Poetry.

Poetry .

LOW TAVELA E . Br BRO . CIIABLES SCOTT . I see a Delta in the sky , AA'hich has a ray for every sigh ; And seven hues for every tear Falling for the departed dear . Good Enoch saw a Delta bright

E'en shining in the midst of night ; One , too , he saw beneath the ground , AA here all our bodies shall be found . True and beautiful—that we must Be wrapped in shroudy , silent dust ; And when tho great trump shall sound , To raise , exalt us from the ground .

Lord , may my dusty home be nigh , Where good ones sleep and gently lie ; AVhen all shall hear the call to rise , I would mount 'bove the burning skies . Let sun , and moon , and stars expire , And the darkness be set on fire ! The ashes shall tell Thy glory , Father , Son , and Spirit holy .

Obituary.

Obituary .

BRO . JOHN SHIRLEY . On the 4 th October died , aged 59 , Bro . John Shirley , P . Aland Treasurer of the Constitutional Lodge ( No . 63 ) , London-He was initiated in the lodge on the 17 th November , 1842 , and served the office of AA ' . AI . twice , continuing an active member and treasurer up to the time of his death . He was buried at the Tower Hamlets Cemetery , on Friday , the 10 th of October ,

the pall being home by Past Alasters of the lodge , and he was followed by many of the brethren , as also the present and past officers of the parish where he resided , ancl by whom , as well as the brethren , he was much beloved and respected .

The Week.

THE WEEK .

THE COURT . —Her Alajesty arrived at Brussels early on Saturday morning , on a visit to the K ' mg ' fif the Belgians at his palace of Laecken . There was a Court dinner on Saturday , and a breakfast on Sunday morning . Her Alajesty and the Royal Princes and Princesses by whom she is accompanied were to leave on Monday for Antwerp , there to embark for

England . The state of the weather , however , retarded her Majesty ' s return , and she still remains a guest at her royal uncle's palace . at Laecken . The Prince of AVales has arrived at Lyons with the Prince Royal of Prussia . His Royal Highness travels under the name of Baron Renfrew , and the Prince Royal as Count de Lingen . The royal party attended the

Grand Theatre the evening of their arrival , and were expected to leave Lyons the next day for Italy . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The deaths in the metropolis last week rather exceeded the average mortality of the last ten years . The average , corrected to allow for the gradual increase of population , gives 1159 , while the deaths of the last week is

1181 , or 22 deaths above the average . The births are also above the average , the number for last week being 1863 , while the average births is only 1811 . In the causes of deaths typhus fever assumes an unpleasant prominence . The equinoctial gales have set in with more than their usual violence , and their

effects are to be traced in a long and in some cases fatal list of shipwrecks . The Downs formed no shelter from the fury of the elements , several vessels went down at their anchors , others broke from their moorings , came into collision with others , and finally sunk . On the east and north coast the tempest also raged , and several shipwrecks , accompanied with loss of life , are reported . On land also the effects of the storm have been felt .

The gale commenced on Sunday night , and seems to have been felt over the whole country . It raged with great fury along the coast ; and in some of the inland towns considerable damage was done to property . A large ship was driven ashore near Southport on AVednesday morning , having during the nig ht lost four ot her crew . From tiie Tyne ports we have

also sad intelligence—loss of life and serious injury to shipping and other property . On Monday ancl Tuesday , upwards of 100 wrecks and casualties at sea were posted at Lloyds , and this list , large as it is , is being still further swelled by reports of other disasters . A large East Indiaman , belonging to Liverpool , was lost in Bute's Bay , Cornwall , on Tuesday , and we

regret to state that of the 33 persons on board 28 perished . The Clarence steamer , the property of the General Steam Navigation Company , on her passage from Hamburgh to London , had a narrow escape of foundering in the Channel , and was only kept afioat by the strenuous exertions of the passengers and crew . The gale appears to have been equally destructive on the French coast . To show the value of the

observationsmade by the officers of the Meteorological Department , we may state that on Saturday Admiral Fitzroy despatched telegrams , to the out-ports ordering signals of an approaching storm to be hoisted . The London demonstration in favour of Garibaldi has taken place at the London Tavern , under the presidency of Air . AA'ood , one of the members for the City . No attempt was made to disturb the meeting , and resolutions were passed , expressing sympathy with the great Italian , and protesting against

the French occupation of Rome . Air . Lindsay , the member for Sunderland , is fond of communicating " exclusive information" to the world . Addressing an agricultural meeting at Chertsey the other night , he repeated the statement he made

some time ago that the Emperor of the French is " ready tocome to some tacit understanding with regard to the armaments of both countries , especially with regard to their naval armaments . " He next had to communicate something about a most interesting lady , —the Princess Alexandra of Denmark . He recently spent an evening with a family at Copenhagen , who were " intimately acquainted" with her Royal Highness , ancl , he remarked , it " was scarcely possible to conceive the high

terms in which that family , one and all , spoke of that young Princess . " In tho third and last place , he has " good reason to believe that some , at least , of the great powers of Europe have felt for some time that the Southern Confederacy ought to be received into the family of nations" —in point of fact , that the harrier which stops the way against such a recognition of the South " is not any of thegreat Powers of Europe , is not the unanimous Cabinet

of England , but is a section of that Cabinet . " Sir John Pakington and Lord Hardwicko have come to theconclusion that the Southern Confederacy ought to be acknowledged by our own Government and the other Powers of Europe . A third member of Lord Derby's Administration has now spoken ou the question , and he shares fully the views of his former colleagues . Sir William Jollhle , addressing an assemblage of farmerssubmitted that " we should be treating

, the Southern States of America in a very different way to what we had treated every other people , if we did not now , after they had for two years maintained their independence at an enormous cost , raised vast revenues , aud established enormous armies , recognise them . " The other day , Air . Gladstone wasappealed to by Air . Afoseley to explain the precise meaning of his statement , at Newcastle , that President Davis and his colleagues had made the South nationHe has since been

a . called upon by a Air . " hloore , of Northampton , to state his views on the subject of slavery . The right hon . gentleman in reply , through his secretary , says— "He hopes that the policy of this country will never be directed to the support or encouragement of slavery ; but , in viewing the conflict which now rages in America , we must all , Air . Gladstone thinks , wish it were in