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      in . " _ffnen . _shorfly after the commencement of the pre-¦ _aL _jt vear , we announced onr intention to give at trii _^ ndu Vinterrals aserief of poeticalseleetions , under _Je * 5 iflB « f _'"&* - _*? _«»*** of «»• - -Poets , " we proposed dC - _« doing to give a helping hand to those of ooj _s _fc _^ ds who , _conWbatiiig to the "Feast , " might vii ive evidence of abOity -worthy of _enwaragement r _ofar proposition we had the satisfaction of bnjwin « » _pli approved of br many valued friends . We there laJU had hoped that at each succeeding period we _ilXooIdha * * ' e been supported hy such a number of _conloSbutOB as would at least have imparted a spice of i _^ _^^ hty tothe"Feast . " w regret , however , to ft « _* that _nw _ttmt we have reached the second state e _Ir ' the esperiment , we find our expectations disap" _^ _itflnted- Ihe _onjpnal pieces wc have receivedare tew few , _»** most of them " original" withavenm . _~ n > ' . As -we have no wish to sen anv nf

      _nm-, _lifeenfe s _* " _3 » h _** m » second " _Dunciod , " should ii . Pofe ar se "Confer upon them such an unil Hi viablc inunortality , we must decline giving inser _ts ton to m ** « f . _" flie _fitvours alluded to . We trust -we « «« n ot _im-Jiantable ; nevertheless -we must refuse to r i » timi this paper into a "Refuge forthe Destitute , " I -iich certainly it would become were its columns to i _jffard swice for poetry (?) , which we are sure could i _^ iadn _* 'W _onmtonooftcr _F _ubhra _^ _l _*»} . P ., Gl a _^ ow , " sends us a piece , entitled _i _«' ffere a' ae Slithers' Bairns "—the idea good , the i _««* ation as common-place and faulty as it well i & v ] i be . _"J-P . ' s" contribution to cur former tost _was _weU worthy the publicity it received . His i _ort _-ffitMnrethereforemustnot _& _hwrtenliim . De ffligt try again . Others of the " rejected" must « ia _: e ni noticing them individually : in mercy we

      { _tfbttr . _ . -ffniuj * _joses , of Leicester , whon \ wc are always - jdtohear & oin _^ or _, judging hini fcy Ms pen / we _pc him io be a true man—sends us a piece which _« bave decided on inserting , though not without _jome doubts as to the propriety of so doing . In an j _^ _mjiaxying note , tiie writer says— " Flowery poe-{ rr . _thoa _^ I l * _^ g . _K-notalwaysthemostuseful . As ¦{ have nodoubt you will-ceccive enough of thatsortfor vour June _Peast , I have chosen a subject of an _oppose character—namely , tiie death of a tyrant ; into _= i « e coffin I have not even thrown a sprig of

      _rosejurr . _* " We certainly have no objection to the " useftp even in poetry : norare we very squeamish as to tie ' ( anicular language employed in describing those _, _4 o" grind the faces of the poor : " but we must object to tie ruthless spirit pervading every line and "" ¦ _tsi-doBlr . Jokes' poetry . Hewillseethatwehave emitted one rerse , which exceeded all the rest in { he _Slackness of its colouring . We hope Sir . Jones nffl for ihe future giro us somethin *!; more cheering ihn tlic grim and unlorable sketch of _THETT-ftANT ' S OEATH .

      The tyrant is dead!—he is dead ! Tbe _jjntabernacled soul—it is fled ! Th _? 7 bare laid him cold and deep , Where lie slaves lie murdered sleep , And the poor their curses heap On his head ! "Garb mom , having raid a short prayer From the altar , like the panther from his lair , Hf rash'd to Ids hell of mills , Where sweat , like rain , distils , As « l sorrow flows in rills Of despair . A ; . foia out-breathing red Tomit , Or _balefol _, _creation-acathing comet , Re aired poor fools ; his nod Was their law : where ' er he trod earth _-nonrn'd ; till heaven ' s high God Swept him from it !

      ? _ro-jd laid on -velvet couch , quaffing nectar , Planning to crush the poor , who ' ve no protector ; Athwart Death grimly glid—Hc , starting , madly bid A rolden pyramid ! Laughed fhe spectre . * * * * His rap : iou 3 tongue , that ne'er spate with joyance , Is hni ' n'd his blighting eye ' s fierce defiance Is _qaeneh'd ; the spectre ' s grasp Harii _stopp'd his simoom gasp ; Sepulchral aims now clasp Tho annoyance ! The following sweet piece entitles the author to our bet thanks : —

      N & TCEE AND _FBEEDOH . By D . Wright , of Aberdeen . Tliere is a sweet charm in the valley sae glowin * Wi a' the bright flowerets blended in bloom ; The dew hangs sae pure on the breast o' fhe gowan , And br ight are the tassels that ware oa the broom . 0 . ' _stA are ihe breezes , wi * sweet odours flying , Thebirds sing sae bonny frae broken and tree , ksi _reason responds to their melody , sighing—0 . ' tha : men , like the birds , were a' happy aud free ! Tiufe L- a wild charm where the eagle is soaring ( Ter mountains where wilduess . and grandeur combine ; _TThere heather is blooming and torrents are pouring-, _BesbTiess in _might , through the craggy ravine . And we gaze ou the torrents with tinftfiiig emotion , Tbat dash o ' er the rocks and glide on to the sea , hA reason responds to the roar of the

      ocean—0 ! thai men , like the billows , ivere mighty and free ! ' 0 ! sweet is the charm when the morning is breaking , Sae bright in its beauty , unveiling the sun ; Tire dew-studded flowers , which the zephyr is shaking , Unfolds a' their beaut } - , and day is begun ! k ! the sweets o' thc earth , a' the beauties o' nature , And a" that the wisest iu wisdom could gie , The Oreator gies for the wants o' the creature , And man might ba happy if men were a'free ! Some of our " rejeeted" friends have favoured us with , songs and other poetical pieces on "The land . " We can only say we hope when they get on the hind they will be able * to handle the spade better than they have handled file pen . As a specimen of the sort of spirit their Land-songs ought tohave , we give die following from the Agrarian songs of tiie _american Reformers : —

      ; t > ow > - won the _LASD-coans Start from the dream of ages , Sowed , ragged sons of toil . House , rouse ye . Hero sages Once , once redeemed jour soil _, foreign foes—domestic traitors , Cleared ont from hill and plain . I / _ASD-lords , and speculators Call us to the field again . Gome from your hills and valleys , Come from _y oar ocean-tidegome from your lanes and alleys , Come from your forests wide . Come , come , ye hardy toilers , Come in unbroken band ; Down , down npon the spoilers ,

      Drive , drive them from fhe LAUD . Armed with their "legal tender- " Kledgold or pictured rags ; Shoaling on ns to surrender Behind onr Cotton Bags ; " Tbe soil , sun , dew and seasons , Here ' s gold well buy them all , " Crush , crush the sordid treason , Drive the traitors to the wall . "Master "Dickey , " "Harry , ** "BiHy , " "Missy Bella , " " Caroline !" One half stupid , ' _totht-r silly , Shall they rule by " right divine ?' - ' _Aule our children and enslave them , Trample out their altar firesfreedom their G * us _* o-sires gave them , ShaU they lose it try thek sires 1 *< o , no!—never , never !

