of the civic guard, and by the nobles, who | which followed was again composed of did the honours of their national enter-fishermen, from Prince Schwarzenberg's tainment; no troops were on duty on the estate at Wittingau, bearing an immense ground, and perfect order prevailed. net seventy-eight fathoms long, and laden with five cwt. of lead.

district. The vehicle supported two cylinders, disposed like a vertical reel on a colossal scale, round which revolved an endless roll of the chintzes and cottons of the industrious Bunzlauer population; the same invisible mechanism which put these cylinders in motion, was applied to a kind of loom in the back of the carriage.

The cotton-car was followed by four men with feathers of spun glass in their caps, bearing a huge temple, glittering with all the rich colours of the Bohemian glass manufacture, and ornamented with a fringe of large hanging prisms, which swung and sparkled in the sunshine.

The trumpets speedily announced the approach of the great national procession, The Bunzlauer-Kreis was preceded by headed by the citizens of Prague, with the an allegorical group of tutelary genii, perbanners of their guilds, surrounding four sonated by pretty, fair haired girls, who couple of brides and bridegrooms, who pointed to the ornaments and the motto of received a dowry of two hundred florins the emperor, Recta Tueri, emblazoned on a for each couple, in honour of the occasion. pillar nine feet high, surmounted by the The same sum was given by the emperor two-tailed crowned lion argent. The to the bride and bridegroom chosen from bride's carriage, and her twenty couples each of the sixteen circles. The Praguers, of bridesmaids and bridesmen, were folwith all their banners and nuptial orna-lowed by a chariot very ingeniously conments, went in city guise on foot; but the trived to show the manufactures of the pageant of the Berauner Kreis, which came next in order, was preceded by twenty-one handsome young peasants on horseback, in their broad hats and long coats, gaily trimmed with ribbons, each bearing a small red and white pennon in his hand. These were followed by four of the village magistrates, and by four ornamented chariots: the first containing the wedding-music; the second the bride and bridegroom, with bridesmaids, surrounded by as many bridesmen on foot, crowned with flowers, all in their provincial costume; the third conveyed the parents and friends; the fourth contained the bride's trousseau, and the nuptial bed After this splendid toy came a pyramid -a continent of feathers—which it is the of the more solid woollen manufactures of custom of the country to carry in the pro- Riechenberg-the dyed fleece, the shining cession from the altar. These chariots, cloth, the variegated worsted, and long adorned with the arms of Prince Lobko- festoons of lighter woollen stuffs, were wiez, from whose estate they came, were very tastefully intermingled in the car. followed by larger carriages, containing The procession was closed by eleven vilthe peculiar trades and productions of the lage magistrates, on horseback, bearing circle of Beraun. First six shepherdesses pennons inscribed with the names of their and two shepherds, busily engaged in villages, amongst which I remarked, not shearing lambs as they drove along; then without emotion, the immortal names of a carriage of osier fancy work, with slight the lordship of Freidland, and that of fair-haired girls, weaving baskets, from Dobrawitz-the latter was supported by a the lordship of Königsaal, where thou-worthy peasant rejoicing in the genuine sands of hands are engaged in that manu- Bohemian name of Mrkwiczka. facture. The third carriage was a very large cage, beautifully wrought in polished iron, containing a forge, a chimney, an anvil, and eight smiths from the great iron-works of Count Wrbna at Horzowitz, beating nails, and blowing their fire, singing merrily as they passed.

The pageant of the Chrudimer-Kreis consisted of little besides the marriage train, but in that respect it surpassed all the others. It was led by four trumpeters, dressed in spensers trimmed with fur, blue silk waistcoats, and the everlasting lea. ther breeches of the Bohemian peasant, unusually bedizened with buttons. The bridegroom walked, crowned with rosemary, a white scarf over his shoulder, and the Hockzeits-redner on his left hand, surrounded by a host of bachelors. Then came five carriages,containing the friends, parents, and village schoolmaster of the oride; and in the sixth, the bride herself, a strapping blonde, with eight bridesmaids as portly as herself, ail with their hair pulled back from the forehead, à la ChiThe marriage-party of the Budweiser- noise, and crowned with gold fillagree Kreis was attended by as genuine a bag- work and bright Bohemian beads. Her pipe as ever sang in our Highlands; and carriage was followed by the marriagethe ladies of the party scarcely improved fool in a harlequin dress; and by a vehithe sweetness of its melodies by their cle containing a goodly assortment of shrill vociferations. The procession | household chattels, with a mountain of

