DURHAM.

" Tine county of Durham has not returned one Conservative to

Parliament." Newspaper Report.

No sound of revelry is heard In Raby's princely halls, And darkly droops the banner o'er The time-dismantled walls; And all unpledged the wine-cup stands Upou the costly board : Is it some favourite hound that's dead?

Or what ails Ruby's Lord? • At Wynyard, La Nlarchesa leans Upun her jewell'd hand, As it to gain one proselyte She'd compass sea and land : And he who at Vienna danced, Though mad, is far from merry: Rath christening-time come round again ?

Or what ails LONDONDERRY ?

At Auckland, where but yesterday

" The priest-like father" stood, To comfort, strengthen, and confirm His son," in all that's good, What means the holy palm upraised? Is market bare of perch ?

Hath PIIILPOTTS turned Reformer ? Or what ails Mother Church ?

'Tis not for all or one of these That four such worthies mourn, Or that they've suffered and endured The scoffing and the scorn

Of all who proudly, nobly dared,

To battle in the cause Of sacred freedom, and maintain Her wroug'd and outraged laws.

It is because united fraud, And bribery, and all The thousand nameless treacheries That mark the Tory thrall,

Have quailed before a People's glance, Determined to be free.

And shall it end with Durham?—No, 'Twill spread from See to See.

• SHAFT°.

S. II. A.

N.B. Though CLEVELAND, was amongst the first to give up his Borough, he has *ought to make One of the County, by giving all his immense intluence to suarto.