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      Loft Magazine. February. Simp B' N, Mars...

      loft Magazine . February . Simp b ' n , Marshall and Co . rfcc Commission to raquire mto the Working f the Eng lish Universities has been made be approp riate occasion for an admirable arick- on the constitution and existing condition f tiicse institutions in Scotland . The writer npariially sets forth both their advantages ud their defects , and making all due allowdcc for the latter , it is easy to see that the > nncr decidedly preponderate . The Scottish

      r / niversities are , in fact , essentially Demokitie . They provide an education for the fob in the broadest sensed the term j while ^ English Universities are exclusively ArisiKraticaL and aim as much as possible to ex-Jade the peop le from their Colleges . ^ " On foliaiches of a Scottish University / ' says b writer in Tail , " a young Duke of Arrvlf , and the shepherd ' s son in Glen Etive t fnnd Ben Crauchan , sit together as young bi \ and the red gown suits to the back of Iif peasant as fitl y as on the back of the peer . [ here is no difference—that is , within the ralisof the University ; for , without the gates , iv voun" duke may spend , without the slig ht-3 difficulty , ten times as ranch in a week ,

      B mere eating , drinking , slothing , furniture , ind tobacco , as the shep herd ' s son spends luring the whole session of six months . The iuglisk Universities are tenanted only by the ich . The great majority of Scottish students re poor , and live in the very humblest style , I- ) or less covering their whole academical ipeuses for a session . How far would this tun go to pay the tailor ' s bill of a fashionable oang long-skirted Pusey ite at Oxford for one * ar ? We know not ; but long mayScotwi continue , in her hig hest seats of learning , 0 imitate tho Great Judge of the world in a > re serious matters , and have ' no respect f persons ! ' Let her invite , rather than disparage , the poor : remembering that Kobert Jams was not the issue of aristocratic loins ,

      3 at Martin Luther was a miner ' s son , and kt in ancient times , before bishops were tuoivn , great things were done in the world by bin-mien and tentmakers . " Uisides this freedom fromaristocratical des-¦ f-fen , tliey are also practically exempt from •^• . liasUeal despotism , and for all practical gtjiosos may be regarded as secular institaliUi . The professors are certainly required to

      j frearto a curiousl y minute doctrinal confession | c faith , though we suspect that in very many psc-s it is viith very great " latitude of interf ' Maton , " but the students may be of any ; clmrcl ] , or no church at all ; and they have jths further advantage of not being slavishl y bound to a mere routine system of Latin , jjGf tvk , and mathematics , which , when furgiUkil , sends them forth into the world to l--3 n their actual education .

      I The great defect of the Scottish University [ systen 13 its low educational standard , which forces its professors in many instancesto do line work that ought to have been done in preparatory schools , by properly trained school-Masters . However necessary this may have been in former times , there can be no doubt tuat there is not the sli g htest occasion for perl * taating the practice now . B y raising the standard , and requiring a preliminary examination of a higher character from students , previous to entrance , the utility of the Scott' -ili Universities would be greatly augmented .

      As it is they are institutions of which she may * fcll be proud , as showing that " they order tflese things better in Scotland " than on this Sl de the Border , and which have , no doubt , largel y contributed to the production of that myii gonce , enterprise , and force of character for which Scotchmen are every whee prover-| wal "Craigallan Castle" deepens in intei ^* t as the tale proceeds . The author is evii & ml y well acquainted with Scottish life , and : & toie of his characters would do no discredit to ; we graphic pen of Gait . " "Wilson ' s Scottish Arckpfilogy'' is an article full of antiquarian 1 OJ — — — 3 ^

      lrj -i , told in an attractive and interesting mannerj aud throwing much valuable li ght on the Past history of the country . In " The Trimn } ih of " Despotism , " as shown hy the fall of Ifesse Cassel before the infamous coalition ° * the Continental despots , we have one of « c most forcible illustrations presented b y ttodoru history , of deadly enmity to popular aiierty in any shape . " Twenty yejusago tbe father of the present Elector deliberately Seated and swore to a Constitution . Since that Period uvuiy attempts have heen made by the < Hsk . H « t Elector to set it aside , thoug h with-** t « ceess until now . When this Prince and

      , p Y'ifanjoas tools made their last shameless a *! unjustiSable attack npon the Constitution , «? whole of the Judicial , civil and military a :, rs iu the Electorate , opposed passive f « i ; tance , and tbe decrees of the tyrant were l /" - ! s ^' r wan ^ ° ^ ^ orce * ° S * re them effect , ^ felfrom the capital and soug ht assist-, J . K ' roai depots more powerful than him-* ' '• They granted it b y marching an army l , ' "« u eethe inhabitants of Hesse Cassel to ^ fcsson . JJ is the result : — T' - . - <¦! eT * ^ ° i are known by the name of the Army J e ! o : ' - ' StaC ' ' ^" - * axe * C ! lt > rely eaten U P the | . *? ., , ' 1 , e ? s * ' ^ the Electorate , and though some have ; ' " . tailKiwii- manv tri'l romairr T / ipv ) l .-irfl

      lB ; . ; . . - « t-i ou all the refractory emjiloyes , civil or ^ - ; liJl either thev resignei or gave in their iavei M *'* ths Sector ' s illegal decrees . Few ° - ' ' - * e latter ; many , after enduring us long

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      s they had any means have been compelled to f latter course . Judges of the Supreme Court have had fifteen to twenty Bavarian soldiers quartered on their families , with the threat of an additional number each day , if they will not resign their functionsto more compliant successors . The members of the Town-Council , in addition to this treatment , are menaced with a court-martial and severe personal -punishment , it they donot declare ( which as men of conscience they cannot do ) that the decree of the 28 th of November last , proclaiming martial law , was in accordance with tho Constitution . A widow , an English lady , has had fifteen soldiers ( in addition to the usual number ) billeted upon her , because she could not give any account of her son , who was one of the p atriotic functionaries . One poor man who earned four florins a week had to support a Bavarian soldier , who consumed three florins to his own share . Others were a ' av tioi ? or . t . n . n « nn t .. __ t . ...

