The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-27 00:00:00

against the progress of freedom, and also as being a
connecting link between ourselves and some power
with which we have little or nothing in common.
This is not of course the object which is of pri-
mary importance to us, but still it might interest
many and influence more to take up the cause with
more heartiness. The Chairman explained the
feeling which animated the League in their con-
sideration of this affair. They knew that the
Poles were fighting against " fearful odds," but
then they made the " fewest errors," and they
trusted that victory would finally crown the side
of those who made the least mistakes. This

sanguine notion may not be so quixotic
as some may deem it expedient to call it,
and long after the prophecy has been uttered
amid denials and disclaimers, we may see its
happy fulfilment, and rejoice in the splendour of

its successful acccmplishment. It is a significant
study to trace the gradual working of events which
are here chronicled in the order of their occurrence,
until we come to the one fatal record, which was
like a torch applied to a train that had long tempted
fate, and coveted destruction. That recruitment
with which all Europe has rung, and condemned as
a gigantic error, has been the keynote of rebellion,
and the signal for resistance to the heart of Poland
ever since. It has lived on in the spirit of the land,
and the dying have bequeathed its memory to their
survivors to perpetuate, with the tenacity which
animated the brave in days of old—

" And still his name sounds stirring unto the men of Rome,
As the trumpet blast which calla to them to charge the
Yolscians home."

So deep in the feelings of the country will exist
the recollection of that gross outrage on the rights
and liberties of a nation. Therefore Lord CAMP-
BELL expressed a sincere hope that so many errors
of judgment would be sure to bring their perpetra-
tors to ruin, and from those failures might spring up
a bright and better future for Poland. Mr. HEN-
NESSY exhibited his usual animation and zeal in
this cause, and very effectively addressed the meet-
ing. He moved the resolution that the heroism of

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 26 (Evening).
The Senate has passed the Address in reply to

,he Queen's speech.

The Congress was declared definitively consti•
tuted yesterday. Senor Rios Roses was elected
President.

the Poles had entitled them to the admiration and
support of Great Britain. The hon. member went
over the features of the case as regarded the parti-
tion of Poland by the three great robber Powers—
Russia, Austria, and Prussia. He also made a
strong point of the error committed by Lord
PALMERSTON in the former insurrection of the Poles.
It had been concealed for thirty years, but now
has come to light. It certainly was a lamentable
mistake of the noble lord's, because had matters
been properly adjusted then, the present grievous
state of things might never have come to pass.
The plan that was proposed by Louis PHILIPPE
was in every respect one which was likely to prove
beneficial to the interests of Poland; and it is greatly
to be deplored that from misguided motives the
good opportunity was lost, and that generation and
the neat allowed to sustain the calamities that

thence ensued. Earl RUSSELL did not escape the
searching scrutiny of the speaker, and he de-
nounced with natural indignation the course he
had pursued in writing a despatch which expressed
delight at the friendly intentions of the CZAR to
the Poles. It is to be feared there is too much
truth in the opinion of Mr. HENNESSY that our

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THE PAPAL STATES,
ROME, Ncv. 26.
THE TRIAL OF THE CHEVALIER FAUSTI.
The official Giornale di Poina declares the reve-
lations relative to the Fausti trial, published by the
National Committee, to be forged, adding that the
real depositions of Madame Diattalevi are preserved
in the archives of the Court.

The Giornale further states that the names of
functionaries in the published depositions have been
interpolated, and concludes by saying :—" The
National Committee has not attained its object,
which was to embarrass the Government, and
create a belief in the innocence of men who have
been overtaken by justice."

MADAGASCAR.
(By Telegraph from Suez.)

MAURITIUS, Noy: 6.

Advices received here from Madagascar mention
a rumour Radama is still living. He was
left for
dead
that
thei assassins, but is said to have
adby Kind
been found by his partisans and concealed,

FRANCE.
PARIS, Nov. 27.

