husbands and wives, parents and children, is still in force; and Rachels, weeping for their children, are crying aloud to Heaven for vengeance against a baneful influence, which stains the history of the nineteenth century with barbarities, which would have blackened even the dark ages. The emancipated Catholics of Great Britain and Ireland could not make a more gracious return for the boon which has been granted to them, than by interceding for oppressed communities, which are groaning under the yoke imposed at the instigation of the Triple Mitre.

JUDAS RETURNING THE THIRTY

PIECES.

BY THE REV. THOMAS DALE, M.A.

I.

STILL echoed through the dark divan

The shouts that hailed the doom of blood;

When lo! a pale and haggard man

Before the stern tribunal stood!

He strove to speak-awhile his breath
Came fitful as the gasp of death;

Nor aught those hollow sounds express—
Save guilt and utter wretchedness!

II.

Yet in his wildly-glaring eye

Such fierce unnatural brightness shone;
They deemed some outcast Maniac nigh,
Some victim of the Evil One:

Even the High Priest, in mute amaze,
Fixed on that form a shuddering gaze;

As if a Spectre near him stood

That chained his eye and chilled his blood!

JUDAS RETURNING THE THIRTY

PIECES.

BY THE REV. THOMAS DALE, M.A.

I.

STILL echoed through the dark divan

The shouts that hailed the doom of blood;
When lo! a pale and haggard man

Before the stern tribunal stood !
He strove to speak-awhile his breath
Came fitful as the gasp of death;

Nor aught those hollow sounds express-
Save guilt and utter wretchedness!

II.

Yet in his wildly-glaring eye

Such fierce unnatural brightness shone;
They deemed some outcast Maniac nigh,
Some victim of the Evil One:

Even the High Priest, in mute amaze,
Fixed on that form a shuddering gaze;
As if a Spectre near him stood

That chained his eye and chilled his blood!