The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-25 00:00:00

SIR WALTER SCOTT.

(From Galignani's Messenger.)
The voice of him who was truly called the
Minstrel of the North sleeps in death, and all
the mountains, vales, and glens of Scotland must
resound with wailing. Ages may pass before
his rival will appear. Eight years and a half
have elapsed since we lost Byron, then in the
prime of manhood ; the two most popular au-
thors which Great Britain ever produced, yet
whose genius had no similitude. The one had
intenseness, the other copiousness and rich va-
riety—the predominance of one was tragic, of
the other comic. Byron was but a variety of
self; Scott was everybody, and everywhere. Byron,
at least, in the present writer's apprehension, was
not often happy in his prose ; of Scott, the prose
was far better than the poetry. There was deep
misanthropy in Byron ; the truest honhomnzie
and sunshine in Scott. Scott rose occasionally
to pathos and sublimity, but they were not his
leading characteristics ; he dealt in familiar and
colloquial life, in dialogue, in fulness and rapi-
dity of incidents, in filling his canvass with
groups of busy people, and in the humour of a
Dutch fair. All the touches of accidental cha-
racter, of the peculiarity of habit and manners,
were caught by him to the very life. But his
native country had been the grand object of his
happy observances. He knew her in the past
and the present, as if he had lived with every
age. He knew the shapes of the surface of its
varied soils in its mountains, its he.aths, its pre-
cipices, its depths, its rivers, and lonely sea-
shores ; and he knew all the secrets of the

hearts of its people. He threw .a smile upon
all nature ; and cheerfulness echoed from him
through all the tracts of Caledonia. He came
like a magician sweeping across the stormy seas
of the Hebrides, and peopled the isles with the
airy beings of poetic spirituality. Yet he was
no enthusiast ; he was a perfect man of the
world ; social, lively, sagacious, quick, and
happy in conversation ; of exquisite tact, and
willing to bend to all men's humou•s. The turn
of his invention enabled him more than any
other fabulist to play off a contrast of charac-
ters. In this sort of combination and group-
ing lay one of his grand spells ; the collisions
were always happy. He never, like Byron,
represented a single figure in the wild aber-
rations of his solitude. All his ideas were in
rapid movement ; he never seems to have pon-
dered long on one excluding thought. Ido not
think, therefore, that profundity was often his
character. Now and then he touched the deeper
chords, which had a double effect from the con-
trast with what they were intermixed. Meg
Merrilies was a grand invention ; and Edith
Elspeth was as sublime as original. The Witch,
in The Pirate, would have been magnificent if

it had not been too much a repetition of Meg
Merrilies. The two daughters of the 0 rcadian
Chief are lovely originalities. But in some of
his most interesting pictures there is perhaps a
little mixture of playfulness and irony, which
now and then disturb the unity of the feeling.
It is remarkable that in all his writings and cha-
racters we never see a trace of spleen or malice
in him ; yet he must have had his keen disap-
pointments and wrongs like other men. We
mark no clouds in him ; it is always sunshine,
though with an innumerable variety of tints.
Fantastic groups are always playing before his
fancy ; and at every turn the magic of his wand
brings up new pictures. Like Shakspeare—
" The forms of many-coloured life he drew ;
Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new."
Were we to analyse all the ingredients of Scott's
compositions, we might, perhaps, pronounce that
many of them, when separated, are not new ; the
novelty, which gives them the character of high
genius, is i❑ the combination. But so it is even

in Shakspeare ; his language is often careless,
never studied. Sometimes he is too colloquial
—rarely quite flowing. His ordinary narration
wants chaleur. It may be said of his diction
what Johnson said of Prior's verses. He
does not often like to be confined to con-
tinued narrative, but bursts into dialogue, of
which the
drollery is inexhaustible. Smollett
was droll, Fielding
was droll, but it was always
in low life
; they had nothing of picturesqueness,
and their characters were more the result of ob-
servation than invention. 'While Scott was true
to life, he yet was always inventive. He de-
scribed material objects, whether animate or in-
animate, with the utmost felicity. He de-
lighted in chivalrous images—grandeur in its

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1832.