      so completely ruined hy these exactions that not only they , but the Execution troops quartered upon them , have been sometimes twenty-four hours without food . One young functionary , only a few days since , who lived in lod g ings on the small pittance his office afforded Mm , had ten soldiers quartered upon him . After a short time , he called them together , divided among them all the funds he had left , and then left them that he might seek food and lodging from the charity of others . The notion of having to support a few soldiers mav not sound to English ears a very terrible infliction , for happily we have never had any practical kno w ledge of what it really is . The cost of supporting these hostile troops , though no trifle to so poor a people as the Hessians , is , however , the least part of the infliction . We must remember that these men are placed in families for Hie express

      purpose of rendering tliem miserable , and reducing them to submission ; that their will is law ; that , the country being under martial discipline and foreign occupation , tbe ordinary tribunals , from which protection might he obtained , and by which insult and outrage mi « ht be punished , are wholly powerless ; that the " Execution troops live with families of the highest respectability and the most virtuous character on a footing of the most insolent and unrepellable familiarity ; that many of them , especially the Bavarians , are notoriously licentious and undisciplined ; and we may form some conception of the scandalous scenes which constantly occur , and of the intolerable outrages which these unhappy Uessians have daily to endure—outrages the bare mention of which is enough to make our blood boil , and the least of which in England would be the signal for a general and sanguinary ontbreak . ...

      Tbe Elector has now returned to hia impoverished country , his desolated capital , his ruined and alienated subjects—restored by the miuht of foreign bayonets to reign over a people whose liberties he has destroyed , whose property he has laid waste , whose before happy families he has so brutally outraged , injured , and oppressed . He was already hated and despised , for-his character had long been stained . with the most open profligacy and ' the most contemptible meanness ; hut now that he has broken every tie , violated every law , fled from every duty , trampled upon every popular right , and inflicted upon his subjects every conceivable variety of wretchedness , it may well be

      imagined with what feelings he will henceforth he regarded . That such a Constitution as that of Hesse Cassel should be thus ruthlessly trodden out , that foreign interference should have restored a prince who was too weak to carry out bis own crimes , that free states should have tamely stood by and permitted this shameful consummation , this of itself is disgraceful enough to onr era and our diplomacy ; but that so noble a people as the Hessians should be thus bound hand and foot , and delivered over , " unwept , without a crime , " to the tender mercies of a weak , bad , dishonoured profligate like the Elector , is a termination of the struggle at which humanity itself might weep and blush .

      The other articles in the present number are readable and varied ; the notices of books , fine arts , & c , are full and judicious . A large infusion of lighter matter , or subjects less abstract would , however , improve our old friend Tait .

      Canterburyvetbua Rome. Nos. I., Ii., And...

      CanterburyveTBua Rome . Nos . I ., II ., and III . B y Eksesi Joses . London ; Dipple , Strand . I Wjb are not surprised that the audiences to whom Mr . Jones delivered his lectures should have requested their publication . As far as the three now before us are concerned , they present a spirited epitome of church history and ecclesiastical practices , which is not only fraught with the deepest interest aud importance to readers of every class or sect , but which , at the same time , comprises an amount of

      curious historical information , that must have cost the author much time , and extensive research . Mr . Jones himself explains that his object is , to show what the Church reall y is—a result hitherto unattained by the rival works written in the interest of Papacy and Prelacy—to reveal the injuries it has inflicted , or the benefits it has conferred—to wei gh its precept and practice by the balance of Christ ' s wordsand to arrive at a correct estimate of its enormous revenues , their derivation , and the title to their possession .

      The first lecture g ives a powerful and stirring history of the rise of the Papacy , up to the period of its downfal in England . The second is a history of the Eoyal State Church , based upon its ruins by the great wife-killer , Henry "VIII . ; and the third number follows up the record by a narration of the works of the Low Church of England , especiall y with reference to its policy towards Dissenters , The "historicalnotes" appended to each number add greatly to the value and the interest of Mr . Jones ' s work , which we cordiall y commend to all onr readers , as being not only characterised throughout by the well-known fervid eloquence of the author , but as exhibiting , at the same time , an amount of patient , industrious , and learned research , which

      imparts a value to the work , far beyond its bearing on the absorbing and exciting question of " Papal Aggression . '' It is onl y needful for us to say . that Mr . Jones is no more disposed to support Canterbury than Home ; that Papacy , whether it developes itself at St . Paul ' s or St Peter ' s , is equally his abhorrence : and that he advocates , powerfully and boldly , the complete emancipation of the human mind from all ecclesiastical thraldom , whatever that thraldom , being opposed to the principles , doctrines , and practices of Christianity , as taught and practiced by its great Founder and Exemplar . As a specimen of the matter which abounds in the pages of the numbers under notice , we take from the historical supplement the following biograph y of Saint ( I ) Dunstan : —

      Ho was born of noble parents , Heorstan and Cynethrytb , near Glastonbury , in Somersetshire , in the year 925 . "When a boy , while delirious with fever , he started from his couch , fancying lie was pursued by dogs—and seizing a stick , fled before his imaginary foes . Crossing the hills , he reached a church at x & htfoU , which being under repair , he ran up the scaffolding , descended unhurt inside , aud fell asleep . Awakening next morning , he wondered where he was , aroused the neighbourhood , and the occurrence was changed by his friends into the miracle of angels descending to protect him from the Devil , bursting the roof of the church , and landing him safely on the pavement . After this , bis

      uncle , the Archbishop of Canterbury , introduced him at court , where his superior learning and acquirements caused him to be accused of magic—and he was forced to fly . It is not probable tbat the youth lent himself at this time to any priestly deceptions ; on the contrary , he appears to have had an abhorrence of the ecclesiastical life , which was only strengthened by his becoming deeply enamoured of a young girl , whom he married , despite the opposition of his friends and relatives . He was now exposed to such a system of persecution , on the growHi of his marriage , as being contrary to monastic institutions , his family desiring him to embrace the church , that his constitution for the

