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OP TORQUAY, DEVON, LATE OP TORONTO AND OTTAWA, UPPEE OANAD^ ,■■; CANADA PINANCE DELEGATE TO ENWiAND, vW JMtkorofthe" Co7ique»f qf Panada," " Aneieni Ameriea," " Pictorial SeteripHon (^ih$ iBritith Province$ in North America," " &«ological SHYvey of Lake SHperior," "The Ehitium <^Art," " JUmbo of Seienee," " Men cfthe Time," " Canada as a Meld for Snterprite,^ upon the Tankeee," i^c, ^e. 'SaiMV " Dulciqae animos novitate tenebo." — Ov^id. Printed by Foetes<};Ue, McAlpine, and Desmond, Printers to tbk Executive, Selma in Morven, and Published by the AuifioB ". SIMULTANEOUSLY in Canada AND London (Eno.). THIS IS THE EDITION FOa 1879.80-81. JEntered at Stationers* Sail. the AUTBOK WBSSBVXS laS RiettC 01 TKANSX4.TI > ' * '■' ■iilri< I* I i Hjii* » t » I — Ill - r- ■ I 1 11 ^ I I ' ■tS'- , ^,*- r.,; ( I V fit^^J < THE NEW HUNDREDTH y LONDONIAD (COMPLETE IN ITSELF) : OIYINO A FUiiu DESCBIFTION OF THOSB PRINCIPAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE CAPITAL OF ENGLAND WHICH ARE THE MOST SUITABLE FOB CANADA, &c. BniNG THE CONTINUATION OF AN UNIVERSITY GREAT PRIZE POEM ON THE ARTS; ALSO CONTAINING PIECES ON CELEBRATED PERSONAGES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN CANADA, FOEMING ALTOGETHER EPISODES IN A GRAND uibtxml ^om m % ^rts> BY JAMES TOEEINGTON SPENCER LIDSTONE, m OF TORQUAY, DEVON, LATE OF TORONTO AND OTTAWA, UPPER CANADA, CANADA FINANCE DELEGATE TO ENGLAND, Author ofihe " Conquest of Canada," " Ancient America," " Pictorial Description of the British Provinces in North America" " Geological Survey of Lake Superior" \ " The Elysium of Art," 'f Limho of Science," " Men of the Time," y \^ " Canada as a Field for Enterprise," " Satire C_ *< > upon the Yankees," S^c, Sfo. " Dulcique animos novitato tenebo." — Ovid. Printed by Fortesque, Mc Alpine, and Desmond, Printers to the Executive, Selma in Morven, and Published by the Author simultaneously in Canada and London (Eng.). THIS IS THE EDITION FOR 1879-80-81. Entered at Stationers'* Sail. THE AUTHOR RESERVES THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION. INDEX. Aberdare, Lady . . . 97 Aberdare, Lord . . .97 Aborigines, Defence of . .82 Adams & King . . . 10 Adams, H. M. . . .69 Adkins&Sons . . . 93 Aitken & Jessop . . . 95 Albon, G 32 Albert, Prince . . . 21 Alescandre II., King . . 19 Allan & Co. . . . : 93 Anderson & Co. . . .94 Antrobus, Col. . . . 89 Appleby, Brothers . . . 95 Archbald, Sir ... 105 Art, The Great Schools of . 122 Aston, Alderman . . .62 Aston, Thomas and Sons . 62 Atkins, late Winfields . .116 Aubert 92 Avery, Mayor . . . 95 Aylmer, Note on . . . 105 Bailey's, E. L. . . .94 Barrett, Michael, Esq. . . 80 Barry & Reynolds . . . 94 Bartlett.Wm. R., Esq. . . 80 Barton, J 93 Bauerrichter, Mr. . . .88 Bavaria, Louis, King of . .23 Beattie's Bust of Burns . . 32 Beaty, James, Esq., M.P. . 94 Beaumont, Hon. Major, M.P. 90 Biddoes 95 Belford, Charles, Esq. . . 80 Beleeck Ware . . . 94 Belgians, Leopold, King of . 23 Bell, Charles, Esq., M.P. . 4 Benham & Froud . . . 91 Bessemer, Henry . . . 34 Bethune, Bishop . . . 80 Billing, C 89 Binns, C. S. F. . . . 95 Bird, Chronic . . .116 Birley, Mr., M.P. . . . 96 Bishop, Alfred . . .95 Blackwell, Mr. ... 94 Bland, P 96 Blakes, the . . . .28 Bonchere, Note upon the . 105 Bookers 90 Boon, Col., on the Yankees . 86 Boseck & Timme . . .95 Boufflerian Building Society . 120 Bouffler, Thos., Esq. . . 88 Boulton, W. H., Esq., MP. . 14 Bowel, John George, Esq. . 78 Boyds 89 Boyds, late Summers . . 1 13 Boyle, Patrick, Esq. . . 80 Boyle, Robert and Son . . 37 Braby & Whitford . . . 44 Bradford, F. E. . . .95 Brannon, the Patent . .119 Brazil, Emperor of. . . 22 Bright, John . . . .116 Bristol & Gloucester, Bishop . 49 Brock, Sir Isaac . . .32 Brooke, Rajah . . .53 Brooks, Bond Street . . 88 Brown, Hon. George . . 27 Brown, Gordon J. . . .80 Brown, Green, & Co. . . 113 Brown, Sir John . . .34 Brown, Peter . . . .28 Buchsn&Co, . . . 94 Buchannan & Hogg . . 88 Buchannan, O. R., Esq. . . 80 Buekland, George, Esq. . . 80 Buffalo, Corporation of . .82 Bumpus 91 Burnstown, Note for . . 106 Burgess 94 Bush, Myron P., Aid. . . 82 Cadbnry's .... 94 Cadman,W. S. ... 94 Cameron, Hon. Malcolm . 81 Cameron, Hon. M. C. . . 27 Canada 32 Canada, a Great Work on . 89 Canada, Personages connected with the Arts in . . .80 Canada Works . . .96 Carloss (W. I.) & King . .115 Canterbury, Archbishop . 13 Caron, Lieut. -Governor . . 75 Caiton, Hon. Mrs. . • . 75 Carrol, Henry, Esq. . . 80 Carter, Sir George, i.pon the Yankees . . . .74 Caslon, Henry, & Co. . . 95 Chambers, S 113 Chambers, Wm. &. Robert . 8 Chapman & Sutton . . 95 Chatwood, Samuel . . 70-72 Christie's, Pall Mall . . 87 Clare, Mr 88 Clayton & Bell ... 92 Coad&Co 69 Cobden, Richard . . .116 Coleridge, Lord . . 10 INDBX. lit 78 , 89 113 80 37 44 95 119 22 116 49 32 53 88 . 27 . 80 . 113 . 34 . 28 . 94 . 88 . 80 . 80 . 82 . 91 . 106 . 94 . 82 . 94 . 94 . 81 . 27 . 32 . 89 ed . BO . 96 . 115 . 13 . 75 . 75 . 80 . 74 . 95 . 113 . 8 . 95 70-72 . 87 . 88 . 92 . 69 . 116 . 10 Colonial Club and Temperance Hotel . Colonists, Eminent Conisbee, J. . Connon, C. W., Esq. Constantine . Cooper, H. W. Chen-iman, J. B., Esq, Christie, T., Esq. . Clarke, M. Coal Economiser Company Collier & Sons Cottam & Cottam . Cox, William, Esq. Crenevirem. Kin(( . Crowden &Garrod Cruickshank, George DafForne, Jat., Esq. Dain, Wright, & Co. Darlington, Mr. Darmstadt Daniells Davis, A. Davies, Morgan H. Derbishire, Stewart, Esq. Deity, the . 123, 4, Dewart, Edward H., Esq^ DonaldsoL, George Douglas Drew & Co. . Dryden & Co. Dudley, Earl . Duke, Sir James Dundonald, Lord Dunlop, Councillor Edwards Edwards, Morton Eeleton, Mr. . Eicho, Lord . Elkington Ellis, John C, Esq< Embroidery, Note on Empress, the . Epps Faber, P. Falloon, D., Esq, Fearn, Thomas, Esq. Feetham, Mark, & Co, Feldtman Field & Co. . Fiesche, B. . Figgins, Aid. Flower, Edward Fordham, Esq Forrest, Messrs, 119 104 95 80 113 89 80 80 S3 53 94 . 93 . 23 . 19 . 48 . 91 . 92 . 55 . 90 . 92 . 90 . 94 . 43 . 15 5, 6, 7, 8 . 80 . 88 . 113 . 90 . 95 . 34 . 4 . 96 . 106 . 90 . 21 . 94 . 121 . 93 . 80 . 40 . 22 . 94 . 95 . 80 . 93 . 113 . 95 . 88 . 91 . 95 97 94 Fortescue, McAlpine,&Desson 128 Francbi, Mr. . Francis & Co. Fraser Brothers Freeling, Squiro Fuller, B. F. Gait, Sir A. T. Gardner, O. T. B. . Garrard, S. Gascoi^ne v. Hodges Gatineau, Note upon the Ghatwood, F. L., Chief Gibson, John (Sculptor) Gibbs Gillett & Bland . Gillows . Girling, E. N., & Co. Gladstone, Mr. Grant, Mr. Grant, Sir Fi'ancis . Granville, Earl Greece, Otho, King of Green, Holland, & Son Green, James, & Co. Grey, Major-General Griersou, Captain James Grierson, Captain John Griffiths & Browett Griffiths, Baron Gunter, Riciiard . Gumett, Mayor Gurney, Goldsworthy, Sir Halford, Josiah, Esq. Hall, Captain Basil Hall, Mrs. S. C. . Hall, S. C, Esq. . Hancock & Co. Handyside, A., & Co. Hare, T. M. . Harris, B. Harris, M. S. Harrison, B., & Son Harrison, Mr. Harrowby, Earl of . Hart & Son . Hartley, of Stubbs . Hawkins, W. . Hayward, D. P. Hazard's, R. . Head, Mr. Head, Sir Edmund Head, Premier of Canada. the Yankees Helbronner . Haskins . Henley Brothers Henry, Alexander 93 68 89 96 96 26 38 93 90 105 72 72 94 49 94 96 99 95 49 34 22 94 121 20 106 106 , 94 34 , 94 , 78 , 109 , 82 . 56 , 92 . 92 . 95 . 50 . 93 . 94 . 95 . 110 . 95 . 96 . 91 . 100 . 96 . 89 . 116 . 10 . 9 upon 86 89 96 70 96 INCCX. Herring & Co. Herring, N. Y. Hill, Dr. Hill, E. H , & Co. Hill, M. W., Aid. Hincks, Francis, Sir Hodd & Liiiley Hodges V. Gucoigne Holland & Holland Hotham . House, Captain Howe, Sir Joseph . Howland, Lieut.-Governor . Hubbard, Geoi-ge L., Aid. Hudson Bay Company . Hunt&Roskell Hurry, A Hutton & Sons Illfelder . . . . Ingersoll Patent Rock Drill . " Iron Exchange " . James, Sir Henry . Jeal, J. & J Jeffery Jeroliman .... Johnson & Matthey, Messrs. . Johnsons, Basing . Johnson Brothers, & Co. Johnson, M Jones & Willis Jones, Bayliss, & Jones . Jones, G. S. . . . Kanatamtero .... Kelly, Alexander . Kenning, Mr. Kensington Series Reading Books .... Kent, Duke of . . . Kent, ThoB., & Co. Kenward . . . . Ken- & Kilmarnock Kilburne Company Kingston, J. T., Esq. Kingston, Queen's College Kilmarnock, Note on Kitcat & Sons Kitson Konquatris, King . La Grand & Sutcliif Land Reclamation, Note on . LauJer & Co Lane, J. J. . Lansdowne, Marquis of . Laurie, J. W. Laurie, Thomas Lawi'ence, Sir J. C. 4B 71 95 115 82 27 93 90 95 55 96 104 14 82 53 93 95 93 95 46 34 97 94 92 93 90 90 111 88 91 112 94 89 72 89 114 S9 49 40 81 96 80 32 98 94 90 17 49 100 120 61 32 114 114 98 Lavcillet-DupoBt, Chev. . 5 Leader, M 39 Leader, Toronto . .39 Leckie, T. F 106 Leete, Edwards & Co. . . 94 Lc Gros, Mayne, Leaver & Co. 46 Leigh, S. A 91 Leigliton. Sir Frederick . . 121 Lehmann, Prof. O. H., upon the Yankees . . .63 Lemoine, E. H. . . .87 Leopold, Prince . . .49 Lett, William Pittman, Esq. 66-.7 Levitt 94 Lewis, Sir G. C. . . .82 Lichfield, Earl of . . .34 Liddle&Co 93 Lidstone, J 3 Lidstone, Ludstown & London 101 Life, The Battle of . . . 100 Logan, Sir W. E. ... 74 •' Londoniad," Author of, Works . . . . 2, 3 " Londoniad," Critique on . 8 " Londoniad," Letter from our Native Prince to the Author of the,87, 8, 9, 90, 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 " Londoniad," Lord Brougham and the Author of . .12 Louisa, the Princess of Lome . 122 Lowther 96 Lublez, Mr 94 Luke, Limner . . . 121 Lynch, Archbishop . . 80 McCaul, Rev. President . . 14 Macaulay, Lord . . .102 McCoy, Evan ... 14 McDaid, James . . .88 Macdonald, Sir John A. . 23 Maciiona1d,Hon.JohnSandfield 25 McGee, Hon. T. D'A. . . 26 McKay, Aid. A. . . .32 Mackenzie, Hon. Mrs. . . 92 McLear, Squire . . .50 McMahon, Marshal . . 67 Mackinnon, Chief . . .12 McLeod Coll, Chief . .36 McTavish, Governor . . 64 McWilliam, Mr. ... 96 Madawaska, Note upon the . 106 Malloch, Edward, Esq., M.P. . 32 Malloch, Judge . . .32 Malloch, Master . . .32 Manatoniwis . . . .89 Marr,C 93 Marshalls . . .52 4 INOBX. Matheson & Grant . . 50 Mntiewabaie, King . . 1*^ Maximilian, Emperor . . 7 Mexicans, Great . 103 Miller & Co. . . 94 Mills, KemlngtoD . . 23 Mirande, A. . . 66 Mitchell, George . . 88 Monk, Alfred , . 38 Moodio, High Sheriff . 12 Moodie, Mrs. . . 12 Moore, B. 0. C. . . 89 Morb^, Mr. . . 92 Morris, Lieut.-Governor . 76 Mortlock, S. , . . 91 Mother, To my, Christmas Day in a Foreign Land . 58 Mother's, My, Voice . 69 Mother, To my. Written in America . 59 Mother, To my, Written in England . 60 Mother, To my, upon ler Birthday . 60,61 Monntjoy, J. R., Esq. . . 103 Mul grave, Lord Mliller, Prof. Max . . 104 . 50 Murby .... . 92 Murcheson, A. F. . . 91 Murmy & Heath . . 92 Musgrave . 93 Napoleon, Emperor . 21 Nattali .... . 90 Neal, E. . . . . 93 Newill & Sons . 93 Nissen, Sheriff . 9 Norman, Charles . . 47 Norris & Co. . . 91 Norris, Prof. . . 96 Northcote, Sir Stafford . . 98 Northumberland, Duke of . 33 O'Loughlin . . 91 Ormandi, Signor . . 6 Orme, Evans & Co. . 94 Oronhyatekha, Dr. . . 76 Ortelli,Mr. . . 88 Ortner & Houle . 68 Osiers .... . 121 Palk, Sir Lawrence . 46 Pangbourne, J. & Co. . 50 Park, Harrison, Aid. . 82 Parsons .... . 91 Pellatt, Apsley . 96 Pembroke, Note on . 105 Perkins, J. . 94 Perkins, Messrs. . . 94 Pemet, Emile, E^sq. Peterborough Rice Lake Pether, Mr. . Phelps, Mr. . Phillips, C. . Phillips, K. W. S. . Phillips, Mr. . Phipps, Col. . Phytic . Phoenix Works Pictures, Notes on . Pierce, C. S., Aid. . Pink, E. Pittam & Vinson . Polak Brothers Pooley & Sons Potter, Thomas & Son Potters, Great Power, E. Pratt, C. G. C. Premier of Upper Canada the Yankees Prime, Ex- Mayor . Prince, Hon. Col. . Properts . Proskaure Pushman, James Pyrke, Alfred Quaritch Queensto>vn Heights Rayner, Lloyd Redfern, James F. . Reward, 1000 Guineas Reynolds Rhetjen . Richardson & Francis Rickman, James Pellat Ridley & Co. . Ridsdale Bros. Roberts, Paul, Aid. Robinson, Sir J. B. Robinson, Sir J. L. Robinson, Wailes & Co. Rochester Brothers Rogers, Geo. Alf. . Rose & Co., L. Rose, M. & M. Rose, Samuel, Esq. Rothschild, Baron . Rowe, William, Esq. Ruskin, John . Russell & Co. Russell, C. C. Si^e, F. Sainsbury, L. C. Salomons, Sir David on 88, 80 18 94 13 93 94 95 25 88 51 87 82 94 95 67 95 91 9] 68 91 87 93 J 06 95 96 120 95 91 31: 45 92 99 52 94 94 96 92 92 82 13 13 94 106 88 36 106 80 121 80 79 69 99 90 40 98 INOBX. Salter, R.&S. ... 48 Sandenon & Co. . . .69 Sandford. Archdeacon . . 61 Sandon, Lord . . . .97 Sandringham .... 92 Sangtter, Jno. Herbert, Esq. . 80 Saunderi . . . .88 Saz.J 69 Scarfe&Co 94 Scott, Sir Gilbert ... 79 Scott, Wentworth Loscelles . 35 Searjr 91 Seymour, Lady Lydia . . 63 Sherwood, Hou. Henry . .11 Shuttleworth, Edward B., Eaq 80 Simmons, C. J. . . .40 Sitting Bull, Chief. . . 107 Smeaton, W. & Soni . . 64 Smith & Sons ... 92 Smith, Frank ... 91 Smith, H. R., Esq. . 78 Soho's So-and-So . . . 68 Sotheren, Henry . . .91 Sparks, Charles . . . 108 Squantani & Co. . . .95 St. James' Gun Co. . . 95 Starnes, J. S. . . .89 Stanley, Dean . . .49 Starkey, C.S. ... 40 Statue, Holbom Viaduct . 21 Stean, Edward . . . 96 Stevenson, Alan . . . 64 Stewart, William, Esq. . . 80 Stimson, Elan R., Esq. . . 80 Stone, Henry . . . .96 Strickland, Agnes . . .12 Strong-i*-th'-Arm . . . 68 Sumner, Archbishop . .11 Swartz, A. S., Aid. . . 82 Tammanud's, St., Cathedral . 78 Ta-pa-ta-mee, Queen . . 15 Taylor, Lachlan, Esq. . . 80 Taylor, W.G. . . .117 Thames Street Company . . 96 Tea, Note on . . . .94 Temperance Hospital . . 97 Thompson, the late George . 12 TilTany, L. F., Esq. . . 82 Tilley, Lieut.-GoTemor . . 75 Toleman, James . . .117 TomO'Coombe . . .101 Torbolton, Note on . . 105 Toronto Described . . 28, 9, 30 Toronto, Great Exhibition at . 80 Toronto, John, Bishop of . 10 Toronto, Three Statues for . 31 Torquav, A Winter Garden and Aquarium for . . 63 Torquay, To the InhabiUnU of 61 Torrens, McCullagh . . 23 Trevelvan, Sir Walter, Bart. . 75 Tuck & Co 95 Turner & Co 94 Vanner & Priest . . .94 Vian&Co 94 Iron Esq., Victoria, Queen Virtues, City Road. Wake Sc Dean Wales, Prince of . Walker's Corrugated Work . . . . Waller & Co. Walsh, John, Aid. . Walters, David, & Son . . Warming London Co. . Warner, John, & Son Waterlow . . . . Watkins, Sir Charles & Lady . Watsons . . . . Wavish, James Webb.K.W. S. . Welwood, Smith, & Co. Westminster, Marquis of Wheeler & Co. Whitton & Whitton Whitford & Brab^ . Whitworth, Benjamin, M.P. . . . Whyte & Redsdale . Wiffzal & Halsey . Wilks, Washington Williams, C. Williams & Cooper Wilmot, Sir E. Wilson, C. Winchester, Bishop of Wiseman, Cardinal Woodcock, Mr. Woolner, Thomas, Esq., Worcester Ware Woolams Woolvine Worssam Wratten & Wainwright Wren . Wright & Mansfield Yankee, Anti-, Letters Yankees, None admitted into the LONDONIAD . Yarrow & Co. Yates, Mayor York, Archbishop . York, Frederick . 20 92 96 21 44 89 82 91 108 116 9 61 89 53 93 113 32 98 49 44 33 95 95 12 96 92 98 96 49 10 108 32 94 92 88 52 55 93 83,4,5 R.A. 128 52 79 13 42 THE LONDONIAD FOR 1879-80-1. JAMES TOBUZNOTON SFENOSB LIDSTONE, Canada Finance Delegate to England. - - ^^^^^^^ ^ >9LC^. ^ -^ CANAOA. '^^-WW^*^ QOLD MEDAL OOBBELATITB OV TEB PARIS EXHIBITION, 1867, THE ONLY PRIZE AWARDED FOR LITERATURE AMONGST FIFTY NATIONS. THE GROSS OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR, FBESEirrBD BT H.I.H. NAFOLBOK III. ; THE GROSS OF SAINTS MiURIOB AND LAZIRE, FBB8E5TED BT THB KUTO 07 ITALY ; DIAMOND STAR, emfebob Aim empbbbs of bbazu. SPECIAL GRAND PRIX AND DIPLOMA OF HONOUR, WITH THREE GOLD MEDALS, niE mOHBSI AWABB to AITT IITHABITABT 07 ABT C0V5IBY AT IflB VNIYBBSAL EXHIBITIOK, FABI8. 187-S. ^ 1 i THE lONDONIAO. JAMES TOKRINOTON SPENCER LIDSTONE, or TORQUAY, DEVON, LATE OP TORONTO AND OTTAWA, UPPER CANADA. WnriTBE of Seven TJniversity Scholarships, thirty prizes before each (there were no more to win), and more than Five ilvmdred First Prizes, and over Three Thousand Testimonials ; Author of the " Conquest of Canada," " Ancient America," " Pictorial Description of the British Provinces in North America," " Geological Survey of Lake Superior," " The Migration of Niagara," " The Future of Erie,*' " The Course of the Ottawa in Past Ages," "The Elysium of Art," "Limbo of Science," "Men of the Time," "Dictionary of all the Proper Names mentioned in the Classics and the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland " (this will not be printed, but be reserved in MS. for private use by the Author and his Friends), " The Messiah and the Prophet," " Benevolence of Deity," " Canada as a Field for Enterprise," "A Paraphrase of tne Prophets, Evangelists, and Apostles from their Original," " A Paraphrase of Alcoran from the Original Arabic, with New Notes," "The Vedas, (in progress) p. Translation," "La Henriade," a Translation in Prose, Blank verse and Bhyme," "Arts and Artists in Classic and in Medisevnl Times and in the Renaissance Period," " History of the French Kings, a Poem," " A Poetical History of Canada," " Con- templations in Canada, a Poem," " Canada in the Next Millennial Age," " Calvary, a Sacred Poem," "The Genius cf Devonia (an Oration), Devon, Historical and Descriptive," "The History and Genius of Scotland" (an Oration), "The History and Genius of Ireland" (an Oration), "The Re- surrection of Poland" (an Oration), " The Landed Tenure of England in the Druiaical Cycle, through the Roman Epoch, &c., into the Saxon Period, until the Bra of the Norman Invasion (a Poeni) " that pertaining to later times is now in progress, " The Land Reclamation of England," a Poem, Ditto, an Oration, " The Causes of the Rise, Decline, and Fall of Nations " (;. Temperance Oration), "Hope and Memory" (An Oration), "The Muta- tions '» ' ' Science ' " (upwards of 70,000 Illn strative Notes) , " Noah's Descent from Aiount Ararat, a novel Exempliflcicn of Natural History, a Poem, "Joshii in Ajalon," an "Astronomical Poem," "Creation! the Myriad j.,ji*^ Oi* the Seven Days* Wonder," "Aboriginal Legends" (American Indian), " A WnW al " There had been a wail for him in Mexico, Short time had pass'd, when by the rabble (I) hands Of his own subjects (?) in ignoble bands Hofell."— RoBT. C. Sands, 1799— 1832. His "reign" may have been short, but it will prove through the long ages yet to come the most interesting of all the— " Emi)ires famed of old or of later name, Mexican in that new world beyond The wide Atlantic."— David Mallet, " The Exeuriion," Canto II. Had my hero been a Yankee, in the wor.ls of Milton I would have said " Farthest fi-om him is best." By birth (his country has always been associated in my mind with the greatest mental achievements of mankind) . He is an Italian. Unlike a certain hero of James A. Hillhouse, the famous and beloved Poet of " Hadad," it may not be said ho .. . " Has told a doubted talc describing Mexic'." — R. C. Bands, " The Judgment," Part XYI. but ingenuously revealed the object of his mission— " Hither from Mexico I came."— Db. Delaney. *• I have Received many invitations since that eventful time, To visit the Politico-Volcanic Atzic clime. 8 bQt THE tONDONIAD. " I may not woo the Breezes of the South I I Among the palms of Mexico."— W. C. BBTi-NT. Even the blissrul climo of Canada, — — ^— where fairy scenes long for twenty years Of yoath and childhood charm'd mine eyes and ears, May never more envelope me in its atmosphere. THE A-UTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. (The following will not be confounded with " Notices of the Press," for upon such I look with supreme contempt.) CRITIQUE ON THE LONDONIAD BY THE EMI- NENT AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS, WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS. " We will now consider what the Brothers Chambers. William and Robert Chambers, say concerning these things."— Ho5. and Ubt. Baptist Noel. [extract.] The ingenuity of his invocations is deserving of all prr'se. To him the very difficulties of the subject are not only grappled witt , but made sub- servient to poetic ends. There is a grandeur of conception about him which exceeds the highest flight of Bon Gualtier's muse, 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 some element of the sublime, as Mr. Lidstone. THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. FROM THE LATE ENGLISH CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, SIR GEORGE OORNEWALL LEWIS. " Lewis no longer in high dudgeon s now In his soul the milder virtues glow." BoNSABD, French Poet. (In his correspondence with Sir Edmund Head— himself a well-known writer upon Art— Governor-General of jCanada.) [extract.] No poet, ancient or modem, has ever shovm himself to be so perfect a master of terms in arts and technics of science ; and although some of his productions may resemble Michael Angelo's Dream in the National Grallery, seeming confusedly thrown together, yet so perfect a literary artist is he, that all will be found equally perfect with that extra'.^rdinary picture of the great Florentine. His prose articles, even to the foot-notes, when such appear, bespeak great energy of character, almost universality of knowledge, and are perfect orations. There is 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 hackneyed simile in the Londoniad, notwithstanding their profusion, while many of them are start- ling enough. He seems early to have established for himself a system of perfect rhyme, while his talent for quotation and powers of illustration show now deeply and extensively a sprightly mind may become imbued with classical and legendary lore, and at the same time be au fait in all that relates to practical science . My conversations concerning Milton with "the fairest of critics" will bo published hereafter. I had been engaged in Annotating the Works of my I THE LOXDONIAD. 9 Favourite Bard for many years " at stated times," the MS. of which, so far as I had up to that time gone, proceeded or progressed, being for nearly a year in the possession of Sir George, I having left the same with him at his request, when one evening, meeting him by appointment at Kent House, Knightsbridge, he was pleased to say, " There are many explanations here (taking up the notes in his hand) ihat appear new to me, for mstance," cast- inirit of Pyrrhonism which was now animating our disciple of Zoilus, I exclaimed, " Sir George Comewall Lewis, you, like the Elsean philosopher, and Metrodorus of Chios, and Eldon in later times, seem to be imbued with the doubting principle." He wittily answered me thus (without a smile, Democritus never grinned through him), " I should not care to possess the adhesive qualities claimed by every stationer for his, it may be, patent envelope." The stationers of the Londoniad I told him were Sheriff Nissen, and Waterlow ; he answered, 'I do not' desire to know that, we are met for a more important pur- pose » » « * ) ' Lewis comes To level those Altars to the sod. " The Senriade Canto," VI. ' SIR EDMUND HEAD, WRITER ON ART, FORMERLY GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN CANADA, AND THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. " Sir Edmund first — Leads up the show- Dbtdsn, " 17ih Prologue." Alluding to a favourable critique on the Londoniad, by Sir George Come- wall Lewis • • • " and this coming from a sort of Diogenes, who declared Hallam's History of Literature "d^, meagre, and ill-written," who said that he picked up his little German (the little that he knew P J. T. S. L.) from a serving-woman." He, who said that " Macaulay's remarks on the ancient philosophy are (for the most part?) shallow and ignorant in the extreme .... there is generally throughout the article (Lord Bacon in the Edinburgh Eeview) a want of soundness and coherency, and a puerile affectation of tinsel orna- ments," &c. And speaking of PicKwick (the scene of which was) cast in your vicinity "its popularity, though rapid and extensive, will I think, be short- lived." Who saysof the Duke of Wellington's despatches" his political views are so narrow, and if he had had more knowledge, he would have been a statesman. ' ' Who says that Carlyle ' ' belongs to a class whose business is to 10 THE LONDONIAD. deny all accurate knowkclgo, and all processes for arriving at accurate knowledge," and what will come nearer home to you. " What ft picture of Walter Scott's character is exhibited in Lockhart's life of him 1 How low and vulgar his objects, and how sordid his view of litera- ture I Ho contracted to deliver novels as a Manchester manufacturer might contract to deliver bales of calico, and he received the money in advance in order to buy farms or pay for gilt furniture. " I . . . . The following relates to the drowning of his son ; — " Nor could all from Edmund turn aside The strokes of Death. Go, traveller ; relate The mournful story. Haply some fair maid May hold it in remembrance." Akenside, Inieripfion 11. " There doth Edmund rest."— Ibid., 3rd Imeription. TO THE AUTHOE OF THE LONDONIAD. THE FOLLOWING IS FROM MY ENGLISH PRINTERS. Deab Sib,— Had the present edition of your work been placed in our hands two or three weeks ago, we should, without doubt, been able to have got it up in time. As we happen to know you have bound yourself to a given period in regard to the publishing of the same : therefore we shoula not like to, and indeed we would not, disappoint you. We have done a great deal of printing for you during the many years in which we have been favoured with your confidence; and whatever may have been ll^q amount of our accounts, it was all the same to you, and always paid with equal grace and alacrity. It must now be a source of pleasurable remembrance to us, that we, at least in these times, have experienced the wisdom and courtesy of an honourable and enlightened business gentleman. (Signed) Adams & King, 7, Wilderness Bow, London. " On the faith of a printer things look black." Phiup FbeTTEAV, 1762—1832, Poem on the Bivingtom' {of Ameriea). The only reason for printing the above letter in the present Londoniad is this : — Bequiring a few extra copies, 6000 in number, of the 19th edition of the work named, I unhappily left the order for the same with a certain character who was not a printer (this, of course, I did not know) and who farmed out the work, " the way he did it was a caution ;" I could never get the work out of his hands ; it was a loss, small indeed, but still a loss. I have not heard anything about the afifair for the last year or more, but when I do I will publish all his letters of excoses, for the good of the public. The present Chief Justice of Common Pleas, while Solicitor-General, was to have been retained at a fee of 300Z. per diem, provided by our Native Prince Aleacandre (please see his letter to me in the present Londoniad), which Bum is ready as a fee, refresher, inspirer, or whatever the technic may be, for the present Attorney-General on the first move being made by this «o»- ditani printer, and I here say again for the 100,000th time, that nothing so much tends to ease, comfort, and joy in life, as to be connected in business transactions with practical personages. JOHN, THE FIRST LORD BISHOP OF TORONTO, D.D., LL.D., AND THE AUTHOE OP THE lOUDONIAD. The Funeral Oration on the beloved Patron of my youth, the greatest Prelate of this or any age, appears in a former Londoniad. There are two Orations besides ready for the press, and a long poem upon the same subject. To the Memorial Church I will give a Stained Glass Window. > V ''V THE LONDOMAD. II The vetro-archetypalgraphico of which, The Nativity and the Adoba* TION OF THE Maoi, the Great Art Deed, par excellence, of our time is now on a Btaircftse of my Mother's place in London (England). " MOST noble Lord, the pillor of my life, And patron of my Muses' pupillage, Through whose large bounty poured on rao rife, In the first season of my feeble age I now doe liue." Edmund Spenseb, Sonnet. " Hail ! best of Bishops."