The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-12-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Dublin Gazette of Saturday contains a proclamation de-
claring the western part of the county of Cork to be in a state
of disturbanee, and requiring au extraordinary establishment
of police.

The Bank 'of Ireland has declared a dividend of 41 per cent.
for the last half-year.

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The Irish papers inform tts of the sudden death of Sir Hen-
ry Blackwood, Bart.

We have received letters from the 69th Regiment at St. Vin-
cent; the corps is healthy. The total loss of the -69th since
they landed in the West. Indies from Cork, was 11 men at St.
Vincent, and Bat Grenada. Total, 19.—Limerick Chronicle.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF A PROTESTANT MA GIS-
. TR A TE.—Mr Trant, a Magistrate residing near Templemore,
county Tipperary, was, whilst walking through his lawn oil
Thursday evening, fired at twice, and fortunately missed. We
have not heard the particulars--!pab/in Evening Mail.
MURDER OF A PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN.—The Rev. Charles
Ferguson,. Rector of Timoleague, was assassinated on the road
between that place and. Bandon on Saturday morning. He had
been driving in a gig with Mr. Swete (who escaped to tell the
melancholy story), .when he observed a crowd of people ap-
proaching, He fled and took refuge in a house, where the atro-
cious deed was effected,—lrish Correspondent.
THE ELEcTiorts.(From the Dublin Freeman's Journal.)
As far as the elections. have yet proceeded, seventeen members
are returned, of whom nine arc repealers ; two are called
whigs ; one of them would be ,raor?, properly called a radical,
and cannot be calculated upon as a supporter of the present
government; arid six are conservatives. Thri returns are as
follow : •

The University—Lefroy and Shaw, conservative.
Dublin City—O'Connell and Ruthven, repealers.
Kilkenny City—Sullivan, repealer.
Galway Town—Lynch and Blake, repealers.
Dungannon—Knox, conservative.
Coleraine—Sir J. P. Beresford, conservative.
Enniskillen—Cole, conservative.
Youghall—J. O'Connell, repealer (son of D. O'Connell).
Clonmell—Ronayne, repealer.
Cashell—Rae, repealer.
Downpatrick—Maxwell, conservative.
Coleraine—When the constituency was polled out the num-
ber for each of the candidates, Alderman Copeland (vvhig)
and Sir J. Beresford (tory), was equal. The Mayor gave his
casting vote for BereSford, who was returned.
COUNTY OF TIPPERARY.—Mr. Sheil and a brother repealer
intended to have walked over for this county, but to their horror
they find every nobleman and gentleman, whether Whig or con
servative, have, without exception, joined against them, and
pledged themselves to support the Hon. Mr O'Callaghan and
Mr. Pennefather. A very large subscription has been paid
into bank already by the following extraordinary phalanx of
the gentlemen of different political opinions :—Lords Glengall,
Donoughmore, Llandaff; Clonmel, Lisniore, Hawarden, Du-
nalley, and Baron Pennefather; Sirs H. Carden and H. Gough;
Messrs. Massey Dawson, Bagwell, Crosbie Moore, S. Moore, R.
Butler, J. Butler, W. Perry, W. Barton, &c. If such dete:-
mined conduct as this was more general, the destructives woula
be annihilated in 'lreland. It is supposed that Lord Glengall
brought about this union of parties.

IRISH
REPRESENTATIVES.—How ought Ireland to be repro'
sented in the Imperial Parliament ? The question is apparent,y
of easy solution--one, in fact to which any person of ordinar,'
capacity would at once and.coriectly reply—" By well-infurmeri,
intelligent, respectable and independent men." To judge, how-
ever, from the proceedings of some of our constituencies, this
is quite a mistaken notion ; and the pretensions of every other
candidate ought straightway to give place to those of any mem-
ber of the O'Connell family, whom the "Dictator" may think
proper to quarter upon the public ! Away, then, with the mere
common-place claims of integrity, ability, and long-tried ser-
vices in the cause of Ireland, and such stuff, and hurrah for the
clan O'Connell, •blockheads and all, and the interests of the
FAMILY !!!—Dublin Morning Post.

