The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-03 00:00:00

TUE S

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Hon. Colon( I Grey arrived at Osborne House on
Tu.s(lay, and relieved Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Mar-
shal) in th duties of Equerry in Waiting to the Queen.
Colonel Bouverie also arrived, and relieved the lion.
Captain Gordon in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Viscount Palmerston
is -rived from Broadlands. _ _

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, left Osborne
House at half-past seven o'clock yesterday morning, to
embark in the royal yacht. The Lord Chamberlain
went on board the yacht, in attendance upon the Queen.
The Lady in Waiting, the Maid of Honour in Waiting,
the Hon. Miss Kerr, and the Equerry in Waiting (the
Hon. Colonel Grey), were in the royal suite.
Lord John Russell took his departure from Osborne
House yesterday morning for town.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Prin-
cess Alice rode yesterday in the plantations of Osborne
House.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by her
Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia and his Serene
Highness Prince 'Award of Saxe. Weimar, left her reti-
dence, Marlborough House, at twelve o'clock 3 esterday,
to pay a via to her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester. at Richmond. The royal suite included the
Countess Haack, the Earl Howe, the Earl of Thnbigh,
and Bari n de Witzleben. The august party occupied
two carriages and four.
After visiting the Duchess of Gloucester at Richmond,
the illustrious party drove in open carriages to Kew
Gar'ens, and visited their Royal Highnesses the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz at Kew. Luncheon was
served to the royal visiters.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness
the Prireess of Prussia, his Serene Highness Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar, and suite, left Kew in the
afternoon, and returned to town shortly before seven
o'clock.

A deputation from the Society of British Artists, con-
sisting of Messrs. Hassell, Clint, Stevens, Tennant, and
Hill, waited on Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-
offic-, with reference to the application of the Society for
a royal charter of incorporation.
The Earl of Elgin had an interview with Earl Grey
yesterday at the Colonial. office.
Mr. Wilshere, M.P., and the Mayor of Great Yar-
mouth, had an interview with Mr. Tuffnell at the Trea-
sury yesterday.
Lord Seymour had an interview with Sir George Grey
yesterday.at the Home-office.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor of Ceylon.
Lord John Russell returned to town yesterday from a
visit to her Majesty, at Osborne House, Isle of Wight.

THE MAGAZINES.
DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE.

To Gulielmus Linweod, M.A., the article entitled
" Greek and Latin Poetry at Oxford and Cambridge"
will.prove a very bitter pill, to everybody else it will
be, in common parlance—nuts! We must acknow-
ledge that the perusal of those seventeen pages has
been altogether a delicious treat ; nor can this be
surprising when it is remembered that the principal
portion of the compilation is composed of cullings
from a work every leaf of which the reviewer truth-
fully and beautifully observes " glitters with He-
liconian dew, every page of which is thickly sown
with jewels of great price !" Nevertheless, these
very quotations derive an additional lustre from the
sympathetic and elegant criticism by which they are
linked together. We owe a debt of gratitude to
whomsoever has furnished us with this delectable
melange: nevertheless, we cannot but say that his
occasional churlishness at some minor blemishes of
composition sounded harshly to us, however much
they might have been deserved. Sometimes, indeed,
to our thinking his exceptions to a translation amount
to something little short of pedantry. For example,
he objects to the line—
" The flowers run Wild—the flowers we sowed,"

being rendered thus—
" Intonsi exultant flores—quam sevimus hortum."
Now, though scarcely literal, we opine that " intonsi
exultant flores" is, no doubt, a quaint, but still a very
apt and by no means an inelegant version. He calls,
moreover, aurati solis" a piece of Haynes Bailey
Latinity, and its extravagance is thereby very
happily expressed ; but when he places the phrase
" g emmea prata" under the same stigma we conceive
that his fastidiousness extends rather too far. With
a very little trouble we could adduce a list of
synonymes to that phrase from the pages of some of
our choicest poets—Herrick, Thomson, Marlow, and
others. Jewelling and paintinz the green turf are
scafeely removed from each other a hair's-breadth as
illustrative of the same idea ; and of the latter ex-
pression a striking specimen recurs to us at this
moment. The literary sinner, be it observed, is ano
less illustrious personage than Lord Brougham. In
a noble hymn, penned many years since by that
gifted man—a hymn beginning with the words
" There is a Gud! all nature cries"—the following
lines occur :