— Rev. Samuei. Sat. " His head an index to the Sacred Volume, His very name a title page, and nest. His life a commentary on the text." John Cotton on Benjamin Woodbridge, 1650. " How oft the Bishop's form I see, and hear that thrillinj tone." AViLUAM CBOSWLLL, 180-1-51. The Archbishop of Canterbury's (Sumner) Letter to the AUTHOB OF THE LONDONiAD appears in the 10th Londoniad. " Come, Sumner, wise, and chaste aa chaste can be." Chcbchill, " The Candidate," TO THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. London, March 28th, 1868. DF.A.B Sib,— I thank you sincerely for the poem which you have been good enough to 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 career. J am, ever yours, faithfully, N. CARD. WISEMAN. To James T. S. Lidstone, Esq., 12, Lower Calthorpe Street, W.O. ( The poem alluded to appears in the 6th Londoniad.) ' Pamassia laurus. Parva sub ingenti matris se subjicit umbra vir." " The Cardinal has retum'd," BULWEE, "Richelieu," and Sheixet, "The Cenei." The Ecclesiastical Prince, whose learning and love of Art were known over the world. " Words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Eenry.'' Mes. Shelley's " Frankenstein," " To Sherwood praise ."— Dbatton's " Polyolhion," Song 26. HON. HENRY SHERWOOD, PRIME MINISTER UNDER THE CONSERVATIVE ADMINISTRATION. THE Author of the Londoniad. Hon. James Torrington Spencer Lidstone is about to visit the city of • * in order to have some engravings executed, and to commemorate in verse the rise and prosperity of that city. I know him to be a gentleman of more than ordinary talent, and I beg leave to introduce him to the attention of the citizens of that place. HENRY SHERWOOD, M.P.P. Any undertaking which Mr. Lidstone enters upon to carry out his object, as above stated, I agree to pay towards it the sum of * * * * (this was kind- neaa on the part of our Western Prince, but no sum was required}.— H. S. . Adiea, E[{Binncas, " Cape dona extrema tuonun." /' " if. ;\ \ \ \, \ \ \ N « . \ ^ "\ N , \ \ >• \ \ N N'a^4 l2 THE tONDONIAD. I have Bpokon in a former Londoniad regarding a marble bust *' For Sherwood."— Btbok's " Englith Bardt and Seoteh Sevi*tteri." I long " To tread the forest's lone arcades, And dream of Sherwood."— Wm. G. QALLAOnEB. Even now " I hear the voice of other years arise upon the winds."— Ossiait. " As from the grave where Ilenry sleeps."— John G. Whittieb. THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. Extract of a letter from Mrs. Moodie, " The Sappho of this western clime, The Hemaus of our Colonies."— Obatoe of the WKbT. (wife of High SheriflT Moodie, County of Hastings), sister of the great his- torian, Agnes Strickland, and herself the authoress of several popular works.) " You have within you all the elements of true greatness, noble mental powers, a splendid memory, a candid and unprejudiced spirit, above fear, and above envy." P.S.— There is besides a long Poem, written by this learned lady xiipon the now Author of the Londoniad, which will be printed in a prospective edition of that Work. THE MACKINNON, M.P., F.R.S., CHIEF OF CLAN FHI'NNON, &c., AUTHOR OF SEVERAL WORKS, AND TUB Author op the Londoniad. " Cuimhnich bas Alpin !" (Remember the death of Alpin !") " Cath-Ohairm, or Battle-shout of the Maclcinnoni." " Son of an old and honourable house, ^— — Mackinnon."— &OBEBT SotJTHET, 35th Intcription. Chief Mackinnon (please see 6th Londoniad) hath placed upon record the following observation : — " I never met with any gentleman whose read- ing was BO extensive and varied, and whose knowledge of Art and & ed ID, iiy era re- ess his sen f THE AUTHOE OF THE LONDONIAD, Acting on tehalf of a company of ladies and gentlemen in the New Dominion of Canada, was prepared to negotiate for a transcript copy < f the equestrian statue at the Holborn Viaduct, Ijondon, England, had it proved to ho a proper one, but whoso chiseller must be nameless upon the same page with PRINCE ALBERT. "Albert here from Germania advanced." — "Jerusalem Delieered," Book xvii. 1. 528. (Albert), " though a Prince, a Poet boi-n." Fbedebice the Gee at of Fkussia to Monsieur Do Voltaire (1757). "Albert ."— Tchcdi, " Swiss Poet," 1386. I have over 100 "Alberts" from as many diflorent Authors in private keeping. Some appear in former editions of this work. AV ho was almost the first from whom I received a letter after publishing n, prospectus to the Londoniad. He had done more for the expanding of the mind, and enlightening of the world, than all that destiny ever placed near or on a throne in any other land, and more than all the Kings of England put together since the time of Siixon Alfred, and before him. The Poems appear in 1st, 3rd, 0th, and 3rd 16th LONDONIAD. PRINCE OF WALES. -Edward, Prince of Wales." GiLBEET West, " The Institution of the Order of the Oarter." The marble bust of the Prince of Wales, now in the Town Hall of Toronto, was presented by THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. (I should feel a peculiar happiness in sending thither marble busts of those great and good gentlemen, tba most eminent in Canada, who placed their mimes at the head of my first list in the following order: Hon. Henry Sherwood ; Chief Justice, afterwards Sir J. B. Robinson ; President McCaul ; Mayor Gumett ; and our beloved Bishop, who would have placed his name first thereon had he been in Toronto.) A copy of this bust is in the Temple Library, London (England). No one will attribute to me any special proddection for mere princes, or a desire " To compliment a Prince of Wales." EOBEKT Lloyd, " The Poetry Frofessort." I was desirous of leaving with Toronto some memento of my affection, and I accordingly commissioned a Marble Bust for its City Hall', leavmg the subject to Morton Edwards, the sculptor, who chose the Prince of Wales, and I paid him for the same One Hundred Guineas. THE EMPEROR. "Napoleon ! thy name shall live Till time's last echo shall have ceased to sound." — Isaac Clasoit. The Author of the Londoniad was chosen by the inhabitants of Torquay to welcome Napoleon the Third \tpon his arrival at the Queen of the South. The Speech appears in a former Londoniad. I did not wait for the advent of the Emperor to my Native Town in order that I might pay to Him the tribute, for in every Londoniad I have mentioned Him, and at no time, and in no place with greater pleasure than in those then present, and when all the world was declaring that the Empeeoe Napoleon alone must be of France EA«v9«pio5. In that speech occur the words, " while the Benevolent companion of your Majesty, «E« 33 THE LONDONIAD. THE EMFBESS, (" With lovely mien Eugenie now appears." DuNCOUBB, " The Feminead, or Female Oeniut,") attended through life, and for ever with the blessings of the poor and afflicted, the boght exemplar of crowned heads living, and yet to come, will be hailed as the (younger) Antitype of Helena the Great and Good Christian, the beloved Mother of Constantine. In the words of Berryer, • I almost hear the voice of posterity,' in prophetical retrospective realiza* tion • • • "Empress, the way is ready, and not long." "FaradUe lo»t," Bk. ix. 1. 626. That Empress renowned for " pietie, vertvc, and gratiova gjverument, " that Emperesse, The world's glory and her sex's grace." Edmcsd Sfenbeb in Dedication of " Faeri/ Queene." And the lay of triumph niay yet be sounded for the Peihce Isipebial when France in " Immortal vigour .... rising will appear More glorious and more dread than from no fall."— MiLTOX. " The happier reign the sooner it begin." With styli of venti, and sunbeam. Nature' Illumination for ever flickering on my tomb be seen the words, — " He wrote Eugenie a Defence of Women."— Db. Samuel Johnsox. And I note, Mary of Guise' Poem, written while sailing lirom Prance. " A British bard to Gallia's fertile shore Can wish the blessings of eternal peace."— William Whitehbad. But, " Frenchmen! remember Jena, Austerlitz : The first that made thy Emperor the lord Of Prussia, and which almost threw into fits Oreat Frederick William." Isaac Clason, continuation of Lobd Byeon's " JDon Juan." THE EMPEEOR AND EMPRESS. In the next Londoniad I will accompany my friends to " —fair Brazilia's wealthy land." — William Julius Micele. ^ OeON, BA2IAEY2 TH2 EAAAA02. (Please see 8th Londoniab). " Otho came next from Bavarian realm." "Jerusalem Delivered," Bk. xvii. The Bavarian, more than King.— Rev. Samuel Cobbe, M.A. " but Otho stay'd and sufifered fortune to repent." DbxDEM'S " AitrcBa Bedux," THE LONDONIAD. 23 ad le, od Br, sa- LEOPOLD, THE 1st KING OF THE BELGIANS. .) "To Bavaria's Lord, The Bold Bavarian." Samuel Johnson, LL.D., " The Vanity of Human WUhet," ' Who hath not read of famed Bavaria ? "—Thomas Ticebll. " What can Bavaria do ? (What can she not? I ask of you.) HoBACE (Book ii., Ode ii.), imitated by Lord B. H.— (Paul to Paz). " - Bavaria mourned The Chief "—Elijah Fenton. "And the Macdonald."— OoLKiiDGE's " TValUnttein." SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD. *' Sir John A, better name than either."— Sev. Sib John DoLLnr, D.D. HEAD OF GOVERNMENT OF CANADA. And the Author of the Londoniad. {The Poem appears in the Idth Londoniad.) DxTBiNG the Summer of 1866, when the Delegates ftom Canada were in Eng- land, and a general Election was about to take place, I brought the Member for Kingston (but without his knowledge) into the field of candidature for the ji'epresentation of Finsbury, not that I imagined for a moment the per- sonal honour of a Prime Minister of Canada would thereby become enhanced even as a Metropolitan Member of the British House of Commons, — very far from. it. Had he consented to stand, he would have been, so far as numbers go, the senior member, and where Mr. Torrens now is with 2500 votes ahead of him. We had formed a very powerful committee, and we intended to elect him without one farthing expense to himself, for at a private assem- blage, called preparatory to a public meeting being held, a sum was sub- scribed of 380(. for the hustings, &c. I had a letter sent to me by one of the Principal Clubs, in which an offer was made to pay a fifth part of his election expenses on his being nominated, even in his absence, and a third part should he agree to stand and be present at the hustings ; my mother gave me a blank cheque for the occasion. I may as well mention here that the HoTi. John A. Macdonald knew nothing of all these things herein alluded to. I was however, perfectly conversant with so-called " State secrets." Sir John A. was to have secured a seat in some English constituency, during the first session of a following Parliament — resign, receive a baronetcy, and return as Governor-General of Canada, and after the confederation had been firmly ,laid, to give up the reins of government, be created a Viscount, and a Perpetual Yice-Boyalty of the New Dominion be established in the person 24 THE LONOONIAD. ;! of one of Queen Victoria's sons and his descendants. The idea passed away in rcp^ard to the latter -part of the plan herein detailed after the taking off " of Maximilian. P.S. The following letter although marked private, need not now (that the occasion is past) be so considered. QUEBE3, July nth, 1865. Deab Sir,— Your letter addressed to me at the Westminster Palace Hotel, arrived there after my departure for Canada. I am much obliged to you for bringing my name forward as Member for Finsbury, but my lot is cast in Canada, and I can give no divided allegiance, therefore I must decline having my name proposed as a Candidate tor any constituency out of Canada. With many thanks, I am, yours faithfully, JOHN A. MAO DONALD. J. LinsTONi', Esij., 29, New Oharles Street, London, E.G. The Author of the Londoniad proposed William Cox, on Clerkenwoll Green, what time he defeated " Huncks of Lombard Street ! " alias Bemington Mills ; and on a certain stormy morning thereafter .... " And kind Mr. Cox, Do you know him?" — " The Fudge Family in Paris." " Thith Tham wath a Kontraktaw."— LOBD Dundeeaet. " Sam is dead. The vulgar pathway to the unknown shore Of dark futurity, he would not tread." Robert C Sands' " Monody on Samuel Patch." "Morton, Dark shades become the portrait of our time." Waxleb at the Louvre, in Paris, on New Year's Day. " Morton, mushroom in oblivion lie." — Qabth'S " Dispensary." " Peto shall rob those men already waylaid." Shaeespeabe, let Part, King Henry IV., Act 1st, Scene 2nd. " Peto, how now ? What news ? " Shakespeabe, 2nd Part, King Henry IV., Act 2nd, Scene 4th. " Nay, sir, stand not you fix'd here, like a stake In Finsbury to be shot at." — Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, 6, 6. " thou walk'st further than Finsbury." Shaeespeabe, 1st Part, King Henry IV., Act 3rd, Scene Ist. " Cox, give me your hand ! " Shakespeabe, "All's Well that Ends Well," Act 5th, Scene 2nd. " all voices Of Finsbury in our name."— Ben Jonson's Tale of T., i. 4. " Sir John A. is bless'd with honour, love."— Edwaed Rolls, B.D. In an earlier day, and his own, Kingston, I wrote to him the words — " You will be Sir John, they say."— Edwabd Moobe. Yes! I hope yet to see him established as the Viceroy of Canada, the thauma- turgus of its peaceful epoca. Although from the very necessity — exigencies of circumstances arising from causes existing beyond the, its twilight dawn and their— shall I say happily, blending with the brightening years which he irradiated and to which he gave a history. Yea, from the lurid past in which was no fort known " Superior to Frontenac." Ceebalia— Author not truly known, but simed at Lambeth Palace Library with the name of Philip (meant for Cyder Philips), by Archbishop Tcni- Bon. I auote from folio vol. 1736, J. T. S. L. ^... ^--. ' 1 j^ k THE LONDONUD. 95 )r e, '-' And where the Indian's shaft, the Briton's ball, the sabre's thirsting edge The hot shell shattering in its fall, the bayonet's rending wedge- Here scatter'd death."— Dk. Olivek Wbhdell Holmes (1800). to the remote ages beyond them, Drank Laurentino tidcii." When Canada's painted tribes, Prince of earthly streams ; Or roving northward, heard Niagara sing from Erie's billow Down to Frontennc." — Robebt Pollok, " Course of Time." Where the nameless mighty wander 'mid shadows and almost dwell in fablo to that resplendent c,yclo when in another arena (with equal ardour, but more beneficence of aim), '*'^^^a.^ .. " This scheme of the heavens set. Discovers how in fight you met. At Kingston." BUTIEU'S " Iludihrat," Pt. 2, Canto iii., v. 091. " Proceed, Sir Knight, to scar our foes. But don't the Irish Earl oppose ; " the next line may not be applicable to the Governor-General, certainly not, but most assurpdly is to " the Kenzie." " That premier of all schemers." Sir James IjOWTM^vCs" Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-tvo; or, a Sketch of the Timei." Although he may not lift his well-known voice in the legislative halls of the Home Islands, yet beyond all of the capriccio-fama attendant upon political existence in England, Canada, the land of breezy life — " Whenever the sail of Sir John was blown, The ice gave way and fled."— Geobqe Henky Baeeb. k la- ies ivn he in iry ni- HON. JOHN SANDFIELD MACDONALD. (Premier of Upper Canada.) " Of the Race of Caledonian Monarchs."— Walleb. . " High Macdonald, Worthy branch of old clan Ronald ! "—Sib W. Scott. ; PREMIER OF THE FIRST PARLIAMENT, ..>-<^'' ONTARIO. ^^' In the 1st 16th Londoniad is an article addressed to the genial and generous ..►^ descendant of the patriarchal princes who were the Lords of the Isles, when the progenitors of so-called royal families in Europe were engaged in leading bands of despoilers against the domains of their too- confiding neighbours. Three letters from him to THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD, which have been translated into Gaelic and French, and often reprinted, appear in the 10th edition of that work. The last time that I saw him he was engaged in an altercation with a Yankee editor. " Who from Macdonald's rage to save his snout. Cut 20 lines of defamation out." Peter Pindar's " Bozzy and Piozzi." 26 THB LONDONIAD. HON. THOMAS D'ABOY McQEE. Obator, Poet, Statesman, Author, Ex-Presidunt of the Council, and Minister op Arts. — Shot at Ottawa. (A Song of OssiAN, translated by the Author of the Londoniad, in his praise appeared in a former Edition of that Work.) I said I shall soon take my departure ftom this moral Aceldama, this Laystall, the very theca pulvinaria uf towns, and leave you to flourish among the Yankees like a Magnolia in a dismal swamp. The Actuob of the Londoniad. last words to the Hon. T. D'A. McGee, on leaving Boston, Mass. "... to Arts like these devote thy tuneful toil, /nd meet its fair reward in D' Arcy's smile." Eev. William Mason, " Ode to Independency." He like myself had spoken in favour of that damnable and accursed race of scoundrels before he bad dwelt amongst them. How different h'<; words after experience. His Poems published in Canada, breathe all tiiv. spirit of a true patriot, " Come over here," said he, to his countryman, " Come over to Canada, this is the only ft-ee country for Irishmen iu the world!" Go ask the student who hath mentally traversed all the political and natural circles of the globe, and before the questionlshall be completed, the ardouroua answer must burst forth " Bear witness with me in my song of praise. And tell the world that, since the world began, No fairer land hath fired a poet's lays ; Or given a home to man 1 "— Uenet Timeod. •' Canada I 'tis a glorious land ! With broad arms stretch'd from shore to shore. The proud Pacific chafes her strand. She hears the dark Atlantic roar.— William Jewett PeabodiB. Talk of joining, amalgamating or blending our destinies with yours !— " Canadians scorn your vile behest, Indignant passions fire each breast. And Britain's banner waves ; Whole years they've felt the fiame divine , Its cheering light can they resign To join with Yankee knaves."— LoED John Townshbnd. Sm A. T. GALT, HEAD OF THE INTEE-COLONIAL RAILWAY. The best known in Great Britain of our Colonial gentlemen. " I am Syre Alexander ; LosD Lton, Kino at Abms, ' ' Lyndsay of the Mount." "Mr. Galt- — — .'• — "Poemt, Satirical and Sumor out, by the Author of Lalla Bookh." was renowned in many countries of Europe, for he wrote in more languages than one, and we call him the Great Gait. Please see former LONDONIAJDS. Tb GFaJttai contains about 3000 lines. 4 THB LONOONUD. 27 U» HON. M. 0. OAMEBON. MINISTER OF STATE IN ONTARIO. " By love, I found in Matthew."— Hekbt Bbooke, 1745. Crooks (a brother Scholiaat)."— David Maixet. •'Cameron- -." " The Vition of Don Eoderick," 10th Staoca. ring my process through that University, acknowledged the Fairest of Learning m the West, I resided at the Western Hotel, and hero, side During! Seat of J _ bv side at the same table, was our chosen place for years. His conversation, always unafiTectod and edifying, still echoes in mine ears, and the Bubjecta thereof form visions to my mind in other countries. Sm EBANCIS HINGES, (Formerly Governor in the West Indies), FINANCE MINISTER. " Such a Minister as wind to fire, That adds an accidental fierceness To its natural fury,"— 8iB John Denham. I have a Biographical Sketch of your ex-Excellency in Hudibrastic verBO. "Mine too her rich West Indies."— Cowley's " Poems." The improper treatment to which he had (— ) subjected (— ) Demerara, pre- vented his restoration. BUFUS Wilmot Gbiswold (0» Park Benjamin). " Why should I tell, to cross the will of fate, That Francis once endeavoured to translate." This, I ftom Churchill quote; " The Candidate." " Why comes not Francis ? "— Wm. WoHDSWOETn. " Francis comes enraged."— Maby Queen op SCOTS. " Ah, Francis! Francis well I meet ThubC 'joks are all deceit."— Bdwaed Moobe. " To Sir Francis I'll give up thy claps and thy hisses."— Thos. Moobb. 4 HON. GEOROE BROWN. " He was a most sarcastic man, this (un)quiet Mr. Brown, And on several occasions he had mussefled the town." Fbancis Beet Habtb. (KNOWN AS THE ROGUE ELEPHANT), AND THE GLOBE. " Have you seen the Elephant ?" Well 1 please see Samuel Butler's Poem, " The Elephant in the Moon." -Lo, he comes. — An arch rogue Brown appears. COWPEB'S " Tatk." " That daft Buckie Geordie "— (RoBEBT BuENs). ! This personage was once our Prime Minister for two days. A few years ago, I saw a document at Whitehall, in which George Brown's name was the thirty-seventh upon thu list for the title of C.B. I then and there declared that it would take ail the waters of the Gulf Stream, and more than a second Siloam, to wash him morally clean. I related his doings in eo THB LONDONIAD. Scotland and in Now York, and more than I can horo ropoat. Hla namo was then marked out of the 8aid list. I have a Satire upon him, of wliicU tho fullowiii)? quo'iition I'rom Sir Francis Uond Head'a Narrative (our former Oovumor in Upper Canada), will form the motto :— " Ho i8, without exception, the most notorious liar in all our country. Ho lies out of every poro of his skin. Whether ho bo Bleeping, or waking, on foot, or on horsbback, talking with his neighbours, or writing for a nows- naper, a multitudinous swarm of lies, visible, palpable, and tangible, aro buzzing and settling aljout him like Hios around u horse in August." And speaking of tho compatriots of " Lanky gracoloss George, son of Podgy Peter," WO aro reminded of Charles Lever's song, " The Man for Galway," " Ye think tho Blakes aro no ' Great Shakos.' " •• Tho Blakes provoke our mirth."— CilAliLES CllcacniLI,. " How dead to virtue in tho {.ubKc cause ! Shume (on) you Blakes."— Akenbiujj, " A British Fhilippie** " All who honour's paths forsake, Will reckon each to be a Blako."— DAVID MA.LLET. Ono time he undertook " Sober Sandwich to rebuke." Ode to I'Ord North, on hia being appointed Commandcr-iu-Chicf by tho House of Commons, MUCCLXX.— Author not known. but " the gallant Colonel "— YousG'a "Love of Fame." turned upon him " with head and heel." ' 'Whoro the blue hills of old Toronto shed Their evening shadows o'er Ontario's bod."- -TnoMAB MroHB. TORONTO. " The chief city of tho West." Waller, "Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turia, 1633." I inscribe the 2nd 100th Londoniad to the friends of my early years in Toronto : I have not forgotten them. Many may have passed away to other regions and states of being ; yet will I hope to catalogue their names. " Soft be their rest, children of streamy Lotha, I will remember them with tears ; And my secret song shall rise in tho groves of Tor." OSSIAN, " CarriC'Thura." Toronto was styled by Captain Marryat even in his time the most English city in America. 1 call it tho modal city of tho universe. Nor is there any city in the western hemisphere that can in any way compare, considering the amount of its population, for the magnificence of its buildings ; of tho intelligence of its inhabitants I have spoken elsewhere, and have laid before tho imperial metropolis of the mother country tho names and busmesses of more than one thousand of its inhabitants in the 100th edition of tho Londoniad j here tho old chiefs of races, many of which are now no more, assembled around their council fires— ages beyond remembrance, ay ! long before the pale-face had crossed the great Salt Lake, in the peaceful times •when " Against the burning West Glimmered the ruddy camp-fires."— Bataed Tatlob, 1825. to the stormier epoch when— "Hi^h through the gloom, in pale and dreadful spires. Rose the long terrors of the darkeu'd fires ; 1 THB LONDONIAD. 29 Torches tind torrent sparks, by wljlrhviii(l« driven. Btream'U throuxU tho Htuuko, unci tlrt'd tho ciniidod heaven." Timothy Dwiout, 1762—1917. Then were hcnrd ihnte omtinns drllvrrrd in nrdnnr, and bo rcplcto with forcwt imagery; from hero a^cl■nde(l the War Soiijfs— " Dread swell f)f sound, loud as tho ^iists that lush Tho mattod forests of Ontario's shore."— Wobdswobth'b " Sonneti," Tho city of Toronto was not settled by Bo'^rprars as was many nnother town and city through tho Wust. Thoy wore Kontlomcn in liritain in tho ilays of tho Charles', and long before, tho liobinsons arc tho descendants of tho did Kincs of Mercia, and tho Shorwoods from the Imperial Brotwahlas. They were tno first men of tho mother country, ovon before, under tlio tyrants of the Lower Kmpiro, tho slates of modem Kuropo wore formed. They had left their houses and lands in tho south behind them in tho warring ages for tho expected Aidon of tho future I " Nor frown was seen through sky or soa, Nor tear o'er leal or sod, When first in tho Laud of Destiny Their great forefathers trod."— Tnos. MoonE, "Soiifj of InnxKfaU." How different to thosn whoso lot wns cast in another cycle ol! time, if not in another geographic circle, Where the flcrce Indiim's war-cry rang, Through hot and lui ious frays. And the brave old ])i()nccrs sang. Amid tho battle's olnng, Their climes' insitiring lays. The Pioneers of Ontario were veritably tho " Stars of the Western World."— Mrs. H. W. Pahkee. whose headquarters were at Toronto, " By wild Ontario's boundless lake."— Sin WALTER ScoTi's " MarmionJ" "Prido of the West."— Jambs A. HlLinouSE. Thus spake the bard who wrote one hundred years ago— " From the 1 leak Atlantic main To dark Ontario's piny shore." "The wond'ring wilds admire the passing sails. Near where th' bold ships the stormy'Huron brave, Where wild Ontario rolls tho whitenmg wave." Colonel David HuiiruEETS, 1753—1818. •' No pirate barque was ever seen to glide With blood-red streamer, chasing o'er thy tide." John NEALB'S " Ontario." Here flourished in our day the greatest and the best that ever from these Islands of Septentrional ocean, passed over the North Atlantic's submerged slopes and plains, who sought to extend the power of his clime, and rear the standard of salvation in that giant land of the setting sun. — John the first Lord Bishop of Toronto. Here are the headquarters of the United Empi"e Loyalists, those Unconquered Saviours of tno West, who have rendered Classic that which was always Sacred, the Soil of Uppee Canada. And you, the U.B.L.'s of Uppee (/ANADa, may your spirits ever exult vivified; adapting to your own peculiar situation the wonder words of Ajax in tl.e 15th Iliad, when Hector flamed upon the enemy, and Melanippus glowed with inherent ardour, recalling ensplendoring memories and ruminating upon the charateristics of your race— say, " We have a character to main- tain." " Then glory to that valiant band, The honoured saviours of the land ! "— IsAAO McLELLAy, Jan., ISIO. •!» so THE LONOONIAD. Like mighty chiefs of prehistoric times, although deserving, many may not have entered " Vi uere Fame's proud temple shines afar." Dr. James Bbaxiib's "Minttrel." nheritors of earth in a two-fold sense — " Of nameless graves on battle i)lain8, And some by green Atlantic rilla. Some by the waters cf the Xfent, A myriad imknown heroes j.