      Brothers J freemen heart and hand , Standby . ' Guard for ever , Freedom ' s latest hope—The Laud . ' " 'Hard it , and bequeath it , Sot to a race of slaves—Sleep ! sleep ! underneath it , TSEB SOU , ABOVE TOCS SKIVES . _Wiiie we are with our American bretbjen , we _® _fMi- do better than give a few more of then _istnotic songs : —

      fSEEDOK'S CAU .. —1 _H 5 . h broke on the hush of morn—1 : _startled the dull midnight , l _^ _e the stirring peal ofa battle horn , It _gammoned them forth to fight ; It rose o ' er the swelling hill , By ihe meadows green it was heard , _Cilliag ont for the strength of the freeman ' s will , And the might of the freeman ' s sword ! _^ be rivers heard the _noise—And the valleys rung it out , - * _* e _» ery heart leapt high at the voice © f thai thruling battle shout . _? hey sprung from the bridal bed , — From tie pallet of labour ' s rest , •* _ad thev hurried away to the field ofthe

      _deadVfcke a tardy marriage guest ! They left the plough in the corn , — They left the steer in the yoke , * nd away from mother and child that mom And the maiden's first kiss they broke . _«* * the shower of the deadly shot , In the lurid van ofthe war , 5 ten dy they stood , but they answered not To _^ "hireling's wild hurra ! - _^ v * stiB as the brooding storm , 2 re h lashes ocean to foam—« e _sara-th ofthe free was in every arm , And every heart on its home . « their pleasant homes they tfaonghti—Ihey prayed to their father ' s God , — * a _* 3 forward they _wtsfljllt & dr dear btooibou _^ Ibe "broad free land they trod .

      THE BAT-LOT BOX , _Jj-eedom _' s consecrated dower , Casket of a priceless gem ! Soblar heritage of power . Than imperial diadem !

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      Corner-stone , on which was rear'd likertr ' s triumphal dome , _"VHienher glorious form appeared 'Midst our own green mountain home ! _Purchas'd by as noble blood As in mortal veins e ' er run _. By the toil of those . who stood By the side of Washington—By the hearts that met the foe On their uative battleplain , Where the arm that strikes the blow Sever needs to strike again ! "Where ' s the craven that wonld dare Mar it with polluted breath ? _SoM-aed and enrs'd , be his to share The traitor ' s shame , tiie traitor ' s death Let his faithless heart be torn ,

      From his reckless bosom riven , And upoa the whirlwind borne _. To the carrion kite be given ' . Guard it , freemen ! goard it well ! Spotless as yonr maidens' fame ! "Never let your children tell Of your weakness—of your shame ! That their fathers basely sold , What was bought with blood and toil , That you bartered ri ght for gold , Here on Freedom ' s sacred soil ! Let your eagle ' s quenchless eye , Fixed , unstrung , sleepless bright , Watch , when danger hovers nigh , From his lofty mountain height : While the stripes and stars shall wave O ' er this treasure pure and free ; The land ' s Palladium , it shall save The home and shrine of Liberty ,

      Bythe bye , we have never seen the famous national American _SOllg , the ' Star-spangled Banner . " Could our friends of _fbuno * _A-ic * --'« ahelp us to it ? Ko matter erven if it he not veiy complimentary to England : we shall not quarrel with the " hraggadocia" of Uncle Sam , bearing in mind the example set in that line hy his old dad John Bull . Here is an anti-slavery

      hymn—THE TBIOMPH OF FBEEDOK . By _Wta . Lloyd Garrison . God speed the year of _jubHee , The wide world o ' er ! When from their galling chains set free , Th' oppressed shall vilely bend the knee , And wear Ihe yoke of tyranny , Like brutes , no more : — That year will come , and freedom ' s reign To man his plundered rights again Kestore .

      God speed the day when human blood Shall cease to flow ! In every clime be understood The claims of human brotherhood , And each return for evil , good—Not blow for blow : — That day will come , aU feuds to end , And change into a faithful friend Each foe . God speed the hour , the glorious hour , When none on earth Shall exercise a lordly power , Nor in a tyrant ' s presence cower , But all to manhood ' s statue tower , By equal birth!—That hour will come , to each , to all , And from his prison-house the thrall Go forth .

      Until that year , day , hour arrive—If life be given—With head and heart and hand I'll strive To break the rod , and rend the gyre , The spoiler of his prey deprive—So witness Heaven ! And nerer from my chosen post , Whate _' er the peril or the cost , Be driven . And here , from the pen of Johk GaEB . SI . - EAF _WniTTina , whose poems we quoted from in our last " feast , ' * we give the following noble lines , wr itten on the occasion of the author reading an account of a slave auction at Kew Orleans , at which the auctioneer recommended the woman on the stand as a " good ( _Christian !"

      THE CHEISTUN SLAVE . A Christian ! going , gone ! "Who "bids for God ' s own image 1—for His grace Which that poor victim of th ** market-place Hath in her suffering won ? My God 2 can sueh things be ? Hast Thou not said that whatsoe ' er is done Unto Thy weaker and Thy humblest one , Is even done to Ihee ? In that sad victim , then , f . Child of Thy pitying love , I see Thee stead-Once more the jest-word of a mocking hand , Bound , sold , and scourged again !

      A Christian up for sale ! Wet with her blood yonr _whips—o'ertask her frame , Hake her life loathsome with your wrong- and _sh-use , Her patience shall not fail ' . A heatlien hand might deal Back on yonr heads the gathered wrong of years , But Tier low , broken prayer and nightly tears , Te neither heed nor feel . Con well thy lesson o'er , Thou prudent teacher—tell the toiling slave , Ko dangerous tale of Him who came to seek and save The outcast and the poor . Bnt wisely shut the ray Of God's free Gospel from her simple heart , And to her darkened mind alone impart One stern command— " Obey . "

      So shalt thou deftly raise The market price of human flesh ; and while On thee , their pampered guest , the planters smile , Thy church shall praise . Grave reverend men shall tell From northern pulpits how ehy work was blest , While in that vile south Sodom , first and best , Thy poor disciples sell ! Oh , shame ! the Moslem thrall , Who , with his master , to the prophet kneels , While turning to the sacred Kebla , feels His fetters break and f aU . Cheers for the tnrbaned Bey Of robber-peopled Tunis ! he hath torn The dark slave dungeons open , and hath borne Their inmates into day .

