Star.
London, England, 1826-05-15 00:00:00

ON A ROSE BLOOMING IN OCTOBER,
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Unwonted emird October's sen
Amid his cloudless way.
And gentler seem'd his mires to nut
With very shortening day.
Alined by days of proofed aim,
A rose put on her Bowen ;
Her beds prepar'd their vernal balm
'Mid asnissan's songless bowers-
Ah I salt thee not, thou tender rose,
net wintry days are near?
While yet thine opening floweret blows.
Straw gloom shall cloud the year.
The wintry rains shall dash thy bloom—
The wintry winds shall chili;
The nightly frosts shall with'ring come,
Thine infant lowers to kill!
Bin I willleise thy tender bough,
Bre yet she blossoms fade ;
I'll place them o'er the gare stone low,
Where yutithful Bruce was laid !
For birth-like thee, its budding wreath,
Ills thing genius spread ;
While dark and chill the clouds of death
Hung threatening ti'et his bead !
Ab ! had that beauteous floweret blown
Beneath a kinder sky.
What blossoms rich had round been thrown,
To IN the wondering eye!

ANECDOTES OF OICEEFFE.
YHOM TRH MITI MONTHLY 1111AOAZINI1 YOH MAY.
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I brought out my two-act piece of 44 Peeping Tom"
at the Hay maPket Theatre, and this became as prime a
favourite with the public as any of mine. A remark-
able circumstance happened the first night of its repre-
sentation. Charles Bannister, Edwin, and Wilson, had
dined nut of town, I think at the Spaniards, a tavern
between Hampstead and Highgate, nor ever recollected
their theatrical duties until reminded by accidentally
seeing their own name its the play-bills stuck on the
turnpikes, announcing a new piece by Mr. O'Keefe,
called 4. Peeping Tom,* to be perf4med that night.
They dashed into town in a postchaise togeth-r, Peep-
ing Tom, H irold, and the Mayor of Coventry, repeat-
ing their speeches and singing their songs to the stage-
coachmen, the hackney-coachmen, and gentlemen-
coachmen, postillions, grooms, and waggoners, all
slang the road.
During the composition of the music by Dr. Arnold,
I told him I wished to introduce a favourite air of Ca-
rolati's. and bad written words to it. He asked me the
name of the air, as he might probably find it in some
old collection. 41 It is called the Irish Lamentation,"
I said.—" And what are your words to it ? and who is to
sing it Peeping Tom ;—and these are my words:"
" Merry are the bells, and merry do they ring,
Merry was myself, and merry could 1 sing,
Merry is your ding &mg, happy gay and free,
With a merry sing snag merry let us he."
14 And this is your huh lamentation r said the
D ictor. laughing heartily. I imm-diately sung the
same air, but very slowly, and giving it the real pathos,
which had such an effect (whim, that it almost brought
tears in his eyes. And it really is one of the most plain-
tive, sweet, and heart-rending strains ever composed.
On my return to town I applied to Baron Wenzel the
oculist, about my sight; and sent him his demand of
twenty-five guineas ;—be was to have twenty-five more
bad he succeeded, but asked his additional fee of two
guineas as physician t —this my brother who took hiai
the money, would rot pay. Jahn Hunter, the great
an itornist, gave it as his opinion that electricity might
be of service. I tried it, but without success. Iw. nt
also to Mr. Putt, who had then the first name as sur-

geon, but he instantly pronounced that neither medical
aid nor art could help me, stud since.that I tried none.
The first cause to this injury to my• sight was From a
cold I got by a fall off the south wall of the Liffey,
Dublin, in a dark D:cernber, by going out to sup at
Ring's End, when the play was over : thus drenched, I
bat up with my party for some hours in my wet clothes.
• and in about a fortnight the effews appeared in a vio-
lent inflammation of my eyelids. I then tried many
remedies,-each crossing the other, which increased the
malady, and my peristing to use the pen myself im-
paired my sight beyond all hope.
I 1-id the scene of " The Poor Soldier" at Cation,
the seat of the Duke of Leinster, a few miles from
Dublin. I understood this piece had great buccesi in
every part of Ireland, as well as England, Scotland,
and America.
Miss Harpur (Mrs. John Bannister), who had been
my Cecilia, Laura, Victoria, Rosa, &c. was very
happy in Nora!; her manner was peculiarly her own
simple, that ere sung the notes, all the notes,
and nothing but the notes. My. name as•author wa.
given in the play-bills the first night of " The Poor
S %strict, was thouglit by the public great pre.
somption—seeming as much a 3 to say—." As it is
O'Keefe'', we mu,t te;eive it;' )e as Mr. Harris s 'id
to his friends, "the riblic did receive it, and were
heartily glad to bet it."

Lieutenant Earns S ' has discovered a autistid of
raising from a great depth 70 or 80,000 cubic fathoms
of water in ?A hours. By what new power, or new
application of eziating p .wer, this hyd, aulic miracle is
to • be performed is not natntioned.
In the time of CH AIL IL& the Sec,,nd, tf e great grand.
faiher of Mr. WooD; the banker at Gloucester, pur-
chased a quantity of laud at Cheltenham, at 51. an use ;
which same land the latter is now selling at the rate of
1000 guineas per acre.
Tua Itror Acr.—Tbe Riot Act provides, that if
any twelve persons riotously assembled shall not dis-
perse within an hour after proclamation made, such
contempt of the proclamation shall be felony without
benefit of clergy. But on this account a notion seems
to 1i: cyan, that before that proclamation is made, people
who are riotously assembled and destroying the pro-
perty of others are only using the lawful rights of
Englishmen, and that if in themean time their violence
is repeled by violence, they are very ill used persons.—
This is quite a misconception; rioting is a crime, and
fiats may be sappressed.by force before the Riot Act is
read ; but perhaps she prescribed form, of reading the
Act encourages this error.
In the several Islands of Martinique• GuadaLuPet
Bourbon, and in the setslements of Guyana, there ale
38,500 whites, 28,000 enfranchised slaves, 247,500
slaves; total 309,000 persons. And at tlie same place'
the total amount of isporti is 76,00,009 of ; of
iipp nu 64,000,000 ditto.