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BIRMTNGHAM; WHICH ARE THE MOST SUITABLE TOR CANADA, ETC. BEING THE CONTINUATION OF AN UNIVERSITY GREAT PillZE POEM ON THE AllTS. ALSO CONTAI«NG riEUES -ON SOltE Oi' TUE IMOST CELEBRATED PERSONAGES m THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN CANADA j FOKMING ALTOGETHER EPISODES IN A GBAND BY JAMES TOREINGTON SPENCEE LIDS TOKE, OF TORQUAY, DEVON, LATE OF TORONTO AND OTTAWA, UPPER CANADA Authorof the " Conq^ieatof Cnvada" '•'■Ancient America" *^ Pictorial De- scription of the Bntiifh Provincefi in North Amtrica" *' Geological Survey of Lake Superior," *' The Elydxni of Art " '■'■Limbo of Science,''' '•''Men of the Time" " Canada as a Field for Enterprise", tj'c, * PAaB. Albert, Prince .... '> Aleacandre 65 Appold, John George Esq. 81 Ash, Moses 84 Aston, Alderman . . • 8 Aston, Thomas and Son . 8 Atkins, Councillor ... 16 Avery, W. and T. ... 20 Baird, Lieut 108 Baldwin, Councillor . 16 Beaty, Ex-Ald. Jamec, . 108 Bell, Robert, Esq. ... 69 Bennett, E. B. and Son . 26 Beresford Hope, A.J.B. . 46 Beresford, James and Co. 45 Bevan, Professor ... 91 Bikker, Charles .... 100 Birmingham, Aid. and Councillors . . . 8 — 16 Birmingham, the Fountains 93 Birmingham Free Libraries 92 Birmingham, to my Friends iu 112 Birmingham, the Mayor of .... 7-66—111 Birmingham Town Hall . 94 Boston, Mass 5 Bowes, John G. Esq. . . 53 Bramah 42 Bright, John 74 Brock, Sir Isaac .... 2 Brock's Monument . . 73 Brawn, Mr 98 British House of Commons 55 Browett Jacob Bright, Esq. 98 Brown, Marshalls and Co. 109 Buck, Captain . . . .108 Caledonia Springs ... 26 Cameron, Hon. J. H. . . 68 Cameron, M. C. Esq. M.P.P. 108 Cameron, Hon. Malcolm . 69 Canada, to my Friends in 3 Canada 4 Canada, History of . . . 64 Canada, Invasion of . . 37 Canada, Impromptu . . 96 Canada, to the Inhabi- tants of 97 Canada, Timber Trophy . 94 Capreol, F. C, Esq. . . 71 Caron, Hon. Rene, E. . . 73 Carter, Councillor ... 11 Carter, John and Sons . 11 48 Chatwin, Thomas . Chubb Cotterill, Edwin Clinton, De Witt . Clinton, Hon. Judge Cobden, Richard Conroy, R. Esq. Conger, Ex~SheriflF Cornforth, Coancillor Craig. Thomas, Junior Creighton, John, Esq. Cuming, Captain Cutler, Alderman J. H Daniell, S. A. . . Davis and Co. . . Davis, W. and Sons Dick, Captain . . Dudley, Earl of . . Eastwood, Mr. . . Edridge, and Merrett Elkington and Mason Fine Arts . . . Flanagan, John Esq, :?lint, Hon. Billa Foley, J. H. R. A. Franklin, Aaron Franklin, Sir John Fresnel, (the Great) Geologist, Hymn to the Gibson, John, R.A. Gordon, Captain . . Gowan, Ogle R. Esq Gi'ierson, Captain James Grierson, Captain John Griffiths and Browetl> Hardman and Co. . Head, Sir Edmund . Beaton's Messrs. Mint Heeley, James and Sons Herschel, Sir John , Hewitson, George Hill, Sir Rowland Hibba, Mr. . . HuUinSj Peter, Esq. Inshaw, Councillor , Inshaw, Joseph . , Iron Poem . , . Jones, John A. and Co Jones, Thomas Webb Joyce and Eley . . Lewis, Rice and Sou Lidstone, J. T. S. 17- Ig^ Lighthouses ^1 PAOI. . 88 . 42 . 42 . 49 . 53 . 74 . 70 . 108 . 12 . 94 . 108 . 108 . 9 . 36 . 80 . 39 . 72 . 64 . 16 . 29 . 95 . 97 . 108 . 70 106 44 32 78 67 48 72 108 108 108 19 98 108 112 30 87 . 79 . 47 . 42 . 46 . 16 . 16 . 64 . 104 . 81 . 28 16—89 97-111 . . 73 INDEX. PAQB. LivingsioDe, Dr 41 Logan, Sir William ... 67 Londoniadt Notes on . . 66 Lloyd and Summerfield . 21 Lowe, Counnillor ... 16 McCallum and Hodson . 39 McCaul, Rev. Dr. . . . 76 Macdonald, Hon. John A. 75 Macdonald, Hon. John S. 55 McDonald, John, Esq. . 71 MoDowellP.R.A. . 48—106 Mc Gee, Hon. T. D'Arcy . 108 Manton, Alderman . . 10 Manton and Mole ... 10 Manton, Henry Junior . 102 MarshaU, William ... 41 Marrian, J. P 87 Messenger and Sons . . 18 Minton, Herbert ... 31 Mitton, E. M. & Co. . . 78 Monck Viscount . . .108 Morris, William ... 83 Morris, Hon. Mr. ... 84 Mother, to my . . .62—63 Newey, John 77 Padmore, Thomas & Sons 33 P.'ige, Councillor ... 13 Page, Thomas & George . 13 Pattison, J. & J. & Co. . 27 Pears, John ..... 43 Pellatt, Apsley Esq, . .103 Pemberton, Messrs. . .112 Pemberton, Hon. Mr. . .112 Peiry, Peter, M.P.P. . . 108 Peyton & Peyton . . . 107 Philip, Charles J. . . . 1C6 Phillips, W. H 99 Piatt, Samuel Esq. ... 72 Potts, Mr 106 Prime Councillor, ... 14 Prime, Thomas & Son. . 14 Prince Hon. Col. ... 70 Queenstown Heights . . 3 Queen's Hotel, Toronto . 72 Robinson, Sir. J. L. . .111 Richardson, Jonathan, Esq. 81 Rosse, Earl of Toronto . 77 Sadler, Alderman . . . 10 Shaw, Mr. ... 16—89 Sheldon, .John .... 12 Sherwood, Major . . . Ill Skead, Hon. Jas. ... 94 Smith, Councillor ... 16 FAOB. Sparrow, Charles ... 71 Stephenson, Robert . . 16 Stock Brothers Si Taylor . 24 Tangye Brothers & Price . 22 Taunton, Me8srs.& Hay ward 34 Taylor, Joseph .... 86 Taylor, Rev. Lachlan . . 25 Taylor, William . . .109 Thomas, John, Sculptor . 95 Thomas, William, Architect 96 Timmin's & Sons . . .82 Toronto, John, Lord Bishop of 91 Toronto, Marble Statues . Ill Torrens, Mr 75 Twigg, G 85 United States, so called (notes on) 53 University First Prize Poem 49 Victoria, Queea .... 2 Walker, Richard ... 28 Warrillow, F 89 Ward, John Esq. ... 84 Watkins, Sir Charles and Lady .... 96—111 Weller, William, Esq. . 108 Whitehouse, Jno. and Son 31 Wilkie, Sir David ... 91 Wilkinson, Squire ... 26 Wilkinson, T. and Co. . 25 William, Stephen ... 88 Winfield and Son . . . 90 Workman, Messrs. . . 16 - 89 Yates, John and Sons . 7 — 56 Yates, Edwin, Esq, Mayor 1, 5(3—57—58-59—60—61 (See next page.) Derbishire, Stewart, Esq. Gurnett, George, Esq. . Holmes, Benjamin Esq. McNab, Sir Allen. Napier Merritt, Hon. W. Hamilton Morin, Hon Mr. Notman, William, Esq. 'i Perry, Peter Robinson, Sir J. Beverley, Bt. Sherwood, Hon. H. Stuart, Archdeacon , ,, -^ Weller, William -iv,?* •'^..-jm Hon. H. Sherwood, Member for Toronto, and Prime Minister under the Conservative Ad- ministration. Please see 7th Londoniad George Gurnett, Esq., several times Mayor of Toronto, appears in the 6th Londoniad. Sir Allan Napier McNab, appears in the 6th Londoniad. Hon. W. Hamilton Merritt, has not ap- peared in any of the Londoniads, but is the subject of an episode in a Scholarship Poem, called Bo Witt Clinton. Archdeacon Stuart — appears in the 9th Londoniad. Benj^lMin Holmes, Esq., late M.P.P., ap- pears in the Poem on Parliamentary Character. Hon. Mr. Morin, Speaker of the House of Assembly, appears in the Poem on Pailiamen- tary Character. Sir John Beterlet Robinson, Bart,— A tribute is paid to the Memory of our late Chief Justice in the 11th Londoniad. Stewart Derbishire, Esq., the first Mem- ber of Parliament for Bytown, &c., appears in the 6th, and his Funeral Oration in tne 11th Londoniad. Wm-Notman, Esq., Member for North Went- worth, appears in a Poem on Parliamentary Character, which I hope to publish in a future Londoniad. Peter Perrt, late M.P.P., Please see 12th Londoniad. "William "Weller, the great Mayor of Coburg in 13th Londoniad. 1^ The above-mentioned gentlemen (each in his own department truly great, and destined to live in the early History of Canada), irere the friends of my youth. TO THE WOESHIPFUL, THE MAYOE OF BIRMINGHAM, EDWIN YATES, ESQ. \ HONORABLE AND DEAR SIB, HITHERTO THI8 V;ORK IN ITS VARIOUS EDITIONS HAS BEEN INSCRIBED TO MY FRIENDS OENERALIiY, IN THE WEST. I AVAIL MYSELF NOW OF A PLEASURABLE OPPORTUNITY IN DEDICATINO THE FOURTEENTH LONDONIAD TO YOU. I LOOKED ABOUND AND THROUGH ENGLAND, AND SOUGHT TO DISCOVER THAT MANUFACTURING DISTBICT^ THB PRODUCTIONS OF WHICH MIGHT PBOVE TO BE THE MOST ACCBPTABLB TO AN UPRISING COUNTRY LIKE CANADA, AND SOON FOUND THAT IN BXTENT AND VARIETY BIRMINGHAM WAS ALTOGETHER UNSURPASSED. I hope to become immediately and personally the unpaid Repre-^ sentative of many firms herein mentioned, and to be the means moreover of establishing an emporium in your midst, destined to supply British America fur ages to come. It will be some- thing for me to say, in other lands, and after years^ that I was the means of turning the whole tide of business (a great portion of which had long flowed through other channels into foreign lands) from an affectionate Colony into the Art Metropolis of the Mother Country. THE LONDONIAD. QUEEN VICTORIA. To whom I inscribe the /olloiving Poem, :SIR ISAAC BROCK, THE HERO OF UPPER CANADA. Without any intention of writing aught more than the sub- stance contained in the first eight lines, wliioh almost impercep- tibly ran into rhyme, while " Thoughts on thoughts a countless throng, Rush'd chasing — countless thoughts along." I have long had a wish to see a perpetual light on Brock's Monument at Queenstown Heights, either by fire, properly so called, or by gas connected with or attached to either u£ the following Colours: — Flag, Pendant, Standard, Labarum, Strearr.er, or Gonfanon, Guidon, or Emblem, Corneta, Pennoncel, or Pennon, Badge, Great, Escutcheon, Chiflfre, Shield, Device, Band, Label, Scroll, -^gis, Ancile, Palladium, Banner, or BanderoUe, Vane, Lampaderii, Girandole, Stars, Pelta, Fleur-de-lis, Lanthorn, Fylfot, Cresset, Flambeau, Torch, Mantling, Blazonry Initial, Girlond, Flourishings, Fillet, Wreath, Monogram, Index, Motto, Palm, Vexillurn, Flammula, Oriflamme. From these as from Gorgoneion shall no invader fly. For such, when its wierd beamings spread, will surely petrify ; Here let the Flatnen Martialis establish his shrine And diadem Sir Isaac's brow with a Koronis divine. Be the lay and the idea a Homeric Stephane, To ever-rolling songs transform each mighty inland main ; The zodiac shall multiply, the yet uncreate shall flock. In pilgrim nations aye to hail the classic tomb of Brock. O'er Queen»tovvBrJleiglit9 the heavens shall e'er his etern nimbi be And his fame in an Aureola encompass land and sea. In Memory's mental region a fiery fount aspires, A miracle of ardent deed ! the wisdom of our sires. ' Lighting thro' late posterity in its uncertain ways, Like the fire in Salem's primal fane full long shall brightly blaze. Like those pure flames of Time's young years once the vestales dower. And that by Chasdinii idealis'd as the Heavenly Power, By orient magi worshipped, a rapt and radiant host, And through millenial ages held along the .^gean coast, THE I.ONDONIAD. \\he Laze, [ales The floating lights on mystic Onngo', or fairy Behlungclhare, Or that thu inexiinguiahabU St. Brigad of Kildare. The angel fires as Guards and Guides in inediicval glow, That dazed on holy Florian'H, Anthony's, Basil's brow, With the undying attributes of Elmo that remain, Scotland's Bridget, Ireland's Patrick, and Columbo of Spain ; Like th' historic fiery cross of a ueltic era flung, From hand to hand, till lake and laud, with martial echoes rung, Or the beacon lit;hts of England upon that fearful night. When flood and flame conspired to wing the great Armada's flight: So before that thrilling watchword the omenous name of Brock, Shall the foeman's force be scattered like foam upon the rock. Like God's own light on Israels march the pillar'd pomp appears Leading all our generations thro' wars wilderini? years ; Till like Elijah's chariot our souls in flame aspire, And Time, like wayward Phaiton, sets all the world on fire. Lo ! all the atmosphere around swells in a lustrous breeze, As trav'Uers tell in eastern climes bright heave th' luminous seas. Stream on Lights of Western Glory ! thus ever brightly bum, To you the Patriot youth inspired and patriot sire shall t im ; O Pharos of our race and clime our Sanai stands confest, I'arsees of the Occident are we, the Ghebers of the west. As the Bonzes of the flowery land filled acreal thrones, With forms of light in the Pagod (known) of ten thousand stones So long as spreads th' empyrean dome shall live the Brockiad tones. Other thro' Thee Muse, shall the wand'rer in lov'd rememb'rance track, Than that flaming brand which placed the minds upon the rack Of our first parents when they looked on fabled Eden back. You created first your subject, and the anointed theme. Coeval with his fame, thro' Time shall ever glorious beam. Niagara wizard minstrel wild harping on his rock, • , . Calling for heroes long in vain found one at length in Brock. See blaze in height and holiness his cpirit-light aspire, Like the Bauldrick of the Heavens or sacramental fire. Nor Burganet in compast creast. Curat, nor Haberjeon, Nor arms embost, Medussean targe upon my hero ahone ; But like femes to housling fire his soul burned brighter at the foe, With chevisaunce stout thro' darrayne, in deeds of derring doe; Nor tent had he nor equipage, the sod and sky his camp, ' A levin-bonu in foeman midst, or flew the lion lamp. Now evening skies in varied hue all splend'rings of the west, Encanopie our great hero gone to his etern rest. Lo ! Archimed' at Syracuse, where burned the Roman fleet, i > Ho, Proclus at Byzantium taught Vitilian defeat, So with or preferred aid or worse, should ever come the Yankee, Ottr burning mirror of the I'ast ! O flash the v^rds no thankee. . As from the bush at Horeb's base when Moses kept his flock, A startling voice shall emanate from the monument of Brock. B 2 I.' ' ' I H 4 THE lOSDOKI^l'- When .sk'd ty tot '"'"^'j' ™VbX the r^'lrS^aven. ■Whence borrowed yov. the A™' ; ^Jed down Jrombeaveu wKu^eg25t^£crf?i^ Beiex o£ ""gh'if ' £"t"3fa apparently aUied , Tvpe of unparallel d spee^ » fo^erunuer John, . And the uplifting ot ^^^^'^ "* g understood, ts consecrated ^^^^^^gf^f ^S up land and flood. Though Monument, and ^ne Their names ^^d acts long u ^^^^^ ^'^-vi. .lUhSr fame. For when there waa not room u air. THE LOXDONIAD. 5 But there was One that met my view with hair erect for crest, Albion's Aboriginal chief that tower 'd above the rest ; Brock's great ancestor and mine, as he met the Druids' view, When he seemed ubiquitous where the Koman Eagles flew. (Please seepage 78 First Londoniad.) I trac'd him 'midst that assemblage of ages and nations, A living line of human life thro' sixty generations ; Till I beheld a minstrel youth Alastor-like in form, Whose life was like a chequer'd day sunlit or darkest storm. Oft-times thro' streamy sylvan lands songs of mild Peace he'd sing, Some said with seraph's lutal heart and cherub's harping wing ; But when the Furies tired his soul 'twas then burst forth his ire. And Phlegethon enfountain'd storm'd on the redd'ning lyre. 'Twas the spirit-life and phantom of one that living now, Had brac'd his heart to desp'rate deeds, but — never took a vow ; Thro' serial prospective hours attendant on him then, I saw him gird the buckler on but still he held the pen. A man of peace yet joins the war that burns on the frontiers, And here with torch and sword in hand another view appears ; I see him on the Northern route, and now 'tis he 'gan set Fire to all the habitations around Naragansett ; I look again, and I behold whole settlements lost on The survey, and down hath sunk the 'cursed town of Boston. Let but once war's wild trumpet wake ; th' soul-inspiring shout. By heavens we'll on the war tract, and burn the Yankees out ; I'll bear my own expenses in that eventful day, Nor give nor ask for quarter thro' all the ensanguin'd fray. To Vengeance thus I dedicate the rapt and burning lay. IBS PRINCE ALBERT. )utb. Lovrti) Ifatae ; iame. Ipylae, I HEARD a voice, " The Blessed Prince has gone ! "- All the Arts trembled on their eterue throne, Science no longer in meridian shone, An eclipse darken'd o'er our mental cope, And left the world without one beam of hope ; It seem'd that myriads on the race of Minu Were thrown in Vandal ages far behind. Not mere respect followed wheie'er he moved, He was by all of human kind belov'd ; He gave an impetus to all that's great, And still his power is felt in ev'ry State. His equal England never held before, After-centuries must his Name adore, [middle 6 !. t ^^:] t% II J 11 S 1 ^ H THE LO>'DOIfI^»- Droop, wings of tjme, tn ^ g^ ^^^^^ ^.^.t, Art thou dead ( \ es . » Continent. 1. with volcamc -J^*;^^^,^^^^^^^^ fill the throne, Who now within our nea ^^^^^ Which ^«J%^X'jibr?gbteBt «on of t me- Lo8t to the darlmg ""^^b ^ ^^.^^ , Stands like a fabric in a ru ^^ ^^^^^ We fain '^o^J^J^^^^^^^^^^ that were vain. With tears of agony « .^^^^^ p^rt. The country mourns S^^^^^^ ^ ^^,.^^., j^eart. Grief dries the lite s uw ^ ^ * , . T ,^ v>i<4 soirit soar away, Hark! I f ^^^'^4'; in angeUc array. With hosts of Hea^ en 6 ^^^^ ^ Up I like the MORN «^^'^j,,,ied ^ ^r, I watched him stdl. J"^ ^^ ^tar ; Rushing in brigWnef^/' S ^^^^, t^ng, His winged \^^^' J„f Xes Vce splendors flung. Back on ten ^^^X^ds I saw no more, Blinded by ^rial A^^ds^i^f^r crystalline shore. When once he '^^'^f^fXV went before. Where all the ^ons of gl«ry ^ ,,r. K'odiike l^%;:-^:^^::^.^^^^^^ land. Hia «^"7!^^"\tV;"^^^^^^^^^ ! thy tongue, Niagara! ^ ature 8 ura^^. . In rapid eloqu;n«^ryS^^^^ Minor his lofty l^f^\, ^^^n^ breeze. Ye forests, bow befo.e ^^^J^^.g coursers hurled. •Till Sol's ?hf f .^fl3 o'er a ruined world. Bush thro^ electric temp^estso ^ ^ Beasondid^eemtoabd^at^^^^^^^^ In the dark hour ^^ ^J^^^.trains would start, I still did h°PlCt r«^^rc"unterpart To praise our Albert in 8om« ^ ^ ihat health and l^^PP^^^f ^^^^Vand solemn lays. Were hia-but now ^^"^^ ^^^^'^th should bloom. That once like roBesjound my pa^^^ ^.