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VIII.

Our painters are as numerous as the things
That crept, of old, into Noah's spacious ark!
Let critics point their tantalizing stings,

Or, cur-like, bite at some, at others bark ;
For me, a dauber in the art which brings

Beauty and light, as 'twere, from chaos dark, Shall have my sympathy, though one might blush To see the wild vagaries of his brush!

IX.

Enchanting Art !-opposer of stern death!

Time's silent enemy !-the grave's deceiver ! Thou keep'st alive our friends, though fled their breath; So true thy portrait, that the fond believer Looks, till he fancies that the earth beneath

Restores the dead to thee, thou kind retriever!

Thy power reclaims the past of life, supplies
What absence steals, and what, without thee, dies!

X.

Thou call'st on beauty, and her countless forms,
Arise, to wait upon thy magic hand;
Beneath thy touch the glowing canvas warms,

And scenes come forth as though from fairy-land;
Or, more sublime, thou wak'st the fiend of storms,
And the red lightning glares at thy command.
While the deep passions of the human soul
Await thy beck, and move at thy controul!

XI.

'Tis thine to raise our laughter and our tears, Thou canst create anew the vanished scene,

Recal the memory of forgotten years,

And show us what the state of man has been;
Raise but thy subtle wand, and quick appears
The sterile hill, or smiling valley green:

Enchanting Art! to study thee aright
Attunes the soul to virtue and delight.

ON A PAINTING OF ZUCCHARELLI, IN POSSESSION OF MRS. BATT, OF "NEW HALL," NEAR SALISBURY.

BY W. L. BOWLES.

BEAUTIFUL landscape! I could look on thee
For hours-unmindful of the storm and strife,
And mingled murmurs of tumultuous life.
Here, all is still as fair-the stream, the tree,
The wood, the sunshine on the bank: no tear-
No thought of Time's swift wing, or closing night,
Which comes to steal away the long sweet light,---
No sighs of sad humanity, are here.

Here is no tint of mortal change-the day

Beneath whose light the dog and peasant-boy
Gambol, with look, and almost bark, of joy-
Still seems, though centuries have passed, to stay.
Then gaze again, that shadow'd scenes may teach
Lessons of peace and love, beyond all speech.

BOLTON ABBEY.

BY E. ELLIOTT.

SPIRITS of wonder, loveliness, and fear,

Dwell in these groves, beneath o'er-arching trees,
With the dim presence of their mysteries
Haunting the rocks and mountain-shadows near:
They pass the lone enthusiast, wandering here
By strangled Wharfe, or Barden's ancient tower;
Pass him, nor shake a dewdrop from a flower,
But with their whispers soothe his soul-taught ear,
As with a dream of prayer; until he starts,
Awaken'd from deep thoughts of Time's calm might
And Nature's beauty, and in awe departs;
When to the Abbey's moonlight tinted walls
The demon of the spectred river calls,
Mock'd by the voices of mysterious night.

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INDEX.

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

ABBOTSFORD fund, public meeting re-
specting, 81

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Aberdeen Lord, motion and speech on
Spanish affairs, [268]
Accidents: breaking of Suspension
Bridge, Wakefield, 1; loss of the
Pomona schooner, 13; fall of a chapel
at Manchester, 14; do,a house at Li-
verpool, 24; loss of the" Edinburgh,'
37; train of carriages upset on the
Manchester railway, 52; death oc-
casion by lightning, near Bolton,
58; fall of a suspension bridge near
Lyons, and several persons killed,
71; Mr. Honey &c., drowned by the
"Lady Emma" sailing boat upsetting,
83; seven persons drowned in the
Sound of Mull, 122; coach accident
near Bedford, 132; do. Red Rover
coach, 134; do. Edinburgh Standard,
135; do the North Brixton, ib. ; acci-
dent on the river, and four persons
drowned, 136; explosion at the South
Metropolitan Gas-works, 137; loss of
Red Rover steam boat, ib.; explosion
at the Liverpool post-office, 144;
three lives lost on the Newcastle and
Carlisle railway, 158.

Acts of Parliament, general, 243; local
and personal, 248
Agriculture, motion for select commit-
tee of inquiry relative to, [219]; com-
mittee appointed, [223]
Albrizzi, Countess, death, 214
Algiers, the French government re-
solves to retain it, after a proposal in
the Chambers that it should be
abandoned, [345]; military opera-
tions between Marshal Clausel, and
Abdel Kader, ib.; General Arlanger
afterwards obtains some advantages
over the latter, [346]; expedition
against Constantine, the capital of
Achmet Bey, [347]

Alibaud, his attempt to assassinate the
King of the French, [337] his trial
and execution, [339]; 88
Anecdotes of Leopold Robert, French
artist, 361

Assizes and Sessions:-
Armagh: W. Brownlee and others, for
a riot at Armagh, 101
Cambridge: Mary Anne Wagstaffe v.
Bruere, Ledbitter &c., singular
action for assault, 95