It is worthy of remark, that Liverpool furnishes five members
to the reformed Parliament, viz., Mr., Ewart, Mr. Rigby We-
son, Colonel Williams, and two sons of Mr. John Gladstone.
Mr. Stanley. and Mr. Egerton have been returned for the
Northern Division of. Cheshire. Admiral Tollemache was 911
votes behind Mr. Egerton.
Sir W. W. Wynn and Mr: Biddulph hive been returned for
Denbighshire, the conservative candidate; who is a son of Lord
Kenyon, having.been rejected.
Messrs. Beaumont and Ord, reformers, and Mr. Bell, a con-
servative, contested the southern division of Northumberland.
Mr. Bell beat Mr. Ord by ninety-two votes, and he and Mr
Beaumont were returned on Friday.
The result of the Berkshire election, under the most favour-
able circumstances, will, it is said, be attended with an ex_pen-
diture of £40,000 to one of the candidates..-ILondon Standard.
MANCHESTER MARKETS.—In consequence of Christmas Day
and New Year's Day-falling- on -Tuesdays, the Boroughreeve
and Constables of Manchester have issued a public notice, stat-
ing, that the market will.be held on Wednesday the 26th inst.,
anti on Wednesday the 2d January.
RIOT AT KENDAL.—We are sorry to learn that a.serious
riot took place at Kendal on Tuesday morning, at the com-
mencement of the
that
for the Westmorland election. - The
consequence was, that the polling was adjourned. At the time
our informant left, the mob were everywhere attacking per-
sons suspected to be attached-to the yellow (Lowther) interest,
and had committed numerous outrages on the persons and pro-
perty of that party. We have ..not. heard of any lives being
lost.

Last week, one poulterer, at Norwich, had upwards of 500
head of game exposedlor sale at his shop at one time.
A GENTLEMANLY, LIBERAL, AND REFORM CANDID,kTE.—
The most violent opponent of Mr. Roebuck at Bath was a Mr-
Blake Foster. It appears that the election being over, Mr.
Roebuck's friends were anxious that the difference between him
and Mr. Foster should be made up. Mr. Roebuck was with this
view formally introduced to Mr. Foster, in the polling-booth in
Sydney Gardens. Mr. Foster refused to be introduced;- and
r. Roebuck demanded Mr. Roebuck's card. After some de-
lay, the card was given, and Mr. Foster's
was' tendered in
exchange; which Mr. Foster, caring as little for the card as for
the member, tossed somewhat contemptuously from him. On
this Mr. Roebuck, struck Mr. Foster in the face. The comba-
tants were immediately separated, and subsequently bound over
to keep the peace. We were not aware that when one man re-
fused to be introduced to another, he was liable to be shot or
knocked down for the refusal. Mr. Roebuck certainly had a
right to call on Mr. Foster for an explanation of any terms of
contempt he might voluntarily apply to him; but really,' under
the circumstances in which Mr. Foster was placed by Mr.: Roe-
buck's friend on this occasion, we think his words ought to
have been treated as what the lawyers call "a privileged corn-
munication."—Spectator.
BRISTOL, DEC. 15.-1 n order to testify the sense entertained
of the conduct of the Operative Conservatives, and their orderly
and peaceable demeanour in the hour of complete victory over
the revolutionary principles which have reduced the fairest part
of the city to a heap of ruins, and greatly injured ,the trade of
the port, the principal manufacturers and merchants here have
determined on presenting to each operative sufficient beef of
the primest quality to afford a substantial meal for himsetf and
family on Christmas Day. Mr. Edwin Ames, of the Bristol
Pottery, has undertaken to superintend the purchase of 15 or
more fat oxen for this purpose. The subscribers of the Fund
mean also to present the chairman and treasurer of the Opera-
tive Conservative Society with plate of the value of 20 guineas.
We hope that similar conduct on the part of the operatives in
other parts of the kingdom will be followed by simifar marks of
friendly regard by the upper classes of society. The arrange
ments of the Mayor and Magistrates of Bristol for the preset
vation of the peace during the election were of the most formid-
able and effective character ,• but it is due both to the victors
and the conquered to say, that the greatest respect was shewn
to the laws; indeed the city has not been so tranquil since the
election of delegates to pass the Reform Bill in 1831.
WHIG IDEA OF PURITY OF ELECTION.--at the Chester elec
tion last week, one of the candidates was the Town-clerk of the
city, an out-and-out "Bill" man, who unites in his own person
the several offices of town-clerk, clerk of the peace, clerk of
the indictments, under-sheriff, &c. &c. of the peculiar jurisdic
tion of the city. The friends of this gentleman (for of course
no one could think of charging him with such an infringement
of the law) finding that after the first day's polling they were
likely to lose the election, intimated that' they would be pre-
pared, on the following morning, to turn the majority in their
favour; and that their friends would receive ten shillings tickets
to supply them with prog. "By a reference, however, to the
registries and check books, (says the Chester Courant,) it soon
appeared that it would be impossible to bring such ail event
about, as more than fourteen hundred persons had already
polled; the ten shillings tickets were not therefore distributed
with a very prodigal hand, although' many, of them signed by
the editor of the Chronicle met our eyes; and they were cashed
in various parts of the .city, by.a few cormorants: who were per-_
mittecrto take one shilling discount

