The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-03 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1851.

YAELIAMENTC,ItY DIVIVOISS

'From the Vote* and ceettirigs of the H.Guke of. Commons )

WEDNESDAY. JULY 2.
MEDICAL CHARITIES (IRELAND) BILL.
(IN THE COMMITTEE.)
Clause 3 (Appointment of Inspectors): Amendment pro-
posed, in page 2, line 35, after the word " being," to insert
the word " Practising:"— Question put, " That the word
practising' be there inserted." The Committee divided:-
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WHAT IS POETRY ?
(Fr,in Eliza Cock's JournaL)

A very short questi,.n way require L. very long 011! wa.
to do justice to the euljeet which it open:. up. What is
religion? What is truth? What is poe, ry, ? To aeswer
either of these queries satitfactery would require, not a
brief note only, nor an article, our a year's articles; but
it would demand a life-time cf articles, and even at the.
end of that life-time it were just possible that we might
fail in answering clearly and satisfactorily either of these
que.'stione. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Elunt, Je.ffiey, El-
liott, and Southey, with many other great minde, have
occupied themselves with the solution of the question
" What is poetry?" We do not know that they have
succeeded. Perhaps poetry, like many other subtle
thiegs, eludes definition. Who can define life—the com-
mon daily life we carry about with us. We live, and that
is all we know of the cause of life. Poetry is—vve
teel it—how shall we define it? It is not a term but an
essence: it is not a substance, but a spirit—the spirit of
beauty. Its utterance is the utterance of passionate and
intense truth. Elliott says it is " philosophy in its es-
sence—the spirit of that ' bright consummate flower'
whose root is in our bosoms." Leigh Hunt says it is a
passion for truth, beauty, and power, embodying and
illustrating its impressions by the imagination, in order
that it may enjoy and impart the feelings of their truth
in its utmost conviction and effluence. In a word, it is
imaginative passion ; and " he who has thought, feeling,
expression, imagination, action, character, and con-
tinuity, all in the largest amount and highest degree, is
the greatest poet." Philip James Baily, in that grand
poem of his, " Icstus," says—
" Poets are all who love—who feel great truths,
- And tell them; and the truth of truths is love."

Again he says that poetry is " the bright precipitate
of truth," and that the poet's mission is to sort out many
glorious likenesses in the world, and string them into
music—the poet's pens hying
" The true divining rod
Which trembles tow'rds the inner founts of feeling;
Bringing to light and use, else hid from all,
The many sweet clear sources wh ch we have
Of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms."
Poetry begins where matter of fact ends. It is fact
and feeling idealized and unrolled in beauty and power.
Shelley says of it, that it "hits the veil from the hidden
beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as it
they were not familiar." Keats says it is "a drainless
shower of light
'Tis the supreme of power ;
'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm ;
And that the great end of poetry is
That it should be a friend
To soothe the cares and lift the thoughts of man."
Its language is musical, and assumes the measure of
verse. But as poetry is ideal, and depends not on its
clothing for its power, verse is not indispensable to it.
Jeremy Taylor's writings contain passages of the noblest
poetry, conveyed in grand and solemn prose. Bunyan's
fine sod truly poetical allegory is not written in verse.
Some of Milton's grandest imagery is contained in his
prose writings. Carlyle is a great poet, though despising
the artifice of verse. Ossian's poetry is not couched in
verse, and yet Napoleon held him (whoever he was) to be
the greatest of poets. Nor was Napoleon himself with-
out poetry. Pointing to the Pyramids he said to his
army, "Forty centuries leek down upon us." Surely
that was no mean stroke of poetry—one which his
nephew of the tame eagle gives no hypes of equalling.
But true poetry may resume many other forms besides
the spoken. In painting it reaches great heights: witness
the grandeur of Martin's conceptions, nor are Denby and
Turner far behind him. Even Landseer has treated
animal subiects with the true feeling of poetry, witness
" The Slain Fallow Deer," exhibited by him at the
Royal Academy some two years ago, " The Dead Dam"
lies on the snow, which is died with its trickling blood,
while the fawn, atter lorg pattering round its mother,
vainly tries to suck the ineffectual teat. Bailey ana
Calder Marshall are poets in sculpture; they embody a
poetic idea in the marble, which byes enduringly,
Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Meyerbeer are great pouts
in music, and perhaps greater and sublimer than all is
Handel. Poetry is a gre at ennobler of life; it is purify-
ing, refining, and elevating. Many can say of it what
Coleridge did—' Poetry has been to me its own exceed-
ing great reward. It has soothed my afflictions, it has
multiplied and refined my enjoyments, it has endeared
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solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to
discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and
surrounds me."

