The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-18 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 183 1951:

LITERATURE.

TALF.:S AND TRADITIONS OF _HUNGARY.
3 Vols. By Francis and Theresa Pulszky. Col-
burn and Go.
Under any circumstances these volumes could not
but prove singularly attractive. At present, how-
ever, they will be welcomed with especiil cordiality.
The reader will bear in recollection not merely the
fact that Francis Pulszky is still resident in our me-
tropolis, but that England is enjoying the privilege,
moreover, of receiving with all hospitality the illus-
trious man who deputed him to this country some
three years since, as the Hungarian Ambassador.
It was scarcely possible for an intimate personal
friend of Louis Kossuth, and for one who was also
his political associate during the great war of inde-
pendence, to pass altogether free from sharing in the
calumnies directed against the distinguished leader of
his compatriots. Francis Pulszky has therefore par-
ticipated of late, and that somewhat largely, in the
odium (if as such it can be regarded) of the vitupera-
tions indulged in towards the champions of the
Magyar race by the apologists of continental absolut-
.

MU; As an evidence of the flimsy pretexts upon
which those slanderous aspersions have been raised, it
is only necessary to observe that Pulszky has been
assailed of late with very considerable violence,
simply because of the manner in which he was cur-
sorily mentioned the other day in a newspaper para-
graph. Remarking that the writer of that para-
graph spoke of our author as Count Francis Pulszky,
the assailants of the cause of Hungary alluded to
that unoffending gentleman in terms of the moat
scurrilous description, as a pretender to a rank alto-
gether suppositious. It would seem that these
writers are wholly ignorant of a fact sufficiently
notorious to the rest of the educated community, that
throughout Hungary almost every gentleman is a
member of the national aristocracy. 6upposing even
that Francis Pulszky came not in any way under this
category, and that his designation as Count was en-
tirely incorrect, it would assuredly be somewhat
unfair to speak of him derisively as an
upstart, assuming to himself an unmerited
dignity, purely because of a blunder on the part
of a misinformed penny-a-liner. Whether the work
before us is from the hand of Count Francis Pulszky
or from that of Mr. Francis Pulszky, it is manifestly
the effusion of a patriot, a scholar, and a gentleman.
As such it is welcome to us, more peculiarly when it
is remembered that the three volumes under con-
sideration afford those who may have been previously
unacquainted with the subject some accurate notion
of the peculiarities of life and manners among the
heroic and betrayed Hungarians. In his literary
labours, as compiler, adapter, or translator, Francis
Pulszky has been admirably aided by his accom-
plished wife, Theresa Pulszky, and the result of their
labour has been the production of a work eminently
calculated to afford at one and the same time a con-
siderable amount both of instruction and entertain-
ment. In the first volumes are collected together no
less than twenty of the shorter " Tales and Tra-
ditions" relating to Hungary, the second and third
being dedicated to the story of the " Jacobins
in Hungary." Our authors have very gracefully in-
scribed the former, or the miscellaneous portion of
them, to Sydney, Lady Morgan, and the latter to
Professor Francis W. Newman, as some expression of
their sentiments of friendship. According to an inge-
nious expression contained in the " Introduction," it
may with truth be said that " the poetical genius of a
people is expressed in its traditions." What the
nature of the poetical genius of the Hungarians really
is, may therefore be recognised with no inconsider-
able facility from the pages here submitted to our
criticism; and the publication before us will conse-
quently be singularly acceptable to those who may
not have had the opportunity of perusing ere this the
specimens of " Magyar poetry" given to the world in
