The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-11 00:00:00

NURSERY RHYMES.

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Some of our classical readers will be pleased with the fol-
lowing translations from old nursery rhymes. They come
neither from Eton nor Harrow, but from the plebeian dis-
trict of Bermondsey, and do credit to the locality. The
translation, of course, is not very literal. but it conveys the
meaning, and the metre of the three different kinds of verse
is correct :

Old Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard,
To get her poor dog a bone,
When she got there the cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.
Mater erat lohgceva ; canes pascebat amatum—
Ossa peteus ibat solituna explorare canistrum.
Hens! escai sed enitn, nil inveniebat edendum,
Jejunusque canis, sic, pabula nulla videbat.
See-saw, Margery Daw, •
Jackey shall have a new master;
He shall have only a penny a day,
Because he can work no faster.
Motibus hand properis Margrita monedula ludat,
Namque novo domino possit servire Johannes.
Asses mercedem capiat pretiumque laboris,
Lentus enim puer est—siut prxmia debita cuique.
Old Father Long-legs would not say his prayers,
Take him by the left leg, and throw him down stairs.
Cruribus immensis genitor vivebat hebescens ;
Nolebat pravus dicere mane preces.
Hunc mains oportebat raptatum crure sinistro
Pessum jactari, frangere membra solo.
• Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief—
' Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef.
I went to Taffy's house, and Taffy wasn't at home—
Taffy came to my house 2nd stole some marrow-bones.
Magnus erat latro; gaudebat quazrere przedam.
Notus erat multis, Cambrius ille fait.
Ille mihi partem bovis abripiebat, iniquus.
Ipse suam queer°, deserit ille, domum.
Improbus at cupieus nostros renovare dolores,
' OSsa medullarum subtrahit atque fugit.
• Girls and boys come out to play,
The moon doth shine as bright as day;
Come with a whistle or come with a call,
Come with a good-will or come not at all.
Virgins pulchroe, pueri decori
Tempus est ludis, redeunte luce
Luna nunc orbem radiis gubernat,
Gaudia prcebens.
Fistulis claris, sonitu canoro
Cordibus loet•is veniatis usque !
Ad jocos dulces adeatis Ecce
Cuncta relucent. G. J.

THE WEATHER AND CROPS IN SCOTLAND.—TWO
or three days of dry weather of last week, accompanied by a
gale of wind, quickly dried the sheaves, and created a great
accession to the bulk of the stackyard. Nearly the whole
of that part of the crop which required only to have the
rain with which the sheaves were soaked to be dried out,
has been secured, and although some of it has been stacked
in damp enough condition, the circumstances were not such
as to justify farther delay, and accordingly a large addition
has been made to that part of the crop previously in the
stackyard. In the loiv country the crop may be said to be
now finally secured with much less damage than was sup-
posed; and even in the secondarydistricts by far the greater
part of the crop is now safe. From Edinburgh, by Falkirk
and Stirling, to Callender, the fields may be said to be
cleared ; for, excepting beans, the outstanding grain in that
extensive range is inconsiderable. The harvest has been
protracted and expensive ; but the quantity of grain abso-
lutely lost, or seriously damaged, is on the whole, a very
small amount. The loss caused by the high winds shaking
dthaemaggreainto outthe of the
occasionedears
The potato crop is rapidly giving way, and there is now
every reason to apprehend that the loss of this valuable
isprobh3ahl
article of food will tell seriously on the grain markets.
Labour is fortunately easily to be had, and wages
good. The class likely to suffer most is that large portion
of our fellow-creatures who, from., being unable are unfit for
any settled employment, depend chiefly on the precarious
bounty of others. This class of persons at all times live in
a state of privation and suffering, but when a failure in the
article of food, on which, from its cheapness, they derive
their chief support, occurs, their distress is aggravated in a
very high degree, and gives them a claim on the wealthy
and benevolent classes which few will be disposed to resist.
We hope steps will be taken to procure some alteration in
the condition of the numerous class here referred to before
the setting in of the winter.—Edinburgh if Oct, 20
PRINCE OF WALES'S BIRTH!D4T.-7-WINDSOR, AroN.
DAY.—Yesterday being SAnday, the anniversary of the birth of his
11.441 ilighneis the Prince of Wales was celebrated in Windsor
to-day. The bolls of 4t. fieorge's Chapel and the parish church
have rung merrily; and at twelve o'clock a royal salute was tired
from the Corporation ordnance in Bachelor's acre. Some of the
houses of the royal tradesmen were illuminated this evening. A
royal salute was fired at noon from the Belvidere battery at Vir.
giala Water.