(137) "Since the Prelates were made Lords and Nobles, the plough standeth, there is no work done, the people starve."— Lat. Serm.

(138) "Of whom have come all these glorious titles, styles, and pomps into the Church. But I would that I, and all my brethren, the Bishops, would leave all our styles, and write the styles of our offices," &c.--Life of Cranmer, by Strype, Appendix.

(139) Part of the process of embalmment.

(140) The Book of Sports drawn up by Bishop Moreton was first put forth in the reign of James I., 1618, and afterwards republished, by the advice of Laud, by Charles I., 1633, with an injunction that it should be "made public by order from the Bishops." We find it therein declared, that "for his good people's recreation, his Majesty's pleasure was, that after the end of divine service they should not be disturbed, letted, or discouraged from any lawful recreations, such as dancing, either of men or women, archery for men, leaping, vaulting, or any such harmless recreations, nor having of May-games, Whitsun-ales, or Morris-dances, or setting up of May-poles, or other sports therewith used," &c.

(129) One of the operations in cotton mills usually performed by children.

(130) "That dark diseased ichor which colored his effusions." -GALT's Life of Byron.

(155) Written at that memorable crisis when a distinguished Duke, then Prime Minister, acting under the inspirations of Sir Claudius Hunter and other City worthies, advised his Majesty to give up his announced intention of dining with the Lord Mayor.

(156) Among other remarkable attributes by which Sir Claudius distinguished himself, the dazzling whiteness of his favorite steed was not the least conspicuous.

(157) In the Government of Perm.

(158) Territory belonging to the mines of Kolivano-Kosskres

sense.

(159) The name of a religious sect in Russia. "Il existe en Russie plusieurs sectes; la plus nombreuse est celle des Raskol-niks, ou vrai-croyants."-GAMBA, Voyage dans la Russie Meridionale.

(160) "Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid."

POPE. (161) Written on the passing of the memorable Bill, in the year 1833, for the abolition of ten Irish Bishoprics.

(162) Literally, First Dancers.

(163) "And what does Moses say ?"-One of the ejaculations with which this eminent prelate enlivened his famous speech on the Catholic question.

(164) A description of the method of executing this step may be useful to future performers in the same line :-"Ce pas est composé de deux mouvemens différens, savoir, plier, et sauter sur un pied, et se rejeter sur l'autre."-Dictionnaire de Danse, art. Contre-temps.

(165) "He objected to the maintenance and education of a clergy bound by the particular nows of celibacy, which, as it were, gave them the church as their only family, making it fill the places of father and mother and brother."-Debate on the Grant to Maynooth College, The Times, April 19.

(166) "It had always appeared to him that between the Catholic and Protestant a great gulf intervened, which rendered it impossible," &c.

(167) "The Baptist might acceptably extend the offices of religion to the Presbyterian and the Independent, or the member of the Church of England to any of the other three; but the Catholic," &c.

(168) "Could he then, holding as he did a spiritual office in the Church of Scotland, (cries of hear and laughter,) with any consistency give his consent to a grant of money?" &c.

(169) "I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer." Much Ado about Nothing.

(170) "What, he asked, was the use of the Reformation? What was the use of the Articles of the Church of England, or of the Church of Scotland?" &c.

(171) Eclipses and comets have been always looked to as great changers of administration. Thus Milton, speaking of the former :

"With fear of change Perplexing monarchs."

And in Statius we find,

"Mutant quæ sceptra cometa."

(172) See, for some of these Protocols, the Annual Register, for the year 1832.

(173) The Duke of Buckingham.

(177) In the year 1799, the Board of Trinity College, Dublin, thought proper, as a mode of expressing their disapprobation of Mr. Grattan's public conduct, to order his portrait, in the Great Hall of the University, to be turned upside down, and in this position it remained for some time.

(178) Liafail, or the Stone of Destiny,-for which, see Westminster Abbey.

(179) It will be recollected that the learned gentleman himself boasted one night in the House of Commons, of having sat in the very chair which this allegorical lady had occupied.

(180) Lucan's description of the effects of the tripod on the appearance and voice of the sitter, shows that the symptoms are, at least, very similar:

Spumea tunc primum rabies vesana per ora
Effluit...

..........

tunc moestus vastis ululatus in antris.

(181) So called from the proceedings of the Synod of Dort. (182) Witness his well-known pun on the name of his adver sary, Vigilantius, whom he calls facetiously Dormitantius.

(183) The suspicion attached to some of the early Fathers of being Arians in their doctrine would appear to derive some confirmation from this passage.

(184) The wig, which had so long formed an essential part of the dress of an English bishop, was at this time beginning to be dispensed with.

(185) See the Bishop's Letter to Clergy of his Diocese.

(186) 1 John, v. 7. A text which, though long given up by all the rest of the orthodox world, is still pertinaciously ad hered to by this Right Reverend scholar.

(187) It was a saying of the well-known Sir Boyle, that "a man could not be in two places at once, unless he was a bird."

(188) The Marquis of Hertford's Fête.-From dread of cholera his Lordship had ordered tar-barrels to be burned in every direction.

(189) These verses, as well as some others that follow, (p. 275.) were extorted from me by that lamentable measure of the Whig ministry, the Irish Coercion Act.

(190) This eminent artist, in the second edition of the work wherein he propounds this mode of purifying his eels, professes himself much concerned at the charge of inhumanity brought against his practice, but still begs leave respectfully to repeat that it is the only proper mode of preparing eels for the table.

(191) See Edinburgh Review, No. 117.

