The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-17 00:00:00

COPENHAGEN, OCEMR.

-For many. years:---and .that with singular
votion—have thejearned men of Denniark been
engaged in the illostratiota—of those remarkable
literary remains of the middle ages, to -ullich
they are the undoubted heirs. A little, vet
too little, attention has been given in Engl:in'il
to those treasures of historical prose, and Im:hie
poetry, which sprung up . among the Scandina-
vian settlers in Iceland, and in which are pre-
, served so much of their faith and so many cif
their deeds. Their traditions go even beece,d,
that remote period when their hardy fall ems
quitted the Norwegian shores ; but in the twe!ftim,
thirteenth, and fourteenth century, when other
nations slept in the darkness of oblivion, the
Sagas of Iceland breathe upon us in full vigonie
and light, and beauty. Over these are gathered
none of the mists which hang around our Os-
sianic fragments ; the MSS. exist' in variou's
forms, and of undoubted antiquity. TheSttn-
dinavian mythology is decorated with exquiai m
imagery ; and the language of the Icelandic
poets, though strong and daring, is oflen pree-
want with the most exquisite conceptions Of
fancy. To them the rainbow is "the bribe
the gods ;" 'the ocean " the shifting, belt of the
earth ;"and the; mountain streams are " tr.e
blood of the valleys." The grey hairs of the old
are " the snows of the braid ;" and the song aaf
the poet is " the metheglin of Heaven." Ice-
land thus poured forth her contributions—sew
her day of splendour—and passed away from all
notice for centuries. Again men's thew:flits ar
turned towards her, and she seems stretching tint
her arms to ask the return of that civilizatien
which site once diffused. It was no small Ce.
light to me to shake-such a man as Finn :Nicg•
nusen by the hand—an Icelander horn, aml
busied itt his now literary. eminent Position in
unveiling the treasures of his forefathers. Nor
less did I rejoice to find that many an Icelandic
youth, from that Ultima Tfiule, had found his
way hither for instruction, which he will take
back to the ridges of Heels, and that too not-
withstanding much risk from this, to them, un-
friendly climate. Many of them die here—and
of one large and interesting family I heard that
day.after day they dropped off (from pohnonary
diseases), till not one was left to return. To
Professor Erasmus llask perhaps More is au.
than to any other individual. His stupendous
.philological powers were first directed
_towards
Icelan4 which he visited, and dwelt there :for
three years, after he had published his Icelandic
Grammar, and before he undertook his seen
years' peregrination to the East. He is tow
the President of the Icelandic Society here.; and
it is only to be regretted that their valuable ,re-
searches—buried as it were in a language aide
known or studied—should have so little our-
reucy in the general world.
What fine scope- for the pen of a master like
Sir Walter Scott do some of the epochs of Ice-
land offer ! Let bins make a hero of Snorri,
the great Icelandic historiane—the wise, the bold,
the eloquent, the illustrious—the tyrant, the ter-
rible, the traitor, the seeker of fame, the scorner
country'sof man--his
n sceery is
pride,
associated country's
what
deeds ! Iccl old, with her forests and burning
mountains !—Norway, with her rocks and lakes
and rivers—with all the gigantic machinery of
Polar frost and snow, and ice and storms. Then
the rich Scandinavian mythology7--but there is
no end to the elements which present themselves ;
they are intimately associated, too, with the
Anglo-Saxon period of our history.
There are, it is said, about 50,000 inhabitants
in Iceland. They had a newspaper among them
some time ago, called Klaustur Postur, but
were unable to support it. They have, how-
ever, a Bible Society of their own, which' has
lately published a new translation of the New
Testament. Our British and Foreign Bible
Society printed for them a translation some time
ago ; but the Society wasted their money (a 4
they do far more frequently than they are aware
of) by employing inappropriate hands. Thorle-
I kin was the translator, who had quite lost the
use of the language when he undertook to pre-
pare. the version-e-which is, in truth, almost
worthless. As the Bible Society has no motive
to err in these matters, I make this observation
in the spirit of sincere good feeling ; but they
are very often deceived by incompetent or insuf-
ficient persons, and refer matters precisely to
'those who ought not to be referred to. This I
have found in many parts of the world I have
visited. For instance, the priests of the Greek
Church are notoriously unfriendly to the circu-
lation of a Bible intelligible to the people.. SoMe
time ago there was a project for translating the
Bible into Servian, and a man, beyond all doubt,
beyond all comparison, the fittest person to ur-
dvieerit)a)k, eoirtheeredtrattossidaotioston: Vuk
The iblesSocteieptr
aos-
the Servians believe, refer the matter to the
Greek ecclesiastical authorities, who wish, un-
doubtedly, to keep in their own hands the
keys of the Scriptures, by still employing the
old and little understood Slavonic, and Vuk is
rejected as a matter of course. • •
The most extraordinary Icelandic work of
modern times is the admirable version of " Pa-
radise Lost," by Thorlaksson, mentioned by
Henderson in his " Travels in Iceland." It was
printed in Copenhagen last year, at the expense
of Mr. Heath, of Cambridge, whose name is be-
coMe music to those who occupy themselves
here with Icelandic matters. It is really a de-
lightful work, and, though some errors have
glided into time text, it will remain a lasting ma-
, numaent in honour of him " who should be living
at this hour." Thorlaksson died in 1819, and
the Icelandic Society have enshrined his and
Milton's memory with the name of the genetotm
Englishman who has honoured both.

