The Sun. — 1837-08-05 (London, England)

MAGAZINE EDITORS.-I know how a monthly periodical will wear down one's existence. In itself it appears nothing—the labour is not manifest ; nor is it the labour—it is the continual attention which it requires. Your life becomes as it were the magazine. One month is no sooner corrected and printed, than on coxes the other. It is the stone of Sisyphus—an endless repetition of toil—a constant weight upon the mind—a continual wearing upon the intellect and spirits, demanding all the exertion of your faculties, at the same time that you are compelled to do the severest drudgery. To write for a magazine is very well, but to edit one is to condemn yourself to slavery. Thanks be to Heaven, I have passed my own Emancipation Bill. Magezine-writing, es it is generally termed, is the most difficult of all writing, and but few succeed in it ; the reason of which is obvious—lt must always be what is termed " up to the mark."—New Monthly Magazine fir August. ATTEMPT AT SuiciDE.---Between two and three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon a great sensstien was caused in Guildford-street, Southwark, by a respectable man, named Daniel Cronin, an engineer, whe resided at No. 15 there, with his family, consisting of a wife and five children, making a determined attempt at self-destruction. The unfortunate man, who is forty-eight years of age, had, for the last fourteen years, held the situation of engineer to a large manufactory in the neighbourhood, but having a fit of sickness he was obliged to give up his employment. During his illness the means of subisting his family became exhausted, and being unable to obtain another situation they became reduced to a state of extreme distress. On Wednesday Cronin returned home about dinner time, after unsuccessfully reeking employment, and found hi; wife and children without a morsel of food in the house, and in a state of starvation. He seemed to feel very acutely the miaerabie state they were in, and, after shedding tears, withdrew to the bedroom, saying he would lie down. Here it appeared the wretched man, overcome by his trouble, determined on self-destruction, and proceeded to effect his purpose by suspending himself with a clothes line to the foot-rail of the bedstead. The cord, however, it seems, was rotten, and breaking, Cronin fell on to the bed. Had he fallen on the floor his wife and family would have been alarmed, and the further attempt which he made in all probability preho cut himself twice across thie nisitic or roc tett-wrist., enese..ing to let himself bleed to death if the wound in his throat should not prove fatal. Ills wife, surprised at his long absence, entered the room, and was struck with horror at discovering her husband stretched on the bed, apparently in the agonies of death. Assistance was ditectly obtained, and he was removed to Guy's Hospital, where some slight hope is entertained that he may survive. He has since expressed great sorrow for the rash attempt, and declares that the distress of his family drove him mad.  Mn. SPENCER'S TRAVELS IN CIRCASSIA, KRINf TAIITARY, &c.—Mr. Spencer seems to have pursued his inquiries among the Caucasian tribes, under circumstances of great advantage, and the most novel and important portion of his volumes is devoted to the subject of Circassia—a subject. at the present moment, of great importance. His work is full of curious and highly interesting details, as to the manners, personal appearance, way of life, character, and pursuits of the Circassian people; and it offers many points of description and observation which arc as novel and important, as they are amming, instructive, and characteristic of the singular nation to which they relate. The work is beautifully got up, Ind is embellished with Numerous plates, vignettes, maps, &c., which give to it an interzst which its intrinsic merits scarcely needed. —Naval and Military Gazette. _