The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-03 00:00:00

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Question." We looked with some interest to the
subject, in hopes of discovering what the honest Ger-
mans thought of the disruption, but were sadly dis-
appointed, for these " Opinions" are all monopolised
by one Deutscher, called Herr Sydow, a chaplain of
his Majesty the King of Prussia. It appears he went
to Edinburgh to study the non-intrusion question,
and came away convinced that the Free Church was
in the right. But " one swallow don't make a sum-
mer." The political article is on the opening of
Parliament, and the state of parties, which concludes
thus :

, "We trust, meanwhile, that the representatives of
Great Britain will not give another weapon to the repeal
armoury, by allowing the session to go much further
without a vigorous parliamentary protest against the
iniquities of the monster trial. The very discreditable
abdication of duty, on the part of the Irish absentee
Members, does not alter the case in the least. The ques-
tion is not Irish, but imperial. It was not Irish, but
British imperial law, that was twisted for Mr. O'Cons
nell's conviction ; and the attempt to make trial by jury
' a mockery, a delusion, and a snare,' and to smuggle
into our jurisprudence theatrocious doctrines of construc-
tive complicity and inferential conspiracy, was a blow,
aimed not at Irish but at British liberties. In the very
lowest view of the ease, there has been an enormous and
disgraceful blunder in the management of the public
business : the Executive has put out the utmost of its
strength and skill, for weeks and months together, in
the cor,duct of a State prosecution of first-class import-
ance, and has ignominiously broken down at last. If
this is not a subject for Parliamentary inquiry, what is ?
It will be really shameful, should our supineness or dis-
satisfaction with the proceedings of the persons imme-
diately interested, allow such a complication of injustice
and bungling to pass uncensored. The absence of the
Members for Cork and Limerick has no more to do with
the matter, supposing the Union a reality, than would,
the absence of the Members for Caithness and Banff. To
make a Parliamentary discussion of this business contin-
gent on the presence or absence of Irish Members, would
be a virtual adoption of the repeal theory, at the expense,
too, of the common popular franchises of the empire, to
which we should be heartily sorry to see English and
Scottish Liberals commit themselves."

FRASER'S MAGAZINE.
This is the best number that Fraser has published
for many months. The subjects are- well selected
and treated with more 'that! . usual ‘ skill,And taste.
Thelesdinipartieleariesil.: -autt,s.islissist every reader.,
We have " Rambling Ren:arks on Horace,', for the
classical scholar ; " The Lives of Rubens and Rem-
brandt" for the painter • " Bunyan and Bunhill-fields,"
for the Quakers and painter;
; " My Log," for the
sailor ; " A Walk from London to Fulham," for the
antiquary ; " The Great 'Ward Business," for the
Antt-Puseyites ; and " The Policy of Ministers,"
adapted to every class and denomination throughout
the vast empire called the United Kingdom, and its
dependencies. But to begin with the beginning.
Horace, some nineteen hundred years ago, announced,
with more than Roman vanity, that he had erected a
monument more lasting than ti.e royal Pyramids of
Egypt ; that rain, and hail, and tempests would bat-
ter against it in vain ; that his songs would be re-
cited on the banks of the Ebro and the Rhone,
and his verses he scanned on the shores
of the Bosphorus, in the wilds of Numidia, and on
the Scythian plains. We are only surprised that he
did not carry his prophetic eye farther, penetrate
into the New World, pa'sa compliment to the repudiat.
ing Pennsylvanians, and the men governed by Lynch
law, on the banks of the Ohio and the Mississippi, for
there his poetry is known, and perhaps more admired,
too than in the valleys of his native Anio and the
plains of the yellow Tiber. It has reached even the
Ultima Thule ; the Doric Muse of the North has
paraphrased his celebrated Ode to Mount Soracte,
and a Scotch barber has thus turned into verse his
cheering prescription for, a cold winter evening :
" Dissolve frigus, ligna super foco
Large reponens :—"
" Then fling on coals, and ripe the ribs,
And beck the house baith butt and ben,
That mutchkin-stoup it hauds but dribs,
Then let's get in the,tappit hen."
Horace, however, did not build a monument for
himself only, he had inscribed on it among many others
the names of Augustus, and Maecenas and Qulnctilius,
on whom he has written an elegy which will last
while justice and honour and truth are revered as
virtues. To him Mweenas in these days owes his
fame, and the splendid character drawn by Morgan
Rattler, Esq., M.A., an apprentice of the law in
the nineteenth century :
" The peculiar privilege of the renown of Ifirecenas's
gentle name is, that it renews its accumulated honours
in the person of each lofty and generous patron of lite
rature and the learned, which the world, in its successive
centuries produces to do grace to human kind. The
great politician and philosopher, the accomplished
scholar, the princely gentleman, the honest prime
minister, who shrunk from nothing in labour except its
ordinary rewards, who was content,—
' Certare ingenio, contendere nobilitate,
Nocttis atque dies niti prmstante labore,'
and yet who was so great of heart as to disregard the
summas apes, who would never take anything from. the
country and the master lie so worthily served—who
despised all conventional rank and title—who was indif-
ferent quite to personal power—might have been for-
gotten; but the benefactor and friend of Horace and
Virgil survives the wreck of the mighty empire
he helped to raise, and can never die in
aninis hominunt eternitate temporum, Jams rerun:.
And be it known, moreover, that while this gentleman
lived—the finest gentleman, perhaps, the world has ever
known, for the very jokes of Augustin, who was also a
true gentleman, independent of rank and station, go
only to prove this—while Maecenas lived, he was equally
dear to the poor and ignorant, as to the lofty and the
learned. Gentleness, courtesy, munificence, boundless
charity, the outward and visible signs of the kingly
blood that ran through his veins, made him beloved by
the multitude, in the same degree with their imperial
benefactor Augustus. Horace, with, an overflowing of
delight, alludes, in two places, to the manner in which
his friend was received, when, after a long and dan-
gerous illness, he once more took his place amongst the
knights at the theatre—