The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-09 00:00:00

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.)
THE ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE. Edited by
J. Bernard Burke, Esq.
The number for January fully maintains the high
character which the St. James's has already acquired
as a register of history, heraldry, and genealogy ; and
promises well for the future. It is illustrated by a
beautifully lithographed view of Everley House,
Wilts, the seat of Sir F. D. Astley, Bart., and it
contains an interesting history of the Astley
From an amusing paper on bowling-alleys we extract
the following note, to which we would fain direct the
immediate attention of theiluthorities of the British
Museum :

" While I ami upon this subject it must be permitte d
me, in behalf of the reading public, to call attention to a
dangerous error into which the custodians of the MSS.
in the British Museum have been betrayed, doubtless by
their over zeal and anxiety. All the most valuable
MSS. they have placed under glass cases, where the air
can only imperfectly get at them, the consequence of
hich is—as any discreet housewife would have predi-
cated—that they have become seriously injured by mil-
dew. The volumes I have waded through in my search
were many of them in this state, and the more volatile ,
culours of the illuminations had, as an inevitable result,
considerably faded."

CON. CREGAN. Parts XIII. and XIV.
The present instalment of the amusing adventures
cf the Irish Gil Blas are brought to a conclusion in
these parts, but we are happy to say that Con. an-
nounces that, like all great actors, be is open to
another farewell engagement; that his career in
greatness (which he has left untold) was not less
eventful than his career in obscurity, and that if he
draws up at this stage it is only in order to leave it
to the traveller to say if he should ever care hereafter
to journey with him. Under these circumstances we
have no doubt but that we shall have a second series
of " Con. Cregan," and the sooner the better.

THE ANNUAL COMMERCIAL REGIS-
TER, and General Record of Prices in the Year
1849. By D. Morier Evans.
Mr. Morier Evans, who is so advantageously
known to the commercial world by his admirable
work on the commercial crisis of 1847 and 1848, and
by other valuable contributions to the science of com-
mercial statistics, has here presented us with a work
which will be found to be a facile and compendious
index to the whole of the financial and mercantile
events of 1849, and which furnishes besides a variety
of statistical and descriptive information, which
renders it most valuable as a book for counting-house
reference. It contains a commercial retrospect
of the past year ; a review of the grain trade during
the same period; a summary of the produce markets
for the year; the Bank returns for 1849; a return of
the average prices in each month of corn, cotton, and
Consols; a general record of prices of every description
of merchandize throughout the year, and a monthly
chronology, arranged under the several heads of
general intelligence, bankruptcy register, meetings
of the month, mail arrivals, and Parliamentary ab-
stracts, the whole being accompanied by an alphabe-
tical index. This most useful work contains a larger
amount of information on the subjects on which it
treats than many a book double its size. It reflects
the highest credit on the talent, accuracy, and in-
dustry of Mr. Morier Evans, and there can be no
doubt but that henceforth the " Annual Commer-
cial Register" will take its stand in the foremost rank
of useful and successful annual publications.

CITY SEWERS COMMISSION.
Yesterday a general court of the Commissioners of
Sewers for the city of London was held in :their
Council Chamber at the Guildhall. Mr. Deputy
Peacock, the Chairman to the Commission, took the
chair at twelve o'clock precisely.
Personal applications having been attended to, and
the reports of the inspectors severally read, and
allowed, several complaints were entertained as to
the refusal of some of the contractors to remove dust
from the bins of the citizens.—Ordered that the
inspectors be instructed to report all such cases in
future.