      time sunk under the inflic tion—his wife was tern from him , and he fell dangerously ill . It was long } efore he recovered ; and when at last he did , he arose from his bed a fierce , broken-hearted , gloomy fav . a -. ic . Leaving his home and kindred , he due with his owu hands , a grave behind the walls of a church ; it was five feet long , two wide , four feet above t be ground , and deep enough to stand upright in ; a little hole left at the top for air—he placed a forae inside , aud d ay by day , as well as in the deep sihfnce of midnight , his hammer was always heard

      sounding tteadiiy , except when laid aside to say his orisons . One uignt the neighbourhood was alarmed hv a fearful howling , and the crowd was told that the Devil had been looking in through the little hole at the top , tempting him ; whereupon Dunstnn had seized him by the nose with his red hot pincers , and tbe shrieks of the fiend had been tho sound that ; had disturbed the vicinage . Whether - ( his was an intentional imposture or whether Ditititan had teen ' the . dupe or Ins own maddened mind , and thus saluted some unlucky boor , who had ventured iu the dark to peep vi at

      Canterburyvetbua Rome. Nos. I., Ii., And...

      the air hole , the circumstance brought him such immense celebrity , that he was forthwith invited to re-appear at court . He left his grave to revisit as a conqueror that palace from which he had fled for his life . Honour was now showered upon him . He was made Abbot of Glastonbury , obtained a new charter in 914 , and restored the abbey . with unprecedented splendour . Whether it was the gloomy asoetio spirit that had been roused in his breast , or whether , having been himself torn from the enjoyment of domestic happiness , begrudged its possession by another , ( and tho reader of the human heart will be inclined to credit this explanation ) , he now waged an implacable war against the married clergy , and tried to establish celibacy in

      the church . To effect it , he called over his terrible allies , the Benedictines , and introduced them into his monastery . The formidable militia was spread throughout the country , and Dunstan was its chief and leader . His power rose with rapidity ; and scorning in his ambition all intermediate steps , ho refused the see of Winchester , wheri offered , saying , " St . Peter in a -vision had promised him the primacy . " He was , however , made Bishop of Wor cester , and of London at the same time . A curious circumstance now occurred that increased tho superstitious awo with which he was surrounded ; he prognosticated the approaching death ot King Edred , and the prophecy came true . The beautiful young Ed « y mounted the throno , and punstan line

      forced him to est ablish the Benedictine discip and celibacy among the clergy . The most terrible scenes of misery ensued—countless hearts were broken—countless homes made desolate ; but while the wife was torn from the husband , the concubine was left to the priest . Perhaps the revengeful spirit of Dunstan hero again triumphed when inflicting tbat anguish which had been heaped upon himself ; if so , that spirit received a still more fearful satisfaction . King Edwy had married the lovely Elgiva , a beautiful Princess of the blood royal , and happiness crown-d their wedded life . Ancient ballads long celebrated their beauties and their virtues . The olooiny churchman could not bear tho spectacle , and conjointly with Archbishop Odo , denounced their union on the ground that the princess was a second or third cousin of her husband . At the coronation banquet , tho King ,

      scarcely beyond the years of boyhood , disgusted at the excesses and drunkenness of his prelates and nobles , retired to the room of his wife and mother . Odo , Dunstan , and his relative , Cynesius , stirred up the guests at the supposed insult , and Odo ordered Dunstan and Cynesius to fetch the fugitive back . They entered the Queen ' s chamber , and , maddened by the scene of tranquil happiness , called Elgiva a strumpet , and , wantonly insulting the King , dragged him back to the hail of riot and debauchery . The brave boy was not , however , to be crushed thus easily , and indignantat the outrage offered to bis wife and his crown , accused Dunstan of malversation in administering the treasury under King Edred . The flight of Dunstan speaks sufficiently for his guilt—and the rebellious prelate deprived of his honours and emoluments , is condemned to banishment . But he is supported by Archbishop Odo , the entire Benedictine order , and even the venerable Chancellor Turketil throws the

      weight of his influence in the scale . The superstition of the age was far too strong to resist , the old miracles of Dunstan were on every tongue , and young Edwy , battling for freedom , was utterly abandoned by his clergy , his nobles , and his people . The fierce Odo dissolved his marriage with Elgiva , sent a party of soldiers to . the palace , and the Queenhaving been seized , and her face branded with red-hot iron to mar her fatal beauty , was forcibly carried off to banishment in Ireland . Edwy had no power to resist , no soldiers to defend the palace , no subjects to support the throne ; ho was obliged to consent to a divorce ; but nature healed the wounds of Elgiva ; she crossed from Ireland , reappeared in all her previous beauty in Gloucester ,

      and threw herself into the arms of her husband . He was unable to protect her—she fell into the hands of the human fiends the priest sent after her ; they tore her away , and cut the nerves and muscles of her legs ; that she might wander from their vengeance no more . In a state of extreme torture , she lingered for a few days and died . ' The people , led by tbe priests , applauded the act 1 But the tragedy was not completed yet—Dunstan stirred up the men of -Mercia and Northumbria to revolt , and proclaim Edgar , a mere child , the brother of Edwy , King . Edwy was excommunicated , earth and heaven were shut agaiust him , according to the belief of that remorselessjpricst—the custom of that barbaric age : —and he died , one historian says by the hand of

      an assassin—at least by the acts of that assassin , Dunstan . The latter was now made Bishop of Westminster , and after Odo ' s decease , Archbishop of Canterbury . He publicly praised the murder of Edwy and Elgiva , as a meritorious act , and told the people he saw devils dancing over the body of the fallen Prince , who would have dragged him into Hell , had he not interceded . —( Osbeme , 3 G 9 , 370 . ) Dunstan ' s insanity now broke all bounds . He claimed to be in constant intercourse with Heaven . At his consecration he caused a tame dove to alight on his head , and said it was the Holy Ghost . He declared that Christ had espoused his mother ; that he had seen with his own eyes her solemn marriage to the King of Heaven , and that all the eternal

