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BEUTO I'KE CONTIKUATION OF AN TTNIYEBSITT GREAT PRIZE POEM ON THE ARTS, ALSO C0MTA13fINO PIECBS ON CELEBRATED PERSONAGES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN CANADA, FORXINO ALTOQETIIER EPISODES IN A OBANX) BY JAMES TORRINGTON SPENCER LIDSTONE. OF TOBaUAT, DEVON, LATE OF TOBONTO AND OTTAWA, rPPEB CANADA, Author of the " Conqm$t of Canada,'* " Ancient Atneriea" " Pictorial Description of the British Provinces in North America,'* Oeologieal Survey of Lake Superior," ♦' The Elysium of Art," *' Limbo of Science," " Men of the Time," " Canada as a Field for Enterprise," %e., ^c, ^e. ** Duleique animoH novitate tenebo." — Otid. Bunted fob and bt the Authob, Selma in Mobvsn, and F^riousBBO BT Him in London (Ekq.). TfiE EDITION FOR 1877-8-8. Entered at Staiionen' Hall, AvntoB Bcanvn tb* biobt of XBANSxacioy. 7 INDEX. Aoademr Centenary, Boyal 86 Albert, Frinoe 16 Albon. O IB Aleaoandre, Plrinoe 16 Allen, Caatell t Brown . . 113 Amphlett, Mr. Joatioe. ... 61 Ann-Annexation 29 Anti-Yamkae Letters 74—6—6 Appold,Dixon Tyler, Tylor 63 ArckbishoM of Uanterbury and X ork 82 Arnold k Voillamy 97 Amott, Dr. 40 ArtJonmal 112 Aflhbnmer, Mr. 105 Aiitou, Alderman 98 Atton, Thomas k Sons . . 98 AaennasesamohT, Chief . . 16 AtohariahonidoonarF,Chief 16 "A Tale of other Days" 67 Attomey-Oenpral 77 Aylmer, Tcrbolton, Pem- broke 86 Belgian*. Leopold, King of 18 Baron Griffiths 34 Barrett, Michael, Esq 9 Bartlett, Wm. B., Esq. . . 9 Battle of Life 86 Bavaria, Louis, King of . . 18 Beak Bayley, jas. Cowen, Esq 109 Beaty, James, M.P 113 Bedford, Frands 66 Belford, Charlen. Esq. .... 9 Bell. Charles, E->q., M.P. . . 27 Benoough, Sunthgate. Mil laid. Lake. Day 10 B nham and Frond 3-3 Be>ley,S.. Stone, B.,Gotton, CM 109 Bememer, Henry 33 Bethnne, Bishop 9 Birley. Mr. MP 113 Black Adam 66 BUdes, Mr 62 Bouz. Bath, F era 109 Bbttchette. Hon Mr 68 Brewster. Sir David 42 British manofaotoras into Canada 86 Brooks, £,.»......... KH Bouffler, Thomas, Esq. . . 103 Boulton, W. H., Esq., M.P. 21 Boydell, Flowers, Hooper, Oenth 108 Brazil, I^peror and Em- press of 1 Bnggs, Governor 46 Brown and Child 118 Brown, J. Gordon, Esq. . . 9 Brown, Sir John 33 Buchanan, O. B., Esq. . . 9 Buokland, Frank 84 Buokland, George, Esq. . . 9 BuHh, Aid. Myron 22 Busk, Hans 66 Boon, Col 76 Boston, Mass., Corporation of 83 Bowes, Mayor, J. G 21 Boyle, Patrick, Esq 9 Brannon's Patent 103 Briglit's, John, Great Speech Paraphrazed. . . . Brook, Sir Isaac 72 Caledonia Springs 68 Cameron, Hon. Malcolm. . 82 Cameron, Hon., M.C 24 Canada Arms 48 Canada, The Colonial Hy-nnof 30 Canada, The Heroic Age of Upper 98 Canada, Invasion (P) of . . 48 Cannda Bevieited 106 Canada, 7 vols. Elephant Folio 03 Cupe Breton ,. 68 Capliu, Dr. 98 Carden, Alderman Sir W. 27 Carlisle & Clegg 46 Can»n, Iight8 .... 173 Rabbits, William 90 Ransome, Frederick 49 Rawling^, H 49 Redjacket, Aboriginal Hero 110 Revierc, R 56 Reward, 250 guineas .... 83 Rhetjeen, Vian 112 Rickman, James Pellatt . . 96 Roberts, Aid. Paul 22 Robinson, Sir J. B., Bart. 24 Rogers, Geo. Alf 118 Robinson, Sir J. L., Bart. Ross, Hon. John 7-26 Rose, Samuel, Esq 9 Rowan, Major-General . . 69 Rowe, William, Esq 9 Rus.4ell, James and Sons. . 87 Rylestone, Lord 109 SakoriatakSanitraM, Chief 16 SatekaientonsiuoL, Chief 1 6 St. James' Hall Meeting. . 77 St.Tammanund'sCathedb»l 32 SS. Tammannnd & Sebas- tian 107 Sandford, Yen. Archdcn.21 — 70 Sangster, Herbert, Esq. . . 9 Scott, Sir Gilbert 32 nrDKx. Seller, M. II 101 Sherwood, Aid. Samuel . . 'io Sherwood, Hon. Hinry . . 17 Sherwood, Hon. Judge . . 24 ShoU, Thonms 40 ShuttlowoHh. K. B., Esq. 9 SimpHon, Sir Qeorgf .... 73 Smith, H. K.. Mayor .... 22 Smith, Hon. H. K 89 Smithera, Mr. John W. . . 67 Southby'B PateutH 41 Sparkfl, ChnrleH 46 Stanley, Dean 65 Stanley, Wm. F 42 StasHen, J. & Son 99 Steer, W. & Co 101 Stewart, William, Esq, . . 9 Stimson, Elam R., Rev. . . 9 Sumner, Archbishop .... 25 Swartz, Aid. A. S 22 TaioronhiotehpesoJ Ta-pa-ta-mee, Queen .... 15 Taylor, Rev. Dr. Lachlan 9 Tecum Heh, Tlio Great .... 64 Tegg, Deputy 46 Temperance Aboriginal Heroes 25 Temperance Large Hotel 123 Temple of Pallas, Red Hill, Kent Ill Tesel-Tecumseh, Shawnee Sagamor(> 110 TFJMLSAAKSSTT 78 Thompson, G., ex-M.P, . . 29 Tiffany, Mayor, L. F 22 Tilley, The Hon. Lieut.- Gov 82 TiorakaronsiuoL, Chief . . 16 TomO'Co(0)mb 114 Toronto, Author of the Londoniad in 9 Toronto, Business Person- ages in, nearly 1,000 9_10_-11 — 12— 13—14— 15 Toronto Described 4_5_6— 7— 8 Toronto, Great Exhibition 9 Toronto, Halif ax.Montreal, Ottawa 6 Toronto, John, Ut Lord Bishop 4—20 Toronto, Marble Bunt in City Hall 17 Toronto, Three Statues for 17 Trent, the Affair 30 Torquay, to the Inhabi- tants of 81 Trevolyan's, Sir Walter C. Letter 70 Tullyarde, Chief 105 Tylor&Tylor 104 Vuited Empire Loyalists . . 1 05 Vivisection, Note on 122 Wadsworth, James, Mayor 22 Walsh, Alderman John . . 22 Waring. Colnaghi 108-9 Warner, John, and Sons. . 109 Warren, Mr. Albert H. . . 60 Waterlow 106 Watkins, Sir Charles and Lady 81 Weatherly, Volckman .... 113 Webster, Daniel, and Henry Clay 3 Westminster, Marquis of. . l7 Westcott, J. K 93 Weston and Atkins, late Winfield 109 Whalley, Mr., M.P 77 Wheelhouse, Mr.,M.P. .. 77 White, Peter, Esq 109 Wilkinson, Squire 68 Wilks, Washington 29 Wilmot, S. E 77 Wilson, T. L., Esq 82 Winchester, Bishop of . . . . 112 Wiseman, Cardinal 26 Wolfe, General James .... 72 Woodcock, Mr 40 Workman, Thomas, Mayor 28 Worrall, John H 94 Yardley, Drew Ill Yankee She, Described . . 61 Yates', Mayor, Memorial. . 98 Young Men's Home 123 Zimdars, C. E 47 -20 17 17 30 81 70 105 104 , 105 . 122 r 22 . 22 108-9 . 109 . 60 . 106 id ry lie 81 113 3 17 oa 109 77 77 109 68 29 77 82 112 . 26 . 72 . 40 28 94 111 61 98 123 47 TOT 2 THE LONDOMiD. I JAMES TOItlllNaTON SPENCEB LIDSTONE, Winner of Seven XJnivcrfiity ScholarshipB (there were no more to win), and more than Five Hundred Fjrst Priacs, and over Three Thousand Tcstimoni.ilK ; Author of the "Conquest of Canada^" "Ancient America," «' Pictorial Ilo- Hcription of the British Provinces in North America," "Geological Survey of L.ilve Superior," "The Migration of Niagara," "The Future of Eric," "The Course of the Ottawa in Past Agefi," "The Elysium of Art," "Limbo of Sci- ence," •* Men of the Time," " Dictio:. ry of all the Proper Names mentioned by the Poets of Oreat Britain and Irciaud," "The Mes.siah and the Prophet, ♦•Benevolence of Deity," "Canada as a Field for | Enterprise," "A Para- phrase of the Prophets, Evangelists, and Apostles from their Original," " A Paraphrase of Alcoran from the Original Arabic, with New Notes," " The Vedas, (in progress) a Translation," "La Ilenriade, a Translation in Prose, Blank Verse and Rhyme," "Arts and Artists in Classic and in Mediaeval Times and in the llcnaissance Period," "History of the French Kings, a Poem," "A Poetical Historj' of Canada," " Contouplations in Canada, a Poem," "Canada in the Next Millennial Age," " Calvaiy, a Sacred Poem," "The Ocnius of Dcvonia (an Omtion), Devon, Historical and Descriptive," "The History and Qeniusof Scotland" (an Oration), " The History and Genius of Ireland" (an Oration), " The Resurrection of Poland " (An Oration), "The Landed Tenure of England (in the Druidical Cycle, through the Roman Epoch, ^'c, into the Saxon Period, until the Era of the Norman Invasion), a Poem ; that pertaining to later times is now in progress, "The Land Reclamation of England,", a Poem, Ditto, an Oration, "The Causes of the Rise, Decline, and Fall of Nations" (a Temperance Oration), "Hope and Memory" (An Oration), " The Mutations of 'Science' " (upwards of 70,000 Illustrative Notes), " Noah's De- scent from Mount Ararat" a novel Exemplification of Natural History, a Poem, "Joshua in Ajalon," an Astronomical Poem," " Creation I the Mvriad Age; or the Seven Days' "Wonder," Aboriginal Legends" (American Incfian), ♦• A Walk along the Slopes and Plains of (under) the Northern Atlantic " (;i Mental Survey), " A (n ideal) Battle between Niagara Falls and Mount Vesu- vius (a Geological Conflict)," "Life of Mahomet," a Satirical Biography, *' The Messiah," " ?airy Land," "Notes on Milton," a Review of His more Eminent Commentators from Richardson, Sire and Son, to Sir Egerton Brydges, "The Women of Shakespeare" (a Poem), "Flowers of the Wilderness (a Series of Poems), " Speeches " (prepared in early youth for pioneer candidates), " The Student in the Forest," " Literary Adventurer," " The United Empire Loyalists of Upper Canada" fa Series of Biographies), "Eminent Vegetarians from the Hippemolgi and Pytnagoras, to Wesley and Shelley" ("before ard after"), *• Shelley in Spirit Land " (a Poem), " I'ho New Alastor, or the Spirit of Enter- prise ' (a Poem), " To Thanatopsis " (a Poem), "The Albcrtaiad"(a Poem), " Friendships of the Classic Ages " (a Poem), " The Dark Wave of Futurity," an Epic Poem, " Indian Legends," " Celebrated British American Indians," ♦♦ Pioneer Families in Ottawa," "The Inedited Poems of Sir Isaac Brock," Hero of Upper Canada, and of General James Wolfe" (the Taker of Quebec), "Memoirs of the Montcalm Family" (never before published)," The Descen- dants of the Lords of the Isles (Scotland) in the New World," "Specimens of 1000 Poets, Orators, and General Writers in th^ Njw Dominion" (Canada), '•Contrasts of Character," 3000 from the Earliest Ages to Washington and 15ona- partc (Napoleon the First), "The Babyloniad,'" "The Modem Sir Bevis," Dies Ir^x of The Londoniad (a Satire on Rogues and Impertinents, in which all the names, however unpronouncable many of them might appear to be in prose, will still be made to rhyme — in prepress. Herein are immortalized all the characters introduced with their names in full). '•A Satire on 'the Press' and its Minions," "Vampj-ria, or a Plea for Establishing Courts of Arbitration," "The Mental Zodiac traversed" (a Flight throughtheUniversecf Mind), "Reciprocity" (non-political!), a Satire upon *. ■■'■. t THE LONBOXIAS. would be Critics and Dcfomcrs, " The New Bostoniad," a Satire upon the Yan- kees (in progress), " How will ho scourge tho Yankee race." Bulxeer (LytUm't) " SiameBC Twins." *< Famous and In-famous Horses from Diomedc* to the Holbom Viaduct Dob- , bin," " Famous Dogs from Argus, vide Odyssey, to Sappho of the Londoniau," ^- "A Dictatorship for England," "Poems loft out of Former Londoniaiw," ' * enough to form 250 different editions, •' The Centenary of the Iloral Acii- demy," seventy-fivo Artists' lives are thei-oin wiitten, and their works expa- tiated upon, "Oratorical Biographies" — including Sir Isaac Brock, Tecumseh, Alderman Sir Matthew "Wood, Daniel "Webster, Henry Clay, Robert Stephen- son, Sir Joseph Paxton, Herbert Minton, Ilenrj' Bessemer, John the First Lord Bishop of Toronto, and " An Autobiojjrn ;ihy of the Author of the Londoniau," "The Lesser and the Greater Poems of Ossian" (a new trjinslation), "The Torrington Hymn" (now called the "London i\d H3rmn," and hailed as the Marseilles of England), " Battle of Life," " Tht< Effects of Iron and Coal upon Civilization," "The Course of the Thames in pre-Historic Times," "City of the Bay" (a Poem on Belleville), "Queen of the Lakes" (a Poem on King- ston), Ditto (on Buffalo), "Queen of tho "West" (a Poem on Toronto), "Th»' Torontoiad,' and a vol'imc of 800 miscellanies. " Canada," a Poem in sevoii vols. Elephant Folio Illustrated (in progress), " The Story of Coliunbus " (a Poem), "Biographies of the French Kings (Poems). And aU the Londoniads, One Hundred in number. (^■""What Eminent Men of all Coimtries have said about Yankees " (a Series of Philippics). Sole Contractor for the New Parliamentary Library. Is prepared to supply Individuals and Public Instructions in British America, with New Books, to any extent, from Great Britain and tho Continent, at three, six, nine or twelve months' credit, and will fully rkprksent to tiik pkoplk of Canada any London bovsk wuosk caud and vuem may appkar in tuk lonuoniad. May, 1877. The author op tuk Londoniad instead of publishing a long array of in- troductory letters from those eminent, it may bo, and honoured in the Colonics (albeit, many will appear in tho "Work about to be issued), but whose names may as yet be luiknown to the general public of the mother country, prefers laying before them the following : — From the well-known Buildkr ; first printed May, 1858. The bearer of this note is a nephew of mine, who left London at a very early age, and proceeded to Canada, where he remained for upwards of twenty years. By his exertions he bore himself through King's College, Toron'o University, and became afterwards a member of tho Provincial Parliament. His business habits, intelligence, and amiable deportment, will soon render him familiar to those gentlemen who will find pleasure in conv(!rsing with a young Englishman just returned to his native country after a long absence. July, 1855. , J. LinsTONE, (Copy.) 50, Old Bailey, and Dartmouth Park, Kent. (The Original is in possession of Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P.) And yet another, from one whom, in tho language of Milton, Not to know him argues — ourselves unknown. The following is one of the 750 Letters, and Testimonials to the Author of tho Londoniad, which are published in pamphlet form : — From the Great Financikr, the CHEVALIER LAVEILLET-DUPONT. No one knows the wants of this colony better than Mr. Lidstone. As an art student and writer upon general ma.'- factures he is without a rival ; he is the best art student that over Canada reiued. During his residence as Finance B 2 4 THE LONOONIAI). Delegate in England, he will publish an account of those manufactories who^ productions are required by us, and will give his friends in London the names of substantial parties in the New Dominion with^whom tncy may desire to correspond. Canada is under many and great obligations to Mr. Lidstone. lie took m;r debentures when few were willing, and fewer still wore able, and as the interest became due he would only accept such again in debentures. He has by his wisdom and energy caused our Colonial debentures to be more cager!^ sought after than any other paper issue on this Continent. He it was who first caused an impetus to be given, whereby were established our monetary triumphs in the mother countiy. He stood our friend in the dark time, and we greatly welcome him in this our day of comparative opulence and prosperity. I inscribe the Ome Hvndbedth Lomboniad to the friends of my early years in Toronto: I have not forgotten them. Many may have passed away to other regions and states of being; yet will I hope to catalogue their names. "Soft be their rest, children of streamy Lotha! I will remember them with tears ; and my secret song shall rise in the groves of Tor."— Ossian, Citrric- Thwa. TORONTO was styled by Captain Marryat even in his time the most English <;ity in America. I call it the model city — in mural language, a diadem on the brow of the universe. Nor is there any city in the Western Hemisphere that can in any way compare with it, considering the amount of its population, for the magnificence of its buildings. Of the intelligence of its inhabitants I have spoken elsewhere, and hope soon to lay before the Imperial metropolis of the mother coimtry the names and businesses of more than one thousand of its inhalntants, here the old chiefs of races, many of whom arc now no more, assembled around their council fires ages beyond remembrance, ay ! Icr^g before the p«ile-face had crossed the Great Salt Lake. The City of Toronto was not settled by Beggars as was many another town and city through the West. They were genuemen in Britain in the days of the Charles', and long before. The Robinsons are the descendants of the old Kings of Mercia, and the Sher- woods from the Imperial Brctwaldas. They were the first men of the mother coimtry even before under the tyrants of the Lower Empire, the States of modem Europe were formed. Here flourished in our day the greatest and the best that ever from these Islands of Septentrional Ocean, passed over the North Atlantic's submerged slopes and plains, who sought to extend the power of his clime, and rear the standard of salvation in that giant land of the setting sun — John, the first Lord Bishop of Toronto. Here are the Head-quarters of the United Einpire Loyalists, those Unconquered Saviours of the West, who have rendered Classic that which was always Sacred, the Soil of Ufpkr Canada. " With her tiara of proud towers," she sits by the upland ocean in latitude 43" 39' 4" N. ; long. 79«' 21' 5" W., or 5 h. 17 m. 268. Greenwich tempus tardus, still more developed in her loveliness than in the hour of inspiration when the Right Hon. John Philpot Curran, the great Irish orator and poet, addressed — " Thou Queen of the West." and lower down in the ages, Samuel Taylor Coleridge — " Queen of the West," and still nearer our own times^ Professor Longfellow^ "The Queen of the West." Adieu ! (I quote Ellen's quotation in " The Lady of the Lake ") " If not on earth, we meet in heaven." " We'll sit and sing in glory of the ages long ago, ■NVhen we together wander'd by loved Ontario." (Canada. A Poem by the Author of the Londoniad.) - ^1 .. i^m»jl At4&^i.J'^:m.Ui!dV3iidiSii^llil^4iia^ THE hOJUMKLSD. 5 Wc will not saj while expatiating upon the beauty of Toronto, with a certain wight, when ho looked upon Florence from amid the Appenines, " It is a sight too lovelv to behold except upon holidays," although my life in the dawn of manhood and while a dweller therein was one continuing holiday, and I should like to look upon that seat of the Coimdl Fires often with the visual eye, even a.s I do always keep it and am oontiniwlly surveying it in mental vision. I would say to our British Manufacturers at nome, in those Islands of a Northern Sea, ToBoxTo is the best city upon the American Continent wherein to erect branch establishments, while in r^iard to personages anxious for retirement, to heads of families of independent means seeking safe investment for their capital, and the means of rearing such families in comparative affluence upon one third that it would cost in England, and who maybe desirous of opening up for their descendants a wider arena for action than might be supposed even to loom forth to the most sanguine expectation " In that proud old world beyond the flood " (William Ccllen Bbtant). And of rearing residence " in Oity or in Suburb," which might vie in loveliness with that port of Philistia in a prc-Israela:n time, Rimmon, whose delightful seat Was fair Damascus, on the fertile banks Of Abbana and Pharphar, lucid streams. John Milton's first bk. Paradtw Lost. That might rival all that we know of the Sabine Farms and Tuscan Villas of classical antiquity, not Cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. Mtuiheth, Act iii.. Scene 4th. As when their lives were cast in insular position erst , and in the Home Islands of the Imperial Mother Country, but in a streamy land, boundless, if not interminable as the expansiou of time, and vet that glorious region is but the Stoke, to use a Cerdic-Saxon phrase (an outlying district) of the manor home- stead of their sires. Toronto is no Nephelococcygia (vide the "Birds" of Aristophanes, the Verm Hiatoria of Lucian, and the Don Quixote De La Mancha of Miguel Ue Gervcntes Saavedra, O Spirit of Logan !) I remember the roseate hour " 'twas on a summer's evening " that I landed ; an optical phenomena, Toronto appeared to me, sailing on the oceanic lake in those early days of my life — 'twas the fairy land of my pilgrimage. We had not to ascend thro' atmospheric realm toward the Cirra looking down upon lower clouds,, the Cumuli floated and appeared to me then like serialnsed prophets speaking ir. bland breezes of fine weather prevailing and to come. No NuVOloeo Oeografico Draperied in Cataracts like Granada, Least like MTurano floating on th' floods roseate this Pride of Canada. Nor yet like Mexico oft lost in yon etherial blue, Nor peak'd 'mongst stars like Ouanca Yelicain Peru, Nor like Quito in Colombia high aye girded bv th' snow. Nor Madrid in Old Spain on elevated desert plain, Nor Oeneva in Switzer Alps, where Icy breezes blow. The site of Toronto, as au the nations know, Is almost upon a level with Lake Ontario. The meaning of which word in the resonant, rcselient vocal resscnti of our Aboriginies is " the Beautiful Lake," with a gradual accent in the back groimd ; it would seem that a Beneficent Creator had early pre-ordained its shores whereon to raise adorned with statues of Men and fanes of Oods— that which might vie with City of old or Modem fame, the seat Of mightiest Empire.— Milton. Accessible to the white winged armaments of Peace, Steamers at all seasons of the year ply by and unload at its quays and wharfs ; this were but *' Damn(ing) with faint praise."^FoPK. A6 TB£ LONBONXAD. (Nooflenoo is here intended to Mrs. Jellyby — I always spell my wicked words). '■ But please see the Author of tko Lomdoniad's poem Oktario. All these things I have mentally ruminated o'er. Though the same words were never npokcn by mo before. The Artist traveller Catlin said that Lima was tho most beautiful city ia the world, but this was before his advent in ToaoNTo, before he hiid, like JEncas wooii^ hlH Dido, thrown himself into the arms of the Upland Ocean Queen ; he had fled from the Cyprian chiirms of Nature arraved in ner meridional gaudi- ness and disease, he now breathed in the bland, health-giving, spirit-inHpirin^ airs that surround, I may say hablimatc Tokonto. Then it was that tho geniality and Intelligence of iU People and the Aiden Tempe-like beauty of its situation led him to exclaim " "What a Theme might ihis not be for a I'oct ! when your Ontario shall be nearly ready, I will prepare to paint you a picture l>f To«ONTO"— " All right, Great George," I replied, *' Pictoribus'atque poetis Quidlibet audendi semper fuit ooqua potcstas. — Hor. "You always say something consolatory, Mr. Lidstone," said the artist, " This, then, goes to prove that however much I may appreciate your famous work sent tome by you from the Hio Grande, I at least am not inclined to " shut my mouth," whereat he laughed heartily. This picture I took to Samuel Cousins, the Princo of Engravers, in tho summer of 1876 • • • It will appear in the 1st part of Canada, Seven Vols Elephant folio. A certain eminent personage, tho Greatest ^Vrt iWasuro Proprietor in England or in Europe, about 3 years ago spake unto me concern- ing the more suitable place for a Museiun or an Exliibition. I answered him by immediately mentioning the name of Toronto, and I gave unto him at tho same time mv reasons for doing this ; he seemed to be satisfied, and please^ and said that he had often heard of Toronto and would like to sec it. °The following notice ia now being circulated in London (Eng.) The Great International Xxuibition of British America, 1879. I have suggested that the same be held, not at Halifax, Montreal, nor Ottawa, but in the City of Toronto, and in the year of 1879 ; I will in due course cause a Prospectus to be issued, embodying the names and residences of the Members of the Committee, and containing such special information as I may have reason to think will be welcomed by my friends. P.S. — Instead of Medals, the Golden Maple Leaf, the emblem, of Canada, will be awarded. Hie patet ingeniis campus : certusque merenti Stat favor : ornatur propriis industria douis. i, Claudian. J. T. 8. LIDSTONE, Canada Finance Delegate to England. Fortcscue, McAlpin and Desmond, Printers to the Queen's Excellent Majesty, and to the Canada Finance Delegation in England. Halifax is at one angle of the Continent, and on tho coast line of Ocean. Nova Sootia, of which it is deservedly the capital, with its famous harbour, the rendezvous of nations, from its position, might be properly called the princi- pal Cyclades of the Occidental Main. Upon its morning shores — for a hop- stcp-and-o-jump across its narrowest point would take us from the Bay of Fundy to Nort' " ->H5rland Strait— while the region round about might well bo called tlio Af /o of the AtUvitio border, if not quite tho Laurentenaeau Ardiipelago ' . dalf . Before Halifax extends— ■■ ■ the sea, that desert desolate."— H. W. Longfellow. 1 THE LONBOXIAS. While the tide of humanity surges back altogether from our Colonial Pireefus. I remember siiying Homnthing Ukc this on that cvcuiug when a cunversazionu was held by Sir Allan McNab and the Hon. John Ross, at 9, Bennett Street, St. James's, London (£ng.], when " A eaptain bold, of j ifax, who lived in country quarters " advanced with a considerable aogrec of ardour towards me, his physical frtlmo all tremulou^ jis if his veins were rolling, what shall I say I — weltcrtnjj waves after a storm — for ho had been listening with suppressed but ill- disguised emotion, " I don't know where (whether) to bo angrj' or no (not with you) — give me your hand— come on a voya-je with me • " «. Mont- real like water, and genius, hath at lenj^th found its level; no longer this entrcpo of the Upper Province ; it hath sunk down into the mere market town of u district. Like llichard the Second seated on the grassy mound, you may hear "woeful tales " concerning moral deilection in £iaucial affairs through those who inhabit that which T. D. McQee in his poem calls " the city of churches," any day in London (Eng.), as you " - through the City take your dirty rounds." James Tnomaon, *' Castle of Indolence." Now, without giving the quotation from Defoe, illustrative of the Evil One always rearing an habitation near a house of prayer, I would fain go to Milton, higlier source, and look to Thee Spirit, that dost prefer ■^eforo all temples, the upright heart and pure. But here wc " lot ftltogctlAr blame the residentary colonists at " Mount lloyal," se .^at there are as many nationalities represented therein as met with one accord on the day of Tentccost — Fide 2nd chap. Acts of the Apostles. Ottawa was graced by the presence of Minerva before Polyhymnia adven- tured to " The frontiers of that shadowy land." Let Thomas Moore's Canadian Boat Song attest in " Utwa's tide," This region could boast a literature oven in its pre-historic time. Ottawa, so called because long before the last earthquake, which caused so many abrupt-t in its course had caused it to be eonfinea to its present (and that wore wide in the eyes of many people inhabiting other countries) comparatively narrow, but deep and rapid bounds, the waves rose up like Orators to greet the early voyageurs. This is the,Oratorial River, iipon its banks towering into mid air and Kkyward behold the Capital of the New Dominion ; but capitals in America are not like Capitals in Europe, which are generally the largei- Cities. In the New World, so-called, they are established merely as central meeting places for Legislative purposes ; the politiciiui's career partakes of the migratory, the burden of his song " at busmoss close," being that of Allan Cimningham. Hame, hame, hame to my ain countric. 1 remember the City of Ottawa as By town and I have already said, that it then held within its precincts a greater number of highly intellectual persons than any other town of an equal population in America. But there are Vandals in Ottawa, and I would fain believe that the hithertofore undiscovered sin against the Holy Qhost is Vandalism — the destruction of Works of Art and Literature. With more of the npirit of truthfulness than was displayed by Auld Roekio regarding its worthy member I would '• ■^'hip the offending Adam out of her." In TottoxTO they are Gentlemen, each Lady and Gentleman will volunteer Vs Guard to any and every Work of Art sent to/' the most English c;ity in America." 8 THS XANDOXXAD. 80 far 08 may be, emulating •< FsDstum roses and their double spring " Shall glow revealed to other times a classic age Of or Orcda or Boma upon the already classic soil of Upper Canada, instead' of MedalH, as in other Exnibitions and in other coimtrics, being ^ivcn as Prijisc.<«, we will award as such Uie emblem of our delightful land, the Maple Leaf. I remember the Maple as alluded to in' Spenser's ** FaiSry Quccne " (his catalogue of trees) — and if you so decide its distinctive symbol, the Beaver, in whatever metal shall best beseem us. A new feature I would introduce into the Universal Exhibition of the Xew Dominion — namely, a prize that might be held in long- endnring remembrance by that mother nation whose gifted son should bear the same away for Literature, ho not being a publisher nor a periodicalist, and for this special ohjeot I will begin by giving the Morven Ocm (there are onlv 3 known to exist ; II. £mmanucl, of Bond Street, Author of " The History of Precious Stones," says that ho never saw but one), towards a FallsBan Grown (diadem) to for ever remain in its City Hall, under the guardianship of the Toronto Cor* poration, thus the recipient thereof will continue to bein fiill possession of all the fame attendant thereon without any risk of its ever falling into the hands of others, or of beine lost amid the vidssitudeb of f amilieSj or the conflict of ages. Besides this, I wiU give towards the same object a certain sum of money. * ** * * The Earth for us in Toronto is not cast in a post-tertiary period hiber- nating in aphelion ; the bright days of winter in Canada are the theme of all languages. I remember the time, about three years ago, during the week of the Cattle Show at ye Bucolic Manse in *< Merric Islington," past which site in a pre-Cowpenean age Johannes Oilpin rode skimmington, if not quite in the Irish Pooka fashion, must at least remind us of the everlasting Meg of Tam o Shanter. Dark was that day, and fatal, it would seem that Zebus', Cimmeria, and .£gyptus' " Darkness more dread than night was poured upon the groimd." P. B. Shelley, " Revolt of Islam.** I recalled to memory the words of Bjrron's dramatic hero, and held his Night to in mental vision " Methinks that we had lived in some other world. And that this is H ." ilere, too, as in a wet blanket the cockney atmosphere enfolds us. Nor is ours in Canai>.\ and summer time " The hot and copper sky " of the Ancient Mariner. But of this, more anon. Here we have our grateful showers^ and oft times it " rains in a business-like manner," so that we have to ask Jupiter Pluvius to be kindly pleased to fibulo ; unlike that city of the sunny south and magnificent lateral extension, the mention of which in the early part of my speech occasioned the comparison ^ we are not placed at the mercy of a capricious climate for any degree of humidity required for vegetation or other 1 moisture brought ■ from the Atlantic Main " (Xth " Lusiad ") by the equatorial ycnti Soundine other than notes Fandroan, And intercepted by punet propping ridge Andeaean. No earthquake (or waterquake) ever lifted Enceladus-like the happy region of Ontabio only to engulph a fair city, so that none in after times mav be heard enquiring concerning the Queen of the West as J. G«orge Hodgins does in his lovely Poem *' Ontario " in regard to the glorious old chief of other days. And where is proud Toronto gone t" 1 J. THB LONDONIAD. 9* TORONTO. THE GREAT INTEBNATIOITAL EXHIBITION FOB BRITISH AKEBICA. THE NAMES OP PERSONAGES PRACTICALLY CONNECTED WITH THE ARTS IN TORONTO. Chosen for the Onk HrNDRKUTii LoNDONi.vi) by its Author, Jaxka Tobrinuton Spknckr Lidstokk Canada Finance Delegate (Copyright) . LITERARY 015NTLEMEN IN TORONTO. *' Tho»e were the prime in order and in might." John Milton. Hero ore Bishops, Archbishops, D.D.'s, M.D.'s, and LL.D.'s, Doctors of the 80ul and Doctors of tho body, Profitssors and Oovemmeutal Officials, all Mental lUuminatores, but I havo left out ye prefixes and adjuncts, as I desire that no invidious comparison be made between those personages whom I have the peciiliar happiness of here and now introducing into the lOUth Lonuuniau, and whose names for the greater part will be readily recessed in Britain, and our day as they will be most certamly, by the wholu world in the after-time. I am, however, relieved from all sensitiveness in this matter when I consider that neither Shakespeare nor Milton had any titles " before or after " their names. Babbett, Michael, Babtlett, Wu. R., Bklfobd, Chables, Bethune, A. N., Boylk, Patbick, BuuwN, J. Oobuon, Bvciiannan, O. R., Bucklanu,. Oedroe, Cauroll,Henrt, Cherrih an, J. B., Christie, D., Connon, C. W.^ Dkwart, Edward ;H., Ellis, John C., Fulton, John, Hincks, William,. HoDoiNH, J. Oeoroe, IlfTcniNsoN, D. Falloon, Lynch, John J,, McCaul,. John, Kingston, J. T., Pernet, Emile, Hose, Samuel, Rowk, William, Sanosteb, Jon. Herbert, Stewabt, William, Suuttlewobth, Edwabd B., Si'iMsoN, Elam R., Taylor, Lachl.vn, and tho Author of the Lonuoniad in former times. " All these were honoured in their generation, and were the glory of their time." — Eccl. xliv. 7. A. Adair, John, Coach Builder. Adams, D. S. and B., Wholesale Manufacturers of Ties, Scarfs, Shirt8,Collars, &c. Adams, James, Sailmakcr and Military Flag Manufacturer. Adamson, Robert, Machinist. Aikenf, Robert,. Wheelwright. Aintzewich, H., Ci^dl En^eer. Alexander, Francis W., Patternmaker. Anderson, Thomas, Optician. Armstrong, J. R., and Co.,. Stove Founders. Ashfield, James S., Chief Fire Brigade. Bach, Edward, Saddler. Baker, Nathaniel, Carriage Trimmer. Baldwin, Closer- Engineer. Baley, John C, Engineer. Balkintync, Robert, Builder. Bank of British North America, Samuel Taylor, Manager. Bank of Montreal, George W. Yorker, Manager. Bank of Toronto, William Oooderham President; Oeorge Hague, Cashier. Banks, Charles, Civil Engrinecr. Barber, Alfred, Brass Finisher. Barber, Charles, Potash Maker. Barber, George, Secretary Board of School Trustees. Barchcr and Elder, Builders, &c. Barclay, John, Boilermaker. Barker, George, and Co., Manufacturers of Straw Goods. Barnes, Thomas, Picture Framemaker. Bamhart, Noah,- Miller. Barr, James, Upholsterer. Basso, Antonio, Brushmaker. Baxter, James, House Decorator. Beale, Henry B., Wood Carver. Beard Brothers and Co., Ironfoundcrs, Stove and Hollow Ware Manufacturers. Beard- more, Bain, and Co., Tanners. Beatty, Adam, Waggonmaker. Beaty,< James, M.P., Proprietor and Printer of the " Leader." Beaty, R., and Co.,. 10 THB LONDONIAD. Bankers, Broker!^, and Exchange Office. Beaumont, John, Engineer. Beuvcr Dru^ Mills and Laboratory, Lyman Bruthors, iiud Co., I'ro- Iirictors. Beckett, Edward, Globe Foundry. Bcokman, llolxMt, Afcouiitiint. toeten, William, raoking-CaMmoker. Behan, Duvid, 80(1111(1-. Bell, Will- iam, Kngiuccr. liemistcr, Ooorffo, Engineer. Bender, Charles, Viimo Manufacturer. Bcnnct, James, Mochinlit. Borkinshaw, Thomas, Con- fectioner. Borrj-, William, Contractor. Borthon, George T., Artist. Birch, Edwiu-d, Gunsmith. Birch, William W., Veterinary Surgeon. Bishoi) Btnichan Hchool, Bevvrley Jones, Bursar. Blackhall Brothers, Bookbimlcrs and I'upcr Kulers. Blogg, William, Shoemaker. Boeckh, Charles, Brush I'actor. Bolster, Lancelot S., Superintendent Toronto Waterworks. Booth, George, Hou.se, Sign, and Ornamental I'ttintor. Booth, William, Sipu and Decorative Painter. Bosworth, Edwin, Saihriaker. Bothwell, llohcrt ('., Fancy Goods. Bouraaaa, Frederick, Broomnmker. Bowes, John U., Ac- countant. Boxall, John, Manufacturer of Kailroad Lamps. Boyce, Edward, Pocket Book Manufacturer. Brain, A. W., l*racticttl Machinist. Branston, Henry, Foundrjrman. Branton, Thomas, Brickmoker. Briggs and Campbell, Gunsmiths. Brimstin and Brother, Hardware. Broadman, Charles, Waggonmaker. Bronsdon and Paton, Paints. Brooks, John, Turner. Brown, William, Dealer in Carriage Hardware, Felloes, Bpokes, F_*'s, Enamelled Top .ind Dash Leather, Enamelled Cloth, Springs, Axles, &c. Brown, William O., Gilder of China. Bryan, Thomas, Lock- smith. Buck, Jeremiah, Saddler. Bimtin Brother and Co., Wholesale Stationers, Paper, Envelope, andJBlank Book Manufacturer. Bums, A. and W., Soda Water Manufacturers Butt, Ephraim, Waggonmaker. Byford, George, Bookbinder o. •Caiger, Eohcrt, Brass Finisher. Caldwell Hugh, Hatter and Furrier. Campbell, Gilbert L., Silver Plater. Campbell, James, and Son, Wholestilii Stationers, Booksellers, and Publishers. Canada Company, Hon. W. B. Robinson and Hon. G. W. Allan, Commissioners. Canada Paper Box Factory', McAdams, Stuart, and Co. Canada Patent Agency, Ri(iout and Howard. Capreol, F. ,C., President Huron and Ontario Ship Canal Com- pany. Carlaw, John A., Cashier Grand Trunk Hallway Carling, Hon. John, Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Worke. Carter, John B., Map Moimtcr. Carty, James, and Co., Soap Manufactory. Casci, Vincent, Statuary. Champ, J. S., and Co., Manufacturers of Roofing Materials and Varnish. Chapman and Appleton, Draughtsmen and Engravers on Wood and Metal. Chapman, Wiluam, Gunmaker. Charlton, Abraham, Boiler- maker. Charlton, George, Wool Buyer. Childs and Hamilton, Wholesale Boot and Shoe Manufacturers. Clapson, Marmadukc R., Wood Carver- Clare, I., Furrier. Clark Brothers, Carriage Builders. Clarke, Henry E.. Trunk Manufacturer. Clarkson's Elevator, Thomas Clarkson oncl Co, Cleverdon and Coombo, China and Earthenware. Codd, D., and Co., Patent Agents. Codville, Benjamin, Picture Framemaker. Coghill, Robert, Car- riagemaker. Cole, Edward, Founder. Cole, John, Clockmakor. Coleman, and Co., Furriers. Colliii.s, John, Steam Gauge and Brass Works. Collins, John S., Photographer. Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works. Commissioner of Crown Lands. Conlin, James, Rolling Mill. Cooper, T., Gymnasium. Copp, Clark, and Co., Publishers, Booksellejs, &c. Cornell, William, Watchmaker and Jeweller. Council of Public Instruction for Ontario. Cowcn, Henry, Glass Stainer. Cox, John, Optician. Cradock, Charles, Fancy Goods. Crane, James, Vamisher. Crapper, James, Jun., Plombcrand Gasfttter. Crapper, James, Sen., Stcamfittcr. Crawford, D. and Co., Soap and Candle^ Lari and Lubricating Oil Manufacturers. Croft, William, and Co., Fishmg Tackle. Crouden, William, Wood Turner. Crozier, William, Builder. Cull, Thomas, Wood Turner. Cumberland, F. W., M.P.P., Managing Director Northern Railway. Cnmmings and Wells, Plumbers and Oasntters. Cunningham, James, Millwright. Currie, James, Boilermaker. Currie, Neil, Boilermaker, Iron Ship and Bridge Yard, Manufactory for Oil Stills, Tanks, Agitators, &c. MwaMMHWNiulM THE LONDONIAD. II f* Pack, Edward, Bootmaker. Dolton, K. H., Mclodcon and Orpran 'Manufne- turor. Uuiuorcjiu and EUiH, DesifmofH and Enpravers on Wood. Dnrby, Thoiiiati, Sinn WriUr. Darlington, William 1)., I'atent Felt Uoof. Da\-i(lH, JoMtpb, CheuiiKt and Druggist. DavidHon, John, lioilurmaker. Davidson, Thomas, lioilermakvr. Daridson, William and 8on, Suddlpry ond Hard- ware. Davidifon, Duvid, Boilermaker. Daw»on, 8. J., Civil Enp^ncer. Dean and Hcott, Iron and BroHS FotmderH. DenniR, Richard, Builder, llovine, Thomas, Head of Survey Crown LandH Dc-partmcnt. Dick, Cap- tain Thomas, Proprietor Queen's Hotel. Dickey, Neill und Co., Hoho i'oimdry. Div»r, Ooorgc H., Blind Manufacturer. Dixon, Brothers, < iir- riage Builders. Dobbie, W. Peyton, Bi-sulphate of Lime Maker. Dod>on, Johii, Stove Fitter. Dodson, W. E., Wood, Hides tec. Dollerv, William, Hoapmuker. Donaldson, John K., Brushmaker. Dosser, Wilson K., Manufacturer of Machine Oil and Grease. Downey, Jaines, ]{oiise Movej-. Drodffo, A., and Co., Bookbinders. Due, T., Photographer. Duflln ami IFcrgUiion, Sailmakcrs. Duncan, John, Puddler. Duncan, Ralph F., Brass Finisher. fDunlop, William, Hardware. Dunphey, Martin, Plumber. Durnin, George, Lighthouse. Dye, William, Lithographer. E. Euglc, Wm., Wa;^gonmakcr. Eaton, T., and Co., Canadian Textilia Manufac- turer.