Carlow: Archibald Sly, murder of Rev.
J. Walsh, a catholic priest, 278;
Anne Rooney, perjury, connected
with the preceding case, 284; H.
Corrigan &c., do. do. 285.
Edinburgh, Court of Justiciary, John
Campbell, murder of Duncan
Mc'Dougall, 151

Leicester: Henry Roper, murder of
Elizabeth Tebbutt in 1802, 285
Liverpool: Joseph Gomez Pelayo for
putting fulminating powder into let-
ters, and thereby causing explosion,
144

Old Bailey: W. Jordan, &c., robbery of
cash at the Custom-house, 270
Shrewsbury: Patrick Donelly, &c., for
robbing Thomas Woodward, 104
Association for the advancement of
science, meeting of, at Bristol, 122
Attwood, Mr., asserts the Currency Act
of 1819 to have been injurious to the
agricultural interest, [221]; with-
draws his motion, [223]

Aurora Borealis, instance of, 139

Balloon, Mlle. Garnerin's ascent at
Paris, 79; Mrs. Graham's ascent and
accident, 118; ascent at Vauxhall,
132; Mr. Graham's ascent, 136;
Mr. Green, Monck Mason &c., cross
the channel in one, 151
Bannister, J. comedian, death, 220
Barcelona, massacre
of Carlist pri-
soners at, [351]; and attempt to
proclaim the constitution of 1812,
[352]
Barry, Mr., his design for the new
houses of Parliament, [213]
Beet-root sugar, extensive manufacture
of, in France, 335

Belgium, its differences with Holland,

respecting the cession of Luxem-
burgh, [411]; act for establishing a
municipal form of government, [412];
prosperity in regard to trade, &c.,
[413]

Berkeley, Mr. Grantley his proposal for
admitting ladies to hear debates in
parliament, [216]; his assault on
the publisher of a periodical, [218]
Bilboa, siege of, by the Carlists, [391];
the town relieved by Espartero and
the British, [394]

Bird, J. the "Royal Academy," 382
Bishops, Mr. Rippon's, motion for ex-
pelling them from the House of Lords,
[208]
Bishop of Durham, death, 192; of
Lichfield, do. 196; of Ely, do. 197
Blizard, Sir W. death, 179.
Bonaparte, Prince Louis, attempts an
insurrection at Strasburgh, which his
to raise him to be Emperor of France,
[342]; is allowed to go to the United
States, [343]

Bowles, W. L., sonnet by, 385

Brazil, the town of Para recovered from
the insurgent Indians, [454]; insur-
rection at Port Alegreni Rio Grande,
ib.
Bristol, meeting of the association for

the promotion of science, 122
Brunswick, Duke Chas., suit against,
by the duke of Cambridge, 11

Reigning duke, alleged

murder by, 23
Bruyant, tries to excite insurrection in
Véndome, [343]; condemned to
death, [344]

Budget, the, [234]; France, [335]
Buller, Mr. C., motion respecting
election committees, [176]

Bunn, Mr., lessee of Drury-lane th ea-
tre, action against Mr. Macready for
assault, 81

Burdett, Sir F., his letter to the secre-
tary for the Cobbett monument, 69.
Burlington Arcade, fire in, 36
Burn, Col. Aaron, death, 218

Cabrera, Carlist chief, the mother of,
shot, 355.

Canada, Upper, opening of the session,
[313]; demands of the House of As-
sembly, [314]; disputes between
the governor, Sir F. Head, and the
council, ib., the latter resign, [315]; '
addresses for dissolving the assembly
[317]; the executive council's address
to Sir F. Head [288]; his reply,
291; Mr. Archibald Mc Lean chosen
speaekr of the House of Assembly,

296; the governor's speech, ib., ad-
dress of the house to him, 298
Canada, Lower, petition of the House of
Assembly to the King in Council,
301; the King's reply, 305; the
House of Assembly's address to the
governor, 309

Canterbury, archbishop of, considers
the Tithe Commutation Bill beneficial,
[121]; bill brought in by him rela-
tive to pluralities and non-residence,
[136]

Carlow, the transactions connected with,
between Mr. O'Connell and Mr.
Vigors and Mr. Raphael, [181]
Canning, sir Stratford, brings before
Parliament the proceedings at Cra-
cow, [272]

Cases before the House of Lords: sir
W. C. Anstruther v. Anstruther, 110;
marquis of Breadalbane v.
chioness of Chandos, 111; earl of
Durham v. Wharton, 112

mar-

Chalmers, rev. Dr., his correspondence
respecting the Irish church appro-
priation bill, 116

Chancery, court of, proposed bills for its
reform, [171]; proposed to create a
lord chief justice of, [172]
Chandos, marquis of, speech on the
motion for committee of inquiry into
the state of agriculture, [220]; pro-
poses to relieve agriculturists by re-
duction of taxation, [226]; his mo-
tion lost, [228]

Charles X., of France, his death, [342];
219

Chili: decree respecting a compromise
of the loan, [453]; attempted inva-
sion from Peru, ib.