      choirs joined in joyous hymns , teaching him an anthem on the occasion , which he had publicly performed . — { Acta SS . 2 Iar t . 4 , p . 35 Q . —Osbeme , 373 . ) King Edgar was his tool , perhaps a more licentious tyrant never lived . Among many other crimes , he violated and carried off Wulfrith , a noble mm , and the churchman who had caused the murder of Elg iva and the death of Edwy , lor marrying a third cousin , punished the sin of Edgar by merely forbidding him to wear his crown on state occasions , for seven years ; these seven years the King sp ent in shameless vice . The secular clergy were now everywhere expelled , and replaced by Benedictines . " When Edgar died , and during the minority of Edward , Dunstan ruled both church and state , with sovereign authority—but , at last , hia

      power began to wane , the nobility were alienated , and he was forced to meet his enemies at the Council at Colne , in Wiltshire . Here he thought to restore bis influence by a miracle . The greater part of the nobility were assembled in an upper chamber ; the Primate sat in an arm-chair , with his personal friends , at one end of the room ; he told his accusers to speak , and in reply merely said , " Christ shall judge between us . " At the words , the entire floor , except that part where Dunstan and his allies were sitting , fell into tbe abyss below ; many of the leading nobles were killed on the spot , the Prelate ' s chair alone remained unmoved ; but the device availed him little—his power was gone—he returned to his see , and lived in gloomy solitude .

      In 988 , ten years after the maisacre of Colne , he died , in the midst of fierce quarrels , which he bequeathed to his Benedictines on the one hand , and the secular clergy on the other , and which long split , devastated , and destroyed the nation . When on the point of death , he had his bed lifted three times to the ceiling , as about to be translated to Heaven . A monk declared that multitudes of archangels entered the room from all sides , with crowns of gold , to fetch him ; but Dunstan said he was not ready ; so they went promising to return on Saturday . ' { Yepes , t . 5 , p . 120 . ) They came , according to their promise ; at his funeral the people tore their faces with grief , and the departed churchman was chronicled as a saint on the muster-roll of Heaven .

      The Operative. Part I. Berger, Holywells...

      The Operative . Part I . Berger , Holywellstreet . This organ of tbe amalgamated iron trades is one of the most creditable specimens of working class literature , both as to quality and appearance , that we have yet seen issued from the press . It contrasts admirabl y with the slang and trash published for the recreation of hon . and rig ht hon . nobles in more fashionable quarters of the metropolis . Philosophy ,

      soundly and eloqnently written , essays laying bare the causes of social evils , and earnestly enforcing adequate remedies—tales , poetry , and scientific and practical information , are combined in the part before us , from which we would gladly make copious extracts , did space permit . Its price , however , is so low as to p lace it within the reach of all our readers ; and we , therefore , the less regret our inability to show by a sample , how well merited is bur high approval and commendation of the Operative .

      Familiar Things ; A C Y Dopadia Of Enter...

      Familiar Things ; a C y dopadia of Entertaining Knowledge . Illustrated with Wood Engravings . Arthur Hall , Virtue and Co ., Paternoster-row . Ax excellent addition to the litera ture and science of the industrial classes . The contents of the present part treat of such "familiar things" as "Our Cup of Tea , " "The Sponge , " "Lamps and Candles , " 'The Church Clock , " and "The Bouquet , " in a clear and attractive manner , which combines mind instruction with agreeable variety and entertainment . It is well known that

      " Our Cup of Tea " is subject to adulteration , and that sloe leaves are leo often the substitute for " souchong . " The Cyclopaedia throws the following lig ht on this practice : — Tea is extensively adulterated in China , and still more so in England . The Chinese dry many millions of pounds of the leaws of various plants for this purpose , and more particularly for the purpose of mixing

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      with a tea known by fte term Anloi , which abounds wita portions of thick soft , dark green smooth leaves , If J SSih'E - T > with s ^ n \ y marked veves . 1 he latter being detected by a familiar faint odour and marokish flnvour . The green teas are adulterated by the Chinese , with damaged black leaves , and sometimes the spurious irticlew entirely substituted for the genuine . The manufacture of the spurious tea is carried on at a village called Honan , situated exktly opposite to the « ilK / L es oa t ? ther 8 ide ° f the »«* ™* the method of prepanng it demands some little notice on our part . The black teas that have been damaged by the antnnnalfl-iods , are dried in baskets furnished with sieve bottoms , which are placed over pans of charcoal , alter which they are removed in « mall wm ™ .

      to cast iron pans placed over furnaces , where they are stirred rapidly by a workman , with his hand , who aho adds a little po wdered turmeric to the tea , and theiiaboutateaspoonfulof a mixture , composed of Prussian blue and sulphate of lima or gypsum . The leaves being kept stirred pretty briskly over the fire , soon acquire the bloom , and even somewhat of the odour of Hyson . # After being prepared as described above , this spurious tea undergoes the process of picking the same as if it was a genuine article , a number of women and children having the tea placed before them } d broa () shallow baskets , carefully remove all coarse uncurled lmes and stalks , and af terwards pass it in succession through various sized sieves , to produce ttw different degrees of fineness . The first produces what is called Hyson bkro , and the second Young Hyson . When the leaves are too large they are chopped and recurled .

