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(COMPLETE IN ITSELF) : OrVlNQ A POLL DESCRIPTION OP THOSE ' '' PEINCIPAL ESTABLISHMENTS, IN THE CAPITAL OF ENGLAND, WHICH ABE THE MOST SUITABLE FOR CANADA, ETC., BEING THE CONTINUATION OF AN UNIVERSITY GREAT PRIZE POEM ON THE ARTS, ALSO CONTAINING PIECES GIT SOME OF THE MOST CELEBRATED PERSONAGES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN CANADA, FORMING ALTOOETHEK EPISODES IN A GRAND ' BY JAMES TORRINGTON SPENCER LIDSTONE, OF TORQUAY, DEVON, LATE OF TORONTO AND OTTAWA, UPPER CANADA, Author of the " Gonqueat of Canada" " Aneient America" " Pictorial Betcription of the British Provineea in North America," ^^ Geological Survey of Lake Superior" " The Elyeium of Art" " Limbo of Science " ** Men of the Time," " Canada as a Field for Enterprise," igc. S^e. S^c. ^\^ i " Dulcique animos novitate tenebo." — OviD. , ' J |/^ Printed for and by the Author, Sblma in Morten, and Published BY Him in London, (Eng.) {^J^ntered at Statmier's Hall.) THE author reserves THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION. •4i ;TAa: ;-vf^^ CONTENTS. PAOH Adams, John . . .90 Adams & King, Messrs. . 79 Albert, Prince ... 4 Alderman Anton . . 97 Albscandre, 2nd King . 4 Anti-Emigration Poem . 94 Argyll, Duke of . . 101 Arundel! & Co. . .61 Atkins, late Winfield . 16 Barron, W. J. &; Sons . 60 Bavaria, Louis King of . 6 Battle of Life ... 97 Bell, William ... 81 Eell,Mr., M.P. ... 99 Bemrose b. Sons . . 25 Bentley, Kichard . 17, 109 Besnemer; Henry . .111 Bevis, Henry . . .4'' Black, Adam ... 8 Bolding, John & Son . .64 Boss, I. A. . . .55 Boston, Mayor & Corpora- tion of . . . .98 Boulton, W. H., M.P. . 74 Bowes, Mayor . . .74 Bright, John, & Richard Cobden . . . 16.59 British Museum, J. Winter Jones .... 100 Brown, George (Globe) . 80 Brown, Sir John . .111 Bryan, Brothers & Co. . 37 Bush, Alderman . 75 Cameron, Hon. M. C. .11 Campbell, satire upon "Plain John" . . 79 Canada's Address to France 99 Canada, 1000 Personages and Addresses in . 65-6-7-8-9 Canada, Agricultural Imple- ments .... 104 Canada, Upper, Mauufac- turing Towns in . .87 Canada, Arms described . 60 Canada, Confederacy . . 30 PAoa Canada, Lower, M.P.'s . 7 Canada, Upper, M.P.'s . 7 Canada, Farewell to . . 70 Oration, An . . . 69 Canterbury, the late Arch- bishop . . .76 Canterbury, Archbishop of 14 Canton, Robert . . . 27 Caron, Hon. Rene F. . 75 Capreol, Mr. ... 2 Carter, Alderman . . 105 Ciirden, Alderman Sir W. 99 Carrara Marble Works . 34 Canada Invasion . . 74 CasseP^ Louis P. . .86 Char^bers, Wm. & Robert . 78 Chrndler.Congre^sman&Dr. 98 Charley, S. . . . 53 Chippewa . . . .56 Clinton, Hon. Judge . . 76 Coleridge, Right Hon. . 79 Collier, Sir R. P. . . 79 Coulson, William & Sons . 53 C'raustoun, Mr. . . .104 Crenevirem, Head Sachem 4 Curtis's & Harvey . . 105 Dale, Rev 19 Dajria, President . . 6 , De Joinville, Prince . . 5 Denmark .... 5 Derbishire, Stewart Esq. . 75 Derrin, D. & A. .58 Dick, Capt., Queen's Hotel 17 Dickens, Charles . . 29 Dorrington, Alfred R. & Co. 29 Doyle, Chas, A. . . .18 Dudley, Earl . . .111 Duke, Sir James . , . 76 Earl of Harrowby . . 73 Earl Granville . 69,111 Empress, The . . 101 Emperor, The . . . 101 Englishmen, to, on " The Crisis" .... 104 Erie, Lake, storm upon . 56 COMTBNTS. iU 7 7 70 69 PAQB 99 52 52 13 47 36 Europe, the.Upbeaval of Ryre, Frederick. Fellowa, E. & Co. Foley, J. H. . Fordbam, Thos. Geot^^e Fox, Frontenao . France, the Song of Victory for 99 Frodsham, Charles . . 104 Note on Eactory News . 100 Gaffin, Messrs. . . .34 Gait, Sir A. T. . . 6, 10 Gardiner, Ex-Governor . 98 Gladstone, Mr. . . .16 Glenny, George . . . 21 , Gordon, Captain . . 17 Grabham, T. . . .40 Grant, A. H. . . .19 Granville, Earl. . . Ill Greece, Otho, King of . 6 Grey, Colonel . . .76 Groombridge & Sons . . 23 Gurnett, Mayor . . .74 Gush & Ferguson . .11 Hampton, Charles . . 36 Hanover, King of . .6 Hanover, Qdeen of . .91 Harding, James . , 42 Harper, John, King & Co. 41 Harrowby, Earl of . .73 Haasall, Dr. ... 69 Hartley, F. W. . . .67 Hayward, Richard Edward 83 Hilton, Anderson & Co. . 61 Hill, Alderman . . .76 Hilliard, Hon. George S. . 49 Hincks, Sir Francis . 10, 13 Hogg, James & Son . .17 Holts, S 42 Houlston & Sons , . 20 Howe, Hon. Joseph . . 6 Howland, Lieut. Governor 6 Hubbard, Alderman . . 76 Huntley & Palmers . .86 Hurst & Son . . .48 Impromptu (Political) . 100 Jackson, Prebendary . . 19 Jacques & Hay . . . 47 PAoa Jones, J. Winter . .100 Kelly, Alderman (dec.) . 23 Kelly, Exchequer . 78 Kingston, Marble Bust for 10 Kingston, Note on . . 8.3 Konquawis Sagamore . 4 Land-Reclamatioa Poem . 94 Lonkester, Dr. . . .69 Latchford, Benjamin . . 43 Laveillet, Dupont Chevalier 77 Lawrence, Sir James Clarke 16 Lawson, Sir Wilfred . 73 Layard, Statue for Mr. . 14 Lee, George Frederick . 20 Leslie, Hon. James 75 Lewis, Sir George Corne- wall . . . .78 Lewistown . .56 Library, New Colonial 6 Lichfield, Earl of . .111 Lidstone, J. T. S. . (i2-3 Lidstone, Joseph . 76 Literature against Kelly . 7g Londoniad, Critiques upon 78 Londoniad, Names which have appear&j in . .112 Longmans & Co. . 107 Lord Bishop of Toronto . 1 Lowe, Mr 80 Lyftcn, Archbishop . .72 McCaul, Rev. President i, 2t> Macdonald, Sir Juhn, A letter from 6, 9, 100 Macdonald, Hon. J. S. 6, 10 McDougall, Red River, 13 McGee, Hon. Thos. D'Arcy 11 McKay, Alderman . . 75 Macintosh, William . . 22 Maize, Origin of , .77 Malloch, Judge, Edward, & Master . . . ,83 Matiawabiaa Slgonah , , 4 Mayor, the L >rd . 16 Mills & Borthvvick . 60 Moore, Joseph . . .98 Mother, To my . . . ^2 Moxon, Mr. . , , 8 Murray .... 8 w ii n i ' " i . i mym i mp i "'^m* IV CONTENTS. f Neutrality n la Mode . 103 Newell, Thomas F. . .28 North-West Territory . 14 Nova Scotia, M.P.'a . . 7 New Brvnswiok M.P.'s . 7 New York & Boston (con- trasted) . . . .76 Oronhyatekha, Dr. . . 76 Ottawa, Sl -) Canals for . 2 Palmer, Sir Roundell . 93 Park, Alderman . . . 7 Prince, Pierre ... 6 Perrin, Captain . . .58 Peterborough . .56 Pierce, Alderman . . 75 Pigott, Sir O. (Baron) . 78 Pilkington, Brothers . . 88 Pound, John & Co. . . 54 Pratt, Hodgson, Esq. . . 12 Prince, Colonel . . .90 Printers &, Printing . . 77 Printers, from roy English 79 Prussia . . . .5 Punch, Clown and Buffoon, JackallHood . . 98 Pym, Member . . .61 Ramsay, G. H. . .45 Reward, One Hundred Guineas . . . 100 Richard Cobden and John Delane . . .98 Richards, M. . . .91 Richardson, Jonathan . 53 Roberts, Alderman . . 75 Robinson, Sir J. B. . . 4 RobiuFon, Sir J.- L. . ,• H Ross, Hon. John .13 Russia & Prussia . . 5 Ryan, Hon. Thomas . . 6 St. Helens Company . . 88 Salmon, Ody & Co. . . S3 Salmond, John . . .88 Salomons, Aid. Sir David . 79 Sandford, Archdeacon . 76 "Saturday Review," Satire upon the . . .97 Schienk & Ongera . Seal, Dominion, the New . Sherwood, Alderman Sherwood, Hon. Henry Sherwood, Hon. Judge Smith, Sir John . . Snelling, Brothers Song of Gratitude SuttatT, R. & A. Swartz, Alderman Ta-pa-ta-mee Queen . Tavemir, Mr. . Tegg, Deputy . Thunder made Visible ! Tiffany, Alderman Tilley, Hon. Mr. Tillotson, John . Trevelyan. SirW. C. Tomlin, Rendell & Co. Toronto (Manufacturers, &c. in) Toronto, Marble Bust at . Toronto, Three Statues for Torquay, to the Inhabitants of Victoria, Queen. Wadsworth, Mayor , Watson, E. Fa^on Wales, Price of Wales, Princess of . , Walker, Mr. Walsh, Alderman Warning & Prophecy, The . Wfltkins, Sir Charles and Lady .... Whichelow V7inchester, Bishop of Winfield, non eat Wiseman, Cardinal . Wood, William . Woollen Patent Cloth Cy. . Wright, Alexander & Co. . Wright, Professor Yankees, Satire on . . Yates, Mayor Edwin Young, Sir John PAOR 42 98 13 74 11 69 82 93 24 76 3 32 8 97 76 6 18 73 84 102 4 89 3 75 31 4 91 105 76 80 71 59 11 100 76 104 39 67 24 98 97 12 PAnR 42 98 13 74 11 69 82 93 24 75 3 32 8 97 75 6 18 73 84 . 63 3 76 31 4 91 10/) 76 80 71 69 11 100 76 104 39 67 24 98 97 12 JOHN, THE FIRST LORD BISHOP OP TORONTO, D.D., LL.D. " Clarutn tt ventrabile nomtn gentibtu, $t mullum no$tr<» quod proderat urbi." The wHole earth eyen in extremeat ken Is but the sepulchre of illusfaious men ; Nor is the epitaph, howe'er sublime, Engraved on tombstones in their native olime ; The sole guardian of their fame, a meed Of etem glory ! marks each lofty deed, Th' mem'ry of which in other countries forms A monument that recks nor time nor storms ; More faithful than can human hands impart ; A living record in the human heart. Pericles' FuNBRALOBATioN.^FHfo Thueyi. lib. ii. 43. Translated by the Au^or of the Londoniad. The Funeral Oration on the beloved Patron of my youth, the greatest Prelate of this or any age, is in type, and would fill about thirty pages of the Londoniad. I will have a very large edition struck off, copyrighted, and cause a copy to be sent to my friends in both hemispheres free of expense. To the Memorial Church I will give a Stained Glass Window, the vetroarchetypalgraphice of which, The Nativitt, and the Adobation of tHs Maoi, the Great Art Deed />ar exeellenet of our time, is now on a staircase of my mother's place in London (Ihighmd). Let what may come or go, I will strive to publish fhe Funeral Oration with the next Londoniad, as a Supplement, and all my iriends who appear in the present edition will receive a copy free, as, too will all those who have appeared in former Editions. I received so great a number of names for the 16th Londoniad, that I have had already to issue three of that name, and to use very small type beside, T>ecause I have bound myself to size and weight, so that each copy might go through the post for one stamp. With the present Londoniad I give several extras, an account of which appears in the body of the work. THE LONDONIAD. ' "•' P'"c« of equal IN THE OROVKS OF TOR."— 088IAN. TBT '-"■.b.,.*.™"!^-^^ «»« OTTAWA. Grand of Canal.ttoTMuZo Tk '"P'"*"'. «' ««de fhT'J'f ' I «"> "PPlj a« r^^'"nM:r— -.. <4 J. 4 turn LONDONIAI). lad, and OLONUt, rei than >ld ill it! 'equal »f •WM. cyof •IP" •roof Ueir Siilp >eth » all tho II iOt by ■f- r^ «» «r laad tmettho sIm of Scotland. But I will throw mj -' ia with tkt OfTAWA Botmi. I, for on«, will not coniont to aik (ho OovoniL it for any Uad. I woald ontor upon tht onurpriaa domlnionloM, ■■ was the patriwvh AbndMMa boforo tha riao of hia raoo In Canaan, and as w«ra tha elan If eOr«|ar» alter Itaa fallof thoir ehiaf, who althoagh aaiialmtng la Rioobal mo diuim nt MaaA thtir Toioaa in the tpirit-atlrrini war-wng. aa deliftrad to oa bj Sir Wallir Soott. "LandleHl landlaw! landlaial" w« woald rathar mj, Here I wo hare opened up a country for yoa to loiani (" net like tho Moon that barren thmM'') [Vidt Mtlion] bear year eonraa of eapira «m the highway of natiou. To the World we would njr, Cone and *^iUo ia » garden, " Through Eden w«at a rlrcr large." In regard to the mean* of aeoomplithing thii miracalooi feat and Art triampli the name of Ctnada will lulDce, bnd I will take care to proclaim, that it ia no atodi- Jobbing adventure, but a great public undertaking. Milliona are Ijing dormant ia England for want of bnoineia tranaaotions whereby to absorb capital, let it be oao* known that certain amounUof the lame would be acceptable to our kinamen in tlia Wect, and they will be forthcoming ; I* ia only a qaeetion of time in Canada that the money be returned with good ititereat L.r*< sirous of leaving with Toronto tome memento of my affection, and I accordingly comroisfioned a Marble Bust for its city hall, leaving the subject for the great sculptor, who chose the Prince of Wales, and there the matter ended. I should not now advert to this subject, but, I would fain hope, as an appropriate introduction to that which follows. A short lime ago an affair took place in which certain per- sonages became invested with (to themselree, at least, it may reasonably he sup- ,4 r > THE LONDONIAD. B -toUi» poaed) unweloome notoriety, occasioned by the idinnynerMy of a eerbdn buoolie Baronet; had such an one his own way and will, society would be established u Bscetim ; a dreary, cold fog would aelze on all its vital parts. Under my owa special cognizance letters are written in a far greater spirit of rivacity every day, and who shall say that they contain aught that Dian herself might not bare die- tated. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of Holy Writ.— Othello, act iii., se. 3. r ectua rthe and rred. THE EMPEROR. (The poem appears with the last Londoniad.) The munificence of your Majesty in presenting to our Cnlonial Library (that wbiell is now the unrivalled glory of the West), thoM many and valuable literary wwln, will cause yon to be held in fond remembrance by its inhabitants of both origins, through many coming generations ; while your generons concession to, and en- lightened sympathies with, the feeling of out people in England, espedaUy during the time ot the late Exhibition, hath most entirely won upon their hearts,— yon, at least, your Majesty, have ever been the friend of England and the English; and have never (" If great things may be compared with BmuM"— Milton), like a certain scion of the defnnct house of Orleans, De Joinrille hight, threatened to bring French soldiers into Whitehall, in order to dictate to the English Si non 6 vero ; h ben trovato. Verily, I am reminded of the words of M. Boileau. Ce monde est plein de fous, et qui n'en veut pas Toir, Doit se renfermer seul, et oasser son miroir. Let those who will chant I* Ptcans To thy " exiled " race, Orleans; A flagellum, but no censer, Would I wave before Montpensier. If you ascend the throne of Spain, ;_ Short and stormy be your reign, '■:,,■',<; For the sake of him you're slain. EXTEMPORE ON AN UNTOWARD EVENT. On yonr journalist, who is always a coward and sot, I would not think it Worth while to expend powder and sbot. Biit should such an one upstsirs on ill mission come tripping, I'd send him down again with a de— dee good horse-whipping. of liar the the in- ive in e- !iy at ot in r- »- i PRUSSIA. (Please, see the last Londoniad.) Vott accuse France of arrogance, or some sueh thing. What of Prussia, who did crush a poor, poor blind king t Think of these, and, if you pleiise, then mark The batter'd helm and shatter'd realm of Denmark. UPOir HEARING THAT THE NORTHERN BEAR HAD JOINED THB NORTHERN BOAR (BOREl) And after all is said and done, those fellows are bnt slow->- France, your native intrepidity will save you now. See ! like the living lightning, each sword leaping from i*t sheath. On upon the pragmatic hordes I give them not time to breaiMf Emperor I at the earliest possible moment may you be inspired to let the yonag Pole B (I know not exactly how to spell his name,) out into freedom. y 6 THX LOKPONIAD. OeXlN, BASIAETS TH2 EAAAA02. In ngard to what hath lately taken place in Greece, without arrogating to mj' nlfavghtof the praeoivnce cf prophecy, I kindly refer the enlightened reader to OM 0f tM early Londoniada. (Pleaie, ece 8th Londoniad.) (1 81 Though Brandenbnrgh the Electorate so ruthletnly ran orer, Destiny ihall yoa toon reinstate, George the Fifth of Hanover. LOUIS, KING OF BAVARIA. (Pleaae, lee the poem and hii letter in the 10th Londoniad.) PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS. Ob the Aathor of the Londoniad derohed the most pleasnrable occupation of hit odeteBce, that of deliTering the Oration when thoueands of glorious spiriu thronged aroaud in the hour of hie advent to Canada, the illustrious, Enlightened, and Belwred Prince PKsident, whom yet "The Southern clime her sole Lord shall style. And all the North."— Cowlet, The Davideit, Book ii. Ifl^r The Oration apprara in the Supplement TO HIS EXCELLENCY LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR HOWLAND. Oar history I've sanctified with lays From Sieur de Bobenral's to Bowland's days. Our GoTcmors the sons of pioneers " ; Should be, who hare resided in the land for years; Who first thro' forests 'neath Canada's skies Bid pave the way for cities to arise; Who have a hope, an interest in its clime, Whose posterity here may dwell to latest time. Not red-tape foplings and official knaves, Who all their best days spent with Eastern slaves; And, when old age creeps on, and they should rest, ^ ^' ■ . Are sent to talz o'er freemen of the West ; Perchance some titled loon (uuUie yourself), Whom all the Arts have placed upon the shelf, But now 'neath other, mental sway glow land And all your streams beneaih the sway of Howland. THE NEW COLONIAL LIBBABT. A 8FEECH ASDBISrED TO THE FOLLOWING MEHB£S8 IN THE LB0I8LATUKE OF CANADA. Sib John A. Macdoitald, Head of the Government, Hon. John Sahdiibld Macoonald, Premier of Ontar; >, Sib a. T. Galt, £z-fiBaiice Minister, now Head of the Inter-Cotoaial Bailioad. Hon. Mb. Tillbt, Premier of New Brunswick. Hon. JoshPH Howa, Premier of Nova Scotia. AND ESPECIALLY TO THE BON. THOMAS BTAN. r , il lay* |r to his THE LONDONIAD. 7 VmX CANADA, CALLCD OMTABTO. Addington, E. Lapnm ; Algroma, W. Simpson, BothweU. David Mills; Brant (North), Dr. J. Y. Bowns, Brant (South), Hon. E. B. Wood; Bmoe (North), Alex. Sproat; Bmee (South), Francis Hurdon; BrockTille, Jamea Crawford; Cardwell, (South), Walter Shanly: Grey (North), OeoreeBnider ; Orey (South), George Jack- ■on; Haldimand, D. Thompson, Ualton, J. White; Hamilton, Charles Hasill; Hastinss (North), McKenzie Bowell; Hastings (Rast), Bohert Read; Hastings (West), James Brown; Huron (South), Hon. M. C. Cameron ; Huron (North), Jos. whitehead ; Toronto. Burns Stephenson ; Lambton, Alexander Mackenzie ; Lanark (South), Mr. Alexander Morris ; Leeds (North), and Grenville. Francis Jones , I^eds (South), John Crawford ; Lenox, R. J. Cartwriitht, Lincoln, J. R. Benson ; London, Hon. J. Carlingr; Middlesex (East), Crowell Wilson; Middlesex (North), Thomas Scatcherd; Middlesex (West), A. P. MacDonald; Monck, L. M. Callum ; Niagara, Ansus Morrison ; Norfolk (North), A. Walsh ; Norfolk (South), P. Lawson ; North- umberland (East), Joseph Keeler; Northumberland (West). Hon. James Cockburn; Ontario (North), J. H.Thompson; Ontario (South), T. N. Gibbs; Ottawa, J. M. Currier; Oxford (North), T.Oliver; Oxford (South). E. Y.Bodwell; Peel, Hon. J. H. Cameron; Perth (North). J. Redforth; Perth (South), B, Macfarlane; Peter- boro (East), P. M. Grover; Peterboro (West), Charles Perry; Prescott, J. Hagar ; Prince Edward, Walter Ross ; Renfrew (North), John Rankin ; Russell, James A. Grunt; Simcoe (North), T.D.McConkey; Simcoe (South), W.C. Liule; Stormont, Samuel Alt ; Toronto (East), James Bea^y ; Toronto (West), R. A. Hurrison ; Vic- toria (North), John Morison ; Victoria (South;, G. Kempt; Waterloo (North), I. B. Bowan; Waterloo (South), J.Young; Welland, T. C. Street; Wellington (centre), T. S. Parker; Wellington (North), Geo. W. A. Drew; Wellington (South). D. Stirton; Wentworth (North), J. McMonies; Wentworth (South), J. Ryan ; York (Bast). James Metcalfe; York (West) Hon.W. P. Howland ; York (North), James P. WeUs. lAWn CANADA, CALLKD QUIBIC. Argenteul, Hon. J. J. C. Abbott ; Bagot, M. Gendreu ; Benuce, Pozer ; Beauhar- nots, Cayley ; Bellechase, M. M Casault ; Berther, A. H. Pacquet ; Bonaventure, T. Robitallie; Brome, C. Dunkin; Chambly, M. Benoit; Champlalu, J. J. Rosa CharlcToix, M. Cimon; Chicontimi, P. A. Tremblay ; Compton, /. H. Pope; Dor- chester, Hon. H. L. Langrevin ; Dmmmond, and Abasxa, Seuecal ; Gaspe, Cap. Forteir; Hochelaga, Hon. A. A. Dorion; HuntiuKdon, Hon. J.Rose; Iberrille. Bechard; Jacques Cartier, G. Gaucher; Joliette, F. B. Godin; Laprarie, A. Pin- ■onneanlt ; D'Assomption, D Archambeault ; Lava, J. H. Bellerose s Levis, J. G. Blanchet; L'Islet, M. B. Poulior; Dothbiniere, H. 0. Joly; Maakinonge, G. Caron; Missisgnoi, B. Chtmberlain: Montcalm, Joseph Dufresne, Montmacny, J. O.Beanbien; Montreal (Centre), Workman; Napperville, Sixte Coupal: Ntcolet, Joseph Gandet; Ottawa (County), A. Wr ght ; Pontiac, Edmund Heath; Forthene, J. T. Brosseau; (Quebec (Centre), G. H. Simaid ; Quebec (East), P. O. Huot; «nebee (West), T.McGrevey; Richlieu, McCarthy; Richmond and Wolfe, W. H. ^ebb; Rimouski, George Sylvaiu; Rouville, M. Ghevai; Shefford, L. S. Hunting- don ; Sottlanges, Hon. Hasson ; Stanstead, Charles Colby : St. Hyacinthe, II. Kierzkowski ; St. Maurice, Dr. Desaulmen ; Temisconta, Chas. Bertrand ; Ter- rebonne, L, R. Masson; Three Riven, C. B. De Niverville ; Two Mountains, J. B. Dauat; Vercheres, F. Geoffrion; Vandreuil, 8. McMilan; Yamaska, MoiM Fortier. NXW BXCNSWIOK. Albert, Wallace; (Hiarlotte, Bolton; Carleton, Mr. Connell; Gloucester, Anglia; King's, Ryan; Kent, Renaud; Northumberland, Hon. Mr. Johnson; Restigouche, Hon. Mr. McMillan; Haint John City, Hon. Mr. Tilley; Saint John County, Hon. Mr. Gray ; Snnbury, Burpee ; Queen's, Ferris t Victorui, («ostigan ; Westmoieland, Hon. A. J. Smith ; York, Hon. Mr. Fisher. NOVA 800TIA. Antagonithe, Hugh MacDonald ; Annapolis, W. H. Ray ; Cape Breton, J. McKeagney; Colchester, A. W. McLellan ; Cumberland, Hon. Dr. Tupper ; Digby, 1 8 THS L0ND05IAD. A. W. Sftvary; Gyusbore, S.Campbell; Halifai, A. O. Jones; Halifax, Patrick Power ; Uanta, Hon. Joseph Howe ; InverneM, Dr. Cameron ; King's, W. H. Chipman ; LunenburK, E. Bi. McDonald ; Picton, J. W. Carmiehael ; Queeu'a, Dr. Porbee ; Richmond, W. J. Croke ; Shnlborae, Thomas Coffin ; Victoria, Thos. Ross ; Yarmouth. Thomas Killam. , , ^ Having worked the oracle so as to introduce Sculpture and Painting;, callea the Fine Arts, free into Canada, I purposed in my present route through London to prepare a report for presentation to the Legislative Council, on the advisability or otherwise of removing the present Import Duty upon British Literary Worki destined for the New Dominion ; and for this purpose 1 personally visited seventy- five of the principal copyright publishers therein established. Albeit, it is gene- rally supposed that I only mention one in each line of business but in giving an account of publishers, I could not well confine myself to this number. I nave, however, held in view a couplet which I wrote several years ago, suggested, I believe, by Tom Foote's '*01d Man and his Donkey." In pleasing yourself you are sure to please one ; In striving to please all you are apt to please none. In the first Londoniad appears an article upon Mr. Mozon, then the copyrisht publisher of one of my favourite English poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley, the otner Deing John Milton. Mr. Moxon is now no more, and, as Robert Bui^ns would say, " I'llganK na mare to yon town." Murray, and Adam Black, late member for Edinburgh, appear in the sixth, and Longmans in the tenth. Deputy Teirg in the second loth. William and Robert Chambers, for Scotland, and James Duffy, for Ireland, will appear with about four or five others in the next londoniad, and thete are all that I am disposed ever to admit, although I have between 70 and 80 upon my list. I found amongst the publishers of living generations a diversity of cha- ncter certainly, but very few gentlemen in the Serjeant-Talfourd, or even in the Peacham acceptation of that word, and here let me reiterate that which I have already said in a former Londoniad. Publishers in former days were the wherwolves of their species. We have all read of gentlemen greatly gifted suffering at their hands, and I have no desire tbat a new species of literature ■l,:"ild Decome ill affected through me. I personally publish all my own works, and what nay be considered a curious rirnumstance, I always have the edition taken up before going to press. And when my diary shall be laid before you in a printed form, I have no doubt that you will be led tu exclaiin, with a distinguished naturalist, "The genus is not altogether extinct in thia country." Moreover, I think it impossible in the very nature of things that any colonist of our time could have visited so many different establishments, and have held converse with so great a number of persons in every variety of profession as myself; and here let me not be considered as speaking in the spirit of egotism, for I desire that no especial glory be attached tnsreunto ; but I can, nevertheless, say that in all my joumeyings throueh the imperial metropolis, and of the different sorts and conditions of men with wnom I came in contact, I never met with a lody in whom a dissimilitude of character compounded t0£«ther would more truly represent the generic Curmudgeon, nor have I fonnd any single pro- fession in England to which this epithet is so universally applicable as to the British publisher of our day. Methinks I hear you, in adopting a ouotatio^^ from John Wesley, say this will "raise a nest of homrtf around you." 1 answer, the possi- bility thereof hath been precluded, for I early took the precautionary measure of transforming them into so many tarantula (please, see the Supplement to the 16th Londoniad ;) and, leaving them to sting themselves, I proceed with you on our pleasant journey— the removal of Import Duty would be altogether too contracted and narrow a view to betaken of thu subject. So far from removing the embargo now placed upon British works, or even lessening it, I would advise that (except in instances left to your own discretion, and where I may personally suggest) a duty high enough to be prohibitory be placed thereon ; let no mock sensitiveness affect ui in this eventful period the turning-point in our colonial history. And now we will turn upon the plan of rewarding literary gentlemen, and of making our New Dominion truly great. Establish reciprocity or not, as you please, with the so- called United States, Canada is more than able to compete with the so-called i^aited States, and certainly with the British Isles, either in getting up reprinta at ai fie th va W( an tt w V tl ei c« e 1( I J f I 1 I 1 ( 1 ] 1 -^ijfw THE LONDONIAD. 9 ^ ^ »» a reaaoiuble price, or intheiuuing of copyrights. Let aathon explore this wider field for fame well deterred, and fortune too, no hesitancy will they have in causing their works to be issued from Ottawa, that prospective centre-pxint of a renn- vated world. With all the branches required with tnis immense book establishment would arise others, such as paper-making, press-making, type-founding, ink-making, and all of printing and book-binding, and the collateral professions connected therewith, with a governmental head, so as to concentrate the whole in one. But whether as a governmental institution, under the auspices of a public company or a private firm, looking even from the lowest, a merely financial point of view, the small tax required, in kindness for the Colonial Revenue, from the pioneers of civilisation engaged herein, will greatly surpass aught that you are likely to get from the 8 per cent, charged by you upon literary imports, beside makiuKyour country truly great, even in your own lifetime, and associating your own with its renown through the long ages yet to come. To all intents and purposes, the books iuued from Canada wowd De British editions, and we should always take a peculiar care to have them conveyed in British bottoms : and while the English ediiions irill be driven tnm the market, because of the neavy per ceatage required by the so-called United States, they will be exported free to Canada. Authors (so often supposed to hn ctheralised in their natures), with their weather-eye open, will transfer their copy • rights to Canada, while the copyrights of those authors who have passed away wul not lon^ remain unintroduced by tue present possessors. Thus free trade with En- gland will enable yon to rise above all competition in that quarter ; our English- ■peakine community will greatly hail your efforts, and I will personally undertake to introduce copies, to begin with, to public libraries of all our towns in Canada and all over the) West. I have already made arrangements (Vide Special Report), whereby representative houses will be established at the Antipodes, and in all the colonies of Britain. Editions of the Classics, French and German, will follow the active intellect of the New Dominion— free vent for all active ability ; and so sure am I of the success of this glorious enterprise, that I will advance the ftinds, heretofore reserved for a certain purpose (74 page, second 16th Londoniad), fre3 ftomall interest, and which I had at one time purposed to myself to layout in Eng- land for the New Colonial Library. One word more at parting : Here, with the arehiret of the colony, your MSS. and books are safe ; no xankee, dealing underhandedly, can inspire others to that aggression in which he is too great a coward to advance himselt, and from hence our people can traverse their own lands, and ride their own floods to victory. And whether, as I have already said, the projected estab- lishment appear with a governmental head, which I should suggest, or as a public company or a private firm, it must prove a ereat benefit to civilisation acd a blessing to the world. The eyes of all nations will be turned towards the Gibraltar— let the next generation say, the Athens— as it is most assuredly in hospitality the centum of the West. Mere politics may alter their forms like clouds in i next generation say, the Athens— as it is most assuredly in hospitality the Agri- f en turn of the West. Mere politics may alter their forms like clouds in a iky; uf emblemine your own mighty river, the stream of general knowledge will never cease to flow though all ages ana lands ; and art and science wiU stand in your ciidat agei IOlc above the rage of time, like your own unconquerable heights, amid ^he sublimest scenes in nature. SXR JOHN A. MACDONALD, HEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT. "It is not the intention of the Oovernment to iesre any licenses to foreign fishermen during the eneuiuR season, it is the intention of the Government to tt£e steps to protect the rights of Canadian fishermen in Canadian waters."— I>tefcira- tion ofStr John A. MaedoiuM. Dear Sir John A., it is my opinion. That not since the birth of the New Dominion, Hath e'er arisen cause for greater thanks Than tbu, your latest triumph o'er the Yanki : We're believers in Reciprocity, Such they deny through animouty 10 VHB IiONDONIAD. Bacau* we'n Britisb, their prime of wishes To tax our ezporli and to itoal onr lishet. S«y to the infernal iliiinlu, nerer more Shall TOO angle bv onr Luarentine shore, Bat if yon will still follow the track With maritinal fbree we'll drive yon back, Or, what is better still,yoa pack of knaves We'll blow yon with cannon into the waves. liit etttetn the Imperial Nation I«Bt the naval foroe at the Halifax station, Which England there doih canstantly maintain Sweep all the coast attesting Briuin s reign. Fisheries which we now so fondly greet Will prera th' Nurseries of our future Fleet QmnN'sCoLUOi, KiM08T0ii.