" But Thou, too, mad'st that floweret gay
To glitter in the dawn;
The hand that fired the lamp of day,
The bl!:zing comet launch'd away,
Painted the velvet lawn"
That closing verse is delicately and even exquisitely
pencilled : to our mind "gemmea prata" is not a whit
less permissible or picturesque. We will not, how-
ever, tarry over these littlenesses of hypercriticism,
though many of the exceptions here made in Dolman
would justify us in so doing. We are too thankful
to the writer for the pleasure he has afforded us to
cavil with him upon these petty asperities of manner.
►Ve must give our readers some inkling of the
repast they m.y find in this magazine if they are
willing to become partakers ; and we can only do
so by transcribing one of the interpolated poems.
Nevertheless, we are somewhat baffled to make the
selection' " Sing a song of Sixpence," turned into
choice Greek and still choicer Latin, tempts us, with
its description of the queen in the kitchen, eating
bread and honey :

" mandit panemque morans regina culina."

A charming version of Moore's " Oft in the stilly
Night," by Mr. Kennedy, is a still greater tetnpta-
tion : then there is " Brian O'Linn"—the gentleman
with the sheep-skin breeches—in Greek ! a superb
translation of "The Burial of Sir John Moore ;"
another of Byron's "Isles of Greece," and another of
Jonson's " Drink to me only with thine eyes." Here,
however, is " Auld Lang Syne," done into Latin by
Mr. Drury ; and it is such a beautiful performance
that we are induced lo give it entire. We shall be
forgiven by the lovers of true poetry.

TEMPUS ACTUM.

Priscorum immemores ease sodalium,
IJipsis ex animo quos adamavirous,
Priscorum immemores esse sodalium et
Acti temporis—hoc decet ?
Acti, care comes, tempOris ob dies,
Acti, fide comes, temporis ob dies,
Spumantis pateram combibe Crecubi
Acti temporis—ob dies.
Flores in calathis nos amaranthinos,
Una per jugs quot devia legimus,
Sed la,soi peregre traximus heu pedes
Acti temporis a die.
Quin solem ad medium margine fontem
Certatim vitreo fluorine lusimus :
Atqui inter fremuit nos mare fiuctuum
Acti temporis a die.
Amplexum, comes o tide, morabimur
Dulcum—labra labris et manibus manum ?
Depromptm quis erit jam modus amphorae
Acti temporis ob dies.
Potantes cyathi lege videbimus
Utt r Threiciam siccet amystidem :
Plenum fundite, 10, fundite Cancubum
Acti temporis ob dies.
Acti, care comes, temporis ob dies,
Acti, tide comes, temporis ob dies,
Spunaantis pateram combibe Cecubi
Acti temporis ob dies.
So much for this delightful contribution. "The
Dihre, ch's Legacy," by John Keegan, is a singular
fragment of romance, and will be perused with plea-
sure. "The Vicissitudes of Illustrious Men" are
continued as usual, and the extraordinary history of
that extraordinary man Sir Walter Raleigh furnishes
the author with a noble subject. The article is
written with enthusiasm, and the character of our
great hero drawn dispassionately throughout. The
readers of the Dolman will assuredly welcome such
scenes as—Raleigh and Spencer conversing by an
Irish river by twilight—Raleigh smoking his silver
pipe at midnight from a lattice overlooking the
Thames—Raleigh caressing his child Carew in a
dungeon of the Tower—Raleigh near the shores of
America—and Raleigh on the scaffold at West-
minster. A most agreeable criticism upon the writ-
ings of Mrs. Warren, by Mr. Ivers—giving the
mead of praise so justly due to a man who always
writes so well—concludes-an admirable number.