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LXVII.

With her, (at either hand) two starry forms
Glide-than herself more royal-and the glow
Of their own lustre each pale phantom warms
Into the lovely life the angels know,

And as they pass, each Fairy leaves its cell,
And GLORIANA calls on ARIEL !

LXVIII.

Yet she, unconscious as the crescent queen

Of orbs whose brightness makes her image bright, Haught and imperious, thro' the borrowed sheen, Claims to herself the sovereignty of light,

And is herself so stately to survey

That orbs which lend, but seem to steal, the ray.

LXIX.

Elf-land divine, and Chivalry sublime,

Seem there to hold their last high jubileeOne glorious Sabbat of enchanted Time,

Ere the dull spell seals the sweet glamoury. And all those wonder-shapes in subject ring Kneel where the Bard still sits beside the King.

LXX.

Slow falls a mist, far booms a labouring wind,
As into night reluctant fades the Dream;
And lo, the smouldering embers left behind

From the old sceptre-flame, with blood-red beam; Kindle afresh, and the thick smoke-reeks go Heavily up from marching fires below.

LXXI.

Hark! thro' sulphureous cloud the jarring bray
Of trumpet-clangours-the strong shock of steel;
And fitful flashes light the fierce array

Of faces gloomy with the calm of zeal,

Or knightlier forms, on wheeling chargers borne ;
Gay in despair, and meeting zeal with scorn.

LXXII.

Forth from the throng came a majestic Woe, That wore the shape of Man-" And I" It said, "I am thy Son; and if the Fates bestow

Blood on my soul and ashes on my head; Time's is the guilt, tho' mine the miseryThis teach me, Father-to forgive and die!"

LXXIII.

But here stern voices drown'd the mournful word,
Crying" Men's freedom is the heritage
Left by the Hero of the Diamond Sword,'

And others answered-" Nay, the knightly age
Leaves, as its heirloom, knighthood, and that high
Life in sublimer life call'd loyalty."

LXXIV.

Then, thro' the hurtling clamour came a fair
Shape like a sworded seraph-sweet and grave;
And when the war heaved distant down the air
And died, as dies a whirlwind on the wave,

By the two forms upon the starry hill,
Stood the Arch Beautiful, august and still.

LXXV.

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And thus It spoke-"I too will hail thee, Sire,'

Type of the Hero-age !-thy sons are not

On the earth's thrones. They who, with stately lyre, Make kingly thoughts immortal, and the lot

Of the hard life divine with visitings

Of the far angels-are thy race of Kings.

LXXVI.

"All that ennobles strife in either cause,

And, rendering service stately, freedom wise, Knits to the throne of God our human laws

Doth heir earth's humblest son with royalties Born from the Hero of the diamond sword, Watched by the Bard, and by the Brave ador'd."

LXXVII.

Then the Bard, seated by the halo'd dead,

Lifts his sad eyes-and murmurs, "Sing of Him!" Doubtful the stranger bows his lofty head,

When down descend his kindred Seraphim;

Borne on their wings he soars from human sight,
And Heaven regains the Habitant of Light.

LXXVIII.

Again, and once again-from many a pale
And swift succeeding, dim-distinguished, crowd,
Swells slow the pausing pageant. Mount and vale
Mingle in gentle daylight, with one cloud
On the far welkin, which the iris hues
Steal from its gloom with rays that interfuse.

LXXIX.

Mild, like all strength, sits Crowned Liberty,
Wearing the aspect of a youthful Queen:
And far outstretch'd along the unmeasured sea
Rests the vast shadow of her throne; serene
From the dumb icebergs to the fiery zone,
Rests the vast shadow of that guardian throne.

LXXX.

And round her group the Cymrian's changeless race Blent with the Saxon, brother-like; and both Saxon and Cymrian from that sovereign trace

Their hero line;-sweet flower of age-long growth; The single blossom on the twofold stem;Arthur's white plume crests Cerdic's diadem.

LXXXI.

Yet the same harp that Taliessin strung

Delights the sons whose sires the chords delighted; Still the old music of the mountain tongue

Tells of a race not conquered but united;

That, losing nought, wins all the Saxon won,
And shares the realm where never sets the sun.'

LXXXII.

Afar is heard the fall of headlong thrones,

But from that throne as calm the shadow falls; And where Oppression threats and Sorrow groans Justice sits listening in her gateless halls, . And ev'n, if powerless, still intent, to cure, Whispers to Truth, "Truths conquer that endure."

