The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-01 00:00:00

The rogue, too, has essayed to English, as the old plirasi
goes, three or four of Beranger's delightful songs, and
though it must be confessed that his versions do at
times somewhat relish of doggrel, and in one instance
only, that of the old song of Malbrook, he has suffered
the original spirit completely to evaporate. But for
" a' that and a' that," we like his paper hugely', and
are firmly of belief that most were written under the
true vinous inspiration. Long as it is, we must need
give the " Song of the Cossack."
" Come, arouse thee up, my gallant horse, and bear thy riperide
The comrade thou, and the frienrt, I trow, of the dweller on
Pi'lage and Death have spread their wings! 'tis the hour to hie Li'
ee
forth,
And with thy hoofs an echo wake to the trumpets of the North!
Nor gems nor gold do men behold upon thy saddle-tree •
gut e .rth attbrds t;ie wealth of lords for thy master and thee..
Then fiercely neigh, my charger grey-0 ! thy chest is proud antkesofther
And thy hoofs shall prance o'er the fields of France, and the prid
heroes trample!
" Europe is we,k—siwchith grown old—her bulwarks are laid low;
She is loa‘h to beat the blast of war—she shrinketh from a foe.
Come, in our turn, let us sojourn in her goodly haunts of PP--
In the pillared porch to wave the torch, and her palaces destroy. seine,
Proud as when first thou tdak'st thy thirst in the flow or conqueFoo.
Aye shalt thou lave, within that wave, thy blood.red flanks agalF_..eie;
Then fiercely neigh, my gallant grey-0 ! thy chest is strong O
And thy hoofs shall prance o'er the fields of France, and the pride of Or
• heroes trample!
King's are beleaguer'd on their thrones by their own vassal crew
And in their den quake noblemen and priests are bearded too; _ down;
And loud hey yelp for th.• Cossacks' help to keep their bondmse,';
And they think it meet, while they kiss our feet, to wear a tv, ant
roc_r.u.Wnl
The sceptre now to my lance shall bow, and the crosier and. the c
All shall bend alike, when I lift my pike and aloft THAT SCEPTgfr_Sle;
Then proudly neigh, my gall tnt grev—d! thy chest is broad an -
ZlThet
And thy hoofs shall prance o'er the fields of France, and the low
heroes trample!
In a night of storm I have seen a form!—and the figure was as o,"A':Lat;
And his eye was bent on the Cossacks' tent, and his look was .1
into;
Kingly crest—and towards the West with his battle-axe he ° °wet
And the" form" I saw was ATILLA! of this earth the scourge,a, ersi
From the Cossacks' camp let the horseman's tramp the color"
announce,
Let the vulture whet his beak sharp set, on the carrion field to Icrstiteolce
And proudly neigh my charger grey-0! thy chest is broad sole licr
And thy hoofs shall prance o'er the fields of France, and the Pn
heroes trample!
What hoots old Europe's boasted fame on which she builds relance, ie'rits?
When the North shall lauch its avalanche on her works of sat' nerses?
Huth she not wept her cities swe t by hordes of
p our gsi
varnain
And tower and arch crushed in the n
march of our barbarian courrie
Can we not wield our fathers' shield ? the samo war-hatchet handle of tl'e
Do our blades want length, or the reapers strength, for the hall
Vandal ? olc/
Then proudly neigh, my gallant grey, for thy chest is strong snd le of
And thy hoofs sh:.ll prance o'er the fields of France, and the
heroes trample! trample! ' 'Vag'
If all our readers do not send for Frazer n 4
4
zinc upon perusing this, the deuce is in it ; theY.he
"t
not what is good for themselves. Strong indeed
temptation upon us to give his version of gillev)the
st
exquisite ballad " Priez pour moi ;" but we resi • ht
de:non of poetry and flee, nor shall we suffer our fligthe
to be delayed by the " Autumn in the North," 01
" Dinner to Earl Grey."