-*. Educational Museum, Victorio-s^iuare. Edwards, John, Paptr Hangings. Ellam, Jos., Guumaker. Elliot and Co., Wholesale Druggists. Elliott, John, Marble Polisher. Elliott, Patrick J., Hide Dresser. Elliott, William,. .Fresco Painter. Ellis, George, Spring Mattress Maker. Ellis, James K., and Co., Watchmakers and Jewellers. Embrough, Stephen, Brickmaker. Evans, J. lek, and Co., Shirt Makers and Maniifacturers of Ladies' and Childi-en's Under Clothing. Ewing and Co., Photographic Stock. P. Firstbrook and Symon, Lumberers. Firstbrook, Thomas, Gas Meters. Krst- brook, William, Planinf? Mill. Fisher, William, Fanner. Fitz)^erald, Richard, FVizzing, Machine Moulding and Fret Sawing. Fitzsimons, George J., Manufacturing Jeweller. F'letcher, Hugh R., Mining Engineer. Forbes, Duncan, Cement Roofing Manufacturer. Forbes, George H., Brass- finisher. Forbes, John, Artist. I'orbes, John, Marble Cutter. Forsjrth, Robert, Hydraulic and Granite Works. Foster, James, Telegraph Instni- ment Maker. Foster, James, and Son, General Hardware. Foulds, Hodg- son, and Bovd, Cutlery. Frasor and Young, Painters and Paper Hangings. Freeman, Thomas, Bookbinder. a. Gagcn, Robert, Artist. Garden, David, Coppersmith. Gartshore, John, Manager Car Wheel Co. Gaston, Thomas, Wire Worker. Gatcr, W. G . , and Co., Siiwinp; Machine Manufacturers. Gates, Josepli, Miller. Gibson, Joseph G., Marble Works. Gibson, William J., Brass F'inisher. Fiersch, Ernest, Diamond Setter. Gilbert, George A., Artist. Gillespie, J., and Co., Manufacturers of Hats, Caps, Straw Goods, Gloves, Mitts, &c. Gird- wood, Alexander, Photographer. Glecson, P., Oil Refiner. Goldsmith, Alfred Word, Cabinet Turner. Gossage, Wagner, and Miles, Pro^Tncial Land Surveyors, Valuators, Civil Engineers, and Architects. Graham, Henry, and Co., Oil Cloths. Graham, Tavemer, Elocutionist. Grand, James, Architect, Civil Engineer, Building Surveyor, and Valuator. Grand Trunk Railway, C. J. Brydges, Mimaging Director. Grantham, Elwood, Paints. Gray, John, wire Maker. Greenwood, Christopher, Paper Staincr. Greenwood, Daniel, Weaver. Gregory, Arthur T., Picture Frame Maker. Gregory, J., and Co., Soap and Candle Manufactiu-crs. Gros- Rmith, Charles W., Wholesale Perfumers, Manufacturer of Improved Essences, &c., &c. Gumett and Turner, Leather. Gurney, E. and C, Phoenix Foundry and Stove Works. Oustin, A. J., Rolling Mills. Gisowski and Co., Railroad Contractors and Rolling Mills. 12 TUE LOITDONIAS. Ilohandorf, William, Carver. Hoight, Thomas L., Trunkmakamee. Phillips, Frank, Planing Mills. Phoenix Foundary, E. and C. Gumey. Piper, H., and Co., House Furnishing Hardware. Plant, Herbert, China Decorator. Plenderleith, John, Sash Factory. Plews, David, Pimipmaker. Pocomy, Francis O., Marbleizer. Potter, Charles, Optician and Mathematical In- strument Maker. Price, Thomas, Japanner. 14 TUE IX)irZ>ONLU). Quigley, William, rapcrnmkcr. Q. B. KamiMiy, Alex., Cumer. Hour, Bcrtmrd, Jupannor. R<»dirin, OforRf, Mflodoon Mukm. UcHid, ThomaH, Htuvo Mounter. Kidout, Aikonheud, an<pard, Oeorgo, briekmaker. Sheppard, Robirt, Marble WorkH. Sheppard, William 11., Marble Worka. Shii^ldH, Jume.s and Co., Manufacturers of lU.scuits and Confectionery. SinmierH, Joseph A., Importer and Orower, Garden, Field, and Flower Heetln. Sinip-on, Joseph, Knitting and Yarn Factory. .Simi)son, Patriek, Railroader. Snuth, Andrew, Veterinary Surgeon. Smith, Oenunel, Architects. Smith, H. T., Brassfounder. Snuth, II. T ., Soda Water Miumfacturer. Smith, Jowpli, Pattern Making, Wood Turning, and Model Mukiutr. Surley and Howe, Leather, Hides. Sparrow, William H., House Furnishing Hardware. St. Lawrence Foundry, William Hamilton and Son. Stagg, William Hamilton and Son. Stagg, William, Tanner. Stanton, Moses, Rooki Paper Manu- facturers. Steggull, E. H., (Jentlcmcn's Furnishings. Stirling, John R., Machinist. Stock, David, Boilermaker. Stone, William, Pota.shmaker. Sudborough, Joseph, Straw Worker. Summers, George, Melotleon Maker. Swinbourn, George II., Mathematical Instruumcnt Maker. Symons, John, Secretory Canada Landed Credit Co. T. Taskcr, Ilenrj-, Cutler. Tatler, Elijah, China Painter. Taylor, J. and J., Manufacturers of Firo and Burglar Proof Safes. Taylor, John, and Brothers, Paper Manufacturers. Tayloj, Peter A., Marble Cutter. Taylor, Richard, Manufacturer of Tinware, Japanned Goods, ico. Thackeray, George, Lithographer. Thomas, John, Pianoforte Maker. Thompson, Alexander, Boatbuilder. Thompson, Joseph, Founder. Thomson and Bums, Earthenware. Tilt, George, Marble Cutter, llmp-son, I homas B., Mathematical Instrument Maker. ToUis, Henrj', Gardener and Florist. Tomney, William, Machinist. Toole, Albert, Optician. Toronto and Nipiasing Railway Co. : John Shcdden, president. Toronto Board of lYadc ; William Elliott, President. Toronto Cart Wheel Co. j John Oartshore, Manager. "Toronto Leader," J. Beaty, M.P., Proprietor and Printer. Toronto Patent Pump Works ; D. Plews, Proprietor. Toronto Scale Manu- factory ; C. Wilson. Touzcau, William, Engraver. Townley, William C. Brick Machine Maker. Trees, S., and Co., Carriage and Sadlery Hard- ware. TuUy, Kivas, Engineei- and Architect. Tuttle, Date, and Rodden, Manufacturers of a^cultural implements. V. Yaubnren Orland, Brushmaker. Vance, Samuel, Machinist. Vincent, Fred., Pianoforte Maker. J^ I 1 i; TIIS lOVnOVULD. l."» # w. 'W»nKcr, R. M., and Co., Sewing Maohino MBkert^. Warren, 0., Artiflciul Flower Maker. WnrrinKton, William, Iiouttiir CuttiT. Wandi-ll, Joseph, Tinplate Worker. Wutnon, JumcH, CoffiH' jind Spice MiIIh. WHrdby, llcnry. Artificial Stono Cutter. Webb, ThoinuM, Coiif»pn«iHttH Mill. Wilson, Benjamin, Wool. Wilson, Christopher, Toronto, Seale Manufac- tory. Wilson, James, Car Builder. Winans, Butler and Co., Domestic Wools. Workman, Benjamin, M.D. Woodward, H., Electrician. Wor- rell, Ocorgc, Brickmaker. Wright, If. C, and Co., I'aper Bag Makers. TO THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD was addressed a beautiful letter (which appears in a former number of that work) by TA-PA-TA-MEE, aged 101, tho glory of Upper Canada: tho only American-Indian Queen on the Western Continent ; whose nation is civilized, temptTute, and devoted to thu Arts. TO THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD was transmitted a speech on New Year's Day, 1874, by MATIEWABAIK, aged 113, Oreut Sigonah, aboriginal King in C.\NAnA. I have lately receivecl from the Warrior Orator a long speech which may be looked upon as a species of Occidental Aboriginal Autobiograiihy. It will be published in extenso at an early prospective period. This Groat British Indian fought in all the battles of 1812 — lA, and it was he who put an end to the War of those times. " I went on tho war-path in the waters (he either walked along the bottom of the lake or rode laterally through tho flood), tho fires (of tho Yankees) glowed (in a reddening sky) above and around me. In the morning the Yankeo beheld the British standard fljnnpr in the Passamaquoddy, Matiewabaio planted it there!" (he had taken it with him, TUTapiKJu in oil-skin, and when the Americans beheld it "at dawn of day" (Oray's Elegy) they thought themselves surrounded, and like Milton's Fiends, "tho Ranged Powers Disband, and, wandering, each his several way Pursues, as inclination or sod choice Leads him perplcx'd, and to sing upon the banjo "Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall.") A great part of tho speech alluded to appears in a former Londomad. CRENT5VIREM, aged 96, Head Sachem, in a former Lonponiah was printed my conversation with our conversable and highly intelligent Head Sachem, concerning tho state of his Race. E'er the pale-fnce crossed the waters of tho Great Salt Lake. I 16 THE LONSOKIAD. KONQUAWIS, aged 80, Grand Sagamore. Next to Sir William E. Logan, is the best gcoIo|3:ist in Canada ; the reason that I have not hithertofore caused to be printed any letter from our Beloved Chief, is this, that, like Mrs. Grundy's young-man lodger. " he has odd notions regarding theology," and expresses them in flush rhetoric. But in his last letter to me he acknowledges the beauty of the cha- racter of our Saviour, and denounces that of Mahomet, and gives praise to a Poem by the Author of the Londoniau, bearing the Heading, XPIST02, and entitled Thf. Messiah and "The Prophet." Konquawis spake inspired by Manito, Nature was all attention, the umbra- geous realm became a ^tctrified forest, the waves of Eric revealed a granitic abrupt, alive with prismatic beams, for there Evening reclined in stat.:. Niagara was suspended, not embleming a frozen cataract dead and chill, but glowing with emotion expressed in weird language of seeming blossoms, breath- ing iiowers, and li\'ing^ gems. Heaven's constellations glowed ardourous, yet ceased to chime for the first time since their flight of echoes was arrested by Joshua in Ajaion. His Manitoba Oration, the greatest ever delivered upon that continent, won all the Western tribes of his race over to the British power. The Author of the Londoniad will yet publish it. Regarding the folloT,ing I desire to commission some Sculptor of grace and genius to visit the Ne\' Dominion. In the Pronaos of Saint Tammanund I will caused to be placed in Marble, Sept foil alto relievo, commeraorante of the Seven Chiefs against Thebes, the portraits of those descendants of the Mighty Iroquois, our friendly Councillors of Gaughnawaga, to each of whom I herewith send something. AsennasesamohT, Chief; AtoiiarishonsiocnarF, Chief; Kentaron- tiehpesoJ, Grand Chief; SakoriatakSanitraM, Chief; Satekaienton- siuoL, Chief, TaioronhiotehpesoJ, TiorakauonsivoL, Chief. " Seven chiefs of high command." — JEschylua. A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. From Kino Alescandre II., aged 30, will appear in this thelftOth Londoniad. This youug Prince, who is a Classical Scholar and speaks FngUsh like our- selves, and whose costume is of the same style as our own, will be remembered by many as being my mother's guest for nearly two months in the autumn of 1868, and who, in taking his exit from our midst reminded us of Kembrondt's Oreat Picture, as engraved by Malbete. " L'Ange Kaphacl quittant Tobie et sa Famille," a copy of which we caused to be framed and draped — memorial of the mournful event. THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONLA.D Acting on behalf of a company of ladies and gentlemen in the New Do- minion of Canada, was prepared to negotiate for a transcript copy of the equestrian statue at the Holbom Viaduct, London, England, had it proved to be a proper one, but whose chisellcr must be nameless upon tho same page with PRINCE ALBERT. \* He had done more for the expanding of the mind and enlightening of tho world, than all that destiny ever placjd near or on a throne in any other land, and more than all the Kings of Englavid put together since the time of Saxon Alfred, and before him. The Poems appear in various Londoniads. "Albert, thou knowcst with each grace and science blest." Robert Falconer's " Shipwreck." Mr. Martin's Book ought never to have been ^tTitten, or, once written, ou^ht never to have been published, but kept in MS. for private use. A wide field 1 THE LOKSONIAO. 17 •was open here for An Art Biography, which might have taken rank in far pro- ^pective centuries with Asser's "Life of Alfred the Great," but the sub- ject for a general Biography having been chosen, like Carly^e's Frederich oil should have appeared therein, then might mankind have drawn their own deduction, where as now doth verily appear in a peculiar light, emanating from a very peculiar cycle, many circumstances supposed attributive of Virtue, or they had not, as a matter of course, appeared under the immediate auspices of those nearest and dearest to him, but which by coming generations will not be considered as redounding to the fame of onk whom we all delighted to honour. Well indeed might the spirit of Albert exclaim with the Highland chieftain, *' Preserve me from my friends, my enemies, I can take cure of myself." I say these things with deep regret, for having compared Prince Albert with the Georgian race, I thought how Intellectually grand he might loom to after ages, a very Colossus in Aureola, above those dark souled Pigmies. It was not his station that made him great, he would have been greater than any mere prince whatever station of life he night have filled, but having said this, and I at least am no demagogue, let me say more, that although those bois- terous spirits who inspired the People with the knowledge of an all powerful Truth may have been banished from their native home by that same system of violence which in a stormier age had sent their congeners to other realms of being ! in a higher degree of refinement to a more determinate purpose is fiying abroad in England, —I hear " the still small voice," more sublime in its causa- tion and more wide-spread in its effectiveness than the mandates of princes and the roar of Armies ; no Dynasty lasts lOr ever ! the People are Eternal ! P.S. — My projected Albertiau Ixath pass'd the Metempsychosis into the Al.BEUTAIAU. Enough ! if they will not hear glisten to ?) the voice of the charmer ! then Go Ifrion Ico ma is maith leo. James TorringUm Spencer Lidttone. The marble bust of the Prince of "Wales, now in the Town Hall of Toronto, was presented by THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. (I hhould feel a peculiar happiness in sending thither marble busts of those great and good gentlemen, the most eminent in Canada, who placed their rames at the head of my list in the following order : — Hon. Henry Sherwood ; Chief Justice, afterwards Hir J. B. Robinson; President McCaul; Mayor Oumett ; and our beloved Bishop, who would hare placed his name m>st thereon had ho been in Toronto.) A copy of this bust is in the Temple Librarj', London (England) . No one will attribute to me any special predihc- tion for m^re princes. I was desirous of leaving with Toronto some memento of my affection, and I accordingly commissioned a Marble Bust for its City Hall, leaving the subject to the groat sculptor, who chose the Prince of Wales. Three Statues for TORONTO. — I have a certain sum, the proceeds of a liter- ary work, which I intend to devote towards the erection of statues, in Toronto, to three literary men, to represent England, Ireland, and Scotland. I should like Milton for England ; and Dein Swift for Ireland ; Milton being my favourite English writer, and Dean Swift " the true friend of Ireland." However, I will leave this to the community to decide, more especially as to the great Scot. THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. Queen's College, Kingston. — Beattie's original marble bust of Robert Bunis, is destined for the above-mentioned seat of learning, to which I present it, and I desire tbac therewith be associated the name of a young friend. Master Malloch, sou of Judge Malloch, county Lanark, and nephew of Edward Malloch, . Esq., formerly member for the county of Carleton. It is known that this famous bust was for many years in India. The Marquis of Westminster, and the late Marquis of Lansdowue were competitors at the 18 THE LONDOXUD. Hale. The first-mentioned nobleman withdrew immediately that it was made known to him that the bust was intended for presentation to a public institu- tion ; and I have an excellent letter from the latter, connoisseur and dilottant, expressing his regret at having enhanced the price, and offering that which of course I could not accept, to pay a certain sum towards the same. I have lately had prepared for this famous bust, a laurel represented in hammered silver work by our modem Qvintin Matsys, G. Albon, which I will send with it. Lent by J. T. 8. Liustone, Esq., author of "Londoniad," Seattle's original Bust of Robert Bums, the Scotch Poet, that great sculptor's chef-d'cBuvre, con- cerning which so manv strange legends are extant, and not the least interesting are those which tell of its being lost for more than twenty years, and turning up again in a port of the Mediterranean, probably conveyed thither by some Consul of H.B.M. ; thence sailing the Indian Ocean, finding refuge near the person of some descendant of Timour; coming from the late Siege of Delhi with other spoils to England ; and at length falling into the possession of Mr. Lidstone, wne intends sending it to Upper Canada." — Catalogue of North London Exhibition. THE EMPEBOB. The Author of the Londoniad was chosen by the inhabitants of Torquay to welcome Napoleon the Third upon his arrival at the Qlken of the Socth. The Speech appears in a former Londoniad. 1 did not wait for the advent of The Emperor to my Native Town in order that I might pay to Him the tribute, for in every Loxdo.viad I have men- tioned Him, and at no time, and in no place with greater pkasure than in those then present, and when all the world was declaring that the Emperor Napoi.kon alone must be of France EXev0epio«. In that speech occur the words, '* while the Benevolent companion of your Majesty THE EMPRESS, attended through life, and for ever with the blessings of the poor and aflaicted, the bright exemplar of crowned heads living, and yet to come, will be hailed as the (younger) Ajatitypo of Helena the Great and Good Christian, the beloved Mother of Constantine. In the words of Berryer, " I almost hear the voice of postOTity," in prophetical retrospective realisation — " Empress, the way is ready, and not long." (" Paradise Lost, Bk. ix. 1. 026.") That Empress renowned for " pietie, vertve, and gratiovs government, that EmiKjresse, The world's glory and her sex's grace." Edmund Spenser in Dedication of " Faery Queenc." And the lay of triumph may yet be sounded for the Prince Imperial when France in '• Immortal vigour .... .... rising will api)ear More glorious and more dread than from no fall." " The happier reign the sooner it begins." The Emperor and Empress op Brazil vide a former Londoniad. Through Brandenburgh the Electorate so ruthlessly ran over ; Destiny shall soon reinstate, George the Fifth of Hanover. LEOPOLD THE let KING OF THE BELGLA.irS. (Please see his poem in the 7th, and his letter to the Author in the 10th Londoniad.) THE LONBOKIAS. 1» rs. LOUIS, KING OF BAVABIA. (Please see the poem and his letter in the 10th Londoniad]. PRESIDENT JsirERSON DAVIS. On the Author of the Londoniad devolved the most pleasurable occupation of his existence, that of delivering the Oration of welcome, when thousands of plorious spirits thronged around in the hour of his advent to Canada, the Illustrious, Enlightened, and Beloved Prince President, whom yet " The Southern clime, her sole Lord shall style, And all the North."— Cowley, The Davideis, Book ii. Though in numbers not one to five, the South was not defeated by the North for on every battle-field where ever engaged hand to hand the Sons of Southern Mothers chased the slinked skunks of Yankee hsigs " like chaff before the wind and the down of the thistle before the whirlwind," it was the off-scouring — tho sewage of (in)humanity po'or'd out by other nations that stifled for a while tho breath of the brave. 8^" The Oration appears in the Supplement in English, in French, in German, and m Italian. THE BIGHT H0N0X7BABLE EARL OF DUFFERIN. GOVKaNOR-GKNERAL. (Please sec former Londosiads.) Agus tha esan 'na uachdaran air na cinnich. Salm le Daibhidh, xxii. Agus is<^ is uachdarfin a mease na ccineaidhach. Fsailm Dh&ibhi, xxii. When names were being given to certain districts in Canada I said an error in early Colonial History, hath been the cognomenal topography of many coim- tries, let us call a portion of this mightv province by the name of the most In- tellectual Governor that ever directed the destinies of British America. I know that it is the fashion to praise Governors-General while in office ; I was happily out of the fashion here, for I never paid the tribute of excellence to any Excel- lency before now ; I had found that personages who had spent their early day.i among the semi-serfs of India were sent in the decline of their being to govern the Free Men of the West, Canada with "Concordia salus" upon her lips, had here to utter her complaint, alas, in imdcrtone, So not with boisterous shout, Witness the woes we suffer in'. When they pull one duffer out. They push the other duffer in. Ihavejust now (lst2nd, '77) read his famous Toronto speech, whether or not Heaven inspirdfl. We'll say with Pope it was " a lucky hit." — Exemplification of Native wit. Lapsus Imguse (?) cn-simileing ye grit, " Take either way, Guv'nor " and may " Heaven restore you when your toils arc o'er, Safe to the pleasures of your native shore." P.S.— Our dangers and delights arc near allies, From the same stem the rose and prickle rise, Samuel Daniel, 1562—1619. I cannot call to mind any occurrence since the demise of A Prince a founder of New Ages, S. T. Coleriuui. Albert his name - TcHUDi, Swiss Poet, 1687. in which so much sympathy was expressed throughout England as in the timo C 2 20 THB LONDOXIAO. that Lord Duflforin met with an accident in the early part of the j-car 1877 (from Autobiography of the Author of the 100 Lonuoniaus.) HIS EXCELLENCY EX-LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR HOWLAND, Appears in several of the Lunooniad^. THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. The Funeral Oration on the beloved Patron of my youth JOHN THE FIRST LORD BISHOP OF TORONTO, D.D., LL.D., the f?reatcRt Prelate of this or any age, appears in a former Lomdoniad. There are two Orations beside ready for the press, and a Ions poem upon the same subject. To the Memorial Church I will give a Stained Glass "Window. The vctro-archctypalgraphice of which TnK nativity, and thk ahokation of thk Magi, the Great Art Deed fiar excellence of our time, is now on a staircase of my Mother's place in London England.) " MOST noblo Lord, the pillor of my life, And patron of my Muses pupillage, Through whose large bounty poured on me rife. In the first season of my feeble age I now doe liuc." Edmund Spknskk' Sonnkt. THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. Letters of Inteodvction. — When I first went into public life [those of later years will be published hereafter] . From the Attorney General of Upper Canada and Premier under the Conservative Administration. Hon. James TouRiNOTON Spknckr LiDSTONE is about to visit the city of * * in order to have some engravings executed and to commemorate in verse the rise and prosperity of that city. I know him to be a gentleman of more than ordinary talent, and I beg leave to introduce him to the attention of the citizens of that place. HENRY SHERWOOD, M. P. P. Any undertaking which Mr. LinsTONE enters upon to carry out his object as above stated, I agree to pay towards it the sum of • • * • (this was kindness on the part of our "Western Prince, but no sum was required) . J. T. L. THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. The following letter is from the truly princely English gentleman Stewart Derbishire, the first Member for Ottawa. Toronto, August 8th, 1851. " I have known Mr. Lidstone from the earliest years of his infancy, and his family long before. He is not only eminent for his poetical and oratorical talents, but I know him to be a perfect gentleman, possessing a very great amount of general knowledge; energetic and enterprising, his unbounded generosity and amiable deportment have won him many warm-hearted and powerful friends throughout Eastern and Western Canada ; he has unbounded influence with a great portion of our people of Canada, and has held high oflicc in our country ; he was elected at nineteen years of age, being the youngest member ever sent to Parliament for any place in any period of the history of the R^vinces !••••••! am prepared to give my bond for any engagement into which Mr. Lidstone may enter. STEWART DERBISHIRE. THE LONCOMAD. 21 THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. Extract from a letter, accompanied with a poem written by Mrs. Moodic (wife of High Sheriff Moodie, County of Hastings), sister of the great female historian, Agnes Strickland, and herself the authoress of several popular works : " You have within you all the elements of true greatness, noble mental powers, a splendid mcmorj', a candid and unprejudiced spirit, above fear, and above envy, every thing to ensure success in life,'' &c. THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. Extract from the Venerable Archdeacon Sandford's Speech at the Arundel Kooms, London (England) . At the last Auxiliary Soirkk, I sat beside one of the noblest specimens of liuman nature that ever I had the happiness of conver'ing with in my life, while next to him sat a very charming ladv. It turned out that the lady was the gentleman's mother, who had been a Total Abstainer for thirty-five years, and who is present to-night a living testimony to the fact that abstinence pre- serves the beauty of youth. J. T. S. L, citizens P.P. object as dness on T. L. THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. From the six-times elected Mayor and late Member of Parliament for Toronto. TonoNTO, January 29, 1852 The bearer, Hon. J. Spencer Lidstonc, Bard of U. C, wishes an intro- duction from me to some of the literary gentlemen of . . . not having such acquaintance in ... I can only state in a general way that Mr. Lidstone is a favourite in Tono.vTO. He purposes writing a Poem on ... . during his visit to that citv. J. O. Bowks, Mayor. The principal reason of his visit .... is to have prepared some engravings for a grand pictorial work for British America, and to negotiate debentures. J. a. B. THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. From W. H. Boultox, Esq., Member of Parliament for Toronto. The bearer of this, Hon. J.vmks T. Spkxc ku Lidstonk, a gentleman possess- ing most singular powers as a Poet, and to so great an extent, that he has in tonsefiuencc become a great favourite with a very large portion of our popula- tion. He has numerous and warm friends and supporters, to whom much pleasure will be afforded as well as to myself, if in his anticipated visit to .... , and other portions of ... . his peculiar talents and social qualities are appreciated to the same extent that they have been in Canada. July 3rd, 1852. W. H. BOULTON, M.P.P. Toronto. THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. Private letter from the five times elected Mayor of Toronto. Toronto, Sept. 2nd, 1851. Mv Dear The bearer, Hon. James Torrixoton Si-knckr Lin- ktonk, a gentleman of independent means, who has resided for many years in this city, is about to visit. . . . Ho has rendered himself verj' popular in Toronto, and is correct and honourable in all his transactions and has always maintained a good credit. May I solicit your countenance, and that of my other friends in ... to his undertaking ? Believe me, Yours faithfully, GEO. GURNETr. 32 THE LONBONIAS. This noto was addressed to that famous Mayor of Buffalo and renowned Orator, H. K. Smith, who in his letter to mc when leaving the shores of Erie, will be published in extcnso hereafter, the following is a quotation therefrom : — *♦ The cnlanation of the terms jjiven by you rendered the object so manifest to our minds that the settlement of affairs between the two cities (Buffalo and Toronto), which had been pending for upwards of two years, causing gi-eat weariness, loss of time, &c. (the " &c." alludes to the expense), were, by your activity and intelligence and proper understanding of circumstances, brought to a close, pleasing all parties (and I hope, indeed I know you must have pleased yourself), in less than twenty minutes." THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. To Ilonoiurable Jamks T. Spknckr Lidstone. Buffalo, Nov. 25th, I85I, Sir,— "We, the Corporation of Buffalo, understanding that it is your intention soon to leave our city in order to proceed to those of Toronto and other places, cannot allow you to depart without expressing our warm approbation of your high, honouiablc and gentlemanly deportment, during all the period of time in which you resided amongst us. Wishing you success in all yo\xr literary under- takings, wc remain with great respect and esteem, L. F. Tiffany, Mayor, j^ro tern. Gkosok L. Hubbaud [Plumber]. [Banker], A. McKay [Upholsterer]. Myuon p. Bush [Currier] . IIakuison Pakk [Artist]. Pai I, RoBKRTs [Clothier], M. "W. Hili,, M.B. C. S. PiKRCK [Limibercrj. A. S, Swartz [Railway Car Maker]. John Wai-sh [Broker]. The Mayor of that day, James Wadsworth, was absent from Buffalo, but his letter to me has been already printed. The above formed the entire corporation of Buffalo, there were no councilmen as with us ; Lucius F. Tiffany, Esq., was Mayor afterwards. There is a poem in the 12th Londoniad which I wrote for my dear friend, that perfect gentleman, while ho was yet alive ; it appears too, in the Queen of the West, and I had a desire to incorporate it in the LOMUONIAI). Tlie Inhabitants of "Western New York, and who are our own nearest neigh- bours in the Northern States, must not be confounded with Yankees having their Head Quarters in Boston, who are altogether another sort of people, who render themselves still more odious to tha rest of the world by the detestable, cowardly vice of hypocisy, under the veil of which, mean villames in every f onii are practised by them. With its inhabitants all the horrid monsters represented by Milton as guarding the ford of Lethe, may not be compared. SIB JOHN A. MAGDONALD. HEAD OF THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA. {The poem appears in the ISth Londoninil) AND THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD, * * • I may as well mention hero that the Hon. John A. Macdonald knew nothing of all those things herein alluded to. I was, however, perfectly con- versant with so-called. " State secrets." Sir John A. was to have secured a seat in some English consUtuencj', during the first .--ossion of a follovring Parliament — ^rerir.n, receive a baronetcy, and return as Governor-General of Canada, and ; V ;•■ '-.Im ^ ou federation had been firmly laid, to give up the reins of Government, >e -ate ; ^i, Viscoimt, and a Perpetual Vice-Royalty of the New Dominion be *8lablishert in the person of one of Queen Victoria's sons and his descendants. .1 fui' Hccouiit of this affair appears in the new 16th Lonuoniad. The idea j, as'-f'd nway ii. regard to the latter part of the plan herein detailed after th-j "tPtr' <>ff " of Maximilian. THK LONDOXIAD. 29 P.S. — The following letter although marked Private, need not now (that the occasion is passed) be so considered. Quebec, July 17th, 186.5. Dear Sir, — Your letter addressed to mo at the Westminster Palace Hotel, arrived there after my departure for Canada. I am much obliged to you for bringing my name forward as Member for Finsbiiry, but my lot is cast In Canaoa, and I can give no di^nded allegiance, therefore I must decline hanng my name proposed as a Candidate for any con- stituency out of Canada. "Witn many thanks, I am, yours, faithfully, J. LiDSTONK, Esq., JOHN A. MA0DON-<\IiD. 29, New Charles Street, London, E.C. HON. THOMAS D'ABCY McGEE. OuATOR, Poet, Statksman, Author, Ex-PuESIDE^T op the Coumcil, and Minister of Arts. — Shot at Ottawa. (A Song of OssiAN, applicable to our hero, translated by the Author of the LoNUONiAu, appears in u former edition of that Work.) Where art Thou, Son of the Rulers of Old ? No more shalt Thou bo seen among the Chiefs ! Thy Presence was a Day (of loveUncss) in the Ltmd, Pleasant was thy Voice as the gales of Spring : In the 11th and second 14th Lonuoniad are letters addressed to the above- nimed gentleman in his lifetime. I knew him before any of our public men in Canada had become acquainted with him. I met him for the first time to speak to him in Boston, Massachusetts, here he was President of the Tom Moore Club, and editor and propi'ietor of the Celt Newspajier. It would not become mo here, and now, to repeat what passed in casual conversation ; as may be readily imagined, the character of the Yankee was held in the same degree of estimation by him as by others, the more enlightened of his countrj-mcn — in utter detestation. The following was a tribute paid by him to the AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. * * * He said that he never met an English gentleman before who was at the same time a good Classical and Celtic scholar, and he said moreover that it was no wonder you won the aflfections of his people, you could speak to them in their own language and assimilate your ideas with their own, and that without your aid he had never been qualified for a seat in Parliament. HON. JOHN SANDFIELD MACDONALD. PREMIER OF THE FIRST PARLIAMENT, ONTARIO. In the l.st IGth Londoniad is an article addressed to the genial and generous descendant of the patriarchal princes who were tht Lords of the Isles, when the progenitors of so-called royal families in Europe were engaged in leading bands of despoilers against the domains of their too-confiding neighbours. Three letters from him to THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONLVD. which have been translated into Gaelic and French, and often reprinted, appear in the 10th edition of that work. The following alludes to what took place about the time of our Chief's appoint- ment as Solicitor-General : — To the Hon. James Spencer Lidstone : — We, the undersigned Members of Parliament in Unit^'d-Canada, aware of your high enterprise and literary attaiuiuents, respectfully request you to write a poem on Parliamentary Character, and we pledge ourselves to take the number of copies marked opposite our names. 24 THB LONDONIAS. (I need not, at this late period of time, cause the numbers to he printrd, siH all aeted very liberally. I doubled the amount received, and founded therewith- the first School of Design in Canada. I was at that time in the University.) I have much pleasure in adding my name to the above list for a poem on rarliamcntary Character by the lion. Jamks Torrington Si'kkckr Liuhtonk. (Hon.) Renk £. Caron, Speaker of the Legislative Council. Now (1877) Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada, called the Province of Quebec. • • • The tribute which I then, paid to him and to certain members of his highly educated family hath passed into several languages. It is known that the lion. Mrs. Curon, his wife (and I prefer that name to the Yankeefied appellation, hi» lady), in her origin sprung from the same family as Stephen, Count of Blois, King of England. I am well aaiuaintcd with the signatures of the above gentlemen, and with great happiness I place my name thereon and in attestation. (lion.) Jamks Lksmk, l*rovincial Sccretarj', SIB A. T. OALT. HEAD OF THE COLONLVL RAILWAY. The best known in Great Britain of our Colonial gentlemen. His father's name is renowned in many countries of Europe, for he wrote in more languages than one, and we call him the Great Gait. Please sec former Lox- DONIAUS. The Qaltiad contains about 3000 lines. SIR J. L. ROBINSON, BART. I, and hundreA, which the New Dominion will nut forget. And at the same time congratulated tho audience on the presence in their midHt of the Author of tho Londoxiad. And said an ex- ample had been net to the Muj'or of that dav, who ought to have been present. (it is something "to be i)raiiicd by one himself deserving of praise," laudari o viro (uudato.) He, continuing, said, in regard to Mr. Lidstono: — "The City of London will here to-day show its appreciation of his intellectual excellence and moral worth. He seems gifted with ubiquity; wherever the claims of Canada are to be de- fended or advanced, his never-failing eloquence is brought to bear. Hu has this day, in transactions of a monetary character, borne the triumph for three pai't.s of a continent^CANAUA and Mexico ; but oratorical and financial oimlence, though large, are still even amongst the very least of his merits, and I think it impossible, in the very nature of things, that a worthier representative should ever hail from our Sister in the West. Untiring and intrepid, liis generosity and tact, if not altogether impossible to equal in, and vainly hoped for by other dependencies, would at least prove a great accession to any country, as it must and does to that great and streamy land which ho so gloriously represents. I, therefore, propose three cheers for tho Finance Delegate of a favourite ami favoured colony. THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD AND THE MACKINNON, M.P,, F.B.S., CHIEF' OF CLAN FHI'NNON, &c., AUTHOR OF SEVERAL WORKS. Chief McKinnon (please sec 6th Londoni ad) hath placed upon record tho following observation: — "I never met with any gentleman whose reading was so extensive and varied, and whose knowledge of Art and Science was so general, of men and manners so acute. . . . That great AJlen Street speech of Mr. Lidstonc's did more to check emigration than all the profferetl aid and force of Government could to advance it." The speech here aUudcd to appears in a former Loxdoniad. HON. JUDGE CLINTON. " Pcto shall rob those men already way-laid." Shakkspkauk, King Henry IV. I published a University Whkn I was in Buffalo N.Y., I published a University 1st Prize Poem, entitled Dkwit Clinton, 1 borrowed a part of the said Poem for a person named Peto, whose name appears in the third Londoniad. I regret this hist-mentioncd circimistancc as much as you could possibly regret being his chairman in after-time. I send you a pamphlet illustraliv" of the whole atfaii-. I desire to be kindly remembered to all tho members of your illustrious family. TO THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. THE FOLLOWING IS FROM MY ENGLISH PRINTERS. Dkau Siu, — Had the present edition of your work been placed in our hands two or three weeks ago, we should, without doubt, been able to have got it up in time. As we happen to know you have bound yourself to a given perioil in regard to tho publishing of the same : therefore, we should not like to, and in- deed we would not, disappoint you. We have done a great deal of printing for you during the many years in which we have been favoured with your confi- dence ; and whatever may have been the amount of our accounts, it was all tho hame to you, and always paid with equal gi-ace and alacrity. It must ever be a source of plc^-T'irablc remembrance to u:^, that we, at least in these times, havo 41 THE LONSONUD. cxporionccd tho wiMdom and courteHjrof an honourable and onliKhtcnod buftincM Ki'Utlvmun. (Siiniud) Auamh ic Kinu, 7, WilderncHH How, Ixjndun. Tho only n-aHon for i)rintinf|[ tho above k'ttcr in tho 100th I^ondoniiid in thiH : — ItcquirinK a few extra copies, (J,(M)0 in number, of a certain edition of this work named, I unhappily left the order with a character who waH not ii printer (this, of courHo, I did not know) and who funned out tho work— "the wiiy h« did it wuH a caution ; " I could never Rct tho work out «f his hands ; it wan u loHM, Hmall indeed, but still a Iohm. I have not heard anythinK about the; affair for three or four years or more, but when I do I will publish all his letters of excuses for tho good of tho public. The present Chief Justice of Common I'leas, while Solicitor General, was to have been retained at a fee of £.'J00 imt diem, ])rovided by our Native Prince Alescandre (jtlcaso see his letter to me in the i)rescnt LoNnoNiAii), which sum is ready us a foo, refresher, inspirer, or what- ••ver the technic may be, for tho ^iresont Attomey-Oenerul on the first movo lieinff made by this noi-diwuif printer. I have driven him out of his fonner •* place of business," and I will never leave him till I lay him prostrate in tho dust, ricast! sei> my circular to " the triidt." And I here say ajfain, for the 100,(NN)th time, that nothing so much tends to ease, romfort, ami joy in life, us to bo connected in business transactions with iiractical personages. ROBERT CIIEEUE, ESQ., •* Late Registrar of the Court."