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THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.

The readers of this magazine, who—if general excel.
lence and sound constitutional principles, ably enforced,
be a passport to public favour —must be a numerous body,
will have ample reason to be satisfied with its October
number. "The Tale of a Billiard Table," in the conti-
nuation of Mr. E. S. O'Brien's " Chapters of College
Romance," rivets the attention while it exhibitsa power-
ful sketch of the life and death of a gambler, and of that
sepulchre of all that is honourable, noble, or generous
in our nature—the gaMing,hOnse. An unlucky Wight,
who has ventured on publishing ills " Paradise Re.-
gained—an Unfinished Poem," has been knouted with•-
out mercy in a critical article, but for which the world
would have remained in ignorance of 'the work, or that
the author of it had ever existed. There is also another
critical article on Lord Brougham's " Natural Theology.".
"The Anthologia Germanica" contains some translations
from the poems of Matthison and Salis. We copy one
of them, a piece by Salis, as a specimen:—

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' CHEERFULNESS.
" Seht ! Wie die Tags sick sonnig verklaren !''
See how the day beameth brightly before us !
Blue is the firmament—green is the earth—
Grief bath no voice in the universe' chorus—
Nature is ringing with music and mirth.
Lift up the looks that are sinking in sadness
Gaze ! aod if Beauty can capture thy soul,
Virtue herself will allure thee to 'gladness—
Gladness, Philosophy's guerdou and goal.
Enter the treasuries Pleasure uncloses—
List ! how she thrills in the nightingale's lay !
Breathe ! she is wafting the sweets from the roses ;
Feel ! she is cool in the rivulet's play ;
Taste I from the grape and the nectarine gushing
Flows the red rill in the beams of the sun—
Green in the hills, in the flowergroves blushing,
Look ! she is always and everywhere one.
Banish, then, mourner ! the tears that are trickling
Over the cheeks that should rosily.bloom ;
Whv should a man, like a girl or a sickling,
Suffer his lamp to be quenched in the tomb ?
Still may we battle for Goodness and Beauty ;
Still bath Philanthropy much to essay.:
Glory rewards the fulfilment of duty ;
Rest will pavilion the.end of our way.
What, though corroding and multiplied sorrows,
Legion-like, darken thittplanet of ours,
Hope is a balsam the wounded heart borrows
Ever when Anguish bath palsied its powers';
Wherefore, though Fate play the part of a traitor,
Soar o'er the stars on the pinions of Hope,
Fearlessly certain that sooner or later
Over the stars thy desires shall. have scope.
Look round about on the face of Creation !
still is God's Earth undistorted and bright ;
Comfort the captives to long tribulation,
Thus shalt thou reap the more perfect delight.
Love !—but if Love be a hallowed emotion,
Purity only its rapture should share;
Love, then, with willing and deathless devotion,
All that is just and exalted and fair.
Act !—for in Action are Wisdom and Glory ;
Fame, Immortality—these are its crown :
Wouldst thou illumine the tablets of Story,
Build on ACHIEVEMENTS thy Dome of Renown.
Honour and Feeling were given thee to cherish,
Cherish them, then, though all else should decay :
Landmarks be these that are never to perish,
Stars that will shine ou thy duskiest day.
Courage !—Disaster and Peril, once over,
Freshen the spirit, as showers the grove :
O'er the diin graves that the cypresses over
Soon the Forget-Me-Not rises in love.
Courage, then, friends! Though the universe crumble,
Innocence, dreadless of danger beneath,
Patient and trustful and joyous and humble,
Smiles through the ruin on Darkness and Death.

We take the following pertinent remarks on the par.
liamentary tactics of the conservatives from "Post.
Sessional Reflections" :

