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AGUA AMARELLA. restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of ono of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street, London, E.G. HIGH WATER AT LONDO.V BRIDGE. PHIS DAY.—Morning, 9h. 47m.—Afternoon, 10h. 25m. Po-Monnow.-Morning, 11h. 3m.—Afternoon, 11h. 35m. z: - J? , • -• L;(4 7Cflig 2111 L LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1868. A great public meeting was held last evening in St. James's Hall. It was in connection with the National Reform Union. Earl RUSSELL was in the chair, and delivered a long address, which appeared to give general satisfaction. Every one knows that the noble lord is an adept in the art of speech making, and can always contrive to make the cause he advocates appear at the time he takes it up to be all that is popular and advantageous. Whether it was quite the thing for Earl RUSSELL to come forward in this way at St. James's Hall or not must be left to himself and his friends to settle, but the public must see that the whole thing is a party move, and that the Irish Church has come in most appropriately to take the place of the Reform question, so long a stalking-horse for power. We should have far greater faith in the sincerity of conviction that animates these regene rators of Ireland if they had waited until the new Parliament assembled in order to press the matter forward, and had not been so determined to make a party question of it. As it is, people may well ask, why and wherefor are all these meetings and assemblies convened, and why this breathless haste to settle a grief so long in dispute, and concerning which Earl RUSSELL himself had desired a commis sion of inquiry might be appointed ? Now he can not wait until its labours are concluded, but must rush forthwith, at all hazards, to settle the thing at once. Mr. GLADSTONE, the self-elected champion of Ireland, was of course lauded to the echo, and indeed it was averred that he should be fur nished with full powers to conclude and sign a treaty of peace with the people of Ireland. This is certainly a very unconstitutional mode of doing things, and it seems strange that one who is such a stickler for precedent s, as the noble lord has alway shown himself to be, should not see this. The House of Commons has not put Mr. GLADSTONE in possession of the Premiership, and he has no right to arrogate to himself the task of setting the affairs of Ireland in order. We cannot say that Lord RUSSELL was very suc ful in his attempt to justify Mr. GLADSTONE, for, on the contrary, ho admitted too much in trying to explain. After entering at some length into the question of his change of opinion re specting the subject during his career, he added that " whatever Mr. GLADSTONE'S opinions were he took great pains in forming them at the time, and, when he had formed them, he avowed them _ openly, and made no secret of them." It certainly cannot be laid to the charge of the right hon. gen tleman that he has made any "secret" of his last and greatest change of all, for he has only been too , ready in putting them before the House without thought or reflection. It sounds very grand at a meeting like that of last night for it to be said that they may confide in the " integrity and sincerity of . Mr. GLADSTONE as a leader, and that, supported . by the people of England, he will lead them on to victory, making a permanent peace between Eng land and Ireland ;" but if we come to analyze things a little, we must see that it is somewhat after the fashion of much ado about nothing. No crisis called forth the right hon. gentleman, and no combination of events has taken place to justify him in adopting the extreme course of stepping out of the comparative retirement of opposition into the full glare and excitement of a great struggle for supremacy, an encounter of a nature always to be deplored, in which public questions of interest and importance are mixed up with the bitterness of party spirit and the jealous strife which attends efforts for political aggrandisement. As an old fashioned man, and one well used to the old ways of the Constitution, Earl RUSSELL is shocked at the theories which have prevailed of late, and condemns in toto the notion that we should have for leaders men of no " settled convictions and opinions," because thereby they may be the more likely to follow anything that may be started. Whether this is meant as a gentle insinuation to the present occupants of the Trea sury Bench cannot be positively affirmed or not, but the great advocates of the doctrines of finality is anxious now to join heart and soul with the disciples of the most extreme opinions. Other speakers followed the noble chairman, prominent among whom was Mr. MASON JONES. He certainly had some claim to the merit of energy and perseverance, for he informed his hearers that for the last three months he had been " every night addressing thousands of his countrymen on this subject in all the leading cities and towns of England." Mr. JONES said that this Church question was no longer one of statistics, but one of high principle; but he unfortunately illustrated his meaning by declaring that the country desired the QUEEN to dismiss from office men " who had degraded the high art of statesmanship into political jugglery, and who had resorted to trick and expediency in order to main tain their place at the expense of their prin ciples, and that her MAJESTY should call again to her council men who had statesmanlike principles, and who had resigned office rather than break their faith with the people." If such ranting as this was acceptable to the assembly to whom it was addressed, we do not think that Lord RUSSELL consulted his own dignity by presiding over the meeting which favoured such extravagant