(192) "Your Lordship," says Mr. Overton, in the Dedica tion of his Poem to the Bishop of Chester, "has kindly expressed your persuasion that my Muse will always be a Musc of sacred song, and that it will be tuned as David's was.' (193) Sophocles.

(242) The date of this squib must have been, I think, about 1828-9.

(243) "You will increase the enmity with which they are regarded by their associates in heresy, thus tying these foxes by the tails, that their faces may tend in opposite directions." -Boa's Bull, read at Exeter Hall, July 14.

(244) An ingenious device of my learned friend."-BOB'S Letter to Standard.

(245) Had I consulted only my own wishes, I should not have allowed this hasty attack on Dr. Todd to have made its appearance in this Collection; being now fully convinced that the charge brought against that reverend gentleman of intending to pass off as genuine his famous mock Papal Letter was altogether unfounded. Finding it to be the wish, however, of my reverend friend-as I am now glad to be permitted to call him-that both the wrong and the reparation, the Ode and the Palinode, should be thus placed in juxtaposition, I have thought it but due to him to comply with his request.

(250) Referring to the line taken by Lord Lyndhurst, on the question of Municipal Reform.

(251) These verses were written in reference to the Bill brought in at this time, for the reform of Corporations, and the sweeping amendments proposed by Lord Lyndhurst and other Tory Peers, in order to obstruct the measure.

(252) A term formed on the model of the Mastodon, &c. (253) The zoological term for a tithe-eater.

(254) The man found by Scheuchzer, and supposed by him to have witnessed the Deluge, ("homo diluvii testis,") but who turned out, I am sorry to say, to be merely a great lizard.

(255) Particularly the formation called Transition Trap.

(256) Mirari se, si augur augurem aspiciens sibi temperaret a risu.

(257) So spelled in those ancient versicles which John, we understand, frequently chants:

"Had every one Suum,

You wouldn't have Tuum, But I should have Meum, And sing Te Deum."

(258) For his keeping the title he may quote classical authority, as Horace expressly says, "Poteris servare, Tuam."-De Art. Poet. v. 329.-Chronicle.

(259) Verbatim, as said. This tribute is only equalled by that of Talleyrand to his medical friend, Dr.: "Il se connait en tout; et même un peu en médecine."

(260) Song in the "Padlock."

(261) For an account of the coin called Talents by the ancients, see Budæus de Asse, and the other writers de Re Nummaria.

(262) The Talentum Magnum and the Talentum Atticum appear to have been the same coin.

(263) En fait d'amour, trop même n'est pas assez.--Barbier de Seville.

(264) Grant of Ireland to Henry II. by Pope Adrian.

(265) One of the most interesting and curious of all the exhibitions of the day.

(266) The sign of the Insurance Office in Cheapside.
(267) Producing a bag full of lords and gentlemen.
(268) "'Tis money makes the mare to go."

(269) We have lodgings apart, for our posthumous people, As we find that, if left with the live ones, they keep ill. (270) "Bottom: Let me play the lion; I will roar you as 'twere any nightingale."

THE practice which has been lately introduced into literature, of writing very long notes upon very indifferent verses, appears to me rather a happy invention; as it supplies us with a mode of turning dull poetry to account; and as horses too heavy for the saddle may yet serve well enough to draw lumber, so Poems of this kind make excellent beasts of burden, and will bear notes, though they may not bear reading. Besides, the comments in such cases are so little under the necessity of paying any servile deference to the text, that they may even adopt that Socratic dogma, "Quod supra nos nihil ad nos."

In the first of the two following Poems, I have ventured to speak of the Revolution of 1688 in language which has sometimes been employed by Tory writers, and which is therefore neither very new nor popular. But however an Englishman might be reproached with ingratitude, for depreciating the merits and results of a measure, which he is taught to regard as the source of his liberties -however ungrateful it might appear in Alderman Birch to question for a moment the purity of that glorious era, to which he is indebted for the seasoning of so many orations-yet an Irishman, who has none of these obligations to acknowledge; to whose country the Revolution brought nothing but injury and insult, and who recollects that the book of Molyneux was burned, by order of William's Whig Parliament, for daring to extend to unfortunate Ireland those principles on which the Revolution was professedly founded-an Irishman may be allowed to criticise freely the measures of that period, without exposing himself either to the imputation

of ingratitude, or to the suspicion of being mfluenced by any Popish remains of Jacobitism. No nation, it is true, was ever blessed with a more golden opportunity of establishing and securing its liberties for ever than the conjuncture of Eighty-eight presented to the people of Great Britain. But the disgraceful reigns of Charles and James had weakened and degraded the national character. The bold notions of popular right, which had arisen out of the struggles between Charles the First and his Parliament, were gradually supplanted by those slavish doctrines for which Lord Hawkesbury eulogizes the churchmen of that period; and as the Reformation had happened too soon for the purity of religion, so the Revolution came too late for the spirit of liberty. Its advantages, accordingly, were for the most part specious and transitory, while the evils which it entailed are still felt and still increasing. By rendering unnecessary the frequent exercise of Prerogative,—that unwieldy power which cannot move a step without alarm,-it diminished the only interference of the Crown, which is singly and independently exposed before the people, and whose abuses therefore are obvious to their senses and capacities. Like the myrtle over a celebrated statue in Minerva's temple at Athens, it skilfully veiled from the public eye the only obtrusive feature of royalty. At the same time, however, that the Revolution abridged this unpopular attribute, it amply compensated by the substitution of a new power, as much more potent in its effect as it is more secret in its operations. In the disposal of an immense revenue and the extensive patronage annexed to it, the first foundations of this power of