ORIGINAL POETRY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 28, 17 December 1861, Page 6

ORIGINAL POETRY.

UJN7DER-CIJITEENTS. gays Dick to John, " We must dissolve, And turn the Major out ; jN'ow tills jawsl he car iinn resolve, We'll put Liiu to the rout. v -Tis h-uc that scarce a year in gone Si;ice 1 lent hhi\ assistance, To p'aco bins on. * Ills Ho-ior's 5 throne, But now I'll give resistance. " I think with Pat, too high lie rides, His benriny; is too martial. Hia liaud too harsh, and then besides, To rod coats I'm not partial. " I far prefer a ( Merchant Prince/ One oi'Buuedki's town, A man who deals in cloth or chintz, Or sugar vvlut 3 aiid brown. ": Such is the man to rule the land, His notions more expanded, Less keen iris eye, less rude his hand, Sucli is the mail demanded. " In fact, between ourselves, you see, We'll put him ou the shelf; To chid, my friends, we will agree, The berth will suit myself." 'Weil en id ! Well said imy noble Dick, Your sentiments you've spoken. As one who'd show ''new chums" a trick, Take care that you're not broken. Take care too harshly not to stir With that " great spoon" of thine, For scarce, inetiimks/you would prefer Yourself to undermine. Take care, my friend, to rouse not those Wlio lately iu-vo migrated, Their fiery natures you may loose, Their powers you've underrated. In counsels deep wrought out in ire, For iky own sake renieniber. When even gently farmed, the fire Will fvxili i'voni smouldering ember. When " Wool" and " Merchant Prince" agree in counsels to unite, Let Minevs with tJie freeholds be; Anu God deieiid. the rigiit.

The Archbishop of York who has just made his primary visitation to the clergy of his diocese, thus alluded to the " Essays and He views :"•—■ v Although I have already given brief expression to my opinion of the volume entitled i Essays* and Reviews'/ I am unwilling to abstain from, all comment GA that subject on an occasion like the present. When I ■{.vice tills publication had, through other channels, obtained, its unhnppy notoriety, silence on the part o the bishops being1 impossible^ Hnd the work emanated from a layman, or a body of laymen, it might have passed away with little remark, because almost every proposition'it contains averse to Christianity and the! truth of the Bible has been again and again answered. But when six clergymen had associated themselves for the express purpose of circulating a work of their joint composition, which proved, in its several parts, to undermine the foundation of Christianity, and when public attention had been emphatically 'invited to this strange fact, the matter assumed a different! aspect, and sikvnee would have indicated a culpable indifference to so grave an incident. In dealing with' the inspiration of the Bible, the fall of man, the atonement by Christ, justification by faith, eternal jKUiiplmient, the truth of the Jewish history and of' the Gospel narrative, of miracles of prophecy, the essayists' seem to unsettle everything" and settle nothing:, to delight in disparaging the influence of the works of the distinguished writers, who, in their several departments, have vindicated the truth ofj revealed, religion, while they offer no defence of their uwn instead. They would lead us to believe that formidable breaches have been effected in the line of ar<ruiiient of those standard authors, but make no effort to repair them. They would rob us of every consolation ■which the gospel holds out, but make no attempt to! supply anything as their substitute. They do their bsst to deprive of its power the only religion which really lias a power for good, and leave fallen man lielpiess and hopeless for time and eternity. As an antidote to such dangerous theories, it "will be well that we, dear brethren, should try carefully the foundations on which our faith rests; that we should firmly grasp the great affirmative certainties of the Christian religion, and then minor questions, suggesting doubts and difficulties, will have little] p>-Y,XT to unsettle our beiief. It is upon tlie one great I ii-ri of the rc^in-eclion of our Lord Jcriw Clnist'that {he truth of the Go.vpc! revelation is based. If Christ Li- not ri-:e:=3, then arc both faith and preaeTilny' vain ; lu-t if He bt riwu uukcjd, then is the greatest of all! Oracles established —then is the most "marvellous of I r.li prophesies fuliiiled, for Christ foretold that He would raise hhnsijlf from the dead, and that sirraasping wonder lie actually worked. Thni point once established, ail argument against either miracle or prophesy falls to the ground; and it would be well if those wiio proceed to undermine the faith of others would set themselves the task of disproving the resurrection upon any admissible grounds. "When they liave failed in this attempt, as they assuredly will do, we then have a starting- point from which wo may compass ail that is needful for the full settlement of our xaith in the records of revelation." A "Royal. Amazon. —An Italian correspondent residing at Borne, gives the following sketch of tlie ex-Queen of Naples : —'The royal Bavarian will never tire of playing the heroine. A good Eiiglisli riding-habit is not Amazonian dress enough for her. She shows about Rome, too generally, in man's attire —a breach of feminine delicacy only to be excused by extreme circumstance.:?. With her lord's privileged nether garmerits, slic aileets also manly swagger and bluster. She s smokes like a sailor, and swears like a. trooper/ as if that looked pretty or sounded graceful, yiio hectors her sisters-in-law, and has pitched battles with the princes and princesses of the House of Bourbon. Tlie members of the exiled family have constant bickerings among themselves. High words and angry screams are lieard from tlie Quiri mil's windows. Plates are shied at royal heads, and fly into the streets, to the great scandal of the Gwiss gnard at V,\o. y,n-\ .Lice gates. The (-2 ul-en.. i : i.:v.y;-, rooi,-'..[ of iii-i] yccptre, disdain;:; to handle the -iixinii"; jiiic car-! i'lc-s her dread revolver at her I At the Wiiik-ustowiipGiJ.::: O-Aivt, 2,lc:bo::r:;e,j v~..0 case ngnh'ißt the liirisbjr of tbe Ixuijannu iieapej i.LV carry i/.u.'1 an c::cc.:;g of |.<n;L::'c:r;-.:c rs iVc-m Gt;:i;oto' t~:il;- port, came on ailer several po;L-h onoments. K:-\ T-I-ifPirl.-vie fully proved the eh-m:e. m:d the;