The Monitezer of this morning publishes a letter
from Frankfort, showing the excitement which pre-
vails in Germany with regard to the Schleswig-
Holstein question.

The Constitutionnel of this morning contains an
article, signed by M. Boniface, explaining the
Schleswig-Holstein question, and stating that much
excitement exists in Germany.

M. Boniface expresses his astonishment that
several newspapers, and especially the times,
should counsel not only England,' but also the other
Powers, to make war in favour of Denmark.

"No doubt," he continues, "old sympathies
attach France to Denmark, and to an alliance with
that country, but Germany has also a right to our
sympathies and respect. The will of a people and
the rights of nationalities must likewise weigh in
the balance of our resolutions. In view of so deli-
cate a problem, the non-existence of a cordial
understanding is to be regretted. If an under-
standing of the Seven Powers does nit suffice to
ensure a solution of the Danish difficulty, it would
be logical to address all Europe."
BOURSE, Nov. 26.—The market has been rather
firmer to-day. Threes opened at 67f. 15c., rose to
67f. 30c., and are now at 67f. 20c. Mobilier has
been done at 1,090 t. Share Market firm. The
market exhibited a downward tendency towards
the close, and closed as fo

41 per Cents..... 95 10
Do. end month....
3 per Cents ..... 67
Do. end month.. ~ 67 05
Credit Mobilier..., 1082 50
Do. end m0nth....1082 50
Bank Shares ...... 3380
CRroemdiatak e. ier. ..,,1272
_5O

,lows :
Italian Loan 72 15
Do. end month 72 10
New ditto —
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Home Debt
Deferred
YAIN.
Cash. Account.

Government in this crisis would do nothing but
keep themselves in office. This a very difficult
matter to settle in a satisfactory manner, but there
is every reason to approve its discussion and exa-
mination. It may suit the creeds of diplomatists
and the doctrines of peacemongers that a brave
people shou!d be immolated on the shrine
of tyranny and cupidity, that the tenets of an
absurd theory may be carried out ; but such argu-
ments will not suit the general feeling of the people
of this country. They will expect that justice
should be heard and the claims of right attended
to, although mighty potentates be discomfited, and
mancouvring politicians be out in their reckonings
as to the cruahing of all national feeling through
the limits of a patriotic land.

BAIL

Orleans
Northern ....
New ditto — • •
Lyons anti Mediturranean 950 951 25
New ditto
Geneva -
SJuthern 692 50 693 75
Western
Eastern ..,. 485
Sardinian
Austrian
Lon.bard
North of Spain
Saragossa.. 628 75 .. 630
Ditto to Barcelona 300 .. 300

977 50 .. - -
977 50 .. 977 50

Fall of a House at Islington --Two Men
Killed and Several Injured.