FASHIONS FOR JULY

(From le Toilet.)
Oao of the heat Lucile de of iacurming our readers of
the actual " modes" is to eita some ensembles de toilettes
worn by ladies whose good, taste and elegtnee are iti-
diaputahle. We shall, therefore, at once proceed to
describe a visiting dre,”:—The robe is of pearl
gray taffetas shot with pick; plain skirt; body
open to the waist, with revers edged with narrow pink
and grey braids placed a:ternately. The same trim-
ming urnameats the cuff:, which turn hack towards the
elbow, and are very loose. The body is finMied with a
basquine, and is edged with a deep fringe de-
scending half-way down the skirt ; this fringe,
which is a mixture of pink and grey silk, has a
wide heading en re,ille guipure, forming teetoons,
terminating with long tassels. The bonnet which ac-
companies this toilette is of bands of whalebone separa-
ted by open straw, trimmed with bows of white
ribbon edged with fancy straw; small moss-roses and
sprigs of straws are intermixed with the ribbon and,
also ornament the inside. An immense Chantilly-lace
shawl accompanies this toilette. Another was of dark-
green and white glace taffetas; the flounce, deeply scol-
loped were edged with an embroidered wreath in white
silk. An echarpe mantelet of Brussels point, lined with
dark green cape, the lace trimming reaching from
the waist haft-way down the skirt. Open-work straw
bonnet imitating lace, lined with pink crape, and
trimmed on either side with a branch of pink haw-
thorn, united by light wreaths of leaves, which pass all
round the crown. The curtain and broad strings were
made of pink and white taffetas ribbon. The inside of
the bonnet was ornamented with hunches of hawthorn,
We must mention another toilette of a more sedate
character. The dress is of violet-coloured taffetas
d'ltalie, with three scolloped flounces, embroidered with
black and violet silk', each flounce separated by three
narrow ones of black lace. Black lace mantille. Black
tulle bonnet edged with straw; a ruche of narrow black
blonde, embroidered with straw round the front; a
bouquet of black feathers mixed with light chains of
straw rings, falling very low, is placed at each ear:
bouquets of straw flowers with long narrow leaves of
black velvet inside. The strings of black taffetas ribbon
embroidered with straw.

Morning bonnets of coarse straw have open edges;
they are lined with taffetas of the same colour as the
trimming. Plaid ribbons are used, and the greater mul-
tiplicity of colours the more 1 la mode. The bows are
large, and form several coques. separated in the middle
by a torsade of ribbon; small flowers and leaves are per-
mitted as ornaments for the inside of negligee bonnets.
We have noticed a fancy bonnet, composed of chains
of straw rings looped in each other. A pink taffetas
ribbon is passed through the rings at the edge, forming
small curls both inside and outside. The bonnet is lined
with pink taffetas. A simple branch of ivy crosses the
head, and mixes with the coques of pick ribbon at the
ears. The saaae trimming inside.
Feathers are much employed for rice, straw, and open
whalebone bonnets, and have been brought to great per-
fection this season both as to shades and term. We have
some beautiful bonnets of white tulle worked in Email
spots with straw, so fine that they appear like gold spots;
a triple row of straw-coloured ribbon is slightly drawn
round the edge. A bouquet of marabouts ornaments one
side; the ends have small lilies of the valley in straw,
lookng like drops of rain. Lillies and ribbons inside.
A charming bonnet, the front formed of boulonnees
of pink crape separated by ribbon, drawn like a ruche
across the crown; bouillonnees of crape edged with nar-
row ribbon, forming a small funchon, the ends of which
are fastened on each side under tufts of small field
flowers, mixed with coques of ribbon and straw. A
double curtain of crape edged with three narrow ribbons
matching the edge of the bonnet. The strings of broad
pink taffetas ribbon, with a lace edge.
Thin tarlataice dresses have deeply cut flounces,
trimmed round with three narrow gsuzn ribbons, drawn
at oue edge. Ribbon placed en echelle, very closely to•
gether, on the body. The short sleeves are entirely
covered with ribbon.

