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

DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE—No. I.

The time seems fast approaching when not only
every political party, but every religious sect
will have its organs of the monthly as well
as of the weekly press. Dolman's Magazine is
evidently intended to be the monthly organ of
the British Roman Catholics ; and, judging from
this, the first Number, we are of opinion that the
task of representing the thoughts and feelings of
the Roman Catholics of Great Britain, of defending
their faith, and of seeking redress for their grievances,
could not have fallen into abler hands. The great
purpose of this magazine is evidently the propagation
of the Roman Catholic doctrine ; and although its con-
tents are of the most varied character, there is not
one article—nay scarcely one sentence—throughout
the Number, which is n't made to subserve to this
purpose. We extract the following hit at the
pedantic puppyism of the Puseyites with regard to
dates, from a very ably written article on the subject
of Tractarianism, in the shape of a review of a Pusey-
ite sermon, by Mr. Browne.
" Mr. Browne dates his sermon on the Feast of St.
Andrew, Apost. and Mart. 1844-45: This is the style
in use among the Oxford Tractarians : and this style
their friends amongst the English Catholics have had the
weakness to copy. That is to say, they have adopted a
system of dates unintelligible to the community at large;
so inconvenient to themselves that they are obliged to
add to their almanacs explanatory calendars to which
they may refer ; and different from the style followed
by their co-religionists in every 'part of the world. We
have seen as many letters from Popes 'and Cardinals as
most Englishmen ; but they all signed their letters like •
—like Christians : as if their object wag to be generally
understood, not to point themselves out as members of
a sect—however pious and learned. We well remember
some years ago, the amiable jocularity with which the
late lamented. Bishop Baines told:us of a skirmish he had
just had with a correspondent. The latter, who, it should
seem, was a copier of tho Tractarian plan, had dated his
letter to the Bishop with the name of the saint on whose
festival it was written. In answering the letter, Dr.
Baines had dated his reply Marsh Mallows.' This had
produced an indignant remonstrance from the corre-
spondent, with a request to know why the letter bore so
strange a date. ' I replied to him,' said the Bishop to
us, • that I gathered, from his own style of dating his
letters, that the days of the month were to be no longer
used as heretofore, and that each one was, therefore, at
liberty to follow his own ideas in the matter ; that he,
my correspondent, had dated his letter with the name of
a saint of whom I had so seldom heard that I WaS obliged
to take the trouble of referring to my breviary to see
when the festival had occurred : that I then remem-
bered a little monkish volume which gave, opposite to
each day of the year, the name of some flower or matter
of horticultural interest : that referring to this when I
dated my reply to him, I had found the day marked as
that on which Marsh Mallows' blossomed : that I
should bo sorry if my new plan put him to any inconve-
nience ; but that as the old system of dates was to be
superseded,
I intended, for my own part, to follow that
of my little book."

THE POLYTECHNIC REVIEW.
Though the useful in this work prevails over the
amusing, yet it generally contains much that may be
perused to advantage. For instance, the series of
papers (concluded in this number) on "Projectile
Veapons and Explosive Compounds," have been the
best we have seen on the subject, and do the greatest
credit to the research of Mr. Scoffern, the author of
them. The feature this month is a paper on Austin's
patent for raising sunken vessels, which is to be used
12y a company for the purpose of rescuing from old
Neptune some of the many rich morsels he has en-
ulphed. We heartily wish the plan success. The
following
a
paragraph furnishes a tempting precedent
forun thefortunate business of Le Telem
speculation, which may serveue
andt o
the balance
French t
he
adventurers :

" In the year 1683 (about a century after the first
exhibition of the diving-bell in Europe before the Em-
peror Charles V. of Germany) William Phipps, founder
of the noble house eflgrave and Norminby, formed

a subscription, to which the famous General Monk,
Duke of Albemarle, largely contributed, for searching
and unloading a Spanish galleon, sunk about forty-five
years previously, on the coast of Hispaniola (St. Do-
mingo.) After one or two failures, Mr. Phipps suc-
ceeded, and returned in 1687 to England, with treasure
amounting to 300,0001. sterling. The tenth part accrued
to the King: the Duke of Albemarle's share was 90,0001.
and subscribers of 1001. received 10,0001. each from the
adventure."

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE BOOK.
The frontispiece of the present number, entitled
" The Folly of Crime," is a work of the very highest
order of art, and is alone worth double the price of
the book. The letterpress illustration, although good,
is scarcely worthy of the picture; but it would re-
quire the pen of a John Bunyan to do justice to the
genius displayed by Cruikshank in this picture. The
remaining illustrations are redolent of fun—such
sketches as Cruikshank alone can produce—witness
his Alexander on Bucephalus, his illustration of the
Stage Ladies'-maid, and of the Music-master in China.
The best literary articles of the number are the New
Edition of Lempriere, by the Editor, and the sketch
of the Stage Ladies'-maid.