The pageant of the Bidshower Kreis was led by musicians, the nuptial party, fifteen unmarried couples, who seemed ready to profit by the first opportunity, and six married couples, who did not seem to repent; these were followed by seven fishermen, with their nets and implements, intertwined with bulrushes, used in catching the celebrated Bohemian carps, which are fattened in the ponds of Kopidlnoer.

clean Chrudimer flax, and a man busily | empress, who rose, and drank to the health employed at the spinning-wheel. of her people.

their merriment was kept up till a late | Like that of Venus moist with dew!
hour of the evening. Such was the length
of the procession, that although it moved
rapidly along, it was nearly two hours in
passing. I have described it thus particu-
larly, because, although I can give no idea
of the infinite peculiarities of so vast and
various a pageant and the animated scene
which these picturesque groups presented
to the eye, the whole population of Bohe-
mia is thus rapidly passed in review. To
a stranger, indeed, the spectacle was one
of extreme festivity, though but little en-
thusiasm was manifested: but it drew
tears into the eyes of more than one re-
flecting Bohemian, who remembered the
real condition of these gay revellers, and
thought how their holiday dresses masked
their wants and miseries from the eye of
the sovereign. The sports of a people
can ill bear to be transplanted from their
own village soil; and amidst the throng of
a city the easy and cordial joy of a pea-
sant's marriage day assumed much of the BY THE AUTHOR OF
constraint of an acted pageant.

Paint next her beauteous cheek and nose-
Mingling with milk the blushing rose;
And make her lip-seductive bliss!
Provoking passion's burning kiss!
Let all the rival graces play
Upon her chin in fond delay;
And all about her snowy neck,
And bosom fair let Laughter deck;
Adown each limb in loose array,
Let light and purple vestures stray !
That fancy's eye alone may steal
A glance beneath the modest veil:-
Enough!-my girl herself I see-
She lives!-she breathes !-she speaks to
me! -
Ex. Edit. Barnesii, 1721.-Ode xxviii.

The ground was kept by eivic troops, and the greatest order prevailed; but we afterwards learned that two regiments of

PARLIAMENTARY PORTRAITS.*

RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS," "THE GREAT METROPOLIS," &c. CHAPTER III.-LIBERAL MEMBERS.

cuirassiers had been posted in the neigh- MR. bernal—mr. aglionby—mk. JERVIS—MR.

bourhood, and a signal was preconcerted that, in case the people should show the slightest symptoms of the impetuosity that led to the fray on the Hradschin, at the emperor's coronation, the military were to arrive at full gallop, and to occupy the ground. So severe are the precautions of an Austrian government!-so precarious the pleasures of an Austrian people!

JAMES GRATTAN-MR. HANDLEY-MR. HOW-
ARD.

MR. BERNAL, the member for Rochester, is better known as chairman of committees, than as a speaker in the house. He speaks very seldom and never at any length, on any question of commanding importance. Possibly his notion is-and assuredly it would not be a wrong onethat he has abundant exercise for his lungs in the capacity of chairman of committees, without volunteering speeches in ordinary circumstances. Mr. Bernal, be

ANACREON'S ODE TO A PAINTER. sides, has an inducement to act as chair

“Αγε, ζωγράὠφν ἄριστεί”κ. τ. λ.

Come, best of painters! let thy skill
With living tints the canvass fill;
Paint, master of the Rhodean art!
The absent mistress of my heart;
Paint her while I to thee retrace
Each eloquent, each matchless grace!
Her shiny hair of raven dye
In silken tresses first descry,

And round them breathing, if the powers
Of art can reach it, fragrant showers;
Now glancing from the sable shade
Her ivory forehead be portrayed,
Rising above two blooming cheeks
Whose glow the prime of youth bespeaks;
Her eye-brows next in arches bend,
And gently each to each extend,
So that the space of white between
Be only indistinctly seen;

The borders of her eye-lids fringe
With curtains of a deeper tinge;
But, O! her eye exhibit bright,
And ever flashing radiant light!
And like Minerva's be its hue!