Many head-dresses for young ladies are composed of
a single ribbon placed under the bandeaux, and, passing
behind, are fastened with a bow and long ends.
Many dresses have their trimming printed in the ma-
terial. Redingotes of plain or chine silk have a broad
satin stripe down the front, of the dominant shade of the
dress. Upon the dresses with flounces these stripes are
graduated in width, resembling narrow ribbons.
We have seen a redingote of brown end pink taffetas
in this style; a broad stripe of brown satin runs be-
tween two narrow tucks; the button of the sleeve
matches; ribbon-bows are placed down the front,
fixed with an amethyst butterfly mounted in gold.
The body is very open; half pagodes sleeves, disco-
vering the collerette Medicis, and sleeves of Valen-
ciennes. A robe of green and brown chine, strewed
with bouquets of roses, with three flounces, each edged
with three stripes of shaded green. The body a Louis
XV., the front trimmed with an echelle of ribbon of the
seine shades of green; between each a narrow flounce of
English lace imitating the gukape, which is of lace. The
bottom of the sleeves are trimmed with green satin
ribbon, separated by English lace.
We must mention also some beautiful robes of plain
grenadine, of different shades of gray; the flounces
edged with three or four rows of gray satin, The come
kind of stripes are round the sleeves and body.
We have observed some robes of this style, called
bayed elres, having stripes of divers colours 'Ton grena-
dines, and white mousseline de soie.
Bonnets of whalebone are very fashionable: some are
of black and white, trimmed on the side with bunches
of dark roses. The broad strings and the curtains are
of black and pink, or white and pink ribbon. They are
lined with pink tulle, the cap of tulle, and rosebuds.
Another bonnet of white whalebone trimmed with
narrow ribbons forming hanging-foliage; on each side
broad &thugs of ribbon to match.
The mantelet echarpe is decidedly the fashion. They
are made in black taffetas trimmed with deep magnificent
lace, and enriched with ribbons or embroidery.
Young ladies wear the same make of mantelet in pink
or green taffetas, trimmed with a double row of Brussels
or Alencon lace. Some, more simple, are in taffetas of
all colours, trimmed with a deep plain tulle of the same
colour as the silk. Upon this tulle are placed narrow
velvets in rows of threes. A broad velvet, which forms
the head to this trimming, is placed upon the silk all
round the mantelet. Sometimes, in place of the velvet,
a bouillenne of tulle separated by three or four rows of
narrow velvets. W© must notice one, of white taffetas,
the mantelet itself being embroidered with silk en sou-
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tache; the tulle which trims it has nine rows of passe-
menterie in place of the velvets. This mantelet is fas-
tened with magnificent buttons.
Independent of all the fancy mantelets, scarfs, and
shawls of black lace, embroidered muslin mantelets, each
have become indispensable accessories to summer
toilettes.
Wedding dresses merit particular notice for their
splendour. The greatest novelty is the skirt, with al-
ternate flounces of embroidered muslin and Brussels lace.
A cannezout of lace, with a deep lace from the waist,
meeting the first flounce on the skirt.
Another, less splendid, has the front breadth embroi-
dered apron-fashion; the rest of the skirt is embroidered
in three rows imitating flat flounces. The body is high,
I embroidered over the chesP and sleeves; a narrow lace
is fulled in round the throat.