WONDERS OF THE DEEP.—In "The Life of a Sailor" is a
narrative of the wreck of a vessel off the Havanah. The crew
took to the boat, which upset; they get her righted,and while
two men were bailing her with their hats shark was seen to No language can convey an idea of the, panic which
seized the struggling seamen. Every man now strove the more
to obtain a moment's safety. Well they knew that qne drop of
blood would have been scented by the everlasting pilot fish; the
jackalls of the shark; and that their destruction was inevitable
if one only of' these monsters should discover the rich repast or
he led to its food by the little rapid hunter of its prey. A few
minutes after about fifteen sharks came right amongst them.
The boat was again upset by the simultaneous endeavour to
escape danger, and the twenty-two sailors were again devoted
to destruction. At first the sharks did not seem inclined' to
sieze their prey, but.swarn in amongst the men, playing in the
water, sometimes leaping about and rubbing against their vic-
tims. This was of short duration. A loud shriek from one of
the men announced his sudden pain; a shark had siezed him
by the leg, and severed it entirely from the body. No 'sooner
had the blood been tasted than the dreaded attack took place;
another and another shriek proclaimed the loss of limbs. Some
were torn from the boat, to which they vainly endeavoured to
cling—some, it was supposed, sunk from fear alone. The
sharks had tasted the blood, and were not to be driven from
their feast. By groat exertion again the boat was righted, and
,two men were in her; the' rest had all perished. The two sur-
vivors resolved, with gallant hearts, to redouble their .exertions.
They lightened the boat sufficiently not to be easily overset.
The voracious monsters endeavoured to upset the boat; they
swam by its side, in seeming anxiety for their prey; but after
waiting some time they separated. The two rescued seamen,
in spite of the horrors they had witnessed, soon fell asleep, and
were the next day fortunately picked up by a vessel.
INSOLENCE OF THE Tolies.—The Captain Pacha saluted us
with a knowing glance, (peculiarly Osmanleyish,) and per-
mitted my companion, whom he knew, to put his robe to his:
lips and forehead, an honour which I took care never to avail
myself of, with him or any other Osmanley. No Frank should
ever submit to it; though only meaning to pay .a compliment,
his intention is sure to be misconstrued. Pride is necessary to
ensure respect from the Osmanley, who ascribes even common'
politeness to submission. It is not uncommon with him, in
order to ascertain the quality of a stranger, to drop something,
as a handkerchief; if the stranger neglect it he is set down as
a' person of distinction,' who is accustomed to be served, not to
serve others; if he pick it up, which. is very natural, the con-
trary is inferred. It is one unpleasantness of being acquainted
with Osinanleys, that you must, for your own sake, disregard
good breeding in many points. For example, a bey or an aea
pays you- a visit;
.you rise to receive him; he attributes the"
movement to the innate respect Ora-Christian for a :Mussul-
man. You may go into his room fifty times without receiving
the same compliment, though he will pay it to a Mussulman of
similar rank. The Frank, in' short, in his intercourse 'with
Osmanleys, should never abate one iota of his due as a gen-
tleman; if he do, he is soon regarded in a menial light. Sup-
pose he visit a pasha, and the pasha does not invite him to be
seated, he should immediately sit down, unheeding the angry
looks of the attendant officers, indignant at his audacity. The
next time the pasha will desire 'him to sit on the sofa the mo-
ment ho sees him, not to expose his rank a second time to the
slight of any body daring to sit in his presence unbidden.—
Slade's Records of Travels in Turkey.
EXECUTION 'OF A STATE PRISONER IN TURKEY.—Into this
space two men stepped from the body of the guard—one old, and
ugly, and meanly dressed; the other young, and handsome,
and richly attired in the old costume. The office of one of
them was not doubtful, by the long ataghan in his hand; the
other, by his firm step, and the unconcerned air with which he
glanced around, might have passed for the provost marshal,
had not his manner soon announced that he was destined to
act a more important part;—and he knew it, for he at once
knelt dOWn, without prompting, and suffered his thumbs to be
tied behind him with a piece of string, that he might not in-
voluntarily interfere with the operation. The executioner then
took off his turban, tied up Mohammed's lock, and adjusted the
denounced head in the most favourable position for displaying
his skill, desiring its owner to hold it steady. So peculiarly
adapted is the eastern costume, having no collars, to the de-
spatch of head
,cutting, as to make-it probable that it was ori-
ginally adopted by slavish courtiers as symbolic of their necks
being always ready. This preparation did not occupy two
