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There is in the lone, lone deep
A spot unmarked, but holy, &c.
e lines to a young lady who died of consumption, the

lieav'n hails one a

gel more—earth weeps a daughter less

" Lines enclosed to a lady, together with a billet dour,"
&c., betray a want of gallantry and no small self-conceit.
" The Greenwich pensioners" is well told. " Shipwreck"
opens with a palpable plagiarism :

An infant lay sleeping alone on its pillow,
A mother was weeping one far o'er the billow
What says Lover in " The angels whisper ?"

A baby was sleeping,
Its mother was weeping,
While her husband was far on the wild raging sea.
The rest of the poem is fairly written. " The Gambler"
exhibits considerable power. " The Mariner and the Sea" is
one of the best things in the book; the effect of it is, how-
ever, very much marred by the ridiculous and very silly intro-
duction. The information touching the versifier's juvenility is
also unnecessary : some of the cleverest productions of our
best poets have been penned by them at the age of the author
when this was written. The effusion respecting "The author's
hair when it wanted, or was thought to require, cutting," is
very puerile. " The Midnight Guest" is a very fairly and
smoothly told tale. "A Tough Yarn, but a true one," is
cleverly told, but has " a lame and impotent conclusion."
The song entitled " British Sailors" contains plenty of patri-
otism—a very good thing in a young poet—but it would be
all the better if the fourth verse were omitted. The boast
touching " the Frenchmen," good manners, and a twenty-
five years' peace, should hare told him to refrain from it ;
while the remark touching " the Yankees" does not in any
way apply. " The lament of St. Paul's over the ruins of the
Tower" has been suggested, doubtless, by Hudson's "Mo-

nument and St. Paul's"—a sort of serious version of it.
" Young English Gentlemen" shows the author to possess
some observation. There is a great deal of truth in the song
"to an old tune." "The Maniacs Revenge" is a sort of
Ingoldaby legend, " told by a gentleman with a bald head."
" A Y arn—middle watch," is narrated with a great deal of
humour. The author in this sort of versification excels.
The lines on " Satisfaction" are very much to the point ;
they are quite " Byronic." Taking this book altogether, it
is very amusing, and does the author great credit. We pre-

fer his comic effusions to his sentimental ones, although some
of the latter exhibit feeling and pathos. With much that
might be omitted, there is plenty worth retaining.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

(From the Word Herald.)

The Rev. Isaac Fidler, 8.A., of New Inn Hall, late rector
of Kelbrook, Thornton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, has been pre-
sented to the rectory of Easington, in this county ; patron,
the Bishop of Lincoln.

PROMOTIONS.

Rev. John Sabine, 8.A., to the rectory of Thorn Coffin,
Somerset, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Alfred Tooke ;
patron, the Rev. A. Tooke.
Rev. Jacob Hugo North, M.A., to the vicarage of Car-
broke, Norfolk • patron, Richard Dewing, Esq.
Rev. Henry Butterfield, M.A., minor canon of St. George's
Chapel, Windsor, and rector of Brockdish, Norfolk, to the
rectory of Fulmer, Bucks, vacant by the death of the Rev.
T. W. Champness ; patrons, the dean and canons of Wind-
sor.

Rev. W. S. Palish, to be chaplain to H.M.S. Agincourt.
Rev. Arthur Wilkin, M.A., of Christ's College, Cam-
bridge, to be chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Lowther.
Rev. John Little, 8.A., vicar of Shundon and Shealley,
near Luton, Bedfordshire, to the chaplaincy of the Luton
Union.

Rev. B. Hopkins, 8.A., curate of Thurgarton and Hover-
ingham, Nottinghamshire, to the perpetual curacy of Bar-
ton, Westmoreland.
Rev. Wm. Waller, to the rectory of Kilcornan, Ireland;
vacant by the death of the Rev. F. Langford.
Rev. W. Fisher, 8.A., curate of Kilmoe, Cork, to the
rectory of that parish, vacant by the death of the Rev. F.
Langford.
Rev. T. Williams, M.A., curate of St. Mary's, Shrews-
bury, to the vicarage of Elloughton, Yorkshire ; patron, the
Rev. H. S. Markham, M.A., canon residentiary.
The Dorset County Chronicle says that the cause of the
Bishop of Salisbury's secesion from the British and Foreign
Bible Society was, the refusal of that society to put itself un-
der the sanction of the Archbishop of Canberburv.
The Rev. R. W. Sihthorp states in a letter which be has
published, that his leaning to Romanism is not of recent ori-
gin ; and that i❑ early life he sought admission into the
church of Rome. and but for the interference of the law, he
being then under age, should have joined:her.

CHESTER ORDINATION.-FEB. 20,1542.
PRIESTS.

