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1711**Circ''''' Oh, bear her gently, gently on,
Old Thames, upon thy heaving bosom,
`''.le. ''f6' * For never on its tides were strewn
The fragments of a fairer blossom.
She flourished in a bright parterre,
A maiden rose in sweetness blooming,
Unconscious that a blight was there,
Unrnindful of a tempest coming.
It burst, that storm of factious haste
It fell, that blight of envious malice,
And England weeps the rosebud's fate,
And mourns the guilt of England's palace.
.44. Ah I ,rare Ely have such deeds been done
"' Where gland's royal standard floated,
Or England's chivalry looked on
rte While innocence was death-devoted !
'Tis past : the happy soul hath flown
To Him who first its being gave it,
And in the trying hour made known
The eternal love that died to save it.
•-!:"„': ' That thoUght our sweetest solace brings ;
l'a " ' Slie, when tempest gathered round her,
Found shelter with the king of kings
& . From every arrow poised to wound her.
.: ay #letar- Taker Scotia, take thy flower again,
die-- - •
d.,--iir4ft,f4-,And spread thy green turf gently o'er her,
if/SWOW111.:-And raise a bold, a melting strain,
tri" 4'2.- At once a triumph and deplore her.
The trophies of her martial line,
iii i_l ' With many a high achievement laden,
litik-Oi.o-- Can boast no wreath like what we twine
di 10 it For the cold brow of this dead maiden.
ra' •
ra . Oh ! sterner far her battle field,,
M-- ;,. ore rich the prize of her contending,
thi 2- ; When. trembling she grasped the shield
Beneath the mighty conflict bending.
ri- -
-#. Aye, bending till in death she bowed
Her tenderframe, but shrinking never;
Atm ' jler dark assaihints quelled and cowed,
lig dk;. And her pure fame made bright for ever.
orIF Then 'mid our low lamenting lay
Be heard one note of solemn gladness,
_And Arid let one flash of rapture play
' Upon the care knit brow of sadness.
'''''' -Though " done to death by slanderous tongues,"
irilwft . No more she feels their scorn oppressing,
reirot Atid,' gentle lady, all thy wrongs
- . May work for England's weal a blessing.
-,-.4-- Thou widowed one, whose drooping head
~:,- - - Hath been the mark of savage scorning,
sifi gfaif .:'For thee a nation's tears are shed,
fieft
If ' 4 br- Thy sorrow wakes a people's mourning; i
cal?.. And when to her lone resting place,
' gin, Fraternal tenderness bath brought her,
#.104q ,r; England will teach an infant race
To lisp the wrongs of Moira's daughter.
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Then berr her gently, gently on,
- Old Thames, upon thy heaving bosom
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„L. 4.,,. For never on its tide were strewn
' The fragments of a fairer blossom !
CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH.

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THE DEPARTURE.

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V.. July 10,1839.

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441 14 114 hi- - •

A- SPECIMEN OF WHIG STATESMANSHIP.

tiri....--- -- ' ' (From the Morning Herald.)
The.,qhancellor of the Exchequer furnished to the
House of Commons, last night, a history of the at-
tempt (in which he is still engaged) to fund exchequer
Vti•• bills, The operation is little calculated to raise Mr.
-1,-, Spring Rice's character as a financier.
'*- ' The one great truth in connection with this affair, is
—that. the public debt of England is rapidly increasing.
To this complexion has our " retrenching" govern-
ment come at last. Under the sway of the whigs our
debt increases, while our revenue declines. The mea-
sure of increase, moreover, in the public burdens of
the country promises to be of no moderate character.
Warlike operations on a very extensive scale may soon
be necessary in India. Canada, in like manlier, may,
at no distant period, prove the scene of most expensive
-...;''hostilities. If, again, we turn to the east of Europe, it
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is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the honour
sat and the interest of England may speedily require our
naval force in the Mediterranean, to be doubled or even
11.; ebled in amount.
~..?;'iThese prospects are of no flattering kind; nor is
Aiieir bitterness redeemed by the circumstance that the
Ot, , rtilers, whose imbecility has produced the existing state
~- ' of affairs, are " liberals" by profession, as well as cla-
morous expounders of the blessings of "cheap govern-
. merit." Omitting, however, all reference to the im-
pending risk of a vast augmentation, hereafter, in the
public burdens, already have we arrived at the certainty,
that the funded debt is about to be increased (providing
the Chancellor of the Exchequer shall be able to
find customers) to the extent of four millions ; while
the unfunded debt will not, we may rest assured, be
lessened to the extent of a single shilling. Fresh ex-
chequer bills to the amount about to be cancelled, will,
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.. undoubtedly, be issued without delay—and for this
4:i. simple reason, that Mr. Spring Rice will find himself
-... unable to get on without the use of fresh sums of mo-
ney. The revenue is not equal to the current expendi-.
tore of the country :—where, then, may be found the
.4,: means of paying the dividends that will accrue upon
~.' the stock about to be created ? Will the whigs impose
b:4 • - fresh taxes to meet the deficiency ? Scarcely—so long
i , as they shall be enabled to adopt the more convenient
- course of borrowing money for that purpose. The
imposition of new taxes is an unpopular operation.
~. Mr. Spring Rice and his colleigues will, therefore,
--: leave•that operation to be attempted or rejected by their
.4-4Arucicessors. Fresh masses of exchequer bills will, in
Mainean time, be issued, in order to furnish dividends
rL: to the holders of the newly-created stock, as well as to
9:4, meet our increasing expenses in Canada and India.
ti There is the penny-postage plan, moreover—a plan that
'cil,lttut, in the nature of things, lessen, for a time at
'least, the revenue by half a million, or, perhaps, by a
, :,. rger,amount. Exchequer bills must, in this case
ice. last 9 Aupply all deficiencies.
I isicl4ext year Mr. Spring Rice, or his successor in office,
17.344.Ada4stredly be compelled to fund sundry millions .
' ififi!''Af exchequer bills—and, then, to create new
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j S, -Or to issue fresh exchequer bills, in order to pro-
gw
imaiide the requisite dividends, and in order to meet the
---increasing expenditure of the country. In conformity,
eirr4t fact,' with whig systems of finance, and in obedience
51'16 thfinfluences of whig systems of government, every
1.
.411 • i
.• : 119 n to the funded debt bids fair to be accompanied
, , a corresponding addition to the unfunded debt.
s& -Mr. Spring Rice's obstinacy, and ignorance of busi-
-77-oness, have been established by sundry experiments, of
2' Ire somewhat costly kind. In the year 1836, he disre-
• -
f„..garded the suggestions of practical men to fund a por-
• tion of the large mass of exchequer bills then in cir-
wxculation—although in the beginning of that year, the
!ti =state of the money market afforded singular facilities
• Tor the operation recommended to his adoption. He
was, at last, compelled to parry the claims of the hold-
-1,,... ers of exchequer bills, by raising the interest from three
-x halfpence per cent. per day to twopence-halfpenny—a
-I—movement which cost the country half a million of
141" money. In like manner, he has, in the present year,
t_
postponed his attempt to fund four millions of exche-
-- quer bills until the rate of interest has risen to a height
....• absolutely unparalleled—and until, by consequence,
---,t- the difficulty of inducing the holders of redeemable
"r " claims upon government to convert these into claims
:;, that are irredeemable, has been prodigiously increased.
~, Mr. Spring Rice is a fair specimen of Nvhig states-
-NI men. Imbecility is the badge of all the tribe.

