The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-09 00:00:00

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inkling of the W:ant of all faith on the part of
the writer in the Etehility of the Republican insti-
tutions—where (at page 3) be speaks of the
new Constitution as a " fregile performance."
A little further on he becomes still more explicit, de-
clarieg fleet the cutbreek of February (page 9) was
" the work of a party "—the exquisite absurdity
of which assertion is too glaring to require its formal
refutation. Without, however, wishing in any re-
spEct to depreciate the judgment of Mr. Corkran in-
dividually, we are satisfied that with the bulk of his
readers the more valuable and agreeable portion of
his labours will be that in which he contents himself
with pencilling down the portraits of remarkable
Frenchmen, leaving the consideration of the tendency
of their proceedings to be decided by those who shall
look back upon them from the impartial distance of
the hereafter. Some of these portraits are singularly
felicitous, all of them are more or less meritorious.
The men pass before us, one by one, like the figures
in a magic lantern, as distinct in outline, as vivid in
colouring. We see them before us in imagination
rether than read rf them. Here is "the unprepos-
sessing Cremieux," whose features ara stamped with
" the professional necessity of adulation." Here again
is Louis Blanc, whole voice through the Organization
du Travail is like "a cry that rises from his
pierced soul against society thrilling through the
reader :

"Figure to yourself a very small person—the very
smalh st you had ever seen above the species of the
dwarf. With his back turned to you, you would be in-
clined to suppose that the glossy black hair and drooping
shoulders belonged to a girl in male disguise; the face
twit: d round, you were struck by the prominent, clear,
dark eyes, the olive complexion, and the disappearance
of effeminacy in the strong jaw and chin. The general
expression was rather melancholy."
One minute our attention is directed to a fair, pale,
somewhat bald man—it is M. Carnot, the son of
the Organizer of Victory. Another to a tall, thin,
sickly-looking person, . with somewhat clumsy
features, a little pert, and yet a little prim, with sleek
hair falling in curls to the nape of his neck—it is M.
Garnier Pages. On one hand is the great astronomer :
" Francois Arago is a fine, stalwart old man, tall,
dark, and sinewy; his head is magnificent, and when be
is seated by other men, its vast size strikes with asto-
nishmr-nt amounting to awe. Standing alone, this great
development of head is not so remarkable, because it is
symmetrical, for no object of fine symmetry ever strikes
the eye as disproportioned; this noble dome is furnished
with thin hair, once jetty black, and not yet grey; the
large eye is bold and thoughtful; the features massive
and well shaped, and altogether Arago looks a man of
iron frame and great intellectual power."