      But oar poor slave in vain Turns to the Christian shrine his aching eyes-Its rites wfll only swell Ids market-price , And rivet on his chain . * God of all right ! how long Shall priestly robbers at Thine altar stand , Lifting in prayer to Thee the bloody hand , And haughty brow of wrong ? Oh , from the fields of cane , From the low rice-swamp , from the trader's oell—From the" black slave-ship's foul and loathsome hell , And coffle _' _s weary chain—Hoarse , horrible , and strong Rises to Heaven that agonizing cry , Filling the arches of the hollow sky , How -cose—oh ! Gon , now louq !

      In a late ntanber of the lyne Mercury we observed what appeared to be one of a series of patriotic songs entitled " Mob Melodies . " The initials appended to the song , together with the genuine poetical ability of the composition , leaves us no room to doubt the identify of the author . He is , if we mistake not , a gentleinan to whose enlarged sympathies , consistent patriotism , and mteUectual greatness , the people of England are no little mdebtea for the progress towards freedom they have _ijureaoy made , and that certain triumph over their aristocratic oppressors which assuredly awaits "them . Ot course , in transferring thefoBorang " melody" to our columns , we express thereby our concurrence with the principles therein Tindicated , but we do so with a _rc-Servaeon . If by the new world regeneratang the

      old T D . means that an American "army ot _uoeration" would be welcomed to this countiy to put down the English aristocracy , we must be permitted to differ with him . When Thomas _P-fK _-P _^ ., _*™* " the New World might regenerate the Old , he meant , wc conceive , to express his hope that the _KenubU-ean principIespracticaUyestabhshedin America mMit so operate there for the happiness of t hemany , as to excite throughout Europe sach a taiowledge and love of those principles as _wonldinduce the people of the European states to imitate the example ot tne Americans in casting off the yoke of ' " toffl , aad oriests , and lords f and in this sense we think there Is every prospect of _Pace ' s hope and _praya being realised . In this sense , too , we hope " that the hew WoM _mafregenerate the Old ; " but never we tS , wDlaforeign hostile bug no matter under what guise or prefence . be permitted to desecrate ifoe 7 , _. ? -c __ i _ _5 j Tii » _urnrM has seen more than

      enough of " " liberating armies ; " and the French have afforSedtoall other nations a lesson that E _^ g kshmen at anv rate , will be slow to foiget . _nations & to _2 tend merely withadomestic _oppressor _eaubest liberate ton-selves . Th _^ _emancipatioHof le English people will be slow , _brt-rtmflB «« o _» . cipation of tie masses is in Pn _^^ _- _^^ _SS only sure foundation of all real hberty . The Amen earn , we fancy , will find quite enough to do toi liberate _themselvw from the % _"ranny of landlordsand _iwurers-iiriests and lawyers may be added . _Yxhm they _uarefiiuy secured their own hberatum , _JSiei _«> _Sfetf thc _& _wYoria wil ] , _™»* fg sufficient to came tiie regeneration of the oia , vnm ont any " army of Uberation . " The Amen _^ Vhowever , must look quick , or perhaps the /' example m _^' c _^ Tfrom _thlsidc . l _£ strife us _ttet if _«¦*« - » was Universal Suffrage in tliis couht _^ , the bnghsh

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      * often soo advertisements in tbe southern _Papain which individual slaves , or several of a lot , are recommended as " pious /' or as " _memoers of _****«• _^ _gg we saw a slave advertised , who , among other _quaunca _tions , was described as " a Baptist preacher . '

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      working men could nut their American friends" up " to a thing or two , of which the latter seem hardlv to have thought of yet . With these introductory ' remarks we give the following specimen of the Time Mercury ' s HOB MELODIES . " That the Sew World may regenerate the Old , is the prayer of , Sir , your humble servant , Thomas Paine . "Letter to Washington , 1793 .

      Tone— 0 blame xxot the bard . 0 ! deem not , altho' with war ' s ensigns we come , And shoulder the musket and flourish the brand , That we love not the fields of our primitive home , Or WOUld Strike at the heart of our own father-land . No ! her groves and her valleys are dear to us still , As they wcre ere her tyrants had made them their prey ; Or ere fell Aristocracy work'd out his will , And drove us , beyond the Atlantic , away ' . 0 ! how could we hate those dim valleys , so green ;

      Or those streams , by whose margin our forefathers rov _* d ? There ' s a charm onthe soil where ourparentshavc been What was dear to the sires , by the sons must be lov'd . O ' er yon smooth swelling downs , 'twas their flocks gave the fleece ; Yea ; " -heir ' s were the * 5 eld 3 _, where the harvest now waves ; And if now we could strike—e ' en in rage—at their peace , Our fathers , in anger , would start from their graves . No . ' ' tis not thc village we come to

      alarmhor the Sabbath , whose bells calls the toiler to prayer ; We strike not the cot , nor the cottager harm—Where innocence is there ' s no prey for us there : But we strike atthe halls and the domes ofthe proud . The Avenger is come—ay ! tho' late—of that day , When fell Aristocracy , lofty and loud , _CompeU'd us , beyond the Atlantic , away ' . They _deem'd we were gone—and gone ne ' er to return : That God was a name , and his vengeance a joke ; That Libert } -, strangled , lay safe in her urn ; That the chain was secure , and eternal thc yoke ! They deem'd not an Eve still could reach to the soil Where the sires of their exiles lay low in their graves ; That an Ear could yet listen the woe and the toil ; And that England had friends cross the desert of waves ! We watched them . ' We saw their reign had its time , Tho' Justice was trampled , and Mercy exiled ; Tho' Poverty ' s cravings were scourg'd for a crime ;

      And tho' e ' en in its cradle they'd _mortjjag'd tbe child . ' Tho' Virtue was suamM with an atheist sneer , And Charity prostrate , and Mammon sublime ; We watched them—and felt that their downfall was near ; We watched them—and saw that their reign had its time . Then deem not , altho' with war ' s ensigns we come , And carry the musket and carry the brand , That we love not the fields of our primitive home , Or would strike at the breast of our own father-land . No ! we come but to punish the treason of those Who hare cover'd her bosom with anguish and shame ; Who have render'd our Eugland tbe scoff of her foes ; Her valour a mockery—her glory a name ! As the mail ofthe spoiler assists but to draw On thc head ofthe robber tbe sulphureous levin ; And the armour of Wrong , by omnipotent law ,

