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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 215. 



We have thus seen that the impetus once given, 

 k is impossible to limit or foresee where this ten- 

 dency to knit us to the farthermost parts of the 

 world will end ! 



" Steam to India" was nevertheless almost 

 stifled at its birth, and its early progress sadly 

 fettered and retarded by those whose duty it was 

 to have fostered and encouraged it — I mean the 

 East India Company. From this censure of a 

 body I would exclude some of their servants in 

 India, and particularly a name that may be new 

 to your readers in connexion with this subject, 

 that of the late Mr. Charles P. Greenlaw of Cal- 

 cutta, to whom I would ascribe all honour and 

 glory as the great precursor of the movement, 

 subsequently so triumphantly achieved by the 

 Peninsular and Oriental Company. This gentle- 

 man, at the head of the East India Company's 

 Marine Establishment in Bengal, brought all the 

 enthusiasm of his character to bear upon the ques- 

 tion of steam via the Red Sea ; and raised such an 

 agitation in the several Presidencies, that the slow 

 coach in Leadenhall Street was compelled to move 

 on, and Mr. Greenlaw lived to see his labours 

 successful. Poor Greenlaw was as deaf as a post, 

 and usually carried on his arm a flexible pipe, 

 with an ivory tip and mouth-piece, through which 

 he received the communications of his friends. 

 How often have I seen him, after an eloquent ap- 

 peal on behalf of his scheme, hand this to the 

 party he would win over to his views : and if the 

 responses sent through it were favourable, he was 

 delighted; but, if the contrary, his irascibility 

 knew no bounds ; and snatching his pipe from the 

 mouth of the senseless man who could not see the 

 value of " steam for India," he would impatiently 

 coil it round his arm, and, with a recommendation 

 to the less sanguine to give the subject the atten- 

 tion due to its importance, would whisk himself 

 off to urge his point in some other quarter ! I 

 have already said that Mr. Greenlaw lived to see 

 the overland communication firmly established; 

 and his fellow citizens, to mark their high esti- 

 mation of his character, and the unwearied appli- 

 cation of his energies in the good cause, have 

 embellished their fine "Metcalfe Hall" with a 

 marble bust of this best of advocates for the in- 

 terests of India. J. O. 



PARALLEL PASSAGES. 



[(Vol. vlii., p. 372.) 



Adopting the suggestion of F. W. J., I con- 

 tribute the following parallel passages towards the 

 collection Avhich he proposes : 



1. "And He said unto them. Take heed and beware 

 of covetousness, for a man's life consisteth not in the 

 abundance of the things which he possesseth." — 

 Luke xiu 15, 



" Non possidentem multa vocaveris 



Recte beatum ; rectius occupat 



Nomen beati, qui Deoriim 



Muneiibus sapienter uti, 



Duramque callet pauperiem pati ; 



Pejusque leto flagitium timet." 



Hor. Carin., lib. iv. ode ix.^ 



2. " For that which I do I allow not : for what I 

 would that do I not ; but what I hate that do I." — 

 Rom. vii. 15. 



" Sed trahit invitam nova vis ; aliudque Cupido, 

 Mens aliiid suadet. Video meliora, proboque : 

 Deteriora sequor." 



Ovid, Metam., lib. vir. 19-21. 



" Quas nocuere sequar, fugiam quae profore credam." 

 Uor., lib. I. epist. viii. 11. 



3. " Without father, without mother, without de- 

 scent," &c. — Heb. vii. 3. 



" Ante potestatem Tulli atque ignobile regnum, 

 Multos saspe viros, nuUis majoribus ortos 

 Et vixisse probos," &c. — Hor. Sat, i. vi. 9. 



4. " For I have said before, that ye are in our hearts 

 to die and live with you " — 2 Cor. vii. 3. 



" Tecum vivere amem, tecum obeam libens." 



Hor. Carm., lib. iii. ix. 



5. " Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." — 

 1 Cor. XV. 32. 



" Convivae certe lui dlcunt, Bibamus moriendum est." 

 Senec. Controv. xiv. 



6. " Be not thou afraid though one be made rich, or 

 if the glory of his liouse be increased ; for he shall carry 

 nothing away with him when he dieth, neither shall his 

 pomp follow him." — Ps. xlix. 16, 17. 



" How loved, how honoured once, avails thee not; 

 To whom related, or by whom begot : 

 A heap of dust alone remains of thee. 

 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be." 



Pope. 

 " Divesne, prisco natus ab Tnacho, 

 Nil interest, an pauper, et infima 

 De gente sub divo moreris, 

 Victima nil miserantis Orci." 



Hor. Carm., lib. ii. iii. 



Tiie following close parallelism between Ben 

 Jonson and Horace, though a little wide of your 

 correspondent's suggestion, is also worthy of no- 

 tice. I have never before seen it remarked upon. 

 It would, perhaps, be more correct to describe it 

 as a plagiarism than as a parallelism : 



•' Mosca. And besides, Sir, 



You are not like the thresher that doth stand 

 With a huge flail, watching a hei p of corn. 

 And, hungry, dares not taste the smallest grain, 

 But feeds on mallows, and such hitter herbs; 

 Nor like the mercl-ant, who hath fille'l his vaults 

 With Romagnia, and rich Candian wines, 

 Yet drinks the lees of Lombard's vinej;ar : 

 You will lie not in straw, whilst moths and worms 