*est."— Henet TlllBOD. Often amid my joumeyings in the forest I come to a sprung-tree, or to a clearance overgrown by underbrush, " "rhe sepulchre of migl ty dead. The irKtst hearts tbn.t ever bled."— De. James Gates Peecival, 1795. I may well remember met', Toronto, fairyland of my pilgrimage, my advent hither on a Siinmer L^imday — " 'Twas f onset's hallowed time — and such an eve MigLb almost 1,emvci an angel heaven to leave." J. K. Paulding, 1779—1860. before me rosfj from th.^ bay, as if by enchantment. • Torciiito'' ' bj'istling spires, A bove her tb " i,iid roofs, red with day's dying fires' Venice of the (ii.itish) West I "— Theodoee S. Fat.' "Wit,n her tiara of proud towers," she sits by the upland oceui in latitude 43° 39' 4" N. ; long. 79° 21' 5" W., or 6h. 17m. 263. Greenwich <««;.'«« tardus, still more developed in her loveliness than in the hour of inspiration when the Right Hon. John PMlpot Curran, the great Irish orator and poe. addressed — " Thou Jueen of the West," and lower down in the ages, Simuel Taylor Coleridge — " r ueen of tho West," and still nearer our own times I.-ofe&sor Longfellow— " The Queon of the West." Adieu 1 (I quote Ellen's quotation 11 " The Lady of the Lake.'^) " M not on earth, we meet in heaven." We'll sit aii>l sing in Glory, or the ages long ago. When we together wander'd by loved Ontario. " Canada." A poem by the Author of the LoimoiriAD. THitiLE STATUES FOE TOEONTO. I have a certain sun:, the proceeds of x liteiary work, which I intend to devote towards the erection of statues, in Toronto, to three literary men, to represent England, Ireland, and Scotland. I should like Milton for Eng- land (Milton and Shelley are my favourite English ports), and Dean Swift for Ireland; Dean Swift, "the true friend of Ireland." However, I will leave this to the commmiity to decide, more especially as to the great Scot. "Three poets in three distant ages, &c."— John Detcen, " On Milton." f 1 t THE LONDONIAD. 31 Great Milton next Unfettered in majestic numbers walks."— Joseph Addisou. And Tally's oerule chair, and Milton's golden lyre."— Maek AKB5SIDE. • Bard sublime, Milton, name that shall never die."— William Shekstohb " Milton all our grace."— Albxaitoeb Pope. That mighty orb of Song, The Divine Milton. "—William Woedswoeth. ' Such As Plato loved ; such aa with holy zeal Our Milton worshipped."— EOBEBT SouTHBT. " How many a rustic Milton has pass'd by." Pbbcy Btsshe Shelley. " Srme mute inglorious Milton here may rest."— Thomas Qeay. Many a single sentence in Milton's Prose Works, contains more meaning than the most elaborate of " Burke's Orations."— Lobd Macaulat. All the works of Channing embrace lesr than a page of the "Defence of the People of England."— Rufus Wiijot Gbiswold, *^0n Milton." What of Shelley? " I hear with pleasure any one commend So good a soul; for Shelley was my friend." Walter Savaqb Lawdoh. •' Shelley 1 whom men have called the Eternal Child." Hbkbt W. Pabker. And I here in hurrying, recall to mind thy words of the— Axit^or of " Romance called History."— Richard Savage. The words "bard" and "inspiration" have a special significance when applied to Shelley, the Poet of Poets.— Macaulat. And please see James Thomson, and Ebenezer Elliot. " Let Ireland toll how Wit upheld her cause, Her trade supported, and supplied her laws ; And leave on Swift this grateful verse engraved, * The Rights a Court attack'd a Poet saved.' " Albxandeb Pope. and the enlightener of the world for all ages. " For thee, oh Scott! "—Woedswobth'b " Yarrow Bevuited." and Byron and Thos. Moore, " Scotland— a country that has bestowed a Dunbar, a Buchanan, a Thor i- son, a Bm-ns ! "— Lucien Bponapabte. Robert Bums, to note Byron, Sir W. Scott, Wordsworth, Fitz-Green, Helleck, &c. 32 THE LONDOMAD. ■/ THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDONIAD. Queen's College, Kingston,— Beattie's original marble bust of Robert Bums, is destined for the above-mentioned seat of learning, to which I present it, and I desire that therewith be associated the name of a young friend, Master Malloch, son of Judge Malloch, county Lanark, and nephew of Edward Malloch, Esq., formerly member for the county of Carleton. It is known that this famous bust was for many years in India. The Marquis of Westminster and the late Marquis of Lansdo\ifne were com- petitors at the sa'e. The first-mentioned nobleman withdrew immediately that it became known to him that the bust was intended for presentation to a public institution ; and I have an excellent letter from the latter con- noisseur and dilettant, expressing his regret at having enhanced the price, and ofTeriiig that which of course I could not accept, to pay a certain sum towards the same. I have lately had prepared for this famous bust a laurel represented in hammered silver work by our modem Quintin Matsys, G. Albon, which I will send with it. "J. T. S. LinBTONE, Esq., Author of "Londoniad," Seattle's original Bust of Robert Bums the Scottish Poet, that great sculptor's chef-d'oeuvre, concerning which so many strange legends are extant, and not the least interesting are those which tell of its being lost for more than twenty years, and turning up ngainina port of the Mediterranean, probably conveyed thither by some Consul of H.B.M. ; thence sailing the Indian Ocean, finding refuge near the person of some descendant of Timour ; coming from the late Sii'ge of Delhi with other spoils to England ; and ■ vt length falling into the possession of Mr. Lidstonc, who intends sending it to Upper Canada." Catalogue of North Lnvdon Exhibition. Macaulay in his Art Notes uses the following words, " This famous bust is now unhappily lost." I am now engaged in preparing an Epic Poem, entitled the Bbockiad. The motto is from a Poem by the great sculptor, Thomas Woolner, R.A. Woolner on whom posterity will set The wreath of /^ts, hath not appeared yet In any number of the Londoniad, Although the poem for him is ready made, 'Tis known that, him on whom our benizon We pour, inspired Laureate Tennyson, One summer evening in a garden Relating the tale of Enoch Arden. And must the hurrying Muse perforce be brief, My favourite Milton's portrait, bas relief. He gave to me, this connoisseurs behold Where Cellini'', art doth itself unfold In my mother s keeping framed in bullion gold. CA.NAUA. I have long had a wish to see a perpetual light on Brock's Monument nt Qneenstiwn Heights, either by fire, properly so-called, or by gas connected with or attached to either of the following Colours : — ♦ ♦ • Generations yet shall thrill At Brock's remembered natne. True Martyr, Hero, Poet, Sage, And he was one of these."— CHi ELKS Sangstkr. By Cape of Hope.— MitTOir. I have just heard, 10/2/79, of the dofpat of the oppressors of the Aborigines. ■' So perish all That would man by man enthrall." k^-. THE LONDONIAD. 33 DUKE OF N0BTHT71CBEBLAND. (The Life-Boat Poem.) " of the Percy's high born race." FiTZ Green Helleck, ^^ Alnwick Castle." " ' Uplift it!' said Northumberland ; Whereat, from all the multitude Who saw the Banner rear'd on high In all its dread emblazonry — A voice of uttermcst joy brake out. The Norton fix'd His eye upon Northumberland In Percy's sighi." Wordsworth, " TJie White Doe of Roi/lestone," " The Great Northumberland." Edmund Waller. " The shipwrcck'd men, half frantic, see The Life-boat ploughing toward them now." Nicholas Michell, 1862. Northumberland ! the song be His, and heard on every sea — The Life-boat ! life-boat as it is, and as it ought to be. Salvation ! since the hour 'twas heard in Palestine, Ne'er yet displajr'd its power in act to equal thine. Th' Mariner amidst the storm — an univei'se in motion- Views Thee as an angel form upon the winged ocean. When the day of routine's past, and merit gaily smiles, Great Percy, to Thee at last shall rise the marble piles ; Thy monument shall be the Earth, the Sea Thy trump of fame ; Planets ard races at their birth shall flash and sing Thy Name. Gladly I'd prolong the strain which so inspires my mind. But soon to Thee I'll sing again, thou second Saviour of Mankind. THE IRON POEM. " Give me Iron." — " Romeo and Juliet.'"' BENJAMIN WHIT iTOBTH, ESa. M.F. " ^— ^— . best beloved Benjamin." Dryden, " Hind and Panther.'" " No Rechabite more shunn'd the fumes of Wine." John Drvden, '■^Absalom and Achitopltcl.^ Iron ! what art thou ? Ask the Artistic bard ; Of metals th' most abundant, useful, hard. Thee might well the enlighten'd nations prize. For thou hast done much more to civilize The world, and lift our country to renown, Than any other metal to us known. Look o'er the globe ; who was't their freedom sold, Those wretched races, in desire for gold ? Who was the presiding Genius o' the main .' Who held the Western World ? Was it not Spain .' What was she once ? what do we now behold ? A coward nation, sunk thro' lut,;, of Gold : o 34 THB LONDONIAD. But courage, honour and faith environ Th' rare of giant minds that keep to Iron. Oh, well we know what Iron doth inapart ; 'Tis God's Spirit breathed into every art. Mightiest Painters now enthroned on high, The suns and systems of our moral sky, With Iron oxides pigments do supply. In Chemistry thv combinations vast Into the shade all other metals cast ; Nor in the mineral kingdom can we find One like thee to string the nerves, expand th* mind Lo ! Electricity, which fills the whole Creation round as with a living soul. In Magnetism, too, and such as these. We :raverse 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 lengthen'd strain may sing. Henry Bessemer, Earl Dudley, Earl Lichfield, Sir John Brown, appear as Londoniads, Granville, Earl ob- Iron Heroes in former BABON GBIFFITHS' Ieon Trade Exchange. Established June, 1849. Office 84, Cannon Street, London, E.C. " Griffiths he."— Dean Swift, " Tlie Prologue.'" "Griffiths, hail." — Charles Churchill, " Independence''' " A Baron bold."— Thomas Gray, " TIic Bard:' " 1 C:imbro-Briton in pedigree. Sprung fro.Ti Cadwalladerand Arthur, kings Full famous in Romantic tale. " • John Philips, "77/c Splendid Shilling:'' The Poem appears in a former Londoniad. I have had one thousand five hundred Colonial Names sent to me for a British periodical and I have chosen that owned and personally edited by the eminent personage herein and now mentioned. His magnificent work on Iron came to me, a short time ago with the following letter written upon the inner part of the front cover : — TO J. T S. LIDSTONE, ESQ. Dear Mr. Lidstone, — Will you permit me to present you with my book on the Iron Trade, which I cannot pretend has any especial merit, but have much pleasure in making the offering to one whose intelligence and straightforward manner has signally attracted my attention in a very agreeable manner. Permit me to subscribe myself, dear Mr, Lidstone, Yours faithfully, ' Samuel Gri'fiths. • " " Iro t Trade Excliange:' 84, Cannon Street, E.C, Loudon, England. '' THE LONDONIAD. 35 L. ROSE AND CO., Patentees of the Preserved Lime Juice Beverages, Prepared from West India Limes (Preserved by a Process under Royal Letters Patent), Lime Juice Cor- dial, RosiNA, Rose's Refined Lime Juice, Rose's Lime Juice Champagne, Rose's Quinine Wine, 11, Curtain Road, Finsbury, London, E.G., and at Leith, Scotland. ANALYTICAL REPORT. "Apart from intrinsic excellence, Rose's Lime Juice Beverages, although PERFECTLY FREE FROM SPIRIT, havc the i)eculiar faculty of retaining their composition, flavour, and therapeutical propeities unim- paired for any time, and at any temperature within the ordinary climatic ranges, an advantage possessed by no other brand known to COMMERCE. (Signed) "WENTWORTH LASCELLES SCOTT, F.t S., P.A.S.L., F.R.S.S.A., &C., Analytical Labnrotovies, London and Wolverhampton." " Rose cordials. Lime."— Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poeins, 1865, " Bear me, Pomona, to ive ive cin ort the my rit, nee cry • the piercing Lime." James Thomson's "(Sfeasons." " Some Cordial." — Wm. Cow per. "Their favourite Rose the Muses praise."— "William Broome. " And first hehold this cordial hue, and flagrant syrups, Not that Nepenthes, which the wife of Thome, In Egypt gave to Jove-bom Helena, Is of such power to stir up joy as this. To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst." John Milton, '• Co»b«s." " The Princess then the general silence broke. And thus, in loud, rejoicing accents spoke, Your Rose revere." Hughes's "Birth o/tJie Rose.'''' " Our ladies are fresh and fair, thro' Rose." Dr. Sheridan's " Ballad on Ballyspellin.'''' Disease and eld, fly with collateral hor(r)ida. As from the cypress of Ceylon, and fountain of Florida. I desire to bear o'er the Lake region of Ontario Products of the world's prime benefactors, L. Rose and Co. For however much so-call'd Science may evil itself mature. We must, for perfectitude, perforce go back to Nature. " Yankee compounds, erst with our people played the very deuce," But now home we hie to Britain, north and south, for Lime Juice. Not lik« Moore's hero, the bard to Hygeia's fane clambera, He heareth Dr. Inman, Sir Armstrong, Brothers Chambers, What those eminencies have said, and proved, might well induce Adventurers to ev'ry zone to take with them Lime Juice ; d2 36 TUB LOWDONIAD. Mjr world-famed hero's name will be a special guarantee To our 4,000,000 of all ori|{ins beyond the tea. In the coming season shall Argo a careo carry. Under the guidance of Supercargo ex-Boatswain Parry, To the capital of our prairie-land Fort Garry. Here our chiefs, yea, all of each aboriginal nation, Utterly contemn that thrice-double-distiird damnation, That bi-ain, soul destroying, fluid Hades, hell-forestalling Horrible alcohol I Which the Muse is right in calling Concentred Phlegethon, only more so in the way of evil, Fire under its ev ry form may become a purifier, But thou'rt Autonomy of all disease, thou liquid devil. (" Oh, Mr. Lidstonc ! And you, generally so civil !") I tell you what 'tis, if you bring whiskey here. I'll rhyme a- Nother pair of Bloomer slips off of you, Miss Jemima. She. — On, Sir, I heard it said in babyhood you were precocious ; But nobody ever told me that you were ferocious ! SECOND POEM. Our nature move ethertalised, nought may now embruit. While from Heaven's benignnnt hand doth grateful man salute Rose and Co.'s Lime Juice Beverages — all of the Lime Fruit ! As a preventive against scurvy we here th' palm confer. If ought might, this would take the mange from Yankee character. (Scene, picturesqiie I The natives, in their best an-ay, At the gathering of the Lime fruit make lively holiday.) I thought that some Bacchantse here held their revel-abode. This same great Brewciy, or Distillery — Curtain Road. Such to me the Rose warehouses seem'd of very vast extent, I should think them unrivalled on either Continent. Here, as if entranced, I traced a hundred correlative Manufactures, to which they new life and energy give; And these, all considered, with their application of Steam, Well might the Bard, unique Roses' famous establishment deem. The great tun of Heidelberg reminded me of theirs — Oh, had Roses' Lime Juice been more freely used by Captain Nares! Ye maritimal heroes had not before illness Quail'd, But the crew, unbroken, had back again to England sail'd. Roses' standard of salvation is in every zone unfurl'd, They stand at the head of, and supply, all the nations of the world. No Massachusetts' abortion now our people throttles ; Our chiefs take heed that no Yank uses Roses' imprcss'd bottles. That which late came from Boston was a compound of poison; Roses' gives life in pei-petuity, and health in foison. P.S. — Not now in Canada, nor were we ever votaries Of lethiferous decoctions, called slippisoter r . I know not if what he saith be in a snort or a sneeze. The vendor appeared to me like some inardorous form Helimontological, thrown by subterranean storm Up from unimaginable depths of glacial seas. Well ! my Question, after what you have said about the Rosey Houses, I should like to become their Agent. — Coll (the great) McLeod. "Son of the Mighty," replied the Bard, " 1 will represent the Rosesean Race myself." — J. T. S. Lidstonb. " Coll is a noble animal." — Dr. Johnson's " Journey to the Hebrides.''^ THR tONDONIAD. 37 THE GEEAT VENTILATOE, &c., POEM. BOBERT BOTLE ANB SON, Ventilating and Sanitary Engineers, Inventors, Patentees, and Mandfac- TURERS OF Boyle's Patent Self-Acting AiR-PuMP Ventilators, Boyle's Patent System of Ventilation for Steam Suips. Boyle's System of Ventilation for Mines, Boyle's Im- provements IN Furnaces, Boyle's Patent Smoke Con- sumer AND Fuel Economizer, Boyle's Patent Chimney Cowl, Boyle's Patent Smoke Extractor, &c., &c. Estimates Giveu and Designs Supplied. Prospectuses, Pamphlets, Price Lists, &c., Post free upon application. Government and Corporation Work Contracted for. Prin- cipal Offices and Show Eooms — 110, Bothwell Street, Glas- gow ; Mansion House Buildings, London ; & 8, Corporation Street, Manchester. Works — 154^, Bothwell Street, Glas- gow. " In praise of Boyle." — Dean Swift. " Noble Boyle."— John Drydbn. '* Why need I name thy Boyle, whose search Amid the dark recesses ot his works The great Creator sought ?"— James Thomson. "— — Artemisia talks of Boyle." Alexander Pope, " Imitation of the Earl of Dorset.'''' " Who shall grace, or who improve, like Boyle ?" Pope, to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington, on Building, &c. " First in the friendships of the great enrolled, Boyle." David Mallet. " Boyle shines magnificent." Young's " Love of Fame;'' Part IV. " Thy Boyle in wisdom found contend." Lord Lyttleton. Boyle, before the poet, lays A table, with a cloth of baize.* Pope to Thomas Southern. '* recommend the good, we owe a Boyle." Sir Samuel Garth, " The Dispensary;'' Canto V. I had heard in Buffalo, in Western New York, That they were scions of Boyle, great Earl of Cork And as of old was stoppM that flight of Jupiter Stators, The plague-fiend, through their self-acting Air Pump Ventilators Is arrested, Argo soon a cnrgo takes to the Lakes. Too much of the attributive the Inventor not claims; Still, I use them in my yacht Sappho, on the English Thames. W hile throughout our mansions, cathedrals, all public halls, Hospitals, &c., loudly for such Canada calls. i 38 THE LONDONIAD. Soon I'll have painted a transparency illustrative, And become in person an unpaid Representative. Testimonials? Our time's luminaries, no tapers Dimly bum for them through mere notices of newspapers. So long as Concordia stands our goddess-warden, her Oriilamme shall be emblazoned with the name of Gardner. By all our thriving settlements along each upland sea, Aye on the qui-vive, from Q. V. Street, London, Eng., E.C, We will invoke your aid, most trustworthy O. T. B. G. I know that for doing away with th' very distressful Smoky c'-imneys, shows Lady Buhvcr's Vert/ Successful. Henceforth th' extending market of the mighty West is won, For the head Ventilators of th' world, Robert Boyle and Son. While ever each architectural masterpiece to crown. That which, thro' science, hath capp'd the climax of all renown, Hail ! " Boyle's Puieni, Chimney Cowl, for preventing a blow down." For buildings of th' better sort each eminent contractor Throughout these islands calls for Boyle's Patent Smoke Extractor. Th' Bard, while he on main ocean or sea-liki lake takes his trips. Greets Boyle's Patent System of Ventilatioi for Steam Ships. And along those fountains of the seas, Canada's rivers, At all our settlements the Bard consignment, delivers. While each practical Thaumaturgus of science assigns The first place to Boyle's System for Ventilation in Mines. While ol' Adam's descendants, the superior races With light of soul, welcome Boyle's improvements in Furnaces. And eke doth Observation, the tireless muse, apprise her Of Boyle's Patent Smoke Consumer and Economizer. We've discarded those erst sent from th' so-call'd United States ; Here xte Designs supplied, and here are given Estimates. By those who grace the globe like sun-irradiated Tor, Are Government and Corporation work contracted for. While we in Canada, who high thoughts of Home-land nourish, Joy at sight of th' famous banner-roUe, " Let Glasgow Flourish." We greatly too rejoice that this is no Cockney botch-house, But what all nations must admire — a glorious Scotch House. 'f lb ALFRED MONK, Organ Manufactohy, Sussex Terrace, Great College Street, Camden Town, Lon- don, N.W. Established 1862. Certificate awarded at International Exhibition, 1872. " 'Twas Monk whom Providence designed." John Dryden, '•^Astrae Redtux" " Fill with the magic of his mighty hand, That outline his creative Fancy plann'd, , Then should a Monument eternal rise. Worthy of Alfred's glory to the skies." J. H. Pye's " Alfred," Bk. vi., lines 623-6. From Manhattan we had some thro' Van Groute and 's pal Fred Donk, But we all like English work, and thus hail Alfred Monk. We've driven out from Canada each low Yankee carle, And greet a Scion of th' Crown's resuscitator, Albemarle, Z - ' J^^ ' Jiii^JLixii^fiXWirr z w 'f iH THK LONDONIAO. Since iV spirit of reciprocation grew refractory, H ither wo nie to Alfred Monk his Manufactory ; He hath tracM Harmonious Science to its very fferms, Hence he can make us First Class Organs on Moderate terms ; London's principal firms, risen to fortune and renown, Trace all their success to my Hero's Sire in Camden To>?n. Organ i the most improved, Cecilia upon him smiles — Prmciplcs, Scales, Patterns, Designs of all Sizes and Styles, And what will much delight our myriads heyond the seas, Ev'ry organ that he makes he specially guarantees. The prices all are reasonable (and this we all salute), Why are they? f^ he orders, personally doth execute : The amount required, came in fast, which we did lately fund, For the 50 chapelrics attach'd to St. Tammanund'. Fame, as with evolving nimbi, his blest brow shall crown, High heavenward ascend ye music notes from Camden Town, And blending with the spheres' encircle time's exulting years, Nor only Family Genius doth Alfied inherit. But won, in '72, th' Certificate of Merit. 89 THE EMBEOIDEEY POEM— SCHOOL OF ART. M. LEADER, Wholesale Haberdasueb. and Hosier, Im- ported OF Berlin Wool and German Needlework, 9, New Inn Yard, Shore- ditch, London, E.G. Pallas ! — follow your Leader, this is no Yankee smasher, But Imperial London's great Wholesale Haberdasher, Who tnumphs thro' British wisdom o'er Boston's day of dool, And supplies visitors with Hosiery and Berlin Wool. " The Leader," my practical hero's trade-mark, The Leader of Toronto in which thousands did embark. Bore us through lurid tempests and night as Erebus dark. Now for Shoreditcli, London, E.C., and No. 9, New Inn Yard, The New Inn written upon by Ben Jonson, learned bard ; Yea, better than from others, even Pittman and Carlile, —A greater variety than elsewhere in the Home Isle. Here we have no . assachusetts so-call'd wheedlework: Hail ! renown'd Importer of Berlin Wool and Needlework ; Lo ! adjoining ye septentrional London Railway, I bear such o'er the ocean, our Western Empire's Hallway, And say what hath me very greatly hereunto inspired, Much for Presentation that may be by our guests requireii. I need not here attempt to catalogue the whole, and why? Enlightened readers Leader's object? know as well as I ; Here we meet with better terms, let it ever be confess'd, Than at the other end of the capital cleeped West. Art ! free of the revenue, which erst did the bard retard, 1 introduce to Canada from Shoreditch, 9, New Inn Yard. SECOND POEM. Ask me why each Muse of Arts here the glory-palm assigns And Leader, through the world. lo ! School of Art Prick'd Designs ; 40 THE tONbONIAO. Note, with or without Hand-Painted Colours whereby to work, ; For Embroiiif ry and for Painting, Boston and New York, With nil tlicir boast, could never in such tasteful deeds <"igagc, Lo that peculiar which is under Royal patronage, (Here all the wizard scenes which wc attribute to Merlin, In Art's resuiTection spring thro' textile known ns Bcrliu.) South Kensington School of Art, where I many Ladies saw. Who for Embroidery, blest Art ! could colour, eke, aud draw, We ardourously delight in Art ; but, above the rest, There is a mania for Embroidery in the West ; And whcie the more highly-refined and educated May our Ladies be, tiie more with this they arc elated, While with vulgarians nothing is appreciated. Muse ! for tnithful Progress, in this resplendent Art award Our second Mu8a;a — here the intellectual well-spring For all of the accessorial in Embroidering The Ecclesiastical, &c., which seems to sing In angel tongue, par excellence, called the Art Divine, Throws an ctern halo 'round New Inn Yard aud No. 9. CSS* Queen Ta-pa-ta-mce and the Princess Louisa, who take high rank among tho more enlightened Embroideresses of the world in this the Living Age appear in the present " Londoniad." ^ ^^ All orders for this house must „_„ come through the Author of the " LondoniaJ " or they will not be fuWlled. J. H. EENWABD, IMPORTEE, EXPORTEE, AND MANUFACTURER, 4, Chapel Street, Edgware Road, London. " Truth, crush'd to earth, shall rise again : The eternal years of God are hers ; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain. And dies among his woishinpers." WilLiAM CuLLEN Bryant (1794—1878), " The Battle Field: Like Shakespeare's " trumpet of the mom " advancing hen-ward Mercurius wooes the Art-Muse through J. H. Kenward. I hie not now nor ever did for our colonial gods. Vide Thomas Gay to " Drury's mazy courts and dark abodes," (Soul darkners) " Where porters' hogsheads roll from courts aslope, (Brain mystitiei-s) or brt wers down steep cellars stretch the rope.' This quotation doth itscif upon my memory fix, As found in Trivia, Bk. J I., line 95-6: '* Be thine my stationer," tins from tho Dunciad of Pope. Not for our beloved Aboriginal hierarchy Do I go to Covent' Simmons, or to Conduit' Starkey, That were only going Serbonian fen-ward, But tho soul's solar path we traverse with J. H. Kenward ; If^ THE LONDONIAD. Among Canada's great Race* all Virtue's Exemplars We have. I ween, more than 100,000 Good Templarn, Who J. H. Kcnwavd's products will welcome with elation, From Number 4, Chapel Street, near to the Railway Station, And say what hath cast all tlie rest of London in dolours — Here 1 beheld it. Muse ! printed in eleven colours ; A work of Art worthy of Athenso or Roma Is my worthy hero's New Registered Diploma. Astra; joining Pallas, saith " We'll not change the venu," In statu quo let all remain, free of the Revenue, I take my thousands out our clime once charm'd, I will then ward The Yankee vandal off, thus welcoming J. H. Kenward, And what will to our ease of mind — all satisfaction tend, Here corresponding with him who is a personal friend. I will take with me, in my next Manitobian trip, His beautiful New Registered Carte for Membership. I lequire some personage with whom to cori'espond on Those Peace compelling Arts in the Home Capital, London. Good Templar Badge, no more acceptable Presentation, Could be made to tne Sagamores of each Indian Nation, Or those beside on which many a chief great value sets. Letters, Tassels, Buttons, Emblems, Bullion Fringes, Rosettes, Stars, and I note all adornments required for Toilets. Sound it around our eleven thousand miles of border. Flags, Banners, all Good Templar requisites made to order, Talk to me no more of a Golden Age Restored, Here's a very Heaven on Earth to be adored ; No one in J. H. Kenward's presence need feel strange, Emblems ever to their caste lie will courteously arrange, And famed Dr. Oronhyatekha by each upland sea And cataract's flight, will know what cults us in each Degree. Our spirits are exultant, and every heart grows warm, From blissful associations that here our senses charm, At the sight of Lettered Banners each sacred Muse now imps Her wing. Lodge Mottoes, Lodge Furniture, Gold and Silver Gimps. No more shall Yauk from Massachusetts come on vandal raids — Here all Constitutional in keeping, even to th' Braids, 'Fore alcoholia genii I was startled with affright, Realized Earth belching elements, oi Arabian Night, And those on which Milton's Satan took his " incumbent flight." It was a scene ! worthy the fierce Muse of Isaiah — Hades wing'd in storms flying from th' presence of Messiah. These hurried from out the range of Being, in one fell sweep. As th' Temperance Fount from Heaven went rolling o'er the deep. In barque of pearl for Alden-land on rainbow seas I rode, Taking my first Meridian from Hygise's abode, The blissful and inspiring it^ 4, Chapel Street, Edgware Road, May ye modem Bacchantse, experience our ruth. Yea, we'll turn tow'rds our Hero whose chosen Motto's Truth. 