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London, England, 1858-03-31 00:00:00

TRIESEMAR NO. 111.

NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE

CURES (a ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation,
Flatulency, Phlegm', all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints,
Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation,
Hearthm a, Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Snasms,
Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at ses), Sinking Fits,
Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com-
plaints ate effected by
U BARRY'S delicious REV A.LENTA
ALA RICA FOOD, which restores health without purging,

inconvenience, or expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other
remedies. it is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids
generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter-
feres with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch
and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and
muscular energy to the most enfeebled.
We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati-

trade from invalids:—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from tke Right Hon.
the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit
rrom Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to
yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines.
Stuart de Decies.' —Curz, No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable
agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation,
flatulency,
vsodpa. by Du
and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have
been rein
u Barry's excellent Food. 'lf aria Jolly, Wortham
o
Ling, near Diss, Norfolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs,
azing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Hefts, a cure of extreme ner-
v.,isnoss, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—
tie No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver
no )1: a cure of ten ye' is dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita-
bility. Cure No. 18.216. Dr. Andrew Uro of constipation, dyspep-
sia, ervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Sherland of dropsy
and debility. rhve No. 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic fits.
Cure No. 42.116 Major Edie of enlargement of the liver and total
prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of
cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure. NO. 26,418. Dr. Harvey
of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of con-
sumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunt, Esq., barrister, of para-
lysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, Frimley
of thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement,
partial deafness. Cure No. 4',814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester,
of two years' diarrhcea. Cure No 52,-612. The Dowager Countess
of Castle3tuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indi-
gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con-
sumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of
recovery. Cure No, 180. " Twenty-five years' nervousness, con-
stipation, indigestion, and debility, from which T have suffered great
misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been
effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. R.
Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' dis-
pepea, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for
which my servant had consulted the advice 'of many, have been
effectually cured by Du Barry's health restoring 'Food. I shall be
happy to answer any inquiries., Rev. John Flavell, Ilidlington Rec-
tors', Norfolk." No. 32,836. " Throe years' excessive nervousness,
with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debit!ty, which ren-
dered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Da
Barry's health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ress,
Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion,
altndevagleennetaral rdaebreia Fotylodiay. e been removed by Barry's excellent
James Porter, Athol-street, Perth."
Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious imita
tation st—
The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injunc-
tion on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for
imitating "Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food."
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•
NAVAL ANA ki-LITAitY .0%1-TEL LIGEIICE.

A letter from Aden, dated March 12, says :
Judging from the question. put to the First Lord of
the Treasury bymne of the members of our Legisla-
ture, whether the island of Perim was to be declared
a free port or not, we are bound to assume that the
public generally at home are not very well up in in-
formation about these parts of Aden. However,
mote must be known, seeing. that for years past it
has been the principal coaling stat-on between Suez
and our Eastern possessions. Nevertheless, we fear
that passengers carry away no very pleasant or cor-
rect notions, either of the place itself or of its im-
portance. A day on shore at a third-rate hotel, where
the fare is tough and scanty, the water brackish, the
wine and bear sour, the accommodation a make-
shift, and the locality hot. hot, hot, furnishes few
reminiscences likely to exalt Aden in general esti-
mation. Heaps of coal on the beach do, indeed, be-
speak for the place a certain degree.of utility, and
the commodious harbour is admitted to be a con-
venient haven midway between the Red Sea and
the Indian Ocean ; but few, we fear, of the hundreds
who pass and repass this way every month, have
any adequate conception of the value of Aden as a
British possession beyond the bare outline of such
obvious advantages ; nor is it my intention now to
dilate upon that topic either in its political, com-
mercial, or general bearings upon the Joint interests
of the Unite Kingdom and our Eastern empire.
