The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-10 00:00:00

Riteraturr.

POETRY.

NAPOLEON SLEEPING.
BY - SIMMONS.

•fie•sleeps—the Thunderer of the World
For once bath wearied, dropt the bolt,
—Whose stroke split empires up, and hur:ed
To dust each purple-mantled dolt
Mid havoc, ruin, and revolt!
So. lulled like baby by its nurse,
The imperial eagle folds that wing
Quiescent. whose awaking spring
Shall shake the universe I

He sleeps, and silence binds that tone
'Which cleft the Alp's eternal walls,
And bridged his pathway to a throne
Above the avalanche's halls :
Hark how that victor voice appals
Pale Austria's battle line, when first
'He c ash'd gannt Nature's bars asunder,
And meteor-girt, in flames and wonder,
Upon Marengo burst.

-He dreams and smiles ! the conqueror's brow.
Galled with the wreath's triumphal pride,
Looks grandly calm and placid now.
As if young Enghien never died !
As if victorious homicide!,
The rush of Beresina's stream,
His spectral legions' freezing groans,
And icy Russia's forest moans,
Are heard not in that dream!

The plan and pencil in his hand
flare drooped, as though their effort failed
To draugnt the crimson sketch he scanned
In Fate's vast volume seven-sealed :
But earth shall age the page revealed,
And hear its fiery purport, too,
Until her curdling heart's blood stops—
And carnage-clogged thy sickle drops
Outworn, red Waterloo!

NOTICES.

'Chapman and Hall's Monthly Series. No. 6. The
Whiteboy, a Story of Ireland in 1822. By Mrs.
S. C. Hall.

The second number of this" story" introduces us fully
into the wild and deplorable history of the eventful period
which it describes. It contains several scenes of fearful
interest, depicted in the best manner of this talented au-
thoress, who has studied, more than any other living wri-
ter, the singular and otttimes contradictory phases, which
the social disorganization of Ireland has produced in the
minds and tempers of the Irish people. Many of the cha-
racters introduced are ably painted, some of a repulsive
and some of an amiable cast. Amongst the former, that
of the middleman and bloodthirsty bypocrite, Aby
Richards, is one which, for the credit of humanity, one
would fain hope is rarely to be found even in the class and
the country to which he belongs, and is only prevented
from reflecting the odium of his own black nature upon
the mass of his party by the contrast to it afforded by some
of the other characters introduced upon the scene—espe-
cially that of Mr. O'Driscoll. We have given a few ex-
tracts amongst our selections.

The Medical Times, Parts XI. and XII.
The medical orofession appears, as far as we can form
an opinion on the matter to be gathered from the pages
In these two volumes, daily to be growing more content
with Sir James Graham's third amended bill, the chief
feature of which, in contradistinction with the others pre-
ceding it, is found in the proposition of a newand Inde-
pendent medical college, wherein the future interests and
educational career of the surgeon, apothecary, or general
practitioner will take their " own place," and range na-
turally in their corporate order along side of the other col-
leges of pure physic and surgery. The unenlightened
course which these old collegiate bodies have pursued in
their dotage, tending to elevate the aspirations of the bulk
of the profession, after a fair, full, and independent re-
presentation in the government of the profession. The
Medical Times deserves the support and cordial thanks
of the ordinary practitioner, for its judicious commenda-
tion and wise acceptance of the present measure of medi-
cal reform, as an instrument of slow but certain justice.
It sees that a part obtained will constitute a leverage,
whereby a battering ram may be directed, with successful
blow after blow, against the illegal quack outside the
camp, and the illicit traitor to his fellow-practitioners
within the lines of medical circumvallation, by means of
an authorised registry of the various grades and penal
enactment, by fine and imprisonment, recoverable by
summary process against those traitors or enemies who
are the bane of society, by their wholesale pandering to
her vices, nr by their catering towards delusive hopes in
an unprincipled manner, and for a reward which may
shine like golden coin here, but will be arrayed by an in-
fallible tribunal hereafter, and proved to be only an elec-
tro-plating of gold, thinner than lest-gold. though, like
that term, certainly leave-gold, because ill gotten wealth
is soon lost.

The Salamander. By Eugene Sue. London : Burn
and Wild.—An extraordinarily cheap edition.

Fraser's Magazine is this month very clever. The
sketch of Lord John Russell is written in a spirit of fair-
ness, and contains some very just views of his character.

The Dublin University continues its excellence, both
literary and political. We took the liberty of borrowing
largely in our last number from one of its articles—on
conversions from Romanism—which at this crisis would
be most useful if reprinted in a pamphlet for general cir-
culation. " The Garretts of Nevilstown", by the editor,
is concluded in the present number.

Ainsworth's alagazine.—We miss extremely the edi-
tor's hand in this month's number. The matter of the
whole is, however, of great merit. .

Fanny the Lillie Mtlliner. No. 7. London : J.
Mortimer.—This pleasing tale progresses well, and in-
creases in interest.

Illustrated Sailors' Magazine.—This cheap and well-
got•up periodical ought to have an extensive circulation
amongst nautical readers. The tale—the " Spanish Ar-
mada," by the author of " Cavendish "—is thus far ably
written, and promises to be a stirring narrative of that
eventful period of England's his'ory.

George Cruickshank's Table Book.—Rich "in humour,
and excellent in illustration. The frontispiece, " Heads
of the Table," is such a gem as Cruickshank alone can
present us with.

Nifal and Military Sketch Book. Hugh Cunningham,
St .—This publication maintains its interesting cha-
racter.

Douglas Jerrold's Magazine this month sustains fully
its spirit, and keeps on the good course of advocacy of
the rights of humanity whichits conductors set out upon.
The editor's " St. Giles and St. James" increases in in-
terest.

Hood's Magazine.—This periodical, upon whose pages
poor Hood expended the last flashes of his wit and genius,
appears this month under the editorship of Mr. C. How-
croft, author of " Tales of the Colonies," a second series
of which are appearing seriatim in its columns. The
present number is of more than average interest.

A number of other works, received too late for notice
this week, must lie over for another publication. " Bel-
gium and the Rhine," and Mr. :Stapylton's translation of
" The Consulate and the Empire," by M. Thiers, in our
seat.