The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-10 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1858.

r Homy's, perhaps a little better. " I learned at a
=ratinthororl,:ik• tells se in a meted and pleasing
prefer*, " newly all that I ever
learned from a master, namely, to read badly, to
write worse, and to cipher a little farther perhaps
than the Rale of Three." Dr. Watt's Divine Songs
first awakened poetical aspirations in the mind of
the herd-boy as he conned them on the lonely moor;
and before ha was twelve ram old he began to
emulate the lime which he loved. "By the tine I
wee eighteen or twenty," he says, " I had nearly
overcome a self-educating peasant's first and greatest
difficulty elsewhere described—the want of- words.
It was thm delicious to find that I wu able to ex-
press, is Areas adenething like the Minim of my
favourite poets, the feelings of love and admiration
with which ray village beauties inspired me ; and
that my power of song-writing sometimes gave me
in their eyes an advantage over likelier suitors." His
description in one of the poems of the rustic poses
first sal greatest difficulty is simple and truthful:
01 whit les tell—tave they wine peek bee Wise—
The Sie hrgeLissms.ll hew GM
hues sod=
tegebultriagesigaberme et reel I
nal eine;
teell=reeti:ll4Cet relerti they tiehe•
Sink la a tearer sad the SIM;
And Mei of bet their seallies add
_To plead amigo apeedi—ao Uwe so he&
MA Idle le him et node proem WO,
tcre"Mon"L"...f..let.twd."=.lll4 •
The per ass's year vetehriety holes—
To well whoa Lewin blips to wail her page,
She gesehe the Magness el On aneWil list age ;
liim tooliojoio !sari breffiestralkas dim,
Ike Hello I
The
ison th
bab segh her. telperier vs dry,
Ra wias bre*
Lad heart that wooll dlespeit—didwieatelYeeiewer
Thee eakeetee as ea Mee how Is hoer,
Point with foir Byer to Weked—
The dawn's add esere—esi the r reed
Of bright %amp

From that tinW his " unletter'd Mon" became
active.
of
gave vent to many amorous dusk= and
oat of domestic and social feeling, not in-
tended to be ever given to the world. It was by
what will now be considered his least meritorious
Wits that he first became publicly known---his poli-
tical verses. Party ran high in throe days ; and he
was prompted by his tory convictions to write
various songs for elections, &c., which were pub-
lished. "I took the unpopular aide," he n
" though my private interests pointed the other
way." This we believe, for Mr. Story is evidently
a thoroughly honest man. But we do not me that
his polities injured him. On the contrary, his tory
lyrics appear to have made him known to power-
ful MINIUM of that party, who discovered at the
same time that he had high& merits than those of a
political partisan. Through their influence, it appears,
a collection of his miscellaneous poems was
printed, and met with considerable favour ; and
through the same means he obtained the respectable
ritnatami under government which he has worthily
held for many years.
The very handwrite volume before us (a remark-
able specimen of provincial typography) contains a
complete collection of the author's poems, chrono-
logically arranged from 1818 to 1867. The political
songs, a few or which are inserted, might have been
emitted without disadvantage, theagh they do no
harm beyond uselessly filling a few
.pages, for they
are wholly untinged with party animosity. There
are two long poems each of which has appeared
separately—a live act play, called 774 e °came : and
" Gathrum the Dane," a poem in six cantos. The
play is inartificially constructed, having been
written, as the author tells us, when he was ma-
=l:tad with the stage. It will be read, nevee-
with pleasure. It is founded oa an lateral-
ing incident in the history of the romantic district
of Craven in the time of Henry the Eighth,
and displays considerable dramatic power.
The poem is on the subject of the groat
struggle between the Saxons and the Dana
for the dominion of England; it is fall of
spirit-stirring situations and events, and contains
many striking and vigorous passages. But it is in
the short lyrical pieces, of which the volume chiefly
consists, that the reader will take the greatest
pleasure. They are not flights of fancy or brilliant
displays of imagination, bat we feel that they speak
the pure and simple language of the heart,
painting the poet's feelings—his loves and hopes,
his joys and sorrows--excited by real persons and
real circumstances. There is no violence of passion.
Mr. Story's disposition is thoughtful, tender, and
tinged with melancholy, and his natural expression
of gentle yet deep emotion is perhaps calculated to
excite more general sympathy than the " burning
words " of more powerful poets.
We shall give, almost at random, two specimens
of the author's vein. The subject of the first, we
believe, is one of his daughters, who died in
CaildhOod.
We Asa lailebad at Fsanl,
Bares Lad tor while we Laughed ;
BM weave odd a afxtare
Ot aid oak
Wbstrfor see thought she uttered,
Lad bee wads—she " reckon'd nowt •'
Of the be lob tali of Leedom :
HMS IMO Yuletide, sat sad oat
• Mils bar We eslimeat wasaiag,
wild bs 111w=enelled, ware still
At 'beim as dr
Oleo wait weak
Thus beibieet kiss geed sad gentle,
Art tompwat all her sett,
We Ana hegira at Fanny,
Bat we bead her while we laughed
A EM ldb was lay Faaay'a,
Lad eight die werslag divot I
Bat be, dr were those of childhood,
Lad be spirit Is is Brom.
All agouti* isee wen* whoa Oleg.
Rea awls of whoa thweght ;
And we hie hew wile Tr Irasay,—
We Millessiel sere than we matt.
Yet eves la then asesests
Glue was iheate, a wend,
net milled an of periods
Whoa the one with mirth we bead.
wefflippal hal WOW.
hiss pespeas sad weft ;
Bat now-41e odd—we weep the sod
At Art the most we lasegbad 1

