SONNETS ON FLOWERS.
(From the Same.)
WHO would have thought a thing so slight, So frail a birth of warmth and light,
A thing as weak as fear or shame, Bearing thy weakness in thy name,
Who would have thought of finding thee, Thou delicate Anemone,
Whose faintly-tinted petals may
By any wind be torn away,
Whose many anthers with their dust, And the dark purple dome their centre, When winter strikes, soon as it likes, Will quit their present rest, and must Hurry away on wild adventure? What power is given thee to outlast The pelting rain, the driving blast; To sit upon thy slender stem,
A solitary diadem,
Adorning latest autumn with
A relic sweet of vernal pith?
Oh Heaven! if-as faithful I believe,
Thou wilt the prayer of faithful love receive, Let it be so with me! I was a child
Of large belief, though froward, wild: Gladly I listen'd to the holy word,
And deemed my little prayers by God were heard. All things I loved, however strange or odd, As deeming all things were beloved by God. In youth and manhood's careful sultry hours, The garden of my youth bore many flowers That now are faded; but my early faith, Though thinner far than vapour, spectre, wraith, Lighter than aught the rude wind blows away, Has yet outlived the rude tempestuous day, And may remain a witness of the spring, A sweet, a holy, and a lovely thing; The promise of another spring to me, My lovely, lone, and lost Anemone !
LADY, beyond the wide Atlantic main
Huge trees hast thou beheld and gorgeous flowers,
And poor may be to thee, and dim, and plain,
The simple posies of this isle of ours;
Yet, lady, humbly I present to thee A flower refined in her simplicity, The lady Cowslip, that, amid the grass, Is tall and comely as a virgin queen. The Primrose is a bonny peasant lass, The bold and full-blown beauty of the green; She seems on mossy bank, in forest glade, Most meet to be the Cowslip's waiting-maid. But the coy Cowslip-coy, though doom'd to stand In state erect upon the open field— Declines her head; the lady of the land,
That must be public, fain would be conceal'd, Knowing how much she ought to all impart, Yet much retaining with an artless art; For there is beauty in the cowslip bell That must be sought for ere it can be spied, And her pure perfume must be known full well Before its goodness can be testified;
And therefore do I give the flower to thee, Thinking thee better than I know or see.
EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS; OR, EYE-BRIGHT.
THERE is a flower, a tiny flower, Its hue is white, but close within 't There is a spot of golden tint; Therein abides a wondrous juice, That hath, for such as know its use, A sweet and holy power.
It is a little Euphrasy,
Which you no doubt have often seen 'Mid the tall grass of meadow green; But never deem'd so wee a wight Endow'd with medicinal might To clear the darken'd eye.
And may be now it hath no more The virtue which the kindly fays Bestow'd in fancy's holy days; Yet still the gold-eyed weedie springs, To show how pretty little things Were hallow'd long of yore.
SONNETS ON RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS.
BELIEVE and pray. Who can believe and pray Shall never fail nor falter, though the fate Of his abode, or geniture, or date,
With charms beguile or threats obstruct his way. For free is faith and potent to obey;
And love, content in patient prayer to wait, Like the poor cripple at the Beautiful Gate, Shall be relieved on some miraculous day. Lord, I believe !-Lord, help mine unbelief! If I could pray, I know that Thou wouldst hear; Well were it though my faith were only grief, And I could pray but with a contrite tear. But none can pray whose wish is not Thy will, And none believe who are not with Thee still.
SHE sat and wept beside His feet; the weight Of sin oppressed her heart; for all the blame, And the poor malice of the worldly shame, To her was past, extinct, and out of date, Only the sin remain'd, the leprous state; She would be melted by the heat of love, By fires far fiercer than are blown to prove And purge the silver ore adulterate.
She sat and wept, and with her untress'd hair Still wiped the feet she was so blest to touch; And He wiped off the soiling of despair
From her sweet soul, because she loved so much. I am a sinner, full of doubts and fears, Make me a humble thing of love and tears. 1848.
[N.B. The figures within Crotchets refer to the History.]