An old inhabitant of the parish of lietttlifield,
named ABit. SIIINGLETON, aged 94, del last week. hav-
ing ha•.f in his life-time a posterity of IfiO!

A rare bird, which made its appnrance in
the meadows south of Chichester, anti, limn its peculiar
shyness, foiled the attempts of many to obtain a shot at it
during several weeks, en Saturday t.-11 to the prneveranco
a man named ATLING, who comtrurted a dot, with
bushes, before day break. It is a beautiful specimen of
the Shrike or Greater Butcher Bird, and is preserved in
the collection of a gentleman at Westg.ite.—/Lants Citron.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—Last week a
respectable fanner in the neighbeurboi d of Cupar Angus,
perceiving one of his horses to be in a drooping Condition,
and observing at the same time that he requited shoeing,
-,ent him to the smithy, with orders for the smith t,
exa-
mine burn strictly to .see what was the matter With him.
Upo
,rilichdibnic:cinen.l:ittlrntll::,ll)tutilie animal's tonoe urus fowl&
:itezfrom the root ; thatan
laislgotsea:lkael nearly consnmed tv rats. It is difficult to
tiinos
iu
imagine how this could have Le... 0 ,!feud. Surely no
.me could hare been guilty of such a piece it wanton
to,:ty ; and yet the separeion was too nein the root to
justify the suppcOtiott that it could hare been bit off by the
4nimal binuitlf. The hor.e, however, oi..7:tin beginning
t.o eat his food ; and to all appeario, is not likely to be
inaterially the. worse ftr the uct,i,l4w., Cgbioulan
ercury,

LORD GEORGE BERESI7ORD IN KU.-
AI A CTH OMA S.

?KICKS OF sr:aC‘s THIS DAY AT OWE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock `A3N I 3 • iSouth Sea Stock
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.. per Cent 99%1Ex. Bin', .£',lloti 2d. 75 76 pin.
liar, Red.
t per Cent. 1726 - --- Ditto 500 2d. 75 16 pm.
1 per Cent. Ann '02%,X, Ditto lid. '7l 16 pm.
atm, 126
Ditto :-;crip — , DM, lid. '75 76 pm.
'Sank L. Ann.... 19 12-16 '74,713/ ,Ban:.. i'or Account —
`ndia ,tock —llndia for Account
-u.to 11,,nds

