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tact, as to minister to his love of gain. It is not cf.en
that we find professed money-lenders driven to their
trade by motives of this sentimental character. " A
Lecture on Cowper and Burns" is by Ebenezer
Elliott, the Corn-law Rhymer. There are some
clever critical remarks scattered through it, as might
be expected from one so conversant with the poetical
as, Mr. Elliott. The following observations are just,
though by no means remarkable for novelty
"Burns's muse was manliness; he was honest and
fearless. The muse of Cowper was conscience ; he
was honest, but not fearless ; he trembled, and a
shadow overthrew him—but it was a shadow darker
than the shadow of death. He would have been a far
greater poet than he was, ifla
in
a had not made
a coward. The hope of Burns is more poetical than
Cowper's despair." Of course, because the range of
hope is infinite; and the images drawn from pleasure
are essentially more poetical than . those drawn from
am p . In another passage, we think, the Corn-law
Rhymer somewhat overrates the powers of Cowper,
who, though a great, was unquestionably not a first-
rate poet, nor fit to be named on the same day with
Burns. The " Cold Water Cure"—what a remedy
when the thermometer is below zero !—is an account
of a remedial system that bids fair to eclipse Morison's
Pills, and the famous nostrum of Brandy and Salt.
The originator of " Hydropathy"—as it is learnedly
called—is a self-taught German, by name Priessnitz,
who, it appears, has already accumulated a fortune of
fifty thousand pounds; and has now an establishment
at Graefenberg containing npwards of five hundred
patients. If he would agree to qualify his doses of
cold water with just a wee modicum of Scotch whis-
key, or even bran:iy—for we are by no means par.
ticular—it is far from improbable that we ourselves
might become one of his patients. But to water,
whether hot, cold, or luke-warm, in its unsophisti-
cated, elementary state, we entertain a sincere, and,
we humbly trust, well-founded, aversion. " Miss
Burney'S Diary and Letters" is an agreeable notice
of the last volume of this posthumous publication.
As a favourable specimen of Tait's poetry, we quote
the " Song of June"

Night's conqueror I, on his ebon-roof trey
My mantle of twilight hangs haughtily.
The glistering stars from their temples of space
Look down and grow dim o'er the Islesi embrace ;
For my chariot wheels carry sunlight afar,
And my oriflamme, lightning, aye challenges war,
Till hill calls to valley, and mountains reply,
With the thunder I wield while I traverse the :ky.
But conclude not my life passeth drearily
Though I frown, and have shadows,
While the li?e winds his horn,
I ring scythes in the meadows,
With the whetstone at morn,
And at night send the mower home wearily.
About the green hedges,
I convolvulus twine ;
Drive kine to the sedges ;
Give bloom to the vine ;
In the brook plunge the peasant-boy cheerily.
I canopy lanes for young lovers to stroll
In the dimness of eve, by the light of the soul ;
Where the glow of my roses
Illumines the shade,
Yet vainly opposes
The blush of a maid !
Ah lovers ! fond lovers you ne'er can commune;
With a sensitive confidant secret as June.

2.
Age blesses my feet ; for I bring him the joy
Which surrounded his thoughts and his heart when a boy;
He shall dream in his porch of full fifty years gone,
When he loitered a listener in woods, not alone—
No ; a face that was fairer, with soul insincere,
Poured its pisonous balm in the coqueting ear
Of her he adored, till.fire flashed from his eyes,
And he thrashed the intruder, and bore off the prize;—
My sweet magic his dreamy thoughts brightening.
I have flowers for rough brambles ;
Gild the broom in the wild ;
I dry meads for the gambols
Of each dear happy child ;
The bonds of all Nature's love tightening.
My bloom-pencil streaking
Full orchards, I ply,
While hay-wains are creaking
To homesteads hard by ;
The fawn and the leveret frightening.
I will fill the warm air with a myriad hum,
And the dragon-fly bold, to your horse-fold shall come ;
Where nightingale pineth,
And young squirrels grow,
And brown glow-worm shineth
'Midst foxgloves below,
Oh, citizens ! citizens ! come and attune
'Your dull souls in forests and pastures of June.