'Tis not against the role of right with a soul defiant, That I pass a Hundred Bards for W. C. Bryant. We will name a few together th' laurel ever crowning, Arbuthnot, Bailey, Carew, A. & P. Browning, Churchill, Corbet, Cowper, Davies, Pope, Denham, Dryden, Gay, Though Suns and Systems never more were to light up the day, I'd undertake to render Orphic th' zodiac for aye, . . And to cn-tropic th' universe with th' splendours of each lay; 41 43 THE L0N30NIAD. Julinson, MiltoD, Mitchell, Maaon, Pomfrct, Sandy*. Story, Uecd, Roscommon, Granville, Sons and Daughters eke of dory, Swain, Tennyson, Thomson, Tickcll, Waller, Whitticr, Ward- All Dynasties and Empires, shall outlive the TRt'THtul Bard- Shakespeare, Watts, Wordsworth, liret llarte, Osgood, Cumberland, Oh, ye shall never with the brainless sleep in Lumberlond ! FREDEEICK YORE, 87, Lancaster Road, Notting Hill, London, W.,PU0T0GIIAP1IIC PUBLISUEll, MANUPACTUIlEtt OF PuoTOGiiAPuic Magic Lantekn Slides. See Catalogue of over 10,000 varieties. Puoto- GRAPUic Magic Lantekn Slides or Dis- solving Views. All one uniform Size and Price. Slides are not let out on hire. Cheques crossed London and South Western. ' P.0.0. to be made payable at Westbourne Grove. Prize Medals : Philadelphia, 1876 ; Paris, 1867 and 1878; Cornwall Polytechnic, 1833 ; Belgium, 1876. " Say thou too, Frederick, was not this thy aim? Thy vigils could the student's lamp engage." Dr. Mark Akenside, Ode xiii. " True Genius gilds the day ; With joy she sees the stream of Art, Sees York to fame." — Rev. J. Brown upon Pope. " Illustrious York, whose fame has flown so far." John Sheffield, " Duke of Buckinghamshire.'''' Immortal Fame f% Fill'd her fond clarion with her Frederick's Name." James Cawthorn. Manv a topographical and legendary work We here behold illustrated by Squire Frederick York. Soon my hero's fame, like unto an atmosphere shall fill The world,— Lo ! tW ^7, Lancaster Road, Notting Hill. Almost Univei-sal Knowledge the Human Mind embues Thro 's Photographic Magic Lantern Slides ; — Dissolving Views, Tbro'out meridional Americ his deeds are known, And, like the morning's sunlight, hath the Eastern world o'erflown. *' Blessings on Science," said Bavaria's learned king, Here Frederick York doth all its blessings forth to vision bring. Like the illustrious John, " Him for my censor I disdain (Dryden quote) who thinks all Science as all virtue vain." *' Far eastward cast thine eye ^Pope's Dunciad) from whence the sun And Orient Science (—general ?) at a birth began." " Science," twin with Sol, hath lit our Orb since th' days of Chiron, Shakespeare, Milton, Hooker, Hammond— names I never tire on, — Lo I Glanville, Howel, South, Lock, Fenton, Beattie, Byron. Now I, with Frederick, pass thro' Classic and thro' Sacred Lands, And living Nature, in'ts 70,000 aspects, forth in action stands ; Yea, he all her scenes in each zone thro' happy Art sublimes. We live and breathe in or early or late-discover'd climes. L THE LONDONIAI). a f$ Hero cv'ry action leaps to life from Trulli or mjr.bic lore, And by omniiciental reflex to rapt vision start, Enpcopled Chaos and Night, O blcss'd Ktcrnity of Art! Forms breathing sanguineous, and all with seeming spirit rife; Mystic twins, 'twere hard to say whicli, only breatlics tlic brcatii of life. Each savant thro' our planet in this truism agrees, That fur ahead of th' world rank his Photo-Transparencies. Those 11X9 ho hath produced in 4 styles, Yea, scones of the capital of these Imperial Isles, He hath revived a second Renaissance, tho brighter birth. And I have proclaimed in all tho languages of earth To Him have been a greater number of prizes given Than to any other wight in his line under Heaven. And it shall bo my glory-prido to bring thorn all in vogue, And for this full soon to give a rhytlimical catalogue. I have soon some that were but tho merest apology, While here truthfully reveal'd th' Monsters of Geology, Yea, leaf after leaf 1 turn, and tho layers I unroll, And track th' eternal ages back of Nature's mighty vol. He dotii for this delightful soul-expanding Art secure A place in Famu's fane, destin'd for over to endure ; Not far below the cycle of titanic literature. With him, I to th' endless cycle o'er time's singing ages crost, In company with adored Milton's Paradise Lost, Hero I hail'd th' Illustrated by Martin and by Doi o ; Mine Fuseli', Wcstall', and Brydges' Edit' th' Turner glory ! All that to the real and mightier ideal belong, Too, that mania of our epoca " Service of Song;" And here with freshening breeze ye Moral your Bard regales , With views of Fairy Land, ever-blessed Temperance Tales. f OEIGINAL WOEKS ESTABLISHED 1829. MOBGAN H. DAVIES, Grange Road, Bermondsey, London, S.E. Engineer and Contkactok, Coreugated Iron Manufacturer (either Painted or Galvanized), Contractor to H.M. War Department, &c., &c,. Manufacturer of Roofs, Workshops, Stores, Dwelling- houses, Churches, Schools, Sliding & other Gates, Doors, Windows, Shutters, &c., &c., for Home and Exportation. '• Of triumph others little knowed, For Morgan's cock the louder crowed." Palmadurb Trkhkrnk (Cornish Poet). " Davies was eminent." T. L. Pridham, M.R.C.S.,L. Our Contractors were erst by mere red-tapists gagged, Hence the Felt Cottages that so soon appeared itigged, But now Science' Aureola, Surveyors environ Thro' our Manufacturer in Corrugated Iron. Going over prairie Manitoba we find no timber, Here we'll rear our Lodges of the portable and limber. 1 44 THB LONDONIAD. In competition all in vain \rould Yankee battle her, The Muse — hies homeward tc^vurd London and Morgan Rr.ttler, So nought of Gomorrah Boston's, or MaT>>iattan New York's, fB» Bermondsey, hail and Walker's Corrugated iron Works. It was lately said i/ato me by a Cockney gaby, " Oh, Mr. Lidstone, do go and see Euston Road Braby !" I replied, " We do never hide our heads under zinc pails." Corrugated Iron for us, soon Argo wllh cargo sails Bending aiTowy sunbeams, flatt'ni"" iccidental gak j. I have the funds, my power to negotiate — be this the proof— At all our stations I'll have a goods shed, circular roof And each other kind ; now let the boastfu! Yank' howl, for ship I will, those so suiting, a peculiar kind of worship. Nor in gen'ral use my hero's deeds in England afon'^, But are gi'ceted Letter A Number One in ev'ry zore. Not to Whitford — no — nor Darkford, nor any other ford I go : orders for Moi-gan H. Davies hath on me pour'd ; As when mine arm's asleep, evenr artery tingles — Whi 'f-ver I think upon the pluflt of timber shingles, For io^ a Steamboat or a Railway Engine passing by, Aei . h' succession of Warehouses at once to blazes fly. To th' Patent Cornigateu Lcn t.o long age assign, 'Twas manufactured first I ween in 1829, (Here the Original, the centre and the primal seat AH those have failed who as imitators would compete.) And since that time it hath steadily increased in demand, And the original alone is sought in ev'ry land. Where once, forests shadow'd the west; suiting Jaques of Arden, The open landscape glows with many a Winter Garden. Hark ! the Ocean's tui-ned to a mighty oi^n — aitch-wavies— The only one in his line and London — Morgan H. Davies. Again I say, he's one of th' Titanian Creatori ; All others are effete abortions — cleep'd Imi.ator8. Th' strength imparted to Iron, in its succesiive ridges. Symbolize in my mind a continuous cours; of Bridges. This, hath innate perception to th' inquii-irg Bard disclosed, H:;iled for Roofs, nowevtr large, and positions exposed, Yea, the <2ntire Roof T -.lotice in my mental march, Rivetted in one njass, becomes a seV;-supporting arch, W'"th nough*. of scantling or of boarding to be overthrown, No loose slates or tiles to be away with hurricane blown. Thro' the <;lements convulsed did fiends like fishes wander, And the embattled atmosphere turned serial Scamander ; But these were no match, as once with the mighty Achilles, For in hay-ricks went th' bustles of Jemima and Phyllis, Tritons, Phcpbus' son's antipodals, up rush'd, foaming cars And old Oceanus wildering, islanded the stars; Nor that which wreek'd King Ulysses when fain would gallop ho Hippocentaur-like thro' floods, to Mistress Penelope ; Nor those famed Winds that to her rest cradled Q. Dido ; Heard in Paradise Regained, Orlando, Pastor Fido ; Or when like rapids coasted by blasts came in sheets the shower Ti.Ai swamp'd Pilgrim Alfred's last refuge in Futvoye tower. Such storms would make ridges of slates and tiles go a long way In embleming an animal irate with its hp.ir turn'd the wrong way ; So th* wild sea that with Jonah made ship-hands and skipper daft. THE LONOOMAU. 43 Eke Eurocljdon the east wind which broke up St. Paul his craft, With tl.jse most furious airs that opportune did come well To wing to his native Hades th' 'cursed vandal Cromwell ; Not this, that he caused Charles his head from its trunk to dispart ; Rise, Oliver ! take half the kings of th' world with ail my heart. (S* For certain portions of those public woiks now being advanced iu Tor> quay, I with pleasure introduce the name of Mr. Davies. LLOYD BAYNEB, Medical and General Shop Fitter, Shop Front Builder, Air-tight Show Case Manufacturer, Fixture Dealer, Medical Labeller and Wholesale Druggist. The Largest Stock iu the World of Goods on Sale. Show-rooms and OflSices, 333, Kingsland-road. Factories : 2, Downham-road, Kingsland, and Whitmore-road, Hoxton, London, N., near Haggerston Station; North London Eail- way. L. R., or Foreman, will be glad to waitupon Gentlemen to plan and advise. Estimates given for every description of Shop and Office Fittings, &c., and for Alterations. Omnibuses and Tramway Cars to and from th" Bank pass the door every few minutes. " Thou travellest over the world in vain, O Sun! Seekest thou tlie equal of Rayiier? lie who dwelleth In (the) Kingsland." — Ossian, An deigh namjumn. " Hence, ye vain boasters ! asi' if Lloyd is there." Charles Churchill's Poems, " The Rosciad."' In Boston, Massachusetts, lived a wight named Floyd Trayner, Known for — nothing i« particular ; not so Lloyd Rayner. Long years, the Muse of Arts was o'er the world a flitter, Yet found none to equal him, as practical Shop-fitter. Soon his deeds of our Seven Capitals shal! meet the ken. From London (Eng.), 333, Kingsland Road, Kingsland, N. Fittings and Fixtures, &c., utensils— need I stop In mid career to cavil with clown or fop ? There are few know so well as himth' requirements of a shop. And I note counter and shop drawers, however short or long, For such the best business men here ^perpetually do throng. A dcientifi: Chemist he, so no hugger-mugger. Druggist of other kind than Ben Jonson's. Abel Drugger. Half remains unsung, as said Humr^n Nature's greatest boast In the 7th Bk. of that Immortal work, " Paradise Lost," Like the 10th of Nehemiah, the Muses disembogue ; Of Homerus' ships, Vii-gilius' Heroes, tli' Catalogue, Ossian's Stars, Spenser's Rivers — Trees, Milton's Cities in vogue I bring, and wing them o'er the Earth's remotest clime and time, Of cataloguts raisonnes, this I fain would make the prime. For ev'ry term in Chymic Science I'll read'ly find a rhyme Too for various manufactures which I herewith name, And hand my world-blessing hero to Fortune up and Fame. *' 46 THK LONDONIAO. I look, and behold my goddess Minerva's form pass by ; Anon, the horizon's her helm, its plume, a wind-toss'd sky. Her presence illumes creation, hcrk ! how loudly rings land And main, as she dilating fills th* ;vorld, coming from Kingsland. LE GBOS, MAYNE, LEAVER, & Co. The "Patent Ingersoll Eock Dm " and"AtiiCom:pkessor." 60, Queen Vict* -ia Street, London, E.G., and 6, Park Place, New- York, U.S.A. The Ingersoll Drill may be seen working in nearly all parts of. the world, to which references will be ^iven on applicat-Lon. Contracts taken for all kinds of Mining Machinery, &c. Medals and highest Awards : — American Institute, 1872 ; American Institute, 1873; London International Exhibition, 1874; Manchester Scientific Society, 1875 ; Leeds Exhibition, 1875 ; Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic, 1&75 ; Rio de Janeiro Exhibi- tion, 1876 ; Australia, Brisbane Exhibition, 1876 ; Philadel- phia Exhibition, 1876 ; Royal Cornwall Polytechnic, 1877 ; Mining Institutfj of Cornwall, 1877 ; Paris, 1878. Illustrated Catalogues, Price Lists, &c., on application. " The rock was ,!o hard that the miners had been able to make but slow prof^ress, and the work had thus become verv expensive. To overcome this diflBculty a most ustful machine.known as tfie Ingersoll RockDrill, worked by compressed air, was introduced upon the worlt. It is in principle the same kind of drill as was used in driving the Mont Cenis Tunnel, but the In- gersoll drill is much more portable, more economically worke^l and handled, and is a decided improvement on the original idea.' — Sir Lawrence Palk, at the public demonstration lately of Torqitay's completed Sanitation. As in an island grove, midst vine-trellised trees we halt, And all the world a-glow, in presence of the great Gait I muse, over these delightful regions still linger Sol And Phoebus light my ardorous soul to sing the Ingersoll. As 'fore the breeze of enteiT)rise I sail on free and fast, I bear the paul of ratchet forged instead of being cast. Thus there'll be no obstruction as down thro' the world I go, Causing Antipodal light thro' th' globular mass to glow. Canada saith, " Hail ! Messrs. Le Gros, Mayne, Leaver, & Co. ! " The Genii of the Earth's interior and ye gnomes Start at this invasion ,ot their subterraneous homes. Thro' their irradiate halls where erst gems shot the varied ray, Scier.^e' soul-light in fountain streaming because in orbless day. Like Laurence Sterne's starling, other Co.'s arc always shouting, But ours practical, them inexperienced are routing. Sound it thro' these Islands and the Empire State of New York, The Ingersoll in Cornwall was the only drill that would work. It from th' Diamond took the prize at every Exhibition, And where was the Burleigh when this entered in competition? I note in New York at th' Tunnel Avenue Improvements, All others proved ineffective ; yea, dead in their movements. \ •* ,i THE LONDONIAO. The first words that I lately heard while entering the Mersey, Were, the Ingersoll triumphs at the Harbour Works, Jersey. Lo, th' Silver Medal, Manchester, August, '75 ; There none other did to th' heights of the Ingersoll arrive. Leeds and Falmouth in the same year, and the meed of Laris, Met it in tliis year at the world's great artery, Paris. I pass thro' Science' stellar sheen, more than D.ina;an shower, Description ! and Application in Inspiration's hour. Portability (please excuse the strain, I've but one quatrain, I ne'er used such before, and ne'er intend to use't again). Ercctiveness ! Automatic feed ! and Motive Pow?r. Now from sea 'o sea upon our International Railway Of, or Eastern or Western Nation, the Empire-hail way, And all owing to the unrivalled Ingersoll Rock Drill, Work'd by Mercurins' sons with extraordinary skill, Torquay, the Queen of the South, in point of Sanitation, Is not surpassed by city or town in any nation. Let no after generation doubt th' wonders I declare. My spirit wanton'd in the rock as thro' crystalline air. Here I saw where th' Fairy People had held their Pavilions, Thro' an interminable epoch, 1000 billions O' centuries — as many millennial circ' aco, As there are spray in th' foam> wreaths of Ontario Lago. 47 CHARLES NORMAN, 17, Geacechtjrch Street, E.G., Manufac- turer's Representative (the most extensive and practical) in London, for all kinds of G'^ods suitable for the British North Ameri- can Colonies. Brass and Iron Bedsteads of Every Description ; Chandeliers, Gasfittings, Pendants, Brackets, Hall Lamps, &c. ; Boulinikon Floor Cloth ; Patent Lapwelded Iron Boiler Tubes ; Makers of Engineers' Tools, Iron Ship Builders' and Boiler Makers* Tools ; Supenor Mill Chisels and Picks ; Cast, Shear, and Spring Steel, Files, Hammers, Saws, &c. ; the Special 10-in. Lathe, &c., &c. Vide Pope, ye Muse' theme shall not "lie on the shelf with Quarles," But enliven ev'ry latitude with the name of Charles. I never yet knew, since I left my native Tor, " Man Of woman born" (Macbeth) to rival Charles Norman In geniality or in faculties perceptive ; All Canal will henceforth many orders send and give To him, th' Imperial capital's repreb'^iitative Of ev'ry nation's mightiest Manufactv rers. Nor circumstance nor clime he in his enterprise deters. Like to Jordan's meandering thro' his rows of reeds Sings th' Muse, thro' him we receive all such are made in Leeds. " Leeds prop'd his fame," said Cowley ; " of busy Leeds," said Dyer ; From hence, Charles Norman tliro' th' colonies is sole supplier; All circles of the globe his genius lights with lambent fire. From Morn, to where in roseate floods Sol the country bathes, Speciality of his Patent Combination Lathes, .■ .■ 48 THE LONDONIAU. All Hail ! Yank* erst Gargantua-like, dwindled down to mice Lo ! the descriptive specification of Lathes with price, Ac. ; and these, discarding all the Gowkthvapple, And roaring Rentowel by th' cliurch in clatty Whitechapel, Kvery skipper for sliipment, the first place to Charles allots, For Brass a' d Iron Bedsteads, Folding Bedsteads, Chairs and Cots. The Muse, orh-pa\ilioned in Science' realm encamps, Brass-work, Chandeliers, Gas-fittings, Pendants, Brackets, Hall-lamps, Ye Corticine, to tell the truth, to introduce I'm loth, While he gives us long enduring Boulinikon floor-clothi Some unsightly and unwarrantable as Yank' cububes, Came over with that imgallant order of Uncle Reube's, But here in great variety, see th' proper kind of Tubes. What ! deal again with Yank? our colonists are nae sich fools. Lo ! Engineers' Iron Ship Builders, Boiler Makei-s' Tools, Superior C ^^ Jonathan to dance his BuU-mn reel). Mill Cbist.j and Picks made from " special " Improved Cast Steel. To-day the Bard for heavy sums upon his banker draws. For, &c.. Cast Shear and Spring Steel, Files, Hammers, eke Saws, The deathless Muse, wings sky-grain'd Dansea-lilce, doth shake her Aurum obrussum o'er our real Cabinet-Maker, And Canada's 4,000,000'8 glad, will con*espond on These and more subjects with him in tite centre of London. THE GENERAL BRUSH POEM. CROWDEN & GARBOD, Falcon Square, London, E.G., beg to call the attention of the Trade to their Patent Gopper- Band Painting Brushes, which have given entire satisfaction to all who have used them, and can be confidently re- commended. The Patent Gopper-Band Sash Tools are also made to stand Varnish. The prices are the same as String-bound. Patent Gopper-Band Oval Ground Brushes are also a great improvement on the old make. Patent Gopper-Band Distemper Brushes. These are a great improvement upon the old pattern. There being no knots to break off, and the handle being so formed that it prevents the bristles from coming through. Patent Gopper-Band Nailed Stock Brushes. Ordinary String- Pound Painting Brushes. Every kind of Painting, Fancy, or Household Bjiush is manufactured by this firm. *' The Wilderness Row people have given up the ghost financially, and those of the Red Lion Circle, I hear, are too small ; but instead of adven- turing to fifty places, you will meet with all requirements in Brushes here concentred in the one establishment of Messrs. Crowden and Garrod." All others are far below, and may never hope to cope With " the Falcon stooping from above." — Alexander Pope. Who is it saith " a Falc'ner Henry is when Emma hawks (Matthew Prior), with her of tassels and of lures he talks :" 4^ * I MBm \^ ! 'P i TUB LONOONIAD. 49 "A Falcon tow'ring in her pride of place." — William Shakespeare " What a point your Falcon made !" This too doth with him appear, The high soaring of my noble Falcon^s not stopped by air, We look into " Gentle Izaak," and find tliis notice there. Crowden & Garrod's market is th' whole rolling world I wif— " Vast domain where Falcons fail in flight." Your Bard translates this From th' Latin of Decius Junius Juvenalis. " This is decidedly the place before all others for a brush." Sir Francis Grant, Royal Academy Speech. •' To would-be competitors say tush, When we put it to the push, They had not given us such a brush." Samuel Butler's " Hudibras" This is the Original House of Thomas Kent & Co., Known on India's torrid plain, and 'mid the Polar snow, And such now I choose for our Beautiful Ontario. The stand they early took, and the progress thev ever made, Exhibits them as the very head of the Wholesale trade. The style of the elder firm our heroes still maintain ; Onward ! while those of borrow'd name pant afler them in vain ; Yea, they made themselves by travelling personally known. And from the past their future years may in reflex bo shown. 'Twas told me on the bridge wliere Chaudier rushes To the Lower Ottawa, by our friend the Captain Marrod, That now " Thomas Kent" is not mark'd upon their Brushes But their cognomenal appellative, Crowden & Garrod. Before *' George Ranger " his famous shaving edict appear'd, Our Friend the Major had a woeful length of beard, " Bearded like apard," saith Shakespeare, everlasting Bard, T. Campbell, " Whisker'd Pandoors," eke Bearded Lady Landoors : Too for all Domestic use. Brushes you may here command, And those the proper kind for Painting, Patent Copper-Band ; > Their Imperial Quality to examine and compare, Our western chiefs brought all their great experience to bear, And thus, while arranging for consignments I was induced — , And found that nothing better could be bv England produced. Savwe in 's Wanderer speaks of " a tooth s minutcbt nerve," Of au Tooth Brushes these the cause of happiness best serve. Unlike those concerning which a Lady Friend to me spoke, " They're very tedious— hairs coming out are like to cnoke, I can assure you, Mr. Lidstone, I thought I should croak." *' Dear Ladv," said I, "please come with me, I'll tell you where To get the late invented Tooth Brush that will not cast its hair. Their own peculiar Patent, — my heroes of Falcon Square, Live, Lady, o'er life's sands and waves, of health and beauty boast; With teeth, like pearls by coral caves on Ceylon's spicy coast." ^^ Stanley. — Answer to the courtier Dean of Westminster's Uri' travelled-traveller is in type, but crowded out of the present edition, as are, too, the articles devoted to the Bishops of Gloucester and Bristol, and Winchester. Whitton and Whitton have marked their names upon my list for 250 copies of the Londoniad. Theirs is an honourable house, but this edition is filled up. La Grand and Sutcliff do., but I do not reouire them, neither a low character named Sainsbury. Gillet and Bland I nave spoken for. 50 THB LONDONIAD. J. TANQ'AOVnNB & Co., Wholbsali Leather Merchants, and Manufacturers op Closed Uppers, and Wholesale Merchants in Shoe Mercery, Grindery, &c., 16, 17, Liverjwol Bead, Islington, N. ** At Islington, the plan of future operations laid." — Chas. Churchill. One whose achievements in Canada caused to ring land And Lake, and whose e'er famous Ancestors lived in England When hips and haws grew plenteous in the Ward of Langbourne, Said visit " Men'ie Islington '* (Cowper) and James Pangbourne, For he, like me, was very well aware that the whole Of Massachusetts could not equal th' Jangbourne Co. for Sole. But the Bard having taken Pegasus by the crupper. Declares this, the Crispanian fame for all of Upper. I had heard it said, sailing rivers down the western woods, My heroes are the renown'd Exporters of French Goods. Our introducing such to Manitoba from old France, On account of the Revenue, would greatly the price enhance. But I could adventure free o'er cat'ract, and ocean's foam, For a decade at least, if sent from England, home. And oratorically illustrate before my trip Might I. All Uppers in material and Workmanship* Are here warranted ; to wear moccasins our chiefs refuse Any longer; they and all their tribes will have boots and shoe's. Hence from th' pictured rocks and ringing Isles of Haute Elangbourno To the split sea' whirlpools not inaptly called Fang-boume, I Upper orders to Liverpool-road and James Pangooume Bear. It was said to me by 'our mutual friend, Squire McLear, Were you to strive, it would take you a quarter of a year To visit, after having in your minute-book entered The varieties of manufactures here concentred. T MATHESON & GRANT, ENGINEERS. Address for Telegrams : — "Matheson, Walbrook, London." 32, Walbrook, London, E.C. " Mr. Matheson tells me that Handyside's Works are not suitable for Cana'bniE Kin Yenkee kann nijht ehrlich sein, selbst wenn er sich daium be ".."., ' lf>t gegcn seine Natur. Ein Mondkalb inochte ehe suchc:: die jfr^talt Gabnels anzunehmen. Ich bin in viele Lander gewes i und hf ^9 bios bei den Yenkces gefunden, dass man Fremde damit beleidi^:, indem man schmutzigo Epitaphes an ihre Wohnhauser schreibt ; ich wiirde vorziehen lieber in einem Schmutzlocb zu leben als Ansteckung unter den Venkees einathmen, diese schmutzigen Abkomlinge von Hundiraen. W. SMEATON AND SONS, I'ivizE Medal awarded fob, Sanitary Appliances, International Exhibition, 1874. Honourable Mention, Paris Bxhi- Tio.^, 1878. 'By Royal Letters Patent), Plumbers, Hot Water and Sanitary Engineers, Inventors and Patentees of the Imperial Needle-Bath and Door- Action Tj'rinal. Every description OP Buildings Kea^^ed on the Low, Medium, or High Pressure Syste'4. Bi.THS, Lavatories, Urinals, Water- Closets, &o., Pitted up with all the Best and Latest Improvements. "Pate:jt Improved Tip-up Basins. 9, xmcw- castle Street, and 10, Wych Street, Strand, Loudon. Show Rooms — 24, Moorgate Street, E.G. " Hence have arisen in the minds of Smeatons the beautiful forms Tvhich tJ^ir genius invented."