The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-01 00:00:00

NEW MONTHLY AND LONDON MAGAZINE.

An excellent number, varied and entertaining.
" What has Emancipation done for Ireland ?" is
a spirited and sensible piece of reasoning, and
treats the question under discussion in a fair
and convincing manner. 'We conclude that it
is to Mr. Sheil that we are indebted for this
paper ; if so his style is less florid and redun-
dant than usual, and is so far improved. We
give the following as a sample of its argument.
The matter is far from new ; Mr. Sheil, in fact,
has discussed it over and over again in his post-
emancipation speeches ; nevertheless it is just,
and will bear repetition.
"The danger of these calamities has happily passed away,
and if no other good had been attained, or were likely to
be achieved, still the security in which we are at present
placed, would afford a noble refutation of the disingenuous
sophistries of those who insist that no benefit has as yet
resulted from the measure, and who see, in the present
state of things, nothing but a verification of their dismal
and ominous announcements. lam far from meaning to
say that strong emotion does not still exist amongst all
classes, and that we are still in an uneasy condition, which
it will require both wisdom and time, the ally of wisdom,
to relieve; but the passions which continue to be felt are
no more than the innoxious commotion which agitates the
surface of the waters in the anchorage where we are
moored at last; and where, although the vessel may con-
tinue to toss, and its heaving may be attended with dis-
comfort, yet there is no real danger to be apprehended,
and there is no hazard that a single cable will be slipped,
or that the vessel will be blown back into the deep. The
asperities of party have not altogether subsided, but the re-
volutionary tendencies are entirely gone by. The Protes-
tants of Ireland may be dissatisfied at the sudden and un-
expected equalization with those over whom they bad ex-
ercised an ascendency, to which habit had attached the
attributes of a secondary nature. The Roman Catholics,
upon the other hand, may feel that as yet they have not
received any individual proofs that a considerable altera-
tion in the system of patronage has taken place. Their
craving for office, which is proportioned in its violence to
the extent of its duration, has not been appeased. But
although this over anxious solicitude for place, attended
with a suspicion, not unnatural in men who have been so
often disappointed, that the course of practieal exclusion is
to continue, may work for the present in a way which is
more annoying than it is injurious ; yet there can be no
doubt that a feeling of loyalty, in the true and genuine
signification of the word, has begun to diffuse itself; and
even at this moment, I am convinced that, although a few
months only have elapsed since the time that all Ireland
was ready to start, at a signal, to arms, an attempt to se-
duce the great body of the people from their allegiance to
the empire, would utterly fail. Ido not hesitate to de-
clare it as my deliberate opinion, formed from opportu-
nities of most minute and extensive observation, that if,
before the Catholic Question had been adjusted, a small
body of foreign forces, with a considerable supply of arms,
had effected a descent on the Irish coast, the great mass of
the nation would have instantly joined them; and I am
equally confident, that if a great army of invaders were,
under existing circumstances, to make so rash an experi-
ment, the peasantry would not co-operate in such an un-
dertaking; and there is scarcely a Roman Catholic in the
country raised beyond the debasement of agrarian serfship,
who would not rally under the standards of the State, and
readily expose his life in the preservation of those liberties,
in which every Irishman now bears an equal, and, I may
venture to call it, a glorious participation."

" Recollections of a Gottingen Student" is
an amusing paper, but it flags somewhat in in-
terest towards the close. " Sketches and Recol-
lections" contains a smartly-drawn character of a
restless, inquisitive young fellow, who has but
this one fault in the world. " London Lyrics"
is a capital burlesque imitation of Ovid's Meta-
morphoses. The subject is the transforma
tion of a lazy, drunken soldier into a vine-tree
in Scotland-yard. " Walks in Rome," &c. is
instructive and well written ; but the subject
is so intolerably trite and stupid, that no power
on earth can redeem it. " Characteristics of
Rossini's Composition" is another dull affair—
another iterwn Crispinus ; it is, however,
penned in a learned spirit, and the author has
manifestly a hearty love of his subject. " Anec-

dotes of Russia," and g"fraveDing Troubles,"
Are two excellent articles ; but, indeed the whole
number of the Magazine is, as we said before, a
superior one.