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What though our burthen be not light
We need not toil from morn to night;
The respite of the mid-day hour
Is in the thankful Creature's power.
Blest are the moments, doubly blest,
That, drawn from this one hour of rest,
Are with a ready heart bestowed
Upon the service of our God!

Why should we crave a hallowed spot?
An Altar is in each man's cot,
A Church in every grove that spreads
Its living roof above our heads.

Look up to Heaven! the industrious Sun
Already half his race hath run;
He cannot halt nor go astray,
But our immortal Spirits may.

Lord! since his rising in the East,
If we have faltered or transgressed,
Guide, from thy love's abundant source,
What yet remains of this day's course:

Help with thy grace, through life's short day
Our upward and our downward way;

And glorify for us the west,

When we shall sink to final rest.

ON THE SIGHT OF A MANSE

SOUTH OF SCOTLAND.

By the Same.

SAY, ye far-travelled clouds, far-seeing hills,
Among the happiest-looking Homes of men
Scatter'd all Britain over, through deep glen,
On airy upland, and by forest rills,

And o'er wide plains whereon the sky distils

IN THE

Her lark's loved warblings; does aught meet your ken More fit to animate the Poet's pen,

Aught that more surely by its aspect fills

Pure minds with sinless envy, than the Abode

Of the good Priest: who, faithful through all hours

To his high charge, and truly serving God,

Has yet a heart and hand for trees and flowers,

Enjoys the walks his Predecessors trod,

Nor covets lineal rights in lands and towers.

FANCY AND TRADITION.

By the Same.

THE Lovers took within this ancient grove
Their last embrace; beside those crystal springs
The Hermit saw the Angel spread his wings
For instant flight; the Sage in yon alcove
Sate musing; on that hill the Bard would rove,
Not mute, where now the Linnet only sings:
Thus every where to truth Tradition clings,
Or Fancy localises Powers we love.
Were only History licensed to take note
Of things gone by, her meagre monuments
Would ill suffice for persons and events:
There is an ampler page for man to quote,
A readier book of manifold contents,
Studied alike in palace and in cot.

SONNET,

COMPOSED AFTER READING A NEWSPAPER OF THE DAY.

By the Same.

"PEOPLE! your chains

are severing link by link ;

Soon shall the Rich be levelled down-the Poor

Meet them half way." Vain boast! for These, the more

They thus would rise, must low and lower sink,

Till, by repentance stung, they fear to think;
While all lie prostrate, save the tyrant few
Bent in quick turns each other to undo,

And mix the poison they themselves must drink.
Mistrust thyself, vain Country! cease to cry

"Knowledge will save me from the threatened woe."
For, if than other rash ones more thou know,
Yet on presumptuous wing as far would fly
Above thy knowledge as they dared to go,
Thou wilt provoke a heavier penalty.

[INDEX.

INDE X.

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

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ABINGDON, skeleton discovered at, re-
ported to be that of a Scotchman,
murdered many years ago, 24
Accidents: loss of the William Penn'
steam-boat by fire, 29-four persons
drowned in a boat on the Thames, 52;
fire on board a Dublin steamer, 54;
accidents on the Manchester railway,
55; loss of life in the church of the
Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 63; ex-
plosion in a coal pit, Harley Mine,
near Blackrod, 72; a boy carried off
by a wolf, 93; violent thunder storm at
Prestwich, and several persons killed,
107; several persons seriously injured
by a cow from Smithfield, 118; fires
in Courland and Livonia, 121; loss
of the Superb steamer, 170; fifty
persons drowned at Liverpool, 173.
Ady, Joseph, charge against, by the Rev.
F. Tebbutt, 96

Agricultural Distress, [238]; increase
of burdens on the farmers, [259]
Algiers, debate in the French Chambers
as to the expediency of abandoning
the retention of it as onerous to France,
[354]

Althorp, Lord, he and Mr. Sheil com-
mitted into the custody of the Ser-
jeant-at-arms, [12]; supports the
amendment against the repeal of the
Union, [34]; explains the measures
of the bill relative to the Irish tithe
system, [86]; reply to Mr. Stanley's
speech, [91]; sends in his resigna-
tion, [115]; announces the circum-
stance in the House, [121]; returns
to the cabinet, [124]; introduces a
modified Coercion Bill, [133]; speech
in support of the bill for admitting
Dissenters to the Universities, [190];
his plan for the extinction of church-
rates by granting a sum from the
land-tax, [207]; contends that the
plan ought to satisfy the Dissenters,
[212]; his plan for the commutation
of tithes, [215]; brings forward the
new Poor Laws' Bill, [223]; his argu-
VOL. LXXVI.

ments in favour of it, [227]; defends
the bastardy clauses, [234]; his new
financial plans, [284]

Alvanley, Lord, his speech against the
Poor Laws' Bill, [244]; contends that
a proper administration of the exist-
ing law would prevent abuses, [245]
Anglesea, Marquis of, letter from, to
Earl Grey, urging church reform in
Ireland, quoted by Mr. Hume,
[48]

Army estimates, 288; reductions and
savings ib.

