The Press.
London, England, 1854-06-24 00:00:00

CHANCELLOR

IN REFUSING ANY PROVISION FOR NELSON'S " HORATIA."

1. Because a legacy, even when left to a nation, is obviously for
'the benefit of the legatee, and not of the chattel bequeated.
2. Because Horatio Nelson set a bad example by going into
Copenhagen and Aboukir, instead of waiting a few years "challenging"
the enemy to " come out."
8. Because Mr. Greville requires the exact sum that would redeem
the nation's character in this matter.
4. Because. since the cosmogany or creation of the world a cer-
tain principle, at variance with an aesthetic sentiment, has mingled
itself with an ethical conviction, and delivered metaphysical truth
in a non-rational sense, in which idiosyncratic view of the subject,
I cannot, to use the words of the Morning Chronicle, " excogitate the
function " of—knowing precisely where or how the sentence is to end.
(Hiatus valdi defiendus),

THE

CONGE D'ELIRE OF STRUTT.

Elect! when no election's left ;
Choose when choice is ta'en away ;
Resign when of your place bereft,
And others seito the place and pay.

Sam Johnson—used to speaking plain—
(Oh ! for one hour of Sam againj—
Said of the oongi d'ilire,
" That still to him it did appear
As though from out an attic tall
You flung the wretch and bade him fall
On flags beneath, on feet or head,
As softly as on feather bed."

Just so of simple Strutt the case;
Lord John, with unaffected face,
So gently his discharge reveals,
The fact he could not tell,
That Granville held the Duchy seals ;
Till, like a passing knell,
The stern Gazette the sentence peals,
In ancient proverb trite and just,
" There's no compulsion, but you must."


RESS.

SATURDAY,

A SKiTCH FOR THE
" PORTRAIT GALLERY HANDBOOK"

OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE,

AYTER THE MANNER OF THAT PUBLICATION.

PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL, (RUSSELL) LORD JOHN.

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[Great of mind, though small of stature !—Repealer of the Test Act, and brother of
the Duke of Bedford—wears liberal principles and a broad-brimmed hat—antipopish,
antiprotestant, autichurch, and antidissenter—" has been," representative of Stroud in
England, Bandon in Ireland, and Tavistock somewhere in the temperate zone; " has
been " Prime Minister, and a member of the congregation of St. Paul's Knightsbridge,
but never arrived at the dignity of Churchwarden—wrote a grand history, called " Dot
Callen," and a work of fiction, entitled, the " Life of William Lord Russell," also a Letter
to the Bishop of Durham, for an account of which, see Hansard passim. Is President o
tho Council, for the mode of keeping order in which is said to have studied under Van
Amburgh, usually speaks with his arms folded, and his temper excited—certified for as to
political character, by Mr. Dillon Draper, of Fore-street, Mr. Babington Macaulay, and
Lord Lansdowne, all of whom see.]

THE FATE OF JOSEPH SMITH.

A VERY DOLEFUL BALLAD.

"MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Monday.—Joseph Smith, aged F), well educated, was in.
dieted fur stealing 41b. of coal, value twopence, the property of the !tight Hon. W. Ewalt
tiladstoue, Chancellor of the Exchequer, front Downing-street, where he went twice a
week to receive soup. Verdict, Guilty; six months' inquisontuent."—Duily pipers.

" Oh ! the half hours of history!"
The great NAPOLEON said ;
But greater GLADSTONE well can weigh
The halipeuces of trade.

" Small coals" and " candleends" his mind
Capacious can embrace,
A very Buckett he to find
Of petty thefts the trace.

Unhappy SMITH, not to have seen
What difference there may be
A saucy Magdalen between
And sinners such as he.

I

Though fed on soup of Downing street,
Unskilled in high resolves,
Poor tiNnTn, for Alice all nntneet,
Upon " the mill" revolves.

But, had he had a placeman's bite,
Instead of oakum he
Had picked the pockets of a State
From blame or censure free.

Yet may the casuist agree
\Vith SMITH upon the whole,
That if the soup he swallowed free
He free might take the coal.

As PRIM imposed the income tax
For " one three years" alone,
And wrote to Elbing that our backs
Beneath it still should groan,—

As GLAD£4TONE caught the notion bright,
To save financiers trouble,
That what at three per cent. was right
Is better still at double,—

SO SMITH, in his benighted state,
Might dimly understand
That free trade as to spoon and plate
Meant free trade as to hand.

A true philosopher, no doubt !
Though luckless in his trying
That famous scheme to carry out
In "cheapcat market" buying.

A proof of that great maxim sec!
While he his gain was telling,
The magistrate convinced him he
Was "in the dearest" selling.

This moral to my doleful lay
Gives STatrrr so lately stranded;
In Downing street stay while you may,
But leave it empty-handed.

THE WEEK.
WE are assured that a general survey of the intelligence of the week
will prove acceptable to our readers, if only as an introduction to
the contents of our paper ; and we propose in future, therefore, to
note here the chief events which occur from date to date of our
publication.
The week has been remarkable for a great rise of public confi-
dence and a great fall of Ministerial reputation. Usually in time of war