lan guage. But does not this fully prove the harm that there is in mixing up matters of moment with party struggles for power. Further on we find Mr. VERNON HARCOURT said that the present Go vernment was a party without a policy, and a leader without a principle, resembling SAMSON, not in his strength, but in his blindness. Is this a suitable style in which to converse when any great question is before the pubic, still more when it is one relat inc, to the Church ? How far wiser and truer would be that policy which looked to the result as regarded the nation, and not to the particular advantages that affected those who urged forward the measure. It is a contradiction in terms to talk of unity and conciliation, and then to give utterance to language 4, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1868. so violent and prejudicial, that it defeats itself as to achieving any definite purpose, and only shows the narrow limits in which the question is con sidered. The visit of the Prince and Princess of WALES to he sister country has already fulfilled the most sanguine anticipations formed of its results. The loyal enthusiasm manifested by the people has con vincingly testified to the Heir Apparent and his consort that whatever disaffection exists in Ireland it has no influence over the community at large, nor does it refer in any way to the reigning power. The cordial shouts of welcome resounding from the well-lined quays and streets and pier to greet the first arrival of the royal vessel gave token of the intense gratification with which an eager and excitable people received the intended compli ment, and all through the line of procession the houses and the pavements, and, indeed, every available space for sight-seeing, were thronged with spectators. Yesterday, at Punchestown races, the same scene was repeated. The weather, happily, has hitherto been exceedingly propitious, so that there has been no check or disappointment to the holiday-seekers even inithat direction, although the scene is laid in the " Isle of Showers." So early as seven o'clock in the morning the railway station was completely besieged, although there were enough loyal sight-seers left in Dublin to line the steets through which the Prince and Princess passed at a later hour en route to the station. At Punchestown itself the concourse was immense, the greater portion of the population of five or six neighbouring counties assembling there. Excur sion trains had run from Dublin, Limerick, and Cork, and these were gladly taken advantage of by the inhabitants of those districts. Punchestown is always a favourite place of resort, but it has never witnessed so large a gathering as on this occasion. The races were to most of the spectators a very secondary feature in the programme, but they went off extremely well. The conduct of the people hasbeen extremely good, their national good humour showing itself to full advantage, and their loyalty being manifested by addresses from the most remote parts. We must give the crowds which have every where attended the progress of the Prince and Princess full credit for their good behaviour, be cause they;were not all citizens of the capital or even of the leading towns, but a large proportion came from rural districts and distant counties. The rail way companies have naturally seized the opportu nity of making money, and have run excursion trains at low fares from various quarters. The visit of the Prince and Princess at this juncture is taken as a proof of confidence which touches the hearts of the Irish, always sensitive to such impressions very deeply, and the strongest proof of how little hold Feni anism really has on the hearts of the people is found in the fact that it has not dared to lift its head in presence of the general enthusiasm. It is much to be regretted that amidst the gene ral rejoicing the harmony of the day should be broken by the news of a reckless and daring assas sination. Mr. FEATHERSTONHAUGII, of Bracklyn Castle, county Westmeath, was shot dead as he was driving from the railway station at Killucan. The murderer was so close to the car that Mr. FEATHERSTONLIAUGH'S clothes were singed by the fire. No arrest has yet been made, but we hope that before long the criminal may be detected. It is said the murder was committed in revenge for some evictions, and, if so, the police will know in what direction to search for the murderer. Such crimes as these, which no alleged injustice can palliate, are serious drawbacks to the national pro gress. They produce and foster that feeling of mis trust and suspicion which leads to absenteeism and neglect. Ireland bitterly resents the consequence, but she has no right to be surprised at it. Let us hope that we are now witnessing the inauguration of better and happier times, in which law and order l that v v heri i aot l e l htpvol b teeuh e ntet strictly themselves, ct i su c aot t snrh l e y tlesi vne i egen n sua a , trt i oei u wo t ut :i i hao just e lt d vacooi , nrl dilenshoftheatooebfnlbuotaylhuanefrrdoya incendiary soldiers b g eunt n rtd eiabatyrtreatment acknowledge e t e onhret the pistol of the assassin. LAW INTELLIGENCE. —This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Lush and Hannen.) QOODYER V. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. Mr. Higgins„ in this case, moved for a rule nisi to show cause why the verdict which had been given in this case for the plaintiff should not be set aside on the ground of insufficient evidence. The action was originally brought by the plaintiff against the defendants to recover the value of some cattle which had been killed, it was alleged, through the negligence of the defendants. Th e plaintiff was a butcher at Preston, and at tended the Manchester cattle market, and on the occasion in question he purchased a number of bulls, and cows which were driven to the Orsdale lane Station of the London and North- Western Railway for transmission to Pres ton. The cattle were not delivered at the proper time, and when inquiry was made it was found that three of the cows were dead and the others greatly injured. It was said by the de fendants that the animals were not sent at tho proper time to the railway station, and that in cons equence they were det a i ne d , and the injury occurredco tro durin g lof the railwaythattime, and was quit e b eyond the company. M r . Justice Lush said at th e tr i al it appeared that three of the cows had died t h rough being control trampled upon, and the question wa s w h ether there had been anyinjury to the cattle w hil st b eing trans mitted, through a collision or any other circum stance of the time. Mr. Higgins said it was most improper under any circumstances to place all the cattle together, not withstanding it was said that the oxen were pro perly secured. The court granted a rule to show cause. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Before the Lord Chief Baron and Barons Bram- well, Martin, and Piggot.) WYATT V. PRANCE. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., moved in this case for a rule to show cause why there should not be a new trial on the ground that the verdict was again s t evidence. The case was originally tried before the Lord Chief Baron on the 7th of February, and a nonsuit was entered for the plaintiff. He contended that had the whole of the evidence gone to the jury a different result would have followed ; but a portion of it was sufficient, and upon that the jury gave a non-suit. The action was brought by Mr. Wyatt, a Parliamentary agent, to recover certain charges for conducting the Epsom Downs Railway Company Bill before Parliament. The defendant was a solicitor, and the commencement of the pro ceedings by Mr. Wyatt was in consequence of his receiving a letter feom that gentleman, introducing to hitu a Mr. Garrett, who brought with him in structions relative to the steps necessary to carry the bill through the Parliamentary inquiiy. Mr. Prance went on with the bill, giving the necessary notices, &c., and doing everything necessary up to the time of committee. The bill was lost through non-compliance with the standing orders, and then when Mr. Wyatt sent his bill in it was denied that Mr. Prance was liable for the cost, as he had never retained the plaintiff. The Court thought, under all the circumstances, there should be D. rule granted to show cause. LITERATURE. Walt Whitman's Poems. Poems by Walt TVhitnzan. Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti. One Vol., pp. 403. J. C. Hotten. Opening this book has been to us a revelation. Reading it has yielded us exquisite pleasure. The remembrance of it sweetens life. Echoes from it haunt us in the thick of our occupations, " under the shade of melancholy boughs," in the throng of the streets, at our meals, in the midst of our conversa tions, anywhere, everywhere, under the likeliest and the unlikeliest circumstances. Before the volume now under notice came into our hands, the name of Walt Whitman was certainly known to us, but that was all. Now that we have read these selections—observe, these selections—from his "Chants Democratic," from his " Drum Taps," from his " Leaves of Grass," from his " Songs of Parting," we have learnt to love that name of his, it has become to us a synonym of pleasure, suggestive of thoughts, emotions, aspirations, expressed as in a new language, and, once so expressed, never after wards to be altogether forgotten. To William Michael simply, Rossetti, poems, we are not , se beholden, we are not merely in courtlier terms his most obedient, we arc ihaosldth-feasshelieechteedr phrase, ra th se e his very gratefully, and that, moreover, in heartfelt truthfulness. Already in the columns of the clever but now dead and gone Chronicle, under date 6th July, 1867, the editor of this henceforth to us I cherished volume of Walt Whitman's Poems had sounded the trumpet of admiration in praise of that particular poet of America. Here, however, he has made good, in every sense, his high, and, as it might have seemed to some, extravagant com mendations. Of the justice of the estimate thus enunciated,these poems yield absolute demonstration. Apart from the selection now given to us by Mr. Ros setti, we are desirous that it should be understood at once, however, by our readers, that we know no thing whatever of the writings of Walt Whitman. This we would especially premise. And for a suffi cient reason. According to a very general rumour even over here in England, according to the showing of even so enthusiastic an appreciator of his genius as Mr. Rossetti has (happily for us all) shown himself to be—Walt Whitman has written things that his own most ardent admirers would willingly let die. Yet, of all this, the volume now in our hand, here sub mitted to our consideration, bears not a particle of evidence. The leering satyrs have been scared away from among the beautiful umbrage. The dregs lurk no longer in the limpid draught placed at our lips. We can quaff without a qualm. There is no canker in the rose-wreath as it is thus brought within our reach—it is all fragrance and dripping with dew. Not a taint is here, in bloom, or foliage, or fruit. The very atmosphere investing these poems is all purity, like the breath of morning. And yet— though we never should have conjectured as much from these poems themselves—the Collective Writ ings of Walt Whitman must indubitably be tainted, flawed, polluted—and that, too, with a taint, a flaw, a pollution in no conceivable way to be ex tenuated. Mr. Rossetti himself sets forth in regard to the incriminated poems (all of