Foreign Governments are fully alive to the import-
ance of Aden, and it is to be hoped our own Go-
vernment is not behindhand in that respect ; never-
theless those on the spot have good cause for be-
lieving that the ruling authorities are very neglig, nt
about establishing that iowortance upon a firm and
satisfactory basis. Aele-sisou how tll, is is Why, here,
we are again; for the leaudredth time perhaps, cut
off from all supplies from the interior, and in
hourly expeetation that our extraneous water
supply will also be stopped by a petty Arab tribe,
whose chief has been our most liberally paid
Aipendiary since the' capture of Aden, but who
has of late become so overbearing, insolent, and
mischievous, that, after: fruitlessly. entreating
and expostulating with him for months, the Politi-
cal Resident and Commandant, deprived as it would
seem of all authority to do more, at length with-
held his stipend. This took place, we believe, on
the Ist inst., since which time the chief, or Sultan.
as he is called, has prohibited his own people from
bringing in supplies, has detained" cafilas" coming
from the districts beyond his territories, and has
placed a ragamuffin crew on the road, just beyond
ganshot of our outworks, to plunder any who may
attempt. to hold intercourse with us. The conse-
quence of this siege is that since the let not a camel
has come Troin the interior; all our vegetables, peal-
, try, wood, eggs, fodder, grain, and a hundredother
necessaries have been mt off, and the place with its
23,000 inhabitants is existing at present upon the
small stock on hand, entirely dependent for the
morrow upon the very uncertain . and limited im-
ports by sea. These latter can only come for six
weeks longer, since after the setting in of the south-
west tuonsoon there are few arrivals in port;
therefore, unless sometiing be done to open the
interior, we have a prospect of being literally
starved out during the hot season.. Nor is it the
inhabitants alone who will suff r ; already all trade
with the interior has been suspended, and the agents
of several European firms sent here for cargoes are
complaining that not a coffee beau is brought in,
and that their ships will be detained at a groat
sacrifice. Several British ships now iu port—and
many more are expected—want water, and can get
none,. because Aden itself cannot supply enough for
the. troops. From the watering-place ou the oppir-
site side of the harbour not more can he procured
by present appliances than suffices for the navy and
part of the garrison ; and the wells at Shaik Ot&
man, a place five miles from our outworks, but only
two and a-half miles from the limit of British ter-
ritory, and only two from the coast, whence the
shipping have been abiindantly supplied for some
time past, ate closed against us by this contumacious
chief. Report says that the wateri-place on the.
other-side of the harbour just alluded to, being'
guarded and held by the same chief, will shortly
be. closed against us also, tind the wells destroyed.
A precious mess we shall- then be in I Why the
-brigadier does not go i out. and dislodge these fel-
lows is.a mystery ti many. Shaik Oihman might
be taken and held byi company of Native Intaiitry
and a cmple guns, for no resistauce is likely to
tiobefin4;l4t!soirtpthS?t.:sinr,vrioiall slavea garrison, and the posses-
t now
creep c urn try
all around and restore the communisation with

His• Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief,
accompanied by Gen. Peel, and attended by Col.
Tyrwhitt and Col. Foster, inspected the camp, per-
manent barracks, &c., at Aldersbott yesterday. His
Royal Highness and Gen. Peel afterwards visited
Sand hurt Golbge, returning to town i he evening.

been declareet eeadreor sea, ericwere yesterday
received ty Gem Eden, at Chatham, directing the
reinforcements for the Bth, 10th, 19th, 20th, 23d
(Royal Welsh Fusiliers), 24th, 29th, 32d, 35th
(Royal Sussex), 72th, and 84th Regiments, to the
number of upwards of 300 men, to embark to-day
at Gravesend, for Calcutta, for the purpose of join-
ing the service companies of their respective regi-
ments. The officers from Chatham who are ordered
to embark with the draughts are—Ensign J. E. W.
Black, Bth Foot ; Ensign C. H. Newbatt, 10th ;
Ensign J. Garforth and Ensign J. T. Gray, 32d ;
Ensign W. L. Burr, 53d ; Ensign G. Monsurgb,
75th ; and Ensign G. B. Wolseley, 84th. A large
number of troops from the depot battalions at Can-
terbury and Colchester will also embark in the
Abeona for Calcutta. Assistant-Surgeon Slatter,
61st Foot, and Assistant-Staff-Surgeon Seat() em-
bark in medical charge of the troops.