A correspondent from Kilmacthomas has sent ns
a description of the rude reception riven to his
Lordship at Kilmacthomas, on Wednesday last. It
seems that private intimation had been sent from
Curroughmore to one or two Showell: of Kilmac-
thomas, to " get up" something in the way of a
reception for the Nold,± Lord. These Minions, of
coin se, as in duty bound, immediately set about the
task assigned to them ; but, instead of doing any
good, the only effect of their industry was to ap-
prizfethe people that Lord George Beresford was to
he in Kilmacthomas. A reaction was immediately
the consequence. The people made the best use of
their time ; and when his Lordship arrived, he cer-
tainly met with a " reception," but one very 11:ffer-
ent from that %Ihich was intended to have beer
produced by the private intimation. The " kettles
and drums," and all the old artillery of 1826,
were at once in requisition, and his Lordship
vas greeted with that discordia concur, for which
Kilmacthomas, on former occasions, obtained so
much celebrity. Whether the Noble Lord intended
to have made any stay in the town is not known,
but if he did, he changed his mind. The music was
vocal as well as instrumental. Some stanzas were
sung with an accompaniment on the kettle, and the
chorus of " Down with the Beresfurds now and for
ever," was given in the best bravura style. This,
with some other delicate compliments, induced his
Lordship to quicken his pace, and he very speedily
escaped by the western road, being literally
" drummed out of the town," pursued by the good
people of Kilmacthomas as long as they could keep
him in sight or in hearing. This is the first attempt
his Lordship has made at a " reception" since his
arrival. We can only say, "go on and prosper."
We have received communications from different
parts of the county, and they all concur in stating
that the feeling against the name of Beresford, in
every direction, rages at this moment more violently
titan ever. In answer to the numerous and anxious
inquiries, we shall only say, for the present, that the
independent interest are not slumbering, but the
direct contrary, and that there is not the slightest
danger of a Beresford getting in for the county.
In a few days we shall have it in our power to be
more explicit—in the mean time, we warn every
freeholder against the stratagems of the enemy.—
JVaterford Chronicle.

eiticgs OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
kustrian Bonds ..... ......... Neapolitan -
Brazilian Bonds tM ~,i Peruvian Bonds ls.i
Buenos Ayres Bona- .... ..... Portuguese Bonds
Chilian Bonds 23,,, Prussian, Old
Colombian Bonds - Ditto, New —
Ditto, 1824
Danish — Spanish, 1821 gYs!—S
Greek Bonds — --- 182:3
Ditto, 1825 27 6 French Rentes, 5 p. c. —f. —c.
luatunala — --- Exchange —f. —c.
NI - x ican Bonds — --- :s per cent. —f. —c.
Ditto, 1825 r- - Exchange —t —e.

The Memoirs and Correspondence of JEF-
FERSON,
.;ust puh'ished, will be found to exhibit that di,
tinolished person in a new and very agree dile light. To
those accustomed to contemplate him merely as the con-
ductor of state affairs, it will be a subject both of interest
and surprise to know that he was possessed extensively of
attainments n. t always found compatible with a life of
political excitement—such as Natural History, Agricul-
ture, and the Fine Arts. His sentiments on the latter
topic, expressed in one of the Letters, are well worthy o 7
particular recorl. " I am an enthusiast," he observes,
" on the subject of the Arts; lint it is am enthusiasm of
which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the
taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to
reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure
than its praise."
Mr. KEAN'S Visit to Nottingham last week
was ms:st successful. Every evening the theatre has been
well attem.l.d, arid the actor, in the several characters he
personated, hi.d awarded to him the full meed of approba-
that due to his intrinsic merit.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
3ra zilian Tmr. Min. Co. (is& at 5/. pm.) £2O 72 73
Ditto I•Zationail lO 15.34 IN
Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £35 5
United Mex. Min. Co. rise. at 2/. pm.) .£719 1514
Provincial Bank of 1 reland 25 22%

MAILS.
Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due.
0 America 0 0 Hamburg 0
O Brazil
O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0
O Carthagesa 0 0 La Guayra 1
1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0
O Flanders 0 , 0 Mexico
1 France 0 0 Sweden
O G uernsey &Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford

It appears that, according to some accounts,
Sir 1-lEanraT Tavt.nty offered GARTH 10,0001. and
3 0001 a year, for consenting- to suppress some papers
indicating the existence of a marriage of which every body
lass, for the last two cr three and twenty years, received!
tlt twat industrious and positive assurances that it was a
real, though not a lawful, marriage ;—that is to say, that
after this ireged marriage had been talked about as long
as most of us can remember, it was to be henceforth
kept a dead secret, lay virtue of a bribe of some tens of
thousands of pounds! What amiable simplicity, what
infantine innocence in this ingenious version ! By the way,
the supposed bridegroom was of nearly the same age as the
?ally's father.— Times.
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HIGH WATIR AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning... 20 minutes after 7. Evening —.45 minutes after 7.

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1829.

The following are extracts from the French
Papers of Sunday, received this morning. The
article, dated St. Petersburgh, seems to be the
text of the paraphrase made in the German
Journals, that Russia has at length deemed it
prudent to yield to the united remonstrances of
England and France with respect to the terms of
the treaty of Adrianople :
(From the illessa:,er des Chambres of Sunday.)

SECON D EDITION.

ST. PETERSBURGII, OCT. 23.

Great activity is observed in the department of
Foreign Affairs. Count Nesscfrode is engaged al-
most every day with the Ambassadors, and makes
his report to the Emperor, who devotes himself to
public business with the greatest assiduity. The
conferences of Count Nesse!rode relate to the friendly
representwions which the Cabinets of France and
England have made in fayour of the Porte.
It is believed that the Emperor will consent, not
only to a diminution of the amount of the contiihu-
tions, hut also to a modification respecting the occu-
pation of tie provinces of Turkey, and to accept, in-
steh of this, another guarantee. Our Cabinet de-
sires with great frankness to prove that the princi-
ples of moderation announced at the beginning of
the war have not undergone any change.
The destinies of Gret ce are another subject of the
conferences. It is confidently believed that the r, -
generation of that country will be speedily secured,
and its boundaries fixed, in a satisfactory manner.
The Emperor, and all the members of his family,
take a lively interest in the aeeks, and desire to en-
sure their future prosperity.

IN, 8.. GROSSMITII, of Reading, Beiks, the
celehrtod Voting Roscius of the age, purposes to make his
Appearance at the Northampton Theatre, on Monday, Nov.
,SO. The performances of this unrivalled hero of the stage,
who is not yet ten years old, is the great attraction in all
the towns he visits. The following critique is from the
Rhejfield Mercury, which will &Word some idea of Master
Gno-sllrrii's representation :—" Trig YovNG Roscius.
On Monday evening we were surprised and delighted with
!,he extraordinary powers of this wonderful boy. He took •
avian himself the difficult task of personating characters
she Yery antipodes of each other, in age, feeling, and cir-
cumstances, and assumed and chanted them with a rapidity
truly astonishing ; and yet it would be difficult to pro-
nounce which was the toast successful, or rathe,r, in which
he did not succeed beyond the most sanguine expectations
of thecae who witnessed his various performances. His
precocity of genius in those pursuits to which his attention
Ns been mainly direct, d, is decidedly the greatest we have
ever fern ; his cosiest and vigorous conception of the cha-
racter he represents, the ease with which ha takes it up,
,341/4 the natural feeling which he invests it with, prowe that
ilamar GIZOSSMITII is possessed of powers ,:hich, " it
they grow with his growth, and strengthen with his
Arengtli," will place him as far above all rUialry amongst
men, A 8 lie is now amongst children. His representation
of Shyloek was above all prais., and such as would hays
*hawed the acting of many an adult aspirant for theatrical
fame."

