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110011^P". 1 •••• - - THE PRESS. 156 A VALENTINE FROM ABERDEEN. I've loved you, dear CZAR, all the days of my life, At least since I joined in political strife ; You've tried me in war, and you've tried me in peace ; To revere and adore you I never shall cease. At eve when I sit in my place in the Lords, And CLANRICARDE inquires if we've yet drawn our swords ; Or if DERRY his eloquent thunderbolts hurl, And tell me 'tis time the old flag to unfurl. If next morn in the Cabinet PALMERSTON sneer, Saying peace bought with honour is peace bought too dear ; If the papers re-echo his words and cry shame — And the innocent Prince partakes in the blame. If DISRAELI then shoot his arrowy wit, While the Commons applaud, still unruffled I'll sit ; I so love and adore you, however hard pressed, For Europe, my CZAR, against war I'll protest. Dear CZAR ! though 'tis true you're the star of my life, Though I'll willingly bear being called an old wife ; And although I had sanguinely reckoned last spring The winter at latest concession would bring. From my colleagues and self, and the Emperor NAP — The wings of whose eagles I thought would but flap— It grieves me, it wrings my old heartstrings to say, There are ten thousand troops to the East on their way. But, dear CZAR, don't be frightened—believe in your friend — Of our warlike beginning this is but the end ; To Constantinople they don't go direct — The Cossacks before them we fully expect. Dear CZAR I. doll't be wrath then—in haste do not jump At the thought I've exhausted my protocol's pump ; I shall answer with water Prince GORTIcHAKores fire — Our troops go to Malta--at present no higher. But speed, honoured master, my destiny's star, Speed, speed, and I'll yet clasp the robe of my Czar ; " Acrimonious letters " no more shall my fate Require me to write on behalf of the State. MR. MACAULAY'S " NEW ZEALANDER." Ou eye was recently attracted by the following paragraph in an amusing contemporary, Notes and Queries : W ALPOLE AND MACAULAY.—That well•known and beautiful conception of the New Zealander in some future age sitting on the ruins of London•bridge, and looking viten London stood, may have been first suggested by a thought in one of Walpole's lively letters to Sir H. Mann:—" At last some curious native of Lima will visit London, and give a sketch of the ruins of Westminster and St. Paul's." We can set our contemporary right upon this point. A more modern author than WALPOLE or WILLIAM of Malmesbury (from whom Mr MACAULAY has borrowed one of his best passages) supplies the original of the idea so often quoted. In the dedication of SHELLEY'S " Peter Bell the Third" to THOMAS BROWN, Esq., the younger, i.e., THOMAS MOORE, the poet writes : " Hoping that the immortality you have given to the Fudges you " will receive from them, and in the firm expectation that when " London shall be au habitation of bitterns—when St. Paul's and " Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins, in the " midst of an unpeopled marsh—when the piers of Waterloo-bridge " shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the " jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream—some " TRANSATLANTIC COMMENTATOR will be weighing in the scales of some " new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits " of the Bells and the Fudges, and their historians." Several of Mr. MACAIIIAY'S finest sounding combinations of words have been suggested by the poems of SHELLEY, or the intervention of the FUDGES. SEQUENTI I N E I) I T A. Regions Boreali Terra Septentrionali, Servorum Imperator Nicolaus dominatur. Fines ille jam majores Ardet esse largiores, Ergo petit excitare Bellum stevitm militare; Griecum amat Christianum, Portum odit Ottcmanum, Ita mittit gravem (Aram Byzantinis Menschikolfum. Qua 3 cum ita essent facts ltegione bac subacta, Grandis iste Senioris Menten, quatit, sed majoris Erant verbs sociorum Quam minatio Russorum. _ \ls Turcorum exardebat ; Nisi bellurn nil manebat. Virgam scindit hic legatus Sava multa comminatus, • Jecur tamen sustinebat Abdul Medjid qui regebat. " Prius se visurum palm Dixit esse hunc legatum, Quam sic insultare Turcis Furem vellet dignum furcis." Caesar autem Russiarum Imperator hic totarum, Simul atque comperisset Statum rei qui fuisset, Cumque turba Barbarorum Istrum venit ad sonorum, Pasha fortis Oltenitzam Omar ivit, et funestam Plagam mann veltemente Hotiti dedit insolenti. Terga vidit Kalofata Haud decore fugam data.