MISCELLANEA. STANZAS ON THE PRINCE OF WALES. (From Mrs. Norton's Poem, "The Child of the Island".)

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 56, 1 November 1845, Page 4

MISCELLANEA. STANZAS ON THE PRINCE OF WALES. (From Mrs. Norton's Poem, " The Child of the Island".)

Child of the Islands! if the watch of love To even the meanest of theie fates belong, What shall thine be, whose lot is far above All other fortunes -woven in my song? To guard thy head from danger and from wrong, What countless voices lift their prayers to Heaven! Those, whose own loves crowd round —a happy throng J Those, for whom Death the blessed tie hath men ; And those to whose scathed age no verdant branch is given 2 There's not a noble matron in the land, Whose christen'd heir in gorgeous robes is drest — There's not a cottage mother, whose fond hand Rocks the low cradle of her darlir g's rest — By whom thou art not thought upon and blest.' Bleit for thyself, and for her lineage high, Who lull'd thee on her young maternal breast; The Queenly Lady, with the clear blue eye, Through whom thou claimest love, and sharectloyalty! They pray for thee, fair child, in Gothic piles, Where the full organ's deep reverberate sound Rolls echoing through the dim cathedral aisles, Bidding the heart with solemn rapture hound, And the bent knee sink trembling to the ground, Where, at the signal of some given word, The white-robed choristers rise circling round; Mingling clear voices, with divim accord, In Hallelujahs loud, that magnify the Lord! They pray for thbb in many a village church, Deep in the shade of its sequester'd dell, Where, scarcely heard beyond the low porch, More simple hymns of praise less loudly swell; Oft led by some fair form, —remember'd well In after years among the grateful poor, — Whose lot it is in lordly halls to dwell, Thence issuing forth to seek the cotter'i door, Or tread with gentle feet the sanded schoolhouse floor. They pray for thee in floating barks, that cleave A compass-guided path along the sea; While through the topmast shrouds thekeen winds grieve At through the branches of some giant tree; And the surf sparkles in the vessel's lee. Far from> thine Albion's cliffs and native home, Each crew ol loyal mariners may be; But, mingling with the dash of Ocean's foam, That prayer shall rise, where'er their trackless course they roam.

Emigration. — Why should there not be an " Emigration Service " and Secretary, with adjuncts, with funds, forces, idle navy-ships, and every increasing apparatus ; in fine, an effective ay stem of emigration ; so that at length, before our twenty years of respite ended, every honest, willing workman, who found England too strait, and the organization of labour not yet sufficiently advanced, might find likewise a bridge built to carry him into new western lands, there to " organize, " with more elbowroom, some labour for himself? There to be a real blessing, raising new corn for us, purchasing new webs and hatchets from us ; leaving us at least in peace ; instead of staying here to be a physical-force Chartist, unblessed and no blessing ! Is it not scandalous to consider that a prime minister could raise within the year, as I have seen it done, a hundred and twenty millions sterling to shoot the French ; and we are.nopt short for want of the hundredth part of that, to keep the English living? The bodies of the English living ; and the souls of the English living : — these two "services, " an education service and an emigration service — these, with others, will actually have to be organized ! A free bridge for emigrants : why, we should then be on a par with America itself, the most favoured of all lands that have no government; and we should have, besides, so many traditions and mementoes of priceless things which America has cast away. We could proceed deliberately to "organize labour," not doomed to perish unless we effected it within year and day ; every willing worker that proved superfluous finding a bridge ready for him. This verily will have to be done ; the time is big with this. Our little isle is growing too narrow for us ; but the world is wide enough yet for another six thousand years. England's sure markets will be among new colonies of Englishmen in all quarters of the globe. All men trade with all men, when mutually convenient, and are even bound to do so by the Maker of men. Our friends of China, who guiltily refused to trade, in these circumstances, had we not to argue with them, in cannon-shot at last, and convince them that they ought to trade 1 " Hostile Tariffs " will arise to shut us out, and then again will fall to let us 'in ; but the sons of England, speakers of the English language, were it nothing more, will in all times have the ineradicable predisposition to trade with England. — Past and Present, by Thomas Carlyle.