— l)ii. Samikl Johnson on Gilbert Walmsley in Edmond Smith, Lives of the Foctn, " Time at last sets all things even ." — Byron. Tho last time I saw him he con(?ratulatcd mc upon many thin?"^, I may not say with a heroine of Lalla Rookh— " 'Twas ever thus." Rut here at least was an educated gentleman, and I have reason now to believe unprejudiced ; ho at least never lent his aid knowingly to aught of evil so fur as I was concerned ; but when he know the characters which banded together, fomied tt cycle of rufliianism, liolding in its mid.st those who looked upward for succour, lie was not slow in ])roclaiming ids opinion qf them. I answered him by saying that my success in a great moasiirc was owing to the advice in whatever spirit given by him to me, and which liad cau.sed me to adven- ture into a new realm of enterprise. •• • Thosedrunkenhattersof thetwclfthLoii- doniad circa had established a branch establishment at Montreal ; 1 published an account of their transactions in London, and Thomas Workman, E.sii . , Mayor ; and M.P. for "West Montreal, together with chief Konciuawis soon had theiii driven from thence. Wright, the compatriot of Uroad, the terrible infant, met me about a year ago turning round Spencer Street, in Northampton S(]uare, and said, " Oh, Mr. Lidstone, do you know mc ? I havn't any home now (his own father had discarded him for his infamy) ; my family have to go home to Tny wife's parents, and I'm going any place ; and in almost the same breath the voluble C said, " Isn't so and so getting on well ? I know who he may thank for that, I wasn't so used to the way&of the world as I am now, or I should have acted different (ly) with you ; a word from you would have done me a great deal of good a little while ago ; but I don't suppose anything will now." I replied, by saying that so and so, of whom bespoke, acted like a gentle- man when he found that he was not able to pay he came and knocked at the door of my mother's place and left word to that effect. I soon, however, put him upon a plan whereby ^e was not only enabled to pay me, but the whole of his creditors, llad he gone like you and swoi n falsely I would have chased }iim out of house and home. Harding had two shops. I settled him so that he can scarcely keep on one. I raised Vadcn's rent till he could no longer live there, I bought the house over the head of Vandy. It were long to tell : But I havo always been able to chase my foes and advance to welcome my friends. Truth for e'er remains ; the eternal years of God are hers. But error pining WTithcs in chains, and dies, amid her worshippers. P. B. SUKLLKY. (From the "Autobiography of the Author of the Londoxiau.") THE LO!n>OyiXD. 8» LORD BROUGHAM AND THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. iUcprintcd und In.scribcd to tho Uoyal OcoloRicul Society.) *' And y»'t unniwil'd Ouiunn, whom! grcut city OtTVou's hous Cull Kl Dorado."— Mm.ton'h Purndinc Lo»t. At the Briti.sh Ouiaiui meeting in Storo Street, Tottenham Court Road, Lord Droughani, prcsidinK, aH (^hainnnn ; amuuK thooo Hpeakers on the idatforni were Oeorno Thompson, fonnerly M.P. for the Tower Hamletn; Wash- ington WilkH, two or three Holy IJoyw from the Ctiribhean IslundM, Sir I'ranoiH Kincks, now in ('anaka, then Governor in the West Imlien, and the H<*cretary of State (I do not chooKo to remembi>r his name) of MuHHaehu.- of delivering his speech. Lord Brougham Haiti the study of (Jcology alwvo that of all other scienceH tends to expand the mind, and free it from the trammels of fanaticism. Hero no longer held nnthin the confines of a few centuries Ho 8ce8 in time as many years As there arc miles along the spheres. In tracing the course of literature through nations, making allowance for the ttbrupts and chaotic darkness intcn-ening — breaking over the shoals and quick- Kunds of barbarous or scmi-barborous ages, but still meandering, though, per- haps engulphcd from human sight, causing to rise in the remembrance of the scholar Cowpcr's simile of the Halcyon, we find at its spring-head the spirit of Homer, hence poetry partaking intrinsically of the ideal (" and Ideality is a prime feature of the human soul") hath permeated the literature of all races with a never-ending vitality ; without it the Voice of History were dumb, and the Hciences had not revealed their functions. The language and the moaning of Art in its greater cycles, Minervian and Cecilian, had been as complete a blank, us that, I cannot say unfolded to our view by the once mighty Hystem of Druidical learning, the fabric of which falling, became its own sepulchre, but that rare union of the elevated ideal and the thoroughly practical was wanting ; man, in the first ca.se, became too highly etherialized for our lower planet, and in the second and last he became of the earth earthy, " cast in the happy medium." I see hero to-day James Torringtou Spencer Lidstone, with whom I would have joyed to correspond, whose counterpart could I have mot such in my intercour.se through life must have given a more certain direction to the almost terrible energy of youth, would have taught me to husband the vigour of manhood, as it does now tend to shed a rcvivifj'ing infiucnce upon the cool evening of my life. I am imable to read the whole poem (please see the 7th LuNUOMAii), but I am relieved by what I hear, that you have it circulated amongst you in print. I rejoice thus to offer my, it may be humble, but ear- nest tribute, and I will let no occasion pass in declaring my appreciation of his unexampled worth as a scholar, the gem of scholastic institutes, from which the rough edges have been abraided, and without being affected by anything of its contaminating infiuence— the true gentleman of the world, tet the senti- ment faintly uttered, and in comparative seclusion here to-day " be the pre- cursor of the voice of posterity through all lands," as the Paragon of Art, Litterateur dcs Artea, he stands at the head of Art Literature in his time, nor can the annals of the world in all the times before him show an equal . A SPEECH UPON ANNEXATION. BY THE OBATOB OF THE WEST. " Annexment attends the boist'rous ruin." — Wm. SnAKKsPKAn. I am a student of Oencthliocks. I guess I'v calculated your nativitio by the stars upon your own bunting three decades longer (ago ?) and I find that in order to have 8urcea.sc from political turmoil, and in your desire to rosu.scitute, or rather to establish a name for some degree of honesty, you'll seek succour uudcr thc British Flag of Canada. r 30 THE LOinX)NIAI>. Cha Roirbhich inncal snm bith a dhcalbhar a'd' aghaidh ; acrus gach tcanfra u dli*C'irea« riut am breitheanaH, ditidh tu.— Isa., caib. liv., v. 17. THE COLONIAL IIYilN OF CANADA. A First Prize won by the Author of the Londgniad from 1005 Competitors. All the peaceful Arts here floim.sh — Arc with the martial blended, God, thou dost our people nourish, 'Tis thou hast ue defended. Not to swell a tyrant's train Do mindless myriads come, Here all were loss with nought of gain. We battle for Hdorth and Home. Nor doth the sun in all his course. Evolving radiant day. View tribes of greater mental force. Or a realm more free survey. Here hath no Invader entered, Nor do we for conquest roam. Our energies are concentered All within each happy home. Here the Hose, Thistle, Shamrock blow ; No poisonous nightshades' gloom, Ai.-' as in decades long ago Doth the lovely Maple bloom. Joiiiod with the U. E. Loyalist' "We never yet knew defeat. Did the marauder aye resist. Yea, ever the foeman beat. Whence ere came the fillibuster. His carcase marked the track. One flame ! did all our xjcople muster, 'Twas seldom he went back. At invitation of all foes. We bade them soon go whistle. And showed the Maple, and the liose. The Shamrock, and the Thistle. The deadly monkshood of the Yank, Our climate never would suit. Where e'er it sprung so drear and dank We tore it up by the root. Free as the blessed air we breathe. The Harvest is ours when grown. Forests above and Mines beneath. The Country is all our own. Thro' regions boundless as day, Canada itself expands. No sottish monarch here holds sway, No lordling claims the lands. Straight from the Lord of light and love, We hold our farms in fee, Thro' where ye ocean rivers rove And every lake's a sea. Thanks to the Pioneering bond. Most of them passed away ! Ours, the only unconquered land Known in all America. Newly awaken'd Nature joins The universal lo Foen ! of all its waves and winds To beloved Ontauio. Nor fiery skies, nor wastes of snows. Our Heroes ever daunted. Deep woods nor stormv floods oppose. In vain the Yankee vaimted. How oft unto our earthquake march Trembled the Western world, When like a sky's triimiphal arch Was the Union Jack unfurled As in the Old Provincial time Shall all the New Dominion, — Thank Heaven we 'scaped the " land of crime ' ' And clipped the culture's pinion. (How oft 'midst the affrighted host Did the British Lion spring, The Yankee ceased awhile his boast. We broke the Vampyre's wing). Another lesson we will teach ! Land, — back you'll never go. Your bones accurs'd be left to bleach Over all Ontario. Olad, the sylvan lands are ringing, Flocks and herds or bleat or low, The birds in the breezes singing. In our streams the fishes glow. Whose products other realms' excel ? In your joyous relations Flora ! Pomona ! Ceres ! tell. The Granary of Nations. The star pestilence of the Yanks, Blighting both health and morals Never hath assoilcd our ranks, Or blasting scorch'd our laurels. God make us aye >ictorious. To Thee all we have we owe ! ! Sing ! the British Flag is o'er us ; Exult Ontauio. THE TRENT AFFAIR. The NouTnERN Vvltvre lower'u his beak, And Yankee Doodle eat tuk leek. THE LONDONIAS. 3t THE JIAID OF ONTAKIO. One of the National Songs of Upper Canada (of which there arc three hun- dred and sixty-five) . Adapted to a Nandoweosicaen (North American Indian) Air. •' Now by clear floods reflecting soothing shade. Wo chaunt the love strains of the darling mail.' ' Oviu. Nic, Heinsiiis. Amsterdam Edit., 16G1. 3 vols., 12mo. Translated by the Author of the Londoniad. Embroidering under the Maplk shade On the borders of her native stream, Jovously singing sat a lovely maid, LuU'a by soft whisji'ring breezes, to dream. Over cataracts wrapt in mid-day blaze O'er vari'gated forests you go. Lost, a lone bird ! in the evening haze Far from your belov'd Ontario. Her Guide ? the ill onicn'd Vulture doth swoop Screaming; here arc the " Infernal States " To receive her, behold a ghastly troop Are ranged on the coast ; of Evil Fates. Th' damsel, alas, unavailingly mourned ; Her hopes were fled, her heart was nigh burst. As she her future destiny discerned. Thus cast among a race so accurst. « • • • • I'd rather lie in a rattle-snake's lair. In (iguc marshes dreary and dank ; I'd rather be hugged by a grizzly bear, Than be curtain'd in darkness with Yank. O where are the brave and noble U. E.'s, Our English, our Irish, and our Scotch? Why did I traverse the Upland Seas To be married to a Yankee botch ? ' But happily soon the spell was broke ; — May the breath of Heaven fan Ada, She in her vine trellisod bowtr awoke, And found herself still in Canada. P.S. — The .above Poem hath been copyrighted, as, too, have all the others in the Londoniai). Note. — Among the more exciting legends connected with the Settlement of Uppkr Canaua is one relating to a daughter of one of our pioneer fami- lies, who at noon swooned away ; but " whether in the spirit I cannot tell, or out of the spirit I cannot tell ;" and passing over the great chain of Western lakes was forced into the embrace of a horrible Yankee. This took such cflfect upon her mind that she ever afterwards trembled with terror, and I may say " Ven- geance for her (seeming) imdoing," when relating this " the most frightful dream that she ever had." — Di-nlop's Memoirs. Dr. Dunlop, whose curious Will we have lately seen, came from Scotland. He was a Member in the Parliament of Upper Canada — the most learned Member in that Assembly, and of a consequence upon the Continent of America. — J. T. S. LiDSTONK. INSCRIPTION FOR ENTERPRISE. Who is the happy warrior ? who is he That every man m arms should wish to be ? It is the generous spirit who iiath wrought Among tho plans of real life.— William Wordsworth. Extract from a letter in regard to the following short poem. " We were amused, instructed, and if you will permit us to say thus much, inspired by the singular lines you wrote (for) us, when (we were) about to 82 THE LONDONIAD. enter upon our tremendous undertaking. "We placed it (them in illuminated writing] over the entrance to every hall, passage, and room in our establish- ment, tne largest (in their line) in the universe (I should suppose that " thu world " is here meant.— J. T. S. L.) Every letter ought to be worked (set iu) diamonds ; we have it stamped in the inside of all our pocket books." " That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." John Milton. Paradise Lost, Beok 8th, line 193-4. "We'll lay our plans, and then those plans pursue. True to ourselves, we're then to others true. Our energies not waste in mindless aims ; We live in Time, and Time presents its claims"; We'll apply the surveillance of Lictors To our tempers (!) and come forth at last as Victors. SAINT TAMMENUND'S CATHEDRAL. We will invoke the aid of the most renowned Architect of our times. " Who, like Sir Gilbert, now was blest." Hannah Moore's Florio. Part II. " There arc many traditions which speak of the character of Tammcnund." — FENlMlillK COOPEK. But he must not be confounded " With gods and heroes of a fabling age." To our Aboriginal Saint and Cliicf we are about erecting a fane that for strength and magnificence shall surpass all others upon that continent, for richness that of Mexico, and for vastness that of Montreal. Soon may wc hear " Great applause among the people. The Cathedral bells nng." — AucHBisHop of Gknoa's Goldv>i Legend. And, as the American Indian looks upon uny work of a superior kind as eman- ating from Deity, who inspired the artist, and calls it the deed of Manito per- formed by his (cnildren) daughter or son, even so will this temple be made the repository of every Art and Science. Much-sufiFering heroes next their honours claim. Those of less noisy and less guilty fame — Fair Virtue's silent train ; supreme of these Here ever shines the godlike Socrates." Alexanueu Pope, The Temple of Fame. THE PRAYER OF SOCRATES. Translated and Paraphrased by the Author of the Londoniad, for the Altar of Saint Tammenund's Cathedral, and wrought by native Illimiinatorcs. Dear Pan I and ye other gods whomsoever ye may be, To be good within in the first place I pray give to me ; And as for outward circumstances that meet Demos' eyes. Let them be such as may with th' interior harmonise, And such as from which alone true enjoyment can arise. Make mo to know in Time below, O Long Enduring Pan : This, that the wise man only is the truly wealthy man ; Gold, grant me, but that which I, sober-minded, may employ With benefit to others, and such as may all enjoy Without a sense of detriment or ill effects to cloy. Laert.—Xenoph— Plato — Paiis. 1, 22.— Plttt. d« op. Phil., ic.—Cic. de Orai., 1, .•it.— Tm«c. 1, 41, The whole extent of Being, thro' Griffiths' Iron Trade Exchange, And Mining Engineer ; welcom'd through either Hemisphere. This th' only Periodical my muse will represent. Throughout our rising Empire of the rosey Occident. In all their myriad Languages with rival nations Enlightcn'd, he holds telegraphic communicatioii^s ; Firms, Companies, and Governments continually du send To Him, and on his integrity entirely depend. He knowcth the wants of ov'ry country beyond tke foam, And personally ev'ry Iron Master in Britain home. Yea, He whom the Art Muses here with Bay and Msrrtle crown Hath raised Firms, Companies, and Empires into Renown, His Guide to the Iron Trade of Great Britain well is known, And of which He is the Author and Proprietor sole. Famed thro' equatorial climes and those of either pole. One word ! in Corresponding, listen to the Son of Song — The Baron's time being precious, let not your Letters be long. When first I did mine eyes upon our Jove-like Hero clap I knew that ho must have descended from Great Griffiths' Ap- EM>mething, nor wanting in mental might, nor physical girth. Creator of th' later renaissance, who rapt to New Birth, Modes of vending Iron, Man's Civiliser, o'er the Earth. ■Mi THE LOinX>NIAD. OJ BENHAM AND FBOXTD (Pbize Medal, 1851 ; Two Fbize Medals, 1862), Wholesale Braziers and Coppeb- SMiTHS, Mould Manufactueers, Copper, Zinc, AND Iron Bath Makers, Brass and Zinc Workers, 40, 41, and 42, Chandos Street, Charing Cross, London, W,C. Manufacturers of Copper and Zinc Casements, Lanterns, Skylights, Sashes, Vanes, &c.. Roofs covered with Zinc or Copper. Kitchen Utensils Betinned for the Trade. lie who the foundation laid of St. Paul's was Sir John Denham, But he who topp'd it with a Cross was our hero Bcnham. — Memoir. and Froud. — Pope's Faretvell to London. The s3rnihol of their exalted fame th' minstrel now recalls In London, the Ball and Cross high towering on St. Paul's. There with all th' Arts thro' ev'ry age proclaim to dimes aloud Titanian works performed by Messrs. Bcnhanx and lYoud. London to them aye long ago did highest place assign, And the Imperial Isles rank them the princes of their line, In this, for our New Capital they shall supply each want, In all its New Hotels and Parliamentary licstaurant. The MS escaped the fire not immutilated, but please see next Londoniad. Upon the Apex of our mental world they stand A No. 1, as they say at Lloyds. Their medals and money prizes exceed in number and value those obtained by any other firm in any country. There arc many Catalogues in tht^ world known by various names. I call theirs the "Wonderful Catalogue, and .should the cuts and letter-press be still in typographical parlance standing, I will cause some copies to be struck off in vellum, for thej' will certainly each become the " well-thumbed vol.," and I myself will personally represent our family firm in the British Occident. Some }}[y the pipes and some the engines play. And some more bold mount ladders to the fire. John Drj/dcft. They stand Letter A and Number One at ever^ Exhibition, Theirs Mkuals of HoNoua and Fikst Phizes in every competition. MEBBYWEATHEK AND SONS, Fiee-Enoine and Fire-Escape Manufacturers, Hydraulic and General Engineers, Copper- smiths, Brass Founders, &c., 63, Long Acre, W.C., and York Street, York Road, Lambeth, S. London. All Correspondence to be addressed to 63, Long Acre, W.C. Next Monday said a scion of the great Peter Perry, weather Permitting, you at the Fire Engine of Merryweather I'll meet ; there you'll see the greatest triumph under heaven Of science. Ho spol'.e truth, for the only award given For Fire Engines was to them at Paris '67, And when the high adventurous muse of Arts did take her Flight over England, she settled only in Long Acre. D 2 se THE LONDONIAD. iil And here Hhc hail'd the practical Merryweathcr and Sons, From whence as once the legendary aradsel fons, Ocean-like or storm-bird-winR'd o'crtiew the solar mens. Why wonder ? Hear ! from the billowy labyrinth aro»c, And enfountaining Engines th' well-spring thro' a mile of hose, When each Fire Brigade's delegate met in Oxtahio, And their Engine streams amethystine spray'd in evening's glow. The Palm, rightly awarded, did to Merryweathors' go, Sherbrook, Whitby, Frontenac, Belleville, City of the Bay — From the Eastern townsliips up to those of the setting day, Ottawa the capital, Tonoxxo Queen of the West, In all Merryweathers' Engines unrivalled stand confest. Thro' ev'ry scttln : of our late created nation Menyweath. .!•:' Fxn ir.gincs are th' Heralds of Salvation. Who saw them at tL' trials upon th' almost classic banks of Seine, When from 100 nations saved, they did new triumphs gain, Parnassian dews must ever my heroes' laurels drench. They supply the British Government, and that, too, of the French, And wc Dehold them now at all the principal stations Of Municipalities, yea all the Corporations Of th' Imperial Hime-ifkN and of all Foreign nations. Wo welcome theia ^ . I lu \ itiiiou ^oeach Pioneer Family Illustrioi' > m F 'tfe -v, a>r to 'jiem'ry dear. Of th' more extendort 1 r; a. ... iho 'Western Hemisphere. In every cortest Merr, veatam ' 1?^, were reckon'd. And the Battle -ry of' Rivalry, ' "WTid ohaU be 2nd ?" In their tw,- ostablisL ncn .fi, glor> . .ar age and land, All of the acc'^iioria'i i.i>jy vcr ha' < 'taiid. An rcrialised Niagara tlteir ■^, -i-utio -, . rio'-l'd. Competition they swamp as they d(. all F" -. r' the World. Th' Flame-fiend storm'd away like Hades before Messiah, Contestants like prosey imps 'fore th' rapt songs of Isaiah. Small were the Elemental demon's power to destroy. Had our Family firm been there this genius to deploy. From the Great Fire of Londonium back to blazing Troy. And soon shall they supply thro' me each Colonial want, For th' moderate and larger size of Candle Making Plant. We their apparatus greet with very great elation, For th' Manufacture of Stearine by distillation, For such when guests, Canada will give them an ovation. By them are First Class Operatives sent to every part " Of this terrene " habitable, works to erect or start, With their achievements bright do Lambeth and Long Acre glow, Lo those whose names grac'd th' Londoniad decades long ago, Sir Wm. Armstrong (all are great,) R. Stephenson and Co., Too we note at Moscow before the Grand Duke Constantino ; How th' Saving Sciences in all their elements combine. He gave them the Gold Medal saying, " You all th' world outshine," The appreciatory with th' philosophic blended For its Frost proof arrangements wore by him much commended. Boreas since that eventful time ne'er made entry on Merryweathers' Engine in latitude Septentrion, And here the ardourous Minstrel Canada appribes Their Steam Fire Engines are made in six different sizes. Those deeds not as adjuncts or collaterals have they dared. For the Sire of course, and eke the Sons were in the business rcar'd. Fire Engines I in their various names will bring in vogue, And in all polite languages the kinds will catalogue. ( In this Heaven-bom Era's advent keep back th' Yankee rogue Nought of star and st.-ipe or " State" Shall Canada contaminate. And thro' our Empire-Colony my energies will give ,. TH£ LONDONIAD. 37 To introduce their works as unpaid rcpresentatiTe. Not only in the Imperial parent lales, Fama on the great name of Merrywcather Rmilcs. T hear subaqueous forms and rills as they darkling roll together, Sing, we will yet movnt the Solar hills thro' the might of Merrywcather. Not only in the sunrise dominions of the Mom la their Oriflammc of the later Salvation borne ; A suspended sea planet-islanded which beams enweave, Flouting magically ye winds of the roseate Eve ; Wonder ! that to one Hymning sphere is rapt th' exulting "World Which looks our famed and favoured firm with peculiar grace on ; In characters of living light emblaz'd their flag s unfurled. They're th' only race on Earth that out-rival Shand and Mason. I was politely asked by one of our principal colonists to call upon some other -Rrm or company, which I did. I found the Head personage very genial and civil, but I immediately became convinced that such an one was too small for my purpose. I, therefore, decided upon takmg the great corapany, par excel- lence of Britain, which supplies the ilite of the Imperial Home Islands from Royalty down through all the lessening grades of Landed proprietors. JOHNSON BROTHERS AND COMPANT (Lihited), Enoineers and Contkactors, 6, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London, S.W. Patentees and Manufactubers of Iron Fences for English, Foreign, and Colonial Railways ; for Colonial Sheep Kuns ; for Canada, Australia, New Zea- land, the East Indies, Cape Colony, South America, »S:c. ; and for home use in Parks, Ornamental Grounds, Pastures, Fields, &c. ; Wrought Iron Entrance Gates and Ornamental Ironwork ; Patentees and Mantjfactitrers of Glass and Iron BmLDiNos on Improved Principles for Hot Hovises and Conservatories and all descriptions of Horticultural Buildings, for Railway Stations and Platform Covers, Covered Markets, Studios, Sanatariums, Covered Homesteads, &c. My song to horticulture might extend. — Virgil. Personages of taste stone barriers would not desire. And th' wooden kind is liable to destruction by fire. Hence for Horticultural purposes, those made of Wire. Oiurs th' Manufacturers, not mere consignees or factors. But the Practical Engineers and world-famed Contractors. I examined well their stronger standards ; and after that Decided upon discarding ye upright yclep'd Jlat. What e'er claim Massachusetts' Yank' may have, alleging That his are best, I choose the Johnson system of Wedging. Never more like hurdles that kept out floods from early Home ; A perfect picture is rcnder'd each Colonial home. Let the M:dlands and the North of the coarse unwieldy boast, I'll guarantee the Johnson quality, and as to cost- Nought equiil can I trace of Pittsburghs, Bostons, or New Yorks, In that of Waterloo Place and the Brockley Iron Works, All their deeds immediately most fully I'll describe. And introduce to the chiefs of each British native tribe. While the ardourous descendants of each Home British race, I'll supply from th' Imperial Isles and Waterloo Place. S8 THE LOMSONIAD. THE HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS POEM, Hereafter our great Colonial orders to fulfil I go, certainly not to Chelaoa nor to Brierloy Hill. Our nations' not treated as Transraali or Maorics, Joy in Buildings for Hot houses and Conservatories, And we hail, though " th' Infernal States" fMilton) keep up a great emotion^ Horticultural Buildings, ImproTcments of Construction ; The environs of the Homesteads of our British races Never more the ordinary wooden house disgraces. Defects, and heavy erst (what our pioneers elated Ih this, and lot it be in Motherland and tonfipic stated) O' th' maintenance of Ordinary IIouscs obviated. The Framework of wrought iron extra of special sections, Ne'er become depressed, nor are they subject to deflections. Light they appear, are always strong, though small may be the weight, All these will tend to enhance their value regarding freight. While the modxu operandi of applying the Glass, FU show in a transparency as I through the nations pass. Eternal Science to these structures doth soul-light impart Nature blooms in ceaseless spring 'mid those perfect works of Art. A season, yet have to nm my Canada debentures, Then with th' Head Co. of the world shall be my prime of ventures. THE GATE POEM. 8®° The Author's University Ist Prize Gate Poem appears in the 3rd Lon- DONiAD ; it will be reprinted, together with Messrs. Johnson Brothers and Company's poem as they appear in this the lOOth Londoniad, in one of the Seven Vols. Canada Elephant Folio Edition now being prepared for the Press. Our Company's real Art " Stvdiks of 'Whought Ibon Entrance Gates '* (To equal in vain have striven th' so-calleu United States, And which came upon these Robbers like to a sirocco), I've placed in our Great Library bound in best Morocco, Together with separate and collective Catalogue, Glory — deeds ! therein represented I will bring in vogue, And pro peraonce will eveiy act et motive give, Them throughout th' Occident as unpaid Representative. fi^f* Art and Literature ! that Time nor storm shall e'er invade ; The Greatest Names and Largest Number e'er on List display'd, Those supplied by our Co., and that grace the Londoniad. JAMES MXmtHEAD'S Fine Aht Gallebt, 24, Comhill, London^ E.G. — Joseph Mobbt, Manager. In framing Artists, Art hath thus decreed To make some good, but others to exceed. Your Gallery Have we pass'd through, not without much content. William Shakespeare. A host of others have presented me their cards, for by Th' trust-worthy house hailing as Manager Mr. Morby, Whose name I with emotion to memory here recall As being to me first introduced by Sunuel Carter Hall, And now from where each simlit river rolls toward th' Mom-hill Of Gaspe reddening from the west, we'll fondly greet Comhill ; And Squire James Muirhcad's name to us will be a guarantee Of truthfulness in our larger Britain beyond the Sea, ■ THB LONDONUO. 99 From all of the ent secret and wiloy I change the venu. And Hay that a suspensory clause in the Revenue Will be the occasion of introducing Works of Art Thro' out our mighty New Dominion in every jMirt. Here wc find Buch not only of the Modem British School, Sut James doth over the beHt of various countries rule. Thus our Oreat Colonial Families will gladly correspond on, This and these thro' me with him in the centre of London. Driving down thro' the Empire State, I stayed at Ithaca, Where our prime-Chief was propounding his Finacotheca, He ask'd me to be kindly ploas'd to give verbal strictures On my Heroes' resource, and their modist And Annotator stood abash'd 'fore the new <' ator. Till at length they began as if inspired to le.i u style, &c., from our renown'd thaumaturgus Oreal Turnstile, And if they rose in light of Science, that long had sorrowM, 'Twas because they shono in beams from Stanley borrow'd, A Minervian Iliaa all in stem defiance Of Time, might here ensplendor Eternity thro' Science. Not only ranks he highest in Engln' ' as purveyor Men tale, but he could act as practice Surveyor ; Forest, Desert, Steppe, Pampas, I'rairie, llanos ; not yield Would he to, but claim rank with the best that ever took the Held. In Afric's Mystic clime is Stanley known, his deeds arc bonie. In armaments to all th' dusky myriads of the Mom ; They circle tho poles and wing the £«]uatorial seas. Triumph in Ontario, and at the Antipodes ; He beside doth give his cognomenal app(dlativc To many an inj'cnious well constructed Instrument, (Hero they arc catalog^ied) With which ho supplies Governments beneath a hundred skies, That no 2nd ff^^ Instruments are here sold is known well. Such are got up by others, like Wolcot's Ba;sors "to sell." Eras to Nations, and to various generations God gives great men ; W. F. S. I believe was bom To bo th' Globe's Illuminator and 'ts ev'ry age adorn, For th' Illustrious pioneers of our uprising nation I invoke his aid solely, in works of I'lesentation. \* Sir David Brewster appears in a former Lonuoniau. l|$r I have placed Mr, Stanley's Book in our Parliamentary Library, and that I have studied the same well myself will be seen in "Canada," 7 vols., elephant folio. snai 44 THB IiOKDONIAO. I have receiycd 75 cards from so many so-called Shirtmakers. Some were only drapers, or their b^Bincsses so mixed up with other productions that, like John Bnght's Scotch terrier, it would be impossible to say which was head or which was tail ; but James McDaid hath so entirely devoted his energicH, mental and physical, to ye nether Habiliment, and so entirely master of his position have I found him, that to him, and him alone, I intend introducing the names and custom of our better class of storekeepers living in the various provinces of British North America. Our enlightened Indian Chiefs and their tribes will be supplied at first bund through me. JAMES McDAID, Shiet and Collae Manufactubeb, Spa Factory, Blue Anchor Lane, Bermondsey, London, S.E. Office— 78, Queen Victoria Street, E.G. A well-made shirt is an incentive to virtue ; a badly-made shirt, or a shirt otit of order— (repair or without buttons ?) — cuuseth a greater degree of irritation to muscle and spirit, and more ill language thereby oftiines aft'i-ighteth ye auricular organ within the space of a few minutes than may be allayed in many months, or atoned for during the whole oftercourse of e. lifetime devoted, tlirough ardo'u-, to the higher duties of Humanity.— Orator of the West. Among the British Manufacturers of the Londoniad I only choose in his line the practical James McDaid, Whose fame excelleth that of Krutzc, or Grinling, or Hollar, In all relating to nether habiliment or collar. For him I ope' the markets of Settlements and Stations ; Baces o' British origin. Aboriginal Nations Listen as with ears entranc'd to Ye Shirts' rapt relations. All the various kinds of modem shirts here meet the ken, Prom those suiting refined and educated gentlemen. At home in populous cities, to those now on survey, A numerous colony, extending the British sway Over all the roseate region; of the setting day ; And those acceptable to our 'venturous pioneers. Each with our veritable Manufacturer appears. Upon whom, in ordering, we may entirely depend. From hence are well supplied all the great shops at the "West End ; And what is't an exultant spirit in me arouses, To James McDaid send for supplies all the City Houses.. And I who now keep the gates of our mighty Western Land, Break il intermederio, and here deal at 1st f|^°. F'or Eternity would I all Being's realm command. Disdaining to be in the cycle of time a mere mote, 1 strike th' sphere absorbing Pallaean lyre, whose single note Might midst new Creations rapt t' life, set brighter worlds afloat O'er chaos ; thus no tremulous lay blown on pipe so scannel. For shirts of the purest linen, calico, and flannel. Nor Bard of niodem England ; no, nor of Archaic Greece Ever chose a theme like mine, outblazoning Dyer's Fleece. We list to what doth ye Muse Polyhjinnia assert Neither Alexander, nor Csesar ever wore a shirt ; Nor did Jew Rabbins, according to Talmudic pages ; No ; nor the Warrior Prelates of the Middle Ages. Falstaff — but he was a braggart, a coward, and a sot. His regiment had but " a shirt and a half " between the lot. The SWrt beside P. N. Ovidius, did inspire a Diodorus, Seneca, Hyginus — Dejanira ! " Dan Chaucer," and " A Po^ " will, I ween something here declare, While John Diyden's heroes it would seem were " shirted in air." This must have been atmospheric pressure, Nares I who could t. ir . THE LOHrDOT/OAD. il^ ± Before Fortuna him unmercifully did pununel, A most immaculate shirt was wont to wear Beau Brummel, A Horsehair Shirt did Thomas A'Beckett's form environ, Ditto wore Saint Ulrick, hesidc this, one maOc of Iron, The stitches in a McDaid Shirt who shall their number fix ; Erst they were 20,G46. 'Stead of seeking warmth by means of 2 Waistcoats to obtain Dr. A. Hunter saith " in travelling wear shirtes twaine." Sir Jeflfery Dunstan, Mayor of Garrett, did by the size Of shirt collar judpc of a voter's merit, to the eyes, When in altitude impasto appeared ye Cotton, He'd swear that th' wearer ne'er could belong to Borough rotten, Governor Briggs, of Massachusetts, said " when '11 you give o'er Liquoiing up ? " Ans. — " When you wear those eye blmkcrs no more ; " i'Bovc all even in that clime of the Almighty dollar, iriggs wore to the eyebrows, a tremendous height of collar.) " Here you are ! " not waiting to unbutton (R. Bums) " have at The Sublime," and ever after only wore a cravat. Ruth and Boaz inhabited one shirt — here's meant no offence, For so goes the legend ; this was the age of innocence. There's one Shirt, the peculiai-ity and Patent his own, The Constitutional, destined to bring him much renown. And funds ; Linen Front, Collar, and Cuffs, the rest of Flannel. Chronos speaks ; I a century of decades cmpannel To declare the design imique, heedless of Yankee raid On Science' domain, my empire is for James MacDaid, Soon of the shirt again I'll sing and too in other mood ; In other mr^e they're made than in thy life-time, Thomas Hood. Art muse, what said the redoubtable Commodore Hurran ? And whose words were quoted by the great John Philpot Curran. He, Minerva's favoured son, who could both speak and sing, " I say, give me a shirt to put on before anytlung," Never more the cheating Yank our Native tribes shall cozen. Hail British make, for Manitoba 1,000 dozen. ^^=My last order for textilia was for sixteen miles of cotton from Alderman James Kershaw, M.P. for Stockport and Mayor of Manchester ; his name is on my 6th list for, and his Poem appears in that London i ad (the 6th) descriptive of ''"_:' •■unentary Character. I am now about causing an order to be.