The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-14 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1852.

even at the very low price to which the goods have fallen;
believe the price has reachf'd a lower point than has

,r been Ic.own before,

Gray J;:cconet is very dull, and has further receded in
prico 1 anna per piece on all descriptions except fine.
The extreme dullness which is felt in this, as well as
in Madapollanis, is partly cceasionei by the absence of
demand in the M.arwar Countries,
where these goods are
boat very largely consumed.
Gray .Longcloth is almost unnoticed; very dull of
sale, prices haNe declined 2 wanes per piece.
Grsy T cloth, up to 51b.; there has been no demand
and no change in value, Descriptions of 61b. and up-
wards are in good demand, and prices have advanced 1
enna per piece.
' Gray Domestics—Of late the inquiry has not been so
good as previously, excepting on goods of 40 in. of heavy
anti ceeroe mm.ke, which continued to be inquired atter.
•: Bleach, d Shirting—Qualities low to middling dull and
i
depressed, while for 66 reed and upwards there exists
slight
nle eienhqeud wlls very dull and unsaleable.i .
Bleached Satin Spots unnoticed and dull.
Bleached Madapollanas neglected and uninquired atter.
Fancy Goods—Dhoties of fancy borders low; lappets
and lappet scarfs in slight demand; other descriptions
dull of sale.

Turkey lied. both plain and twilled, very dull of sale.
Mulls command a very moderate inquiry.
Cotton Yarn—The mule market throughout the last
fortnight has been unsteady, and prices on 30's, 40's, and
50's, have slightly declined. Water 20's and 30's have
slightly receded in value, while 40's is without change.
I)yEd Turkey red, except of the best quality, dull of
sale. For orange there exukts a fair demand.
17 bales mule twist, 2001 b. each, Nos. 16, 18, and 20,
at 51a. per lb.

bales mule twist, 2001 b. each,No. 20, at ans. 6k per lb.
15 bales mule twist, 2001 b. each, No. 20, at ans.6lper lb.
12 bales mule twist, 3001 b. each, No. 30, at ans. 6iper lb.
16 Wei. mule twist, 200. b. each, No. 15, at ans 5k perlb.
150 bales mule twist, 3001 b. each. No. 40, at ans. 68;
No. 50, at ans. 8k; No. GO, at ans. 9i per lb.
150 bales mule twig, 3001 b. each, No. 40, at ans. 7;
Nc. 50, at ans. Si; No. GO, at ans. 9 per lb.
82 bales water twist, 200 lb. each, Nos. 20 and 22, at
ans. 6i; No. 40, at ans. 74 per lb.
200 bales water twist; 3001 b. each, No. 20, at ans. 6i;
No. 30, at ans. 7i per lb.
150 bales water- twist, 3001 b. each, No. 20, at 611;
No. 30, at 7 7.16 th ans. per lb.