which he has carefully omitted in the process of making his selec tion) not one word, not one hint of extenua tion-. He says, indeed, that he considers " that most of them would be much better away." And, whatever else can be said of the editor of the present volume as a critic of poetic literature, it certainly cannot be said of him that he is a purist. "Indecencies, improprieties, deforming crudities" there are, he tells us, scattered, it may even be abun dantly scattered, here and there, over the 'Writings of Walt Whitman. Such they are acknow ledged to be, in so many words, even by the critic thanks to whose judicious hands those damning blemishes have been discarded. Of their existence at all, we only know, now, by their own evil reputa tion. They themselves are not here. Nevertheless this selection is in no respect what we should call, in the ordinary acceptation of the words, an Ex purgated Edition. There is hero no emasculation. The poems that are given are given in their en tirety. Mere parts have been nowhere selected. Abbreviations, ellisions, excisions, the Editor has shrunk from as from impertinences. He has done his task well and wisely. And yet, task it can hardly be called—true labour of love as it has been (and no wonder) throughout. Although containing within it " a little less," we are told " that half the entire bulk of Whitman's poetry," this one volume affords a comprehensive view of the writer's genius in its integrity. It is no broken gem that is here placed in our hands for examination, but—" one entire and perfect chrysolite." Before commenting upon Walt Whit man's poetical productions, however, so far as those are here brought within our survey, a word or two as to the man himself. Abraham Lincoln's excla mation on seeing him was—" Well, he looks like a man !" Nor can that exclamation be wondered at when one comes to sum up his characteristics. Lofty in stature, admirably well proportioned, of vigorous strength, of abounding health—forty-nine years of age on the last day of next month—his eyes of a light blue, his complexion florid, his beard fleecy and flowing, but already quite grey— cheerful and masculine in appearance having a predilection for the society of common people —intensely fond of fine music, and with a great natural taste for works of art—abso lutely indifferent "as to either praise or blame of what he writes "—such, in brief, is Walt Whitman. Born on the 31st of lay, 1819, at the farm village of West Hills, Long Island, in the State of New York, somewhere about thirty miles from the great American capital and outport--he is but now in the prime or meridian of his manhood, though already old-looking in spite of his health, of his whole some out-doer life, his temperate habits, and his vigorous constitution. A schoolboy up to thirteen, afterwards a compositor, then a country teacher, then a press Writer, then a news paper editor, then a master printer, then (tike his father) a carpenter and builder, then, throughout the Great Civil War, to the Northern Army, what Miss Nightingale was to the British Army at Scutari throughout the War in the Crimea. And, yet all along, and at last wholly and solely, what he is now for the rest of his days—a Poet. Before considering him as such, it is but justice to remark of him in his capacity as a practical philanthropist when attending the poor soldiers all through that tremendous struggle between North and South, between the Federals and the Confederates in America, that—" It is said that by the end of the war he had personally ministered to upwards of 100,000 sick and wounded." Honour, therefore, to the brave, true heart, if only in re membrance of that one recorded fact in his history —a fact evidencing that Walt Whitman not only " looks" but acts " like a man." 'laming our glance, however, from the man himself to his pro ductions, to those Poems of his which have been here selected for us from his "Songs of Parting," his "Leaves of Grass," his " Drum TaPs7" and se on-- one peculiarity is at once espec i ally no ticeable in regard to them, and that is their startling, intense, and absolute originality. In their manner, they are unlike any other poems that have ever previously made their appearance. As a rule, they are rhymeless. But, always, always they are I ehythmica , • and yet rhythmical after a manner peculiar • ly and excep tionally their own. The lines are of any length-- sometimes abbreviated to a little more than a monosyllable—occasionally running out to the extent of half-a-dozen alexandrines. IN ow stand ing, as one might say, on one foot, and that a-tip toe—now running along upon as many feet as those of a centipede. But —with all this whimsicality and abandon of manner, with all this wild defiance of the hitherto dominant laws of poetical, and, for that matter even at times of rhetorical, construc tion-0 the charm, the grac3, the tonderness, the pathos, the abouuding and captivating be attics scattered broadcast, with a lavish hand, with an affluent fancy, with the royal prodle , `" •os iity of genius, over these page s o f true poetry ! Nor can the dar ing originality thus manifested by Walt Whitman in the mere manner of his composition be regarded as so wholly unexampled. As has been admirably well asked— " Was genius awed by Aristotlo's rules When Shakspere burst the cobwebs of the schools ?" Flinging to the winds of heaven all the precedents of literature, this new poet of the New World, a poet intensely sui generis, one racy of the soil from xhich he has sprung, carves out his own way with a pen as trenchant as an axe, and goes upon that way of his rejoicing. About the one only rhymed passage in the whole of this otherwise quite rhyme less volume of poetry, is the opening of the song in celebration of the broad-axe in the " Chants De mocratic." And, having but just now—in total for getfulness at the moment, alike of that especial passage and of that particular song—likened Walt Whitman's pen, in the trenchant sweep of it, to an axe, such as it might be seen gleaming and crashing when wielded in the grip of a backwoodsman of thews and sinews like his own—upon our sudden remembrance immediately afterwards of his own words, the simile appears more than ever most ap propriate. For, thus it is that Walt Whitman, in his ►► Song of the Broad Axe," apostrophises that— " Weapon, shapely, naked, wan ; Head from the mother's bowels drawn ! Wooded flesh and metal bone ; limb only one, and lip only one ! Grey-blue leaf by red-heat grown! halve produced from a light seed sown ! Resting the grass amid and upon, To be limned, and to lean on." A pen no less potent, keen, piercing, than such a broad axe, " to be leaned and to lean on," " rest ing the grass [Leaves of Grass] amid and upon " —is, most assuredly, for us the pen of Walt Whitman. Otherwise than in one fragmen tary instance like the foregoing, the book is, as we have said, altogether rhymeless. Wonder fully rhythmical throughout, though in lines of the most oddly varying lengths, the poems of Walt Whitman—when the reader has once passel the Rubicon—exercise over that initiated reader's mind a potent and irresistible fascination. The Rubicon must be passed, however, as a pre liminary, as the first and all-essential pre , liininary of initiation. Meaning by that, simply, that any one coming to the examina tion of Walt Whitman's poems with a view to their complete appreciation, must begin by, we wont say taking this and that for granted, we wont even say by making such and such allowanc,s, for, so expressing ourselves, we might seem to be slight ing the high inherent claims to respect of a great original writer, such as Walt Whitman : instead of that we will say then simply --that the all-essential preliminary we are alluding to is one purely of concession. Concede to Whit man the fashion of his verse—concede to him his terse but never bald realism—concede to him his exotic verbiage, his coinage of words occa sionally, with a daring disregard alike of the laws of syntax and of philology—and the spell of the magician is felt at once and for ever ! We are within the circle of his poetic incantations ! He " hath his will" thenceforth—as he lists—at his own pleasure over our hearts, our emotions, our imagi nations. As exemplars, to begin with, of his magical power in mere word-painting—take almost hap hazard a single line or verse picked out here an d there from the midst of his descriptions : "EToning—me in my room—the setting sun, The setting summer sun shining in my open windows, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall, where the shine is." "The irregular tapping of rain down on the loaves, after the storm is lulled." "Me observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies, shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air. "And the fish suspending themselves below there—and the beautiful curious liquid." "to the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple hero and there." These word paintings of Whitman's sometimes pass by their very vividness into whimsicalities, yet are, for all that, wondrous word-paintings never theless : as wher e he speaks of— " • . . dabs of music ; Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great organ." His word-painting power goes with him every where. Into the shipbuilding yard, for example, where we see with him, as if we, too, were there— " The butter-coloured chips flying off in great flakes, and slivers." It goes with him, and we with it and with hin through even the swinging of a door— " Tho door passing the dissevered friend, flushed and in haste." Sometimes the secret of it lies even in a word— " The dim-lit church and the shuddering organ." Or, again, as where conjuring up shapes before him in his reverie, he speaks, among others, of— " The shape of the shamed and angry stairs, trod by sneaking footsteps." Or, yet more even, where brooding over many ex quisite imaginings, he says most oddly and whim sically— " They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen." Or, again in the same way, when, by one subtle word, we note the last agonised kiss of bereaved affection, when— " The twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying." The merest specks and atoms of beauty, however, are these little word-pictures noticeable in casual lines and phrases in Walt Whitman's poetry. Im measurably more noteworthy are the large humanity and the wide philosophy evidenced and inculcated by his utterances. His cry is that of Happiness and of Adoration— " For I do not see one imperfection in the universe." Another while he declares— " That all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any." And another while he ejaculates : " The sun and stars that float in the open air ; The apple-shaped earth and we upon it—surely the drift of them is something grand !" Adding— " I do not know what it is, except that it is grand, and _ that it is happiness." Again, he is full of wonderment at the abounding wonders around him, among others at— tg The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees, and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever." The wonder of wonders to him, however the glory and consolation of his life—(the enunciation of which, of the joy and solace of which to his fel low mortals, is among the most dearly-cherished aspirations of his ambition) the one great end worth living for, being, according to Walt Whit raan—lleath. Thus he exclaims— A n d I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results—and I will show that nothing can happon more beautiful than