The Press. — London, England, 1854-03-18 00:00:00

THE PRESS. 252 Or A CORRESPONDENT, on whom we can entirely rely, informs us, with reference to the Noble subject of some satirical verses in the last number of the PRESS, that there is no foundation for the imputation conveyed, but that an illness, from which he is still suffering, was the true cause of the resignation alluded to. Under these circumstances it may be needless to express our regret at having helped to give currency to an unfounded report; but we recognise, and even welcome, the obligation to contra dict a statement of which we naturally but erroneously inferred the authenticity from its having previously passed unchallenged in other journals of respectable standing. AN ODE OF HORACE. FREELY TRANSLATED, ' DEDICATED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, BY THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY. BOOK 11., ODE 19. " Bacchum in remotis can:Dina rupibus vidi docentem." 'Neath the Reform's protecting shade, By Bacchus fired, a speech I made (Let not my fault be chided) ; Great PAM sat listening in the chair, And DUDLEY STUART, with pricked-up ear, At t'other end presided.* Hurra for wine ! elate I said ; It cheers my stomach, prompts my head, And fills me with orations ; Yet spare me, Bacchus, while I speak, And grant no words of folly leak From Cabinet potations. Thee I'll extol, CHARLES NAPIER, thee, Seaman, of speech erewhile too free On public men and money ; Soothed by our feast, how changed thy note, The wine glides gently down thy throat, And from it words of honey.f Him too, thy partner of the war, I'll sing, our second naval star,: DUNDAS, the dread of Bruin; Sing how Whig wisdom sends Whig valour Against tho land of hides and " taller," To threaten no light ruin. Two barbarous seas shall own our powers, Sebastopol's and Croustades towers At once shall feel our stormers ; Our tars, Munchausen-like, assail The Russian Bear at head and tail, And both the flints " Reformers." On, NAPIER, on ! I bid thee brave The Russian fleet, tho Baltic wave, To fight, and not to parley ; To face the Bear's devouring jaws, And show the British Lion's claws,§ I send thee (Bravo, CHARLEY !). Though RUSSELL deem thy dauntless heart Wanting in valour's better part, A chiefs most useful talent, I, on the contrary, commend In peace or war my gallant friend, Nor less discreet than gallant.ll Long since, by favouring breezes borne, Our fleets have graced the Golden Horn,ll Our Premier cries peceari ; And Pachas, kindling at the sight,** Have wagged their horsetails with delight, And hailed the British Navy. • Nymphasque discentes, et cures Capnpedum Satyrorum acutas. ♦ Vinique fontem.... .... atque truncis Lapse cavis iterare mella. t Fas et beam conjugis additum Steins honorem— § Rhoetum retorsisti leonis Unguibus— ii Non sat itioneus fervbare, sed idem Pacis eras mediusque belli. la A ureu curnu decorum. •• Leniter atterens caudam. SATURDAY, EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF A RESPECTABLE RADICAL M P March 13.—Understand the Coalition think of adopting my plan of communicating with the country. Dinner at Simpson's, when her Majesty intends to declare war ; and discreetly indiscreet clerk at the Foreign-office —name and address unknown—to tell Ministerial papers, at the right time, what All the Talents propose to do with Great Britain. Obvious saving of expense and improved health to elderly gentlemen in the closing of Parliament altogether ; only the able-bodied members of the Government to be called 'Upon to con• sume tavern port out of patriotism ; and no gentlemen of the press to be allowed to state which of them most vociferously refused to return to his official residence before " daylight did appear." GRAHAM'S defence of himself—that he talked nonsense after dinner. House ordinarily sits past midnight, according to BROTHERTON : natural conclusion, therefore, that the First Lord's general rationality results from his never dining till breakfast time ! Country does not know the sacrifices Ministers make on its behalf. Sir JAMES some what ashamed of himself, however, and, to the best of a misty recol lection, believing all he said was, " that he hoped, when Sir CHARLES " got into the Baltic, there would be no difficulty on his part in " declaring war." After-dinner speeches unfortunately involve