DEATH IN "THE RING."

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The greatest champions that the world e'er saw,By turns have bow'd obedient to my law.

Look back at History's page,

In every clime and age,You'll find I ' mill'd' the mightiest of them all;

No matter how they sparr'd,

My blows were sure and hard,And when I threw them, fatal was their fall.From Alexander down to Emperor Nap,Whene'er I chose to give the rogues a slap,Not one could parry off a single rap ;—No, no!—nor had they each a thousand lives,Could they have stood against my rattling ' bunchof fives!' f

f Death has not merely the authority of Pierce Egan, Lex-icographer and Chronicler to " The Fancy," for using thescientific terms here introduced, and specially marked for thebenefit of the uninitiated, but he is also sanctioned by theclassic Blackwood, in whose pages may be found somehigh encomiums on the transcendant merits of that eloquentstyle of composition vulgarly called flash. And is not its usealso sanctioned by the sweetest of all sweet poets—the " bardof Erin 1" —What better precedents would the Critics have!

S. M.