Minutes, during which it was uncertain which of the two showed
the greatest coolness. Drawing then his ataghan, the execu-
tioner held it up in act to strike, and in this position recited the
offence—conspiracy, &c.. It was an awful picture, a moment of
breathless' excitement to all present excepting the two actors,
the one of whom, the most interested in the event, appearing
the most careless. Being close to him, malgre moi, 1 watched
him narrowly, but could not perceive the slightest change in
his florid countenance, or a tremor in his fine limbs. Both at
such a crisis would have been pardonable in the boldest.
Having heard his crime, he cried in a firm voice, "0 Moham-
med, I die innocent; to. thee I consign my soul." He re-
peated these words, with some others to the same purport, when
the finisher of the law,' impatient, demanded, "Are you ready ?"
The gallant fellow, with an energy of tone which showed that
his spirit already saw the "dark-eyed girls," promptly answered,
"Ready." The moment after, his head, struck off by one blow,
was rolling in the dust. The blood instantaneously gushed out
of the body, the neck slightly palpitated ; life vanished with the
rapidity of thoughts—Slade's Records of Travels in Turkey.
A TYPHUS FEVER PATIENT IN IRELAND—Perhaps it WoUld
be impossible to conceive a more gloomy state of misery than
that in which young M'Evoy found himself. Stretched on the
side of the public road, in a shed formed of a few loose sticks
covered over with "straws," that is, the sward of the earth
pared into thin stripes,—removed above fifty perches from 'any
human habitation—his body.racked with a furious and oppres-
sive fever—his mind conscious of all the horrors by which he
VARIETIES. was surrounded L-without the comforts even .of. a bed or bed-
clothes—and, what was worst of all, those fromwhomhe might
VISIT TO, A TURKISH Bay.—'' On landing, we immediately expect kindness, afraid to approach him! Lying helpless, un-
proceeded to the residence of the Bey, accompanied by the' der these,circumstances, it ought not to be wondered at, if he
consul and vice-consul. Passing a very neat mosque, a short wished that death might at once close his extraordinary suffer-
waik from the consulate brought us to the palace of his Excel- ingS, and terminate those struggles which filial piety had
Loney. It is a building of a quadrangular form, bearing some prompted him to encounter. * * Irishmen, however, are
pretentious to notice on account of its size, which surpasses not just that description of persons who can• pursue their usual
that of the rest, and from differing but little in its external ap- avocations, and see a fellow-creature die, without such atten-
pearance from some of the modern edifices in England. It tions as they can afford him; not precisely so bad as that, gen-
was built by Ali Pacha when he captured the town about thirty tie reader! Jemmy had not been two hours on his 'straw, when
years ago, and is constructed of stone, or rather stones of every a second shed, much larger than his owu, was raised within a
shape and size, the interstices between them' being filled- up dozen yards of it. In this a fire was lit ; a small pet was then
with mud. When its external covering of whitewashed plaster pro Cured, 'milk was sent in, and' such ether little comforts
was yet new, it might have been a respectable dwelling even brought together, as they supposed necessary for the sick boy.
for a Turkish Pacha, but the rude effects of war, and the lapse Having accomplished these matters, a kind of guard was set to
of years had left ravages which indicated a rapid decay. A watch and nurse-tend him; a pitchfork was got, on. the prongs
large flight of stone steps, in the interstices of which some long of which they intended to reach him bread across the ditch ;
grass was flourishing in great luxuriance, conducted us to the arid a long-shafted ShOvel" was borroWed; on which to furnish
grand entrances_i
which is not, as with our buildings; on the him drink with safety to themselveS. That inextinguishable
ground 'floor. Having passed this, we found ourselves in a vein of humour, which nlreland mingles even with death and
dirty corridor, the floor of which being formed of planks, in calamity;was also visible here. The ragged half-starved crea-
several places completely worn through, and 'in others nearly thies 'laughed heartily at the oddity'of their own inventions, and
so, it required some care •to obtain a firm footing, and thii at enjoyed the ingenuity with which they made shift to meet the
best, was far from being secure. Happily, the floor was not exigencies of • the occasion, without,
in the slightest degree,
very lofty, so that a fall through it, although it might have hurt having their- sympathy and concern for the afflicted youth
our dignity, would not have risked our lives. We were glad to lessened.—Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry.
get oft it at first to a wooden staircase which led us up to the DIEBITSCII'S VICTORY NEAR SCHUMLA.—III the course of the