in English version some years since by the present
Consular-General for the British empire among the
Chinese. To quote yet once more from the " In-
troduction" to the volumes lying at this moment
on our desk, " the analytical understanding de-
velopes itself only in the riper age of men
and nations ; their childhood is governed by
imaginations." And in regard'to Hungary, as these
traditions " are the artificial tokens of the riches or
the poverty of its imagination"—they will be received
by the more reflective readers with delight as eluci-
dative of the character of the Magyar race in its in-
fancy. They will be found to comprise within them,
like most other national traditions, very significant
hints indeed in reference to the early poetry, as well
as to the philosophic and mythological predilections
prevalent long centuries back among the masses of
the Hungarians. From an examination of the pre-
sent remarkable work from the hernia of Francis and
Theresa Pulszky, it will be perceived that through its
contents new testimonies are afforded of the correct-
ness of the assertion first advanced by the Ger-
man brothers Gramm, that " many popular
tales and proverbs are fragments of ancient
mythology," demonstrating while so doing the
remarkable fact that the worship of Wodin,
Thor, Friga, &c., once extended as far as the
Teutonic languages are spread," as may be detected
by reference to the Slovak tradition of the Robber
" Yanoshik." Among the narratives given in the
present collection will be found not merely several
relating to particular localities, but others generally
familiar to the entire population, such for example as
those about " Poor Tartar" and "Pan Twar-
dowsky." Added to these we have three legendary
tales valuable in another particular, as showing three
separate and distinct phases of Hungarian life during
the middle ages. First, there is " The Baron's
Daughter," revealing the contrast of the haughty
landed proprietor, scorning to receive territorial pos-
sessions as fief from the Sovereign. Secondly, we
have " The Castle of Zipsen " pourtraying the struggle
between the knights and the burghers, or, as
we should express in modern phrases, between
the aristocracy and the bourgeoise. Thirdly,
we have in the tale already mentioned,
namely, that of " Yanoshik," an account of the man-
ner in which a robber appeared as the avenger of
social injustice, just as among ourselves we have the
same notion exemplified in the history of Robin Hood
and his merry men of Sherwood. One of our lady
novelists contributed only last season to the readers
of romance an entertaining fiction, in which she en-
deavoured to illustrate the old adage of "many a slip
'twixt the cup and the lip." Yet further illustrations
have here come to us from the remote provinces of
Hungary in the German story of " The Free Shop,"
and again in the Slovak story of " The Golden Cross
of Korosfii." Besides the tales relating more particu-
larly to the Hungarian people themselves, the volumes
before us contain some referring to other races of man-
kind essentially different in character—the introduc-
tion of which, while partaking somewhat of the
blemish of an anachronism, is still agreeable as lend-
ing the charm of variety to the compositions. In this
way we doubt not that the "Guardians" will
be read with interest, though referring to Judea
rather than to Hungary, "Anabid," though it relates
to Persia, and " The Men of Ranshenbach," though
it traces its origin to the Carpathian valleys. Various
other narratives, some of them of the strongest
fascination, will be found to adorn the present
volumes, " The Jacobins of Hungary" being
more pretentious in its character than the majority of
the tales and traditions collected together in the pre-
sent publication. We must, before closing our notice,
transcribe the apologetic sentence in which our
authors close their brief but excellent introduction.
They remark that "the popular tale is deprived of its
natural brilliancy and vigour when repeated far from
the country to which it belongs, as the butterfly which
gleefully flutters around the flowers on which he at