^ulfillefl ior a mile and a half of Silk Velvet from Thomas Kemp and Sons. Dent and AUcroft are my Glovers, and I. and J. Morley my Hosiers. CAIILISLE~AND CLEGG, Papeb Stainehs, Warehouse — 2, Great St. Thomas Apostle, Queen Street, E.G. Manufactory — Macclesfield Street, City Road, London. What sec you in those Papers ? Rich Hangings. — Shakespeare. Here I traced Arts Decorative thro' all their glory zones. Till I soared the empyrean with Immortal Owen Jones, Whom I had chosen in the Home-lands from all the rest, As Decorator for the Capital of our " British West." I travers'd all the wonder-lands described by Ali Beg But the Scenes were parallelled by Messrs. Carlisle and Clegg. Every member that we have we ought to exercise. Whether, O Muse ! it be the hands, the tongue, the brain, or eyes, (I feel and speak, concoct, and see with very great facility) Each classic age resuscitated in our timo appears With all the rich ensplcndouring of Mcdiaival years, 46 THE LONDOmAS. And in learning's glad revival thro' the Renaissance, Maeonides, Maro, N, P. Ovidius advance £tem Art, that sits sublime above the storm of time secure, Then portray'd enduring themes of highest literature. Their spirits spring anon to the living Artist's call * And breathe in mystic forms along the soul-emblazoned wall. No more a death-like pallor, the Art-Muse overcast her Thro' the cold blank, heart-chilling, room divisions in plaster, Th' Bard no more midst tapestries and leather hangings wanders, Classic Italy ! la belle France ! quaint old towns of Flanders. The frowning fates hurl stencil plates into time's remorseless seas Whence up hke Orient Aphrodite, starts that of the Chinese. Academus et Lyceum, Knyghtes and retainers Re-live their lives of bliss or storm thro' our Paper Stainers, Floritated here we get Geometrical and Set Too ye pilaster' or scroll-like Borderings that I scan — Awake f Raphael, live ! loggia of the Vatican ! Parnassian dews shall my heroes' laurals ever drench, For those tasteful designs ycleped paf excellence French. Amid colours lively or subdued an luirivall'd stock Of msnriad name, I welcome ye most substantial Flock. Never more to Massachusetts as was our wont ere while, All our Colonies look home to each dear Imperial Isle, But most to those destined to adorn many a high pile O' ! building, whose deeds extending from septentrional seas. Aureola the world, from our centre to the Antipodes. Textilia; Invention, Composition, Colouring, All of active genius do their practised Artists bring These the mantle of inspiration o'er the Minstrel fling. The first place in Britain all to otxr practical firm assign, Aufait, in " the filling-up," as they are too in " outline," In 16th LoNDONiAJ) appeared Deputy Tcgg, Worthy publisher, in the present Messrs. Carlisle and Clegg. That both our partners are pioneers is well known I wis. And such have in all ages soar'd the Apotheosis. In other mode than Cowley's angel in his skiey scarf I walk thro' their Manuf actoiy ifrom street on to the wharf, And although the Yank would fain our British kinsmen jostle From the Homesteads and Pavilions of our 4,000,000, Our Colonists hie too to Great Saint Thomas Apostle. North Britain, the Midlands of England, Whitechapcl, Islington, and various nouses in the City have presented me their cards. Some are mere sellers, some practice the capriccio, but for pure styles of Art and varieties of form and colour to meet the taste of Universal Man, no other Nation hath V ualled England in her foremost champions of Decorative Art, my chosen heroes Ot the LONDONIAD. i Several copies apropos of the Author of the Londoniad's large work, Canada. Illustrated, will be got up in vellum covers for presentation. Institutes, &c., and herein especially I shall have to invoke the aid of Mr. Sparks. This famous house has supplied the Government for more than thirty years. CHARLES SFABKS, Vellum and Parchment Manttfactttbee, 9, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street ; and at Cross Street, Bennondsey. Vellum and Parchment cut to any Bize. I was not forgetful of Sparks. — King diaries Id of England. In the Sarcophagus they had the Books fresh as newly written, being written on parchment and vellum.— Lord Bacon. THE LONDONIAB. n And now it is that yoiir financial delegate embarks From Imperial London, and the practical Charles Sparks. We never could use those sorts from Massachusetts sent, And which were all imdeserving of the name of parchment. But now our argosies upon dalighted Ocean toss, Laden from Salisbury Square and Street yclepcd Cross, And our tribes in all Western lanpruages I will tell 'em Where to get or wlute or green, the various kinds of Vellum, And though the Wolvine Yank alternate yelps and barks, For Canada 7 vols I'll invoke thy aid Charles Sparks, 'Twas said to mc lang syne by gallant Captain Horril, You will find Charles Sparks a trustworthy wight for Forril, And in our colonial archives shall very soon bo seen, Many of my famed Hero's skins, pure white or fadolesb S'cen, From where Montmorency roars, to where Niagara not slumbers, O'er joyous floods and lands I'll verbally repeat the NHmbem ; Or rather in a more general parlance appriises Ye Bard, our Colonial institutes of the sizes, Ousting the Yank, observation me enables To turn upon that impious pack their rapping tables. And place in loved Ontario's lap Charles' luggage labels. All, the minstrel in his capacious memory marks That which shall embrace our records, hail Squire Charles Sparks. I rode the winds of centuries and gathered th' rays of all the days That ever flash'd on time, and lo ! a miracle subhmc ; A thousand years had rolled away, yet are they all well kept 1 As if they just had sprung to life and not a decade had slept, The scntances all flew out and became transformed to larks, Thrilling their new morning with the Immortal name of Sparks. Speak of Ajax defying thunder, here is one who with a more than "Heraclida?n might" [Byron) hath flung back all the Collateral lightnings of Opposition with Deific power of will alone — of Mind, no contortion of muscle may here bespeak the merely physical, the Air ; not a mere Agent represents the All Mover whose presence fillcth up the Universe. C. E. ZIMDABS, Pneumatic and Electeio Teleobaph Enqineee, 327, Gray'slnn Boad, London, W.C. Patentee OF THE Improved Pneumatic Indicator, Bell, AND Despatch Tube. PatroniHod by Her Majesty's Office of "Work8,and all public In- stitutions in Britain. Works at Upper MoUoway. The race of all things here is to extemate and ttim things to be more pneu- matical and rare. — Lord Bacon. All other 8\ stems partaking op the annunciatory anu tkansmitablk, hrfhereefore sought to be exemplified, having proved to ue utter fai- lvrks are now being rapidly superseded by that of c. e. zimdars in am, THE Great Institutes and by the various Governments of Politk Na- tions THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. I thought that the Venti leaving their (Prial cars, Had become transmigrated into C. E. Zimdars, I notice that this triumph of the human soul requires " Wondrous to tell " (Homer) no Battery, nor cranks nor wires, Soon to our Governmental Buildings these Pneumatic ^Jells I take, as to our Upper Lake croft, Instituted, Hotels ^ 4A THE LOXDONIAO. Ye Indicator— ten apertures your Art Minstrel brings Air-holder, eke " press button." I press either— the Bell rings ^ No more as non-progressive by Yank be Britain twitted, Note, th' innumerable places where they have been fitted, Superior to th' Electric : I trace th' higner Science, I have said these no Battery need nor other appliance. To be kept in order. Soxmd it o'er each Western border, Th' natural power whereby to ring let it be confess'd. Is Air in its normal condition ocing simply compress'd. A great advantage o'er the Electric your Bard declares. Once up there is no trouble and they ne'er require repairs. Th' same creative power brought to bear by C. E. Zimdars, Might rapt new elements to being and re-attune the Stars, (I note this exultingly as I on Atlantic toss. Taking my first meridian from Gray's Inn-road, King's Cross. Sol like some Saint with ardour filled is looking down from high, The halo of his extending glorv rounding all the sky), " Truth is strange, stranger, than fiction" (Byron) This Illustrates the Zimdars' which Fama must environ, Equalling any scene I ween, in Spenser's Fairy Queen, Nor in the Arabian Nights can I the idea cateh Of the Zimdars seeming magical Pneumatic Door Latch. Of the one we have, we once lost the India Rubber handle, Aught but blessings we gave the pilfering Yankee Vandal, ITp stairs and down, thro' the halls screaming wildly " Where's the Knobt (Went "Jemima Aim " and " John Thomas,") " here's a pretty Job '{" Never mind I said, and thro' the flexible tube I blew. When all at once the door, like Mr. Pickwick's, open flew ; This can be perform' d (Miracle of Science and of Art,) Though the Handle ana the Door be 600 feet apart. Having thus in Science's Strain sung the Pneumatic Door Latch, I re-stnng mylyre for that unique tube ycleped Ye Despatch. At Holbom, W.C, wc all know the place " full well," To what was fitted once, alas ! the Inns of Court Hotel By another London firm, thro' which so-call'd Science failed. Our C. E. Zimdars in the Panathenaea prevail'd. Demos 1 would you have what here I say still more fully proved, The Directors had the first entirely removed. And th' Zimdars' system adopted, a system none may Match, That " Signal Wonder of the World " the Pneumatic Despatch. NOTICE. Pkeumatic Despatch. — In 1875 a Tube was fitted by another London Firm' at the Inns of Court Hotel, Holbom, W.C, which in consequence of its com- plete failure has been entirely removed by order of the Directors, and Zimdars' system adopted. The total length of this tube is over 500 feet — 100 feet in per- pendicular and 400 feet in horizontal position. The average speed of messages transmitted are six per minute, and m opposite directions when rec^uired, by hand labour of a boy. It is in constant working order, to the satisfaction of tho Directors and StaflE of the Hotel. INVASION OF CANADA? ! ! ! Hang out the Black Flag ! let no quarter be given, UPPER CANADA as one man goes on the war track ! Vengeance is awake ! we have sworn before heaven That the Yankee may land, but he shall NEVER GO BACK. I HAVE adopted tho letter Q as the distinctive symbol of the New Camaoa Confederacy to the form of alyre, evolving rays, each province to have a string, A poetical description of Canada's Arms, appears in the 11th Londuniau. Kg . a-i^^ i ium iMi J THE LONBONIAS. 49 It was Fredkrick Hansome who supplied us with Filters so long as he con- tinued to manufacture them (with any other one of that name wc do not re- quire to do anjrthing, as we make better Implements ourRclvcs) . I found in him an upright and Honourable Gentleman, and in regard to members of the Society of Friends, Messrs. Oilpin, Pease, Warner, Shell, Kemp, and a host of others, have already appeared in the Londoniad, and here, as the world was wont to say of Sir Walter Scott's works, " another yet." H. BAWLINOS, 108, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, London, W.C. Patentee of the " Excel Filter." Ten years Working Manager to " The London and Greneral Water Purifying Company, Limited." To the Admiralty, Temperance Hospital, &c. Manufac- factueeb of eveey Descbiptiox of Filtering Apparatus, either in a portable form ; for the ordinary house cistern ; or for Maiaif acturers, Brewers, Hospitals, Clubs, Hotels, Schools, &c., to meet the largest consumption of water. Water claims 'tis my belief, 'Mongst Nature's work to be the chief. Pindar's First Olympic Ode (Author of the Lonuoxiad's translation). Purificatio percolando facta. Unlike many that I might name it is not the mere strain- ing of water that we contemplate in St. Martin's Lane, To escape the ^nilture Yank his nasal twang and drawlings, I hie for the Excel Filter to Mr. H. Rawlings, Such are with the Admiralty on every land and sea. Our Temperance Hospital greets th' enlighten'd Patentee, Of Rosey health and giant strength and cleanliness the loss, We mourn no more, hail, most practical wight by Charing Cros*?, With Frederick llansome's Filters I did ere while start Lett Our commissariate off, but now we greet Dr. Bartlett, Whose testimonial all the world's races will confess Is worth more than 20,000 " Notices of the Press," And soon ray hero's complete system of Filtration Shall be haii'd thro' Canada, our other British Nation. We have discarded Massachusetts, Gnitch, Schwartz, and Gonlcj', And greet Filtration by Animal Charcoal only. I've said that Canada hath for ever ousted Yank, land And flood, all exult in the Report of Dr. Frankland, And here too Hygiea a Palleean fane hath built her. And never more wc go beneath the blighting star and stripe, But welcome the world's best H. Rawlings' High Pressure Filter, lo Paen ! for attaching to the Main Supply Pipe, And though loudly other " firms" {ahaiceys I call them) may vaunt, H. R. shall supply each Parliamentary Restaurant, Say muse ? in Pioneering, what greatly doth elate ue, Rawlings* acceptable Water Testing Apparatus, And as I the circle of all the Sciences distcm, I supply each public department with Rawlings' cistern. Soon, hSs system I'll strive elaborately to describe ; Each great surveying party and Aboriginal tribe lliro' mo, in various languages will correspond on. Those health-giving life-preserving, Best Filters in London. 60 THE LONDOSriAD. The Centenary of the Royal Academy, a poem embracing: 75 Biographies hath ulrcodv been written by the Author of the Londoniad, and the Beautiful Work by Mr. Warren, intended for the Author of the Londonia», will boat the Exhibition, Toronto. Immediately after this I will invoke the aid of the Great Oousins or some other Illustrious Engraver towards manipulating the bume/ iLLmmrATiox. MB.. ALBERT H. WABBEN, 1, New Court, Temple, London, E.C, informs the Profession and the Public generally that ho is prepared at all times to undertake and execute lUuminated Addresses, Diplomas, Testimonials, &c., of a high Art description, on veUum, parch- ment, or paper, in all the various stjdes of Caligraphy, Blazoning, and Ornament iisually adopted. I foimd here a Warren, Mtuih Ado About NoiUing. Art realms in Georgian times were desert all and barren But the Albertffian ago,.bloom'd fair thro' Henry Warren, His loved sire was long the Rresident of the Institute Of Painters in Water Colours, and Pallas would salute, The day of bright'ning destiny, had the Chair been won By his younger self, A. H., the world enlightening son. Bright rupil of my erst Anointed hero, Owen Jcnes, Fated in all cycles of time thro' the globe in all its zones To fame, amongst the sons of light on Art's meridian thrones. While in all matters of Art .sound is his education. Taught by his sire and others, pre-eminent in sta^on Who've raised to mental life many a dormant nation, His power as Landscape Painter, of Drawing eke his knowledge ; And his continuing practice might of any college Enhance the fame, the " Eoyal Children," what he doth impart Will speak, instruction in the lovely walks of Art, The faculty perceptive here that at one glance appears Must stand him in good stead thro' long prosi)ective years, His sire's classes he conducted hath, with filial truth. And to the elder experience brings the energies of youth. His is the soul-light, not that of Paraselena, Ho, four years tutor to the Princesses Alice and Helena . His artist spirit thro' all time must wonder deeds attest. Whoever knew him longest loved him much the best. Not as with a toil his pupils strove or viewed him with alarm. Knowledge to them, inspired with his presence aye did charm ; The honours of liis College, and Pupils credit, enhanced Even as he in Landscape had either advanced, Wlio so in's parent a guard and guide was a possessor. Will hail in rejuvenance a most worthy successor. And what dotn to Albert Henry's honour greatly redound ? 'Tis not that those whose names thro' the wide universe resound That honour Art, whom every grace and glory crown' d But that such tributes paid to him by Art's prime Artists more Or equal were ne'er seen in any epoch before. Nor need he tributes of respect in grandest Rhetoric seek, Like the Legend of Ontario his th' " Deeds that Speak," Nor is the mere practice of Art solely worth the reaching, There is a higher art still, the glorious Art of teaching. Caligraphy, Blazoning, all Ornament, the glories See revived of Mediaeval Illuminatorics THE LONBONLU). 61 And here please of Egotism let none accuse the Bard, Not his deserts, a People's kindness did award ; I brought to England from Canada a printed pamphlet (The same which won that high prai»e from Mr. Justice Amphlctt) Embracing in ail I ween 750 Testimonials, or think that the Author was thrifty, In thus an immense number thro' the West up-m over Mephitic Massachusetts' border . Listen if you may, and ponder well, arrogating Yanks, Incredulous, there being neither springs, etc., wheels, nor cranks, ** Nor unholy aught beside," thus hath he the world outvied, / 51 TUB LONSONIAD. And henceforward nothing of Blatant Boston's or New York'*, We trust, but go for information to the Great Oas Works, One note from Gentlemen of Science doth the world confess. Is worth more than a million "Notices of the press." ( — Their sheets like tavern sign-board in OliTer Goldsmith's lay, (" Dear Qoldy 1") " Invites each passing traveller that can pay.") We'll uHk the Imperial Gas Works, John-street, Bedford-row, And (" lo I") the Imperial Gas do, Bromley-by-Bow. "Tis tnuH Canada ousting the so-called United States, Notes well that here for complete Works are given Estimates. All the clomcnte, Nature's self to fiercer life awoke, Their limits erst a.ssign'd, each in wild rebellion broke. Hosts from shadowy land, the Zone of tempests heaven dcformfl — Mid-Ocean rose an Orator hablimated in storms. Under the sotting sun, sea and sky, like Pblegcthon bum'd. With the electric, phosphoreact^nt, lightnings collateral turn'd Day (embleming Lucifer from transcending glory hurl'd), Into night, and all was war thro' the infuriate world. Then ours had been the fate of those " on windy plains of Ilium," But for the Heaven inspired deeds of our renown'd William. Connected with Glass manufacture there are many high-sounding names in England worthy to rank with the greatest that ever flourished in any country from the midway times in which we live to the lands of the Morning, which some tell us were the first to behold the light of earliest civilisation. The best of these have already appeared in theLoNDONiAD, but as for my Hero-Engraver, His deeds were " long to tell," and hard to parallel. %• It would seem that the father's soul still lives in the son, and that the spirit of Old Roma is awake in the West of London ; that Orcagna, Giotto, and Cimabue, Dunstan and Cellini, and Raphael, and Apsley Pcllatt moving in soul-cycles of glorified life arc ever attendant with all the bearers of the great Names mentioned by Fielding, upon Him who Engraved the New Dominion Lecythus, destined as an endowment for Canada, and now at the Author of the LoNDONiAu' Mother's place in London. F. EISEBT. (To the Principal Art Institutes, Musenrna, and Courts of Europe, and to the Native Princes of the New Dominion of Canada), Abtist tx f PEBioB Glass ENOBAViNa, Laitdscafes, FiotniES, Ceests, M0NOOEAM8, &c., Dealer in evert Description of English and Bohesoan Glass, 25, South Audley Street, Grosvenor Square, W. Her forehead full of boimty brave, Like a broad table did itself dispread. For Love his lofty triumphs to Engrave, And write the battles of his great godhead. Edmumd Spenser, Faery Queene (A true representation of Canada Personified by Mr. Eisert). " G — d be praised ! at last I have found one artist in my lifetime." Michel Angelo Amerigi Da Caravaggio, his exclamation upon seeing the works of Annibale Caracci at Rome. Eluding now the pert, shoppy-man and aye on the alert. For High Art Works I hie to ye head-quarters ; Yea, all for Presentation o'er the Western Waters, I choose the Head of the World, the practical F. Eisert THE LONOOmAI). 59 Let others strive all o' Hvms: boini? and ye habitat, To dolinoatc, vide BumH, " Uood Lord, thoy need nitc fash that." Arts glory-opoch live again t transpaciouR by me pass ; The trem'Ious Atmosphere is rapt to animated glafs. The foliage by the sightless breeze most lustily is stirred, The water undulates to the singing of the Bird. Here, too, storms like snow I see, and smell the blossoms blow, Mid pastures the bleating liocks and "eke yu Hordes low;" While Portraiture in after ages much to him must owe. In isolation or meUe, lo I life's mighty drama, Time, its ev'ry cycle as in a panorama ; As with ethorial fire, his veins are shot with lightning. The genius of th' sire and grandsire ever in him bright'ning. While those who seek a name among the immortal sons of fame, Still light their genius Mienade like at his spirit-Uame. Deeds transcendent by him shown from his ancestors' hands As by his own, were never equalled iu earth's exulting lands. As the entranced centuries pass his famed Magnum of Glass Will still excel those metal works at Mansion House — alas ! Their value in gold and silver take for the nonce away. And then, as lor Works of Art ! O Barbtirisms are they. Minerva, graceful goddess, in Chronos' reign deem ye a Rival can be found to my Art Hero of Bohemia, As in his elevated clime rises Europe's rivers So knowledge o'er the whole world his mountain mind delivers, En Cameo et Intaglio none I ween so frood ; Like the Colossus of Rhodes seen from Syrian abode, (In every competition thro' the world), he singly stood. I beheld afar in wonderland a solar mountain Resolving itself into an lerealiKed fountain. Thro' which ye venti from all points pour'd collateral storms. When passing the Metempsychosis into transparent forms Sky flouting banners, prancing horses, embattled legions. To th' real had charm'd th' ideal in those enchanted regions. These transcending Moslem miracles wrought by Chen I Sert, Are our ages mental trophies welcomed from F. Eisort ; liike some quivering planetoid steeped in sapphire diiy. The cerulean Vase, life rapt, self-strikes the Orphic lay, Porm wakes to beatific life, science cycles blent In Jubilee, and Art's Hallelujahs shake the firmament. On Herald-star erst islanded in interstellar air, I ride the music breezes, and pass thro' dense or rare, ,0 list, the magic scenes that doth the 'raptured muse declare, I see the five great oceans of this Globe ari.se en masse, Pouring out their prayers to Jove, O, transform us into glass, And O, Illustrious Pallas, our Biographies Engrave With Stylus' wind and sunbeam each prismatic wave ; Then melodious grew each afflucntial desert. Hymning loud with the star-peopled universe in concert, Until Attraction's bars rang resonant>ith F. Eisert. That which giveth to the muse a time outstretching pinion. Is the joy springing thro' his Lecvthus for the New Dominion, Which I as once were spoils in th* fane of Jupiter Fraotor, Offer in Saint Tammanund's Temple to Art's Creator. The Scirrus sky, scarce denser flood, tenuity of air, Translucency staid or in transiliences all are there. liO Boheme ! Lutetia ! Ludstown ! — some nomadic lives Iiead, 0, Hans Busk, you chcw'd that rusk ! lo, Shakespeare's Meny Wives. Muse ! say since flrst glass was found at the orient mountain's base Did it ever embody or shadow forth so much grace ? I look upon some other work as vilo, unmeaning shams. Landscapes, " thrice hail " Glacial Claude, Figures, Crests, Monograms. M TBB LOITDOXZAI). (I have a cousin in Dartmouth, they call him Tom 0'Co(o;mb, And what I now luty will fall aa in maRoziuo a bomb ; . IIo made hi» monogram (t) at onco his taato for Art fell souhc ; It but emblem' d out the spiral top of a piffeon-houMc). Every kind (VandalH avaunt t or avonfcinff NcmcHi«— ;) Of High Artistic Engraving done on the prcmiHOH. All of Amiouriul xplund'ring 'foro und after Uincrt, In concentric cycles blend or glow thro' our F. Eisert. From Him the Great Arms of Canada for Presi>ntution, I take to our Chiefs of each Aboriginal Nation ; And why should I not high place assign, O ye Immortal Nino To F. Eisert, who perfected even my own Design I Long hhall his spirit vivify the homes of 4,000,000' n.^ Dwelling in Canada's blissful Homesteads and ruviliuns. " Speak as you will"(Thos. Moore) of the mere working man I look upon such nn one as only a manipulator. But he who brings intellectuality to enliven his deeds emblems out the Creator, who was the Ist and greatest worker. Thow words wore oracled in my mind when I behold the impress of his own mind in those Designs destined to grace " our colonial Achives,^' while visiting in that region given to fame by Washington Irving, and so often traversed in person by Dr. Benjamin Franklin, I beheld Mr. Eglcton like some great Sculptor laying his own hand to the work. T. H. V. EOLETON, PuBLisuEBs' BooKBiNBEB, E.G., 9, Middlo street, and 24, New Street, Cloth Fair, E.G. On my return to my native country I determined to give what aid I might to still further enrich the archives of our Colonies in the New World, and I chosjc for the greater und more important department this excellent Book Binder. Las Cases " Letters." I soarch'd the Imperial Isles, at length the happy flndcr Of One destin'd to be our corresponding Bookbinder And why wonder that your financial delegate assigns, Our Hero the highest place ; it is that he himself designs. Design, I ween, is the soul of ev'ry operation Tending to fame or the giving glory to a Nation, His premises are light, airy, substantial too, and large, Anv amount of orders ho can readily discharge ; Extending, need the truthful Art-Minstrel herein declare. All thro' from Middle Street even to New Ditto, Cloth Fair, Any one design of the Myriads, which are his own, Might have borne many a Bookbinder to a high renown. And in the near future ye libraries for our 7 Dominion Provinces to Bind shall to him be given. "What to character as a good business wight doth redound ? Purchasing them in quire at first, and then, having them bound. While a suspensionarj' clause in our Revenue Laws Will greatly tend to enable me to attain this end. Of 2 Immortal Sons of Light I have invoked the aid, Bear me witness ye Third, and eke ye Ninth Lunuomad. Illustrious Francis Bedford, the Besuscitator, Riviere London's Glorj', not the mere manipulator, Personified in either behold a New Creator. I, although not initiated as a Publisher, My onward March towards the head nothing could deter, Londonium's, Longmans', and Edina's Adam Black, The erst mightiest on Earth fall back 2nd in the track ; THE LOMDONIAO. B% For when thai largo contract wan about being given out, I detiTminud to put the Yank unto the utter rout, And render' d uraouruus by the thought, itt once my stcpH I bent Thither-ward8, and addresHed both IIoudvh of I'urliament ; In English and French (th' Muse o' Mamory mo in good Htead »tand!«' Saying " whether I receive the commitMion at your handa Or not, I will never forgot our beloved mother landit England, Ireland, and Scotland, ho far a8 to introduce Vile Yankee Editions, of liritixh Authors for your use, For my determination at life's outHct, did vary Never — to allow ouch e'en in my private Librarj'." With that, among the MonibcrH rose a most tremendous roar Of applause, they leap'd to their scats with feet from off the floor, Even these who came up us M.P.'s from far Labrador, — Who had never spoken uri English word in my hearing, Continued for full 5 minutes in lustily cheering. Times of Great Political I'xcitcment your Bard recalls When wild vivas shake continental Europe's cathedrals. Even so, while Pallas her vllgis over them flinging. Our Colonial Senators break forth into singing, •'De — de, Yankees both he's and she's we'll b'.ow^ you high in air. And hurry home beyond the foam, Bookbinding ! nail Cloth Fair, Wherever there may be Bells in u new Distriet their chimes. Welcome on its approach the greatest work ol modem times, Canaua in 7 volumes elephant folio ; One copy would nigh fill, and break down Lodge uc Olio. Eacn Settlement paid for its own Engraved Illustration ; Thus wc have a work worthy of our uprising nation, But in othor spirit ; bound in other style than Lothuir By our practical T. II. V. Eglcton in Cloth Fair. MB. JOHN W. SMITHIES, Architect & Sxjbveyor, Laurence Pountney Chambers, Latircnco Pountney Lane, E.G. A Good Surveyor, Bacon on Bishop Fox in Henry VII. The work some praise And some the Architect MHton*8 " Paradise Lost." That part of practical mathematics ho tinderstands AVell, yclepcd Surveying, the limits and extent of lands By means of planc-tuble, crc^^s, theodolite, chain, To a nicety will Squire John W. ascertain. Eke our Agraria-Mcntor with circumfcrentor Compass, levels, perambulator, protractors. Will aid our pioneering bands, factors and contractors, And I'm convinced that what the Bard call " universal Pan," Was but the antitype of our excellent gentleman (Whom here we greatly welcome as our mental purveyor) For was not "ye Divine Immortal" the first Surveyor When exulting with more than a beatific elation, Ho look'd out thro' worlds upon a glorified creation. I too greet the 100th Londoniau's Architect Thro' whose might we will in our colonial realm erect Monuments of high design, and Buildings shall meet our ken Nor second to thooc of M. P. Vitruvius or Wren, «» THE LONDONIAD. And all our races looking with wistful eyn across th' main Will joy in Palla-an deeds from Laurence Pountney Lane. Yea, Canada's 4,000,000 in Homesteads and Pavilions, These subiccts at issue will most gladly correspond on With my hero in the centre of Imperial London. Thus from wild'rinpf Atlantic basking in the morning's blaze, Up thro' many a sylvan tract till lost in sunset haze ; — Septentrional Labrador, Occidental Withies, Architect and Surveyor hail, John W. Smithies Squires Bouchettc and Dawson arc our Great Sur\'cyors in the New Dominion, thu name of the firnt mentioned of these eminent personages (witness his illu>^- trious sire) must be for ever connected with the early history of Canada ; the second gentleman named, I knew in liis youthful manhood, and I cause them to be imprinted here in alphabetical order. A few years ago, when the great road which bears the last-mentioned gentleman's name was being laid out, many, to, quote from FaSry Queene — " Cast about them." What cognomen of red-tape parvcnue, or of Royal Ape fhould be applied thereunto, the Author of the Londoniau, whose words now are spread before him in the Zoist (an University Journal in Greek letter-press), said " Out upon you legalised robbers who feast like Vampyres upon the body politic ; let that Itoad which shoots a beam of fadeless glory thro' the erst darkening wildeme. s, and where the serial tides of health, and that of civilisation in human life arc flowing down and shall flow for ever, call that surpassing all ye Via of the Romans after him who bearing the heat and burden of the day, brought intellectual energy to bear in its consummation, the Dawson Road." 75 firms and companies eminent for textilia have presented their cards for the present Londoniau, but as usual I can take but one. HERBERT DALE, Linen Manufactubers' Repeesentative, 6, Russia Court, Milk Street, London, E,C. A pleasing Dale and not unblest. Thomas Tickell, 1686—1740. Hark, thro' our Bark's enchanted rigging rings the Orphic gale. No canvas ! winds personified with wings waft on the Herbert Bale, While Nereides fire the seas, Ily-Brasil' evening glow, En-phantom fairy isles where happy souls like tlowerots grow, And we pass the paradisical Archipelago. Resuscitated eras, aerial Rip Van Winkle's, EpheFus' Sleepers, th' Koran'?, little dog his tail twinkles, Too Him who in wonder-time slept a century in Dinen, All rise to purer being, and here exult in Linen. Here is the fantastic clcep'd by Art-Students Romanesque, And such as glorifies the Loggia known as Arabes'iup, Although the first vide Caylus bight Count was from Egj'pt brought, Yet ^^gj'ptus received it from Greece, and Grecian it ought To be called ; (Muse ever truthful !) not the classic tr".ly, Eor this would be praising Art, Good of its kind, unduly, But the Archaic, come Bard, awhile your memory rasp, Lo, here, not that which bit the file but Legendary Asp, Much that ChampoUion's genius to each age successive brings, Cleopatra last decendant of th' Macedonian Kings Of Egypt, all the compartments artlourously I trace, As revealed in the Portland erst Barberini vase, THE liONDOKLU). A copy of which in London graces my Mother's place. Arts not only saw I hero from Ap-Edda Cambraic Period, Classic, Pompeiian, but the Alhambraic, Ah ! Owen Jones, I hud once your marvellous Moresque "Work, Which I received from Putnam, publisher of New York, I gave him for it an alluvial peninsula, That might pass for a Cape stretching from the Land of Bculah. Three Indian villages 'vere situated thereon, A Miniature Atlantis glow'd on the horizon, All was streamy and verdurous and unspeakably fair, At first ken it seem'd islanded in interstellar air. All Designs from Botany, known to the Great Von Linnecn Nobl'd by Mind, blossom metathesis, rapt to Linen. Here ye Irish Table, for such shall Canada resort Thro' me henceforth, by Milk Street, No. 6, in Russia Court, And when our hero enters within th' Colonial pale, Like Peruvians hailing th' Inca, we'll greet you Herbert Dale. 69 W. MlEROJSnXUBy (Prizt! Medal, Stettin, 1865 ; First Cla.ss Prize Medal, Dublin, 18G.>), MAXUFACTUEEn OF WaSHABLE GiLT, IMITATION, Veneeeed and other Feame Mouldings, Win- dow CoENicEs, Room Bordeeinos, &c., &c., 19, City Boad, London, E.G. ; Manufactory- Cologne on the Rhine, Germany. Every des- cription of Picture and Looking-Glass Frames made to order. The Canada Arms, ct textilia, will be placed in a peculiar Frame for Exhi- tion at Toronto in 1879 by the Head Manager of this, the most self-sufficient Firm in Europe, and whose aid alf^vi in his department I will invoke for St. 'I'ammanund's particularly, and for our seven provinces generally,' and I will take care that the Diploma of Honour, and Golden Maple Leaf, be awarded only to oiir Eminent House. This wonderful piece of Embroidery which throws shadowy into the darkening Atmosphere all that we know of Art History con- cerning Embroiderj'^ from the days of Penelope to Matilda of Rollo " before and after" is at my mother's place in London (Eng.) Upon this work was engaged our Native Queen and her Maidens for over 27 years. The very silk upon which it is wrought was done by the needle, and in finish ana colour is, to use an old Anglo-Saxon phrase, the dispair of the loom. A Frame shou'd scrupulously be designed to suit, And not interfere with the picture it encloses. F. W. Fairholt. Hieronimus now revealing himself in full power, Stood forth the acknowledged head. Pere Gildon, jyAuvergnc "Jerome." The old Italian Picture Frames, in this we all agree. Were models of the purest taste and of propriety, But now from the Bay of Islands to the Upper Gimus I introduce th' classical W. Hieronimus. His great ancestors were Orators and Historians ; .A dmiral'; ; they trace their lineage to the Dorians, Onnodox aye, opposed Origen, and the Nestorians. Yes ; famed before Jerome did J the Eastern world bc-Ronie, 'nil "injured (?) Erasmus" became the mighty fracturer. Ye Race in high meridian trace Bs^T". the Manufacturer, Who a long-enduring fame in ta.steful Art is building, Thro' his ardourous devotion to Washable Gilding. 60 THE LONDONIAD. Imitation Vcuccr I hail and other Frame Mouldings, While ousting Leather Lune, foul fop Clifford, and Yankee Fouldings. Hitherward hies for Window Cornices, Room Borderings, &c.^ the Bard who such over the Ocean brings, Hail City of Eau de— &c.,— 0, Coleridge ! and of the 3 Kings, Trumpet it thro' the Globe and round each atrial border. Frames, Picture, and Looking Oluss, ev'ij kind made to order. The Ist Prize from all the world W. H. did get in Dublin '65, the same year Exhibition Stettin, And it is not with me a mere matter of opinion That he can better supply Canada's New Dominion, Than any Establishment in the British Isles beside, The most of which at least in London are by him supplied. I've borne from hence many a lovely and substantial work, Never equall'd by Massachusetts Boaster, or Now York, And the 2 Hemispheres beheld how high he rank'd above All nations lately in the " City of Brotherly Love." His premises are large thro' th' resources he can command Might be supplied the wants of cv'ry civilised land, 'Tis thus I hail my H(i)ero — and reveal the story Of Oliver's Yard, City Road, in Pallaean glorj- Wrapt, and Cologne on " the Rhine, the Rhine," his Manufactory. F. LABABD & CO., Sole Mantjfacturees of the Patent " Silyee- DINE AND BbONTINE COMBINATION Moin:iDIN08 " for Ornamental Shop Fronts, Show Cases, Up- right and Centre Cases, Fern and Aquarium Cases ; Metal Drawers to the Trade ; 62, Hatton Garden, London, E.G. The fame of Mr. Larard's family extends over all the pleasant land of Upper Canada rivalling in joyous echoings the sounds of forest bird and streamlet. He in a Pallsean spirit animating his terrestrial existence, repassed not the gloomy ocean adventured over by his Ancestors when " Obscurest night involved the sky The Atlantic billows roar'd." Wm. Cowper. But charmed on to the Appassionato-aria by the glow of Science and the continuing presence of delighted races, to the mental equator of "This earth globose."— Mi'Jfon. In the words of Dr. Samuel Johnson, vide his Life of Akcnside " he fixed Tiimself in London, the proper place for a man of accomplishments like his." Here is a specimen of work destined to enchant the world when it shall bo exhibited by the Queen of the West on the far off shores of Ontario.— Extract from an Oration — England BvvisHed by the Author of the Londoniad. Pure silvery edgings on the crystal cases glowed. Kobert Wace, I2th century. Not since Ephcsian Demetrius made his living shrine, Or Cellini rapt to relief, metallic deeds divine, Did ever Chaste Dian' nimbi Tcllus, like Silverdine. We've stopp'd all conimimication with Haymarket Garrard And our commissions send home to the Co. of F. Larard, Whoso genius comes down on our isle like heavenly dew " Rcfresh(ing) the dry domains" of Natali, Sage, and Drow, THE LONDOKIAS. Here Intelligence is brought to bear, taste doth Larards' impart Self proclaim'd in " sphery chime," we are Miracles of Art. "We leave Themis as she liitcth best to change the venu, Thanks to Pallas I introduce such free of the Revenue. Here not the nundless routine of some old Qatton Warden, Lo, new philosophies hourly rise in Hatton Garden. When shall flourish our Exhibition byOiitario We'll in Lunarian splendour show Jg^^ F. Larard and Co. Show Cases I never look'd with ejTie more fond on However gracefully encontour'd, thro' the whole of London ; For Museums, I'rivatc use, and General Works of Art O ! like Memnon in the morning, do my pulsations- start. As we did neath th' trellised Forest bending o'er th' Milver dine The light that lit our shadowy way was Frederick's Silvcrdine. Thro* them each work being under their own auspices nuido " Mediately and Immediately " are supplied the lYade. Soon in the clear atmosphere Toronto Queen of the West, Thro' thy stores and institutes shall Silvcrdine shine confest. Orillia, (distant from Toronto just 90 miles, Thither hies many a fisher who the scaly fry begiiiles, We to Bell Ewart, or Barric, flags flying, steam away While in the bay the bands are playing " all ii Summer's Day " And greeting us on craft and shore all over Simcoe Lago Our Captain other than Humphry Clinker's Lismahago Joins chorus " Igo and Ago, Iram Coram Dago," All is t^^ie and friendly here, no wily knave lago Now hold a port for Muskoka's entrepo' Washago.) Our head Boss' honour'd relatives from 1,600 names Therein I choose, both j wellers. Squires Frederick and James. Sole Manufacturers (they stand first in the Home Nation) Of ye Patent Mouldings deep' Silverdine Combination ; This is not mere leaf or pollen shook from flower and petal. Following th' timbers curve, are two solid layers of Metal, While Time all his destroying powers in vain might muster, Incorrodible, ever bright by slight wipe of duster. Ornamental Show Cases. Yank and Cockney >;how their stem Counter, Upright and Centre, Aquarium and eke Fern, As I passed yestreen by Oamester Jaques' in Hatton Garden I felt like his ancestor midst th' forestry of Arden, Yea, for the nonce, became like him lost in melancholy, Viewing in so-called Art the designless and unholy ; When all at once like Sooterkin surprising Von Marard, As it enchanted rapt's soul thro' skm was I with Larard, Unlike ye contemplative wight in that dark deepening wood, No longer black with carbon scarce moved my sluggish blood But charm'd with glory-deeds of mind the lively chaste and bright Career'd electric thro' my veins with absorption of light. In English, Celtic, French, Italian, I have ncard it said That they are Great Britain's prime Metal Drawers to " the trade." Estimates, thro' England home and our uprising Nation, Are by our Company sent free upon application " Describe to me a Yankee she."