TOULON, NOV. 9.—(PirtivATE CORRESPONDENCE.)
The ships of the line and frigates, which I lately
mentioned were to be disbanded on their return
from the Morel', are to be put into commismsion, with
all their materiel on board. There is every appear-
ance that this measure will lead to the landing on
tl'e coast of Algiers, and the preparations which are
making at Toulon give reason io presume that it is
determined to adopt energetic measures against that
Govgrament.

(Flom the Journal des Debuts.)

MADRID, NOV. S._(PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.)
The preparations for the fetes on his Majesty's
marriage have been troubled by the sudden death of
the young Infanta Maria Theresa Caroline, fourth
daughter of the Infant Don Francis da Paula, who
died on the 3d of an attack of convulsion.
Major-General Don Nazario Eguia has just fallen
a victim to a crime of a new species. A letter had
been delivered to him by a stranger, whose appear-
ance was not eAlculated to excite suspicion, when
lie opened the seal, an explosion like that of a mus-
ket took place, which, besides wounding him in se-
veral places, carried off several fingers of his right
hand, so that'it was absolutely necessary to ampu-
tate the hand. The police has not been able to dis-
cover the author, only it appears that the letter
came from Leon, because it had the post-mark of
that This news was brought by a courier
from St. Sago, in Galicia, of which province M.
Eguia is Captain-General.
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(From the Constitutionnel.)

LISBON, OCT.
_3

We heap a great deal of the plan contrived by the
English, who wish to excite discontent and revolt
at Madeira, in order to induce the inhabitants to
place themselves under the protection of England.
There is no doubt that the English Government
ewietwours to employ all possible means to get pos-
session of this island, and to keep it as a security
for the loans which England has raised for Portugal.
(From ihe Allgemeke Meitunq of Nov. 11.)
VIENNA, Nov. 6.—Metilliques, 1.03 A-; Back ShareB,
1240.