death.' , It is thus that he speaks in his " Song at Sunset" of —is the superb vistas of Death." It is thus that in his poem addressed "To one Shortly to Die," ho closes it not in pity but in felicitation— "l do not commiserate—l congratulate you." It is thus he sings exultantly— "l shall go with the rest. We canna be stopped at a given point—that is no satis faction, To show us a good thing, or a few good things, for a space of time—that is no satisfaction ; We must have the indestructible breed of the bust, regard less of time. If otherwise, all these things come but to ashes of dung If maggots and rats ended us, then alarum ! for we are betrayed ! Then indeed suspicion of death. Do you suspect death ? If I were to suspect death 1 should die now : Do you think 1 could walk pleasantly and well suited to ward annihilation ?" Consonant with his rapturous exultation in the thought of Death, consonant with his homage for the perfection of the universe, are his absolute confi dence in the reality of the future, and his profound sense that all that is holiest has never yet in any way been adequately realised or appreciated : "1 bay the whole earth, and all the stars in the sky, aro for religion's sake. I say no man has ever yet boon half devout enough, None has ever yet adored or worshipped half enough ; Nuns has begun to think how divine ho himself is, and how certain the future is." Hence he sings, hence he is a Poet, hence he un dertakes in these poems of his to write the " evangel poem of comrades and love." Akin to his overflow.: ing delight in the thought of the Now and the Here after, are the largeness and the depth, the exquisite self-abnegation and the all-embracing comprehen siveness of his humanity. To the very dregs and scum and squalor of the evil streets of a bad city he cries out—by a subtle violation of gram mar, as it seems to us, i. e., in the verb we have italicized in, the subjoined quotation, appealing to them as though he spoke with them from their own level— " Because you are greasy and pimpled, or that you was drunk, or a thief, Or diseased, or rheumatic, or a prostitute, or are so now, Or from frivolity or impotence, or that you aro no scholar, and never saw your name in print, Do you give fa that you are any less immortal ?" At the City Dead 'louse in his " Leaves of Grass," we see him standing —gazing—yearning, in tenderest pity and commiseration over—what ? over "an outcast form," indeed, over the body of a poor dead prostitute— "The divine woman, her body—l see her boly—l look on it alone, That house, onea full of passion and beauty —all else I notice not ; No stillness so cob], nor running water from faucet, nor odours morbific impress me ; But the house alone—that wondrous house—that dAieatel fair house—that ruin ! That immortal house, inure than all the taws of dwollino ever built, Or white domed Capitol its.ilf, with in tjwstie figure sur mounted—or all the old high- yire.l c ithedrals, That little house alone more than them all—poor desperate house! Fair, fearful work! tenement of a SAO ! itself a Soul ! Unclaimed, avoided house ! take one breath from my try muhus lips; Take ono tear, dropped aside as I go, for thought of you, Dead house of love ! house of madness and sin, crumbled crushed ! House of life—era while talking and laughing—but, oh, poor house ! dead even then ; Months, years, an echoing, garnished house—but dead dead, dead." So wide, so profound, so insatiable are the yearnings of this great heart for sympathy, that on turning to his poem on " Envy" what do we find to be the cause of his Envy ? Not a perusal of the records of heroism, not the thought of Mighty Generals or Men in Power, but- 7: when he reads of the brother hood of lovers— "how through life, through dangers, odium, unchanging, long and long, Through youth, and through middle and through old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate, and faithful they were, Then lam pensive—l hastily put down the book, and walk away, filled with the bitterest envy." In illustration of the same thought, or rather of the same tender yearning for sympathy, read his commemoration of " Parting Friends,— " Two simple men I saw to-day on the pier, in the midst of the crowd parting the parting of dear friends ; The ono to remain hung on the other's neck and pas sionately kissed him, Whilst the one to depart tightly pressed the one to re main in his arms." Or, still more, the Poet's apostrophe "To a Stranger" " Passing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you." Most of all this yearning for sympathy shines forth when it is recognised " Among the Multitude ;" when, in other words, the Poet foresees it, thus— " Among the men and women, the multitude 1 perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs, Acknowledging none elso—not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am: Some are baffled—But that ono is not—that one knows AL! lover and perfect equal ! I meant that you should discover me so, by my faint indirectious [indications ? ]; And I; when I meet you, moan to discover you by the like in you." So, too, he sees them afar off in foreign lands, those breasts with whom his own could sympathise could they but be brought into communion " 0 I know we should ba brethren and lovers— I know I should be happy with them." It were idle, however, attempting to afford the reader any adequate notion of these poems as a symmetrical whole, through more fragmentary or incidental quotations like those to which a reviewer is necessarily restricted. It would be worse than the profferring of the specimen-brick by the house vendor in Hierocles—it would be the production of a handful of splinters chipped off the Apollo Belvi dere, or of a stray finger torn from the Venus de Medici. Whitman's Poems—as is the case with