Oh! not for these, and pageants pass’d away, gaze upon your antique towers and pray—­ But that my SOVEREIGN here, from crowds withdrawn, May meet calm peace upon the twilight lawn; That here, among these gray, primaeval trees, He may inhale health’s animating breeze; And when from this proud terrace he surveys Slow Thames devolving his majestic maze, (Now lost on the horizon’s verge, now seen Winding through lawns, and woods, and pastures green,) May he reflect upon the waves that roll, Bearing a nation’s wealth from pole to pole, And feel, (ambition’s proudest boast above,) A KING’S BEST GLORY IS HIS COUNTRY’S LOVE!

The range of cresting towers has a double interest, whilst we think of gorgeous dames and barons bold, of Lely and Vandyke’s beauties, and gay, and gallant, and accomplished cavaliers like Surrey.  And who ever sat in the stalls at St. George’s chapel, without feeling the impression, on looking at the illustrious names, that here the royal and ennobled knights, through so many generations, sat each installed, whilst arms, and crests, and banners, glittered over the same seat?—­Bowles’s History of Bremhill.

    [8] The author had been chaplain to the Prince Regent.

    [9] Surrey’s Poems.

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THE THREE TEACHERS.

To my question, how he could, at his age, have mastered so many attainments, his reply was, that with his three teachers, “every thing might be learned, common sense alone excepted, the peculiar and rarest gift of Providence.  These three teachers were, Necessity, Habit, and Time.  At his starting in life, Necessity had told him, that if he hoped to live he must labour; Habit had turned the labour into an indulgence; and Time gave every man an hour for every thing, unless he chose to yawn it away.”—­Salathiel.

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IRISH POOR.

The poor of England have suffered much and deeply from the change made in the administration of the poor laws in 1795; but of late years they have suffered still more from the influx of Irish paupers.  Great Britain has been overrun by half-famished hordes, that have, by their competition, lessened the wages of labour, and by their example, degraded the habits, and lowered the opinions of the people with respect to subsistence.  The facilities of conveyance afforded by steam-navigation are such, that the merest beggar, provided he can command a sixpence, may get himself carried from Ireland to England.  And when such is the fact—­when what may almost without a metaphor be termed floating bridges, have been established between Belfast and Glasgow, and Dublin and Liverpool—­does any one suppose, that if no artificial obstacles be thrown in the way of emigration, or if no efforts be