A few minutes before 12 o'clock yesterday morning
an accident occurred in Upper-street, Islington,
which placed the whole neighbourhood in a state of
great excitement, and was unfortunately attended
by loss of life. Nearly opposite Islington-green there
has existed for many years a well known hostelry,
under the sign of the Wheatsheaf, and for the last few
years it has been occupied by a Mr. Dallor. The lease,
however, being nearly expired, the ground landlord,
as a condition of renewal, insisted upon the occupier
expending £2,000 in the rebuilding of the premises
in a style suitable to that of the entrance of the
Agricuitural-hall, immediately adjoining. These
conditions were not accepted by Mr. Dallor, and a
Mr. Davis became the tenant, and entered into a
contract with Mr. Wm. Chapman, builder, Hope-
wharf, Limehouse, for the erection of the new build-
ing. It appears that on the 10th of last month the
builder obtained permission from the vestry of St.
Mary, Islington, to erect a hoarding in front of the
old building, which hoarding was to remain for
six weeks from the granting of the order. He at
once pulled down the old building, and about a
month since commenced the erection of the new
one, the work of which has been carried on both
night and day since that time, in order to get the
premises ready for occupation by next Christmas,
and to open their, if possible, by the time of the
opening of the Cattle Show at the Agricultural-hall.
At the hour above stated a number of workmen
were busily engaged on the building when sud-
denly the building split completely in two, the
front of the house falling out into the street, carry-
ing with it the scaffolding and the men engaged
thereon, while those at work in the body of the
house were buried in the fallen ruins. Tne catas-
trophe caused a crowd of people to assemble imme-
diately, and assistance was at once brought to bear
to rescue the unfortunate men thus buried in the
fallen masses of brick, wood, and mortar. On search
being made, as soon as the cloud of dust had cleared
away, nine men were literally dug out ; two of
'whom were dead, and the other seven so severely
injured that they were taken in cabs to St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital. Tha names of the unfortu-
nate men who lost their lives was John Peake, car-
penter, a young man; and Joseph Pearce, carpen•
ter, a married man, with seven children. or the
cba:
de sa
ntgaekreonu
st, ot heh
amputationsospit a lo
ft ht
hr eeel
iamr eb
se obne
ni dge
nr e tso.
eery. The wife of the deceased Pearce arrived at the
spot just as the body of her husband was discovered,
and the scene that ensued was of a most distressing
character. There are many reports as to the cause
of the accident, the most dwelt upon being the
extreme haste with which the building has been
erected ; but this will no doubt be fully inquired
into at the inquest. Upon inquiry at the hospital
late last night we were informed that no deaths had
as yet occurred amongst the seven poor fellows lying
there, though they were all in a most precarious
condition.

" STONEWALL" JACKSON'S GRAVE.—" Bury me
at Lexington, in the Valley of Virginia." These
words are said to have been uttered by that great, good, and
lamented man, Gen. T. J. Jackson, just before his death ;
and in accordance with his sacred command, all that is mor-
tal of the most renowned and successful military genius that
the war or probably modern ages have produced, now lies
interred within the walls of the Presbyterian cemetery lo-
cated in the south-western suburbs of this delightful village.
Nothing marks the spot where his mortal remains lie to
distinguish his grave from that of others, save a diminutive
Confederate flag, not larger than a lady's handkerchief. This
tiny emblem is fastened to a staff not more than two feet
long, and placed at the head of the graves, and there waves
as if to illustrate the modest pretensions of the great hero of
the Valley of Virginia. Close by his side a small grave is
to be seen, which contains the remains of his child, who
died a few years ago, and not far distant is the grave of his
first wife, " Ellinor, the daughter of George and Julia
Junkin," with a plain marble slab at the head. His late
residence is situated near the end of the town, and, like
everything else planned by hitn, is modest and unpretend-
ing.—J.Vew fork Express.
NEW RULES AND ORDERS FOR COUNTY COURTS.
—The Lord Chancellor has sanctioned 20 new rules and
orders, with a number of forms, for regulating the practice
of County Courts. They will take cffect on the Ist of
January next.
RECTOR BERLIOZ'S OPERA " Beatrice and
Benedict" has been recently represented with great success
at Weimar,

rim SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1863,

LITERATURE.