34 bales Turkey red yarn, 200 lb. each, Nos. 40, 50,
and 60, at lr. 4a. per lb.
8 bales Turkey red yarn, 200 lb. each, Nos. 30, 40,
and 50, at lr. 24a. per lb.
12 bales Turkey red yarn, No. 40, at IL*. per lb.
83 bales of Turkey red yarn, 300 lb. each, Nos. 40,
50, and 60, at lr. 83. per lb.
10 bales Turkey red yarn, 4001 b. each, at lr. 43.
per lb.
75 bales orange yarn, Nos. 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60, at
12 7-16th ans. per lb.
49 bales orange yarn, 2001bs. each, No. 40, at lqa.
per lb.
58 bales orange yarn, 300 at 5001bs. each, Nos. 30, 40,
50, and 60, at 1113. per lb.
Metals—Englisn bar iron, dull and unsaleable. For
Swedish there exists a moderate inquiry. Steet in fair
inquiry, faggots dull of sale, steel and hoops neglected;
round nail rod is in good inquiry, and has advanced a
little, while square is dull, and has receded in value; pig
lead dull, and has receded in value; sheet lead very dull;
speller dull.
Copper sheathing has been in good demand, and has
advanced in price, as has also braziers. Tiles are without
change. Australian very dull, the late imports not yet
having realised. Bottoms are without change. For
South American there is a moderate inquiry.
125 Candies Swedish Bar Iron (to arrive) Its. 48 0
per candy.
} —•
125 Candies Round Nail Rod Iron, Rs. 30 per candy.
200 Cwt. Brazier's Copper RS. 48 per cwt.
250 " Sheathing do •••
Cochineal is very dull and aifficult of sale.
Saffron in demand, and is without change in value.
Linseed has been arriving, and prices have receded to
Rs. 3 2-16th per cwt. -
Pepper—Malabar dull and slightly lower in price; the
same remarks may be applied to Bhutool.
Rfal Lead has declined to'9i,' as has white lead to 81
per OWL
Cordage continues to be inquired for; the stock is
rather low. Paints command a moderate inquiry.
Canvass, both bleached and brown, very dull. Oil of
linseed is in demand. Spirits of turpentine dull. 300
cwt. white 'Aka, 9r. Ba. per cwt.; 100 cwt. ditto, 10r. per
cwt.; 70 cwt. green 'paint, 10r. per cwt.; 30 cwt. ditto,
10r. Ba. per cwt.
Woollens are dull and; epressed.
Beer—Allsop's continues
in good request, 70 hhds.
having been sold at 60r., and 30 hhds. Gasbee at 45r.;
33 hhds. Younger at 47r.; 528 hhds, Scarcells at 45r.;
and 20 hhds. Hodgson's' at 50r. 30 hhds. Gosby's beer,
45r. per hhd.; '33 hhds.Younger's ditto, 47r. per hhd.;
20 hhd. Scarcells brewery, 45r. per hhd.; 20 hhd.
Hodgson's beer, 50r. per hhd.
iipoirrs.
Cotton Wool—Arrivals haye been free, and consider-
able purchases have been made for the China market,
to which port holders are also shipping. Prices are
much the same as when we published our last report.
900 bales llhollera .„ Es. 82 0 per candy.

800 ditto ditto
500 ditto ditto

83 0 "
82 4 "

500 ditto. ditto (ill round)...
250 ditto ditto ...
800 ditto Baroda (all round)
125 candies Mangalore (all rkind)....
500 bales Broach alid Jiitabooseer...

71 4 "
81 0 "
77 0 "
72 8 "
870 "

525 ditto Broach ... 85 4 "
625 ditto .ditto 85 4 "
Opium—ln conscquenco-
of large shipments: and
purchases for the China market, prices have again ad-
vanced.

Freight to England—very little offers at present. To
London 21. 10s., to Liverpool 2/. A large number of
vessels have been taken up for China, and freights to
China were as high as 18r., but ainco the 11th inst., in
consequence of numerous arrivals, they have again de-
clined to 15r.

Exchange—partly
owing to the lowering of the rate
by the India Company in England, exchange has re-
ceded. The rate of the day is 23. lid. to 9-16th d. On
Calcutta 11 preuaium, and on China rupees 216 per cent.
Sp. drs. at 60 days' sight.

STATE -OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of thin day.)
MANCHESTER, TURSDAL—w e have to report some,
what less favourably to-day, than wo did last week, of
the general state of business in yarns and goods. The
market ir, on the whole quieter; and, in various articles,
it is found that a diminished demand is more freely met
by sellers, thus affording the buyers rather more choice in
general, end a slight advantage asregards price in those
things that are least under contract. Such is the case
with domestics, T's and long cloths, es well as some of
the lighter descriptions of goods. A little concession is
made in throstle warps of nearly all counts, and also
in cep twist and pin-cope generally. Water twist, in
the bundle, is least affected; pinnin scarcely
favourite s
in an observable degree. Low water, extra hard, is in
request and very firm- NO'ri, 40 and eo, reeled mule,
gs
maintain that increase of value given to them by the de-
mand which arose last week; and the better kinds of
skirtings and printers remain steady, The causes of
depression in our market appear to be—an impression
thet there will be some decline in the raw material; a
less travqeil promise in the aspect of French affairs; an
epprehension of weakeess in Lord John Russell's Go-
vernment; and, perhaps, in some degree, the serious
eharacter of the dispute betwixt the machine makers and
their workmen.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.--.The new or first market has
been today, and it being a general holiday, there has
been a limited attendance of buyers in the market, and
not much busine;s transacted. There has been more
inquiry after wool, arid the dealers are asking rather
better prices for the coarser kind. I3ut to-day the
tradesmen are more engaged with their Christmrs bills
than their usual businost.
MACCLESFIELD, TlTEsDAy._we have had several
buyers of manufactured goods the last few days, and al-
though the amount of business transacted has not been
large (chiefly owing to the firm attitude assumed by our
manufacturers), there is an evident disposition on the
part of the wholesale houses to be getting into stock. The
dyers are busily employed, from which it would appear
that active prerarato
have been commenced for
the spring trade. Thrown Silks—A fair business i.:
doing in this article, at elightly improved quotations.
The inquiry for Continental purposes continues. Raw
Silks— ihe market is characterised by great firmness.
Some business is reported in the recent unloading of
13rutias and Persians, at an advance of fully is per lb.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY: Rather more business has
been transacted today in our piece.
hell, than for the last
wet kor two, and chik fly i t
ni :alley goods, of low quality.
In the yarn market there is mere
, doing. The merchants
aregiving out more orders, at oetter prices; but the im-
provement in the quotationsi
is not equal to the advance
on wool ; end consequently the spinners are in a worse
1.
position than before. ao wool market is inactive, tis
the spinners have generally supplied themselves, ana
the staplers are looking forward to a further advance to
meet that asked by the growers.
HUDDERSFIELD, TTJEsDAY.—Business generally in the
Cloth Hall has been much the, same as last week; there
nas not betel a very active eetaund for any particular
kind of goods, but col_ lets._h_aee exchanged hands. The
fancy trade is at present dull. In the wool market st,
pre ttv trade htie n bet' done--i f anything, an im-
, fair
nrovement upon last week's.