— Alan Stbvenson, LL.B., F.R.S.E., M.LC.E., E.B.N.L. " And Smeatons with no rivals." Thos. "Ward, " England's Reformation,^^ Canto I. I with the bannerM ages as upon a rainbow pons,"' Pass from sphere to sphere with Wm. Smeaton aud Sons ; And searching thro' tV universe found this to be the rig'bt House, Whose applicable and distinctive tn>.xe-mark 's the Lighthouse. Like Alaabaran doth their geniup never vaiy, The cynosure of their existence, the Sanitary. Soon good ship Argo with a cargo to Ottawa steers, For those Edifices the glory of both hemispheres, From our best Sanitary and H jt-Water Enpneers. In their Health-imparting linr all London the palm confers On its prime Inventors, Pat^ulees, and Manufacturers. 7n public Hall and pri^iUj Manse we e'er on them 'epend; They plan their own works and personally superintend. Hail! we that which never yet ai'l equul in England find, Imperial Needle-Bath with Shown- and Douciie coT.tin'd. THE tONnONIAD. 05 Their BaUis all kinds in varied laiicruage soon I'll describe, Catalogue, bring in vogue with native and adopted tribe. into new life our ereat colonial funiilies bloom, Ciist therein by Wm. Sineaton and Sons' Model Bath-Roona. F'lll boon Sanitary science a wonder story tells In our Parliamentary Buildings, Institutes, Hotels, All o' th' accessorial they work in their appliances, And cv'ry collateral of the saving sciences. Hark ! what doth Fama witli her thousand trumpet-tonn;ues declare ? Unrivair " for Heating by Hot Vv'ater, Steam, or Hot Air, Various 1. ads of Closet from Prospectus we select, f5nith each famous Builder and Educated Architect, "While I believe no existing firm or company hath Carried out so many Improvements connected with th' Bath. I pass'd into th' " shadowy land," mourning cxistiucc rath ; Aphrodit' and Dian' were bathing in vapoury fons, Singing, had we while on earth W. Snieaton and Sons, We had transform'd o.ich particle of spray to lustrous (rem. Knter Pallaj, (speaks), "And I'd have crown'd Hvgiaj anew thro' them." Pictures of loveliness my heroes' deeds, and all are chaste, Yea models in perfectitude, eke of Artistic taste. Ceramic miracles ! ne'er did to their heights attain Those wonder-deeds from Orient lands brought o'er th' morning main ; *' I mean" (Milton, Ariosto,) their pans in porcelain. Say, what is't hath given to Massachiissetts Yank a rap ? — They're Wholesale Agents for th' liower Patent Screw Gas Trap. All these I show in Illuminated Transparencie, And witli mental refraction enchant our people o'er the sea. Dr. Oronhyatekha, a verbal explanation Of this, these, and those will give to our uprising nation. And instead of from " Derventio" (Derby) Handyside, Our Mvely multitude all ardourously embued. From loud Chaudiere to Ottawa's silent Sandi/snh, And Ocean's eastern 'lopes to Sun-set's Irradiate Kons, T'or Lawns, Rockerit. Ferneries, greet W. Smeaton and Sons. Tiie course of Sfiniuary Scieiico as upon a map I tra^e thro' later ages and welcome " tl>' sewage gas trap." This and other deeds, each in their way the greatest feat on Record, hath been expati-'ted on by John Smeaton, May we sincerely hope that these stray waifs may yet secure A f-lace in tb" "rc.iives of National Literature. I find that o ir faknily firm had bt:en able to gain A place for models only lately on the tanks of Seine, Each the Invention of which might well form a New Era, From 'midst th' congrefated nations in the Trocodera, Or unto their Artistic Bath-Room, specially design'd, Had the Grande Prix (Grand Priy.e) or the Gold Medal boon assictn'd. And yet even here they stood (Lloyds), " Letter A, Number 1 ! " Yea ! like unto th' Colossus of Rhodes, singly and alone. In unique adaptation that which in the History Of the " Sanative " ( — Chaucer, Bacon, each our country's glory) Too will form an epoch is their " tip-up" Lavatory And well may it be our clime' and the human rare its boast, " Here (note !) arc no cocks to be turned on or pi igs to be lost." Oj Sanitation ! millions who sought the Stygian cc lot 66 THK LONDONIAD. In classic times, and thro' the mediseval npes down, Had lived long briprhtening years, in unexampled renown, Did'st thou, blest Science, in their day. Health's Goddess' temples crown. I thought 'twas Chaos from its old dominion rifted. As ghosts like visible winds athwart the horizon drifted, Taking forms from sunlit snows thro' thousand winters sifted. She comes again to earth, transform'd to song-enchanted fens. Meandering through the world, (Qr " William Smeaton and Sons." The '* Imperial Needle-Bath," acme of immortal mind. All here required in modern household sec at once combined, Art, Science, and Philosophy might here entrance mankind. That space is by their slop-sink saved, ye Muses here behold And witness well ; as th' arrangements for AVater Hot and Cold (Glory-deed !) with the basin up into the wall will fold. THE PICTURE-FRAME, &c. POEM. A. MIBANDE, Decobator, Upholsterer, and Gilder, Looking-glass and Picture Frame Ma- nufacturer, 16, Ratiibone Place, Oxford Stbket, W. All kinds of Repairing at Tnoderate charges. Estimates free. " The Master Carver." — John Drydbn. " Whose skilful hands enfold, With circumfnsile gold." — Alexander PofjE. '* Here shall be said he with the Minstrel came. If but the picture might deserve a Frame." Decimus Junius Juvenal. The Art Muse now over all Canada's New Dominion, Simrogh-lil:e, broad as the sky shall spread her harping pinion. And from Ocean's organ billows, to the lyric stream of Lirande, •• Which like unto molten luminary flames, E>>.oh great Race and Institute shall rapturously salute, Ii'or two decades io come our A. ISIirande ; In much that our Colonists require of picture-frames, Your Bard a portion of peculiar knowledge will impart, I personally trsiicmit Picture Frames as works of Art ; Thus the perceptive faculties being open'd ken you. Readers, I send such Art achievements out free of the Revenue, Ard thro' out all those countries of the Blest, " By mortals call'd" the regions of the West ; I will in their various idioms send forth strictures. On the mode by all ages adopted for Framing Pictures, One trait in A. Mirande's character must him befriend And a good reason that we ought upon him to depend, He himself doth ever personally superintend. I have no objection to an Old Italian Picture Frame, But the moaem kinds are trashy, and to Art lay no claim. Too those Art curs'd abortions, from Vandal Yankeedom, Never more across the Frontiers to Canada shall come. That which we cannot.make ourselves we'll have from England home ; ' I TUB LUNDUNIAO. 87 Anil tluis iliscinding 1000 ollitra A. Mirande bring, Muse, take him uiulcr your ]irotectin;; wing. " Ample room and verge cnougli" (Gray) lie ne'er attempts to squeeze a Miracle of Illuminative Art so full of grace. Into a contracted frame, Lo, that by the Princess Louisa. ^^ Made especially for me hy A. Mirande, Hathbone Place, This shall pass th' Atlantic in other mode than Leandcr, In a Frame glorified by the Classical Meander -' A design which now sets the educated mind a-glow, As it did on til* plains of Elis 3000 years ago. In eagur fancy I was borne, as here I gazed elate, Back to the PtolometDan age and Egypt's early date. Thro' classic Gnecia on I pass'd, with burning pinions thencr, To where Athens with Roma shar'd once her pre-emiueuco ; Thro' Pompeii I passed along, so late the buried clime. Which rivalled once the excellence of Corintli the sublime. From many a wonder age I classic carvings trace, 1 turn to the famous A. Mirande, IG, Rithbone Place, I look'd upon each glorious work, I turn'd and look'd again, And my soul like that fairy mirror, its image doth retain. And thro' eventful yeara to come, inspir'd with the idea, ril dwell by Nilus' realm, and wooself-iepeated Rhea. Like unto Monmouth or McMahon the Bard had found's ditch. Adventuring for Picture Frames to unclassical HoundsJitch. i But in his object, and heroes, choosing none othei-s, blest Thro' all our Colonies supplier destined in the West; Th' Rhypographical style o' Yank to describe doth bewilder, But all is pure and tasteful with our Carver and Gilder. " Do thou vouchsafe to Illuminate; Ye pictures were of passing worth." — Edmund Spenser. " ■ Royal bounties Arc great and gracious." — Phiup Massinger. Those two beautiful Picture, tSacred Subjects, lately at the Author's Mother's place in London, and whicii to the educated mind must ever recall the more resplendent epochs of a delightful Art as practised in its full magnificence by the Illuminatorii of Mediaeval times, were drawn and coloured by the Princess Louisa ; under the tuition of Sir Albert H. Warren (please see the 100th " Londoniad "), and by her kindly given to a Bazaar organized for the advancement of Art, are now being framed ^the style, &c., being all left to himself) by Mr. Mirande, in process of time they will be at the Exhibition. From the ingurgatorial cycle of Dirande And Ocean' dithyramb' to star islanding Girande, We'll invoke the timely aid of Mr. A. Miiaade. I and Pegasus, o'er Earth's tow'ry kingdoms rode apace. With all the winds, till we met hostchie in Rathbonc Plaec. Here I beheld the most wonderful Looking-Glass Frame, (Caryatida;au-figured pillars evolving flame), That ever down Time's slopes thro' aledeail ages fame, And the most beautiful carving for Horologic stand \ . That e'er exemplified th' curve to an enlightened land. Virgilius-like with Dante I take him by the ^^ And since have shot the moon liis erst neighbours, Brothers Polak, He shall be our supplier from Niagara to Tolak. 72 TIIK I-ONDONIAD. E. POWER, SEAL ENGRAVER, DIE SINKER, AND CRYSTAL ENGRAVER, 'to, Hatton Garden, London. All kinds op Engraved and Painted Crystals kept in stock. " Among tlie rest Kdwin came." — Mallet. " Art with Power." —Dr. Young's "■ Niy/it Thoughts.^' *' Engraved in clianicterB that shall last and tell deeds to posterity." GovKRNOR Edward Evkrktt. Yc Sciences, advance in more than Dana-an shower, And Pallas walks in light through the might of Edwin Power, Strong-i'-th'-arm, Soho's So-and-So, eke Ortner and Houl, I've sent to Hades long ago with Stote the Yankee ghoul, And eluding in the capital each shoppy shaver, I hie hitherward to our practical Seal Engraver. Seal Engraving ! vea, I'm borne back to th' Classical Antique, The splendours of old Roma, and the glories that were Greek. The higher, finer polish E. Power doth not neglect, Famed for giving a vigorous and sculpturesque effect. Ho not merely a manipulator but the thinker, And intellectually ranks th' world's A 1 Die Sinker. My crystal planes were perfect — large, nought could be completer — I handed them to him straight from the ganieometer. Hence arose the work that three parts of a continent charms, Revcal'd in Art's early grace, Canada's Coat of Arms, The Design was lang syne pourtray'd by the enraptur'd Muse, And such upon a stamp of purest crystal now I use. Henceforth shall our Colonial orders be the dower Of the Hope of Nations, Minerva's Son, Edwin Power. FRANCIS AND CO,, Telegraph Engineers, Contractors, and Electric Bell Manufacturers (By Ap- pointment TO Her Majesty's Government, Railway Companies, &c., &c.), Railway *AND Private Telegraphs Erected. Man- sions, Hotels, Banks, Factories, Offices, &c., fitted with Electric Bells and Indicators. Estimates given. Pneumatic Bells and Indicators. Every description of Telegraph Appa- ratus and Stores. Wholesale and for Exportation. Insti- tutions supplied. Contracts for Foreign or Colonial Tele- graph Lines. Inventors and Manufacturers of " Electric Ship-Steering Indicating Apparatus," for the purpose of Showing at all times the Position of the Helm. Eagle Telegraph Works, London, N.W. Offices— 52 & 85, Hatton Garden, E.G. Warehouses — New Kent Road, S.E. " Francis, beneath the laurel shade, And in the electric blaze, most grand." — Voltaire's "•Henriade.^^ I. TlIK I.ONUONIAD. G9 PiiUiW, S icnce' pntroncss Prime o' rclcstial madami, TaUcH luc not to Utitiscll, Hax, 8an, >. IS 1, ll 5t d d > <» " Where in Paris opposing parties twain, One by Fraud, one by Truth, sought th' prize to gain." Monsieur de Voltaire, " The Henriade,''^ translated by the Author of the " Londoniad." With Chatwood^s Safes unrivalled in either hemisphere^ '' I, in my Argo with a cargo o'er Atlantic steer, And ope' th' British West t' our unconquer'd Bankers' Engineer. And though th' Yankee vulture up a screaming braggart vaults, Chatwood s Safes being so free from ev'ry other maker's faults. Like Shakespeare's heroine's " Invincible 'gainst all assaults." Erst the exulting nations beheld his " deeds of dcrring Doe" (Spenser), when British Science wrought the fall of Herring. While Canada for ever ousting all the deeds of Yanks, Chooses only Chatwood's for her New Dominion Banks. And I, who lately helped herein to alter the venu, Take his Safes thro' our Provinces free of the Revenue. Our Great Orator of Science shall give an Art Lecture in ev'ry settlement on their mode of Manufacture, And show how Lancastrians the Yankee Safe did fracture. Who was it, and I ask this question with peculiar pride, That hath broken down ev'ry Safe Maker in the world beside ? His name is borne on all th' winds, and echoes in ev'ry tide. Your Oriflamme Samuel aureola's all the sky. And the genius of all the nations doth at once defy, Yours are the only Safes on which all countries can rely. Ever bootless th' aim against your Safes, Fire and Burglar proof, Ab the lost Fiends' attempt to storm the ethereal roof, Witness, if you please, though the Germans wrought for the Yankees, And their Titanian blows came in a shower of seas. Yea, though like so many Thors of the Norse their hammerers strove, Or Stygian deities batt'ring th' Universe of Jove, While th' Herring Safe by Bolton men was soon to ribbands torn, Chatwood's remained intact as when first o'er the channel borne. Now, I as the New Dominion's Finance Delegate, Instead of importing Safes from any United State, Will all my active aid in resource .ind interest give, To Samuel Chatwood as his unpaid Representative. By ye Fata; wrought, I read the tale in web and woof, Some, fire awhile resist, but in Chatwood's high behoof, We draw his th' only Safes that are both Fire and Burglar proof. Gitche Gumee (Lake Superior) like its copper hills, Which some indention with gunpowder th' adventurer fills. All his attempts are vain, nought to reward his toil and pain. The " Villainous Salt Petre " comes whizzing out again, So vainly his perceptive bumps the ardourous burglar chafes, E'en " Nitrous compound " vapours scold-like from the Safes. THE SECOND PART UNIVERSITY Ist PRIZE POEM— EXTRACT. I hail the Metallic Gods ; far from each braggart dolt on Steril Naragansett, they've emigrated to Bolton, Fam'd in old Derby times, now the residence of Tubal Cain, " Men call'd him Mulciber," thence Vulcan in many a strain, (Lo ! Hesiodius' Kosmos ; Isciiys, IJie, Mechane, 72 THE LONDONIAD. Brontes! Steropcs ! Arircs; the myriad-name bcsiJc, In whom were all the tishtnings, and Thunder personified, A Mulcendoferrum, lo, Ovidius' Met. 2. 5, Oh, Muse, we will goon to a classic altitude arrive. ApoUodorus, Homerus ; Cicero de Nat. I). ; Herodotus 2. 3; Varro. d L.L. ; ))leasf Q. V. AVhom shall I choose alone for Safes with ardour, asked I, . .\nd raised {dernier ressort) tow'rd heaven mino wistful eve, Minerva came, th' plume on her helm shonk likr a stornn- sky. No longer veil'd ; her pcplwn for the nonce she flung away ; Which a lawless Via Lactce thro' wilds of Chaos did stray. Till Chance and Night Join'd, this in a firmancnt to display, Where orbs in Glory-Hymns eternal, 'raid soul-light rehearse Her praise, and sing into new life a mental Universe.) And thus she spake celest' what I in mortal words repeat, fl5S* Didst ever with a Yankee deal, and not find liiin a cheat ? I beheld and heard no more till the Arts' Patroness' targe. Did to the expanse of Heaven's circumference enlarge. At once her form dilating involved the Horizon, Drest in Metathesis of Day ; seas foaming fiing'd her robe. Zodiacs and ringing constellations blazed thereon, iilquisonant wi' many a florid song-empassioncd globe. From where Ocean in his arms clasps the Morning to his brcas*. To where the God of Day 'midst seeming flower-beds sinks to rest. In the roseate Lagos of the all-enchanting West. Trumpeter rivers in our clime's occidental section, Join th' cataractal reveille in th' Sun-time' resurrection. Whose genius is it that sets isles and continents a-blazo, Such as then upon prophetic eyn of the minstrel broke, Rhetorical Panorama; exhalations in Eve's haze; Torrential fiics streaming hells, and flying skies of smoke. Let us hie to the wigwam of Francois Lemuel Giiatsvood, Aboriginal chief and prophet, he to each nation In Iroquois is proclaiming the Nevv Salvation Of an awak'uing Era brought by Samuel Chatwood. ALEXANDER KELLY, The " I^iPEiiiAL " Eailway Carriage Eoof Lamp. Kelly's Premier Door and Gate Spring. The simplest, neatest, and most effective JJoor- Spring ever made. Needs no skill to apply it, and always in order. Full directions with each spring. Highly recommended by the following Papers: — Builder; Architect; Buildimt News; Ironmongtr ; Koyal Institute of Jirltish Architects: Society of Arts Journal; Illustrated Carjjcnier and Builder ; European Mail; British Architect and Northern Hu' gineer ; British Trade Journal; Ilerapath's Railioay and Commercial Journal, ^'c, ij'c, ^'c. 19 and 20, East Corri- dor, 59, Mark Lane, London, E.G. ; and 3, Cope Street, Dublin. I 4» 1 THB LONDONUD, 73 1 " A, ni Chealleadh (A Kelly), Son of the Heroes of Old."— Ossi.vx. " Alexander of the North. Jamks Thomson's " Winter." " Kcllv, oh, pride of the Gael ! At tlie goal of delight and of honour I fv^i, To boast such a theme."— Turlogh O'Cauolan, 1670—173?. I seem emhued with tii' spirit of Milton and of Shelley, Inspired as I am by deeds of Alexander Kelly. Creation's planctoidal tDwers encampanilcd ring. To the strain hailing (British Patent) Premium Door and Gate Spriii.% Such I, to our 4,00U,U00 in homesteads and pavilions, Will in tlie brightening and immediate future bring. Your Minstrel wns t!ie first to exhibit it to the Lamb Of March, who said, " tlie Spiing can also be fixed in the Door-jamb." Ye modus opermidi at first the wiseacres posed. But, presto ! and lo, 'tis out of bight when the door is closed. Nor will I e'er believe that thro' these door openings. Dames Bardell and Cluppise (Pickwick) could ever have played their games. And now across the horizon doth my Pegasus tramp, AV^ith A. Kelly's " Imperial" Railway Carriiige Roof Lamp. liate when publicly shown to th' number of '27, The world's best, the palm was to the "Imperial" given. iSIuse ! speak in all i ,s attributes of a hero thrift)', thine. And mentally endowed, ^S" Ceres circle, Mark Lane, 59. This Lamp alone, shall be by the enlightenm^ minstrel sent, Over that mighty railway, our Western Empire's haihvay. Stretching from ocean to ocean, across the Continent, Soon in many tongues shall auricularly meet our ken. Its advantages (I'll proclaim them) to the number often. Others may be call'd good, but here, with all due deference. Our Empire Colony will jiive to this the preference. We'll note the testimonials — so unrivall'd reference. I welcome its Proprietor as one of Science' stars, Lo ! here th' use of Petroleum on Railway cars. Dr. Oronhvatekha will for this give a lecture • On 'ts applicability and mode ot manufacture. While Yank flies as in a diabolus of a funk, Not unstn/Ted, but unsto'd from all stations of the Grand Trunk— Our greatly-gifted Thaumalurgus is no shoppy wiglit, His intellect and education give Loner Manitoba." "■ Picturesque Poems" by Captain Donald Caird MacOssian. A Poem descriptive of Manitoba appears in the iOOth Londoniad. " Alexander was her guard. By his command we boldly cross'd the Line, And bravely fought whero stars arise." — John Drvden, " Alexander led in love and lee ." Andrew, op Wyntown, Anno 1285. " — ■^— ' Honour to him Alexander ." Dr. Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester. " Tried men at Killicranky were arrayed. And hei'e you have Tried men at Garry." — Wordsworth's Sonnets. Here is a field for enterprise, ye ! of Bucolic predilections " Who not with body's waste the soul havepamper'd, Who as the clear North-western wind are free." James Russell Lowell. " Just as I prophesy'd ! — The storm begins ! And thou art off — for Wimbledon." Dr. Wolcot, " Mr. Pott's Flight to Wimbledon:' Dr. Oronhyatekha (the Burning Cloud), Representative of the Good Templars, a Temperance body numbering ckse upon two millions on the Western Continent, and 100,000 iu Canada. Your speech of V THK LOXDONIAD. 77 I ife. tlc- ins of February 24th, 18fi3,hath nijide you famous over Europe. My address to you appears in all the Languages of the West. P.S. — It is known that a few years ago, our highly educated and genial Hero, in competition bore off the Prize. " Where tlie slow descending sun Gilt the bowers of Wimbledon," Sir William Jonks, " The Muse Recalled.'"' Before his father's time the Yankees used to come over to Canada in order to buy the rich furs of tho Indians, and this they did generally for mere trifles; but that would not satisfy those greedy wretches, who, bv plnying at some kind of dice, having previously provided the Natives witli grog " The Canadian-Indian At first the traders' beverage, shylie, tastes." William Julius Mickle's " 5ir ./ifart^'n." very often drugged, would win all back again, and thui leave the too con- fiding Indian without anything to remunerate for the past, or to live upon for all the next season. They were generally preceded by a sort of horse-jockey, dressed up like a preacher — " Apostate, atheistic ! or bent to ill, With seeming sanctity and cover'd fraud." Philip's Poem " On Cyder ^ ' " Be by a parson cheated ! had you been cunning stagers. You might yourselves be treated by Captains and by Majors." Swift's Poem on the " Five Ladies at SotsHalV^ but Oronhyatekha pere ventured many times upou a hunting excursion against them, this was — " A Yankee chase worth forty Chevys."— Judge Trumbull,.— 1750-1831. And the Yanks even to this day, " Remember the woods where in ambush they lay, And the scalps which he bore from their nation away. Philip Freneau, 1752—1852. and the many that he " Scalped on the lost battle's plain." — RoBT. C. Sands. Oh yes ! Sire of The Burning Cloud, thou didst like Milton's Good Friday Muse— " Beget a race of sighs upon each pregnant cloud " ( — of tobacco) smoke in which they were wont, " If great things may be compared to small." Virgil and Milton. like classic heroes to embower themselves. " Yet you as kind as they were vile, Shot at them from behind the while. Yes ! you like a tigjr Yanks pursued. Who had in papoose biood their hands embrued. TRUSiBVLL's ''Poems;' 1750—1831. *' Sing lo Paeans, through the land. No more the Yankey coward band ; B'.ing poison'd fire-water, And all demur to speak of/Mr." V 70 THE LONDONIAD. ST. TAMMANUND'S ; vTHEDEAL. " Tammanay, the chief rcnownM of old." Philip Frkneau (1752—1832). Instead of rearing fifty Chapelries over the immense North- West Territory, at my suggestion all the resources will be coaceatrated here. — (Please see the 100th Londo niad.) " Tis (J.) George Bowes tlint leads the Band." — Wm. Wordsworth ; and Sir W. Scott, "Zay of the Lust Mimtrel.'''' JOH^ GEORGE BOWES, Esq., Mayor and late Member of Parliament for Toronto. The Author op the Londoniad. Letter of Introduction when I first went into public life : — " Toronto, January 29, 1852. " The bearer, Hon. J. Spencer Lidstone, Bard of U. C, wishes an intro- duction from me to some of the literary gentlemen of. . . . not having such acquaintance in .... I can only state in a general way that Mr. Lidstone is a favourite in Toronto. He purposes writing a Poem on ... . during his visit to that city. J. G. BOWES, Mayor." " The principal reason of his visit .... is to have prepared some engravings for a grand pictorial work for British America, and to negotiate debentures. J. G. B." " No mere theologue, from Torquomada on to Burnett, Ever practis'd Christian benevolence so much as Mayor Gumett." Orator of the West. " And the whole country griev'd for their ill-fate, To lose so good, so just a magistrate." — Waller's " Epitaphs,''^ PRIVATE LETTER FROM GEORGE GURNETT, Esq., FIVE TIMES ELECTED MAYOR OF TORONTO. The Author of the Londoniad. " Toronto, Sept. 2nd, 1851. , — The bearer, Hon. James Torrington Spencer ■My dear Lidstone, a gentleman of independenl iaeans, who has resided for many years in this city, is about to visit .... He has rendered himself very popular in Toronto, and is correct and honourable in all his transactions, and has always maintained a good credit. " May I solicit your countenance, and that of my other fiiends in . . . .to his undertaking ? Believe me, Yours faithfully, GEO. GURNETT." This note was addressed to that famous Mayor of Buffalo and renowned Orator H. K. Smith, who in his letter to mc when leaving the shores of Erie, will be published in extenso hereafter, the following is a quotation therefrom : — " The explanation of the terms given by you rendered the object so manifest to our minds that the settlement of affairs between the kfca THE LONDONIAD. 70 est tw'> cities (liuffalo and Toronto), wliicli had been pending lor upward i of two years, causing great weariness, loss of time, &c, (the " «&c." alludes to the expense), were, by your activity and intelligence and ptuper expla- nation of circumstances, broueht to a close, pleauing all parties (and I hope, indeed I know you must have pleased yourself), in less than twenty minutes." ro- ich me lis I mo itc SIR GILBERT SCOTT. " The grave Sir Gilbert."— Pope's " Moral Essai/s." (Please see the 100th Londowiad.) JOHN GIBSON, GREAT SCULPTOR (Rome). " Gibson Oh ! great Restorer of the good old age." — Alexander Pope. The "Sculptor" University First-Prize Poem, appears in a for'ner LoNDONiAO, of which ho is the Hero. He would have made mo his legatee, but this I neither desired— nor would accept of anything except that glory-relievo of the world, which is now at my mother's place m London (Eng.), Cupid and Psyche ; and here " The Arts Dante hail'd, Petrarch, Ariosto, Tasso." Wm. Cliffton (1772—1799). Portrait Busts in Alabaster, below the Academy size, which came to mo from him by way of Leghorn. JOHN RUSKIN. " To him who told of Venice, and reveal'd How wealth and glory cluster'd in her Stones^ James T. Field (1820). (Please see the next Londoniad.) MAYOR YATES. " Birmingham."— Sir Samuel Garth's " Poems." " So appear The increasing walls of busy Birmingham, Where reddening fields rise and enlarge their suburbs." John Dyer's " Fleece." Book HI. " Yates, you all did love him."— Edward Moore (1720-57). Edwin (Please see him as the hero of Dr. James Beattie's "Minstrel.'") " Lo, Yates ! without the least finesse of Art, He gets applause." — Chas. Churchill. " The Mayor of Birmingham." William Shenstonb, " (Economy." Birmingham (Grotesque Note on).— P. Pindar's ** Physic and Delusion.'''' 