This remark applies in all its force to Professor Dew's Address, which all who cherish a well-balanced love, at once for the Sovereignty and the Union of these States, will read with delight. Those who have yet to acquire this sentiment, will read it with profit. If there be any man who doubts the peculiar advantages, moral, intellectual and pecuniary of a system of federative harmony, contradistinguished from consolidation on the one hand, and disunion on the other, let him read, and doubt no more. A subject of less vivid interest has been treated in a style at once amusing and instructive, by the author of the Essay on the Classics. No one can read that essay, without feeling that there must be something to refine and sublime the mind of man in the studies in which the writer is so obviously a proficient. Are these the thoughts? are these the images and illustrations? is this the language, with which the study of the classics makes a man familiar? Then it is true, as the poet has said: "Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros." "_Mutatis mutandis_," we would award the same general praise to an Essay on Education, and to the addresses from Judge Tucker of the Court of Appeals, and Mr. Maxwell of Norfolk. As to the continuation of the Sketches of African History, it is enough to say that it is a continuation worthy of what has gone before. The reviews are, as usual, piquant and lively, and in that style which will teach writers to value the praise and dread the censures of the critic. Among the articles reviewed, we are pleased at the appearance of Dr. Hawk's historical work. We are delighted, too, to find him, though not a Virginian, coming to the rescue of Virginia, from the misjudged or disingenuous praises of men who knew not how to appreciate the character of our ancestors. No. _It is a new thing with Virginians to lean to the side of power._ Those who have taught her that lesson, have found her an unapt scholar. The spirit of Virginia tends _upwards_, and we have all seen "With what compulsion, and laborious flight," she has sunk to her present degraded condition. To think of our fathers, as they stood 180 years ago, yielding with undisguised reluctance to inevitable necessity; and, in the very act of _submission_ to the _power_ of the usurper, denying his _right_, and protesting that they owed him no _obedience_! And we, the sons--what are we? "'Twere long to tell, and sad to trace Each step from glory to disgrace: Enough!--No foreign foe could quell Her soul, 'till from itself it fell; And self-abasement paved the way To villain bonds and despot sway." From the Baltimore Patriot.