The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-19 00:00:00

THE LINCOLNITES.

The Lincolnites! the Lincolnites! how silently they sit,
Taking no part in the debate, tho' slyly watching it;
But they whisper to each other all thro' the live long
nights.
Members wonder what they whisper of—the stealthy
Lincolnites.
Do they whisper of the past? interchanging many a sigh
For all they once believed in, for-all they now deny—
The party faith, the public trust, the manly stand-up
fights
With those who fought for principlo?—tho neuter Lin-
colnites.
Do they whisper of the present? are witticisms small'
Muttered against Protectionist, or Whig, or Radical?
And in the absence of a creed is it a sneer unites

Some who were meant for better things—the fallen Lin-
colnites?
Do they whisper of the future? does it more and more
reveal
How the Lincoln bells are dumb bells since they cannot
ring their peal ?
Or own they how its muffled tone their inmost heart
affrights,
Tolling a horrid curfew to the darkened Lincolnites?
Ah! Lincolites! Rh! Lincolnites! men ask, who long
have watched
You hens who sit so broodingly—When will their eggs
be hatched?
Or were they always addled ones, with neither yolks nor
whites,
Fit only for the pillory, or for the Lincolnites?

And there are those among you who aught else must
soon prefer
To wasting life in sacrifice to your deaf Jupiter:*
Apt scholars, plainly seeing, 'mid elaborated slights,
No Tamworth great endowment scheme for the poor
Lincolnites.
Then, lost in morbid cautiousness why let your talents lie?
You have Canterbury brilliance and Oxford sublety,
While Ripon from the mountain, as the adage old recites,
Looks, if not over Lincoln, yet over the Lincolnites.
You've relics at the Carlton, and of Peers claim ono
or two;
You have bought the old Whig paper, and have made it
rat like you;
Let some one speak at evening what one each morning
writes;
Take courage in your carping, ye chronicled Lincolnites.
At all events be something, do something any bow;
You can't be worse committed than you are committed
now.
Office and principles are lost, the red box yet invites,
And it may, like Pandora's, hold Hope for the Lincolnites.
A. S.

* Jupiter oranti si surdas przebeat cures
Victima Tarpeios cur cadet ictu focos.
m.
—Post. —O

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, FEB. 17.—The Court sat yesterday morning,
at eh:yen o'clock, and the jury having answered to their
names, evidence was given on the part of the Crown,
after whi3h the jury were escorted to the Shelbourne
Hotel.

This day (Saturday, July 16) the presiding Judges
entered Court at eleven o'clock.
Several other witnesses were pxcllniiied, including the
policemen employed in the defence of Ballingarry, but
as the evidence was in substance and effect precisely
similar to that given at the trial of Mr. Smith O'Brien,
it is unnecessary hore, if there were time, to go over it,
anew.

Mr. Williams, a police-inspector, was under exami-
nation at post hour. A good deal of sensation, if not
surprise, wus excited by the course taken by one of the
jury, in the cross-examination of a witness, one of the
police.

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SATURDAY NiouT.—The Counsel for the prisoner, in
this unusually protracted trial, have not yet entered on
their defence, the Crown having only ended the case for
the prosecution this evening. The day was almost
entirely occupied in the examination and cross-exami-
nation of witnesses, and this produced but littlo excite-
ment.

It was expected that the Court would have given
judgment as to the admissibility of the letter writter by
Mr. Duffy to Mr. O'Brien, but no decision was given,
nor had anything escaped which could lead to what it
would likely be.
The Jury were again removed to Mr. Burke's Hotel, in
Stephen's-green, where they will be locked up until
Monday morning. It is not likely any verdict will be
given until Tuesday, if there be unanimity amongst
them, which is not expected.

His Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, accompanied
by M. Sieveking, arrived at the Prussian Legaticn, on
Saturday forenoon, from Berlin and Frankfort. M.
Sieveking, it is understood, is to be attached to the Le-
gation. His Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein re-
tains his position of Secretary until a higher post be-
comes vacant, when he will leave this country.
SOUTHAMPTON, Fan. 17.—The West India Com-
pany's mail steam-ship Thames, commanded by Captain
Abbott, with the usual West India mails, left this after-
noon at three o'clock. The freight taken out by the
Thames was both large and valuable, with specie and
jewellery to the amount of 5,122/. She took out 67 pas-
sengers, about one-third of whom were for Chagres,
en route to California. Amongst the names of those pas-
sengers going out by the Thames, were Captain and
Mrs. Smith, Captain Gainsford, the Consul of Jacmel,
Dr. Stuart, Lieutenant Hooke, Mr. and Mrs. Wheel-
wright, Mr. and Mrs. Hornsby, Ensigns Cox and Hal-
bron, scc. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam. ship Iberia, Captain Burney, with the mails for
Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar, left this day at two
o'clock. She had a full cargo of general merchendize,
amounting to 90 tons, and a small number of paste ngers.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed the
Rev. G. C. Irving, M.A., to the vicurage of Goud.hurst,
near Cranbrook, Kent, rendered vacant by the de• th of
the, Rey. W. D. Harrison, ILA.