DECEMBER 28, 1861.] :FU T:N. P1 AI~fll T (-, & 0& TTE7TI -3loreever, (li'e devi l i li(rlIr'., of 1om I') s tlllll' s us11 It inilulhlil'e tI' A PAINFitl PARIALLELISM. meni of" the iri tw lines of tih quoted r ts. Wialiare lth --- sV' is with feelings of the deepest caves iu whNi h the 11,s ld 1sallls a11t s1Igs' mix ?' Are they Caves pain that we draw attention to 'iimlony ? and do th parties ment ioined iix lr I themselves ? Sthe contribution of the Ponrin And it so, is it "cold wtitultL" r )ho with" ti th tle mix ? We the contribution of the Po us r LAUREATE to MIss FAITrFULI,'S pause for a repl. "Victoria Ilegia." It appears ~a is if Mr. TENYasoN, so long the I'- i _--^ prey of others, had made up his WIY IE DID IT. mind to do as he is done by. Lon 'tir ONIE, at a meeting at Iuntingdon on the ii, lis poem is thie history of a ia ,olti l)ttli ot 1 1 it i 111 Sailor b, wo "ries at dawn, t is t, oliged the world with his opinion on tlh Trrn' question. Sshi ets o'er the seething Loi Nto W il 's opinion is not very valuable t any ltine; e,,'ttintl, s out-bar, rea hes the ship, wortIh less tlhat nothing on this occasioni, wlhen h dilltrs from tile catches te re k unanimous judlgmlnt of the law olficers of lhe crown, and ventures the young gentleman in onr to jistitf the outrage offered by the Yankees to our tlig. We only initial letter, "whistles to the mentio it it i order to point out the logic by which it was arrived itl. -- 31 1i0l lette, A book, entitled A Mirror in America ; or, 'Political Analogies anreos O With the general tone and in- the Atlantic," is announced as the offspring of what is ilolitil co(n- With the general tone and in- tentio of the poem we do not cded to be his I,orlship's brain. Naturally he does not, like to 8e0 S quarrel, for we confess we don't his iwwor" in danger, or to have his wellections disturbed. i understand it. The verse of which we complain is the following:- "The sands and seas -'nr.-1 tnaix ORDER Is RlESTOtErr.-The latest advices from Warstaw have lihe In caves about the i ...I .. most charming news to tell. Martial law is establlished. Nimiiroriu And on thy ribs the limpeio sticks, ily'v n n Several priet l And in thyheart the scrawl shall pl)ay." persons of family havo beel sentt to Siberia. Several prt-lsts haIIt ce t snot, tutu itii t.. nt. st-o i-gt ... ........ th ,itit, 'i .... -l... .. it.. A t.... We have no doubt our readers at once see the resemblance in those lines to the passage we are about to quote from a song which for touching simplicity and beauty of imagery is known and admired wherever the English language is spoken:- "Then she gav a great scream and she took a great leap From the rocks wot'ss so high) to the waves (wot' so deep), Saying, 'The shells of the oysters shall now be my bed, Andithe shrimps of the Hocean wiggle-waggle o'er my 'ed! " What, by the way, is the creature which, according to MR. TENNYSON'S last line, is to play in the sailor boy's heart ? The most intelligent of our printers' devils (and that is saying a good deal where all are so intelligent) suggests that the crisp and esculent prawn was what the poet intended. It was his bad writing that made a "scrawl" of it. boon shot, and soino IIIHads scourge, in t 1110 1111arkeM-piH'e. 2\i Mll - pected persons are whipped by tihe ('ossacks, and anything i qIlslioi- able in gesture, or dress, consigns its user to prison at once. AND ORDER IS RESTORED. A RIDDLE, BY OUR FASHIONABLE YOUNG ll.MN, 110 FREi:QUNT'S; BOlDOIRS.-Why should the Eii' PEiit NAIPOIEON give (lte IARION j i ViniL two steps in rank as soon as he is released from prison ? Because he ought to make him a-count fir his conduct. (N.I. by our F. Y. M.:-" Baron, Viscomte, Comtto Don't you see ?) NOTE BY A PHRIENOLOGIST WHO LIVES IN A QUIET STrlEET.