Assessed taxes, alterations in, [292]
Assizes:-Cambridge; the King v. Se-
ward and others, 37

Chester; W. Nailer, shooting at Mr.
Wilkinson, 55; J. Mosley and W.
Garside, murder of Mr. Ashton, 290
Derby; G. Maltby, &c. miners, mur-
der of J. Bagshaw, suffocating him
by smoke of combustibles in a mine,
290
Dorchester; J. Loveless, &c., admi-

nistering unlawful oaths, 39
Exeter; the King v. Brice &c, ad-
ministering of unlawful oaths by
Trades' Unions, 106

Kildare; Patrick Waters, murder of
Christopher Broughill, 45

Kilkenny; Robert Malone, murder of
Mr. Leonard in 1833, 104
Launceston; Alfred Rae, assault on
Grace Brenn, 48

Norwich; J. N. Reeve, stealing pro-
perty found on the person of Mrs.
Pyne, a passenger drowned in the
Earl of Wemyss' smack, 42; J. and
W. Jones, highway robbery, 44
Old Bailey; W. Collier, forgery on
the Bank of England, 3; T. Good-
win, B. Swaby, and J. Ward, rob-
bing the post-office, 130

Meath; M. Devine, J. Slevin, and P.
M'Kenna, for murder of T. Cudden
and J. Bunn, 309

Philipstown; the King v. Rev. Mi-
chael and Rev. W. Crotty, 99

2 D

Reading; B. Gardiner, a private sol-
dier, shooting a serjeant, 102
Warwick; Bird v. Smart, crim. con.
113; J. Fitter, murder of M. Webb,

115

Wells; Dan. Marogh, perjury, 120
Worcester; Anderton and Wife v.
Gibbs, case of legitimacy, 33
York; Joseph Ratcliffe, manslaughter,
50; G. Webb, manslaughter, by
administering Morrison's Pills,

305
Attorney-General, his right of prece-
dence before the Lord Advocate of
Scotland, decided, 119

Baboon, one trained to commit robberies

by some itinerant showmen, 122
Baden, a censorship established, [457]
Baring, Mr. A., his speech on the sub-
ject of the agricultural interest and
its relief, [260]; opposes the repeal
of the corn laws, [277], [279]
Barron, Mr., speech against the Union,
[29]

Bastardy clauses in the new Poor Laws'
bill, [227]; Mr. Robinson's motion
for their omission, [233]; Lord Al-
thorp's defence of them, [234]; pro-
posed modification, [236]; alteration
proposed by the bishop of Exeter,
[247]; decrease of bastardy in such
parts of America where the burden
of supporting the child is thrown upon
the mother, [251]

Bavaria, the King's speech, [457]
Beer licences, taxation on, [291]
Belgium; (see Holland); tumult at
Brussels, and destruction of the houses
and property of Orangeists, [448];
French influence in regard to altera-
tion of duties, [449]; change of mi-
nisters, ib.; opening of the sessions,
and votes of the Chambers, ib.
Bienne, singular phenomenon exhibited
by the wells at, 1

Book-trade with France, 181
Boulden, Judge, sudden death of, in the
House of Representatives, United
States, 14

Bow-street, information against dealers
in game, 100
Bowring, Dr., [278]

Brazils, measures for establishing a

federal form of government, [471]
Bristol, bp. of, (Dr. Gray) death, 242
Brussels, riots at, against the Orange-
ists, [448]

Brougham, Lord, his speech on the
Irish tithe bill, [158]; on the poor-
laws bill, [237]; injurious effect of

the present system, [238]; points out
the expediency of the proposed mea-
sures, [253]; his visit to Inverness,

129

Budget the, [290]; France, [353];
Portugal, [440]; Holland, [447]
Bulwer, Mr. E. L., proposes that hold-
ing office should entitle certain of the
ministry to seats in parliament, [301]
Burns, Mrs., funeral of, 49
Buenos Ayres, attempt at a revolution,
[471]

Cambridge, petition from the university
of, admitting dissenters to take de-
grees, [169]; counter petitions from
do., [174] [175]

Campbell, Gen, Sir J., case of his im-
prisonment by the Portuguese, brought
before parliament, [320]

Canada, Mr. Roebuck's motion for in-
quiry into the state of, [323]; petition
from Quebec, presented by Mr. Hume,
[326]

Carlos, Don, attempts to cross the
frontier from Portugal into Spain,
[376]; his baggage taken by Rodil,
[393]; he escapes on board the
Donegal and comes over to England,
[394]; returns to Spain through
France, [395]; his landing at Parts-
mouth, 84; Death of his wife, 238
Carnarvon, Earl of, his speech against
the bill for admitting dissenters to
the universities, [198]

Catholic priests, dispute between two,
as to possession of a chapel, 99
Catholicism, a new Romish saint added
to the calendar, 129

