The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-17 00:00:00

THE OAKS.

3 to I asst Crucifix •
The weather, until two o'clock, was gloomy and wet, and the
attendance, in consequence, less numerous than is usually at-
tracted to the heath ma Clears ell day. . Amongst miter-arri-
vals since our last are the Earl and Countess of Albemarle,
Earl and Countess of Lichfield, Mr. Shelley, ecc.

A'MUSICAL ENTHUstAs2.--Scated near the
door of the cathedral, at the late Norwich
Festival, surrounded by the fashionably-dressed peoo,
who COmposed the hulk of the audience, we observed'
a poor 'old' man; habitod in 'Fitch a gsrb safar pieit
long to the clerk or precentor' f some village Ziflarctltla
hut, plaits as was his 'dress, it was evidently he,sri
and some rude attentions had not been wanting to the
general setting-fOtththe fusCan breeches were fred'
from soil, the cotton • hese- Wire'newly washed,
coat had beili coaxed into its mist decorous sspcats, the
neckcloth had its symmetries, The old man ax. is blind
and, as he sat waiting; for the first sounds of the
ebestra, he roiled a:tient his i laticss Cycs hither and
thither, in the direcarat of the cheerful 'voices, that
surrounded him ; he knew (hit a brilliant scene was
before bina,LL:that on creryside, wealth, beauty, and
faShion Were qifclirliiig weir aftractiOn.i,—that, even
then, every other heart Was partaking of an erjn merit
which his alone could never share. Bat he had come to
hear the Mez.siab," and his consolation was near at
hand.-'ProVVITE`C had trudged maw: a mile that morn-
iticiWeeitilis6nthi to his devout an:llimple mind, most
exquisite of,ineeneclual treats. We do not believe he
belsinged to Norwich ; we saiv nothing of him before this
morning, nor afterwards, and be had all the appearance
of one who had come from a distance. What sacrifices
he may have made to enable him to enjoy this rub plea-
sure—in all probability, the last of the kind he would live
to know—we will not surmise; but we think we are jus7
tified in ranking him with that peculiar ellssof natural
peculiar enthusiasts of Arm this ecuntry Contains a
great many more than is usually supposed in the
humbler ranks of life—viliaga musician?, knowing
music, chiefly as the associate' of religion, and chit fly
etiershing it in that relation, in whOm, as well by tie
force of a traditional reverence as by the actual power
of it: grandeur and simplicity, broad and
features, and artless pathos, penetrating the least culti-
vated minds, the " Messiahs" is, above all other works,
calculated to impress. There he sat, resting his hoary
head on his staff; eager to catch the first notes of that
sublime music, while a gay and fashionable audience,,
" sMiling Siaperior," rustled round about hint. It cv,il.s.
likle ai tottali'of nattire`-- in the midst of the sophisticate.,
Spectator.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY,
OCT. 14.—We have had but a very indifferent market
to-day, the demand has been slack, and the number of
pieces sold-limited. The prices are about the same as
those of last week. .In the wool market there is no
change to report :.the manufacturers buy both spar-.
ingly and cautiously.
HUDDERSFIELD INIAREET, OCT. 15.—There
is no new feature in this day's market for the better.
Like the weather,. all is d:yomy and discourecing, with
almost a complete stagnatioa in every description of
goods, except low fancy woollens.
NURSERY POETRY.—Meli's tastes are prover-
bially various. • Mine, on the subject of poetry, will, I
know, be considered singular. 1 cannot help that. We
have no more control over our tastes than we hate, to
use Lord Brougham's words, " over the colour of our
skin or the height of our stature." I bold that the
most erroneous notions obtain in the world, respecting
what constitutes true poetry. It is admitted on all
hands, that is the best poetry v.hieh finds its way most
directly to the feelings, and which leaves the most !t t.
ing impression on the mind. Whence Conies it then. I
ask, that nursery poetry is so lightly esteemed, while
such works as Homer's " Virgil's " ./Eneid,"
and Milton's " Paradise Lost," are so gonerally ad-
mired and praised ? Tried by the above unerring test,
the latter works will not bear a moment's comparison
with much of the poetry of the nursery ; for. though we
may have read Homer, Virgil, Milton, and many of the
other writers of versification, erroneously, call 4 poet
so late perhaps as yesterday, we do not reco*cthip mayse
be, a single passage in their writings ; 01:1AcwilrffirtfRea-,
distinct remembrance, not of
but of the entire pieces which constitiit6 ic.stO
nursery poetical rea. to„ a detacliptlicotwieL or tvzsro;'
though half 41 a=44 Wry flu y-rj
have elapsed since we handled any:o4fAbcdfilliPuti4n
halfpenny volumes in ‘rhich such pip.bul Eie
by the Author f peared.
-Walks
and Wanderin.cfs Us the irvir;l ra .i
„ „ kills ,
vc Great Met, op° •

STEOLLING PL AyEtts.o4ls(lnteobereiliii6noa,.
company of itinerating tragedittoikoottaOlibtrertajpit
ragamuffins I have over been, 03411 s)B,,qagitluc
and all of them tallied admirahly with %Fa picAPP
scription which Shakspeare has giVeAqii9lll Wr4chet~_.
ness of the strolling player. . Every.tilaaatherci-:—thm
was no women among them—had his _entire
and
on his backi• which was hterally in tatters- ; and
conjunction with their lank cheeks, and. otherviie starved
appcarance, presented one of the most striking possible
illustrations of the extent to . which human w retched-
ness may go. Poor fellows! young and thoughtless as
then I could -not but be struck with the painful
contrast which their assumed situation presented to their
,realone. It, deprived me of three-fourths of the gra-
all the pretended dignity and.
tification I should otherwise have enjoyed from their
epoci
erlsogacrinceces,o
fwa I sat, them at night personat-.
h
lug majesty—heard them exultingly speaking of their
millions
with which
ofsucttheir) t
subjects--and
of: the tens of thousands of
pounds treasury was replenished—
while I knew that in the morning the poor creatures
.would be so " hard up," as t 0 be scarcely able to ems-
ter as much of the circulating medium as would pro-
cure for them a penny roll for breakfast.—Walks and
'
Wanderings i
SPLENDID • ENTERTAINMENT ON BOARD
THE BRITISH QUEEN.-I,2St evening, Capt. Roberts,
of the British Queen steamer, and Messrs. Wadsworth
of " T Great;lelropolis:
Wwld Literature, by the Author
and Smith, the ngeiVY, grive a splendid dinner on
board the British Queen, at Which:al. the elite of the
city were present. 'Captain Roberts, Mr. Smith, Da-
vid B. avden, Colonel White, of the British Seventh
`,ltissars, Charles King, and -others made speeches. The
speech of Colonel White was admirable. God save
the lovely Queen," and " Yankee Doodle to the day of
judgment," were played and sung to admiration, A
line band was proent—champagne as plenty as water—
and good feelings enough to Make a heaven. No lovely
women were present—which was the only drawback.—
New York Paper.
The sheield Iris, referring to the treatment ex-
periencerl by Mr. Poulton, the 'Anti-Corn-law Lec-
turer, whose letter we, published, justly 'and pertinently
remarks, that " the proceedings at Worksop clearly
prove that the Corn-law system is so rotten, that it will
not. stand for a moment against the test of investiga-
tion, and that the landlords heed nothing 'for the con-
seie:lces or minds of their dependants, not even for the
personal safety of their opponents, so long as they can
keep up their grinding, famishing monopoly."