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Yet 'twaJ 3 at first a thing so slight . That mocked Ih 3 touch , the ear , the sight ! Oh I it had yielded to a breath-One little word of love and faith ! That little word was never spoken : And souls were wrecked—and hearts were broken ! To forget , if possible , the weight at his heart , Lindsay leaves his native land and becomes the sole commander of an army , —what army we are not told ; but Doubt again Iose 3 him the battle . There is spirited writing here : — As to winds sink scattered waves , On that deathdald without graves Down before the cannon-blast Behold a living pavement cast-Jfy And still they stood , and still they fell Before the red advancing hell : Then turned to Lindsay every eye , Broke from the field one smothered cry Demanding but that single sign To crush the foes * up-gathering line . Every horse is scarce held back—Every heart . is on the rack—Every spirit on the rise : It is the moment—and it flies ! ] And up and down—and to and fro—The battle reeled across the plain , And when its force seemed stricken low , Up burst the fiend afresh again ; With quivering arm and panting breath , And battered bone and streaming vein , But heart as fierce as it began—A mass of horse , and steel and man—Squadron hurtling , — . shattered square , — But still enough to do and dare ; Beat of foot and hard hoof prancing , Now receding , now advancing , — The ebb and flow of the tide of death ! The Peer ' s story is a narrative piece which goes on and on -until at last the catastrophe is so postponed one is hardly conscious of its origin . The governess of a noble house becomes attached to the tutor ; their love is discovered by the eldest son , who is jealous , and whispers his own passion to the frightened Clare . Lady Carleon , the mother , is as worldly and dignified as some ladies are wont to be when their plans are outwitted , and she makes the poor governess feel her inferior position . " For she could smile opponents down , With smiles more cutting than a frown . " $ * et the Peer loves , and we are left to- guess that he enjoys some kind of reward for his independence . Mr , Jones is more at home in " The Factory Town , " and although there is exaggeration in painting the " bloated manufacturer , " there is only too substantial a truth in the sketch of the stunted and saddened worker : — There they lie—the withered corses , With one regretful thought , Tram pled by thy fierce steam-horses , . England ' s mighty Juggernaut I Over all the solemn heaven Arches , like a God ' s reproof At the offerings men has driven To Hell ' s altars , loom and woof ! Hear ye not the secret sighing ? And the tear drop thro' the night ? See ye not a nation dying For want of rest , and air , and light ? Perishing for want of IValure I Crowded in the stifling town-Dwarfed in brain and shrunk' in stature—Generations growing down I Thinner wanes the rural village , Smokier lies the fallow plain—Shrinks the cornfields' pleasant tillage , Fades the orchard ' s rich domain ; And a banished population Pesters in the fetid street : — Give us , God , to save our nation , Less of cotton , more of wheat . Tftko us back to lee and wild wood , B « ck to nature and to Theo ! To the child restore his childhood—To the man his dignity !
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TRADE BARBARISM IN ART . A sinqiti . au commentary on the amount and nature of our popular appreciation of tho Tine Aits may be found in a piece of Vandalism recently committed in Iho City . Several steel plates , on which were engraved some of the best works of Landbkek , JUabtj . akb , and other eminent English artists , and the original production of which , by the present Lord Mayor , had cost a sum littlo short of 3 O , O 0 Oi ., weio , in the course of last week , destroyed by their present proprietor , Mr . Boys , at the Albion Tnvcrn , Aldersgrtto-sfcreofc , in tlie presence of a largo body of too most celebrated printsellers and print-publishers in the metropolis . The well-known prints , " The Wato °° Banquet , " " The Queen receiving the Sacrament , " The Christening of the Princoss Royal , " Sir Chahi . es
Eastxake ' s " Christ Weeping over Jerusalem , " Sia Edwin Laudseek ' s " Return from Hawking , " and several others , were ruthlessly battered and cut to pieces , the fragments being exhibited nailed on boards . The reason for tin ' s destruction was stated by Mr . Bors to be this—that " the patrons of art , " having paid ten , -fifteen , or twenty guineas for an engraving , do not like to see , in the course of a few years , as they often do , impressions from the same plate hawked about for incredibly low sums . The plates had , therefore , been destroyed , and the value was thus fixed , unless , indeed , it should rise still higher . Such was Mr . Boys explanation ; but a later and wiser age will wonder at such barbarism—at so sordid a sacrifice of Art _ to money , and so singular an evidence of the kind of value placed by aristocratic " patrons ' of the pencil and the burine upon the productions of genius . A more complete specimen , of moneyed seln&hness was never given . The masses are to be shut out from the enjoyment of works of art in order that the property of my Lord Tomnoddy or Mr . Alderman Turtle may not be depreciated in the market ; the -value of an engraving to such comprehensions consisting , not in any appeal to the divine and spiritual elements of our nature—our perceptions of the noble , the beautiful , and the sublimebut in the consideration of bow much it will fetch , if sold , or how far , when hanging on the walls or lying in the portfolios of its purchaser , it bears testimony to his wealth and position . One would [ have supposed that the extra sum paid by the original subscribers is compensated for by the superior delicacy of first impressions , and the privilege of anticipating others in the possession of a given work . But the Tomnoddies and Tubtlbs will have their ten or twenty guineas' worth in ^ perpetuity , with a prospect of enhanced value , or they will pout and whimper over their grievance . It may be very true that in the present case none of the plates can be considered works of very high art ; but that does not affect the abstract question . After the immolation of the plates , the remaining impressions were put up to a trade sale , the competition of which was very spirited . A liberal dinner terminated this exhibition of modern Paganism in Art .