Church commission, its reports, [134];
cathedral and collegiate revenues,
[135]; bill founded on the reports
brought in, [136]

Church, Irish, condition of, in regard to
provision for the clergy, [72]; bene-
fices, [73]

Circassia, present state of, 366; inva-
sion of, by the Russians, 368; classes
of society, 370; administra
justice, 371; Circassian priests, 372;
Circassian women, 373

Clergy, pluralities and non-residence,
[135]; bill relative to, brought in by
the archbishop of Canterbury, [136];
afterwards dropped, [149]

Coach accidents, 132

Coals, differential duties on, in France,
[334]
Cobbett's monument, sir F. Burdett's
letter to the secretary for, 70

Coin, quantity of gold coin discovered
at Stanmore, 33

Coiners, gang of, at Liverpool, appre-
hended, 128

Colman, George, dramatist, death, 215
Columbian debt, the, measures of Con-
gress respecting, [452]
Commercial union, established in Ger-
many, [441]

Commntation of tithes' bill, [112]
Consul, supposed agent of the French
police, in Switzerland, affair of, [419]
Conspiracy against the life of the King
of the French, 46

Constantine, Achmet Bey's capital, ex-
pedition against, by the French,
[347]; account of the town, [348]
Coroner's Inquests, Mr. Wakley's bill
for remuneration of medical witnessess
at, [168]

Corporations, Irish municipal, bill, and
debate on, [21]
Courts:

Common Pleas : Ransom v. Dundas,
election petition costs, 72; Nairn v.
Chancellor, false imprisonment, 31
Exchequer, Dublin: application of
Dean and Chapter of Killaloe, v. R.
Otway Cave, esq., relative to serving
writs of subpoena, 8

King's Bench: The King v. Hunter,
conspiracy to defraud, 54; the King
v. J. Hume, M.P. for imputing mis-
conduct to sir John Gibbon, 58; the
King v. Kensett and others, conspi-
racy, 262; Tarr v. M'Gahey, to re-
cover penalty of 5001., 267

Sheriffs' Court: G. Ball v. Hawley,
hair injured by baking, 78; Bunn v.
Macready, assault, 81

Cracow, its neutrality as an independ→

ent state violated, [272]; the article
securing its neutrality, [425]; pro-
ceedings against foreigners, [426];
remonstrance of the senate, ib.; the
troops of Austria, &c., take posses-
sion of the city, ib.; removal of Poles
and suspected persons, [427]; alter-
ations enforced by the foreign powers,
ib.; censorship established, [428];
the Diet postponed after the elec-
tions, by the foreign residents, ib.;
note of the plenipotentiaries of Austria,
Russia, and Prussia, to the president of
the republic, 333; principles relative
to the re-organization of the militia,
335; to re-organization of the police,
336; new law respecting admission of
foreigners, 337

Crawford, Mr., resolutions moved by
him relative to the Irish tithe bill,

[96]; do. proposed by him to the Irish
general association, [305]
Custom-house, robbery of cash at, trial
of Jordan, &c., for, 270

Davidson, captain, his re-appearance
after being supposed dead, 70
Debtors, process of proceeding against,
[168]; that proposed by the bill for
abolishing imprisonment for debt,
[169]
Disfranchisement of Stafford, bill for,
passes the Commons, [178]
Dissenters' marriage bill, and debate
on it, [122]

Divett, Mr., his motion for repealing
additional duty on spirit licenses,
[228]

Diving apparatus, suffocation nearly
occasioned by, 1

Divorce, suit of, by the Duchess of
Otranto, 32

Documents, public, domestic, 288
foreign, 318
Drama: Auber's opera,
"Le Cheval de
Bronze," 1; "Provost of Bruges," 17
Drake, Dr. Nathan, death, 206
Drury-lane theatre, Le Cheval de
Bronze," 1;"Provost of Bruges," 17
Dublin, statue of William III. blown
up, 45

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Duncombe, Mr. T., his motion for
abolishing tithe on fish, [120]; for
an address to the King to obtain the
liberation of Prince Polignac, [286]
Durham, act for transferring the secular
jurisdiction of the see, to the crown,
[151]

Eclipse, the great annular, 62
Egerton, lord F., his motion for abol-
ishing the Irish Corporation, [32]
Election committees, motion on the
subject of, [176]

Euphrates expedition, and loss of the
Tigris steamer, 64

Evans, gen., his operations against
the Carlists, [354]; his proclamation
against British subjects aiding them,
[389]; his attempt on Fontarabia,
[390]

Ewart, Mr., his bill for allowing counsel
to felons, [163]
Executions, Lacenaire and Avril, 3;
Fieschi, Morey, and Pepin, 20
Exeter, bishop of, his amendment in
the Dissenters' marriage bill, [132];
objections to the bill for altering the
revenues of sees, &c., [149]

False imprisonment, action for, Nairn v.
Chancellor, 31

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