1ARciC 8, 1862.]


E U _LNT.


 SONG FOR THE THRONG.
OR, VERSIFICATION FOR THE NATION.


No. IX.-ENGLAND'S GRATITUDE AND ENGLAND'S HEROES.
 A Prize (Money) Poem.
 Fon many a week before the walls
 Of Delhi, till the town was won,
 The tents of our beleaguering host
 Shone whitely to the rising sun,
 Or starred the plain with bivouac-fires,
 When the long sultry day was done.
 And sternly did our gallant troops
 Hem-in the treacherous murderous gangs-
 Vowed to avenge their comrades' fall,
 The women's shame, the children's pangs-
 And, blood for blood, requite each drop,
 That dyed the Tiger's cruel fangs.
 Meanwhile, in Lucknow's Residence,
 A handful held the fiends at bay:-
 Let History chronicle with pride
 That brave defence, day after day,
 Until good CAMUPBELL and his men
 He-wed out for the relief a way!
 But brightest deeds cost dearest lives,
 (The diamond has the sable foil),
 And ever as the contest raged,
 Death-Sickness-Famine marked their spoil:
 And English mothers wept their sons,
 Who found a grave in India's soil.
 And when the long, long war was done,
 The city fallen, the leaguer o'er,
 And our brave soldiers turned them home,
 I-ow many, sick and wounded sore,
 But reached their native land again,
 To find a grave upon its shore!
 But when-the Retribution past-
 The sword of Vengeance sought its sheath,
 What recompense was theirs who tore
 Its prey from the fierce Tiger's teeth?-
 The newspaper's report for Fame,
 Red Tape for the victorious wreath.
 And bankrupt Promises to Pay "
 A pittance for such deeds as those!-
 Oh gallant hearts, wholately braved
 The winter's seas-the winter's snows!


 Behold how hard it is io wring
 From England the rewards she eoves!
 Three months ago, when every heart
 Burned at the scandal of the 'Tre'i t,
 While E nghtlad o'er a Prince's tomb
 Still in her early sorrow bent.
 You marched il Spartan silence forth
 And o'er the angry ocean went !
 Oh! soldiers of this mighty land,
 Who give your lives for England, know
 How small reward for noble deeds -
 With what delay--ihe does bestow ;
 HIow brief is Enghuld's gratitude-
 How scant her justice, and how slow!
 Know that, years hence, when o'er your heads
 Shall grass of many sullnners wave-
 When prosperous peace Iha long restored
 The Empire, that yon died to save -
 Shall England -;tardy-grateful-- comn
 And shed her shillings on your grave!



 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
 DEAR FUN,-This very peculiar weather has quito nonplflssed Ith
followers of the chased goddess, so that, justi now, no followers Ir.'
allowed. Consequently, I have relinquished all idea of following hi"I
wily Rainhard (I wish it would, by the way), and put up willih 1:
horse in the stable, where, during the frost, lie lies on casting Ii:
head off. So having given up hunting, I canno up to town (IIe
other even to hear what I could pick up about the odds. 1 have been
to TATTERSALL'S, and other sales equally sporting, on purpose toI hir
the latest news. I think I can give it you, for L know you'll give it,
me if I don't. There is to be a steeple-chase at Liverpool; the steeple
of Langham Church has been hired for the occasion, and is going to
be taken down. This will be a groat point. The room was very fill
on the occasion of my visit, and the only quotations I heard v ere
from popular songs of the day, especially In the Sltrand." I went
with a sporting friend (on business, of course) to a public-house round
the corner, whore I offered six (of whisky) to one (my friend), which
was taken freely. I was very happy to see liiim, but cannot inform
you as to the state of the odds during that transient sensation of.
pleasure.
 My friend has promised to give me a lift in his four-in-hand, intend-
 ing, I believe, to take the ribbons all the way down to the Lincoln
 Handicap. To add to the importance of the occasion, I didl hela thlnt
 propositions had been mado to several of Euciin's riders to aippUar on
 that day. I don't know who lie is, but I fancy lie must be a great,
 sporting character, as I've heard a great deal about his third
 and fourth book, from which I gather that he is doing a good
 business. As I was entering the yard, I saw a poor Italian putting
 a monkey on his organ, but I was not much taken with the perform-
 ance. From what I heard of the Iuntsman at Chantilly, I fancy intat
 I can tell you- but I shan't, till he does something more worthy of
 note, when I will send you a letter. I got a tip the other day; my
 youngest boy (who's seen a pantomime for the first time), while I was
 speaking to a servant, took me by the legs, and nearly pitched me
 over the banisters. I shan't tip him when lie goes to school. For
 the Metropolitan Stakes there is apiobald horse entered; I've spotted
 him. I'm afraid this will come too lato for my knowledge to be of
 much service to you; but both in the Lincoln Handicap and L'lpol
 Steeple-chaso, I am not far wrong in saying that the horso,-nimrk my
 words,-the horse that comes in at the end before all the others, will
 be in either case the winner; back him by and with all means.-Yours
 truly, JACK HOitNERI (in the Corner.")
 Tattlesall's, Tiwotoonesday.
 P.S.-I hope I shall be able to get some more hunting; if not I shall
 stop in town, go to the theatres, and be, as the glee sung at EvANs's
 has it, All among the ballet."


 ART NEWS.-MRI. MAAWLE STYX, whose picture- -11 Iei DIevil.
 laying down a Pavement of Good Intentions in 1nades"-cre:i. ,di
 such a sensation in the Academy last year, las declined to take Nl Is.
 LouLisA PNI'E'S likeness in her new character in JI:NEiiiTi'S plop1]lll
 opera. He grounds his refusal on the absurdity of an attenmt to
 "paint the Lily "-of Killarney.
 INraNT-Lar CiiArn Es. -Money spent on babies.


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