after dinner reports, or else one might suspect that shorthand was safer than memory as to avowedly interpoculous talk. Certain it is that none of the acounts of the dinner justify this gloss of Sir JAMES'S: but stenography is a vulgar science, and Right Honourable vivacity a thing not lightly to be impugned. Does BRIGHT like to be despised? Can't imagine how he relishes PALMERSTON'S indiffer ence and contempt, and MOLESWORTH'S contempt and indiffer ence. Confess to having doubts of the propriety of voting with the Government myself since it has taken to being so candid in reference to its supporters. HUME, I fear, delighted at BRIGHT'S snubbing, and, unhappily, our whole camp in a state of insurrection — insurrectionary, too, without even the excuse of probable pillage, in which, as HAYTER mournfully says, the Peelites have anticipated us all. MIALL, having been a minister—of a chapel, not of the Crown—dis gusted with COBDEN'S thinking " Reverends' a term of reproach; and APSLEY PELL/err—who has a bill for the abolition of oaths—swearing that nothing will now ever induce him to take office till PALMERSTON has again left it at Lord ;Tomes instigation. Radicalism, in short, in extrends, and going out in frightfully bad odour, like an economical candle, I fear•. Government, at any rate, superfluously strong, or would not be trying to rid itself of Manchester support in this way BRIGHT'S not notorious for the forgivingness of his disposition A debate in the Lords as to the mode in which the newspapers get hold of secret information, with some inquiry whether the Government think it will answer much longer to administer the affairs of the empire on their present plan, in vino without any veritas, and through channels of which they pronounce it useless to endeavour to explore the sound. Lord ABERDEEN'S apology that a clerk of Lord MALMESBURY'S appointment must have been the traitor. Lord MALMESBURY'S reply proof of an alibi for the young gentleman pointed at. They do say in the Foreign-office that there is virtuous indignation going on, and that nearly all the Cabinet are anxious to see the real culprit dismissed ; but they fear, on the other hand, that it is too probable he may be rescued from the penalty he deserves by the grateful instru mentality of those of the Ministers who, but for his indiscretions, would be left entirely in the dark as to what their autocratic Premier is doing. Think I ought to move for an inquiry whether the gentle man ABERDEEN has accused is the betrayer ; and, if not, who is I Should I have the support of the Government? March 14.—A judgeship vacant, and poor STONOR in a colony far away ! Young PEEL knew nothing against STONOR as a candidate for his present position. Indeed, he knew nothing about him. Mr. FREDERICK happens to be a barrister, which precludes any acquaint ance with the legal profession, and in the Colonial office, which makes it essential to his impartiality that he should know nothing of the previous character• or qualifications of a judge for a colony. However, since the appointment, being fond of useless research, he had real the evidence and the conviction, and arrived at the conclusion that the committee who convicted STONOR were utterly wrong. Committee not flatterers, as I understand. PEEL made a hash of it. NEWCASTLE, too, chose to do the same, and ready with an entirely different defence for the Lords. Set a predatory person to catch a ditto—his tack. STONOR so apt at breaking laws, just the fellow to enforce them, and appointed, in consequence, out of compliment to the convicting committee, with which NEWCASTLE altogether agreed. Reform Bill to be brought on after Easter, and the anxiety to get STONOR out of the country to be mentioned by Mr. KEOGH, as evidence of the purity of the Govern ment. KEOGH, by the way, has to-night been voting against PALMERS TON on the nuns disposal-of-property business. GRAHAM, they say, is a great advocate of this " agreeing to disagree " feature of the great Coalition. Letters and questions he regards in much the same light— give him the opportunity and both will always be open. ANAORAIL—EarI of Aberdeen=Real need of Bear. CONIINDRUM.—What is the difference between a Russian Admiral and the First Lord of the English Admiralty? One ports in Revel, and avoids war ; the other revels in port, and declares war. vonikh 111111 r.