n a, splendid new ship
Lawrence, the property of the Messrs.
Within two hours of the launch the St.
LAUNCH AT DUMBARTON.—On Saturday at high I
water Messrs. Denny and Rankin launched from their build=
at the Broomielaw, and is to proceed
of 578 tons re-
gister,ipl.,n,,lgi\a",ylrlae onr
in:
teahamwitse:Didesiutti ncyhlo.:oasrrettd. o
in conjunction with the
in a few days to Liverpool, being intended as a regular trader
betweenßritanni andnt,h;ito:nptorretal Montreal,
Britannia,
vessels already favourably
, and Toronto, I
known as comprising Messrs. Allan's line of traders between
Liverpool and Montreal. The St. Lawrence is of a beautiful
model, and we have no doubt her sailing qualities will be
on
such as will reflect the greatest credit on her eminent builders.
—Glasynv Paper.
YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.-ThEl
subscription contract for this company's proposed branch
from the Bridlington line to the Victoria or East Dock, Hui!,
' is signed for 45,000/., with 4,50 J. paid up.
--It 6
LEGAL STATISTIC 9. ppears from returns. to
Parliament, that in 1849 there were 28,734 writs issued by
the Court of Queen's Bench, 16,083 by the Common Pleas,
i and 40,043 by the ExcLeriner. T (. 'These are stated to be .n
mesne process; while in the County Courts in the same year
1 there were 695,191 plaints entered.

A MELANCLIOLY REFLECTION.--A very young
placemau was beard to remark,
"How very soon one grow 6
Grey in the public service!'

BULWER LYTTON'S POEMS & DRAMAS.