every true work of art—must be viewed each in its entirety before there can be any hope whatever of their accurate appreciation. So regarded, they cannot fail by any possibility, as we con - ceive, to win the admiration to which they are so signally - entitled. After this fashion alone that is to say at once, search ingly and comprehensively ought at any time to be examined, that noble apostrophe, be ginning at page 310, To Death, that profound and heart-penetrating epitome of Human Life, commencing at page 356, that no leS3 effective and affecting poem upon Night and Death which opens at page 266, but above all the nugniticent Nocturn upon the Death of President Lin coln, beginning at page 301, and, what is to our mind even finer than that, the exquisitely pathetic and pre-eminently beautiful celebration by Walt Whitman of the first revelation to himself of his own powers and future path in life as a poet, when, as a little barefooted child, he stood upon the sea shore one evening and far on into the night, listen. ing to the lamentations of the song-bird bereaved of its mate, himself drowned iu tears as he listened—standing, there, entranced in the moon light drinking in the music of that delicate and tender death-chant ! Never before was the song of a bird so put into human language —never before was the rapturous anguish of the poetic summons so articulated. It is 136 ranger's Ella Vocation repeated : when—speaking of himself as a mere infant —the old Chansonuier sings to us— " Urn° plaints touchante, De ma honcho sortit ; Le bon Dieu me dit : Chants, °haute, pauvre petit." And now that Whitman has sung (and is still, for that matter, happily singing in the midst of tri) in obedience to the holy mandate by which every true poet is at the outset made aware of his vocation, he has as profound a sense of the reality of that summons, and of the consequent permanence or security of his reputation as a Poet, as ever Horace had when proudly forecasting his own poetic immor tality. Assuming to himself at once his right position in English Literature, he has even, as it happens, like almost all the more remarkable poets in our language, selected, unconsciously it may be, but unmistakably his own especial em blem ! Henceforth, as it seems to us, his inalien ably and no other's ! A floral emblem to be worn by him from this time forth as conspicuously as the sprig of broom fastened of old on the helmet of the first Plantaganet. In this, as we have just now intimated, it is with him, as it has been before him with his compeers and his congeners, the majority of the great poets in our language. Has not Moore, for example, in this way taken to himself for ever as his the sham rock—and Scott the purpling heather—and Camp bell the red velvet strings of love-lies-bleeding ? Has not Keats his sprig of basil—and Blair his branch of funereal yew—and Chatterton his trail of lamenting willow ? But that Burns, again, accord ing his own showing, was endowed by his Muse (the Muse of Scotland) with the glistening bough of the holly, he might perchance have contested with Dan Chaucer the latter's now undisputed right to the possession as his of the darling blossom of the daisy. As indubitably, moreover, as the daisy be longs to Chaucer and the holly to Barns— so has Shelley assumed to himself the sensitive plant, and Wordsworth the little colandine and the daffodils, and Cowper the rose and the water lily, and Leigh Hunt the flowering branch of may, and Tennyson the gorgeous blossom of the passion flower, if only by right of the " splendid tear" shed upon it at the garden porch in " Maud," and Milton " the yellow cowslip and the pale prim rosti:" and Shakspere, for that matter, almost every bloom of the parterre or of the wilderness. And, as it has been with those, so is it now and hence forth with this true American Poet \Valt Whit man, who has made the lilac—the fragrant, blue ish-pink blossoms of the lilac—his own completely. Turning the leaves of these poems, the reader may say before the book is closed as the Poet himself says or rather sings with a sort of rapture— " Yet the lilac with mastering odour holds me." For it blossoms, and breathes forth its haunting per fume, and verdantly unfolds its delicate heart-shaped leaves, again and again, all through these pages— more especially in the great Nocturn on the Death of President Lincoln.. And §O, with the fragrAuois of the lilacs in our nostrils, and with the song of the lamenting bird in our ears, and with the thought in our hearts of the manly poet himself going his sickening rounds in the ghastly hospitals, all through the great American War, accompanied, as he went down the wards, by his attendant, bearing sponge, and pail, and lint, and ointment, for the cleansing and the binding up of many loathsome wounds, we close this beautiful volume with a renewal of our grateful acknowledgments to Mr. Rossetti, and with a benison to Walt Whitman. y .,_ • 75 . 17-,,,_. 5.•:.te.14'.: 1 , ~,,, Can,lll/2„z, ht. - 44 , '., -___:{ 7 - v Y, 1 - `- 7-L- -"' '' - ''#:111 . 111141r. ..f.a..`-.