MAGAZINES OF THE MONTH.

WE turned with some interest to the article in Blackwood entitled " Alter- ation of the Courts of Law in Scotland ;" but it has disappointed us. The subject is treated in a narrow spirit, and the reasoning is of the weakest ; the article on Jury Trial is better. The first article, " On the Influerce of the Church of England on Society," is extremely good. A Greek pastoral, by HOGG, contains much beauty of thought, and much sweetness of versification, mingled with lines so prosy and so harsh that they look as if some wag had inserted them in ridicule. Take the following as a spe- cimen "No language could make you to conceive it: And if you did, you would not believe it."

The paper on Poor Laws in Ireland is just and sensible, and the "Noctes" are capital.

The New Monthly has several very good papers : for instance, the 4th, (Anecdotes of Russia), the 8th (Recollection of a Gottingen Student, No. 6), which gives an amusing account of German duelling, and the 14th, in which are some very characteristic anecdotes of Telma.

The "Ten Days' Quaraotine" of the Monthly is an amusing anecdote, and the observations on the Byron question are judicious.

When we saw a paper headed "Algiers," in the United Service Magazine, we naturally looked, at a moment when it would have been so interesting, for some original, accurate, and recent account of that city. Instead of this, the editor has presented us with the old story of O'Reilly's expedition. in 1775, which possesses no interest at all. Of the other papers, the story of J'afar and the account of the pirate Soto are amusing.

There are some good critical notices in,the Monthly Review ; we pxefer the account of Dr. WALSH'S late work. In the review of CAn.raz, by a curious perversion of logical rules, we find ApAres's account brought for. ward to refute that of the Frenchman. A list of thirteen volumes of poems, headed "Minor Poetry," is introduced by Sir WALTER SCOTT'S Devorgoil. Is Sir WALTER one of the minors ?

There is nothing so different in the Family Magazine from almost every other periodical of the day, as to give it any peculiar claim to the name it has assumed. The first number is fairly got up : there is little to blame in it, and not 'finch to praise. The author of Mantle Wauels, and JAMES HOGG, are among the contributors.

The paper on Travels in Turkey, in this month's number of the Asiatic Journal, and that on the Ryot War System, are very well written. The paper on Chinese Poetry is curious.

Several descriptions of Signor ALDINI'S defensive dresses against fire have appeared. The best, however, that we have seen, is in the present number of the Gazette of Health. A short paper on Warts and Corns, in the same number, is also worthy of commendation.

The Dublin Christian Examiner maintains the character which our first perusal prompted us to give of it. The May number has several very good papers : that on the Poor Laws merits a careful perusal. The Sketches of Irish Peasantry continue as amusing as ever.

Blackwood's Agricultural Magazine is, as usual; full of information, much of it curious, all of it valuable. The first paper in No. IX. is on the Destruction of Rats,—an humble subject ; but the rules are so plain, and have been proved by experience to be so effectual for the destruction of these vermin, that we cannot help looking on it as one of very considerable in- terest. An essay on the Sheep and Goat (a continuation of a very admira- ble series), and a letter on the Agriculture of France, well deserve perusal. "We perceive in this number a short communication from that most inde- fatigable of agriculturists, Sir JohN SIN c LAIR. It ispleasing to contem- plate the activity of this venerable old man in pursuits to which his man- hood was so honourably and so usefully devoted.

The British Magazine contains an interesting paper (the third of the series) on the Caffre tribes, from the pen of Mr. PRINGLE; and an equally good one on Constantinople, by Mr. CARNE, the author of Letters from the East.

The Lady's Magazine of this month is rich in embellishments. Besides the usual ones of fashions and a fine head of Vittoria Colonna, it contains a plan of the projected street from Waterloo Bridge to the Museum and an elevation of it, the same that was planned in 1825. The street looks magnificent.

La Belle Assemblee contains a good little story by Mrs. Ham., and a number of other amusing papers. Among the embellishments is a portrait of the Duchess of CAMBRIDGE, engraved by Say, from a miniature by CHALONS.

The May number of the Law Magazine is a good specimen of a singu- larly able and well-conducted periodical.

Fraser's. Magazine has made considerable progress since our former inen- tion of it, but the number for May is not the best. The first page tells us that the building of Buckingham Palace was a moral duty. There is no withstanding this argument : Mr. Go ULBURN will find an extension of its application useful in the Committee to which he has referred the last esti- mate for 'Windsor Castle. There is masculine sense, mixed with rather too much levity, in the "Expostulation with the Law of Divorce." The "Magyars versus Dr. Bowring" is clever, whimsical, and amusing, but dashed with slang.