Hamlet: Tragedie en 5 Acts de TV. Shakespeare.
Traduite en vers Francats. ,Par le Chevalier
de Chatelain. Bvo., pr. 142. Rolandi.
Our hopes in regard to the Chevalier de Chate-
lain as a translator of Shakspere into the French
language are being realised. His first daring ven-
ture in that direction, it may be remembered, was
Macbeth. His next, the present one—a venture
still more daring of its kind—has been Hamlet.
Has been—for the work is here before us accom-
plished! Upon its accomplishment we would at
once offer to the Chevalier our cordial felicitations.
And they are, indeed, deserved. For we take the
production of a successful version of a wondrous
masterpiece such as Hamlet into French, to be
equivalent, as an intellectual achievement, to
the preduczion of an original work of very con-
siderable importance. Among all the fifty odd
dramas of Shakspere we should be disposed at
once, and unhesitatingly, to regard the transla-
tion of " Hamlet" as about the most difficult of
accomplishment. In many respects, the language
in it, is the most idiomatic in all the Shaksperian
literature. The marvellously mixed characters of
three of the principal personages in this
great drama Hamlet himself, old Polo-
uious, and his fair young daughter Ophelia—
impart to the strangely alternating wisdom,
pathos, humour, tenderness, sublimity of the
poetry, an almost bewildering incoherency. And
this for very sufficient reasons. In the instance
of Ophelia, by the exquisitely affecting incident of
her love-distraught brain becoming crazed by her
many and most bitter misfortunes. In the instance
of Polonius, by senility clouding over an intellect
originally keen and luminous : hence the blending
in his words of the profoundest worldly wisdom
with the shallowest silliness, almost amounting at
times to mere drivel and buiLonery. The sanity
or insanity of the Danish Prince himself is still (as
Dr. Connolly's recently published medico-literary
treatise very pointedly indicates) a matter for con-
tinued discussion—to some even a matter in dispute
distractingly problematical. Yet it is this same
mystically confused and all but bewildering tragedy
of "Hamlet" that the Chevalier de Chatelain has
here " done" into French with admirable exacti-
tude. Better thin any words of comment from our-
selves as to the skill with which he has performed
his task—a task to him manifestly (in spite of its
difficulties) a labour of very love—better than any
words of ours will be one or two exemplars, by way
of extraet, of the manner of his translation. In
selecting our quotations, moreover, from the five
acts of the Tragedy, we shall purposely cite pas-
sages with which the readers of " Hamlet" are the
most intimately acquainted. Selecting in this
way, therefore, a few specimen-fragments from
the Chevalier de Chatelain's version of Hamlet in
French, we will give here the famous apostrophe to
the Ghost :

Quo to sois un Esprit frais produit de rether,
Ou bien damne lutin echappe de r enfer,
Que tee intentions soient bonnes ou mechantes,
Tu revets a mos yeas des formes si vivantes
Que je veux to parler. Je t'appellerai Roi
Pere, Royal Danois, Hamlet—oh! reponds-moi ;
Et ne me laisse pas croupir dans rignorance ;
Mais, oh! dis-moi pourquoi tee ossements par chance
Deposes dans la tombe out brise leurs liens,
Pour to jeter ici commo une langue aux chiens.
Que vent dire, que toi, fait et parfait cadavre,
Tout revetu d'acier, to viennes a ce havre
Pour effrayer la nuit, faire trembler nos cmurs,
Et puis nous injecter de sublimes horreurs I
Par to venue ici, die! que pretends-tu faire!
Quel en est le pourquoi ? quel en eat le mystere?
Where the Chevalier appears to have failed in the
mere manner of his translation, the failure we can-
not but look upon as attributable in the main to the
genius of the French language,as contradistinguished
in many ways from our own far bolder, more
rugged, vigorous, and, even, in its capabilities of ex-
pressing the loftier emotions, we would venture to
say, sublimer Saxon Speech. Quel en est le pour-
quois ? seems illustrative in this way of the mean-
ing of our contrast, a contrast in no respect to be
regarded as invidious : any more than it could be
deemed invidious to remark upon the simple fact
that in all French literature there is no paral-
lel to the sublimities either of the Shak-
sperian tragedies themselves, or of the divine epic
of Milton. Here, however, is a still more notable
illustration of the Chevalier de Cbatelain's powers
as a translator of Shakspere, to wit, that discernable
in his version of Hamlet's immortal soliloquy—

