The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-15 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

WOODSWORTH'S POEMS, VoL. IV.
Moxon, London, 1837.
The volume before us contains the " White Doe of
Rylstone," on which the " Edinburgh Review" passed such
an unjust sentence some years since, but which time has
since reversed ; the " Ecclesiastical Sonnets," and the
" Memorials of a Tour on the Continent." Among these
last are two sonnets on " Bruges," one of which we do not
hesitate to pronounce among the finest, in point of thought,
in the language. Here it is :
" The spirit of Antiquity—enshrined
In sumptuous buildings, vocal in sweet song,
In picture, speaking with heroic tongue,
And with devout solemnities entwined—
Mounts to the seat of grace within the mind :
Hence forms that glide with swan-like case along;
Hence motions, even amid the vulgar throng,
To an harmonious decency confined ;
As if the streets were consecrated ground,
The city one vast temple, dedicate
To mutual respect in thought and deed ;
To leisure, to forbearances sedate ;
To social cares from jarring passions freed ;
A deeper peace than that in deserts found."

WYATT'S POEMS.
Fraser, London, 1837.
We have read this little volume of poems with much
pleasure. It is the production of an elegant and thought-
ful mind, and shows considerable play of fancy. The best
portion of it is that comprising the Sonnets, which prove
that Mr. Wyatt has adopted Wordsworth as his model.
His imitations, however, are by no means servile ones, as
the following sonnet entitled " Brighton" will show.
Though Wordsworthian in sentiment, it is anything but a
slavish copy
" Who seeks food for reflection, take his stand
Upon this spot so thronged in busy day,
And list awhile old Ocean's boisterous play,
Rolling his gloomy surge—then turn to land;
What sight awaits him I Strange variety
Feast, revel, pomp, and ceaseless pageantry,
In the close neighbourhood of the mighty sea ;
And thousand lights upon the populous shore,
While dark beneath the rushing billows roar—
'Twixt life and death what contrast need'st thou more ?
'Tis well. Oh, never yet to poet's mood,,
On thine own waves, or rocky solitude,
Hath a more awful voice been heard from thee,
Than on this gayest shore, thou boar and giant sea 1"
The above Sonnet is admirable of its kind, containing a
striking thought fully and gracefully developed. The
leading idea is not once lost sight of, but is kept distinctly
in view. throughout. There is, however, one defective line,
which Mr. Wyatt should not have admitted in its present
state. The " feast, revel, pomp, and ceaseless pageantry"
is sadly tautological ; for what difference is there between
" feast" and " revel," " pomp" and " pageantry ?"
meaning of the entire line is quite fully enough conveyed
by the two words ." feast" and " pomp." This may be too
fastidious criticism perhaps, hut a Sonnet, like a diamond,
should be without a flaw. In a poem not exceeding four-
teen lines, we cannot excuse negligence.

GRISI'S MARRIAGE.—It has puzzled many per-
sons that there should have been a law-suit in Paris respecting
the marriage of Mademoiselle G. Grisi with Mons. Girard de
Meley, and many unfounded reports have arisen as to a divorce,
&c. There never have been any doubts as to the validity of
the marriage, which was solemnised both according to the
forms of the Catholic Church, and, at Langham Church, cc-
eording to the rites of the Protestant religion. The suit was
au amicable one, to decide as to the right of property, in con-
sequence of there having been no marriage settlement, and it
was decided by the French Court that M. de Meley take pre-
cedence of his wife's kindred. The French law appears to he
the same as the law in this country in similar cases.

On Thursday last, at Paris, a cabriolet belonging to
the Quaen of France was fined two francs, because her Ma-
jesty's name was not painted in letters two inches long, the
siz:! required by law. The driver of the cab was Count de
Strada, who had the use of it for the day. The letter carriers
of Paris are now distributed throughout the city by omnibuses
of a peculiarly elegant form ; these persons are shortly to be
clothed in a showy uniform.
At a late meeting of the Linnean Society, the chair-
man exhibited a stalk of the " cow tree," or " Jersey cabbage,"
which was 9 feet 4 inches long, the circumference at IS inches
from the root being 41 inches, and in two other parts 31. inches.
A worthy tailor hearing of this colossal cabbage, declared it
must belong to the things and not to the flints.
The Prussian States Gazette states that the Pope
has been perfectly restored to health through the skill and
attention of a German physician, Dr. Ahletz, from Aix-la-
Chzpelle. His Holiness had for a length of tiine been suffering
from a cancer in the face. The
,journal above quoted adds,
that his physician belongs to the Protestant religion.
Mr. Whishaw's " Analysis" contains a particular ac-
count of the engineering details of the two thousand miles of
projected railways in England and Wales, with a summary,
glossary, table of estimates, &c. &c.

The Reformers of Oldham have resolved to pu
General Johnson, of Lincolnshire, in nomination as their can.
didate. with Mr. Fielden.