ACCIDENTS-At the Great Northern Railway Terminus, 2; collision on the London and North-Western Railway at Boxmoor, 3; fall of a mill at Bel- fast, six lives lost, 4; extraordinary homicide in the Regent's Canal Dock, 5; fatal sewer accident at Islington, 6; loss of the John Adams and the Oregon, in United States, with fear- ful loss of life, 7; explosion of the Plover at Glasgow, 10; explosion of chemical works at Manchester, 11; singular death of Captain Hutchin- son at Holyhead, 14; coal-pit explo- sion at Paisley, 61 lives lost, 26; boiler explosion at Stockport, 20, persons killed, 28; at Johnstone, seven lives lost, 32; at Manchester, eight lives lost, 35; explosion of a powder-magazine at Temezvar, 44; fatal mistake-a farmer shot by a clergyman in Cumberland, 50; acci- dental death of a barrister, 52; on the Cheshire Junction Railway in the Frodsham Tunnel, dreadful loss of life, 53; fall of immense buildings in Gracechurch-street, five lives lost, 67; fatal collision at the Clay Cross Sta- tion, North Midland Railway, 69; on the Lewes and Brighton Railway, 76; boiler explosion near Bristol, eight lives lost, 77; balloon accident to Mr. and Mrs. Graham, 80; coal-pit accident at Bedminster, 81; fatal explosion of a locomotive boiler at Liverpool, 88; mine accident at Beer Ferris, 90; coal-pit explosion at Chorley, melancholy death of Mr. Fazakerley, 98; at Malago Vale Pit, six lives lost, 115; at Marshal Sebas- tiani's funeral, 116; explosion at the Washington Pit, 35 lives lost, 127; at Kingswood Colliery, 141; at Aber- dare Colliery, fourteen lives lost, 142; collision on the Buckinghamshire Railway at Bicester, with dreadful loss of life, 144; on the Great North- ern Railway at Hornsey, great loss of life, 147; by fall of a mill at Bally- clare, 148; explosion at West Moor Colliery, nine lives lost, 173; dread-
Accidents-continued.
ful steamboat explosion at Bristol, 175; to the Demerara mail steamer, 176; fatal collision of steamboats in the Mediterranean, 180; dreadful accident at New York, 50 lives lost, 182; fatal railway collision at Weedon, 183; fatal accident on the South Coast Railway at Littlehampton, 186; fall of houses at Kensington, 187; explosion of a rocket factory at Dart- ford, seven lives lost, 192; colliery explosion at Rawmarsh, 52 lives lost, 202. See RAILWAY ACCIDENTS ACTS, LIST OF, 14 & 15 VICT.-Public General Acts, 437; Local and Per- sonal Acts, declared public, 441; Private Acts printed, 448; Private Acts not printed, 449
ARCTIC EXPEDITION-The search for Sir John Franklin (continued), 475 AUSTRIA.-The Emperor reverts to the old absolutist principles of the em- pire; his letter to Prince Schwartzen- berg and Baron Kübeck declaring Ministers responsible solely to the Crown, [277]
BANKRUPTS, Table of, 470 BIRTHS, 212
Burglaries and Robberies-Numerous burglaries with violence in many parts, 1; at Miss Farncombe's, near Uckfield, 1; at Liverpool, 4; with violence at Windsor, 12; at Mid- dleton, trial of the burglars, 19; dar- ing robbery in Lancashire, 23; robbery of a mail-bag, 24; high- way robbery in Derbyshire, 25; at the Government Works, Waltham Abbey, 49; of 7000l. of Californian gold-dust, 61; great robbery of dia- monds, 62; at Twinstead, robber shot, 78; attempted robbery at the London and Westminster Bank, capture of Cauty and Tyler, 86; burglary at Kirdford, trial of John Isaacs and Samuel Harwood, 112; systematic railway robberies, 150; burglary and attempted murder at Oldbury, 168; burglary with violence in Hunting-
Burglaries and Robberies-continued. donshire, 170; burglary with violence in Herefordshire, 179
