The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-01 00:00:00

before the mast. In a word, the, arcet,ts he breathed
were as wide anti general as the casmg is the
ono and only poet since the invention of printing who
might have dispersed will the services of the pros.
Never was there popularity so fervid and so nem r..-al.
Burns and Moore both wrote collections of
its
tional song, and there by won high praise and
have established an (ntivity,- renoven, but they
produced no effect like unto the Chansons de &ranger.
With the exception of some sweet and impassioned
little poems, which gain much from the xquistte music
with which jthey are unaed, and the old associations
it suggests, the lyric effusions of Burns and Moore.
were never catholic, even amongst the p
their native countries. To say nothing of old familiar
tunes, Burns borrowed many of the burdens and choruses,
and not a few whole verses, of his songs from fragments
or snatches of tninstrelsy known here and there about
the country parts for many a year. Anti racier in tone,
and more exhilarating to the ear and spirit, are often-
times
those snatches than the verses he adapted in con-
junction with them to present society nod circtunstanc,s.
Tom Moore had the largest, the most various, and the
best collection in the world of melodic-us airs Irons which
to choose. The Frenchman, on the contrary, had no
fine fragments of old national song to avail himse If of
in speaking to the hearts of his countrymen; nor Lad he
any repertory of time honoured and soul breathing
melodies at command. Yir his poetry, and the
lyric modes of it, he was obliged to trust solely to his
own invention; and for music, he was compelled to ally
his most sublime conceptions to the notes of a jingling
lyre. But Nranger had a fixity and intensity of pur-
pose, aided by a fiery zeal, which supplied all ch ficien-
ctes, and overcame all obstacles, lie was essentially a
man of the people—a man of his age, and his sole ambi•
Lion was that proclaimed by Napoleon (of whom, in his
adversity, he became the poet) to be tout par le peliple et
pour le peuple. Ile is the only bard upon record who
could truly boast,—
' Jo n'ai Hatt 6 que l'infortuner "
The " Peace Campaigns of Ensign Faunee" are con-
tinued, as are "Familiar Epistles from Ireland," and
"Fanny Graham's Dreams." " The Bubble Girl, a His-
toriette" is an admirable " Carlylism," and like all
Carlylisms, eminently suggestive. The "Avatar of
Attorneyism" is a fling at the limbs of the law, and
" Work and Wages " an attempt at devising a
remedy for the evils of our social condition. The
remedy which our Tory friend proposes is that the
working classes should ba better dressed, and thus
afford additional employment to the distressed
needle-women, whom, like Lord Ashley, he
takes under his special protection ; he
omits, however, to inform the working classes
from whence they are to procure that addition to their
own wages which would be requisite to enable them
to make the proposed increased purchases of clothing
—a matter of, we imagine, essential importance to
the carrying out of his scheme. The present number
concludes with a paper, entitled "The Elpee, Ems,
and Claremont," the writer of which is so devoted a
Monarchist that he is positively puzzl,ed by the
embarras du choix between Louis Napoleon, the
Duke of Bordeaux, and Louis Philippe. He eulogises
each of them ; deems that each would make a model
monarch for France ; but does not venture to decide
which would be the best choice, at the same
time that he is convinced that France hates the re-
pub'ic, and desires a monarchical restoration; from
all which we conclude that the French republic has
every chance of consolidating itself, for even the
French Monarchists themselves are, according to the
showing of this writer, ready to address the pretenders
in the words of Captain Macheath,
" How happy could I with either,
Were t'other dear charmer away,
But while you thus tease me together,
To neither a word will I say."
Therefore we conclude that the Republic will be
henceforth permanently the government of France.