THE POETICAL AND DRAMATIC! WORKS
OF SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTOA',
Bart. Vol. 11. Chapman and Ball.
A collected edition of writings, hitherto scattered
over upwards of telenty years, and published in vo-
lumes of a:very miscellazeous cheracer, will enable
our author to estimate with some degree of accuracy
tile position he has attained and the success he has
achieved in the loftiest of all the various departments
of literature. It Must afford the critic, moreover, an
opportunity favourable for the reconsideration of
whatever verdict he may have pronounced upon
poem, or upon drama,' on the occasion of its original
appearance. Under any circumstances, a reprint of
the kind here indicated could not but prove
most acceptable, affording us, as it does, the
satisfaction of surveying, so to speak, in
a single:comprehensive glance,. the poetical composi-
tions one who, as a prose' writer has long since
created for himself a beautiful and perennial reputa-
tion. At the present moment, however, we, must
acknowledge that the volume under notice is, by us,
welcomed with more than ordinary pleasure from the
coincidence of its coming in the wake of many
grievous disappointments. After witnessing the fan-
tastic and melancholy puerilities recently-thrust upon
our consideration as poetry, it is with nothing less
than a sense of actual relief that we turn 4o the pe-
rusal of poems like those of Sir Bulwer Lytton,
poems which the least enthusiastic must allow to
be musical in rhythm and coherent in thought, and
which even the most fastitidious will confess to
be neither grotesque nor incomprehensible. Our ,
sentiments upon the grievance here implied, we at
once candidly and explicitly avow to have been tinc-
tured • rather with acerbity than with indifference.
That authors of no inconsiderable :eminence should
haveinjured themselves in our regard by the produc-
tion of works of most indisputable inferiority, might
have 'continued matter rather of regret than .of
anything like serious indignation, but fur the servility
of admirers who have stunned us with praises such as,
if applied to Milton himself, might have savoured
somewhat of extravagance. According to these
exceedingly and painfully infatuated eulogists,
we were• to recognise the "breathings 'of
Apollo'a lute" in croakings not in any I
particular more harmonious than those of the frogs of
Aristophanes. Diamonds, and those too of the purest
water; were, in their estimation, discoverable in these
" jewels • five words long," jewels that the poetic
lapidary could not fail on the instant; to recognise as
the very dullest paste and the most tarnished tinfoil.
Already we have protested that for our own part, at
least, we cannot listen with equanimity to panegyrics
too hyperbolical in tone to be applied even to Dry-
den's Achitophel, and which have, nevertheless,
been pronounced over Mrs. Broevningsa " Casa
Guidi IFindows." Neither can we patiently hear
expressed, in reference to her husband's
" Christmas Eve and Easter Day," encomiums more
earnest than might possibly be justifiable if breathed
over the " Messiah" of Pope, or over the loftiest
and least artificial among the diviner odes of Cowley.
Within the last few weeks, we ha.ve witnessed a
similar- violation of the commonest principles both of
taste and criticism in regard to the " Golden
Legend " of Longfellow, an effusion pot less fantastic
in purpose, than distorted in form and blasphemous,
in execution. Yet this, also, has_ been vaunted in
terms of flattery more exaggerated than any we ever
remember to have seen applied to the two most over-
commended poems of their age, the " Task " of
Cowper, and the " Creation" of .Blackinure.
It is from our mingled chagrin and' astonishment at
the disproportionate eulogiums thus lavished upon
works regarded by ourselves as poiiesied of very
small, and even that very disputable, excellence, that
We view with peculiar delight the appearance of a
volume in every respect differently enaracterised. As
the preliminary instalment of his collected poems, Sir
Bulwer Lytton has here given theft simply which
are, strictly speaking, " narrative," beginning, as he
himself acknowledges in his Prefatory Note, with the
" New Timon," because that was his " first publication,
in verse which was popularly suecessful. '
And in reference to this, it may be at 01109
observed that the Novelist ten; vindicated
his title as Poet not merely by his exquisite graces as
a 'writer of prose romance, but by extorting the
public recognition of. his rhythmical. powers under
the. honourable shadow of the anonymous—winning
no unmerited praise by the prestige of his already
acquired celebrity, but allowing the satire first and
the epia'afterwards to obtain success •by their own
intrinsic merits—as he had formerly dune by more
than one of his dramas, and in the. instance also of
his fiction " Godolphin," not the least among all his
works as a general favourite. By acting. thus towards
his more remarkable compositions in verse, he
avoided the difficulties, curiously enough,
placed in his way by the very • circumstance
of his foregoing renown, and thereby effectually dis-
armed those who might otherwise, and (to the super-