^ ^^^^^ Transformed *« wiUows, weep ^.^^^^^ ^^^^^ Oh. near to us though in tn Thy memory inhabits an om I *>• THE LOIS'DONIAD. THE MAYOR. JOHN TATES AND SONS, ELECTRO-PLATERS, GILDERS, & GERMAN SILVER MANUFACTURERS, Pritchett Street, Birmingham. Birmingham Spoon and Fork Worl:s. * The Muse of Science' led by smiling fates, Attracted the Bard to the famous house of Yates ; While loveliest Art and Pure Design we greet, At their famous manufactory, Pritchett Street. Thro' Europe's bounds and o'er the Western floods Have reached their ev'ry variety o' Plated G-oods ;. In Electro, as in Albata Plate, Singly, alone in Birmingham, they stand elate. New Metal, Vibginian Silver ! renown Thro' years hath followed this peculiarly their own ; And what's peculiar too, you may depend ; . - On every article they to your order send , Long hail'd for prompt attention to commands. They th' greatly trusted on all th' globe's seas and lands. « THE LONDOIIIAT). ALDERWIAN ASTON. THOMAS ASTON AND SON, ., •*!,» in all branches, and -■rt-fi-fi='»''r:i|i~ia» &c. Communion ber vices. , M ^o of Aaton I had often heard, He haTsent out a dozen apP-ntu.e«jio ^^^^^ ^^^^ g^,^, w! built the estahlishmeut '»'»i»«f 'n full 30 years ago. . And S which he rules X^mmed gentleme^^ •GoW thimbles, and ttose^fg^^^^e rapt art minstrel sings ; And mementos, of ^^^^^Sems i s^ey a thousand kinds, T^ese with devices and e"^^^;^^^;,Vr distent region finds. The inquirer here from eye^y near . ^^ thrones, Snil of the.earth's i^^^^^^^^with ai their precjous stones ; Consign their ^^.^^^^To^uoise, and the Sapphire s blaze, Pparls. and Garnet, ^P*^' ^."'^i, concentred days Emerald. Ruby, riamond m J^^, dower, ^ Hair rings. Emerald ^o.,Bxene ^^^^ ^^^^^^ power , And their Mourumg Brooches too ^^^^^^ ^^ 4 Hte son's rings are of weights J^jy^^g f ^,,^t at a single Ume, THE LONDON IAD. 9 Keeper rings, 9 carats (here for all tastes o* society), Do. 12, 15, 18, patterns in rare variety. Silver Wedding riiigs, a feature form which might entrance ye, And those called Keeper ringa, approaching to the Fancy. ALDERMAN CUTLER. 4. JOSH. H. CUTLER, Manufacturer of BUTTONS, HOOKS AND EYES, THIMBLES, &c., &c., 12 & 13, Neivtown Roxo, Birmingham. And here it was the western bard surveyed, The largest i'earl Button ever made ; Shirt buttoiu all are here, and very good, With which 3 V. supply our Nations o'er the flood. Immense folio Vols, throne; on each ehdlf. Of Patterns infinite as Nature's self. Fancy, Ladies, Dress, Coat, Trowsers, Vest, With which I will enchant the wond'ring west. . i Here are the bone kinds and all sorts of shell, In which Design bound me as with a spell. Metal, linen, mirror-like, j<5t, Ladies' Solitaires, .. , ' Waist-buckles, sleeve-links. Alderman prepares Such, Pearl Studs, Hooks and Eyes (th' patent his own). The Alexandria now in its zenith of renown. 'Twas high education thus to advance ^ Th* Art {Student, even a casual glance, — Much less to sketch in tongue of England and France. Lo, science and philosophy we find • Are in our city-father's patent joined ; And philanthropy is a trait in 'a mind. " Like master like man" (old saying recal !) His, more than any other house, to the hospital Gave ; with conchology loved Science I might thro' th' nations Here hail shells white from the Indian ocean, black from Mexico. Silk, terra velvet, buttons, in which taste and beauty glowi are ; TUB LONDOKIAD. ^ i. +uv.iishment survey, T Aid bis vast estaonsnuici The Alderman, as i a eventful day ; ^ ^^^y. Alone my "f "^Xlom^^^^ «« «'^^' '"^?d d me orprise . And on science brougn^t t^eace ALDERNIAM NIANTON. II Gold Cbaiu M-'SKar^a sS. BiUis^a,.. From History tto »'" ° ^ 5 chains ; Chains o 1^«|' "X i„ numerous Ws. trom Ports, Bi«ra, ="'^^1 .rt-Muses near 01 wi, tUs "^8b' Yw^'XtJ'ter ana Navarre . Lo the arms oSWesii" ,;^ ™„t on, _i.rometheas Caucasus, °'« I ^^„„t „„, Md chains o' '^'^i'^^^'Z-mo^ M''"""\', fl>rc thev are as made "y V* , or billows roll, 5Sd wLre'er *e »;^:r;:»..- Mr MoK f »"' "T r? knowledge gained, »",* ' " fgooa. ^Xirtreil'^l- aj^arions and^allare ALDEBNIAN SADLER- ^^^^*^ i Art-ptoduction were I disposed ^-:f:S,riX^r2J,S'^^^ «et chosen. THE LONDOlHlAJ). 11 COUNCILLOR CARTER. deur rorluction ve aH yet ctvired oy all reserve } poem on i have not JOHN CARTER AND SONS, Boat Builders, and English Timber Merchants, New and Seoond- Hand Boats always on sale or hire. Manufactvirers of Tar- paulings, Oil Cloths, Rick Covers, &c. Lady Wood Dock, and Long Acre Docky Aston, Birmingham, Not since Daedalus invented sails, And with Icarus fled to Crete, Did better vessels e'er woo gales. Or dare with Carters' craft compete. Not since the Argonautae did prevail On unknown seas spread Argo's primal sail. Now on enchanted floods and roseate, th' Muse shall start her Fairy skifi" of pearl and sunlight to hail Councillor Carter. Thro' early life in Americ' was his standard far unfurled, And he is now a city-father in th' Art metropolis o' the world. Two Boat establishments flourish beneath his genial sway, His sons are with him, and their united energies for aye, O'er all the Mercian realms beam the light and strength of day. Not one Science or Art follows our Councillor alone. In variety long his intellectual greatness shone, And biography i>roves that the mind is the more intense The more it is diversified (all life proves it !), and hence We find him in the Nickel business. Would you have proof Of his philanthroTiy ? look at the light aspect of his roof; Water verily makbth his a streamy dominion, And what might give new vigour unto the Muse's 'pinion. And in cognizance of which th' Bard his seal of approval sets. Councillor Carter chiefly from Canada his timber gets. Many boats propelled by steam up th' arteries o' many lands. Owe their first project to his mind and wonder-working hands. His enterprise, too, hath scattered many bounties, With deific magnificence o'er all the midland counties ; And in conjunction with his congener Councillor Inshaw, ' Trails of light over every isle and main shall draw ; The uproarous floods of Time their attractive force shall dam. And he shine for ev'r in the Art Legends of Birmingham. 19 COUNCIUUOR IDE I.OSBOS"''' CORNFOR'''"' sorts of W u ^^^^^^^ ^^t peine Company- ^^ „ • 1^" Others i-'^'lZ^ZXvA of tbe f '^*,; ^/^tb I^ondoniaA aU «*■ ^ ? the corporation, being country, except ^o^eA members o^^^^f.^-Vjle to our western j ^^ ^.^ve «^; ^^ett ^Ue found Bux^*^^^^ not ^S',, but 1 find that ^ejte^ ^£ smith, v^hom 1 Vciallyfor S^^^^^ and Son, Mr- Sh^ ^,^e CouncvUor AUm I'^y ^t.ent Workman f'^^^^; J ^est^m BUPP^ie* ^itji B ^ emment ^ eastern ao» . ^g^n acknowledge^ od, o£ Totom. , old friend mr.i^''" ^ And the «^^«.^f&B island «« *J/^ge is slrange ; QhaVl re-loaa lor "" adventurous ^6" ^\W *^* rZturinterchangej JAMES TOREIMTOlf SPM CEE LIDSTOIfE, 20, NEW CHARLES STREET, E.C., Copyright PublUhtr to the Universitia of Oxford and Cambriigt, and all the Principal Seats of Learning in Europe, Is prepared to supply Inclividu.ils and Public Inytitutions in BRITISH NOR'^H AMERICA with New Works to any extent from Great Britain and the Continent, 25 per cent, lees than any tradinij houso in London, AT THREE, SIX, NINE, or TWELVE MONTHS' CREDIT. The facilities obtained by nie in Europe, and the resources at my command, will enable me to make up Libraries, both public and private, in English, French, German, Italian, and the Classical Languages. My acquaintance with the British American provinces (having spent 20 years in that enlight- ened portion of the Empire) has given me a knowledge of the people and their requirements that no mere publisher in Europe can possess. Instead of living in Upper Canada, and establishing an agency in London, I have determined, in order to have a wider field for action, to remain at head-quarters, the Metropolis, and establish representatives in the provinces. J. T. S. LIDSTONE. JanxiarT/, 1867. , .' 29, New Chables Stbbet, B.C., AND TORMOBHAM AND TORQUAY, DXYON, I 18 THE LONDONTAD. MESSENGER & SOrOS,^^ ^,^^^^^^^^^ ,nd Iron BedBteads, and Gener^^^^ ^„^ ,,, Hattou ineQtal Brass a^^ Iron » ori., T~rX' rl-itat^^^^ If tWorfe. that were Greek ; tL spSours that were R^^^^J^^.t^r^er-working hand 1 !ifrpitzwilliam gates we see t»^eu: wu ^ ^^ ^^i^eriand, 'f tl the Scaae of the house, yclepdr^o^ tnl'a^Bsi'^°-»«*"' ^^Taute wSous Chandeliers. In ttt.^"""^ gg.a famous Hall tne w.m ^^^ ^^^^^ tu "sumS HOU-' ^."iSer^^Tst^^^^^^^^^^ Q-^ T^i^at ohavm'd the immorta.1 ^^*^®";^ yandalean portion, ItS'not like those doom^^^^^^^^ ,,,ruon; • Ws' the perfect work oart^^^ J had traced art to its zenitn ,^o ^ ^ -Q^.g firm. ^ ^ . , And inspiration rapt me thro ^xs ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ a beside tL head of which hath don^e mor ^^ q ,^t. and Guide , ^fe tU, T^«-f t o^JareCfand in perfectitude, All kind, of Stands f^r Gas are ^^ ^.^.^ ^^^^„,,^ , Bracket. Canephorus-^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^, ^.,pl,y, Shields that on then* em ^ Subjects HV?«"^;f ^"S eaci nation;^, view, i^.:^^:;:^ti^^p& , ^Vhether other fi^^^^^J^y^^n"! much to do they 'ye got. Thev are alwayf very busy, *» , ^^^^^ On 5ie sculptmesqne e^^urmg fame they ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^,g,it. By their mSde of l^acque^' ^^f y J.^ the ^^ they ever win ; For Hall Lamps, all sorts and s^/es,^ v^^ ^^^ g. Thev manufacture Lamps for was an extendmg, ^Kmdary oHheu ^mpire^^^^^^^^^^^ eommending. While all the nations are their uu h THE LOXDONIAD. 19 leSt rasa rna- tton ek; )eavs, ieen, l^ueen. luide ; 1 ■ilk ai, t, »ot. >od as gilt. jr •win ; n* ng» . nendiog' GRIFFITHS & BROWETT, General Iron and Tin Plate Workers and Japanners, Manufac- turers of the Patent Seamless Enamell'd and Tinned Wrought Iron Hollow Ware, Vose's Patent Hydropult, Loysel's Patent Hydrostatic Tea and CoflTee Urns, Keevil's Patent Cheese 3raking Apparatus, &c., 68, Bradford Street, Birmingham. World-wide fame doth this great house environ. For th' best articles in Copper and Iron ; Iron-tinn'd Teapots like plated articles, Appeared to me, and the Bard exulting tells. That in or out ot" art's metropolis, Yea either in England or France, I wis, They are the only parties who do this ; And need the Muse of Science here declare. How is hail d their Enamelled Hollow Ware — So celebrated on all lands and seas, And they supply "Australia and the Colonies ;" Culinary utensils of all sorts, Welcom'd in Mansions and Imperial Courts. For t'lem Fame's sunlit banner is unfurl'd ; Theii Japan works the largest in the world. Here Japanned Trays I saw of all designs. In contour and coloiir our firm still all outshines. In our clime shall appear that wond'rous dish, Which might have charmed Rome's Senate cooking fish, And here it is the Art-Student beholds, In thousand forms, variety of moulds ; And all they make beside, each kind and size, For which they erst triumphant bore the prize Away, in medaJs, &c., every time They competed, and in whatever clime. Too, found as in their mighty establishment llapt in ardour the Art Minstrel went, All t'lat could ingenuity invent ; And all that might be e'er inquired for, Thro' our famed firm which stands a mental tor. ■» All that civilization could require, Or theme for art unrivalled might inspire. In countless numbers, endless forms appear, That which is welcom'd by the pioneer — Stamp'd Hollow Ware, well known in either hemisphere, 'Round the horizon, and sky-ward I advanced» By extent and variety entrauced. O o 20 THE LO>'DO>'I^^- like an embodied song, ^ loXe o' motive po^®'^^„:£e Cleaner, ?n^lf f «aw in action thKm^e,^.^ And pl«Me mark, »™ 'Stam'» 4»"«- THE LONDONIAD. 21 I ag land ;land. reUearsd, isnottbe Fairbanks, eclare) J. ased, ^edsinlite, Ige cull* ji'and20»«'» Thrones; Milton's lay8» LLOYD & SUMMERFIELD, Jlanufacturers of Cut and Plain Flint Glass, Lamps, Gas Shades, Coloured Window and Optical Sheet Glass; also Patentees of the Crystal Window Bars for House-windows, Sky Lights, Shop Fronts, Verandahs, Conservatories, Exhibition Cases, &c.; Chandeliers, Pendants, Brackets, Hall Lanterns, Gas Pillars, Aquariums, Show Cases, Ship Light and' Railway Lenses. Park Glass Works, Birmingham. Th' Crystal Window Bars so celebrated, Long ago the Art Minstrel elated, And these I note as through their halls I pass, Are of pure Crystal Flint or Coloured Glass ; A full description shall ye muses yield, Yet in English and French, for Lloyd and Summerfield. The wond'rous columns that I here survey. Like the imagined Pillars, are of Night and Day ; Here glass legs for pianos, meet mine eye. The which, they still to many realms supply. And which might the rapt attention enlist, Of Art Student or entomologist ; White ants of India, this for aye withstands, . And those just as destructive known in Southern Lands; And what must t' my heroes fame redound. By writers on Acoustics, hail'd as best for sound, While in green and ruby, charming all our better senses, ^.., Fine polished and flatted, lo, piano convex lenses ; Ship Light Lenses too, we from our enlightened firm obtun, In all their various names that beam on every main. As representative in full these glorious works I'll take, And they shall beam salvation upon each upper lake ; Their regulator glass shade hath all the Muse inspired. For here are neither Perdium nor ceiling shade required ; Gas shades and regulators by Lloyd and Summerfield, Like Pallas statue known in Greece or Rome's Ancilla 8hield« Or those windows the name of which Vasari hath given, Patstone's designs and patented, seem rained down from Heaven; O'er famous lands and classic years spread Vesta's etem flame, Resuscitated see her join'd to the sacred Lotus name. Hany a lovely flower and many a radiant gem, Hath given names to matphlaos shades, lately made by them. Their hall lamps iiv bhe mansion and in the palace view, Thy very metempsychosis St. Gudule and St. Hugh : 22 rjilE I.O>-U'>^'I-^^- Tvemulovv- in Cathay. Not all tlxe feasts ^yi^^X^'re.pleudently f ^Uey^ ler lit tbe march o^ J^^ ^^^ao great -J^i^t^ ^^^^^J^^^^^ .g., MsiiHSSSfei' .... . TT^irv wrap d ii^ Iw^ar ray. ^ And here like borne of fairy J^^^.^ -^ Ascends the crystal dome oi ^^^^^^^^^ ?n a trance of extacy. fe ^ap^,^ ^^^.^^ ^^a and n^atebl^^^ 1-txc. , Aronnd the Park t^Jass ; I ,t many a nval state. Glass aquariums ^f ^^ Vnm^rmarble or of slate. A o all unique with bottom = ot "^^^ . f^^Uness tracer, ^:Klrt and Natm. -^^^^^^^ Vern Case. ^^^^.ni^Hv itowSendtogive Beside this lay, i f **"; ' ^^ representative. Them all my ajd a^P^^^,, ^ears, Many a deed of wonder n ^^^^^ -,i,eres. Thro'out the ^l^^^'^l^Z^^ Chandeliers. Concentred in t^®'^^^"^^ enthrall, Yankee ^^^'^t^^^.^.^^rlce St James' Hall. To them we go to grace dk. CORKWALL WORKB TANGYE BROTHERS & PR»CE, ll\raoi I- , .„^^„. of every descri TANGYE BKU.n..w ^ ^^ ^^ London Office, 18, Cannon ^ ^^^.^^ I TOOK m Birmingham a moBU-^^^V and Price : And visited in Clement S^ ^^^^ J^^f ^ first to intfoduce ^oth feo rvi^^w Teleeraph, which tney ^^el'= ^orks in boho. «^^' . , '.nflnence o'er laauy regions, far. Still exercise an intluence THE LONDOIflAD. 23; >ears, ires, lustres lescription or Birmvoglian.1. olman, Agent. ice, ,nd Price ; )duce, doth go Soho. ler Haiaage, ;e liar, . ■d ciuquetviple ! i They've a great many patents and inventions all their own, And 'tis within the lant ten years they've soar d into renown ; Theirs, enlightened enterprise ; they employ 600 hands, And th' Lever Archimedes named now on its fulcrum stands. Each in his own department a brother see preside, And thus the labour ever systematically divide ; '"'^ '' ' ' I note as thro' their very light shops I my jf)umey take, That they their own lathes, and manufactuting tools do make. Their works are known and hailed on all the globes^ lands^ anci: seas, , And of Weston's invention they are now the patentees ; ' ' They send out thousands which are unequall'd th' world ag.«.es. I noted too, how wonderful, as up their aisles I went, Was the modus operandi of their establishment ; Erst I never could, even though searching all England 'round, Get an hydraulic press for less than £fiO, But now the world hath them, for 16, from our house renown'd. Three or four times they have moved, but still being pressed foi room. They advanc'd to where they now in high prosperity bloom ; I note that notwithstanding th' payment of 40 per cent. For th' introduction of their works to th* western continent, Wisdom in energetic action being their Guard and Guide, They can stand all this, and make a good profit beside; Their works they not only to India, but t' th* world impart. Their working engine 's, beautiful e'en as a work of art. And I perceive a large shop they've made of a covered yard, Their mode of economisiog room th' reader will regard. And underneath their stores of coals, and boilers, I presume ; This will be called in truthfulness, economising room, - ■ • > The Principals as exemplars to the workmen appear iti;.; -.'i' In beneficence, as in science, it'30 a year 3 l>k-m.