last rests, opening and closing his wings with slow
cadence, is no longer the same when pinned
and cased up under the glass of a cabinet,
or as the flower itself, pressed between
the leaves of a herbarian loses its original
colour and fragrance." After that very graceful re-
ference to what may be regarded as deficiencies in the
work under notice, it would be very ungenerous to
object in any manner to some of the stories here re-
lated to us, on the score that they are beyond the
reach of our sympathies. While some of them may
be open to this objection, the majority are such as
must necessarily be perused with interest by those
thousands amongst us who view with feelings of
hope and admiration the heroic and generaus-hearted
citizens of Hungary.

si quotation, we shall abstain from so doing on the
reflection that it would not be altogether unlike that
schoiasticos, who brought a brick as a sample of his
hnu...e, according to the account furnished in the
witticism of Elierocles.

THE COMIC AL-11A2VACK for 1852. By
George Cruileshazh. David Bourne.
Bloomerism pourtrayed by Cruikshank ! Surely
that of itself is a sufficient attraction towards the
Comic Almanach. Such a frontispiece as it is—so
costume—afterexcruciingly ludicrous
Brousiooinmeirtira
ofssskectcahnensotpossibly
th:nelwy
delay plunging, pettiloons, petticoats, and all, into
that receptacle for defunct rubbish bight by him
whom Mr. Peacock invariably calls the Swan of
Avon, " the tomb of all the Capulete." Nothing
more truly laughable in reference to this fantastic
scheme of the American Jonatbaness has appeared—
no, peare d—
no, not even from the pencil of John Leech, the inex-
haustible. Tenniel's sketches in Punch uponthe
subject have been droll enough, even the little draw-
ings by On whyn have not been undeserving of the
title of meritorious—but next this colossal caricature
from the hand of our rare George Cruikshank, they
dwindle into insignificance. Then the accompanying
illustrations—" Turning the Tables !" Preposterously
humorous as our caricaturist has long since proved
himself to be, his artistic fun has never, we fancy,
been carried to such a delightfully outré extravagance.
Fancy a picture of " A Scene in the Zoological
Gardens at Oarang-Outang Town," with a
wild man, caught and inspected by the
" natives"—and this by Cruikshank ! Fancy " Ad-
vice to Persons about to Harry—Try—Cheap Furni-
ture"—the bride and bridegroom tumbling from chairs
afflicted with the rickets, the mirrors dropping from
their frames, the table breaking its back under the
weight of dinner, the library dangling shelf from
shelf, and all this by Cruikshank ! Fancy the anti.
cipations of the golden age of costernaongering repre-
sented by a well-fed specimen of the class selling per-
riwinkles at a guinea a pint, and followed by a couple
of gorgeously liveried flunkies—and this too by
Cruikshank ! Fancy John Bull inundated by over-
flowing supplies of water, with the spectacled old gen-
tleman peeping down the hose of the Government
scheme, which, notwithstanding
its magnitude, ap-
pears to be as dry as the channel of the Niger—and
this again by Cruikshank! Fancy—but no, you can
never fancy it—the embellishment in which the same
master hand depicts a new field for military
occupation—a cornfield being reaped by a regiment
—men storming the harvest-cart with uplifted sheaf's
—others charging the stocks with pitchforks—and the
commanding officer superintending the agricultural
movement of his men in the distance. The grace,
and beauty, and wit, of the whole engraving is this,
that viewed at a little. distance it has all the animated
effect of a battle• field, and when examined closely has
all the charm of an unexpected pastoral. The Peace
Society should bestow a gold medal on the artist, and
shoald have the sketch prefixed to every one of its
printed documents. Another glorious etching is the
one revealing to us the ovation of the new French
President—M. Jullien ! His principal banner in its
inscription running delightfully thus—" Liberte
Egalite! Fraternite—Fiddlededee I" Hinc—H. G.
Rine—whose little miniature, full-length silhouettes
seem to us to be the idealization of those atmospheric
" blacks," which are the plague of the London laun-
dress—comes upon us again with a perfect shower
of these grotesque comicalities. His illustrated
record of the perilous ascent of Jung Frau is a
thing to be remembered. The impossible jumps
from precipice to precipice, the utterly impracticable
methods of clambering LT to the top of a frozen ca-
taract, and of dancing on the quivering accumula-
tion of an impending avalanche, the gambols, and
frisks, and other saltatory proceedings equally ab-
surd under the circumstances, will prove, we fancy,
a source of genial and resistless laughter. The lite-
rary portion of the Comic Almanack for 1852 is ge-
nerally understood to have beeen entrusted this year
to Angus B. Reach and Shirley Brooks—either of
them "a host in himself," but together well qualified
to tread in the footsteps of dear Tom Hood, the ori-
ginal projector of this wonderful kind of melange for
fascetiousness. A better number of the Comic Al-
manack has seldom appeared, and certainly not within
several years bygone. Not the least among its at-
tractions is the circumstance that it brings to us
once more, in unabated vigour and drollery, our
matchless and immortal Cruikshank.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Nov. 17.
The Queen walked in the Home Park and Slopes
this morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and
younger members of the Royal Family, took their
accustomed pony and walking exercises.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot-
ing this morning, attended by the Earl of Listowel,
Major-General Berkeley Drummond, Colonel the
Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel F. H. Seymour.
Mr. Frederick Peel is expected at the Castle to-
day, on a visit to her Majesty.