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LITERARY NOTICES.

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A Brief Account, together with Observations, made du-
ring a visit in the West Indies, and a Tour through
" •
• the (Anted States of America, in 1832-3 ; with a Sta-
tistical Account of Upper Canada. By Dr. Thomas
17:- Rolph. Dundas, (U. C.) 1836.
• This work (which we believe will be shortly repub-
lished, with additions, in this country), contains an im-
:4:g mense mass of intelligence of the highest possible im-
▪ ' portance to emigrants. The author is at present in
England,.on a mission, the object of which is to bring
.more prominently before the British public the advan-
tages of Upper Canada as a rendezvous for emigrants.
He has collected a large mass of useful statistical de-
tails, which he has arranged in a concise and intelli-
tit, ble form. He writes with very great enthusiasm in fa-
vour of his adopted land. As the contents of this in-
-- teresting volume may be of great benefit to those who
intend to settle in the Canadas, we shall contrive to
give extracts from it, as soon as we can find space.

The Shropshire and North Wales Standard, a Local
Journal of Politics, Literature, and the Arts. Au-
gust, 1839. Shrewsbury : Revis.
The present number of this excellent periodical
fully justifies the encomiums which we bestowed upon
its predecessor. Many of its articles possess a high
claim upon our attention. " The Noble Science,"
from the pen of Nimrod, will afford a rich treat to the
Sportsman. " The Last of my Teens" rises far above
mediocrity, which is more than can be said of nine-
tenths of the magazine poetry of the present day. The
- remarks on " The Birmingham Riots and the Whig
Leaders" are sensible and judicious. The castigation
administered by the author on the recreant hides of the
5, Liberals is not more severe than merited. " A Peep
into-Countries and Counties" is in Nimrod's best style.
Millers ballad of "The Trysting Place" is pretty. We
would especially recommend to our readers the noble
,;address to the people of England on "British Freedom."
The Church, a Gift of the Saviour; wherein and where-
t".!'*l.by the Holy Spirit acts as the Teacher and Guide of
''"'"'rrGod's Children. A Sermon, preached in the Church
$4l 'of the Holy Trinity, Salford. By the Rev. Alexander
trti rWatson, B. A. London : Burns.
should not be acting an honest or a conscienti-
ie-,ons part if we refrained from informing our readers
that' this sermon is redolent of Puseyism. The doc-
trines . put forth in this discourse are neither scriptural
nor in accordance with the articles and homilies of the
Church of England. The advocates of the modified
system of Popery developed in this and similar publica-
tions, are doing incalculable mischief.

The Church Magazine.
Wartheim.
The best thing about this number is, the " Memoir
of the Right Rev. Dr. Low, Lord Bishop of Ross, and
Argyle, Scotland," which is accompanied by a well-
engraved portrait. In a work chiefly intended for the
middle and humbler classes we should like to see less
of poinaical divinity than appears in the pages of the
C 4 ureleNoritaine , and more of evangelical instruction,
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August, 1839. London :