The battery of Royal Artillery, under the com-
mand of Major Franklyn, which has for some time
bean stationed at Leeds barracks, has received its
route for Woolwich, for which place it will leave
Leeds this week.
On Monday two sergeants and 100 recruits for
several regiments embarked on board the steamer
Ocean, at the North Wall, Dublin, for London.
The 18th and 27th depots arrived in Cork on
Sunday, and proceeded next morning to Buttevant,
to form pla of the depot battalion there. The
draught of the 13th Foot for India left Buttevant
on Monday for embarkation.
The Sir George F. Seymour convict ship sailed
from Portsmouth yesterday, for the Thames.
The Racoon, 21, Capt. Paynter, remains at Spit-
head, with the Renown, 91, Capt. Forbes ; the
Curagoa, 31, Capt. Mason ; and the Diadem, 31,
Capt. Moorsom, 0. 8., awaiting orders. The first-
named was visited yesterday by Rear-Admiral H.
Eden, ex-Lord of the Admiralty, in the forenoon.
The Dauntless, 33, and Falcon, 17, were taken
into the steam-basin at Portsmouth yesterday to
have their defects repaired.
The Sidon-, 22, paddle frigate, was urdocked yes-
terday at Portsmouth, after a lengthened repair,
and moved into the steam basin to complete by re-
shipping her machinery.
Two corporals and three artificers belonging to
the 13th battalion Royal Artillery are under orders
to leave Woolwich garrison this day, with 40 gun-
ners of the same battalion from Sheerness, four non-
commissioned officers, and 20 drivers of the 14th
battalion from Woolwich, 60 gunners from Sheer-
ness, and five gunners and five drivers of the Royal
Horse Artillery from Woolwich, to embark on
board the screw transport Abeona, for India.
Admiralty instructions were yesterday received
at Woolwich, directing the necessary preparations
to be made for the immediate temporary commis-
sion of her Majesty's paddlewheel steam sloop
Gorgon, about to be employed with the Agamem-
non in paying out the Transatlantic electric cable.
The Gorgon is to have a ship's company to consist
of 120 able-bodied seamen (20 extra hands to be
drawn from Devonport and 20 from Chatham),
and one sergeant and 10 privates of Royal Marine
Light Infantry.
The gang of shipwrights' artificers employed in
repairing and bringing forward the iron paddlewheel
steam vessel Oberon at Woolwich were yesterday re-
moved, by special directions from the Admiralty,
and were ordered to take up the paddlewheel steam
sloop Barracouta (late on the East India and China
station), to be fitted for the pennant, it is said, of
Commander his Serene Highness Victor F.F. E. G.
A. C. F., Prince of Hohenlohe-Lingenbourg, late
lieutenant in H. M.'s 50 gun ship Raleigh. The paddle
wheel steam sloop Prometheus is also fast progress-
ing for commission. The following vessels are at
present in basin and dock at Woolwich :—Bann,
Minx, Prometheus, Oberon, Archer, Mistletoe,
Riled aman thus, Barracouta, Rifleman, Spiteful,
Gorgon, Dee, Bustler, Black Eagle, Princess Alice,
Vivid, Racer, Banshee, Monkey, Widgeon, Julia,
Challenger, Argus, and Ripple.
The freightship Beucleugh, Miller master, yes-
terday commenced shipping military stores from
Woolwich for the Mauritius ; and the Patricia
received a cargo of military clothing and other
store,, for Jamaica.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :
Captain—George W. Preedy to the Agamemnon.
Master—Henry A Moriarty to the Agamemnon.
Paymaster—John N. De Vries to the Agamemnon.
Clerks—Arthur H. Gore to the Nile ; James Wortley
to the Saturn.
Cornelius Noddall, Esq., to be Master Attendant at
the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard, Gosport, Tice
Davis, superannuated.

Aden (for all the other tribes are friendly), at the
same that it would be the most effectual way of
bringing this ungrateful chief to his senses and
make him less disposed to annoy us hereafter.
