The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-26 00:00:00

THE LONDON REVIEW.

i

. I.
This new periodical which has been so frequently
announced in the newspapers for the last two or
three months, has at length made its appearance;
and by so doing has effectually set at rest the spe-
culations of those who, from certain previous writ-
ings of the Editor, Mr. Blanco White, had inferred
that ttre principles of the Review would be Anti-
160holic, and consequently illiberal. Those who
Vrere in the secret, Lad always affirmed that the
Praprietors of this Review and the principal writers
in it were men who, by works already before the
Public, had proved themselves to be imbued with
the improved spirit of the age, and possessed of
many of its valuable ideas, and the first number
does not fall short of the expectations which this
linnouncernent held up.
It is, perhaps, unfortunate for the London Re-
view that the two articles of greatest merit in this
!lumber are on two subjects very nearly allied to
Oae another, and which do not usually excite the
t otiosity and interest of the general reader, in the
degree which their importance deserves. We allude
to the articles on Transportation and on Police, the
filter of which from its lively style and extraordi-
"try felicity of illustration, the latter from the ori-
Orrality and profundity of its views, cannot fail to
'make a deep impression en all who are capable of
appreciating either the talents of a writer or those of
thinker. ,The article on Police, in particular, ought
to be reprinted as a pamphlet, and put into the
bands of every member of both Houses of Parlia-
ment, 'as a manual to direct them in the important
libutirwlfich cannot fail to be forced
apon them almost immediately by the public voice,
that of entirely remodelling the barbarous and ineffi-
cient arrangements which the Police of London
idrords for-the guardianship of property, and the
4PPtehension of offenders. There are single pages
of this article containing more useful suggestions,
440 a greater quantity of specific and valuable in-
'ermation, than any entire essay which has yet ap-
peared, as far as we are aware, in any of the publica-
ta°4 of the day on this subject.
Of the work in general, the most marked and ho-
al:irable characteristic is the total absence of any
thing like quackery. None of the vulgar arts of
mercenary writers for acquiring popularity are here
Visible. There is no playing fast and loose with
opinion`,---no pandering to the political, moral, or
teligioos antipathies of any class of readers, nor
ministering to the baser passions of mankind, by
that pertness and flippancy which amuses only by
raomeitarily exalting the reader in his own opinion,
at the expence of the individual against whom the
kreasms of the writer are directed. In their lite-
%lT as well as in their philosophical articles, the
Thmduetors of the London Review have evidently
III), Purposes but seriously to inculcate what they
°I ladder to be the truths appropriate to the subject
qythich they treat, and to rely for success on the
Nue of their ideas, and their power of stating them
/1.4,_t1i Sufficient clearness and force, to give full effect
natural interestingness of the ideas themselves.

CLERGY OF THE DIOCESS OF EXETER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
j?ltts--You will have perceived by the Morning
et°l°7l4l of yesterday, that, it is the intention of the
L ray of the diocess of Exeter " to proceed to
t °lldoh in a body, for the purpose of representing
0 the Duke of Wellington the danger to the Pro-
t:Etkat Church which cannot fail to result from the
'resent measure." By the 'same post which con-
t.,ed this ,intelligence to the above-named Journal,
have received from a reverend friend at Exeter a
programme of the whole procession, as agreed upon
at the last meeting of the clergy, of which I _send
.oti an abstract:—
Every clergyman is to be clothed or covered in
the funeral-pall of the parish to which he belongs
(in imitation of the Blanketeers, who attempted to
affiance to London in a body about twelve years
ago.) The funeral-pall indicates the approaching
death of Constitution.
The procession will be headed by the Bishop of
Rath and Wells, whose costume and appearance
Will 'be Very striking: in addition to the pall with
Which his Lordship is to be clothed like the rest,
there will be placed in front of his mitre (which he
Will wear on this occasion) a large Death's-head
and 633§-bones (indicative of the mortality of the
ohstitution); and before him, he will carry, sus-
Derided round his neck, the large hollow drum of
the First Regiment of Guards, hung with black,
upon which he will roll at intervals, as is customary
At military funerals.
'I, As soon as the procession shall have arrived at
Izde-park-corner, it will be met by , be-
lore whom will be borne the tablet stolen out of the
reatry of old Windsor church some five-and-twenty
tars ago, containing " Degrees of affinity and kin-
ed within which a man may not" --- &c. &c.
In this manner the procession will advance to the
4t:lllllience with the Duke; .for which purpose his
race has obligingly fixed the Ist of April next.
I have the honour to remain, Sir, &c.