Tells est la question: E tre ou bien ne pas' etre
A savoir, si, resprit de lui-memo est plus maitre,
En supportant les coups, lea fieohes du dentin,
Pint& qu'en se cabrant our des soucis sans fin,
S'antlantir ? Mourir—lorrair—pas davantage ;
Dire qu'en s'endormant soudain on met rancrage
Sur lee peines du comr, our les maux, les ennuis
Dont l'humaine nature est l'insondable puits.
C'eat la la fin des fins, oui dal la fin derniere,
Que l'on doit desirer de facon singuliere.
Mourir—dorniir—dormir—pout-etre pour revel.,
Oui voila le h&c; it le faut observer:
Dana eta sommeil de mort quand d'humeur misanthrope
Nous aurons rejete notre ftele eaveloppe,
• Queles roves, sargiront ? . . Cola donne a penser,
Et le pour et le contra it nous le faut poser.
Car quel eat celai-1a qui serait asset bete
Pour supporter du sort I'incesaante tempete,
Les torts de l'oppresseur, de rorgueilleux le " Moi I "
Les peines de rumour, les delais de la loi,
Des employes hargneux le dedain, l'insolence
Qu'endure le merite aux mains de•rignorance,
Quand avec un poignard it pourrait mordicus I
S'exempter de rim*, et gagner son quitus ?
Quel est-il celui• la qui sans fin et sans cease
Porterait des fardeaux jusques a la vieillesse,
Pour grogner et suer, maugreant sur son sort,
Si n'etait la terreur de ce qui suit la mort :
La mort, pays lointain, qui se perd dans les brumes
De la pensea humaine, et dans ses amertumes
Pays inexplore dont jamais voyageur,
N'est encor revenu, jette le fr.,id au cesur,
Et nous fait supporter nos maux et nos mis eras
De riuconnu plutot qu'aller sonder lea spheres.
La conscience ainsi fait de nous des poltrons ;
La resolution chez les plus fanfarons
Forte en couleur d'abard, et blemit et se fans,
Au penser de la mort, a son sublime arcane ;
Et des projets ainsi grands de dimensions,
A retat de projets meurent—sans actions.
With one other excerpt (a very brief one)—also in
nhe original sufficiently familiar to render its cita-
tion here of especial value—we shall content our-
selves. It is that of Hamlet's epigrammatic couplets
on the mutability of dead Cm ear's clay
L'imperial Cesar heros d'un attentat
A fait pendant un temps le monde echec et mat,
meurt : quo deviant-il ? . . Un ge.cheux le befoue,
11 recrepit un mur en tripotant sa boue,
Si qua ce mort fameux repouvante d'hier,
Nous sort de bouche•trou pour la bise d'hiver.
Enough, however, in the way of mere illustra-
tive quotation—always, even when the most
happily selected, unsatisfactory, because by neces-
sity fragmentary. Upon his title-page we observe
that the translator entitles himself not the Author
of Les Moines de Kakre, of Les Contes de Cantorbery,
of Les Fables de Gay, and of so many other pro.
ductions of varied merit, but simply yet proudly—
llfembre du "National Shakspere Committee!" His
dedication of this French version of " Hamlet,"
moreover, is given thus—" Aux Manes de Shake-
speare, 23 Avril, 1864. Hommage du Traducteur."
It is a noble garland thrown in anticipation
at the base of the pedestal of what we
trust devoutly may prove a fitting monument to
the glory of Shakspere, and a worthy attestation
of the love, gratitude, and admiration of posterity
towards him whom
,The)dore de Banville, as the
Chevalier reminds us upon a flyleaf, has apostro-
phized as—

" Shakespeare ! . . ce penseur! Ombre! Ocean Eclair I
AU= cormne Cloethe.! atne COUJILIe Schiller 1
Lyre dont chaque note a des manteaux de flarnme I
ouvert gravemont sur la nature et fame I
Phare que, pour guider ses pales matelots,
L'Art a fait ray owner sur see alpes de flits

The Country Gentleman. By " Serutator," Author
of " Tile Master of the Hounds," One vol., pp.
358. Chapman and Hall.
This book is a combination of sentiment and
sports. It contains a romantic love-story, in which
the. heroine deserts the hero and marries the
wrong man. Shortly afterwards her death is an-
nounced, but the sequel of the tale bears some
resemblance to the " Glenara of Campbell—
" Empty that ehroud and that outfiu did seem,
Gleams, Glenara now read me my dream."
Mingled with this romantic narrative ore some