Some say that the brigadier is so bound by his in-
structions that be cannot under any conceivable
circumstances make such a move without the ex-
press sanction of Government, and I am inclined
to I:dieve that that is the only drawback in the
present instance. Then, again, it is said by mili-
tary•men that some light cavalry are indispensable
to render such a movement effectual. If so, we
can only wonder why a troop of Sciude Horse, or-
dered to Aden two years ago, have not yet been sent.
All I know is that it is a disgrace to our national
honour that, occupying so important a position at
Aden, we are obliged to submit tamely to such in-
dignities and to undergo such annoyances from the
petty tribes who inhabit the neighbourhood. Will
it indeed be believed in England that no less than
four of our countrymen have within the last eight
years been basely murdered by miscreants of these
tribes, without our having succeeded in obtaining
the least satisfaction for such outrages ; and, fur-
ther, that the chief, or late ally, who is now putting
the place to such inconveniencies, and driving as
gradually to actual want, is harbouring the wretch
who killed a seaman of the Au Arland, and that the
assassin himself is known at the present moment to
form part of the
guard in a fort over the watering-
place, almost within range of our ships' guns ? If, as
is reported, the Governor of Aden is restricted
from taking any active measures to remedy this
state of things,
is greatly to be comp Assionated,
since any one tolerably acquainted with the actual
state of our relations with the interior is fully con-
vinced that even with a greatly reduced garrison—
which certainly
strength at all times—the thing could be done with-
ought to be kept up to its ordinary
out any risk to ourselves, and without necessitating
any advance into the interior beyond that of occu-
pying a post two miles 'beyond out present boun-
d ury.

I have this moment beard that several large
" cafilas" of coffee coming to Aden have been de-
tained by the hostile chief of Latiadj, and that his
people are seizing, plundering, and wounding any,
who attempt to bring in provisions. No more sup-
plies for the steamers, no more vegetables for the
reinforcements to India, Lo more water for our
merchant shipping, and a very dark prospect for us
wretched Adenites to look forward to while this
state of things is permitted. _

By the way, I have just heard that the Somali
chiefs of Ain Tarad, in execution of a treaty which
they made with us about two years ago, have
seized a bungalow with 60 slaves and have de-
spatched messengers to our ReAdent to request
that he would send over and take possession of them.
Will you believe it, that, though we have a sloop of
war and a steamer in the harbour, both are so inef-
ficient that neither can be sent on such a mission !
Credible information has also been received that
there are no less than 500 slaves, new importations,
on the opposite African coast, and that this detest-
able traffic is increasing to a fearful ex.tent. Never-
theless, Aden, which might be made available to
put a stop to this abomination, is left without the
means of checking it.

[ADVERTISEMENT. —The following extraordinary Cures with-
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Barrfallevalota Arabica Fwd.".

tion of this work induced favourable intercession
for Bamford, and he has for some time past been
employed at Somerset-house. Mr. Hardwick read
the Lancashire Hymn,' in which, he said, he did
not see much of a treasonable character now,
though it might perhaps be more significant at the
time it was written. One thing, however, was cer-
tain ; the man who could write such a poem must
have been possessed of a noble heart, and of a true
patriotic feeling, together with no common com-
mand of the English language. To diversify the
entertainment of the evening, the lecturer read also
a piece composed by Bamford, in the Lancashire
dialect, on " Tim Bobbin's Grave," and the epi-
taph on Tim ; and after wards " the Pass of Death,"
which was written on the death of George Canning.
Mr.. Hardwick then noticed Elijah Ridings,
another of the old living poets (whom be had the
pleasure of knowing many years), a poor school-
master and bookseller, and as honourable and up-
right a being as ever suffered poverty and wrote
verses. In his works there were here and there
glimmerings of great beauty, and throughout a
strong love of nature. He read one little Poem,
" The Preacher and the Child," which was much
admired.
