The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-01 00:00:00

MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

" Irish Parliaments and the Forty Shilling
Freeholders" is a remarkably strong, vehement,
and declamatory tirade against the measures of
the existing Government with regard to Ireland.
It works up one point, however, with the spirit
of which we heartily coincide, namely, the mon-
strous impolicy of sending back Mr. O'Connell
to be re-elected for Clare, and thereby renewing
the disturbances of that already quite sufficiently
disturbed country. " Maxims on Mankind"
are shrewd and practical, but harp too much on
the stale subject of love. " The Bridges of
London" is a sensible business-like article, from
which we extract the following excellent remarks
respecting Waterloo Bridge

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" When Canova, the sculptor, was in London, the gen-
tleman who lionized him to the different curiosities, and
the various works of art in our city, told him that he
would first shew him a bridge constructed by the trades.
men of London, and afterwards conduct him to one which
had been built by order of the Government. Canova was
accordingly first taken to Waterloo Bridge. Astonished
at the extent and splendour of the erection, he pronounced
it the finest structure of the kind he had ever seen, and
wondered, if this was the work of the tradesmen, what
must be that which had been constructed under the pa-
tronage of the Government. His conductor, who no
doubt had a little of the radical in his composition, then
led him to the wooden bridge, which at that time existed
xerois the canal in St. James's Park, as the work of the
British Government. Wbat a bathos in comparison of the
mssmi.ficent appearance o Waterloo ; yet what a correct

illustration of the character of our country, where almost '
all the splendid public works of charity or art are the pro-
duce of the people, and not of the Government.
" How often when we pass this bridge are we led to re-
gret that it is still left in the bands of the speculators ; not
only from the unprofitable nature of a speculation which
ought to have had, and which deserved such a different re-
sult, but for the honour of our country. The Govern-
ment ought to purchase this bridge, and should pride itself
in preserving all the passages across the Thames free.
" What must Canova have felt at having to pay a penny
before he could enter upon one of the most splendid works
of art which our metropolis possesses. For our own parts,
we would have the Government pay the orginal cost of the
bridge, and remunerate the speculators for a work which
does us so much credit. They could, however, at this
period, purchase it for one-fourth of the money expended,
and might thus, at a comparatively trifling expence, con-
, duce greatly to the convenience of the inhabitants, and to
the respectability of the metropolis, by abolishing a toll
which is really a disgrace to a city like ours."

" Walks in Ireland" is a powerfully told tale
of the death of a murderer. It is just the fitting
and requisite length. " Notes of the Month"
are sharp, pertinent, and replete with lively and
various epigrammatic points. On the whole, the
number is a superior one.

NEW MONTULY AND LONDON MAGAZINE.

By the incorporation of the " London" with
the " New Monthly Magazine," the latter will,
it is to be hoped, secure to itself the advantages
of the former's practical and useful character.
The " Journal of Facts," which did great ser-
vice to the " London," should not at any rate
be permitted to drop. It was worth a thousand
fine-spun, wire-drawn essays.—" The Saison in
Dublin" is a lively ingenious paper, the produc-
tion of a man who is familiar with his subject,
and knows how to embellish it by the graces of
a temperate facetiousness. We need scarcely
add, that it gives a spirited portrait of a Dublin
season, and will be read with interest.—
" Sporting Scenes in India" gives an animated
description of antelope-shooting in that quarter
of the globe. The writer is evidently full of his
subject, with no ordinary share of enthusiasm
to set it off to the best advantage. The fol-
lowing is his approved method of antelope-
shooting :

" The best time to shoot them is about day. break, when
they browse as if half asleep ; or in the middle of the day,
when they seem unwilling to quit their shade or basking
spot. Our dress of drab assisted us in our approaches;
but we had to lay many a half-hour behind stones or tufts
of grass, waiting for the move that would give us the few
yards we wanted. A man should never show himself
after his first shot, as the antelopes, when alarmed by it,
run wildly a few paces, and then stop to look about. I
have killed with my second barrel, when I had missed
with my first, and more than once have killed right and
left. Young sportsmen fire too soon, become irritated
and nervous, and their anxiety ensures their ill-success.
One shot within sixty is better than ten at a hundred
yards ; for if the antelope is not struck through the head,
neck, or loins, or has not two legs broken—unless the
sportsman's horse and dogs be near, it usually escapes. A
man must learn the sound his ball makes in striking, for
though antelopes sometimes drop off the gun, they often
take a wound without showing it. Their tenacity of
life and power of endurance is wonderful. I once fired at
a doe moving away, and as she continued her route, my
companion, whose eyes had been fixed on her, cried
You've missed.' We followed her into the long grass,
and found her dying; but she had gone two hundred
yards, though the ball had traversed her from the haunch
to the chest. When we were pitched amongst the ruins
of Baugnagur, I fired from behind a pillar of the noble serai
in which we had stabled our horses, and struck a buck. I
had to follow it, and lost it in the grass. An antelope
started from beneath the rock, I ascended to look out, and
shot it. It proved to be my buck, through whom the first
ball had passed within two inches of its heart. We were
puzzled to account for a kind of coat which was on a ball
we cut from its thigh ; it was thick and tough as a piece
of parchment, but glutinous; some thought it was leather,
in which the ball had been wrapped that had undergone
this change, while others conjectured that it proceeded
altogether from some provision of nature to secure the
animal from the irritating effect of the ball, which purpose,
however it came there, it effectually answered. I have
lost many wounded antelopes, even when mounted."

" The Toyman is Abroad" is an ingenious
and fanciful satire on modern luxuries and ab-
surdities. " Sketches of Travelling Manners
and Society" is a rambling, desultory, but inte-
resting series of observations, founded evi-
dently on practice, and so far useful and enter-
taining. The remaining papers we must dismiss,
with the general remark that they will each,
more or less, repay perusal. We should not
omit to mention an ably written criticism on
Miss Smithson's late fine performance of Belvi-
dera. It is penned in an admirable and discri-
nating spirit.