L. M.

lIETROPOUTAN 'MINOR THEATRES'

THEATRICAL FUND.

A general public meeting of the Committee,
embers, and Friends .of this new and laudable In-
stitution was held yesterday, pursuant to public
notice, in the Saloon of the Royal Coburg Theatre.
The meeting, an adjourned one, was called for the
Purpose of considering the best means of furthering
the interests of the fund.
Mr. E. L. LEWIS, Chairman of the Committee,
Presided, and stated that the meeting of that day
4rOse out of a consideration that the previous one
as not sufficiently known, and it had been there-
'ore determined that public notice should be given,
• tticl that another meeting should take place. Mr.
after stating the origin of the Society,
hbich~has been already detailed, observed that there
~14tt been a considerable accession of members and
-qbacribers since the last meeting, and a number of
b 11). munieations made from the performers of all the
I
tior Theatres to join the Fund, to increase which
tvtis proposed to take a benefit at one or more of
the
Minor Theatres. The Managers of the Coburg,
i,e West London, and the Pavilion Theatres, hav-
offered the free use of their establishments, a
dinner had, for the present, been dec;ined.—
hhe worthy Chairman concluded by expressing his
tlPPiness at the success which had already attended
e efforts of the Committee.
A long discussion then ensued, in which the
embers of the Committee and several of the corps
ri„ln .
alzque took a part, and various suggestions
t. re made to promotg the success of the Institu-
-104 ; and it appeared4o be the general feeling, that
t4f,theatrical benefit should take place, in furtherance
ihe Fund, previous to t's more extended appeal to
t_
patronage.
LeSeveral of the performers present became mem-
ihr4; and after some regulations had been entered
't°, the Meeting adjourned.
There appears every prospect, from the zeal and
Ltlttnimity of the Chairman, Committee, and Mem-
-11;41, that this excellent Fund will be productive of
the most extensive good to the families employed at
Metropolitan Minor Theatres. Prince Leopold
Ole time since consented to be Patron of and a
q:!,bseriber to the Fund, and the Committee are in
1,,,"Y expectation of hearing from hisAloyal High-
tk4s• The Institution, we are gratified to state, is
Pidly increasing.

PASHIONAInt iNTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Sir Matthew Tierney, Bart. and family, in Dover—street, from
Brighton; Sir Thomas and Lady Acland and family, at their
house in Pall-mall, from their seat in Devon,hire ; Lord arid
Lady Abercromby and family, at Warren's Hotel, Regent-
street, from Paris; Lord Henry Vane, in St. James's-square,
from Newton House, Yorkshire; Mr. and Mrs. Hughes and
family, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Paris; Thos.
Page, Esq. at ditto, from his seat, Cobham, Surrey; Admiral
Sir Edward Owen and Lady Owen, at Nerot's Hotels, Clifford-
street ; Mrs. Gabell and Mr. Gabell, Jun. at ditto; Lord Ongley,
at ditto; Captain Ongley, at ditto; Captain and Mrs. Smith, at
the Bath Hotel, Arlington street, from Bath ; Sir Osborn Gibbs,
Hart. at ditto, from Berkshire; Mrs. and Miss Lewis, at ditto,
from Sussex; Dr. Chichester, at ditto, from Cheltenham.