grand apartments, but even this was so rickety, and worn down night the vizier was informed that the, enemy had taken post
by age and ill-usage, that we did not consider ourselves safe between 'him and Schumla, and threatened his retreat. He
until we had got into the ante-chamber. This we found filled might still have avoided the issue of a battle, by,making his
with guards, who, seeing us preceded by the Dragger/an, and we transeversely across the defiles to the Kamptchik, sacri-
that we were persons of consequence, did us the hcaiour to,rise, tieing, his baggage and cannon ; ' but deeming that he had only
as we,passed on to the apartment of the Bey. On entering, we Roth to deal-with, he, as in that case was his duty, prepared to
fotind His Excellency seated, in the usual Turkish style; on an force hpassages and the few troops that he saw drawn up in
ottoman in the middle of the room, surrounded by 10 or 12 of his the valley en gaining the little wood fringing it, in the morning,
guards. The Bey rose to receive us, and returned our English confirihed his opinion. He counted on success; yet, to make
bow by passing his hand over his mouth, forehead, • and MOrCARYR; halted to let his artillery takenp a flanking position
breast, after which we took our seats. Although by no means •on the north- side of the valley. The circuitous and bacl route,
possessing that noble and commanding air so common in his however,' delaying this .manceuvre, he could not restrain the
countrymen, and generally found in a Turk of rank, the man- impatience'of the delhis. 'Towards noon, "Allah, Allah her,"
ner of 'fehako (the name of the Bey) was mild, and his lam they made a splendid-charge; they repeated it, broke two
guage compiimentary and polite. Our conversation was carried squares, and 'amused theinselves nearly two hours in carving
on through the Consul in Ron-laic, the Bee being an Albanian. the Mission infantry, their own infantry, the while, adniiring
His dress was neither rich, nor becoming his situation ; in fact, them from toe skirts of the wood, Diehitsch, expecting every
it would scarcely be called decent. He wore neither stockings moment that the vizier' would advance to complete the success
nor slippers, and the turban was even laid aside at liberty, of
eaialry-4hereby 'sealing his 'own destrtietiOnordered
which we were informed, afterwards was allowed by a recent, Count Pullen, whose division was in the valley, and who de-
regulation of the Port.
The principal attraction in his dress mended reinforcements, to maintain his ground to the last man.
was a bell richly embroidered with gold, -containing a dagger The- Count obeyed, triougli suffering cruelly; but, tie _vizier,
and piste's, which were also beautifully ornatuentedivith ,em- fortunately, instead' of 'seconding Ins adversary's intentions,
bossed- silver. " Coffee was served during our conference, quietly remained on the erninente, 'enjoying the gallantry of
which laited about an' heur; the French ex edition to Algiers ! his delhis, - and waiting till his artillery should be able. to' open,
being the principal topic of conversation, and ea which the Bey when he might descend and claim the victory with ease: An-
evinced much' anxiety. The guards whom .we found ,in the '1 sillier ten minutes would have sufficed _to envelope him; but
apartment with the Bey, and those whom we had passed in the lljpbitsch, ignorant of the cause of his backwardness, Supposing
ante-chamber;' closed round us during our conversation, 'and that he intended amusing him till night, whereby to -effect a
expressed in their looks the curiosity and interest which we retreat, and anwiliing to loose more .men; suddenly displayed
excited. They were a Motley group, and, in their strange hi§ whole force, and opened a tremendous. fire on the astonished
Turkish dress, with' their daggers anclpiSlols in a belt shui:a.r u r an instant the route _WO geueral, horse and foot;
to' their master's, seemed fit for deeds of darkest hue.' The • the latter threw away their arms, and many of the nizam dgeditt
room in which we had 'assembled was spacious. Two sides of mere seen cline ing to the tails of the delhis' horses as they clam-
it were, seampied by an ottoinan,.and the third by a bench for beied over the liit:s. So .complete .and instantaneous was the
the use of -guards. These accommodations, and that on which flight that scam Gels' a prisener was made Redschid strove to
the Bey was seated, farmed the whole furniture and ornaments check the panic by personal valour, hut in vain. HO was COM-
of the room ; the swells of which, instead of being hung with Felled to thaw his Sabre iThselt-defence he fled to the Kinip.t-
silken drapery, had -lost ulost of their Plaster, arid displayed schik, acConipaaied by,ascore ofperstanal retainers, enossed' the their original nakedness in
taany pleces.-",-Nautical Mayarinv, mountains, and on the fourtli day re-entyred Schunala.—Sladeg No. Vlll. 418--120. •
Itectifetil fraitlt Tertey. „ . , .