INDEX.

[N.B.-The figures within crochets refer to the History.]

ACCIDENTS-Wreck of the Forth, West
India Mail Packet, 9; collision of two
Neapolitan steamers, 10; fire at Lin-
coln's Inn, ib.; at Iron Gate Wharf,
Paddington, 11; explosion of fire-
damp at the Darley Main Colliery, 13;
fire in Spitalfields, 19; accident on
the Caledonian Railway, 19; frightful
catastrophe in the Dunlop Street
Theatre, Glasgow, 21; wreck of the
Floridian emigrant ship, 24; destruc-
tion of the Olympic Theatre, 33'; suf-
focation by charcoal at St. John's
Wood, 35; wrecks of the Hannah and
Maria emigrant ships, 40; boiler
explosion in the Commercial Road,
44; carriage accident at Kensington,
45; muscle gatherers drowned at
Leith, 47; fire at King William-street,
London Bridge, 50; extensive confla-
gration in Glasgow, 53; fire at St.
Louis, U. S., 57; inundation at New
Orleans, 59; fires in Blenheim-street,
and Willow-walk, Bermondsey, 60;
at Poulton, near Fleetwood, 61; col-
liery explosion at Hepburn, 61, at
Suffolk, 62; drowning of Dr. Carmi-
chael, near Dublin, 62; a man killed
by an elephant, 63; collision of the
Europa and Charles Bartlett, 66; bal-
loon accidents, 77; fall of a Roman
Catholic Chapel in Drury Lane, 80;
shipwreck of the Sarah Crisp and de-
struction by gunpowder of the Mi-
nerva, 87; railway accident in Ame-
rica, 89; fall from the rocks at Clif-
ton, 91; colliery explosion at Aber-
dare, 93; explosion of a firework ma-
nufactory at Kensington, 107; fall of
a viaduct, 117; fire at London Wall,
118; wreck of the St. John emigrant
ship, 119; firework manufactory ex-
plosion at Bermondsey, 120; loss of
lives in a sewer, 121; accident on the
Whitehaven and Furness Railway,
123; explosion of a steam-boiler at
Liverpool, 131; fire at Hoxton, ib.;
on Fish Street Hill, 132; at the Model
Baths and Washhouses, Whitechapel,
135; fatal fall from a horse, at Cam-
bridge, 138; inundations in India,

139; collision on the Blackwall Rail-
way, 144; fire at Greenwich, 146;
wreck of the South Stockton, 147; fire
at Cambridge, 148; death at the exe-
cution of the Mannings, 149; steam-
boat explosion at New Orleans, 151;
burning of Cliefden House, near
Maidenhead, 151; explosion of deto-
nating materials at Louth, 152; an
undergraduate of Cambridge drowned,
153; fall of railway arches at Cam-
den Town, 154; accident at the Bri-
tannia Bridge, 156; accident at a cot-
ton mill from a steam-engine, 158;
death of a man from falling into a
copper of boiling vitriol, 163; burn-
ing of the Caleb Grimshaw, 164;
drowning of Mr. T. Shadwell, 171;
inundations, 173; forty-one persons
drowned at Kilrush, 174; incendiary
fire near Cambridge, 180; shipwrecks
during the month of December, 182
ACTS, LIST OF, 12 & 13 VICT. Public
General Acts, 333; Local and Perso-
nal Acts, declared public, 337; Pri-
vate Acts, printed, 341; Private Acts,
not printed, 343

Agapemone, The. Nottidge v. Ripley, 65
Albert, Prince, visits Lincolnshire, opens
the docks at Great Grimsby, 40; lays
the first stone of the Portland break-
water, 80; opens the Coal Exchange,
136

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Baden-continued.