John Bolton Rogerson was next introduced. lie
held a good position among the poets of Lae ca-
shire, but not, perhaps, among the poets of Eng-
land. He did not often surprise his readers with
strikingly original thoughts, or forms of expression,
but was thoroughly imbued with the true poetic
feeling. Much of what he had written appeared to
be rather a reproduction of that which had de-
lighted him in ethers ; but on many occasions,
and especially when he wrote on subjects of a
domestic character, he showed himself a tree pee.
At an illustration, Mr. Hardwick recited the verses
" To my wife," written soon after severe affliction.
A. humor Jus poem, " The Bellies," was.ahao read,
amidst' nnittlitlitt,gliterOeTieie,:A .4elejaere .srAtelieveel,.
might be considered the joint-prbduc
son and Elijah Ridings.
Of the living poets, Charles Swain, of Manches-
ter, perhaps enjoyed a more extended reputation
than any other Lancashire poet, and, all things
considered, he was perhaps entitled to it. Those
who least appreciated his genius did not deny that
he had at least written many extremely beautiful
poems. He was' not- remarkable for nervous
strength, but he was ever placid, sweet, and melc-
dimes ; and the sentiments enshrined in his verses
were ever beyond. reproach. His chaste imagee,
pure home affections, and careful and elegant ver-
sification would aletays be appreciated. Personally,
the man was very much like his poetry, which was
not often the case,; foe we were often grievously
disappointed when we Saw the original. Mr. Swain
was a mild and amiable gentleman, and was
thoroughly imbued. with a love of his art. The lec-
turer once asked him.if he did not consider that the
worldly recompense 'aceorded to poets was often
sadly disproportionate to their merit. His answer
was to the effect that poets should regard, to some
extent, the pleasure they enjoyed in composition as
their recompense. Latterly,-Mr. Swain had ralier
extended his sphere, and had written a dramatic
poem, in which he had occasionally shown thet,
when be felt inclined to plant his spur into the
sides of his :Pegasus, he was by no means deficient
iu masculine strength. In order that the audience
might form some notion of his style, the lecturer
read several stanzas from his poem on "The Mind ;"
and as a specimen of his more energetic style, a few
lines on the death of-Lord. Byron, the text oiwhich
was the poet's last word,---" I must sleep now."
The 'post who divided public opinion with Mr.
Swain was John Critchley Prince. He had written
many poems equal, if not superior to those of Mr.
Swain ; and he certainly possessed a richer original
vein, and a more nervous and impassioned style.
Having briefly touched upon the destitution and
wanderings of Prince's childhood, Mr. Hardwick
noticed the poverty and travels of the poeL's man-
hood. Much of that-poverty, he regretted to say,
was attributed to his ownimprovidence. With all
his flue thoughts, and fine feelings, and high aspi-
rations, be had been continually struggling with
penury ; but Christian charity will touch lightly
upon his weakness, in consideration of his suffer-
ings, and. the productions of his muse. He possesSed
a just appreciation of the beauty of natural scenery,
strong domestic affections, and deep-seated patri-
otic sentiment. The lecturer had previously ob-
served that to some of the poets of this county,
humble, suffering men, England was deeply in-
debted during the Chartist agitation ; and espe-
cially to Prince for his maguiticent appeal entitled
41,442,=Queit-mor-iissokniketerioTaegfotiser -with many-
was often tempted to write in a more missnthropicsi other strains of similar purport. This poem the
spirit than those whose physical wants were better lecturer read, and afterwards recited by particular
provided for. With respect to the poets of Lance- request, a portion of an " Epistle to a Brother
shire this was, however, by no means a prevailing Poet," containing beautiful allusions to natural
fault. Their love of liberty rarely, if ever, degene- beauty and the domestic affections, and displaying
rates into license. They bed contributed much a high tone of thought, great love for the human
towards an improved respect for law and order. Ig- family, and a fine perception of what is the poet's
norant and blatant demagogueism has often received duty to his fellow man. This piece was recited by
signal chaltisementfrom their pens. Society at large Mr. Hardwick in his very best vein. He entered
owes to some of the lowly-born and humbly-clad fully into the spirit and feeling of the poet, and in
sons of the muse ire Lancashire at the present time, his interpretation of it exhibited a true appreciation
a much larger measure of gratitude thin it has yet of its beauties. It was a great treat to the audience
eith.•;r rewarded or discovered. They all knew the who marked their sense of it by repeated plaudits.
