Star.
London, England, 1824-09-14 00:00:00

THE OLD MAN'S REVERIE.

7110111 THE DAGHELOR'S WIFIL•

Sooth'd by the self.same ditty, sae
The infant and the sire;
That smiling on the nurse's knee.
This weeping by the Are;
Where onobserv'd he finds a joy
•
To list its plaindve tone,
And silently his thoughts employ
On sorrows all his own !
At once it comes, by Memory's power,
The lov'd habitual theme,
Reserved for twilight's darkling hour,
A voluntary dream ;
And as, with thoughts of former years
Ills weakly eyes o'erfiow,
None wonders at an old man's tears,
Or seeks his grief to know!
Think not he dotes because be weeps;
Conclusion, ab ! how wrong
Reason with Grief joint empire keeps,
Indissolubly strong;
And oft in age a helpless pride
With jealous weakness pines,
(To second infancy allied),
And every woe refines !
How busy now his teeming brain
Those murmuring lips declare;
Scenes never to return again
Are represented there !
Be ponders on his infant years,
When first his race began,
And, oh! how wonderful appears
The destiny of man !
How swift those lovely hours were past,
In darkness clos'd bow soon !
As if a winter's night o'ercast
The brightest summer's noon!"
llis witber'd head be holds to view,
With nerves once firmly strung,
And scarcely can believe it true
That ever he was young.
A •as he thinks o'er all his ills,
neglect, and seers,
&ray Ay et himself be feels
ibis seed sad federal _

FUNNING MOTTO&

We ale Fora—" Disgrace not the Altar." Blotto of the Vanes,
Bade of Wesunorelauxl.

linepie VIPS sitieeht-04 Temples how beloved !" Motto of the
late Earl Temple.
Are elk eelis—" Form no mean with." The timilles, Lords of
-Abergavenny.
Ver was stomper viret4-41 The spring is not always green." Lord
Vernon.

Paclisitilverius—" Nothins is truer thin truth." Lord Vete.
Onassis tsints—" Secure by caution." The Cavendishes, Dukes
of Devonshire.

BMW a Galt aces—" Good and handsome enough." Dellasyse,
Ziri of Fauconberg. „
Ilfeflimegoi tonsilectos--„" You may break, but cannot bend me."l
House of Stafford.

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ROYAL UNlntesAL INFIRMARY FOR
CHILDREN.
Sunday morning a sermon was preached in Christ
Church, Surrey, by the Rev. J. R. Pitman, for the bene-
fit of this Charity. The Preacher exhibited very clearly
the merits of the Institution, and made a powerful im-
pression on his hearers. Owing to the season and the
day being both unfavourable, the sum collected was,
though considerable, not very great; but the manner
in which the Charity was brought forward cannot fail
in making its advantages better known, and its utility
snore extensive. An establishment for dispensing me-
dicines and medical advice gratis to the children of the
poor, possesses advantages of the very highest charac-
ter ; and it is not open to any of the abuses to which
some other charities are exposed. The diseases of chil-
dren are, necessarily, the least understood, because the
patients themselves are unable to state their cases ; they
are the most sudden, both in their appearance and their
crisis ; and, if improperly treated, they entail weakness
And misery daring the whole of life. To Ray prompt
and proper attention to them is, therefore, one -of-tile
surest means of obtaining a healthy and, consequently,
an active and industrious population.
The poor themselves, though able to feed, clothe, and
educate their children, are generally unable to pay for
medical aid—at least to inch practitioners as are sup-
posed competent to recommend the best treatment, and
apply the best remedies. To do this is the object of
the Royal Universal Infirmary. Children receive re-
lief there in all urgent cues, without any other recom•
snendation than their oxen suffering,; and in all cases
they are received upon the most easy terms ; while such
bas been the judicious management of the Com'asittee,
that the expense incurred to the Charity (the whole
being gratis to the patients) amounts to a mere trifle.
During the last twelve months upwards of twelve thou-
sand children have been received at the Institution,
many of them of course for serious and long-neglected
complaints; the number of deaths has been under three
hundred, or less than one in forty - and the whole ex-
pense has not exceeded five hundred pounds. It was
mentioned by the Preacher, and we know it to be the
fact, that, though this Institution has not yet come to its
full maturity, it has caused a very decided decrease in
the Bills of Mortality of deaths of children under twelve
years, the period to which its relief is principally, though
not exclusively directed. Finding that their labours
were so beneficial, the Committee have erected.a com-
modious building in a well-aired and central situation,
close by the Surrey end of Waterloo Bridge. This
building will be opened for the giving of advice and
medicines in the course of a few weeks, and as soon as
the funds will admit, wards will be fitted up for the re-
ception of in-patients, for cases of a surgical nature.
Whenever the liberality of the Public enables the Managers
to do this, the Institution will become one of the most
valuable Schools of Medicine in the British Metropolis,
or in any country. The number of cases is so great,
the complaints of a description in general so imperfectly
understood, and they form so large a portion of the
practice of every medical man, that the concentration
or them to one point cannot fail of affording experience
of the greasiest value. The Institution has its branches
in the City and in Southwaik ; and we have heard that
the Government of Ireland have expressed a wish that
a branch of it should be extended to Dublin. We trust
that the Parent Institution will meet with encourage-
ment equal to its merits, and that it will be copied in
all the great towns and cities of the kingdom. No-
where can the charitable bestow their bounty better;
in felt places can they bestow it so well. The modesty
of the CoMmktee, rather than anything else, has pre-
vented this Charity from being known and supported
hitherto to the extent which it needed and merited.
We hope that this will bet the better of, and that the
*h will be grateful to it for the essential service which
it readers to their pooor brethren.
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