      Bnt serves to conduct the red vengeance of heaven . So the foes of our England shall fall in a war , Thatin guilt and in guile they could only have known , And perish , _consum'd in a flame from afar , That their crimes and their falsehood have kindled

      alone . T . D . In the May number of thc Bublin _Vnivex-sity Magazine , appeared an article entitled , "Personal Recollections of Thomas Campbell "—onc of the most atrocious productions that ever disgraced the pages of any publication . The writer pretends to having met and been introduced to Campbell at one of the annual Polish Balls . He represents Camp-BEtiasamisanthropical , selfish , scurrilous , drunkard ; drinking brandy to intoxication , and habitually using language the most depraved and disgusting in describing mankind in general , and his eminent contemporaries in particular .- This writer makes Campbell call Bvbojj a " ruffian ; " Sir Thomas _CaAsrusr "an infernal scoundrel ; " and Ahas _Cilvmxgham

      "themost lnfemalliarthateverleftScotland . " He represonts Campbbll as speaking of the Poles as " expatriated rascals , " and sneering at "their immortal demigod , Kosciusko . " - ' These veracious (!) " recollections" of the "Bard of Hope" were continued in the June number of the Universky Magazine ; and is the continuation the writer makes Campbell call _Hazutt " a false , vain , selfish , blackguard ""a blackguard penny-a-liner ; " _NonrHcOrE , " a conceited old booby ; " Swipt _, " an abominableruifian ;" Btbos ( again ) , " a blackguard and a liar ; " Sheilev , " a filthy atheist ; " Gray ( query Gat ) , " aselfish scoundrel ; " Dr . Joussos , " a coarse brute and tyrant ; " and Mrtios , " a savage-minded wretch . " Was there ever before sueh an accumulation of filthy

      falsehoods ? We say "falsehoods , " for though we have no personal knowledge to the contrary of the portrait of Campbell , painted by the writer in the Dublin Magazine , yet are our convictions of the strongest , that it was impossible for a man like him to cherish the- malignant feelings , or to give expression to those feelings in the filthy vituperative terms ascribed to him by the Dublin scandal-monger . But were these anecdotes of Campbell as true as we believe them to he false , still the publishing of them would be not one whit the loss diabolical . It is with Campbell ' s writings the public is concerned , not his vices ( if he was vicious ) , physical or mental ; and none but a bad-hearted man would have gloated over

      and made public the ( alleged ) failings of such a man . "We have repeatedly called attention to the yet lingering spirit of envious calumny which has for so many years sought to blast the name and wither the reputation of our great English poet Btro . v , but wc remember nothing so infamous as the abuse of the author of " Childe Harold" put into the" mouth of Campbell by the writer hi the Dublin Magazine . In addition to tiie quotations given above , Campbell is described as representing Bthon as " in heart and soul a blackguard , immensely vain , vulgar , bullying , ignorant , and mendacious ; " and says , "if ever a man was inspired by diabolism , it was Byron . " He quotes from the " Prophecy of Dante" : — 'Tis the doom .

      Of spirits of my order to be rack'd In life ; to wear their hearts out , and consume Their days in endless strife , and die alone ; Then future thousands crowd around their tomb , And pilgrims come from climes where they have known The name of him , who now is but a name ; And wasting homage o ' er the sullen stone , Spread his , by hhn unheard , unheeded fame . And then adds , " Byron wrote these with a bottle of gin under his vest . " If Campbell really gave expression to these fiendish calumnies , he wonld be worthy of tiie bitterest execration ; but we repeat , we believe him to be innocent of these odious imputations . We have for some time past contemplated adopting a measure which . would tend to make our

      readers better acquainted with the writings of Btron than probably some of them are at present , and we think we cannot do better than commence the carrying out of our project without further delay . Excepting the cheap editions of Bon Juan , and the little collections entitled " Select Works , " usually consisting of his miscellaneous pieces , to which , perhaps , we should add Cain , and the vision of Judgment , — excepting these , we are convinced that his works are known but to very few indeed of the class we principally address . We propose , then , to give an extract of a few stanzas or lines weekly , under thc head of " Beauties of Byron , " which we hope will do something towards making more generally known the real character of the man whose sublime ideas and

      faultless poetry has done so much to advance the freedom of thought , and sow the seeds of future and lasting triumphs in Liberty ' s Cause . The papers contained a few days ago the usual account of the annual celebration of the Battle of Waterloo , now almost entirely confined to tbe inspection of troops at the Horse Guards parade , St . James ' s Park , and "the Duke ' s" dinner at Apsley House . As the writer of these remarks took his usual walk homeward along Piccadilly , on Wednesday week , he noticed leaning against a rail annexed to one of the entrance-gates of Hyde Park , close to the Duke ' s house , a Chelsea pensioner who in his day had evidentlv been a powerful man , but was now old and frail . We saw by bis medal that the old man had

      been one of the Waterloo victors . Hc stood very near the Duke ' s house , whilst we , halting also for a minute or two , looked on . Carriage after carriage rolled up to the Duke ' s gate—theu * aristocratic freight intent on offering their congratulations to " the Duke . " This eflected , they drove away . We believe upwards of seven hundred carriages stopped atthe Duke's gate in the course of Wednesday afternoon . The pensioner looked on , but—while we stood there—no one of the high and haughty dames , or privileged drones , bestowed even a kindly g lance or an approving word upon the shattered warrior whose medal made him conspicuous to all who passed . This is the gratitude of the aristocracy ! When will the many learn , that when at aristocratical feeds " the Army and the Navy" is _tested , it is not the poor fellows -Who , in the ranks aud in the rigging " brave the battle and the breeze , " to whom homage is paid ; but to the officers , the cpauletted gentry , the

      privileged caste of birth , wealth , and political influence . The poor pensioner stood unheeded and unnoticed ' , " no one cried God save him . '" We turned away with disgust . The Duke of Wellington , too , is as aristocratic and exclusive as his seven hundred carriage worshippers . This is proved by the damning fact , that while to his Waterloo banquets he invites such heroes as Field-Marshal (!) Pruwe ALBERT—a warrior who , except when at pheasant _shOOtillg or deer slaughtering , never smelled , and , probably , never wfll smell , an ounce of powder , he invites _va one serjeant , corporal , or private , who shared with him , and had by far the largest share ofthe dangers of Waterloo , without reaping anv corresponding quantum of profit or " glory" therefrom . Our plain spealdng contemporary , the Dispatch , speaking on this subject last Sundav says--- " It is now the received , and no longer disputed conviction , that the Duke owed all his mo 3 t dearly-bought and profuselyrewarded successes to the sturdy fortitude of his sol-

