That he, whose brave old English tale set all our veins

aglow,
(How HawHns, Cavendish, and Drake, went sailing West-
ward Ho,
And how they led the Dons a life, and fought them man to

man,
And spared them when they begged for grace, and chased

them when they ran,)
Should teach that " modern chivalry " has found its noblest

egress
In burning Baptist villages, and stringing up a negress ! ^

But 'tis not on topics like those

Their talent that owls should exhibit.
More suited for vultures and crows
Are puffs of the cat and the gibbet.
' At the banquet given to Governor Eyre at Southampton Dr.
Kingslej is reported to have said that the House of IJords contained all
the genius and all the virtue of the country, and that it was rapidly
monopolising all the beauty : — ^likewise that the conduct of Eyre in
Jamaica was a brilliant manifestation of " modern chivalry."

" We once could say with pride that no woman had been put to
death by Englishmen for a political offence since the days of Judge
Jeffreys. It was reserved for modern chivalry in the year of grace 1865
to hang three women on the charge of rebellion, unaccompanied by
murder : besides Rosa Macbean, who was shot " by soldiers without
trial," and a woman, " name unknown," hung by a Court Martial which
did business on the principle of " proceedings not kept," gallant and
gentle feats duly chronicled in the Appendix to the Beport of the Boyal
Commission, pp. 1135, 1136, 1137, and 1142.
24 THE LADIES IN PARLIAMENT.
We leave it for Newman to search

The doctrine professed by a parson
Who runs from his schools and his church

To gloat upon hanging and arson.
