All this is of the fast fleeting year. Of 1838,
three Magazines are before us,—Blackwood, Tait, and Frazer. We have as yet only had time to read the political articles ; which vary much in merit. That of Blackwood is long, and overlaid ; but there are sonic telling points, such as the justly contemptuous estimate of the last King. The politics of' Tait are merely incidental, forming an introduction to a notice of the forthcoming popular pulication of BENTHAM'S Works : the writer looks over Lords and Commons, and minorities and majorities, to the great masses; and he infers from their distress, and their education, and their various organs and rallying-points, that things cannot stop where the coalescing " milk-and-water Conservatives and milk-and-water Reformers who are comfortable" would wish. The " How Long can it Last" of Frazer, is skilful, rapid, and effective. The conduct of the Ministers on the five questions* brought before Parliament, is plainly but searchingly brought out, especially their behaviour in excluding Mr. Haevev from the Pension-list Committee ; which is turned over on every side, and denounced on all. And, by the by, where is now the pretended danger ? On Saturday last the True Sun was discontinued ; a farewell address, of equal power and loftiness with those articles which have long distin- guished it, noting the Inet, and assigning the valid reason that its proprietor found it inconvenient to advance the capital needed for some time longer to enable it to maintain itself'. As little suspicion would now attach to Mr. HARVEY as to any other Member. Such are the absurd results of legislating on the chance of individual Contingencies. However, the shift served its day.
• 1. The declaration against Organic Reform.
2. The" truckling to the Radi,als in Ow affair of the l'ens:owlist."
3. Their exclusion of Mr. 11Auvir from the Co:emitter.
4. Their behaviour touching the Spottiewootle Conspiracy.
5. The dettlemeut of the Ci%il List.
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