A deputation, consisting of Sir Charles Fox, Mr.
Thomas Brassey, Mr. Edmund Leahy, and Mr.
Mathew Leahy, had an interview with Viscount Pal-
merston on Friday, at the Foreign-office.
Mr. William Lock had an interview with Lord
John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.

SPORTING N 0 TES.
CL VIII.

WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON AUTUMNAL
MEETING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
i. almost superfiu,ins to write about to-dat 'a
races, as they will ho decided about the same time 'as
this appears ; but I have not the slightest shadow of
a doubt but what the crack will carry cfr the Warwick
Handicap, Cnief Justice and the Ntirquis being his at-
tendants. The Welter Cup lays b-Jtiveen Lord Water-
ford and Mr. Bevill—the former for choice.

To-morrow, the day devoted to the cross-country
work, the racing will commence with a Free Handicap
Steeplechase, or 5 sew. each, with 25 added, over three
miles of ground. This race, in all probability, 'should
Guesene have accepted, will be won by her, as the
Handicapper has let her in at the favourable weight of
lOst. The second feature is the Handicap Hurdle Race
of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added. To this stake there are
six eon Subs, but if the odd six must- r at the post it will be
as much as can be expected. Lord Waterford'sLord Qeorge,
if started, would, no doubt, turn out the winner, bat us
it is not expected that he will go to the post, no farther
consideration of his chance is necessary; it would be as
well, however, to take no liberties with him, as he might
he sent after all, in which cal° it would be a very awk-
ward affair for the layers. The field will probably con-
sist of Hall-and-Half, Fugitive, Sir Robert, Flirt, Forest
Lad, and Bedford; another or two might run, but it is
Half-and-half,
dubious. I consider that the race lies between
.'
i'll-V-lialf, Fugitive, 'and Bedford, and were I to
pace BEDFORD first, with Fugitive and
the mixed liquid
in the next two 1 laces, I think I should about hit the
publicp:emrke .ri
srtTiedebeprelseGewhehaaosned
have
Onp.ewe e:cieSvtsee
never
bpl;eicdol:a.aeosin.e oastl')ow2uiotn
nsfooeurvrsi.nm aieach,
inz
oth-flfirwihthualOtiongadcdoeudn,
country,
second to save his
conditions. This stake has five-
scribers to it, including and.twsetauktye, gen-
tlemen
, under the usual steeplechase
itheie2rtsatinl
couple entered, Lord Georg
ho will start I am not quite and
1)
steeplechase horses of the day. . Lord Waterford has a
uc-an-Durras; which
iiinbb
nuutepr,. imagine
riLeoarly all the best.h
be Lord George, whociw' '
Yeoman, at list 41b, is a very d Pr'
home in the front, perhaps es the The Britith
Peter Simple and Sir Peter Laurie have
opponent, as
will st tint g°s"gillel
each ilbs extra
to carry. The Hero is without a chance,
and Maria Day arc not much better and St. Helier
Half-and-half,
if not started for the Hurdle Race, will
'
run e
monly forward for this event. Miss Mowbray, uPncora.
eter.
Rat-trap, Verax, The Forest Lad, Recruit, and &ila
of the extreme light weights, might as well remain the rest
in
stables for the chance they possess of winning thissttaielir
Lamienne, Isaac, and Hardwick are the most dangerous e.
of the light division, but I fancy the race will fall to one
of the following:—the Britir.h Yeoman, Peter Simple,
Sir Peter Laurie, and Half-and-Half—the YEomeeeor,
PETEn SIMPLE for choice. The sports will conclude
with the Hunt Cup Steeplechase, value 100 soya, In all
probability all the entries, ten in number, will be found
at the post, and I think it pretty certain that Proceed or
The Hero will be the winner.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
TUE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
Nov. 18, 1551.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
WARWICK HANDICAP.
7 to 4 agst Doubt
5 to 1 agst Miss Ann—taken
6 to 1 agst Chief Justice
12 to 1 agst any other
The only bet of any amount was 1,000 to 200 agst
Miss Ann.