credit Preston had received at the hands of all Eug- The lecturer next referred to his friend, Mr. E.
land, of all the world, for the manner in which its Waugh. He observed that a question had arisen
operatives conducted themselves during the last Ivh ether the writing of poetry in the Lancashire
severe struggle with their employers. He had often dialect was a legitimate occupation for a man of
been told of it in other parts of England, and had genius. It was said that such poetry was very
always felt proud of the improved respect fur law low and vulgar. The Lancashire dialect was,
and order then exhibited. nevertheless, a remnant of the good old English
The poetry of Lancashire was almost entirely con- language—the language of Chaucer, who, if lie
fined to the very three-quarters of a century in wore to return to us again, would have to mix
which we have been so busily employed in building amongst the country people to find his mother
cotton mills and manufacturing steam-engines. One tongue. Many of their phrases were not merely
of the distinguished poets of the Elizabethan era vulgar modern corruptions, but the reverse
was, however, born in this very town. That be was in many instances. Several were of pure
regarded at the time as no common poet might be Saxon and Scandinavian origin. In the " Faery
inferred from the fact that in every notice of the Queen" of Spenser, who lived in the time of Shak-
contemporaries of Shakspere, Thomas Preston, of spore, many words are used by him which, though
Preston, in Lancashire, was mentioned. He was not considered good English now, are still spoken
born in the year 1530. Like Shakspere, he sue- by the Lancashire peasant-, as eyrie the plural of eye,
ceeded in winning the good opinion of Queen which was of the same class as oxen the plural of
Elizabeth, arid so pleased was her Majesty with ox ; burst, which was the original past tense of
his " graceful performance" in the Latin play of burst, &c. The lecturer related two anecdotes illus-
" Dido 'at Oxford, that she conferred upon him trative of this position. Some Lancashire lads
the title of her " scholar," together with an annuity working in Germany actually contrived to make
of 201. a year, a sum which would be worth nearly the peasantry there understand them, one of them
1001. a-year at the present time. Preston literary declaring the language to be " rank Owdham."
labour is specially referred to by Shakspere him- The peasantry of Brittany could to this day, for a
self in his play of King Henry W. Falstaff, when similar reason, understand the peasantry of Wales.
acting the part of the king, says, " 1 will do it in The lecturer argued, if these old dialects were
King Cambyses' vein," referring to the style the memorials of the past language, some memory
of the hero of the tragedy of Cambyses, of them ought, to be retained. In these days of
written by Preston ; though he (the' lecturer) was railways and rapid locomotion, the language in our
sorry to say the reference could scarcely be regarded country places would, in a century, become as re-
as a complimentary one. fined as it is at present in London. Why were the
John Collier, better known by his nom de plume Scotch so fond of their national songs s• Because
of " Tim Bobbin," was next commented upon. the " lads and lasses" of that country the better
Collier, the poor sehoolueaster of Milnrow (Ruch- appreciated them in their vernacular garb. So it
dale), was by no means the simple dialect writer he was with the Irish and Welsh songs. Independently
was generally imagined. He (Mc. II) was sorry of the mere patois, these dialects contained forms
that he had overlooked him in his recently pub- of expression, and embodied much peculiarity of
lished "History of Preston and its Environs," as thought,which, translated into plain English, would
he had lately discovered him to be a better anti- be considerably weakened, if not entirely destroyed.
quarian topographer than his compeer, the Rev. For these reasons, the Lancashire songs of Mr.