— T. D'Arcy McGkk. " You foul witch ; you poulcat ; you minion."— Shakksphare. Boston 1 in every Yankee she you see a frightful hag. Skin yellow as duck's foot, each tooth like a Mississippi snag ; She's compounded of Sycorax, Xantippe, Jezebel. Moll Tearsheet, Meg Merrilies, and Alother Damnable." 61 [ 62 THE LONBONIAJ). DIPLOMAS OF HONOUR AXD FIRST PRIZES AT EVERY EXHIBITION. THE NEW PHOTO-CERAMIC PICTURES. A. L. HENDERSON, Photooeaphee in Enamel to the Qxteen (under the Direct Patronage of the Queen), 49, King William Street, E.C., and Amersham Road, New Cross, S.E. These Photographs on Enamel are not only more beautiful than those taken in the usual method ; but, being fixed by fire, are perfectly imperishable. O IlendcrHon ! the man ! the brother ! Like thcu, where shall I find another. The world around ? — Robert Bums, Blest be the Art that can immortalise, The Art that baffles Times tjTannic claim To quench it. Williain Cowper (On the Receipt of his Mother's Picture.) Minerva in all her Attributes did lend her son The vital spark, and then she called him A. L. Henderson. Muse ! what in the Photograpiiic world hath caused a panic. His practical knowledge of Chemistry cleep'd Organic, And he is well school'd in the inorganic too I wis, Hail ! Great Discoverer, lo, his Spectrum Analyses, And is avfait yea he with coi-tain modification. Would practice under M. Gcrhardt's chemical notation. To no wight if our ago so much doth Genius impart. The first borii Science and the latest development of Art, 'Tis thus that his cxistc^nce glows the Himalaya ridge Of a mental i niversc fi^^ King William Street, London Bridge, In bringing t j bear that in which others fail, the Chcmic He hath doubly glorified the delightful Ceramic, And when ccher Photographers shall have been put to bed With a shr vel, ho will still stand as now, at the world's head. His syste'n destin'd above all others to bear the sway. In all Meridian from the rising to the setting day. All our Native Princes for love of Art do practise it,' They get their tribes in .single form or multitude to sit. Hence these memorials, in other centuries to tell, Of personal aspect thro' Art, in Nature loved so well. Pallas spoke, I listened as if entranc'd to her strictures Upon the now world-famous Photo-Ceramic Pictures, 'Gainst the vile and unearthly did "the muse defend her son," Him Mercurius directed to A. L. Henderson. I trod til' Future as with Fatse prophetic sandal. And saw that nothing could destroy but the arm of Vandal. (Vandalism thro' which have been so many Art deeds lost Is that long undiscovered sin against the Holy Ghost), For time's varying Atmosphere would but show the Picture clear, Earth's best photographers (next to him) have striven in vain To scale Science's solar height, which he at \o bound doth gain. How often erst did lineaments of loved One. ^>ass away. Which unavailingly those left behind might ni'vum for aye. But now they glow' soul-transcript >, from eternal day. Speak of Medals and Diplomas ? ti)\\ards Heaven shall be sent, In after times a cairn of gems to form his monument. What Lely and Titian did for their adopted climes. And eke Hans Holbein for portraiture, in Tudor times. What cmincut Medallists and Immortal Sculptors fomi'd, I THE LONDOXIAD. 63 O'er which Time's biscayan cycles and 'm Phlcffcthon had storm'd, Ijcaving in darkness each prospective age to bear the loss, As by supernal power, (for Deity here inspired,) Immutable, alone, arc the deeds of " The Only One," Partaking of the eteni ; thus so wonderfully fired By My llcro, King William Street, City, and eke New Cross. There is beside an Oration upon this process, to appear hereafter. I hnd the name of George Mitchell, Marble Mason and Land Orator, marked upon my list for 1,000 copies of the present Londoni.vd, but I have already de- clared who my Marble Heroes are all over the New Dominion, and our (heat Families and" towns are already in extatic expectation of receiving wonder- works In Mcmoriam to their Ancestors from our enlightened company of bound- loss resource. LANDER & CO., (Established 1833), Masons, Sec, to tho General Cemetery Com- pany, Kensal Green ; and at tho Hanwell Cemeteries. Statuary, Tombs, Monu- ments, and, Head-Stones erected after tho most approved Models, and kept in repair. Inscriptions cut. — JoSEi'ic PusiDiAN, Manager. ♦ • Grieve about the dead, — Bid the Hose tree o'er them bloom. Fondly deck their bed. And sanctify the Tomb." — Bnlver. As 'round Achilles' tomb with his friends went Alexander, So do ye Music those of the Company of Lander, Crowning them " with Laurels (Lycid) and Ivy never sere," By viillcy, plain, and headland, we their Memorials rear, Thence turn eyes with blinding tears thro' many a lonely yo;ir. Scions of Noblest Ancestry ; Canada the meed be hers, Not to let Immortals lie in forgotten Sepulchres. "While hearts are warm and Memories chiimi and loveliest Art, May the enduring grandeur of high Memorials impart. As thro' the city of the silent Kensal Green I wander. Tombs the greater number find I by the Co. of Lander, And though fain would undertakers to our feelings pander, We go to practised hands and mindu for Tomb or monument, — Those who personally superintend each order ; by whom arc sent Loved Memorials to every Isle and Continent. The Rise and Fall of many firms our Company survives, PvgniiEi V. He'^aclidtc where competition striven, ^= Establish'd Lang-sync in 18-33. Their deeds shall be our land and time marks by each upland sea. Yea, soon shall our Company's, Tombs all Monumrnts be scon. Thro' out our Colonies, 1,000 loiiguos from Kensal Green. Lo ! their Statuary in and around cafh sacred pile, Kivalling that which glowed to life of old in Cyprus' Isle, Nameless to lie neath Landers' toml)s, ye Fatffi, all forbid. As where arc hid their Builders' names in pomp of pyramid. Like those who laid their heroes by classical Scamandor, One Hope each bosom cheers threading the long meander, Namks reach to other times thro' the Company of Lander. Their monuments when roar'd not only add to the renown Of the departed, but as Works of ^Vrt adorn the town •04 THE LONDONIAD. Or city, when Oracled in lasting Oranito or in Marble, Art harmonies thro' long prospective centuries warble, That once on which Great S. 0. Hall wrote a fond paragraph. They reared for me, our Mighty Chief Tecumseh's cenotaph ; 'Twas eloquence in Sculpture, no aboriginal tribe Asks th' Orator or Medicina homo to describe. For it tellcth the deeds of the Leaders of their Nation And their ancestors', in one continuing Oration, lie Beauty Mine, not that which came horrific like a bomb On Dante's ear; the voice of Papa Alessandro's tomb ! Muse ! never in the abbreviatory mode, no coarse Tom o' Comb(c) — Ask the roseate Occident, can Orutch or Vim Ager, Equal in wisdom and beiugnity our Manager, The soul of each Illustrious Pioneer, once a Bushman, Glows in beatific splendour thro' Josephus Pushman, His Tombs shall the unsetting Sun of their virtue crown Nimbi-like, while the mental Aureola remains his own Lighting those of th' far to come toward merit and renown, His relative a Byto\m Corporation Councillor, (Its site tow'rs above th' tideless flood a storm de'nng Tor), 'This was before Fama (fame personified) got awa. And trumpeted over the world the name oif Ottawa Should he next Season have some One to leave in England homo, Wafted by auspicious Venti, I'll take him o'er the foam, (The charmed rigging resonant sings to the Orphic gales. As along are Miracles of Art borne by enchanted sails,) Then thro' the West he being my guest, we both our flight will lake, With Mercurius and Pallas along each sunset Lake, Mere politics arc the low ephemera of a day. The Kobber Monarch of the hour may not exact for aye, Full oft evanish rapidly dynasties, sceptres, thrones. Art is Eternal, " Hail, thrice hail," Tombs, Monuments, lload-stonca, Gladly in exultant note I'd sound the lo Paen To a great improvement of the glorified Cadmtran ; Dovc-tail'd Letters made o' lead, no Material lasts so long. In this respect it almost equals the Bard's deathless song. Such I thro' an hundred nations in all their tongues declare. As by our Company erected (the which I've thus selected) After models the most approved, and kept, too, in repair. Against Massachusetts' Yank, yea all " The infernal States " (Milton's Paradiae Lost) now and for ever he the gates. Of our British America Septentrional shut. But I open them to those by whom are l^g°* Inscriptions c\it. The greatest piece of Sculpture e'er by human genius wrought To prime perfectitude by our Great Company was brought, Th' Bard (without or lever or fulcrum of Archimedes) It represents, hea\ing the Globe in all its Isles and Seas. THE YANKEE AND THE 1RISHM.VN. (An Impromptu Prophecy.) " Mr. Leonard O'Leary's my Christian name. And a long while ago from ould Ireland I came ; How d'ye think I came over each tawny faced rogue ; Why, English I taught with an Irish brogue." MUUTAGH 0'Fi,AHEUTY's PcCUi!' My heart and my hand, s\iccess to you, Mister O'Leary, Hercules inspire you and may you never grow weary. Soon you a sweet bed of shamrocks and roses shall rest on, A hundred thousand to one that you'll beat Yankee Weston." THE LONIX)NIAD. 6» THE EASTERN aXJESTION. JOin^ BRIGHT— HIS GREAT SPEECH PiVRAPlIRASED. In addition to the flourishing? ncttlcmcnt named after him in Uppkr Canada, I intend to call an extensive teiTitury in the Saskatchewan region, the John Bright and Richard Cobden District ; this, in process of time, will bo formed into a Province (it contains 40,000 sc^uare miles, and is thus larger than Britain) ; in the midst thereof arc two very largo Islands, the " Twin Mountains," and the " Double Lake." " Thro' Eden went a river large." Here midway through this glorious land (like the Ottawa, after joining the St. Lawrence) roll two rivers in one bed, now called theLoNDONiAu. Here I am re- minded of Ossiau in the 1st Book of Temora, when "The Hundred Bards had strung their Harps," desiring " to leave our fame behind us like f John) Bright." Apropoti of names on that day in which our Western Tfocropolis (City of the Deatl) was first laid out ; the alleys, paths, and avenues were called, at my sug- gestion, after the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, and others tliencefortli bear the names of the never-dying of other lands and ages. " Up to this time the proof (of the former part) hath not been returned." John Deydkn. Last summer if the Mussulman thought that the so-called Government of Britain would for ever continue to help him in robbery and murder, at the united voice of the people of England almost too loud for this narrow land " The Turk awoke ; That bright dream was his last." — Fitz-Grkkne Hallfxk. When I first undertook to paraphrase this the most magnificent speech ever delivered in our time, or in any other period of time or countrj', 1 felt some compunction in introducing the last line • (I will be brief because I have to cor- rect the proof of a long speech of mine own upon the Eastern Question now going through the press This monie a day I've grain'd and gauntcd, To ken what French mischief was brcwin', Or what the drumlie Dutch were doin' ; Or how the collieshangie works Atwcen the Russians and the Turks ; If Denmark, ony body .spak o't ; How cut-throat Prussian blades were hingin' ; How libbet Italy was singin' ; If Spaniard, Portuguese, or Swiss, ■Were sajin' or takin' ought amiss. — Burns.) Shall England again put forth her resources to maint^iin Thiit which rules in Constantinople 'neath a Moslem reign ? A tjrranny which hath Earth's fairest realms to deserts dried. And which thro' out all its range of influence terrible and ^vidc Hath blighted with its with' ring breath for many ages past, All that's in Nature lovely as with a mildew blast ; All of the beautiful prostrated 'neath the Turkish ban ; All that's noble and exalted in our fellow man, I ask you here ; I ask a meeting of my countrymen. And in this cose every woman : that meets th' visual ken (Here rose a wild shout I by which the very roof scem'd riven). What to-night will be your answer to this question given .' One universal answer — shaking " tower and steeple," t From the great and generous heart of the English people. * Because I felt that if the heart of the English people wore truly gieat, and generous, it would not give a million of pounds sterling for the support of oni! family without a drop of .English blood in its veins, while our own countrj'women and countrymen are djing of want in their native streets ! Please see answer to Dean Stanley's "Untravelled Traveller" by the author of the Lonuo.niad. t Thomas Campbell, Bard of Hope. «8 THE LONDONIAD. THE ARTIST OF TIIE 100th LONDONIAD, JOHN LINNELL, ESQ., PALLAS HALL, RED HILL, KENT. The following Poem is Inscribed to Him and his Enlightened Soas. "Niagara Falls" (from Canada, a Poem, 7 vols., Elephant folio.) Ages e'er mortal eyes beheld thy glorj', Thy floods made music for the listeuinf? stars. And angels paused in wonder as they passed. EiiwARD H. Dewaut. The Falls of Niagara. In earth's majestic solitudes, Dread Niagara ! I am not all unworthy of thy sij^ht ; For from my boyhood I have loved— Shunning the meaner track of common minds To look on Nature in her loftier moods. JosK Mauia Hkukdia. ? — A liffht wave. That breaks and whispers of its Maker's iniurht. John Buainahd. TJic FaJla of Niagara . I've " heard Niagara sing From Erie's billows." Rournr Poi.i.ok. Course of Time. (And Lydia Sigoumoy, Capt. Marryat, Harriet Martineau, Chateau- briand, &c.) That evening in early Autumn, the Minstrel recalls When bath'd in light he first gazed upon Niagara FaU.-?, Up Lewisto\STi side-long slope, it seem'd a wondrous steep Leaving upon the right hand an imderbrush' and grassy .sweep Of Land, down which geologists say did Niagara flow Flaunting the wildering skies and shaking the abyss below Full 137,000 years ago. Before I came or view'd th' Falls I had heard how loud they roar'd. And now the sun hath all his splendours upon Erie poured. Gorgeous scene, (unknown to other realm on earth) the Bard inspircs^ The Lakes' Sylvan borders blaze like unto Beltein fires, Lustrous th' foliage blooms on th' magic' shore By which transpacious waters roll inverted regions o'er ; Amid the wavey wilderness the foamy coursers fled, Prismatic colours resplendent their harness overspread, Lo ! the Violet, the Indigo, Cerulean, Green and Red, *' How the Emerald glow'd" the Beryl, a concentred sea; Enlarged at length the gems transfonn'd are undulating free. The double refracting Chrj-solite irrialised gleams Ti-aversing the Ruby, create, semblance of day's setting beams , An Art student lore doth me here most thoroughly embue, Thro' comparison and similitude I take my que ; And having ruminated on such, all came back to mo That e'er I knew of Archetypal Archa^ologj'. And now I survey, as with more than wizard wand Rapt, commingling liquid Ores and Stones of every land, All that th' Apocalypse speaks of in a New Jerusalem inimitably magnified shone th' irradiate gem. Symbols and Emblems here reveal' d in glory manifest, Firom East and "West, Mom and Eve sprcatf with the Amethyst, The Jasper and Jasponyx of depth unutterable, Chrysophrises a rival day breaks in a weltering swell ; As 't in Gneiss Syenite basalt lava ne'er knew duress In freedom sunlit o'er the surge the Hyacinth doth press THE LONDONIAD. w The palo flame of Chalcedony into the Amber prow, Th' ensongmn'd Sard of thrw-f old hue, the Sapphire, white, preen and blue; Hero " the blood of Scio's vino" f Byron) in weird apparent, Topaz all highly cryHtallized, and transparent Phantasms danced among the lyre-leaved trees and shrubs that stood Like burning altars of incense by the retlecting flood ; No optical illusion, I feci the solar showers Foam wreaths for blosjTi,d; this decision will be duly appreciated by each man in London, except he be As arrant a Cockney as any hosier in Chcapside. Dkxs Swift. Apropos of Chcapside, there is an episode which does not appear in any Edi- tion of the Author's Biography, when, as our Hibernian friends would say, I was a " Small Boy," not yet 7 years old, and before my star of destiny went westering. I had gone with my mother from our residence. No. 3, Hyde-park Terrace, Kensington Gore (now ltJ7", close to the Albert Hall), in order to pay a visit to my uncle the Builder, then living in Warwick Lane, when, while crossing from Milk Street (I had sometime previously cut my milk teeth), over toward Bread Street (my peculiar engagement at the moment was, I believe, chewing a crust), when all at once a fellow In what garb drest ? — Roueut Bi.oomfiklu, I should think it was the city livery seemingly besmeared over with the yellow of eggs, came tearing " down cast "(ward) like rm embodied tempest, fighting the elements with a big cudgel in a very uproarious manner. This functionary was a sort of corporation spring-hoel'd Jack (-anapes), and called, as I heard afterwards, the Lord Mayor's Out Runner (O ye Gillies of the Land O'Cakes). This cowardly blackguard, without giving mo any warning, smashed my poor hand, and for all that ho would have cared it might have been mine head or optic. I intend to look over Messrs. Norton and Maitland's works, and Councillor Orridge's " Citizens and their Rulers," and sec who was the " Lord Mayor" of that day, and give his name a deserved immortality in the Lonuo.viad. I will not say with Laurence Sterne, " they do those things better in France," but our ancestors or uncle's sisters certainly behaved more like Christians when accompanying Cardinal "Wolsey in his procession down by Charing Cross (the picture lyeth spread before me), they vociferated, " make way for my Lord ! " , but then, the Prime Minister of ye English Blue Beard was at least lui educated man. F 2 08 THE LOXDONIAD. HIS EXCELLENCY THE HONOURABLE ALEXANDER MORRIS. LlEUTKNANT-GoVKRNOR OF MaMTUUA, Is advancing the Cause of Temperance greatly in the Prairie Province. I had the pleasure of being ac,'1) TEMPERANCE. (A Vision.) Inscribed to those members forming the aeveii hundred and forty-five lodges ol Good Templars in Canada, with whose names I desire to associate those of Senator Billa Flint, Canada, and John Hilton, Esq., London, (Eng.) Ann an aisling, ann an sealladh na h-oidhche, 'nuair a tliuitias codal trom air daounibh 'nuair a bhios iad 'nan suain air an leabaidh. Ion. XXXIII— 15. so fiele dcr ITiiterschied NovAi.is. Wenn alio ^lenschen ein paar Liebemle Wfircii, zwischon Mystieismu3, und Nicht-Myaticismus weg. To the Land of Mystery by tho Hpirit led I saw where the resuscitated ages tied. And Time, like an universal Jordan to its fountain head. I saw tho Phantom Emjnres, not as erst with glory erown'd, And tlie once twining cities turned to desolate gi-ouiul, And scarcely eke their whereabouts in after age be found. I asked the "reason of this change, from height' in centuries past ; The only an.swer I receiv'd was moan of fitful ))last. See, th' soul o' Being like atrial steed o'er grass-grown cai)itals prance, And the howling of the affrighted winds, — Intemperance ! Hell seem'd looming and not far ; methought tho fiends accurst Were yelling dismal dirges mid the blazing surges AVhich now in terrific tempests on th' horizon burst. What are those shapes that like billowing clouds darken ITeaven's cope ? They are the transform'd souls of drunkards that died without a hope ; And what arc those lurid lights, like volcanoes on the wing J They arc tho Sons of Genius that untimely pass'd away. Whose mental splendoi-;s might have lit a hiippv world for aye. But destined still to practise Art and doomed still to sing. Without the hope of fame, and Victors mid the battling host Repeat their toils, only to know their trojjhics lost. Who are those that fioat along as thro' a region all divine. On fleecy clouds — like shepherd kings amid their flocks recline ? And who ? like solar orbs mid new created systems shine ? The Sons of Light they are, who in their pilgrimage on earth Advanced the cause of Temperance and ev'ry moral worth. What clime is that which roseate as western ev'ning glows. That Moslem AYden, Hebrew Eilen into shadow throws ? That is the World of tho Future, when Virtue shall enhance Her Empire over Time in all of " Goodly Temperance." 72 THE LONDONIAS. llicn thither let us hie, be this our chosen home, When Virtue reigns supreme, and the Temperance Time shall come. Wo passed charioted in winds ; down thro' the charm5d air, We look'd upon a world of beauty, was never sc"n so fair, Arcady and Tempg ; and all of Classic Art was there. The mythic clime of Prester John partaketh now of truth, Too, all th' loveliness of the Globe in its verdurous youth. The Terrestrial Paradise, and the Fortunate Isles, Bland airs permeate land and main and ev'ry region smiles. Creator ! bid all of th' fiendish from our midst be d-ivcn, Kindly >>rin{^ the nations of our planet nearer Heaven. Though Bm>'" may bo the degree of intellect I possess, Yet for this, hoping for more. Thee I'll never cease to bless. O, my Lord and Saviour lear, keep it clear and make it strong:. Inspire mc with gritt'tude to sing the Temperance Song ! SIR ISiVAC BKOCK, THE HERO OF UPPER CANADA. I am now engaged in preparing an Epic Poem, entitled the Buocki.vd. motto is from a Poem by the great Sculptor, Thomas Woolner, R.A. The CANADA. . I have long had a wish to see a perpetual light on Brock's Monument at Q'leenstown Heights, either by fire, properly so-called, or by gas connected with- er attached to either of the following Colouiis : — • • • Generations yet shall thrill At Brock's remembered name. True Mart>T, Hero, Poet, Sage, And he was one of these. Chari-es S.vngstkr. Oft betrayed like Potiphcra ; Many lain like Sisera ; Now arose the avenging era ! Like that description of General James Napier's Vide .seventh, and twenty-third Fusilecrs. " At the crisis of the Battle upon the field of Albuera," The heroes of Upper Canada, Earth trembling 'neath the (ir) shock, Advanced with the tramp of doom after the fall of Brock, (Like the vampyre host of Gades), over via Hades, That never knew an upward tract. Drove Yank' in a fleshly cataract By the whirlpool impending rock. P.S. — It is known that General James Wolfe, the taker of Quebec, and General Sir Isaac BrocL*, the hero of Upper Canada, were both of them poets. Wolfe was an Orator beside ; the Marquis de Montcalm was an Orator, but like the great Roman, (" Truly a wonderful man was Marcus TuUus Cicero." Longfellow's Miles Standish.) Though ho attempted, he could not soar the sublime of Literature. He was, however, a brave gentleman and an ardent student, like Florio — " He studied while he dressed," " Abreges, Dictionnaires, Rccueilcs, Mercures, Journaux, Extraits, et Feuillcs'." " Noble Montcalm ! well thy honou.ed '»ier May claim the tribv.tc of a Briti-sh tear, Although the Ulics irom these ramparts fell, Thy name, immortal with great Wolfe's, shall dwell." W. KiBBY, Ai^in-oach to Qu^$e. ■ \ THE LONDOXIAO. 7» IC IIo will remind us of " Wilkes and Liberty" notoriety, speaking of Robert Lloyd and Charles Churchill — rather too long to copy hero — Pegasus, &c., his littlr li'iencb pony seems f however) never to have tired, an old trapper once handed me a copy of his works which I read to him. He was well pleased thereat, and as he did not like to run a risk of losing ye Booke, he gave it to me 'Tis destined for Brit. Mus. Sir George Simpson, Gov. of Hudson Bay Comyiany, once told me that he was called in the French, and the North Amcricanlndiun language, " the vory nice man " (I should suppose from this that his nature partook of that which enlivened Leathcrstocking of F. Cooper), but that " liis own name was too sho'-t to attempt pronouncing, of a long summer daj'," but as there can be no feu i here of a maxillary dislocation taking place, the said name, having in it much of the mellifluous interminable, I give its proprietor a deserved immortality in the Londoxaid. I had no pencil with me at the time of our trapper's verbal illustration thereof, but while waiting for the portage', " goodly companie," to come up, I cut it in letters upon the sward (then clcarc'l '^f imderbrush), 8lopin{( towards a creek meandering to the Madawaskf. »>|i0ii visiting the silent realm the next season, I found it impossible to decipher thi; letters because of the Mimosa which hail fillv;d the indentio, and thr rose en- sanguined hyptica which had carpeted the ground ; but I had ruminatet, mentally upon the wight of mighty name, and was glad upon receiving " pr'iof " of the present work from the press that the same corresponded in everj letter witli that contained in an Epistle sent to me a day or two ago by Wfi-bun An-nunjj (The Morning Star), Pow-wow (Head Chief), living by Na-gow Wudj'-oo (thu Sand Dunes of Lake Superior) ; "What's in a name .' " a great deal sometimes, as witness, Thomas, Francois, Joseph, Martin, Louis, Siuol, Asennafx? — Atoha- rishon — Kentarontic — SakoriatukSa-Hatekaienton — Taioronhiote-Tioiakaron. What thk HiGHLANnKRs gavk the Invader in thi: Pass of Kiixiecuankik. Our Militia on Quelnstown Heiuhts oavi: the Gou-fohoottkn Yankee. QUEENSTOWN HEIGHTS, (iiiOM "Canada Tr.LirsTRAT?:D.") The Ya."ikeo vulture took his ilight in downward swoop from Quecnsto\iTi height'. So wildly was he driven. When our Militia, in full sweep drove his legions o'er the steep Like Milton's fiends from hiaven. Van Ransselaer from the opposing shore Beheld the hellish rout. While commingling with the whirlpool's roar Arose the Yankee shout The Indians have stolen ovir best gun away (Good excuse I) let's chase them, and thus we'll run away, "And so they did, and be dc-de to them,"— MalachijO'Donohoe The Yankee, as we all know, is a, howling Braggart, beastly coward, he attacks in droves. Like the wolf, but singly, or when his numbers arc few Or equal, he and his congeners slink away With tail, or iails, between his or their legs. — Ouator ok riii. West. I A DISRAELL/EAN MYSTERY. " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers sec us." — (Uimis.) StatoraanshipasanartnothighmajTank, Wheutoryandi'adioalyououttiank, Youth crpoliticalacrobatandmountebank. 74 THE LONDONIAD. ANTI-YANKEE LETTERS. "What SIR GEORGE CARTIER, a descendant of Jacques Cautier, the discovccr of Canada, saith about the Yankees. " THE ACCURSED Y.V^KEES Annexation ! wc look with horror upon it. Even under Lcttors of Marque iimong civilised nations the poor fishermen have been supposed always to receive the synpathy of belligerents ; how stands the case with the accursed "V'ankee ? Wo shall sec. From the bas-Orient slopes of the Atlantic the principal inhabitants would start on a foraging campaign ; the habitants of the Uritish Lauroutinc re^on exist almost entirely upon the produce of the fisheries, many of them, after iicmg engaged from breakfast-time to supper-timo, would bo seized by those American thieves who, in some cove, had ))een lazily watching their progress all the day — it may be of an aged patriarch and his little great-grandson. Complaints, of course, were here unavailing ; the only reply to entreaties uttered by the indiis- trious and innocent fishers, would be, " I could swallow a cannuck any morning before breakfast." Times arc altered now, our Government have taken the matter in hand ; we have seized many vessels freighted with ichthyological goods, and placed their Gulf pirates in Duress. Annexation to that country of the buccaneer, (and the buccaneers of Campeachy were considerate Samaritans in comparison with heartless Yankees), were a league with death, a covenant with the gi-ave of all morality and honour. There the politician is a professional rogue, doctor:4 from shoppy institutes buy diplomas for twenty sous, and go forth the bane of their districts, the human butchers, the bribed poisoners, for whoever might happen to be in want of such. " Here is a wTctch would soil him some." A yankee banker 1.; a shin-plaister vendor, and the bill -shaver. Trace his personal history oven for t\u' last decade, and tlu'ough that shadowy period prolonging a dismnl d,i\\n\ ; for the rest I would say, without arrogating to myself a name, " Friend of Ilinnanity," "Let no such (bank of yank) be tnisted" the description of ;i Yankee Lawyer was given in rather too flush rhetoric to appear hen , but it will be printed in crtcnso, and paraphrased in " A Satire on the Yankees.) Your Yankee preacher is a nasal-twang psalni-singiiig vagabond, a lecher, and a horse thief." (i'rom a speech delivered at Fishmongers' Hall, London, Eng.) What a great Irishman said of the Yankee, the Hox. T.D' A. M> Gke. SciHiething was shown in print from amidst the crowd in front ;'f tl*4' busting-* (at the West Montnul Nomination). Mr. ^1(^(100 on seeing it exvlaimed, "O, dis-commend me, if you please to the YaiVai cs, for a pack of dirty soul\l scoundrels." Extract from his Lecture upon the Genius and Writings of Sir Walter Scott (delivered in MoNTiiiAi.). We see wb;it your progenitors have made Ci-naua in connection with yourselves, of course. I'll turn, by your leave, to m;' own ooimtrj'men tor a n'loment, and I will not delny you. I say to them come over here ! this is the only free count ry for Irishmi'n in the world .' and what will or ( ould \oix expect to receive at the hands of that wretched jKJople, physically and morally dcment of thnt moral Cloaca Boston, Mass-iehusetts, 1 was quite willing to exclaim with tlio prophet Nahum. — Amhairg don chathruigh IhuDtigh I atd si uile Ian do bhreajjaibh agus do shladmhihroacht. THE LONDONIAD. 75 The following is a Speech delivered by a learned Scotchman, Dr. Dvnlop, Author of A History op Canada. I demand that no qua«i yankec enter his vote upon my tally. I have glozcd over the lucubrations of certain persons paying tlying visits to this continent, as well as (such or some) emanating from stay-at-homo blockheads. In my capote pockets are the worKs of Featherstouhaugh,Marm.-Trollop, the Holy boy. Smith Sidney, or Sidney Smith, and Little Don-itt Dickens, which I intend to leave you durinp: lile, and then l']l make them a present to you ?iohM hohm. If any ot you here should become over ambitious of patentceism, and in its downward course of ruination seek acceleration, by all means take to your bosom (confi- dence ?) some yankee ; but if you would guard your machinery aright, never allow prying yankee to examine the offspring of your brain, or as the pettifogger would say, *' You'll bo money out of pocket." You've heard of the dismal swamp ill the Old Dominion (Virginia), but there is one down East whco Erpetology " Outvenoms all the worms of Nile" — Whose moral natures, if allowed to take forms, would forever frighten from its {»ursuits (of knowledge !) the most ardourous student of Natural itistorj'. Trilo, earning I may not call it, a more unnatural history might never be conceived, for in none of those latitudes extending between Aries and Libra, and Cancer and Capricorn, E(iuinoctial or Solstial, was ever produced so loathsome a creaturt: us that morally mis-shapen, slimy wretch called a yankee. "What a Hoi,::.krn P'onker savs upon the same subject. Colonel Boon, the founder of Kentucky (called formerly the dark and bloody-land) . " After getting the Farms ready for my sons, I purposed to migrate up the Mississippi Some of my friends asked me why I intended leaving the counti-y I had settled, and in a manner discovered. 1 told them that I would not live within a hundred miles of a damned Yankee. (His Biography in the British Museum.) NoTK by the Author of the Londoniad. — Colonel Boon had three sons slain by the Shawnee Indians in battle, and yet b" says they were the only people who never cheated him, and who were his truest friends when they became acquainted witJi liim. Our Indians in Caxaua are truly our good friends — how is it with the so-called United States, wlierc the Aborigines have been greatly wronged. An Amkrican Indian upon the Yankees: — The highly educattd Dr. Oronhyatckha, wlio is a Chemist, will be rememboredas having earned off the i^risso for shooting at "Wimbledon a few years ago. He is the liead of the Good Templars, a Teniperance Body numbering 100,000 in Canada, and nearly Two Millions upon cho Western Continent. These Yankees used to come to Canada. They forced their fire water upon my race. My father scalp'd many of them. (Please see 19th Londoniad.) NoTK by the Author of Londoniad.— Tlie Boston traders, not content with s'ndiug their trappers into British teixitory, would for a tew trinkets buy from tli»* various tribes valuable furs, and then causing them to be drunken, would introduce dice or some other game, win all back again, and leave these poor people, after a season of seeming .success, without any support. This is but one of the in-numerous infamifs formerly practiced by tlii>^'; skin-^iint spiritless villains the Yankees. What ai» Eminent French Gcatleman, the Cukvat.ikr LavkilletDui'DNT the Prince of Financiers, saith concerning Yankees : — There seems to be a degree of moral turpitude inherent in the Yankee totally unkn< that one from this illustrious personage, known and honoured over the habitable globe, I have alone caused to bo printed in this, the 100th Lonuo- NIAIJ. J. T, S. LiDSTONE. The Head Puemikii of the JXcvr Dominion. Bemarks concerning the Yank., (in. re^y to an interrogation, made in Parliament,) by Sir John A. Macdonald. " What ! publish it, and let the Yankee know all about it { A Yankee is the modem" AvjoavKot. — (here something was said by another member). "I knew what you were going to say, I knew it before sundown yesterday, I saw the bearer of that verbal despatch at the very moment he planted his foot upon the wharf, and I knc" " en the object of his mission, and that he would not be able to find any one c immediate liritish origin mean enough to intro- duce the subject, except the rejected of Ilaldimand. " Fides sit penes auctorem." (Cries of done-Brown !) Not only is Yankeedom the Autolycus of nations, but the Yankee himself is truly the Jonathan Wild and Blueskin embodied, with- out possessing that redeeming feature in tb»^ character of Jack Sheppard, namely filial aflfection." The Pbemikr of Uppkr Canada in allusion to the Yankees. The Hon. John Sandfield Macdonald. A descendant of the Lords of the Isles. "Who said so?" "Why, old Chandler, of Worcester, Mass." "Who is is old Chandler, of Worcester, Mass. ? " "A regular Yankee ; not an irregular one." (Laughter.) "Well, if you believe a Yankee, no one will believe you. When falsification takes the place of truth, which antique philosophers say is* eternal; when chalk eggs, sandy sugar, mud nutmegs, wooden hams, second lots of P. Pindars' razors, all made to sell, unwitting purchasers may well exclaim, sold ! — when those superfluities (?) take the place of genuine articles, and when Naragansett Bonds, Boston Certificates, and Massachusetts wild cat paper usurp the piace of Canada Consols and Debentures now passing current over even the whole habitable globe, then, and not till then, will that ^Is de la chien — the Yankee — be believed and trusted by honourable communities. There stands your Yankee " Monster, abhorred of gods and men ;" whose sobriquet, nom de guerre — plume, cognomen, or if you'd rather alias, is the synonym for living lie in every country." , What a Renownbd Englishman says about the Yankees. The Hon. Colonel Prince, called the Saviour of the West, in a reply to- " sympathisers " : — Don't come over here any more on such an errand, or you shall never go back again. I'll send you with your comrades where you'll not want any more apple sauce and pumpkin pic, and where your officers will not have a hancc of robbing our people's henroosts. Talk about only tL.j river dividing us ! Dam' the thing, and dam up the Falls ! to the bar- gain. Could you fill up this, and make a macadamized road (of its course) , Wo would be no nearer in connection than we are now or ever shall be. Off ! bo off] at once ! Had I the will as I had the power, last night I could have laid Detroit in ashes. "Who's that?" "It's a Major." Colonel — "Major who?. Major of what?" "Why, the 'Boston Major!" "What has he come fori What has he been doing ?' " We caught nim in the chicken shed. He was formerly boots at the Adams House." Major — " I didn't know they belong'd to you, Kumel." Colonel — "You're all Majors and Colonels over there. Cook, slut, and butler, up ! Chase that Yankee Major over the frontier. If I catch you back again I'll doctor you." (Incident at Windsor, Upper Canada,, during the winter of 1836-7.) Of all the sneaks in God's creation the Yankee is the meanest. He'll throw a sprat to catch a herring, but he'll rip the hording up quick in no time, minus any sauce except his own impudence, and- h . . you Mrith the sprat, swearing he gives it at tirst hand." THE LONDONIAD. 77 1- ST. JAMES'S HALL— MR. GL^VDSTONE, DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, AND " Thomas Hughes, Esq.'' On the evening of 2nd day, 7/5, '77, I attended what purported to be a public meeting in favour of Russia, held at St. Jtunes's llall; but when I arrived — O ! bless the reader — I found out that it was a Gladstone Meeting. Dick's Son, the Unready, was to have taken the chair, but 'twas filled by Yankee Tom Hughes, " the Duke (not) being there." Every "now and then, ( Co wper-Bulwer), an uproar would take place, sometimes iu isolation, like an earthquake-shaken island in an aquose surge, at other times, embleming a vol- canic Archipelago, a very general irruption would take place. One poor, unhappy wight, adventming to the platform, meek as Moses, and standing for a minute at a respuctful distance, was " moused at by " one of the C'onunittee-men, who gathered the scarcely conscious intruder, thoughts, and all, and Hung him down on the i)latforni. Hardly had he removed his victim at the unseemly landing place, than a host of Committee-men, in a true wolvine spirit, taking advantage of their numbers, leaped upon " the unfortunate M(r.) Bailey," and I verily believe were inclined, using an examination phra-se. to " pliick him " of every hair of his head. I thought as I saw the billow of " iiercu democratic" breaking over " This living shrine of trampled djTiasties," — O yes ! I thought of the Ark of the Constitution being left without a pilot to such ignorant, cowardly mariners, and involuntarily broke into singing the words of Black-Eyed Susan, — " Does my Sweet "William sail among your crew .'"