ficial) with some apparent justice, have depreciated his
poetical reputation. Beyond which, there vvaa wisdom
also in his so doing, from the fact 1 hat his previous
attempts in poetry had failed, under' the very weight
'of his name, to rise to anything at all appeoaching- to
popularity. Some cf these, as in the instance of the
" Siamese Twins;' published in 1831, he himself con-
fesses to have been both " jejune and puerile," adding,
in allusion to the volume particularized, the satis-
faction with which he is aware that it has been
" long since forgotten." Nevertheless, while shriv-
ing himself thus magnanimously to the public,
he has contrived without difficulty to demonstrate the
existence of much that was more than merely meri-
torious even in those neglected productions, by se-
lecting from them poems of no inconsiderable length,
filled with thee subtlest beauties of idea and the most
delicate charms of expression. Among these, incom-
parably the noblest of all, is his remarkable poem
upon Milton, extracted from that very book, " The
Siamese Twins," written in early youth, as the lite-
rary realization of one of its most roseate day-dreams,
and now revised from first to last, not merely as a
whole, but in detail, not merelfin thought, but in
diction, under the influences of a maturer taste
and a mellower judgment. By a coincidence
sufficiently curious to be specified, Milton was the
hero selected for celebration both in one of the ear-
liest poems of Bulwer and in one of the earliest essays
of Macaulay. Stranger still, each of those distin-
guished authors consents, it would seem, to retain
among his later and more carefully digested writings,
those youthful celebrations of " the blind old bard,"
not of Scio's isle, but of Bread-street, City, because
of an affectionate reverence for the subject ;—Mr.
Macaulay, apologising for this leniency, because of the
faults of style which his fastidious, mind recog-
nises in the essay, and Sir E. Bulwer Lytton
deprecating in regard to the poem the blame he
conceives may be called forth by similar
blemishes of exuberance. When criticizing, several
years since, on the occasion of their collective
reprint, Mr. Macaulay's celebrated contributions to the
Edinburgh, we ventured to designate as injudicious
an apology which we could not bat. regard as un-
called for; and with greater reason may we now
employ the same terms in speaking of the poet's
kindred phrases of deprecation, seeing that his com-
position has been subjected to such .very searching
end rigorous emendations. So fully, indeed, has
this task of revision been accomplished, that the
work, though still impregnated thrue.gh every pore
with the sap of its youthful vitality, had scarcely
more resemblance in its original form to the
shape it has assumed at present, than some
statue—masterly though it might "be in anima-
tion, and symmetrical though it might be in
proportion—when first hewn roughly from the marble,
and when polished into perfection by the last touches
of the sculptor's chisel. The germ, in fact, has not
only bloomed into the :fewer, but the leaves of the
blossom have fallen, and the fruit, developed in fermi
and duly ripened, lies bsfere us in an appropriate
tribute to the Genius and the Beauty The
poem is of all kinds the one best calculated to awaken
the interest of the more appreciative and more sus-
ceptible reader. It is the first budding, as it were, of
the imagination, the true ocyCiliti.ov 4exyrae-icee,
and, in this instance too, the efflorescence
ioff,ruon
imagination which has since then proved idtsefoueos
lific even to a marvel. S
his poem upon that graceful traidritio';o.:
which tells us
of an Italian lady seeing Milton asleep u, eecu_
in the gardens of his college, and being, Dyeelp": E
liar beauty, surprised into admiratihna.rwyng n
super-
ineident our author has built up a(0
being
rendered the
structure, the unknown maiden___
ertrayhig "the
heroine of a fictitious love-story
);, e n
great Patriot Poet," in the course of t h
~ to three cardinal divisions of lifo in his arrative,
youth,
Adopting,. as it would
inereot er renAlered
his manhood, and his old age.
seem, the advice of Horace, he has
the design of his poem a picture.
Ut picture, pc esis : erit stet,
longius abates.
To naPiet U"giB' et
(1"3, let 't
b 1
lee crib UCO videri,
araat obscurnin;
J
qem non f.ormida acumen:
11XC &sees repetite plecebit.
udicis argutum
Ewa placnit seine),
I t
Peculiarly in reference to this po,ern ,t on, e
may it be said
decies repeltta placebit, for with
new merits start fortli toobservation.
each perusal
At its outset we follow the fair Italian among the
green leaves,
40 Till pausing, violets on the bank to cull,
Over the Dreamer bent the Beautiful,"
where, as is told in one forceful couplet,
• ~ Silent, with lifted hands, and lips apart,
Silent she stood, and gazed away her heart."
In the sudden abbreviation of the lines there is ccca-
-4,,ea11y a singular sweetness. Thus,
*see turn's), and as a spell that loaves the place
It tilled with phantom beauty—cold and bare,
She fled; end ever disenchanted. space
liusk'd lack the common air 1' •
But there is a more exquisite specimen of this