80 THE LONDONIAD. TORONTO. THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION FOR BRITISH AMERICA. TTIR NAMES OP PKRSONAGES PRACTICALLY CON- NKCTED WITH THE ARTS IN TORONTO. Chosen for tlic Nkw Hundredth Londoniad by its Author, Jamrs Torrinuton Si'KNCKR Lidstonb, Canada Finance Delegate (Copyriglit). l:terary gentlemen in Toronto. "Those were the prime in order and in might." — John Milton. Here are Bishops, Archbishops, D.D.'s, M.D.'s, and LL.D.'s. Doctors of tiie soul and Doctors of the body. Professors and Oovcrnmentiil Otlicials nil Mental Ilhiminatores, but I have left out ye prefixes and adjuncts, as I desire that no invidious comparison be made between those personages wliom I have the peculiar happiness of here and now introducing into tho New Londoniad, and whose names for the greater part will be readily recognized in Britain, and our day as they will be most certainly, by the whole world in the after-time. I am, however, relievc'ffht uies ever retch and In the same strain of calm end forcible language is the character of YanV mure fully expatiated upon by bir John A., as per the IGOth Londoniad. The Premier of Upper Canada in allusion to the Yankees. The Hon. John Sandficld Macdonald. A descendant of the Lords ot the Isles. " Who said so ? " «' Why, old Chandler, of Worcester, Mass." " Who is old Chandler, of Worcester, Mass.?" " A regular Yankee," " Not an irregular one"' (Laughter). "Well, if yoti believe a Yankee, no one will believe you Will that fih de la chienne — the Yankee — be believed and trusted by honourable communities. — There stands your Yankee " Monster, abhorred of gods and men ;" whose sobriquet, nom de guerre — plume, cognomen, or if you'd rather aliaSy is the synonym for living lie in every country." The sentiment here embodied would seem to be still more fully deve- loped in the centesimo Londoniad — quod vide. LETTER FROM OUR NATIVE PRINCE, . (To THE Author of the Londoniad.) Tentorium Principalis. ITecatompopylo-inter-Hecatonnesi Kanata. 1st, 3rd, 79. Mv DEAR James, — * * * You have sent me some of the finest things in this world, and I had a hope that you would have arranged for the Sanzio di' Urbino, but after knowing that it was not for sale, I rested content. (The following letter I received some time last summer in regard to the picture herein alluded to.) Christie's, Pall-Mall, S.E., Thursday Morning. Our Honourable Sir, — Wo must tell you, under the rose, xhat the Rova R. will not be sold, it is only entered in the list to attract custom to the other articles in the catalogue. Yours Respectfully (I never could decipher this word or words, for, like the sergeant in the drama, it was written in a de-de-crabbit hand.^ J. T. S. L.) A. H. Lemoine. P.S. It is expected that the bidding will go on till it reaches 9 or 11,000 i»ounds, and even should all bidding cease, the Charles Martel, or Thor the lammerer as you call him, will carry it up to £20,000, after which it will be returned to its sanctuary * * * A. H. L. The above " remarkable correspondence " relates to a subject which " A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung." — Alex. Pope. This picture is called the Novra or Rova Raphael, and it would seem that it is not to be sold for any amount of money. But why the owner of this immortal work should condescend to shop trickery " I am at a loss to know." A friend of mine said unto me a siiort time before the arrival of that eventful day hero and now spoken oi, " I have three streets of houses 88 THE LONDONUD. ,,vA which I do not want, I will sell tlicm and buy the picture, I will over-top every competitor, my lieart is empty, and I want something to love." Wlien he knew it was not for sale he strove to negotiate for the original Madonna of the Ilosary, now at the Author of tlie Londoniad's Mother's place in London (Kn}?.). I, speakinft for my mother, said " You are welcome to cause AS many copies to be taken for yourself and friend as you like, but the Original will be kept for Presentation." Have you ever been able to find out tlie purchaser if it was ever bought? Of the meeting of the Holy Families I would most willingly cross the sea to behoM it (at this present moment I do not, nor will George Donaldson, I think, be the likeliest per- sonage to find that out; this alludes to an affair which took place in the "West of London, viz. (here comes in Brooks affair, in pres' nt New Hundredth Londouiad). Have you found any Furniture people suflRciently artistic to make for Presentation." (over 100 Furniture people have presented their cards to the Author of the Londoniad, hut hitherto T have not seen any of their productions worthy of being placed in category of Art and as such that introduce free of Colonial custows.) Tiie specimen alluded to by you in a former Londoniad, was what is called an exreptionl piece of work. (Here to let the printer have Mr. Ortelli's affair in print.) The people were very glad to receive what you call the nether habili- ment, and did not appear to be straitened on first putting them on (our Prince here speaks of twelve hundred dozen shirts sent to them by the Author of the Londoniad, they were mat'e expressly for this market by James McDaid, Spa Manufactory, Blu3 Anchor Road, S.E., and 78, Queen Victoria St., E.C., London (Eng.), and not by Buchannan and Hogg of Addle St., E.G.), I suppose for your large books, so far as the binding goes, you will search for a ;' .poller in Bermondsey, the Vellum and Parchment will be supplied by C . hles Sparks, of Salisbury Square, Fleet St., E.G., and Bermondsey, S.E., who supplies those who contract in Canada with the New Dominion" Government. Do you think you have secured to our cause the proper Memorial people (I have had a great many wherefrom to select, and i am sure that neither Wool vine, Saunders, Matthew Johnson, Physic, Wren, Granite Field, nor any of the 500 others including George Mitchell will in any way be so able to help you as Squire James Pushman (Lander & Co., Kensal Green), in all that relates to your intended cenotaphic Mausoleum). How much longer should you sup- pose the Ecclesiastical adornment will take to perfect (this alludes to the Kenaissance Screen spoken of elsewhere, destined for St, Tammanund's Cathedral, Mr. Clare, of the Elephant and Castle St. Station, provides the same which came from Italy, and Geo. Alf. Rogers, son of the great W. Rogers, will become the rcsuscitator, and the moment that it is ready I will pay both parties — deducting the percentage.) Would the Maddox St. people be able to fulfil the order (so far as fi'i. ■ncial resources go, Mr. Bauerrichter, who is now my near neighbc.r vould be able to do 100 times as much). How does your Building S(. k . v I i("jre.ii;, r.ml the Colonial Club? (the first mentioned is strong, the list A>r f!>e latts. filled up during one afternoon, that no more stock was BouflSer, Esq., is the presiding genuis here. I vjll v.iit: you regardini; this, I was glad tliat the percej" >'• sU.id: your mighty ancestors enabled you to take int^ vit- vie through which certain scenes once shimmering i , dou themselves in full form of loveliness. I have aii'vdy you the South Molton St. characters, we will let tiiem i st, i;' while I may close this notice, by saying tliat I huve hau jve- r dollars at once in the hands of Thomas Boufflcr, Esq . ■}" ,V.c Road, E.C. .uicd.) • I... . 'al ;■ was 80 Thomas h !U !• to you ii'.iit.vu fVom ■ tre (■•■itiri; iioii'i n ijtfu! h;i7.t* i'.;vealed asade known unto ca plea" , r;ilion ^i <)ohn be. t K, THE I,ONDONIAD. 8d \ Colonel Antrobus says that the reason that you write such beautiful prose is because you cast it into poetry first and then unta|? the lines (v^ur prince means to say that I find an equivalent for each alternate rhyme, and then throw all the subject-matter out of measure into prose. The only time I nmember doing this was on the occasion of delivering the Lanll Reclamation Speech, whicli appears in one of the 16th Lonc'oniads). I and Manotoniwis were looking over some of the proofs of tlie New 100th Londoniad, when Kanatarntero came in — and he is a good classical scholar — and like a good general lie is not easily surprised, but he said that aU the range of literature could not supply more applicable mottoes or apt quota- tions tlian are destined to grace the new 100th Londoniad, and that you have given to the present Edition a high literary character. (We all know what Dr. Samuel Jolinson said in regard to the force of an apt quotation, and feel its etTcct often in a public assembly; Mirabeau would address an .assemblage of ardourous natures amid silence, it may be, for two hours, or more ; but when he gave a spirit-stirring couplet or the words of some Immortal who lived in otiier days, then rung the plaudits.) Your Great Work on Canada will be the 8th wonder of the world and Niagara is one of the 7 (Napoleon's Work on Egypt is well known, but to the general public I should suppose that Audubon's 5 vols, on the Birds of America is still better known ; these are five feet each vol. vertically, and four feet ten inches across, and one inch and three quarters in thick- ness, and while the greatest literary work of anynation.viz. the author of the .Londoniad's Canada will be the same size .as Land Surveyors would say in area of superficies as the books last noted, it will contain seven Volumes, One for each Province (complete in itself), and be three times the thick- ness, and contain twenty-seven times the amount of Letterpress, and eleven times the number of Pictorial Illustrations). We are glad that you ai-o going to personally represent the British company (this alludes to Messvs. Rose, the great Lime Juice, &c., people). Some that was sent over from rr, as you say, the many millions that went down to the tomb ])lague-8tricken in, or Classic or Mediajval times, might have lived to glorify humanity, and their descendants, in oil following generations, have spread in fertilizing stieams over the waste places of the Earth, the storm that gathfing, stood in suspense over Sandringham, that darkcncil the day in Darmstiult, had never been known did Sanitary Science flourish there as with my Philosophic Heroes of the New Hundreth Londoniad ^ft-W. Smcaton and Sons. From time to time I have recei\cd orders for Murray and Heath (7tU Londoniad) ; but I have never fulfilled them. If it be asked why 1 did - <4 TIIK LOXDONIAD. 93 1 not, I will direct the inquirer to " N^otcs of the LoyDov.-i.vo." My suppliers from henceforth will bo Messrs. Wratten and Wainwrigiit. Jcroliman sjiys that he rather felt glad than oth'^rwisc, that you did not undertake the commission, for you understood tlio sulijcrt so perfectly. (This is in regard to Electro Plate, &c. No! I did not fulfil the order, hccausc I could not find any Shettield firm sufficiently truthful. liddell and Co., Adkins and Sons, Webb (of King William Street), Ilodd and Tji.iiley, those i)eoi)le in Thavies' Inn, so obscure that I may not recall tlieir names in the hurry of writing; Ilutton and Sons (John Newill and Sons, 1 should choose for cutlery); Edgware Neal is altogether too shoppy for •export, while Clerkenwell Marr and Phillips are so small that I would 1 ot look at them. (As Electrotypists. T. M. Hare is very good, and Mr. I'.anclsi. who is my personal supplier, and sole maker to the Art ami Scimcc Department, South Kensington, is wortiiy of all praise). Apro}U)S of clcctro-platc, let J. alter his order, and I will supply him from Mayors, Yates, and Prime, or Thomas Fearu, the originator, and to whom the elder Elkitigton owned liis indelitcdness. 1 will not give my order to (.'urmudgeon Garrard, or to Hunt and Roskcll. (I dealt with them once, and " thereby hangs a talc") Our honoured Prince here hath an elaborate article on stable-fittings, for a former Lonuoniad. Messrs, Cottam and Cottam marked their names upon my list. They were at the head of their line as Ironfounders, hut, unhappily, I had sev«nty-fivo iron- founders before that upon my list, not one of whom could I find room for. I was not, at that time, prepared to operate upon our Western Races in regard to stable fittings, and when the time had arrived for that pui-pose tlie business had passed into the hands of partners belonging to the Dodson and Fogg school. Your Jeames, or Allan, and Burton, 1 should not care to do business with, while Musgrave, for whom I lately received several good orders for stable fittinn-s, I find are in " the stove vending way." I do not require them ; besides, there are so many partners, like the '" Lont» firm," or John Bright's Scotch terrier, no one may comprehend which is liead or tail. Apropos of doggie, Moorgate Clarke is cur-tailing his busi- ness. As Pat O'Donnell was wont to say, "rekwesant in payee." thou corporation noodle compos,ed of the two Peters, Sclilemihl and Funk. Our Native Prince, Alexander Tecumseh, here asks a question ia regard to a superior kind of Furniture. (I may answer that I have received the names of over 100 persons ■' euuagcd in the Furniture Busi- ness," not one of whom comes up to my beau-ideal, and Shakesroeare's line — " Fit it with such furniture as suits," certainly not in the City Proper, nor in the suburbs, upon its moraing' side. Maples' once took my fancy, because of their bearing the name of Canada's emblem. (Their catalogue, of encyclopaedia proportions, is now lying hefore me. When I first opened it, and after " Musing there (on), awhile alone." — Byron'8 "-Isles of Greece.'''' I was reminded of John Gilpin's shop in Cheapside {vide Wm. Cowper), and mentally ejaculated, this smacks too much of the draper; besides, our friends Jacques and Hay, of Toronto, can do all this for us. . . . The nearest approach to what I desired 1 found at Wright and Mansfield's, hut for extensiveness, variety, and more elevated art, there are none to equal that House in the more westerly part of Oxford Street; besides, such works as are here to be seen are the most fitting for Presentation, and such only — they being truly artistic — as I might introduce free of the Revenue. A very important feature, too, I timi, but not in connexion 'I r' i 94 THE LONUOMIAD. with Messrs. Oillow — but I con provide our colonial fumilics with resi- dences during their stay in the Home Islands myself. (Note. — I will attend to this personally. — J.T.S.L ) I should like you to send rnc a little colony of pmctical Aquaria Knifineers. (I have not vet decided upon this affair. 1 certainly should not apply to Marylebono Works, and Robinson, late Kdwnrds and Co., or Turner, "up in them parts.") Whom would you recommend for fire-nronf windows? (Not Jones, of Goswell Street, he is too small; the l'!(l)»v.are might do; and until Harris, of Bristol, shall have fully established a representative house in London, I ghouldnU fuss about.) (Mr. Biackwell, O.vford Street, and not A. Davis, Strand, I have chosen for saddles, &c.) Mr. Pethor is a civil gentleman to speak to, but I think Gibbs' patent would suit you better. I have not room for them in the Londoniad. The great Richard Gunter is my Art Confectioner, and not little W. S. Cadman. E. Pink is scarcely one remove from a costormonger ; the articles 1 send you are from the eminent Burgess, in the Strand. Green, Holland, and Sons, are very gentlemanly people, but I would not fulfil your order for their Levitt, 'J'iie Thames Street people for cement, and not Richardson, nor Francis. I took the books away from Kitcat's, whom, I believe, are very worthy people, and gave them to prompt Mr. Egleton. I have sent your japan ing order to Griffiths and Brouett, inst«"ad of giving it to Orme, Evans, and Co. Per- kins' are too coarse a lot for me to have any dealiu'^s with ; tliey are not related to Messrs. Perkins, the worthy Hot-water Engineers. Barry and Reynolds, I believe, are good enough in their way, and so is the Leeds House, Scarfe's ; but Cadburys are fops, and Eppa a patent medicine homo. My Chocolate people are Collier and Sons. Forrest, for Chan- deliers of liondoii make, and not J. and J. Jeal. Neither V.mner and Priest, nor Miller will do for softening your leather. In the first named there is too much of the Chuzzlewit and Clinker, and the last would repre- sent Scapino and Marplot. Let your Secretary ask James Beaty, or liis nephew, of Toronto. 1 could not, up to a certain time, find tlie Baileys — "All partial evil, universal good." — Pope. They do not make anything; theirs is a sort of Caleb Quotera house. Your Compressed Tea vendors represent in person Count Ferdinand Fathom, Gines de Passiimonte, and the witty rogue in Sliakespeare's Wintcr^s Tale, spoken of, too, by Sir W. Scott, and of whom we read as being among the Argonautictw (bight Autolycus), the very Donald Caird of the middle ages, who not only metamorphosed his neiglibours' goods, but, embued with a Protean spirit, passed at will into the aerdal Metempsy- chosis himself. S|)eaking of tea, what about Phillips, Kin:,' William Street, not for their tea, as once went W. P. Lett to an impudent fellow in Sussex Street, By town, and whom he deservedly satirized, but for their "Oriental goods," which please QV.). . . . Here is an enquiry relative to a peculiar preparation for preserving ships' boilers, &c. I brought to London last year a large order for Buchan and Co., but did not send it on. J. Abbott's, I believe, is good, but I do not frequent taverns. Vian and Rhetjen's 1 do not desire to become acquainted witii ; but Mr. Lublez, whose organization is of a higher order than that ot any other bere mentioned, he being the best orator of all the business in London, hath marked his name upon my list for the Londoniad, and will appear therein, at the earliest possible moment that Bpiice shall be declared open. I have been asked to send some specimens of Worcester or Beleeck porce- lain, for our better class of colonists. 1 have chosen the Fermanagh pro- ductions, amongst otlier reasons for the following : — 1 had made up my nind never to do anything with the Worcester's (altliough my business TIIK LONDONIAD. M ti- ll lo )n ul :u n transactions have been with 100 potters at Stokc-upon-Trent, which took up the whole of the 13tli Lor^noNiAn), because when cm enli ,'litiiio(l Minister of Arts paid a visit to lieir "show-rooms" — I think thry vci-e then in Hutton Garden — he was met by " a coarse swell of a fellow named Binns," a sort of Dully Dawson, Colonel Jack, or Drawcansir. Speaking personally, a more genial, business-like gentleman than Mr M'William, I would not desire to communicate with , hence the ordei-s for the Irish potteries.) Have you decided on whose " Packing" to choose? (Such nn article is made by Feldtman, Capt. House, Tuck and Co., and by some one represented by Wigzall and Halsey, but the article 18 of too unimportant a nature for me to be concerned with. The two first arc supposed to be at loggerheads with each other, but, like Townsend Brothers, the old and voung Jacob work into each other's fSfi. Here is "thocap'n" giving "his mate" the title as Ctrvantcs did ,o Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, I'lince of Liars, meeting with retort in the true spirit of Charlemagne's General, bight Roland to Oliver, his fellow paladin, one incredible lie for another, each striving, like young Nerval's father, "to increase his store." I should prefer the house of Whyte and Kidsdalo, to the Bohemian opposite, whose name does not readily occur to me (IJoseck and Timme), but 1 desire binl. art.) Squantani and Co. is a Lillipu- tian house ; very good, no doubt, as far as it goes, but I have had Conishee and Dryden and Co. for Presses, and H. Caslon and Alderman Figgins for Type. I should not be disposed to go to Ludgato Circus, if, even in the words of J. Quincey Adams, did "I want a monster printing-press, with 50,000 ems." I will send you the names of a good firm instead, of Appleby's, and Chapman and Sutton for Winding Engines, Hoists, and Winches. Instrad of Faber or Illfelder, I send you Pencils from the great Cumberland mine owners represented by tiiat true business gentleman, Mr. Harrison. Hurry and Plunder, among the old Saxons, were synonymous terms. I do not intend to apply harshness to a meek, advertising Pillacoddy, but I have no room lor Mm in the Londoniad. Pooley and Sons scales. I sent tiie order to Mayor Avery, I took care that neither Fairbanks, nor any other Yankee Alfred Jingle, or Scapino, should make anything that T could overrule in regard to payment, &c. I would prefer Alfred Pyrke's designs to those of Hancock, Bruton Street, but Mr. Phillips, of Cockspur Street, I have introduced — Alfred Bishop's preparations or Dr. Hill's ; you can choose yourself. I decline to have anything to do with even Doctor Dove (Southey), certainly not with Dulcamara (Donizetti), or Slop (Sterne). I would prefer Pottam and Vinson to ferret-eyed Bradford (who, I believe, is a descendant of Jonathan Bradford), and with whom a friend of mine dealt once, and afterwards said that " one pill was a dose." A letter came from them at 9 a.m., asking me to be in the street fivmous for its three Tailors of " we, the people of England" notoriety, about 10 o'clock the same morning. They, no doubt, thought " business was slack," and that I was sitting down, waiting for a job. My correspondence at once ceased with Tooley Street. We. however, remember the words of Baillie Nicol Jarvie (Sir W. Scott's Rob Roy), when expostulated with by a poor lady, wher ^aged in taking what she had, " business is business, ye ken, mo'n." Holland and Holland, the senior partner appears to be a good old gentleman, but mv field of action will lie between M'Dougall, Mr. Grant, and our British officere in St. James's Street. Harris', of Mansell Street, are very good in their line, but tlie Foxhead people of South Audley Street, are better. I will send you the goods from thence. Aitken and .^^/€> IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) '^->r^ V \\ % V * .«», ^%, ^.:^^ '"q.^ O^ &p 9G THE LONDON UU. Jcssop— I should prefer this cupola to that of Williams or Wilson, but when about to ask for the estimates to be sent in by them, I found that the patentee and proprietor was Mr. Lublez. Please see A fife. I have not seen any of the jwrtners of V/ebb', the glass pi'ople, as they live at Stour- bridge, but I will supply you verv readily through James Pellatt Rick- man, grandson o( the Great Apsley Pellatt. Since I saw Mr. Laurie, I have thrown Wake and Dean overboard. I scud you the §1000 worth of Auro-Ayesticon, from E. N. Girling and Co. The Ely Place people might have haelves in the background. The prospectus to the Horseshoe had neither name nor address attached to it, and we might as well single out a bubble in the Maelstroom us to search fov its inspiring genius 'mid the wilderness of human in London. I have not been to Edward Stean's — Barking is too far away. Truly, life in this world is made up of coincidences — " I dreamed a dream, but 'twas not all a dream." — Byron. For yestreen Aaron — Patriarch, Prelate, Brahman, Mufti, Rabbi, or whatever the theologic' technic may — stood palpably bc>'ore me, as when he oleageanized himself before the altars of Israel, and spsike these words : " How are you off for soap?" I replied, "Very well, thank you, Deacon; and if cleanliness be next to Godliness, your outer habiliment would bo none the worse for a souse in suds, and my soap man is Squire Freeland,. of Toronto." The legislator immediately took wind for Ontario. I have not yet scei'. the Paper Feede. B. Franklin Fuller, I was told, shot the moon. My answer regarding gnns, in a former part of this letter, will apply to Ale.\ander Henry. In regard to W. Hawkins' Gauge. Hawkins femme presented hers^elf. I thougiit of Omphiile be-t-lippering Hercules, and Xantippe bedewing Socrates, of Petruchio in the Taming of the Shrew, and the " Henpecked Husband " (Robt. Burns, his Poem) — and departed AhengaiigeA. 1 had heard of Banbury Cakes, but Henry Stone, of that town, hath invented that which I hope to see in all public libraries and reading-rooms, but as his London representative is but a retail stationer. I have not yet given any order for any number of what Lord Dundonald would call " the Instrument." Beyond all titles. Heaven preserve me from that of Professor of the Pros- kaur and Blandi School. I find their catalogues here. I do not intioduco Meriy Andrews into the Londoniad ; I leave tliem and their compeers to Harlequin — Arlcquin, Arlecchino, so well known in French, Spanish, and Italian Comedy and to the student of old French bog-Latin, and D. and Old German, heirlekin, hellequin, and helli-something. Prof. Norris is your best man here. There are 1000 and 2 more, whom I may not men- tion for want of room, who have presented their names for the New H'-ndrcdth Londoniad, Our intelligently industrious Prince, at the close of his letter saith, please remember me with affection to the people THE LONnONIAD. 97 of England, Ireland, and Scotland, never forseUing the true Britons, our Welsli frickJs. My love to your ever-blessed Mother and to yourself. Yours at command for things in general, and everything in particular, (Signed) Alescanure. ^fg' The enlightened reader will find, for the greater part, the meaning of the questions in the above letter evolved in the answers. J. T. S. LiDSTONE. EDWARD FOBDHAIC FLOWER, ESa. " A rarer spirit men ne'er did steer humanity." — Shakespear. At the last Annual Meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, when you kindly gave unto me a copy of your book, " A sequel to Bits and Bearing-reins," immediately arose to my memory the words of " him who did more for the Roman name than all its Consuls and Empcroi-s." " Continuo pecoris generosi pullus in a>'vis Altius ingreditur et mollia crura reponit. Primus et ire viam, et fluvios tentare minaces Audct, et imioto sese committere ponti ; Nee Tanos Borret Strepitus." — Vir. Geo. being assured, as I was, that this freedom of action had never met with exemplification in the Noble Animal had the cirque of old Roma been cursed by the presence of the Roues and Harridans of Rotten Row " Who there repair To take their dose of Hyde Park air." — Gav, 2nd Epistle. I will pay a tribute to your excellent worth in the next Londoniad (our noble and beloved ex-President the Earl op Harrowby, whose son Lord Sandon I hope yet to see established as Governor-General of Canada, hath already appeared in several of the Londoniads) Lord ABERDARBwill .appear in the same edition with Lady Aberdarf, to whose kindness and heroism we owe the success attendant upon the e^orts vouchsafed by the Friends in these Islands towards rearing and endowing the Temperance Hospital. SIE HENRY JAJilES, Q.C., M.R 1, New Court, Temple, E.G. " My private Lawyer." —Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough. " A man of ready tongue and wit A politician who could hit, And sway with eloquence, Henry James." — William Pittman Lett. ' — If he had but kept the field. In time had made the City vield ; For great towns, like crocodiles, are found I' th' belly aptcst to receive a mortal wound."— Butler's " Duval,'" H 98 THE LONDONIAO. I i I do not remember having taken more than one Lord Mayor for a. liero since dauntless Salomons came on " And merit by the multitude was crowned : With David then was Israel's peace restorM. John Dryden's ^"Absalom and AcJtitophel.''