—Bt^.ttie's original marble bust of Robert Bwu, •r which an account appeared in the I4th Londuniad is dostined for the above ■entiooed seat of learning, to which I present in, and I desire that thaMwith be mssoeiateA the name of a young friend Master Malloch. son, of Judge Malloch, county Lanark, and nephew of Bdward Malloch, Esq., formerly member for the (bnnty of Oarleton. ^I have lately had prepared for this famous Bust a Laurel, represented in Ham- aiored Iron Work by our 4 Modem Quiniin Matseys, O. Albon, which will be aent with it. HON. JOHN SANDFIELD MACDONALD, PREMIER OP ONTARIO. la the 1st lOth Londoniad is an article a'idressed to the genial andgenerous de- icendant of the patria'chal Priices who were the Lords of the Isles, when the «aaltats of so called Royal Families in Europe were engaged in leading bauds «f pilera against the domains of their too-coufiding neighbours. SIR A. T 6ALT, HEAD OP THE INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY. The best known in Great Biitain of onr Coloui«l gentlemen. His father's name is renowned in many countries of Europe, for he irrote in more languages than one. Please see the 1st 16lh Londoniad. There is a poem, entitled the Oaltiad, containint; about 3000 lines. It is already intiype. SIB JOHN YOUNG, QOVERNOR-GENERAL. An address in Tren^Jt to you, if I can powibly find room for it, will appear in the present Londoniad. SIB EBANGIS HINGES, FINANCE MINISTER. I have a Biographical Sketch of your ex-Excellency in Hudibrastic verse, and which, but for the horror of correcting the proof thereof, had been issued with one f the many Supplements to the present Londoniad. r-^. >^-, 4' ^|f 1 THI LONDOVIAD. 11 HON. THOMAS D'ABCT McGEE. Qbatob, Foet, Statesman, Atithob, Ex-Fbbsidbiit of thb Council, and Mimuteb of Aobicvltveb and the Abts. — Shot at Ottawa. (A Song by Ossian, translated by the Author of Londoniad.) Where art Thou, Son of the Balers of Old? No more ahalt Ihon be leen among the Chiefs! Thy Presence was a Day (of loveliness) in the Land, Pleasant was thy Voice as the gales of Spring; The echoings of thy Harp was as (that oO the Voice of Oona, First and last of the Baras of Innisfail, Thy Name shall be heard far from the streamy shades of Morrcn IVhen the Kings of Temora have passed away, No arm of the Stranger overcame tbee uk the battle-storm, and in a land unknown. An evil hand of thine own Bace from the Green Isles of the West, laid the low in the silence of Night, And in a Country to which thon gavest Renown. Kote.—We have all by rote the famous note of Byron on a certain translation of Oarian, but it should be remembered that James Macpherson, so far from bein^ a Celtic scholar, was not able :o speak Gaelic, and was altogether ignorant of the Irish language. Should 1 live a little while longer, 1 will place Osbiait in a new dresa before the world. 1 he translation here presented is copyrighted, as are all Uie articles in the Londoniad. HON. JUDGE SHERWOOD. I send you with the 3rd I6ih Londoniad a copy of your Brother Henry's portrait taken in London, (England). The original which he hitncelf gave unto me, I still hoped to have bad engraved, but have finally decided on having a Marble Bust executed for the Quern of the West, Toronto, of which he was the to-often-returned Member ; and aa we all know Premier of Upper Canada, under its Conservative administration. The Bon. John Soss, of Belleville, whom I met at9,Bfnnet street, St. James's, Lon- don, (England), first made knowr to me that he was no more. I should like to know through your Brother Samuel, (the Alderman), how his descndants are ■itnated. Itake great interest in all that relates to the Robinson and Sherwood families, the heads uf the U. B. Loyalists, the Princes of the West i can never forget that they iieaded the list for my firat work in the day of my Literary PU- friauge. SIB J. L. ROBINSON, BABT. I send you a portrait of our Great Chief Justice, of Upper Canada, your Illns* triouB Father, by Messrs. Gush and Ferguson, the Royal Photographer., and on which first beholding, the eminent tcolp'or, J. H. Foley, exclaimed, " That woald midce a fine Bust I" I l:ope still to be allowed the honour of presenting a Marble Bust of the Learned, Eminent, snd. Amiable, to the City of Toi onto. I paid a tri- bata to the •var*hoiutred head of our native families in the 11th Londoniad. HON. M. C. CAMEBON, SOLICITOR-GENERAL OF ONTARIO. . In the 11th Londoniad appears a contrast between our and the general Friend of Man, and Mr. McDougall (called for shortness, and by those who uiow not how to apell the name, but would fain quote from Sir Walter Scott tha I)(o)nKalif crea- IS THX LOITDOfiflAD. tore). During my progress through that University, nckuowledged the fuircst seat of learning in the west, I resided at the Western Hotel, an() here, side by side at the Mme table, was our chosen place for years. His conversation always unaffected and edifying, still echoes in mine ears, and the subjects thereof form visions to my mind in other eountiiei. SIR JOHN YOUNG, GOVERNOR-GENESAL. If a Governor-General were chosen from amonu<^ the inhabitants, he would. doubMess, find belter occupation than acting John Tt mas to any so-called Royal booby that comes the road. I am inspired in the formation of this sentence by what took place upon the night of Kebmary 26, 1870, when in the words of Jenkins, « the capita! was 1" a blaze of glory." I snould imagine from this that Ottawa's cataracts illuminatcu in an extra degree of animation, " sky grained," were feather- ing the distant liorizi n. There must have been, L am sure, a great deal of gas and grease light, but very little, I trow, of the mental. It may do for steady, and for even august people of the same capacity as yourself to dress themselves out like lacqueys, and kick up their heels in an attempt to gratify a semi-aamia wight like that wnich you now have in your midst. It may do, besides, for those who, at least once in a lifetime, are disposed to avail themselves of a chance to enrobe them- lelvei in all their available drapery,— the Parvenu, and the upstart, and the court sycophant ; but I know myself many whose ancestors were always gentlemen ; and who, although able to affori^ the amount required, or rather demanded, by the occasion, were not at all disposed to advance in such an exploit. While many by their very profession must be precluded from availing themdelves of the "invita- tion," the idea of a literary man or a votary of science " tnpping as you go," (Milton) to say nothing of Holy Boys, who, notwithstanding their admitted sanctity, are generally collaterally prolific, where by the very requirements of their office must, too, eep aloof. And what was the ball got up for? not to arouse native manufacturers. ' Oh, no , native industry or intelligence must (under the circumstanees at least) give place to flunkeyism. Why not have established a Converaazione in which Art, Science, and all of the sacerdotal might have been engaged, and thus to have held in remem- brance the scene of that night through long aiter years. The works of art chosen to adorn the legislative halls, nere turned into dancing chambers, were these portraits of Cteorge IV. aud Queen Caroline. What a self-pronounced Philippic upon trash, artistic and morid, as far as regards the diademed Roue I And now for a State Secret, which, like Byron's Dream, that " was not all a dream," — the government at home are working tiie oracle with yourself in Canada, but without (1 truly believe) the connivance of onr pabUc men in Canada, to establish Prince Arthur on the throne of the New Dominiou. But let them be aware that country belongs to the people, who, next to God, made it what it is, and it will never become a Royal Laystall. It has already wisely rejected, what would parallel Alfred's presents to the Australians ; and who- erer attempts to direct that country to an evil purpose will shan the fate of Maxi- milian. NOHTH-WXST TKKRITOBT. My oration on the Hudson Bay Couipany appeared in the last londoniad. I would desire to make the following remark here aud now. In making a purchase of this land, the will of the people inhabiting the same, as a matter of courtesy, should have been consulted. The idea ot buying people with the land, as in Scotland and other countries, in the gloomy ages of time, must ever be abhorrent to all spirits inhabiting a human form. Had these been con- suited, destiny in absolving the stated rounds of years, would have exhibited anoUier spectacle than that^now presented to the world of a people anxious to redeem themselves from a Fur Company's thraldom, turning in defiance to their re- deemers eveu upon the threshold ot freedom. And why.F Because they were not invited (at least, not permitted) to share in the achievement. The snarl of the Yankee Wolf haid only been heard in lessening echoes, and the Occidental Bruin would never hare trotted into regiuns in which the British fliu was flying. Always give as mnch teem^ power as possible to those you would help; they will welcome yoa as at 01 n< ta L m m si ti 81 *.»:, U4 )««• r*M *f THE LONDONIAD. IS f- ii4 'pt t adherents and Companion! wlien they would disdain the name of iter. Beaide one of a more genial temperament than McDougall should havb been sent to negotiate and arrange ; for if PKStum had its second spring, that clime must cer< tainlr possess a dou'ile winter in the presence of McDougall (pleue. see the lldi LonJoniad). Speaking for myself, I would not have unoertuken the mission had not preliminaries been arranged, suitable for the acceptance of anient and sensitive men ; but afterward, whatever might come or go, if the faintest approach to(opno- ■ition were to arise or to loom iu prospective, J. would say, with Charonean PlU' tarchus, whose words I translate and paraphrase, and whose idea I assimilate to my subject and adapt to my purpose. Agesilaus-like in Thrace, I'm prepared and I must thro' The Centre of your realm with my embattled forces go. Will you let me pass as Friend, or shall I hare to paw as Toe ? Thus with my weather-eye open would I ever hold in view Colonel David Crockett, the great American Hui ter and Statesman, whose two lines of poetry, the onhr poRm he ever wrote, httb occasioned him to take high rank with the bards of hu cc':.ntry. " I leave this rule for others whm I'm d«ad— Be always sure you're right, then go a head." '* ■ TvO THE HON. JOSEPH HOWE. (Please, see the Supplement.) >' " SIE FRANCIS HINCKS, FINANCE MINISTER. I have a Biographical Sketch of ^our ex-Excellency in Budibrastic verse, and which, but for the horror of correcting the proof, had been issued with one of the many Supplements to the present Londoniad. Upon your exit being taken from the Redeemed Isles of the Caribee it was the intention of the Home Government to send you to rule over some land worthy of your genius. Utopia and Atlantis wero suggested ; but the spirits of More and Bacon interposed, the veritable Taprobane only discovered within the 8th decade of the present century, was found to possess a ruler somewhat between an Inca and a Grand Lama, never dying, or else too Ions lived for any desirable reversionary interest to accrue from that quarter. The pages of Hegaathenes, Berosus, Manetho, Ctesius were ransacked, but all in vain. It was iinally agreed in ''secret conclave ;'' but these words smack too much of the mos- lem, we will say in the Privy Council, that on account of your fine financial abilities you should be established perpetnid viceroy of the Golden Cbersonesus ; but as several countries under that name, contended for the honour of your sway tbe better way was thought to be this, not to appoint you to either, lest the inhabitants thereof should fall a prey to envy (I), malice,[and all nncharitableness. As a last resort, a young statesman, Mr. Goscben, the Author of '* The Theory of Foreign Exchanges," then , and it may be now in the days of his novitiate, counselled your translation to the Flowery land, so long sought for in vain, by that Maritimal Quixada, bight Juan Fonoe De Leon, and the making you High Priest and Keeper of the Hydro- phylacium of Eternal Youth ; but I personally raised an objection in Downing street to this mode of procedure, for calling hack to remembrance the cognomen won by you in other days and in early Colonial History, declared that you, your- self, would drink so much of the water tbat the old would rejuvinrae in tiie young ; and we should still have the same untamable 'Hjtena * * * The disadvantage of repeating the words of foemen will be immediafely exemplified ; we will listen if yon please, to Sir Francis Hincks, at a dinner given in his nonour : "They say I kept the colony in ^ :t water." Iliis set the magnates at Whitehall upon a new train of thought; they having never heard these words expressed against Syr Francis; and when a report of his speech was shown to me by a member of the Imperial Govern- ment, I said, " He is always belching hot water, like a geyser. The worst of it is that, unlike his Icelandic compatriot, he is alwavs breakuig out in a fresh place." Finally, however, it was so decided, like as in the Vision of Judgmait (Byron's not Southey's), George the Third was left singing the 100th Psalm, happy through 14 TBI Loin>oiriAi>. •U the •ItmMto of oppotition j lo onr Hero of thii ProM Knic, like Oallhrer firom the Hands of the Emperor or Blefucu, received a titU of honour, and a penakn. Thiu. unlike Addiion. with 8ir Roger de Coreriey, we bare not killed our hero, leat another ihoold piek him np and prolong hii career, nor will we exclaim in the worat of Cerrantet, — / (One of) "Natnre'a priests and eorybantea" (LongfeUow), Para mi sola naeio Don Quixote, y 70 para e^ And yeti Sir IVancis, thou didst inspire The confiding people of Renfrew, Whom in earW lire, ay, lon|; anu well, I knew. I bless them for their hospitable hearts and true. That thou didst decline all Imperial olfers of distinction ftor the sake of becoming finanee Minister of your beloved adopted country, we will not say Ortdat Judnus Apella, and, after all, this may be called the solar clime uf fame; a wider field for exdaim, with Biandford in Oroonoko— " Let's hope there is a plane of happiness In the next woild for such exaltea virtue." TO THE ABCHBISHOFOF CANTEBBUBY. I beheld you and beard your voice. Heaven's Arobaisador to our conntij'a Zion«asyou stood on the central pesk, the apex of Bngland's empire, surrounded by that areliiteotural diadem of your Metropolis, St Paul's, what time you wer* Bishop of London. I had heard of yon before and in eonneetion with eiroumstanees too sacred to be mentioned in every-day life, but which dmw towards you the sym- pathies of many, in other lands than Britain, and not tearless was tba eye of bim who now addresses you. Conoeiving that no mere human effort might ever tend to consolation in stieh bereavement, and that the source of happiness must spring within ourselves, I had written the following little poem, which I now inaorfbe to your Oraoa: "The mind is in itself."— Jtfttton. They tell us of a Wondrous Land, of Youth's Perpetual Fountains, Where Spring and Summer, hand in hand, dance over roseate mountains; —Flowery Isles! midst Sunlit Seas that never know darkening storms, Hymns swell on the melodious breese, where float the blessed Angel Forms. Is this fair realm in the Far West, and if we seek, well may we find. Beam notl it glows within the Breast, that ParaJise is of the Mind. XPIJTOS. I have had in oontemplation, foi some months past, a Subject of whioh the follow- ing may be considered a key or argument, THE MESSIAH AND "THE PROPHET." TO SAMUBL, LORD BISHOP OF OZFOTiD, NOW BISHOP 07 WIN0HB8TBB. The poem appeared in the last Londoniad. In the evenings, when I get througk asy other work, I generallr devote an hour or two to a parcphrastieal translation, (Lenoeinium excepiio,) of Al Koran. BIGHT HON. A. H. LAYABD, D.C.L., A LETTER TO HODGSON PRATT, Esq. Mt dxah Six,— I, in common with many others, am desirous of seeing some tertimonial established in our day, to One who has deserved well of his countrymen nd the world ; and a* I think that the desired object cannot be better carried out than in ereeting a statue to Mr. Layaid, I wUl give sixty guineas towards the same, hisC< of i8( comm then To P.1 placi h •f 1 luri< cen< inl moi < \ sac del th b« «f i^9^ r* ^ TH> LOMDOHIAD. If < \ ^?r Mine, the pedetttl to be adorned with mestoreUero, iUiutntire of hie Rceeerchet, hie Contribution! to Art Litaralure, and hie connection with the Parie £zhib>*' -t of 1867< The Hmount to be paid in the followinK manners-twenty gaineaa ai oommcneement of the work, au eouai lum when it ihall be about hau through, aM the remainder at the completion tbereor. In fond remembrance, I am, yonra faithfiilly, JAMES TORRINGTON 8PBNCBB LIOSIONI. To Hodgaon Pratt. Eiq. P.S.— 1 he open ipace in front of the Britiah Muienm would be a verj luitabl* place whereon to erect his statue, and I would suggert that this be the spot. J. T. 8. It. MB. GLADSTONE. lo the Spirit! which in the Archaic period of a classic time glared orer the plaina •f Troy, through the form of Sinon, tliat in medieval years, with fitful glow ud lurid, took up its abode in Ganelon, by Ronceveaux ; and rode on eonder winga tt centurii s storm diffused, homeless, m vain to find another living habitation, till in the Albertintean era, and in au Island of the northwn main, it became (vita morte I ) ensepulchcred in the form of MB. GLADSTONE.* The d womigis. ^ " No place on earth (he cried) like Greenwich."— Ai^* to Bciingbrolu. " One murder made a villain— Millions a Hero."— Jiikop Porttut, Upon the same principle, " a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles " is bmnded with sacnietie, and placed in duress—" durance vile," if yon had rather— while the despoiler of many milliona becomes Prime Minister. —J" To make religion bleed, Herod and Fontius Pilate are agreed." " Conscience— mon conscience 1" Fate, in greater power than that poasessed by the Tjrrrhenian monarch, hath tied him face to lace with the dead Church of his country, the ill effluvia (witness outbreaks in many British lands) fllleth the horiion, flyint before us in every march ; but the voice or a living generation, loud as the trumpet ef the Judgement^ay, shall wake our darling once more to beatified life. THE LAETUSLAFISJEAN EPOCH. STBOFBB. Now, as erst, any one who can rig, and Set fleets afloat, even if a brigand. Is borne by adu'atiou to renown. Becomes Your Highness and wears a Crown. Thns, He who drives a-head, at a high rate, "WLdther as a bandit or a pirate. With atrong battalions, and aword well pointed, Mounu a throue and is the Lord's Anointed. AMTISTBOPHB. Some poor wight, through hunger, would fain ehew bread In sacred fane, as David did shewbread. He thua becomes the object of scandal, And's branded as something worse than Vandal. '.L . BPOD. By the same route diiferent ends are gained. One grasps a Judgeship, while t'others "in durance Tile." * Erst, the sobricinet obtained by him wu Testr Will, But hit name in history miut be Coerdoa Stll, 18 TBI LOHDOVIAD. THE LORD MATOB. Whom ihaU we bare " For the City'i next Lord MtjotV—Thomat 0/ioay. WUl h« be Ledde into Lundone, With Joy, and mertb, and grete renoun ? (From the first <^it. of Surrty'a Potmt, 1567. 4(0.) u was the Ez-Lord Mayor, " Lawrence, or virtnoui Father virtuoui Son."— Milton, 30M Sonntt. Shall we, indeed, have aiain "Some gentle J AMIS to bleu the Land?"— i4I<«att(/er Pope, or, upon some prineiple of drearieit routine, will there bo establiihed in the daU orptllo a prototype of him of whom it might be said in the words of the great Author (^ Fenles Prrterved) befaro quoted, Nature has mark'd him for a heavy fool; By's flat broad face you'll know the owL Tb the Snd lAth Londoniad nppears an article upon tlie then Lord Mayor, now Sir James Clarke Lawrence ; and not that I hud any desire to emulate the Hero of aa antique Ballad (Qeorge Barnwell), who " Unto the Lord Mayor then Did a letter write." I was the flrst to address him a note with his present title, and in full, and this too ■ oonsiderable time before it was generally known that he was to be oifered suck, iipr Iknew that £ir^, audnot JT/it., was to be the appendage to his name three di^s before he hiuiscli knew it ; the knowledge thereof came to me unsought, and, therefore, have I not laid myself open to the decrees of Fate, promulgated against those who would pry into State secrets, as declared by Sir Francis Bacon, in hit Wisdom of the Jneie*ts, and least of all the powerful juoipa, alaa, nrfi, ei/uapM^vni in all their varied name», for Secrets of State I wish no more to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show.— CAarle* Churchill, In that period of time, when the present Mayor's election was processing, I published three editions of a contro-Oration ; I cannot say exactly ai this moment now many there were printed altogether, but my Secretary tells me that the last edition comprised 6000 copies ; immense numbers were publicly distributed in the Guildhall, and 1, myself, personally posted 150O to various pnrts of Britain and the world. I will give a New Edition out as one of the Thirteen Supplements to this the Srd 16th Londoniad. This comes of baring to do with Atkins, late Winfieldi, the Brummagem Bobbers. * Thia alludes to the Rogues' Haxard. By using i,he plural, and altering the gender, the words of Chaucer are made applicable to those characters who, at the moment in which I made time to turn upon them in earnest, took to flight, and Hre now like "Winfield, non est. " Hazard is the very mother of lies and deceit. And false swearing and blasphemy." — Canterbury Tales, - Uditone (J. T. S.), Literature agunst Judicial Wrong. A speech rn the Lord Mayor's Election- and John Bright and Richard Cobden t (verses) In 3 sth fol. * I received a letter of thanks from the Trustees of the British Museum, for the same and other articles here mentioned. t A new and correeted Edition of that Poem, the Srd 16th Londoniad a copy of each. I will give my friends mentioned in J. T. S. LIDSTONE. TBI LORDOiriAD. BICHABD BENTLET, If TBI ROTAL PDtLISHEB. I have not seen the Immortal Richard, but hia younger self, whom I haTe both seen and spoken to, r«mt..ds mo, in npeech and action, of the V. £. Loyalists, those Illustrious pioneers of Upper Canada, tho prinoei of the West, in their descendants. The Poem, in MS., ia on the ocean, and will appear, in all likelihood, somewhere in the prisent Londoniad. — Letters to Canada. *\ JAMES HOGG & SON, Publishers, York Strect, Covrnt Garden, London, W.C. As Thomas Campbell saith (P/m&' of Hcpt). ** Now on Atlantio seas He rides afar," yea with the Story of our Colonies. The adventurous Muse would gladly pass thro' ev'ry one And show in detail how much bath th' enlightened Author done. All Winter this did greatly us inspire, At eventide when I suspend the lyre, This is ye Booke we read beside the fire. Me shows, for this his name be ever blest That loved Toronto, Queen of all the West — There I first thought of the Londoniad, Substantial progress more by far hath made, (And many thanks to all the smiling fates) Than any place iu the so-called United States, Early and late will I rehearse thy praise, Thou model City of these later days. The junior of our Family firm did dwell With Captain Dick, who owns the Queen's Hotel, Paeatum like a cecond spring did glow AVith his presence over Ontario, He said, while tears tho listeners eyes empearl d, It is the finest Hotel in the World. (CAPTAIN DICK, TORCNTO, PROPRIETOR OP QUEEN'S HOTEL. . It was in one of his steamers that I first went from Kingston to Toronto with our dear Captain Gordon. Many a time, in the morn- ing of my life, have I sailed with them (and alfcays welcome) on the Western waters ; and when I take a mental survey of the past, and east a reminisceutial glance on the days that have gone to the grinds, tears start, and my heart and tongue move involuntarily with blessings on this fine-heaited family.) 18 THE LONDOKIAD. Women of Worth a Book for girls with eight illastrations, I to Choctaw twm'd for our Aboriginal nations. Small Beginnings ; trust in yourselves, and net in other men, Trust in yourselves, my gallant boys, and God will help you theo. " Hear ye this truth " a Nought to Units joined doth Numbjar make, And particle*} in aggregate whole continents will shake. Letters, the Abracadabrsean spell, drops make the sea, ^ Grains the great uuiverte, and moments form Eternity. Auiit Agnes, the authoress, young Alescandre sought her, And our native prince found her in a clergyman's daughter. Men who have Risen, illustrated by Charles A. Doyle, A Book for Boys — never heed the foe, never mind the toil. Young Readers, New and Illustrated Books, England's Green Lines and Fairy haunted Brooks, 'Neath Canada's Forest Shade by deep and silent river Where winged with cataracts floods are silent never, And midst aspiring cities they're our companions ever. Your mental sluggards die away and never leave a name. Action ! beacon-light answering to beacon-light, shall flame Thro' a world metamorphosed to the temple of your fame. Inspirer of your age, nations rely On force of character and energy. Even 'gainst Fate a steadfast march you take. Her rampired heights turn to brambles in th' brake. Mountains, transformed in cloud-like billows spread, And clear in light before the hero's tread. Adventures in the Ice, I knew its author long ago, No sultry summer hours appear, the fresh'ning breezes blow, I'm off" o'er the sunlight regions, careering thro' the snow. Pioneers of Civilisation here too met my ken, By Him who wrote my well thumb'd vol, " Lives of-, Archijoological Diccoveries, or Remains, Coats of Arms, Seals, Autographs, Plans of Estates, Maps, Fac-similea, &c., &c. : . i Office of All the Year Round^ Wellington Street, Strand. Saturdai/, I2th November, 1865. Dear Sirs, — You have sent me some admirable specimens of your wood engraving, and I liave not the least hesitaticm in highly recommending your wot k, after inspecting the excellent productiona returned with this. ' Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens. Now. Pioneer of Art Literature, James Torrington Spencer Lidstone, what will you say of Messrs. Dorrington ? 1 11 say this, never yet beyoml the Occidental main. Sore I aught to be compared to their deeds in Chancery Lane, And that no Artists in Britain do to such heights attain. JO THB LOMDOiriAD. It is not your common newspapers that proclaim their worth, [ But men whoiie births New Eras flash o'er renovated Earth. They're preparing for me an Imperial Folio, lUuHtrative of the Arts now in Lodge d'Olio ; . And I'm convinced that no Artists, in any age or land, ^ Ever before this took such a mighty Volume in hand. Yea, more ! that no Work issued, by a Private Gentleman, Of equal value did ever the living nations scan. It is true the Corsican, on an Imperial Throne, Caused to be issued the Mub^6 Napoleon. This, no doubt, the vanity of our neighbours flattered, But he had stolen them, and now again they're scattered. Before giving orders elsewhere it were well to obtain Estimate and Specimen t^" 22, Chancery Lane. They have challenged competition with every other houses, And while they sublimely tower'd , others sank in Lethe souse ; Their lUuatratioDs Drawn and Engraved for mo on Wood, Entranc'd our advancing Millions ovei' the evening flood. For Boobs, Magazines, their Art doth Qreat Patronage secure —Periodicals in all classes of Literature Here are, and th' Muse the assumed laurel from each other strips ; Original Subjects Designed from Author's MSS. Illustrations for Architectural Encineering, See through this how they're to the acme of perfection nearing : Mechanical, Agricultural, Botanical, and Medical Works, such have made them renowned in every land. Accuracy of detail essentially requisite, With a feeling and Art achievement that are exquisite. Bird of Jove like, beyond ye olden time my soul hovers Over our Dorringtons' Embellishments for Book Covers. We oust the Yankee's now so badly they're behaving, Here hail Estimates for every kind of Wood Engraving. Their mildew breath of ceaseless lies their own character blasts. Hither we hie for Stereotype and Electrotype casts. Electros they guarantee to print equally as good, In every respect as their Engraving upon Wood ; No, nor need we ever the draughts of scenes unto them fetch. For by our great Wood Engravers are Artists sent to sketch. We know that which through the nations is now coming in vogue. Oratory of Art, the Illustrated Catalogue. By which intending Purchasers the objects may survey, In their own homes and climes many thousands of leagues away. To newly-awakened Empires I my Heroes mention, As giving to each department Personal Attention. I HAVE adapted the letter C as the distinctive symbol of the New Canada Confederacy to the form of a lyre, evolving rays, each pro- vince to have a string. A poetical description of Canada's arms appears in the 12th Londoniad. f-A t f VH8 LOirOOHIAD. ^ r OLD PAINTINGS, 201, PiccADiLLT, London, "W, From the immenso number of valuable "Work* of Art that arc annually destroyed by injudicio\w (treatment, Mr. Watson, Artist and Piotvrh Restorkr, of 201, Piccadilly, London, Oppo- site St. James's Hall, respectfully invites all who value their Pictures to call at his Establishment and judge for themselves as to his capability of undertaking the Restoration of all Works of Art, however much defaced by time or otherwise. Paintings transferred from Wood to Canvass, and from decayed Canvass to new, upon a new, superior, and unerring principle. N.B — Valuable Testimonials can bo produced, and specimens may always bo seen, , Established Thirty years. I could not help, in London, taking for my hero that son Of Art in matchless might array'd. Squire E. Fa^on Watson. In him our connoiscurs, the greatest and most renown' d, Have at length in high pre-eminence a Restorer found, While the merest novizio in matters of Art must Know the ill consequences accruing if they trust (Lemures abroad !) their mental deities to vulgar hands, But hero the ardorous nations flock from their exulting lands, Where no abortion of Art or Artist the putron shames, To get the true Florentine, as I did, and other Frames. Some wondrous, unvalued works I took to him from far. Disfigured by the scath of years, the storms and fires of war, And some, alas ! that the Vandal, hell-blasted Yankee tore, ' Watson, like a new creator, did all for me Restore ; Next to Manito, said Ta-pa-ta-mee, him I adore. . , \ Such were the glories that he on our colony conferred. He our paintings from wood to canvass readily transferred. (Thou art the Great Regenerator ! thy spirit doth embue With Eternity's being), from decay'd canvass to the new ; All this upon nuovo ; and, need I to the nations tell Our Watson's superior and unerring principle. _^ ./ Not all the Botanists of which the enlightened read, v^^ From Gesncr, Cossalpinus, to the illustrious Swede, j Traversing whatever realm, or vale, or region hilly, ■ ^ Excell'd in this science my hero of Piccadilly. Had E. Fayon Watson chosen, ho might have ventued forth Bearing on his brow the brightest coronet of the North. This was but his due, and can our famed Art-champion trace. His pedigree, adorned with many a chivalrous grace, Through many a '* noble line," to England's Ancient Royal Race. But see all the fires of chivalrous ages driven Back in the cloudy time before a single ray from Heaven, 89 THJB LONDONIAD. Through Arts Arohimandrita -where'er nine eyes I turn. Myriad spirit-deeds in splendours seraflco burn. Had E. F. Watson the power, as I know he hath the will, He would with new systems and suns another creation fill. Perhaps in progressive ages ho may have the power ; Then ! new worlds in corruscations through Nature's void will shower. May I not swear that his foliage each a living Plant is, — There move the antenna;, eyes, thorax, wings of the Mantis. He restored my woriJ-famed picture, Canada L'Avenir, Which, when viewed by our surveyor, Mr. Tavemir, (EoT we htd just suspended " the gem " outside our Shanty, 'jRound which scenes of pioneer toil were by no means scanty). He, with some of this or last year's Emigrants in his train. Took it for a rival of the veritable Taprobane, ' Or some new country in the midst of a fresh- water main ; (So have I known in England some self-absorbed wight pass On to greet himself, 'stead of another, in looking-glass) ; Crossing the Bridge, as they thought, that spann'd the intervening flood. They come immediately to where our early dwelling stood ; Surprised, our travellers, as with one sentiment endued, Exclaimed, like the man in the play, " Hope we don't intrude ?" *' No, indeed ! you're welcome ! no such word as intrusion; You've drawn hither by Watson's Optical Illusion. „ The picture must have appear'd, as old Izaak Walton says Of a certain scene in Nature, fit but for holidays. And much unlike the legend, Diavolo looking over Lincoln (Watson*8 native shire) ; or when he did discover ' Eden's abode, or Tchittram, seen by Glamour Pasco, Or when ye " prophtt" looked upon enchanted Demasco. . His, married with the Lowther race, and 'tis no idle word To say that if Right nded in our day, he vould be a present Lord.