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      diers . Breast to bayonet and bayonet to breast was thc spirit of our brave infantry , and sabre to sabre was that of our cavalry . The Emporor Napoleon ' s artillery destroyed our lines , but devotedly rushed thc rear ranks to the front , and filled the places of then * slaughtered comrades . . The victory of Waterloo was that ofthe common soldiers , and of their immediate officers ; " yet these are the men whose place _Field-Max-shal Albert usurps—these are the men whom the sycophants of the Duke scorn to notice"Thebroken tools that tyrants castaway . " But what has this to do with ByROW ? Tilis-that as we have decided commencing this week our selections from his poems , we may as well select something appropriate . As Waterloo-day has only just gone by , we select , therefore , his inimitable picture ( from " Childe Harold " ) ofthe gathering and march of thc British troops from Brussels the night before the battle : to this we add the " Childe's" reflections

      on that field of " crowningcarnage Waterloo . " There was a sound of revelry by night , And Belgium ' s capital hadgather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry , and bright The lamps shone o ' er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell , Soft eyes look'd love to eyes whicli spake again , And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark i a deep sound strikes like a rising knell Did ye not hear it ? No ; 'twas but the wind , On the car rattling o ' er the stony street . On with the dance ! let joy be unconlined ; No sleep till morn , when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase thc glowing hours with flying feet . But , hark ! that _heary sound breaks in once more , As if the clouds its echo would repeat J And nearer , clearer , deadlier than _oefore ! Arm ! arm ! it is—it is—the cannon ' s opening roar !

      Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro , And gathering tears , and tremblings of distress , And cheeks all pale , which but an hour ago _Blush'd at the praise of then * own loveliness ; And there ivere sudden partings , such as press The life from out young hearts , aud choking sighs Which ne ' er might be repeated ; who could guess If ever more should meet those mutual eyes , Since upon night so sweet such anful mom could rise . And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed , The mustering squadron , aud the clattering car , Went pouring forward with impetuous speed , And swiftly forming in the ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar ; And near , the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb , Or whispering , with white lips— " The foe ! They oome they come !

      And wild and high the " Cameron ' s gathering" rose ! The war-note of Lochiel , wiiich Albyn ' _a hills Have heard , and heard , too , have her Saxon foes ; How in the noon of night that pibroch tViUs , Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe , so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years , And Evan ' s , Donald's fame rings in each clansman ' s ears And Ardennes waves abore them lur green leaves , Dewy with nature ' s tear-drops , as they pass , Grieving , if aught inanimate e ' er grieves , Over the unreturning brave—alas !

      Ere evening t » be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them , but above shall grow In its next verdure , when this fiery mass Of living valour rolling on the foe , And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low Last noon beheld them full of lusty life , Last eve in beauty ' s circle proudly gay , The midnight brought the signal sound of strife , The morn the marshalling in arms , —the day Battle ' s magnificently—stern array The thunder-clouds cl 06 e o ' or it , which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay , Which her own clay shall _oover , haap'd and pent , Hider and horse , —friend , foe , —in one red burial Went !

      Stop!—for thy tread is on au empire ' s dust ! An earthquake ' s spoil is seputcheved below ! ' Is the spot mavk'd with no colossal bust « Nor column tropbied for triumphal show ? None ; but the moral's truth tells simpler to , As the ground was before , thus let it be ;—How that red rain hath made the harvest growl And is this all the world has _gaia'd by thee , Thou first and last of fields ! king-making Victory 1 And Harold stands upon this place of skulls , The grave of France , the deadly Waterloo ! How hi an hour the power which gave annuls Its gifts , transferring fame as fleeting too ' . In " pride of place" here last the eagle flew , Then tore with bloody talon the rent plain , Pierced by the shaft of banded nations through ¦ Ambition ' s Ufe and labours all were vain ; He wears the shattcr'd links of the world ' s broken chain

      Fit retribution ! Gaul may champ the bit And foam in fettars;—but Is Earth mor » free ? Did nations combat to make One submit ; Or league to teach all kings true sovereignty ' "What ! shall reviving thraldom again be Thepatch'd up idol of enlightened days ? ShaU we , who struck the Lion down , shall wc Pay the Wolf homage ? Proffering lowly gaze And servile knees to thronesl No ; prove before ye praise ; If not , o ' er one fallen duspot boast no more !

      In vain fair cheeks were furrow'd with hot tears For Europe ' s flowers long rooted up before The trampler of her vineyards ; in vain years Of dealh , depopulation , bondage , fears , Have all been borne , and broken by the accord Of roused-up millions ; all that most endears Glory , is when the myrtle wreathes a sword Such as Harmodius drew on Athens' tyrant lord . The address to "the Duke" at the opening of the ninth canto of . Core Jucm , which would appropriately come in here , we must omit : it will keep tor another Waterloo-day .

      " Stort Of Ax Umbrella."—This Is The Tit...

      " Stort of ax Umbrella . "—This is the title of a comic novel , companion to "Punch , " announced to appear next week . The author , G . H . Rodwell , Esq ., is well known from the laughter-producing farces and songs he has given to the public , among the most popular of which is " Teddy the Tyler , " " My Wife ' s Out , " " Nix my Dolly , pals , " « fcc . _dsc . He has called to his aid a kindred genius to give graphic delineations of his humourous conceptions—the well-known and admired "Phiz ! " Judging from the wit on the illustrated wrapper , and the known talent of the author , we augur most favourably of having a rich " begone dull care" treat . It is announced to be published uniform in all respects with our delightful friend "Puncft . "

      A Phinoe Committed Fob Fonebrr.—A Sircum...

      A Phinoe Committed fob _FoneBRr . —A _sircumstance has just occurred which has caused the greatest astonahment in the upper eir _. cles of Paris . Prince 'de B , twenty-two years of age , married about eleven months back to the daughter ofa rieh banker , was arrested on Thursday , and committed to prison on a charge of forgery , committed under the following circumstances : —The Jockey Club , in order to facilitate the payments of racing and other debts , have been in the habit of using counters made of ivory , stained red , bearing the year on one side , and the signature of the secretary on the other—each representing 100 francs . . Sometime back Prince de B—— , who is not a member of the club , handed over to his brother-in-law , also a banker , ten of these counters ,

      and asked him to give him cash for them . This was done , and the banker sent them in the course of business to the club , where nine were declared tobe forgeries . The secretary immediately proceeded to the banker's , and the Prince was sent for . He declared unhesitatingly that he had received them at the races of Chantifly , in payment of a bet , from a person on the course , whose name he believed to be Zarlatti , an Italian , whose address he did not know . A complaint was lodged before M . St . Didier , Juge _d'tnatruction , who at . once instituted inquiries , and succeeded in discovering the man who had made the counters . This person declared he had received the order for them from a youngman whom he had seen

