The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-02 00:00:00

after the conceptions of SHAKSPEARE had been
so often mutilated and defaced by our own play-
wrights, that the caterers for the taste of the
Parisian public should have thought themselves
warranted in making some further attempt to
reduce our favourite dramas to their own stand-
ard of excellence. At length, however, a new
spirit has arisen in French literature, and
SHAKSPEARE seems now destined to be courted

in France with even more enthusiasm than he
has ever met with in England, in spite of all the
force of national prejudice, and the vain but
abortive efforts of VOLTAIRE, who was so long
the god of their idolatry, to ridicule and write
down a genius so much superior to his own.—
More than one version of "Othello" has already
been produced at the Theatre Francais, and, as
might be expected, each in succession approaches
more nearly to the original. Some attempt or
other has indeed been made to exhibit the
most, if not the whole, of the plays of SHAIK-
spEARE in French costume ; but to an English
reader, whose mind has been deeply imbued
with the great conceptions of the original, the
sacrifices which are made to restore the unities,
and the ridiculous blunders which are so often
committed, from an obvious ignorance of the
meaning of the text, leave him often at a loss
between the opposite calls which are alternately
made on his risible faculties and his feelings of
disgust. The very names of the plays are often
laughable in translation ; thus " The Taming of
the Shrew" is strangely burlesqued by " Com-
ment On dompte les Femmes." " Les deux
jeunes Nobles de Vb-one" may pass for " The
Two Gentlemen of Verona ;" but what is to be
said to " A mauvais commencement, bonne
fin" of one translator, or " Tout es! bien qui

finit Bien" of another, viz. Messrs. DELA-
PLACE and LETOURNIEUR, for "All's Well that
ends Well." " Justice pour tons" is certainly
better than " Mesure pour nzesure," which is
not French at all, and is any thing but the mean-
ing of " Measura for Measure." " Much Ado
About Nothing " is also variously given as
" Beatrice et Benoit," and "Beaucoup d'em-
barras pour rien." In the same way "La nuit
des rois," and "La douzienze nuit," are va-
riously given by different authors for " Twelfth
Night ;" but the last has no meaning whatever
in French ; so also " Peines d'amour perdues,"
is to be found for" Love's Labour Lost," although
" Haine aux Femmes" has been proposed as a
more natural title. " Le Songe," or "Le lavede
la li-Aotzt," is the only name we have yet ob-
served for a " Midsummer's Night's Dream,"
" Comme it vous plaira," and "Lesgaies Corn-
nzseresde Windsor," will immediately suggest their
own originals.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, Twatra o'CLocr;

Boston Papers to the 3d November have been
received at the North and South American Coffee-
hou,e Halifax to the 16th October ; Miramichi to
the 7th October ; and St. John's, New Brunswick,
to the 17th October.

(From the Boston Paper of the 3d November.)
On Saturday we were visited by a storm of wind
and rain of unusual violence; it commenced at day-
break and continued till midnight; the tide broke
over the wharfs, which have sustained much da-
mage. So high a tide has not visited this city for
30 or 40 years. The damage sustained by the ship-
ping is less than might have been expected.
The New Orleans Courier of the sth ult. says—
" We are sorry to state that the fever still rages on
the coast nearly all the Way from this place to
Natchez?'

The Boston Papers state the revenue accrued at
that port during the last month was 500,000 dollars,
and the revenue this year fully maintains the receipts
of last year.
The accounts from Havannah, of the 7th Oct.,
announce that transports had been engaged to con-
voy 2,000 troops to Tampico, and that several
American ships were engaged by the Cuba Govern-
ment for the service. The above Paper also adds,
that at Cadiz a Russian ship had been chartered to
take on board 500 sailors, to man the Spanish fleet
at Havannah.

The information from Liverpool, this morning, of
the 30th Nov., states—" We continue to experience
a fair inquiry for British Plantation Sugar, and the
sales of this week amount to 800 hods., at steady
prices, besides 1,200 bags of good brown, at
475. Gd. to b3s. per cwt. There was also a steady
demand fer Cotton : the sales were, during the
week, 14,350 bags. The demand for Tobacco ra-
ther limited, and the prices keep steady.