The second is playful and pretty:—
" Tee hove tweed," soloolia to his sweedwart who stood,
While be set ea a et &Ones drake,
" Yon loss hued of As boy's whim* ad wo3d
I wish that the lambi twee whistle sure is I"
"Awl what would yes do with it t Tell sae t" ohs said,
While es sash mils played over her basstitsl hoe ;
" I would blow it," he weswere• " sad this my fair maid
Would 4 to my aide, and world hers Mho has piece
"Is Odell mid& haw Thai may
Wititost say megia," the fair maiden ;
" • *wow ao alight owl'. good satyrs seems !"
As• mho pkytelly dread herself by his alas.

" I would *m it main' " said tit* root* 11 and the charm
Would work me, that sot ens Waters short
WWI he alt to hoar frost ray soak your Ise arm 1"
She maid, sad as MI her !se soie marl kb sock.

" Yet MN ware would I Mow, sod the mei gales
Weald Whig me, the third tkete, waie bib,—
Yoe wadi ley yaw lair eke* te this breesgewsblewe et Wee,
Lad year Hr, Maltz% pest it, wield give see t kW."
The mid= basiphed out la bee teseeset rho—
" Wirt hal et yountell with the wile& you'd make
Yoe 4s3y maw bow ally %would be,
To di there ..S whistle kw—what you might take."

Mr. hie Bidt, the seelpter, hes given • lifeline
obese el • Chtil, le b llerwel of, he the basset of the
Artiste Reemmehwe rweL The Igoe cosy be wee et the
Ileum Celessid'o, rad urn, we sadmeterld, be Allgood el
Icy emery.
DI. LmuOrrotra.--Owirtg to the boisterous stets
el the weather, Dr. Liviagelecie was usable to la lithe
Ilverpool yesterday (Timely), sad his elsrartare va
Le Yard of the eche, which has, bees wig* ir. elee hick
Clumusi, bees ebeled. The weedier at Llverreiel bee hes
very seem ke mese der pet, with ermeteme Beast at
hi, We, awl mew, ewe ••deem ea*. whet has the
arse-welt, which hr vewhowl the teeta sum go away
very disegmeable M ligh water.

MUSIC.

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lias, vas ghat it Ilts Ilisslyaspapss• Rooms last
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Orioles quintet is less haw en in this oeuntry that meet
of his other works of this oho, inlay of white at or time
were frapiently played at oar &mho emends. In tiers
gaiter Outdo, adopted • conbratlaa of larrameate 'a-
orta by the are adebrated, bat now, anterinaately,
gotten Hoseherid ; • peat ardor, wire wake were the
delight at the inset peimaiero—the Yields, Corvettes, sad
Oroadills—of the end of ktd ontary, but bar been (en-
! wiesly we think) thrown ride by tbdr incionnan of the
,perat day. Oadow's quintet, pekoe& lest WOO, was
aped W Ursa, Geed% Otersank Plied (.lie is Just
irked lair d= kr the .weer), and Pope, which Is r
sad es le ry dr It wee played ta whelks. It in • men
airy work; bat Ilbe meek d Ondow's ark mai et the
Ow, and bars • ektogir media of labor Mon of
laspbstlea. Is thit toper It presuded a rennebehis
conker wMe per white &Mowed It, Merrt's Tree in II
teat fee the plow, lining*, and vide, an reheating Atoka
• niskity, siiplitity, and holing. It wee deligbdally
phyol by ME Llikay Mow, Hew Peri, toed M. &bran.
Mr. Mopes Okra are known to everybody ; but Mums.
Pap end Deheenre an yew be the puha They are both
ray toe primer. ackaberte Hondo brillant for tear
beads, played by Mr. Mow and How Poor, was an in-
tereadtw neviity. It is in and moresent, end is just what
we =old bar squid from the erweeer at the beautiful
Gerson rep wlike he,. bloom hoer over all the world:
it is elm, Simply MU of voted melody, and, at the roe
dale, spitted sod brilliant. The resift( great concerted
piece, Beethoven's third quartet i D, is known to every
rarer as one of the par makes finer compositions. The
Tort polka ot the smart wee inter to the ineenuneatal
it wed are raspier.% and Eight have been, without kr
advantage, attepther dispemmed with.

DRAMA.

OLYMPIC.