^ And that was when " ■ heroic James appeared." Dryden, " Threnodia Augustalis.''* " Lawrence of virtuous father virtuous son." — Milton. If there were sensible, and honourable men in the corporation would they allow a fool to preside in tiio Sheriff's Court affected by " lunacy beyond the cure of Art."— Horace. As our French friends would say " C'est un sot a vingt-quatre carats." Robert Burns asks very pertinently " Has old Kilmarnock seen the dc'il ."" Whethei- or not it has lately heard " The piteous beast pleading plaintiff cause." — Spenser's " Fatry Queen.'''' And if as canvasser Ame de Bouc is to represent its industry of shawls, carpets, boots, and shoes " Now, auld Kilmarnock ! cock thy tail, And toss thy hoiiis fou canty." Here's one — " Who raves and blunders nonsense thicker Than Aldennan o'ercharged with liquor." By James Black-well, Opemtor for the feet. " Where the city-coach is, there Is the true essence of the Mayor."— Churchill's " Ghost.'" COUNTY COURT. " I have unmasked the villains."— Mr. Plimsoll. That the effects of my County Court Circular are being felt may be witnessed in the defeat of Sir E. Wilmott's Jurisdiction Bill. " Sir Eardley placed on her bench of law, Wilmot trembled." Jacobus Cawthorne, A.M., Schol The Author of the Londoniad will enter the arena of conflict at an early prospective date. I |- THE LONDONIAD. 10] no , a Ic, he 11- 11- k- tot th le s; " But rouse tlicc, man ! Shako off this hideous do ; Be man ! Stand up ! Draw in a mighty breath This world has quite enough emasculate hands, Dallying with doubt and sin. Come — here is work — begin !" Erastus W. Ellsworth, 1822 (The Engineer Poet.) m W LIDSTONE, LUDSTOWN, AND LONDON". .^ $S" " A personal matter ! a personal matter! a personal matter ! " .S9 George Guelph. Ijidstonc and Ludstown arc one. " Just here, as ancient poets sing, there stood The noble palace of the valiant Lud." Wm. King, LL.D., " The Furmetaryr There is a gi-cat amount of so-eallcd property in London " Ware and Troynevent in Middlesex, Troynevent was the antient name. King Lud brought it to be called London. '■ Oneirophitos Gj/nomachia^'' (the Author is unknown.) which when sold or let out by its corporation is unaccompanied by any deed to show that they have anything to do with such property more than the so-called purchaser or tenant. The fact is, they have no right to such houses and lands as arc here alluded to. The old occupiers in their families died out, of plagues in he middle ages, and now that the land rcclamatiou of England is about to 'lecome the moving question throughout these islands, I will not say tnat " I intend to put in my claim." I would disdain to claim aught from those who kave no right to what they them- selves claim ; but, in the name of an original right, I will seize on that which originally belonged to my ancestor. King Lud ; and although I may not require all this for oersonal use, I intend to make all such houses and lots public property, and to order that the income to be derived therefrom instead of being expended upon the gorging of every red tapist and so-called Royal Ape that comes the road (who for all the purposes they serve in the oeconomy of Nature, might as M'ell have been created swine), be devoted toward tiie alleviation of City rates and taxes. — Extract, Inauguration Land Reclamation Speech. Please see the last Londoniad.— J. T. S. LiDSTONE. I was speaking one day to " The man who calls me cousin." — (Addison on Budgell.) and people call him " Tom O'Coombe," regarding the time that " Brute."— Sir John Denham's " Cooper's Hill:'' " From Troy's famed fields sad wanderer o'er the main." Homer's " Iliadr passed by his ancestral hut while sailing through the woodlands of Dyfna- yant in order to establish his seat of empire up the Dart at Totencss, he would fain believe that this noted emigrant was but a mushroom (Meta- thesistical-metempsychosis) compared to Lud and since that enlight'ning hour especially upon a regatta day when all the fine mesdames come out with their ribbons flying, we realize the scene from Shenstone LiL 102 •IHE LONDONIAD. ' Lo, Dartmouth on whose banks reclined, While busy fancy calls to mind, The glories of his line."— (Traced from the " Patriot Monarch^ " O Caratac ! O nobill prince and king !— AuLUS Planctus/ T. B. (afterwards Lord) Macaulav, in regard to the (future) Author OP THE LoNDONiAD. During the evenini* Geikie showed me a printer's proof-sheet of " McDonald's, Clutban and Malvina," very good for a professor. (It .rould seem that the Right Hon. Gentleman knew all the time that Professor G. was the Author.— J. T. S. Lidstone),and exhibited in manuscript a description of Minerva, which he said, quoting, as I per- ceived, from Duvchinck, on Natty Leatlicrstocking, in Cooper's novel of " The Pioneei-8, has all the freshness of Nature, the first fruits of civiliza- tion," and he might have added with Cnrlyle "one melodious synopsis of Man and Nature in the West." I foiuul it, however, to be the produc- tion of a young Devonian, a Sophomore in the University of Upper Canada .... here is exemplified all the vivid, picturesqueness, and life-like action claimed for the Voice of Cona by his most ardent admirers, ond an outburst of sublimity unknown to former ages, any single idea in this short and vigorous " Pallsean Mentiln " far transcends in power of thought and truthfulness all that has been foisted upon the world for such in the nume- rous writings of •' the Author of Satan and FTowwin," and " the Omni- presence of Deity.'* Macaulay's Letters following his Essay on the Time and False Sublime. (Please see the 7th Londoniad.) I have i itroduced this simile into Mr. Chatwood's poem, at pages 70, 71, and 72 of the present Londoniad He tower'd above the Universe at Aits' emporium In Sequana' Isle Lutetia Parisorium. ? ? ■ *' E.\cu8ation of ye prenter," Bellenden trans Hector Boece. As the printer is filling in from the end of the present Londoniad, and I am led to believe that there are but very few pages to spare, I desire to say a few words, it is not because the following articles are less important or interesting than the rest, that they (although being set up in type) are reserved for the next, a few, however, may possibly appear in this Edition, They are ail in that which a friend has called " the Spencer Lidstone style" viz. with mottoes and quotations. Hon. Col. Prince, Sir Joseph Howe (Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia), Earl of Dufferin, Hon. McPherson, the Rivers and Lakes or Canada, Dr. Livingstone versus Stanley, King of Hanover, Bill of Pruss and Bismark, Paris Exhibition, Italian Exhibition, Dean Stanley and Leopold, Earl Shaftesbury, Duke OB Argyll the Leitrim affair, Lidstone and Lud's-town, John Bright, Sir John Young, the Obelisk, called Cleopatra's Needle, Beaconsfield and Salisbury, Cyprus, (slightly satirical). Earls Derby and Carn/.rvon {purely pan^jrical), Sir Allan N. McNab, Robert Conroy, Esq. (Aylmer), Councillor Dunlop (Pembroke), To my Cousin, Reuben Lidstone, Esq., 25 years a Resident in Albany, N.Y., Sir A. H. Layard, the Italian Minister, Tecumseh, Polan, Osceola, Peter Jones, the Melchisedic of the West, His Excellency Sitting Bull, Squire Goodman, and Orator Richardson (March), f THE LONDONUU. 107 ^ " GoodJohn indeed, with beef and clai'ft, Makes tlic place warm that one may bear it. He has a puree to keep a tabic. And a soul as hospitable." Dean Smedley's ''Petition to tlie Duke of Grafton.'"' " A Colonel, A jolly, lirst-rate man, On whom we boldly dare repose To meet our frinds or meet our foes." — David Mallet. The Poem is in the Library of the British Museum. Of all the sneaks in God^s creation the Yankee is the meanest. IIo'lI throw a sprat to catch a herring, but he'll rip the herring up quick in no timej minus any sauce except his own impudence, and servo you with the sprat, swearing he gives it at first hana — Col. Prince on the Yankees. — Extract from i/ie 100th Londomao. " ExilM demi-gods their ruinM seats deplore." " VirgiCa Tomb," Naples, 1741. HIS EXCELLENCY SITTING-BULL. " Sitting-Bull, if he has not gone, he is sitting there still." Sir John A. Macdonalu. Please seo a Poetical Biography of this interesting pei-sonnge by tlic Author of the LoNDONiAn. A gathering tempest had swelled up his leggings; he had only to move, and strange fancies possessed and bewitched the bewildered Yank. As at Bull run, ■ " Still you laboured on — Hearing the far Manassas gun." — H. Melville. Verily, like the war-horse of Scripture, you snuffed the battle— ^omo/co-/ " The war-whoop sleeps, but soon for thee shall wake, Illustrious Chief." Wm. Thomp-son, M. a., " The Poetical Calender." The Yankee vulture is turned to a flitting gull. O'er entempest'd wilds travci-scd by Sitting-Bull. " Can fleets or troops such spirits tame. Although tiiey view their wigwams' flame, ' And levelled each village ? 'Midst distant wilds they'll tind a home, Far as unsubjected Indians roam, With nought for Yank to pillage."— Lord John Townshend. In Canada unmolested may " The fertile land the Indians rove. Or hunt at large through the wide echoing grove." — Thomas Tickell. If not quite like Arimanes, seated on a thrane of material flame, furious and locomotive, his own spirit proved the means of progress ! over the angry land that seemed to respire in volcanoes, while the tribes emblemed Demonisi just broke out from perdue. Mighty tribes have vanish'd, some perish 'd by slaughter. Many more by disease, and more than all by Fire Water. m rilB I.UNDONIAD. u CHARLES SPARES, Vei-lum and Parchment Manufacturer, 0, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street; aud at Cross Street, Bermondsey. Vellum and Parchment cut to any size. "I was not forgetful of Sparks."— King Charles I. op England. " In the Sarcophagus tliey had tlio Books fresh ns newly written, being written on parchment and vellum." — Lord Bacon. And now it is that your Financial Delegate embarks From Imperial London, and the practicul Charles Sparks. We never could use those sorts from Massachusetts sent, And which were ail undercrvin/,' of the name of parchment. But now our ilrgosics upon del gh ted Ocean toss. Laden from Salisbury Square nnd Street yclept Cross, And our tribes in all Western anguages I will tell 'cm Where to get or white or green, the various kinds of Vellum, And though the Wolvine Yanii'. alternate yelps and barks, For Canada 7 vols. Til invoke thy aid, Charles Spark". 'Twas said to me lang syne by giUant Captain Ilorril, You will find Charles Spaiks a trustwortny wight for Forril, And in our Colonial archives shall very soon be seen, Many of my famed Hero's skins, pure white or fadeless green, From where Montmorency roars, to where Niagara not slumbers, O'er joyous floods and lands I'll verbally repeat the Numlters; Or rather in a more general parlance apprises Ye Bard, our Colonial institutes of the sizes, Ousting the Yank, observation me enables To turn upon that impious pack their rapping tables. And place in loved Ontario's lap Charles' luggage labels. All, tlie Minstrel in his capacious memory marks That which shall embrace our records, hail Squire Charles Sparks. I rode the winds of centuries and gathered th' rays of all the days That ever flash'd on time, and lo ! a miracle sublime ; A thousand years had rolled away, yet are they all well kept ? As if they just had sprung to life and not a decade had slept, The sentences all flew out and became transformed to larks. Thrilling their new morning with the immortal name of Sparks. Several copies apropos of the Author of the Londoniad's large work, Canada Illustrated, will be got up in vellum covers for presentation. Institutes, &c., and herein especially I shall have to invoke the aid of Mr. Sparks. This famous house has supplied the Government for more than thirty years. THE LONDON WARMING AND VENTILATING COMPANY. Mr. Woodcock, Manager. Exhibition Medal, London, 1862 ; Medaille d'Honneur, Paris, 1867 ; Eoyal Society Medal, Dublin, 1869 ; and First Prizes or Diplomas in every Competition. Offices — 23, Abingdon Street, Westminster, S.W. :turer, aud at m and ANn. in, being t THE LONDONIAD. 109 ;rs, iks. lys 5 work, itation. of Mr. thirty :ng )ition neur, iblin, Bvery treet, The " Gurncv Stove" is used in the Department of Science and Art, in Twenty Cathedrals, including St. Paul's and York Minster, and in more than 2200 Cliurchcs, Public Duildin^^s, and Private Houses in England alone; also very extensively in France, Russia, Sweden, and the Couti' nent generally. "Hail, Woodcock '—Sir John Dkniiam's Poems. " The Harmony of sounds to Dr. Burney, That of Science to Sir Goldsworthy CJurney." J. T. S. LiDSTONB. What object can bo more important, say. To our health and comfort in the present day. Than this, the best of all efficient modes O' warming and eutiliting our abodes? None ! whoso at inraent seems to be So entirely simp.c in theory, But in practice difficulties countless, vast, In every branch of science unsurpass'd, Till our Immortal Company arose, And did the secrets of pure health di close ; And the main feature of that great succei;'^. Which doth their great unrivall'd system bless (And may be traced to a natural cause), Was the rieht application of those laws Of coavection and conduction of heat, Under which the air is warm'd (so complete) And moisten'd ia ratio exact, With its increasing temperature kept intact, And thus, as surely as the fiat of fate Preserved in a natural and a healthy state. Science no higher reference affords Than th' " Report of the Committee of t/ ? Lords," Which I have, too, been lately poring o'er, Printed July 19, 1854. Throughout the length and breadth of all our land, We find this glorious system in demand ; And Gumey's world-wide fame's a guarantee ^Twill triumph soon beyond each bounding sea. Now while rallying mem'ry it recalls What th' great Sydney Smith said of St. Paul's, And which did antique ventilators vex, " You might as well attempt to warm up l^Iiddlescx ;'* Nevertheless, it has by us been done. Science's greatest triumph 'neath ihe sun. Museums alone, nor legislative piles. Hospitals, and in cathedral aisles; Through edifices once so chill and dank. The healthy currents flow, and who to thank ." Gladly I'd mention all, but they're many, The honour'd names that form our Company But I'm directed by the Muse, my Mentor, To hail the Manager, Secretary, Inventor. More than with the burning ardour of "Knyghte, in joust or tourney' Shall ChronoB in new life turn adoringly to "Gurney, Even as Gheber, and eke Druid, having afBance lie THE LONDUNUD. I Too, in fiery glow, I worsliin licro the blnzo of Sriencc, Faroe's trump for " Ourney thro' tl>' world Imth Iking bereft Of other sound, there is no spare for echo left. Testimonials innumerous as mys that win;; the day. As sands tliat stmnd the Ocean, or its particles of spray. From the brightest sons of light that ever graced Minstrel's lay, Because of these and more, we've lately form'd a fund, (Though the Sacred College here unmercifully hath pun'd) For the Cathedral of our Native Saint hight Tanimenund ; Still nncanonized ! Yet in " the next nge" (Bacon) I wis He filling th' world with gloiy will soar th' apotheosis. While Canada for aye oustins th' so-called United States, Greets Squire Woodcock's moaificcUion — Patent Fresh Air Orates. B. SON, HABmSON AND Coach Builders (Silver Medal, Paris Exhibition, 1878), 1, Stanhope Street, Euston Bead, London, N.W. " In a graceful slcich, drawn by spirited steed, You glide o'er the snow with lightnin g speed, Whilst from harness decked witli silvery bells, In sweet showers the sound on the clear air swells, And the keen bracing breeze with vigor rife, Sends quick through your veins warm streams of life."* Mrs. J. L. Leprohon, Winter in Cawida. I pnss'd from the tents of cloudland trilling my vesper, er Eve's roseate downs on a visit to Hesper, Returning, 1 acted Zephyrus' blackfoot to Flora, And, overstaying my time, early met with Aurora, She smilingly said, Bard of the Londoniad, between Us both, I think of soon dropping this aerial machine, And taking to that which substantial may be, though, limber, 1 will en-spirit the iron, and vitalize the timber; Brave Lady of the Morn ! we'll hie to Messrs. Harrison, Thence drive Day thro' chaos, and of old Night Storm th' Garrison. The Bard of their good work himself did thoroughly acquaint Carriages of unrivall'd make without lining or paint. While their o^vn peculiar cover'ng of stretch'd leather Renders them staunch against the most tempestuous weather, Here, too, I saw that Landau which won them a world's renown, In contour, lightness and compactness, the best in Paris shown, To view the material and glorious workmanship I over the red Atlantic would have taken a trip. To the noble, and the generous to their Animals These of highest perfection ev'ry attribute recalls The wheels are closely coupled, and the whole Emblems Guido's Morning Chariot's roll, No unpleasant jolting or vibration In these th' glory of our Age and Nation, The Boxes of the Wheels my heroes have Bedded in India-fiubber Cushions in the nave. And their patented principle upon which they make the head, Exemplifies how they, of Carriage Maken, take the lead, I & TIIK LONDOXIAD. Ill itcs. 1878), d, From the inncr-tiilc, even a Ladv with the greatest engc May raise or lower; such I introuuio hryontl the tests, Yea, from those whom nil the i;rarcful Hcienrcs environ, Who make their own wood -framing, and all the work in iron. By simple mode the scats arc lowcicd or clevnled. The [jandscape undulates, our Dulcinca is elated. For can be shown to Corydon how she's imhlimatod. Our firm sent as the Italians, say, many a Gutta, Off lately to the city of Palaces, Calcutta, And those are th^ carriages of their huild that wo now behold Careering instinct with life thro' tlie land of Leopold, Not only in New York, but under cv'ry nation's IliiR, With gentlemen drivers may be seen the Harrison Drag, While the Bard far removed, let us hope, from aught of 8hod(d)y. Or th' parvenu, ordorcth from hence his coach'i body, Which, under his immediate inspection, be 't stated, Is properly trimm'd, and artistically decorated. I spake to th' Sagamores around the council fires of Goba, Saying, they shall supply our Nations in Manitoba. •^Of ye orbicular motion I this said long ago. Your Wliecls will be all supplied by our great Toronto Co. Eke bodies we place on Sleigh runners flying thro' the snow. inada. I. JOHNSON BROTHERS AND COMPANY (Limited), Engineers and Contractous, Patentees AND Manufacturers of Iron Fences for English, Foreign, and Colonial Railways ; for Colonial Sheep Runs ; for Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the East Indies, Cape Colony, South America, &c. ; and for Home Use in Parks, Ornamental Grounds, Pastures, Fields, &c. Wrought Iron Entrance Gates and Ornamental Ironwork. Patentees and Manufacturers of Glass and Iron Buildings on Im- proved Principles for Hot-Houses and Conservatories, and all descriptions of Horticultural Biiildings, for Railway Stations and Platform Covers, Covered Markets, Studios, Sanataiiums, Covered Homesteads, &c. 6, AVaterloo Place, Pall Mall, London, S.W. " My song to horticulture might extend." — ViRGlL. Personages of taste stone barriers would not desire, And th' wooden kind is liable to destruction by fire. Hence for Horticultural purposes, those made of Wire. Our's th* Manufacturers, not mere consignees or factoid. But the Practical Engineers and world-famed Contractoi-s. I examined well their stronger standards, and after that Decided upon discarding ye upright, \c\cpt^flat. Whate'er claim Massachusetts Yank may have, alleging That his are best, I choose the Johnson system of Wedging. .'.a 112 THE LONDONFAn. ; ! Never more like hurdles that kept out floods from early Rome; A peifcct picture is rendered each Colonial home. I^et the Midlands and the North of the coarse unwieldy hoast, I'll guarantee the Johnson quality, and as to cost — Nought equal can I trace of Pittsburghs, Bostons, or New Yorks, In that of Waterloo Place and the Brocklev Trou Works, All their deeds immediately most fully I'll describe, And introduce to the chiefs of each British native tribe. While the ardourous descendants of each Home British rare I'll supply from th' Imperial Isles and Waterloo Place. THE HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS POEM. Hereafter our gi-eat Colonial orders to fulfil I go, certainly not to Chelsea nor to Brierly Hill. Our nations' not treated as Transvaali or Maories, Joy in Buildings for Hot houses and Conservatories, And we hail, though " th' Infernal States" (Milton) keep up a gre.it cruction Horticultural Buildings, Improvements of Construction ; The environs of the Homesteads of our British races Never more the ordinary wooden house disgraces. Defects, and hcvv erst (what our pioneers elated Is this, and let it be in Motherland and tongue stated) O' th' maintenance of Ordinary Houses obviated, The Framework of wrought iron extra of special sections. Ne'er become depressed, nor are they subject to deflections. Light they appear, are always strong, though small may be the weight. All these will tend to enhance their value regarding freight. While the modus operandi of applying the Glass, I'll show in a transparency as I through the nations pass. Eternal Science to these structures doth soul-light impart Nature blooms in ceaseless spring 'mid those perfect works of Art. j\ season yet have to run my Canada debentures. Then with th' Head Co. of the world shall be my prime of ventures. THE GATE POEM. <{g» The Author's University 1st Prize Gate Poem appears in the 3rd LoNDONiAD ; it will be reprinted, together with Messrs. Johnson Brothers and Company's Poem as they appear in this, the New 100th Londoniad, in one of tne Seven Vols. Canada Elephant Folio Edition, now being prepared for tiie Press. Our Company's real Art "Studies of Wrought Iron Entrance Gates" (To equal in vain have striven th' so-called United States And which came upon these Robbers like to a sirocco), I've placed in our Great Library bound in best Morocco, Together with separate and collective Catalogue, Glory — deeds ! therein represented I will bring in vogue, And, pro persotttB, will every act et motive give. Them throughout th' Occident as unpaid Representative, ft^ Art and Literature ! that Time nor stoi-m shall e'er invade ; The Greatest Names and Largest Number e'er on List display'd, Those supplied by our Co., and that grace the Londoniad. A large Colonial order for Jones, Bayliss, and Jones, of Crooked Lane, E.C., and Monmouth Works, Wolverhampton, came to hand last Sep- tember, but I would not fulfil it, but re-ordercd their catalogue to oe thrown out of our Public liibrary. THE LONOONIAD. 113 vks, t eruction veiglit, ft. uies. in the 3rd n Brothers 30NIAD, in now being ilNTRANCE 'ade ; oked Lane, J last Scp- gue to oc MARK FEETHAM AND Co., Furnishing Ironmongers & Stove Makers TO Her Majesty (Silver Medal, Paris Exhibition, 1878), Gas Fitters and Brass Founders, Bell Hangers and Lock Smiths, Manufacturers op Stoves for warming Large Eooms, Halls, and Churches, Warm and Shower Baths on a simple and approved plan, Eooms, Hot Houses, &c., &c., warmed by Water. Smoky Fire Places Pre- vented. No. 9, Clifford Street, Bond Street, and No. 17, Soho Square, London. " Studious they appear Of Arts that polisli life, Inventors rare." — Milton. " This is the safest sto 'e." — Evelyn. " An old-fashioned grate Consumes coals, but gives no heat."- -AuDisoN and Steele, " Spectator.'''' From all in the home-land I choose Messrs. Mark Feetham and Co. For our 7 capitals and towns in Ontario Theirs may well be call'd, par excellence, the Pallaean fane. The grandest that I e'er saw adventuring o'er the main. Why need we wonder, theirs the Royal House, and they stand. Vide Lloyd's, A, Number 1, in the Imperial Mothv • Land, For Art accessorse, and th' resources at their command, The common kinds of cooking stoves we get from 3 Rivers ; But vour Financier, soon to Manitoba delivers Th' Metallic glories of our age, to change the venu, Having help'd, our chiefs from Collingwood up to Fort Garry, Gladly tho8« free of th' revenue in their own craft carry. Those more especially which each great family approves Are their Ceramicce alto isola Warm Air Stoves, And hailing these from our Artistic Makers to the Queen, We greatly prize science' acme so tasteful all and clean, While, for our Colonial Institutes, Each Learned Society such salutes ; Yea, more than any from the so-called United States, We greet Mark Feetham & Co's. Warm Air Ventilating Grates, Immediately their form and adaptation I'll describe, And bring them too, in vo^ue, with native and adopted tribe, While those suitable for Bedrooms shall put the close kinds to the rout ; Lo here are special Designs prepared, and eke throughout. Let Brown, Green, Boyds', Douglas', Chambers, Constantine, Wclwood, vaunt, With the Leamington, I for each Parliamentary Restaurant, From those, and 100 otheis choose, and a market prepare For the great Co., 9, Clifford Street, and 17, Soho Square, Nought of the Bomba-'iat', here the Art Minstrel befogs, • AVe welcome the beautiful tlieir truthfully designed Fire Dogs, Which all our British races on the Western Contineitt Will joy in, as articles of vertu and ornament i /t 7 I I 1 114 THE LONOOMAD. (Of Clement, Dunstan, Adrian us Art History acquaints How they glorified their epochs as Metal Workiije Saints, And many a crown'd-head from Gyges on to Charies the 5th, In Artistic Metallurgy exemplified a thrift), While I, and this I mention with peculiar elation. Take their Chimney Pieces o'er the sea for presentation. ^rial visitants ! My soul did flesh-divested rove With you, where Naiad throng'd streamlets carol'd thro' lyrc-lcav'd grove', A new Minerva saw I leap from forehead o' later Jove. With such mighty birth, that o'er-teeming fiery brain of his Enkindled the world to an Aurora Borealis, Th' Horizon quiverM, lost in an over-shadowing main. Blinded for the nonce (Robert Burns) " I look'd and look'd again ! " All th' Metallic wonders of Titan ages long gone by Were weirt'ly depinctured on a Miraculous Sky, On which (Soldan-like-carpet-Moslem lore) did the goddess fly ; Hark ! Echo (Ovid!) (the Pallaean Deity fleeth Ham Scut and Skunk of Yankeedom, and o'er the dome of Feethani Respires in Day,) th' most valued o' th' Gods was Vulcan of the Fire, Venus was his femme, whom, on dit, loyalty did not inspire. Homer, of Vulcanus, hath a fine description given, II. 1, 57, 15, 18, 11,397. He liveth Immortal in Clifford Street, the famed abode Of Art, and where holds high residence each Kosmcsan God. Theii-s the Intellectual Woikers, to whatever land they may resort. Having wrought for the Company of Feetham is ever a good passport. THE KENSINGTON SERIES OF REABING-BOOKS ILLUSTRATED. Including Reading, Writing, Aritu- METic, Dictation, Composition, Spelling, Derivations. By J. W. Laurie. Pro- nounced by all who have seen it to be the "very best series yet published." Laurie's " Indestructible " School Desk (supplied to Schools in every County in England). Carriage paid to destination. Laurie's School Apparatus and Furniture. Laurie's Phy- siological Models, Relief Globes, Wall Maps, Pictures, Scien- tific Diagrams, School Stationery. Thomas Laurie, Edu- cational Depository, 12, Stationers' Hall Court, London, E.G. ■ Kal SPEEDS iiSaaKtrai Atyctv, &KoutivO', wv fxaOtiiriv ovk c}(ci 'A6du jud0i)T(S, TUVTa (Ttu'^tcrBat (f)i\tt Jlpot yrjpaf ovtu> HAIAAZ EY HAIAEYETE. Euripides. " Exigite ut mores teneros ceu pollice ducat, Ut si quis cera rultum facit." — Juv. " To grasp success they all seem'd in a hurry, Bat this attended only upon Laurie." Sir Joseph Hcwf, "C%crfai«cto," A Poem. THE LONDONIAD. 