450 to 50 laid agst HobbieDERBY
Noble, and 1,200 to 30 sgst
Chief Baron Nicholson.
Blackstone, engaged in Sir J. Hawley's name, was
shot last week.

SIR JOSEPH HAWLE Y'S STUD.
The sale of the first portion of Sir J. Hawley's stud
took place yesterday at Hyde Park-corner, and, as might
have been expected, drew an immense attendance, the
crowd being so great that it was with much difficulty
the horses wore brought out. The following were the
prices:—

HORSES IN TRAINING.
Hautboy, b c, '2 yrs, by Old England, out of Lady
Strut .•• ••• ••• ••• •• • ••• 65
Caloric, b f, 2 yrs, by lietman natal, out of Oxygen 400
Bilberry, b 11,2 yrs, by Touchstone, out of Lady Sarah 125
Pluck, a filly, 2 yrs, by Venison, out of Dauntless... 305
B c, 2 yrs, by Old Euglaad, out of Science... 20
Bf, 2 yrs, by Touchstone, out of Cheshire Witch... 63
Br c, Brother to Truthteller, 3 yrs, by Ascot, out of
Testatrix ... ... 40
Vermuth, b 133, 3 yrs, by Cotherstone, out of Vat... 80
Merry Peal, b m, by Slane, cut of Vibration ... 360
Breba, bl in, 3 yrs, by Touchstone, out of Lady Mary 110
Aphrodit6, br in, 3 yrs, by Bay Middleton, out of
Venus ... 930
The Ban, ch c, 3 yre, by Don John, out of Young
Defiance ... ... 630
The Confessor, 3 yrs, by Cowl, oat of Forest Fly... 770
Cranberry, ch c, by Irish Bird catcher, out of Lady
Strut... ... ... 210

G.

Mendicant (foaled in 1643), by Touchstone, out of
Lady Moore Carew ... ... ... ...

STALLION.

Old England, by Mulatto, out of Fortress ...

YEARLINGS,

... 300

B f, by Don John, out of Cheshire Witch ...
Veteran, by Old England, ont of Vat ...
Warbler, by Don John, out of Caystina
Halo, by England, out of Dauntless... ...
Mocassin, by Cotherstone, out of Miami ...
Br f, by Slane, out of Aphrodite's dam ...
Curfew, by Slane, out of Vibration... ... 61
Friar Tuck, bg, by Old England, out of Mendicant 23
Huff, by Old England, out of Temper .. 30
Bc, by Old England, out of Vexation ..„ 35
The above were sold without their engagements; but
if the purchaser of either of the lots should wish to start
for any engagement, he will be allowed to do so on pay-
ing half the stake to the stakeholder, and, if he wins,
one-third of the stakes to Sir Joseph Hawley.
The names of the actual purchasers did not transpire,
but we ascertained that Caloric, Aphrodite, and The
Ban, go into Lumley's stable, and Pluck into Rogers's;
Confessor, we believe, returns into T. Taylor's stable.
The total produce of the sale was 5,564 guineas.

... 43
... 68
... 155

COURSING.

... 100
... 70

EVERLEIGH UNION CLUB, Nov. 13, 14, and 15.

DECIDING COURSES.
The Oaks.

Captain Bosant's Busybody 1)t lir. Pyke's Prairio Bird,
and won.
__ _

The Derby.
Captain Besant's Bentinck bt Mr. Raxworthy's Rattler.
The Derby and Oaks.
Mr. Miller's Waterwitch bt Capt. Besant's Blue Banner.
The Everley Cup.
Mr. Miller's Whipcord and Capt. Besant's Betty Martin
divided.

The Elston Stakes.

Mr. Bennett's Nancy bt Mr. R. L3ng's Bloomer.
The Durrington Stakes.
Mr. Miller's Byrsa be Mr. Biggs' Energy.
The Winterborne Stake'.

Mr. W. Long's Lover-in Idle bt Mr. Granger's Gem.
The Jenner Stakes.