^-. » These to the Hospital gave — They have a Brass band, which soundeth like Zelus' magic zone, A Provident Institution managed by themselves alone ; And wherever an improvement a workman could suggest. Hath by th' Brothers been well paid for, and carried out with zest. This is something to say in society's present state, In which too many do others' works appropriate '; Without even thanks, alas, or seeming to recognise - "^ ^ That which fame, and often fortune, unto themselves supplies. While writing thus, with casual eye the Minstrel hath been . tracking ^ Hydraulio Jacks, Do. Wheel Presses, Do. Presses for Packing ; And I too trace in active march thro' all these busy scenes Waggon tippers, oil presses, shearing and punching machines. I've traversed long, Olympian peaks, gazed downTartarsean gorges, But ne'er saw Wonder to equal their portable forges. ■■:,,ij0m^'-: ^4 IHB LONDONIAD. THE liv*^"- S^w j»k.. Utb». anltoB .^4Pri«-.; ■vice** , Y^ -e at our own A»ref oontrtictorB, Are all u^^^^^l^ay a^d mimt^jtores °on ^ ^^^^ Torn. Wl^««*«8f^dWea* Street, sUnao IjO, the rirm, w THB PLUMBING POEM.&C. STOCK BBOTHERS^::^ J^^<^; - „ „_v„«t» Manufacturew oi , „j^, STOCK BR0THEK5> n« ^^^ ^^ g^^ ,.• *n the student known , TN works o£ Art.:^f,"o our cUme than stone. le^ismoreBU^f to^^^^^ ■ I turn now to o»ir " ^ lead, fame tHey ve , crown. Sbeet, ^d no otW fii^^^^^^ , Jiea^, for tin, oils, Them for pigi gmrit m ui i England ; THE LONDONIAD. 25 rUs, trt. Painters' brushes, putty, paint, turpentine, 'C/uIours, all th' accessories in their varied line. The junior partner my cicerone was. As tLirough their giant halls the bard did pass. In longer strain ready to sing I am Of the only house in its line in Birmingham. I^°I ever held in fond remembrance our junior partner's name- sake, the Rev. Laohlan Taylor. I knew him long and welL I have listened to him and have conversed with him ; often amidst that umbrageous wilderness waving sky-ward above the mighty Ottawa, and on the very spot where now stands the metropolis of the Occident ; and too upon the far off shores of Ontario, where his presence like a rival day, flushed the countries of that beautiful inland eea ; while his rhetorical opulence reveal- ing the mental treasures of every age. commingling with the many voiced eloquence of Nature aerial ised my exiHtence rapt through inspiration, in the morning of my life, throwing en- chantment over every scene in that Beloved Land of the Setting Sun. k Sbeet p«-, Orown^ Ited Lead, B8»'rin,«w». irmingb«» I. ipe, irass^ jet,'^ T. WILKINSON AND COh Establiaked 1832. Manufacturers of Dinner, Dessert, and Tea Services, Epergnes, Candelabra, Fruit and Flower Stands, Spoons, Forks, &a. Best Electro Plated on German Silver, 15, Great Hampton Street, Birminghftm. 'This name alone mieht the Minstrel as with attraction draw, 1^ ere a great deal of th' sculpturesque as if entranc'd I saw ; All that in their bright line we might imagine to be done Is done, and to perfection, by the great house of Wilkinson. There is one sentiment that I from distant years recal, — They're noted ever for using the bext material ; In tea and coffee services, yea, a great deal they do, And their superior taste doth the living age imbue ; Established, if I remember well, 1832, /; ' , > And high, yea, equal to the highest place, assigns Birmingham to th^m for their purity of designs ; For dinner, dessert, and tea services known thro' many lands, Here I hail epergnes, and fruit and flower stands ; My soul 'fore their candelabra in loveliness th&t charmed Unto a living altar of inoense became transform'd. THE L0KD05IAI>- He bas visited J^^^^^^e know edge, .^^rid ^^ewhile. ^''^ ^ . f«ct sentlemen 1 fve • ^.^^ E. B. BENNETT AND SON. i.' « Tacks. Stair »^o°f',^u patentees and ManutactureiB 01 S^iuare. Birmingham. . ^^^ decreeing. -The sire aa manui ^^e son the lau™ And ae inventor, too, ^j^^ . "'■'Coffee roaster (and that «bich bea His own coftee to improved name) ,,3 ,jj^„eknownt« Science.) JotoLui'»''?<^t fl A. dissolve her- ^Sweeping do^tn ,, ,.^ ,orU over, Mr ?^nettha^»ae.fto»^*^:»do cover., ^d to deeds, hon»on.like, THE T Camilla who lived in ancient Eome, tells us that his son Was in business, the same as Messrs. Pattison. No cakes are here as we their thousand shelves survey, But tons of sugar, well worked up in an artistic way ; And Where's the highway thro' the world, on land or " ocean stream," Which not conveys their wond'rous works done by the power of Steam. THE ioH3>o«^^- lltE V"" , « *1,e Great >l»rt« »f Xo' »» n"''""' " lES:'^rmtect'»°"y''' , „n race must rfheir i^o^^*" « xi.e human tact? tinent ; fastidioUR of the n '»«'« «^r ^Qualify their artxcto The worlti , i" h _____-^ , sporting an* ^f'simtag'^'""- M-»«--^S'70?Gra.a. Street, B> _^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^.^^ ,..uo.theftr«tfiouse»the> ^^^,. -^ I choose, ^ ^ ^. .. ia that animates ^ g, ^^'' ir as ciS^'"'*"' ^^°ld Bo«d of Ordnance, itffi^^-'-^'""' \lintoLet.et.re.. Alone on tt^caa and. igh. on CftpB, their line .e-Muse. ndone, jfliondon. the maps, :ap8. advance, Ordnance, woth, .vented ^^^ I^ethethrevf, THE LONDONIAD. THE BIEMINGHAM PIN WORKS. 29 EDRIDGE AND MERRETT, Legge Street, Birminghaiu. Manufacturers of Pins, Needles, Hooks and Eyes, Hair and Knitting Pins, Pearl, Bone, and Metal Buttons. Thbo' my Immortal Heroes the Bard of Arts could tell his Eeaders much more than is said in the Gampagne of Ellis, And much higher in Science their products too might carry. Than the Pin statute law of th' English Bluebeard, 8th Harry. Enterprising, they're self-made men, nought could their progress stop, Until they stood as now, upon the sunlit mountain top. The Heads of the Pins and all, our Partners make in one, How diff'rent from the old Wire-heads in barb'rous ages gone. They bought the Yankees out, and now their Pins are sent All thro' France, which they supply, and over the continent. Letter A 1, as they say at Lloyd's, fame our House still wins, T.C., are the largest in papers, except Blanket Pins, Eor all from th' gigantesque to th' Lilliputian fame anoints Them, 3-eights o' an inch long, Bibbon pins or lillikin points. Their Plated Pins I hailed, each pure Art' and Science' gem, Here we see a wonder, the Tin being melted OTcr them. But upon t"" Acyn Brass, ,nU8t)> ■patonte'l n r\r article o* "' „„ 5 t='r:r. „*—'"*"' ^ doom. ; ' ^_ JAMES HEEV-E^ AND f co*a-«^^'S^ Steel Articles »* „™e cW'C M"'^' ■ "'"''''; Street «ee, !*« *° iSy a"* So'^" ' ■IS Mount Street . 1*^*® „?j em1)ue« rsci-ce, af ;-* ted AVor»- „^„ *"h deBigue4.*»«;Barlia.«eutanr » ^^^ ^^a ^-U&rt?Vo*«tCorkSere^B, ■ *:±rHS«.. ^„.t.eMuse«^e^l!ad.s, Well- r>y"-"^ . ^^ q' ifoc»-'^'' ^^ ^«-B*e^estt.e,^-^^^^^^^^ Mo-nft throughout t'ae gteel'ii^ l^J*^ -^^^^b, TheS Begi«t«ed T.^ %r ,,ere «e to^' Taney Steei x" THE JiONDONIAD. 31 xni •]5[utcYac»^s, I to uoUce L ma^^' ;i JNO. WHITEHOUSE AND SONS, Patentees, Bvass Foundovs, Manufacturers of Brass, China, and Gloss Door Furniture, Patent Brass and China Orna- ments for Bedsteads. Door Springs, Letter Clips, Porcelain Letters for Shop Fronts, &c., &c., 87, Birchall Street, Birmingham. By Cycloprenrcan-prosopowoDia a Lio;ht house Midst Time's torrent flood, stands the illustrious firm of Whit^liouse. Hero I beheld i_)atterns that rival Birmingham's best, They have special patterns for Canada and the West. The only luaiiufactory in England's midland part, That hath carried this kind of work to elevated Art. The sight of deeds here performed did the Minstrel arouse, My living hero's sire it was who founded this Timed howe. An endless variety in his interesting line, Perfectly encontoured and unrivalled in design. In which the purest Science and philosophy combine. Ship materials are here, and my hero is he, Whose works are welcom'd afar on every distant sea. This the only place that of the Potteries remindeth me, 500 saggers and more into one oven went, And there are many ovens in this vast establishment, Too, my enlightened hero, female labour doth enlist, And hence acknowledged thro' the world, an Art- Philanthropist. His object is not the mere accumulation of wealth, ' And th' method he has of drying, preserves his peoples' health ; O, could other employers in such deeds have atKance, They must delight a votyry of Sanitary Science. The immortal Herbert Minton, o'er whom the Muse late sighed, Paid a visit to this establlshmeut just before he died. 32 THE LONDONIAD. Hail manufacturers, (fame doth for them high place secure Ever,) of Brass, and of China, and Glass Door Fur- niture. Thus I proclaim th' eminent Patentees, From midland England o'er the Western Seas. RICHARD TIMMINS AND SONS, Established 1796. Manufacturers of Shoemakers', Carpenters', Saddlers', Tinmens' Tools, and Heavy Steel Toys generally. Also Shoemakers' Pincers, admitted to be unrivalled in the American Markets. Best Polished London Pat^^ern Quoits. Chests of Tools of every description and superior quality. Hammers, Vices, «&c. Pershore Street, Birmingham. An ancient date as Times go to this famed house we fix. Established by the Gvandsire in 1796. Their works, near and distant nations of this terrene well know. They stood unrivalled on our globe, ay, very long ago. — And amongst Sir John Franklin's relicks found 'midst the Arctic snow. From this isle of a Northern sea like to some sunlit mons, Our firm irradiates the world, Eichard Timmins and Sons, And the whole of Birmingham in our late day outvies For their superior Screw Plates, and too, for Stocks and Dies, While their London Pattern Quoits revive a classic age. And many a deed beside in which they do engage. THE LONDONIAD. 33 ■ft And heavy Steel Toys, generallyacknowledged the best, That form a feature in the Arts and all the countries West. 'Not shall the Muse of etern Science herein faijl to sing, Of my heroes' New Patent Rerersable Door Spring ; And unless this humid atmosphere my spirit's pin- ions damp, I will yet speak of Weston's Patent Self-adjusting Cramp. I would fain catalogue the whole, such for them's my regard. But I rel'ir the general reader to the spacious Card, And when posterity, the advent'rous Muse shall scan her, Let this remember their Boys' Tool Chests, and Patent Spanner. To whom is Birmingham indebted, as from a Spring- head Whence doth knowledge anacamptic beyond Mercia spread Eound from sky to sky, in sunlit waters billowing free Like Deucalion's flood venti wing'd o'er Thessaly, Por Criticism and the very elements of Grammar, But the Principal who gave me that work of Art, the Hammer. THOMAS PADMORE & SONS. Manufacturers in Pearl, Tortoise-shell, Ivory, Vegetable Ivory, Bone, Hard Woods, &c. Ivory Dealers, 16, Little Charles Street, Birmingham. As in the Syrian Wilderness stands Tadmor, So over Time shall exist the name of Padmore ; Here it was I saw all manner of Fancy Goods, In Ivory and Pearl renown' d o'er lands and floods ^ D u THE LONDONIAD. Th' Muse in Ivory, and Bone, Wood, and Pearl traces, In pv'ry design unrivalled Dressing Cases. Hair Brushes, Tooth do., all kinds, and here Chess- men, (Hail Ancient game) met the enraptured poets ken ; Bloti^ing Folios, Caddies, Variety o' Games, Yea, all in their long line, and all their countless names ; "While of Interest in the Arts I seldom had wore Than in the enlightened House of Messrs. Padmore. RICHD. H. TAUNTON & HAYWARD, Manufacturers of the Patent Lap-Welded Iron Boiler Tubes for Locomotive, Marine, and Portable Engines ; also of Iron Tubes and Fittings for Gas, Steam, and Water, and all sizes of Bedstead Tubes ; also manufacturers of the superior pointed " Star" Tack, and Patent Combination Eatouet and Swing Brace. A lai'ge stock of Tubes, Fit- tings, and Cocks of all kinds kept in stock. " Star Tube Works," Heneage Street, Birmingham. Th' mere ant-hills of Science let Ambury and others vaunt on, I turn to Heneage Street, and the superior house of Taunton. The Minstrel on Patent Diagram Tube Boiler muses. The first ever used on earth my great Art-hero uses. His is the extensive and lively establishment, Thro' America and Eussia bis perfect works are sent. Sparks flying around remind me of pensive Young, his lay, And of Robert, alias Satan, Montgomery's Last Day. • , *^.% ■" ' # THE LOTfDONIAD. 35 ^-^ Art Triumphs, and where they do the Grinding, Parallels to which we might be long in finding. The mighty boilers I've alrea4y mentioned in my lay, ' -And here is the «anal -and t*oad, around them all the way. Immense blocks of buildings his varied empire fills, And what familiar is to ine, his wondrous Saw Mills, In that unique department and where are made the Nails, An hundred wheels in motion, twice 200 hands prevails. A light that shone Venus-like, and lit the Minstrel day ward ; This most famous firm is now R. H. Taunton and Hayward. In the Junior Partner's Brother all Canada is blest, His piety and mental worth irradiate the West. For patent Lap- Welded Iron Boiler Tubes, aye confers Birmingham the wreath on them as manufacturers j These for Locomotive, Marine, and Agricultural Engines in the estimation o' men of Science rivals all. And need I mention here how with the most peculiar care. Every description of Tubes welded to order are. Patent Welded Wrought Iron Tuhpin for Gas, Steam, Water, and All &CS., you may from th' Star Tube Works command. Why need I all their works thro' deathless Numbers trace, , / In many o' which they stand alone, Witness their Patent Combination Ratchet Brace Or Ratchet and Swins: Brace in one. b2 ^nw THE LOin)OiriAD. S. A. DANIELU Manufacturer of Embossing, Copying, Eyelet and General Presses, Stamping and Paging Machines, Die Sinker, Seal-Engraver, and Letter-Cutter, Medallist, Stamper, Piercer, Die Forger and Tool Maker, Envelope and Cloth Direction Label Manufacturer, 52, St. Paul's Square, Birmingham. Aetistic wreaths the Muses now confer, On S. A. Daniell, eminent manufacturer ; See all th' world his famous Presses hail, And they o'er all in England now prevail. Their character for durability Is known in many lands beyond the sea, A character that in both hemispheres Has been maintained thro' long eventful years. And this suffices for a guarantee. That his future acts will with the past agree ; These world-famed Presses are constructed, all, On principles correct and mathematical. And the most graceful of manufacturing Arts, Are their propoitions and distinctions of parts. Daniell to heights of science here attained, And all the surfaces are truly planed ; Tea ! purest science here in practice put, For all the screws are ever engine cut. The minor parts form'd by superior tools, And good machines made to artistic rules ; And these together, fitted form the best Presses of our age, yea, they have stood the test. Here the beautiful and useful are combined. Excelling any that the Bard could find ; Soon, I'll in other lands and languages declare, The names of all, from 52 in St. Paul's Square. THE L0in)0yiAl). 37 INVASION? OF CANADA!!! Hang out the Black Flag I 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 ! ■ pk 5^ J. P. MARRIAN, Naval and General Brassf oimder, Lamp Maker, and General Manufacturer in Brass and Iron, Trident Works, Slaney Street, Birmingham. All Goods especially adapted for Ships* use, in Copper, Gun Metal, Brass, Tin, Iron, Papier Mache, and Electro Plate. Locks, Bolts, Hinges, Signal Lamps, Candle, Oil and Paraffin Lamps, Lenses, Befiectors, Bells, Binnaides, &c. PBIZE MEDALS OF GBEAT EXHIBTIONS, Zcndon, 1851 ; PariSf 1855 ; Honorable Meniiorit Londony 1862 TRIDENT WORKS, rv^ft in ' ' the Trident in Art is Neptune's Attribute, And now the famous Trident Works, the Minstrel doth salute ; Oladiatorial arena other than on th' foam, ' I trace it with th' Eetiarii in their combats at Borne. He founded the House himself, to it doth all aid impart, I noted th' powerful Engines which were perfect works of Art. THE LONDONIAD. Everything with Ships connected, herein stands con- fest, And he sends his Globe Lamps all over the Eoseate- West ; "Works for the Lower Provinces here met the Min- strels eyes. And Afric's chiefs with Ornaments my hero, aye supplies ; Higher and broader premises he soon will cause to rise. And while the various modes I round about am scan- ning, I hail the Department where 's perfected the japanning. That my hero does his own Casting, Grinding, Polish- ing, And hath all means within himself need here the Minstrel sing ; The Steam Engine ! the Boiler rose like to some ridge Andean, And the sounds were others than those of notes Pan- dean. Now to the Sheet Metal department thro th' coui't we cross, And to the packing room my Cicerone, the Boss ; Storage of castings, rough stock was varied too, and large. And any amount of order our J- P. can discharge. Entirely practical, from him none the wreath may wrench. For five-and-twenty years my hero worked at the- Bench ; Kow doth the Naval and Mercantile Marine enlist, In many lands thy mental might eminent Machinist. .-, .■ - ^ ' -^ .: ■ :^ •,--} , f, . y .;r •• -i^:[ 'r. ;_ . » 1 •'-I * :i *- A TUB LONDONIAD. 39 w. DAVIS & SONS. ;:;, -^ u PKACTICAL CHEONOMETEE, WATCH, & CLOCK 57, NEW STREET, OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE, BIEMINGHAM. '^ "' . - 'V t r Long years I knew the ever honored Sire, And now the Sons inspire the Artistic lyre ; Say who in the Midland Counties, matches The firm of Davis, 'specially for Watches. ,i, \i .ut 3/. Ask th' Mariner upon the distant main, >( ,i , , ! Who doth to highest eminence attdin; j;. -^ 4.,-:', Whose Horologic- Works, nor lose, nor gain, , n ^,-1 1 But are in Science' attributes complete, .. •.,-•>', All answer th' famous House of Davis, — New Street. li .iiJi'jTi .'