      only twice , and whose person , he could not weU describe . He delivered them , he said , as he could prove by his books , on May 24 , This deposition was in flat contradiction with the acconnt of Prince de B , who had fixed May the 18 th as the day on which he had received them at Chantilly . The Prince then declared that they had been handed to liim by certain of his friends ; but these gentlemen denied in the most formal manner tbe truth of this allegation . The maker of the counters and the Prince were then confronted , and the former at once recognised the latter as the person who had given him the order . The Prince then burst into tears and avowed that it was he who had himself circulated

      the twenty-five counters , twenty-two of which had come into the club . He was at once committed to prison for forgery . What makes this case more extraordinary is , that the young man is not only rich , but wa 3 brought up most religiously . It is difficult to account for such an act , unless by supposing that his reason is affected . The Great Britain Steameii . — Falmouth , June 20 . —This evening , precisely at six o ' clock , the Great Britain steam-ship hove in sight on her voyage from Plymouth towards Dublin , and approached to within four miles of St . Anthony Light-house . When she had opened tbe harbour her steaming was eased , and

      she saluted the , port ; but without , walking t » communicate , her head was hove off for the Manacles , and she proceeded under head sails , jib , foresail , and forestavsail , and her steam up at full speed for Dublin _, i'he heights , ; particularly Pendennis , were crowded by thousands of-spectators , and some hundreds of boats wore buteide in the bay full of persons desirous of viewing this stupendous and _magnififJem ship . It was supposed that the Great Britain would have been brought into this port , as her commander is a native of Penryn , at which place his family and friends reside . The evening was hazy , so that she was not long visible from hence ,

      TO THE CHARTIST BODY ( _JENERALLY , BUT MORE ESPECIALLY THE MEMBERS OF THE CHARTIST LAND CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY . Friends , — It seems to be the fate of every measure , whether great or small , designed to improve the people ' s condition , to meet with opposition ; not out }* the opposition of those in authority , whose sinister interests cousist in upholding the present anomalous order of things , but the opposition also of canting hypocrites , who are continually whining over the sufferings of humanity without ever taking a step to cft ' ect their removal or alleviation . The D Uny Opposition of sueh misanthropes would merit no other treatment than contempt , but that weak , minds may be led into error by lying statements and plausible attempts at reasoning . It , therefore , behoves the promoters of every good measure to strike down with energy and promptitude the opposition by which their objects are sought to be frustrated .

      The Chartist Conference , which recently assembled in London to devise measures promotive of tiie political and social melioration of the working classes , lias concocted and matured a plan , by the operation of which , land to a very great extent , upon comparatively easy terms , may be obtained by the proscribed , impoverished , and degraded sons of toil . The project has _beeu but a very short time before the country , and already are the busy curs of faction barking and growling their brutal opposition . Portions of the press too , that potent engine for good or evil , has been made the medium for conveying this insensate opposition to the world .

      Being appointed by thc Convention pro tempore directors of the Chartist Land Co-operative Society , we deem it our duty to defend the plan which has been confided to our management , and to expose the ignorance , stupidity , and falsehood of its assailants . We will first "briefly explain the p lan itself , Two thousand members are taken as the basis on which our calculations are made . The society , however , may consist of any greater number , for the more numerous the society the more extensive will be its sphere of operation . It is proposed that a capital of £ 5 , 000 shall be created by the members subscribing £ * 2 108 . each , which may be paid by instalments , at the option of the suhscriber , at the rate of 3 d ., fid ., 9 d ., or Is . per week . With the capital thus realised land

      will be purchased and divided into allotments of two acres each ; cottages erected , and the sum of £ 1516 s . 8 d . presented to the members entering upon occupationeach member to occupy , under a lease for ever , a tenement and two acres of land , at an annual rental of £ 5 . The estate , thus enhanced in value by improvements and buildings , is to be sold with the least possible delay ; and the original sum , together with the profit realised by the sale , expended in buying more land , erecting other cottages , and locating members * . such land and cottages to be again sold , and thus tint society propose to contiouc its operations until all its members are each in possession of a cottage and two acres of good land socured by a perpetual lease , at a yearly rent of £ 5 .

      Here is a brief outline of our plan , thc feasibility and practicability of which we are prepared to maintain by fair argument , in defiance of all opposition . We' have observed in Lloyd ' s _ifewsjHiper of the two last weeks , articles written ( not by the Editor , but adopted by him ) to prove that our plan is unworthy of public confidence or support . Having bestowed upon those articles an attentive perusal , we ean confidently affirm the impossibility of cramming into so small a space a greater quantity of stale jokes , sheer nonsense , gross ignorance , or wilful and deliberate _misrapresentation . But , as we are desirous of construing as lightly as possiblo the errors of the writer , we are more inclined to ascribe them to the weakness of his head than to the virulence ofhis heart .

      Theso articles , designed to crush in the bud the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , abound in miserable puns —the "gilt farthings" of wit about "Adam and Eve ;" "the garden of Eden ; " " nine tailors making a man ;" the story of " Alnaschar and hi 3 eggs , " which are too contemptible for further notice . The first objection of any weight is thc impraMkabUity of the project . The writer is as much amazed at the objects aimed at by this society , as were the old women of England when travelling by railway was projected ; and as the success ofthe railways has relaxed the wonderment of the old women , so we trust , by the success of our plan , to romovo tlio doubts from the murky mind of our assailant . The writer deems the plan -Sup _^ _-ai _JtwMiMe , but he fails to point out whore our machinery is defectire . We ask , cannot land bo bought

      at twenty-five years' purchase ? Certainly . Do we require it cheaper ? No . Thus far the plan is practicable . Can from 60 to 100 cottages , contiguous to ono another , be completed at £ 30 each ? The opinion of experienced men decide the question in the affirmative . If the land js bought at twenty-five years' purohase , is it not likely to sell , with the ixxxprovemtnlB , at twenty years' purchase ? Do we ask mote for it \ Cannot the residue of our means , after purchasing land and building cottages , be equally divided among thoso to whom the allotments are appropriated ? Surely thero is here no insurmountable obstacle . Those are briefly the operations of which the society guarantee the performance . Where , we ask , are the impediments to their successful result ! But thc Solon , whose lucubrations illume the readers of Lloyd ' s ,

      and who is shortly to astound the world with a plan so I _transcendentlytha superior of ours , th & twcmustever after hide our diminished heads , sneers at the advantages held out by the Chartist Land Society . A cottage and two acres of land secured by a perpetual lease , at a rental Of £ 5 a year , with the use of £ 1516 s . 3 d ., and all _ObtahlOd at the trifling expense of SA 10 b „ are , in the fulness of his benevolence , deemed unworthy the attention of the slaves of the " grinding capitalist . '" The occupiers , we are told , would , in eight or nine years , pay , in the shape of rent , more than the value of their cottage . Has the writer forgotten that if they were not on the land , they would have to pay " rent" somewhere _ciset Has it escaped the perspicacity of this _toise man of the east , that more than the annual rent required