The unfortunate Airs. FRANKS, whose atro-
cious murder at Haddington, with that of her daughter,
has recently attracted so much of the public attention, was
a native of Alness, Ross shire, of which parish her 411;er
was kirk-cifieer. A person who knew the deceased, de-
scribes her to us as being when young a remarkably good-
looking girl.—lnvernessCourier.
The Aberdeen Journal thus retracts its late
unfavourable notice of the linen trade :—" With refewence
to a paragraph inserted in our last, as to a reduction in
wages, of a general nature, having taken place in the linen
annzierfaetories of this city,—we are glad to find that the
--•atteaent wade to us OA this subject, was so far erroneous,
Is
as in :uute of the largest establishments no such reduction
i:Lece, Aod further, that the servants in the
has taken
gonifortably situated, in re-
manufactories 0f..1i4 city 1"
tpect to employment ai:'t w3lies.'—ineerness Courier.
•
ACCIDENT.-ot, Tu2.cday efietu:ig is poor
widow named 111.screess, living in Grant street, llieringir.
was dread:ully burned Lehi ct engaged in Login haddock
livers :o extract oil. She had been previously subject to FRONTIERS OF RUSSIA, OCT. 25.
tits of fainting, and on this occas;on is supposed to have Extraordinary 4etiyity is observed in the foreign
fallen in the fire, overcome by the stroty smell of the fish. 7
GepartMl.lit of fit. Petersb:ol;ll, The Vice-Chati-
The unfortunate woman was discovered by the rmiglibcuis, cellor, Count Nesseirode, is eiigag,2d almost every
and was instantly conveyed to the infirmary, btu g. is
day with the Foreign Ambassadors, and afierv.vawds
doubtful whether she can recoyer.—invoness Courier.
0,-.4-; a detached report to his Majesty, who pays
FREE-AND-EASY TRAVELLING.—A some- the greats ~t; ::tternion to the internal and external
what ankward but ludicrous scene took place Yks,iiailaY affairs of his empire, ::.;.,..d every measure of general
morning, at the inn at Inverinoriiston. On the previous importance is maturely examiocd by his Majesty be-
evening a Feenclanan arrived on foot, journeying to the fore it it carried into effect. The trati;tp4 Fpure-
west coast ; tad, ordering a fire in honest WiLliAat
retiree which take place in the Foreign °Mee are
FA Lefil best room, L-- treated himself to a dish of tea, a
fowl, seed half a mutchicla tat whislsy. Ile then retired to ir
caid to have been caused by several friendly repre-
ltictr -elle by the !Courts of France and Enc,f-
rest On the following morii:ag, Monsi,ur called for a 'eni.' ° " ,tb • ~e Porte, and it is popjectured
'
giii of whisky—no bad preparation i..;,;• !be r rad—and but- land in favour of
toreing up his coat, rallied out, telling tile icirl- " that the efforts of those two towers will iodate t
it was defaire
/1,11%t0.141 in his contree tw take von walk before tre,;;;,:fot." Emperor not only
.forsto conent to a reduction of the
if h t girl, however, suspects 4 that all was not right, and ir. h-nilitary contribution the expellees of the war,
a few minutes she set off to loot aCre.r the reckoning. The but &is:, t.p make a chail i
e n the stipulations rela-
moment the Frenclumm saw her he to* to his heels, con- tive to the mlita.ri ppeppation of part of the Turkish
yerting his walk into a ran with such spet4, that poor I territory. Though the raihtvi occupation of the
,g,rA y , though a strong skelplug lass, had no chanceobb i principalities of Moldavia and .04Va.,:a2,41;a is
him. Home she came to her matt, acquainting him
atnOng ire stipulations of the Treaty of Adrianople,
with dm result, when the landlord, forgetting his rlieuma- . •
tism, mouutea a, horse, and spaedily overtook the recreant• it is atiltrrned'
,C.,-i.t., a change may perhaps be made
He brought hint back to the inn, and here the scene be. And another security aecci-,t2d,for thre.paymen,t,o,f.the
came irresistibly coin'Le. The Frenchman shrugged tip his ,cotwit;lition by the Porte. -I: tie *4l3sl;tan Cabinet
*handers, spread out his haste, talked of his tceat losses, will prose 4., I,..very particular that it was to cetv,P;••
and eovsted lie had not " •von farthing in de world.".— is the principles ,o; ;;;oderation which it announced
tamtiti, Orden of the enraged landlord with all butnilitY est, the commencement of chi; war with the Porte,
f ses!k,.bundirco of gesture. "0, you FreneL villain," ex- and that 4:.- will abide by them so long .:.,,t is treated
•-*-7011tned Yltt,LiAst Etl.l- in broad Selkirltslaire Sxotch, ' ) 1 ss e•t !lire to it conduct, and no fr4:6,1.
:!1.11,d .ins" rd ,;i- iix"'. t ~.
,can pour
for
,ilk . wit i t ke ri.. p , .
~ _
fovit-.:-__14.0i„,,,,,
~iierger,ce tut omy ,on pour
.tit leave,
....i42,44114e.i1ye1ey VUOSi W L.:..2, you vagabond . ''' •,
ii ; possit;le that the occupation of the Principalities may
-...hciveiiir;lVith-va6 thltiskii and :: 'ilk(
."
ti Tired cut, he dispensed .Ivith, and that, in its stead, t, fortress
' iet.Yekith stattsreilitia ",enstomeer".°stotuala--°"' till the Porte shall
,frongiy Ktt he wotiret take care a g. 143 depart—protecting —h piri othetsetden go. g
M"' - • in the Black Sea (i;; is supposed Trebisond) will k)e
fire in the parlour, and bought a fowl for a Frenchman 1 iii::
(;it.,}:c to the
,Russian „troops,
baiged its obligatio.n. -WittO arrangement,
We hope the circumstance will not be lost upon other inn- if it should be carr:ed into effect, would be etremply
kerpers.—liirernats Courier., ,i advantageous to the SultP, 4: ,I)ç would, in MK-

The Allgoneine Zeitung of the 11th No-
vember has been received this morning. It
contains a half-official article or acknowledg-
ment thi t Russia will relax in her demands
upon Turkey, at the instance of England and
Fr ncc