further on. It is where Milton, pleading his love
to the nameless 1::dy, long tifrrwardF, in the twi-
light of an 1::;_lian evening, c1e50.3 his adjuration a 3

" where the bir2. from yon darlr it<s breailics
,s,,ul into night—so .be thy love to me
Look, where around the LIM the ilex wreathes
S ill, theiteting 'oonghs—so be my love to these I
0 dweller in my heart, tie rune thine
ALd the de:lT sli&lter—wilt thou score i ? mire
Ho (Tilted, aed ilrew her closer to his brctist;
Sett from the ilex sang the riighting:
heart, 0 W0M,,11). ill its hippy rest
liu,h'd a diviner tale
There is, to us, iu those simple and melodious words,
an indescribable and impassioned tenderness. More
or leis, however, the whole of the two first divisions
of the poem are suffused with the same warmth of the
master passion—pulsating in its measure, and impart-
ing vitality to its revelations. Among the numerous
passages thus coloured into life by the blending of
love and poetry, the most conspicuous, perhaps, is the
one which constitutes a prelude to the song of the
nightingale (whose music even " a falling leaf might
mar's)—a passage in which are shadowed forth the por-
tents of those disasters and sufferings which clouded
the laterlife of Milton, wringing his noble heart with
sorrow : and, as his congenial celebrant says with so
much truth—

The noblest heart is, aye, the easiest wrung:
Turning a regretful glance to the unrenowned but
peaceful days of the ' youth of Milton, Sir Bulwer
Lytton closes, " Part the First," with the lamen-
tation—

" Flowers bloom again—leaves glad once more the tree;
Poor life, there comes no second Spring to thee!"
A thought identical with one expressed, during the
last century, through the medium of one of her most
meritorious sonnets, by Mrs. Charlotte Smith, when
she sighed forth her emotion thus—

" Another May now buds and flowers shall bring;
Ah ! why has Happiness no second Spring ?"
During the course of his poem on Milton our author
contrives to scatter along the main pathway of the
narrative rhetorical beauties of a very various descrip-
tion, and these also with a singular profusion. At
one moment he pauses to paint—
" The bee's blue palace in the violet's bell ;"
(a delicious fancy, such as might have kindled the
jealousy of King Oberon) ; 'and at another to desig.-
nate, in a line of epigrammatic brilliancy—
" Duty, the iron mainspring of the mind."
It is not, however, with these adornments that the
genius of the writer has been especially occupied in
weaving this his song commemorative of the Poesy
and Patriotism of Milton. There is distinguishable
through the abounding graces of the composition the
glow of an elevated and earnest purpose, and, above
all, au appreciation of the hero such as might have
satisfied even the reverential homage of his friend
Richardson. In the first allusion to his approaching
blindness we perceive a touching and irresistible
pathos. In testimony of which we quote—

" Ho lifts his look where on the lattice bar,
Thro' clouds fast gathering shines a single star;
Large on the haze of his receding sight
It spreads, and spreads, and floods all space with light;
Nature's last glorious mournful smile on him
Even while on earth so near the Scrapkint."
We might alznost,icuagine,the writer to have felt, as
well as fancied, the lamentable growth of the subtle
agonies of aniaurasis. As was befitting, " the last
scene of all in that eventful" tragedy, is, of all, as a
description, perhaps the most beautiful, where Milton,
old and blind, but with a smile still playing on his
lips—

" The old, familiar, sweet yet stately smile"—
stands at the porch of his humble dwelling between
his two young daughters. The whole poem ends.
amidst the melodies of the resounding organ played
by the bends of the poet of Paradise—that organ, in
listening to the mere memory of which we could
imagine to be realised the noble verse of Chatterton—

" And the soul trenibles to the trembling key !"
On closing this portion of the collected poems of Sir
E. Bulwer Lytton, we feel assured, that although /ar
from being amongst the most pretintions of his writ-
leas, it is incomparably amoug the most beautiful.
Whatever may be the Ulterior decision of the world
at large, it is something to have written a poem
upon MivroN. Any critical estimate, on our part,
of " The New Timon," we cannot but think would
be little less than Supererogatory. Immediately on
its original publication we analyzed its merits with
no inconsiderable minuteness, and the success it ha
since then achieved has more than justified the fa-'
vonrable opinion pronounced upon it by ourselves at
the time when it was strictly anonymous. Several
of the notes appended to it, in the present edition,
are eminently entitled to examination; some of them,
indeed, are curiosities. For example, it is remarked
upon the line— •
And Free Trade chirrups on the lap of Peel"—
that it was written before Sir Robert's avowed
abandonment of Protection, and was, consequently.,
prophetic in its character. Again, in reference to
the well-known description of that Great Nan—

" Now, 'on his humble but his faithful steed,' -
Sir Robert rides—he never rides at speed—
Car( ful his seat and circumspect his gaze;
And still the cautious trot the cautious mind betrays:
Wise is thy heed !—how stout soe'er his back,
Thy weight has oft proved fatal to thy hack!"

