28 FEBRUARY 1852, Page 10

Ireland's most illustrious poet has fallen to the grave immediately

after her most revered prelate. The last lingering period of the life of Thomas Moore came to a peaceful close, at filoperton Cottage, on Thursday. A kind obituary tribute in the Globe of last night says— "Ho had survived all his great cotitemporaries who started in the race of fame at the opening of the present century; but, as in the case of Sir Wal- ter Scott and Southey, for some time back mere physical existence had out- lived the glorious vitality of mind and genius. He was in the seventy- second year of his age. His career was one of the most brilliant and felicitous. in the proverbially checkered annals of his class. No child of song has been so uniformly fortunate and beloved. Wherever the language of these islands has penetrated, the winged words of his musical and magical minstrelsy have wafted his name, and endeared him to millions in both hemispheres."