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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Nov. 24. 1855. 



t Crof(on Croker, Irish writer. 

 Thomas Hood, poet, 

 ycnnimore Cooper, novelist. 

 <J. Donizetti, composer. 

 Henry Neale, poet. 

 Don Vcdro. ex-Emperor of Brazil. 

 » Dr. K. K. Bladden, biographer. Sec. 



* Adolphe Tlxiers, Frencl\ historian. 



* IFenry Labouchere. minister of state. 

 Sir "Wm. FoIIett, lawyer. 



lierbert Knowles, poet. 

 » Dulte of Augustenberg. 



1?99. 



* Lord Derby, statesman. 



H. de Balzac, French novelist. 



* Oscar, King of Sweden. 



Baron VonKugern, leader of the German 



Constitutionalists. 

 Kobert Pollok, sacred poet. 



1800. 



* T. B. Macaulay, historian and essayist. 



* Wm. Chambers, writer. 



* Francis Mahony, Father Provt, 



* John Ilogau, Irish sculptor. 



* Mrs. Gore, novelist. 



Samuel Carter Hall, ed. Art Journal. 

 .lohn Banim, Irish novelist. 

 » President Pearce, United States. 

 Jean Baptiste Dumas, French chemist. 



* Millard riUniore. 



* George Cattermole, painter. 



* George Bancroft, Amcr. historian. 



* Albany Fonblanque, essayist. 

 Charles Knight, publisher and writer. 



* Dr. Pusey. 



1801. 



* Lord Shaftesbury, jphilanthropist. 



» Baron von Jellachich, Ban of Croatia. 



* Lord Clarendon, statesman. 



* Richard Cobden. 



Count Alfred D'Oraay, artist. 



* John A. Roebuck, M.P. 



* Fox Maule, cabinet minister. 

 Thos . H. Lyster, novelist. 



* Robert Chambers, writer. 



. Marshal St. Arnaud, French military com- 

 mander. 



1802. 



* Cardinal Wiseman, miscel. writer. 



* Lord Carlisle, statesman and writer. 

 " I>. E. L." (Mrs. Maclean), poetess. 

 Leman Rede, essayist. 



Lord George Bentmck, statesman. 



* Earl Grey, ex-Colonial Secretary. 



* Victor Hugo, novelist, &c. 



* E. Cavaignac, general and politician. 

 Emile dc Girardin, French journalist. 



* J. B. Ijacordaire, French preacher. 



* Harriet Martineau, authoress. 

 Don Miguel, Regent of Portugal. 



1803. 



Gerald Griffen, novelist. 



* Sir E. Landseer, painter. 



* Ralph W. Emerson, Amer. orator. 



* Wm. Smith O'Brien. 

 Leman Blanchard, essayist. 



* Robert Stephenson, engmeer. 

 » Alexander Dumas, novelist. 



Dr. Bird, Amcr. novelist. 



* Thos. Sydney Cooper, A.R.A. 



* Sir J. R. Brooke, ex-Governor of Borneo. 



* Etienne Arago, French journalist. 

 « Robert Scott Lander, painter. 



1801. 



Johann Strauss, musical composer. 



* Eugene Sue, French novelist. 



* Balfe, musical composer. 



1805. 



* W. H. Ainsworth, novelist. 



» Hans C. Andersen, Danish novelist. 



* Benj. Disraeli. 



* Sir Ed. B. Lytton, novelist. 



* Lord Mahon, miscel. writer. 



* Douglas Jerrold, writer. 



* Joseph Locke, engineer. 



* Samuel Wilbcrforce, Bishop of Oxford. 



* George Sand, French novelist. 



1806. 



John Sterling, writer. 

 Bellini, composer. 



* Louis Kossuth, (iovernor of Hungary. 



» James Grant, editor otJforniny Advertiser. 



* Sir George Cornewall Lewis. 



1807. 



» H. W. Longfellow, Amer. poet. 



* Robert Blum. 



Louis Agassiz, nat. philosopher. 



* Bight Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P. 



1808. 



* Taglioni, danscuse. 

 Ma!d. Malibrftn, vocalist. 



* Louis Napoleon, Emperor. 



* Robert Knox, editor of Morning Jlerald. 



1809. 