-ellini... HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 16. The giteen, accompanied by their Royal Iligh lleSS'33 Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, drove in the Great Park this morning. Iler Majesty honoured Lord and Lady Bridport with a visit. LATEST INTELL MENGE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE WAR IN ABYSSINIA. Sir S. Northcote has received the following tele• gram from Sir R. Napier, dated March 23 : " Sir R. Napier marches to-day from Latt with advanced column ; troops moved with provision, but no baggage, yesterday. Crossed a pass ton thousand feet high. Staveley with second column one day in rear ; one day in rear of Staveley elephants with guns, with reserve ammunition coming on well. Distance from advanced camp to Magdala 60 miles. Colonel Phayre reconnoi tred 20 miles in advance. Theodore at Magdala exhibits uneasiness. Intention uncertain. Troops full of spirits." PERSIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 16. The Persian Government has published a green book containing official correspondence relative to four serious differences with the Porte, namely, violation of the Persian frontier by a Turkish Brigade ander Chihli Pasha ; violent proceedings by Namyk Pasha, ex-governor of Bagdad against the Persian colonists at Fao ; attack by Turks on the Persian town of Sendabi, and slaughter of forty inhabitants ; and lastly, an accusation against the brigand chief Hamze Aga for making raids into Persian territory and recently burning the Persian town of Seedach. The green-book contains also the official notes exchanged between Fuad Pasha and the Persian Minister here respecting these grievances. AMERICA. (By Atlantic Telegraph.) WASHINGTON, April 16. The Impeachment trial was continued to-day. Evidence was produced by the counsel for the de• fence to show that President Johnson tried to gob a writ of quo warranto to test the right of Mr Stanton to hold the office of Secretary for War. ARRIVAL OF THE BORUSSIA. SOUTHAMPTON, April 7. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Borussia, from New York on the 4th inst., has ar rived here, with 23 passengers for Havre and Lon don. She brings no specie. On the 15th she spoke the C. T. Satton, of Jersey, and the English ship Algonta, from Liver" pool for Bombay. SOUTHAMPTON, April 17. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer, Cimbria, from New York, has arrived here. Sh B brings 88 passengers for this port, Havre, and Hamburg, 47 sacks of mails for England, 13 sacks for Germany, $5,000 in specie for London, and $l,OOO and 500 tons of cargo for Hamburg. FRANCE. PARIS, April 17. Last night there was a grand banquet at the English Embassy. Amongst the guests were the Marquis de ;Mustier, M. Pinard, Marshal Canro bert, and M. Aguado. A ball was afterwards given at the Grand llotel for the benefit of the English benevolent society. The fete was most brilliant. Lord Lyons, Sir J. 011iffe, and all the ambassadors were present. Bo URSE, April 16.—Three o'clock.—The m arket closed as follows : Viper Cent. End of month... —.— Italian Loan - 3 per Cent - End of month 69 15 Mexican Loan ... 19 -- Credit Mobilier Ead of month... 255 Credit Foncier —.1462 50 Lad of month.,. Spanish Threes — Home Debt 341 ,-- Deferred —.-- _ . Account .___ Orleans ..... 1 Northern llB5 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 573k Western Eastern .. — Sardinian Austrian s4Bi Lombard 3721 North of Spain 1,76. Saragossa , 921 Roman 4s* RAILWA FURNITURE FOR THE PUBLIC OFFICES.—The esti' mates present a vote of £15,000 which will be require for the supply and repair of furniture in the public de' partments this year. It appears always to cost more than £12,000 a year to keep the public offices supplied with furniture. DEATH OF Miss ROMER.—This celebrated English prima donna is ro more. She died at her reg' dance at Margate last Monday, in her 54th year. Fe ° singers have had a wider range of operatic charactera s She made her debut on the Covent Garden stage, the 16th of October, 1830, as Clara, in the " Duenna," on the sera. night that the Scotch tenor, Mr. John Wilson (who died in America), made hl5 first appearance as Don Carlos. gt the same theatre Miss Romer was the original Zerlina, is Auber's "Fra Diavolo," when Braham enacted the here' Mr. Wilson Lorenzo, Mr. G. Penson Lord Allcash, and Miss Cawse Lady Ailcash. Miss Romer was also the orl' ginal Mountain Sylph, at the Lyceum, in John B a rrett's charming opera. Miss Romer, after the death of Malibralh sustained with signal success the Maid of Artois of Bali° and the Sonnambula of Bellini. She also sang the part of Leonora, in Donizett's " Favorite," Matilda, in Rossinro "William Tell," with Duprez, the famed French tenor Miss Romer's repertoire included the leading character o in Balfe's " Bohemian Girl," the " Bandsman," Wallace i e " Maritana," Meyerbeer's Alice (" Robert le Diable") , Agatha in Weber's " Dor Freyschutz," kc. NU° Romer was gifted with one of the finest soprano voice° ever heard. Her early studies commenced under Mr. Elliott, a composer of glees, and it was unfortunat e for her style that she did not receive the ad" vantage of Italian training. Her acting was admirable . Miss Romer was directress for some years of an English opera company at the Surrey Theatre. She was married to the late Mr. George Almond, the army clothier, of St' James's street ; and she retired from the stage a few yet° since. Miss Romer (Mrs. George Almond) was universalli liked and respected. One of her sisters is married to Air' Mark Lemon, the editor of Punch, and her brother, gr, Frank Romer, is known as the composer o f some opera s ot more than ordinary merit. The Romers, in fact, are 0 musical familyt for two cousins of the late prima donna , the Misses Romer of Liverpool, were also on the lyrie stage, and were married to the Brothers Brough. Mr. Te° l Romer, a cousin, was the tenor at Drury-lane Theatre i° Mr. Bunn's time. Mr. Charles Rower was also a tenor , and Mr. Robert Romer is the comic actor at the Adolph' Theatre. Miss Maria Romer is married to Ansdell, the animal painter. Miss Romer (Mrs. G. Almond) resided at Tulse-hill after she withdrew from the stage, but on the death of her husband took up her residence at Margate Her health had been failing for some time past. An attack of, spasms of the heart was the immediate cause of deatb• She was assuredly one of the most distinguished of Bag lish singers. 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