Select Poetry.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 387, 19 July 1856, Page 9

Select Poetry.

THE MAGIC MAJORITY— "ONE! " (from the "New Zealander.") Os numbers lot erudite mathematicians Dispute till th« sands of life* hour glass are run— Much lighter the studies of us politicians. Whose reckonings exceed not the digit called u.VE. That unit on paper has no meaning in it, Unless it stand under an L, S, or D; But study " division'1 in our little Senate, And there you will learn its worth to a—T. By One, a premier, wheu he thinks himself seated. May be suddenly struck from his stool by it Ucff; A State may be ruined, its best friend* defeated, By One single vote, anil that votei—a " muff." : Even '.lieu we can feel we have some consolation — Hope s lieart-soothing balsam to mitigate pain ! — For, thiiuub. One dup'd statesman may ruin a, nation, Oke wiser than he' may restore it again. Three short days ago, oar " great" Minister Daldy, Beneath his responsible burden did groan; We laughed, to be sure, as though Josei>h Grimaldi . Ware acting his antics on Albion's throne! Three short days ago, and a premier's position Was fast in his chair as a thief's in the stocks ; The '• Chickens'' were safe, in a thriving condition— The first that were ever so under a Fox: What dainties in prospect delighted his vision, All treasury purchased, (the best of the fun '.) But aow ■ne can hardly control our derision, To see him plucked down, as he mounted, by One. Some deep-learned sages, when, pondering questions ( Whose depth had resisted the lore of the Schools, \ Have oftentimes solved them by hearing suggestions * From peasants unread iv Philosophy's rules: — So may (he Fox-Ministry, if ever it rallies, j Give heed to the counsel whi-h here I advance, — Like liohiiuou Crusoe, let limws make his -' tallies" — rhuy'il serve just as well as reports of finance. Nay, I will assure him, they'll serve him c'en better, In reckoning up the »ix Provinces' pelf; Because none can cavil at figure or letter, And he'il understand all the " notches" himself; His budget of sticks might bid Stafford deiiam-e— In vain would his uli>i|U<>ucu ring through the H til— Such mysiic accounts would resist all his science, And Fox, Hall, and Buuwjf, would nevnr more fall. Auckland, May '29. B. R.