The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-29 00:00:00

SONNET TO SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON,
BART.

Grand and impassioned is thy lofty mind!
By Nature much inspired thou hest been,_
For God, the Beautiful, thou there haat seen;
And felt His very breath upon the wind.
Both Poet and Philosopher art thou
Knowing what dear twin Sisters meek are they;
With thoughtful eyes, effulgent as the day!—
And glory-lit with Truth each spirit-brow.
Full of high beacon-thoughts thy works arise,
Shedding far down the Future rays benign;
Thy soul has ever starward turned its eyes,
Gathering from thence bright gleams of the Divine.
Rare Prophet-minds—of aye-enduring might—
Raise up the World with their immortal light!
In the latter effusion it would have been somewhat
less distressing, because somewhat more grammatical,
to have remembered the real gender of Poet and
Philosopher. Unless they were epicene they could
not possibly be called twin sisters. Poetry and
Philosophy might have been thus symbolized cor-
rectly, but neither of them are mentioned. Better
than his poetical, we like Mr. Wilson's prose allusions
to Sir Bulwer Lytton, were he observes—
Of all living authors, Bulwer—the English literary
Universalist—has the most perfect power of garbing his
beautiful thoughts grandly. It is distinctly one power
to think grandly, and another to possess the artistic
ability to utter grandly. The one power perfects and
refines the other. Bulwer casts, as it were, a halo round
his every thought by his singular and intuitive know-
ledge of the genius and purpose of language. Yet he is
always within the reach of a Mind! He avowedly ad-
dresses himself to all minds. It would, therefore, be ab-
surd to term his writings mystical because they are
original, powerful, and refined. He may safely rest his
fame as a poet upon his great poem King Arthur.' "
Sir Bulwer Lytton's illustrious contemporary, Charles
Dickens, is thus spoken of by our author, further on
in his volume—
" Speaking of the heart of the child, and the head of
the man, irresistibly reminds us of one great living
Poet, who has never published verses;
lbuitigt, to dwellbeenhas
the fate of few, if that of any men, while
in and to influence so many hearts, as Dickens."
Two brief sentences, also worthy of quotation, are
those where it is said that "Poetry is the Poet's
Religion," and where, in elucidation of the thought,
it is remarked that the Poet " knows that Philosophy
is the sister of Faith, and that Faith is Poetry." As
a lovely little supplement or appendix to the volume,
there are two chapters entitled " The Story of the
Poet Lover—an Outline." These, with the preceding
portions of the volume, cannot fail to obtain for the
author an estimable, though it may be a restricted
popularity.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JULY 28.
STOCK EXCHAIIOI.—The share market was depressed to-
day, with a decline in prices from our last quotations. The
transactions were as follow : —Great Western Original shares,
83—Ditto, New 171. Shares, 1441—Midland, 6 per cent.
(Birmingham and Gloucester), 128% ex div.—Taff Vale,
Quarters, 37.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 28.
STOCK EXCHANGB.—The market was less firm to-day,
and prices were a shade lower than on Saturday. The trans-
actions were as follow :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Che
shire, (late Cheshire and Birkenhead), 153/4—East Lanca-
shire, 1414—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 4914—London andNorth-Western, 1233x—Ditto, New Quarters,. 3SP.-.11i"(i
land, 4] Ditto, Halves, 203/4 dis. South-Eastern. and
Dover, 2214—York and North Midland, 18%—Pam and
Rouen, 25%
MANCHESTER, JULY 28. limited, and
STOOK EXCHARGE.—The business to-day as
prices had a downward tendency. The transaw., was
ions were as
,ico;thern, follow :—East Lancashire, 14 l 7—
London 3-16—
and North-Western, 1221,4—Ditto,chester, Sheffield,
Birmingham, Quarters (9, 21. i. IL— Manchester and
preference, 9-16 N—
and Lincolnshire, 2714—Ditto, N
~ ew 61.1 _ ,
5 SOUth•E ts
118 ru
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, I /s-
-and Dover, 22%. A rd. JULY 28.
BIRICINGkut ' transacted on 'Ph
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business
local , - Change
onfined to stouts. Rail av
to-day was almost entirely c
andclosed w-' prices, b- London
Great
at about
quotations were guided .7
the same rates as in the wetropolis. There was little or no-
thing doing.

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hexalPfaXtelleBswindows,.which formerly had a central transom, is
thereby put out of sight, and as this lessened the light con-
siderably, the tills have been cut down about a foot. The
side galleries have been made wider, and are coved beneath,
to throw out the sound (we should not advise speakers to
stand under them, nevertheless). A very considerable in-
crease of accommodation has been gained in the division
lobbies by the addition of one large and two small oriels.
The gallery for the public has been enlarged, and accommo-
dation is now afforded for about 460 Members. Retiring
rooms, too, have been provided above the division rooms.
The reporters' gallery, at the Speaker's end, is so arranged,
temporarily, that each reporter has a separate stall, with a
door at his back ; so that he is able to come and go rapidly,
and without disturbing any other. They have a private
staircase and two retiring rooms, with desks, where they may
arrange their notes or refer to books and papers. The ven-
tilation and warming of the House is, as our readers know,
under the direction of Dr. Reid. The Speaker has a private*
hot-water plate in the House for his feet, and so have
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the
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Lacy (formerly Miss
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Taylor) has announced a "first benefit" at this theatre for
next Thursday, when she will perform Helen' in the Hunch-
back, and Maria Darlington, in .A Roland for en Oliver
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clever, and charming of their theatrical favourite. wee
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