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE-Disputes with the natives arising from the border Sovereignty; Sir H. Smith appointed Governor of the Cape, [282]; con- venes a meeting of Caffre chiefs at King William's Town, description of the interview, [283]; the great Chief Sandilli refuses to appear and is de- posed; futile attempt to capture him, [283]; a general war breaks out on the frontier in which our troops suffer severe loss, the Governor is shut up in Fort Cox, [284]; bloody skir mishes, dreadful devastation of the settlements, [285]; desertion of our Hottentot allies, [286]; memorial of the inhabitants of Graham's Town, [287]; the Governor's reply, [288]; engagement with Colonel Fordyce, [289]; who is killed in a subsequent skirmish, [292]; arrival of the draft Constitution granted to the colony, its principal provisions, [292]; it is favourably received by the colonists, [294]. See PARLIAMENT CENSUS OF 1851-England and Wales, 450; Scotland, 452; Islands in the British Seas, 453; Ireland, 454 Ceylon-Result of the Court-Martial on Captain Watson, 76. See PARLIAMENT Colliery Explosions and Mining Acci- dents-At Paisley, 61 lives lost, 26; coal-pit accident at Bedminster, 81; fatal mine accident at Beer Ferris, 90; coal-pit explosion at Chorley, melancholy death of Mr. Fazakerley, 98; accident at Malago Vale Pit, six lives lost, 115; explosion at Washing- ton Pit, 35 lives lost, 127; colliery accident at Kingswood, 141; at Aber- dare, fourteen lives lost; at Welton and Bilston, 142; at West Moor Col- liery, nine lives lost, 173; fearful ex- plosion at Rawmarsh, 52 lives lost, 202
Colonial Affairs. See PARLIAMENT Concordat between the Queen of Spain and the Court of Rome, 464 CRYSTAL PALACE. See EXHIBITION OF INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS, 496 CORN, HAY, STRAW, CLOVER, and BUTCHERS' MEAT-Average prices of, 469
Coroners' Inquests-On W. Barton,
death by starvation, 15; on James Tomlin, esq., 52; on Mrs. Barnes, murdered at Belper, 204
CUBA Second piratical invasion of Cuba by Lopez and a band of Ameri- cans; meets no support from the inhabitants; the pirates defeated and captured, [295]; narratives of the dreadful sufferings of the invaders, [296]; exposure of the arts by which the expedition had been got up, by Lieut. van Vechten, [296]; execution of Lopez and 50 of his confederates; account of Lopez, [298]; letter of Colonel Crittenden, [298]; vindica- tion of the Spanish authorities from the charge of cruelty, by the Spanish Minister here; his narrative of the transactions, [299]; the Spanish General Enna killed, [289]; execution of the American pirates, 126
DEATHS-d'Abrantes, duc, 285; Acland, mrs. M. 297; Adams, miss M. 277; Adams, dr. 297; Adams, rev. T. C. 341; Addams, miss J. 333; Adderley, mrs. A. 361; Addington, hon. E. 311; Adderley, R. 259; Affleck, rev. sir R. 287; Aiton, J. T. 305; Albe- marle, earl of, 271; Alford, viscount, 247; Allan, dr. J. 272; Allen, major, 363; Allen, J. L. 328; Allott, miss A. M. 363; D'Alton, count, 273; An- derson, gen. P. 364; Anderson, mrs. G. 289; Andrewes, rev. G. T. 301; Anstey, T. 273; Archdall, mrs. J. 249; Arden, dow. lady, 289; Arnett, It.-col. M. 271; Arthur, J. 368; Arras, cardinal bishop of (de la Tour d'Auvergne), 311; Ashburnham, miss M. K. 302; Askew, R. C. 314; Aslett, col. T. 325; Aspinall, J. 261; Athlone, countess dow. of, 269; Atthill, mrs. C. A. 304; Attwood, M. 348; Audin, mr. 268; Audubon, J. J. 257; Auldjo, miss M. 313; Aylington, mrs. A.
Babington, miss M. 276; Back- house, mrs. 338; Badeley, dr. 333; Bagshaw, W. J. 292; Bagster, S. 275; Baines, mrs. C. 267; Baillie, miss M. 280; Baker, lieut.-col. W. T. 299; Baker, mrs. 339; Baker, G. 338; Baldwin, lieut.-col. 249; Baldwin, capt. 253; Baldwin, mrs. E. A. 263; Ball, mrs. H. 282; Bantry, earl of, 286; Barclay, H. 338; Barham, mrs. C. 308; Baring, miss B. A. 369; Bar- low, sir W.O. 266; Barlow, mrs. S. 302; Barnard, J. 309; Barnard, E. G. 299; Barker, adm. 369; Barrett, rev. dr. J. T. 270; Barrow, mrs. M. 321; Barron, W. 277; Basevi, G. 265; Bateson, T. D. 360; Battersbee, capt. T. 263; Bat-
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