29 SEPTEMBER 1832, Page 15

GAELIC ELECTION POETRY.

AMONG a parcel of election squibs from Perthshire, which a friend has handed us, there is a Gaelic song, with an English translation. We favour our readers with the translation, to give them some idea how the Celtic Muse acquits herself, when employed (like many of her sex at present) in the service of election politics ; though we suspect her beauty is not enhanced by a Saxon costume. We wish we had Dr. BOWRING to dress her up. He who could set off to such advantage the squat charms of the Erato of the Scheldt, would surely have done still more for the graceful Mountain Nymph of the Tay. But here she is, in her Southron attire-.-- "1st Chorus.—Bring the large bottle and cup, the King's health shall quickly go round—Success to Grey, to Brougham, and Althorp, high Mi- nisters of the Crown.

" Verse lst.—Because they brought us out Reform, let's be loyal, true, and firm, like Highlanders, shoulder to shoulder, who turn not their backs on friend or foe.

"2d Chorus.—Bring the large bottle and cup, the King's health shall quickly go round—Success to great Lord Gleuorchy, the powerful assertor of the People's cause.

" Verse 2d.—An excellent " gasda" (this Gaelic word comprehends almost every kind of praise) Highlander and a Losv-country Man are canvassing the Shire of Perth, to try to which of them the people will intrust their cause in the National Court.

"Verse 3d.—If the Low-country Man had obtained his desire, matters would not be as they happily are ; no tenant would have a vote though he paid hundreds of rent.

" Verse 4th.—To whom should we confide the management of the helm, but to those who constructed the ship, and guided it through the buffetings of the storm ?

" Verse 5th.—But one advice I would give the tenant as well as the laird Do not now forsake the Reformer, and he shall [will] never forsake you."

There is not a great deal of poetry here; but there is manliness and vigour : and we can conceive the energy with which the stout dwellers among the Perthshire straths will pour forth the eupho- nious accents of the original. The metaphor in the fourth verse will do very well among those inland recesses : but the car- penters, who build ships, are not the persons employed to navigate them.