Mr. Jamos' Jiffy bt Mr. Row:lan's Resolution.

The Tilshead Lodge Stakes.
Captain NVyndham's Waltheof bt Mr. Miller's Magic.
The Bustard Stakes.
Mr. Miller's Miracle bt Captain Wyndham's Wonder.
The Rollestone Stakes.
Mr. Bennett's Storm bt Mr. Miller's Monarch.

The Shrewton Stakes.
Mr. Miller's Madcap bt Mr. Fowles' Come-again.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Eamont hrrs., Wed. Kennels; Sat. Longwatheby.
West Norfolk harre., Fri. Hale Dale.
Cambridgeshire harry., Fri. Poton Wood-10i.
South Wilts hds., Wed. Corton Barn; Sat. Thorn.
hills-11.
East Kent hds., Thurs. Whitfield Mill-10i.
Fife hds., Tues. Cunuoguhie; Thurs. Pitferran Den;
Sat. Inchdairnie-11.

FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE.—At eight o'clock last
evening the inhabitants of Middlesex-street, Somers Town,
were alarmed by flames darting from the second floor window
of a house, Nc. 30, in that street. Mr. Moore and several
other neighbours rushed into the house, and forced open the
door of the room which was ou fire, from whence rushed a
boy, frightfully scorched, exclaiming "My mother and
grandmother are burned." As soon as the parish engine,
which was in instant attendance, had extinguished the
flames, search was made for the inmates, when Isabella Ford.
a married woman, aged thirty, was found under the bed
frightfully burned and insensible, and her mother, M.a,rf
Stephens, aged seventy-two, was discovered in a similar
state, crouched in a corner. The unfortunate sufferers were
immediately conveyed to the hospital, where theyt Mrs.
ere
attended by Mr. Eccleston, the house surgeon; bu
Ford died soon after her admission, and her motherstatement, a
in a hopeless condition. According to the boy's..
mother ,_
coal from the fireplace came in contactl in
.I;liasines.ies
dress, when she was instantly enveloped
out to save his mother,
grandmother, who was in bed, jumpedthey
both rushed towards
when her dress also caught fire, and
in the manner described.
the bed, where they were found now lies
THE ATE QUESTION. Notices have been giVell
WR
improvement of supply on the part of
also a notice for next
metropolis. There is
companies of the
contemplated Government measure, called" Re.
session of a
to the Metropolis," and one of
• of Supply of Water .
of intended application to Parliamaretntoffothr
enepwrinripwaelrswaandter
gulation . .
proposed to be carried out on the principle
State last session, d
called " Ile Metropolis Water
' ate enterprise, an
of private a character similar to that brought in by the Secretary Of
Drainage," and founjcled, to a great extent, 011
and
The h e
jointßill
purposes
ss theof
the
water
a appointmentter
Supplyth results of the labours of Sir James) Graham's Committee
supopfly Con'
and
drainage, by a central board and executive committee, and
for the purchase, by agreement, of' the existing water com-
panies. The other new measures proposed are jointly by the
mofislriotnseersssfioonr.th
New River Company and the East London Company for
the amendment of each company's Acts, diversion of sewers,
and improving supply of water from the river Lee; by the
Lee River Company for the service of the metropolis north
of the Thames; by the East London, for raising further
capital; by the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company*
for additional works for obtaining water from the Thames at
Hampton, and for power to contract with other companies!
by the Grand Junction Waterworks Company, for
works for obtaining water from the Thames Hampton,atb
power to contract with other compaaies ; and
Water and Sewage Company, Ser,
for metropolitan ,
vices south of the Thames.
by the
the Wandla
additional
and
THE CORNISH OCTOGENARIAN.— The venerable
Crystal
the metropolis. Her for-
Palace, has only just returned from
e came to Exeter by traits
tune has evidently improved,,as.tab_y
i entertained at the Xew
dame who walked from Cornwall to London to see the
,
on Tuesday. After being i
h to Traro.—Devonport Inds.
, inside place by the Times coach
.........
[pendatt.
London Inn, she was
.favourbedWon Tuesday with a gratuitous