* But these things 'rose midst the lurid glare of a Middle Age ; The light of Heaven and Intellect doth me now engage. Still, down through long generations, from sire to son, we trace. Where he, too, was born, in the old Historic Hubbard's place. No more we say, with Thomas Hood, " Oh, for the rarity !" For we behold at Homcastle " Watson's Charity." Many so-called Koyal Artists to grasp perfectitude In miraculous power, as with Nature imbued Have striven, through long burning years of ardour to attain, What th' Immoital E. F. Watson doth by intuition gain. Thus bea^s my Pegasus, like Hippocampi filly. Through Time's unfathomed seas, etern Arts from Piccadilly. * His Elder Brother thonld hare been the Marquis of Rockingham. THE LONDONIAD. 33 SALMON, ODT & CO. "3 p.,;,. m Patent Self-adjusting Tkusses, REaumiNO NO Understbap or any other Confinemekt to the Bodt, Manufacttirer to His late Ma^- jesty William the 4th, 292, Stkand, London. Estahlished 1805.— N.B. Special terms for Shipping Orders, r^ The Surgeon, Builder, Nayigator, Botanist, Truss each in his respective science doth the term enlist. But we greet this now from those in whom all place reMance, Called hy learned men, par excellence, the Kindly Science. Others never named hefore the minstrel hath derided. And chooses that &om all the world, The Opposite Sided ; It is made hy the Illustrious firm, Salmon, Ody, — . , ■-.^• And no understrap requires, nor confinement of the hody. / To unscientific hands our forms we'll not he trusting, r 'Yhile we can get here the English and French Self-adjusting. ",. A fidl description I send out, which you will greatly prize, And here are directions to increase an'^ decrease the size ; And, still further on, you'll see in Illustrations course. You have directions to increase or to decrease the force. Muse ! not to " the ringing plains of windy Troy," nor Ilium ; (They supplied his late Majesty, England's King 4th William), Thou takest those of mental greatness for thy Heroes, And not the savages of a world antique, or modern Nero's. More than Colossus-like, our glorious House doth stand, Salvation's hcacrn light tmto every distant land Lo ! their Manufaetory |^^ 2P-, in the Strand, Both to the Army and Navy our Firm doth aid afford, ^ Navy and Militaxy Hospitals, and Transport Board, Th' East Company defunto, held them in regard. Now, as then, th' Marine Infirmary, Ordnance, each Dockyaid, ' The much he-thanked City of London Truss Society, ^ And other Benevolo—,' aye, in great variety. The Middlesex and St. George's Hcapitals never vary To lessening orders, nor the General Penitentiary, Infirmaries, Brixton, Westminster, Marylehone, Windsor, Wiveliscomhe, deal with our Illustrious firm alone. « Bristol, Denhigh, Northampton, Peterhorougb, Bedford, and Montgomeryshire Infirmaries hie hither to the Strand. All these shall the Muse of science and each coming age coufesa Are worth more than all your so-called " i.otices of the press," Where Idealess, cowards, behind the screen cut capers, ^ Lucubrating for those bestial sheets called Newspapexti. 84 THE LONDONIAD. THE CARRARA MARBLE, AND IMPERIAL MONUMENTAL WORKS. MESSRS. GAFFIN, ._J;^;viui.V»tv>^ Sculptors, 63, Quadrant, Reobnt-btkeet, W Kensinoton-placb, and Fage-stbebt, Wbstminsteb, S.W. The Enlightened courtesy of the ever-honoured sire, Slight every Muse, and every Art, and every Age, inspire. To the Carrara Marhle Works I turn, and all the while Proclaim the greatest glory of the Imperial isle, That plows over England in ev'ry Sacred Pile ; Not only tliis, but those who mourn of Friends the loss, Or at the Equator, or underneath the Southern Gross, Yea, in whatever region of the habitable earth, With kindliest feeling hailing my Art Heroes' worth. When any of our relatives aye seek their " native sky," . We to this Illustrious House for Memorials apply. The sire, in far history, will loom midst the floods of time, A landmark to adventurous genius in every clime, While, as from the rock that Moses smote, or classic fons, Enlightenment irrigates the world through his tasteful sons. Thus far, Muse ! the Londoniad, that takes no riff-raff in, ' .- ' Shall bear through millennial centuries the name of Gaffin. ', And here I beheld great workings wondrously design' d, Which in oonceptive majesty left half the world behind; And monuments that well might vie with a Mausoleum, And deeds of mind that might adorn Cathedral or Odeum. Through aisles of monumental Art I tread, • , ; Where each long buried age uplifts its head. Symbolism, Accessories, and Attributes V ■■ ' '■/■.''" Ail Learning here each wonder-deed salutes. ; By mental divination they seem anon to start. And leap to life, and realise each earl^ Christian Art. / . Here I behold the Hierarchies in varied relief, • And single form or multitude that won on my belief - That I amongst the Apostles, Martyrs, and Prophets roved, : -■ Who full of light and fiery life around the minstrel moved; And if I strike the loudest lyre that ever thrilled our times, 'Tis Messrs. Gaffin thy works inspire, — they rapt the Bard in distant climes. Their fame is rising o'er the world, our age's morning star. And distant nations hail them now, and mighty races far. The glorious works that they prepared through silent years and long. Entrance our generation, and claim the deatmess song : And the uplifted voice hath in our day confest That of Architectural Sculptors now living, tiiey're the best Here jhall the Periclesian ere come, In classic air to grace our English home; 0] THE LOKDONIAD. nt «) Through aisles of monumental art 'we tread, ' ' Ilare works commemorative of the dead. Lo, tombs ! though unlike those in which are hid, Their builders' names in pomp of pyramid; Or where Severus and Hadrian lay In thoughtless state, and Rome's meridian day. But wonder equally of art illumes, As the Pompeian street, and Xanthian temple tombs. Not the costliness that eastern kings surrounds, Or buried nations in their western mounds. Altars! pulpits! fonts! I most fondly deem. These the blest burden of a future theme. " * h That whicii did from Glaudianus' mighty genius spring They sculptured for me, Atlas, Mauritania's Titan King, As he appeared 'midst the battle-storm of the Gigantes, Crown'd with a world, and in his hoary locks the roaring seas. I looked again, Penntelicus, enlivened from its base, Had sprung to life in all the forms of grace. Tea, their works are all sublime, no objects here of daffin, Lo! the mystery of existence 'solved by Messrs. Gaffin. * Like spirit that in duress of human form hath striven, ^ The marble once loosed from earth becomes infoimed by Heaven. Let those who in aught of human life a rising star kwiss, Beflect how Ophiuchus may antitype a Marquis. Hope {vide Campbell) with Creation's Morning began to smile, And shall in the last day "light her torch at nature's funeial pile." Hesiod, ApoUodonis, Pausanias, erewhile, ' '• * - '''';',' Too C. Jul. Hyginus did with the classics fill my mind ' 'l They tell us that diseases flew abroad on every wind. Pandora's box once opened, but Hope was left behind. ''t ' Youth blighted in its blossom, and yet was not all a loss, Best Monument of modem time — Hope clinging to the Cross. Air borne like Ganymedes, Loretto' f une, Byron's Cain, Faust by Mephistopheles (please, note Goethe's wondrous strain), Through the cities of the silent, by Cairn and Catacomb, I through lona pensive passed, I passed through Greece and BomCy Thence, like an embodied tempest, tore towards England home. To call it dead matter, sure were a misnomer. Here I got Demosthenes, and here I got my Homes ; I realised etem' lays, again beside Scamander, And heard Philippics uttered 'gainst the sire of Alex&nder Here each Reduce exulting nations may command, From works by men eminent through many an age and land* Through open day and shade I track'd in glory , The soul emblazon'd scrolls of history, '^ Which here encontour'd, GaflBns' do reveal ^^ With all the pure delights of a refined Ideal, , .^ Art-deeds (that tell their own eventful story) 36 THE LOKDONIAD. Never but with veneration may we name, — Resuscitated epochs flame ! The whole realm of ^Esthetics I discern, While Fairy visions to Carrara turn ; And lo ! ^rial music flown From Heaven hath vitalised the stone, Such Harmony as winged the Morning of the Earth, And early sang the Great Creation into birth. C. HAMPTON, Inventor and Manufactuuir of the CoMi'BEssED Pianoforte, 74, Charlotte Street, Fitzrot Sqcare, London, W. Estab- lished 1851. In far lands and earlier days I used the Harpsichord Miglioramento, doth now more with my soul accord All shades o' th' piano and forte, or softly gentle, a'iid th' low, Or the strong and forcible we to our Charles Hampton owe. The tone produced oy hammers upon the strings more truly thrills Our spirits than the old harpsichord's harshly-scratching quills. The adventurous Muse *f Art and Science felt cramp on Her Pegasus until she visited Mr. Hampton. In London I beheld many, and it must be confessed, I saw no rival — nothing to equal Hampton's Compressed. I could now have wished that our generous Kmgstonese had Given Lady J. A., this, stead of the unseemly " Iron Clad.". "Where art thou now? 'tis to be hoped thou'rt gone on Glory 'strac(t),. To awake tones in Heaven, Piano Fox o' Frontenac. Still, henceforth every Canada Delegate that resorts To London will hie hither to Charles for his Piano Fortes ; And in the prima visite they will readily scan As I did in my hero, the genial gentleman. 'lis well known that Charles Hampton hath for others fortunes made. Here I'll mention (sub rosa), 'tis he who supplies " the Trade." To Him may be fully traced all the Prize Medals given From the Exhibition "51, ay ! down to '67 ; And all the while, though gaining prizes for so very many, Those 'neath his own Domes are acknowledged the best of any ; And whenever his genius doth ihe New to a world reveal, Which is often, the others do but beg, borrow, or steal ; But by goi^g to Him at the Head Quarters we must infer That the over-plus paid to the non-manufacturer ,,, ; Is saved. Pianofortes, to the number of 76 I had from Him, Upper Canada saw them safe arrive, You shall have ntiany more next season if I do but live. 1 ^«4 wmitiimimiimmtiiitaiit^iiaimttilm THE LONDONIAD. 37 PE Ib ^^%4 I ** A Penny for your thoughts, Charley," Catlin said to hia Horse, This altered of our Friend Charles Hampton his entii'e life's course. Well, Mr. Bard, what from all this would you have us infer ? Why, that our harmonious Charles was no common carpenter. He, like Matthew Prior, Inigo Jones, and Stephen Duck, Guided by Sp'.rit-light, out a new line of action struck. Trace Art History, the greatest Improvements ever made Were not made by those who spent seven long years to a trade. This may suit well enough the slow and easy going, the hum> drum Mental Sluggard fated *' never to thrive " senseless earth scum ; But that man who feeleth the God within him wings the days Of life, or walks enlightning through tLe world evolving rays. Men of high intrinsic talent, with li^ht and force of mind, Conceive and carry out great thoughts, and new inventions find. I suppose, genius runs through the family, this the solution ; Johnson calls Hampden the zealot of the Eevolution, John hath been panegyrized, and by adverse muses sung, From that landmark in history our veritable spring. Invented 1860, what caused a great emotion At ye International (?) Novelty of Construction. There 'mong the savans of the world it met with high regard, Being for such, in th ->• re '" :i< PATENT WOOLLEN CLOTH COMPANY. Manufaoturbrs of Felt Carpets, Tabli Covers, Tablinqb, &c., 8, Love Lane, Aldermanburt, London. At Elmwood Mills, Leeds ; and Borough Road Mills^ London. Over time shall the muse of Arts ascend in gloria And trumpet to every sphere the Royal Victoria, The only kind that I to our New Dominion bring Is the Royal Victoria Matchless Felt Carpeting. On this planet I've seen a good deal of felted deeds, But I award the highest palm to Elmwood Mills and Leeds. Although Leeds may have had but slight political renown, It is acknowledged, I believe, as Engluid's fifth town ; And lo, the everlasting Muse, bending from her seat on A Zodiacal throne, sees Clio (!) thy name Smeaton Not on the sands of time she traces and but partly, Nor thine, Benjamin Wilson, Drs. Priestley, and Hartley. But in characters of living light all your glories blent, Stream from this cold Northern Isle over every Continent. Spirits yet uncreated shall light themselves to flame, Vide Abraham Cowley, to each we say, " Leeds prop'd his fame." Leeds hath, indeed, tne higher fame that follows Arts of Peac^ Witness what saith John Dyer, in his famous poem. The Fleece, Which I learned in Canada 'midst the Thousand Isles erewhile, " While around hillock and valley, farm and village, smile. And ruddy roofs and chimney tops appear. Of busy Leeds," Arts are Eternal such alone your Western Minstrel heeds. I th' Texture and Colours admire, no lovelier e'er rode Over acclaiming waves ; and London, Borough Road ; And what is it that the weird eloquence of Design declares To a marvelling age ? Why ! our Company's Bordered Squarea. Lo, a blended form Pallas and Mercurius hovers O'er, and in electric being informs the Table Covers. Sofa Carpets, Rugs, Cloth for Curtains are in my indents, Speaking commercially, for on our Public Works the Tents, Beyond those of Massachusetts, our Company'ci I choose, Which hath a world's fame (in prospective) Cloth for Boots and Shoes. Tritons sound your Mures Shells, o'er roseate ocean pass We now, with unrivalled Specimens for Polishing Glass, &c., that for Saddle Cloth (who heeds Yankee twaddle ?) This alone in portageing would serve us as a Saddle. I'll not name that sent out of late and used for Boiler Paddings But I greatly welcome their unrivalled Gun Waddiaga. They are in their extensive line never to be undone ; Tea, they are the only Manufacturers in London ; And now to them alone the Bard, from Number 8, Love Lane, Opens up an hundred markets over the Sunset Main. 40 THB LOKDONIAD. T. GRABHAM, Hat, Cap, Bonnet, ane Drapers' Stand Mandfactureh, 24 & 26, Whitfield Street, Tottenham Court Road. Brass Fittings for Windows and Measures for Counters. Still I choose liim 'bove name : T. Grabham, *' Pha3bus what a the rest, As Drapers' Stand Manufacturer, the Oldest and the Best. Like the Dutch Mariner in Guy Mannering, he's not ashamed Of his name, and why should he, not only through Britain famed, But in every country firbm the rising to the setting day. And though others fain would steal our T. Grabham 's name away, Exalted, unshaken, a h^-i lan Dhwalagiri he stands. And ripples the Banner of the Morning into distant lands. His worthy Wife an interest takes, and 's ever busy there, ' ' To our 160 Prospectivn* Millions declare I their Three Houses joined in one Whitfield Street, Fitzroy Square. Art glories that have carried T. Grabham to renown Had brought in Georgaoif^utfield's days the Archangel Gabriel down. Vo mere solitary hierar;^;. now leaves the blest abodes, A locomotive mania hat^ seized even the Gods ; And as thick as spirits 'erst dancing on a needle point They throng to Whitfie)d Street my blessed hero to anoint. Wonder, T. Grabham hd|jh all accessories on hand, When he thus can respy/ces of ethereal powers command. Yea, I beheld his large J(g^,ck of every kind of Stand, ConsiBting of the newest, and eke ye latest design, For which London andsjhe World him highest place assign. From meridian Isles to ^e morning clime of Calcutta, Around by th' setting,-3'he in every grand display doth put a ' Variety of Stand, every imaginable shape, From the classic, to grcA^aque, which set the natives all agape. Oh, for the genius thatjitflpired Glover's songs of Hoosier's Ghost, Then, then would I proclaim T. Grabham's works a countless host. Each Stand is like a labarum of the Eternal Arts, To all he and his wife taste and Philosophy imparts. While ill destiny on the opponent down cometh souse, T. Grabham's extending business adding house to house. From those unrivalled soul-entrancing specimens seeing, I rapt all their rising associations into being. I asked how Saul's innocent daughter Michal behavM, When she saw the rhythmical motion of yo King David. The stuffed Chevals had joined in terpsichoreean canters. And from their blocks had leaped Lansdowne's British Enchanters. I noted how Chancellor Campbell's umbra did caress Each statuesque form because it happened to have p. dress. I caught " Plain John," that Modern Midas, by his donkey ear, His braying was like to crack " the visible diurnal sphere." «M •*^» I. t, I I Upon the verge of his merited limbo, I bade him go : -^ ! And roam the wilds like to the legendary bufifalo. There you are free to wander withouten lash or rein, , Sleepless, unresting aa Wodenblock and Frankenstein. In the Juvenile Department unsurpassed are his Stands, High intellect is here the guide of very tasteful hands ; Andnow.with T. Grabham's deeds, which through this terrene prevail, I ride on high careering seas, ..'uged by a westering gale, To supply the Xew Dominion, or Wholesale or Betaal. i '■>■': Malleable LENflALL, JOHN HARPER, KING & CO., 9, Union Court, Ol© Broad Street, London. Ironfoundeus, Patentees and Manufac- turers OP Locks, Latches, Bolts, and Builders* Iron! ongert in General. Iron Castings. Manufactory: Albion Works, Wil- SoUTH STAFrORDSHIRE. I did not to the Midlands, but to the "don oflBce go Of th' Albion Works, Proprietors, Jof Harper, King & Co., |. To whom through entire confidence are very large demands Transmitted over every sea from all enlightened lands ; They have in their employ I cannot sa^ how many hands, But their equal in England it were vai» to seek, They pay in wages alone £1,000 per v ^ek. Their works are well through all civil, d nations known. For Metallic Art they bear the prime laurel of renown. Their solid-end Tower Bolts, Sash Pu', )ys, Bed Keys reached over shores. With the Registered Thumb and Norfol'- Latches from their Stores, They've outdone the Yankees, who think themselves very witty, From No. 9, Union Court, Old Broad ^*.reet, in ye City. Here for Public Convenience, and thii T saluted. All orders by our firm are promptly executed. Yea, from hence our vast supplies we now readily obtain For om: uprising colonies over the Western Main. At the same rate (doth space or time their enterprise restrict ?) .A.nd discount as at their famed Works in the Midland District. Never saw I yet deeds from Yankeedora to Match John Harper, King, & Co.'s Registered 'Malleable Thumb liatch. Hither we hie, and not as erst to Mussachusetts' dolts, For South^American, for French and for other Door Bolts, We've ousted Boston scuts and skunks, and ye knickerbockers, • Hail Locks, Latches, Sash Pulleys, Signal do.. Door Knockers. From Gasp^ Morning border to the Solar Mountain GuUey, Greet we the variously numbered Improted Frame Pulley ; And my famous Heroes' Patent field and Hunting-gate Latch, We ever use in Frontier Warfare each live Yank to catch. mmm THB LONDONIAD. In our Great Maaufaoturiag Firm you see no shonpy Holta', Being, as they are, the acknowledged Principal Masera of Bolts For North and South America, avaunt Schienk and Ongers, Hake way for England's unrivalled Builders' Ironmongers. I, who believe in the Philosophy of Pythagoras, Saw the Old Metallic Qods personified in Thunder pass Th' Desert ages, from off electric thrones they did inherit From Eternity, with shapes held sacred to merit. Thence, through progressive cycles saw them rejuvenant spring Inhabiting the forms, renowning it in John Harper, King And Co. Thus, for our rising Towns and Cities of the West, Messrs. John Harper, King & Co., I choose above the rest. Those who for their Castings do a wide-world fame environ, England's unrivalled Founders in Malleable Iron. ;.' HARDING'S Flexible Roofing for covering Houses, Sheds, Farm> Buildings, Sec, One Penny per Square Foot, Zinc Nails 6d. per lb., Dressing 2s. (d. per gallon, used by the English and Foreign Governments, Bailway Companies, Metropolitan Board of Works, &o. Samples and Testimonials Free. Silver Medal, Amster- dam, 1869, Jahbs Hardinq, Sole Patentee, 20, Nicholas Lane, London, E.C. I rose in dream intent on gathering Yankee scalps, And saw what emblem'd out a morning sun dawuing o'er the Alps. I thought that Dian' had left the sky to woe her Endymion, And the Muse like Spenser's Una was riding the (British) Lion. 'Twas but the lumiere eendrie that wrap'd the banks of Marding, Shantys bianco cavalo, the rest we owe to Harding. The phenomena to his Steam Works, Limehouse and West Ham, He who took the Silver Medal last year at Amsterdam. - ,.., , The Muse all other systems now discarding, ' ' ! .* For Roofing turns to Squire Jacobus HardSng. Beside the great expense, I do not think So portable is Montague Zinc. *' my prophetic soul, mine uncle " fated, _^ , Through you to hail the best, you early stated *'^ ' ' A failure is sheet iron corrugated. Such and more aside for ever casting, I the more convenient choose and longer lasting, k.»i< A 1 THB LONDONIAO. Above all syBtems of Waterproofing, • ' < I choose James Harding's Flexible Roofing, For our Buildingv. He not tbe mere factor, Manufacturer and Qovemment Contractor. City Office ^gr 20, Nicholas Lnne. From hence wo supply our 4,000,000 o'er the main* Long I on this triumph of science mused, Found that at the Woolwich Arsenal 'twas used. Chatham, Haulbowlice, and other Dockyards, Progress, this aloue throughout the world regards. The triumph of manufaoture in our time, And hail'd as suitable for every clime. Too, in more lanc^'Aages than oi>e I'll write and tell, Uninflamable, Clean, Strong, Di^rable. I'll describe its every applicatiou Throughout our new Hesperian nation. To make known all the rare advantages Of Harding's Flexible Roofing th' Muse cngageS) Acknowledged by civilised existence, In pre-eminent degree to distance . ; , . Competition, sole of my selections, :• 1 give you here the requisite directions. James Harding, like Ossian's Hero appears, To tell the " tale o' life in deeds, and not in years." ** Visions of glory'' (Graj ; both Hemispheres, (I speak here and now in the perspective mood), ' Oreet his Roofing on every land and fiood. I would advance to the height of glory, >: ' Canada, place her first in History ; And I believe in Reciprocity ; The Yank is stung now to ferocity. We'll cease to.deid with that race whom all brand As cheats, to James we'll lend a helping hand To bear his Roofing from the Mother-land. > :. 1'' ,.-:;v^jf. •■;■■,.,, ,\). ' :. i . .- .1 BENJAMIN LATCHFORD, Bbidle-Bit, Stibrup and Spue-Maker to Her Majesty and His Royal Hiohness the Prince op Walp 11, Upper St. Martin's Lana.— Post Offl>e Orders payable at Charing Cross. I, with Minerva, patroness of Art, did watch ford And flood o' time, yet saw naught pass to equal deeds of Latchford, Ifone in his line in Great Britain doth to such heights attain, As Ihe world's true benefactor. Upper St. Martin's Lane. So far as the mere application of Leather can go, And super-excellent work, much to Canada we owe, — But, so far as relates to metallico appliance. We must all go to our gentleman of kindly science ; 44 THE LONDONIAD. I t. And instead of going to tho Midlands, when o'er the Main We come, it must bo to II, Upper St. Martin's Lane. As Bridle-Bit, Stirrup and Spur Maker, who ia't prevails O'er the Imperial Isles ? Who supplies the Queen and Frinoe Wales? And soon Benjamin's products go before thu Western galos ; Yea, I had often hoard that every Kegiment of tho lino Did the palm, alono, to our great Thaumaturgus assign. r Even his personal presence a mental day imparts — Witness the late Prince President o' tho Society of Arts, Whose memory shall ever live to bless tho British nation, Paid a tribute to him for his love of education. In the new world I had heard his name— ay, very long before They were the Lords of Albion in troublous days of yore, 'Till the more ovil times of tho English Blue Beard, Harry, , Who did, alas ! many a damigella marry. i, . ■ . ; Only lately 'twas his family by the Midlands stood confest, * ThOT through a pre- Saxon era were Bretwaldas in the West Of England, in long after centuries, far from this isle, Of Northern Sea, they flourished on Virginia's classic soil. If left to itself, the chivalry of that single state Must all accursed Yankeedom have stamped in direst fate. (Shakespeare). "A rarer spirit Tie'er did steer Humanity." Scion of our old Boyal Race, beyond the evening sea Thou shalt arise upon our Colonial pavilions Like a new dawn o'er the world supplying our 4,000,000'b. His Ladies' Patent Safety Stirrup 1 will well describe To those of British origin, and to each native tribe. I showed it to Prince Alescandra ; when it met his ken, He said, " 'Tis equally applicable for Gentlemen." Thus, while with his spirit o' Science mine is all ablaze, Benjamin Latchford's most ennobling words I paraphrase. ., 'Tis thus : " He who kindly guards us from disaster .^ Dictates a Horse's Petition to his Master. , , Going up-hill, use not the Whip, Hurry me not on down-hill trip. On Level road you need not spare. Note, loose in stable, how I fare. Seo that I hay and com have got, Of clean w ater stint me not ; Wash me not when tired and hot ; Sponge and brush upon me ply ; Let my bed be soft and dry. And if, perchance, I'm taken ill. Or I grow cold, do not me chill. And, oh ! when fury fires your veins, Jerk me not with bits and reins. When you're displeased, strike me not— (S* Harsh words to me denote the Sot, of I THE LONDONIAD. 0. H. BAMSAT, "■■••v.. e of ■J Manxjfacturek of Fire Bricks, Ffrb Tiles, Guards, Lumj's or Biocks, Ridoe Tiles, Ga» ^Retorts, Sanitary and other Firk Clat Piping, Plain and Ornamental Chimney Tops, Vents, Vases, &c, Derwenthauqii, Newcastle-upom- Ttne, and 80, Falco:^ Wharf, Bankside, Established 1789. Prise Medal, Paris Exhibition, 1855. Unlike Butler's Hero {vide one of his Panegyrics), G. H. Ramsay never "brought in false accompt, with little trickS; (He's above that), of passing broken rubbish for whole bricks.