—John Gay. TOTTERS HAVING REPRESENTATIVE HOUSES IN LONDON. Some gentlemen, msinufacturing potters, noar London, have sent their pro- spectuses to the Author of the Lonuoniad, but he has already introduced over 100, vide the 13th edition of that work ; and the deeds of ceramic art such as were never excelled in any age for beauty, or by any exporter for extent, were introduced by him to the Great Families of the British "West, (he does not supply shops), although their deeds too "I might relate and thoir names Eternize here on earth," — Paradise Lost, Book VI. with those of our Potter Princes, already, and here and now to bo again named " In ye Englishe Ceramicus Stoke-Vpon-Trcnte." Adams & Co., (who are now superseding "Wedgwood) ; Adams, W. ; Barlow ; Beech & Ilaucock ; Bodley ; Boote, (superseding Minton) ; Bowers ; Brood- hurst ; Brown-"Westhead ; Moore & Co. ; Bromfield ; Copeland ; Davenports & Co. ; Edwards ; Elliot ; Liddle & Son ; Godwin ; Goss ; Heath, Blackhurst & Co. ; Hill, Leveson ; Hobson, Thomas & Co. ; Holland & Green ; Kent, John; Knight, Joseph ; Livesley, Powell & Co. ; Towe & Abberley ; Macintyrf , James ; Mills Brothers ; Minton, Heibert ; Morgan, "Wood & Co. ; Old Hall Company ; Robinson & Lcadbeater ; Shai*.-, Anthony ; Skinner, "William ; Stubbs, "William ; Tams & J^owc ; "Webb & Walters ; Wcidgwood & Co. ; J. Browne & Son, (near Dorl y,) 17 Wharf, Macclesfield Street, City Basin ; Wedgwood & Sons ; &c. COUNTY COURT. I have unmasked the ^allains." — Mr. Plimsoll. That the effects of my County Court circular arc being felt may be witnessed in the defeat of Sir E. Wilmot's Jurisdiction Bill — aV ho'aour to Messrs. M. Lloyd, Cole, Norwood, Gregory, Wheelhouse,Melloi', Whalley,S:rO.O'Lcghlin, and the Attorney-General —the tall, as Galileo said of the Oiobe, "still move-s I " and before long, others will have " Pressed the bed where Wilmot lay."— Alex.vnder Pove. t8 THE LOXDONIAD. TO MY MOTHER. XpicrrcK ytwarat. So^aaaje XptffTOf *ef ovpavmv, airavT^vart, \fnaroi eirl yrn 'vi/zwflTjTe. — CosMAS. "Plus jc vis r<5trangor, plus j'aimai ma patvie." CimiSTMAS DAY IN A FOREIGN LAND. "Written far away from Canada, amidst the Bai-barous races of Massachusetts. Where are the smilinj? faces now, that lit up Christjias Day, Where are the deep Cathedral tones, the Holly and the Bay ? All the bleak blasts of adverse fate have stripp'd what once was mine, And like a flower transplanted in foreifrn lands I pine. I think upon the happy times in " merrie England " spent ; A Mother smiles no more for mo : hero give your sorrows vent. Where are the youth who moved so paj', the aged that smiled with joy. And artless maidens that caressed of yore the Minstrel boy I Alas ! the aged have passed away, the grass grows green above them ; In Mem'ry's archives they are placed, I'll never cease to love them. The youth have left their early homes for every distant coast ; Some have soared to virtuous Fame, some are for ever lost. " The times have changed," as Scott would say, and blinding tears may flow ; E'en in mine own land th' scenes are changed, I'd scarcely know them now, The lanes that lay thro' " thickest shade " tliat overhung'the stream. Where thro' infantile years I roamed as in a fairj' dream. By daisied bank, the primrose lavm, and by the iv'.ed wall. Where th' ancient Abbey, and the Moat, llistoric scenes recall. Thoughts on thoughts, like fitful gusts o'er Time's dark flood amain, Sweep through the desert of my soul, and swell the stormy strain. My heart is like a sepulchre, wnere the once living lie, And memories like dismal ghosts, flit in weird visions by. Ay, Hark ! there is a sound, a voice, and now a mist I seo, With rainbow tints assuming Form, my Mothkr, ah, 'tis she ! liangnage, O wliithcr art thou fled ?— stay ! hear her blest command, Remember me, aye trust in God, and love your Native land. Yes, when I shall cease to love thee my memory be forgot. Heaven's gate be closed above mo, and evil be my lot. Quail in the battle march of life, oblivion swamp these lays. And never may a song of mine descend to distant days, Hope that on the Tree of Life in seeming blossom blows. But emblem out a lifeless waste, swept by the Polar snows. In distant climes ne'or trod before, how roam'd thy exiled son, Thro' wildest realms and wilder years till he the Lanrcl won. 'Twas in the twilight dawn of life, e'er sunrise of my day, I left thee, but I will return crowiied with the fadeless Bay. »•••**•••♦'• Leave we now the unlovely land ; still more unlovely race. And strive, although we vainly strive, dark memories to efface. In Canada tn smiile — my heart leaps to tliv blissful shore. On British soil once more, my boys, on British soil once more. \ MY MOTHER'S VOICE. " Aguri tar A\-ith the simoon's fury the desert was uptost, And the sky, shadowless before, now fill'd with undefined forms, I thought them tyrants' disembodied spirits rapt to storms ; Fiery winds and sandy seas more fiereelj' round mc blew. And I was battling all alone with that aerial crew. Clouds intervened no more, a waste desert below mo lay, The lone height trembled to its base and now was gi^^ng way ; And I already tumbling down to meet my. hated doom ; Anon ! h new Creiition did forth in vision loom, I stood amidst a I'uradisc in all its pristine bloom. Birds, Flowers, and Fountains made that Eden to rejoice, I awoke ! • » * *» » « * * v^ A form was bending over me, — I heard my Motiieu's Voice-. TO MY MOTHER. (Weitten in Ameeica.) Mrs. T.Ikmaxs. " There is, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within A mother's heart." Long years may roll their cycles by, and oceans intervene. In pleasure's or in sorrow's hour is still my mother seen. What though on distant continents, beside Niagara's foam. By prairies, woods, and western wilds, your only son should roam I Though all the years of youth were .spent beyond the floods afar, Yet ne'er have I forgotten thee, my bright and morning star. My heart yearns toward you with a warmth no language may express. Had I a thousand worlds to give, ten thousand tongues to bless, Yet these were all too small ; and more, when all were done. To speak the gratitude and lovu of your lone, exiled sou. Talk of affection as you may, what is it shines above, Intensest, brightest, purest, best ? 'tis all a Mother's love. The words of kindliness she .spake, full oft in infant years. Throng on the mind in after-times, through joyousness and tears. Another wife may well bo found, a sister, too, be bom : But nothing can Uko Mother's love the human life adorn. Yes ! and when all the world grows cold, friends prove no longer true. Then, Mother, with a bursting heart, wo ever turn to you. TO MY MOTHER. (Weitten in England.) JoH-v Milton's Paradise Regained. " Home to his mother's house returned." No sentimental lyre I string to fancied sighs and tears ; For I know well th'> woes did wring your heart in exile years. The last to wave the parting hand, as T dared the stormy track ; And your form rose first upon the strand, to welcome the exil(< back. When the sun flamed in heaven no more, and his last beams faintly shone, 1 saw you on the less'ning shore, when all the rest were gone. On steeps, in labjTinthine dells, vour voice came baok to mc. Like the sweet chime of silver bells across the mounding sea. Your presence ever seem'd to guard me in my wandering waj's; Enveloping the lonely Bard in Aureola rays. 1.^ -80 THE LONDOXIAD. TO MY MOTHER UPON HER BIRTHDAY. Mrs. Cowdex Clark?:, " The birthday of one of the best of Mothers." TUOMAS MOOUK. •' What should I be without thee ? Without thco how jojit'ss victorj', Thouffh bomo by Anxeln, if that umilo of thine Blcss'd not my banner." I remember very well what have mental giants said, U'hat in the Sjiiing-tidc of Time's first year all the world was made ; (1 suppose they meant to say, then were it« foundations laid). io ! l)an Chaucer, " When that month in which the world began (The Nun's Priest's Talc), That highte March, when God first mak('>d man." March ! your natal month, sacred was in classic times to Mars, Yours be the Peace and Calm, Mothkr, and I'll out-storm the Wars. Carew (in prose) speaks of Spring, and others the Muses' lemans, lo ! Spenser, Shakespeare, Thomson, Pope, Goldsmith, Shelley, llemans. The Star of Destiny brightens o'er Heaven's triumphal Arch, Precursor of a happy year, eventful 6th of March. Learned men do tell us that this is the first day of Spring, — In Spring it was, we know, our fav'rite Milton best could sing. Ah ! very many lonely birthdays bj- us both wore spent, — You in England. Mothku, I on the Western Continent. In all the dreary twenty years through "which did Exile go, No reciprocal arm was there to help in weal or woe. Uoth of us strength and spirit have to dare the storms of strife, Whatever I may be, you are but in the prime of life. Yet to cheer the evening of your day shall be my primcst aim, For you I'll gather ev'ry wreath on all the fields of fame. Studying Language in my sleep, three words to me were given. The loveliest (by angel hands), Mother, Homk, and Heavkn. Oh ! there awaits thee. Mother, — wilt thou come along with me 1 — An Island Paradise in Ontario's upland sea, Niagara rolls in myriad hues as garlanded in Flowers, Like lambent fires in Fairy Land ascend ToRo.vro's towers. The sights and sounds of Canada o'er all that roseate clime Shall vision forth the Eden of a legendaiy time. But wherever thou deign' st. Mother, to take up thy abode. There's my centre of th' Universe, and there my other god ! If you desire, no more will I ride venturous o'er the foam. Mutually we'll cheer each other in our English home. And when we take our walks abroad, at sunset or at mom, We'll note where greatness flourished, where such an one was bom. Ev'ry step we take in England, wherever we may stray. Will recall deeds of splendour in each retrospective day. Around the fire at eventide the mental shall engagi , And we'll converse with mightiest minds, the lights of ev'ry age. Literature and Works of Art shall beautify our Home, We'll welcome ev'ry trusty friend, whenc-ever such shall come ; No cold formality restrain, be all as free as air. All that within our circle come shall equal bounties shore ; (Oh, bear me witness. Muse I if scarce these minstrel eyes have dried, Since C^sar was stolen away, and lovely Sappho ditd). , Mother ! like Mercy's Angel, still advance with open hand, I, buckling on my armour, will lead the ardorous band That aims to bring the English People back their rightful land. THE LONlMJXIAD. SI SIR CHARLES AND LADY WATKINS, -from Lands beyond the sea, liuv turned, O Canada ! to thoe, — a happy Western home. Pamkua S. Vininu'b Canada. Letters from them appear in former Londoniabs. The last received from them by my Mother and myself was about Christmas, 1876. [Our well-known and cvcr-to-be-honoured friends will be remembered a."* residing many years at 29, New Charles Street, City Boad, London [England]. I and my Mother inhabited the same house with them for about six or seven 5'oars ; my Mother constantly, and I, except whatever short time I happened now and then to be I'Ut of London. — J. T. S. Lidstone.] " Mine own romantic towi."— Sir "WALTEtt Scott. TO THE INHABITANTS OF TORQUAY, Electors and Non-Electors. I enter the field of candidature for the Represen- tation of the Queen of the South in Parliament at the next General Election . By the application of Science and Art, and ever mindful of the unrivalled salubrity of its climate, and of the loveliness of its situation, I will r trive by every means in my power to attract towards my native town the elite of nations. I shall personally, and at an early period, have the pleasure of addressing you collectively, and of conversing with you each, so far as may be, individually. Hoping to meet both Ladies and Gentlemen at the Hustings, I will from thence, confident of success, beckon you to the Poll. I am, yom's faithfully, J. TOEEINGTON SPENCER LIDSTONE. frr-r if TOE LOKDONIAC. THE ARCHBISIIOr OF CANTERBURY AND THE ARCH- BISHOP OF YORK. rn?;Hii)F.NTR OK THE Anomcan Tkmi'kiianck SoriKTY. In the Causes of the Rise, Decline, and Fall of Nations I introduce the thrto Archbishops. ! I HON. MALCOLM CAMERON (Ottawa). PRESIDENT OP CANADA TEMPERANCE CONFERENCE. T parly MTotc a poem on Parliamentary Charneter, in which I introdueerl our Pioneer of Civilization. It is now in the iJritish Museum, Loudon (Eng.). (Please see the supiilement.) SIR WILFRID LAWSON, BART. " Yet Temperance, yet thy Standard tcm Ly llyinjif, Streams like a thunder-storm against the wind." (Parody on Byuon.) Soon shall the whole Island of England he th(> stone of help whereon to rear ourEhenezer; may Heaven still continue to inspire our I'luliamentary Cham- pion even as we are, all of us, always inspired by his Niune, Presenee, aiif centuries yet to come, will forrn no parallel to the aim and dentiuy of TuK Unitki) Kinudom Ai.manck ; the one like a new-created Heaven ex- tending a blissful future over, Chaos, and the other, a moral Titan of our time, turning upon the Demon of Intemperance like another Thor battering the serpent, DowTi the fiery maw of dragon, .Sir Wilfrid threw the poison'd llagon. Songs of iJie Trouhadours. Lawson among the foremost." Duyukn's Annus MirahiU.'i. " And Merry Carlisle " Pkrcy's Rcliqiics of Ancient EnglisJi Podry. T. L. WILSON, ESQ. The " all are not evil" of Byron, meets an exemplification in the career ol this gentleman. [Please sec the Desantiau.] THE HONOURABLE SAMUEL L. TILLEY, C.B., LlEVTEXANT-GoVEXlNOR OV NeW' BkLNSWICK. "We may never forget those blissful hours in which, before the prime splen- dour of England, you stood, the embodiment of that Virtue destined to bless mankind more than every other or all the other Virtues put together. You left behind you a stream of light that followed you in glory over the ocean from England, and which must ever glow like the Galac tic circle to the mental eye of myriads. Had you resided a little while longer in Lcmdon, it was the inten- tion of friends connected with the United Kingdom Alliance, and of many thousands besides, to have greeted you with a torch-light procssession and serenade. But you have enlightened and charmed our generation tlu-ough Temperance, the fountain of all virtues. In your existence we realise the Kildare Fires and the Mam Tors of Human Life, yea ! all that is sacred and great. You will attract our vision and warm our memories — maugre all distance intervening, of a physical ocean and mam of years ! My mother desires to be kir''ly remembered to yon. 1 THE LONDONIAD. 83 J EX-GOVKUNOR GARDINER. MASHArilfHKTTH. I made an allusion to you in a former Los don a in, and took, I believe for motto — '* All are not evil." This liatli boon fully cxcmpliflod in your own career 5 but I nhall take you for Avitness in the day that 1 an-ai^Ti IJoston— that city of Hodoni — boforo the world as a nest oV infatnous miscreant-', and 1 liero brand its inhabitants, individually and colU'(!tively, as falsiliern and cowards, and when the tocsin of war shall sound you will liave no ciuartcr, and what befell a part of Washinprton, and what Baltimore narrowly cscaiied in IHli-ir), is your doom. HON. GEORGE S. IIILLARD. "The Great Mu&sachusetts Man." Labiiam'h TngoldHhij LcQcnOn. Your name is bettor knowni in England than that of any other IJostonian, owing to your critical dissertation on, and edition of, the workH of Edmund Hpenser, and your Six Month.s in Italy. 1 was present in I'aneuil Hall, October 27th, 18,')2, and heard your oration on Daniel \Vel).ster, then and tlu-re delivered by you, and as your name is the likeliest to ro down to a far posterity, and because you will remember something? about it, 1 choo.-^e to associate your name with the following circumstance. (The rest is included in a letter, which will be para- phrased for the New lioatoniad.) TO THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF LOSTON, MASS. " At Boston one day ! But the Yankees soon flinch — " Sonpr, "TuK Ci'KSAri'.AKr. anM) Riiann'o.s-, Deputy TcgK'8 Edit., 1808. As the representative body of miscreants, I will driv^ you forth to the lif!;ht of day, and lash you in the presence of the onlooking world. But I may not stay any longer. Intantn nordtum congcrie. Wherever and whenever is met a Yankee, especi.iUy of Boston, Massachu- setts, the world always will, as it docs now, exclahn, "Ptedtcutor; hie snuall- dtus est." * I am preparing a Satihk on the Yankkks, to be called the Nkw Bo.stoniad, in Avhich more than 5000 names will be introduced. J. T. S. LIDSTONE, Author of the Bostoniad, which was published 1853. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFrY GUINEAS REWARD. A most honourable and substantial Canada personage, having been ill-affected by some one or more of those "institutions" called Trade Protection Societies, I offer the above reward, hoping thereby soon to acquire knowledge, whereby a full development of attending circumstances may be made public ; for I look upon it as the scandal of our time, that a Brave, Generous, Educated, and Enlightened Gentleman should be secretly and underhandedly attacked by low catchpennies and hireling cowards. I only ask that the attendant circumstan- ces be revealed, openly and above board. I called upon IVIr. Ilartlcy (Head of Stubbs'), and am convinced that no evil in regard to the above emanated from thence. Not so with another, a petty concern, and I had so worked the oracle, that my man, like a second Marchades (almost) laying his hand upon the shoulder of Bertrand de Gourdun after his fatal arrow' had pierced CcDur-de- Lion, was ready to pounce upon " the Secre- tary," or " what-d'-yc-call-it " (Milton), when the coward (and cowards, a.9 q2 A*" '^>, IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 Irfia I I.I 11.25 25 >^° 1^ ■^ IIIIIM m 1.4 V] v^ Photographic Sciences Corporation <^ 33 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. MSSO (716) 872-4503 L17 V :\ \ [v ""^^"^^ c^ <0 \ \ ^ 84 THE LONDOIOAI). oitr Friend Frank Buckland hath it, aro always cruel) decamped by a back* door, and has not since been heard of ; but— " Let him be girt With all the gtinVy legions that troop Under the sooty flag of Acheron, llanricK and hydras, or ull the ninnstrous forms 'Xwixt Africa and Ind, I'll find him out." Milton's Comus. And 80 I did. Since the above reward was first offered I have secured a rom- ploto set of light literature, issue'ed well of his countrj'- men and the world ; and as I think the desired object cannot be better carried out than in erecting a statue to Mr. Layard, I will give sixty guineas towards the same, the pedestal to be adorned with mezzo-relievo, illustrative of his Researches, his Contributions to Art Litera;^irc, and his connection with the Paris £;.labition of 1867. The amoimt to be paid in the following manner — twenty guineas at the commencement of the work, an equal siun when it shall be half thi'ough, and the remainder at the completion thereof. In fond remembrance, I am vours faithfullv. JAMES TORRINOTON SPENCER LIDSTONE. To Hodgson Pratt, Esq, P.S. — The open space in front of the British Museum would be a verj- suitable place whereon to erect his statue, and I would suggest that this be the bpot. — J. T. 8. L. CONGRESSMAN CHANDLER. "Chandler."— John Gay. •• Blatant beast."— Edmund Spenser. " Congress." — Byron. " Congress — Doom'd tofall." — John Duyukn (trans. Virgil ..Sneid.) " I know you of old." I do not now think that your philtres will work with any great degree of effect upon the body politic of Britain, however much they might tend to accelerate the hour oJF climactrical dool to the infamous town you inhabit. (Boston. ) Your Boston we compare to the cities of the plain. " E pero al minor giron suggella Del segno suo c Sodoma e caovsa." {Infemo, xl.) THB LOirDOmAV. 86 I do not wonder at your Tenomous speech a^nst England, Ireland, and Scotland, when I consiucr fhc consanguinity existing between you and that hoary monster Chandler, the Worcester (Mass.) poisoner, familiarly known as " the Uockter ! " *' Horrid thing besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and i>arcnt's tears." {ParaiiM Lott, Book I.) In thinking of whom at this distance of time and space, I am forcibly reminded of the words of Schiller, " Nothing in the whole course of my life has so stabbed me to the heart am the countenance of that man," except it bo cnNiAi> to visit all the various districts in British North America, with the view of ascertaining a means whereby a spirit of reciprocal feeling might be brought into existence between our British Manufacturers in London (Kng.), and those in the Provinces of the Imperial Country having Ueprcbcntativu Houses in the Metropolis, and our people in the New Dominion, the upshot of all this is, that I have now in my possession the Names and Addresses of over One and a Half Millions of Per- sonages and Finns — ull those that arc worUi knowing in every village, town, and dt^ of CANAiiA. This would bo too great a number to cause to be printed, but I will keep them by me for reference, and in order to supply my friends mentioned in the Lun'iiuniai» with the names of those engaged in any line of Business of which they may desire knowledge concerning, and with whom they can or may of course correspond at any time. Moreover, I will, when required, give them a Manuscriitt List of such names us they may choose or prefer (the Kind of Manufiictures required being made known to me), or sudias I may have reason to suppose suitable for thi>m, and I will at the same time orally illustrate conocming such Honsos or Individuals in "The British West" (Milton), as may be of service to our Friends in the Mother Country. All this will apply only to the Heroes of the LoNitoNiAn, for whoso special benefit I have caused the. hitherto unparalleliMl number of names to be thus gathered together. No sum that might bo numtioned, within a moderate or even a largo amount, could repay me financially ; this I desire not, and I do not require it. I will maxe no charge neither will I accept of anything in return but the truest and best recomjjense, such as one guntleman might be kindly pleased to oflfcr unto another without any compromise of dignity upon either side, namely, kind acknowledgments and cordial thanks. THE BATTLE OF LIFE. " Bellum iwc tiinendwn, nee provocandum." — P1.IN. •'.4udacc«/ortuna JHcat timidoiuiuo repelUt.*' This poem contains over 3,000 names, and appears in a supplement with the motto,— " Turn on tlut bloody hounds mth head of eteeU And make the cowards stand aloof at hay. (Wu. Suakespeabe.) I : VBM lamnoMUJD, 87 HfVEMTORS, PATENTEBB, AND FIBSE MANUPACTIHlEBa Of' OAflTUBHrO. AwABDS :— United States, HonooraUe Mention, 1853; Pariit Medal, 1855 ; London, Madal, 1862 ; Oologne, Gold Medal 18(;>; Dadler, Medal, 1866; Paris, Medal, 1867; Turin Houourable Mention, 1867 ; Havre, Diplome d'Honneur 1868 ; Vienna, Medal for Frogreaa, 1873. JAMES BJJBSKLL A SONS, LIMITED, Chrown Tube Works, Wednesbury, Makvfac- TUBBBS or Patent LAP-WsxDia) Ibon Tubeh, HoMooKtruous-METALS, SncBx., Chabooax^Ibon, AND OTHBB TUBBS, FOB LOOOMOTIVE, MaBINK, AND StATZONABT BoIIJSBS, AND OTHBB Puit- London Warehouse and Offices : 108, South wark Street, Please address in full — Jakes Btjsskll and Sons, FOSES. S.£. LmiTED. 1 Tofurs a BubsoU's glory- O (cried the OoddoM) for Somo gcntlo Jamkh to bless the land. T110MA.H Caxpskll. Alkxamdrk FoPk. My mind wan almost empty, I felt an aching void, • • • • « To persons who know more about pewter pots and cububcs Oanaoa at least will never entrust its orders for tubcH ; But here I hail the manager, ye wight of mental pith, Our greatest men in Canada were the friends of • • • His nrm 'hove the re^t of the world for tubes hath mailc mark. We'll, note, the Crown is of Jamkh Russell and Sons the trade mni-k ; And I'm convinc'd that Tubes of Pittsburgh', Boston', or New Yorks Will never equal thoHo of Wcdnesbury, ye t^' Crown Woiks. Muse ! though others may aa with Cerberuaean mouth bark. We hie to the London House (London) and Southwark Street, Southvuik. Henceforth for Public and Private Buildings o'er th' Western Seas, I choose our Limited Componv famous Patentees. Wrought Iron Welded Tubes for Ghu, Steam, and Water, with Iron, Braide the Thames, While noting th' name of Russell we'll remember that of Jamp.s. SECOND POEM. In every competition they erer firsi, ^vere reokon'd. And the battle cry of rivalry, " Who shall be seoond T "- My heroes like Ilia's unshaken mountain isles resiat. The force of flro and flood, nor shall th' impetuons muse desist,— T. 8. LlOSTONK. 'I t 88 ns LOHBOHIAD* Lo thdr Wrought boB Tnbe, Slam and Water Tube and Fitting Litt. In Canada I had heard the namaa of all declared «re>while, And aa being, too anaarpaiMd in the ImiMrlal lale, Their deeds are in all cUmea from the linng to the letting day, Thro* their unbounded reeourcea they the neat markets sway Of all the world, their Patent Lap-wdded Iron Tubes for Steam Or other ourpoaes a'v ever the inspiring theme. Yes I well may I say thro^ them hath soienoe, nations inspired, Hee them Screwed and Socketed, or with Flanges when required. And our neat self -snlBdent Family Firm discloses Cocks ana Valves I ween for Steam, and eke other purposes, I write not on mere traffickers, they Sdonoe Creators, Here I aunroT ntcam and water-gauges. Lubricators, Whistics, Petoocks, Orease-cups, ftc, for Looomotiyo Marine and Stationary Engines, and for purposes Other, for these and more I offer to them the votive Lay. Lonsr years I they may not have lain upon beds of roses. And though adverse blasts in fury 'round our Steropd swept, Excelsior I their motto, they advanced while others slept. And now like a sky their Bronteaean standard is unfurleo, And spreads above the winds in ev'iy region of the world ; Others ore mii mom changing hands if not changing na mes. But we'll recall the name ofRussell joined with that ot^gf Jamks. Manufacturcrn, the requirements of purchasers to suit, Cleep'd Special, our 4.000,000s o'er tn* waves fondly will salute. Our thorough-going firm, unlike some, never do thingt by halves. Artesian well Boring Casing Shells and Bods, and Valves Called Automatic, and here Bedstead Tubes Plain and Spiral, Theirs are our solo supply of Blind Tubes, Hand and BiiluBter Rails, From the Impctial Home lands to Occidental Diral, Argo with a cargo three times every season sails. From amongst the ancient Gods, and there wore very many What hath the Metallic Deities of Archaic Greece Conjured from mystic realm ! Coils Plain and Tapcr'd of any Length, e'en up to 380 feet in one piece ! Coils, Patent, for Steam Heating, Core Bars Plain, Drilled and Tapered Of any reasonable length up to lA inches Diameter (hero many strove but only Capered The Donee of Death ! ) each other firm stiU flinches. Flush Pointed Tubes for Artesian Wells. Field Boiler Tubes g>uter Tube only), these the chosen of mine Uncle Rube's, as Tubes of all sises up to 4 inches bore diam- Eter (all ideas of high deeds spring from Great I Am), Fittings to correspond. A rhyme ! I think of Priam — , Times long before ; perforce a pre-Hedodion date, And wak'ning to life the void of centuries, march elate. Thro' all the ^lory^opoohs and Time' cnvolving main. Rapt in the Kosmos, I hear the songs of hammer and tongs- Skill of Immortals ! Arges, Ischys, Bie, and Mochanc, — Hydraulic Tubes of any sise, proved from 4,000 to 15,000 lbs. per square inch, and Fittings if required, Such ne'er oefore on " this terrene " met of mankind the view, To match which, vainly, thro' 100 nitons I enquired. Iron and Steel Tubes, various. Plain and Tapered eke Roller Tubes for Looms and Machinery, th' Zodiac's a toller Of th', foon.en' Epicedium, they're turned to bleating calves, ICirco swine !) I welcome Russell and Brown's Regulating Valves. ^or regulating (I note) the pressure of steam from high To any lower pressure, here too they the world outvie Steam Pipes with Sockets or Flanged joints, toon I each npland sea, Painted by Native Artista. behold the Tranniarenoy, Illustrative of Diagrams, Noa. 1, S, 8, page 8. THE LOHSOKIAO. W Hail Telflgnpb Poles (tapored) of iron, nerer liiioe Chiron In Art instructed men^ or o'er th' JBmma fmmoi Myron, Lighting with ererluting Science alTits oussic coasts. Was cTer equal known to RusseUs' Gate and Lamp Posts. Lo Tubes of rarious section^ vi*. Square, Rectangular, Octagon, nesagon. Triangular, Oral, Semi- circular, and ouior shapes (O Muse I bound into the star Of the '* utmost pole " ! I 'mongst your sons on earth a dcmi- Ood will reini, in known and stfil unknown lands, thro* ages fiur. The 10th of Nehemiah a strange catalogue of names. But the greater wonder-dccds wrought by Russell called James Over the floods of IHmo shall pass us on a rainbow pons, With all the banner'd ages he immortal with his Hons. Like Hompr*H catalogue of ships may I begin the ntrain. Or Toniuato Tasso's hcroofl on that Syrian plain, SpeniM'r'H riverH, Miltou'o cities, ay, like Ossion's stars, I'll rc-uuimutu via Lactce into triiunphal cars) . "Also for" Heating and Superheating Apparatus, like a Tor Mentalo as seen in Wonderland—vide 83rTo Trystcm— ■" They glorify the nations thro' Shackleton's Patent System Of llcuting by Exhaust Steam, together with all other Requisite Fittings. In dealing here " you meet no bother." They rule tho world from the Imperial Mother Nation, And by them ti^ndcrs will be given upon application. Thus hath your Bard in Htrain unique cxultingly rchcarsM The fame of our groat Arm (secure while others burst), Who stand now at the head of the world as they were the first. I remember well, reclining in Olio Tower, Of a sultry Hummvr afternoon, an in a bower. Thro' tcnaril'd canemcnt soft breezes my languid Hpirit fonn'd. Songs of birdit wnth .streams conuiuugling thro' that enchanted land ; Minerva's form passed lerial thro' without a rustle, Dictating tills lay for the Company of James KurscII, She Mpuke of lluseoinmon's " fiery tubes" anu Milieu's "glazed Ditto," till their strains hod Canaua to glory-land emblazed. P.S. — One order for British America of 15,000 dollars intended for another place did not go there. The Author of the Londomad, with whom remained the power of illustrating the subject financially, declined to recognise the same. * * * After several thousands of Uic Lonuuniad were struck off I cancelled the four pages of this sheet, and ordered the entire Edition to take in this the Great Tube Poem. Those loft out arc the Wheel and Van Works, Iron Foundry, Stable Fittinprs, Rockets, Ammunition, Jute, Leather, Chemicals, Chronometers, Oil, Pickles, and several others. Now, as heretofore, I have determined not to fill up the London ia» with mere Card Poems (than which nothing were easier), but, in ordei to give the said Work (i high literary charac- ter, I will write only and in full upon those personages whom I intend to intro- duce, never forgetting my Colonial Friends. J Ion. H. K. Smith, the Great Orator, and Mayor of Buffalo, N.Y., upon Yankees is in type. Please see the next Lonuoniau. I'.S.— The " Onslauf^ht of the OuAToa of the Wbst," and " llistorv brought to support the assertions contained in those Letters and Orations" (750 in number) by the Author of the London iau will appear hereafter. • • • • " In the lowest at, Present, and Future are one, whose form fills up the Universe, from the fountain of whose Bdng^ cycles and zodiacs are for ever spraying over the erst inane. Instead of looking upon the Lord of millions of worlds, among all the races of Man, the Yankee hath the most contracted notion of Deibr. Here he is ! (The Orator takes a bogus dollar— not out of " silken or of leatnem purse " 90 TUB XMrsomAO. — butoutof hi8«aii(oo«tpooket). I'll ■pin him around like a top (npinft it). Tliere, you blaupbamouf and aordid paok of Hybrids, there in your Almighty (Almighty Dollar) ! CURIA MUNI0IPALI8. I lately rocoivod a letter from Canaua asking mo the follotring:— " Huh (tood Mr. Morriman, whose enlightened courtesy wo experienced at thn Eiistem (Question* T) Mooting in the Ouildhall last fall (autiium), supcraodcd yot that non compos mentis sany ;" for the nonoo I did nut euro to rally niv memory in roinurd to 'whom was meant. When sprang to memory the words of Dcvorgilla of Covrlavcrock (wife of John Boliol— dHed 1289). " Nao lawtith frac doofort doilt hyt hccpy lyart loun caM Kt;r " (r) . 1^^ Will the cnlightonod Reader be kindly ploa»ud to sec the Themiaiad, and the nest Loniiomad. The answer is in typo. TIIE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD. In the next Lo;* DOM I AO will appear " A Reed hhakcn with the wind,'' &c. • • • *— • ; Kai BPE«OS illar'd halls Mwmed to rchearHo Ah looming o'tr chiios, thu lival moiik of the univorttu. 300 tST'H upon u tiuor cn>;iiKt'd in " cuttiuK out," Why wonder that Squiru Williuin hath put all worlds to th' rout. Our businoHs-liku gentluiiuui of uniturjtaHHud roiiuwn ■iSr only Miipplii's onu who in 'h turn HUpplieit a town. Kc, by hin blocks in inyriudH, diumuUv proparcH And Hcnds every day out thro' thu world 3U,UU0 pairu, AvuM-Amentum Crejnda, Da Vinci's Laht Si'ppku Thu world'H Hocond wonder deed of Art Hce in each Upper. Hutto ! rc-iininiutu thu battle fiuldn of thu diiyti of yore. What Hue'Ht thou t 'twus the Caligu that thu Itomuu boldiora wori>, Thu Calceus woni by HeliogubuluH Nero Wc know thum all, Hundaliuni Holea, Cracoes, Turo Cothemub, " Jonsun's learned Huck" Soccun {Lai) et bubkin, " BuNkin " lo th' folio vol. writ on this word by Uuskin. Till to another coni]>ii8H point thu mind of Yunk did i-uuge With Blissful t)> lAuio ernt mutual interchange lie held, but nu moru hu comes u]H)n tlnunciul foray For him wo have made ** the duty " prohibitory. William Kubbitrt' modu of doing businesti I will well describe And bring his deeds in vogue with itative and adopted tribe, Dintance ! I draw the a>rial curtains, what meets our ken { IliH correspondents, our climes more subtituntial gentlemen. _ _ The Legend of Saint Thomas, a poem by the Author of the Losdomad, is ready for the press. CONTRACTORS TO HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIA BOARD. FaizK Mkdal awak»ki> at thk IIavkk Exhiuitiox. PEACOCK AND BUCHAN'S Established Compositions for Ibok, Wood, Coppered, ob Zinced Vessels, Yachts, Baboes, BoATO, Buoys, Beacons, Files, &c. Also for Preserving Railway Sleepers, Telegraph and Fence Posts. Established 1848. None aro Genuine that do not bear the Tbade Mask, to imitate which Is a Forgery. From the " thousand and one " kinds of Anti-fouling Composition, I take A 1, as they say at Lloyds, that of our Royal Naval Captain, reasons in various languages.) — Letter to Canada. (Please sec my Here, unlike cheating S' Edawmirg, vile whitning compound. Which adds nought to Science, nor doth to Makers, worth redound ; Never more to those of coward heart and lying lips which Caused that abomination to be sent from Ipswich, — Which would in its causation but oocelleiute rust. And then tly off, as vide Milton, " liku Libyan air adust." But our Captain, donning the Palleean regaUa, In aureola lit Meridional Australia, Thro' him Salvation's Science in thu brighter day confest, Glows roseate o'er all the countries of the " British West." There, thro' the flight of years, as unpaid representative To this, will the urdorous Bard all his energies give. Our Ships, as in a New Creation, cleave the watery way. Like those that graced the lays of Byron, Falconer, and Gray. 02 Tto LONDOKIAB. How by the uninitiutod ihall bo the Htondanl fixed '. Even a novicu con apply it— 'tin alreudy mix'd ! Never tnoro about comitonenta need the vcHicl't crew inquire ; Beside, liit each Inauranoo Company, immunity from fire, No mere ephemera, or Icnown but yesterday, empcight It may none S^ Established 1H4H. Granitic blocks (of Houses), HridRcs, TalinKS, and eke walls, Bo forth, Canada only, for I'oiicoi-k and Huchiin calls. And, look ye ! whorcvcr tbe Hritish Btanrlard is unfUrlcd, Like the 8ea on Homer's Hhield, their glory rolls— around th' world. And Meiit gave him fume siich us few do or have deserved : "Captain, you are a gentleman of honour !" — On way's Venice Prcterved. "To him no Author in unknown " that ever woo'd the Muse, Or sought in humbler prose (I'rior) " this and that " to infusi^ ; Jlere (Ilobert 8outhey) " the Peacock assumes his proudest hues.'* A sense of confidence ord'ring from hence wo ev» r feel. Machinery, ToUsh'd OranitoWheels, too, of polished Steel : What left 1,000 vendors mere pretenders in dolours T Our Paints arc ever finely ground as arc Artists' Colours, Nor thro' all British realms alone are my blest Heroes known, A rival duy on th' universe is th' splendour o' their i-enown. Next to songs of deliverance ascending to Heaven, Are the prayers offered up for, and thanks to them given. Jlere in one seems blended " all knowledge, human and DiNine, (This from I'rior) that thought can reach or Sciiace can define ; And they have (witness their Book) power to giv>< that knowledge birth (The sumo Author) in all the speeches of the babbling earth," While practical wights in every zone proclaim thi ir worth. Fuma blares her trump, Tethys ! Tellus ! realm, land, or wavey, Hail Science's Thaumuturguu, Captain in th' lloyal Navy, To him are known life's modes in their higher varieties. He, th' valued Member of many learned Societies, Across, adown th* a'rial ;;lade of centuries yet to come, Shall his name bo heard in Canada, his loved, early homo. Sir John Denham's Cooinr's HiH, th' " most lov'd of all th' Ocean's sons," Whose bounty, thro' the mentalo, flows a perpetual fons ; The Cynosure I what is it each unburn nice so fondly cons i Ilia spirit, above Time's tempest-embattled ages. Blended in one those of classic Greece's 7 Sages. He, Author and Patentee, ay, doubly the Inventor, As on the '• plains of Windy Troy " rang the voice of Stcntor, • So shall over th' expanse of Being that of our Mentor. Captain Peacock showed, too, have a biicolic S(iuire blund'red. What time he on ** this earth globose ' ' lost a " cool 500 !" What may have been refreshing to some proved too hot for him, Who lost thus much, alas ! sad experience, through a whim ! Methinks I hear the words of ye old British monarch, Lear, — " Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the' world !" (Will Shakespeare) ; Who is there that this " odd formation " in the view can taku 75,000 miles of a grindstone or pancake ? The Muse unchanging, ay, as Lex erst of the Median, From their Hecatompolis takes her first Meridian. I will proof advance that she is prolific and fecund. For funds we apply not to Kcichrath, Parliament, or Bund, We pay for their paints on the Cathedral of Saint Tammanund. (Of Echo, how far wilt thou bear the fame of Tammanund I 1 Asked, she thus, ** Extra flanunantia m^nia mundi ") In high latitudes on Pole Magnetic they have made mark, Oeographic exemplification, lo their Trade Mark. A Olobo septentnon ye wizard shippe doth sail upon, With a boundless heaven for the sensible horizon. Our Captain is plain and gracious, so not a " gent " or " don," THE LOKSONIAO. 