Expensive Cloak. — His Majesty Kauikeaouli, has still in his possession, the marao orfeather war cloak of his father, the celebrated Kameharaeha. It was not completed until his reign, having occupied eight preceding ones in its fabrication. It is four feet in length, with eleven and a half feet spead at the bottom. Its ground work is a coarse netting, and to this the feathery, which are very small and exceedingly delicate, are skil-

folly attached, .overjappipg each/ other, and forming 9. perfectly smooth surface. The feathers around the border^ are inverted, and the whole presents a beautiful bright yellow colour, giving it the appearance of a mantle of gold. Indeed it would he difficult for despotism to manufacture a richer or more costly garment, for its proudest votary. Two feathers only (such as are jused wholly in its manufacture) are obtained from :under the wings of a rare species. of bird inhabiting Hawaii, which is caught alive with great .care and toil. Long poles, with an adhesive substance smeared upon them, and well baited, are placed tttm their haunts. The bird alights upon it, and unable to disengage itself from the adhesive matter, is secured — the much prized feathers plucked — and the bird set at liberty. A piece of nankeen, valued at one dollar and a half, was formerly the' pi ice of five feathers of this kind. By this estimate the value of the cloak would equal that of the purest diamonds in the several European Regalia, and including the price of the feathers, not Jess than a million of dollars worth of labour was expended upon it, at the present rate of computing wages. The war spear accompanying the cloak, is ten and a-half feet in length, of a dark r,ed wood, flattened to a point, and finely polished. It possesses an additional interest when we reflect that it was the favourite weapon of a savage conqueror, and deep stained with the blood of many a Hawaiian warrior. — Hawaiian Spectator.

Placard-Printing at Vienna. — There is a printing-office in Vienna the sole employment of which is the announcement of these fetes, plays, and concerts ; nothing else being printed there but placards. The proprietor of this establishment, Mr. Hirshfeld, has many people in his service, who thoroughly understand the most striking way of announcing such matters to the street public, by the judicious arrangement of the alluring words " Bal Brilliant, " " Magic Illumination, " " Rosetinted Garments of Pleasure, " &c. I visited this printing-office ; where the readers were employed in correcting the style and orthography of writers, &c, and preparing their eloquent productions for the press. The monster types are all of wood : the effect of the great black letters upon men's eyes and fancies is always speculated on ; and the pictorial announcements of estates for sale by lottery, when all the letters are composed of pictures of castles and rural views, and where every million is represented entwined with the elegant flowery wreaths of hope, are j eally masterpieces 'n'a psychological as iv a xylographic point of view. The unsual words, or those that do not frequently occur, are composed, as occasion may require, from single letters; but the celebrated names, Strauss, Lanner, iro Sperl, Elysium, Prater, Golden Pear, &c, are cut out of single blocks, and many duplicates are always kept ready for use at Hirshfeld's. It is the same with the standing phrases, such as "Splendid Illuminations," "Dancing Soiree, " &c. Whoever has arrived at the honours of stereotype in Hirshfeld's printing-office, may deem himself a celebrated man within the walls of Vienna. It is somewhat remarkable, although natural enough, that even these kind of announcements and posting-bills, on which the most innocent things iv the world are made known to the public, are subject to the censorship, in fact to a double censorship, — firstly, to the supreme censorial authorities, who bestow the " imprimatur ;" and secondly, to the subordinate police authorities, who make any emendations held necessary according to circumstances and localities. " They play them a trick for all that, sometimes," said my bill-sticker, whom I encountered in the night as before mentioned. " Lately there was a ball at Sperl, where they danced till six o'clock in the morning, although they announced on their bill that it was to end after midnight ; and when they were called to account by the police, they said that six o'clock in the morning was after midnight. — Auttralia, SfC. t by J. G. Kohl.

Effluvia from Guano. — A gentleman who rents a guano store was brought before the Police-court, at Glasgow, on Tuesday last, charged with causing a nuisance to the neighbourhood by the effluvia emitted from this celebrated manure. The complainant stated, that his workmen were actually unable to remain in the workshop from the fumes of the guano. The defendant said he had been informed that the sprinkling of gypsum over the bags would remove the smell, and the case was delayed that the experiment might be ttied. — Scotch Paper.