i)ortrp.

FRAGMENT.

SAYEST thou that human glory can endure ?
That aught of earth affords foundation sure ?
Sayest th9u that empire, dignity, or fame
Shall live for ever—flourish on the same ?
Gaze on each temple, on each lofty dome, •
Gaze on the ruins of imperial Rome!
Can the proud city or embattled tower
Contemn old Time, and set at nought his power ?
Gaze on the ruins—nay, go seek the spot
Where high and haughty Babylon—is not.
Snakes of the fen and lions of the wood
Possess the spot where she, proud city, stood.
Her gates of brass, her gold, her silver,—all
Have perished in the universal fall.
No frail memorial is left to tell
Where stood the stronghold of the impious Bel
Yet mark—there is a city that shall be
Strong and unmoved, to all eternity?
No sun illuminates that city bright—
No moon is there, to cheer dark dismal night—
No night is there—God is its beaming sun,
Its light the Lamb—the holy three in one.
What city thus shall crumbling age contemn ?
No earthly work—the new Jerusalem !

0 f SOFTLY TELL.

AittliTTA

W. E. G.

(From the ~,,reto Opera of " THE 15i'UNNERY ; Or, SAINT MARY'S ISLE,

THE LADY CONSTANCE OF LORN.

My dove, Fidele ! my beauteous dove, away !
O'er lake, o'er fell, unfold,
These plumes, all gems and gold,
To chide my lover for his long delay,—
O ! fleetly bear the truant youth,
A tale, a tender tale that well,
My dove, my beauteous dove, will tell,
Of my undyin; truth,—
Then gently chide his long delay :
And now my beauteous dove depart,
Once more I press thee to my heart,
Aud now away, away, away !

'Vet stay, Fidele ! my beauteous dove, yet stay.
'Yet stay, ere thou unfold,
These plumes, all gems and gold,
To chide my lover for his long delay :
0 ! softly tell the truant youth,
I ponder.in my lonely tower,
In courtly hall, in sylvan bower,
On his 'undying truth:
Then gently chide his long delay :
And now my beauteous dove, depart,
Once more I press thee to my heart,
And now away, away, away !

SONG FOR THE CHRISTMAS MINSTRELS.
BY dIRS. lIRMANS.

O LOVELY voices of the sky,
That hymn'd the Saviour's birth
Are ye not singing still on high,

Ye that sung " Peace on earth 1"
To us yet speak the strains,
Wherewith in days gone by,
Ye blessed the Syrian swains,
0 voices of the sky !

O clear and shining light, whose beams
That hour Heaven's glory shed
Around the palms, and o'er the streams,
And on the shepherds' head ;
Be now, through life and death,
As on that holiest night
Of Hope, and Joy, and Faith—
A clear and shining light !

O star which led to Him, whose love
Brought down man's ransom fee I
Where art thou ?' 'Midst the Host above
May we still gaze on thee I
In Heaven thou art not set,
Thy rays Earth might not dim ;
Send them to guide us yet,
0 star which led to Him,

DI-S TICIL
By a Cockney Harberdasher.

VAT a vonderful change
In Tom Thornely is seen,
He vo fill'd the Green Shay,*
Is now vi Shay Green.t
• Chaise. + Chagrin.

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