the reader is reminded that the lines were written
years before the fatal accident which closed the illus-
trious career of the statesman. We are gratified to
observe an announcement in the foot-note here par-
ticularised, that " the author will find another occa-
sion to attempt, so far as his opinions on the one band,
and his reverence on the other, will permit—to con-
vey a juster idea of Sir Robert Peel's defects or
merits, perhaps us a statesman, at least as an orator."
Immediately after " The New Timon"—pasted over
for the reasons already specified—comes " Constance,
or the Portrait," that enthralling story of the melan-
choly first love of the heroine, in the recounting of
which are revealed the probity of Seaton, the egotism
of Harcourt, and the sorrows of the hero Ruthven.
The denouement is among the most touching with
which we are acquainted—rendered strangely drama-
tic, as it is, by the incident of the picture behind the
curtain, a picture which the reader, of course, imagines
from the first to be that of Harcourt. A portrait, alto-
gether apart from the one in which the title of the
poem originates, oddly enough, suggests the most
felicitous metaphor in the composition. The author
is speaking of the superiority of individual worth over
the mere rank resulting from ancestral greatness, and
thus illustrates his position :
" Ev'n as the eye in Art's majestic halls,
Not on the frame but on the portrait falls;
So to each nobler life the gaze we bound,
Nor heed what casework clasps the picture round."
Another couplet demands quotation for the worldly
wisdom it conveys, as follows :
Yet gilts era sometimes as offenc's viewed,
And envy is the mean man's gratitude."
A somewhat distressful violation of taste, on the_ con-
trary, we cannot, however, but think discoverable in
the sentence—
" Not over anxious to be undeceived, „
Ruthven reform in what was rot belinveo,
" oEva,
as y more graceful,
though
a sentence we would fain see expunged.
a production, be it said, imme•
arid in every particular, to our thinking, immeasurahlY
.
- "t
more poetical, is not less ptiinful
when sent fcr
describing the career of anidiot boythe
doctor, to he found among the writings of Air. Wordzi_
thema than t
worth. Dryden refrained from approaching the
borders of absolute idiotcy in the character et eva,o,-,_
and hence the exquisite charm pervadieg the narra-
tive
One rive of his love for Iphegenia. The most
cfiective
pas3sge in " Eva" is the repetition of the words—
Who stands between thee slidthe su•4e! ?
A cloud hersAf—the ng O
the termination of the
Repeated as they
_are, towards
story, these wri•ordl are absolutely startling. " The
one of the Fabliaux
ears singularly disagreeable,LatihrYoupgrhidtehC"'ttauezVignge:'htilelibyit is written is to. our
and, from the in-
volution of the rhymes,
even dissonant—possesses
interest from its
association with King Arthur,
the subject of that
great national epic, which, among
all his works, is incomparably Sir Edward Bulwer
Lytton's mastea •
a piece. To the "Fairy Bride," there-
fore, we turn
from
one es to. an episode
.created as it
_were
of the ribs of the principal narrative—
, certain
yEyEvri:as,
" The Beacon," promising little at the outset, closes with
degree of grandeur, as " The Lay of the
iNlinatrel's Heart," promising much, ends, we conceive,
indifferently, The former conveys its moral thus

Yes, man for man thou didst create;
if twigs, man's blessings can atom:
To lea/ n how Love can spring trom Hate—
Go, ilate,---and live alone!"
In regard to the latter we are almost tempted to ask—
Amphora arpit institui ; currente rota cur urceus exit ?
Tne, volume is appropriately brought to a conclusion,
with the narrative lyrics called "The Ferenc," being
six leaves from the book of the Sibyl. Leaf the first
commemorates the circumstance of the First Consul
having, a few days before the victory of Marengo,
carved the word Battaglia on the rindof an oak in the
Isola Bella, upon the Lago Maggiore. Leaf the se-
cond, symbolizing a "farewell to the beautiful with-
out," celebrates the death of the aged Alazarin ; while
leaf the third, symbolizing a " farewell to the beaut;-
ful, within," celebrates that of the youthful Andre
et6aier. The worthiest epitaph that could, perhaps,
by possibility be inscribed to the memory of that
evriter, not the least among the bards of France, would
be the final stanza of the last effusion—
" The shrine that longest guards a Name •
Is oft an early tomb;
The Poem most secure.ef fame
Is—some wrong'd poet's doom.
That thought might perchance have consoled the
heart of Chewier at the moment of his preraa.