COURT MA GA Z INE-
As we have already taken notice of the enl-e with
inents of this number, our only task at present isof A
r
the literary department. This is better,
higher order in point of style, than usual. a The.,,G;,
e
land of Musicians" is a poem by Mr. ChorlaY' less
only fault is that it is too elaborate. A little 011
pains-taking in the structure of the rhythm all
have improved it, especially as the thoughts Braiitt
good, and one or two of them approach to origl'och
" The Here-and-Thereian" speaks of Niagara setae'
a scene deserves to be spoken of. It is n°
scription, but something better :
d po bt'
nl
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" I advise all people going to Niagara to sus'Pen uv-uisit,,
note in their journal till the last day of their visit. Itniptst
as well teach a child the magnitude of the heavens bYrn AM;
to the sky with your finger, as comprehend Niagara iosbrrhi'e
It has to create its own mighty place in your mind"
st r
no comparison through which it can enter. It is too
imagination shrinks from it. It rolls in graduallY9d labor,
upon thunder; and plunge upon plunge ; and the
with it to an exhaustion such as is created only by theL t i°:
intellectual effort. I have seen men sit and gale crotlionilistohotej
cool day of autumn, with the perspiration standing
foreheads in large beads, from the unconscious but.co, ,10
agony of its conception. After haunting its Prec,i1),10.41';,14
looking on its solemn waters for seven days, sleepy
wind-played monotony in your ears, dreaming, 11" a fe'1,461
to it till it has grown the one object, as it will, of YThrtsp‘--,,if
tual thought, you feel, all at once, like one whosiltreasteciecitatiaitl,4
the span of some almighty problem. It has
within you. Your capacity has attained the gigantic list e°°l,
and you feel an elevation and breadth of nature bad
measure girth and stature with a seraph. We ~.t roi°°l
done' Niagara. We had seen it by sunrise, s'l,ll'e'ss';
light ; from top and. bottom ; fasting and full' ; osn.;ij
gether. We had learned by heart every green P-1 efoe,'-pt
island of perpetual dew, which is set like an imParlAainire° iti
on its front (a poetical idea of my own, much e i°,lle
Job)—we had been grave, gay, tender, and rub °d
mighty neighbourhood—we had become so accustr: naafis;'-
bass of its broad thunder, that it seemed to us 11-foar b°,hts
property in the air, and we were unconscious of ", tb°,*;
OUT voices had become so tuned to its key, and tt sT",°:t
so tinged by its grand and perpetual anthem, t""wet11`1:0
doubted if the air beyond the reach of its vibrations cots,
agonise us with its unnatural silence, and tiler; fie-
features of the world seem of an unutterable 21'..
oir
littleness."
1, t
che C y
" Conversations in Purgatory," thoug" oteu
ception be as old as the hills, is happily John 1•
I':
Sir Egerton Bridges. The speakers are Jobs
Canning, Burke, Scott, Gray, and BYr°nlt Dos
son's conversation is a failure, inasmuch as • Ofaf,
an atom of character ; but Scott's bonhorill'ile' fri;
fastidiousness, and Byron's snappishness, ar.etiia
cellent keeping with what we know of their strOV
peculiarities. " The Culprit's Grave," is 8
_ _ _

rambling tale by Miss Macaulay. fe. •
F,' 0 " . 11l
FREEMASONS QUARTERLY fl-, post°,,,ic
The social and humanizing spirit of Irch", aril t•
breathes through this number, especially in:,, Oleo,
wherein the institution is vindicated, and isterble
tance to the well-being of the communitY 'P'",-eoetg
which is done eloquently, and with mosto7;
COI%
feeling. The best articles in the number' ofl of
are the tales, and of these, the best is the
onion 0,
sopher and his Pupil," the imaginative 10010'er,
which is built up on the solid foundation ei,jotill'ij
sense. The poetry is neither above lior ti:t shoo
diocrity, which is a pity ; for to be readable '
be either very good or very bad.