*' At the Dispersion, sad Pilgrims on the plains of Shinar Rearing Babel, would have said, "Our best bricks not half so fine are." Such a fate be ever meted to all tyrants, sny we, As when the shallow yellow waves of the Red Sea Overthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry. The voice of a Past ge telleth of brick withouten straw, And we have such in England here to-day at Derwenthaugh. Like a Condor in realmless flight over a dateless time I bound, and am onco more safe return'd to my native clime. The Muse of Arts, in lyre-like wing, saith — "Bard!" "Here I am !" " Say, Did ever wight in any age equal G. H. Ramsay ?" " I'll tell you all about it after seeing him," I replied; " I know that be hath, through the sciences, all the world outvied. Him I've conversed with, and declare, more genial Callan Ne'er blest the Earth since lived below the Immortal Allan. i Th' Hist'ry of Bricks through every age was once my college theme, — Oh, then I roused the Classic Ages far from Thames his stream. Forty-five ship-loads of his l^ricks I lately sent away, Substances that, in the Old World dark, millions of centuries lay. Tower in the sun's fierce blaze over lands of the setting day. His Sanitary Works I've sent out very recently, — Received — Paid— all things were in order done, and decently. You'll find a gentleman o' the world in Him, and one of mental pith, Wise and honourable, as I did, to do business with. Established 1789, by Newcastle-on-Tyne, The palm on our Manufacturer We for Fire Bricks confer. We look to the Imperial Isles And him for our Fire Tiles, Each Exhibition th' Prize awards To G. H. Ramsay's Guards. With heavy cargo Argo rocka On seas with Lumps and Blocks. To adorn our Capital's piles We use but his Ridge Tiles. His Sanitary 'nd other Clay-Piping we use for aye. 46 THX LONIONIAD. Straight pipes, half, whole, Socket- Junction (Reveals th' Muse her jFunction). Chimney-tops, Ornamental, Plain, Yentt, Vases, here obtain. In nostrums place no reliance ; Sanitary Science, Thou dost save nations from the tomb, Making them newly bloom. Cannell and Gas Coal Clay Retorts (Let the world ope its ports). Sanitary pipes, ev'ry kind, Fire Ulay goods here you'U find ; Sanitary works meet my gaze Of Superior Olaze ; btill all the great Gkus Companies G. H. Ramsay supplies. At Beckton, on Imperial Thames, His genius brightly flames. Here all that you require you'll find, By his own Son desigu'd* From sire to son,, long ages down, Goes th' Laurel of Renown. HENRY BEVIS, 140, Pbntonvillk Road, London, N. School- Room Decorations, consisting of Mottoes and Inscriptions, Flags, Banners, &c. This is what very well may all the listing nations deem f Unto the ever-ardorous Muse a most inspiring theme. ' ^ . And now I introduce to all our uprising nations • i My Art Hero's unrivalled School Room Decorations. s All Virtues n'ld their Attributes throng in the sunny air, They flush ttj mental day— for, nh! the Artist's soul is there ! The famous flag he made for me, like to Thalestris' plume, Shed victory on my path, and frowned the foeman's doom Like Uriel's pinion, it will fan the dead nations into life, * '' And still, in storm and battle, the elements of ctrife, And ever w'aere its folds in the New Dominion flow, *Twere as if a thousand trumpets through the wild land did blow. Unconquerec Upper Canada ! The women join our ranks. And youth and eld advance upon those thrice-accursed Yanks— In fiery seas they roll upon the God-forsaken Yanks. Yea, to my immortal Hero, so young in years, I went Ever, whsn I would decorate learning's hall, or tent He BuppUes Mottoes, Flowers, and Flags to any extent. : ^< First Pri <*f awarded at every Exhibition, And Commissions received in every Competition. TalV. of roferences; forsooth ! just let them come to me, Tc enchantment I will rapt that sky-involving sea, The \fuvos of oceau in other motion, aqueous Tors, Transfona'd to a generation of mighty orators, All voice, ascending through sounding spheres to the blest abodOf S^'aU direct, and all Being, to 140, Pentonville Road. The subject of the first sheet and second did inspire. And here I may note the silk banners are not let ou Hire. I er THE LONDONIAD. Diagrams— very well ; I will not forestall conjectureB— Fainted are they on Calico, by Henry, for Lectures. For those, too, our Henry holds the highest of positions. Show-boards and Tablets, for Shops, Bazaars, and Exhibitions. All the Styles, the Lists of Subjects, and the varied ground Described, will in my thirty feet square Supplement be found, These have made my hero, even in hh life, more renown'd. At all our Temperance Meetings, at ail our Bands of Hope, For Elastic Silk Banners none with him may hope to cope. In Columbia District I talked with Consul Crampton Of legendary lore, and of Syre Bevis of Southampton. And judging by the miracles "determined, dared, and done," In the 30th Generation, Honry must be his Son. Hail ! in Augusta Trinobantum, anointed o'er the reE\-, Sanctified Illuminator to the aspiring West. 47 THOMAS GEOEOE FOBDHAM, Wholesale Cabinet-Maxer, Commercial Street, SpiTALFiiiLDs, London, N.E. This line from William Shakespeare the Londoniad salutes, (King Henry Eighth) " And fit it with such Furniture as suits." The Author, like Glaiion, in Edmund Spenser's lay, secures The route decided on, and then prepares his Furnitures. I have an unique Cabinet, made in Venetian States, With gold and jewels ornamented, and enamelled plates In ye Middle Ages, such were rery much in vogue, By fayre Ladye and noble Enyghte, and eke by Theolrg^e, An hundred London Houses in Thomas George Fordliam's line I have to choose firom, to him alone I the palm assign. Some were famous for prices, if not famed for woodSy And some were far too low, or mixed up with drapctry goods. I'd rather turn to fallow deer, and bound to the blue hcks Of Kentucky, than condemn myself to write on yard- sticks. In choosing, I am quite satisfied with what I have done ; If you please yourself, you are always sure of pleasing one, And in striving to please all, you are apt to please none. With all your good intentions you'll find you are not able. But lore your Donkey in th' bargain, like th' old men In th' fable. Like him left to mourn, 0, Diaz Lusitan, Braganza ! Or Sterne's story of Le Fevre, Cervantes' Sancho Panza. And the wags will shake their craniums, as they by you pass, And earh small calligraphist will " write (you) down an — — " •• You know the rest," (vide " Don Juan" and Thomas Otway). He's the only Cabinet Maker in England and our day, Worthy to hold a candle to Toronto's Jacques and Hay. And I'm convinced that, if they work into each otiier's hands, 'Tween them they'll supply Colonial and Imperial Lands. 48 THB LONDOKIAD. Countless in form as endless in design, He piles the pomp of Ails r-j. Glory's Shrine, Still storey above storey on we glide, And still new wonders rise on every side ; While by him England's most magnificer.t shops are supplied, Soon some of his tasteful goods now being made shall stand confe?t, Products of the Old World's capiial to ibe New in the West. Some orders lately fulfill'd I from the West End did send, ,. .-,^ • Prices exorbitant I paid, there did the matter end. Whate'er in Britain I get for the West to send away, / ,. I shall still bo willing, as now, a proper price to pay. .,. ,, , Under my Hero's immediate auspices the work is made, ; i, And it is generally known that he supplies " the trade." ' / .'^ £[nown from London, England's apex, around all its borders, Froir. any part he will readily fulfil your orders. 'Tis aere I, for private use and presentation, secure What is acknowledged the Best Made of London Furniture. Thus, as Wholesale Cabinet Makers, each London House yields The palm to Thomas George Fordham, Commercial Street, Spital- fields. THE CITY OF LONDOI^ SEED ESTABLISHMENT. HURST AND SON, Seedsmen, 6, Lbadbnhall-stbeet, Lokdon. i Hurst, in the old Saxon, meant a giove or thicket of trees, More here to enchant than in Torqua Tasso's the minstrel sees. " Whate'er I plant (such is mv great ^ jrticultural thrift !) Seeds, and runs up to poetry '^ (Dr. Jonathan Swift). But to introduce to the Colonies 'tis my intent , ^ f And purpose, The City of London Seed Establishment ; And I am very certain no Yankee exporter durst , , r Enter into competition with the great House of Hurst. There is nothing that we in a new country heed, , So much, or e'er ought to, as th' good quality of our seed ; For if discovered to be bad after setting, then lost Is th' season, and all our hopes of a prosp'rous year are crost. But I had heard from a member of the Corporation, That Messrs. Hurst and Son, in London, held high station, , , , And our pioneers of delightful Ontario must „ .^ j Rejoice, knowing whora in the Imperial Isles to trust. ":] i. Of Kitchen Garden Sfeds they have a great variety, Well suitiag to caoh Agricultural Society ; While our famed Seedsmen's unrivalled variety of Pea, Brccoli, Melon, Tomato, I bear across the sea. All their Miscellanies our rising country hath inspired, — Here we mark opposite the names, the quantity required. THE LONDONIAD. 49 To Upper Canada, the greatest Agricultural climo Ever known in geography, through all extent of time, I now transmit a large cargo, very well assorted, 'Of Messrs. Hurst and Son the choice, English and Imported, Beside all their Flower Seeds, from whiqh speedily shall grow A rival Eden, spreading over all' Ontario. Their Agricultural Seeds whole nations charm, Where boundless regions bloom a Sabine Farm ; Lo, Gardens have, and do the good engage. Their Flower Seeds revive the Ennoean age. . ; ,' Through Eden and Elysium on we go. Babels han?:ing the Floating o' Mexico. Noah's, and Solomon's and the rest we know, ; - ■ . '■ '.if' Loves, Roses and Myrtles of Erato ! ,. r Ahasuerus, Cyrus, Epicurus, Plato, -. . i ■■'- Palladius, Columella, Varro, Cato, > --s. (Alcino'us I too in fancy scan) Cicero, Horace ! many a glorious man Own'd rivals perhaps to gardens Lucullan ! There, — taste in lawns, &c., every thing surpasses, 25 varieties of ornamental grasses Here I got. " Seed-time and Harvest," Scripture saith shall fail not. Tea, "Day and night, seed-time and harvest — heat and hoar frost, Shall hold their course," this I quote from Milton, England's g..eate4t boa3t. Our City Seedsmen, loveliness to Canada revealed, Through their most acceptable collection in packets sealed. To their novelties and choice varieties I'll lend a Helping hand, and will well note them by way of Addenda. Thus, an extensive market hath the minstrel won Through the New Dominion, widening, for Messrs Hurst and Son. Who erst was the greatly trusted? none through England stood higher In public estimation than the ever-honoured sire. The substantial and experienced house, which I here announce, Can supply 1000 tons as easily aa an ounce. HON. GEOilGE S. HILLIARD. Your name is better known in England than that of any other Bostonian, owing to your critical dissertation on, and Edition of the Works of Edmund Spenser; and your Six Months in Italy. Iwas present in Faneuil Hall, October t37th, 1852, and heard your oration on Daniel Webster then and there delivered hj you, .ind as your name is the likeliest to eo down to a far posterity, and because you will remember sometliing alraut it, I choose to iisftocin id your name with tiie tol> lowing circuniBtance : (the rest is iuclud'd in a ,vate I'tter, which will 'le printed iu the next LoadoLiad). 50 THB I.Oin>ONIAD. W. J. BARBON & SONS, ^A LsATHEB Merchants and Impobtbrs, and Shoe: Mercery Wabehovssmen, 17, Aldebmambvbt, London. I have at least a dozen in my famous heroes' line. But a dozen dozens of th' like our firm would all outshine. For the world's glory I choose the House that stands like Classic Mons,. The first in England in our day, Messrs Barron and Sons, All the Art muses in ev'ry tongue are now exhorters, Deal only with the great Leather firm, renowned Importers ; And though Gensoria may say, Tour ardent minstrel erra Li not choosing, here and now merely manufacturers, I'll reply in this case, a thousand manufactories , Would scarcely realize one of England's greatest glories, Whose power extends abroad to all the globes' various lands. And to make all their goods would require half-a-million hands. There's one good trait in them, our Colonists beyond the foam They serye on the same terms as our kinsmen in England home. Hence, from all British countries on the Western Continent, , ^, Orders for England to our great family firm are sent ; None are more nobly enterprising than they, while their vast Establishment hath deep into the shade all others cast, [t was thus the unrivalled' Shoe Mercery Warehousemen, it No, 17 Aldermanbury, late met my ken ; Nor could other London House!) match, if put together. Their Patent Calf, Kid Calf, French Waxed Calf, Enamelled Leather, Ye Tritons your Buccani blow as o'er Atlantic fioats Argo with Morocco, Roans, Skivers, Memel Calf, and Goats, Bazila, hail, h^ever the stream of time or flows or ebbs Still triumph ! Kip, Butts, Blocked Fronts, Jockey Legs, Elastic Webs,^ French and English Cashmeres, for very many snowy moons, Stood us in good stead with Boot linings, Flannels, and GalloonS| Doubles, Muslins. Silks, and Threads, proper Over Shoes, (I say, proper, because the slippery Yank * we all refuse) General Shoe Mercery that shall long adorn the Muse. Never on English Thames did I look with eyes so fond on, Aught as upon this, the first House in its Une ^d London. TBI LONDONIAD. 51 i^ HILTON, ANDERSON, & CO., Portland and Roman Gzment and Plastkr Manufacturfrs, 6, Upveb Thames Stheex, London, E.G. Mantjfactobixs, Fayzbshabi AND Ufnor, Kent. Long Syne, in the dark ages of the Canadas we vent . For much to Yankeedoro ; but now for good Portland Cement' To the manufacturics, Faveraham, and Upnor Kent. And to the capital of the Imperial Isles we go, And hail the famous firm of Hilton, Anderson, & Co., The greatest merchants and shippers in either hemisphere, From over an hundred oceans make their purchases here— - Th good quality doth thro' testimonials appear. Proving their Portland Cement to be in very high demand By thoso engaged on public works in near or distant land. Resident members of our great firm do superintend Their extensivo works, on which a world's progress doth depend. Thus their cement is of the highest degree of excellence, To which none on the Western continent can have pretence. To that miracle of our age, the Main Drainage Works, they sent Nearly two millions of bushels of their Portland Cement. The drainage works of Brighton — many a provincial town, Portsmouth, will tell to other times thro' countless ages down How in a retrospective era wide was their renown. Yankee cement, frightful compound ! ye muses all asloyne ; Attests many a Sea-wall, Esplanade, and Concrete Groyne Their fame, which they around the loud coast of England maintain. Opposing the warrior billows of a boist'rious main. Oft while Sione, on by '* air and ye elements" seems to be Workd like geologic specimen by ancient sea, Portland Cement on a thousand tempest-stricken stations Stands firm, matchless for Concrete Blocks for Fortifications And Breakwaters, for Harbours of Refuge, at-home, abroad : All th' same, 'tis science' master deed, the wonder-work of God. As a stucco more durable than Stone, Portland Cement Hath been used on many a aoble pile for Ornament. The names of the greatest men in our time the bard recalls Thro' England, who have given them their testimonals. The Titans of their clime and age o'er time they stand coafost, Not from isolated sample or a casual test They speak ; thus far when Pallas, Science' Patroness arose Li glory, and handed me the following note in prose : 1^* Messrs. H., A., fc Co. manufactare the Cement at the large and extensive 'Works at Fuvershtini, Kent, and also at their smnller Factory at Upnor on the Med way, near ttochester. Vesiicls can be loaded alongside at either of the above placet, or the Cement c Climes of a renovated world ! I rede ye barken well, That for such we ne'er more go to the boor of Clorkenwell ; But Science' muse, like some hierarch from a skiey ridge, Hies to Number 67 Tooley Street, London Bridge. Like as 'neath Pope's Dunciad pile, all are sunk in fiery pyre, Beside our honoured Ventilator, Squire Frederick Eyre. . .. ; We know what philosophy through this and every nation . 'T Saith, concerning the great importance of Ventilation. What is it that causes in the world so many weepers ? ). t Impure atmosphere that undermines the health of sleepers ; /. ^:i But to evade such from anatticmized Yankee schemers, .^^ I bear this o'er all our mighty lakes to all our steamers. The ohosea motto of Frederick Eyre is very good, (I'm fond of mottoes.) " Health,— Good Air, as essential as Good Food." r THE LOITDONIAD. 03 h ' WILLIAM COULSON & SONS, Damask & Plain Lixbn Makufactubbrb, LisBURN, Ireland. 18, Bkead Stbbbt, Cannon Stueet, E.C, Londok. I thro' Britain vainly seek, in vain thro' Europe ask , For any firm to equal my famed heroes in Damask; i^^ And they were never surpassed since Arts' standard was unfurled Over " fair Damascus," the oldest city in the world. Who is it stands above the world, like eun-illumined mens, A headland in the sea of time, William Coulson & Sons. Instead of paying, as erst, double price at the West-end, Here you get double quantity for v/'hat you'd like to spond ; Beside ttie palm upon merit the purchaser confers, Thro' dealing at first hand with matchless manufr.cturers. We had some sent oat to us by a mere mercantile botch. Not the right sort, for it turned out to be but flimsy Scotch, . ; Which after one washing, or exposure to the weather. Oh ! —but you'll then find our Coulsons' like a piece of leather. And then again, for our firm's ever-glorious designs, For 'vrhich each polish'd nation the myrtle wreath to them assigns.* The Shamrock is very popular, and 'tis my belief They'll soon establish for us the Bbaver and Mapli: Lea v. Of the great problem witness this, the prime of solutions, They our great families and National Institutions ShaU supply. Fur daily use and periodic meetings, And amongst the primest of the Minstrel's textile greetings, Were those for William Coulson and Son's unrivalled Sheetings, And I heard amidst the cataracts of Marley That in these they excelled everything done by Charley. Our Firm thro' the long bumi::^ day and tempestuous night Of commerce, still upward ana onward took its tireless flight. Like Gibson, great sculptor, and th' author of the Londoniad, The common and mere trady they ever still evade. In Damask and Plain Linen our illustrious house hath done What in bleaching was performed by Jonathan Richardson. ( On the immortal bleacher long ago a poem I made — It appears on page 29 of the Sixth Londoniad ) Their matchless enterprise and sterling genius doth fire land And sea, from their manufactory, Lisburn Ireland. M '\ > TU£ LONDONIAD. JOHN POUND & CO., 81 and 82, Leadeneall Street, London. Mauufacturers to the Board of Admiralty. H. M. Customs, Royal Mint, and India Office, ^Manmacturers of Solid Leather FortmanteavuB, Dressing and Travelling Bags, Ladies Imperials., _ _ Over'and and Bullock Trunks, Ail tight Japanned Tin Boxes in Deal Chests for Indiu, China, &c., Canteens, Plate Chests, Camp and Cabin Furniture, I^aval and Military Equipage, Travellers' Sample Cases and Bags, Despatch and Deed Boxes, Writing Folios and Letter Cases. So long a list where from to choose, at length the minstrel found, That in the Imperial Metropolis most renowned. For Trunks was the Illustrious City House of Messrs. Pound. However well ours may be in Canada put together, Thro'out th, West we are always anxious for English Leather. Hence, upon the unrivall'd London House the Muse confers The myrtle wreath, the bonaJieU Manufacturers. The world-wide reputation early won they still retain. They've a character to uphold, known on each land and main, In this I'm self -experienced, their T unks, even second hand, Are through many distant countries in very great demand. And those who have them in possession-travellers know well How to prize them, and would never very readily sell. We had some of theirs once, which after long stormy yaars tost Midst forests and cataracts, brought more than the ori(,mal cost ; And the only reason that we let them go to the H. B. fleet Was, we determined to buy the new in Leadenhau Stroei. What is't chat to fame and emolument doth much redound ? Every Trunk bearing the impress of the name of Pound. What floats like a triumphant sky over both liemispheres, Their science-emblazon'd Standard in the flight of 60 years. The senior partner, wljose presence doth ye premises adorn, Here at 81 — 82 (some time ago) was born. And I now invoke the winds, to eutrumi.et all the floods. Upon the Premises are Manufactured all the Goods. And what I ne'er befors in tho City of London found, Here I hail (William Cowper) " rural sight* ' and " rural sound," For at the windows of the matchless house of Messrs, Pound, Bird.i, th' winged Bards or Heaven sing 'mong the treep that dis- close a Rival ho thy " Etrurian Shades," Vallambrosa. I reriembci- Upper Canada and thought upon a Windsor Forest scene (of " Dan Pope's"), Pan chasing Lodona ! Not ceiling bouuded, upward and open see the Galleries ri:)e, Jiud with the light of Arts commingle the glories of the skies. f I -H. THE liOITDONIAD. 65 The Show Rooms, which I look with eyne so fond on, Are aokDowledged to be the moat gorgeous in London. I might, if I pleased, by the help of illustrations. Convey their glorious works through all the Western nations ; But 1 will, as won't, yerbally illustrate what I saw, And our Colonies may then their own deductions draw Toronto rejoice, Kingston, Peterborough, Ottawa. Taste and Philosophy our firm doth thoroughly embue What you require, here you behold, all at a single view. *' Never more " (E. A. Poe) we go to Massachusetts skunks, For here we have Portmanteaus, Overland aud Bullock Trunks. Here are Dressing Cases, Desks, Chests, Bagfl, Cash and Deed Boxes, Occidental Gk>tham, I'm sure that nor Qrutch nor Coxes' Works e'er matched those of which, here and now, I volubly sing, 'Tis here we find |g|r evert requisite for travelling, From whatever land we hail, to whatever clime we go Our first advance is to Leadenhall Street— John Pound and Co. Doth Time's Stream to Eternity's Ocean disembogue — From Narrow Isle ; o'er the Universe I bear their Catalogue. BY APPOINTMENT TO T H K Q U K E N. I. A. BOSS, Wholesale and Export Umbrella and Parasol Mandfacturer, 36a, Wood Street, CuEAFSiDE, London. The genius of commerce thro' the world doth hitherward resort. And here it is supplied at Wholesale and Export. Amongst all the Sons of Enterprise I in London came across, I found none in true Business habits to excel our Boss, * He's atrue Boss," " the real Boss," and " the only Boss we'll have." This rung often in mine ears beyond th' Atlantic wave, As manufacturer o' th' Umbrella, Sunshade, and Parasol, He is known thro' cut the Tropica and he triumphs at the Pole. And now our Argo with her cargo doth o'er ocean ride. From London ? yes ! i^ No, 36a, Wood Street, in Gheapside, Here on obtaining th ' litest Koveities you may rely, That will Jupiter Plurius and Scl himself defy. All, (and this I trumpet over the world-eclipsing West), Are combin'd with materials and workmanship the best. His Designs are ill unique matchlessly perfect, and chaste. We here superioi '^inish hail and most exceller^ Taste. For these. His manufactures ar« thro' all the nations known, Colossus like Square I. A. Boss stands siagle in renown, ■ y..-t-S4.^* -H. 66 THK LOirDOiriAD. Like Claude Melnotto who of portraits could only paint but one. As th' Lyre of Anacreon would recur to Lovo alone, As the Aloe blooms only once in an hundred years, And as the Phoonix ** that sole bird" (Milton) in th' world appears^ And even as one Sun alone lights up the starry main, And one Moving Power doth over the universe reign. So ever doth th' Art Muse high soaiing midst the wondrous whole, Proclaims our Hero of the Umbrella and Parasol. With him wo never note mere whimsical frivolity, But each that we name is his own peculiar novelty, And I find that th' present season is not a votary Of that pareplue whirligig by man vclep'd Rotary, Which is all unlike the Compass, that only one way points, Still veers to all the Venti and seems body out of joints. ^ - ',■,..: Now to our Now Dominion I over the ocean cross, j* . i With Umbrellas and Parasols from th' Royal House of Boss, uti tnf/k Sailing on Mare Imbrium being in Elysium rapt. The Muse her cyo ' midst yc Mooney Isles on John Dryden she clapt. They met ; Ho said , ( for ho was kind throughout that lunar trip), " I can carry your Umbrella and fan, your Ladyship," Butler bringeth ye Umbrolla forth not when sky floods drench, But to illustrate style of liut borrowed from the French, The Umbrella used by Holy Boys at Bromley bogs-head, Seem'd (so large it was) an inverted Heidelberg hogshead. As on iBrial ridges reclines the beauteous day, ^ . ., So rests in Her respiring light the Heroine of my lay. In Red Silk Tent 20 feet higt 40 diameter. By cataracts sunlit, Ta-pa-ta-mee doth seat her,- The chiefs' tents in braided rainbows surround her in a foss. She sits on silks and roses, they on skins and flow'ry moss, I the Order gave, and the Tents were made by I. A. Boss, (Johnson) " Boss raised above the rest a shining prominence." All minstrelsy of th' Middle Ages ! Boas, I bring from thence, Last eventful* time, I believe, that History doth show, The Boss, it on the shields of chiefs at Culloden did glow. Hosts of " Bloody Cumberland's " Pack were by its thrusts laid low, A DREADFUL STORM TTPON LAKE ERIE AND HOW WE WERE ALL SAVED BY THE MEANS OF MR BOSS'S UMBRELLAS. We're sailing that Upland Ocean billowing over th' Falls, From Lewistown to Cheppawa hang lightning- braided paUs, A Storm ! the Earth's upheav'd Heaven is split asunder, Erie's gone skyward in foam, our Steamer's grating under. A crash ♦ * * ♦ Tempests have racked Attraction's bars, We're tumbling down thro' Nature's void with all the ruined Stars, gCiENCE redeems us now ! give no— give not up all for loss, T have a cose of Umbrellas by the illustrious Boss, « * * The Steamer in flames exploding rolls Niagara o'er, Th' rebuflF of whirlwind fills each Umbrella,— we're safe on shore. 5 l' I THl LONDONIAD. ST' ALEXANDER WBIOHT ft Co., Enotneers and MAKvrAcrruREns of "Wet" axd "Dry" Gas METKUS.nndof Apparatus connected with the Manufacture, _ _ Distribution, Analysis, and Use of Coal Gas, 65 & 65a, Millbank Street, Westminster. F. W. Hartley, Manager. I the works of our Company salute For lighting up or Town or Institute, For this each article complete appears, With London's most practical Engineer?, Large manufacturers, they can supply Our Country with Gas Meters, Wet or Dry, ; looii O'erth' Interculonial Railway, That almost illimitable hailway " .' . Of Empire, with Apparatus I pass Connected with thy varied use. Coal Gas. They've ev'ry other Company outvied, In the numhcr o' towns and districts they've supplied Nor are they merely manufacturers, Pallas the inventive wreath on them confers, They never upon their laurels resting, Lo, as described in Gas Meter Testing. Gas Testing Apparatus we Never met its equal o'er the sea ; Through this, great knowledge did the Bard amass Instruments for the measurement of Gas, Or of pressure made (this hath me inspired), To any foreign standard when required. The Analysis of Gas here met my ken By Science' Heroes, for Practical Men, With Pcr-Centage Tables, Observations On Gas Meter Testing, the Western Nations Look with wistful eyne far over the foam, They know the wondrous deed performed at home ; (And Yankeedom is now an aching void). Wright's Testing Apparatus is employ'd At all the Great Gas Works of London, down Thro' each British City and County town, With science' solar ray, and not the garish Phantom, glows each imperial parish ; Bespiring light, in Aureola went The Muse with them o'er all the Continent, -, •fiS Tni IiOVDOKIAD. Each shall civiliiation's march extend Where light of Oas and Mnga of Zion blend, To thia great end unpurchased aid I lend. Consumer*' Meters every name I tract, Accurately adjusted, (note the fact ! ) To thelStandard of the *' Sales of Qu Act." Wright's Registering Pressun, Gauge, Gauges Pressure ; greatlv each our gi lef assuages, That we should have recipients remain'd Of Tank' works when we might have obtained In matchless glory from our native Isles That which in a new day on our new country smiles, The Mighty Past is but an hour ago, Eternal ages all before us glow. ^ i > Light and Fire themselves diffuse Aud in giving nothing lose. Thus thro' F. W. Hartley before all the winds that blow, We o'er exulting Seas with British products go. From the renown'd Messrs. Alexander Wright & Go. 3*t, t-i ■J^AiU- I D.&A.DEBKIN, Enoinsbbs, New Pabk Strbbt, Southwabk London. "Our Chief Seise, once introduced a name to Captain Perrin, Who dam'd it for a Yankee, and said take Brothers Derrin. Tea, we might long and vainly search thro' the both hemispheres, For a firm more entirely practical as Engineers. -Men of the mightiest genius that ever lived on earth, Acknowledge in many languages th' famous Brothers' worth. Now with their Engineering doth the adventurous bard embark, ■For the advancing Occident from street ydepd New Park In ye old historic borough Chaucereean Southwark. Their deeds are over the world, on land or region wavy, In each Mercantile Marine, and ev'ry Boyal Navy. There is no work, or great or small, in all their lengthened line. In which they do not Science and Philosophy combine. Their fame hath the horizon of every country fill'd — i A sense of their power is in every element instill' d, i': In Mathematics and Mechanics, they're very well skilled. In correbponding, on them our Colonists may depend. They all the Plans can form, and Construction superintend. Not only what we'd fain require ; but they too can suggest i^ught that we're likely to want in th' New Dominion o' th' West Fixed and Portable Engines, from them I bore o'er the flood ^uTTiNa Machimbbt, MovitDiNo Machines, all kinds for Wood^ J- THB !iOXI>ONIAD. 99* Saw Benches of every kind, I never lav eo good ; Not t' Cannon Street for Manohetter, nor to Cheleea I go, But to Brother! Derrin for luch to grace Ontario. For Paper Boiling Maohinerv, they're not to be outdone, And their Paper Emboisiag Maohinoa are the best in London* I applied myself closely to Science to know whether Or not their Machines for Pasting Paper and Cloth together Were the best, and as Sir John Smith would say ** they're superior, (I quote from Sir John's Poems) all others are inferior." THOMAS WHICHELOW, Spanish ANI^MoRocco Leather Dresser AND Dyer, Black Swan Yard, Bermondsby Street, S.E. Thro' fiermondsey filmed for Leather, I passed, and I avow I never met more courteous wight than Thomas Whicbeluw. Nor is there one in whom th' Western World may have affiance, Equally with him, who transcendeth in all of science ; For while many others use the very same appliance In Leather, that was used eleven hundred years ago. His are th' inventions that will agree with Ontario. Not only is his genius exalted and creative ; But like a kind deity he is communicative. Live his name, tiU creation blazes one funeral pyre, Hail ! Spanish and Morocco Leather Dreaaer and Dyer. All accessories on hand here met the inquiring bard, Bermondsey Street, S.E. and {rara avis) Block Swan Yard. Not in England alone, shineth the name of Whichelow, A second Iranstein ( hia brother's) in the West doth glow. What came upon expectants like to a sirroco i Thomas Whiohelow's own peculiar Morocco, While many men in Bermondsey this day to him do owe Whatever they of art tbo theory or practice know. Every thought withia . oast a 1000 mental looks, And I finally declar'd that I'd choose his for my Books. Nor other kinds for furniture, or shoes the minstrel brooks. Lo, many of his instruments and tools are of his own Inventing, and such as no other house hath ever known ; And thus I pass the windy march of Time with his renown. John BRinHT ahd Ricbabd CoBniir.