      The Chinese also substitute a species of moss , common to the mountains , for tea ; and also an infusion of different sorts of fevn , and the leaves of the Camellia . It is well known among those engaged in the tea trade , tbat the Chinese themselves never make use of the green tea used for exportation , a fact that speaks for itself . Strong green tea , when unadulterated produces such disagreeable effects upon what are popularly termed , nervous constitutions , that some persons can never take even the smallest portion even when combined with black tea , without experiencing sleeplessness , tremors , cold perspiration * , anxiety , and great prostration of the systems generally . The brick , or tile tea is frequently imitated by mixing , sloe , and other leaves together , with the spoiled leaves and stalks of the tea plant , and some bullocks ' blood , which is then compressed and dried in an oven .

      In this country the adulteration is again carried on , so that the previously adulterated tea is rendered still more spurious by the merchants in our own country , who , dealing it out wholesale , are not so liable to be detected as the retailer , who aaain adds his share to the general sophistication . Among the home adulterations we may notice , the extensive employment of elm , ash , hawthorn , sloe , apple , and other leaves ; waste tea leaves re-dried , and raisin stalks chopped up . A precious compound , truly J

      The Public Good. No. 14 For Fbbiiuary. P...

      The Public Good . No . 14 for Fbbiiuary . Passmore Edwards , Paternoster-row . A full and sympathetic memoir of Mazzini , the modern Eienzi , is spiritedly continued in the present number of The Public Good . "Paul Vaubau" is a capital sketch of Parisian life aud incidents connected with the Revolution ef February , 1848 . An Universal Language is indeed " One of the World ' s Greatest

      Wants , " and though the proposition is not new , we are glad to meet it again . Had there been such a language , think of the Babel we should avoid , the inconvenience and confusion that would be prevented when our visitors from all parts of the world flock to the forthcoming Exhibition ? The other contents of the present number of this cheap aud excellently conducted Magazine , are an agreeable melange o fact and fiction .

      Publications Received. Robert Owen's Jou...

      PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED . Robert Owen ' s Journal . Part 3 . Clayton , Strand . The Poetic Companion ' , Lovell ' s-court , Paternosterrow . The Peace Advocate . J . Kaye , 80 , Fleet-street . The jTcmp

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      Princess's. The Cast Of As You Like It C...

      PRINCESS'S . The cast of As You Like It comprises a large amount of histrionic force . The Rosalind of Mrs . Kean is one of those finished characters , arch without coarseness and modulated into pathos where need requires , that wholly bolong to her own mode of rendering poetical comedy . Tbe speeches of Jaques are effectively declaimed by ' Mr . Kean , who in the " seven ages" skilfully applies the old princip le of making the actor successively represent the phases he describes . Tho attitudes of the melancholy man are exceedingly well conceived . When he does not speak he is always so placed as to bo a characteristic figure in tho tableau of which he forms a prominent part . Mr . Wigan ' s Orlando is the best of his representations in this line of character . The solicitude displayed for Old Adam is dwelt upon with more than usual emphasis , and represented in a natural , kindly manner . The comic t ! _ . _ _ 11 _ J : U-U 1 .. Kll „ . l riH . n A / . Mr . n / . i , A .. iinl 11 iiie iui ^^ uii

      pans lire llll auinilHUiy nun . ; cucm . pomp of Mr . Keeley as Touchstone , the wondering stupidity of Mrs . Keeley ' e Audrey , and tho utter silliness of Mr . Meadows' William are not to be surpassed . Mr . Addison , who p lays Adam , is careful and Intelligent , but he relapses into his old fault of overdoing . This part was acted at Windsor hy Mr . Hartley . The wise en scene is very beautiful . Not only are the scenes well painted and well-set , but the sylvan sentiment of the piece has heen aptly caught and rendered visible so far as the necessary limits of a stage will allow . Tho forest is so constructed that the characters can wind their way through trees from tho remotest backgrounds , and approach the audience by crossing a rustic bridge . Tlie stream at the foot of tho slope seems flowing on purpose to accompany tho meditations of Jaques . Less brilliant , from the nature of the subject , tho decorations of As fo « Like It , are quite aa creditable to the management as those of Henry IV .

      <» 4 S *< HAYMAItKET , A little after-piece in one act , called Good for Nothing , was produced at this theatre on Monday night , with an extraordinary degree of success . It is said to be from the pen of Mr . Buckstone , who has been happy in the originality of his idea , in the simple , but effective , manner in which he has worked it out , and in Mrs . Fitzwilliam ' s most admirable performance of the heroine . The characters sre all in humble life . Tom and Harry are two brothers , living together and pursuing their separate occupations , the one being a gardener and the other a railway fireman . They have , as an inmate , Nan , the orphan child of a poor friend of

      theirs , who had died and left her destitute . The houest fellows love her as their child , and she calls them her fathers but they have no idea of how she should he brought up , and she is allowed to run wild about the streets , uneducated and untended , playing among the boys of the neighbourhood , and growing up a littlo savage , while her protectors are quite unable to determine what is to be done with her . A young carpenter , who frequents the house , tries to raise in her mind some sparks of self-respect and ambition . Charley tells her how otheryoung women behave , anddescribes oneyoung woman with whom he walks out on Sundays , dr essed in her nice bonnet and shawl , neat shoes , and white cotton stockings . The poor girl , deeply

      mortified , and stung by unconscious jealousy , begins to see herself in her true light ; and her mind , roused for the first time to reflection , is labouring with a throng of new thoughts , when she makes a further discovery . Her " fathers" are in trouble ; they cannot pay their rent , and are about to be turned out of their dwelling . Her awakened faculties begin to understand something of what is passing round her , and she feels the bitterness of being " good ft . r nothing . " She takes up a money-box which has been devoted to her benefit , and which her "fathers" have mado a solvmn resolution not to touch , and armed with this , she sets out to satisfy the landlord , having first improved her personal appearance so as to become a very decent-looking sort of damsel . A £ 0 Bote , sent to her by a parent whose child in her

      roug h benevolence she has saved from drowning , comes opportunely to the aid of her " fathers , " and » he is promised in marriage to the sage carpenter . This little piece is essentially one of character , tho plot being merely devised for the sake of developing tho personages . Nan , loutish , sulky , and good humoured , is admirabl y ylayed by Mrs . Filzwilliam . She 1 ms evidentl y made a thorough study ofapnrt entirely new to the stage , and nothing eouli bo more tangibl real than the result . The " fathers" have each his distinctive attribute . The stoker is of that rough strai ghtforward temperament which Mr . Howe can so well assume , and is perfectly made up . as a frank , handsome specimen of the working classes . The market ' gardener affects serenity of temper , hut always becomes loud and angry as he proceeds , and this peculiarity is most humourously represented by Mr . Buckstone .

