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

before the mast, In a word, the. accents he breathed
mere as wide and genet al as the casnig air.' He is the
one and only poet since the invention 01 printing who
might have dispersed with the services of the press.
Nuver was there I.,opulirity so fe yid and so univer,al.
Burns and Moore both wroie coliecti.ms of
na-
tional songs, and there by won iiLlt praise and
have established an enduciog; renoa a, but they
produced no effect like unto the Chansons de beranger.
With the exception of some sweet and impt,:sioned
little poems, which gain much from the c xquisite music
with which !they are united, and the old associations
it sugg,eits, the lyric etinsiens of Burns anti Moore
were never catholic, even Ltuong....t the p. pa..ati ii e•f
their native countrifs. To say nothiturc of old iamillar
tuneF, Burns borrowed of the burdens and choi usef:,
and not a few whole verses, of his songs from fragments
or snatches of minstrelsy known here and there about
the country parts for many a year. And racier in tone,
and more exhilarating to the ear and spirit, are often-
times those snatches than the versos he adapted in con-
juncticn with them to present society and circumstancos.
Tom Moore had the largest, the most, various, and the
Lest collection in the world of melodious airs from which
to choose. The Frenchman, on the contrary. had no
fine fragments of old national song to avail !inns, If of
in speaking to the hearts of his countrymen; nor Lad lie
any repertory of tine honoured toil soul breathing
melodies at command. Fir his poetry, aed the
lyric modes of it, he was obliged to trust solely to I.is
own invention; and for music, he was compelled to
his most sublime conceptions to the notes of a jingling
lyre. But Bellinger had a fixity and inton,ity of pur-
pose, aided by a fiery zial, which supplied all th ficien-
cies, and overcame all obstacles. Ile was essentially a
man of the people—a man of his age, and his solo ambi-
tion was that proclaimed by Napoleon (of whom, ia his
adversity, he became the poet) to be tout par le peuple et
pour le peuple. He is the only bard upon accerel who
could truly boast,—
' Je n'ai flatt6 que l'Lfortuner
The " Peace Campaigns of Ensign Faunce" are con-
tinued, as are "Familiar Epistles from Ireland," and
"Fanny Graham's Dreams." " The Bubble Girl, aII is-
toriette is an admirable " Carlylism," and like all
Carlylisms, eminently suggestive. The "Avatar of
Attorneyism" is a fling at the limb; 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 pr,posed 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 Elysee, Erns,
and Claremont," the writer of which is so devoted a
Monarchist that he is positively puzzled by the
einbarras 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 dces 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 .I\lacheath,
" How happy could I with either,
Were euther dear charmer away,
But while you thus tease me together,
To neither a word will I say."
Therefore we conclude ant the Republic will be
henceforth permanently the government of France.