-T-ie (Fil"' Organ of Destructiveness :-That discordant, wheezy, unIlusiiuil instrument, ground by hulking Italians muscular enloughl tfr n lc Ie idle employment, is the treo organ of destructiveness, for it desIro' s at once your sleep, your comfirt,, and your temper. obvious an act of courtesy is so unaccountable a fiact, thal, I fliirh':11r I1 OUR BALLAD MINSTRELSY. attempt any explanal ion of it. Sulice it to snythat I ul deterininil To te Editothat English poetry shall no longer lio concealed under tlhe hiushel (if To the Editor of P' may be allowed the expression) of its native language. I fIel cor- SIR,-It has frequently occurred to me that our beautiful ballad vinced that it is only necessary that it should be known in olrdr Io hie minstrelsy has not received that attention at the hands of foreign appreciated, and I have, therefore, at an enormous naerili'e ol' iinm commentators to which its manifold beauties would seem to entitle it. and trouble, translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, 1Dutih, France has been especially remiss in this particular, and this is the Russian, Latin, and Greek, the more striking of our Inaionil hall:n :. more remarkable, as French literature of every description, even in I subjoin, as a specimen of my powers, two verses of :, siple, ctunitry some instances dramatic prose and poetry, has not only been freely ballad, done into French, Latin, and Greek. 1 picked it up itimoti'. rendered into English, but our authors have occasionally allowed a the blue hills of Cumberland ; it is a gentle love-song, nn1d br1.it hie: 11. pretty complimentary feeling to induce them to treat these offspring spirit of the purest poesy. The French is th true imodierni IrisiNln, of a foreign pen as though they were their own. the Latin is Augustan, and as the Greek is Attic, it must necessallr;l That so polite a nation should have proved itself remiss in so be tip-top. BALLADE. Pour quelque temps j'ai bien chcrch6, Une jolie p'tite fille qui demeure tout Iprs, Dans e Strand! dans le Strand! (bis.) J'ai vu ses bottines Balmorales, En traversant un rnisseau sal, Dans le Strand! dans lo Strand! (lis.) Si j'ctais avec NANcY, Ohd! Oh6! Je vivrais meme An deuxibme, Sij'etais avec NANcY! (bis.) CANTI ,UM. Jamdiu persequi bollam, Vicinus habitat, puellam, Littoro! littore! (bis.) Calcei cor commoverunt Quum canalem transierunt Littore! littore! (bis.) Si cum NANCY essem, Io! Io! Viverem Semper, quidcm, Secundo tabulate! (bis.) BaniXXn. ,I>p aropc rilpe 7r(urr 1" ('/ tu'r 3oIhytv' A vitore 'vvy ayX iownv rs yor i Xeohyi' Iv e 2srpavY, Iv OE -Trpaf( (prrriTa). OF (j)tpIrrT ivy Oar Tirbr IAl 7'Pir ii' r(JiXt'eR Oun~a (i 3aXluopaX y3oor a Xporro-ry Oc yvrTro Iv 0E Trpav8, Iv' E xrpavS (pC7TCUT). 1' ('Xh I varir (utO Naviro Io, lo, Ov (I ftoCpi hf;op '>Ip e'tiep PopE I'38 XI ivo rice t'vt Nver-i (prarer). It now only remains for me to secure a publisher who will be likely ** We quite agree with Dl. PoYrvLOT.ir lth wtkly ii tl . to do justice to my important work. It has occurred to me that in fifteen columns in leugtlh, of his iomportortalt orkt, woi hld very :. i weekly instalments of (say) fifteen columns, it would do very well for "do" for FI N, or, indeed, for any other hilhdorlinll, witl l 1., FUN, and as my principal object is to secure for the offspring of riy exception, perhaps, of tlo Athnlwrrt n or ,Satulrda'y Ri,'i;,r. .. . brain an enormous circulation, I have much pleasure in offering you don't at all wish to bo done for, but, on the contrary, propi,:', !t the refusal of it.-I am, Sir, etc., for all time, we accept with much pleasure the refusal h(e so goI'Ill"' ! PAUL Po YGLOT, LL.D., F.R.S.. F.S.A., etc. ofebrs us. --E,.