.f m, Hi ni .<< • i»ii .»«»■ .1 ;;.j <.Ifi(;-;( > MC CALLUM & HODSON, Fapicr Macbc and Japan Manufacturers, Summer Bow, Near the Town Hall, Birmingham. I CHOOSE the House that Towers above the rest, Which supplies all India, and the mighty West ; Unlike even Timber their works will stand, In th' most humid and the most tropical land, And hence are hail'd on Earth's most distant shores, Their form retain'd they've neither grain nor pores ; 40 THE LONDONIAD. Thousands o' designs and each a pure Art gem, The Metropolitan Shops are supplied by them. Jet Articles my heroes imitate, And Princes of many a riv al state Midst septentrional snows and the glow Of orient climes send to Summer Eow ; In Moresque, many a large Iron Tray, (Not Paper) they to Turkey send aw^ay. After the Q-ilding I note that they display, Their Works in any colours, hence flowers And Landscapes, making Pearl tV groundwork ; Powers Such as their's I hail, and convinced I am. They have no rival in or out of Birmingham. 'Tis water gilding maketh th' Art so pure, By Copal Varnish do they well secure ; Many a magic scene do I recal. They create th' substance, and line and lock for all. So firm is th© material they put Into their work, to any shape it can be cut ; Some with Mediaeval Mounts t* imitate walnut, And here too, for repair, much work appears. That hath been in constant use, 40 years. Pictorial Works, some are very fine. There th* " Persian,"here th' Alhambraic Design ; Armaments and Halls 'neath many a sky. And Catholic Countries they do all supply. Ornaments under Q-lass 'nd they imitate Malachite : as of Copper th' native Carbonate. ' #-; -* I, ■<:• /nr ;.!■ •■ ■M ■ ..I- 1 ( •11 , r:- i--/// I, • :■' . ..I i: I : •.-! -'1 "'■'^ ' ■ I'M' , -I II I , ! •'. THE LONDONIAD. 41 fi^i K-* WILLIAM MARSHALL, GUN BABBBL lEON WOBKS, THE CAPB, NEAB BIBMINaHAM, Manufacturer of all kinds of the Best Bright Iron for the Gun Trade. * > The Muse of Arts now in her Sunbright car, shall Bear the triumphs thro' the world of Wm. Marshall j A great deal of work he with America hath done, And his name is known o'er that region of the Setting Sun. He could make Gun Iron beyond the Western foam, Equally as well as in England, here at home. I'-i ,?■-," I I'm sure th' people of Upper Canada would adore a Manufacturer drawing from Madoc and Marmora ; His specimens of Iron in our Museum stand confest, And he still supplies mighty regions of the West. Thousands of Tons of Iron he hath thro' the nations sent, ;■ And supplied the British and Eussian government. (I have a knife at home, the handle of which was done Out of Ivory, brought here by th' Great Livingstone) Apropos, Mr. Marshall made th' iron for that same Gun, still used by th' traveller of venturous fame. < * And need I unto uprising nations mention, Orders ever will receive his best attention. '-' On my hero, men of Science greatly have relied, / He hath other manufacturers in Soho outvied ; Many for want of fundi, or work have had to stop, Even to mortgage their Plant, or to shut up shop. Much with the tranaatlantii hourly might be done, « ■ ? Soon as experience hath seasoned his son. :' I 42 TUE LONDONIAD. By Her Majesty's Eoyal Letters Patent. EDWIN COTTERILL, Inventor and Sole Manufacturer of the Patent Climax Detector Locks, the only Locks which have not been Picked, and cannot be blown up with Gunpowder ; it is also impossible to take an impression of the Keys : the only Lock extant possessing this security. Manufacturer- of Wrought Iron Fire Proof Safes, Chests, Deed and Cash Boxes, Patent Double and Single Action Door Springs, &c. AlO, Vittoria Street, Birmingham. thcMC are the only locks to our age known, That cannot by man be pick'd, nor yet by powder blown ; Thy fame doth like the day, or Diety's presence fill The entire UniverHe, lllustriouH Edwin Cotterill ; Thou hast advanced, and Bramah, and the Churchyard Hero Chubbs, Do but appear in thy Titanic march as Grovelling^ Grubs ; The Immortal Hobbs (I knew him well) a famous^ trial made, You'll see th^ poem I wrote on him in th' 3rd Londoniad. I presented to our University, elated, ' ' ' i His Patent Climax Detector Lock, Delineated. ' To many Locks now being made in all their legion name, fv >.i "We've but to say as in the 40 thieves, " Open Sesame,"" And they will open as once, in Milton's World beneath, Th' Gates of Tartarus flew open at the steps of Death, ■•■ ', ■■ • •'■• •'■''■ In '51, in '55, and eke in '62, Europe 'fore an applauding world Ist gave, Edwin- his due ; 0rr « THE LOXDONIAD. 0:^" Many a defeated Bur<;lar can tell, Those are the only Locks Unpickable ; Tea, Nations speak it in His hij;h behoof, These are the only Locks are powder proof . In vain to copy, all your wits you tax, And no impression can be had in Wax. 43 CLAEENDON WORKS, CHEAPSIDE, BIBMIITGHAM. JOHN PEARS, Manufacturer of Semaphore Auxiliary, and every description of Railway Signal and other Lamps, on the most approved and scientific principles. Brass Furniture, Iron J^ork, and General Eailway Stores ; viz., Parabolic and Concave Keflectors, Burner and Feeder Screws, Roof Lamp, Argand and Solar Burners, Lens Rims, '^' ick Holders, Thumb Bit Catches, Ruby and Flint Lenses, Bent and other Glasses, Lifting Jacks, Copying Presses, Locomotive Shovels, Gas Fittings, etc. On many a headland thro' the world on many a wild'ring tido. ) Are hair 1 Pears' Ship Signal Lamps, Mast Head, Star Board, and Port Side, Prom the Clarendon Works, are hailed thro' the both hemispheres. The Improved Lamps of 40, Cheapside, and the I renowned John Pears ; yioi i'. *ui u A The Semaphore Auxiliary, and every other kind Of Railway Signal, we with our Immortal Hero find. These like Hierarchies?, hep,ven descended wrap'd ia Light, J >:. ■ If ' ',';., -.7 oh •,■■>'. I, ihi^Hvy ■;!.;['" Still guide, and prevent Collision in the dreariest night, And as to mariners afar, appear the guardian spheres. So welcome thro' the world and time thy saving deeds^ John Pears. u THE LONDONIAD. AARON FRANKLIN, PRESERVER OF BIRDS ANIMALS AND REPTILES, In a new ^ improved style upon scientific principles^ 68, Suffolk St., corner of Navij^tttion St., Birmingham. Dealer in Birds, Skins, nnd every description of Artificial eyes. Museums and Private Collections Arranged or Be-arranged with accuracy, and dispatch. N.B. — Particu- lar attention given to the Mounting of Foreign Skins, and the Classification of Specimens under Glass Shades, or in Cases, to render them Natural, Pleasing and Durable. A deposit required upon all Domestic Animals previous to preservation. Terms Cash. Established 1847. The f aim of merit shall the Muse now mete Out to Professor Franklin, Suffolk Street ; We take a general survey of the world around, And are surprised that their transcripts here are found : Beyond what Museums to the Student show. Perfection of form we to our hero owe. The air, the waters, the woods, the fields, Each natural beauty to Professor yields ; Of Nature's 3-and-70 thousand breathing things. Not one's unknown to him of whom the Minstrel sings. Prom him Naturalists of the world may learn A]l habits, manners, uses, to discern ; His perfect preservations did to me appear — Many of them — a miniature hemisphere. Not the mere mechanic : thro' Science he hath done That which o'er the world a name for him hath won, Ouvier and Linneaus might her^ select, Prom him who did for th' illustrious Audubon collect. "We hail what M. Nicholas said — that worthy man ; "What is in th' Journal de Physique writ by M. Kuckhan, t^-' fc THE LONDONIAD. 45 And all that Dr. Lettsom wrote thereon In the Naturalisfs and Traveller* 8 Companion. Th' Encvclopidie Methodiqne doth bruit, In its fifth number, from thy pen, Mauduit ; That of Dufresne, adopted by Daudin, In 'a Trait c^d Ornithologie, and by Haudin. Tlio fame of these great men wo fondly greet, And place them by Professor rraiikliii, Sufiblk Street ; He'll take skins, which pioneers would call "rough'd," And give in excliange the natural treasure stutl'd. (r*1 tv JAMES BERESFORD AND CO., * Patent Electro Silver and Britannia Metal Ware Manufac- turers. Liquor and Cruet Frames, Candlesticks, Kettles, Dishes, Plates, Urns, Cups, Tea and Coffee Sets. Com- munion Services. Electro Plato, and Britannia Metal Works, 31, Charlotte Street, Birmingham. To the famed Electro Plate and Bbitanxia Metal Works, Eesort for aye, Hindoos, and Hebrews, Christians, too, and Turks ; For here is all of Pure Design, and ever to be prized. And all that High Art Ideas ever realized. On their Patent Electro Silver the Muse the palm confers, Too, on them th' Britannia Metal Ware Manufac- turers; ■ , ., , M J The principal, a gentleman of a practical turn, Members of the Eoyal Academy from him might learn. Th' creator of a destiny acknowledged his own. He won his present position in all its high renown. Ever open to suggestion, and communicative, » '^ Art experience he will readily receive and give. 46 THE LONDONIAD. Tor Beauty in th' the commoner material he outshines All Birmingham, here the Maander — all price' Greek designs, (Designless the mightiest work of Art on earth I ween Would only be a monstrous — a rival Frankenstein,) His worlis nave long established o'er earth a fame for him, And while the song of Science flows, that fame shall ne'er grow dim. They have opened u ) for him a market in the West, "Where his transcendant Art-deeds are in very high request, Not only eagerly sought for by hosts beyond th' foam But by the most refined of our inhabitants at home. Th' Potteries Testimonial ! (need I on this descant. Subscribed for by Art-Student, Connoisseur, and Dilettant) T' Beresford-Hope shall eminate from this establish- ment. And I myself will undertake fully to represent It untiringly, with all the energy I can command. In beloved Upper Canada, that proud, unconquered Land. ►— - - *f A TRIBUTE TO PETER HOLLINsS, EvSQ., EMINENT SCULPTOR, GREAT HAMPTON STREET, BIRMINGHAM. O for Ih' Muse o'l " Mason, Gray, and Collins," T'. sound thy favour'd name, Peter Hollins; Thou didst thy part in Society take, As the congener of Sir Charles Eastlake. , ' And still the greatest in our British Land, Extend toward you, dear sir, the open hand. THE LONDONIAD. 47 ^.^ . * *Loved Son of Art, thou rankest now as erst * ; ' - (Th* Nestor of living Sculptors here,) the lirst ; One of seven brethren, (each might inspire Th' Muse,) who foUow'd th' footsteps of their sire. .' , Around the Minstrel's casual glances ran, ,- Over many ai. ige and famous man, /;' '• And won an too, scenes that must aye endure, Struck to life from highest literature. Our Peter's mental vigour hath been thrown Into many an Art-deed of renown. ' - * ' And when I asked myself who shall be made ^ 3culptor-Hero of this Loii'loniad, . '■ ' At once before me stood euub ancient sage, > . • ' In all the glories of their long lost age. And with inherent light led on the way Toward Him who now adorns the Sculptor-lay. And what was it that thro' me sent a thrill, England's great benefactor, Rowland Hill. (Here comes in many works in which Mr. Hollins has been > engaged). Like flowers of spring-time 'midst Canada's snows, His young ideas from the marble rose. There's scarce a Period from the Archaic down , .' In which he noi represents the high renown — ^ Lo the Renaissance ! lo the new-born state ' Of Art, and Tenth Leo's Pontificate, When Sanzio a new era illum'd - . - > Thro' Titus' Therma^, and th' Septizonia exhum'd. Here I beheld the Ciut-'ic with unutterable delight. As when Phidias' sunlik. soul wrapp'd Eternity in light. A Baby-boy in Sculpture ! most beautifully it sho.ie, As if a soul immaculate :!0t yet mounted t' its throne Had taken its abode in j ..rt, and thus informed the stone ; As Seraph's lyre to the ^^earer's thoughts ever responsive rings. My heart was touched in presence of that angel without wings. His genius yet in Bas-rfiliefs shall mighty realms adorn, Then spring Arts resurrection, and a Classic morn, The great of other ages in many a wond'ring land Rise thro' enchanted eras from his Periclesean wand. Sappho ! methinks I hear you say, Although so great a space of day Between you and your Phaon lay; I take him in my mental eye And in his presence live and die. Thro' Bards of etern fame, confirm'd Exemplars of Numbers, Our Peter Hollins wakes the marble from its myriad age of slumburs. I long around in Art's domain for high achievements sought, — Lo sculptured forms ^^rial as an arrested thought, \ 48 THE LONDONIAD. All of Virtues and Ideas stand revealed in form, » And moulded Mind transformed to stone in Spirit-calm or Storm Here in his Studio I pass along • • ' Midst Busts like Memnon's breaking forth in song, And many Busts our HoUins has sculptured life-size, Encontour'd Metempsychosis resuscitated rise With th* inheritance of glory they have beyond the skies, Kejoicing in the purity of new-crefted birth, Divested of the dross that oppressed them on tho earth. ******* An Elysian dream or Faery troup Turn'd by the sculptor to a Marble Group. * ' 1 with Awe inanimate And Wonder passed from Mortal state Into their world o' Being, from azure seas, Voiced in inextinguishable harmonies, Fair as Beauty's queen they seem'd t' rise and smile. Or she that bless' d Pygmalion in Cyprus* isle. The age in which we live is resplendent with the Genius of Sculpture, acknowledged in all periods of time to have been the noblest, the most ennobling, and, I may say, as far as my per- sonal feelings may find expression in human language now, the most venerated of all Arts. Witness Foley, Gibson, MacDowell, (I deliver their names in alphabetical order,) names that will be revered — To Time's last year, and Earth's remotest strand ; that would have been hailed as preeminently illustrious by any enlightened generation in any country, whose Deeds hold the same rank in Art that the works of Homer, Virgil and Milton do in Literature. The University Prize Poem on John Gibson appears in the 8th, and the poems on J. H. Foley, and P. Mac Dowell in the "Neiv 8th Londoniad. THE LONDONIAD. 49 DE WITT CLINTON, TJKIVERSITY FIRST PRIZE POEM. ** Immortal man ! great as wonderful, wonderfal as great ! The supporter of thousands, creator of empires, the l^ht of generations on their march to civilization. Kings, too often the descendants of brigands and pirates,— fire-flies of an hour,— shall pass — the flood-gates of centuries, fiat thou and thy attendant works shall trail their glories thro' a sempiternityof years." I gave credit for the motto in the 3rd Londoniad^ and which I again here introduce, to BilUxud de Varsmui, French Orator, 1794. I had the example of Sir Walter Scott before me, for this I desire now to let posterity know :hat I alone was the AutJior ♦hereof. '* The appearance of the country was changed by the con- fitruction of highways and public works. — In this time was began the Canal***the wonder of all travellers* **how glorious is it to conquer nature, and force it to contribute to the happi- ness of a nation!*' — Abbe Millotf Louia lith. le the lio from the morning of the world 'till now, The various realms thro' which did Canals flow. See Xerxes cut through Athos, region vast. And on thro' the divided mountains passed. And subteranean Copais sweeping free, From Boeotia Lake unto the Euboean Sea. How much of treasure, and of time the loss, Three Caesars sought in vain to cut across The Isthmus of Corinth, where they failed In more than human might, Clintc^ prevailed. When Marius held a Power beyon». le throne. The Marl roU'd from Marselle to the Ehone ; And that famed cut where half a mil lion Jiands, For twenty years threw up the mountain lands In vain, no progress could the legions make. To throw Fucinus into Liris lake. Lo the Canal that swept thro' Acquatain, Communicating with the middle main. Thro' desert sand, dead swamp, and living rook, A yaried realui, Tolosa on the Languedoc. 