John Whitaker. Collier, during the rev. gentle- Waugh and others would become valuable in the
man's lifetime, successfully attacked many of the course of time for historical references. Roby, in
crude theories and dogmatism perpetrated by the his " Traditions of Lancashire," had invented
historian of Manchester. Nay, lie spared not his fresh characters, and constructed agreeable novel-
rival's literary style, and unquestionably excelled ties, but had altogether destroyed the great truth
him in this respect. Collier's serious prose is re- he ought to have preserved, and, for so doing, de
markable for the purity of its English, and its terse served censure rather than praise. Mr. Waugh
and perspicuous expression. "Tummus and Meary" had, in his " Sketches of Lancashire," described
was scarcely readable now, even by many persons things in their integrity, and had, consequently,
living in the vicinity of Rochdale, on account of served the cause of truth much better than Mr.
the variation which has since taken place in the Roby. Poetry was one of the fine arts—an iwita-
dialect. The true value of " Yr-animus and Meary" tive art, and it was the duty of the poet not simply
consisted in its faithful pictures of the habits, cha- to draw on his own unaided fancy, but to extract
meter, and manners of the persons among whom the truth from the mass of moral and material being byb
author lived. On looking over his poems, be had which he is surrounded. Therefore he shvoout e
botmeelf
found one which he thought worth his while to to see Waugh or any other poet deHe i
belved
read, as it contained a vast amount of fun and to the Lancashire dialect entirely..
Frig-
good humour, though not much poetry. He could him capable of writing good poetry in modern I
cturer received from
not award to Collier any great merit in this patti- lish. Some years ago the
ecalled "The World,"
cular. Collier's want of sympathy with rhetorical Mr. Waugh a littlietbp
oeand sententious thought.
expression might be gathered from the circumstance which was full of
fled
that he strongly objects to its use by the Ray. John Having read thifs poem, lecturer completely
Came
Whitaker. The author of " Tummus and Meary" his estimate oobild
er me," of which he said it
ew ieh com
Pr
thought it an unpardonable offence in the historian whoam laot thyu aralleled in the history of song
of Manchester to personify the ancient oaks of the was a f
neighbourhood. And yet he had merely stated writing, :bat nePver since the days of Homer had
single ballad so large a circulation. This per-
that they annually shed their acorns for the sus. any
p esulted not on account of any very extra-
tenance of the wild pigs which roamed the forest.
ordinary
the talent it displayed, but by reason of its
" Tim" sturdily declared his firm conviction that
sincere: adherence to truth. Its great merit was
the said oaks would have acted precisely in a sibmii-
its orieinality. Mankind wanted new thoughts,
lay manner if the entire porcine population. as,
and not another million or two of books in which
selected some other locality for their pezegrinatdietnbe.
the same thought or thoughts are eternally iterated.
Mr. Hard wink then read the poem,
aporPy telling,st yl
style,
Quack Doctor," a tale of 1762, whichrloocbcaasnioned This poem happened to be an original conception.
It was the result of his own observation, and he
much mirth.
The poem was not, as some persons seemed to
Samuel Bamford, the poet of
.the old Radicathls, hwaitclbtoruetateedpaitsminedhiies
eoffwonrtpetcoulbiaer and
gnat h
was next introduced. His writing attracted
Lorde
attention of Sir James Scarlett, afterwar
patronised. am or
B f d think, a funny affair. To t
Abinger, by whom he was
d Johnson, and was themselves it was "be woman and the man
was the companion of Hunt an a positively serious affair,and
of the slaughter should not be recited with 1 •
tried for conspiracy on the occasionlevity at all ; in the third
of Peterloo Fields, in Manchester,
andsuffered itn- stanza, in his o • pinion, there was a great deal of
isonment. A sturdy John Bullism was exhibited pathos. After
reciting the poem, Mr. Hardwick
a his work " The Life of a Radical," which he read a few stanzas, entitled "Cultivate your
wrote some time afterwards, and which contained men."
the celebrated " Lancashire Hymn.,) The publics- Mr. Sheldon Chadwick, of Bolton, was then in-

On Tuesday evening last Mr. C. Hardwick deli-
vered a lecture at the Institution, Avenhatn, en-
titled, "An Evening with the Lancashire Poets,
illustrated with elocutionary readings." There Was
a numerous and respectable audience, over whom
Mr. W. Dobson presided as chairman.