— I generally give my friends mentioned in the Londouiad something by way of what in the Western Colonies is called an extra. With the present Londoniad I place for their kind acceptance a University First Priss and Great Scholarship Poem, John Bright aud Hichard Cobden [noa-political], " Friendships of the Classics Ages." John Bright's letter to the Author appears in the last Londoniad. f so THE LONDONIAD. MILLS & BORTHWICK, i BuNTivo Manufactubehs, 18, Gresham Street. (Opposite Basinghall Street.) Flag* of all natiuu3 made to order. ■J For Jb'lag maaufaoturers I need not long be hunting, _ ? Lo, here are our world-famed heroes who ever make th' Bunting. j What is there in the realm of art that doth so much inspire .* The sight of a flyiog Flag sometimes sets our souls on fire. Whoever may make the Flags, -wherever the Flags may fly, " 'Tisten to one" ( Milton) the Bunting they did supply, On every sea and land, from every fortress of the world, ' In all their nationaiities I see their Flags unfurl'd. Aud I may mentio i here in the Srd 16th Londoniad « ?, jTlags of all nation; are by our famed firm to order made. And too I mention to th' world -with very great elation, Hn^^'t Bazaars, Exhibitions, Associations, thro* th^ nation, nnn I All the Admiralties of the old world, the mercantile marine Of Britain, anfl every clime, customers of theirs have been. Royal Standards, Flags, Unions and Ensigns, o'er th' pavilions 0' th' '\^''e8t fly like breezes, trumpet stirr'd, amidst our 4,000,000. ' ' When a child, Flags, 1 thought, were spirits wand'ring o'er th' ocean; Or I took them for " Angels pureuivant" ( Spenser) in motion. Along the horizon they woo the song-enraptured brf^eze, t' Or float 'lalcyon-like upon tho bright exulting seas. ^- ■>i Anon tho voiceless eloquence of thought' tsublimer strain IIi.'>->' Ent^umpctd tb<^ wild winds that so electrify the main. In foreign lands what visions of home greet the pilgrim's sight, — Poled in the Meridian Circle, to the Boundary of Sunlight Creation's champion Flag o'er 'fime takes its triumphant flight. Our pioneers of Canada their British Flag upreared, And victory dawued in daylight wl erever it appeared. I have adapted the letter as the dist'nctive nyrabol of the New Canada Ccnfede- raoy to the form of a lyre, evolviiig riiys, eacli prcvtnce to have a string. This can be placed upon ai.y of the National Flags of (^reat Britain. Here truthfully as planted for below The Rosi-, the' Shamrock, and the Thistle blow, From stem:; in Lover's Knots securely bound, The Maple wreath rjscends and circles round, While high above enwrapt in solar rays Where beam the glories of concentred days, And which the victor Laurel doth entwine, A Lyre breaks forth Wiihia the wreath traversing near the base, A liv'jiig form midst native foliage trace ; i L :eiU'iM' I'ii^^A THE LONDONIAD. 61 n; '.<^ I* le. hi!/;, Sf' Yes Fiber ? thou wast doomed so legends say In form thus strange a certain time to stray, For crimes committed in an earlier day, And though in shape of Beaver thus confin'd. Preserved in all the powers of Human Mind. AEUNDELL & CO., 'X •f. -I Fancy Bos Makers, &c,,and Contbactors TO Wholbsale Houses, 13, Page STassT, Westminster, S.W. Not "a beggarly account of empty boxes," ( Shakespear) Doth with our world-famed Arundell appear. Other makers may strive ; but our firm they'll never wheedle, More than did Sidney, in Ivory Box Magnetic Needle. Spectator 8v -ho ( vide Bums) was " the whale of hearty cocks," Speaks of the lion's nead, and under this a letter box. Lovely couplet, " the casked Indias glowing gems unlocks, ('Tis by A. Pope) and all Arabia breaths from yonder box." Edmund Spenser, " So many more, eo every one was used, ( From mem'ry quote) That to give largely to the box refused." " To you the boxes" (John Dryden). " blow, happy breezes, blow" From London's great unrivalled firm, F. Arundell & Co., Over Amethystine billows to Canada they go. Matchless firm of Iiistoric name by ancient Thomey Isle ; Some of your most wond'rous works reach'd our Colonies erewhile; Some kinds came fiU'd with Poplins from member Fym of Leinster^ The Silks were by the Quaker, the Boxes made in Westminster. The guiding genius of our house is a most glorious Boss, He it was who made for me my umivalled rere-doa. In British Government oflBlces the whole world around, ,^' My hero's art- works of this kind, and these alone are found, ^* He is thro' the Imperial Isles and Colonies renown' d. Now from the Drapers Box Maker (such Fancy are or Plain) I bear thro' the roseate nations over a sunset main, And the ever-glowing muse who is no dimitied spinster ; But a.femme of sunlight, hails 13, Page Stfeet, Westminster. Lo, here are Drapers' Plain and Faucy Boxes every kind '^r In which are strength, utility, and every grace combined, 'v^ These you '^ith our great Contractor to Wholesale Houses find, -IV The finest shops in th' metropolis of this insular land, And ail the warehouses ever hail his wonder-working hand. None have gone so high, for none so well have striven, At 13, Page Street, Westminster, Estimates are given. And in more languages than one full soon shall be declared, B; our Company, are boxes re-covered and repaired. i^ THB LONDONIAD. aJ S *" « •g-C'-' -5 3 Ofc jf- oA g 5; gs II 3^2 a « •"CO g ». S'O ^ 2 c « S^o B,a H B . g b- ® * o «*5 - S-aS"-" J5>^s . 2-2! q 2 k ^ Oja *^ g 2 8 • fi»5 a 1 a a I p« •a '" " o J^ § g M " 1 o S ■< B ^3-2 8 .•S HO p.- c3 3 Cb OQ fiS u t-a = P ;i*ag ^, 2 - eiz; H £) ■«* o *» Ss i-i; SOD'S ■• THK LONDONIAD. 63. THE INHABITANTS OF TORQUAY. ,,.-■).••,_ Electors and Non-Electors. I enter the field of candidature for the Representation of the QUEEN OP THE souTU in Parliament at the next General Election. 1 , ' By the applicatiion of Science and Art, and ever mind-*- ful of the unrivalled salubrity of its climate, and of the loveliness of its situation, I will strive by eveiy means in, my power to attract towards my native town the elite- of nations. ■ I shall personally, and at an early period, have the pleasure of addressing you collectively, and of conversing with you each so far as may be^ individually. Hoping to meet both Ladies and Gentlemen at the Hustings, I will from thence, confident of success, beckop you to the Poll. I am, youi^s faithfully, J. TORRINGTON SPENCER LIDSTONE, '64 THE LOVDONIAD. JOHNBOLDING& SON, Brass Founders. Lead and Zinc Merchants, Manufacturers of Pumps, Water Closets and high pressure Valves, Sanitory Earthenware of every description, 19, South Molton Street, Oxford Street, London, W. Manulacturers of Wrought irou Tubes, and Fitttings for Qas, Steam, and Water. Wholesale White Lead, Oil, Colour and Varnish Merchants. I want a good house for Soda Water Machinery To trumpet to our Colonists over the Western sea, — Take th' best in Loi^don, West, established Eighteen twenty-three. There's not a firm in or out of Imperial London. That hath practised science more than John Bolding and Son. <:. Private Houses, and aU the Great Companies of the land. Invoke th' aid of our famed Family's wonder-working hand. Here wo get plumbers' engineers' and gas-fitters Brass Work So good, that we'd not look at that of Boston and New York. I took to the umbrageous shores of distant Lubing, My heroes Lead Pipe, Sheet Lead, and Composition Tubing, And our people, Aborigine, Teutonic, and Celt, Do ever greatly welcome their Sheet Zinc, Drawn Zinc:, and Felt. The muse had passed her Kubicon, and with ardour sought her Ariminum in Albion, behold, for Steam and Water, And Gas the Fittings, and Tubes made of the best Wrought Iron. For these an universal fame doth our house environ ; • Beside th' two Establishments in South Molton Street, th' glory , Of England, they've their Brass Foundry and Manufactory In Grosvenor Market, known thro' the world everywhere; At 19, South Molton Street, Minerva doth declare. Their unrivalled Depo' for Sanitary Earthenware. With the blest sire and son we can never realise the gloom Of centuries past, when, blasted in their most frightful doom, ■ Millions were hurried off by plagues into the darken'd tomb ; But now in a bright'ning age of most exalted pleasures, We have the means of Headth which is the primest of all treasures, — Next to Heaven owing all to Sanitary Measures ; Barrett's Court by Wigmoie Street, all the sciences arouse, — Lo, the well-known Sheet Lead and Pipe Zinc and Iron Tube Warehouse. Now Canada will correspond with John Bolding & Son ; In all their vast and varied line they're not to be outdone, ■.]Sov equall'd by any other House in the West of London. THIS LONDONIAD. 65 mt8, aad ware LTON >ught esale iree. I. be - -^ PERSONAGES AND INSTITUTIONS PPA.CT[- CALLY CONNECTED WITH THE ARTS IN CANADA. Compiled and arranged expressly for the Londoniad, Br James Tokrington Spencer Lidstone, Finance Delegate, (copykight). Paintings in Oil.— Peter March, Paul Kane, Toronto. PlaraoDdoa, Antoine, Pointe aux Trembles. Hamel, Theophile. Kreighoif, J., Quebc. WATBR-ookoun Paintings and Dkawinos. — Bourassa, Napoleon, Montreal. Tache, Ku;;ene, Montmagny. Sculpture and dik-sinkinq.— Ileii], Robert, Montreal. Engeavino and LiinoQUAP'ty.— Burtand and L'African, Montreal. Pointing and Books. — Departement de L'Agrkalture, des Arts, et de la Sta« tiHique, Oataouais, De^baratz, George, Quebec and Outaouais, Broussea, L., Quebec. Seneca', Eusebe, Starke, J., & Cie., Montreal. Papbu, Stationery. Binding: Painting and Drawing Matkrials.— Lafrance & Lemieux. ijuebec. Uesbaratz, G, E , Quebec and Outaouais. Brown fc Freres, Toronto. Buntin A' :xaudre, & Cie.| Montreal. Brousieau, Lcger. Boisson- nault. N. v., Quebec. Applications of Drawiko and Modelling to the Common Arts.— Murphjr, J., Montreal. FiiOTOGitAVHic P HOOFS AND AppARATi'S. — Rurcau des Travaux Publics, Ottawa. Legeo & Dcsburatz, Quebec. Notman, ^Villianl, Montreal. Livcrnois & Cie., Quebec. Hellingworth,.*., Toronto. Henderson, Alc.vander, Montreal. Ellison & Cie., Smeaton, J., Quebec. Medical and Surgical Instruments and Apparatus.— Lariclieliere, Uesire, Lapraire. Jones, T J , Bownianville. Graas, V., Montreal. Mathematical Instruments and Apparatus for Teaching Scienck. — Departcment de I.' Instruction Publique du Haut et du Bas Canada, Toronto and Montreal. — Chambre des Arts ct Manufactures du Uaut Canada, Toronto. Betliune, Rev C. J. S., Cobourg. Passmore, F. P. Potter, Cliailes, Toronto. Maps and Geographical and Cosmoqr/.phical Apparatus.- Departement des Terres de la Couronne, Outaouais. Commission Geologique du Canada, Mon- treal. Kcole D'Agricult'ire de Ste. Anne, Ste. Anne. Bouchettc, Joseph, Outaouais. Kinjr, T. D. Montrf;al. Brown, G., Toronto. Tackerbury, li. C, Loudon, Haut Canada. Fancy Furniture. — Jacquer & Hay, Toronto. Frechette, Antoine, Outaouais Hilton, J. & W., Montreal. Reed, James, Hamilton. Koy k Bedard, Brous- seau, J.T., Quebec. Ui'HoLsrERT and uEOOBATiVE W^RK. — Clififord, Madamc, Outaouais. Desmaraia & Cie., Scott, William, Montreal. Crystal, Fancy Glass and Stainbo Glass.— Spence, J. C, Montreal. Olafls Company, Hudson (Vaudreuiil). EAR7:HE^ was and other Fancy ^oxtkry.— Hurd & Leigh, Toroiito. Farrar, J. W. St. Jean. Carpets, Tapestry, and othek Stuffs pok Furniture.— Bazin, Dlles. Caron, Dlle., Riviere-Du-Loup. Corte, 0., Quebec. Papkbhangings. — Staunton, Moses, Toronto 66 THE LONDONIAD. Apparatus and Pbocussrs fcp Heating and Liohtino.— Armstrong, J. R., & Cie., Toronto. Rodden, W. 8s Cie., CereJo. Paul, Montreal. Fkbpumibt. — Hearb, J. G., Montreal. LiATHKR Wc A, Fanot Artiolbs AND Baskbt Wobk. — AuKBr, Mme, Grenitr, Mme. Methot, Mme. Yadeboncoeur, Mme. Caron, Mile. Bazin, Millea, BiTiere-du-Loup. Bernard, Mile. Aznes, Trois-Rivieres, Malechite. Marie, lUe Verte. Kanouakerie, Marguerite, Kaughnaouaga, SamEOuk. Micmac, Ristigon- che. Tahourhenche, Paul, Lorctte. Boyd John Henderson & Son, Jenkin, Thomra, Laviolette & GeraUli, Montreal. De Guise, Augusts, Outaouasig. Cotton Yarn and Fabbics.— Gordou & McKay, Toronto. Wood, Peter, Montreal. Wright, Joseph, Dandas. Linen Yarns, and Fabrics of Flax, Hemp, &c — Elliot Hunt & Cie, Preston. Gooderham & Paine, Streetsville. Diagnault, Mme., St. Hubert. Koy, Joseph, St. Jean. Daignault, Bazile, St. Bruno. Bouchard, St. Valier. Societe D' Ag- riculture D'Herville, St. Societe D' .Agriculture de Jacques Cartier, St. Laurent. Societe D' Agriculture de Beauce, Ste Mane. Gagnc, .N,, St. Anaelmc. Fortin, Morcel, L'Islet. Carded Wool and Woollen Fabrics — Barber & Frcres, Streetsville, Bosamond & Freres, Almonte. Robertson, J., & Cie., Montreal. Willet, S. T., Chambly. Parent, L'Abbe L, St. Jean Port Joll. St. AmauJ, Joseph, Batiscan, Bouchard, St. Vaiier. Benoit, Bazile, David, Francois, St Hubert. Cliabot, Eusebe, La Presentation. Chandler, St. Armand, Busted, James, Ascot. Lariviere, Louis, L'Aventure, J., Morin. M., Fo. F., St. Ours. Fournier, Duval, Charles, Fournier, Michel, Pelletier, N., St. Jean Port Joli. Fortin, Marcel, L'Islet. Horner, James, Clarendon. Roy, Joseph, St. Jean. Societe D'Agricultnre de Beauce, Ste. Marie. Societe D'Agriculture de St. Hyacinthe. cjociete D'Agricultnre de Vauchenil, Slingsby & Kitchen, Canning. Shawls.— ATChambauIt, T., St. Jules. DuUamel, Andre, St. Ours. Gagne, N., St. Aiiselme. Laos, Net, Ehbroidbrt and Small Wabes. — Kakeriton, KaugUnaouaga. Macree, R. Clarenceviile. Gagne, N., St. Anselme. Bouchard, St. Vaiier. HosiEBT and Undkrolothino, and Articles appertaimno thereto. — Bouchard, St. Vaiier. Knitting Company,, Ancaster. Randall, Ferr, & Cie., Hespeler. Fournier, F., St. Jean Port Joli. Clothinq fob both Sexes.— Couture, St. Ambroise. Tahourhehche, Paul, Lorette, Bairbeau, Joseph, Dion, M., Quebec. Martin, Geo., Toronto. Oiforde, M. Kingston. Tourville, Charles, Smith & Cocliraiie, Montreal. Jewellery and Preciods Stones. — Duquet, Cyrille, Quebec. Travelling Apparatus, AND Camp Equipage. — Barrington, Geo., Peeny, Edouard & Cie., Montreal. Taclie, C. J., Oucaouasis. BiMBELOTBBiE. — PcBcock, Wil'iam, Montreal. Mining and MsTALLnBGr.— Commission Geologique du Canada, Montreal. Morris, Alexander, Perth. Cowan, A., Montreal. Marmora Iron Company, Marmora. — Seymour, U., Madoc. Walbridge, Frerea, Belleville Chaffley, G., & Freres, Newborough. Canada Iron Mining Manuructuriug Company, Hull. McDougall, John, Trois- Rivieres. Palmer, W. H., Sault Ste. Marie. Mines de Bruce, Lac Huron. Wellington. C, Sterling. Sweenev, John, Tudor. Henick, T. W., Sault Ste. Marie. Co.npagnic des Mines (fu Bas Canada, Ascot. Belvedere Mining and Smelting Company, Ascot. Cupel, G. B., Lennoxville. Campagnie des Mines de Huntingdon, Bolton. Ives Mining Company Bolton. Mitchell, Robert, & Cie., Montreal. Campagnie des Mines de St. Francois, Cleveland, Compagnie Anglo-Canaidenne, Leeds. Tappan, L. W., Lennoxville. Martin- dale, Thomas, Donaldson, John, Oneida. Taylor, Alexr., Grand River. Flint, Billa, Bellevile. Feagle, L., Tiinrniora. Coiiipanie D'Ardoises de Rockland, ZLfelbourne. Compagnie D'Ardoises de Melbourne. Breed Grosvenor Company. Danville. Mcintosh, M., Madoe. Paterson, John, Knowlton. Bainfleld, B., Bailey, A., Whitney, T. C, McMannis, J THB LONDONIA,D. «r "C., Kingston. Panons fc Cie., Toronto. Clark, D. L. k R. S., Cote St Paul. La Breclie. Viger, L., Rice, W. H., Ives fc Allan, Bizelow, J. T., & Cle., Mon- treal. McKelvey, Jamei, Sle. Catherine. Prowse fc Frerea, Kirshanr & Edward, Montreal. Donn. P., fc Dunn, J.. Cote, St. Paul. 'PkODUCTS of THK COLTIVATION OF FOKBSTS, AND OF THE TrADBS APPEKTAINIITO THKRiTO.— Brunei, L'Abbe, Bureau des luspecteurs de Bois, Quebec. HamiU ton Brothers, Hawksbury. Sylvain, George, Bic. Ferguson, \lessrs., Thames* ville. Buguay, L'Abbe, Ste. Luce. Leprge, J. B., Rimouslci. Champagne, Isidore, Outaouais. Cyre, Michel, Gloucester. Fournier, T., RImouski. Millar, John, Montreal. Irish, Peter, Brighton. Senecal, M., Bate St. Francois. Hogan 6., fc Cie., Nelson, Wood, fc Cie., Montreal. Eadon, E.C., Montmorency. Plouffe, Luc, St. Martin. Moore, Thomas, Etobicoke. Higgins, Jolin, St. Hilarie. Shearer. J. Montreal. 'Pboducts op Shooting, Fishing, and of the Eabth obtained wiTiionT Cultivation. — Chambre des Arts et Manuluctures du Huut Canada, Toronto. Betltune, Uev. C. J. S., Cobourg. Passmore, S. W., Toronto. Cote, O., Giroux, O, Quebec, Thompson, James, Champagne, Isidore, Uut»oaais. Tahourhehche, Paul, Lorette. Shepbard, W. G., Queoec. Cote, Majnric. Rimouski Muthew, J., fc Fils, Clare, Lyman, & Cie., Montreal, launder, William, London. ■Aqbicultvbai. Pbouucts (not used A3 Food) easily prkservko. — Donaldson, J. A., Toronto. Kirkwood, A., Outaouais. July, H. G., Quebec. Logan, Sir William, Genand, Docteur. St. Jacques. Elliot, Hunt, fc Cie., Preston. Lin* seed Oil Company Toronto. Starke, Smith, & Cie., Montreal. * Morton, G., Brantford. Kerr, Robert, Clarendon. Societe D' Agriculture de Karaouraska. Ecole D'Agricultuie de Ste. Anne.^-^Goldsmith, A. W., Ste. Catherine. Canover, Samuel, Port Credit. Robson, J. J., Newcastle. Pratt, John, Coburg. Bartholo* mew, Philip, Markham. Homer, J., Clarendon. Vaughau, W. II., St. Jean. Societe D'AgricuIture de Beauce, St. Marie, Canton de Rawdon. Societa D'Agriculture des deux Montagues, St. Eustache. Holt, Cha.'lcs, Brooklin. Societe D'Agriculture de Jacques Cartier, St . Laurent. Rae, John, Port Stanley. Mitchell, Colonel C, Norval. Gooderham, & Worts, Streetsvillc. Paine Brothers k C«., Doon. Elliot & Hunt, Preston. Black Si Forester, Ste. Marie. Morton & Co , Bradford. O'Brien, Colonel, Barrie. Colon, Robert, Fort Credit. Denison, Colonel R. L., Toronto. Cavan, James, Port Credit. Young & Co., St. Thomas. Gartshore & Cie., Dundas. Canada Land & Emigration Compaiiy, Dysart, Bois, Louis, St. Jean Port Joli. Bud, William, St. Laurent, Turcot, P., St. Henri. Kirk wood, Alexander, Ontaouasis. Chbuioal and PhabsiaoedticaIi Products.— Lyman, Clare, & Cie., Montreal. Giroux, O., Quebec. Liuseed >.jil Company, Toronto. Canadian Rubber Cum* pany, Ativater k Cie , Montreal. 'Leather ahd Skins.— Cote, , Quebec. Tetu. David, Riviere Quelle. Yalois, Navcisse, Donovan, Moran, fc Cie., Dewitt, Jacob, Kcroyd, Thomas, Kickert, Misely, & Jie , Shaw, F., & Freres, Montreal. Du.!iil, P., Quebec. AoBicu:TuaAL Appabatus and Proobssbs used in thb Culiivation of FiELvs AND Fobksts. — College et Ecele i)'.\eticulti. "vkiko vv Clothimg.— > Gates & Cic. Toronto. Irwin, C, ft Cie., Bcllttnie, Uitymond, M., Guelph. Wnnger, & Cic, Hamilton. WilliuniB, C. W., & Cic, Bced, & Childs, Mon> treal. ApFARATUS and PllOCKSSKS rSED IN THB MANUFACTUKK OF fUnNITUBE, &C.— Boissonnault k Frtechette, Quebec Pollock k Calvert, Montreal. Appahatus and Phocessks tjsbd in Pavkr Making, &c. — Boissonnault, N. f ., Julien, H., Quebec. Cunipbell, J. Wbitby. Kntbveu, James, Montreal. Cakriagrs anji WuKKLWRiGHi's WoBK.— Gingras, Edouard, Gingras, Godefroy, Quebec. Kinlp;tr k Snuiiders, Ste. Catberine. Bri|;gB, J., Byer k Mathew, Gananoqne. Gibion, W. II., Oakville. Tahourhenche, Paul, Lorette. Duncan, Ale.xander, Markbam. Harnkks ANn Saddlkrt.— Bacb, Edward, . Toronto. Fisher, & Clouin, Quebec. Skinner, William, Gananoque. Wrifrbt, J., Quebec. Steward, William, Toronto. Irwin, J. k K-, Montreal. Cornell, Cbarles. Quebec. Baiiavay Appabaii's.— Compngne du Cbemin de Ite. Mane. Societe D'Agriculinre de Vauche.> nil. SocieleD'Agriculturede St. Hyacinthe. Societe D'Agriculture des Deux Montagues, St. Kustache. Societe' D'Agriculture do Jacques Cartier. Pointo Claire, Sodete D'Agriculture de St. Jean. Societe D'Ag'icultnre de Port-Neuf, Cap Sante. Ogilvie, A. W., & Cie., Montreal. Parkyn k Brodie, Cote St. Paul Starch Company, Edwardbureh. Pile, James, Whitby. Cleland, William, Glan- ford. Societe D'Agriculture D'Herville, St. Athanase. Archambault, Hon. P. U., L'Assompiioo. Letaug, C, Pointe Clnire. Legueux, P., St. Romxuld. Dumas, L., St. Henri. Vaughan, W. H., St.Jeun. The Canada Land and Emigration Company, Toronto. Smith, John, York. McNaugliton, £., Cobturg Bread and Pastrt. — Fitts, Clark, Montreal. Fattt Substances used as Food, &c. -Parson, H. R , Guelph. Morton's Cheese Factory, Morton. Campbell, N. J,, ffelson. Harris &Ranney, Ingersoll. Meat and Fish.— Kinner, L., Gananoque. Anoysma, Simon, Lac des Deux Mnn-> tagnes. Vegetables and Fhuits. — Ecole D'Agriculture de Ste. Anne. Riddell, Walter, Cobourg. Condimenis and Stimulants; Sugab and Confbctioneei. — Pigeon, N., Redpath k Fils, Montreal. Pears, George, Toronto. Thibault, Olivier, L'Islet. Dumon- tier, P., StBarthelemy. Societe D'Agriculture de Beauce, t'tn. Marie. Wenning, Hill, & Ware, Montreal. Hamel, A., Quebec. Febmentbd Drinks,— Pigeon, Narcisse, Montreal. Bilodeau, Michel, St. Michel. Wenning, Hill, k Ware, Montreal. Fabh Buildings and Agbicultubal Wobkb.— Painchaud, Docleur, Vames. Massey, H. A., Newcastle. i ^> THE LONDONIAD. 69 lun- UsEf UL Insects.- Vrtleqaet, T. St. Hilaire. Appakatvs a.le which had its ri^e in Imperial wrong, in the over-shadowing centuries of Imperial wrong there fell thn pioneers of that interesting land, repelling the evil entailed upon them thro' that sad rule of a neighbouring Ittland by the mother country? There fell the youth of our univer- sity, the fair hopes of families blasted for ever. What avails it now to say that in a transition epoch of Colonial history they took their stand with the sublimer patriots of every clime. These words, as with the tire and force of mental eloquence, will only sear and tear the wounds of ansuish, in their intensity, deeper and wider when the -expression is ready to break forth, but suppressed by feelings too strong for verbal utterance ! Oh ; had my darling lived, how had he intellectually glorified this land- but 'tis nii«ht to me to let Victory smiie for others. Pioneer and Student fell ia the twil ght morn of Canada's History. Upper Canada ! the land of United Empire Iioyali->t3, with who^e memories must for ever be associated the trsditions, ofOriskany, Wyoming, Queenstown Heights, and Lundy-lane, who, wherever the war notes sounded, as with one united spirit rapt to a burning ocean, rolled along over the invader, guns and cannoneers. These were ttie alUconquering and unconquered Savioursf of the West, who bore the Standard of England lloaing like a triumphant sky, above the baleful stars. With that immortal band of heroes I confound not the red-tapist and paltry poli- tician who, with " lip loyalty," would for ever be repeating the words, " oi>: deai prince," '' our beloved "" this and that " (Prior) (They would say the same of a maq «r woman of straw) ; bat not a word about the country proper, or the people who 70 THB LONDOKIAD. make, or thould make, the nation ; aa if a mere dynatty made a nation ; bnt I who have nothini; to hope, and len to fear from any dynasty, or so-called libera! GoTernment, reiterate that which I declared aforetime, and in a most erentful period. Will ycu direat, in all those stormy years, to a single conflict from the fall of Detroit to the planting of our standard in the Passamaquoddy in which the Militia of Upper Canada wore not the victors? And b afore I close I will say another word to you, and through you to all concerned. Canada happily escaped the ignoble parallel of Alfred's presents in Australia; and wo, at least, require no present! in the shape of King Toby (to be7) for Canada; for should any scion of Watten race, " or any other man," attempt to mount a throne in Canada, the fate of Maximilian in Mexico awaits him. Let not the words which I speak unto you, here and now, fall listless or dead upon your auriculur organ. * * * The Colonists may be sensitive, and perhaps would be slow to urge that which tbey no doubt imagine your own sense of pro- Jn-iety should lead you to suggest, that the families of every one who hath either alien or hath been injured in any war, either in person or in a proprietorial point of view, Riould be liberally re-imbursed (if you like the word) by the Imperial Country ; for while to use T. D'A McGee's words, Canada is the only free country in thH world for Irishmen, "if I read history aright," (as Mr. Gladstone would say) . the Banner trailed In Blood and Smoke through devastatingcenturies takes every wind into its Harp in our time, rousing Innisfail, pre-eminently the Land of Martyrs, Innisfail; Juvernal Hibernial Ireland) whatever your name, in every age, in your inherent steadfastness and ardour, and in the oppression of the alien, I behold in thee the other Poland of Europe ; and ye are the '* Liberal " Government, who, instead of bringing the Yankees to the right-about for permuting preparations to be openly ai'd avowedly made in the so-called United States for the invasion of our peaceful clime, had the unuttprnble meanness to thank their mock-Govern- ment for the supervision it extended— in what? thus reminding us of some poor Chinaman, who, after receiving the bastinado, prostrates himself before the man- darin, thanking him ior the care taken of his education. Sept. 1, 1870. JAMES TORRINGTON SP£NCEE LIDSTONE. FAREWELL TO CANADA. f " my loved England, when with thee Shall I sit down to pari no more." Dr. Mark Akinside. Other scenes are opening wide in life's prospective vievr, One look again on Canada, and then for e'er adieu. The greatest Land in all the Earth, the world's most famous clime, • Blessed home of my childhood, youth, and early manhood's prime. Where hopes arose that were more than realised in after days ; Where my first notes were heard, and where I first was crowu'd with Bays. Here, to visions of Fairy Land did my young senses wake, Forest Giants, Woods, and Floods did in weird language speak. And I thought each breeze a living being wearing viewless form, As it came with lulling sound, or rapt in furious storm, f hat the lighting-girded clouds were animated pavilions Spread on th' plains of Day, for Heaven's ethereal millions. Had I not seen thee, Canada, I never could have knowt Those who must live within mine heart 'till life itself hath flown. Ay! from many a distant Islo and wide-disparted laud, We met as strangers on a far, though not a foreign strand. THE LONDONIAD. 71 We lived to know and love ; you were indeed a trusty band, You I'll aye remember, and with contemplation fond on MuHt), even in the throng'd Halls of Imperial London. And from Albion's Arcadia, Devonia hight, My spirit to visit yc a shall oftentimes take its flight, 'Till Heaven op'ning welcome you in more than solar light. How soon Places in Canada alter in appearance ! Where's the Shanty of my infant years amid the Clearance, A Towu Hall rises instead, and bright tin spires of many a fane, My Home is lost in Canada, I seek it o'er the main. On that primeval tract where I did first in Bytown sleep, Legislative Halls ascend on Ottawa's foamy steep City of the Cataracts, if e'er I soar to fame, Let it never be forgotten I did suggest your Name, While some were for calling you after little men o' red tape, Some governmental cormorant, or 80-call6d "Royal " Ape. 1 struck my stormy lyre, which would sound no word but " Never 1 *' Call the Prospective Capital after your Mighty River." Ottawa, Ontario, Toronto, Niagara, and a long list beside are Aboriginal names of places, and each hath a meaning. Let our future settlements, &c., that hare no Aboriginal name be called after the great men of our country, such as Shakspeare, Milioii, Scottrille, Burnstown, &c., all of which places in Canada 1 know well ; and let not living gen(.rations disgrace themselves in the e^es of posterity by naming them after mure political ofScials. LETTER FROM SIR CHARLES AND LADY WATKINS. [Our well-known and erer-to-be-honoured friends will be remembered as residing many yeari> at 29, Mew Charles-street, City-road, London [Eugland]. I and my Mother inhabited the same hojse with thorn for about eix. or seven years: my Mother constantly, and I, except whatever short time I happened now and then to be out of Loudon.— J. T. S. LioaTONS.] Mort Lake, P.O., Scarboro', January 18, 1870. Deak Mr. and Mas. Lidstome,— After six mouths since we had the pleasure of receiving Mrs. Lidstone's letter, I now reply to it, hoping this will find you both well and happy, as this leaves us in tolerable good health. Mrs. L.'s letter was dated on Christmas day. Mrs. Watkins feels greatly obliged to Mrs. L. for all the domestic information which it contained. We have no news to send you about Canada, as I hope you receive the Leader regularly, as Mrs. W. posts it every week she goes into l^routo. We have to thank you smcerely for the many Standardt and other papers you so kindly send us, also the Lonaoniad; they afford as mttch amusement. We also acknowledge the receipt of supplements and coloured picturM, which amu«e all our neighbours aud ourselves. 1 should like to have it in my power to send you some papers that \t'ould be worth your acceptince. A young man called upon me a week a^o to get my subscription to a Directory of Five Townships round Toronto, containing the names of the inhabitants of the same and a great deal of information. I put my name down for two copies ; they will be ready by November next ; aud I will send you a cop" either by P -nt or by private hanu. A. Nephew of Mrs. W.'s has gone to England for the purr jse of improving himself in portrait painting, his name is I. Halford ; he has painted Mrs. W. and her daughter, — good likenesses— he is a self-taught artist, and we think him very clever. We are going on as usual on our farm, improving it all we can, the tenants paying their rents regularly and seem very well satisfied ; they hare very fine crops and are making THE LONDONIAD. plenty of money. I Imve had put up a good frnnie stublo for hones, to nceommodata an 'Visitor! horses, uiid it also iinsweri for u wood house, i huvo had ** curdi uf wood laid in, and huvo got one of our tenants to saw and split it ror tiie length ut our stoves. I have piled it up in our wood sheds quite dry, nud I am in hopes it wilt lutus nearly three years, with what Ihad left of our old Btock ; so 1 am provided for the next two winters. 