The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-20 00:00:00

LAMARTINE.

[The following simple but heart-spoken Chanson is
the effusion of a Frenchman resident in London. Our
correspondent, deprived by his absence from France
of the power of placing his vote in the urn for the
election of President, employs his suffrage poetically
through the urn of Public Opinion.]
MON VOTE POUR LA PRESIDENCE.

CHANSON.
C'est bien tout de bon qu'est, la France,
En ripublique, cette foie.
Il faut donner la pr4iidence:
Voyons: chacun a fait son choix.
Mui, je veux un sage, un grand homme,
Lamartine, oh! quel noble coeur!
C'est lui que president je nomme.
De l'urne it sortira vainqueur!

Aux applaudissemens du monde
Il sortira heal par tons,
Et de sa victoire feconde
Quel roi ne sera point jaloux?
La liberid veut elle memo
Avoir de son sacre I'honneur.
Elle dit: " Proclamons qui j'aime!
De l'urne it sortira vainqueur I
Et qui le surpasse on regale
En amour, en zele pour moi?
Quelle vertu plus deuce et male?
Ou plus d'irlbranlable foi?...
Comme Milton it est poete.
Jamais plus sublime orateur!
Quelle ame! Le ciel s'y take.
De l'urne it sortira vainqueur!"

En moi to me parks, j'emute,
Et Liber6,
Ma pie'erence eat I lui, toute:
Jo dois ce vote A mon pays.
Alma que to voix p:edomine
En toute penl6., en tout eceurl
Liberte, vivo Lamartine!
Be l'urne it sortira vainqueurl

SONNETS.
BY HENRY FRANK LOTT.
" Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave
Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot."
Kate.

COLERIDGE'S TOMB.
With cloud and sunset autumn's eventide
_ _

Made the earth beautiful—what time I stood,
In reverent gaze and meditative mood,
Coleridge's mural monument beside,
Whereon's engraved, in somewhat pompous pride,
His Christian meekness and his fortitude:
But, though the service-bells most sweetly wooed
Mine ear to worship, I was not allied
In sentiment to those who gathered there;
For, added to the undefined strange spell
That ever is around me, standing where
Sleepeth the poet—my soul's eye and ear
Was charmed by tones from wondrous Christabel,
And glance of that old wild-eyed Mariner!

CAMPBELL'S FUNERAL..
Inurned is Byron's heart ; pure Shelley's brain,
The ocean that he loved so quenched its fire;
Southey, Keats, Coleridge sleep: and now retire
Campbell's last relics to yon holy fane.
Rogers and Moore and Wordsworth but remain
Of that inimitable tuneful choir
That made our language as it wero a lyre
Strung by the Passions—through their 'aria strain.
Apollo listless holds him on his throne,
With unnerved hand and eyes that thoughtful swim.
And sigh suppressed, that bursting, maketh moan—
" Time shall behold the sun himself grow dim'
Ere in one age, and from one land alone,
We list to such another glorious hymn."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
An extraordinary eagerness was manifested to back
Backbiter for the Cambridgeshire, and an outlay of
several hundreds following upon some heavy investments
i❑ the morning, sprung him to 6 to 1, at which figure
his supporters would have gone on. Dacia suffered from
this movement; nor was Lanesborough in so much re-
quest as on Monday. The Cur was quoted nominally at
30 to 1; no one would back him. Fern and Buscot Buck
were the only outsiders in anything like force. Apart
from the horses mentioned the betting was very dull.
Closing prices :
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
4 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lot—take 5 to I
6 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Backbiter, 3 yrs, Sst 131 b—t
7 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dacia, 3 yrs, sst 91b— t
8 to 1 agst Mr. Murphy's Lanesborough, 4 yrs,
7st 101 b—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Chanticleer, 5 yrs, 9st 11Ib
20 to 1 agst Major Pitt's Fern, 3 yrs, 6st 51b—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Geraldine, 5 yrs, 6st 71b
25 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Wanota, 4 yrs, 7st 91b
25 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Miss Sarah, 6 yrs,
Bst 121 b—taken
28 to 1 agst Mr. Pryse's Buscot Buck, aged, Bst—t
30 to 1 agst Mr. Crawfurd's The Cur, 6 yrs, 9st llb
35 to 1 agst Major Martyn's The Moor, 3 yrs, 7st
31b—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Drinkald's Dulcet, 6 yrs, Bst 61b
400 to 100 agst Lanesborough and Chanticleer—taken
CRITERION STAKES.
4 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Silistria colt
6 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Garrick
DERBY.
2,000 to 40 agst Mr. Pedley's Old Dan Tucker

COVENT-GARD/1N THEATRE.—The enthusiasm of a
densely crowded audience on Wednesday evening►, at
this theatre, on the occasion of Mr. Sims Reeves' ap-
pearance in the character of Elvino, in the popular opera
of La Sonnambula, will form an epoch in the annals of
the lyric stage. Encores, recals, and floral ovations
greeted the gifted tenor throughout the whole opera;
and Mr. Bunn will assuredly reap a rich harvest from
the brilliant success of Mr. S. Reeves. Miss Remer
and Mr. Whitworth were admirable adjuncts, and
contributed much to the general excellence of the per-
formance.

MRS. NISBETT.—This accomplished actress has
lately been making a most successful tour in the pro-
vinces. Since she left London in July, she, in con-
junction with her sister, Miss Jane Mordaunt, has played
at Brighton, Windsor, Southampton, Portsmouth, Swan-
sea, Cardiff, Bath, Bristol, and Plymouth—returning a
second time to Brighton, where, we believe, she is now
repeating several of her best parts.
ROYAL COLOSSEUM.-This exhibition continues to
be frequented daily by numerous visitors. The colossal
Panorama of Paris by night
is as attractive as ever. The
regulated temperature which is preserved in every part
renders a visit to. it at all times delightful, and, com-
bined with its various attractions, forms one of the most
favourite resorts in the metropolis in all seasons. The
panorama, being exhibited by artificial light, is seen
with equal effect in November as in the brighter days of
Summer.
The Countess of Newburgh has been receiving a
large circle of distinguished friends at Slindon House.
T4ord and Lady Dormer lett on Wednesday for London.