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The Haykakket Melodrama The fate wLich usually attends on modern attempts at tragic drama has befallen a four-act play which was produced at the Haymaeket Theatre last Saturday night , and which . already has been discreetly withdrawn—that is to say , adjourned sine die . The Beginning- and the End is the title of this play ; and if a realization of that title within a very few nights—the Omega following poste-haste upon the Alpha—be a token of success , the production must certainly be described as having succeeded . Mrs . Lambert , the wife of a starving Bristol clerk , and the mother of his starving children , induces her husband to forge a will , in virtue ( or in vice ) of which , an old G-erman merchant , who is on his death-bed , is made to leave his property to Lambert . _ 1 he clerk himself at firct objects , but is over-ruled by his strong-minded , spouse . The old merchant dies ; the fraudulent will is produced ; the Lambert family are made rich and—and miserable ; and Lambert hmiselt becomes a confirmed drunkard . Worse than all , they are in the power ot a burglar , who happened to have been unlawfully in the German merchant ' s house on the night of the forgery , and , concealed in the pantry , to have witnessed the destruction in the kitchen tire of the genuine will . This individual , therefore , hangs like an avenging Jove over the guilty family , shares their property , and at length proposes for the eldest daughter—no , not proposes , but demands her . To get this disagreeable fellow out of the way , the mother gives him a cup of poisoned wine ; but , before drinking it , lie offers a sip to one of the little bojs . The mother screams out with horror , and the suspicions of the burglar are aroused . Drawino- a knife , he swears he will cut the child's throat unless either he or his motSer drinks the wine . Mrs . Lambert humours him by quailing the ooblet , and obliges the audience by dyinjr soon after in much agony DotH of body and mind . Thereupon , enter officers of justice , and arrests tue burglar > for previous villanies by him committed . Also , a lover oi tbeyoun" lady , to whom it is discovered that the old German merchant haU left all his property by the real will , the said lover being , in fact , though , not hitherto known as such , the merchant ' s very dear nephew . Aud so it all ends-Miss Cusiimaw , as Mrs . Lambert , did her best to create a success Mr . Chippendale was rugged and forcible in the part of the husband ; and Mr . Howe performed Mat Hall , the burglar , -with picturesque vagabondism . But the play was loudly hissed at " th * end , it not at " the beginning , " and is now dead and buried . It will bo seen from tue plot , that there ia a most prodigal heaping up of Pelions of horror upon Ossas of ditto , till , like some of the extravagancies of Dante , the grim topples over into the ludicrous . The play , which ought rather to have been cast in the form of a melodrama , would probably have succeeded at the Adsxpui ; but a Haymakkkt audien « e requires something diilercnt .
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Self Rue-ohm or this City . —Tho following resolution was on Monday submitt ted for adoption to the Court of Common Council : — " Thnfc it is desirub o to co-operate with her Majesty ' s Government in passing through Parliament a bin tor tho reform of Uie corporation , founded upon the resolutions agreed to by tins Court on tho 24 th of February , 1064 ; thnt Mr . Remembrancer bo directed to prepare tie draught of a bill in conformity with the above resolution , to bo submitted for tue approval of ( . hi * Court ; and that a conference bo held thereon with her Majesty a Government . " After considerable discussion , tho following rather incongruous amendments wore adopted : — " That no further discussion takes placo until the Court has the Government bill before them . " ''' That it ia desirable to . confer vitu lior Majesty ' s Government in passing through Parliament a bill for tho reform oi u »» corporation , and that a committee of throe aklormon and twelve cjininoncia appointed for that purpose ' and to roport to this Court . " Fatal Coixiury Explosion . —An exploaion has taken placo in a ¦ colliery at Bolton , owing to a rnnn entering tho workings with a naked light . Tl » o gas , wine had accumulated during the night , at once took fire , and five , mou were acvcreij ' burnt , one of whom baa since died .
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1 Q 64 ^ THE LEADER . [ No . 293 , Sattopay ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 3, 1855, page 1064, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2113/page/20/
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