When alone in your room shut the door close, and lock it; Above all,-KEEP YOUR HANDKERCHIEF SAFE IN YOUR POCKET! Lest you too should stumble and Lord Leveson Gower, he Be call'd on,-sad poet !—to tell your sad story! It was in the summer of 1838 that a party from Tappington reached the metropolis with a view of witnessing the coronation of their youthful Queen, whom God long preserve!-This purpose they were ftunate enough to accomplish by the purchase of a peer's tickets, from a stationer in the Strand, who was enabled so to dispose of some, greatly to the indignation of the hereditary Earl Marshal. How Mr. Barney managed to insinuate himself into the Abbey remains a mistery: his characteristic modesty and address doubtless assisted him, for there he unquestionably was. The result of his observations were thus communicated to his associates in the Servants' Hall upon his return, to the infinite delectation of Mademoiselle Pauline over a Cruiskeen of his own concocting. 289 MR. BARNEY MAGUIRE'S ACCOUNT OF THE CORONATION. AIR-"The Groves of Blarney." CH! the Coronation! what celebration ter, And the Duke of Leinster, all in order did repair! 'Twas there you'd see the New Polishemen Making a skrimmage at half after four, And the Lords and Ladies, and the Miss O'Gradys, Their pillows scorning, that self-same morning And gould, and jewels, and rich di'monds bright. With Gineral Dullbeak.-Och! 'twas mighty fine To see how asy bould Corporal Casey, With his sword drawn, prancing, made them kape the line. Then the Guns' alarums, and the King of Arums, 'T would have made you crazy to see Esterhazy And Wellington, walking with his swoord drawn, talking To Hill and Hardinge, haroes of great fame ; And Sir De Lacy, and the Duke Dalmasey, (They call'd him Sowlt afore he changed his name,) Themselves presading Lord Melbourne, lading The Queen, the darling, to her royal chair, And that fine ould fellow, the Duke of Pell-Mello, The Queen of Portingal's Chargy-de-fair. Then the Noble Prussians, likewise the Russians, But Lord Brougham was missing, and gone a-fishing, There was Baron Alten himself exalting, And Prince Von Swartzenburg, and many more, Och! I'd be bother'd and entirely smother'd To tell the half of 'em was to the fore; With the swate Peeresses, in their crowns and dresses, And Aldermanesses, and the Boord of Works; But Mehemet Ali said, quite gintaly, 66 "I'd be proud to see the likes among the Turks! Then the Queen, Heaven bless her! och! they did dres her In her purple garaments and her goulden Crown; Like Venus or Hebe, or the Queen of Sheby, With eight young ladies houlding up her gown, Sure 't was grand to see her, also for to he-ar The big drums bating, and the trumpets blow, And Sir George Smart! Oh! he play'd a Consarto, With his four-and-twenty fiddlers all on a row! Then the Lord Archbishop held a goulden dish up, Ye'll give the Clargy lave to dhrink your health!" Then his Riverence, retrating, discoorsed the mating; "Boys! Here's your Queen! deny it if you can! And if any bould traitour, or infarior craythur, Sneezes at that, I'd like to see the man!" Then the Nobles kneeling to the Pow'rs appealing, Throwing the thirteens, hit him in his eye. Then there was preaching, and good store of speeching, With Dukes and Marquises on bended knee; And they did splash her with raal Macasshur, And the Queen said, "Ah! then thank ye all for me!" Then the trumpets braying, and the organ playing, Then the crames and custard, and the beef and mustard, With fine polonies, and rich mellow pears,- Then the cannons thunder'd, and the people wonder❜d, As a pendant to the foregoing, I shall venture to insert Mr. Simpkinson's lucubrations on a subject to him, as a Savant of the first class, scarcely less interesting. The aërial voyage to which it alludes took place about a year and a half previously to the august event already recorded, and the excitement manifested in the learned Antiquary's effusion may give some faint idea of that which prevailed generally among the Sons of Science at that memorable epoch. |