      by the society for a residence , in which health , independence , and comparative competence may be enjoyed , is now paid for dark and dingy garrets in the filthy alloys of the metropolis , or the damp and dreary cellars of Liverpool , into which upwards of 40 , 000 human beings are _crammod , a prey to those destructive disorders induced by filth and foul air 1 "Would not such a possession as this society purposes to rcaliso for its members , be a blessing to myriads of toil-worn , care-worn slaves in the manufacturing district , whose very lives are being sacrificed on the Moloch altars of capital ? The term "grinding capitalist , " which occurs _iti the book containing the rules of the society , does not seem to accord with tha fastidious taste of the writer . They are iterated and reiterated by him , which would lead us to conclude that In

      his opinion they are a misnomer . Our experience , however , warrants the application of the term grinding to the capitalists of this country . We know something of the grtiidin ; - propensities of the millocrats of the northwretches who , in the majority of cases , had it not been for the merciful , interposition of the legislature , would , through the terrors of the whip , oonvert the sweat of infants into gold , to maintain their unhallowed aggrandisement—remorseless beings , who would doom their toilers to ignorance , immorality , and decrepitude , induced by fourteen or fifteen hours' labour daily , in the enervating atmosphere of the factory , that they , the lords

      of labour , may slake their raging thirst for gain . Such is the animus of your mammon-adoring capitalist : and yet we are carped at for applying to them the term " grinding . " The public are reminded by the scribe in Lloyd ' s that the fund "? of the society are insecure ; that there is no responsibility attached to the officers in consequence of the society not being _BNHottEn . To this we reply , that the rules of the society make ample provision for the security of the funds , and furthermore we say that there is no obstacle to enrolment . A general meeting of the members will shortly be held in their respective localities , when the question of enrolment will be mooted and settled .

      Friends , before we conclude this vindication of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , we must notice an impudent falsehood which is blazoned forth in Ltoyd' s with an effrontery , a recklessness , which none but an adept could display . He 6 ays : — "Mr . O'Connor shows , that when £ 5000 shallhave increased to £ 37 , 324 , 372 _J persons may have allotments and cottages : but he omits to deduct the 372 J times £ 15 IGs , 3 d ., which is to be furnished to each individual for . stock , & c ; you have therefore to take £ 5000 as the original capital , and to deduct from this 372 J times £ 1516 s . 8 d ., namely , £ 589718 s . 4 d : according to Cocker the result would be 0 , minus £ 89718 s . 4 d .: Mr . O'Connor , on the contrary , shows plus £ 37 , 324 . " Poor fellow ! we opine that his acquaintance with Cocker

      is just about as extensive as his knowledge of the Land pjan ! Mr . O'Connor does not say tbat ' _"' when the property of the society is increased to £ 37 , 324 , 372 $ persons will have cottages , A-c . ; " but he does say "that 1923 persons will be in possession of their allotments . " The ules of the society assext the same , in language the most unequivocal . Mr . O'Connor has ho necessity to deduct the sum given to each seller upon the land from the original capital of £ 5000 , as these sums are supplied by thc increase on each sale of the society ' s property . These things are known to every man conversant with the rules * . hence , while we despise the retailer of falsehood , we can well afford to laugh at the stupidity of the arithmetical solution which gives a minus quantity oi £ 89718 s . 4 d _., instead of a plus of £ 37 , 3-24 .

      In conclusion , we would advise the opponents of this plan , before they make their appearance iu print again , to endeavour to make _tJiemselTM conversant with the subject ; _neglecting this salutary advice they may , like unto our adversary in Lloyd ' , instead of writing down our plan , write themselves down "fools- !" For the Directors of the Chartist Land Co-operative Society , London , June 20 , 1845 . T . M . _Wheelek , Gen . Sec .

      Telegram Over The Atlantic—A Writer M Th...

      Telegram over the Atlantic—A writer m the New York Tribune suggests a plan for bringing old England within a speaking distance . He proposes to run a copper wire , well covered , and as large as a pipe stem , from Nova Scotia to the coast of Ireland . This , as is thought may be accomplished by winding the wire upon reels , and arranging it on board a steamer so as to be reeled off as fast as the boat goes , and dropped the whole width of tha Atlantic , The writer says— " Its gravity would sink it to the depth where water was so dense as to be of equal _gravity , and of course beyond the reach of any kind of collision . Beginningand ending upon a bold shore , beyond the reach of anchors , it would be out of harm ' s way , and exposed but to two kinds of accidents—viz ., from separation by its own weight , and the loss of the coating with which the metal must be protected . The steamer Great Britain would carry more wire of this size than would extend to Europe , and its cost , I think , would be less than a million of dollars "

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      The Paculun Burdens Upon Lato.—Mr. Ward ...

      The PacuLun Burdens upon Lato . —Mr . Ward lately brought forward an unsuccessful motion for an inquiry into this subject . We quite agree with tho majority that rejected it—there is no reason for any inquiry into the matter . We can save the house a blue-book ( so called from its effect upon the looks of hon . members wliile engaged in its perusal ) by a succinct account of these . " peculiar burdens" for each ofthe three divisions of the United Kingdom .

      _EKOLASD . Imprimis , we should say a very peculiar burden upon the land in England is—1 . A sporting landlord , in whose eyes partridges arc of more consequence than paupers , and who in _att Ms schemes oi amelioration spells - 'peasant" with a ph . " 2 . An ill-paid , overworked labourer , with a mind as bare as Ins body , a doghole for a _dwelling , and aa union-house tor a refuge . 3 . An ignorant tenantry , with a confidence in Sir Robert Peel and a Wind dependence on protection and the landlord . 4 . A non-resident rector , with a taste for Cheltenham waters , and a notion that the working clergy aro composed of curates at £ 80 per annum .

      IRELAND . 1 . Ah absentee proprietor , who considers hedgeshooting thc natural amusement of the Irish pisantry ; believes the only "genteel" residence for a man of taste to be an English watering-place ; and holds the duties of property to be all on thc side of the tenant . 2 . A Protestant ascendancy parson , who looks OU Orange lodges as a development of the Christian church ; " Boy ne Water" as a hymn ; and a national school as a favourite parade-ground forthe Evil One . 3 . A rack-renting agent , whose favourite argument is a policeman ' s bayonet .

      _SCOTLAND . 1 . Highland landholder , with a preference for sheep-walks over small holdings , and a tendency to promote emigration on a large scale by driving out forty families in one clearing . 2 . A population of paupers depending on what the heritors like to give them . Let England , Ireland , and Scotland rid themselves of tliese burdens respectively , and we should not despair of even more wonderful results than a repeal ofthe Corn Laws , a millennium in which the Duke of Buckingham should play in Mr . Cobden ' s drving grounds , and Viiiiers sport over Sir John Tyrcll ' s preserves ; when Sibthorp should exchange the kiss of peace with Bowring ; and Hume and Herbert sit cheek-by-jowl on the Treasury bench , with the smile of brotherly love upon their faces , and their arms round onc another ' s neck ** . —Puxwh .