National Committee declares hostility
to the Regent, [368]; the Regent calls
in troops of the Confederation, and
the Prussians march in great force,
[368]; the insurgents everywhere re-
treat before them, [368]; obstinate
combat at Grossachsen and Waghäu-
sel; the insurgents take refuge in
Rastadt; the leaders fly, [369]
Balloon accidents, 77
BANKRUPTS, 346

Bequests, munificent, by Mr. L. M.
Cuthbert, 177

Bermondsey murder, singular coinci-
dence with the, 148
BIRTHS, 187, 346

Bishops, Consecration of, 170

Britannia Bridge, raising of the, 64, 156
Borneo Pirates, destruction of, 161

California, massacre of Indians in, 105
CANADA-The Rebellion Losses In-
demnity Bill; great dissatisfaction of
the British Party," [387]; popular
outbreak, the Houses of Parliament
burnt, [390] 46; the Assembly pass a
vote of confidence, [390]; dissatisfac-
tion; declaration in favour of annexa
tion to the United States, [392]
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE- Order in Council,
making the colony a penal station,
causes great dissatisfaction, [371]; re-
solutions adopted at a public meet-
ing, [372]; arrival of the convict ship
Neptune; the colonists demand that
she be ordered to leave, which the
governor refuses, [373]; the colonists

66

'stop the supplies" of bread and pro-
visions to the governor, troops, and
officials, and the Order in Council is
withdrawn, [374], 160
Cephalonia, revolt in, 128

Chatham, siege operations at, 76
Chilianwallah, battle of, [377], 26
China, affray at Macao, 99
Chloroform, death from, 99

Cholera at Tooting, Mr. P. Drouet's es-
tablishment, 1; in London, 87, 100;
special form of prayer for, 108; Pa-
risian statistics, 170

Cholera, the, 448.

Church, shameful scene in a, 53
Cirencester, Roman remains at, 112
Coal Exchange, opening of the, by
Prince Albert, 136

Colliery explosion at the Darley Main
Colliery, seventy-five lives lost, 13';
at Hepburn Colliery, thirty-one lives
lost, 61; at Laffak Coalpit, 62; at
Aberdare, fifty-two lives lost, 93

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Coroner's Inquests-on the pauper chil-
dren at Mr. Drouet's establishment,
at Tooting, 2; on Mr. G. S. Griffith,
of Brighton, 16; on Dr. W. H. Crook,
25; suffocation by charcoal, at St.
John's Wood, 35; poisonings at Guest-
ling, near Hastings, 48, 88; on J. N.
Luxmoore, esq., 59; on four women
who were suffocated by a fire at Poul-
ton, near Fleetwood, 61; on John
James Watts, 91; on two children
murdered by their father at Liver-
pool, 92; on Louis Chiveot, 109; on
five persons who were suffocated in a
sewer at Pimlico, 121; on a wife and
child murdered by the husband, 126;
on Mr. T. Morton, 140; on Mr. J. T.
Wildman, 155

Courts-Martial- -on Comm. Sprigg, 14;
on Lieut. Graham and Mr. Elliott, 96;
on privates of the 3rd Dragoon Guards,
124

DEATHS

Abington, W. J. A. 288;
Acheson, lady A. 255; Adair, major-
gen. 251; Adams, dr. 265; Adams,
W. 261; Agnew, sir A. 231; Airlie,
earl of, 263; Aiton, W. T. 274;
Albemarle, earl of, 280; Albert,
Charles, ex-king of Sardinia, 255;
Allan, P. 265; Allen, R. D. D. 231;
Aldborough, earl of, 277; Alderson,
It.-col. R. C. 278; Alvanley, lord, 284;
Ammerschuber, mrs. 234; Andrews,
J. G. 255; Anson, gen. sir G. A. 283;
Anson, G. E. 273; Arbuthnot, lt.-gen.
sir T. 220; Arnold, mrs. 269; Arce-
deckne, A. 220; Arkwright, mrs. 225;
Arkwright, mrs. 234; Arundell, mrs.
S. 262; Auckland, earl of, 213

Bacon, miss A. 249; Badley, comm.
R. 262; Bagshaw, R. 274; Band,
E. W. 289; Bandinel, J. 256; Bar-
ber, C. 264; Barclay, mrs. J. 301;
Barker, J. 272; Barlow, mrs. 233;
Barnes, A. W. 261; Barnwell, C. F.
228; Barton, B. 221; Basevi, mrs.
G. 301; Bastard, T. H. 227; Bate-
man, P. W. 263; Bazalgetta, comm.
216; Beaumont, T. W. 213; Beddoes,
T. L. 219; Bell, J. 273; Bellamy, E.
220; Bernays, mrs. M. 255; Bid-
dulph, B. 247; Bird, J. G. 270; Biss-
hopp, rev. sir C. A. 217; Blackstone,
C. 220; Blackwood, mrs. 231; Blair,
major-gen. T. 265; Blake, rt.-hon. A.

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