Chameleon, revenue cutter, run down
by a frigate off Dover, 128
Chancellor, Lord, disavows intention of
favouring Catholicism in Ireland, [65]
Chandos, Marquis of, brings forward
the subject of agricultural distress,
[258]; resolution moved by him for
remitting taxes pressing on agricul-
turists, [259]

Charlestown, destruction of a conventat,
by a mob, 128

China and East India trade, meeting
respecting, 19

Cholera, successful treatment of, 109
Characters of Lord Rosslyn, &c., 388
Church establishment, Irish, Mr.Ward's
motion for reduction of, [37]; pro-
portion between Catholics and Pro-
testants, [38]; church revenues,
[39]; commission appointed to in-
quire into the state of the church,
[45], note

Church, declaration in favour of, by the
king, [44]; do. of the laity, presented
to the king, 71.

Church and State, petition for separa-
tion of, [165]
Church-rates, Mr. Divett's motion for
abolishing, [206]; withdrawn, [207];
Lord Althorp's plan for their extinc-
tion, ib. opposition and dissatisfac-
tion of the dissenters, [209]
Claville, Rev. J., law suit respecting
the validity of his will, 311
Coal-pit, accident in, at Harley mine, 72
Cobbett, Mr., his motion for repeal of the
malt-tax, [265]; assets the house-
tax to be unobjectionable, [286]
Coleridge, S. T. memoir of, 377
Commission appointed to inquire into
the state of the Irish Protestant
church, [45], note; the measure ob-
jected to by Mr. Stanley, [49,] by Sir
R. Peel, [53]

Common Pleas, court of, opened to all
the bar, 60

Commutation of tithe; see Tithe
Conservative meeting at Dublin, 123
Constantinople, festivities on the mar-
riage of the Sultan's daughter, 74
Convent at Charlestown, burnt by a
mob, 128

Cooke, G., engraver, death, 215
Cooper, Mr., examined relative to the

fire of the House of Lords, &c. 164
Coorg, rajah of, operations against, on
the part of the British, [337]
Corn-laws, discussion on, [267]; their
injuriousness, [268]; a change of the
system, demanded by Mr. Hume,
[269]; Sir J. Graham's defence of it,
[270]; fluctuations of prices not pre-
vented by them, [274] [276]; danger
of free trade in corn, [280]
Cosway, Sir W., inquest on, 76
County-rates, report of the commission-
ers for inquiring into the charges on,
329
Court-martial on Captain Wathen, 11
Courts of law

Chancery, application for writ of pro-
hibition to a court-martial, 63
Consistory Court, Tongue v. Allen,
dulent publication of banns, 98
King's Bench, Cording v. Ballantine,
false imprisonment, 14; Dewar v.
Purday, pirating the music of a
song, 83; the king v. T. R. Davis,

288.

Vice Chancellor's Court, Marato ".
Hall, Captain Nisbett's debts, 171
Cross-examination, latitude adopted by
counsel in, 2

Crime, state of, in France, 93

Dallaway, Rev. Jas., death, 228
Debating Club, fracas at, 21
Depravity, case of, 43
Derby, earl of, death, 243
Dissenters, remarks on the hostility of
the dissenters to the church, [164];
petition from the university of Cam.
bridge for admitting them to take de-
grees, [169]; counter petitions from
do., [174]; Mr. Wood's bill for their
admission, [175]; bill brought in by
Lord J. Russell relative to dissenters'
marriages, [213]; interview of the
deputation from the Nottingham dis-
senters with Earl Grey, 7

Divisions of the House of Commons, re
port relative to, 334

Divett, Mr., his motion (afterwards with-
drawn by him) for abolition of church-
rates, [206]

Dog, lives of two children saved by, 31
Doyle, Dr., funeral of, 85

Drury-lane, the play called the "Wed-
ding Gown," I

Dublin, horrible condition of the poor

in, as described by Mr. Cobbett, 151
Duel between gen. Bugeaud and M.

Dulong, members of the chamber of
Deputies, 10

Earthquake at Santa Martha, 71; at
Carthagena in Spain, 152

East-India and China trade, meeting
relative to, 19

East-India Company, action against by

the Bank of Bengal, to recover amount
of bills forged upon the Company, 5
Ebrington, lord, presents a petition
from the Devonshire landholders, for
commutation of tithe, [215]
Edinburgh, meeting of the Brit. As-

sociation for the Promotion of Science,
at, 132; public dinner to earl Grey, 141
Egypt, Mehemet Ali marches into
Syria to put down an insurrection at
Naplous [465]

Ellenborough, lord, his remarks relative
to the communication between Mr.
Littleton and Mr. O'Connell, [131];
speech against the Irish tithe bill,
[152]

Ellice, Mr., brings forward the army
estimates, [288]

English produce, reluctance of the con-
tinental states to admit, [279]
English Opera House, the new, opening
of, 111.

Epsom, murder of Mr. J. Richardson,

near, 25

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