On the other is the great poet, historian, orator, states-
man, diplomatist, patriot, hero—Lamartine
:
We have now before us M. do Lamartine going to
speak in his own name, or rather to read; and as regards
M. de Lamartine, the distinction is worth making.
When this gentleman puts on a pair of little black
spectacles, and droops his shoulders, with which expres-
sive action he is forced to read, he is an old man. While
delivering an harangue with his shoulders thrown back,
his arm extended, his graceful figure lake marble set on
its sccle, his voice of trumpet-like sonorousness vibrating
through the ears of his audience, he is ever young."
There you see M. Marie, with his high white neckcloth,
his neat apparel, and his fringe of, curly, sandy hair.
There is Beranger, the ballad-maker, in his homely
costume, with green goggles before his large, lambent
eyes—his fine bald forehead— his glowing, funny little
nose—his smiling, gracious mouth beaming with kind-
liness. Yonder is Barbes, the assassin and conspirator—
pallid as death, "gargling" his words in his throat.
Cormenin looks as if be could not hurt a fly—he who
can crucify a reputation with sarcasm, or chaunt its
apotheosis in his eulogiums. Bac is introduced to us
as a Girondist who has strayed into a club of Jaco-
bins. Favre is depicted as one in whose featuress is
perceptible the concentrated white heat of malevolent
anger. Suddenly we are required to scrutinize the
figure of the celebrated Abbe Lacordaire—his thin
stature, his handsome countenance, his lustrous eyes,
his fine brow, his white robe as a Dominican friar !
Of him, saith the author, " he would be the modern
Savonarola—he would reconcile Democracy with the
Church." The same might be said of the Pad reVen tura.
M. Odilon Barrot comes before us visibly—with
his Hibernian features (indicative of his Irish descent),
his fine bald head, his voice like the sonorous tones
of a church organ. Flocon is here, with his small,
bent, thickset figure, his white swollen visage, and his
dull smoked eye. Berryer, too, with language
" bubbling on his lip" in a voice singularly
beautiful. Here, too, is Napoleon Bonaparte,
son of Jerome, ex-King of Westphalia—so like
the mighty founder of his family as to resemble a
spectral appearance of the Emperor. " Had Louis
Napoleon such a head," says Mr. Corkran, "his
popularity would he hero worship." Blanqui is
sketched as one whose features are spirited and regular,
with a long, thin face, high nose, and high but
narrow forehead. In mentioning Caussidiere, the
historian of the National Assembly remarks, that M.
de Lamartine vindicated Caussidiere's conduct. "La-
martine, the apologist of Caussidiere !" exclaims this
eye-witness. "A deep whisper ran from bench to
bench : Lamartine had given a stub to his own repu•
teflon." Arid yet it is this noble, generous, magneni•
mous Lamartine whom M. Caussidiere has dared to
attack and calumniate in the most dastardly manner
in the two volumes of misrepresentation which the
fugitive revolutionist has written and published during
his sojourn in London. Behold the son of the re•
nowned Murat—" he is an exceedingly large man,
very tall, and very corpulent, and in no other respect,
remarkable." M. Dupin, "the Jupiter of the Cham-
ber of Deputies," is next delineated, and he is said
to stand before the National Assembly " stripped of his
forked thunderbolts." Yet M. Dupin has so far risen
again to his old altitude, that he is the President of
the Legislative Assembly. The sketch of Cavaignac,
which is introduced subsequently, is a masterpiece
—perhaps the finest of the many clever " pencillings
by the way" in these ingenious volumes. We would
willingly transcribe in our columns this and many
other passages in the production of Mr. Corkran,
but that our crowded columns forbid. Besides, we
would not glean all the merits from a work which is
peculiarly entitled to perusal. The estimate formed
of Prince Louis Napoleon in particular is so just, so
accurate, so nobly-spirited as to deserve a serious and
deliberate examination. Altogether we felicitate the
author upon the successful accomplishment of a labour
of much responsibility. While doing all justice to
France and her illustrious citizens, Mr. Corkran has
written as an Englishman—for, excepting one or two
points, in which he evidences a slight forgetfulness of
our idiom, as where he inadvertently omits the
definite article (saying "for sake of indulging, &c., p.
236, 11., and "for sake of the picture, &c." p. 237,
II.) the two volumes are penned in a strain of
liberality, fluency, good humour, fine feeling, and
occasionally eloquence, eminently befitting a citizen
of the United Kingdom.

THE BURGER AND BRIGHTON LEO-

NORA; or Romance versus Railway.
Parodies are little to our taste ; and travesties of
anything sublime or pathetic are our utter abomina-
tion. It cannot, therefore, be surprising that neither
the pen of J. W. Warre Tyndale nor the pencil of
K. A. Drake can obtain from us any commendation.
The noble and solemn beauty of Burger's " Leonora,"
one of the finest ballads in any language, is of all
things the least adapted to the exigencies of burlesque.
Hence, i❑ regard to the present volume, what may,
perhaps, be very facetious in itself, appears to us to
be a nonsensical desecration of a splendid original.

NEW MUSIC.

" OF WHAT

ARE

YOU THINKING,

JENNY ?" and "I'M THINKING NOW
OF THEE, JAMIE." Sung by Miss Birch.
Published by Dalmaine and Co.
These companion songs, we predict, will become
immediate favourites with the lovers of the cantabile
style. The melodies of each are easy and flowing,
and adapted with admirable skill to the pathetic
strain of the words. There is a touching tenderness
of character about them which cannot fail to arrest
the attention, and, if well executed, by either a mezzo
soprano or the sonorous tones of a contralto (especially
if the voice be entirely " di petto") they do more than
attract—they stir the heart, as well as enchain the ear.
The symphonies are peculiarly graceful, and the
embellishments throughout introduced with unexcep-
tionable taste.

JEANIE AND DONALD. The Poetry by
Stuart Farquharson, D. C.L. The Music by G. A.
Hodson.

ilere we have a ballad which, with an appropriate
illustration, speaks to us of conjugal felicity, even in
the autumn of life, when the locks are " touched with
silver," and the lines of beauty become as a dream,
shadowy and indistinct. The charm of this song lies
in its artistic simplicity. Both poet and composer
appear to have travelled hand in hand to the fount of
inspiration, there to quaff simultaneously the same
draught of sentiment. There is also a freshness and
originality in the composition which renders it scarcely
less attractive than its admired predecessors.

