Draw near with reverence, for this is he
Who heard the eyeless father's cursings wild
Fall on the hostile twins, who called up thee,
High-souled Electra, and that orphan child
Antigone, as lofty, and more mild:

CONTINUED.

Upon the setting sun he gazed, whose light
An emblem of himself, before him lay,
Poised in mild beauty on the edge of night,
The dreams that dazzled morning with delight,
The splendours of hot noon, had passed away,
And Repose came before the tomb, a sight
Serenely sacred in its calm decay;
For as life faded, underneath the sway
Of an immortal spirit, evermore
Brighter and keener like a kindling star,
Dilating inwardly, the frantic jar

Of struggling lusts, and passions deemed before
Resistless, now became submiss and still,
No more enchaining the distorted will.

CONTINUED.

And men came round him, eager to drink in
That mild paternal wisdom, full of love

And peace, and shadowy grandeur from above,
At twilight, just becoming the first ray

Of the freed spirit's everlasting day.

But one there was, whom shame could not reprove, Nor holy age abash-nor wisdom win

To put aside the thoughts of earth and sin.

"Tell me," he cried, can woman's quickening eye
Still thaw thee into transient youth, and move
Thy frozen blood from its thin apathy;
Or is the sense of pleasure dead within?"
Thus spoke he, either of a scornful mind,
Or to all moral beauty, deaf and blind.

CONTINUED.

As if an eagle, whose unfaltering flight
Sweeps through the halls of sunshine, with a range
Wide as the sky, should plunge into a night
Of freezing clouds, before they reached his sight;
Thus, with a sudden sense of painful change,

As into stormy darkness out of light

The hearers passed-heaven-taught by hopes sublime. The Poet answered, "Thou art yet enthralled

In the foul webs of sense, be wise in time:

The privilege of age, is to be called

Out of life's whitening ashes, to a clime

And region of calm thought, a glorious realm,
Where Truth and Freedom reign, divine exchange
For passions which enslave and overwhelm."

CONCLUDED.

Ay! even then, when health and strength sunk low.
When each temptation to indulge desire
Crumbled away upon life's failing fire,
And earth with all her gifts, arose to go;
Happy, if even then the soul might shew
Some shadow of her origin divine,

And with fresh hopes, and zeal renewed, aspire

To wrestle with her maimed and wearied foe.

Mean though we be, our state through Christ is higher,

A power flows to us from his awful sign,

Which is both spear and shield, wherewith to face
And conquer, though in baleful powers arrayed,
Those unseen kings, to whom man's hapless race
Homage of old inevitable, paid.

INDE X.

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

ACTS, general list of, 359; local and
personal, 364; private, 370

A DEN-Capture of, 567; attack of the
Arabs, [235]

Agricultural (Royal), Society of Eng-
land; annual meeting, 64
ALBERT, PRINCE, invested with the order
of the Garter at Gotha, 12; marriage,
15; presentation of the freedom of
the city of London to, 72; genealogi-
cal table, 384;-vide PARLIAMENT—
QUEEN.

ALGIERS-Treaty of Tafna, [183]; com-
mencement of hostilities by Abd el
Kader; progress of the French army,
[184]

Alps, proposed tunnel through the, 6
Augusta, princess, death of the, 176;
funeral, 87

Cardigan, Earl of, dissention between,
and his officers, 76; duel with Lieut.
Tuckett, 79; court martial on Cap-
tain R. A. Reynolds, 263
Chartism, effects of, 2, 7
China-Fitting out of the armament
under Sir J. G. Bremer, [230];
narrative of events since 1834; ap-
pointment of Lord Napier as chief
commissioner; arrival at Canton,[242];
insulting conduct of the Chinese; ar-
rival of two frigates at Whampoa ;
death of Lord Napier, [243]; increase
in the smuggling of opium; proceed-
ings of the government at Pekin,
[244]; arrival of Rear-Admiral Sir
F. Maitland; British boat fired upon
from the Boca Tigris, [245]; arrival
of high commissioner Lin; blockade
of the factories; delivery of opium to
the commissioner, [246]; affray with
Chinese peasants and English sailors
at Macao; attack of war junks on the
Black Joke, [247]; correspondence
between Captain Elliot and Commis-
sioner Lin; affair of the Thomas
Coutts, [248]; attack and dispersion
of twenty-nine war junks by the
Volage and Hyacinth, [249], 570;
determination of the English go-
vernment to send an expedition to
China; its arrival at Singapore; at-
tempt to burn the British shipping
with fire rafts; poisoned tea, [250];
proclamations for the capture of
English shipping and officers, [251];
blockade of Canton; proclamation in
consequence; Chusan taken, [252];
573, capture of Ting-hae-heen, [253];
high commissioner's letter to the
Queen of England, 428; proceed-
ings of the Blonde at Amoy, 571;
capture of Chusan, 573
Church of Scotland, 51
CIRCASSIA-Extracts from a Journal of a
residence in, 584

Clover, average prices of, 374
Collisions and accidents by steamers,
95, 115