The expenses of the horse-patrol for the quarter
ending Dec. 31, 1836, amounted to 2,3611. 17s. Id.
The neighbourhood of Whitechapel was thrown
into a state of alarm on Monday night, by the escape of a
wolf from the premises of Mr. Bemington, at the Three Nuns
Tavern, where it had been confined. It ran about, snapping
at the passengers' legs, until a butcher in the market, upon
whom it made an attack, being prepared, seized the animal
by the throat, and, with his knife, nearly severed the head
from the body. No accounts have reached us of any person
having been injured during its progress.
According to the Journal Paris, the Dukes of
Orleans and fiemours arc on the point of coming to London
on the invitation of the King of England, and will visit the
principal towns of the kingdom. They arc to be accompa-
nied by the young Princes, their brothers. Before they cross
the Channel, their Royal Highnesses will make a short stay at
Brussels with their sister, the Queen of the Belgians, who is
again in an advanced state of pregnancy. They will after-
wards embark at Ostend.

The Noblemen and Gentlemen, members of the
Catch Club, to the number of forty, dined together yesterday
at the Thatched House Tavern. Amongst the company were
the Duke of Argyll, the Hon. C. Berkeley, Sir George War.
render, the Hon. M. Fortescue, the Hon. W. T. Fieni.es, Mr.
Pracd, M. P. , Mr. Geo. Wood, M.P. ; Mr. Tudor, M. P. ;
Mr. Cartwright, M.P., Scc..

The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scot-
land has offered the- premium of five hundred sovereigns fur
the first successful application of steam power to the cultiva-
tion of the soil.

As an evidence of the distress in Shetland we may
mention, that a vessel arrived at Leith this week with no fewer
than sixty passengers, intending to emigrate to America, in
order to escape the starvation staring them in the face at home.
Information was on Monday forwarded to the diffe-
rent police-officeefrom the office of the Commissioners of Po-
lice, of a robbery committed last Friday evening at the resi-
dence of the Turkish Ambassador, in Sussex-place, Regent's-
park. It appears that while most of the domestics were out,
the thief made his way through a passage to the servants'-hall,
and stole a large blue cloak, with a silver clasp and chain, a
blue frock coat, and other property.
If the majority of the Irishmen have a right to re
presentative government, surely, the active, intelligent, moral,
peaceable, enterprising Canadians are not to be coerced by
laws framed three thousand miles from them, and enforced by
the bayonet.

The Grand Jury found a true bill on Thursday
against La Motte, the hygeist agent of Hull, for the crime of
manslaughter, in causing the death of a person in that town by
Morison'spids.—Doncaster Gazette.

On Monday a daring assault and robbery was com-
mitted near Chalk-farm, on a wall recently built along the line
of railway works, from the newly-made bridge near the tavern,
and extending for some distance in the direction of Park-
street, and which is sufficiently wide to allow two persons to
pass. Between twelve and one o'clock, while the men were
gone to their dinner, a young man was walking on it, and was
met by a ruffian who snatched his watch from his fob, and
knocked him off, a height of' several feet. The fellow then
ran a short distance, where the height of the wall is lessened
by a mound of earth, and got away over the works towards the
Hampstead-road. _

The New York Daily Express, in describing a
meeting in that town, says—" From six to half-past ten the
Masonic Hall was crowded in every nook and corner, floor and
galleries, doorways and entrances, without and within, was as
full, full, full—aye as full as jamming, cramming, and squeez-
ing could make them. The cheering was immense. The hall
trembled as though shaken by an earthquake. When the
name of Harrison was pronounced the hall shook, with the
shouting, from its deep foundation-stone, even to the circum-
ambient welkin."

KEAN.—In the year 1807, Mr. and Mrs. Kean
visited this city, and gave recitations and imitations of various
actors, among others, of Kcmble and Garrick, in Nokc's room,
Minster-yard. The bills were printed by the late Mr. Deigh.
ton, and poor Kean, after nightfall, and at at early hour in the
morning, posted the bills himself round York I The manu-
script of the play-bill, in Kean's hand-writing, is at present in
the possession of Mr. Harley, of Covent-gal den.— Yorhshire-
man.

We believe that the general determination of the
South Derbyshire electors is, that Griesley " must go."
Why Sir George Crewe should be retained is more than we
can tell.—South Derbyshire chronicle.
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, Al A ncii 12.
The business to-day amounts to 3,000 bags. The market is
still very heavy, and the gloom which has pervaded it for a
length of time past still continues. The sales to-day, although
larger than the present state of the market would seem to war-
rant, have been pushed off by holders at reduced rates. The
transactions are-420 Pernam, 91. a 10d.: 250 Bahia, sp. a
811 ; 100 Maranharn, 170 Surat, 31-d. a 4.1 d. ; GO Egytian,
11y. a 141 d. ; and the remainder American, GIN. a 81d.
The defeated Tories of Anglesea gave the beaten
candidate at the late election, Mr. Fuller Merrick, a consola.
tory dinner at Beaumaris last week. Holland Griffith, Esq.
took the chair; the affair was a sad one altogether,