      Princess's. The Cast Of As You Like It C...

      QfJEEN'S . The interesting drama , from the French of Palliate , entitled Belphegor the ' Conjuror , has been produced at this theatre on a scale of great splendour . We have already given the plot and incidents on its production at tlie Adolphi and Surrey theatres , and it is unnecessary to go over the same ground again . As at the Surrey there is no underplot to distract the attention of the audience from the main issue , and fchecharactcr of Belphegor affords ample scope for the exercise of Mr . E . Green ' s well known talents . The poverty of the fond husband and kind parent , his anxiety for his family , his present to his wife , who has forsaken him for the love she heirs to her sick child , his introduction as the

      Chevalier de Rollac to the Duke do Alontbaz ; in , and his joy at tho happy denouement , was most admirably conceived , and received the hearty plaudits of the house . The part of Madeline , who is devoted to her husband , despite the remonstrances of her family , was sustained with great force by Mrs , C . Boycc , and in tho last jscene ,. where she has two alternatives , either to disown her husband or doom him to death , her excellent anting seemed to establish a reality . Mr , Bigwood was the bean ideal of an itinerant showman , and the remaining chai actors « ere well supported by the company . Great attention has been paid to the getting up of this piece , and its success is most decided . The Pantomime still continues to be a source of great attraction .

      Royal Polytechnic Institution. Dr. Bachh...

      ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Dr . Bachhoffner still continues his most excellent aud instructive lectures on "Allman ' s electric light , " and Mr . Pepper astounds his auditors with his brilliant and magnificent experiments with Fire and its antagonists . Amon g the latest additions to this establishment are the Lockwood Family , who are performing daily here , under tho direction of their instructor , Mr . Frederick

      Chatterton , and delight tho visitor *) with their brilliant and effective execution . To the curious in clocks we would point out one just being demonstrated , which has all the appearance of magic , and like all magical delusions , are easily comprehended ; it is explained in the Great Hall of the establishment , amongst the other mechanical constructions , and was introduced here by the president of the institution , Sir George Cayley , Bart . In appearance it is simply one sheet of glass and a hand , yet this instrument chronicles time accurately .

      Marshal Havwau.—The Pantomimes Asd This ...

      Marshal Havwau . —The Pantomimes ASD this Lonn CiuuiiBRUH ? . —The incidents of Haynau ' s visit to Bankable , as every playgoer knows , have been seized on by the authors of nearly all the pantomimes of the season , and the passages in which they are introduced have never failed to elicit applause . After the lapse oi more than a month the Lord Chamberlain has seen fit to take official notice of this personal reference , and in one instance to request its omission . In consequence of the suggestion of the Lord High Chamberlain , conveyed through Sir William Martin , two comic scenes have this week been cut out of the pantomime at Astley ' s Amphitheatre , one representing the exterior of Barclay ' s brewery , with draymen , horses , die .: the other

      the bedroom of the public house in which the Baron took rtfuee . As it is not imagined that the government could see any possible evil likely to arise from this representation , the popular inference Is that this interference has been prompted by the Austrian Ambassador . Among other pieces , the representation of which has been stopped by the authorities at the chamberlain ' s office , m-iy be mentioned the highly popular hippo-dramatic spectacle of " Turpin ' s Ride to York , " which has been played on the boards of most of the metropolitan and provincial theatres f' » r the last thirty-five years . The performance of " Jack Sheppard " and Oliver Twist , " as dramatised from the versions of Harrison Ainsworth and

      Charles Dickens , has also been interdicted . In military spectacles , illustrative of the triumphs of British arras , the Lord Chamberlain ' s officials refuse to allow the names of living heroes to appear as dramatis persona , they being merely described by the title of their appointments , such as the " Commander of the British Forces , '' or the " General Corar aandinging-in-chief , " "Colonel of the Life Guard , " Ac ; and in one or two cases , " The Afghanistan War , ' for instance , which was produced at Aslley ' s , the manuscript was returned to tbe Lord Chainberlain ' soffice , in order to ascertain that the required alterations had been made . The playbills of each theatre and " saloon " licensed by the Lord Chamberlain are regularly supplied at his office , at S . James ' s .

      Celebration Of The Birthday Of Thomas Pa...

      CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTHDAY OF THOMAS PAINE . On Monday last , about sixty of the disciples of this great man dined together , in the large room at the Seven Stars Inn , Nottingham . After ample justice had been done to the good things provided for the occasion , Mr . James Sweet was called to the chair , and , in a suitable speech , introduced the following sentiment : — "To the Immortal Memory of Thomas Paine—may Reason and Common Sense guide his disciples in their warfare with the enemies of the Rights of Man ; " which having heen drank in solemn silence , Mr . S . Ktdd responded , and gave a faithful history of the times in which Paine lived , the difficulties under which he laboured , and the glorious services which ho rendered by his pen to his adopted country . "Mr . Kydd ' s address , which lasted an hour , was received with repeated cheers .