1 put iu iHSt year nearly all our acres with potatoes, aud wu had a xreat ** crop, the full turned out very wet, and \v« hud a lar^ie quantity spoiled, I havri sold •* of them. One bushel ond half each hag lor rortt cents per l)Hg, that ii two shillings. The potatoes were tlrst-rate quality, like flour. I Imvo the same ground into spring wheat this yiar and seeded it Mith clover and timothy grasa eed. There are about twelve Inree field'* round our houxe, some covered with clover in full bloom, others in wheat, barley, turnips, potatoes, &c. So you may suppose our Farm looks very flourishing. U'e are eating tlio bread from the grain grown on our land, and Mrs. W. has made the raising from potatoes, and it makes superior bread to the bakers. We have got marrowfat peas iu long rows almost in blossom, and we have them to follow in succession ; we shall have them nearly all the lummer. We have cauliflowers and cabbages lookin* nice. The weather is now quite ithowery, which is the making of our garden. We have five sorts of potatoes looking very promising ; we are niakintc good preparation for next winter. I see the Gov. rnmeut nave reduced the postage to England, now a lix-cent stump will take u letter to London by the Canadian Mail, instead of a stamp costing twelve and a half as formerly. We have no news to send you; we know nothing moie thanyou get iu the Lea'ler. We have lately had u small invasion from the fenians, but we think it will be the last trial they will make upon us. Mrs. Lidstone mentioned in lii-r letter that Mrs. McKeniSie had eot married, and her name is now Lidstone : we send our kindest regards toher, wiUi our congratulations, honing she may long enjoy imppi- ness and comfort— pray who mav the gentleman be t and wo unuerstand he is re'sul- ingat Dartmouth, H pi etty locality not very for from that nice place, Ton ay. I sent Mr. Wilson of the iloyal Exchungo a Canadian ^ewspuper, contai:i. i^; *he State of Affairs of the Bank ot Upper Canada, in which Mr. W. was much interest .>d. I think he forgot his piomise to send me d copy of his late much-honoureu lather's memoirs. Flense, uive my best rcKards to him when you see him. Toronto has now grown a larjre City to what it was, and a line place it. has become, and people are making rapid fortunes now. We have no woods to cue down for firewood nearer than twenty miles from the city. I left sixiy acres of tine timbur when I went tu Eng- land, which would be worth a little fortune at the present day, somH of the tn.'o« were of the value of ten pounds, for makintj shingles. I'lease, when you address mc again, write, Mort Lake. I'.O., Ontario, Canndd. The clerks are always putting the pen tifough Scarboro', us we have eight post-ofHees in this lown^liip, and leiturs are apt to be sent to ihn wrong otllce. 1 have no news to send you from here, except I write about ouri-elves and our farm ; therefore do nut put me down as opinionated or selfish. Please, Mrs. Lidstone to remember us to all our old ac*iuaintances when yoa see them. I miss the sea-water fish here, such as 1 used to buy in London, such as salmon, brill, turbot, mackerel, &c. Since we left fur England, and after our return to Canada, we have missed numerous people by death, butu old and young. My son, who used to be on our farm has gone to Once more we wish you both prosperity, health, and happiness, and say again adieu. — 1 liemaiu, dear Mr. und Mrs. Lidstone, Yours Faithfully, CHARLES WATKINS. To Ji T. S. Lidstone, Esq. 4 To His Graoi AacHBisnop Lynch, Toronto.— When I hear people talk in the words of .Matthew Prior, " of this and that " I speak again unto iheni in this wise : When you can show me an Augustine, a C. Burromeus or a Fenelon (all of whose lives 1 have either written, translated, or paraphrased) at any season that may be convenient to yourselves, I will speak with you . . . In a futora Londoniad 1 hope to inscribe to the people of Canada, through your Grace, that poem in the 6ih Londoniad, which early met approval from tho JBcclesiastical Prince whose learning and love of Art were known over the world. TEB LOKDONIAD. 73 te Ji lit ill or THE PEABODY HUMBUG. A SPEECH BY THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. "Juttauch ii the niggarillj wreicli, whom aim* are all turmd inward, and meanly terminnte upon himscl/: who made hi* own private intercats tr perbonal pleuure (he lole oenire of hU deaigni, and the icaniy oroum ennce of h m actioni." Jltrcey's Meditationi, " Motley ii all the wenri" Dr. Johnaon, in giving a quotation, laith, he declared. In the lun;;uH|;e of unfeeling commerce, that " he would not renr hospitals for the tick and Uzy." Not he, indeed ! Now 1 iim one wti i ulwayi like to help those who help tliemselvcs ; but the moru godlike attribute would be to help tho»e who are unable to help themiclves. But in youi- Peubody we cuuld not say, with l)r. Erasmus Darwin,— " Thy Howard journeying seeks tha Ixuse of woe." No ! lie, like one with heart as liard as hoof of epirit reprobate, spent his Ufa without purt'oriiiing a single aot of benevolence, unless you call the estab* lishing; ot choragic monuments to his own memory benevolence, lie spent his existence us a monuyogrub, and it wan only upon the verge of the grave that he advanced funds for the rearing of edittcea which; beyond perpetuating his own name (and Mhicli must have been his only motive), have never done anyone the least good. Houses for the poor, or what do you cull it? The poor are not bunetitted, and those who uihabit the houses never expected to save more tliun from 6d. to Ud. per week in the heyday of expectation and hope; but how has it turned out ? Nothing is suved and a rouring trade is being currieU on by some of the trustees. I have somewhere read that " he who provides not forhisowa household is worse than ..n iuHdel" (in what?) whatever that may mean. Pea- body, however, failed to remember his "nearest-of-kin." 1 could direct you to hun> dreds whose lives are one coniSnuing act of benevolence, who would never descend, who would look with horror on a day or hour, mucii less a hfetime being devoted tu filthy lucre. Uur late beloved Bishop of Toronto had done more for the good of mankind than 6U,00U of your Pcabodys ever could do, and that, too, without niming et establishing the evil precedent that the proceeds of grasping avarice are to be con- sidered the aummiim bunum of terrestrial being. The late, and 1 will say, the gnat Earl Derby (he who, like anothvr Moaes, smote the rock), in the midvt ot the cotton famine, by one noble deed, pou r< il a blessing upon the nation, that in or onward tide or refluent must forever keep i. mentor) green in the hearts of men. Our Noble and Honoured President of lliu b ciety lor the Prevention of Cruelty to Auimuls, by the vahiable time t^pent, and liis k.iidly devotion to the cause of those who are even unconscious of his goodness, onglit not to be mentioned in the same day with p money-giub. While the Venerable A icUdeacon SandforJ, Sir Walter C. Tievelyv-i, Sir Wilfred Lawson, in their devotednes? to the most holy of all causes, out-do. In all that goes to make up the sum of human hii{Vishiug you success in all your literary undertakings, weremaiu, with great respect and esteem. L. F. TiJFANY, Mayor, fro ttm, Gkorgb L. IIubbabd, (Plumber.) (Banker.) A. McKay, c Upholsterer.) Mykon p. Bush, (Currier.) Hakbisos Pabk, (Artist.) Paul Robskts, (Clothier.) M. W. Hill, M.D. C. S. PiEBCK, (Lumberer.) A. S. Swaetz, (Railway Car Maker.) John Walsh, (Broker.) The Mayor of that day, James Wadsworth, ^ as absent from Buffalo, but his letter to me has been already printed. The above formed the cntiie corporation of; 76 THK LONDONIAD. fiufialo, there were no councilmen as with us ; Lucius F. Tiffany, Esq., was Mayor afterwards. There is 8 poem in the 13th Londoniad, which i wrote for my dear friend, thut perfect gentleman, Alderman i iffany, while he was yet alive ; it appears too, ill the (^UEBN or tub West, and I had a desire to incorporate it in the Londouiid. The Inhabitants of Western New- York, and who are our own nearest neighbours in tlie Northern States, must not be confounded with Yankees having their Head Quarters in Uoston, who are altogether anotlier sort of Feople, who render them- selves still more odious to the rest of the world by the detestable, cowardly vice of hypoci'isv, under the veil of which mean villauie* in every form are practised in' them. With its inhabitants all the horrid monsters represented by Milton as guardiia^ the ford of Lethe, may not be compared. From the well-known Builder; first Printed May, 1868. The bearer of this note is a nephew of mine, who left London at a very early ag**, and proceeded to Canada, where he remained for upwards of twenty years. By his own exertions he bore himself through King's College, Toronto University, and became afterwards a Member of the Provincial Parliament. His business habits, intelligence, and amiable deportment, will soon re/ider him familiar to those gentlemen who will find pleasure in conversing with a young finglishman just returned to his native country after a long absence. July, 1855. J. LIDSTONE, (Copy.) 50, Old Bailey, & Dartmouth Park, Kent, (The original is in possession of Sir James Dnke, Bart., M.P.) Extract f ram the Venerable Archdeacon Sandford's Speech. "At the last Auxiliary Soibek, I sat beside one of the noblest specimens of Ituniun nature that ever I had the happiness of conversing with in my life, while next to him sat a very charming lady ; 1 toik them to be huahand and wife. It turned out, however, that the lady was tlie gentleman's mother, who had been a Total Abstainer thirty-five years, and who is present to-night, a living testimony to the fact that abstinence preserves the beauty of youth. P.S. I need not tell the intelligent reauer that the Author of the Londoniad and liis Mother are here alluded to. J . T. S. L . Dbak Sir, — I thank you sincerely for the poem which you have been good enodgh •\o write and to send me. It does great credit to you as a Literary Artist and a Scholar, and will, I trust, be of service to your future. I am, ever yours, faithfully, N. CARD. WISEMAN. (The Poem alluded to appears in the Sth Londoniad.) The QuEKN's letter through Col. Grey, and Prince Albert's letter, appears in the last Londoniad. Hon. Judge Clinton : please see the last Londoniad. Dr. Obonhtatbkha (the Burning Cloud.) Bep^ressntative of the good Templarg, a Temperance body numb'.'ring close upon a million on the Western Continent, and twenty-hve tliuuiaud in Canada. Your speech ol February ."1th. 1809, linth made you famous over £urope. My address to you is in type. i 1 5^' The Archbishop of Canterbury's letter appears In the 16th Londoniad. THE LONDONIAD. 77> I Primtebs and Pristino.— At an early prospective period T will caose to be printed aud publislied ceriain accounts and cause a copy of them to be eent to every ■ known type-funuder, printer, andpubliahcr, as well as to every Member of Parlia- ment in Great Brituia and Ireland. Signed J. T. 8. LiDSTONB. (FROM THE GREAT FINANCIER). The Chevalier Laveillet-Dupont considers that Canada is tinder many and, great obligaiious to Mr. Lidstoiie. He took our Debentures when few were willing, and fewer still were able, and as the interest became due he would only accept BQcli again in Debentures ; he has by his wisdom and energy caused our Colonial Debentures lo be more eagerly sought after tban any other paper issue on this Con- tinent. He it was who first caused an impetus to be given, whereby were established our monetary triumphs in the mother country; he stood our friend in the dark time, and wo greatly welcome him in this our day of comparative opulence . and prosperity. Please, see his letter in the last Londoniad. A NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. I have one thoasand Legends of the Canada Aborigines ready for tbe press. The following is a most bcautiiul one : — ' , . THE ORIGIN OF MAIZE. Lono; ago ^ood spirits lived amongst our fathers in tlieir villai;es and hnnling grounus. This was nefore the pale face came over the Great Salt Lake, and when, as yet, Ahmeek (the Beaver) was in the form of Indian, Annemee.kce (tlie thunder) shook the woods and the rivers, for Arieoske had seized on the minds of men, and they had all gone on the war path. For many moons they had served the spirit of evil* and when at length they breathed the home wind, their villages lay desolate, and famine was in all the hunting grounds. Nee-ba-nnw-baigs (evil water spirits), instead of fishes, thronged the rivers, aud misti and waving moss, enplmntomed birds and animals in the hunting p^rounds. Manito (the Indian God) had vailed all his beamy cliildren (the good spirits) to the silent land ; Mandamon, one of the nood spirits, who had gone to the shadowy couutix and who, while in the home of the Indian (on Earth) had always delighted to help in Agricultural labours, asked Manito to be allowed to visit the home of the Soul-case a°;ain. [I do not know what English equivalent wotild be likely to ,suit the picturesque aud besutifut Indian term, but this from the Fairy Legends of Ireland will do to Illustrate. ~J. T. S. L.] Minato smiled approval ! Darkness rolled itself in clonus and passed away ; sunlit billows, sprnying. hymned through the evening land, the branches of the trees and flowers sang in a new creation, like the birds, as in aerial loveliness, gathering the splendours of suneet around him, he assumed the figure of youthful manhood, in tht first full glow of virility, impregnating the airs as he passed along, to instantaneous birth sprang new tribes of Mandamons, each in turn, and immediately rcp'^ating Iiiinseif upon the Beautiful and Good (or Peaceful). It was iu this m>:nne,.' that. Mandamon established himself upon the Earth to sustain its Ini:abif.4ntr< in fovnv, ofMA'ZE. 0^ The above Article ii C )pynghted, as are all others in ti:0 Londoniad. /^t^ 78 THK LONDONIAD. CRITIQUE ON THE LONDONIAD BY THE EMINENT AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS, WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS. [extract.] The ingenuity of his invocations in deserving of all praisn ; to him the very diffi< ^cultieg of the subject are not only (grappled with, bat made subservient to poetic ends. There is a grandeur of conception about him exceeds the highest flight of Bon Qualtier's mu-e. We doubt whether any poet, British or foreign, has ever before gone so straight to the subject, and yet never omitted to mingle with it soma element of the sublime, as Mr. Lidstone. 1 . i: FROM SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS. ^ [extract.] No poet, ancient or modern, h^s ever shown himself to be so perfect a master of terms in Arts and Technics of Scieiicn ; and although some of his productions may resemble Michael Angelo's Dream in the National Gallery, seemingly con- fuisedly thrown together, yet so perfect a Literary Artist is lie, that all will be found equally perfect with that extiaordinary picture r>f the great Florentine. His Prose Articles, even to tlie foot-notes, when such appear, bespeak great energy -of character, almost universality of knowledge, and are perfect orations. There ia no single piece, either prose or poetry, in which some original idea or mode of expression peculiarly grand does not exhibit itself.^ I have not met with a false or hacknied simile in the Londoniad, notwithstanding their profusion, while many of them are startling enough. He seems early to have established for himself a system of perfect rhyme, while his ta'ent for quotation, and powers of illustration, show, how aeeply and extensively a sprightly mind, may become embued with classical and legendary lore, and at the same time be a» fait in all that relates to practical science. LITERATURE AGAINST ATTEMPTED JUDICIAL INFAMY. The enlightened student having a little time to spare would be able to form out of Butler's Hudibras an excellent motto, for there are the words. Exchequer Kelly. The next Londoniad will contain a tribute to ^ih Gillery (Baron) Piqott. Had it not been for his wisdom, and the defiance flung by the Author of the Londoniad into the face of a formalist of the flrst water, he who now addresses you must have fallen a prey financially to the greatest villany, ever sought to be perpetrated r bewised j- y^; ; 'I raise the (Schiller.) \ny country but be hb defaulter bankrupt and swindling typo, or *<; the enemy the wonderful words of Wallenattin \';:i •r.'.;:'^ 7010) " Frohlocke nichtl D«nn e sind des STicksa a Machte, Vinc'.kr JuiohZ'ii ij.'eift i"^ ihreP-.ntc. lit sam-.i'i in "-'^ '"n iiirp ^.u ije: < '1v c ., ah Cng: v.k aufgeht, iehrt das Ende. Hail Mi ^r;;T>. ' (I'ttroness of Literature) d Istthou then '.iermitthy attri- bute (Onitlit'oi^icu.i i ot <.!>;VUiri of M lioial wisdom! to symbolise in its organs of vijion thr^)' meriutjii tfd, , ':■■» me. ^ op'ic of man dazzled with the light of truth; by some ts'l.joaris '^/aeuce, bonae magical transformation, some yet un- 'recognised pnncipii c' i*fmbeth Hero now alone in Britain bears the Bell, And in him the world's advancement dotd wond'rous story tell, Thro' Christendom and Heathynesse his are alone in vogue, .Bell's Manufactures through the world are ever greatly prized. Here I Behuld such Vulcanized and eke Unvulcanized, O ! Vulc — ' India Rubber glorified by the Rciences, Tis here we have all kinds of Surgical Appliances. ''• * Therapeutics, hail ! and what under occidental skied We greatly value, Pure Sheet Rubber cut to any size. From hence I order Fine, or Grey, or compound Rubber Sheet, Here so much per lb., not sold in lengths — so many feet. Vulcanized India Rubber, ditto Washers, Have stood th' test above the rest, including Yankee Smashers, For Steam, Water, Air, Gas, &c. he prepares the joints, Of every kind : 'tis thus fame our William Boll anoinls. The Yankee innovator, each Colonist now throttles, Welcome, Rubber for Cricket Gloves, Teats for feeding bottles, And Tubing for the same. Hot Water Cushions, and Foot Balls, For such every nation of the world constantly here calls. Avaunt ! full quickly now, ye Massachusetts loons. Though we have not now Chest Expanders, Catapults, Balloons, Yet what the living age in all lands very much demands, Are Bell's Imperial and Circular Elastic Bands, I've used all those which I received from Mayor Edwin Yates' hands, Sponge Bags and Bathing Caps, I took under Niagara Falls, Where daylight thro' 5ie waters seemed breaking as thro' living walls. THE LONDONIAD. SNELLING BROTHERS, 23,Farrinodon Street, London, Shippers of Leather Goods, Fancy Goods, Brushes, Combs, Peilumery, Walking Sticks, Camp Stools, Fishing Tackle, Archery, Cricketing Goods, Croquet Games, Outdoor Games, Parlor Games, ^G. While the Stream of Helicon is in living waters welling, I ""lof the Rubicon to sing of famous IJrothers Snolling. Arjj, I'ith heavy cargo now doth on the ocean rook. With specimens which I took from those actunjly in stock. I found our family firm with all enterprise embued, . - And in executing orders renown' d for promptitude. The prices that I now quote to our uprising nation Are subject, as ma- v know, to what's called fluctuation ; But on a subject nc to him need now the bard enlarge, Only the present ma/i.:et value the Messrs Snelling charge, In whatever clime those engaged in th' Toy and Fancy trade, And when personal visits cannot readily be paid By our pioneer friends residing in the mighty West, Let them name the amount they may be disposed to invest, Then will Brothers Snelling take them down from their well-stored shelves — They know better what will suit you than you can know your- selves. Post Office Orders ( this should the customer be a novice) To be made payable at the General Post Office. Snelling Brothers, Fairingdon Street, giving them th* preference Two good London Firms, as satisfactory reference, Please, name : I think this is but right, with all due deference. I say to folk as to payment, yourselves you need not feck, Deduct th' per centago if you please, and here's at once the Cheque. Under their extensive domes the arts in myriads smile, They seem t' have drawn from ev'ry manufactory of our Isle, And that which is now animating th' awaken' d nation, His first son is aufait at technical education. Of seventy-five other houses, I choose theirs in th* room, It brings to my mind Moslem Eden's eternal Perfume ; And if our enlighten' d Brothers still ope the weather eye, Th' whole of our New Dominion they shall entirely supply. There are Two Testimonials which I desire to see established in England, the XowiN Yatks' and the A, H. Layabd, for which I will most willingly give a cheque at any moment for my amount of subscription [sixty guineas each] to Hodgson Frait, Esq., and to Alubkhan Asion. ,1 " THB LONDONIAD. 88 ather king eting ,&c. ored ^our- the RICHARD EDWARD HATWARD, (Successor to the Idt'^ Mr. T. NortzcU^ Button AND Ornament Manufacturer, Cutlbry, Hardware, and Button Warehouse. ArniB and Crests Found, Dies and Seals Engraved, Lace Epaulets Aguilets, Ac. 50, Long Acre, London, W.C. From 21, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, Post Office Orders payable at Long Acre. Minerva, Patroness of Arts, came and lit me dayward, Thro' the mental majesty of Richard Edward Hayward. From the rod Atlantic to the blue billows of Gortzell, All thou fhalt supply, worthy Successor of T. Nortzoll, We hail no more a New Yorker, much less a Yankee Scrub. Hither we hie for Uniforms, our Livery and Club. Every great family of Great Bi'itain to Him applies. He the Royal and Noble of Britain well supplies. Ay, when " John Thomas " left us it was with tears in his eyes ; Declaring, in solemn accents, as he Hudson Bay ward Turn'd, that ho should miss the Ornaments of the Qreat Hayward. Thro' the City proper, long and very happily known, Where his. intellect and manners had borne him to renown. The light of rare inteiil^ence that my Hero imparts Hath carried his lovely v orks to the zenith of Fine Arts. Thus th' Muse the triple chaplet doth alone on Him confer, Imperial London's Glory and Prime Manufacturer. What doth a sense o' stability in the Colonies arouse, O, Master Mind, i^" Button, Hardware, Cutlery Warehouse ; Nor yet upon his laurels well won, Richard Edward rests ; Equal to the best epochs, by Him are found Arms and Crests. And since the Yanks have so badly to our British West behaved, Here, and here only, shall our Dies and Seals be Engraved. Lace, Epaulets, Aguilets, &c., on occasion. We present such to those who drive back the tide of invasion. Thus from " Royal tower'd Thame " (Pope) th* Patron Muse doth take her Flight, with all her Argosies from 50 in Long Acre. the que 4; SON Queen's Collegr, Kingston. — Beattie's ori^nal marble bust of Robert Bums, of which an account appeared in the 14tU Londoniad, is destined for the above-mea< tioned Seat of Learning, to which I present it, and 1 desire that therewith be asso- ciated the name of a young friend, Master Malloch, son of Judge M«Uoch, county Lau» ark, and nephew of Edward Malloch, Esq., formerly member forthe county of Carleton. I have lately had prepared for this famous Bust a Laurel, represented in Ham> mered Iron work, by our Modern Qnintin Matseys 6. Albon, which will be sent with it. '■ 84 THB LONDONIAD. .^ IfcJN^ TOMLIN, BENDELL, & Co., >S^* Eminent Shippers, 33, Eastcbeap, and 4, Cboww CouitT, London, E.G. All the great merchants of our ^'ew Dominion now resort To No 33, Eastcheap, and No 4, Crown Court, 'Tis right our Colonists should know the proper place to go, And hence I chose for them the firm, Tomlin, Rcndell, & Co., Whose business affairs, unrivalled for their extent, Fill all the Ocean Isles and circle every Continent, BLiing like unto Swan wings in the careering gale, In every latitude their Argosies deep-laden sail. Some abominations er»t made their stomachs work, Bearing ominous words, bestial "Boston," Gotham "New York," But no name of a firm might even Argus' eyes discern, Nor whence the articles originated could we learn ; But now, ye Muses' guiding light our Colonists shall lead To th' House of everlaiiing fame; we've heard of the boar's Head Of which a great deal (William Cowper), " hath been said or sting," * * If -X' ;f(- Almonds are here which great Britain and the whole World approyes. Arrowroot Tous-lc-Mois, Candy, Cassia, Cinnamon, Cloves, Farina, Ginger, Honey, Mace, Nutmegs, Paste, Pimento, Hark ! Niagara strikes a louder lay in primo cento ; The Golden Gate by billows blown sprays over Sacremento. And what might have pacified Othello and lago, ;^ The all-soothing qualities of Rice, Rice meal, and Sago. Paste, Pepper, purer, hotter, than tripergola Lago, like unto Milton'p mariners, their Spices ravished me, They ftom the Thames instanter rapt me unto Araby. -' ' Seeds, to the Colonial novice the Yank no longer panders, ' -f- English fine New, do. Dutch, Carraways, Coriandors, ;;-^' Hail, Tapioca, Mixed Spice, Gelatine, and Isinglass With those, while Yankees gape in vain, adventurous I pass : The evening winds on a sun&et main wake my ^olian lyre— O' th' "spicy breezes" ( Heber) sights, sounds that do th' hard inspire. Who hath sung of Tea ? Muse of Memory leam'd as Chiron f Waller, Addison, Pope, Swilt, Young, Cowper, Shelley, Byron. What tibiose Immortal Sons of Light in deathless Numbers wrote, If there were room in the Londoniad, I would gladly quote. Nothing, us to import from Massachusetts could induce. After examining of our great London firm their juice. Muse ! lift your voice, over th' Blue Waters of Atlantic Sea, And tell how truthful are our firm in their shipments of Tea. h- TBI LOKDONIAD. 85 pBowir Ever^ box by them is open'd on the shores of Thames, And if not found genuine is committed to the flames, Hence doth theirs rank with the bes*. of London's trastworthy naniesj 'Tis supposed thai I do nought but with manufacturers ; The believer in this, I ween, not very widely errs, , But the worst thing of a House in their line that I could say, Would be to announce them as such in thU peculiar lay. True, in preparing and transmitting, man's aid is given, But th' Articles wore blown to being by the breath of Ileaven. And the Bard who hafi for Haut Canada so greatly cared. Doth announce, hero and now, that all is ever the Uost Prepared. Our Junior Partner's Brother joins thy adventurers band, Pioneer Patriots, in th' Assembly of Newfoundland, Ab in statemanship he flourishes beyond the deep. So doth our famed Arm in general business and Eastcheap. ;ad roves. bttd ■a THE PERFECTION OF CORN FLOUR. PAIZE MEDAL. LONDON. 1863. " Exceedingly Excellent for Food." PRIZE MEDAL, PARIS, 186 " Perfecliou of Preparation." ii MAIZE N A." List ! the Muse siith never shall an intense beam of Sol, Son, Shine upon the ovcrwashed *' Oswego, " or so-called Brown and Poison We're not Mus rattus nor Mus decumanus to devour Such, but here in all its perfectitude we have Corn Flour. The "Maizena" alone is now by the world regarded. To this, and this only, was the Prize Medal awarded When it the claim of all other:) on the globe overthrew, At the London Exhibition 1 8-62. The Jurors' report I turn'd to French beyond the flood, This I remember, " Exceedingly Excellent for Food ' " From the renowned Messrs Huntley and Palmers I did take, Made of " Maizena, " cake and biscuit to each upper Lake, The most learn'd of our time, Drs. Hassall and Lankester, The palm to this alone above every other kind confer, The Sole Silver Medal of Honour to this was given. With "perfection of preparation " Paris, 67. I took some from Paisley it had like our tribes to smother. Try " Maizena" once, and you'l never use any other. Thus th' Muse in Gh^n-cuve field like another Ruth doth glean, a Plume-a shook a sheaf or " what-do-ye-call-it " Maizeua. " IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 11.25 ISO ■^ f^ |2.2 1^ 1110 m Hi US B^ M U 11.6 6" Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREIT WEBSTIR,N.Y. MSSO (716)«72-4S03 ^V iV sS^ ^j-^. O" ^ '^J^ ^o c ^ 86 THB LONDOXIAD. LOUIS P. CASELLA, THE ONLY PBIZE MEDAL AWARDED FOR REGISTERINO METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS. Meteorological, Optical, Suuvetino, ano Scientific Instrument Maker to the Admiralty, Board of Ordnance, and the various Government Departments ; the Royal Observatories at Kew, Toronto, Victoria, and (Calcutta; the British Meteorological So- ciety, the Royal Qeographical Society, and the Governments of India, Spain, Portugal, Russia, America, &c., &c. Astronomical and Meteorological Instruments arranged in Sets far Colleges, Schools, and Private Observatories. 23, Hattou Garden, Lon- don, E.C. Now shall the ardo'rous Muse o* etern science swell a Longer, louder note, thrice hail, Louis Paschal Casella. What Niagara is to water, Etna is to flame, Is my transcending hero in the blazing rolls of fame. I am never tired oratorially displaying The good of having perfect Instruments in Surveying, Before can Fort or Sbaniy, much less City rise, or e'er Can advance forward the adventurous Pioneer To tread the umbrageous wilds, or those same wilds to clear ; Some One must go before o'er unsail'd floods to lead the way, Some Enlightened Son of Science with thy spirit ray, Casella endued, and inspired, the dark region to survey. To introduce 'tis now the prime of the Minstrel's intents Over all the expanding West, Surveying Instruments. Lucifer of the Morn may have been the first Betrayer, But the Almighty Creator was the first Surveyor. Our voyagers never think they have all things set a-right, Without my thrice Illustrious Hero's Theodolite. Present safety and all Hope of the Future centres In the greet Caaella'a Levels and his Circumferenters, Long hath the vile Yankee to our New Dominion pandered, But to Him through whom we'll yet secure the Metric Standard, Do we turn with wistful eye from o'er the Atlantic foam — Soul-attracting Science' works from distant England home. To whom shall we, then, in these more peaceful times the palm assign But to our Immortal Man, the Prince of all his line. # TnE LONDONIAD. 87 WENT rious tew, So- ts of aical igea, jon- 4> "Speak of Joshua's Sun and Moon, and of Ahaz' Dial, Through Him I bring Heaven ev'ry night near unto this lale, Or if you'd rather, 'midst Island Universes driven, I moor this sailing continent unto the beach of Heaven, Traversing immensity, Mariner on a boundless sea, Suns and Systems, as sands, stranding th' Ocean Eternity. As Wholesale Optician He is through all the Nations known The Meteorological thrills sea and land with his renown, The Philosophical Him, too, mentally doth engage, The Purifier and Enlightener of the later age. Need I trace Mathematics thro' all climes To fab'lous names and mythologic times, Before or Thales or Pythagoras, From Egypt filled with knowledge into Greece did pass; The light tbat streamed in floods from ancient days Descends upon the hero of my lays, Is there aught on earth that can now Casella's fame enhance, Maker to the Admiralty, Board of Trade, and Op^ance. His deeds all the Governments of the Orient hail. And they alone with the Muscovite Government prevail, To every " State of the Union" they are imder sail. Nightly while millions sleep, awakd. they me inspire, Of famed Casella we need not for tiin and that inquire, Let him but know your aim, and he'll tell you what you require. Our Greatest Men that ever ventured over from the West To Imperial London, always proclaim him the Best, Best in manners, as he is acknowledged to be the best in Science, In whom all our Occidental countries have affiance, He not the Imitator, the mere manipulator, But he walks a new-awakened world, Second Creator. UPPER CANADA. Poems, embracing the names of Manufacturers, in the following Towns in Upper Canada, will appear in the Supplement : GANANOQUE. KINGSTON. OSHAWA. ST. CATHERINE. HAMILTON. GALT. PRESTON. HESPELER. THOROLD. DURDAS. WUITBY. GUELPH. AN CASTER. BELLEVILLE. STREETSVILLE. BRIGHTON. NEWCASTLE. COEOURG. HURON. PARIS, BRANT. BRAMPTON. MARK HAM. RICHMOND HILL. YORKVILLE. Please, see Toronto, in the present Londonia;!, p. 102. 