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LITZRAnir N OTICZS.

Dublin University Magazine. November.
If there had been no other article in this number of
the Dublin University Magazine than that with which it
opens, it, alone, would be a sufficient recompenee for the
price of its purchase and the time of its perusal. A finer
specimen of cairn reasoning on eteiteaVe topics we have
nit often vvitnessed.•'. The vindication of " Irish Landed
ProtarieterS" frOm the aspersions of the papal junto which
conducts the Dublin lieview—the felicitous exposures of
the debasing corruption of Romanhen, as practised in
"American Nunneries," to which the public attention
had been drawn by Miss Reid's narrative of" Six Montlei
in a Convent"—the complete victory obtained over the
said .Dublin reviewers, in regard to tire " permission" of
reading the Bible by the laity, and by them, falsely, con-
tended, to have been granted by the Council of Trent
aril all to be found in this interesting article; to complete
We:piens group, we have Dr Trov supporting the Rhemish
Testament, and Dr. Murray holding forth Peter Dens to
the clerical aspirants afterpapal distinction. We strongly
recommend this article'to all our readers. The next ar-
tiitle is on "Alison',, French Revolution," w!lich is pre-
fa'eed try many judicious and well timed reflections on the
present state of England, and are especially, such as very
manv natural and national associations would induce in
a leorrectly thinking mind. We quote the following pas-
ser:re as highly consolatory, and also because it very ex-
aCly speaks our own conviction Every day only
more and more serves to convince us, that the heart of
the country is sound—of this the recent elections, in se-
veral of the counties of England, are no' nsignificant or
unintelligible syniptoms. They have stricken the lead-
ers of the democratic party with dismay, which it re-
quires only a little more activity, and enterprise, on
.the
part of the Conservatives, to improve into consternation,
and drive them from that station and influence, which
they could never hare been suffered to attain, without
nationaldisgrace, and which they can no longer be stif-
fered to occupy without national danger." Iu the course
of the review of Alison's " French Revolution" are inter-
spersed very many judicious selections of- passages from
the work itself, which serve,•alMoSt as an abridgment, to
pir[isent a connected view of the events that progressed
snnultaneouSly with the career of Buonaparte. We
think they4who read the. "review" will also read Alison.
Of- the next article we confess ourselves incompetent
jitiges it seems to our, perhaps.morbid, taste, a farrago
of trash;' but When a company sit down ,to a dinner,
es:ery one doe's not eat of the same dish. rAt this lite,-
rary repast we must therefore leave the "Plundersweiler
Fair" for other appetites than our own. We have more
than' tasted it, but soon found perhaps it might be squea-
Mishness) that "a little more titan a little was much too
much" for us. With the article on the " Gallery of Il-
lustrious Irishmen," in which we are presented with a
full length picture of the Earl of Charlemont, and the
"correlatives" of his day, we have been much pleased—
the anecdotes of Home, of Earl Chatham, and Lord
Mansfield, the lively mention of Burkn, Johnson, Gold-
smith, as living personages actually filling up the busy
and varied .scene of real conspired to carry us
Back a 'generation 'of days, and to fascinate us with the
triple spell of eloquence, poesy, and murals. The re-
mainder of the number, with the exception of an inte-
resting atf itle on the " English Poets," is composed of
romantic tales, involving, for so we infer from the glance
we have given them, all the mysteries of wonder, and
rioting in all the extravagance of fiction.

Another Word to the Operative Conservatives. By R.
S. S.

We have read with very great satisfaction, and we
commend to all our friends as worthy their perusal, a
pamphlet entitled " Another word to the Operative Con-
Set v atiyes, by R. S. S." It is a sober appeal to the best
judgment of all classes of men—a points out the origin,
and enforces tire necessity of conservative unions, upon
the principle laid down in the motto of the pamphlet, by
that high political authority, Edmund Burke—" When
bad men combine, good men must unite, or else they will
fall, one,by one, unpitied sacrifices in a contemptible
strilgol'J.... With regard to the happy soil in which the
thought first germinated,• of establishing " Operative
Conservative Institutions," we are glad to have an op-
portunity of adding our modicum of praise, by quoting
the words of the present pamphlet :—"lt is by no means
improbable, that the imposing list of noble and illustri-
ous characters, forming the committee of the newly es-
.tablished National Conservative lustaution, and the
avowed intention of aiding the operative societies, con-
contained in its prospectus, had a great share in influ-
elleing others in favour of us. If this surmise be nearly
allied to truth, as I have no doubt it is, I cannot, my
friends, in common justice, neglect to point out to You,
that it is to LORD SANDoN that we are mainly indebted
for the establishment of this excellent institution. The
expression he made use of, when presiding at a meeting,
preparatory to its establishment, ran thus Subordi-
nate to that object, and which must depend for success on
the means used, would be the promotion of conservative
associations ainong4 the labouring classes all over the
country. "l'here was nothing secret intended—all was
to be pen and intelligible. Conservatives were neither
ashamed of supporting their principles nor of avowing
their objects.' " The advise added to those high in title,
wealth, or station, to "condescend to men of low estate,"
is recommending a duty as politically wise as it is scrip-
totally incumbent.