      The following sentiments were also given and responded to : ¦— " The Sovereignty of the People , " " Feargus O ' Connor , Esq ., and the Advocates of the People ' s Charter in the House of Commonsm ; iy their number be speedily augmented ; " " The Rights of Labour ; " " To the Memory of John Home Tooke , Thomas Spence , Major Cartwright , Henry ITunt , William Cobbett , and the illustrious doad of every age and nation , who , by their voice or their pen , have demanded for every man of due age and sound mind , the rights of citizenship—may their spirits animate their successors , until the working millions are free . "

      Patriotic songs and recitations followed in rapid succession , and , during the evening , the " Health of our esteemed Parliamentary Lender , T . S . Buncombe , Esq ., " was given , and sorrow expressed for his long-continued and severe indisposition , and many wishes were expressed for his restoration to health . The " Health of Mr . Kydd , and regret at the absence of several of our Old Friends and Disciples , in consequence of age and infirmities , " having been spoken to , the thanks of the meeting were awarded to the worthy host and hostess , to the Committee of Management , and the Chairman , and the company separated , with best wishes for each other ' s welfare .

      Meeting At Sheffield.—The Rights Of Wome...

      MEETING AT SHEFFIELD . —THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN . A public meeting of females was held on Wednesday evening , February 5 th , in the Democratic Temperance Hotel , 33 , Queen-street , for the purpose of reading the Queen ' s speech , and also to adopt ' a petition to parliament for tlie enfranchisement of adult females . Mrs . Obi . ve Higginbottom was called upon to preside . After she had read the speech , the following motion and petition were unanimously agreed to . — " That , seeing the Queen is enjoying her prerogative as a woman , this' meeting is of opinion that until the entire enfranchisement of women is conceded , justice will not be done ; therefore , this meeting resolve to petition the legislature for tho enactment of a bill which will enfranchise the whole female adult population of this empire , and that the following be the petition : — " To the Honourable the Commons of Great Brit-tain and Ireland in Parliament assembled ,

      "The humble petition of the female inhabitants of Sheffield , in the County of York , in public meeting assembled , held on Wednesday evening , in the Democratic Temperance Hotel , Queen-street , Feb . 6 tb , 1851 , «• Sheweth , that we , the females of Sheffield do approach your honourable house with all due respect , to make known our desires and opinions upon a subject which we consider is a . right withheld , but which , legitimately , belong to our sex , the enfranchisement of women . Therefore , we beseech

      your honourable house to take into your serious consideration tbe propriety of enacting an electoral law , which will include adult females within its provisions , and your petitioners will ever pray , " The next resolution was " That the foregoing petition be entrusted to Mr . John Parker , the borough member , for presentation , and that John Arthur Roebuck , his colleague , bo requested to support the same . " Thanks beeing voted to the chair , the meeting broke up .

      Emigration From Germ Ant.—In The Course ...

      Emigration from Germ ant . —In the course of the vear 1850 , the number of German emigrants from the port of Antwerp is quoted at 7 , 016 . Of these 0 , 134 went to New York , 737 to New Orleans , anil H 5 to "Valparaiso . The number of emigrants from tho port of Hamburg h amounted to 7 , 3 W , of whom 5 , 025 went to New York ; 575 to New Orleans and Galveston ; 120 to Rio Grande do Sul ; to San Francisco , in the Brazils ., 110 ; to Valparaiso , 252 ; to Quebec , 5 ST ; to St . Francisco , in California , 212 ; and to Australia , 477 . Tho number of emigrants from Antwerp was , in 1849 , 10 , 260 ; in 1848 , 11 , 075 ; and in 1 S 47 , 14 , 013 . These figures show a steady decrease of G erman emigration—at least , so far as the port of Antwerp is concerned . —Iidlner Zeitung . Tub Falkirk Bcboiis .-Mi . Bell has withdrawn from the contest for the representation of the Fnlkirk burghs , vacant by the elevation of the Earl of Lincoln to the Dukedom of Newcastle , tho contest now lies between Mr . Baird and Mr . Wilson

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      Alisw.Vg Lover,-"Sal," Said Lisping Bill...

      ALisw . vg Lover ,- " Sal , " said lisping Bill , "if you don t love me , thay tho ; and if you love me , and don t like to thay tho , squcethe my hanth . " UN THE average ( says the Times ) every man spends about three percent , of hisincorae in Railway travelling . * " Jim . i h * ab . you are on a cruise after Dick , to horsewhip him " - "Yes , I ' m bound on a xvhaU % ng ex i edition . " * Cuat : EMRA . ORMSAW . -Wr . Woodman , surgeon , of Wi combe , has , by means of plaster , successfully united Ihe joints of two fingers , which were crushed oft the hand of a boy at . the first joint aud sensation is restored to the parts that were re ^ newnd .

      To spin and weave , to knit and sew , was once a girl's employment ; But now to dress , and catch a beau is all she calls enjoyment . F . AT PEitsoNs . —Corpulent persons desirous of regaining their shape should apply to some- newspaper establishment , for the office of collector . They will run their fat off long before their office becomes a sinecure . —American Papw . T » u Scientific American says , that a man in Orange County was found , one nicht , climbing an orershotwheel in a fulling mill . He was asked what he was doing ? He said he was trying to get up to . bed , but somehow or other the stairs wouldn't hold still .

      CArrAi . v Harms the Abyssinian traveller , when introduced by especial favour into the lady-chapel of tho Cathedral of Shoa , is stated to have found the walls of that holiest of Abyssinian shrines hung round with coloured prints of the great Leicestershire steeple chase . " Ah , my fine fellow , " said one man to another , slapping him on the shoulder , " you ' re one of the men we r .: ad of . "— "How so "inquired the other ; " where , did yon read of me ?"— " In the police report !"— " The man we read of " doubled his fist , but the other was at a safe distance . A Contrast . —Tho Protestants have obtained a jirnion from the Sultan , establishing them in the privilege to build churches like other Christians , as the Arminians and Greeks . A similar privilege has been refused by the Pope to the Protestants of Rome .