He

man of committees, which he has not to
make speeches to the House. For the
discharge of his official duties he receives
the handsome sum of 1,200l. a year; while
not one farthing would he get for his
speeches, even did he possess the most
eloquent tongue that ever spoke, and he
were to play the orator every night.
has a clear audible voice, evidently pos-
sessed of considerable power, though he
does not call its capabilities into full play.
You hear him distinctly in all parts of the
house, even when he looks as if he fancied
himself to be only speaking to some pri-
vate friend across the table. He talks
with considerable ease and facility. His
style is plain; occasionally it is terse and
vigorous: it is always clear. There is no
mistaking what he says. He appears to
best advantage as a speaker at a public
meeting. I recollect being present at a
dinner given to the members for Lambeth,
at the Horns Tavern, in the end of 1835;
and Mr. Bernal made one of the best of

* Continued from p. 271.

the many excellent speeches delivered on to be seen. He, evidently, is possessed of that occasion. There he spoke in a tone great physical strength. Were he an Irish of decision and energy which I have not emigrant come over to this country to seek witnessed in any of his speeches on the for employment, he would be engaged at floor of the House of Commons. He suit- once under the impression that he was an ed the action, too, to the word. His ges-"able-bodied labourer." His face is round, ture was energetic without being extrava- and his features are intelligent and agreegant. In his manner in the House of able. His complexion indicates an ample Commons there are no indications of stock of health. He has a fine forehead. warmth: there he is sufficiently conservative of his gesture. None of his next neighbours, as Mr. Wakley would say, are in danger of getting a broken head from the unguarded use of his hands. Let me not, however, be understood as insinuating that Mr. Bernal has no gesture at all: he has some, but it is moderate. It usually consists of a limited and gentle movement of his right hand.

Mr. Bernal is a man of respectable talent. He never utters anything feeble or silly; but neither does he, on the other hand, ever soar many degrees, if he soar at all, above mediocrity. Sometimes he displays acuteness in detecting the slips of an opponent. I have, also, on repeated occasions, thought him happy in developing his own views of a question. He seldom falters or hesitates, and when he does, never to an unpleasant extent.

As chairman of committees, Mr. Bernal gives great satisfaction to the House. He has not much of the polished manners of the late Speaker, nor does he equal in this respect the present; his manners are plain and unassuming; but every one knows that he is a man of genuine kindness of heart. Hence, he is esteemed by men of all parties. Without_parading the authority with which his office of chairman has invested him-which power is practically as great while the House is in committee as that of the Speaker himself-he knows well how to assert when there is occasion, the dignity of the situation he fills, and to vindicate the character of the House. I have repeatedly had occasion to admire the firmness, blended with moderation, which he shows in dealing with such troublesome customers as Mr. Kearsley and

His hair is of a dark-brown colour, but a considerable part of his head is bald. He is of Jewish extraction. His grandfather, if I am correctly informed, was an Israelite in early life, but became a convert to Christianity. Mr. Bernal is in the meridian of life. I should not think him above fifty.

Mr. AGLIONBY, the member for Cockermouth, addresses the House with much greater frequency than would be inferred from the reports of the proceedings given in the newspapers. A few words will explain how this happens. He very seldom takes part in the discussions which arise on the introduction or second reading of any important question. He confines himself to observations on matters of minor importance, and chiefly when the House is in committee. On such cases, it is but seldom that any report of what is said by honourable members is given in the public journals. I have seen Mr. Aglionby address the House, when in committee, ten or twelve times in the course of an evening, and his name not once, perhaps, appear in the papers of the following day. I have repeatedly seen other members much oftener address the House on particular occasions, and yet not one word of what fell from them was to be found in the newspapers of next morning, nor even the single fact stated that they had spoken at all. Mr. Aglionby is a man of excellent business habits; and often displays considerable acuteness in detecting the defects or positive faults of a measure in its progress through committee. He used to be commendably regular in his attendance in the house, but I do not think he has been quite so exemplary in this respect of late. In the sessions of 1834 and There is one curious circumstance I 1835, he generally was among the last to have repeatedly observed in Mr. Bernal's exchange the toils of legislation for the conduct in the house. Whether the thing luxury of sound repose on his bed. be accidental or not, I cannot say; but I Many of his honourable colleagues in the have generally remarked that immediate- Commons were then, night after night, ly before his being called to the chair, he sleeping soundly in their own houses, or goes and seats himself at the furthest cor- engaged in circulating the bottle—if, ́inner of the conservative side of the house, deed, they were not in many instances as if wishing to have an opportunity of worse employed-while he, with Mr. Hume, walking the greatest distance the size of Mr. Pease, Mr. Brotherton, Colonel Thomp the house will allow, before taking his seat son, Mr. Wakley, and some eighteen or as chairman. Some ill-natured people twenty others, were carefully sifting and might wish to insinuate that Mr. Bernal's improving measures of great public imobject in this movement is to show off his portance in their transit through commitperson. I do not believe anything of the tee. He really was a most laborious and kind, though Mr. Bernal has, undoubtedly, most useful member: he is so still to a a commanding person. He is tall and great, though I doubt if he be to the same, stout. A better formed figure, consider- extent as before. He and Mr. Hume, for ing that he is a muscular man, is not often | several sessions, took the trouble of pre

others.