Mr. Morton's new farce OflTeklish Times, pro-
duced on Moodily night at this theatre, is, according to the
custom of Me anther, ailed with the most ridiculous, mirth-
moving, end improbahle incidents, set forth to language
abounding in ihr-htehed puns end subsvagant illusions.
The motion to laid in the Jacobite period, at Weymouth,
where Sir Wilßere Rummy (Mr. W. Gordan), a peewit, Is
concealed, by his wife and his wile's fried, Mm. Origin, ht
the haws of ate Lancelot Orissa (Mr. ). Rohm), s red-hot
Royalist, who bee gone up to Landes le caw his merle= te
the government. The megisices cl • prying ewes; Dot
(Mra Sudan), are aroma by the tropes* whipsaws in
the how" sad to quit them Sir Willista is represented lo
her as her easier, Mr. Grigp, whom she has never is...
The rum succeeds until the return of the veritable Grigp
threatens to sigmas the cheat. Bat Sir William is a bold
man, and detmednes to brive it out. He stoutly siresrts his
identity as Griggs, sot only to the servant but to the real
owner of the nesse, sad so blusters and bullies thee as he
demote ia cemildeses the wretched loincolot recedes, end
finally, is not only kicked sad onitrd as an lop
poster, bat the very appoiabismn at Deputy-Lieute-
mint • WM& has been bestowed upon him as the
result of his visit to town, is wrested from him by his
"double," and he is compelled to sign a pees by which the
promribed Jacobite evratuelly elects his move. This little
piece, which wee entirety enemestal, he. evidently been
written for the purpose of allowing fall scope to Mr. Robson
for his extraordinary powers in dellaseting rep sad terror.
NMer was theme powers better exercised; the puha work-
ing up alpassiai, visible in the swaying body, choking rake,
quivering limbs, and nervously twitching Sugars, was IMF
odiously a:premed. He 11101 well Illipparted by the rest of
the company, and the ache as seem was excelkint.

EXHIBITIONS.

THZ GREAT GLOBE.

%ceping pace with the events of the times, Mr.
W7ld le adding to his Interesting geographical diorama in
Leioester-equen a miss of views representing thous portions
of the Cuitstial Login to which the military and political
moventeate sow to 'widen in that quarter of the weld
lend on asps*/ Isiereet. The first it the moles wes *W-
hited to the pat& for the lest time mislay. It le a
Wee eye view of Canien, tabs from the river, eliewbg to
wati-memeged pemmeetive the pelmet* ileatams of the
city—the aterielve walls by white it le anrrentaisi on all
Mr, aid by which it may be sad to be " divided against
itemir Into she ell soli the now city. The pekoe of the
tote Immidshie Commissions, /fa and the tell lire started
pagoda Mimi sal eseepienone frees amongst the
mac of opperently low dirty . beams which hem
the storese sogrow Mussel end by. ways ; sad
the year who* as Uri pestles el the rim ipsoyid&
the tbesmile et judo et all den etas teepee fon the per-
immet Wheless of theme& the idebtteste
==el=l.le Is MIL • tumid
hy bloillemlladvote of the prin-
cipal fishers' of dr siatwiss =ritte.,,,, by the
united "mesh and Tree& fires, sinimemee
to the spectator to trades et vldt-whielt the
Ism maim seere huffier. Ifs
CZ% =eirs me bike segrahel °Aunts'
skim dm sessehes, er be wadi me ban dA is tint
which we led always meoefielsi with warmth it wascadae
an upset while raided us of the disk, maw-
bunkum! atutesphere w daring the loot wish er two,
Me overcast this 113 thine western part of the old world.

BALs or BIJOOTZESZ AND WORKS OF AZT.—A
sale eljowsliery. hfiselsele, sod pure *see of minute art, of
mom 1b mug laksest, wOl take piece, cm Thursday, and
to trarrobielyn, at Rooms, New Beedearest,
The Whits mild of the well-known stock of Kr. BallOOOke
New Need-rikeel, the weer of CliNed-alree; heleded or
11111MMOU ?ma Wilms and am* et the Leer put
dee meeekwelt entery„ met the greet meth of Fried
seleklese palatleg— the dshimeh centery. May
of ewe a were, whit owe or lee areerecy,
to Panel eel hie Imam Bra ; to Drones,
Bair, Nattier, riagwal, oemetele, Dwelt Mew& ;
eel beley, Aryt.4 Btta, ..rd Theme ; fa bet, to
mesa dew artiste die pullet et Lewis XIV., the ram,
eel aid of the liwyke; sad, le ANON an Important soa-
ked= otdrawimps try Blereabsighe Of Seglialt works of
the else clew the ere, beaks vita pedeekee, greeleeme
of Cooper, Myer, lists, tad Oseeety. The jewele deb lee,
the anew ante. A smell draw altmelhee
to Benvenuto Weal, bet wpm ter to idol, mil 1•1
deeded to liveatioe to be the week se list mapall% bet
wayward meat, and not to be empered w eepet
Isms works, in the Louvre, bar Xremet• tuntellor
• elaswbore. The tidier rings are very unwerces, end
there are some no goidpious in gold ad " wawa rime
There or., In eddhloe, etrotege, Ivory awl other teehelie,
cape, veer, tealicer, sod figura, brebonetine, edam%
stiok-hamika. audianaraershis at warm, with*
bale ben Ineeheusehie subjects kw gem* sad world,

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