50 THE LONDOlflAD. Time saw the Cydnus thro' Assyria swell, A wilderness o waves that in th' Tigris fell ; Till Cyrus, prime of all the Persian powers Swept tides of life o'er Babylon's Towers, Caused the fierce flood its headland course to steer Thro' channels, one for each day in the year. See Zarytus affected by the Moon, Roll stated tides thro' adjacent lagune. Toward Tyrrhenus, Aver n us and Lucrine, Agrippa formed the broad connecting line, That made the mountain springs and oceans' surge Into the world-famed Julian Harbour merge. When Narbo rear'd on high her mountain wall And Palace Towns by Aude, in ancient Gaul, Ocean's cerulean realm her border bounds, Canals for streets and ponds for pleasure grounds ; Where Magi, Monks and Hermits found a home, In Egypt's famed Oxyrinchita; Nome, South of Heracliopolis' Magna Fall, The Moeris swept a fountain.fed Canal. A great canal Augustus taught to flow. Straight from the realms of Padua to the Po, Towards Cisalpine Ravenna, (which held sway O'er all the kingdom's of declining day,— • For when Rome by ih' Barbarian was possessed Resided here the Emperors of the West,) The fabled Muses on its bosom play'd, And swans immortal by the margin stray'd ; And the Canal of Drusus once did join The feathery Issel to the billowy Rhine. All these are the canals which I have found. In ages past,and other climes renown'd ; Some merely made for feather'd tribes to swim, But most indeed to please some tyrant's whim. None with " New York and Erie" can I place, In equal influence on the human race. Clinton ! what visions floated thro' thy Mind, Which like a Universe no bounds conflned; When thy stupendnus project stood confest, The world's highway up thro' the Mighty West, Thy Lion H-'art and Eagle Eye ne'er failed, Thn\mh long by man and elements assaii'd; All N ture nmiled at thy auspicious birth, The Kprin^'-tini" of a nation's greatness flash'd on Earth, A Btartlv'd Continent beheld in thee. The flnisht-r of highest Heaven's decree; That which to other eyet: was blank and dim, Even the dark future— all was light to him. THE L03fD02fIAD. 61 Like rivers mirroring the mid-day 8un, And all their shores t>s they to ccean run, So his poul filled, with knowledge all of yore, And later times could not o'erflow its shore. He like a Pharos on the mainland stood pouring his beams in the conflicting flood, When opposition with tumultuous roar, Broke like ocean on its tremhling shore, Go on iu bootless wrath — exhaust your rage And when you're tired I will new warfare wage. His spirit, like the Cynosure appears To mariners upon the tides of years. , Trust in yourselves, and not in other men, Trust in yourselves, and God will help you then. This made him what he was, his life we see Was an epoch in h.a Country's Hist'ry ; , . Onward he passed to a deathless renown, And US he passed he tore the bridges down ; So, whate'er th' opposition he might meet, Die or conquer ! for him was no reireat. Nouglit but the lightnings of the foeman's wrath. To shed a light on the Adventurer s path. Where Erie billowing wooes the Western breeze. Shall stretch out vast and rolling prairies ; From her broad bosom shall Niagara pour Inland oceans from its heights no more. Still, shall the star of Empire shed its beams, In well-laid roads and navigable streams ; Up th' Forest-night shall flying nations find Dominions, wide as bounds of human mind ; . Like Deity, (may all below— above, And tribes unborn the similie approve,) ♦ Whose Centre still doth ev'ry-where abound. But whose Circumference can no-where be found. Clinton's most wond'rous works, sublimely grand, Like the eternal pyramids, shall stand Ami(! the wreck of Empires, and decline Of races and their rise, a long and varied line ; His fame fill crowded marts and pathless woods, EoU with the sun and mirror in the floods. Lo buried towers from sandy billows rise, And I'haraoh's piles in clime of Ptolemies. Who rear'd them, can no tongue of sybil tell, Was't Man, Amphion's lyre, or Magi spell. Their mem'ries in Ogygeian darkness thrown, Their names, the age in which they lived, unknown, Where are they ? — Now! go ask the winds that swept The burning Ocean which bound them, when slept '■-. u ■ '.4 'on ■ i V' 52 THE LONDOXIAD. Milleunial years in futurity, j^ow for uncounted ages passed by. (Here folloT lines entitled DeWitt Clinton's Prophetic Vision.) God, seasons to years, eras to nations Gives, and great men to favour'd generations, *Twas minds like thine, immortal Clinton, woke Th' world, when the storm of Revolution broke In harrowing thunders ; and the veteran band Of patriots, joining hand in hand, Swept Tyranny's red tide from the affrighted land. Then earthquakes rock'd the continent amain, And elements convulsed, an endless train Howl'^. o'er thy struggling race e'er it was free, And rock'd the cradle of thy nation's infancy. (She like the infant Hercules could do What giants dare not, she the Serpent slew.) He like the Sun, careering on his way. Shed light and life o'er all the bounds of Day. The clouds of early morning long were past, The Eagle soar'd the solar height at last. And now my hero's mighty race was run, He emblcm'd out his country's setting sun, Orb.iike, his glory filling all the West, The Great, Immortal Clinton sank to rest. There are strange legends connected with the De Witt Clinton Poem, and not the most interesting are those which tell of its beirg refused, at one period of time, any prize whatever; although in a oal {graphical point of view most elaborately prepared and afterwards in a mutilated form by the same Professorial Body awarded without the cognizance of its Author a let prize, and a.n extra 1st prize •* with very high commendation.'' I have had the questionable satiefactlon of seeing this poem often quoted, with- out even the accompanim■«. im:Kvnmim\'JiW'r.^^'iW^f*i Why dost thou Vuild the Hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy lowers in day ; yet a few years and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court. And let the bl st of the desert come ! I shall be renown'd in the Song of Bard.s. — Onsian. Seated amidst cultivated woodei, situated in a silent Landscape of a Midland County in England, my spirit like a Bird let loose from the Ark, traverses a watery wilderness seeking her mental Memorial in a-far-ofF land. Thou siialt not be forgotten ! The Myrtle, the Bay, and the Laurel that in grateful shade encircle thy tomb, do but emblem thy virtues, and symbolize the Tri- umphs of Genius in many countries which inspired by thy beneficence still traces its origin to the life-giving principles of 7^ 54 THE LONDONIAD. Ill thy most elevated and kindly nature. Before thy smile the land bloomed as Fdun, and throujib this delightful paradise lay the path of thu Student ; thou did.st or direct, or lead, in all the walks of benevolence : thou wasl one of many who in the bloom and blubsom of early manhood (( reaign'd, The green hills of their youth, a» Jiig strangers to find That reposrt whicli, at home, they had sighed for in vain." Thomas Moore's Melodies, Thrrugh tact and energy, thou didst win, and through native goo( .ness of heart and jjerfect wisdom thou didst maintain a position that was never attained to before by un inhabitant in o'ir beloved Toronto, Queen City of the West. Thy li'e was not a continuing sunshine, nor were thy years interspai'sed alone with perennial shade; thou didst not recline perpetually on a bed of roses, calumnies und conspijaeits daikeued around thee; who was ib marched the Hero through that evil night of destiny with Nought but the lightnings of the foeman's wrath To shed a ray on his adventurous path. — Ist Londonicd. The voice of posterity proclaims his name; his virtues are hailed amidst the acclamatious of ages fiU' away; I write in tears, could I be of service to those whom he hath left behind let not sensitiveness bar the issue. 1 1 ow kind and generous thou wast in private life I know, nor neei I to suppoit my subject and sustain my posiliiou here , ask others who have lived with thee on friendly terirs, and who with thee have whilei iwiiy mony an hour in pleasavit Ci/uverso on tlr^ Shores oi Oi ^nrio. .'lendered irresistible b/ force of character, thou diiUt triumph through •Tiany enterprises ; yea, thou rliiist open up innumeiouscaujpaitrns in public life, the which, J believe, thou alone of h1! mankind in thy duy, couldst have ')• en the pioneer Free, pen. nobly gifted, in many respects magnificent, — and altho igu thou couldst tiotU give and take with any of the s(ma of inen, and however thou mightest be disposed to tolerate a conscientious opponent, and a reasonable amount of opposition for a season, thou wouldst not buidy epithets perpetually, nor was thine the heart, to brook insolence for ever • often when the enemy was most rampant in his imagined might, and victory seemed already within the grasp of that foe, inspired by thine own inherit wisdom thou didst calmly stretch forth thine arm and gai^her the trophies to thine own self; yea, when envy and mabce would show th^ir fangs (soothing having !io lonuer availed) how perfectly wouldst thou appear iu the eyes of living genei'ations as another Thor — battering the Sei pent, and thoro\ighly embueil with the spirit of chivalry aa thou wast, thou didst not withhold thy succouring arm from the *■ t THE LONDONIAD. » t prostrate opponent. Again have I seen tlieo turn, redoubling blow for blow, until the very elements of o[)po8itiou and the fiends that inhabited them were borne away in self-created tem- pests of Annihilation or as if by some talismauic influence, bome magical transformation, some yet unrecognized principle of Metempsychosis, more than Ovidiau Metamorphosis their fiery ardour sought ut w life, a very mental renaissance in devotedness to thy cause ******* The last time I beheld his good-natured countenan. j was jast before my departure for the down east slope of the Atlantic. He waved his arm towards me as was his wout, and bowed his head, and then as if just remembering something, crossed Wel- lington Sti'eet to meetme, which he did when I myself was about a third part of the way over. I had then no thought of never seeing him hencefiirth any more, nor thought I either thut the conversa- tion we then and there held would be our last. Mayoralties in Canada partake not of the souless routine known in England's Metropolis, where the knavish, the mean, and the senseless, or as Thomas Campbell hath it, " somecoiumon place lout" so often "beareth sway." Natives of different countries we met in friendship on a distant soil, far from thy Sacred Isle thou didst ■win a name in that which was once the land of strangers ; yea ! and thou wilt ever rank amongs-.t the Blest, Illustrious Pioneers, of our early History, as one of those bright Immortals who have given light and life ' o Canada. HON. JOHN S. MACDONALD, EX-PREMIER OF CANADA. A STRAUS" now for the famed " G lengarry boy " — Fain Avould the Muse our Premier youth caress ; I knew him long and well, and I would joy To hear of his and family's happiness, Some speak most glibly of our public men Jn Canada, beyond the AVestern waves ; I direct thein to that pestilential den Nci.rer home, the resort of vilest knave3. Yea, ^hc Bard dealed with many races, As thvo' th' eventful years of life he went ; Tot he never met with such scapegraces As 're in :h* British Commons House o' Parliament. 5G THE LOM)ONIAD. THE MAYOR OF BIRMINGHAM, EI3\VI]Sr YATES. ESQUIRE. JOHN YATES & SONS, Electro Plate Works, Pritchett Street. Of the Extra Stron*:^ Fiddle Pattern, now I sing elate. Tho illustrious Louse, John Yates and Sons', Patent Electro Plate; And here so peculiarly their own, Albata Plato, and Electro Silver, Fiddle Silver Patterns ; lo ! each land And sea they make eloquent with Arts' Harmony and Song, Ig^ Kings and Union Shell Patterns, are here all extra strong ; And which triumphant on the wave of many an ocean rides. The Enriched Queen's Pattern, Ornamented on both sides. Threaded Patterns Extra Strong, Trade Mtirk, J. Y. S., And here tho lirurswick Pattern, doth Beauty's self confess ; And too, the Coburg Pattern, how resplendently it shone, — Like to the race tliat flourish'd near to the English throne. Registered, I believe, I'ar back in '51. And here resuscitating the glowing ago of Saturn, I behold as if entranced, the innocent Lily Pattern ; Patent Electro Silver and Albata Plate, Hail'd throughout the world in every rival state. None may the gallant thistle f i-om " ye Glasgow " wrench. And here in graceful contour, T behold the French ; Ornamental Patterns, unrivalled, I assert. There the Victoria, warranted, and here is the Albert ; Single Shell, Fiddle Pattern, and here is London Queens Opening to th' Art-Minstrel's vision like to Fairy scenes. National Pattern, Glasgow, Queen's Pattern wi' Eound Handle, This I Purchased to supplant an in-artistic scandle. In polished oak, lined with cloth. Family Plate Chest, Tumbler Lock and Key, Brass Hinges, &c., stands confest. None the Art-Empire now of our giant firm invades, f^* The Table Knives, Dessert Knives, and Carvers with best Steel Blades, V~i •♦ s t « 4( //^ t^^ * ^'Ctive rout, nor tired from lengths behind ; Wo dreadless take the wings of day and ride upon the wind. We have been worse off, . ah ! wJien spray of tempest from each hoof, 'Erewhile, in fiei'y flakes illuii lined the stygian roof. And better off, let us confess when in stellar light afar. On ridge o' skies we took our way, from exulting star to star ;. 58 THE LONDONIAD. * No fear of you, Companion dear, being sent unto the knackers, — I have found a rhyme at hist, plated on Steel, Nutcrackers. Table Cutlery (th' Muse dons her Mvial Sandals !) With best Steel Blades, or with be?t Electro Plated Handles. Dish Covers, all, designs and sizes, to the Pythian j With Kegistered Handles, yclop'd Elizabethian. Patent Electr* Plated on German Silver Side Dishes, In Gadroon, or French Gadroon now meets our fondest wishes. King's Pattern and Albert Pattern, each is an Art-treasure, And where I find the Handles, may be removed at pleasure. "Muffin" " Vegetable," " with Warmer," " three compart- ments, chai-mers Of the Art-lyi'o, Venison Dishes and eke th' Warmers. Half remains imsung, as said human nature's greatest boast. In the Seventh book of that immortal work, " Paradise Lost," Like the Tenth of Nehemiah, or Homer's Cntalogue O* Ships, Ossian's Stars, Spenser's Rivers, Milton's Cities in vogue I bring and wing them over to every ago and clime, Of catalofjues raisonnes, this, I fain would make the prime. For every Term in Art I'd readily find a rhyme. Space, alas, forbids ! still ever thro' the length of days. Shall live the lay, which celebrates our Mayor's Baskets and Trays ! I note largo Oval Dishes chased, and the Rose Water Dish; This last in Design hath realized the Poets fondest wish ; Cruet Stands and Liquor Stands of various stylos and names. Huntsman's Flasks, and Mustard Pots, and too, the Break- fast Frames. Electro on Britannia, or German Silver, from Wand Of Wizard wight, methought the Claret Jug and Flower Stand Leap'd to being ; Lamp Scissors, Knife Rests seem made of Stellar Sheen, With Gadroon and Bead Mounts, like enchantment grows each Tureen. Mustard Pots and Salt Cellars with Blue or Ruby Glass, tracks The Muse, Mugs, and Bouquet Holders, Butter Dish, and Toast Racks ; In Patent Electro Plate such are ever here on hand. And here 10080, th' acceptable Inkstand ; And all things in their own Albata, very high do stand. No articles are warranted by our house of renown. Save those marked J. Y. and S., and ending with a crown ; THE LONDONIAD. 0» Hevolvinff Cruet, and Liquor Stands with their world famous name, Attached thereunto, and the most welcome Water Frame. Liquor Frame, the ErabosHed Cruet Stand, verily this Seemed to describe a planetary ellipsis. As if a new morning had over creation foldered, I see Patent Electro Plate warranted hard soldered. Patterns, Abercorn, and Brighton, Rope Pattern, and Can shape, Did not the observant optics of th' Art-St\ident escape ; The Cambridge, and the Rnglan, plain or fluted, or engraved, Thro' these our University, so much per cent, hath saved. Sugar Basins and Cream Jugs, gilt on the inner side. Here diflerent forms of Caddies so long our household's pride. Loud as Niagara turn'd to song, and no Muse could louder, Sing we now our Heroes' Incomparable Plate Powder. Common whit'ning, our Jewellery left in a wretched state. Destroyed, unvalued bijou, and wore away our plate ; It wore away the family crest and initial letters, A Virtuoso might have sworn " they're lately from th' sweater's." But from our illustrious house you'll soon be after gleaning All knowledge requisite, lo ! Directions for Cleaning ; Breakfast, Tea Services, Patent Electro Silver Plate, And here the Grecian pattern as in its pristine state. Plain or engraved, but still the Muse, who is no slattern. Must notice, plain, engraved, embossed, th' Uxbridge Pattern. Both Muse and Poet now must truly prove their mettle. With or without stands, see the Uxbridge Toddy kettle ; " Another Richmond in the Field " ah ! prythee do not start 'Tis not a fighting character but a novel work of Art. Uxbridge tea urn, do. tea kettle with lamp and stand plain. Or engraved, do., candlesticks, table, chamber snuffers. These are Patent Electro plate, and none of "Benson's duffers"; From this long, yet joyous journey, the Bard would fain rest a Moment, but Urns inspire, and here I hail the Vesta, " O Virgin Vesta " ! full 1^400 years ago, Boeotian Pindar sang, but this Vesta song shall glow 24,000 years to come, even *' to the crack of doom," The Art-Bard and Art-Heroes, those far distant times shall know. Th' Cottage and th' Melon, Albata, Electro A. A. C, " Th' names bespeak themselves, the letters the quality, Th' Muse' wreath shall never lose a fibre or a petal ; Lo ! patent Electro plated or Britannia metal. 