FINE ARTS.
THE ART JOURNAL.

Turner's wonderful painting of " Venice," copied
by Willmore from the original in the Vernon Gal-
lery, is the principal feature in the Art Journal for
August; and exquisitely has the graver imitated the
miraculous production of the brush. Etty's charm-
ingly coloured " Penitent," engraved, by Bacon, and
'Vestmacott's graceful statue of " Euphrosyne,"
engraved by Roffe, are the companion illustration?.
One of the most striking contributions to the periodi-
cal this month is the article on " The National
Exposition at Paris," profusely embellished with
woodcuts. Mrs. S. C. Hall makes her pilgrimage
this time to the tomb of Sir Richard Lovelace. The
rest of the publication is peculiarly interesting.

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GALWAY AND ENNIS JUNCTION RAILWAY.—ATI
order in Chancery has been issued for the winding-up of
this company's Affairs.

SPOitTING INTELLIGENCE.
T? I POW RACES.—MESDAY.
Toe Grand Stand Stakes of 5 sous. cach, 3 ft, and 20

added. T. Y. C.
Mr. P. Haworth's St. Valentine, 2 3r3 (Charlton) 1
Mr. R:ckaby's bf by Touchstone, 2 yrs ... • • 2
Mr. B. Green's Cigarette, 3 yrs ... ... .•• 3
Sir C. Monck's Gulliver, 3 yrs ... ... ..• 4
Mr. Humphries's Sister to Swallow, 2 yrs ... ... 5
The Great St. Wilfred Handicap of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft,
and 3 only if declared, with 50 added. Two miles.
Mr. Halo's Ada Mary, 3 yrs ... (Osborne) 1
Mr. S. L. Fox's King Hal, 5 yrs 2
Mr. Drake's Reversion, 3 yrs... ... 3
Mr. Humphries's Escape, 4 yrs ... ... 4
The Amateur Stakes of 5 sm. each, and 15 added,
one mile, were won in three heats by Mr. Wilkins's b
m, by St. Martin, dam by Liverpool, beating five others.
The City Stakes of 5 sovs., and 25 added, two miles,
were won in two heats by Reversion, beating Ti'y and
La mmermuir.
DERBY RACES.—WEDNESDAY.

The Chatsworth Stakes of 10 sous. each, 5 ft, and 3 only
it declared, with 50 added. One mile and a half.
Mr. Fowlor's Ribaldry... (W‘lls) 1
Lord Chester ficl.i's Chicot ... 2

Mr. Sharrati's Egret ... . . ... 3
Capsicum and the Probe also ran.
The Chesterfield Stakes of 10 sows. each and 50 added.

Half a mile.
Lord Chesterfield's br f, by Don John, out of Lam-
poon .. . . ...(oates) 1
Colonel Ansor.'s ch f, by Jereed, out of Muff ... 2
The following also started : The Recluse, Dick's
Hat Band, hr fby Gladiator, and Midcute.
The In: keepers' Plate of 60 sovs. Two miles.
Mr. Sharratt's Egret ... ... (Denman 1
Mr. Miner's Astley ... 2
Mr. Hat'e's Gilnochie

Three others started.
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added,
ono mile, were won is three heats, by Mr. Ellis's Acomb
(Osborne), beating Kennett and two others.
WORCESTER RA CES—WEDNESDA Y.
The City Member's Plate of 50/. Heats, two miles.
Mr. W. Shirley's Novelist, 5 yrs ... (Tasker) 3 1 1
Mr. Griffith's Apple Blossom, 5 yrs 1 2 2
Mr. Whitebouse's Reception, 3 yrs 2 3 dr
Mr. Bluck's Spider, aged ... 4 dis
The Cup Stakes of 7 sovs. each 4 ft, &e., with 25 added.
Two miles.

Mr. Johnson's b m by Lord Stafford out of Birdlime,
4 )rs_ ... ... ... (Evans) 1

Mr. J. Day's Milliner, 6 yrs ... 2
The Hack Stakes of 2 sous. each, and 10 added, one
mile and a quarter, were won in three heats by Mr.
Palmer's Ferry bill, 4 yrs, beating Empress of Russia,
4 yrs, and two others.