Mr.-HARDWICK opened his lecture -by stating
that it might perhaps appear to some that the
terms "Lancashire" and " Poetry" were upon the
whole rather antagonistic than otherwise. Poetry,
with its high aspirations, its contempt for mere
worldly wealth, its deep human sympathies, its
self-denial, its undying heroism, its gorgeous but
impalpable empire in the regions of cloud-land •
and Lancasbire with its Mammon-worship, its potty
banterings and commercial conning, its hard and
heartless spindles and steam engines ; Lancashire,
where the greatest object in life appeared to ba the
acquisition of mere material wealth ; -Lancashire
was looked upon as the locality where Mammon-
worship was most rife, at least in Britain. Cer-
tainly at first Sight the terms seemed somewhat
incongruous. But a little calm consideration was
sufficient to dispel the illusion. It must not be
forgotten that the outward and merely animal form
of man enshrined an immaterial spirit. While he
distinctly regarded it to be one of the first.diities of
man to provide for the wants of the body, Lanca-
shire had unquestionably excelled all the word in
the production of material wealth ; and he should
be enabled to show that it had not been remark-
ably deficient in a higher and more spiritual sense.
When it was recollected that Lancashire contained
a population equal to many, and more than some,
of the petty kingdoms on the Continent, it might
easily be conceived that it was capable of produc-
ing men of every variety of mental and moral cha-
Teetet paid-Ire-was prep:rad-to claim for Lancashire
a fair antireasonable share of poetic taste and
poetic genius. It•was said-that the age itself was
not poetic—that we:lived in an age of iron, and
that science was making - much greater progress
than the arts ; but a candid inquiry into the
facts would to a great extent dispel this illusion
also. The nineteenth century had developed as
much poetic genius, and* productions had been
circulated among the ,peolic to a greater extent
than during any. preceding' century. It was true
that Lancashire had net'.gtven birth to a Shake-
'acre, but it was no rest certain libat no other
county could succeissfullecBmpete WithWarwick-
shit e for so glorious a distinction ; nay, it was
equally true that.no age or . kingdom, ancient or
modern, bad produced his superior or equal as a
dramatic, poet. Aftei alluding -to Byron, Shelley,
Coleridge, and Wordsworth; as being eqaal to
Dryden or Pope, and superior to any of the elder
second-class poets, and•to TennYson, Bailey, the
Brownings, and others, the productions of whose
genius would one day -be worthy of a place beside
the.best and greatest of the land, Mr. Hardwick
observed that many partieswere in the babitof ima-
gining that nothing could be poetic in i s character
which hid direct refereece to the present. He did
not deny that the past bad its po t:y, but he con-
tended that poetry neither scorned the present nor
-the future. The true poet
.of any age would ever
befouled to be the man: who .enabodi( d the spiritual
essmce of that age. Many .men of undoubted ta•
lent-were too often incited(' to manufacture rhymes
and rhetorical figures, as well as-to construct entire
poen* *simply in imita'ion of others which had
received the approbatiou of the public. This
soulless conventionalism, beneath which all inde-
pendent thought vainly struggled. Much of the
poetic genius of our otvp'-century would be more
highly estimated in the futere. Many of the now
acknowledged most gifted men of past ages had not
been appreciated so highly during their own gene-
ration as they are at 'the present time. This was
certainly not the case with all, for many popular
idols of the hour glitter a season and then sink into
merited obscurity.
- Mr. Hardwick then entered into an analysis of the
peculiar charatteeristies of the Lancashire poets.
He had concluded, after a careful examination of
the literature of the present day, that the home
Affections, a sturdy patriotism, and an enthusiastic
lova of liberty predominated. He believed that
the poetry of no given division of- this country
had more truly embodied the genuine English
spirit of freedom than that of the county of
Lancashire. - But, unfortunately, the
.majority of
our poets have been and still are very poor
men, and, although poverty in it elf was not coin-
netent to extinguish the divine afflatus, the poor