* Richard M ,ncton Milnes, M.P., poet. 

 Mendelsson, composer. 



* Joseph Mazzini, revolutionist. 



* Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer. 



* Right Hon. Wm. Gladstone, ex-CUancellor 



of the Exchequer. 



* Signior Gavazzi. 



* Canrobert, French commander. 



1810. 



* Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate. 

 Chopin, composer. 



* Charles Kean, tragedian. 



* Mark I-emon, editor of I'imch. 



* W. H. Wills, editor of y/o«scAoW Words. 



* King of Naples. 



» W. E. Frost, painter. 



1811. 



* W. M. Thackcr.ay, novelist. 



* Daniel Maclise, artist. 



* Elihu Burritt, Amer. scholar and Journalist. 

 « Martm F. Tupper, poet. 



* John Bright, M.P. 



* T. Creswick, painter. 



* Duke of Newcastle. 



1812. 



« Charles Dickens, novelist. 



* John Forster, journalist and miscel. writer. 



* Frederick Lucas, M.P., journalist. 

 » Charles Mackay, poet. 



* Robert Browning, poet. 



* Sigismond Thalberg, composer. 



1813. 



* Rev. George Gilfillan, critic. 



j * AVm. Torrens McCullogh, miscel. writer. 



I » Isaac Butt, Irish advocate. 



I * Louis Blanc, Freuch miscel. writer. 



* Henry Russell, musical composer. 



* Fred. Knight Hunt, editor of Vail u yews 



* Robert Hunt, I'octry of Science. 



Thomas Osborne Davies, poet and essayist. 

 Grace Darling, heroine. 



1816. 



• John Mitchel, journalist and Y. I. 



* Charles Oavan Duffy, journalist. 



* Philip J. Bayley, poet. 



* Shirley Brookes, writer. 



» Edward Ward, U. A., artist. 



1817. 



• Austin H. Layard, discoverer of Nineveh. 



• N. P. Willis, Amer. miscel. writer. 

 » William IIL, King of Holland. 



I * Prince de Joinville, admiral 



* Otho, King of Greece. 



I 1819. 



j » Queen Victoria. 



* H. R. H. Prince Albert, Royal Consort. 

 I » H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge. 



j * King of Hanover. 



* Queen of Portugal, 



* Kaffaelle Monti, sculptor. 



1820. 



* .Tenny Lind, vocalist. 



* Henri Due de Bourdeaux. 



# Angus B. Reach, miscel. writer. 



# George Dawson, lecturer. 



THE IDOL MANUFACTURE. 



While " graceless zealots " ai'e lighting over 

 their " modes of faith," and exerting themselves 

 to bring mankind to an unanimity of sentiment, 

 which the result of Charles V.'s experiment with 

 his watches might lead them to despair of accom- 

 plishing, it is amusing to see with what an indiffer- 

 ent eye business, which, like charity, is " all 

 mankind's concern," looks down upon the contest. 

 Nay, it is curious to observe how the religious 

 and the business idea influence, turn by turn, the 

 actions of the individual or the nation, and lead 

 to varieties of conduct apparently the most op- 

 posite and inconsistent; not, however, that the 

 opposition does not admit of explanation, or that 

 the inconsistency necessarily implies insincerity. 

 Thus, the grocer, who mixes poison with the " cup 

 that cheers," and the baker who, when we ask for 



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bread, gives us something worse than a stone, are 

 doubtless in other respects highly honourable and 

 respectable men. We do not quarrel with the 

 consistency of tlie Sheffield cutler who weeps over 

 " Uncle Tom," and fetes Mrs. Stowc, while he 

 stamps " No Abolition " on the knife that is to 

 arm the slaver crew. Government is doubtless 

 persuaded of the exclusive efficacy of the Holy 

 Catholic Church, while it subsidises the priests of 

 one class of dissent at Maynooth, and extends the 

 regium donum to those of others everywhere. A 

 Christian Company, having duly consulted (he 

 sacred will of the idol through the officiating 

 priest, takes possession of the town and temple of 

 Juggernath, and thereafter makes a snug thing of 

 the worship by taxing the devotees! Does 

 Thuggee require a parcel of scarfs for the stran- 

 gulation of its victims ? — why if Manchester did 



