ariventures of
" Soapey Sponge." A delightful paper on " The
Ea:press 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 why
he luves September. All sorts of amusing gossip
are, as usual, crammed into the "Note-book
of the Habitué." 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 Rices." 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.

ICON-DO IW,

Nyalls and airy roof sprang upwards is silence. Though
the weakness of min was unflb'c to copy tli.l
pelf t
stilines9 rvi!;ti which the planets move along their splacres,
with vehich the tides ebt) aryl flow, tho tree; 9,0.2. pknts
bud and hIOSiOM; still, so far as human ingenuity cow()
aid hum in weakness, the earthly deeding-place of the
Divine glory was disturbed by no harsh and oar piercing
clamours; 00 mighty sound awoke the e'ciice, of its
courts until the voice prais,s and thank-giving came
torth from the throng of worshipping Israeliws."
"Such," says the writer, " was the rise of the tem-
poral power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ." Th'e
comprehensive " Ecclesiastical Register," at the con-
clusion of the magazine, contains allusions to the mi-
racle at Rimini, to the imprisonment of Monsignor
Franzoni, and to the elevation of Bishop Wiseman to
the Cardinalate.