The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-23 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1858.

LITEIiATUBB.

The Odes of Horace. In /bar Books, translated
into EnglisA Lyric Verse. By Lord RAVENS-
woint. London : Upham mad Beat.
What Dr. Johnson very untruly said of devotional
poetry may be very truly said of translated poetry
—that it is always unsatisfactory. No man living,
not even if he have the gifts of a Mezzofante or a
Ponce can realise the language of Homes*? any
other classic. There are a thousand minute beauties
in a spoken tongue which die with the tongue they
animated and adorned. They are like those gleams
of life which no artist out catch and treader to the
MUMS. The student works painfully, and as he
toils along his rugged way he learns how this phrase
has a peculiar force, and that a sparkling beauty,
and, glowing with enthusiasm, he attempts to clothe
the thought he admires in an English dress, for the
benefit of the unlearned, forgetting that they are not
wrought up to the same transport as himself. In
works of science, or history, or biography, this does
net much matter; but' it is different when we
Weald make the meant' sing as we moderns—when
Wia would face and Horace to speak

IMPERIAL P.

ROM OF LORDB.—TinnumAY, JULY 22.
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me Loin Citaxonzzon tool his seat cc ihs woolsack st
iv. /axe.

PRIVATE BUBINEBB.
The fellowing bills wen read • third time: The Severn
Vale/ Rave (extessias of One); the Mariebeseer South
teawAand Ram ato. 2) ; the Reedit&
Lawry; sal
lm
Weee-Rad el Isetele• sad Meek= sad
Neruteod holm Mews* (iiimin Rhin! ), BEL.

NNW PROM INDIA AND CHINA.
The Biel d MALAILICSBURY reed to the hours the tub-
~es Jai from Corfu (a copy of which will to found
is imaschw alma) sad added—l Salk the coluarrf will hal
Os tibial sad gsllsatry with which Sir Hugh
=so fl
orwhootod fire oporadows. (Loud ohms.)

THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.
Ti Duke at NEWCASTLE said tie whited to cell Oak
11:~ ellentkm to one or two dame * this MIL Claus
he ferobled that to all oases to *blab hamar* the stand
eammittse at the Court of Directors weirdo ages of sow
andeeilsa, She fkacretszy of State miOt ossumadicats with-
out the hisevontion of his ocundL the Mere Wail
ceemallise an that claws the noble earl (the lad at Dabs)
consiniall te the lentrodnatios at • provision to ths abett Art
offs,
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di re
ea wheal aossamtleatica &mid
Ne mak prowlelea
lowair, bona Inhodnesi,
unitise dawn steal es It Aid La than IR, mho,
than onto a etobel altered= oramiredt 1•61111011 to the
tires within whl* seder eat ha the
Ot lb
at iffiMhimMl be • s II i• d mesa
g e sas
The End 01 DIED rigid tiebabos Ms MI lad paned
=seemelttee hi baleen eageged is amelderlag
which he wars% to repeat ea lits died readlag.
As to darn 28, wadi be 'ambled bet se ea* eiders
iambi be me eat without being emmalealei le the eis
Rd
and IMO other ameatele of the eamell. As to
slimes Alt wall be Mad, whoa looked at towefelly, to be
write merest at It steed.
THIRD READINGS.
The kao bills wan read • third time •. The Rods-
siastind Jvidiatlaa Continuance • the Charitable Trusts
Aot Continuums ; the Turnpike' Trusts Arrangements ;
the Cogyboid end Madame Commtsdon, Res. ; the In-
dignity ; sad ths Array Sent* Bills.