88 THE LONDONIAD. ■ i ST. HELENS CROWN GLASS COMPANY. PiLKiNOTON Brothers. Manufactory — St. Helens, Lancashire, Agent in London, John Salmond, 26, Bridge Street, Black- friars, E.G. Some time ago did I through the Midlands of England pass. And chanced, to vie^it a manufactory so-called for Glass. Henry was good enough, but unlike self -repeating Hhea, The other I found to be a wight of but one idea. Beside, I cared not so far away to go, but higher Soared : Hail, St.. Helens Company, St. Helena, Lancashire. Jn Nature and Art I've found various kinds of Almond, m (This for Rhyme) I now the London Agent greet John Salmond. Pilkington ! A welcome name, primest of acquainters, Here I have your General Dictionary of Painters. Congenial themes for aye doth the ard'rous Muse amass, We know how Dr. Johnson philosophises on Glass. Like to the enlightening scroll of Moslem H Ariff, Proved Pilkington Brothers' Exportation Book Tariff. Their Sheet, Crown, Patent Plate, Great Britain's self may not surpass, Nor even equal these, nor their Patent rolled Rough Plate Glass. Immense quantities they manufacture, and for all climes, And they are able to execute orders at all times. In the light of science so gloriously have they moved, That beyond all the world beside, Glass greatly they've improved. Not like others that I might name, (removed far from the Sea,) Are the unrivalled Works of our world-famous Company. Hence, conveniently can they store Glass on board of ship, Safe through their means the boisterous seas but aid the rapid trip. Superior to the Belgian, this in far lands I heard ; Hence, their glass is in all the markets of the world preferred. Their Crown Window Glass, as erst, its character maintains, Some like its Plate Glass surface, but we choose it in Small Panes. Pilkington Brothers Patent Plate Glass Tariff, No. 3, In other lands and languages shall be described by me. O'er all our Colonial, — late did pacs a mighty mass That so suitable to our clime Patent Rolled Rough Glass ; When lately from the conflict of incidents I got awa', I took a ship load for th' Winter Garden at Ottawa. Their Patent Diamond and Quarry Glass all other overrules, In its applications, for 'ts pleasing effect in churches and schools. I thought I dwelt in lovely light and planets far away, Sometimes a blue, sometimes a green, sometimes a ruby day. THE LOXDONIAD. 89 Aud we who now our open arms to England are extending, Take large quantities of that called in Trade Technics Bending, The Three Minervaa passed through Heaven thunder riven. Inhabiting Photographic Glass, Tariff No. 7. Nor yet Pilkin£;ton8* Ornamenbal Glass the Muse forgets — Hail, Lmbossed Repeated Patterns, Borders, and Rosettes. Embossed and Painted Staircase Windows, Fame to them assigns The highest place in the world, too, Doors and Skylights ; Designs Are by our family firm submitted on application., Samples^ Books of Patterns, for Varied Decoration. And now it is at length that the unwearied Minstrel comes To his Heroes' Coloured Glass and Sphei ical Glass Domes, Their Miscellaneous Articles are in all our Homes. Shades, an hundred thousand welcomes soon i« a Crystal Kobe, One shall surround like Plato's Sphere my Telluriou Globe. ot ^ 1. The Stained Glass Poem. In Ballads and Romances long ages famed that Master- Piece of ancient Painted Glass, the " Luck of Miuicaster." I pass the Glass for Wmdows of Adria'a happy time And the magnificent creations cf Munich the Sublime That Miracle for me on which our great firm hath striven, Still more etherialized what Vasari hath given, " 'Tis something to console Mankind rained down from Heaven." On the Confessor's Tomb, Westminster, and in thy sacred aisles, Canterbury, I met with the oldest Stained Glass in these Isles. Milton of the matchless flight, " Storied Windows richjy dight," JEve of St. Agnei, Stained Glass feats are sung by gentle Keats. There is throughout the mind's domain no Decorauve Art, That like Stained Glass to Building can a splendouring impart. Theirs are the pure specimens, that do by far surpass, Many things that yet we know of Pritish Painted Glass, In Technical handling perfect, in harmony they vie. With th' finest specimens of eld that greatest masters supply. Let living generations list to what the Minstrel says, Their works will be of special interest through following days ; The presence of a heaven on earth, even now your Poet feels, Still the most studied attention minute beauties reveals. While o'er the blended whole there floats a vital breathing air, Over choatic wastes anor. a new creation looms. • ••♦*• TuBEE STATUES roR TORONTO.— [Ffoni the last Loudoniiid.] I have £1,500, the proceeds of a literary work, wliich I intend to devote towards t he erection of Statues. in Toronto, to three literary men, to represent l nglund, Ireland, and Scotland. I should hke Milton for England, and Dean Swift for lielaud ; Milton being my favou- rite English writer, and Dean Swift " the true friend of Irebmd." However, 1 will, leave this to the comnmnity to decide, more especiuUy as to the great tilet Cushions and Fancy Goods in every variety. Wicker Work Baskets Covered with Velvet, Lined with all kinds of Silks, Satins, and Leather. 34, Hatton Garden, Holborn, London, E.C. I'd like to write a Basket lay as memento mori, So Mary Richards choose I as modern Cistopbori. The Basket. I see sculptured in many a Pauthea, 'Tis the pecuUar attribute of St. Dorothea. This is th' loveliest legend that we have of all the Saints, I Mnemosyne hail. Memory's Muse thus the Bard acquaints ; 92 THB LONDONIAD. O Claimed by the Most Sacred Lady as her attribute, Whom the Iliiifian Diocletian to death did persecute, One doubtinp knave a present from her soul-realin did ask it, She brought bitn Fruits and Flowers from Heavt- n in a Basket. There are many in the Basket line that live in London, West, But they're not much more than sellers — ami we may guesa thereat. Th' Metropolis like 2nd Whittington I ran over, Yet found none like th' Purvey' r to the Queen of Hanover. What gladdens Naturo like sunlit skies anii scentpd gales, Th' presence of our Lady Friend who supp'iea th' Princess of Wales ^ And not only the Crown'd Heads of all the world s rival States, But what'a still better, the Families of our Delo^ates. The enlightened minds of Europe acknowledge Mary's ta»te Her Baskets are all rare Works of Art, oud matchlessly chaste. Not only doth Design in rpirituality charm, But her noble heart towards all that's good is ever warm. On Bazaars and Institutions thro' out eaeii British land, Presents for Benevolent objects Her anointed ijgg" Bestows, that which liath borne her to unexampled renown. Are as wrought to form, Ideas peculiarly her own. Trom Atlantic's morning shores to the even ng slopes of Marden, for Baskets now we hie to 2i, Halton Garden. TO MY MOTHER ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1870. I remember very well what have mental giants said, That in the Spring-tide of Time's first year all the world was made ; (I suppose they meant to say, then were its foundations laid). Lo ! Dan. Chaucer, " When that the month in which the world began (The Nun's Priest's Tale), That highte March, when God first mak6d man." March ! your natal month, sacred was in classic times to Mars, You with toneuc, and I with pen, we'll rout them in the wars ! Osrew (in prose) speaks of Spring, and others th' Muses lemans, lo! Spenser, Shakespeare, Thomson, Pope, Goldsmith, Shelley, Hemaris, The Star of Destiny brighten^ o'er Heaven's triumphal Aich, Precursor of a happy year, eventful 6rh of March. Learned men do tell us that this is the first day of Spring, — In Spring it was, we know, our fav'rite Milton best could sing. Ab, very many lonely birthdays by us both were spent, You in England, Mother, I on the Western Continent. In all the dreary twenty years through which did Exile go. No reciprocal arm was there to help m weal or woe. -, THE LONDONIAD. M !St. ia; 4 Both of ua strength and spirit have, to dare the shorms of strife Whatever I iniy he, you are but in the prime of life. Yet to cheer the evening of your day bhall bo my primest aim. For you I'll giither ev'ry wreath on all the fieMs of fam». Studying LiiiiKuage in my sleep, three word* to mo were given. The loveliest (by angel hands), MoTHRB, Home, and Heavex. Oh, there awaits thee, MornEr, wilt thou come along with me. An Island I'aradi^^e in Ontario'^ upland sea. Niagara rolls in myriad hues as garlanded in Flowers, Like lambent firs s in Fairy Land ascemi Toronto's towers. The eights and sounds of Canada o'er all the infantile clime Shall vision forth the Eden of a legendary time. But wherever thou deign' st, Mother, to taice up thy abode. There's my centre of th' Universe, and there my other God ! If you desire, no more will I ride ventur'ous o'er the foam, Mutually we'll cheer each other in our English home. And when we take our walks abroad, at sunset or at morn, We'll note where greatness flourished, where such an one was born. Ev'ry step we take in Englaud, wheraver we may stray, Will recal deeds of splendour in each retrospective day. Around the fire at eventide the mental shall engage, And we'll converse with mightiest minds, the lights of ev'ry age. Literature and Works of Art shall beautify our Home, We'll welcome ev'ry trusty friend, whenever such shall come ; No cold formality restrain, be all as free as air. All that within our circle come shall equal bounties share ; Cajsar and Sappho, Might and Truth, shall call up Rome and Greece, And in their graceful forms pourtray unfettered joy and peace. Mother ! like Mercy's Angel, still advance with open hand, I, buckling on my armonr, will lead the ardo'roua band, That aims to bring the English People back their rightful land. A SOXa OF GRATITUDE AND PRAISE, INSCRIBED TO SIR ROUNDELL PALMER. " The debt immense of endless grtAitudt."— Milton, Under whatever name or form Thou haat, or mayest have been worshipped in these or in other ages and nations, I still know that Tliou art the £ver-Living. Thou wast before there were any to Praise Thee, and Thou wilt exist when therft shall ba no lunger any to Praise Thee. Starless the sky! and pilotless my canoe was driven, Before the wildest tempest that ever came from heaven ; And every wave sauLC funeral dirge, and I beneath the foam Forgot the furies yelling round, and felt myself at home. Worse than arid Araby when deserts take wings and fly, High-moving hilla of ice and snow darkened the dreadful sky. m THE LONDONIAD. Safely thou benrest tno tlirotigU each uncultured maze, Unscathed, I passed the horizon like furnace uU a blate. Lost 'midst deep woods and wildering floods, yet never felt I grief, Enchanting winds rapt lli' wavcH and made a harp of ev'ry leaf ; And the spraying wiiti'ia went hymuiug through a reseat clime, Embleming the blossoms of Edeu in a happier time. When to thy wnnder- works did youthful sense.? wake, With an excess ol joy and love my heart was like to break. But more subdued in after years, though equally as strong, In mine own native clime, .and tears 1 pour the grateful song. I've nestled in the serpent's den, and in the leopard's luit, Yet uraasailed, I remained for thou, O God, wast there. When i/ho plague tiend swept the nations off to tlie silent land. Through thee I bore thcj oalm of love in my un palsied hand. When the foeman rose against me they were put to shame, Strengthened by Thee, I turned upon them— they're left without a name. Through the long, long years of exile I 'neath thy smiles did bask, So well thou didst befriend me, I had nothing more to ask. Only now, as then, Creator ! that, through following days, Thou wouldst inspire me still to sing in various tongues Thy praise. language ! whither art thou fled ? what is't intensely thrills ? Ascend, ye Song of Praise, to Him whose form Creation filla. And in the Battle March of Life if it please Thee to inspire, In ceaseless song I offer up my soul a spirit lyre. 1 claim no honour for myself, nothing here is mine. To Thee alone the Praise belongs, and all, my God, is Thine. ANTI-EMIGRATION AND LAND RECLAMATION POEM. Nature's care, to all her children just, With richer treasures and an ampler state y.udows at large whatever happy man Wiil d'iurn to use them. — Dr. Makk Akenside. Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux, doit voir sa patrie, et jusiiu'i la mort, ne voir qu'elle.— J. J- Rousseau. Tears and Petitions ! did they ever serve Your cause, O England ! how long will you swerve My country, from the path of rectitude. Rise at once with Heroism embued — Stay! Why in thousands leave your native home To sojourn in pilgrimage o'er the foam ? Begin new life, and midst new scenes employ Your elder years, when you should rest in joy ; Or waste your hours of sprightly youth away In Auster-clime or realm of setting day? A wider field for action here you have Than aught itself presenting o'er the ware. . THE LONDONIAD. 95 f, M There you may toil and live your lives unknown. And if succtMs Hbuuld all your eflbrta crown, You've but a narrow atasjo and brief renown. But soaring luito fame iroui I'luglinh clime, "You rear the beacou bla/o to ditiUuit time. (Jn Britaiu'H throne Albeitina bnth not A better right to rulo than yoi have got. If you wero energi'tii;, bold, and wi.se, O'lf soul pervading, you'd the wiles despise Of little Houl.s, and into Emjure rise. Say, what couM your united strength withstand, lli^htful Inheritors of this our Land ? England hatli plenty, why need 1 de.scant — Greece ! Gorilieii! — did e'er Jew or Helot want, And must wo fall 'fore famine's mildew breath, And in our native l„ud be starved to death ? We're all God's creatures, on prolific Eaith 'Tis man's own fault if he experience dearth. (Jome, live at Home, and join in heart and hand, riialanx invincible, One Sacred JJaud ! March to the Kkclamation of the Land. ^len, and Women of England, ye who were born In the dawning of a New Era, scorn Submission any longer to the few, Chicanery and fraud your fathers overthrew, Advance, adherents of the Just and True. Woe the time Avhen foemen' banner flouted, Though for the nonce our native hosts were routed ; Our Rights (what if they were ?) were never doubted. Dagger girded Buccaneers and Battle — Axe Brigands, who stole our crops and cattle ; And iu on every side our country hemm'd, Are now the Coronetted and Diadem'd. Away with sighs, away with fond regret, Crowns and Sceptres are in prospective yet. Never more shall the tyrant's pavilions Spread o'er England, red with the blood of millions. Hark ! the shrieks of a down-trampled nation, Babes of an earlier generation ; Our loved progenitors, matron, and sire : By the Invader trampled in the mire. (O Heavens, you say, were I but living then ! But list, another epoch meets our ken !) There lay our ancestors, the dead and dying ; Hunted by fiends, friendless, homeless, flying Over their native E-igland with no arm To shield them in those years of wild alarm, And who are the Usurpers ? O, ye laies, We, at least, are the Children of the Exiles. •96 TUE LOVDOMAD. Memories o' evil ages long gone'by May bave HlumberM, but they can noTcr die. Millions of Hearts in Ehgltind beat for aye, Eipectaiit of that all-redeeming day, In which shall h monstrous brood bo swept away«~ Oh, when will ye ceMse to be dependants ; Answer, when w«'ve ousted their descendants. I hear a voice asking when shall this be ? Soon ! we'll drive iliem into the remorseless sea. The Time hath come for the Reclamation Of those Lands stolen from the English Nation. The Peoplk are the Nation; Lords and Kings, These to those are but ephemeral things ; And thus the Nation shall again regain Every stately Hull and wide Domain. Once to benevolence und holy rites Sacred, by free ooters to parasites Qiven, or claimed for t hemselves through ages Dark, this our atteiiion rapt engages, History's stirring scenes inspire us now, England shall soon like a volcano glow. Trace through history we shall ever find Him equally tlie foe of human kind, Whither 'gainst from without his sword he draw Or in their midst the people over awe. In either case we only bide our time To slay the tyrant and avenge the crime. Can mental might or moral worth avail, Where infamy and robber hordes assail. Denounce your cause and your complaints deride, Their object Pillage aud Murder their guide. Truth fleii from England then, and all of Right Lay prostrate 'foie a sanguinary Might, That made our island one funereal pyre ; What in the immediate future shall inspire ? Revbnqb I •' Arise ye Goths and glut your ire." If Mercy rising would your souls embue, Remember they no mercy showed to you. If they the tax did on our fathers lay. The same, with interest, back their sons shall pay. The poisonous spawn of that detested brood Be-slimes the whole ( f England, land and flood. O'er once blooming lands thus from them riven The valiant Founders of our Race were driven. Black and tempestuous was that woeful night When our loved kindred took their lonely flight Except the forked and sheeted lightning' light, The only guide for matron, babe, and sire. The flash of yillain swords, and homes on fire. TUB LONDOKIAP. 97 ALDERMAN ASTON, THOMAS ASTON AND SONS, Manufacturing JewoUerdiiiul GilvcrsL.lLud In all branches, and Dealers in Precious Stones, 19., 'Regent Place, Caroline Sti^-et, Birmingham. Mourning Rroachen and Rings, Ladies' and Geutlemrn's Gum Ringa, ISuulT and Scent Boxea, Card Cases, &c., Communion Services. My Pcnr Ai-dkiiMAN Aston,— In addition to Twcnty-ono I'oundf, for w'llch I cent jou my mutlit'r's i')ii.'<|iU', I will, with very much i)l(>nsur , at any moment, transmit yuu thu rcniaiiiinK forty guincu^ uf my suhscripilon towardit the Mayor Yateg Memorial. 1 htivo only bwii Archdeacon Sundfui'J on u tinco I published the lust Lniidonind, and that wa-i wliilc ho was act iig as Chairman at the late Allianco Meeting: in St. James'K Hall, coniequcnily 1 have nut been able to rer- bally illustrate iho object huM in view, but vro another season shall have elapsed, I being then lully ctablii-heil in EnHland, hope to tieu means whrrchy the only two testimonials with which I dv>ii'e my namo to he associated in my native land, may become presented in thu spirii ot' iruilifulneHs. In 'I'.- meniuimu, to quote from my formt-r letter nddre^eed to you in 1st lOih Londoniad, X sund my kind regards to all tho members of your excellent family. Youia, faithfully, JAMKS TORRINGTON SPENCEK LIDSTONE. London (Bng.), September, 187U. THE BATTLE OF LIFE. Bellum nee limcndum, nee provocandum. -i'LIN. Now by lliai who keeps my Soul, those Wicked with Satire ply ; Satires wound more deeply than when Diviners' iirrou's fly. Mohammed the Prophet to Mulcc Ebu Caab, the poet, from the Arabic, translated and parupUraiied by the Author of thi3 Londoniad. __— Mount the Car Out with the Gonfanon 1 1 sound the tocsin of War 1 1 ! Since I tind I mut't iiglit thu tierce llatile of Life; Hurrah for the coiiHiut, the arena of strife. What though I value calmness, and peace, and repose, I must ever be on the Qui viva with my foes, I feel myself able to redouble their blows ; The time hath long passed for those dastardly feats Performed by such us slew the gentle John Keats. THTTNDER MADE VISIBLE 1 ! ! I have a satire upon the " Saturday Review," in which I introduce the names of all the Cyprians and Roues connected therewith. Please, see the Supplement. I have u satire on the London " Times" and characters connected therewith, now nearly ready for the press. And an hundred beside shall have cause to repent, As descends thro' long ages, the New Supplement, Thro' life I will never be the first to offend ; Others may begin, but /the conflict will end ; I am in fur Life's Battle, and when I give o'er 'Twill be when I'm drowu'd in mine enemies' gore. " Audacee forluna juvat timidoaque repeUit." Ihis Poem is in type, and contains over 300 names, but I nd it impoBSible to cause it to be printed in this, the 8rd 16th Londoniad. THB LONSONIAD. My addrcBS tc the Mayor and Corporation of Boston, Massachusetts, appears in the last Londoniad, I shall have move to say to them in the next. Wherever and whenever is met a Yankee, especially of Boston, Massachusetts, the world always will, as it does now, exclaim Paedicator : hie squalidus est. *I am preparing a Satirb on the Yankees, to be called the New Bostomiad, in which mere than 500 names will be introduced. CONGRESSMAN CHANDLER. 1 know you of old. 1 do not now think that your philtres will work with any great degree of effect upon the body politic of Britain, however much they might teud to accelerate the hour of climactrical dool to the infamous town you inhabit. (Boston). Your Boston we compare to the cities of the plain. Epero al minor giron suggella Del segno sua e Sodoma c caorsa. Inferno, xi. I do not wonder at your venomous speech against our country when I consider the consanguinity existing between you and that hoary monster Chandler, the Wor- cester (Mass.) poisoner, familiarly known as " the Dockter ? " horrid /Aing besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tearC' EX-GOVERNOR GARDINER, Massachussetts. I made an allusion to you in a former Londoniad, and took, I believe, for motto— "AUare not evil." This hath been fully exemplified in your own career; but I shall take you for witness in the day that I arraign Boston— that city of Sodom— before the world as a nest of infamous miscreants ; and I here brand its inhabitants individually and collectively, as falsifiers and cowards, and when the tocsin of war thall sound, you will have no quarter, and what befel a part of Washington, and what Baltimore narrowly escaped in 1812-15, is your doom. PARIS EXHIBITION, 1867. ^he CUckney clown, alias Bouverie Street buflfon, Punch, is displeased at the sixth-class '^ei&l&vra.rAeCLtoita publishers: they sliall have Qne tanned frQm the skin of their Fleet Street Jackall imme^liateiy. James Torrington Spencer Lidstonk, Sole Author of all the Londoniad. RICHARD COBDEN AND JOHN DELANE. Impromptu. Tn Richard Cobden existing nations see The prototype of benevolent Deity ; John Delane — if for his likeness we would seek, We must strive to find it in an area sneak. Query ?— Who was it that got up the New Dominion Seal? 1 am certain that the elder Wyon— and Art recogniaes none other of that name— would never have disgraced himself by carrying out the design of a mere stonemason. What female figure is that thereon depicted ? it reminds m e of "a squab figure on a Chinese fan " If she were to rise and walk, we should certainly realise Mother Pratt, a sort of feminine Jack Falstaff, without his wit. This comes of not invoking the aid of JosiFH Moore, the only great living medallist of England. Ai' THE LONDONIAD. 99 */ ♦ii^ J It will he remembered in the ambitus of Candidature, and at the Great Con- Bcrvative Meeting held in the large room at the Caution. street Station, (Sir W. Garden in the chair), that Mr. Bell, afterwards elected Conservative Member for London, paid a sterling tribute to Canada, which the New Dominion will not forget, and at the same time congratulated the audience on the presence in their midst of the author of the Londoniad, and said un example had been set to the Mayor of that day, who ought to have been present. CANADA TO FRA^'CE. The tide of Victory is setting in For France ! Hark, the Voice of Destiny, France must win. I have elsewhere given the reasons why Ireland should side with France ; and I now ask the question, Did you ever know a period in wliich Germanism and Despo- tisiD did not go together? A word to my friemls of Scottish origin. Yonrancestors were on more friendly terms with the French than many Teutons are now willing to admit. The light of memory, thro' the darkness of time, flashes now on my memory, like lightning searing the black thunder-cloud. Who were the Scots Guards, that band of heroes who formed the first compuny of the ancient Gardes du Corps of France, greatly trusted thro' long ages, and had the honour of bearing in their arms the coronnecoleur of that country? Refer nie,if you please, to Claud Seysil's history and every historian treating of peculiar epochs in that lind of chivalry, " and for so long a time as they served in France, never hath there been one of them found that hath committed or done any fault against the kings or their state; and they make use uf them as their own people." Would the immortal heroes of unconquered Scotland ever receive such a tribute, howevp- well deserved, from the phlegmatic German? I know yon well — I have shared thuscon witii you in the backwoods of Canada; for me the ambrie was never empty ; we have gone together down tha s iream of your history, more picturesque than that of any other country ; ani I have no assimilated my ideas with those of your literature, that it would and will b3 impossible fur me, either now or hereafter, to write or to speak without showing my indebtedness to tht hiOBt intelligent race of people) in Upper Canada o; en the Continent of America. Did ever the French go thro' the glens and stratus of Scotland, cutting off private families andsingle individuals, in cold blood 't Did the French ever Meg- troy the flower of > our country? no, it was the mildew breath of OerniHr.ism that did this last; and was it not the antitype of tl:e Rever who is now going with reif over the plains of Europe, that did the tirsi ? \V ho is there, here to day, whose aoirit flames not at the recital of executions and confiscations of the bel^t-beIove(l of Scotland's children, and who sees not an incarnation of German brutality as " Bloody Cumberland prances, insulting the slain, And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plain." A spirit of meanness influenced (I will not say inspired] the Germans then, unknown to the Attilas and Timurs of antiquity. We leave them on pinions in their flight to empire, and the annals of their time, but here behold Ji flnn'd vampyre, an incar- nation of Get man brutality, taking the form of man and *' Royalty," bearing the names of Ouelph (Gulph, indeed, they've sw'illowed enough 1) intruding into ladies' apartments, depriving them of their trinkets, and their cherished specimens of old china. The address to England is in type, but is crowded out. It will appear in the Supplement. The SONG UF VIcrOR^T for France will appear in the next Londoniad. THE POLITIOAL UPHEAVAL OF EUROPE. Cains Cornelius, Tacitus says. That easier by far it is to praise A Republic than a Republic raise. And when you this form o' Government secure, It cannot for long period endore.* * The Historian's words are these, which, notwithstandinf; I quote from memory, will be found perfect : Reipublicte forma, laudare facilius quam evenire, et sleTenit, hand diaturna esse potest. « i 1 100 THE LONDONIAD. ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS REWARD. It having come to my knonledpi; tlint a Most Honourable and Substantia Gentleman from Ontario, Canada, hath been villifted by some one or more o tliosd nssissin» called " Tr.itle Protection Societies," I will give the above on full development of its rise and flow. JAMES TORRINGTON SPENCER LIDSTONE. P.S.— T lately spoke to a Member of the London Corporation and a late Lord Mayor (if there is any special honouv attached thereto) about the above affair. He said that very substantial people never hail anything to do with such societies, but that they were of service to those who, upon the eve of bankruntey. desired to give a reference, nnil could get none anywhere else — this they could do for one pound one per annum. British Museum, November 4th, 1869. Sir,— I nm directed by the Trustees of the British Museum to inform you that thcv have received the Present mentioneil on the other side, which you have been pleased to niukc to them, and I liavfi to return you their best thanks tor the same. 1 have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient Servant, J. WINTER JONES, Principal Librarian. J. T. S. Lidstone, Esq. " Extracts from the Supplement to the 16th Londoniad."— S. Sh. (Canada, 1 fol. ) This relates to one Atkins, ye spiritless groveller, Who tu non-esl Winfields, was erst a coal shoveller. I have lately iiad this Satire reprinted, and have caused a copy to be sent to every known public Library in Europe, and have received acknowledgements from all. The abovc,which I consider the more important one, I choose to publisli in the Londoniad. NoTK: the Author of the Londoniad on Tactort Laws. — ^There is a great deal of talk going on about Factory Inspection; why not inspect the rural districts? — In the summer ^of 1863 I m6t with a fine youth on the Duke of Bedford's estate at Woburn — I know not whether he was in William Russell's employ or not — named Samuel Chorley. He was too bright a specimen of humanity to be lost amongst clodhoppers and clowns, and when, about three or four years after, I inquired for him, it oeing then in my power to serve him, I heard tiiat he was dead. What did he die of ? I asked (bear with me, if you please, generous reader) ; " He was growing, and worked very hard, he had very little to eat— he eoon pined away." I became horror-stricken at the recital; the remembrance thereof eo entirely aifects me, even at this moment, that I can neither move my hand nor see to write any mure. Quebec, July 17th, 186K. Dear Sir, — Your letter addressed to me at the Westminster Palace Hotel, arrived there after my departure for Canada. 