The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-03 00:00:00

COLI3URN'S NEW MONTHLY.

This is an excellent Number of this popular pe
riodical It opens with a continuation of " Passages
in the Lives of Celebrated Statesmen of Europe."
The subject of the present paper is Baron Bulow,
with sketches of his colleagues in the great confe-
rences of 1831 and 1840. From these sketches we
extract the following account of Count Pozze di
Borgo :
" Count Pozzo di Borgo was a still more extraordinary
man. The deadly feuds of his native land drove him
from Corsica, imbued with all the wild, headlong feel-
ings characteristic of his race. For instance, long after
his leaving Corsica, he was so superstitious that the wife
of one of his most hospitable entertainers and intimate
friends, suspecting his foible, having urged him to come
and see a ghost in a back parlour, and having shown on
the balcony General Paoli, in the shape of her mad-cap
cousin, wrapped in a sheet and bedaubed with flour, he
swore she was a witch, and had a deadly aversion to her
and family until the last moment of his life. The trials
of those eventful times, his adventures in the many lands
he traversed in the search of fortune, smoothed the out-
ward ruggedness of his nature, and consecrated all the
fire of his character on diplomacy and ambition. His
hereditary feud against the Buonapartes, likewise, all
concentrated On Napoleon, was the cause of his fortune.
Through Lord Minto he got recommended to the best i
diplomatic service—that of Russia. In this service he
acquired not only rank, but an immense fortune ; for his
intercession in Paris in favour of the old dynast of the
Bourbons, at the first invasion of France by the allies, he
received from Louis XVIII. alone
which ch
yielding had
its survived
place
as a cadeau. In the latter days sso,
rulingnd
parti n g passionlast alludee to, another
love of gold.
youth, was de-
Laboriously polite, still did the hot, fierce,
jealous under-
current of his nature, as well as his
native shrewdness
and experience in strategy, make him a dangerous col-
league
to deal with in diplomacy."
It was out of mere hatred to Bonaparte D. Bongo
brought
brought about the restoration of 1815. It is curious
to trace the restoration, the hundred days, IV l
ater 00,
of
francs
the revolution of 1830, and all its consequences—
past, present, and to come—to a private feud between
two obscure families in the semi-barbarous island of
Corsica. Thus—

" Great events from trivial causes spring."

" What we're doing and what we're coming to" is a
s nart quiz upon the existing railway-share mania.
It is a lively witty .article, and sparkles like a glass

of champagne. It is from the pen of Angus B.
Reach. " The Left-hand Glove" is a tale of horror.
The object is to show the danger of trusting to c'
. .
cumsiaiitta ev . ing
condemned t,) death for the murder of her husband::
the chain of circumstantial evidence is complete
against her, when at length her innocence is made
manifest, and she is acquitted—the fact being that her
husband had committed suicide. The tale is well
told, and the interest is kept up to the last. Mrs.
Trollepe continues " The Eobertses on their
Travels," and gives us several piquant sketches of
society at 13aden. " A Field Day Nsith the
Portuguese" is a lively narrative of an ad-
venture at Vittoria in 1837, during the time that
General Evans's English legion and the Portuguese
forces under Das Antas were quartered in that city.
Lights and Shades in the Life of a Gentleman on
Half-pay, and the Excursion up the Oronooko are
both continued in this number. " The Conversations
in the National Gallery " are likewise continued.
The present conversation contains much valuable cri-
ticism on the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, and of
Raffaelle, although we think the author scarcely does
justice to the merits of Leonardo: Agnes Strickland
furnishes one of those delightful tales which she so
well knows how to write. Her present production is
entitled" Kate Wilson, or Sea-side Wooings." It is
a pleasing tale, pleasantly told. The Talleyrand
Papers are continued. The present number relates
entirely to the reminiscences of Talleyrand, of the
state of society in France before the Revolution,
when, as M. 14 Abbt'_! de Perigord, he was the pet of
Madame du Deffand, and the great star of the salons
of the witty and accomplished Madame de Brignole.
There is a'.so an elaborate review of " Thiers' History
of the Consulate and the Empire," and a short notice
of the new novel, " Maids of Honour."

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