      An Impudest Company . —Amongst tlw advertisements in tho papers we perceive one headed " _Firatdass Assurance Company . " Wo understand that O'ConneU , Roebuck , D'lsraeli , and Mike Gibb 3 are to be appointed managing directors of this new company ;—wo know of no men better fitted for conducting an establishment where " first-class assurance " is to be tho capital . Rather Doubtful . —A man at St . Eticnne is said to have invented a five-bladed carving instrument , which "being placed in a roasted fowl , and a spring being pressed , the blades will , in a second , separate tho legs and wings , and divide the carcase " . ' This is very ingenious , but we defy him to invent anything that can ' * cut more ways at once" than the present British Cabinet .

      A . v Iwetbrate Joker . —Mathews ' s attendant in _liislast illness intended to give the patient some medicine ; but a few moments after it was discovered that the medicine was nothing but ink , which had been taken from the phial by mistake , and his friend exclaimed , " Good heavens , Mathews , I have giyifc you ink . " " Never—never mind , my _boy—neror mind , " said Mathews , faintly , " I'll swallow a bit of blotting paper . " This was the last joke Mathews ever made . Sydkhy Smith's Sketch of Lord John RussEii . — " There is not a bettor man in England than Lord John Russell , but his worst failure is this : he is utterly ignorant of all moral fear ; there is nothing

      he would not undertake . I _believe he would perform the operation forthe stone—build St . Peter ' sor assume ( with or without ten minutes' notice ) tha command of tho channel fleet , and no one would discover by his manner that tho patten * had diedthe church tumbled down—and the channel fleet been knocked to atoms . * * It Is impossible to sloop soundly while he has the command of the wateh . " To this he attached the Mowing note . — "Another peculiarity of the _Russells is , that they never alter their opinions . They are an excellent race , but they must be trepanned before they can be convinced . "

      A " Natural" _Iki-juirt . —A cocknoy youth , on being _gbown the apparatus fbr hatching eggs by artificial heat , which most of our readers will recollect having seen at the Collegiate exhibition a year or two ago , remarked that "the chickens would only die when they came out , for want of mothers to suckle them . " Illustrious Fishmonobrs . — Lord Brougham got awfully eloquent at the dinner given to Prince Albert by the Fishmongers' Company , and passed such a panagyric on fishmonger * , as must have gladdened the heart of Groves , and elevated Lynn , of Fleetstreet , to a height in Mb own opinion that he otherwise never would have dreamed of . According to Brougham , the greatest glory a man can aspire to Is keeping an oyster-shop , for his Lordship declare _^ that statesmen , warriors , and even princes had reason _, to be proud of being Fishmongers . We should suggest a new order as a sort of companion to the Golden FB _& eo , to be called the Silver Mackerel .

      _HIHTS FOE THE _IfEXT STATE BALL . "Wh y carry back a hundred years "Whigs , Tories , Commoners , and Peers , For dresses at a fancy ball" * How vain to go so very far—To what they were from wh * t they are "Wonld be disguise for nearly all . Take Brougham as -die first ( for he First ¦ » his own esteem wUl be ) , And as in " eighte-en-thirty" show him—Down on his knees , suffused in tears , Pressing Reform upon the Peers ;—Sure nobody on earth would know him . If in disguise you would conoeal The great _freetrader , "Robert Peel , How very easily 'tis done Why go to George . the Second ' s reign ?—He ' s only to appear ugain

      As Peel of " eighteen forty-one . " Uo powder " - ! wig they r _^ ead prepare For Derby ' s son and natural hair : Let him assume a bearing manly , Proud and impetuous , as he Some ten years since was wont to be - , _rr How different from the present Stanley 1 How easy 'twere to find disguise CM almost every sort and size , Accumulating now 6 ince 'thirty , In Graham ' s wardrobe ; though 'tis true For fancy balls they'd scarcely do , Most of them are so very dirty . Reason , indignant , asks , " 0 , why Make gallant Wellington a Guy ?" It was not requisite at all . Besides , it _sofjrcely tras a change ; To him there could'be nothing strange—He s used to powder and to ball .

      He needed not the large peruke Of Cumberland's illustrious Duke , Since Wellington need only range For the last twenty years or so Over his statesman ' s life to show A most extr _' ordinary change . Now , if another ball of state Her Majesty should contemplate , There'll be variety in plenty Of character and costume too , If politicians may renew Some year of the last ten or twenty

      The New Houses of Parliament . —Lord Brougham ( the antique , or antic—which tho reader pleases ) , of the House of Lords , said "that Mr . Barry was not only a Gothic architect and a dilatory man , but ha was delay itself . " How can two of a trade agree This comes of Mr . Barrv ' s endeavours to robLori Brougham ofhis Gothiccharacter . Who knows they may not yet turn Vandals ? Popish RAitaoAn . —It _« stated that the Pope haa " declared agjsinst the _introduction of _railways in tM Papal States . " Perhaps his Holiness considers _Ped is running fast enough in that direction _aheadj According to the _Exetar-hall people , Peel is every thing but a sleeper on that road . Tire _Temphraj-ce Movement . —Another Yankee

      captain lately emptied some casks ofrumihtoifle sea . If teetotallers generally follow this example w * 8 shall shortly have the ocean converted into stifrgrog : and it will not then be so difficult a matter , as Shakspeare might have supposed , to " call spirits from tho vasty deep . "—Great Gun . No Occasion for me Net . —Cardinal Salvi , the superior of one of the richest abbeys in Florence , during his earlier days , used to cause a net to be spread _everyday on the table ofhis apartment , tore mind him , as a poor fisherman ' s son , ' of _"hishumbla origin . When the _alibot died , this dissembled humility caused him to be appointed his Successor , and

      subsequently chosen cardinal . He then left Off this _eeremonial , ahd began living in the ordinary atyle ot a luxurious churchman . A brother cardinal remarked upon this change . "Nay , " replied Salvi , " why should I perpetuate a useless ceremony—I have no further occasion for the net , fbr Ihave caught the fish . " Mrs . Wood . —When this favourite vocalist , theft Lady Lennox , was representjn | Polly ( Beggars Opera ) , at the Havmarket , she _in-Smated to Tom Dibclin that she wished to sing " A miser thus a shilling sees , " just a note _nt |* ner than it is set in the score . " Then , " replied Tom , " youmustalterthe line , and sing it , " A miser thus a guinea sees , " _foj you'll make the _shillinff one nound one . "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 28, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_28061845/page/3/