Algernon Boote . B.A. Brazenose, Oxford
James Parry B.A. Jesus College
John D. Knox Scott B.A. Baliol
William Bateson
Robert Morewood
Edward Dean .......... B.A. St. John's College "
George Gibbon B.A. Catharane Hall Si
James Losh
Richard Parry Jones B.A. Trinity College, "
46 ..
Benjamin Crompton..
George Bethune Norman, B.A. " ..
Edward Francis Manley B.A. Christ College, II
Richard Yorbugh B.A. i‘
William James Shearly .. B.A. St. Peter's College, "
Allan Wallace
Frederick Stewart B.A. ..
James York B.A. Sid. Sussex College, "
Henry French Beasley M.A. Trinity College, Dublin
William Thornton Cust B.A.
David Carson B.A. /I 41

Fitz J. Stannus Hamilton B.A. 44 4,
Richard Parsons ........ B.A. 4,

id
Fran. Talbot O'Donoghue B.A. ~
" Robert Townley B.A. ~
Henry William Ray Lit. St. Bees College, "

DEACONS.
Francis Hinde
Henry George Baily .. B.A. Christ College, Cambridge
John Griffith B.A. II
Henry Briant
Hugh Johnson Hindley .. B.A. if "
David Shaboe B.A. II ~
Matthew Isaac Finch B.A. Catharine Hall, II
Vicesimus Lush B.A. Corpus Christi, "
John White M`Kinley
Millman B.A. St. John's Cone*, "
James Hool Sharples B.A.
Benjamin Mashiter

AN HONEST RADICAL

(From the Cork Constitution.)

There is some sense among the opponents of Sir Robert
Peel. They are not all so blind as not to see, or so brazen
as not to admit, the advantages of his plan. The Manchester
Advertiser is ashamed—absolutely ashamed of the conduct
of the League Delegates, and openly denounces it ; but what
could the Advertiser have expected of a parcel of people who
have all through exhibited more passion than reason, and
who, in their blundering about the morality of the question,
show themselves so ignorant of its merits ? For our part, we
think they might as well have drawn up their resolutions be-
fore the conclusion of Sir Robert Peel's speech as after, and
we are better pleased that they did so too. We like to see
creatures of this calibre consistent :—their indecent disregard
of even the appearance of deliberation may help to open the
eyes of some whom it is not easy to enlighten. Men of any
propriety cannot long consent to identify themselves with
with "leaders" whose indiscretions tend only to expose their
precipitancy and presumption. For this reason, then, we
are glad that the delegates were true to their character, and
we have pleasure in copying the following article from a paper
which, though belonging unfortunately to the same party,
had the sense to see their folly and the independence to re-
prove it.
" The indecent haste with which a body of these gentle-
men, the corn-law delegates, rushed from the gallery of the
house to Brown's hotel, without waiting to hear the whole of
the premier's speech; and, after all the deliberation they
could possibly give the subject—in their way through the
Palace-yard—denouncing Sir Robert Peel's plan as an insult
to the country, will be generally accepted as an evidence of
rash and violent counsels among the body. Nor will the
adoption the next day, by the conference, of the resolution
struck off in such hot haste avert from them this imputation.
An exhibition of healed partisanship like this is not only
calculated seriously to impair the legitimate weight and influ-
ence which attaches to their position, but will excite a re-
action in favour of the ministerial plan among men qf snore
moderate temper."
These sober and sensible remarks are succeeded by a con-
fession that something of this kind has, in the Advertiser's
opinion, already resulted from "the indecent haste" com-
plained of, and our contemporary then candidly admits,
opposed to the premier's project though he be, that it has the
following undeniable advantages :
" That the new scheme falls short of the justice and neces-
sities of the case, all but the landed interest will assert. But
the cooler judgment of those who are a little removed from
the vortex of agitation will recognise in 'the nevi sliding
scale an effective cure for some of the worst evils of the pre-
sent system, and a measure of practical improvement, as
great as could reasonably be expected from a minister in the
position of Sir Robert Peel.

" The -great and undeniable advantages of this new scale.
are, that it will reduce the trade in corn from a business of
gambling to a legitimate employment of capital, and that we
have now something like an effectual protection against any
such an approximation of corn to a famine price as we have
lately seen it. As soon as there is reason to believe that our
harvests will give us an insufficient supply, the speculator.
will have, under the new scale of duties, a wider range from
whence it makes up the deficit. One of the worst effects of
the existing system is the waste of money, for no conceivable
purpose, entailed upon us, by our corn merchantsbidding
against each other, and rising prices to a ruinous degree in
two or three of the ports nearest to our own shores. The
sixteen millions of money paid for foreign corn within the
last ten years above its natural value, will be in future saved
to the country by just so much as the new plan admits of
previous calculation, and opens to us every port in Europe.
These are benefits of no trilling value, and it is only fair to
acknowledge them."

SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION.—In the event of the Earl of
Elgin vacating his seat for the town of Southamptoinorrwit s
understood that Mr. Humphrey St. John Mildm
firm of Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., will camaeY forward
in the conservative interest.
VALUE OF LIFE AT A DUBLIN EXECUTION.—Those
who remember Ireland not very long ago can bear witness
how lightly life was valued or death regarded. Illustrative
of this, we may refer to the story of the two basket-women
in Dublin, who held converse on the subject of an approach-
ing execution. " Won't. you go see de man die to-morrow,
Judy ?" " 011, no, &trim," said Judy. " Ah, do, jewel,"
said her friend. Judy again responded, " No." " And
why dont you go, dear ?" inquired her friend again. " I've
to wash de child," said Judy. " Throth, Judy, your ruinin'
your health," said this soft-hearted acquaintance, " dere's a
man to die to-morrow, and you wont come—augh !—you
never take no divarshin !"—Lover's Handy-Andy.