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

FOREIGN REVIEW.—No. 5.

We have just this instant received the Fifth
Number of this enterprising periodical, which,
judging from the character of its contents,
is far superior to its predecessors. It is, in fact,
a brilliant concentration of talent, and enrolls
among its contributors the names of Carlyle,
Brewster, Irving, Southey, and M uhlenfels, who
of themselves are sufficient to stamp the reputa-
tion of any periodical. We shall discuss this
Review at more length on some future oppor-
tunity; enough for tl►e present to point out to
general notice Southey's masterly article OH the
expulsion of the Moors from Spain.

The London Magazine, Monthly Renew,
and one or t-No other periodicals, shall form the
subject of a notice to-morrow.

The' King has renewed the ancient Crown
Grant to the inhabitants of the Island of Portland, to dig
and raise atone in the common lands of that bland.

LARGE TREES.—In Needwood forest, in
F,Ogland, the milt tree, called the Swilear lawn oak, eon-.
tains by estimation a thousand feet of timber. The Rev.
Snow says, this oak, the faller of the forest, girths at
five feet high, 21 feet, the whole height 65 feet. In the
county of Essex, a Lombardy poplar is described as a very
fine and beautiful tree, 70 feet high, and seven feet three
inches in circumference ; and there is now standing in the
garden of Mr. Jeremy 13enthElm, in St. James's-park, a
poplar, which is nearly 80 feet is height. An ash on
the lawn of Castle Menzies, in Scotland, was blown
ever during a violent snow storm, and was then dc-
scribed .an the largest ash in that country ; it mea-
sured 18i feet in eircumlerenc•e. The charter oak
in Connecticut, says a Hertford Paper, is no less than
400 years old ; it is 28 feet in circumference near
the ground, and at the heigkt of seven feet, it in 17 feet in
circumference; the height of the tree is about 7C feet;
some of its branches extend 20 feet. Mr. Nelson, the bo-
tanist, who accompanied Captain Bligh to the South Sees,
for the purpose of conveying the bread fruit tree to the
West Indies, when on Van Diemisn's Land, found a tree
in a thriving state, of the enormous site of fiSi feet in
girth, and of a proportionate height. The elm, in Hat-
field, Massachusetts, is said to be the largest tree in
New England. It measures in circumference c 34 feet,
at taro feet from the ground ;—at the height of five
feet from the smallest place in the trunk the cir-
cumference is 24 feet six inchee. There is a ent in
the tree, four feet from the ground, which tradition
says was made by the Indians for the highest rise of the
Connecticut river.—" hugest tree in Great Britain,"
says Dr. Hunter, " that I leave read of, is the one cited by
rneLie, in his Philosophy of Natural History,' as grow-
n 4 at Cowthorpe, near Wetherhy, upon the estate belong-
ing- to the Right Hon. Lady Stourtun. The dimensions
are almost incredih!,t : it measures close by the ground 26
feet; its height, in its present ruinous state (1776), is
about 65 feet, and its principal limb extends 16 yards from
the boll. When compared to this all other trees are but
children of the forests." In Lewis and Clarke's expedition,
they saw pine-trees at the mouth of the Colombia river of
12 fret diameter and 200 feet high.