The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-03 00:00:00

ARRIVALS THIS WEER.

Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 720 830 2,910 50 1,330
Irish
Foreign 15,520 1,150 41,500 100 ske.
Maize, 2,780 gra 2,840 brls

THE MAGAZINES.

I`raser's Magazine.--" Fraser" looks dry, but 2.4
reverse of that. The articles are long, the subjects
somewhat grave, but the writing is lively.. Some.
times there is a little too much liveliness, and "M.,"
discoursing on "The Politics of Young England," is occa-
sionally flippant. Nevertheless, this is a very clever
essay, full of smart things, from a writer who is, in all things
but one, the antipodes of him who wrote " Shooting
Niagara." He believes, as Carlyle does, that democracy
is inevitable, and that the T >ries of the Disraelian school
who think that the lowest class is essentially conservative
and wilbrove a bodyguard to &Lad "our glorious institu-
tion in Church and State" are living in a fool's paradise.
He recommends allsuch to add to their Sunday Litany the
prayer, " From a reading peasantry, Good Lord, deliver
us ;" for so soon as the agricultural labourer attains to the
education of the skilled mechanic will he begin to have
notions of his own about the law of entail and the right of
landowners to hold an unlimited amount of land. But
"M." does not dread the future—he welcomes it.
Mr. Edwin Chadwick, an old social reformer,
writes to urge the consolidation of the police force. He
argues that our police are lamentably inefficient because
they ai.e under such a multitude of different authorities.
By placing them under as few as possible and mobilising
them, the police throughout the kingdom would be
available for any part thereof, and in case of riot we
should not be compelled to call out the military. Con-
solidation would, so far as our experience gas gone, render
the police force less costly at the same time that it became
more efficient. Miss Cobbe writes on "Household Service."
"Those plagues of servants" is rather a trite subject, but
Miss Cobbe makes the most of it, and is epigrammatic as
usual.' She advises mistresses of househol," 3 to adopt the
system of increasing the wages in proportion to the length
of service ; this would be both fair to the employed and
save the employer much of the discomfort which arises from
the frequent giving of warning because the servant wishes
to " better" herself. Mr. Bonamy Price has a long paper,
the first of two, on Free Banking, with special reference
to the controversy which has arisen between MM.
Chevalier and Wolowski thereupon. We need hardly say
that Mr. Price sides with M. Chevalier and free trade.
Mr. Proctor, whose beautiful book on " Saturn and its
System " scientific readers will remember, writes on
" Coloured Suns." Sir Edmund Head sends a Norse
ballad. " The Marstons " is continued.
St. Paul's.—The editor's story of " Phineas Finn " is
better than ever this month, and Mr. Millais has surpassed
himself in one, at least, of his two charming illustrations ;
in the one, we mean, which he has contributed to Mr.
Anthony Trollope's serial tale, and in which the Royal
Academician's pencil has pourtrayed Phineas, the hand-
some young Irish member (" as handsome as a god," Lady
Laura Standish tells herself), standing on the mountain top
at Loughlinter beside the woman he loves best in all the
world, offering friendship instead of love immediately after
Lady Laura has announced to him her betrothal to Mr.
Kennedy. It is an exquisite picture of an incident that,
in the story itself, has been quite as exquisitely described.
The re:. of the number—consisting of a further instal-
ment of " All for Greed," and eight other contri-
butions—is of more than average excellence. Among
the miscellaneous papers there is one which we
cannot help attributing to Mr. Thomas Adolphus Trollope,
It is a paper on Italy, entitled " The New Member of the
European Family," and in it occurs this remarkable inti-
mation in reference to the Roman question : "We will
abstain from touching it any further than to mention the
very pregnant fact that it is within our knowledge that it
was the opinion of Cavour that Florence ought eventually
to become the Italian capital." Florence, observe, not
Rome ! And that according to the opinion of Cavour !
The Month.—With the exception of a brief first instal-
ment of a new serial story, entitled " Eudoxia : a Picture
of the Fifth Century," there is nothing very attractive in
The Month for January. For the author of " Eudoxia,"
however, " Callisto " has not been written in vain ; and if
continued with an ability in any way comparable to that
in which it has been commenced, " Eudoxia " promises to
be a rare attraction.
Good Words.—Already an immense success, this first of
all the sixpenny monthlies makes a grander start than
ever with January—comprising among its contributors
such illustrious names as those of Mr. Gladstone and the
Poet Laureate. Tennyson's contribution is a new poem,
entitled " The Victim," while that from the hand of the
right hon. the leader of the Opposition is the first portion of
a remarkable criticism on a remarkable book, to wit,
" Ecce Homo." Dinah Mulock leads the number off with
the opening of a new serial love story, called " The
Woman's Kingdom." The Rev. Charles Kingsley is con-
spicuous among the other contributors to Good Words,
wirier is edited (all the way from India) by Dr. Norman
Macleod, and profusely, and occasionally very beautifully,
illustrated.