99 Philoiophy'ii Dundonold, Cochmnc that jolly neocook, WaH the Arnhotypo of Time's beneftictor. Captain Peacock, Th' Royal Ocom^pbicol Hociety'n Firnt Motnbor ; This I hoiird at it* Special Meeting, Itfth thiit Ducember. And tho AdTcnturoUH Mune, sure it would diflhoartrn her, Failinff •* Salute of deferences due " to our junior Partner, My Mother haH liHtoncd to, nut dull Popper, and Kucban, And 'h very well ac(iuaintekr Pope. 'Twas opposite Offdcnsburffh and by the Mill at Proscott, That the biu-d first heard of the practical .T. K. ■Wcstcott, And that was from Colonel (not a Yankee Kumel) Mintcr, Who pniiseomai>, And need it now by the Western Bard be even hinted. Hero Cards, Circulars, Invoices, Engraved are and Printed. Yea ! full soon shall some triumph of his hand and mind be seen Gracing the Archives of Toronto, Occidental Queen, From Newcastle-street, Farringdon ditto, and Number 19. MR. GLADSTONE, The o iroi^poc. The Laeti'st,apis«niad— The Great Speech Paraph rasei>— appears in a former LoNnouiAii. "No place on earth, he cried, like Greenwich." -Pope to Bolingbroke. Erst, the sobriquet obtained bv him was Testy Will, But his name in history must ^ Coercion Bill. He who spoiled the Temples of his God, I ween Would not be slow to sack the Palace of a Quoen. 9J THB LO!nK)XlAD. BY APPDIMTMKMT TO THE Ql'KKX. HILL AND J0NE8, li Tiiito of Jewry Stroot. Aldg-nte), -Vl[0LK8ALE AND Kxi-OBT CON- FKCTIONKB8, AND CaNDIED PeEL MANirFAcnmKRS, /)2, 64, and oGjCommcrciiil Road Eu8t., Lon- don, E. 'DicH Hill fSHnyrd" iiinonp; the hwuiim of Tliiuncs Al.KXANDKH r with Yankee abominations, Hut to Kn(;land now U ok our Ahoriginal nations, All adopted races, cities, HeftlciiientH, and ** stations," * Ye Art Mus<'s seem to live in new awakeninf? zones Of beinp;, hailine from the active Messrs. Hill and Jones. I saw their Work IVonlc as they out to their dinners went. Thought jf Penn's, Maudslay's en>rineerinfj establishment'i And that tliey could alone supply the Western Continent. Addison, Cleavelund, Ilacon in s Natural Ilistor>% IJoyle, Ilarvey, to ei-own all Shakespeare the world's greater glory, And writers in the (lr(;ok and llonian tim(!H were not cluiry Of dilating on my chosen theme Confectionarj' ; And Ctiwper, in one of the lovi-liest poems that we have, Speaks of Confectionary that his Mother to him gave. Long years we dealt with our Head I'artner'rt friends in Aldgate, And the Great Owen did our new capital decorate, I will send them home some tons of uigar from the Maple Which they, will transform to the n.axk table und staple : Their names, a giumuitee that nothing deleterious Will be therewith compounded, — O that was a serious ? Affair, when the Yankee left our colonies in dolour Thro' the indigestible and «.'ke j)oi«onous colour : But what doth greatly the spirits of our people arouse The receiving of IJritish Goods from a Practical House. It is not the dark and earthy-like that now meets the si^lit, Dr. Arnott taught us how to make Maph- Sugar white; It became transform'd like the weird analin of Arcolo Revealing Saccharino snow before the might of eharconl. Sweet and I*ure as thy fond deed, loved Sculptor of Belleissa, Hath passed the Metempsychosis, Waller's Saoharissa. Muse f in the romantic days of Forest Life I made a Theme of " Mode of making Maple Sugar in Canada." And even now while the dawning of a new day doth dapple The steeds o' our Mom' I hie to my Heroes oi Whitcchapel. TUE LOXOONIAO. Their ronfoctioimrj-, all the kimlM I'll catnUifruff And thr<»* our 8fV*'n rrovincpH will brinsr tht-in all in voi^o ; Our Nutivo Oriitorn us4> miuh whent-viT they wduM xjx'nk Kithor to |iruiw.> the HritiNh or vonKi'iuiee on Yiink to wreak ; While lit our rul)liu FetoH, in Hftmestojul* iinure ; It HCcmH a harping pinion from wand'ring Peri riven, (An Italian work. Muffciican, some say Tallffian), Which never to '' l»is world's winds unfolded shall he given. Till Cupid and his Mother adventure down f^om Heaven. There is a wonder deed which no genius yet hath matched. And that is his Unitjuc Fan with Smelling Bottle attachefl, Laurence Stome, or somebody, \vrotc a book which discloses A physiog'-olfact ' chapter—" more or less," on Noses. And 1, who meditate this lay beside the Falls of Passic, Feci inspired— Mnemosyne 1 — to annotate a classic. We'll quote, " Quod tu cum olfacics, Deos rogabis Totum ut te faciant, FabuUe, nasnm." And this, Although quoted from Mcm'ry, will be found correct, I ween, C. Valerii's Catullus, Carmen xiii. 13. To keep out unruly floods Romans did Rome cn-hui-dle. But as a charm our natives wear it at the girdle. Wilkie's Epigone' ! (Mourn, Tropics, never bless'd with snow !^ Hath the following Imcs, ♦' Cool, cool, my blood, yo winds that blow From mountains of eternal snow." Thus the Art Muse she scans Physical and mental rivals to John II. W.'s Fans. FELLATT AND CO., Glass Manufactukees, China axd Stone Wabe Show Rooms, Falcon Glass Works, Holland Street, Blackfriars. Medal of Honour, Vienna Exhibition, 1873. Ist Prize at the Great Exhibition, 1851. Ditto, Paris, 1855. Prize Medal, International Exhibition, 1862. Ditto, Paris, 1867. Manufacturers, by Appointment, to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. JAMES PELLATT BICEMAN, Falcon Glass Works, Holland Street, Blackfriars. Apslcy PcUatt's signature, (with that of Sir Charles Eastlakc and Leopold, King of the Belgians,) appear (together) upon my third list for the Londomad. I went with him to the Manchester Exhibition, in connection with the Society of Arts . In the same compartment of the railway train were Le Neve Foster, Dr. Caplin, Leighton the Artist, known as Luke Limicr, and old Baron Roths- child, who carried his Unique Ceramic Candelabra all the way in his arms. There is a peculiar feature of great Beauty in the character of Caxada, which is unlike that of anything connected ^vith the Yankees. In tracing through the annals of Canada wc shall find that in every undertaking she hath grown into expansion, and hath carried out every enterprise upon a larger 6cale and more magnificent than at first projected. While the Yankees, coming out with trumpets' blare, find their designs evanished soon in air. I am led into this remark by the realization of Hope, when I first introduced into the LoNDONiAi) that name, which must e\ ^r rank with those of the more gifted and better educated of its Heroes ; I never thought that more than Six Chandeliers for one range of Buildings would be rcfiuired, whereas now my order is being fulfilled for Twenty-One. Our great Author's and Manufacturer's Grandson •will adapt thereunto the Maple Leaf. Please see the next Londosiau. THE LONIWNIAD. 97 FIRST PRIZE PARIS, 1855, 1867. THOMAS KEMP & SONS, SILK MANUFACTURERS, 20 AND 21, Spital Squaee, e.g., Loxdox. I first cntrumpe*<5d their names from Thames to Ducghcl, And thro' Tcxtilia Artes thouRht of Velvet Urueghel, Too, in Science' Teohnic, and Learned Men to tell us Velvet Anglice, velluto Ital., Latin vellus ; And what wos't ye Muse of Arte, that lately much distrcst her I 'Ilic common cotton grround sent out to us from Manchester, Wiiich should have known bett negotiatant, they having already entered into my good graces for about £200. Please see the next Londoniad. "To Nccdham's quick a voice triumphant cried." Pope's Dioiciad. ALDEEMAN ASTON. THOMAS ASTON AND SONS, MaNUFACTUBINO JeWELLEES and SlLYEBSHrrHS IN ALL Branches, and Dealers in Precious Stones, 12, Regent Place, Caroline Street, Bir- mingham. MoiTRNiNO Brooches and Rings, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Gem Rings, Snuff AND Scent Boxes, Card Cases, &c., Communion Sebvices. Mv Dkar Aluekman Aston. — In addition to Twenty-One Pounds for which I sent you my mother's cheque, I will with very much pleasure at any moment transmit you the remaining Forty Guineas of my rabscription towards the Mayor Yutes' Memorial, t being now fully established m England, hope soon to use means whereby the only two testimonials with which I desire my name to be associated in my native land may become presented in a spirit of truthfulness. In the meantime, to quote from my former letter, addressed to you in the 1st IGth Lonuoniad, I send my kind regards to all the members of your excellent fnmily. Yours faithfullv. JAMES TORRINGTON SPENCER LIDSTONE. London (Eng.), May, 1877. THE HEROIC AGE OF UPPER CANADA. THE MEN OF GORE. (Impromptu.) Along the fertile lands of Gore, " Exists tho remnant of a line. Such as the Doric mothers bore." — Byuon. And still as wildly the Eaoi.k scrcam'd. The more loudly did the Lion roar. And where war's dirc.st tempest strcam'd O'er Guns and CannoniH?rs, With B iiish flags and cheers, On rush'd the dauntless Men of Gore. THE LOKDOIOAS. M J. STASSEN AND SON, Maeebs op the "Nonpareil" Biotct.e, cele- brated for Lightness and Strength combined with Elegance and Simplicity, 251, EuRton Road, London, N.W. (60 yards from the Gower Street Station on the Metropolitan Railway); Factory Entrance — Beaumont Place. The flrfit Great Mover's hand "Wheels their courtk-s. Milton's Paradise LotA. I've heard that all the prcat Bicyclists that over rode, As if Jilrial-wingcd, trace their triumphs to Euston R d, And henceforth thro' Manitoba, our uprising nation. We'll choose those not by Yank, but from, " by Oower Street Station." Our Family firm most tHoroughly with science cmbued. Have alone in their line reached the acme of pcrfectitude. And now from wild'ring ocean to umbrageous Uimplo, We welcome the light and strong, the elegant and simple. Th* testimonials that for these my heroes have amassed, Attest their cognomcnal appellative " unsurpassed ;" 'l^is not a hireling press with words as cold as icicles. But the ardoroua and free that greet these Bicycles. In their science's lower cycle some triumphs may be won, But certain triumphs here, vidis Lloyds, letter A No.l ; Th(^se Bicycles arc all made of materials the best. And please listen to what 1 entrumpct over the West, Those wliich have proved in our time ev'ry nation's glory. In all collaterals at their own Manufactory Were made, from philosophy and science no estrangement. Find we here, •' nor are they liable to derangement." Among our 4,000,000 what greatly doth elate us. New, i>lain, strong, and durable, the Steering Apparatus. If from their first meridian these Bicycles faster go Out-flying Sol they'll reach day's verge before his sunset glow. And wake to wonder the evening-lands of O.ntario. As in a lunar atmosphere living wheels are bright'ning, They seem segments of the moon, informed with vivid lightning ; Acclivity, decline, and curve, so fast they pass mine eyes. Though straining every optic nei .e I may not realise — An inexplicable vision — the substance or the fonn. Lost pleiades, attractionlcss planets in mobile storm. These Bicycles out of the British Isles from all the rest I choose, and all the greater riders have proclaimM tliem the best. Compared to J. Stassen and Son in all their earthly course, A Bicycle of other' make is but a " Dandy Horse *' n'he JSiIuse commissioned Fama through both heuusphcres 'ro sound the words SS° Sire and Son are Practical Engineers). Some in travelling rest th' body and only exercise the mind. But physical energy with th' mental may here be joined. Tending to develope the perfect man healthy and strong ; This a sure means the more elevated life to prolong ; Our Chiefs still all of the vegetating mortal ncominp-. Hailing ye long last strain the Londoniau adorning. To Lifc-ught leap like Ouido Rene's Coursers o' the Morning. H 2 100 THB lONSOmAB. THE PHILIPPIAD. A MINIATURE EPIC POEM OF HUMANITY. *' Homines ad Dcoi null& re propius accedunt, quoin salutem hominibus dando."— CicEuo. IN8CBIBED TO MESSBS. GBAY, InVEITTORS AMD MaXEBS OF AUTOICATIC LlMBS, 7, Cork Street, Burlington GardenB, London,W. PHILIP GBAY, . 7, Cork Street, Burlington Gardens, W. Evpi)ica ! " Anna virumquc cano," not Ali Beg By magic ever brought to Hccming life such arm or leg. "Let UH march against Philip ! " rose with the sound of seas, In Athentc' glory-age around Demosthenes ; And there are thone who fain would march in our eventful day, With, but very far in the rear of, Mr. Philip Gray. Longfellow's student (Hyperion) when he came to beg. Never, though in the flush of youth, made such a graceful leg. Let others sing of martial triumphs on land, and eke on nea ; I sing Science' Song and the Hero of Humanity. Wus it the bullets or the darts, that in desolation showor'd. That with more than HcraclidaGan might the Bard empowcr'd ! No ! 'twas Salvation's standard borne by our Second Howard. We know Thomas Hood's Legendary Talc, Miss Kilmansegg. (•• What I " cried pert Sophomore, " had the lady a steam peg ?") (Danae' shower, Midas ears !) she had a golden leg. Our generation, " wiser grown," prefer those made of Cork, And where the strength of mind is brought to bear upon the work. By him whose soul above Time's clouds m glory shines secure, Sol among th' constellations of highest Literature, Plashing new Eras. Speak some future Hone, or Timbs, Of Anatomical Mechanism as applied to Limbs. (Please sec the next Londoniad.) J. B. FOSTEB & CO., Upholstebebs' TBnnnNa Manufactubbbs, Patentees of the Dbesden Gobnicb Fringe, 2, Gutter Lane (one door from Cheapside), London, E.G. Factories, 3, Winsley Street, and 58, Castle Street, W. And th' Art Muse, the minstrel did accost her. Inspire the lay for the great House of Foster. Th' standard of its might is like a sky unfurl'd, They supply 2000 firms in ye " New World." Our lar^e establishments send home to Winsley Street. For all IS perfect there, and few will dare compete THK LOKDONIAD. 101 "With our prwcUcal West End gentlemen of taste, For in all Colour ; lorclv in Design und chaHto. Tasaelfl, yea, and all within their lengthened line Where myriad forms aspire to life divine. While the triple cbaplet them fer threads, &c., entwino<<, Frini^cH, Oimps, Laces, Tassels, Blind and Picture- linos. Our illustriouH IIousc thro* ombroidorod Vallunces imparts A new glon* oven to the Socioty of Arts T^ . c Silk Hangings, thought wrought in enchanted land by elf, I H, , which won the Gold lais Medal at the Adclphi, They being too expensive for the Palace at rimlico, I sent them to Queen Ta-pa-ta-mec in Ontario. The finest piece of embroidery in England they did for me — Mv Mothf.r's BlItTUUAY. Pleaso see the next LoxDONiAn, THE LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF SOLID LEATHER TRUNKS IN THE WORLD. Solid H. SELLER, Leatheb Portmanteau, Hat-Case, AND Bag Manufactueeb, 23 and 24, Buck- ingham Street, 6 Doors from the Strand. Near Charing Cross Station. One of my principal Agents is W. Steee Sc Co., 64, Strand. It was remark'd to me by a scion of Sam(uol) Wollcr, For a certain kind of sewed Leather we go to Preller, But for Trunks and Bags to the practical M. H. Seller. Ho was already renowned thro' either hemisphere. Ere he became Thaumaturgus of ye great house of Steer. Let those who may choose from Bencough, Southgate, Millard, Lake, Day, And li,000 others, I choose him who beareth the sway In London, and inith whom none may compare in any way. Each shoppy man seems willing a myriad oaths to tafce That the goods he exhibits himself speciallv did make. And thus he " piles on th' agony" till th' hearer's head doth ache. Those arc pretending Manufacturers, who do but ape Him, in all the good, substantial, and oke lovely in shape. And list ! Wherever gloriously Hies the British Flag, Home-land or Colony, all liie hither for Trunlc or Bag. At every Exhibition from th' rising to th' sotting day. These Quods Medals of Honour and First Prizes bore awaj. Hcuco our Qreat Families visiting London, affiance Have in Him, while all the adventurous Sons of Science In my Triumphant Horo place implicit reliance. The Olobo revolving, " tnmipet-tonguod " (Shakespeare) is a teller To our time, I to after ages of M. H. Seller. And because his deeds are acknowledged in all climes as the best, We send to him all our Orders from the advancing West. Please see the next Londoxiad. •»• I have some largo Pioneer Orders but the Debentures arc not yet matured. ' 702 THB LOin)OKIAI>. LETTER FROM OUR NATIVE PRINCE. TO TIIK AUTHOR OP THK " LOXUONIAD." Tentorium Principalis. Hccatompopylo-intcr-Hecatonncai-Kanata. April 12th, 1877. My Dear Jamkc, • • • I Khould have been glad of the picture, but what is the good when you cannot know the price of u thing ? (There is a slight peculiarity in this phraseolof^y. Our Prince me».ns to wiy that however much he should like to become the possessor of a certain Pictorial Work of Art, it wore vuin to strive at aught like negotiation when there is either no stated price affixed or mentioned, or that the price thereof fluctuates so often and so inordinately that you must necessarily be at a loss one day as to the propositions likely to be offered on the next. ITiis alludi'S to a picture by u Genoese Artist, which I had described to our Native Prince, and of whos(.> history I had long ago became ac(]uainted, I accordingly went to Mr. K. Brooks, Palojotechnic Gallery, 10<>, Now Bond Street, W. One day three thousiind pounds wv.rc asked for it, two or three days afterwards I called again, and one thousand five hundred pounds was the price. No reason was given for the alteration of the price, and .so like llobert Bums, I was inclined to siiy '* I'll gang nae mair to yon town." This difference in the assumed value of a small picture, namely £1,.50<), would go to pay for al>eautiful Kcnaissance screen belonging to Mr. Clare, formerly of Great Marlborough Street, which I intend to introduce into St. Tammanimd's. I have waited for a considerable time ia order that young Mr. Rogers of Maddox Street, W., might bo able to find time to visit this pi(ason to oomc out, and jjo a« unpaid representative in the Ontvuio Districts, for J-'ins Enginery, rociprocity bi-ing done awuy with, the presiiit revenue laws, I say, iictinji thereupon, would declare themselves prohibitory ; liut it they were ever d much in our favour, we (the Aboris^iiu's) would certainly not avail ourselves of thoiu so fur as the ordering of such from an objectiouabli' soura* (this means from the Yankees, J. T. S. L.), although we have neither the jH)wer of utterance, th(! business tjict, nor the gene- ral wisdom Ui make our desires known or to idealise tlu^m as you have, our ffHjlings an; stronj? in th(' matter of rejection and apprticiiition (rejection of Yankee manufiu'tures and appreciation of the British). I, like you, kept the Newcastl«>- upon-Tyne testimonial in my y)ur.se, and showtnl it so often that it became almost imlistinf?uishabl good, but I am Hure that an in chooHiuR my pump, I have ploa8od myself very well, he will satisfy all the desires of our craft owners upon our upland seas. I desire here and now to make this remark, on account of the similarity of names— Tyi.kii and Tvi.oii — business was done with the former, which was intended to nave been done with the last-named firm. The consequence is, that a lot of Brass Cocks, be polite. Miss Yankee— no rooster — paid for a loni? time ago, I nt!ver thought it worth while to take away. All our people have a taste for the Decorative Arts, which has been evinwd by not only the )M>culiar styles practised by the different tribes, but every Orator and Warrior, whether Chief or not, could speak a language without moving his tongue. And now that the tide of a more Orient civilisation hath spread over tlu'se territories of our Ancestors, the more enlighteneu visitors to our Wigwams, Villages and Encampments will readily acknowh'dge that a love of the Arts of Design and a true Knowledge of the adaptation of colours, still, as ever in the days of their ancestors, animates the descendants of those original Proprietors of the country of the setting sun.— (Messrs. Carlisle and Clegg arc my Heroes here. — J. T. S. L.) 1 have to ask you for a peculiar favour. I know you have it in MS., for it was reported at the time of the delivery of our Meeting of the Uaces. I will only ^rouble you for the Portrait Paragraph. If you please, we shall uU feel happy in having a copy sent, if you would set a transcriber at it, as I wish to offer the same for a theme in my Groat-Grandfather's endow- ment. (I cause the part here spoken of to be printed in the present Lon- uoMAi), and I desire that Mr. Ilenderson, whose name appears then>in, b<' associated in memory therewith.— J. T. S. L.) I saw the Mighty Chiefs of Pre-historic ages, who had, long ago, resolved themselves into elements, re-assume their pristine forms, from wandering in the Myriad-age (cycle of firobation), thro' bright days over uninhabited lands and realms of storm, de- ightedat the deed of Manito, thro' which was revealed unto them the Portraits of our Pioneers of British origin (who were) friends of their descendants ; their lerialized habitations became alive and moved, so at their owners' will, partook of the animation of the Portraits which in joyousness leaped from their imprcssio, — " O, qui complcxus, ct guadia quanta fuerunt ! " Horace. Commingling in rapture they almost blended their beings ; Such music before was never made. But when of old the Sons of Morning sung." (Mimon's Hymn to the Nativity.) A burst of Hallelujahs swelled the main of flood, and land, the strain-enchanted sky broke to a Campanili', the Zodiac from its Monotone to Allegro l^'urioso ; Niagara, er.st Fortissimo, now rung Contra basso ; Cadenza D'Inganno extraneous modulation and exti-nded harmony ; all the forest trees, as leafed with lyres, were transformed to ImprovAisatori, and the rocks along that shadowy land, now shady no longer but bright with the S3ul-light of beatified spirits, rang Memnonic; all Nature was rapt to Altissimo ; the day passt'd in— the chain of lakes rolled through a New Creation, Maestoso, con Maesta ; the underlayers of Earth were Orphic, exulting a^ -hile, and then spake Misterioso (inward language) Minaccioso, as it were an upneaval, everj* headland became an Ophicleide, and each little brook meandering under the umbrageous shade emblemed the Opera Di Camera, till Tempestoso lYemendo, the Globe itself rolled Tremolo, then every aqueous plateau sprang heavenwards in Oratorio ; here Appassionato flew the drift foam, while the white caps were engaged in Tarantella, ether seemed Arion's home till filled with echoes from the onlooking angels' harping wings, then the clouds to the waves and the waters to the clouds sang Ricordan/a and all life •with or human or divine joined in symphony). I remember what the great Dk LA Have of Uppeb Canada College said in regard to your magical portraits at -■ THE LONDONIAO. 105 the Mooting of the Races. " Talk of mai^ical buiinor!) (he said), and oncbanteven) e<(uul the power of thow marvellouH Picture!* as drawn by our Knglish Friend and High Art Hcholar— Mr. Liiistomk,— the real and tho wonderful, tho claAHiciil and the Occidontal—Aboriginal, the language of High Art— afflnitios «)f vcrbutiou and modes of tlmujfht tiro so fully doTelopcd and intimately blended." TuUviirde came puntiu>; up to me (one day) In the blaxi; of (last) August, suying that if he was (destined) to live only in this little (short-timed) lift: it was hardly worth whilo to shine for its sanctiflcution in the distant cycles. I thought by the residue ot nis siHjech that he meant fame (ho is Chief umong the bluckfeet, now Uritish Indians, and is a good scholar.— J. T. 8. L.). He said (that) he had been three wot;ks in the bush and was moody uU tho time, fur he couldn't make out whore his ancestors were (buried), and that he was .so haunted by a certain or u particular verse in your Caoado Revinited that he was so lillod with thoughts (arising therefrom) that he was continually repeating it, when awake it caused him a gentle degree of animation, and when inclined to dozo ho wrapped himsilf up in it like (as it were in) a blanket, capote, or a l)utfalo robo, it was so sootliing; ho sjiid (moreover) that the chiefs had determined, like the U. E.'s (United Empire Tioyalists), henceforth to have adequate memorials establishcl for their Ancestors. I .said that I would ask you, and you would tell us all about it, and .send .some of your people out (he means some of the Author of the Loxdoxiad's relatives ; I desire here once for all to .say that none of them are either Sculptors or Marble Masons, but Builders in the English — which is, too, I believe, the general acceptation of that word ; tho enlightened reader will please excus are not wanted, and all the time serve for cattli', especially in spring time, anM in the new settlements to prevent their lifting (falling thro' weakness) in earl\ spring-time. (Le Symphytum Asperrimum ou la Consoude Rugucuse du Cau- case is here spoken of. Thomas, Brother of the Great Hatters, gave me a root which I planted at my mother's place in London, in about two weeks it showed like Mondomin in Hiaivathn. I took it up and cut (the root) it lengthways into about 7 parts, which did not seem to affect it, for each part continued to nourish with its leaves ; our domestic animals seem to be fond of its leaves. I did not, howe%'er, see any new shoots spring out from the root, but all su8tenano«! seemed derived from the oni> original root. Mr. Ashbumer, of llichmonil, Virginia, tells me that he has been very successful in its cultivation ; and Mr. Crosnier, in his letter dated Lagarde-Montlieu (Charente Inferieure), 2!» Juillct, 1876, gives a detailed account in French, which I herewith send to you. but after all, a country so fertile in gras.ses a.s Canada would not require a sul>- terfugc that might suit very well an amateur Horticulturist at Home, or which might be the means of spreading Herbage over the arid plains of India (whitherr 106 THE LOKDOMIAS. I belierc, it in boing Rent) , a delightful— nomotbing to tho loathsome ropatit of the Qaumtee butfalo, whoHc tainted milk cui ium down with it thu Kcrmit uf t3rphoid fever ; let uh hope that it muy be planted m every Colleotorutt*, un (;vory (iovom- mont form, and in every garden from Cu|io Comuriti to the Khybur, from Hylhct to Kiuraohee.) WowtToull very wrry to hear of thu accident • » • p^- olaimcd (loo*! — g. with uU this noiHo about Hailorn and Hhipping, in there no one to strike li blow at the nmrderouH nyrttoni of Building ? I hope that Mr. Lid- Htonc may meet that fellow at the lluHtingM, and shake him like a catamount ahuking a muskrat ; they are accursed, tiu^re will ever be a curne upuu that pack, and ho quoted the wurdMof John W< -ley, There is blood in their liouseH! in their gardcnH ! on all their walks ! their foundutionH ! and their roofs ! red with human bloud cry to lieaven for vengeumx'! (yes, echoes tho Loniiomiad, there in bloud upon their heads — u]»on their .-ouls — everywhere except where it Hhould be — in their hearts, tlnse brick and mortar thugs ought to be treated us garotters, whicli tliey are upon the highway of life O, Protectress of Cities, Fortuna cater low. And wing'd Nemesis, wheel and helm! pursue yon Watcrlow, Bmug Sydiu'y too thy better pagi» shall scn^k. llYUON. — Emjlitik Hards and Scotch Rceicwers. Please 80G the 'Watkkm)wiai).) I do not know why you should have l)cen asked to introduce a Clothier, seeing that wo have so many gf km I luiblimators ourselves (here the heroes of the LoNnoxAin might have beeti not Stultz', those who exteriorly decorated Ueau Itrtmunell, lie who got so horsey, and like Nonnaa Kill hurt 'self on pummel. There is, however, something iH'culiarly ingenuous about Messrs. Poole, of Saville Row, which might have satisfied even llerr Diogenes Teufelsdrockh himself. Some unfurl their banners in the day of the sun, proclaiming their patrons' name, with truini)ets' blare. But in the shadowy hour where arc they ? Goswell T«'rrace was besieged for tliree days and three nights : " Id genus omne" — Striving for a place in that Temple of Fame, ye Londo.mai). The combatants, however, were kept outside, " And under open sky," while waiting for admission to tho Palliean levee, engaged, as your penny-a- liners say, in (acting) the most wonderful drama of modem times, orders had been given for the performance to begin. The prologue spoken by Foote, written by Garrick. (FooTK speaking the words of G.vruick.) "No blu.stering Romans, Trojans, Greeks shall rage. No knights arm'd cap-.\-pie shall crowd our stage ; Nor shall our Henrys, Edwards take the field. Opposing swonl to sword, and shield to .shield. With ditl'erent instnmicnts our troop appears — Needles to needles shallj and .shears to shears. • • « * » • Each outside shall belie the strife within — A Roman spirit in a tailor's skin. A cross-legg'd Cassiua, Pompey shall you see. And the ninth part of Brutus strut in me. What though no swords we draw, no doggers shako, Yet can our warriors ' a quietus make With a bare bodkin V" ) ... an old Glerkonwellcr, voyaging up the lakes, staid with me a fortnight . . . ho .says that the Dr. (Kcnealy) will soon become a great power in the land, and on accoimt of him being a poet he will be quoted against his enemies in times to come . . . thank you very much for the quotation, it was so applicable that, although written so long ago, it seemed us if it hod been provided for the purpose and it brought down the house ! 1 mmmmm ■■MiiiiWi TOs loyvosikxt. 107 ("I ttrovo tofmin Admittance 'monfritt tho liiw-inNtnicttHl train, Whu, ill t)iu Tumplu and (iruy'i* Inn prcparo For clients' wrrotchcd feet tho legal Hnare." CHtuciiiLL tha Ro»eiad. Ilow 18 fat ratical T how lut* Uuth and BoubT and how in door Flora! (" fat roKue " ia btiru meant, a fond name for tho oonf^encr of I)r. Johnwn'H Tlodgo. Our Prince, in his quoHtioaing, must have boen thinking of thtt I'npo, who lined to iniiuin!, "How's that dear ()I<1 roHial, I'liul de Kock ?" I suppos*! a Yiinkei! prudu would cull him Boss do Uoo«tor. Kuth is what may l>o ealled a Mnart pu!CO of fifooit o' iiiKhts. As. for Flora, when dear Sappho ^'ave up the ^host, and, as Sir Walter Seott .says, slept with the famous doRS of History, we thouRht that we should never be inclined to have another, hut our darlint; we lind v«'ry us4'ful, he is a ) ! anil when no letters come to us, but his knock is heard at tho oth«'r houses, barks as if to chide him for remissness. Speak about the Mayor of Leed.-<, his baby bein^c an gooil :u» K"l»l out of Ophir, ours is better than all the diamonds of Ooleondu — of moro hoart-felt value to us. I desii-e to say a word hire to the reader in England. This is a little Indian Dog of the Manito (or sacred) breed. Scmie tourists ha«l lost themselves in thi> wootls (or wild bush) : they wcih^ bewihlentl, and the night was coming on, that part of the country was'po])ulous in beasts of prey, and when all hope sisomed lost, lo ! truly, "A joyous bark ;" "SVounswouTii. and where the bark of a dopr is hoard in a wild countrj-, salvation streams upon the wind. Oiu* favourite, then a puppy, for the (Irst time roaming thro' tho clearance, re-echoed the noises made by the belated travellers, they course«l their way towards the point from whence the barking or nithcr yelpint? arose, and in a few minutes were safe in a Shanty. The name of our little protector is rather a long one, in the Nort.i American dialect ; but when heard upon tho Western rivers, and the winds are irruptinp: the echoes, it soundd something like Flora Maedonald ; hence Flora.) You have sent me out some of the most magnificent things in this, world, and I should feel extra elate if you could cauae some person of taste to go to Itome to match forme the Hebe Ewer^ (now at my mother's place in London, Eng., and will soon be in the Young Men's Home at Islington. I ask, why not go yoiirs<>lf, dear Prince T I am sure that a more honourable patron of -\rt, and one more cogni.sant of its true principleg never passed through the Porta del Popolo. The jug-like vases here alluded to are tho most magniticont in England ; they came around by Leghorn, so that I may not bo sure that they were ever in Rome — but the sculptor was.) Could you get your Madonna of the Rosary copied for inc, or would you be willing T (A Murillo, for which the Author of the Losooniad strove for twelve years to obtain. I liavenot promised this "third glory of the world" to any one, here I am free, and you shall have it for your private chapel in St. Tammanund's Cathedral.) St. Sebastian is not a subject suiting Private Collection or Public Hull, but for the purpose intended would be most accciptable. (I began to nego- tiate for that picture now in the possession of James Daffome, E.sq., and pending such negotiation had despatched couriers throughout the Continent, and finally found that the original, by Com^ggio, is in the Dresden Mu.seum.) I ^.ee the Wolf and the Lamb (Mulready'sj is coming up again, I suppose lifter seeing yours in Repousse, they more than civer took a fancy to the Hubiect ; how do you thinn it would look in Ceramic Art developed together mtn Penny's best work, that of Sir David Wilkie (our great chasw waa ftor eight years engaged upon these works, — I'fl tell you " all about it," in a private letter Good Alesoandre. ) Had you undertaken the annotation of our 108 THB LOWDOXIAD. Library Cutuloguc wc »hould havo bocn highly plcoacd, a.4 it is, wc already owe youu ** Debt immcnso of cndlcMS gratitude." It woH proponod in Cnimc-il to Hund cortuin oducutud porHonageH to the vurioun countriim uf Continontul Europe, in ordur that thu mudux and ntfthodH nt arranging lihrarivH might bv become known to our grout ruccM in ttie WcNt. Now I lutid, I'll M'ttle tiiut mutter in loHrt than tlvo minutiM ; we'll just look ut the runiezi syHtem in vogue. Hut then it wuh left tu the Author of the Lon- itoMAu to decide upon the number of Catuloguort to bit Htruck otY; the mini- mum number being 1,(NM) und the maximum thentof 2,500 to begin with. The following in a copy uf the estimate, but certainly I shull not contlnu mytH'lf to oneoMtimute :— MEMORANDUM. OILUKllT & lllVINOTON, I'llINTINU OkKHK, March 13»i, 187; S2, St. John's S«iuurp, ClorkcnwcU, E.C. {And at 2H, WhitcfriarH Street, PJ.C.) " 1,500 copies of Ifi pp. same size page and type us Haretti's 8vo. demy Italian Dictionary, including ^ood paper und pressini;, will cost i>er 10 p[i., £'.) fls." 47 sheets =^ 752 pp., £130 2s. £136 2s. Od. 3 J.T. S. Lll»HTONK,Esrl Homo littlo unxiuty in rugani thcruto, but huvinK uxpiinuncctl " liuyluy Ju'^tirc,' '* • Soon may hr dunce in NilTolhcim'mun^it -pttle Mii.tom— *'Ijui>lund WitchcB," with '8 couKencr Rono Ixifure inctnki'y-fiicod Shapland — of which mor« anon in the I'urliuniontury Inquiry, I wan d«>t<>nninit a wutch on futun^ procevdiuKx* und I hiiHtcned to Downing Htrcct; hero I intm- dncMHl tho Kubji-ct at htuit quurtcrit- not only my own tulf, but I hiut u iNUiiphlvt lirntt«n by Jamc* Cowt-n, Knq., formally in thi> army, ilhiatrativc of infamy. The cminunt porxonane hero allutliHl to ncwl not Iw mcntiont^d by nnrao, hin family lor many n^norationH hath l>cfn looked up to with roNjH'ct and honour in DvvonHhirc, and ho <:oul(l toil mo moro about tho LidstonoHthan I knew mym If. A Ki-'ntloman, an official pn^mrnt, said that he was not at all niin)risi>d at what ho bad reaid and hc^ard, and it wiw at^rctsl that a certain well-known barhHter shoultl atton(l to the <'.aH4> eontreminK which we're now speakiuK. When the eminent Htatosmao, unto whom I had appoalud, at this juncturo Haid, " liut, Mr. LidHtone, why not tuko the defaulter into your own diittrict." I replietl, ** That it would be moro convenient for tho dolondant that the ease hIiouM )n> hoard at St. Martin's liiuio " Hut he dotss not s«>t'm to study your convenienc*'," ho answered. " Iccrtainlv should take him there, and 1 •hall bofilad to hoar of your SUCWS9 at any time. " I took tho said Louis »>onth to C'lerkenwoll. Mr. JtickettM made short work of tho alfair. 1 rocoived tho books, thout^h of cours«' dishabilmatcd ; and thus carriwl out— although not a publisher — to a Buccessful isHUu tho Kreutest literary supijlv undertaking of this or any other age. Thos4- two now historical volumes will bo on Exhibition at Tohunto, Queen (Mty of the West, emanating Irom my chosen bookbinder, Mr. Kgleton, of Cloth Fair. Have you found out a good designer to carry out your brilliant suggestion of tho Prize Maple Iit(af, (Harrison, formerly with Hotten, is not sufficiently truthful in u moral point of view, and mother says that IlolaTts' lot are too mean). I see you have sent " swino ?olis, how long will it be before you send thither " baldy Stone and cod-mouthed Cotton." Peter White almost shook his fibres through liis skin after reading your satire on thotrio ; he said— That's so rich I shall never feel poor again after — , he couldn't finish for ho became convulsed with laughter. It was a sad thing that so many intelligent manufacturers, so many nice families should bo niiiUMl through muictimonious Winfield, the liirminKham liank l{oblM>r, no wonder that all men of honour turned away from those " Cambridge Works." (Those Works fell into tho hands of one Atkins, formerly a coal shoveller in the employ of Winfteld's, a very ignorant character of brutal organisation, and, as.you will at once perceive, should you ever see him open his mouth or hear him " talk." I do not i-peak disparagingly of a man because he hapiH>ns to l>o u coal shoveller ; but it will be obvious to all ptTsons with the least development of the perceptive faculty that such un one can not be a Man of Science. I cause the Satire to bo reprinted every year, and will now circulate it throughout " the trade " in liritain. Whatever we may have to do in Brass-work goes to John Warner and Son. Ftde First London i An.) .... camo out, and we made them as comfortable as we could (here is a great deal of the personal nlated by our benignant I*rinco, I will, however, strive to sum it up in the words of Lord llylestone : ♦* Of the day that they would come, of what they would do, of what they would say, of how they would like Canapa, they never seemed to tire of thinking or speaking.") They are now in the Copper region of Lake Superior. Have you done anything with rogues Hazard ? I did sj-mpathisc with Mr. Gale (the Non-Explosive (Junpowdcr Inventor, who suflfercd financially thro* them) ; but you can meet them at Philip})i ! (I chascnl them out of Islington and out of Paddington, and now I find one hath " established " himself in Westboumc. More anon! Those fellows, after making a poor mouth to tho Author's Mother received several pounds sterling " to buy paper." They lived upon the amount, and afterwards became bankrupts. I find that Lord Rylcstonc's adventures have been made the siibjcot of a Novel, and wherein appear the very words spoken by him to my Mother the evening before his depaiturc from England : — ^■a 110 TUB LONDONIAX). *' When I am in Canada I shall remember this lovely scene," saiJ Lord Ryle- Btone, " as one remombcrs a sweet Htniin of mueic, the ideas in u poem, or the beauty of a picture.' ) Maiiawabie could scarcely contain himself when he heard that you had made ii Earaphrase of his speech. The Yankee verse tickled him ; he said that you ad taken in the spirit of that Oration so ab.solutely, that it was the solace of his soul. Plato met himself walking in a parden ; and he wooed his natural past over anain, while listening to his harangue turned into poetrj', he remem- bers (contemplates ?