60 THE LONDONIAD. Engiue-turn'd, of th' aa-ticles enumerated, fewer I'd not wish. Tea, Coffee Pot, isngnr Basin, Cream Ewer : When classic art was all forgot, what shone? inquires Levesquo, In Ar:iby and Ggi many it was the Arabesque ; And then the blooming Period came, the time of modern art. When this, high creative noind, caused from long sleej) to stiU't ; The Loggia of the Vatican now grandest triumphs won, And Kaii'aelle rose in splendour — the Arts immortal son ; With language poetical he allegory tries And adds the treasures of the mind to the pleasui-es of the eyes. 'Tw ^s his genius that produced an ensemble, which surpassed Everything of light and beauty that ages had amassed. Breakfast or Tea servioea, need I recapitulate ? Gems o' Lunarian lealm ! Patent Electro Silver Plate , In this we mark th' Shield pattern. Octagon, Embossed, Fluted, And with the Buccleuch and Melon all may well be suited. Unlike what in antique English, old Poets called losels, Hero are true candlesticks with loose or fixed nozels. Branch candlesticks and snuffers with all their gorgeous trays Seem made of twilight — morn beams, whence flash Augustine days ; Communion Services, (th' Muse in her flight who shall stop her.) Albata ! Elsctro Silver, Electro on Copper. On knives and forks, plated on steel with chased blades to be used When eating fish, on such and more, the Western Minstrel mused ; Upon her bridil eve I gave Clarissa, my cousin, — The forks were /52s., knives £i Os. Od. a dozen. Oui' occidental paradise upon the shores of Kilver, Was gladden'd with Yatks' New Mktal Virqinian Silver; Winter nights in Canada ! remarkable for brightness. Just as is my Heroes' Metal for its silvery whiteness Pm-e and durable, the beamings round me of mock moons, their forks, their ladles, and their spoons; Like the founts of streamy lands, that tune below the Milver, Are the strong Fiddle patterns in their Virginian Silver. Besieged by others to write on them I myself entrench, Behind the Dutch, Belgian, Havana, Rio, French ; Nickel Silver, or Pure Albata Plate, (as to prices I need not allude) lo ! here spoons, forks, ladles, fish slices, «S ^ 'Z« r THE LONDONIAD, 61 'fe« Butter knives, dessert knives and forks, (I'd like nothing to skip). Warranted of the best materials and workmanship. While to sterling silver, this beareth a close resemblance. Is harder and more durable, and so popular ; hence, Albata plate, ideal images here throng in troops, — Fish slices, engraved blades, fish carvers, knife and fork, cheese scoops ; And here like those on Eden's tree, o' which Moslem story tells, (Ebony or ivory handles) marvellous Tea Bells. The tide of song, like Ottawa rolls at a mighty rate Thro' yet untrodden tracks, — and many an embryo state ; Shall use tho famous White Metal, German Silver, British plate. More besides ! posterity, the ardent Bard apprizes. Here were found ornamental patterns, full EngUsh sizes. Let fame thro' sempiternity of years in dazzling lines •Of living light, o'er earth declare their unsurpassed designs. I'm in Spirit land ! th* outpost of Paradise, the border Land of Heaven i^^ Ingot Metal, Sheet, and Wibb to Obdeb. 'Go sound to ev'ry age and land from out this Northern Isle, Here are Initials and Crests Engraved in superior style. As 'neath their Hecatompyloean dome the advent' i*er, roved. Purity he saw symbolized in British Plate Improved, 'Tis this hath put much of others make, unto utter rout. Too, I witnessed that it had the same colour thro'cut. Such is now both at home and far abroad eagerly sought After, and by our Titanian firm. Warranted Wrought. And now to cap the climax, the Art-Minstrel comes at length. To mention their British Plate, Double Fiddle — Middle Strength j Ditto Double Fiddle strong (ye Muses mark how thrifty. They're in life's walk) extra strong — Double Fiddle Y 50. Double Fiddle — Light Articles, of this, and these I'd heard. Very often, German Silver, quality known as third; N.B.— of Patterns, they have a great variety. Suitable, yea, for every state of society. And thro' such they supply the markets of every Nation In th' world, and which from them may be had on application. 62 THE LONDONIAD. TO MY MOTHER. (WBITTEX IN AMERICA.) Mrs. Scinnns. " There is. In all this cold and hollow world no fount Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within A mother's heart." JoJm Dryden. " She was his care, his hope, and his deligbt, Most iu hid thought, and ever in his sight." Lord Byron. "She became a part of sight, And rose where'er I turn'd mine eye, The morning star of memory." Long years maj roll their cycles by, and oceans intervene ; In pleasure's or 'a 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 ? Though all the years of youth were spent beyond the floods afar. Yet ne'er have I forgotten Thee, my Bright and Morn- ing Star. My heart yearns towards you with a warmth no language may express. Had I a thousand worlds to give, ten thousand tor. rues to bless, Tet these were all too small ; and more, when all were done, To speak the gratitude and love of your lone exiled son. 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. THE LONDONIAD. 6a & Another wife may well be found, a sinter, too, be born : But nothingeau likeraother'slove the human lifeadorii. Yes ! and when all the world grows cold, friends prove no longer true. Then, mother, with a bursting heart, we ever turn to A'OU. TO MY MOTHER. (written in ENGLAND.) John Milton (" Paradise Rccjaineci'") " Home to his mother's house return'cl." Hon. Mrs. Norton. ** Holy as Heaven a moth- r's teuder love ! The love of many prayers and many tears, "Which changes not with dim declining years : The only love which, on this teeming earth, , Asks no return f«>r passion's wayward birth." Thomas Moore. *• What should I be without thee ? Without thee — ■^— how joyless victory! 'J hou^h borne by angels, if that smile of thine Bless'd not my banaer. ' No sentimental lyre I string . To fancied sighs and tears ; . v? i'or I know well the woes did wring Your heart in exile years. The last to wave the parting hand, As I dared the stormy track ; And your form rose first upon the strand, -:» To w^elcome the exile back. ; When the sun flamed in heaven no more, And his last beams faintly shone, I saw you on the less'ning shore, When all the rest were gone. On steeps, in labyrinthine dells, Your voice came back to me, Like the sweet chime of silver bells Across the sounding sea. Your presence ever seem'd to guard Me in my wandering ways j Enveloping the lonely Bard lu Aureola rays. 1'. «4 THE LONDONIAD. CANADA. I' HAVE been for some time engaged in preparing a Poetical Histoby of Canada. A prospectus will be issued at an early period. THE IRON POEM. EARL OP DUDLEY. "Give me Iron.*' — Borneo and Juliet. sold, Ibon ! what art thou ? Ask the artistic bard ; Of metals th' most abundant, useful, hard. Thee might well the enlighten'd nations prize, For thou hast done much more to civilize The world, and lift our country to renown, Than any other metal to us known. Look o'er the globe ! who wast their freedom Those wretched races, in desire for gold, "Who was the Presiding Genius o' the main ? Who held the Western World ? was it not Spain ? What was she once ? what do we now behold ? A coward nation, sunk thro* lust of Gold. But courage, honour, and faith environ Th' race of giant minds that keep to Iron. Oh, well we know what Iron doth impart : 'Tis God's spirit breath'd into every art. Mightiest painters now (jnthron'd on high. The suns and systems of our moral sky, With Iron oxides pigments do supply. In chemistry thy combinations vast Into the shade all other metals cast ; Nor in the mineral kingdom can we find One like thee to string the nerves, expand th* mind. Lo ! Electricity, which fills the whole Creation round as with a living soul. In magnetism, too, and such as these, We traverse roiling orbs and flying seas. Yea, all that I here name or trace. And millions more, from Iron spring. Of Iron, and the Dudley race, I yet in lengthen'd strains will sing. THE LONSONIAD. 66 a Ibe ALESCANDRE. > )ld, in? I ind. FIRST CHIEF, Aged 24. Much wiser and much better, Alescandre, I became Basking beneath thy genius in all its sunlike flame ; I knew the fresh and racy thought the forest imagery, Tea ! the primeval poetry that ever came from thee, The condensed and energetic — wonderful expression— And the varied thought o' which thou e'er put'st me in possession — Alescanc^^e ! I followed thee in all the arts of Peace, Thou bear'st me o'er the main of years to " Athens eye of Q-reece." Recalling thus a clai^sic age — yes ! themes that both . we loved, 'Till Pentelicus ii om his base, as if enlivened, moved, And we, midst Heroes, Demigods, and Gods in Sculpture roved ; Saw superb temples tor Demos, Art-miracles disclose All Marble Harmonies entranced from whence weird hymings rose. On every height and headland, with beauty glist'ning there. Embodiment of light and song, in Greece's en- chanted air, Knew who those stately Theatres for Demos' self did rear, Where the loftiest tragedies, and all so ixcvr^-y wrought. And the wittiest comedies, by Gigant^s of Thougnt, Which, with each-returning spring-time were forth to Being brought ; Tea, a new creation looni'd with each returning spring, Toung as the year, fresh as the air, did Antiq[ue Minstrel's sing! P 60 THE LONDONIAD. And how the greatest Orator's toil'd by the midnight lamp On original discourses (thet/ never did revamp !) E'er could such with their ideas of perfection agree, And er'e they dared to " move at will that tierce democratie," Whose education, like thy own was cared so greatly for. Demos stood 'midst the living age like thou, a mental Tor, Like thee, the knowledge he possessed he fondly did impart, "With sensibility alive to poetry and Art, From every act of pu^ic life did rival glories start. Whose Judgment, Alescandre in all of Literature And eloquence, was so trained, so faultless, keen, and pure, Faultless in discrimination, like thine, young glorious Chief, Sis power was nor contracted, nor Ais dominion brief ; His Constitution ay, longer than others he maintained In the ancient world, a great region this Demos gain'd, And left a Literature, to no land or tongue confined, Which ever since hath ruled on high the empire of the Mind, And the school has been of Beauty and culture to Mankind. fl^ I have written a Poem on " Celebrated Friendshipji in Various Ages.'* The subject was suggested by the mutual love I and Alescandre bore each other. This fine hearted young man, the glory of his race, and who was highly educated, lost his life while engaged in rescuing a craft laden with English, Irish, and Scotch Emigrants, and a few Germans and othrrs. My oration on this subject is extant in print, and when the public of after times shall read his Poems, the manuscripts of wLioh are now in my keeping ; and his speeches, notes of which were t:>,ken by me at various times in a species of short hand ; ^hey will be able to judge of the mental splendours of our Aboriginal Prince I have a volume in preparation, entitled, "Anecdotes connected with the Londoniad." THE LONDONIAD. 67 SIR WILLIAM LOGAN, F.R.S., GEEAT GEOLOGIST CANADA. . -Happy days -to Logan. — Sobert Bums. Can Burnet's Theory more prevail. Or Whiston's comet's fiery tail, Woodward's beds — Buffon's fusion, * "Whitehursf fluid — the illusion Of old Hutton who saw hurled Amain, wrecks of an ancient world. Geognosy of Freyberg's sage — Werner, I mean — 's no more th' rage : Would Neptunian theory, Or Volcanic more agree With the world's most wondrous man, Glorious Canada's Logan, Who at a glance looks Nature through, As with omnipotential view. .. He sees in Time as many years, As there are miles along the spheres. THE POET'S HYMN TO TKH GEOLOGIST. Nature restored by you appears All wond'rous as of old ; When, welt' ring through the ancient yearf, Primeval oceans roll'd. The waters dancing to the gales In Nature's early day, Reflecting seem, like flowery vales, And mountains deck'd with spray. You show how mighty monsters trod Creation's earliest shore ; Or found their abysmal abode Beneath the billows' roar. f m THW LONi>Ci.'(IAI/. ! I ! Vvlcanic fires and floods do strive 'i'; mastery to gain ; Earthquakes, in tides of lava, drive Their isthmus through the main. Continents upheaved, and isles From shoreless depths below ; Mountainous piles on piles, Where waters used to flow. But how shall I, with streaming eye. Through the dim vista vast Of the far distant Past, My untrod way inquire, Or with my new-strung lyre Through the night of ages press, A second Orpheus in the wilderness ; Tell in adventurous song. The monsters of our clime, Millions of ages lay, To which the annals of recorded time Are less than yesterday. Emerg'd from realms where thunders roar*d And earthquakes round were hurl'd ; To HIM I sing whose Art restored The ruins of the ancient world. HON. JOHN HILLTAED CAMEEON. *' I commend him for hia ability as an Orator, and his integrity as a Patriot." — Cicero. -though gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." Sir John Denmak. Like mighty river, that from earliest time Hath rolled thro' many a varied clime, Eeflecting scenes of Nature and of Art, A barren desert or Imperial mart ; So doth thy eloquence with Genius roll. By sunbeams lit, or else by clouds o'ercast, A fitting emblem of thy gorgeous scul, — A MIIIEOE of the peesent and the past ! I 'B THE LONDONIAD. EGBERT BELL, Esq., Formerly M.P. for Lanark. * * # ' countless generations from ligneous parts of plants. Lo ! Riga rein, Codilla clean, now inspire the Nine, And well I hope to sing ol'Bope and George Hewit- son's Twine. And in the trips of our ships he shall supply their wants, And all that we o'er the s; a require for Emigrants. His place is near the Market Hall, And when you thither give a call You'll find in every branch he*s practical. r ^ h 80 THE LONDONIAD. Rear'd in the business, and by his own hand Hf; is able to supply any command, And thus he's haned throughout our Western land. Excelsior ! his motto, he is bent On rearing in Canada an establishment ; He hath supplied us already for many years, His sure passport there when he appears. The only Steam-Power Dye Works in Birmingham. DAVIS AND CO., Goods fetched and delivered within three miles of the Estab- lishment. An order per post will ensure the Van to call. What name shall now the lyre artistic thrill, Davis & Co., the Great Dyers on Snow Hill. "Lend me your ears" Sawney, John Bull, and "Uncle Sam," Behold the only Steam-Power Dye Works in Bir- mingham. You dread to take to some, so long you have to wait, But this complaint is never made at Snow Hill, 28. Our people in the West I know it very well, Have articles considered very valuable, And which their hearts and minds would with pleasure fill, Could they invoke thy aid, O (Tenius of Snow Hill. You need not stay to think, nor gaze with dubious eye I'or Messrs. Davis & Co., everything can dye , My friend Censoria from this may very well demur, *' Can your Snow Hill Heroes (methinks 1 hear) dye our Fur ?" THE LONDONIAD. nd. Lm> iiey've a method of reviving and protecting that same Which hath won them thro' th' World and Time a never-dying fame. If you require dye for Furs, and would that dye behold, Please see the Sth Londoniad — for the great George Appold. This eminent gentleman is the only Dyer, and Jonathan Richardson ((ith Londoniad) member for Lisbiirn, the only Bleacher (ho being, like Mr. Appold, head in the world in his line) — that have appeared in the Londoniad. Estab- ocall. 'Uncle in Bir- bo wait, 1,28. )leasure ^HiU. ious cyo lemur, ear) dye ' THOMAS WEBB JONES, Saddlers and Coach Ironmonger, Harness Manufacturer, &c. FOE HOME AND EXPORTATION, ESTABLISHED 1790, HORSE FAIR, BIRMINGHAM. No Packages alloiocd for until a^Uialhj received, Tu* " Immortal Owen" in an earlier day, As Decorator graced the Minstrel's lay ; But ThomaH AV. Jones I now declare, Sabdlees' and Coach Iroxmonqer (i:T Horse Fair. "Where th' large Colonial Bitildincks do themselves uprear. I hcT*e th' most famous Wooden Horse survey, That ever graced the world since Virgil's lay — Lysippus self might very well admire, And Pindar strike with teu-fold tbn*e the sounding lyre. Monte Cavallo, Venice, seem to come, * With that of M. Aurclius at Eome ; G 1 82 THE LONDONIAD. I ' a i I Balbi, and Flormce ! need the Minstrel speak ? Home's Equesi'biaiI Statues and the Vicxoiis' o' th' Greek. Courage and generosity in Early Christian Arf, And many a Vibtue symbolized seemeth here to start, The Horse, with S S. Martin, Maurice, George, Victor I salute, As of St. Leon in j.>ontificials, the attribute ; With Statues or th' *' Equestrian," he seems in life to march Along th' winds and myriad age, on each Triumphal Arch. Those Saddles which my hero maketh for each Koyal Court, And Hall Baronial, and which he greatly doth export. In loveliness of contour and design, thus greatly won My heart, being the most perfect that 1 ever gazed upon. Lo, to the Anglo-Norman hamies harness is allied. Though erst to more of warfare bv that dire race applied. 