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 !
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!"
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."
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.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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."
[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
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
'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
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
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
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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