710 ii he
NEW SPORTING MA GA i --- biS 11- °liog
There is a greater variety of subjects in t f sport 0,
than in any we have yet seen. Though full ° the ,
A to lOr
matters, it is not exclusively confine', an er
" Nimrod" figures among the contribute"'g alio
nishes us with a memoir of a most ani,usilllate `:, es
centric character, in the person of we: the °lite
Mytton, Esq. Had this gentleman lived 111 6ra's
hot fhi
of Fielding, he would have furnished ;', „lay ° elf.
novelist with a better subject for the c"t7;.,, hielsord,
peculiar powers than even Squire Wes of the
Mytton was a " character" in every sense/10d' son°C
but such, as if pourtrayed in a modern Ore coative
be scouted as extravagant and unnatural. 0 Olt's'
resist the temptation of quoting one a t°'
we, not
anecdotes of this full-fledged oddity. ne.lettalire,verott.t!
" His treatment of a London Jew 0:W0 cot the nit;
amiss. Being wearied by delay, he hire,,lo3o „a" ote r,
knock at his door every second hour ";1--iii ae7„Anaoinv.
until the money was forthcoming. Pit nf nieeeJ ,se to
nishes a painful recollection on the subjectifieunds,°;,,ho P"f„
A few years back he borrowed ten thousan" ra Mena ,cpe,,"
nuity at high interest, and lent nine of it tehogb a i'pey v"
the man, is no matter for joking; ; This' altfollowing 04
never been seen in Europe since !
but rbLa a douet:fr of tbe
looked upon as frolics. He had a pars°ll certain- "•-! boll
with him one evening at Halston, and 3 a to theilioa lii •
night they mounted their horses to
Having ' a carter 's frock and a brace 0. id a hack'
jet
blank cartridges, at hand, Mytton mounte
road, whenad t,
circuitous route headed and met them on th,,ern
rertunristols, ,_l°'7o,:i hi
to heir lice If
fly both barrels at them, and calling to them himself t the
deliver,' declared they never rode half so fails af,aufif:
they did from that place to Oswestry; wit t
~
_late ..;00.1
heels. On another occasion he dealer' for I'l
Underhill, the celebrated Shropshire I' sanding _dP •,
his house, on his road from Chester fair. drunk DV.
into his dining-room, he made him excessively.. once r rf):,
him to bed with two bull-dogs and a I
bhunting GO Sttllll .0 71
bear into his drawing-room, in fullcertain one ;e
_AI ,
animal carried him very quietly for
aider through the be,
being pricked by the spur he bit his,f,,e mention of this
To
told tahrsae_tne ;
his leg, inflicting a severe wound. I.'
friend who he
reminds me of another amusing
of his stable boys with a hack to meet
riding
into the, ,(5,4
by a coach, the latter exclaimed,
°n to the bear' rstljto
stable-yard, ' Ah ! bruin P—alludin
bliews twice a we% 01f,,e,
Sir,' observed the lad, ' we always
relate I know of 9 je..4
ston.' What I am now going t
anecdaote. Having 5
..,
night in the ec'entleirio
As we were eating some supper °int:
race week, ag. bok 0
define, for in most people's opinion it rather exceele,.;
of the hotel at Chester, dr
t g S tanding With biSA
ler
who was a stranger to us alma_wvang
i drunk too 1111.1; 00
the fire, talking very loudly, h
641 '
I'll stop him,' said Mytton ;
re
bcoal into his Co -
ceived, put a red-hot •
of this Per° •of
hasty notice which t
In closing our
mention the engyavingst
__.,it
1.
aand getting
must not osnit to
" The little 501'1.0 so
admirable " after a fashion.
back-ground of tl fed
landscape which forms the
picturesque effec
be
hi
entitled " Partridges," has a_
this
Uncommon with engravings of haracter.