'Tis here enlighten'd enquirers from ev'ry region gyeet. And here are Ladies' Saddles, Furniture complete ; Deep Skirt, Jockey Do., Demmy, to th' Mighty West I bring, Full Shaftoe Nos. 4, and 5, and hero th' Exercising. The Boy or Girl, or Boy and Girl in high design and grace. And here is Numler 15 the Saddle for the Eace. Stockman, & Colonial, I 13 and 14 trace. By Him who hath in Science, Plulosophy, all outvied, Are th' Principal Families in the Colonies supplied. All in hiH superior line v»"3 ever with him liud Pure Design, all excellence are here at once combined. No House in England is more respectable or stronger, Three quarters of a century, yea, and somewhat longer Hath been established our great Saddleus anj> Coach Ieoumokoeb, •*- . THE LONDONIAD. 83 And known boyond England, throughout the world from end to end, "Wliile on him the greatest in the land ever still depend, 'Tis thus th' Harmonious Sciences from off their thousand thrones, Proclaim the deeds to ev'ry clime of Thomas "W. Jones. W. MORRIS, Wholesale Perambulator, Wicker Chair, Basket Carriage- Body and Basket Manufacturer, and Importer of French and German Baskets, Brooms, Brushes, Carpet and Iicuther Bags, &c., 24, Freeman Street, Moor Street, Birmingham. Many works of Art have bsen the Muses* fond elators, But now they welcome Wood and Wicker Perambu- lators ; Lo! Invalid Chairs, Wicker Chairs, Baskets of all kinds, And ev'ry article in his line the Bard with William finds, Majiufactur'd on th' premises here they stand confest Of material and workmanship warranted the best. 'Tis hero from ev'ry distant country merchants do resort, For our William Morris hath them for Home and for Export ; Go, proclaim it if you will to Wolverines and Hoosers, To rooks and Yankees, here &rd found Brooms, Brushes, and Osiers. The Muses' (lame was once reduced unio a flicker, Till AVilliam allowed what he had iu Wood, and eke in Wicker. 84 THE LONDONIAD. ! ;! Once, ay twice, in Leicester Square, I mel the Im- mortal Ward, A generous-hearted gentleman I very much regard ; Hia Batli Chairs thro' retrospective years were thy theme, O Bard. But now must the Muse of Science trick her Hair witli beams, and hail those made of Wicker. I lately had an aunt, and her name wns Mrs." Norn's, She said if you w.-mt Baskets go to AVilliam Morris. He spent his life-time in the work and his are much the hest, He stood erewhile unrivalled when he flourished in the West. She knew him very well and often gave him a call, Once he went down-hill, but like india-rubber ball She said, he only rose the higher from the heavier fall. And now it is all nations pay their fondest devoir To William Morris, Freeman Street, and Number 24. I desire to be kindly remembered to Mr. Morris, Junior, Son of our former Premier. MOSES ASH, Optician, Mathematical and Philosophical Instrument Manu- facturer. Magnetic, Galvanic, and Electrical Apparatus, Miners' Dials, Theodolites, Circumferentors, &c.; Magnets of every description ; Smee's, Daniell's, Bunsen's Carbon, and Grove's Batteries. All other kinds made to order. The Trade supplied with iSill: and Cotton-covered Wire. 4, Bull Street, Birmingham. Kepairs strictly attended to. Shipping Orders promptly ey ^utod. That which came o'er me like to a mental flash, Were the peculiar works of Mr. Moses Ash ; They've thro' the whole of Europe met with high approval, Long before, and since, his eventful removal. THE LONDONIAD. 8& As Blrminprliam's Principal Optician confer "We the \M ith on him aa Manufacturer Of Matheinali«'al and Phi'.ofophical Instrumt"iit8, Magnets, ev'r} description and thus Trace we Magnetic, Galvanic, 'nd Apparatus Electrical, wo hail from th' Ist o' Science' Mentors,. Min( rn' Dials, Theodolites, Circumferentors. That none excel his mai which are some fine foliDS and to which I have from time to time bten making additions ; these I will give also ; and many persons in various parts of the world would willingly ■end something; nnd thus in process of time, an Institution might be established in the new capital of Canada surpassing aught ever known before on the Western Continent. T y TOE LONDOiriAD. 95 ELKINGTOX & MASON.—I brought a letter of introduction to that truly noble guDtleman, Mr. Mason, but alas i late I dis- covered he had retired, and Mr. Elkington is no more. One of the head Manufacturers in Birminghan? declared, and in perfect truthfulness, that not one in a thousand coming from the West vould require aught that this establishment now affords ; and albeit I am entirely conviaced of tbe aptitude of this remark : I am yet inclined to be that One beyond the thousand in regard to a copy of Mr. Thomas' Boadioea, which I hope soon to see in Ufper Canada. %m> I SEE her with uplifted hand, As in the years of old, When fighting lor her native land, O'er the fierce invading band Her iron chariot roll d. Ay ! then the Roman Eagles soar'd O'er many regions far, Tbe thunders of the Ccesars roar'd ; From Tiber's shores, their legions pour'd The fiery tides of war. The British queen rode down amain, All through their brazen phalanx ; And where the blood of thousands slain Billow'd o'er the crimson plain. She march 'd her British ranks. Alas ! the discipline of Rome O'er-match'd the British brave— The invaders' triumph seal'd her doom ; Without a country and a home, She sought — in vain a grave. Her daughters twain, in grief all bound, Bow at her royal side. And the illustrious queen, discrown'd, Yet fills the atmosphere around With majesty, — as when she died. Blest be the sculptor ! HE who touk A subject from his native clime — A subject truthful and sublime — On which ages shall admiring look, Down to the end of time. ♦ Mr. Thomas' brother resides in Toronto, and is our prime Architect of British America. Qentlemen like him give a high standard t» the English character in distant lands. 96 THE LONDONIAD. IMPROMPTU! On SIR CHARLES AND LADY WATKINS returning to UPPER CANADA, after a residence of 12 years in England; written June 24th, 1866. 1 i •' Tia hard to be parted from those With whom we for ever could dwell ; But bitter indeed ia the sorrow that flows, When perhaps we are saying for ever— far etoell! " Mrs. Adieu, Sir Charles, adieu ; and hoaored Lady you, Far o'er the water"! blue, You now returning go. For the Fates* command, To Canada's interesting land Beside Ontario. For years beneath the self-same roof, New Charles Street, City Road We've lived, and in your high behoof I speak, while my heart is like to break, I never in any clime thro' length of my life-time Had happier abode. Ever may you maintain beyond the Western main, The honour of Canada's Name ; And think of your Minstrel friend, As thro' that loved land from end to end Ascends the Patriot flame ! My Mother will think of you when far away. And in some calm evening like this Seated in our Library will pensive, say, " i wonder how Sir Charles Watkins is And his honored consort too, to-day." You'll hear my lays in other days, Ti'ill over the roseate West, — But the night is dark'ning fast around, And you to Canada are bound ; 0, be for ever blest. You're bound for Nature's realm. Our Saviour guide the helm Safe to the slopes of Kbora, (Where you will realize A Celtic Paradise.) While I in my pursuit of Literature and Art, Will often as if Impromptu, start ; And you both mentally salute, And blessings long imd loud impart, To Sir Charles and Lady Deborah. Opie. to d; THE LOXDONIAD. Aroo yet may anchor weigh- Then I'll leap into your Sleigh ; Thro' the sunlight and the snow, With merry Bells we'll jingling go 'Midst the fairy Towers of Toronto. In some lovely Winter day, HappyJWinter far away. 97 pie. THE FINE ARTS, JAMES TORRINGTON SPENCER LIDSTONE, TO THE 'INHABITANTS OP UPPER CANADA. I am prepared to introduce specimens of the Fine Arts into the West, suitable for private mansions, public halls, and jeocle- aiastical AdiCces, being myself an Art-Student, and from pecu- liar circumstances admitted on all occasions to the view of numerous private collections where the mere trader would not be tolerated, and in constant communication with the most eminent connoisseurs of England — and moreover, awaiting my orders pictures once in powession of renowned families on the Continent, 'as well as masterpieces of British Artists — will enable me to fulfil ordenfto any amount in regard toPaintingb; and although in Sculpture I have not been as yet able to do much except in a few choice works that now grace my own library,* still the luxury of wealth already gathered around me, to be distributed at no distant day in Canada, may be valued in its lowest estimate at a quarter of a million sterling. Raise I thro' wonder-world th' enchanted song. As 'midst the Arts revived I pass along, Till from that o' th' Golden Horn and Tuscan seas They to th' Flobbntine divergd and Genoese. The Roman stands with majesty erect For 'ts solid and legitimate effect. * Since the above was written I have made arrangements whereby I am enabled to supply our people with works of High Art to any extent, from the studios of the greatest living Sculptors in England, France, and Rome. f^ 98 THE lONDOKIAD. Toward th' Venetian all ye Muses tripp'd Those who their " pencils in th' rainbow dipp'd." Thro' the Lombard long as the Eelectica known. Juat symmetry y and power, and grace are shown. There Albert Durer leads the German School, Whose drawing power he guides by nature's rule. The Flemish and the Qeriuan now combine Where Rubens and Vandyke in deathless glories shine. Here doth the mighty Rembrandt elevate Th' Dutch, b' some thought sunk in lowliest state. With its great power, we iu the Spanish find The gloom and wildness of that nation's mind. And need the French School from the reign of First Francis, be in ardent stiaina rehears'd, Like new Creation breaking in on Time Some mental wonder bursts from ev'ry age and clime. Yea, here we works of bright immortals scan, Domenichino, Pousain, and Titian, Leonardo, Guido, and their brilliant train, The three Caracci. Claiuie of Lorraine, Julio, Pfrugino, Raphael the divine, And Michael Angelo, the mighty Florentine. HARDMAN & Co. — I find that althoucfh carried on under the same name as formerly, the Great Hardman is now no longer the Principal. I should like however, to make one re- mark ; I met in Birmingham one of the younger branches o£ the "real Hardmanf*," this young gentleman reminded me very much of what the Author of Gertrude of Wyoming, said of the grandson of Brant the British Great Indian Chief of Upper Canada, when that amiable and highly intelligent youth visited him in England. In choosing a Medioeval Metal worker, I found no one in Bir- mingham thiit could make the slighest approach to that prHcti- cally enlightened gentleman, Mr. Brawn, and who has marked his name upon my list. I leave out of the 14th Londoniad 109 names of as many manufacturers who have done the same, scarcely any of whom are hia equals, and not one of them superior in any branch of Art. But Jacob Bright Browett, Esq., has introduced a tirm (not of ijirmingham), an account of which will appear hereafter. THE LONDONIAD. inder w no lere- es o£ i me , said ief of youth a Bir- prncti- larked id 109 same, jperior q., has which W. H. PHILLIPS, Engineer, Machinist, and General Iron Founder, Atlas Foundry, Oozell Street, (late of Cumberland Street,) Birmingham. Atlas Mauritanias king of yore All the round world upon hia shoulders bore, But th' Muse o* classic lore that lives for ever shall resound her Lay for the Great Engineer, Machinist, and General Iron Founder. I thought his spacious Hall and Dome as I went on, Stretched from sky to sky across the horizon. His is not a mere manipulative abortion, He makes his own tools and o' machinery ev'ry portion. Steam Engines and Machinery in general, of every kind, Here Self- Acting Slide, and Screw Cutting Lathes we find. And so very true to the most exalted science rules, Here are all kinds of first-class Engineering tools. None now in Mr. Phillips' Art Empire entrenches, Hail ! thrice hail ! Log Saw Mills and Circular Saw Benches ; And these are they so much required by every pioneer In sylvan lands, that goeth forth the forest tract to clea**. I look thro' future days, each Western nation hails His Machinery for th' Manujacture o' Screws and Ifails. Corrugating Machines, Curving Machines, and Wire Machines for Galvanizing Wire, yea verily my lyre Instinct with song, deathless, and all that is good beside, 0- ^ 100 THE LONDONIAD. Saith here are all kinds (and this I note with pecu- liar pride,) Of internal fittings for Hot-honses, &c., supplied. —And that which doth over-board all other products knock, , . , . » ^ N.B. A large variety of Patterns kept in stock. CHARLES BIKKER, Ohnrch and House Decorator. Churches, Chapels, Oratb- ries, &c.. Decorated in any Style or Period. Banners, Crucifixes, Antipendia, Shrines, Altars, Eichly Painted in every Style. Bradford Street. Cheapside. Birmingham. As the fiery Celt in Bruce's time, said " I'll make him sickker," So I oust other Candidates for fame, and turn to Charles Bikker ; To the Great Decorator now I turn mine ardent eyes. Whose wondrous works in visions of Fairy Land arise, From all in the Midland Counties, the chosen of the Nine, And th' first in taste and learning, right eminent in design ; The very aspect of his Place made this idea start. Surely it belongeth to some great ^son of Art. Here I beheld the Classic with unutterable delight, A FhidisDan era, sunlike, burst upon my mental sight ; And here doth the Mediaeval the Art-Student engage With all the deep enrichments of a resplendent age : \ Tea, I saw it with the spirit of glorious Art embued, And I had to view it closely, to feel that it was not wood; THE LONDONIAD. 101 Oh! 'twas a glorious specimen, — I look'd and felt again-^ Why wonder Bikker's genius fires the inspiring strain. I gazed upon the Fompeiiean, the Pompeiiean style elate, Such as ceased in Titus* reign to glow in wonted state, But now I sound to ages far, and far from Albions' Isle, Thy decorative name, Bikker, and thy peculiar style, The great peculiarity,— this doth Birmingham know — Is that the style of ev'ry age my hero well can show. None is so mighty, grand or rare as Bikker to appal, He knows each Individual style, an( too, the National. Lo ! the Classic, and Gothic, and, too, the Benaissance, In our Immortal Bikker, e'er meet their high advance, Or his own style to influence conception of the real, Not merely of the cold blank form but heavenly Ideal. As Decorator o' the first-class thro' the three kingdoms known. And like an eddying circle extending in renown. From out Arts' Metropolis He th' Muses Palm hath won, O'er many lands and seas they come to hail the Arts* triumphant son. Thro' sky and billow, from day's eve up to the rising morn. Thro' ev'ry coming age shall Charles Bikker's Name be borne. Lo ! all the Arts and Sciences, and Graces all preside, Resuscitated epochs flame, (^ Bradford Street to Cheapside, And when bis lovely Artist Son, shall visit us in the West, Or in England's Metropolis he shall be my mother*^ guest. 102 THE LONDOIJ^IAD. HENRY MANTON, JUNR., Manufacturer of Cut & Engraved Glass of every description. And Manufacturer of Mounts fnr Cruet Frame Glasses, Dres- sing Case and Bag Fittings^ Corks, Labels, ^c, 108, & 110, GREAT CHAELES STREET, BIRMINGHAM. The Sunlit Standard of the Arts now plant on Fame's dread Mountain's highest peak for Henrj Manton. Olass ! yea as I beheld Art's standard once unfurled Over the elder oriental world, Spreading out like a sun-illuminated sky, And borne by all the blissful winds that fly. See Science, too, each wondrous age's dower, Kise to its highest point 'neath Henry's power, And Blossoming into its Consummate flower. Thro' the paintings of Beni-Hassen I knowledge did obtain, That glass-blowing was practised in a far distant reign ; Not bounded by the Roman time, for we rejoicing track, To .^gyptus' Osirtasen, near forty centuries back ; To the Art-minstrel Glass is no strange theme, Erst borne along by Heliconian stream, Rapt was I in the splendours of a Fairy dream ; I traced it from the early Syriau time, Thro' ev'ry land, to our own age and clime ; t • THE LOKOONIAB. 