COURT CIRCULAR.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited ler
Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday forenoon, at Buckinglasm
Palace, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent lunched
with her Majesty and his Royal Highness:
Sir Robert Peel arrived at the Palace soon after two o'clock.
from attending the examination at the Home-oilite. On quit-
ting the Palace the Right Hon. Baronet returned to the Privy
Council.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by his Excel-
lency Count Mensdorf, left the Palace in the afternoon for an
airing, in an open carriage and four. Throughout the whole of
the drive her Majesty was most enthusiastically received by all
classes of her subjects. Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde, the
Equerries in Waiting, were on horseback.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke
of Sussex, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princesses Angus a
and Mary of Cambridge, and Prince George visited her Ma.
jesty in the afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Princess
Sophia Matilda sent to inquire after the health of her Majesty.
The following members of the Foreign Diplomatic Corps
arrived at the Palace in the course of the day :—The French
Ambassador and the Countess St. Aulaire, the Belgian
Ali-
r:ister and Madame Van de Woyer, the Prussian Minister and
Madame Bunsen, the Portuguese Minister, the Bavarian Mi-
nister and Baroness de Cetto, the American Minister and lbs.
and Miss Everett, the Saxon Minister, the Brazilian Minister
and Madame Lisboa, the liussian Minister and Baroness Bre-
now, the Austrian Minister, the Grecian Minister and Madasne
Tricoupi, the Danish Minister and Countess Rerentluw, the.
Wurtemburg Minister and Baroness Ilugel, the Hanoveriatu
Minister, the Sardinian Minister, the Venezuelan Minister.,
the Mexican Charge d'Affaires and Madame Murphy, the New
Grena.la Charge d'Affaires and Madame Moaqttera, the Swedish
Charge d'Affaires and Baroness Rehausen, M. Del Pozzo, M.
Pinto de Soveral, Count Revel, Baron de Canitz, and M. Lobo
de Moira.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales andthe Princess
Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were to en
an airing yesterday morning in a carriage and four.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by Count
Mensdorf, and the Counts Hugh, Alphonso, Alexander, and
Arthur Mensdort, and attended by Lady Portman, Lord
Rivers, Captain Meynell, Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde,
honoured the Italian Opera with their presence last evening.
From ten o'clock in the morning until the close of the after-
noon, Buckingham Palace was thronged with the Nobility and
Gentry, calling to make their dutiful inquiries after the health
of her Majesty. Among them were Lord and Lady Denman,
Hon. Misses Denman, lion. Mrs. Denman, Duke and Duthesa,
of Buckingham, Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, Rifdas
Honourable H. Goulburn, Colonel Sir George and Lady
Couper, Sheriffs Magnay and Rogers, Mr. and Hon. Mrs.
Saunderson, Earl and Countess of Erroll, Sir R.., Lady,
and the Misses Gardiner, Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. Grey,
' Earl and Countess of Sheffield, Gen. Sir G. and Miss Murray,
Sir John and Lady Macdonald, Miss and Mr. Norman Mao.
donald, Mr. and Mrs. Errington, Earl and Countess of Clan-
william Lady Rivers, Dowager Lady Rivers, Mr. Charles and
Lady datherine Cavendish, Miss Cavendish, Dr. Henry Lee,
Sir Benjamin Brodie, Earl and Lady Katherine Jermye.
Bishop of Sodor and Man, Earl of Minto, Lord John Russell,
Hon. W. Bathurst, Countess Delawarr and the Ladies West,
Mr. and Mrs. Gaily Knight, Viscount Duncan, Lord and
Lady Wharncliffe, Viscount Ebrington, Mr. Espizasse, Re,
corder of Rochester, Lord Portman, Lord and Lady Stafford,
Gen. Sir H. and Lady Grey, Right Hon. G. S. and Lady
Agnes Byng, Admiral Sykes, Duke and Duchess of Northum-
berland, Marquis of Normanby, Archbishop of Canterbury acd
Mrs. Howley, Mrs. George Hope, Lady Ashburton, Miss
Baring, Colonel Wood, Colonel and Lady C. Buckley, Anne,
Countess of Newburgh, Dr. Chambers, Sir G. and Lady
Quentin, Miss Quentin, Sir R. and Lady Fitzwygrans„
Earl of Clare, Countess Dowager Clare, and Laity
Isabella Fitzgibbon, Lord Dal meny, 'Viscount arid
Viscountess Chelsea, Mr. Edward and Lally Emily
Foley, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount and 1' iscountess
Maynard, Lord and Lady Norreys, Duke and Dnehefes of
Norfolk, Earl and Countess Albemarle, Lord and Lady Cotten-
ham, Sir W. and Lady Augusta Cotton, Earl and Countess of
Roseberry and the Ladies Primrose, Lord and Lady Waterpark,
Earl and Countess of Ripon, Sir J. Kempt, Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Downshire, and Lady C. Hill, Colonel and Mrs.
