1 Eclipses and comets have been always looked to as great And in Statius we find, changers of administrations. Thus Milton, speaking of the former : "With fear of change "Mutant quæ sceptra cometa." 2 See, for some of these Protocols, the Annual Registe for the year 1832. "Now I spy a big body, good heavens, how big! But, to come to the point,-though you think, I "Whether Bucky or Taurus I cannot well Paris, March 30. 1832. You bid me explain, my dear angry Maʼamselle, How I came thus to bolt without saying farewell; And the truth is,—as truth you will have, my sweet railer, There are two worthy persons I always feel loth To take leave of at starting,-my mistress and tailor, As somehow one always has scenes with them both; The Snip in ill-humour, the Syren in tears, She calling on Heaven, and he on the' attorney,Till sometimes, in short, 'twixt his duns and his dears, dare say, As a pestilence, nobody, now-a-days, fears; And the fact is, my love, I'm thus bolting, pellmell, To get out of the way of these horrid new This deluge of coronets, frightful to think of, No shelter from Barons, from Earls no protection, And tadpole young Lords, too, in every direction,- Two legs and a coronet all they consist of! (My particular friend) says is perfectly true, That, so dire the alternative, nobody knows, 'Twixt the Peers and the Pestilence, what he's to do; And Sir George even doubts,-could he choose his disorder, "Twixt coffin and coronet, which he would order. This being the case, why, I thought, my dear Emma, Console your sweet heart, and, a week hence, from I'll send you some news of Bellini's last trio. N. B.— Have just pack'd up my travelling set-out, Good for hands that the air of Mont Cenis might Small presents for ladies,—and nothing so wheedles A young gentleman risks being stopp'd in his With some little book about heathen mythology, journey. Just large enough to refresh one's theology; 3 A new creation of Peers was generally expected at this time. Nothing on earth being half such a bore as Once more, love, farewell, best regards to the girls, By breaking thus young donkies in TRIUMPH OF BIGOTRY. "College. We announced, in our last, that Lefroy and Shaw were returned. They were chaired yesterday; the Students of the College determined, it would seem, to imitate the mob in all things, harnessing themselves to the car, and the Masters of Arts bearing Orange flags and bludgeons before, beside, and behind the car." Dublin Evening Post, Dec. 20. 1832. Ay, yoke ye to the bigots' car, Ye chosen of Alma Mater's scions; Fleet chargers drew the God of War, Great Cybele was drawn by lions, And Sylvan Pan, as Poets dream, Drove four young panthers in his team. Thus classical L-fr-y, for once, is, Thus, studious of a like turn-out, He harnesses young sucking dunces, To draw him, as their Chief, about, And let the world a picture see Of Dulness yok'd to Bigotry : Showing us how young College hacks Can pace with bigots at their backs, As though the cubs were born to draw Such luggage as L-fr-y and Sh-w. TRANSLATION FROM THE GULL LANGUAGE. Scripta manet. 1833. "Twas grav'd on the Stone of Destiny, $ In letters four, and letters three; And ne'er did the King of the Gulls go by But those awful letters scar'd his eye; For he knew that a Prophet Voice had said, "As long as those words by man were read, "The ancient race of the Gulls should ne'er "One hour of peace or plenty share.” But years on years successive flew, And the letters still more legible grew,At top, a T, an H, an E, And underneath, D. E. B. T. 1 See the lives of these two poets for the circumstances under which they left Dublin College. 2 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. 3 Liafail, or the Stone of Destiny, for which, see West minster Abbey. Thus saying, post-haste to earth he hurries, 1 So called from the proceedings of the Synod of Dort. |