103 t • bion. DrflS- lAM. ^enry uried ;e did •eign; brack, ack; And nought I saw in England could surpass, Junior Henry's Cut and Engraved Glass ; Ten Thousand English Homes do this confess, The Imperial Palace, and Officer's Mess. And here it is the Nations ever get, "Works Floriated, Geometrical, and Set. No horrors, with darkening clouds o' Fury, broke Thro' rococo, capriccio, baroque ; But Henry might from the sky allure a Crowd of Angels thro' his Caelatura. Borders ! Art-history to us hath stated Mightiest Minds have help'd th' Decorated ; To our Ex-Mayor's Son, Earth doth assign a Place high for the corona, echina, Fleuron, fylfot, guilloche, cestrum, aevron, The meander, c iprimulgus, chevron ; O, to entrance the ages, I might harp a Strain still more deathless to his encarpa, A la grecque, to the acanthus ; arabesque, So well delineated by Levesque. And here from every age in glory rife Reflex of Henry's spiritual life ; I view'd them well, I knew them all, and hence. Under their talismanic influence And weird Phylactery, was not spell-bound. Though legions of Genii throng'd serial around. The Muse shall bear o'er Time and ev'ry sea, What here entrancing met the Poet's ken, ([^Established, 1833. Great Charles Street, 108, & 110. I made the Great Manufacturer and true Son of Art, Apslej Fellatt, Author of Curiosities of Olass, and Glass Making, and late Member for Southwark, Hero of the Londuniad for Tabls Glass. I have ju&t received fourteen specimens of Window Glass, from as many Glass Manufacturers in England; an account of which will appear in the supplement. f 104 THE LONSONIAD. JNO. A. JONES & CO.P steam Sawing Works, 96, 97, & 98, Barford Street, Birmingham. Patentees and tnanufactureiis of Packing Cases and Crates, which are fitted without nails, and to take to jieces for return ; they are fastened and unfastened any number of times without damage, and consequently save their cost in a few journies. I've noticed oft with many a sigh and many a tear, How cheap wringing and washing machines get out of gear ; Bradford's, and a host "beside of other nameless trash Came once to upper Canada that would nor wring, nor wash. We had a rooster-laundress once, surnamed Mary- bore, At breaking down o' these machines (though pious) "twas said" — he swore. But we behold th' Sciences flush in irradiate zones. From the Baltic Steam Sawing Works of t' veritable Jones. Let Inventors and Traders still about Patents wrangle. We to this famous house repair whene'er we'd have a Mangle. Tea ! let the meshes of the law others' claims entangle Wi' Birch Bed Bottom, Mahogany d,o., Hail Patent Chest Mangle. Need I tell ? the Patent Portable Box Mangle on Chest Is greatly welcomed throughout the wondering West. Portable" Mangle, Wringing and Washing Machine, singer rd fain be o' these, as of the Patent Portable Wringer, t ♦ ^ THE LOKDONIAD. 105 t * » ' Sound the light Guitar* and, if you please, the sharp trianqle, Ships and Steamers welcome th' Patent Portable Box Mangle. What's destin'd yet ev'ry private Home and Hotel to bless, What of this do Men oi Science thro'out the world confess — Portable Mangle and Wringing Machine G-reat things I ween I too unrivalled, the Linen and Saddlers' Leather Press. Alone Virgilian Epic and Pindaric Odes Might sound o'er land and ocean their Earth Closets and Commodes. Earth as a deodorising agent ! 1 did gather Knowledge of, yea of their system in frosty weather The advantage, the principle of the Earth Closet, Was never equalled before nor since the days of Fosset. Not merely do I speak proi^ipectively, for it prevails Even now, overall established since the days of Hales, In a Sanitary and economic point of view, 'Tis destin'd to prevail the nations thro'. Instructions I'll yet give, its attributes, Behold the after world each one salutes. But all that you or I could wish to know May be obtained from Jno. A. Jones & Co ; And Testimonials are here on hand, Erom Men of Science in many a land. Erom sire to son long generations down, Descendeth the green laurel of renown. Chemistry, and all th' Arts do this famed family crown. ;, The difiFerent forms of Closets, — the efficiency of which is so £preat as to be scarcely credible to those who have not uaed them or seen their mode of action, — may be inspected at the Office of Jno. A.. Jones & Co., ^8, Barford Street, Birmingham, wbero every information may be obtained, either by personal applica* tiuu or by letter. 106 THE LOin)ONIAD. THE CHANDELIER POEM. CHARLES J. PHILLP, Brass Pounder, and Manufacturer of Gas Lamps, Brackets, &o., in the highest style of Art, 20, Caroline Street, and 29, Mary Street, Birmingham. OvEE fifty names upon my list! this appears A great number, and alone for Chandeliers. In el oosing his hero, the Bard despaired And to close his list was just prepared, Till one Immortal Son of Art,* Did this knowledge high impart ; Although being in Friendship's eclipse These are the words fell from his lips. None now in Birmingham uprears, Like Philip, a fame for Chandeliers ; None in Design so high hath soar'd, And he alone seems to have pour'd Into his Works the Soul of Art. — For Caroline Street th' Muses start ; And ne'er saw I, th' exception solely Thy studios, Mac Dowell and Foley, Aught t' equal, much less to surpass Philip — he can do anything for G-A.S. I knew each Style and Name, in those Forms adored a thousand ages rose, High Knowledge His deeds and words disclose, And greatly won upon mine heart, !Mental Vigour he doth impart To His Works th' highest in th' realms of Art. *Mr. Potts, "who will appear in the Supplement. THE LONI»ONIAD. THE GREAT BEDSTEAD POEM. 107 PEYTON & PEYTON, Manufacturers of Patent Metallic Bedsteadtf. London Warehouse and Show Room, 49, Long Acre, W.C. City Office, 46, Moorgate Street, E.G. Dutilia Warehouse and Show Room, 89. Wellington Quny, (opposite the Metal Bridge.) Glasgow Warehouse and Show Itloora, 41, Hope Street. Liverpool Warehouse and Show Room, 20 and 22» Slater Street. Manchester Warehouse and Show Room, 24, Bridge Street. Manufactory, Bordesley Works, Birmingham. If we look for excellence where shall we excellence find, But where on particular subjects have been concentred the mind; Yea, mental strength, not on a thousand things divided, Which after all, by Art and Science both may be derided. Fired by this idea each Miise the Minstrel leads To hail Improved Patent Metallic Bedsteads. And these whom ev'ry nation of th' world anoints Ever above the world, for Patent Dovetail Joints. Manufactures thro' England I've long been tracking, Yet ne'er paw I equal to their Patent Sacking. Numerous Patents they have and all their own, Which win for them throughout all climes a world's renown. Thro' my Heroes in many a city entranced I am, As at th' ever-famed Bedstead Works in Birmingham. Cots and Children's Bedsteads in all their varied name I ween Are here, Solid Iron Bedsteads, No. C, 2,116 Q^heir Parallel Tube Bedstrads o'er the Western ocean pasa^ Their Taper Tube Bedsteads we hail, and Bedsteads made of Brass. Lo ! alt their Names and their Dehigna the Art-Minstrel brings in vogue, And in French and English too, be them will catalogue. Peyton and Peyton, for them Fame's solar standard is unfurl'd Th' most eminent Bedstead Manufacturers in the world. Greatest and Most Extensive, nor could we a rival find, If Birmingham were with the whole of England in one combined. 108 THE LONDONIAD. Witness, while in tb' Home Market there's scarce the faintest call For others' make, and th' demand infinitesiraally small Afar, the entire market for their Bedsteads they obtain, Throughout all England und in ev'ry clime beyond each main. And them alone for Bedsteads I have made Prime Heroes of th' 14th Londoniad. M. C. CAMERON, Esq., membt rinthe Parliament of Canada, (page 98, 12th Londuniad.; WILLIAM WELLER. the Great Mayor of Coburg, in Upper Canada, (page 81, 12ib Londoniad.) EX-SHERIFF CONGER, PETER PERRY, late members in the Parliament of Canada, and Captain Buck, (I2ih Lon- doniad.) JOHN CREIGHTON, Esq , re-elected Mayor of Kingston, Canada West, (page 82, 12i.h Londoniad.) HON. THOMAS D'ARCY McGEE, Orator, Poet, Statesman, and Author, Ex-Preaident ot the Council, Canada^ (95th page 11th Londoniad.) SIR EDMUND HEAD, Ex-Governor General, (page 92, 11th Londoniad.) VISCOUNT MONCK, Governor General, (page 6, 9th Lon- doniad.) OGLE. R. GOWAN, Esq., Ex-M.P., (pagel05, 9th Londoniad) "THE LEADER" Ex. Alderman James Beaty, and Nephews, Leader Buildings, King Street, Toronto, (page 97, 8th Londoniad.) ' JOHN FLANAGAN, Ex-Mayor; and Great Warden of Frontenac, (9th Londoniad ) To my RoYAi. Navt Friends residing in Torbolton, Western Canada ; Captain James and Captain John Grierson, Lieutenant Baird and families, I send my hearty respects, (they appear in the 5th Londoniad) and should any of them ever come to England, they can stay with my Mother as long a» they like. CAPTAIN CUMING, Steamer Emerald, Upper Ottawa. 1 have a present tor him in fond remembrance ; the last time ve met, was at night in [Kingston, when darkness was round Itbout, but we knew e^^oh others ivoioe. n- # THE LONBONIAD. 100 n- * \ i-v ^7*r I . 1 * i' ( t . '• '..;" .cV, Z*^ BROWN, IVTARSHALLS & 00^ Bailway Carriage and Wagon Builders, and Manufactnrerv of Iron Work for Railway Carriages and Wagons, Contrseton fur every description of Railway Stores. Britannia Worki^ F irmingham. London Office, 8, New Broad Street, E.G. This is the largest private firm in all the midland round, And for substantial enterprise is equally renowned. Thro* their unexampled extent a 1000 forges blase, Which remind me of Vulcanian realms that glowed in Homei'a days. Russia they supply, all the nations of the Continent, Thro' India and South Amerio' their great works are stnt. Their mighty motive power I'd fain presiuue, Would toss th' Atlantic like an Eagle' Plume. I on advance and Wm. Taylor guides, Here in the fitting shop Mercuri us' self presides. In their Saw Mill they've ev'ry appliance For Work, thro' the perfectitude of Science. Its triumph, too', my rapt attention draws. Thro' their peculiar system of sharpening Saws. I saw the sparks that round and upward drove. Like new worlds from th' chariot wheels of Jove. And I may well in other lands and languages declare, That in no machinery department anywhere I visited in life, was action so intensely rife, Or the word Sublime so entirely applicable, As in this which inspir'd, and made my heart exult and swell, And in the Wagon Shop I was bound as by a spell ; Th' mighty Plan'ing Machines excel all in the Western clime For here (work of wonder !) th' sides are done at th' same time. So rapidly, so marvellously they turn, Their contour Argus' self might not discern.' Every thing around that th' Art-Minstrel sees, Is built HS strong as if by Titan* Deities. They make for greatest companies who thro* all lands confess Our firm ne'er require Inspectors to see the Work progress ; For they've a character to maintain that's known thro'out th' world, And its sunlit banner's like a sky o'er ey'rj clime unfurled. & 110 THE LONDONIAD. ■■ ' Here are Ist Class Carriages, perfect works of Art I scan, The Decorator iiere ranks with the Academician. Such are for **fayrc Irelond'' {Chaucer) and doth th' Bard delight, Others are for "the Land of Cakes" and these are Green and White. Close to the Railway Station are placed their 100 domes, And here as from the setting sun, up the rapid Engine comes. (Thro* lurid light or darker night in tunnel region, thus Array'd in thunders I was diving down to Tartarus. ) And from the rolling smoke and aerialized blaze, A myriad host of sparks are pour'd in embryo days. On ingenioiia economy here the Minstrel pours, Their old Boilers are used for holding Horse-hair and all stores^ Too, beside, their own Fire Engines the Pilgrim here salutes. And all appurtenance' for Maritimal pursuits. And I admired their packing which met my casual view ; Patronise Ex-Lord Mayor Rose this they never do., They make their own Railway Grease, and very much better too. They've a Foundry in Town beside that which th' Poet draws, Lo in th' Log Department Vertical and Circular Saws. (What is this ! Enceladus shaking the lands afar, Or Niagara and Etna animated for war.) Their unrivalled Boilers* Lo ! their Steam-hammers, and the mode Of using them remind me, forcibly o' some Hesiod— JK&n Bronte, and their large Lathes used for Wheel Turning, Went like rapid Mercury thro' stellar regions burning. Hinges, Bolts, innumerous — and here they saw th* hot Iron, While sparkles like stars in chHotic realm, the men environ. I only the like of this world-famouu establishment Beheld, what time eventful I thro' the classic ages went ; Hear, each raighty blast, as from uproarious spheroid. Or planet tem^ost-stricken, sweeping across its Time's void. They make for " Cape of Hope" XMilton^) Chili, the Brazils, Spain, Australia and all the Colonies, they t' sole Empire attain ; In Mauritius, and Germania's circles by the main. Norway, Sweden, Turkey, India, all realms assign a High place to the Great Britannia. Works, — excepting China. ^^ The Londoniad is got up to weigh just under a quarter of a pound, and so as to go by Post for a penny. THE LONDONIAS. XIX VO SIR J. L. BOBIMSON, BART., TO MAJOR 8HER\700D, AND THEIR BE8FE0TIVE FAMILIES, H£AD or THE U. E. LOYALISTS, NATIVE FRINGES OB* THEIR RAOB, I INSCRIBE IN FOND REMEMBRANCE. Please see 9th LondoDiad. " J. T. S. LiDSTONE, Esq., author of ♦• Londoniad." Beattie's original Bust of Robert Burns the Scottish Poet, that great sculptor's efuif-d' ceuvre^ concerning which so many 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 Mediteranean, 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 failing into the possession of Mr. Lidstone, who intends sending it to Upper Canada." — Catalogita of North London Hxhibition. This is not the first Marble Bust I have given to Canada, nor will it be the last. That so much spoken about now in the City Hall, Toronto, I caused to be placed there, having left the subject to the great sculptor there who toolc the Prince of Wales; and there are only two* in Canada, and no one beside the sculptor himself in England, up to this moment, who are aware that I sent it. * My dear friends Sir Charles and Lady Watklns who have just returned to Canada. THREE MARBLE STATUES FOR TORONTO. I have now ;ei,500, the proceeds of a literary worlc, 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 Dean 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. Whatever more I might do in days to come, I should like very much at this present time to commemorate, by some work of Art, my short sojourn to Birmingham. Society will bear me witness that I have not as yet mentioned this subject to any one ; I will, however, give my Mother's cheque for One Hundred Dollars towards a marble bust of the present Mayor, to be placed in tiie Town Hall ; one-half payable at the commence- ment, and the remaining fifty when finished, and I will treble the amount for a Statue.— J. T. S. Lidstome. /• y ;» 112 THE LONDOyiAD. Almost tbe only manufaotory I regret not visiting is that of the great firm whose name will transpire, precluded as I was by prior «ngagement» from accepting the courteous invitation of its Principal on a certain day, and I only regret it the more because of the Name. To the Hon. Mr. Pemberton, whose perception led him to the early discovery of superior powers, and whose Might advanced the interest of so many public men in Cauada, I myself have been greatly indebted, for when as yet I was, to use the words of our friends in the sister kingdom, but a " small boy," he, like some philosopher of classical antiquity declared, that (at the proper time,) he would make a speech for me, a promise which he redeemed in after years with what effect, waa known in that time and is felt even unto this day ; when from the Laurentine Oulf by the morning shores of Qaspe lie traversed the wilderness westward, of flood and shade, and as far as to the boundary of the forty- fifth parallel of latitude, proving that he at least wah no Sopoperperethraa. An elaborate article on Messrs. HEATON'S MINT Is for the present crowded out, although set up in print. TO MY FRIENDS IN CANADA. This is the first Canada Edition of the Londoniad, and con* tains a greater number of Names and many hundred lines mora than any of the earlier Numbers. I have been very care^'ul as to the names here introduced, and these are they whose workn I have found most suitable to your wants, and moreover the best in their respective lines of bubiness to be found in England. Many herein mentioned I cannot but feel an affection for, I have found the people of Birmingham generally civil, indeed I cannot up to the present time recal a single act of coarseness, certainly not when once the object of my mission became known ^ * * I will send you the names of those gentlemen whom by this means while in your midst you may recognize, and any act of courtesy shown to them, will be acknowledged as being shown to myself. — London, (Eng.) August 1866. TO MY FRIENDS IN BIRMINGHAM. Beside the Birmingham names .mentioned in the 14th Lon- doniad, I have 109 manufacturers which it would be impossible to mention here; but I will choose 50 or less for tbe supplement. It is not from disrespect that they do not herein appear, but because I have no desire that the interest of Firms early chosen th'buld be in any way affected, and the various lines of business yet to be noted in the supplement, will be as far removed as possible from those now written upon. • * ■» \ i I I LONDONIAD • . APPEARS UNDEK THE AUSPICES OF THE QUEEN, H.R.H. THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT, (as PKESIDENT OP THE SOCIETY OF ARTS,) THE EMPEEOE NAPOLEOJST III., THE EMPEEOlt AND EMPEESS OF BEAZIL, LEOPOLD, KING OF THE BELGIANS, ^ LOUIS, KING OF BAYAEIA, THE KING AND QUEEN OF GEEECE, THE KING AND QUEEN OF HANOVER, THE KING- OF SAXONY, silt aH:.A.I^LES li- E-A.STXiA.ISE, (president of the royal academy,) HIS GRACE THE AECHBISHOP OF CANTEEBUEY, (friend of the author,) HIS EMINENCE CAEDINAL WISEMAN, (writer on art.) THE LATE GOVEENOE-GENEEAL OF CANADA, THE LATE GOVEENOE-GENEEAL OF INDIA, (viscount canning.) THE LOED LIEUTENANT OF lEELAND, TTpwards of Three Thousand Gentlemen, Eminent in Literature, Science, and Ai-t, throughout tlae world. i A Si'.pplemental Nuraher of the Londonxad will he issued at an early period. ■a-i; <-!m ^\\