It is true that the ministerial party is in the anomalous posi
tion of being at once the nominal support of the crown, and the
actual enemy of every monarchical institution. It is hue that
being in this position—a position which no honest set of men
could be in—it is necessary that the opposition should take care
of the interests of the monarchy which ministers have so basely
deserted; but there is no reason that the man who deserts these
interests should be spared. The conservative opposition has a,
double duty to perform: it should preserve as much as it can
from the destructive rapacity of the revolutionary ministers, but
it should also assail them. This has not been done. ,On the
contrary, there is an absurd fashion prevails of helping them to
a certain extent—of admitting that thus much, or thus, of what
they propose, is needful or expedient. If a compliment can be
paid them, our leaders fail not to avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity, and are ever ready to protest how happy they are to give
their support when they possibly can. All this is perfectly
sickening to honest men, who are disgusted with the palpable
profligacy of the ministerial party, and desire to see that party
always treated as criminals, with whom it is disreputable to be
on terms of courtesy.
What avails it that our leaders tell us to form registration
societies, and to busy ourselves incessantly in laying the founda-
tion of a strong numerical force in the -House of Commons ?
We hare increased that force, and what bas it done for us?
Look at the whig-radical side of the house, and we not only find
the members of the government proposing their destructive
measures, and calling their supporters around them to explain
what they mean to do, and to earnestly solicit their co-operation,
but we also find the individual members of the party, each with
his separate grievance to bring forward against the interests of
our party, or against some individual connected with it. Is it
because the whig radicals are so pure that we have no weapons
of annoyance to use against them? Night after night we have
Mr. Hume, or Mr. Harvey, or Mr. Warburton, or Mr. O'Con-
nell, or Mr. Bulwer, or Mr. Wallace, coming forward with
some attack upon a conservative interest or a conservative in-
dividual; and the government leaders seldom fail to give them
efficient support, for they know they shall want the support of
these grivance-mangers in return.' But this sort of warfare,
which an opposition ought more particularly to attend to, is by
our chiefs wholly neglected. They will not condescend to it
themselves, and they look with a coldness, which amounts almost
to disdain, upon any thing that any of their own party, save
themselves, brings forward. This is miserable generalship. if
any subordinate member of the whig-radical party brings for-
wdrd a grievance, his whole party back him up : if any subordi-
nate member of the conservative party attempts the like, he
finds himself with a minority of perhaps forty-seven, though he
knows that the leaders of his party are all within ten minutes'
walk of the house, and that, had they taken the trouble to issue
their request upon the subject, two hundred might. easily have
been brought to the opposition benches.
But why do the leaders themselves leave tha ministers so com-
pletely at rest to concoct and to carry forward their iniquitous
schemes ? While Sir Robert Peel's ministry existed, did the
leaders of opposition content themselves with opposing his mea-
sures ? Not at all. They kept him employed in endeavour ling
to meet their assaults. But it will be said that they had a ma-
jority, and were, therefore, to take the part of assailants. Let
us, then, go farther back to the days of the old opposition. Did
Fox, Ponsonby, Itomilly, Whitbread, Ties ney, Brougham, con-
tent themselves with merely resisting the measures of govern-
ment ? They did not; they were continually the assailants,
and they had not a majority. And, if ever there was a time in
which an opposition ought to take the part of assailants, this is
that time. Never was there so much opportunity—never more
need—to expose the hypocrisy, the ignorance, the shameless
profligacy of an administration. Why is it that, though a ses-
sion has passed over since the infamous alliance between the
ministry and O'Connell, there has been no resolution proposed
to the house expressive of disgust and apprehension at such a
coalition? Why is there no parliamentary record of the indig-
nation'a:ed the loathing with which that coalition -has fiLled-so,
large a portion of the members of parliament, as well as of the
people? It is true the resolution would not have been carried;
but would a minority of three hundred upon such a resolution
have been no blow—no check to the ministry? Could they have
faced the country with a majority against the resolution coin-
posed exclusively of O'Connell's abject nominees? Why was
there not a resolution proposed expressive of the opinion of the
conservative party upon the gross contempt of religion and the
laws exhibited in the fact of Roman Catholics voting against
the support of the established church, after having, solemnly
sworn to do nothing to subvert it? Such a resolution, manfully
and eloquently brought forward, would have kindled a flame in
England that &Connell and the ministry could not have stood
against. Sir Robert Peel should have proposed such a resolu-
tion, for he well knows what was at all events the intention of
the framers of that solemn obligation. He, at least, ought to
have felt himself bound to do all that in him lay to hinder the
privileges granted by the catholic emancipation act from being
converted into weapons of destruction against the established
church. Why were not the commissionership jobs sifted and
exposed? Why was not the absurd budget-speech of Mr. Rice
ridiculed in parliament, as well as in the newspapers? If I re-
collect rightly, our sagacious conservative oppositionists made
its pompous tediousness and absolute nothingness the theme of
their praises This will never do. If our conservative leaders
approve of the co%rses of the present ministry, they are wanting
in conscientiousness and sincerity—they should go over to the
ministry and to Mr. O'Connell at once ; if, on the other hand,
they think them, as politicians, profligate and dangerous, they
should he on no other terms with them at any time but those of
open war. They should smite them in the face continually, and
be ever seeking and making opportunities to hold them up to
the detestation and scorn of all hOnest men. The oftener that
they pushed on trials of strength the better, for the oftener
would the people of England perceive of what base materials
the ministerial strength was composed.

The new sheriffs, John Lainson, Esq., And D. Salomons,
Esq., were on Wednesday presented in the Court of Exchequer
to the cursitor baron, (G. Banks. Esq.,l when a curious incident
occurred in counting the hobnails. The corporation of London
hold certain property in Shropshire, St. Clement Danes, and
other places, and agreeably to the tenure under which it is held,
Mr. Alderman Kelly appeared as senior alderman, to answer
certain questions. On Mr. Alderman Kelly being asked by
the officer of the court, " How many nails are there?" the at-
derman replied, "Sixty." Officer—" lam sorry you cannot
make more; it is not a good service." The city functionaries
appeared confounded. Mr. Baron Banks—" Count them
again." Mr. Alderman Kelly was proceeding to count a se-
cond time, when the alderman discovered that one nail had been
left in the hag. "Sixty-one nails," exclaimed the alderman.
Officer—" A good service." (Laughter.) Mr. Chas. Pearson
and Mr. B. Hardwick were named by the sheriffr as their t-
tortries.

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