Weep, caverns, weep, with infiltering drip,
Your recesses he'll cease to explore;
For mineral veins, or organic remains,
No stratum again will he bore.

His wit shone like crystal-his knowledge profound,
From gravel to granite descended;
No trap could deceive him, no slip confound,
No specimen, true or pretended.

Where shall we our great Professor inter,
That in peace may rest his bones?
If we hew him a rocky sepulchre

He'll get up and break the stones,
And examine each stratum that lies around,
For he's quite in his element underground.
If with mattock and spade his body we lay
In the common alluvial soil;

solutions which required every application for divorce to be supported by an ecclesiastical sentence, and by a previous verdict at law. Of course these expensive procedures enabled only the rich to obtain a divorce. A remedy for this grievance was effected by "The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act," (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85, Aug. 1857,) amended and extended by 21 & 22 Vict. 1858, and 22 & 23 Vict. c. 61, 1859. Sir C. Cresswell, the Judge of this new Court, was famed for the justice of his decisions, and his ability and strict integrity in the discharge of duties of a delicate and often of a disgusting nature. 137 The ladies of Dr. Buckland's family, if not the Professor himself, occasionally wore necklaces of ammonites."

Blackwood's Magazine, June, 1863.

He'll start up and snatch those tools away
Of his own geological toil;

In a stratum so young the Professor disdains
That embedded should be his organic remains.

Then exposed to the drip of some case-hardening spring, His carcass let stalactite cover;

And to Oxford the petrified sage let us bring,

When duly encrusted all over;

There, 'mid mammoths and crocodiles, high on the

shelf,

Let him stand as a monument raised to himself.138

Archbishop Whately."

139

138 Buckland, Dean of Westminster, distinguished himself as a geologist and mineralogist. It may safely be affirmed that to his vigorous exertions more than to those of any other man, geological science is so far advanced in this country as it is. For his account of the remains of various animals, bears, tigers, elephants, &c., &c., discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, the Royal Society, in 1822, awarded him the Copley medal.

139 Whately wrote voluminously; and many of his productions are esteemed of the highest excellence. To the "Encyclopædia Metropolitana," he contributed his two celebrated. works, "The Elements of Logic," and "The Elements of Rhetoric," treatises which have been more often reprinted than any similar works. He has, besides, left us many eloquent sermons and charges, "Lectures upon St. Paul's Epistles," Essays on some of the Dangers of the Christian Faith;" and, apart from theology, he produced among other excellent works, "Introductory Lectures to Political Economy," "English Synonyms," and "Historic Doubts relative to Napoleon

99.66

TO THE MEMORY OF T. B. MACAULAY, HISTORIAN AND PROPHET.

For the Central Arch of London Bridge.

TILL the New Zealander, from distant home,
The ruined fane of Paul to sketch shall come,
Cock-sure140 of all he ever wrote or said

To praise a rebel or defame the dead:

141

Infallible Macaulay's 11 soul shall sleep,

And London's Bridge from dull oblivion keep :—

Bonaparte." In this last work the archbishop proves, that if Hume's reasoning and arguments on miracles be true, and if applied to Bonaparte, no such personage ever existed.

140 "I wish," said Lord Melbourne, "I was as cock-sure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."

141 Historian, orator, essayist, and poet. His career at Cambridge, where he graduated B. A. in 1822, and M. A. in 1826, was most brilliant. Under the auspices of the late Lord Lansdowne he was introduced to parliament as member for Calne. He was twice chosen M. P. for Edinburgh. In 1834 he went to India as Member of the Supreme Council of Calcutta, and in two years and a half returned to England with a considerable fortune. His subsequent life was devoted to politics and literature. His history of England occupied him about twelve years, during which time he contributed to the "Encyclopædia Britannica," Memoirs of Oliver Goldsmith, Pitt, Bishop Atterbury, Dr. Johnson, &c. Of his history, a literary journal of influence remarked: "The verdict of mankind on the merits of this very considerable contribution to the history of England is not likely to be unanimous: the taste of contemporaries is never decisive. Lord Macaulay's

This key-stone falling, he amazed shall wake
To view the ruin Whigs alone could make,

And own at last, Thames' waters swimming through, His "History" was false, his "Vision" only true. Rev. P. Hale.

ambition was to stand in the same rank with Hume. The Messrs. Longman have paid to him the revenues of a prince; we have heard, on the best authority, of one single cheque, from publishers to historian, for twenty thousand pounds!" Besides his History and Essays, he wrote a collection of beautiful national ballads, the well known "Lays of Ancient Rome." His character was without a stain; and, as a politician of Whig principles, he was consistent, and of liberal views in judging the motives and actions of his opponents. His memory was of the most extraordinary kind. In his youth “he was in the habit of repeating and declaiming the longest Arabian Night,' as fluently as Schehezerade herself. A little later he would recite one of Scott's novels, story, characters, and scenery, almost as well as though the book were in his hands." His remains were consigned to the companionship of the glorious dead in Westminster Abbey in 1859.

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