11^) From the Sea that sepulchre of cider continents to Maurie Ringing among th' Resun-ection Isles, I bear the deeds of Laurie. I search'd not only thro' th' Imperial Metropolis But throughout Britannia's Island-Kingdoms, and I wis Found in J. W. Laurie's New Scries, the best, And thus suiting our late-born generations of the West, In collating and arranging these, many years were spent. From the better kinds ofreading-books on either continent ; The World's most renowned authorities this plan saluted, And to the famous Laurie Series contributed. I have all the known systems before our Sagamores placed. And th' subject matter, eke graduation of language traced, And discovered all to be on a perfect system based. Too, saith the Bard, who on a vital subject now descants. These Books are suited ev'ry way to Governmental wants. Although (here a more elevated station they may claim), Being more comprehensive in their educative aim, Than any that have yet been sent out by the Government. Knowledge the more 'tis imparted like light and like fire Exhausts not its source but flowing, spreads broader and higher. Muse ! say what all at once did peculiarly elate us. It was Laurie's, School Desk, Furniture and apparatus. Such the great colonial market will be after winning. No lo Psean to Wake and Dean, Coleman and Glendenning, While latitudes not yet reach'd by steamers, rail-cars or trams, Exult in Laurie's Maps, Globes, and Educational Diagrams. Knowledge imparted by my hero doth me enable To proclaim to the chiefs of each Aboriginal Nation, That th' unique " Indestructible" School Desk, Seat and Table Is guaranteed 3 years, — Carriage paid to 'ts destination. This last concession, 1 at least may not require ofF-haud, While free of the revenue they'll pass to our prairie land. CAELOS (W. I.) AND KING, Wholesale and Export Manufacturers, 66, Hatton Garden, London, E.G. Speciality for Onyx Goods. The famous Beresford-Hope Brooch, now in possession of the Author's mother, was mounted by the above practical gentlemen. I have a long poem written upon them, but their card went down into the cellars of the Long Sault Rapids, with a variety of other articles, as auctioneers say, " too numerous to mention." Many Sons of Art in Hatton Garden have appeared from time to time in the Londoniad. Messrs. Hughes (Atlas Works), Hicks, Fuller, Ghislin, Richards, Ortelli, Casella, Elliott, Adams, .Tshnson and Matthey, Messenger and Son, Ex-Mayor Manton (and Mole), F. Larard and Co., and it may be some others. I received a note from Tesel Tecumseh, just as the last sheet c^ the' present Londoniad was about to be struck on, advising me that three tons of maple sugar awaited my order at Mantanawin Fort. This will not be sold, but I intend to make it an offering to some Confectionary Firm — Richard Gunter, were he now alive, or perhaps to E. H. Hill and Co. (late Hill and Jones). This last in preference to Castell and Brown, I 2 ^ .'t i I IIG THE LONDONIAD. Batger, F. Allen, Nelson, Dale, and Co., R. Sallman, SanBome and Co., H. Schooling, Thos. Smith and Co., Sparagnapane and Co., A. J. Weathcrly, C. H. West, W. and Co., Volckman, Wotlierspoon and Co., Clark and Someboan '.ime, Arch'd in solieltanic guise over this triune clime. Populous its arch with Prophets, Martyrs, Apostles, Saints, These, leaping into position, represent th' Glass he paints. With all that we know of their symbols, emblems, attributes, All quivering, as with animation your Bard salutes, Striking the loudest lay, even in this soul-chilling weather Ever heard, since first the Sons of Morning sang together. Examples of the early masters my hero doth define ; (Here, all the world's polite notions to him high place assign). Their Great Names, fain would I let Earth thro' ctcrn ages know, But their fame in Heaven by Angels was sounded long ago. In Mansions, Abbeys, Chapels, and through Cathedral aisles, In Minsters and in Churches, yea, all conseci-ated piles. His deeds are in ev'ry county thro' th' Imperial Isles, And as ever thro' th' world I went with him on pilgrimage, I walk'd on Art-enchanted ground through many marvellous ago By the " Beautiful Lake," Ontario, 1000 leagues from Thames, In thy Cathedral, Toronto ! 'twas I placed his St. James, Prophets and Saints there flame in Art with all their varied names. Kind Natures yet uncanonized must through probation pass, Then soar the rapt aeleo in Taylor's Painted Glass. " Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave !" this wrote Thomas Campbell But ne'er did thy ensplcnd'ring epoch tale or legend tell, Thus to electrify the nations or bmd them with a spell. Such as expectant floods and lands from ocean to Gaylor Thiills with seraphic ardour at th' mental deeds of Taylor. And well deserving of the praise Vasa.i hath given. To console mankind this glass was rained down from Heaven, Windows ! Cherubic Visions of Angel-life on seeing I sing myself into another state of being. THE I.ONDONUD. 119 bell THE COLONIAL CLUB AND LARGE TEMPERANCE HOTEL, Under the Auspices of the Autuob, of the Londoniad, (and for which the Freehold hath been secured), is now being reared for the reception of our better class of Colonists, near Islington Green, in close proximituous route to every public thoroughfare in the Imperial Capital of the Mother-country (London, England). Reared on the Brannon Patent Principle (which hath been applied after severest tests, &c., upon this and all other known modes, by the great savans of our time to St. Paul's Cathedral), it will be found to be decidedly the most Fire Proof Building in the world, while all that relates to Sanitary Science in the broadest .acceptation of that teiin, ventilation, &c., profusion of water warm and col'i, will cause it to rank far above any Hygienic Establishment at the piesent time known in Europe or America. In Architectural Design the Building, truly Palatial, domed (and flat-roofed, laid out in a garden of choicest native plants and exotics), will be seen afar off by the comer, and from whence, because of the giadual ascent of its site, may be viewed all the districts of London and its environs, in full expansion, bounded only by the horizon. No objectionable impost here that tells With trumpet tongue 'gainst your English hotels, So that visitors have most truly said, " We never know when our bills are paid," will meet with any recognition here; while all of the accessorial being brought to bear under our especial supervision, as in the comfort of a family mansion, it may be well supposed that the guests will truly find a home. A peculiar feature in this Magnificent Establishment will be that of intel- ligent and educated ciceroni to accompany visitors through the capital free of charge. The Building itself will be truly a repository of Art, and any periodical, British or other, will be placed upon the file at the suggestion of any ColoTiial gentleman, for whose special use there will be a free Library of more than 5000 volumes, generally in Belles Lettres, which I personally place for their kind acceptance. I will at .an early prospective period cause a detailed prospectus to be issued. There will be, besides, a large carriage department, a post-oflSce, telegraph do., and bank, in connexion with the Colonial Club and Large Temperance Hotel. P.S. — There will be a separate entrance to each suite of apartments, f J 120 THR 1,0N])(»XI,\U. Family and other, the cttisin* will bo of an unadulterated quality, and at tiie same time recherche and substantial, and all friends will, at the earlie^st liossible moment, be introduced into honourable society. N.R. This will not be looked upon asaraeiv advertisement. I address our Colonial kinsmen with great i-espect and affection. JAMES TORRINGTON SPENCER LTDSTONE, Resident Canada Finance Delegate in Engand. 21, GoBWcll Terrace, E.G., London (Eng.); Tomorham and Tornuiiy, Devon; Selma Hall, Morven ; formerly of Toronto and Ottawa, Upper Canada. March, 1079. LANDER «& CO., (E tablished 1833), Ma.sons, &c.,,Ja \A/ to the General Cemetery Cora-]^Q^ J ^ pany, Kensal Green : and at the Han well CHemeteries. Statuary, Tombs, Monuments, and Head- Stones erected after the most approved Models, and kept in repair. Inscriptions cut. — Joseph Pusuman, Manager. *' Grieve about the dead, — Bid the Rose tree o'er them bloom, Fondly deck their bed, And sanctify the Tomb." — liuhccr. As 'round Achilles' tomb with his friends went Alexander, So do ye Musse those of the Company of Lander, Crowning them " with Laurels (Lycid) and Ivy never sere," By valley, plain, and headland, we their Memorials rear. Thence turn eyes with blinding tears thro' many a lonely year. Scions of Noblest Ancestry ; Canada the meed be hers. Not to let her Immortals lie in forgotten Sepulchres. While hearts are warm and Memories charm and loveliest Art, May the enduring grandeur of high Memorials impart. As thro' the city of the silent Kensal Green I wander, Tombs the grciter number find I by the Co. of Lander, And though fain would undertakers to our feelings pander. We go to practised hands and minds for Tomb or monument, —Those who personally superintend each order ; by whom arc sent Loved Memorials to every Isle and Continent. The Rise and Fall of many firms our Company survives, PygmsGJ V. Heraclida; where competition strives, ^T Establish'd Lang-syne in 18-33. [Be kindly pleased to see the One Hundredth Londoniad]. THE BOUFELEEIAN BUILDING SOCIETY. 156, St. John's Street Road, London, E.G. I have caused this system to be applied to THE Young Men's Home and large Tem- perance Hotel. (Please see the 100th Londoniad.) Bouf(f)ler, secure your fame." — Earl of Dorset. Boufflcr well deserves our praise." Voltaire's '■' Ifetiriadc" Canto 1. nd nt ilicst hcss [juiiy, Jpi.i-r nbs, ifter ious It S.C. dto 'em- lOth THK LONDONIAD. 121 Mulc! flush the nations with vour Day-evolving Gonfanon, And hail the later T V-ation tluo' tlic Patent ; Biannon' As o'er Iran wrapp'd in fire, and gory, Was heard the redceniinpr voice of Selcho, So on that apex of England's glory St. Paul's dome, we list the words of Elcho. (Please see his famous letter upon this subject,) Yea, truly Science here beaming hath thrown a halo of salvation around " — — Paul's stupendous dome." — Isaac CtASON. rod " A debt immense of endless gratitude." — Milton, the world will owe " To Chartrcs."— Pope's " ^foral Essa>/s:' I have somewhere, and at some time praised the Owner of the Patent " And something said of Chartrcs."— Pope, Satire 1. and a poem '• For Chartrcs' reserve."— Pope, 4th Epistle. his Lordship's appreciatory notes upon this subject are nowencampauiling the world. SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, Holland Park Road, W. " On the demise of Sir F. Grant, he becamo elected President of the Royal Academy, and was knighted." — Cooper's " J\ f'tnoii'sJ" " I was invited by the Council of the Society of Arts to accompany its members on a visit to the Manchester Exhibition, which I did. In the same railway car were seated my great glass Hero, Apsley Pellatt, whom I preferred, as I do now his grandson, James Pellatt Rickman beyond yours Osiers, and Webb and Co. (James Green appearo in the 9th Lon- DONIAI)), ' and all the rest,' ' Luke Limner,' and old Baron Rothschild, who can-ied his unique ceramic candelabra all the way in his arms, and brought it back with him again on his return to London." — " Autobiographri of the Author oftlie Londoniad." All who visited at that time the Man- castra of the Romans, first reared by him whom the Spanish poet calls " Titus of noble qualities" (although I should suppose that the last and lost defenders of their loved Cerushalaim, the Hierosolyma of the Greeks, the Salem of him whom the Moslems call Mossa, the Jebusta of the old gods of Canaan, the capital of " the Holy Land " of the Jews and the Christians, would not be disposed to attribute any peculiar virtue to this son of Vespasian and Flavia Domi- tilla), will remember our Art hero's picture, " The Triumph of Cimabue." Verily, the pupil often transcendeth tlie tutor. " . Cimabue eclipsed Giotto." — Dantb " The Triumph of Kanata," by Sir Frederick Leighton, will form one of the Illustrations to the Author's Canada, in 7 vols., elephant folio. A Poetical Biography of Sir Frederick appears in " The Centcnavy of the Royal Academy, by the Author of the Londoniad. " Smit with the love of English Arts we came. And met congenial, mingling flame with flame." — Alexander Popb. I ' 122 THE LONDONIAD. Ring out my lyro ! tell where the Arts did smile Ere they with Reynolds and with Leighton blessM our Isle. Raise I through wonder-world th' cnchnntin* song, As 'midst the Arts revived I pass '•long. Till from that o' th' Golden Horn and Tuscan seas They to the Florentine diverg'd and Genoese. The Roman stands with majesty crcc^, For 'tis solid and legitimate effect. Toward th' Venetian all ye Muses tripp'd, Those who their "pencils in th' rainbow dipp'd." Thro' the Lombard long as the Eclectics known, -/list symmetry, and power, and flrace are shown. There Albert Durer leads the German School, Whose dratcing power he guides by nature^ s rule. The Flemish and the German now combine Where Rubens and Vandyke in deathless glories shine. Here doth the mighty Rembrandt elevate Th' Dutch, by some thought sunk in lowliest state. With its great power, we in the Spanis»: find The gloom and wildness of that nation's mind. And need the Frcnc'i School from the reign of First Francis, be in ardent strains rehears'd. Like new Creation breaking in on Time Some mental wonder bursts from ev'ry nge and clime. Yea, here wo works of bright immortals scan, Domenichino, Poussin', and Titian, Leonardo, Guido, and their brilliant train, The three Caracci, Claude of Lorraine, Julio, Perugino, Raphael the divine, And Michael Angelo, the mighty Florentine. PBINCESS LOUISA OF LOENE. RiDEAU Hall, near Ottawa, CArADA. " It is your part (you Poets can devine) To prophecy liow she by Heaven's design Shall give an heir of the Great British line, Who over all the western lands shall reign, Both awe the continent, and rule the main." Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon. Beside those beautifully Illuminated Works by the Princess Louisa, spoken of in a former part of the present Londoniad, and which I received from Sir Albert H. Warren, Art Tutor in the Royal Family, there is, by her, at my mother's place in London (Eng.), a Dove cut out of semi-transparent Carrara marble, which might not onlv tend to instruct the ornithological professor, but will at once, when it snail be placed in a proper position, represent to the Biblical, General, Literary ard Art Student, the Heaven- opening scene depicted by SS. Mark and John in their first chapters, and pourtrayed in his first book of" Pai-adise Regained," by Milton, I willpresent this lovely work of Art to Ottawa, the Muses of Donne, Dryden, Fairfax, Pope, Shakespeare, Spenser, shall accompany it (for they all sang of the dove) then tmly may it be said " The voice of the Turtle is heard in the Land." Then and there, as here and now, many a student of honographi^ Chrc- THE I.ONDONIAD. 123 on. loken froDi ' her, larent >gical ition, aven- I, and 'esent irfax, dove) Chrc- ticnne, will feci delight in rcnienibcring the Dove font cover* that met hin c)c in an earlier day through the Parish Churches of England, without which emblem no font would liavo been considered complete in far rctro- Fpective Christian times and whatever country. Our heroine inherits more of the Father's spirit than anv of the Guelph-Watten kindred ; Sculpture, Painting, Embroidery, yea, all the Arts designed by a Benevolent Creator to elcvato our race she takes with her, (" Et quater Anno rcviscns tenuor Atlanticuni Impune."— Q. IIoratu Flacci Carminum, Lib. 1., Od. xxxi.) and will revive a classic nge in the country to which she adventures. Matrons of the Colonies will derive their inspiration from the Daughter of Albert! while " Girls Louisa their example make." Rkv. Mr. Bramstone, " In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry." It is known that as the Princess Louisa had a much finer taste than the " Writer of Romance, called History." — Savage's " Wanderer.^'' So that she was better able in the words of Shakespeare to " Fit it with such Furniture as suits," than T. B. Macaulay, who undertook to write about various systems of furnishing houses, jltt revoir in the next Londoniad, " our rhymes, oh Muses, with Louisa grace." Hon. Horace Walpole. THE DEITY. "' First Mightiest, and the Prime ! Thee Sole Lord By all the other Deities adored." The 8th Iliad, lines 39—40, translated by the Author of the Londoniad. Els itTTiv 0t6s "Os oinmvov TiTvyt Kai yalav fxairpdv. — SoPHOCI.ES. " An milieu des clartes d'un feu pur et durable, Dieu mit, avant les temps, son trone inebranlable, Le ciel est sous ses pieds ; de mille astres divers Le cours, toujours regie, I'annoncc a I'univers." Voltaire's Hcnriade. " As sparks mount upward from the fiery blaze. So suns are bom, so worlds spring forth from thee." Derhazin (Russian Poet.) " Is Spiorad Dia, agus is eigin d'a luchd-aoraidh, aroadh a dhean-amh dha an spiorad agus am firinn." — An Soisgeul a reir EoiN, Caib iv.24. " Oir is annsan mhairmid,ngU8 chorr-uighemid. agus atamaoid; do reir mar a dubhradar cuid da bhur bhfileadhaibhsi, Oir is da chineulsan fos sinn." — Gniomhartha na NEASBAL,xvii. 28. O Thou whose form fills up the Universe, Shall a single humsin voice Tiiy praise rehearse. Or may I join the myriads that are singing, The mystic lay now thro' all Nature ringing ? Methought as once a visual glance I cast, Orb-like up from the interminable Past Of primal eras. Thou didst brightening loom, ,1 I' 124 TII& LONDONIAI). Tliy voice, tliio' chaos, — witlioutcn ten or bhorc, Re'soundccl with equal echo Eternity o'er, Knibrj'o creations throng'd in every beuui That nimb'd NiiHire's Fountain Head, Whicli like a lea of planetoids o*er erst zonelcst re^jionB spread, And to their vernal equinox dilating spec8 of Time have since tiien pa!"-od away. And met no renown, or such as may be to mortals known ; Though it may happily be by the prescient Muse confest, Souls once there, are in other planets, or blooming with the blest. what a blank in existence were tliero none to hear A wail of sadness or life's lone way to cheer; None to whom we might appeal, or raise The tremulous voice in praise. True, this the Divining Light for ever burning, " Without parallex or shadow of turning." Thou dost give life and sustenance to all. And directed'st motion on this "terrestrial ball ;" While solar assemblages from unknown abysses at Thy call. Come like to cometary hosts their trails that sweep Thro' the undiscoverable deep. Ere it the dark unresting sepulchre became Of universes once evolving flamo Of life, and light to millions— all now without a name. Many a rival hero 1 wis to the lost Atlantis. Muse, thou rcmemberest well how in early youth and other zone At eventide by forest and cataract alone, 1 would lift mine eye toward planet-girded throne, Supposed on which the Lord of Goodness flew, AVI) lie lyre-strung rays envoi ved the horizon thro'. Then join'd the planetoidal anthe; ' loud ..nd wild, And metamorphos'd to a singing oib the Muses child. (O Bright Benevolence, in this shadowy land, With grateful tears I hail Thy beneficent hand ; Be kindly pleased to centripetal all my fame. As little rills run sea-ward in Thy Illustrious Name.) I thought that ideas were the children of the soul, Brightning in long lasting form as spheres they roll ; A grand idea like the spirit for ever lives. And light and energy to all surrounding gives ; And hence that their immortal smiles Took form and peopled the irradiate isles ; i ' 126 THE LONDOMAD. And whenever a breeze from tlie lieadland broke, That they in weird langunfrc to me spoke. ThuR. my native England had burst attraction's bars. And falling in the Northern Sea had left compatriot stars ; Or perhaps umbrageous deeps an waving and waterfalls are I'saiiiig, In those island universes which I'm Sabian-like adoring. Oui ! Isles of Paradise arc near me flowering, I feel their blossoms snow-like round me showering. Happy echoings in odorous winds, aerial host' On life's sea greet me, more than from Arabia's coast ; Hither comes my darling bard oi Par. Lost. All these were lost — or never would be — (Have been) but for the inspiring love of Deity, To whom doth belong all that is bright and strong In varied nature ; Art's glories and the splendours of science. In Thee may we ever have alliance. Benevolent Creator. In Art's triumphs over things inanimate I scan, The representation of the soul of man, This globe, on which we live, had " swung blind, In unascended majesty," but for the human mind. In many a giant heart of old burn'd Love's quenchless flame, In which. Thou Jehovah, was't worshipped under many a varied name. Though, with evil many modes may have been been compounded. Yet, Truth with the Songs of Zion, thro* every age resounded. In my life's summer solstice, I again the strain renew ; Trials ! though in thund'rous clouds they my destiny overblew, No shadow on my soul, Fate's vertical arrows threw, UneflTected still by mortal, or (unblest) immortal hosts. The beams of Heaven ever gleam thro' my spirit. Such the buoyancy I, thro' Thee, Divine, inherit; As orb-light thro the wandering comet's transpacious fonn. Or, St. Elmo's fire to the mariner thro' the storm, Or, picturesquely, like stars thro' Ossian's ghosts ; And still, whatever land I traverse, whatever sea I sail. Thy Guardian Power, I'll ever seek, Thee never cease to hail, Ever unalterable as lex erst of the Median, From heaven, as from a stand-point, I take my first Meridian. There is no Ultima Thule in existence for me, No Homeric or Virgilian all-surrounding sea. But a Creation boundless, limitless as Eternity, Uncircumscribed as the soul's duration of days ; That e.\ten8ion of space and time thro' which I raise, Joined by all the elements, and substances of nature, the Almighty's Praise. Up thro' the charmed air, with Love enchanting wing I press, Over azure llanos, a Planetary Wilderness, A Delos region cast in air-floating seas. By cloudy Pampas undulating, and skiey Prairies, Before the inconstant stellar beams that pass. In fiord-like force, along burning Peninsulas, Enfountain'd from sailing globes and continents, I float Thro' the twelve signs struck to many an evangel note. On Rainbow seas a pearl my coracle, To Praise, I all the luminaries Oracle, THE LONDONIAD. 127 v's Celestial steppes, windless solitudes, a sapphire realm, Ethcrial Cyclades, vapoury Hcsperides, a seraph wing my helm. Arc the attracted Venti now my sails ? No ! tney are lain to sleep, But the breath of angels wafts me o'er the fieerv deep. Here, Vertumnus-like I wanton in the illumined breeze. Ye atmosphere, midst worlds voiced in inextinguishable harmonies, O'er " widest amplitude" an infinitude of region I pass, whose scenes are God's thoughts, and circles all of one Re- ligion. Here whate'er the clime (as once on Earth in its happier time) Or vast, or rare, or dense, each peculiar voice. To glority its Cre.4T0R, seem'd greatly to rejoice. Here, too, where all life's eddies meet, I pass that flood of glory. Ye mortals, throw no doubt upon the rapturous story, Far out in Anacamptic seas a promontory Blazed prismatic with the evening age of suns, I strung my lyre, A life-thrill seized the height, like Druida; Alter-fire, To motion warmed, it spread along the astonish'd main, And now seem'd tum'd into a Nereid train. In awe my lyre was silenced while these took up the strain, A generation of Pygmalioaj whose pious ardour shone, Roseate thro' the soul-enlivened stone. At length, self-confidence restored, I praised their songs, Thus they replied, " No praise be ours, to One all praise belongs I" Let not these wondrous scenes the sons of earth surprise, All things do worship God in pure faith's ears and eyes, And am I not a part of Thke ." Sire of my soul, Eternal Deitv. AVhich is the moral hero — him ' ho most deserveth heaven's reward, The Angel created in light, and iad nought of evil to buffet or regard, Or the man who in the midst of evil ages had his birth, But rose superior to the wiles of Earth P In thy wisdom, O my God, direct my path. And light me from the gloomy hour of wrath. I ask Thee not for pleasant lands nor lengthened life. But for fortitude to bear, and energy to dare the strife, Which gath'ring round me from ray earliest years. In fiery tempests ready to break appears ; Blow on ! the Powers of Hades all demons I deride. Truth is my ^Gis and Heaven my Guide, Even 'gainst Fate my steadfast march I take. Her rampir'd heights are brambles in the brake. Granitic hills, transform'd, in cloud-like billows spread, And clear in light before the minstrel's tread; Yea ! all the winds shall give me wings to bejir me on, Over life's woeful desert towa d Thee, Holy One, May the Ineffable who with mental prescience endued The Votary Muse, fire her ever, with Love embued, Blest Visions realized of Truth with eyes of Faith 1 see, From fluctuating atmospheric refraction free, O never like the Sun's light in Octavius' reign, May 't grow so weak that the naked eye may 'ts light sustain ; On the Sun but not with the First Great Cause may Maculoe Appear; to Him are all luminous aggregations less than Faculor. Never shall Praise cease to Thee from these lips. Till life in this round world meets annular eclipse, *<] *: 4 • A' ■ : 128 THE LOXDONIAD. Tliro' the happier pasture-lands such notes shall mc engage ; More than classic Arcady, in the Eternal Age. Hope ! and thus my Spirit emhlems a <;orona each night, All gloom dispersed I sink to sleep in Zodiacal light, And thanks to Thkk by no fierce thought or Fury torn, I wake as midst an Eden, newly horn. An Aurora lights for me each rising mom. Thus far, when Time, like an Universal Jordan fled Thro' interminable ages, back to its fountain head, And the origin of all the worlds was before me spread. Creation's campanile is ringing in Heaven's high towers, Their flight midst aerial seas of song and sounding showers, With the zodiac re-attuned begin the rosey Hours. Nadir deep and Zenith steep. At His presence glowed ; Like bright'ning sands, In auriferous lands, Worlds with the tide of Being flowed. Divine Affluent ! from whence was enfountained the Mighty Ocean of Life. Which goes spraying suns and systems for ever thro' realms erst of elemental strife. My trusting heart may never know a vacuum more, Fi'U'd with Thy Form, O Saviour God. 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