THE CHIFFWVIVIERS OF PARIS.
The fraternal association of rag-gatherers (chiiron-
niers) gave a grand banquet in Paris on Saturday last.
It took place at a public-house called the Pot Tricolore,
near the Barrier° de Fontainebleau, which is irequented
by the rag-gathering fraternity. Ia this house there
are three rooms, each of which is specially devoted
to the use of different classes of rag-gatherers:
one. the least dirty, is called the " Chamber
of Peers," and is occupied by the first class—that is,
those who possess a basket in a good state and a crook
ornamented with copper ; the second, called the
" Chamber of Deputies," belonging to the second class,
is much less comfortable, and those who attend it
have baskets and crooks—not of the first-rate
quality; the third room is in a dilapidated
condition, and is frequented by the lowest order of
gatherers, who have no basket or crook, and who place
what they find in the streets in a piece of sackcloth;
they call themselves the " Reunion des Vrais Prole
taires." The name of each room is written in chalk
above the door, and generally such strict etiquette is
observed among the rag-gatherers that no one goes
into the apartment not occupied by his own class.
At Saturday's banquet, however, all distinctions of
rank were set asiue, and delegates of each class
united fraternally. The president was the oldest rag-
gatherer of Paris; his age is 88, and ho is called the Em-
peror. The banquet consisted of a sort of ollapodrida,
which the master of the establishment pompously called
a gibelotte, though of what animal it was mainly composed
it was impossible to say. It was served up in huge earthen
dishes, and before it was allowed to be touched payment
was demanded and obtained. The other articles were
also paid for as soon as they were brought in, and a
deposit was exacted as security for the plates, knives,
and forks. The wine, or what did duty as such,
was contained in an earthen pot called the Petit Pere
Noir, and was filled from a gigantic vessel named Le
Moricaud. The dinner was concluded by each guest

taking a small glass of brandy. Business was thenpro-
ceeded to. It consisted' in the readin€, and adoption
of the statutes of the association, followed by the drink-
ing of numerous toasts to the president, to the prospe•
rity of rag-gathering, to the union of rag-gatherers, &c.
A collection, amounting to 6f. 75c,, was raised for sick
members of the fraternity. The guests then dispersed,
but several of them remained at the counter until they
had consumed in brandy the amount deposited as secu-
rity for the crockery, knives, and spoons.

DISCOVERY or AIiCIENT SILVklt Coiri."—A na"t
interesting circumstance in the nature of tressupt,_tl,97oooc-
cuired a few days ago on the domain of the liie!."°ll ar-
priiteidshbysiAlvlerr.
able Viscount Maynard, in the parish of ItadvlTler. pour
labourers employed in stubbing down an old stiff clay bank,
,00fccBu
near Bendysh-wood, on Bendysh-hall fabrnri
W. S. Hustler, dislodged a large nun'
coin, which in all probability had been Concealed there up.,
box, if.ever confined in any
wards of 200 years; the bag, or
having mouldered into dust. Th.? pieces, 602 in number,
are all in most excellent presecfv.!, and consist of many
and Mary, Llizatieth, James 1., and
specimens of half-crownsan shillings of the reigns of
Edward VI., Philip
Charles 1., but nono later than 1644, thereby causing the
supposition that during the civil war some royalist officer or
other army PaYrn"t"' being hard pressed, was obliged to
hide them, and never returned to regain the cash ; and this
idea is greatly strengthened by the sharp state of almost all
the insciptions, as it is well known that Charles I. called
into active operation the services of his Mint At henever and
wherever his resources were exhausted. The weight of the
specie is 101bs. tro and th value for old silver horn 25/.
to 30/. The whole pare now in the pozsession of the Noble
Viscount, who, with his wonttd benevolence and continual
care for the welfare of the poor, has generously directed, as
he has done in other instances of finding old money, that
the entire original current value shall be divided amongst
the honest labourers who made the discovery.—Chelmsford
Chronicle.