Darner, Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright, the Vice-Chancellor Knight
Bruce, Earl of Radnor, Mr. Montague Gore: M.P,, Lord and
Lady Mahon, Lord and Lady Dunalloy, Marquis of Headfort
and the Ladies Olivia and Alary Taylour, Earl of Bective, Mr.
Alderman '1 hotnp.on, Mrs. and Miss Thompson Sir
Thomas Wilde, Duke of " Rutland, Earl and Countess
of Haddington, Sir Henry and Lady E. Hardinge,
Lord Leigh, Earl and Countess of Pembroke, Sir E. and Lady
Bowater, Sir D. and Lady Kinkel' Dowiger Lady Kinloch,
Earl and Countess of Clarendon, it'd and Countess Cadogan,
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Sir It, Westmacott, Lord's A.
and G. and Lady A. Paget, Lady and the Misses Wheatley,
Countess of Jersey, Lady C. Villiers, Baron and Baroness
Lionel de Rothschild, Right Hon. H. and Mrs. Labouekere,
Sir W. Fremantle, Sir Fred. B. Watson, Lord and Lady
and Miss Foley, Earl of Stamford, Lord and Lady
Bloomfield, Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Viscount and Vis-
countess Pollington, Lady Sarah Savile, Hon. and Rev.
Philip Savile, Mr. and Lady Emma Vesey, Sir Charles and
Dr. Aldis, Major-General and Lady Isabella Wenissd Sir J.
Lushington, Chairman of 'the East India Company ; Mr.
Cotton, Deputy-Chairman ; Mr. Lyall, M.P. ; Mr. Master-
man, M.P., Sir Thomas Freemantle, M.P,, Mr. and
Mrs. Bannerman, Mr. John Round, .M.P., Duke
Duk and Duchess of Richmond, Lord and Lady Monteagle,
Earl and Countess of Denbigh, Admiral Sir Charles E.
Nugent, Earl and Co ,teas and Lady G. Grey, Ladies M.
and E. Lambton, Lord and Lady Byron, Rev. Dr. Russell,
Rev. Dr. Kuper, Colonel Powell, M.P., and Mrs. Powell,
Marquis of Northampton, Earl and . Countess of Charlemons,
Marquis of Anglesey, Lord and Lady Courtenay, Earl and
Countess of Listowel, Dowager Countess of Listowel, Lord
and Lady Marcus Hill, Right Hon. E. Ellice, Bishop of Lon-
don, Mrs. and Miss Blomfield, Sir S. Hancock, Earl and
Countess Powis and the Ladies Herbert, Sir Walter Riddell,
Lord and Lady Sondes, Viscount and Viscountess Berea-
ford, Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, Mr. B. Est-
court, Countess of Morton and Lady Ellen Donets.
Earl of Arundel, Mr. John Round, Jun., Mrs. and Miss Lon-
stantia Round. Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Earl 'of Dun-
more, Sir Robert Chester, Lord and Lady J. Eliot, Lord and
Lady R. Grosvenor, Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, Mar-
quis and Marchiciness of Wellesley, Mr. Rich, Sir J. Hob-
house, Earl and Countess of Carlisle, Lord and Ladl Teign-
mouth, Sir S. ggins, Sir G. Houlton, Duke and
Duchess of Bedford, Lady Dover, Hon. C.. Howard, Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol and Mrs. Monk, Bishop of Worcester
and Mrs. Pepys, Marquis of Granby, Earl and Cotantess of Love-
lace, Sir Charles anti Lady Imleoff, Viscount Duncantem and
Miss Ponsonby, Hon. Baron and Baroness Dimsdale and
Miss Dimsdale, Lady and Miss Vavasour, Sir H. •
Vavasour, Sir 11. and Lady Dyrnoke, Sir Francis,
Lady, and Miss Burdett, Miss Burdett Coutts, Lord
and Lady Talbot de Malahide, Lady Louisa Noel, Bishop
of Bangor, Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa, Earl of Claret:.