1 am much obliged to you for bringing my name forward as Member for Fins- bury, but my lot is cast in Canada, and I can give no divided allegiance, there- fore I must decline having my name proposed as a Candidate for any constituency Out of Canada. With many thanks, J. T. S. Lidstone, Esq. I am yours faithfully. JOHN A. MACDONALD, The only reason of reprinting this letter is that I have eleven letters (not from Sir John A. Matdonald) relating thereto. IMPROMPTU. SATURDAY AETERNOON, 3ed SErTEMBER 1870. Tis not a passing thunder cloud can darken France's Star, Which yet shall shine as erst it shone o'er climes and ages fai', Aux armes, formez vos bataillons. Nee pluribus impar. 1 4^ THE LOKDONIAD. 101 bstantia more o on fall ONE. te Lord lir. He ies, but to give pound TO THE EMPRESS Thro* the Archie, partly Buggested, adapted, translated and paraphrased, by from, or out of Al Koran by the Author of the Loiiiloniad. By the Sun in his early rising, and by the shadow of the Night, The Lord hath not forguitun tha i. Woman, in this the hour oi evil plight. TO THE EMPEROR He will reiieiv thy strength, O Man, thou mhalt triumph in the future flght. The enemy, worn and sore, in that day thou shall put t < utter (iigiit. Look ! there the dread Angel (of vengeance) waits to f m t hem to iheir doom. Then Iblis shall enwrap their memories with perpetua) glojm. 1869. ou that been same. man. A. 1 to every rom all. in the »1 of talk -In the Woburn Samuel ioppers it oejn^ iie of ? Iff, and became e, even L865. arrived ? Fins- there- uency I from i GEORUE JOHN DOUGl.AS CAMPBELL, DUKE OF ARGYLL. No rearer of prop for Temple, Hall, or Foi-tico, circular, square, polygonal, or other ; monumental column Antonine or Tnijanus* ever merited a greater degree of gratitude than your forebears, tor establishing Posts over the heathery wilda and greenswards of unconquered Scotland ; which inspired the sons of the chiefs of old in ejaculating " God bless the Duke of Argyll !" Trusting that the tollowing literary bijou may not receive at the hands of posterity the treatnieut tluit llobe"t Burns received from the tavern keeper, in the time of your ancestor, 1 proceed to tell you the reason why I inscribe the following to tlie Author of the Reign of Law. We all kn^w tlic consternation of the Uighlantls, when in the latter half of the last century, out of every mouth came the wui'ds "Tiic Law is coming." I wrote the follewiug brochure with tlic intention of incorporating it in a poem for some one or other who might happen to be in the line of Manufacturing Scotch Goods, but I could not find ady in London. They all appeared to me to be only a pack of counter-jumpers, and therefore not pri ;> icaify connected witli the Arts. It has beeu suggested by a lady friend that li;.' posts above mentioned were placed in position wliereon cattle might rub theiiisi; vi's. This was always my idea, and be- speaks a spirit of benevolence unknown to mere money-grubs of the i^cabody genus. I advanced — the Tartan* from tlieir archives came, The spirit of the Minstrel leaped to fl!>.uo As before mc stood the forms in nc-crcated birth, Of those who were so many walking Gods upon the earth ; The f jrest floods of Cknada, roar'd 'round one in that hour. And I felt the influence of a never-dying power. There appeared before me then an Ossituiic band, In Scotland born that proud unconquered land : Where cairns are cloquetit and burns go rippling down in song, And souls of Matchless Heroes on the misty mouutains throng. The language that the Gael in ancient ages used Is the oldest of the world, and most widely diffused. Their manners and the customs of centuries long ago Are imitated now by tlie greatest men we know ; Tlitir energy of mind and' body history records. And in their social qualities, th're Nature's proudest lords. Wherever 'gainst their right was liurl'd the tyrant' foemun's barb It vanished, as enchantment wrought was by the iligliland garb ; The best dress suited to their state of any on the globe, To don the Caledonian, we doff even th" Classic robe. Like an advancing Spring, my Highlander in peace glads the nation far. But like an embodied tempest, he wings his way to war. Oh, I remember well the stirring times of yore, When the breacan an fheil, and Leinn-croich I wore, And smote the Yank (a damned race) with the Claidheam1im5r, When they come over the river again on Finiiraid, Our Cataran will receive them dressed in the Arasaid ^ Now, then, for my heroes of the Breacan and Plaid. *«* I have a long poem ou the Dress, Tartans, Arms, Armorial Insignia, and social occupations, of the Clans of the Scottish Highlands. m 102 THE LOXDONIAD. TORONTO. Thalatta ! Oceanus, 0, Ponto, Absolve distance, I am in Toronto. Now Cooking Stoves and HoUowaro the song Adorn, thro' the might of J. R. Armstrong, Boots and Shoes Geo. Martin such have beguil'd The muse, where are our old friends Brown and Child ? No gandy scenes our apartments flaunt on, We've paper-hangings thro' M. Staunton ; Ladies' Saddle, William Stewart the prize gets Ever I met him in Massachusetts ; Nor yet E. Bach so famed the Bard forgets, Linseed Oil Cake, and colours, yea, it is this Firm that exports t' England's metropolis. George Pears, Chicory, and Spices prepared ; To James Fleming's Seeds few may be compared. Petroleum, still Shunk and Carsons Rejecting, we greet thine Mr. Parsons. Theodolite, compass, camera, and Opthalraoscope combined : mighty land Of the setting sun, the muse hath got her Theme and glory thro' the genius of C. Potter. Much business in Hardware might be done. Workmen, Ryan, Shaw, Rice Lewis and Son. Birds to air nor animals to grass more Go, when once in th' hands of Mr. Passmore, Hail Master Edwards, and Professor Hincks, These are th* prime O' Science' pylitic links. Ichthyology, Specimens the Bavd takes From Canada's rivers and ocean lakes. Ornithology all Mammalia ; Floral Forget-me-Not to Dahlia, All of vegetables, of corn, nnd fruits — Ceres, Flora and Vertumnus salutes. Science explores your shores Time's, ancient floods, Geology ! i^ 1,000 kinds of woods. The Fine Arts ! rear we a triumphal arch Where's Paul the Artist, where is Peter March, Here not behold a partial selection An interesting, complete collection. Illustrative of exalted sciences Their apparatus' and appliances, From the Educational Department Of Upper Canada, all these are sent. And here a glorious specimen of Inlay From those noble gentlemen Jacques and Hay. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. Their Armies to the Vulture and their Cities to the Flames — Be this the answer given to heir Alabama claims. THE LONDONIAD. -P Fn SV A S NS CI E X NEUTRALITY i LA MODE. 103 France ! even should you ne'er advance to strike a single blow> A Fabian policy alone would lay the foeman low. Thus far j when Her old Demigods arose and thundered Over the buried ages, it is fourteen hundred And 50 years to-day since Pharaniond cross'd the Rhine, And do we wake in storms to see the Flower of France decline ? If so, replied the Bard, 'tis bec&uso o2 your pecuhar wine. Let this be said by those who would *• condemn with civil leer," But I will match French temp' ranee Wines against Deutsche lager Beer. Go bury the alte? Schwein and eke his bearded Fritz, Where rose the Star of Marengo and Sun of Austerlitz. Midst Jena's cometary glare (revived) th* voice of Merlin, Hark ! Another Napoleon enters into Berlin. France I yours is not the race to sink into lethargic slumbers, Because your outposts may have been opposed by mere numbers. Those who, like me, know your stirring history very well, To every doubting Thomas could other story tell. I ween for Europe it would be a very doleful day If German despotism here should ever bear the sway. The French are not mercenaries — ne'er hire themselves for pay. Each hireling of the German horde for ever shut your mouth, Who was it help'd the dauined Yankee against the gallant South ? Who was it reduced BritisL wages to the merest dole ? What of th' Hanoverian, Dane, Swede, and eke the Pole ? Should th' star of victory e'er o'er German banners glow, England would be still more horribly Germanised than now. 10,000 to one on France ! as many more as you like. When she shall in full force advance the final blow to strike, France b'fore your vitality must phlegmatic foemen yield, They are not the warriors to remain long in the field, All nations look to you, la Belle France, on progression's track, Say, shall Prussia roll the tide of civilisation back ? King William as the modern " Moloch, horrid king (appears,) Besmeared with blood of human sacrifice and parents' tears." (The satire is in the Supplement.) 0, would I not like to sing a Te Deum Over him who hath no notion of Meum Et tuum ! yea, I should like to blot from the nations The country of One who would thus filch from relations ; Ay ! Monstrum horrendum, blot him out from the nations. Benign Wisdom and Mercy, come rally your forces 'Gainst the mad rogue who robbed a Blind King of his Horses. (There are six thousand lines in this poem, which I cannot now correct for the press ) r 104 THE LONDONIAD. I dictate the following on the Shores of the English Thames Ist Sept., IS70:— Englishmen ! let us remember that France has been a faithful al'y to EnQland , and who is there here to-day that would desire the cgnomcn, " Perfidious Albion," to be attached to his country? 1 for one do not. Would you exchange France, the Heart and Eye of Kuropc, on its Continent, for a Priissic incubl ? If so, then you welcome Despotism— a Dcsiiotipm that, will force three of the best years from every life to thi^ mainfnancc of the llou'-c etratoi's with ridi* cule to posterity. Let the power of the Prussian be reduced lu the original bounds of Sandy Brandenburg, and then— swept from the world. Canada hath better Ap;ricuUural Implements manufactured in its midst and by its own people than any that I could send from London. The English ates, as may be supposed, are looked upon as being very barbarous affairs, the only house in this line worthy of our people's notice, is that of William Wood, represented by Mr. Cranatoun ; the poem appears in a formcrLoudouiad. CHASLES FRODSHAM, Successor to Arnold, a. d. 1843, and to B. L.VULLIAMY (Pall Mall), 1854, Clock Maker to the Queen, 84, Strand, Corner of Cecil Street, London. Marine and Pocket Chrono- meters ; Plain and Repeating Watches ; Church and Turret Clocks ; Split-Second Watches ; Astronomical Clocks. His name full long familiar waa to me, I heard it oft in lauds beyond the Western sea, The passport ever there for all that's good. On that vast Continent beyond the flood. Return'd from thecce, around I gazed awhile On all the manufactories of our isle ; Nor long it took the adventurous Bard to choose The primer Hero to adorn his Muse. Charles Frodsham's name is heard on ev'ry shore Wher'er the sun shines out or billows roar. For Genius alone the world did him advance. In the flowery regions of Imperial France, Before the as.iembled talent of all lands, He received the Medal of Honour from the Emperor's hands. Ev'ry prize in corapetitiou's given To our Juror 18-67. t~'i THE LONDONIAD. 106 But he before had won the laurel crown, And soared the solar height of all renown ; That those who, dazzled by the sunbeams of his fame, In night's despair would steal away his name. Still o'er the rolling world he shines serene, Prime manufacturer to " our Gracious Queen." What France and England are among the nations Is his Inventive Name with living generations. * Tliere is not a single HoroIn|;ist in London, liavitif; any pretension to eminence who hath not presented his card to the Author for iiiscitmii in tho Londoniad. Alderman Carter wag the first, and Mr, Walker the last. It were, indeed, hard to choose, a Hero of Science from among !i) many ihit iiree CURTIS'S & HARVEY, Gunpowder Manufacturers. Office, 74, LOM- BAUD Street, London. Alantifactories at Hounslow, Middlesex ; Tunbridge, Kent ; Glyn Neath, Glamorganshire ; and Clyde Mills, Ar- gyleshire. Branch Offices and Depots : 14, Maiischali Street, Aber- deen ; 14. Temple Street, Birmingham ; 6, Charlotte Street, Queen Square,, Bristol ; 24. Usher's Quay, Dublin; 12, St. Vincent Place, Glasgow ; 66, South John Street, Liverpool ; 3, Prospect Place, Swansea. Yea, " not to know would argue" " one self" the merest novice, Th' Hounslow, Tunbridge, Glyn Neath, and Clyde Mills Gunpowder Office. There's not a nation nor a tribe on earth that knows thcip not ; This said by our Minister of Arts, who himself was shot. Hither the Representatives of all Govern monts resort, For all their varied kinds of Gunpowder in Export ; And I had heard as Manufacturers they all outshine. And that they were, too, tho Immortal Princes of their line. Let those who will drive th' Muse' chariot, Jehu, Jarvey, Minerva, thund'ring through the world, proclaims Curtis's& Harvey. I with others than those in the land of mystery traded African, or in Quarter Barrels, or smaller Kegs pack'd. All Yankee products now into Lethe ever casting, We welcome our Firm's —in Whole Barrels, Mining or Blasting. The invading foe, though to every sense of conscience deaf ; Whole, Half, or Quarter Barrels F, Double— Treble F— Dreads, Nations in uproar attest, and in their high behoof Declare in many tongues their various Tower Proof. All the New Dominion I'm after now escorting Home, to the Imperial clime, for treble strong Sporting. r I: 106 THE LONDONIAD. I'm in the realm of reflex I Continents into Islands Are breaking, and valleys are being tossed up into Highlands, Disparting luminariea in a shower of Asteroids Fill with embryo worlds all Nature's erst untravers'd voids. All the Zodiac is resolved to scintillations; Or trembl« thi» terrene, and all the etherial nations Or 1)righten in their murch and fame ; Science is no trifle Here I Goddess of Wisdom et War, the Diamond- Grain Rifle ; Or Yellow Basket— pack'd in 1 lb. Canisters Jupann'd, Bears the sway in Canada and every other Land. Muse ! what hath borne our Uuuse to an unexampled renown ? fl" Many Important Inventions peculiarly their own. e remember well the words of Cromwell in times gone by, That woful night when Cora Linns roared through the blackened sky, When scarcely able to breast the aerial torrents force, Backwards and forwards through the ranks he galloped his horse, By Dunbar's awful field : " Trust in God and keep your powder dry." On the next morning Oliver was conqueror, of course. It hath been said by one or two of Time's rapscallions, That Jove is ever upon the side of strong batallions ; But this would rank with what Italians call *' falsett' "— Witness the entire armies sunk (Milton) in Diamatt'. Some say 'twas Friar Bacon who first made gunpowder, But on fields more extended, and in exploits still louder (For we pay deference to the account by Milton given) ^ 'Twas used by angel hosts in the famous war of Heaven. The age of miracles, it is said, hath ceased — then, of course, Much reliance will be required to be placed on force, For no destroying angel may these later times behold, As when " the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold ;" But that (listen 1) for which I would most gunpowder employ Is to shake the Western Continent with a feu de joi, ^f ter the Scomunicuto Yankee we utterly destroy, O, I had heard, amidst thunders of the Ottawa, Of Semienowitz, Count Rumford, Robins, Dr. Shaw ; But whose fame is it entrances the globe, and doth cause to ring land And ocean, our Great Firm, Curtis's & Harvey of England— ? From th' rise' 'to th* set' of day a concatenation of sound, Like Zodiac's voice, doth th' visible diurnal surround. Canada's Salvation I Curtis's & Harvey's Gunpowder Will transform the invading Yankee to pumkin chowder. We all well know 'twas " vUlanous saltpetre " did * stop From being a hero, martial or other,' Shakespear's Fop ; And I believe 'twas a species of Gunpowder did blow That universal Orb, which alone did through Nature glow Into Atomic Systems, millennial ages ago. P THE LONDONIAD. 107 ml led sky, orae, Brdrv." i ig land LONGMANS' & CO. Publishers, Paternostee Row, Londox. I, as upon some guiding star mine ardent eyne did fix, In the world-famed House established 1726, What flushes all the nations now as with a solar glow, Longmans immortal name, and Paternoster Row, By the forest' deep'ning shade, and by Niagara's roar, I learn'd entirely by heart the Works of Thomas Moore. What early charmed my spirit, what now tha Muse engages, The Laureate Wreath etern, and Southey's gorgeous pages. IvRY and the Armada entranced me over the foam, Inspiration as from classic times, Lays of Ancient Rome, And that which for the Vandal years, and Art long lost atoneH,. The spirit of magnificence breathing through Owen Jones. What like another Godhead doth 'new creation fill. That peculiar form of mental might through John Stuart Mill. Arts, Manufactures, &c., not the merely maaipulative, But Avhere the splendours of the mind in brighter glory live. I hail the Sonff that early rapt Creation into birth, Works, popularised in every region of the earth. Biography and Memoirs here teaching by example, Copies of which I bore to Haut Canada as sample. Chemistry, Medicine, Surgery, each allied science, In such, published by Longmans we ever have affiance. Knowledge in high perfectitude th' Illustrious House declares, Commerce Navigation, and a:l of Mercantile affairs. To my grand uncle, so well known. Sir William FoUett, he Gave works on Criticism, Philosophy, Polity, The Fine Arts, welcome! and their Editions Illustrated, Th' enlightened of our colony very much elated. The Study of Language, of using others I'm chary While I have here Dr. Latham's Johnson's Dictionary. THE NEW TESTAMENT POEM. The Forest floods of Canada I sailed long ago, Accompanied with Sacred Art and Fra Augelico. II Perugino, dreading satire no more, takes his place With those pre-eminent in COLOURING, Design, and Grace. Leonardo da Vinci, thy Life in a transition Epoch was my theme, lExpresaion, DESIGN, Composition. Francesco Francia (Raibolini) drop'd his gold Trade, ever to be amongst th' sons of Highest Art enroll'd. Great in original works, and too the mighty copyist, L. Credi of Florence the rapt attention doth enlist. 108 THE LONDOXIAD. And Fra Bartolomeo, who excelled, 'most pa«t belief, His great Master Raffftelle in colouring and relief. Baifaelle Snnctius, Urbinas; truly the clivitie, Lo ! Composition, Colouring, EXPRESSION and DESIGN. Nestor ]nince of artists, whom endless ages must adore. Composition, Design, COLOURING were thine Da Cadore ; Antl his rival, thought so once, Gaudenzio Milanese. Volterra's soul shall wing new years o'er Time's lost lands and seas* Poussin ! — Gasper or John Dughet ? Neither, but Nicholas Of Normandy, whose glories tlioae of conquerors surpass. AngHo Guido, I brought of late from Lago Como, A copy of your masterpiece (Rogers') Ecce Homo ! Never while I live on earth shall it leave my possession, Reni pre-eminent in DESIGN as in Expression. II Bassano, his Daughters the Minstrel kens. They who sat to him as Queens, Madonnas, and Magdalens. Impetuous Pinturiochio, be thou high place assigned, Who coloured with Natural beauty and much so well Designed, Andrea Vanucchi Sarto, whose Pictures could o'er-awe , Invading warriors who nor regarded light nor law. ♦•« I need not wait for after times in hope of gaining heaven, In soul-exploits of Art a foretaste to me is given O, Orcagna Di Cione, painter and architect. Who did for friend or foe, or Heaven or H select. Through the Sacro istorico the Arts have found their home, Mariotto Albertinelli, in Florence and Rome And other Italian cities under many a sacred dome. We hear of the three Caracci, but there were more than 3 — I've heard of 4, but " Who comes here ?" — Annibale ? ay' 'tis He ! I am inspired, my Helicon rolls an enchanted sea — Maurer, Christopher hight, 'midst the cataracts of Gova I studied his Emblemata Miscellanea Nova.\ Sebastian Del Piombo, though once to music bred. To th' other Fine Art of Painting his pilgrim footsteps sped; His fame shall go for draperies, for figures, heads, and hands. Far abroad to Time's last years, and Earth's remotest strands ; And as he painted Aretin, so in equal degree May his spirit iuspire some artist to do the same for me. Soon again for th' resplendent host another lay I'l:. strike, Embued with the Composition and COLOUlllNG of Vandyck. Have I mentioned F. Baroccio? — No — I believe I've not ! His sweetness and his grace by the Art muse are not forgot, And though he may never have soar'd into sublimer state. Better than low original, imitation of th' great. That I had a copy of the Marvpllous Testament ■1 dreamt, and that in meridian giory it with ma went. « THE LONDONIAD. 109 d seas. d, Through Mores Florida flush to the 'raptured sight. In the wo. id'H moat fatnoua Teatainent wn hiive't in black and white. Soon the Initial Letters, the Fnuucis, and Border Framing, ^ • < The styles, the sourceH whence derived, I'll bo after naming. ' Nor yet I ween the Daughttsr of Jlnemosyno forgets Perfect gern.s ! Marginal Ornaments, Medallions, Vignettes. Thus on by Pallas led, the Muse of etern Ait confers The myrtle and the bay upon the Prince of Publishers, Lo Hid Lectures on the History of England during Certain years, full half the world to study is alluring, First 18-59 — Second in the noxc Year, fi'oui these our Lecturers generally take their text. The Third in '61— Fourth, '63 -and Fifth in the siiruo year, These at least show some publishers' hearts are right — and senses olear,^ Komantic period ! as a flight of flags my anlour stirred, Those 2 animating vols. Life and Times of Edward III, Lecture on Switzerland, printed 1857 (July,) by great Stewart Derbishire to me were given. ****** t e! W.lii RICHARD BENTLEY, PUBLISHKB IN ORDINARY TO HER MaJESTV. London : New Burlington Street. A New Muse ventur'd o'er the main, on purpose to confer The Myrtle, and the Bay upon the Royal Publisher, Even now under th' blissful burden doth Atlantic roll, Hail, (The) Ingoldsby Legends, and Life of Cardinal Pole, These, and The Fortunate Islands were th' very first I took, With that, to me at least, very acceptable Book, Livef of the Archbishops of Canterbury, by Dean Hook. Curtius (not Quintus), but Ernest' History of Greece, Guiccioli's B: lon (now, Stowe Yankee ^'tadame cease .') Hail Andromache of Euripides. With Anecdotes Of Animals our Argo on a sunset ocean floats. Here Bentley's Favourite Novels, each with Illustrations, live, ye Bentley Ballads, nor heed the fall of nations. Reverend Boutell, I know you well, our Age's Guiding Star, 1 have your Brasses, which I took to ev'ning lands afar, As, too, your Heraldry : Historical and Popular. Many thanks to Professor Browne, I early did secure His History of Roman Classical Liteniture. Frank's Curiosities,— Elliott's Carolina Sports, And now to Cradle Lands the minstrel ard'rous resorts. 110 THE LONDONIAD. t With E. J. Wood I become at once th' rupt Horologiat, I, with fiery sky for banner, 'noath Dundonald enlist. Women Artists of All Ages and Countries, met my ken. And thro' the honor'd Mrs. Ellis, Mothers of Great Men. Sinai Photographed, but must I readily confess, Rev'iend Forster, to your inscribers in the Wilderness : The one Primeval Language, eh, hern you your object miss ; Are there not uations lost to fame, say, where is th' Atlantis, Or if our Reverend Instructor will not admit of this, Let him, with Stephens, or with me, thro' Guatimala stray, See Ruins to which those by Nile are but of yesterday. (Fairy region !) Giants and Dwarfs. Glum-Glum. I've seen how Spiritless Yankees served the spirited Mrs. Greenhow. (Moslem !) Harem Life in l''gypt and by the Golden Horn. I in Arctic Boat Voyage with Isaac T. Hayes am borne. See o'er the Heavens Guillevnin's spirit flush a rival morn, In th' Italian and in type nomindtoptVa, In French and nonpareil, too, I've the Life of St. Monica. I Arundel's London read in Devon by the Torridge As I had that, writ long before by Councillor Orridge. Hail, Icelandic Legends (the style is beautifully pure). Too, Mrs. Jameson's Essays, in Art and Literature. Other fate than waited on Ossianic Filian, Ye Paica) pronounced on th' Emperor Maximilian. Adam and the Adamite, I pass them not imheeding, This work reminds me o' pious Dr. Dick's special pleading. Truth illumined by science, theologians long assail'd, But when at length like the day it over chaos prevail'd. All at once each white choker'd pharisaical lubber, To match begu,a to stretch th' scriptural like india rubber. Hush, Bard! or they'll say that your Pegasus hath got the bots ; Then we'll turn, and greet Mignet's Life of Mary Queen of Scots, The much-abused cousin and the unregarded wife. Miss Mitford's Recollections of a Literary Life. Gibbon's Decline and Fall all know, — here in my native Tor Rome's History I am perusing. Dr. Theodor. Boyle's Ride Across a Continent. My Adventures Afloat — Semmes renown'd. Stebbing's Italian Poets (of th' greater note) (M.) Thiers' History, and, through Timbs, many an Anecdote. Shall *' tradition's voluble' transmitting tongue " tell any Future age o' greater marvel than Bentley's Miscellany. Lo, in the mental horizon, ye periodic star By mortals in terrestrial orb yclepd Temple Bar. Bard, with your Pegasus now descend, and very gently — Ay, very far thou hast gone abroad with Richard Bentley. THE LONDOMUD. m THE IRON POEM. HENRY BESSEMER. Gold Medal, Vtxrh 1867. And ovor 100 Prizes of various kiudi* (Patent* in every civilised country.) IN8CRIBID TO THB EARL DUDLEY, EAllL OP LICHFIELD, EARL GRANVILLE, SIR JOHN DROWN. m how 30t8, r Iron I whnt art thou T Ask thp artistic bard ; Of metali tli' most abundant, uKuful, liard. Thee might well the enlighten'd nations prize. For thou hast done much more 'o civilize The world, and lift our country to renown, Than any other metal to us known, Look o'er the globe I who wns'i their freedom sold, Those wretched races, in desire for gold, Who waa the presiding Genius o' the main ? Who held the VVcgtcrn World f was it not Spain? What was she once ? what do wo now behold { A coward nation, sunk thro' lust of Oold : But courage, honour, and faith environ Th' race of giant minds that keep to Iron. Oh, well we know what Iron doth impart ; 'Tis Ood's Spirit breath'd into every art. Mightiest painters now enthron'il on high. The suns and systems of our moral sky, 'With Iron oxidea, pigments do supply. In chemistry thy combinations vait 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 rolling orbs and flying seas, Yea, all that I here name or trace. And millions more, from Iron Spring. Of iron, and our Iron race, I yet in lengthened strain will sing. 4 te) I will not idmit anything connected with the liquor trafSc into the Londoniad,and no Patent Medicines, no Art Treasures from PawnDrokers, no " Notices of the Press.* Trade Marks, when of suitable size, I will admit with pleasure, but other illustra- tions I ratlier object to, because I have bound myself to size and weight in regard to this work, so that each edition might be made to appear a3 uniformly as may be, and EACH COPT to qo bt Post for a Penny Stamp. Moreover, I have caused a great deal of soiail type to be used in this the 3rd-16th. No shoppy men, how- ever extensive his affairs may be, will be admitted therein. No Knights of ye yard- stick, nor Barons de Chemisetts. No Company or Associatioa of a merely specala- tive character. I can only admit one in each line. 112 THE LONDONIAD. At tho cdnnlusion of tlie present LondoniaJ, I may say, with Cardinal Wolsey- " I fed my heart new open'd." I cannot sav, at this moment, how many nJitions thereof, in all i heir varieties, have been published ; hut on ;\illytns my memory I find them to be a' I?ast fifty. This is the third ICth of the name. I had written over five hundred poems for the present Edition, but I found iliat si>me names mentioned in the articles thus pre« pared were not tho.-o of manufacturers, and many were otherwise objectionable. I will, however, adiipt them (divest d of the personal) in the proj cted National Poem on the Arts. I have besidej-.Vres more Editions— that is to say, the 4ih, 5th, and Cth IGili Londoniads — no. vV^^.^y, which, but for the horror of correcting the proofs, had ben published simultaneously with thac F.ditio:i which here and now I lay before you.* " I dare do all that may become a man, Who dares more is none." — Macbeth. Bedde those above-mentioned, I have Eight Hundred Articles ready for prospective Editions, of which I may remark as of the current work; it would not be fair to say that they contain better name? than any Londoniad hitherto published, for greater men never lived in England in one age than those whos^ names appear in former Londoniads, and whose Bi(;:\atures (wltiicli you have all seen) are upon my list ; end if 1 hart not then, if I have not now, and if I may not have, gre^tT names wherewith to adorn this the fiisi work of its kind ever published, ic is because there have not been, and there are not, and there may not be, greater in existence. Some gentleman might say, with Squire What-de-ye-call-em, " If I were you, Mr. Lidstone, I'd make the Card-Poems very much shorter, and put all that you have hitherto written into one Londoniad" (!). To this I reply as "The great Emathian Conqueror " did to his general, So would I, were I Parmenio. Incorporco eloqu^nza inspirare} a simile, nuvoloso it may be, is now louming in the horizon ; in whatever region or regions may be res'ding the heroes of the next Londoniad, I cannot but feel at this present something of the antipodal in destiuo; for, surrounded as I am by the intellectual glory of a living a'^e, vouchsafed to me next to Heaven by those Spirits (Immortal now), whose names the Muses hive here revealed, I feel as if I, and those aerial attendants, were going into, so unlike " Our first Parents " going out of, Paradise, when " Th" world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." * I have so worked the oracle since dictating the above, that the Editions spoken of will be all delivered at the same time. NAMES WHICH HAVE APPEARED IN THE LONDONIADS. AGRICULTURAL. Walter A. Wood ARTIFICIAL LIMBS. Frederick Walters APIARIAN. Keighbc ir & Sons ARCH^OLOaiSTS. A. H. Layurd Beresford-Hope ANCHORS. Lieut. IU)dger,Il.N. ARTISTS. Bir C. 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[Devaux] :4' J^' ■.S^ -4 POTTERS, »^'^ M.^'^ Nterly 100 ifi ASth Lon- Robert Napie; doiuad ^^ 1 I Charles Lnngle Of all those who have appeared iu the LOndoniad, comparatirely few names only, and a still lewer number of departments represented bv them, arc mentioned. Jet here they are, many of t henu tbe Krcatest in their line that ever the world pro- nc«d. Three Editions areflp^ring through the Press, besides a Fiench and Oermim transhition. Si ■ ./■■ r ::a^ ^"'.t'li^jMS^m