^ the many fine speeches that (must) have been lost, and how two linos alone (all that he wrote) have tended to immortalise the Hunter Statesman (David Crockett) more than all the stump, or Confess oratory, or his exploits on flood or in forest. One verse ho is all the time humming, and sometimes he roars it out so loudly that we almost fear (if we were to fear anytliing in regard to one so often " slaiu " and ** buried ") his breaking a blood vessel. Matiawubie ! you came forth as victor again . How could you light without light in Lundy lane ? You were all in the dark, and never a spark To guide you through the ranks of the d bio Yanks. I know the vipers of Hadc8, 1 know them very well. This nose of mine can always tell Yankee by smell. Not Indian alone that night against them fought ; Their utter defeat Heaven and Hell as: one united wrought. The Angels of Light through detestation of Evil, And the fiends lest Yankee might eclipse their Master the devil. NcTK by the Author of the Loxdoniau. — The North American Indian hath no equivalent for that wicked word ao often heard in polite circles of civilisod society, the construction of which was so well understood by the learned Donna Inez (a lady too), heroine of Byron's Don Juan, — She liked the English and the Hebrew tongue. And said there was an analogj' between 'cm ; w 'Tis strange — the Hebrew noun which means " I am," *' The English always use to govern d u." Instead of Von, Van, Mac, O,' Ap, Fitz, as among the Dutch, &c., Irish, Scotch, Welsh, and English, as a nominal appellative they always use sacre, being the French of " the wicked word" liamned Yankee. Even Red Jacket himself, who lived " on the other side," a'ways made use of this expression, the Aborigines look upon Yankees •* As the race accurst." Luis dk Caheons. And the more highly educated among them, while dilating upon this unlovely genus, always seem to breathe in the spirit of our great dramatist. "O villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption." BiCHABD II., Act iii. Scene 2. Now, Mrs. Grundy, do not make a long face at what I say ; this may not be classic lore, but it is a branch of very useful knowledge.) Influenced by your decision that the Oreat Exhibition be held not at Halifax, nor at Montreal, nor at Ottawa, but in Toronto, and in 1879, the princes will look to you as director of the Financial operation. My love to all the people in England, to your beloved, kind-hearted Mother, and to yourself, yours at command for things in general and everything in particular, faithfully ALESCANDRE. 18/5/77. I have just received another note from our British Indian Prince, enclosing one from Tesel-Tecumseh, wherein the Shawnee Sagamore asks the following question of him f which hath been left for me to answer. I was on a visit as invited guest to the Great LinncU. His beautiful residence I had mi TnK LONDONIAS. Ill described in a letter to Caxaua, and it would appear that some of our principal people became immediately enamoured of the same), "Has our good friend ithe Author of the Londoniad) asked Artist how much money at onco (cash own) ho will take for his placo near (London)." (I never bivdany idea of asking such a question. I might have received much the same answer that Mrs. Proudfoot, of Toronto, gave to inquirers regarding her residence when negotiations came from the Governor's Wife, •' I am as worthy to live in my own House as Lady Elgin " (bravo Mr.s. Proudfoot, and I say a gi"eat sight better), so I may say concerning the best educated among nil the sous of Light in England, and as Byron said of Beckford (Fontbill Abbey) — " One of the most opulent of England's sons," and deservedly, although we may truly say, in the words of the French proverb — " A bon chicn ii ns viont jamais un bon os." An English Oentleman is not a Yankee, he docs not sell everything for the sake of making a bargain ; beside, let us hope that this delightful habitation may remain with his gifted family thro' all prospective generations. The know- ledge now vouchsafed to you by me was not inspired by any one of his kin- dred, nor any one '^jaring his name. Ho gave £100 an acre for the surround- ing land, and some time ago misht have sold it for £1,000 per acre, but by this time I have no doubt the price hath gone up to £3,000 each acre. After writing the above I felt that I need not have been so sensitive as to making an inquiry, for Squire Linnell being like my.sclf, what they call in the Scotch Universities, " A Student of Humanity," and moreover a gentleman of the world, we may not find him unapproachable even upon this subject, prc-supposing of course that his establishment is up for sale. T a now syf Lcm of Landscape gardening would invent, Whereby to .spread new wonders 'roimd Ids Paradise in Kent, Glass TO'As of Horticultural buildings thro' each indent. Along the hills would seem The semblance each of stream. More worthy would the abode of our Intellectual Prince, the Temple of Pallas, be to have applied unto it the lines from *' Cooper's Hill." Such scem« thy gentle height, made only proud. To be the basis of that glorious load. Than which, a nobler weight no mountain bear.';. But Atlas only which supports the spheres. then -That hill- Of Moloch homicidc- MlLTOX. A poetical biography of our Hero by the Author of the Lo.vnoxiAD will be issued in process of time. Did you think that the Showalls were suitable for your ob.servance? (This alludes to Yardley, and more especially to Drew. No ; because, although good as general manufactures, we could still make better ourselves. Had they, however, been Works of Arts, I would have bought the 60, and sent them on. What do you think of your Case, man ? (Well, I am not at all sensitive as to the answering of your kind, sympathetic question, although I may not here hope to parallel " Ariston of Aacalon, whom History hath confessed, Was friend of Marcus Brutus, who on discovering felt blest That his good manners were equal to the best." I have no doubt that by nuxing more in enlightened society nist and coar.scncs8 will become rubb'd off). • • Konquawis asked me to inquire if you will be kindly pleased to let mo know all about it for liim, as we can use for notices (to be placed) on the back, and people do not tear them up, but preserve them aa a literary curiosity. This alludes to the Author's long and last great Prize 112 THE LONDONIAD. 1 room, FniENDsiiir of tiik Classic Aokp, in Dullaitj^ic. ^^'Mtimatc : — The foUo'ft'ing is the Dkau Sin, — I find I have not the block of tlic reduction of your poem, as I did not think you would want any more copies (having alrciuly boon (supplied with 500,000). However, if you supply nie with another original in the shoot — please do not fold it— I will make another block. My price : — For live IFundred Thousand the price will be Twenty-One Shillings and Sixpence per thousand. Yours truly, Dvscan C. Dam.as.) To J. T. S. LiDSTONE, Es(i. Have you seen Rhetjecn's Agents liut as usual I hie to headquarters. (No. Nor Vian's, nor any of the rest ? llKliKXT nOlSE, StARCUOSS, DkVOX, 18TII Dkckmhku, 1870. Beau Sir, — I duly received your esteemed favour of 18th ult., and sent it with the Circular to my firm at Southampton. I had intended running up to London to bo present at the Royal Geographical Society's interesting meeting last Tuesday, being one of the oldest Fellows ; but ha\'ing taken a severe influenza cold I have been confined to the house for a fortnight, and I have no idea of lea\'ing home at present. Had I gone up I would certainly have called to pay my respects to you, and to thank you for kindly naming my invention in your letters to Canada. I have always taken a great interest in Canada, .having been personally acquainted with your great author (Sam Slick), and .was present as an invited guest to the Banciuet given in his honour at Halifax in 1839. " The Clock-maker again, as I'm alive !" I also had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Howe, Mr. P mberton, and many others of your beneficial legislators and merchants. If I can go to London in Januarj-, I will certainly hunt you up. I am, dear Sir, Wishing you the compliments of the season. Yours faithfully. To J. T. S. LiusTONK, Esq. GEO. PEACOCK. We have all hear ' the quasi Anglo-Highland song •• Our Captain she was a Shentleman," but as for our own Captain no one would either take another personage for him, or his production for that of another. . . . Apropos of the i'^ipf Y/mm- dred Pounder I certainly shouldjbe disposed to take him, j udging from his simile, for a Market-gardener, bad mariner I ween ; taking his first meridian from ** a gooseberry bush." . . . The Government of Peru ought to rear him a statue as large and valuable as that which ascending glowed heavenward for the hairy and long-clawed King upon that Eastern plain. I intend to place his name upon our Township Map of the Xew Dominion. Enoland Rkvisitep : An Art Survey of the Home Land. liy the author of the Loxuoniad.) Had Samuel Carter Hall Esq or Scjuire James Daffomc (to neither of whom ■have I sjioken concerning this subject), aught to do with the *' Art Journal," financially I should have invoked their aid towards supplying a certain niunber of copies at each issue to our newly acqmred I'rovince of Manitoba, but as cir- cumstances have lately arisen favourable to the project set on foot by the Chiefs for the Introduction of a British Periodical, that certain number at my sug- gestion will be supplied by Baron Grifliths to wit 1,500 Copies of " Grifliths' Iron Exchange (each issue).'' James Torrington Spencer Lidstonc (Author of the 100 LoNDONiADs), Friend of Ta-pa-ta-mee, Matiewabiae, Crenevirem, Konquawis, and Alescandre. * * • was here and said that (the detailed circumstances relating to) the fate of young Clements, which he had read in the papers, gave them such a turn * • * had gone with you thither for the mamomtb, but I could not help noticing his expressive countenance and the ingenuousness of manners — in this ho was triily his father's counterpart ; it would seem that the very loveablcness • jof his nature proved fatal to him. * * * 1' i 1 1. 1 THE LONDONIAD. 113 Squire Rabbittfl— it wcro but the merest tittle-tattle of compliment to Hay that he ranks as the first in his peculiar line, and London. At Austrian Vienna, amid the assemblage of nations, he bore the palm from all the world, his resources never failing; : through many regions flows the gulf stream of his peculiar cycle. Ilis business tact and wisdom have placed him " far removed from " the noi.sy shallows that environ the mere shoppy man : " Ne'er roughen'd by those cataracts and breaks, That humour interposed too often makes."— Wm. CowrEK. Brown and Child for the Lower Provinces, Mayor Ford of Kingston, or our Beloved Member for West Toronto, James Beatj-, would make good personal Representatives for him in that more extended Britain, the New Dominion of Canada. At the meeting of the Crenivercm Council in the Hall it was decided that means ought to be taken to introduce British Manufactured Confectionery in- stead of as hithortofore that kind from Massachusetts into Ontario, and that inquiries be made as to the probability of Maple Sugar becoming crystallised by the application of chemical science, and that a ton or so be offered for that pur- pose by way of Honorarium, to be returned wholly or in part, made up ready for niorkct. . . . There are several firms in London, each good m their way. Mr. Weatherly became known to the Lower Provinces by means of his Periodical. Volckman and Allen manufacture, I hear, for the Home Trade, CastcU and Brown, my uncle tells mc, arc more in the Fruit line, but the most extensive in resource and collateral accessories will be found in connection with the Company which I mentioned to you last year (Messrs. Hill and Jones). "We would leave it to your superior judgment to say would it be well to l>c over sensitive on this head, remembering the occasion and your own candour. I should say not. the Official Reports must be their own pas.sports wherever the English (language) is spoken. Fowler, Shuttleworth, and Howard, we can easily \-ie with those (Agricultural Machinery is here alluded to), but this pe- culiar Patent we have nothing can touch (to equal is here meant. J. T. S. L.), and besides should any other person than the machinery dealer be the means of introducing those Vans, and it being for the acknowledged benefit of certain communities, and being such (Works) as we do not (or as yet arc not able to) make ourselves according to a .statutory (here is a word I cannot make out or decipher it appears to be " clause " J. T. S. L.) such manufactures arc admitttvl free of the Revenue (Toronto Wheel Works are here spoken of — I can only say that had I been upon the jury in the case referred to I should have felt pecu- liarly happy in awarding them the Victory. J. T. 8. Lidstonk. That sUght contretemps I am quite willing to overlook in view of a Heroic races and a delightful Art, for I feel assured tliat neither Fentum nor Fordraii, Tracy, Staight, nor any of the other names mentioned by you could ever in- spire our people so much as the deeds and Name of my City-road hero (notes to the LoNnoNiAu). We well remember the song beginning : In Bunhill Row there lived Talk about your Bunhill Holt and somebody, and your Shorcditch shavers and Bond-street— all West End dolts, there is not one of them fit to hold a candle to Our Bamsbury Scientific Furniture Manufacturer, from any point of the compass in and near Lvhstown, from Camben^'oU to Kingsland, or making a St. Andrew's Cross of the Matter, from Barnes to Homerton, and from Dept- ford to " Hampstead's airy heights." — Macaulay's Armada. And were his physical energies eiiual to his mental I am certain that he woiiM Hway the World. Speaking of Furniture Manufacturers I do not introose.>i, export, or residential, I have found best suiting the three Historic City House:> (of Workman Brothers), End of Answers to Questions in Prince Alcscandrc's Letter. I fH THB LOIfDONIADa i LETTER TO THB AUTHOR OF THE LQNDONIAD, 7bom hib Cousin, an Inhabitant op Albany, N. Y., fob 25 Years, Bear jAm:B,— I thank you for the loan of the two books. The " Beauties of Irving" is a very interesting book. What power of satire he displays, especially in the " Rub-a-dub " letters I But he is rather hard on the poor women and the Dutch ; utill, no land has produced brighter authors than Faderland. He is very happy in describing the Yankee Politician. The Sleepy Hollow Chapter is not a myth, as I knew many persons who had been there. I was much plea-scd with the Londoniad. What an amazing acquaint- ance you have with standard authors, ancient and modem, as seen by your numerous (juotations ; and what a memory you must have to be enabled to call them up as required ! Bid not your printer make a mistake on page 84, where Phillischcr, in the hooding, is described as an Optician, and yet the poetry is about "Lamps and Oils ? " I thought there was some mistake. On page 110 (Irving) you add an (c) to rout, and make a note of inquiry in margin. I think the (c) is not required, as he was referring to a noisy party, and not to a road-way, or route. Goodness gracious ! What have the Yfinkecs done that you la.sh them so * • • thrqughout your book ? But I am glad you inform your readers that " they mast not include the dwellers in Now York," &c. That's right, for I know there aro thousands of persons as good in every way as arc to be found in these Buminions. Thine, REUBEN. P.S.~ Your old friend Lord Bufferin fell down on the sidewalk at Ottawa on the I4th inst., and broke a rib and sprained his ankle, but doctors think he will soon recover. R. L. ANSWER TO REUBEN LIBSTONE, ESQ. Neither one of us would be disposed to say with Addison regarding one (whom Br, Samuel Johnson cills "the wretched Budgell") "the man who calls me cousin." I thought of you often an " Reuben, eldest son," vide quaint old Fuller in his Fisgah Sight of Palestine, eldest son of eldest son, and of your 1 -att Outward-bouixJ for America. I remember, too, that in Peter SiinpU he speaks of " blood — Yankees." And as too does Thomas Moore in his Twojtenny Posihay, " h — Yankee doodles — " "Another yet?" yes. " — — harlequins and clowns with Yankee doodles Bykox's Peppo. '•The low-minded, vulgar, shallow Yankee."— "W. II. IIirmui. " Yankee is made up of about equal parts of irreverence, conceit, and that — moral quality familiarly known as ' brass.' " — J. G. IIoli.ani). Methinks I hear ye say "any more"? — I must answer with Francis in Henry IV. ! Anon ! unon ! Yankees ! consider their treatment of the Pcquod Indians. They would way- lay a native and kill him to become possessed of a pocket-tnife. Their preachers of the Beechcr type would rob them first as "Heathen," and then rob and murder them as " converts." The Bashi Bazouks are angels of light in comparison with those puritanical psalni-singing ruffians who burnt poor aged women as witches, but they took care that said aged persons were po.s- sessed of property which those hjTJoeritical lampooners of the Deity appro- priated. Look at their preacher's of the Dr. Cotton Mather genus putting infants eight months old to death because they were "the children of heretics;" and hero we will remember that tlie parents and children were white people. Who is that who used to mount on wooden chests in which the wounded and dead were squeezed tightly together, raving of Zion? The Yankee. Who was it that were wont to hunt the Quakers like wild beasts only because they were Quakers ? (they the only people that never persecuted). It was the Yankees, They continued this man-hunting for many years. The only excuse for this senseless and ferocious conduct, even in our day, is that the Yankees were suffering under a certain disease. I always say, yes ! I know wluit that certain disease was, and is — a moral mange that hath always affected the Yankees. We will look at the pre-belligerentinc era anent North and South, notwithstanding the crocodile tears shed by those unconscionable scoundrels did not concocted for the extension of slavery and purpose of causing tlie chains to be more firmly rivetted to the slave emanate f rom Yankccdoni ? This is the truth; who will deny this.' None. If the Yankee attempts to deny it, let him fling down the gauntlet, and I will bring forth a complete panoply of evidence to support my assertion. It hath been said, " Let ^-herc be honour among thieves ; ' but the Yankees have no code of honour either in dealing vrith honest men or rogues like themselves. Ask any business man in any other rouutry of the' world beside their own what of the Yankee, and you will always hear of him being scouted as a knave. "VVnio was it that one day held out a flag of truce to the great Seniinolee Chief O.sceola, who fighting had kept the Yankees at bay in Florida for nearly twenty years. And like "Virginian Nightingale which seems a living lamp, His scul still haunts the Flowery Land in ever-glade and swamp. l7B!i,/t I THE LONDONXAO. 117 The Yankees ! the Yankees, did that which so-called barbarous nations arc sup- posed not to understand, and therefore such a system would not be acted upon by them, and that which all civilised nations would look upon as so cowardly und mean a transaction, no civilised people hath ever perpetrated that infamy — except the Yankee calls himself civilised. 'Twas thus the ubiquitous warrior in the spirit of confidence went up toward the "flag of truce,' all unarmed, he was seized, sent to Washington, and within a fortnight died,' poison bi'iu^ administered to him by the emissaries of the Yankee Govem- jnent— this is the Yankee for you upedking in deeds. There is a small article which I will cause to be inserted in this letter, the which, however, I send you in print, delivered at Fishmongers' Hall by Sir George Cartier, Premier of Lower Canada. Tales of avarice, Sir George gave the following among others: *' It hath been revealed to you in more languages than one, that the fishes in the more northemly parts of the Laurentinc region make all for the British shores. The Yankees, armed with weapons, were wont to make a salljr upon the peaceable ^uibitants, and seize their ichthyological goods, and, on being ex- postulated with, would be met by the Yankee, " I could swallow a Canuck any morning before breakfast " (this word is a Yankee slang term for a French Canadian). Thus we sec that while belligerents under letters ot marque would always spare the fisher, and even " savages," so far from taking advantage of his isolation on the flood, have always been known to offer instead of to take. How stands the case with the miserable Yankees ? A lot of these fellows would get together in some secluded cave, creek, or bay " Expecting, in grim repose, their evening prey." — Guav. Watching, it may be alternately, and playing at pitch -and-toss, chewing tobacco, and , I paid a nocturnal visit (my last one) to this part of the lower provinces, about the time that the Colonial Government had determined to put a stop to those outrages once and for ever, I was stepping into the canoe with the rest of the voyageurs when I beheld a form perched upon a shelving rock, with hook and line, fishing. I bawled out to him, " this is a curious time for you to be fishing, and in that manner, when you could get a boat load of fish in a short time about half-a-mile out in the bay." He was an aged patriarch, and he told nie "Dont souvent ses soupirs interrompaient le cours." — La IIksuiadk, that he hpd been out all day from before breakfast to supper time with his little, great grandson (as the young men were engaged in working upon the land, and the fish was a ready source from whence to supply their wants till the irops should be ready for market) ; that they had taken a long, hollow wooden boat nearly three-parts full ; but on returning home at sunset some Yankees had stolen, not only the lading but the craft with it, and in order to get time to escape had left them upon an island and beach from whence he hiid to swim to the shore of the mainland, and then send back for the boy. I gave the old gentleman an order upon the Government Stores for the supposed amount of jiis loss, and declared that our people should very soon have no more of this. Upon instituting an inquin', I found that those thieves were from Naragansctt, and that they were the Ladrones of Massachusetts— a deacon, a doctor, a colonel, a major, and I don't know how many generals, and these were some of the principal citizens of Belial Boston, who went out there to steal from a poor baby and his great grandsirc. EABL FITZWILLIAM. MIXES ^VND MIXING. I entertain a great partiality for the Earl Fitzwilliam ; whenever tlio matter shall be investigated, I am persuaded that the nobl(^ Earl's, conduct in the business, will be found to have been such as that of all his life has been. — Charles Jamks Fox (Speech in the British House of Commons, March 24thy 1795.) The Article is in type. I'lcase see the next Lonuoniau. 118 TBE LONDONUO. To THK Canada Dki.koation in England To THK UOtLK EmINKNT CONNOIHHKVR8 AND DlLLRTANTI OP OrkAT BllITAIH AND THE COLONIEH. To Atl. THK GBKATKR InhTITITTRH OF A.KT IN, AND TO THE PniNCIPAL CotJRTB OF El'BOPK. GEO. ALF. BOOEBS, Wood Caevino Studio and Srovbook, 29, Maddox Street, Loudon, W. And thou Rogerrf Arise I let blest remembrance still inspire, Restore Apollo to his vacant throne, Assert thy country's honour and thine own. — Btron. "The Master Carver and the Artist."— Dkvden. It is no praise to say that the illustrioiiH father of this gifted family stood at the head in his lino — the lovely and exalted Art in England, for the genius of no country in the present and in the past generation hath or hod ever approached him in that high degree of mental excellence which re-animated into new life of Art all that lay dormant in the minds of the Historij Families of Britain, he had conversed with and was in^ersonal and constant communi- cation with a greater number of personages eminent for inental culture, and destined to immortality than any other son of England m his time. lie was engaged for two years upon pilasters for those Bookcas js no^w at my mother's place in London. Almost the last piece of work which I received from bis hands was that famous heliotrope which, after having made the circle of Europe, its glory-cycle, by way of loan, is now attached to the Frame surround- ing the Madonna of the Rosary by Murillo, of which my mother is the owner. This wonder work, this fibrous harmony, this parable in wood, this titular odo in timber, may not like the Jolioxochitio ci Mexico, "perfume the whole house ; " but it does more than this, to the mind capable of holding within its expansion the deed of the Artist it sproafls an everlasting glory over— beyond the world of .space and time. The son, uvoJi whom may we hope the mantle hath fallen, will in his own good time resuj-citate that Renaissance Screen, the most magnificent in England, and of It.Jian workmanship, price £15,000, for which I am now engaged in negotiating /or St. Tammanund's Cathedral, with that true gentleman of honour, Mr. flare, formerly of Great Marlborough Street, London (Eng.) Please see the next Londoniad. COCKS, BAUEBBICHTEB, & CO., 44, Maddox Street, London, W. Ladies RiDiNa Habits, Improved Ulstbes, Rink, and other Costumes, made by first-class workmen, in all the New Designs of the day; and Gentlemen of taste, who are really critical and difficult to please, will have an opportunity of proving (at co-operative prices) the superiority of the new system of cutting Coats and Trousers, invented and perfected by J. Cocks. "The apparel oft bespeaks the man." — William Shakkspeare. The reason that 1 have not hithertofore introduced any hablimator into the Londoniad is this, there was none whom the muse would condescend to Honour (before the advent of our Intellectual and Scientific costumier) in London. Hied we erst to our junior partner for each kind of Box, But as costumiers now we hail him and his partner Cocks. " He is the whale of hearty Cock?," as Burns wrote long ago, And our great Families visiting from Ontario ^ TUE LOXDONIAO. 119 If "Will go to him and M. Baucrrichtcr, who form tho Co,, To last thom for long rtcuHoiiH uh homeward ugaiu they go. Ladies' Uiding Habits, Improved UlHtcrs, Rink, other costumes, I am sure that to e Gkkat Schulak Poem, Fuiund- SHiPS OF TiiK Classic Aoks, which all my London Heroes of this the 100th LoNDONiAi), have seen in its full expan.sion, and reduce as exemplified by him, so won upon the hearts of our Beloved Aboriginal princes in Canada, that they beseeched their mental purveyor, whom we English, Irish, and Scotch call " Ivonquawis the Blessed," to negotiate lor another half million copies (please see the estimate in the present, and notes upon other subjects, illustrated by and illustrative of Dallastype in the next Lonuoniau.) Had Sir Edwin lived to finish my beloved Sappho I would not have entrusted the great work to ye Oraplio- Tjrpc (so-called) but with bounding heart and blinding t^>ars, Alas ! Sappho is gone, and Landseef ; I may not hail from Dallas, Yet soon for him I'll strike th' lay inspired by Pallas. §^^ The last unfinished work of Sir E. Landseer, was for the Author of thi-. Lonuoniau, and is well known (his poem appears in the first Londoniad). I will at an early period publish A Lamknt fou S.vi>puo, introducing therein famous dogs of all ages,— More ! Dallas, thro' many ages famed. T see their honour'd, heroic Clansmen of Heart and Brain, High toss'd 'bovc a .stormy Time like sunlit billows o'er thf^ main. In far Celtic times they rank'd with " the Mighty of the Isles," And they sleep with nameless chiefs and kings in " loiia's piles.* (Envious persons with eyn askance and look sinister A vaunt I His Sire was first cousin to the late Minister.) Th' splendor o' their deeds erst set Albin Septentrion a -blaze — And still echo loch and heather, and time to Fergus' days, Ay ; and further still, for when Noah entered his ark. The Dallas ancestor did in his own curach embark. / 120 THE LONDONIAO. POEM BY GENERAL WOLFE. M'HITTKN TIIK NIltllT UKrOllK TIIK TAKING OV UVKUKC. (Now for the first time printed.) Inscribed to His Excollcncy, my kind remembrance, the Honouiiabi.k Hknk EootAItll CAUON, LlElTK.NA.NT-UoVKU.NUU OF LoWKU CANADA, CUlluU thC Trovincc of Quebec. Highest of carthlv honourfl, from the prreat and good to be descended, they ulonc against a noble anccutry cry out, who hnvc none of their own. UtN JONBON. On Thee Futurity Hhall cast her eyes, Laurels already wreathed ujion your temples rise La Henriade Chant vii. Author of the Loxhomau' Trans. Over life's sunniest hour there comes a shade of sadness "lis thus though the present bo devoid ol aught like sorrow, And all above and around be scenes of seeming gladness, Griefs of long departed years foreshadow ev'ry morrow. I was ambitious, and to win an everlasting name. No other boon, alas, would frowning destiny afford. Me not salvation's halo ; a wild devouring flame ; And my achievements the triumph sole of the deathful sword. To-morrow in the uncertain twilight of th' morning dawn, I and these shall have ascended the cloud embleming steep, Britain' Gallia's contending hosts in nrrhy of battle drawn. Who e'er spreads the haze of sunset shall sink to endless sleep. Ye, inconstiuit blasts of the wildering Atlantic, fan Our banners furled or floating over each grassy grave. Futile the hopes and aims of human kind, — unhappy man ! My brain is lost in fire, my heart I Uft beyond the wave. (Had kindly fate ordained me a still lowlier part Among the unlettered tillers of England' natal soil. Then had I never known the woes that tear of Him the heart — Condemned thro' love of fame to spend a sleepless life of toil. But I in youth had all the glory deeds of ancients leam'd. And emulation winged my soul, each vein intensely swelled. Ne'er to be represt, my breast with love of adventure burned.. Danger me aye attracted the peaceful and the calm repelled.) Poor girl ! (not too late) your too fond heart must seek another, You may not welcome more with e.xtacy yoiir '* fair-haired James," His life-thread broken in its morning ; O, lonely Mother, Weejiing when all beside is joy along my Native Thames. What though (Jucliec, the long sought object of our ceaseless toils (Toils never to be by the Muse of History recounted,) We should gaze on anlorously even then the foeman' coils Might circle round our host, though we may have those burmounted. I see the Aborigines and our old Gallic foes Won't by strategem in Canada victories to gain. Face to face our British warriors they must now oppose Under open sky rampartlcss upon the level plain. I will console myself though my mind over burdcn'd droops. Not thro' tremulousncss, or thought of meeting them S^^ to ^^™, For our heroes have oft before met their exulting troops ; Upon erst entravers'd ocean, and eke nntrodden land. But their garrison' are feeble now and in illness pine — What should bo theirs to support goes to the courtier — .slave ; Those effete abortions ; butterfly kings of " right divine " ( .') Have no fellow-feeling with the generous and brave, Up ! to the conflict, though a-down cataracts of fire roll Compatriots, we'll dare th' more than Phlegyrosean height. Thence like embodied tempests' sweep on toward the destin'd goal And never-ending renown in the steel grey morning light. THE LOVhOSUn. m ■:nk the icy T Who puU'd those Clomic bridges dovn 7— that Modiirral fleet High and dry u^Klrow on the land dismantling nuiitt and deck, Like theirs be yours and mine, the imnoHsihlp retreat. Companions ! life or death be ours the taking of Qukhkc. I have Oro hundred and flfty-soven Poems written by General James Wolfe, which came into my possession after the destruction of the custle of 8t. Lewis by fire. It is known that he was an Oiutor as well us a Toet, and had ho lived to return to England would have published a volume of each in English and in French, that Poem beginning with, " I Ican'd o'er the taffrail and sighed o'er my fate." Is well known in America as well as to the more polite nations of Europe. After his startling interview with William Pitt, prior to his taking the eommund of forces in Canada, "that Premier youth," as Robert Burns calls him, remarked : " I was almost led to cancel the commission of the Warrior Orator — the exploits of the future were enacted by him in the present with terrific energy." Pitt meant to say that he was afraid to trust the fiery-haired hero with a command, lest in the undertaking of some hazardous enterj)ris(' he should los(! his army. There is a legend extant from out of t'u> misty past, a hollow voice is heard, •' Tempt not the spirit to thy taking ott', and thou shale become sevenfold king of Canada" ; but " On Abram's plains the storm of battle grew, And tho' O Woi.pk ! the poet's votive wreath Can add no light to thy triumphant death." W. F. Hawi.ey, Quebec. Yet scattered thro' the Seven Elephant folio vols, of Canada Ii.i.isthatki), by the Author of the London IAD, shall many of thy own effusions bo .seen giving immortality to a work — " The signal wonder of Time." Ilis taste for and devotion to literature were known. While in the army he had paraphrased that which he often repeated from Horace. " Vixere fortes, ante," &c. And in the night before his twofold ascension to fame and heaven, he repeated Gray's Churchyard Elegj', remarking in verbal parenthesis, that he would rather have been the author of any single stanza therein than the taker of Quebec, for, said he, and his words I gladly paraphrase. Such, lights the human character, giving mental culture. Beyond such furious names, the Dragon or the Vulture, Better to dwell with Sons of Peace unassuming Quakers,* Than Cermmi, Thunderbolts, A'icanorn, Conquerors, Takers Of Cities, Poliorcetea, whoso fierce career we trace In deep tracks of the world's ruin and slaughter of our Race. He was, however, a brave gentleman, and an ardent student, like Florio, " He studied while ho dressed. Abreges, Dictionnaires, Recucils, Mercures, Journaux, Extraits, et Feuilles." " Noble Montcalm ! well thy honoured bier. May claim the tribute of a British tear, Altnough the lilies from these ramparts fell. Thy name, immortal with Great Wolfe's, shall dwell." W. KiRii\, Approach to Quchvc. • The Mother of General Wolfe had been brought up amongst Quakers. " Sweet Florence where art thou ? " — Bvuov. I have lately received a letter from Canada, asking me to be kindly to send out the address of Miss Nightingale, the meaning thereof I bel this, her permission is'iU be sought in regard to calling a township by her name. ple.'isi'il [?lievi' in 122 THE LONDOMAS. THE LAND BECLAMATION OF ENGLAND. 1 piililish tho Af^rariaix lex, upon my native Tor; I Hw< the Standard ! IMl march tho mi^htior ConqiuTor (Over tho Fov amidnt.) of the more OloriouH England. TiiG Land ! tho lands of England shall bucomii public property, tluii Khali tho 1ill<>r of tlie Moil be umjily ])aid for his labour, and the Kons ut Art be no longer faxed, mighty sums in millions, that are now lost every year in the worse than Pontine marsh of landed Aristocrary, shall be spread among the; people, who will adapt the words from The Lady of the Lake to themselves, — " The stranger came with Iron hand. Anil from our fathers reft the land. • • • • Think'st thou we will not sally forth To spoil tho spoiler as we may, And from the robber rend the prey J" " Awake ! arise, or be for ever fallen." — .Mimon. MUmso! Arouse England from lethargy. The VampjTe is drawing tho life- blood of the nation, the hordes are battening upon tho tiesh and sinews of the English; while our eountrywomen and countrymen are dying of hunger in their native streets. () Heaven destroy the cloud of locusts, that living devastate, and dying leave a plague behind them, or soon may we realise the fate of roland's I'atriots in the days of Tallyrand, who were refused graves in the land which was their owni from time immemorial. Please see the Manifesto. The Author of the LoMK).M.\n will enter the arena of conflict at an early prospective* date. A.N ExcKr.i.K.NT Nkw Sono, entitled " Number .')," is now being set to Music, and all the hurdy-gurdy men in London are to hold a festival, and those who in competition carry oli the prizes for grinding the loudest will bo c:omniisHioncd to play the same every morning noon and night in the vicinity of Doctors* (Jommons. LORD BISiror OF OLOUCESTEll AXD BRISTOL. '* Doctor, Dean, Bi.shop, Glo'.stcr, and my Lord." CuAui.Ks CuuucHii.i.'s Pocmif. We all know Dr. Ellicott as a worthy Bishop, but that which wo value him lor most is his being a great Author and a good gentleman, his connection with our Society for the rrevention of Cruelty to Animals, hath inspired me in inscribing a poem to him. riea.se see the next Londomad. LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, " Vivisection," the cruelty of .>tt •' Notices of the Press." Trade Marks, when of suitable size, I will admit with pleasure, but other illustrations I rather object to, because I have bound myself to size and weight in regard to this work, so that each edition might be made to appear as uniformly as may be, and kach copy to oo by Post for a Pinny Stamp. Moreover, i have caused a great deal of small tvpe to be used in this the 100th. No shoppy man, however extensive his affairs may be, will be admitted therein. No Knyghts of the yardstick, nor Barons de Ch'emisett. No Company or Association of a merely s])eculativc character. I can only admit one in each line, except where something peculiar attacheth itself thereunto. No Yankee will ever be admitted into the Londoniad, a translation of whieli, in French, Qerman, Italian, Cclto-Hibcrnic, and Qa)Iic, are now going thi*ough the press. . JAMES TOREINGTON SPENCER LIDSTONE. London (Eng.), June, 1877. ■•■•>