We have, throughout the discussions which
have been raised upon the Belgic question, main-
tained that the most perfect good understand-
ing prevailed between the Courts of England
and France. As the crisis approaches, the cor-
rectness of our information is placed beyond a
doubt. We refer to an article from the Journal
des Debats, received this morning, as corrobora-
tive of our assertion ; and, that our readers may
be fully aware of the importance of that article, we
will state that one of the Peers, lately promoted
to the Upper Chamber to support the Ministry,
is principal proprietor ofthe paper from which it is
taken. In fact, the Journal des Debats is the organ
of the Doctrinnaire Ministry in all matters of this
kind, the Moniteur being more in the nature of
a gazette. The most conclusive document, how-
ever, that we have yet received as regards the
question of war or peace, is the note of M.
GOBLET to the French Minister for Foreign
Affairs. Of course the application is made by
previous concert, so that there can be no doubt of
the manner in which this appeal will be answered.
We see that several French Papers, the Con-
stitutionizel and the Tribune especially, make
great complaints of M. GUIZOT making
use of the word " subject" in a report to the
KING, published in the Moniteur. We really
think our French contemporaries too nice upon
such a point. The word, as now used, has but
little more meaning than the formula at the end
of a letter ; and provided that a people be really
free, and have their rights effectually protected,
the word which expresses their relation to the
Chief Magistrate is not worth disputing about,
always provided, that public opinion does not
attach a degrading meaning to it.

Brussels and German Papers have been re-
ceived this morning. The extracts will be found
in another column.

Mr. SHELL, after much coquetting with the
question, has at length come forward, and for-
mally announced himself as an advocate for the
Repeal of the Union. We respect his boldness
and decision, but think his judgment not merely
questionable, but erroneous--deeply erroneous.
He must know that the Union between Great
Britain and Ireland never can—never will be re-
pealed, and for this reason, that it is opposed to
the interests and the inclinations of the majority
in both kingdoms. Still there is no denying the
fact, that in Ireland, at least, the question is
making some progress ; among the Orangemen

from a desire ofrevenge, and among the Catholics
!I-0m a vague idea that it will repair the wrongs
of centuries. In the Dublin Evening Mail
occurs the following remarkable passage, which
fully corroborates our opinion, that many of
the Orangemen, in clamouring for a repeal of
the Union, are consulting only the dictates of
a deep-seated, unjustifiable malignity :—" If
Repeal mean separation, which we firmly believe
it does; if there is to be a foreign war, as we
are religiously convinced there will be the mo-
ment that Ministers can screw their courage to
the sticking place,' it would be well if that
member of the Cabinet most skilled in geo-
graphical knowledge consulted the map of
Europe, and ascertained the relative position
which Protestant and insulted Holland, and
Protestant and misgoverned Ireland, bear towards
each other. There is a mighty impediment to
Whig valour and British aggression in the state
of Ireland. A continental war would be the
signal for an Irish rebellion."

The rancour of these Orangemen is truly of
the most desperate character. Even Mr. SHAW
himself (the Conservative Member for Duhfin)
bears indirect testimony to the fact, by declaring
that he finds so many of his old supporters in
favour of Repeal, that he shall resign all pre-
tensions to the future representation of the city.
These facts are important, as showing the pre-
sent inflammable state of parry-spirit in Ireland.

We direct attention to a report of a late
Bristol meeting, which will be found in another
part of The Sun. The speeches of Messrs.
BRIDGES and PROTHEROE are, both of them,
admirable specimens of plain, downright Eng.
lish eloquence. In the course of some obseo-
vations on Church Reform, Mr. PROTHEROE
said, " The abuses of the Ecclesiastical Courts
have long engaged my attention ; and I have
been for some time employed in collecting evi-
dence on the subject ; but my labours have
been superseded by the appointment of a com-
mission ; and myfriend the Bishop of London
tells me that the result will be a measure slfjoi'-
cient to satisfy even such a Radical as I. The
reform of the Church in spiritual matters has
been advancing with most rapid strides ; and,
whatever the event may be, I will say, that no
reform shall have my concurrence which does
not include the removal of tithes, and the relief
of Dissenters from the payment of rates.—
(Cheers)" Mr. PROTHEROE is a Reformer
of the right sort, and, we are gratified to learn,
is sure of his election for Bristol.

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