The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-25 00:00:00

THE ELEVEN SERJEANTS AT LAW.

RHYMES, WRITTEN SW THE COURT OF. COMMON PLEAS.
0, good Justice Best,
• Of justice the giver;
Your Court will have rest,
If your Court you deliver
Front that foe to all mirth,
Men call Sergeant Firth
From the cautious man, styled .
(Strange to say) Sergeant Wilde;
From the heavy tongue-blow
Of Sergeant Onslow ;
From the son of the daddy
Who made Sergeant Toddy ;
•
From the teeth and the claws
Of old Sergeant Lawes ;
From the wide opened beak
' Of young Sergeant Peake ;
From the tongue, smooth and oily,
. Of famed Sergeant Ir Oyley ;
From, the briefless and gruff;
Yet smooth Sergeant Rough ;
—And then grant us a loss
. Of the kind Sergeant Cross ;
—But most will I thank ye
To take Sergeant Spankie,
And toss in a blanket
With Sergeant Bosanquet.
—Then, my Lord, you'll have rest,
And be better than Best.

THE NEW REFORMATION.—It is not
enough to spew that under existing circumstances the re-
formation could not have succeeded ; we can also show
from data, that it has not. The Mail of last night esti-
mated the whole amount of converts at 2,015 persons.
We were given five years to convert the whole of the Ca-
tholics—half that period is passed—we had seven millions
to convert—and behold only 2,015 ! Let this, too, be con-
tracted with the numbers as reported in the Catholic
papers, who returned to that faith, or. embraced it from
Prot~tantism, and we shall have, indeed, a miserable his-
toryrt(taoflnls
the vaunted new reformation. It would be
o crind-
ria ; the project of the new reformation has
failed,
and can never succeed until prose-
cutedltt signally
ly
upon very different principles. Men must be civi-
lized by good government, and conciliated by justice, be-
fore they can be converted from religious error. Those
who are sincere in this object—who truly rely upon the
efficacy and force of Gospel truth; will reject the support
of the statutes of Queen Anne. Rilitical amelioration will
become the predisposing cruse of religious conversion.
Kindliness must prepare the soil of the heart, and then the
seed sown by the spiritual husbandman may fructif.y.
Dublin Patriot.

impressive, such as to render it evident
His conversation was peculiarly eloquent
ben over-rated as an orator, when in the days of his
glory,' he was the admiration of his country. I remember
his once discoursing to me of language, and saying, " in
every lang,usa, angetthietriel
eair
jeartleees thingsthe verb,"to noticed—verbs,odlin
Tunh_stan
the
"are as the hones of these fingers : the substantives,
the flesh and blood ; but the particles are the sinews,:
without which the fingers could not move." " There are,
said he to me, once, "three kinds of writing—diplomatic,
in Which you do not come to a point, but write artfully,
and not to show what you mean ; attorney, in which you
are brief; and enlarged, in which
you spread and stretch
your thoughts." He told me that he once played a pleasant
trick on two gentlenien, Messrs. Rose and Davenport. He
wrote a song in very had Italian, gave it to Mr. Rose, as
the composition of Mr. Davenport, and subsequently to
Mr. Davenport, as the composition of Mr. Rose. Whet'
the gentlemen .met the trick was discovered.—Recollec-
tions of Ugo .oscolo.