— Sed Sinope sinuosa Facts plorat lacrymosa ; Qua Turcorum parva classis Fuss jacet tiguis quassis. Tali strage tandem motus Etiam tardus iste Scotus, "Tempus ait vim parare, Nefas hoc non possum stare." Jam Napoleon Ludovicus Classem misit ad Beicos. Jamque vela dat per undue Nigri mans ecce Dundas. Ducem vocat atque viros Ad pugnandum nempe miros, Jubet hos transire flumen, (Ita enim velle numen,) A rva 'feta Moldavorum Occupare, Hospadorum Nullo loco numerare, Sed privatum testimare. Venit dies, Imperator, Quo to belli fulminator Ut tam prorsus ctmmereris, In teternum confunderis ! Daemon alter, atquo nomen Idem tibi fiat omen, Ab excelsis jam dejectus Pcenam luit ima ectus • Pecker ? Inter sulfur et bitumen, Vetus iste, malum numen ; Hujus stirpis to propago Perfidelis es imago: WE are informed that by the last cornier to St. Petersburg the PREMIER sent, as an affectionate present to his friend the CZAR, " Collins's Ode to Peace," and Mrs. CHAPONE "On the Government of the Passions." : x . ~~ NW , SATURDAY, r . ~ lENTS. E. G. is thanked, and the papers shall be sent if he will favour us with his address. TO It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive. Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter and when omitted, it is hequently from reasons quite inde- pendent of the merits of the We ciumot undertake to return of which we do not avail ourselves. Ccommunlcations should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. if long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. ett 21') rtgeg+ LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARYIB,IBS4. POSTSCRIPT. of three of its principal members, the withdrawal of books originally sanctioned by the board, and the veto which a single parent now exercises on the use of any book in the school, demanded consideration and inquiry. The Earl of ABERDEEN would not oppose in quiries' though he hoped nothing would interfere with the progress of a system which had hitherto done so much good. He regretted the withdrawal of the Archbishop of Dublin, but the national educa tion had not suffered. The number of scholars had increased in the last year from 544,604 to 565,707 ; and 141 out of 168 boards of guardians adopted the schools. The Bishop of DowN defended the withdrawal of the books which might be approved but not all used in schools so various and diversified. Lord CLANCARTY was glad that inquiries were at last to be made on a system which denied the right of private judgment. Lord DESART complained that the board was guided by Roman Catholics. Inquiry might lead to great improvements. Lord MONTEAGLE trusted that the whole question was not to be opened, and the present system of mutual tolerance disturbed. The Protestants of the north bad raised an outcry against the use of the very books of which they now reprobated the with drawal. The Earl of DONOUGHMORE said that the schools were now made instrumental to proselytism by the Roman Catholics. The most ardent leaders of Irish disaffection were the masters of the national schools. The motion was agreed to. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Fmnia. THE WAR MINISTRY. In reply to Lord Seymour, Lord J. RUSSELL stated that the Government had no present intention to introduce any measure for uniting the several departments connected with the administration of military affairs under the super intendence of a single War Minister. RECRUITING IN IRELAND. Replying to Mr. J. O'Connell, Sir J. GRAHAM was happy to announce that the recruiting service was proceeding most successfully in Ireland. He had received no information war ranting the conclusion that the Irish Roman Catholic priests had in any way interfered with the enlistment of their fellow-subjects. NAVAL. ASSISTANT-SURGEONS. On the motion for going into committee of supply, Capt. BOLDER° moved a resolution importing that the accommodation provided for assistant surgeons on board her Majesty's ships of war was inadequate and insufficient. TII „ •• `" TOTIDS.—FRIDAY. I , t ..,, • oved for a committee to .... r P . f national education in ..... , - l 7 ' i t year from the board - 1. , ~., ii. a 1 116. I, 0 'fl ...." IIffiIVIISMR" = 1 9e.