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To Lord Stanley

Busy little waspish thing!
Mischief guides your restless wing,
Liberal once, and Tory now,
Renegade with scowling brow!
Tell us why with bitter hate,
Spite that never can abate,
Thus you ceaseless interpose,
T'aggravate poor Ireland's woes?
Must she never know the day,
When with bright continued ray,
Joy shall smile, whilst order reigns,
O'er her green and sunny plains;
Never like her sister free,
Must that joy still transient be,
By each bigot field oppress'd,
Shall she never be at rest:
Watch'd, if peace would seem t'arise,
Watch'd and marked by jealous eyes;
Jealous eyes and haughty mien,
Tongues calumnious and unclean;
Things that nature scarce endures,
Eyes and mien and tongues like yours.

And must this hateful course be run
Still, still by noble Derby's son;
Shall faction that career now blight,
That once assumed the eagle's flight?
Shall it be deem'd a Stanley's place,
To lead the van in faction's race;
The cries of liberty to drown,
And hunt a sister nation down.
It cannot thus, thus always be,
Ireland shall still be great and free.
And when by kind and equal laws,
She gains her just and noble cause;
May she will proud emotion say,
Stanley was with us on that glorious day.

"T."

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THE LITERARY FUND DINNER. The members and friends of this society celebrated their anniversary on Wednesday, by a dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern. Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., M.P., presided. The honourable baronet was supported by Viscount Fitzalan, M.P., R. Holland, Esq. M.P., Sergeant Talfourd, M.P., the Hon. Leslie Melville, J. G. Lockhart, Esq., Sir H. Halford, Bart., Sir J. D. Paul, Bart., A. Spottiswoode, Esq., Sir H. Ellis - and many other gentlemen distinguished either for their own literary eminence, or for the patronage they have ever extended to genius and talent. The Secretary announced the following subscriptions and donations:- Her Majesty the Queen, 100 guineas (annual); his Grace the Duke of Somerset, 10 guineas (annual); the Right Hon. Lord Ellenborough, 10 l .; Lord F. Egerton, M.P., 10 l. ; the Marquess of Northampton, 10 l .; Viscount Fitzalan, 10 l .; Sir H. Halford, Bart., 10 l .; Sir J. Paul, Bart., 10 l .; Sir J. Swinburne, Bart., 15 l . (his 18th donation); the Right Hon. A. Murray, 10 l .; Lord Dudley Stuart, 10 l .; H. T. Hope, Esq., M.P. 10 l .; the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, 20 l .; Sir C. Metcalf, Bart., 10 l .; Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., M.P., 10 l .; B. B. Cabbel, Esq., 10 l .; W. C. Macready, Esq., 5l. .; together with many other subscriptions, amounting in the whole to upwards of 600 l . At eleven o'clock Sir R. Inglis and the principal guests retired, and the party shortly afterwards broke up.

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