EXTRAORDINARY STARVATION CASE IjSt GLASGOW. Between nine and ten o'clock, a few nights jsince, a girl named Jane M'lntyre, daughter of a. I man named Duncan M'lntyre, residing on the jthird-fioor Hat, at 4-15, Argyie-street, Glasgow, jwas observed on the street, near her father's | house, in an exceedingly weak and emaciated icondition. From what she stated, her father apLpcars to possess sufficient means of maintaining j a respectable position without following any calling. She stated that she had been confined in the house, having only been twice outside during live years. At night shs was sent to sleep in a garret above the house, in which was kept a quantity of iurniture. Her bed consisted of two or three pieces of carpet, spread upon the floor, on which she lay, and with an old worn-out blanket and coverlet above her. This was the only bed she slept on during the extreme frost of last winter, and no lire was ever placed in the apartment. She was kept continually at work in the house, and had always a set task to perform before she received any food. When any ! parties called at the house she was immediately Ssent to the garret to remain there while they were present. Her father was in the habit of !beating her, while her mother looked quietly on, and afterwards they ordered her to the garret, she was frequently sent thither without having tasted food for a long time, and had to endure all the sensations of hunger till she was many times on the point of starvation. She had taken the opportunity, when no one was in the house, of going out to try to obtain food, as she was suffering much from hunger, and she was tlien observed ]yy the neighbours. This the girl stated, land certainly her appearance seemed to corroborate her statements as to the cruel treatment she said she was subjected to. Though she is seventeen years of age, in bulk she is no larger than a child. She is only about three feet nine inches lin height, and her body is wasted to such a degree ilia£ she resembles more an animated skeleton than a living human being. She was examined by several medical gentlemen in the policeoffice, who were all of opinion that both physically and mentally the girl was naturally in a healthy condition, and could only account for her present appearance as being occasioned by want of proper treatment. The girl was removed to the office of the Procurator-Eiscal, who investi- • gated the case, and she is now living with reiajtions in Sauchiehail-street. The result of the investigation of the Procurator-Eiscal has not transpired.