in such a position, as to become the natural leaders of our ablest rising youth. Our great seminaries of national learning have put little heart and soul into their intellect or into their religion; and, indeed, perhaps since the Restoration, no school, before the Puseyites, have even seemed to unite piety and erudition. Here is England's real deficiency; we want teachers whom we may esteem, venerate, and love. It is credible that such teachers cannot be reared, until ampler religious freedom is enjoyed in all our public institutions; and meanwhile, reproduction of dry morality, empty vaporing, or obsolete superstition, may be the only possible fruits of Academical theology. As we see not whence such a new school is to dawn upon us, and, by the genial warmth of its beams, thaw and fertilize our barren grounds, we rather expect that the quarrel must linger on, until it has fully appeared that the ecclesiastical organs are unable of themselves to terminate it. In this case, the State will be forced at last to interfere; and then will be a time of hope for both civil and religious freedom.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM IN PRACTICE.

Oh animal magnetism!

What a very shocking schism

Thou hast caused among people once united!
The gentlemen medicinal

Have of late in fury risen all,

And, believe me, I grieve while I write it,
Are changed!
Estranged!

Their courtesy punctilious

Has now grown cross and bilious;
And their love, so pure and brotherly,

By a whirlwind of opinions,

Has been blown east, west, and southerly,

And lost to our dominions.

But I pray and beseech,

That all of you and each,

More especially the Braid and the Catlow,
Will forget your animosities,

And, like mere callosities,

Though ye swell, never heed this or that blow.
The phenomena are there,

And we neither know nor care,

Half a farthing about what you please to call it ; 'Tis the real "Golden Goose,"

And we do not see the use

In letting you dissect and maul it—

Be't mine then to declare

The how, the when, the where,

These phenomena may benefit the species;
To show the things that are

Most in need of them-how far

The permanent advantage reaches.

A sneer or a stare,

To say nothing of her tongue when she abuses. Now if young men but knew

How to Mesmerise "a few,"

The honeymoon would never be o'er-clouded; A "susceptible" spouse

Would preclude all chance of rows,

And mastery in sleight of hand be shrouded. "Come here, my dear,

And lend to me your ear,

Or, perhaps, I should rather say your thumb;
You shall not gad again,

Nor with women, nor with men,
Talk scandal-chatter-flirt-so be dumb."
Stick her knitting in her paw!
Cataleptify her jaw!

Seat her nicely in her easy chair!

With legs that cannot walk!
And tongue that cannot talk!

You yourself may go in peace any where ;
Quite fair!

And, then! what a saving,

When the paupers are so craving,

Might be made in those burdensome poor rates! You could let every sinner

Have a slap-up dinner,

Twelve courses, and a proper change of plates, By inserting just a clause

K

In the town's bye-laws,

*

"That each alderman, before he goes to feast,
"Shall, by communications
"Magnetic, find rations

"For a score or two of poor at least."
What a glorious sight to see
This virtuous sympathy

Exerted on the many, by the few!

And to watch with what a stare
The poor devils find the fare

Is neither skilly, nor lobscouse, nor stew!
Oh! turbot! vermicelli! haunch! ragout!
The masses shall be fed by smelling you!

And then, again, behold,

What "clair voyance" may unfold,
Benefits untold,

In which every mother's son of us may share
Begin! Magnetise!

Lo! the follies of the wise,

The pretensions of the hypocrite lie bare!
Thieves, lawyers, all must run,
Many a parson preach in fun,

And the demagogue himself must own,
His designs are just as sinister

As those of the prime minister,

;

That he gives the world the shadow-keeps the bone.
If Truth were thus to reign,

The arrogant, the vain,

The mendacious, and the imbecile, must fall;

The good, the wise, the pure,

Would flourish and endure,

With happiness and peace the lot of all.
But cease, my Muse,-ascend!

Or this theme will never end;

We have done enough for fame, and for mankind;
If they don't take our advice,

We'll not give it to them twice,

But declare," Upon our conscience, they are blind!"

We have it upon undoubted authority, that a girl who was magnetised at Ardwick, when placed in magnetic communication with the operator, said, that when he put a grape into his own mouth, she felt something like a marble in her's, and when he bit the grape, and cranched the stones, she remarked— "It was something sweet and gritty!"