paring the list of the majority and minori-interest. Usually, indeed, he confines himty whenever a division on any interesting self to questions which are only of local question took place in the house; and so importance. He appears to most advananxious has he always been on such oc- tage in committees of the whole House: casions to accommodate the press and the his suggestions for the improvement of public, that I have known him go himself measures which are on their passage repeatedly to the office of one of the news-through committee, are often judicious. papers with the list, when the House had been up before he had been able to get it prepared. By going to the office of one of the morning journals, in such cases, he was virtually going to the offices of all; for he always gave particular instructions to the party with whom he left the list of the divisions, that slips of it, as soon as put in type, should be sent round to the other journals.

The greatest recommendation of his speeches is their good sense. He is al ways intelligible: he is so even when the subject is complicated. He is a barrister by profession, though I believe he does not practice to any great extent. Like most lawyers, he is in the habit of using a profusion of words, and like the majority of these speakers by trade, he gets on with great ease and considerable rapidity Mr. Aglionby is a gentlemen of respect- of utterance. His voice is weak; and able talent. His speeches are more re-hence, between the low tones in which he markable for their good sense, with occasional accuteness, than for any higher degree of intellectual qualities. I never heard him give utterance to anything brilliant or profound; but I have repeatedly seen him discover blemishes in a measure, or blunders committed in legislating on it, which had escaped the observation of all others. Brought up to the legal profession, though I believe he has never practised at the bar, to any extent, he has a great command of words on all occasions. He does not, in general, speak long at a time; but from the manifest ease with which he does deliver his sentiments, I am confident he could go on without a moment's intermission, or without any great inconvenience to himself, for hours at a time; and that, too, on any subject-even on the most trifling. I know of few men who possess greater volubility. He speaks with singular rapidity: I am not sure whether he does not speak a greater quantity in a given time than any member in the house. No reporter could, if he wished, follow the honourable gentleman through his speeches: that, however, for the reasons I have already given, is never attempted. His voice is not strong, but it is clear. It is easier to hear than to follow him. He never raises his voice. He continues in the same low key throughout.

speaks, and his usual volubility, it is sometimes difficult to follow him. There is no variety in his voice. If you hear him once you can form as good an idea of him as a speaker, as if you had heard him a hundred times. He is very sparing in his ges ture: very often he uses none, unless a very slight movement of the right hand, accompanied by an occasional gentle movement of the head, should be dignified by the name. His appearance is not much in his favour as a speaker. He is about the middle height, but slenderly made. His complexion is pale, and there is something feminine in the expression of his countenance. His face is more of the oblong than of the angular form: his features are regular, without anything strongly marked. His hair is of a dark brown, but exhibits none of those traces of the curling locks with which the hair of so many other honourable members abound.

Mr. Jervis is but a young man: he is seemingly under his fortieth year. He is a decided reformer. Without going the whole hog in Radicalism, he is something considerably more than the mere Whig. He is well liked in the house. He always commands attention whenever he rises to speak; and the indulgence thus extended to him, or, more properly speaking, the respect which is invariably evinced towards him, he has the good taste and the good judgment not to abuse by dooming the House to hear any lengthened harangue. He never speaks long at a time; seldom above ten or fifteen minutes. I am not sure that he has spoken for more than twenty minutes at a time during the last three sessions. His manners are modest. He has none of that petulancy about him Mr. JERVIS, the member for Chester, used which is so marked a characteristic in the to speak with some frequency; but of late parliamentary exhibitions of various other he has been comparatively silent. He is young members of passable talents, who well informed on most of the questions sometimes address the House. Every which come before the House; but I have one must, at the first glance, see modesty never observed in his speeches any indi- in Mr. Jervis's face; and if that face speak cations of a vigorous or comprehensive the truth, he must be blessed with a good mind. He never speaks on questious of temper. His conduct in the house is cercommanding importance: he always re-tainly in favour of this theory. I have serves himself for those of subordinate never seen him involved in any personal

I cannot say what is the precise age of Mr. Aglionby; but no one would suppose he was more than forty-five. He is a little, thick-set man; but cannot be called corpulent. His face is round, and his complexion is somewhat florid. He is dark-haired, and pretty well whiskered. The expression of his countenance is pleasing and intelligent.

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