The Sunday Magazine.—Edited by Dr. Guthrie, the
Sunday Magazine is remarkable for papers from hands as
able as those of the Dean of Canterbury, Dr. Guthrie
himself, and George Macdonald, poet and novelist. It
also, like Good Words, is noticeable for the excellence of
its embellishments.

The Art Journal. —Two exquisite engravings form the
cnicf attractions of the January number of the Art Jour-
nal - one from Maclise's " Orlando and the Wrestler," the
other from Ward's " The King's Daughter." Besides
these, we have the tenth instalment of Mr. S.'C. Hall's
magnificent French Exhibition Illustrated Catalogue,
giving us the choicest gems last year on view at Paris in
the great world-gathering in the Champ de Mars.

The Intellectual Observer and The Floral World come to
hand simultaneously—the latter beginning a new series
with the new year, and still edited by Shirley Hibbred.

The British Postal Guide. —No. 47 for the Ist January is
as accurate as, and more copious than ever in its authen-
tic supply of information.

Under the editorship of Mrs. Henry Wood, the current
number of the Argosy is a capital sixpennyworth. "Anne
Hereford," commenced in the December number, is con-
tinued, and the two chapters now given possess some very
readable matter. The author of " Christmas Eve in
Rome " tells a story of absorbing interest to herself, and
that is, how she lost her way amid the shadowy ailes of St.
Peter's Cathedral, was found by an English gentleman,
who escorted her home, and soon afterwards became the
lady's happy husband. Another Christmas tale involves
the shaving of two proud ponies' tails as a practical joke,
or rather as a piece of revenge by a wayward son on a
passionate father—pater having previously inflicted on
young hopeful a smart personal chastisement. The recital
is an amusing one, and especially in the portion where the
youthful delinquent leads the parish constable a dance
which that stout official was not often in the habit of en-
joying. "The Miller's Revenge" is a story from Jersey
of rather a sensational character, including as it does a
murder and a suicide. There is a good description of a
hurricane in the West Indies: the details of which, after
the narratives of the recent disasters in those hotbeds of
volcanic disturbances, are read with a more than ordinary
interest.

The Presse, in a lengthy review of the state of Europe
at the close of 1867, examines the probability of a war wit
either of the Great Powers. Austria, it is argued, has a
paramount interest in maintaining peace. Only by so
doing can her institutions be renovated and her prosperity
and influence in the world restored. Like France she
has nothing to expect from war, and the two Powers mr.y
be considered at this moment ME the two resting points of
general peace.
Having thus dealt with Austria, M. Cucheval-Clarigny
turns his attention to England, and remarks that she still
oscillates between the jealousy of France and her abso-
lute inability to dispense with her alliance as the means
of defending the most important British interests. She
will declare for peace, because perturbation in Europe
would be so prejudicial to her commerce, and would so
seriously endanger "the fragile edifice of her prosperity."
Whatever sympathies she may profess for the Italian
revolutionists and the success of M. Bismarck, England
will make no more sacrifice for either the one or the other
than she made to save Denmark. France has nothing to
fear from England, and the more Russia discloses her
designs the more will England be disposed to approach
nearer to France. That a coolness has arisen between
Russia and France M. Cucheval-Clarigny does not deny, but
it does not follow that peace is seriously endangered. Russia
knows that she cannot go to Constantinople without the
consent of France or of England, and as she has nothing to
offer to either the one or the other which would be a
sufficient compensation for the perils involved in the
destruction of the Turkish Empire, she has never conceived
any serious hopes of bringing such an issue about. What
she wants is to make the Christians take Constantinople
from Turkey, in order to transfer it to herself ; and the
question is, does she anticipate difficulties serious enough,
to prevent any Power from coming to the aid of the
Sultan ?
Prussia, the reviewer thinks, has no grievance against
France, and if she only wants to preserve what she has con
quered she has nothing to apprehend, and there is in
danger to peace in that quarter. The military prepare
tions made by her are, however, admitt6d to be among th,
most disquieting symptoms of the present situation. An;,.
attempt made by Prussia to destroy the independence
Germany would seriously affect the security of France an,
Austria, which a common danger would bring close
together. Russia would not aid the ambitious projects of
Prussia, and England is quite as much interested as France
in saving Austria from destruction.
In concluding his review, M. Cucheval-Clarigny insists
that the only way in which the peace of Europe can be
secured is by France pursuing a policy which shows
Prussia that she can, and Italy that she will resolutely
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