      IxconaioiDLr Happy . '—In one of Addison ' s plays the undertaker reproves one of his rsournurs for laughing at a funeral , and says to him : — " You rascal , you ! I have been raising your wages for these two years , npon condition that you iliouli appear more sorrowful , and tha hi gher wages you receive , the happier you look !" "Look up ! " thundered the captain of a vessel , as his hoy grew dizzy while gazing from the top-mast , "Lookup ! " The boy looked up and returned in

      safety . Young man , look up , and you will succeed . Never look down and despair . Leave dangers uncared for , and push on . If you falter , yon lose . Look vp ! Do right , and trust in God . A Curious Calculation . —Some astute mathematician announces that " one pair of rats , with their progeny , will , in three years , produce as many as six hundred and forty-six thousand eight hundred and eight rats , which consume , day hy day , as much food as sixty-four thousand six hundred and eighty men , leaving six rats to starve !"

      To Dog-kkepers . —It has been stated to us that , lately , an eminent Liverpool gentleman has lost several fine sporting dogs from the use of scrap cake , a compound sold for tiie use of such animals by tallowchandlers , but which , from the abundance of arsenic now contained in its composition , is calculated to result in fataliiics far from agreeable to the patrons of the canino race . Simplicity . —A little girl , who had been visiting in the family of a neighbour , hearing them speak of her father being a widower , on her return home , addressed him thus :- "Pa , are you a widower ? ' ' " Yes , my child . Do you not know your mother is dead ?"— " Why , yes , I knew ma was dead , but you always told mo vou were a Welshman . "

      Novel Speculation . —A party has entered into an arrangement with the London and North Western Railway Company , to make use of certain portions of the interior of their Railway carriages , for the purpose of posting bills and trade announcements in them . He has purchased this privilege by paying to the Company the sum of £ 1 , 200 for the year . " Population of Sweden . —The total population of the kingdom of Sweden is estimated at 3 , 533 , 200 , viz .: 1 . 842 , 400 males , and 1 , 600 , 800 females . On the 1 st January , 1816 , the population was 3 , 326 , 902 , so that the increase in the last , five vears has been 210 , 298 , or 6 per cent .

      Poets and Poultry . —What the PlKBnix was to the young poets of England , and the Angels to Dr . Watts , the Eagle is to ihe American bards . Poets seem fond of poultry . American poetry never will improve till the schoolmaster here flogs the easle out of the young scholars of the west , as Dr . Rowyer whipped the Phoonix out of the Christ school students of London . —lYcio York Figaro . A Borrowed Countenance . —A Gascon officer , demanding his salary from the Minister of War , maintained that he was in danger of dying of lump- r . The Minister , who saw that his visage was full and rnddy , told him that his face gave the lie to his statement . "Ah ! sir , " said the Gascon , "don't trust to that ; this face _ is not mine . It belongs to my landlord , who has given me credit for a long time past . "

      A Man Framed and Glazed . —A watchman on duty in Radnor-street , Hulme , a little after four o ' clock one morning last week , heard a noise at the ccllar-widon- of a house in Albert Terrace . On directing his lantern to the window , its luminous rays displayed a man iu a somewhat singular predicament ; he had his legs through two lower panes , and his arras through two upper ones , and being intoxicated he was unable either to advance or retreat . Iksurance . —Among the recent speculations in theciiy , is a company to insure females against dying old maids . ^ Thcriites of premium differ according to looks and disposition . While a smart , tidy girl iff insured for two per cent ., brazen , ill nafured spinsters are charged , in some instances , as high as ten . Where snuff is used , one per cent , extra is charged .

      Wombn . —Perhaps one reason why women bear affliction—as I believe they generally do—better than men , is because ihey make no attempt to fly from the cause of it , but betake themselves patiently to the duties , however painful , which they arc to perform . It is the old emblem of the reed and the oak ; they bend , and therefore they are not broken ; and then comes peace of mind , which is the fruit of resignation . — Southcy ' s Life . An accomplished Miss , on returning to her father ' s house , after having been one quarter at a boarding school , quite shocked her brother , whose language and ideas were rather unsophisticated , with her refined expressions . "I declare , " said he , one day , to his father , " our Sally has got to be so larned that I cannot understand above half what she says . 'Twas only this morning that she stuck a po on to Utter , and called treacle molasses . "

      The Hen-pecked Husband ' s best Fuibxd . — The other evening , after Mons . Robin had completed his extraordinary trick of making Madame Robin disappear , by putting an extinguisher over her , he was waited upon by a country gentleman , who , after expressing his wonder at the very surprising manner in which the lady had gone no one could tell where , said , " He should certainly bring his own wife tomorrow , and would like to know what 'M ona . Robin would chirge for getting rid of her in the same manner . "—Punch .

      Printisg . —A correspondent of the Weekly News announces that , among the specimens of ingenuity to be transmitted to the forthcoming Exhibition , is a machine of French invention , that provides for the rapid distribution and composition of printing types . In a very small compass it contains the cases , and 64 , 000 letters for the day ' s work of a compositor , who is enabled to compose Roman and Italic without shifting his position , and can distribute , compose , and justify at the rate of 10 , 000 letters an hour , instead of 1 , 000 , as heretofore .

      The American Senate have determined on one of the most magnificent projects of ancient or modern times—the formation of a great national road , one hundred miles wide ! And extending from the western frontier of Missouri to the Pacific Ocean , by which comnvonications are to be opened witfc California , Oregon , and New Mexico—these branch lises to be fifty miles wide ! On the main road are to be three distinct linos—one for the railway , another for the carriage way , and a third for foot passengars—a strip being reserved for a line of telegraph .

      A Refuge pou the Effeminate . —A few days after Colonel Timms had gone to Wareham to visit his uncle , Mr . Elwes , a quantity of rain fell in the right . He had not been long in bed till he felt himself wet through ; and putting his hand out of the clothes , found the rain was dripping through the ceiling upon the bed . He got up and moved the bed , but he had not lain long belove he found the sr . me inconvenience . Again he got up , and again tho rain came down . At Ieneth , after pushing the bed quite round the room , he got into a corner where the ceiling •' as better secured ; and he slept till morning . When he met his uncle at breakfast , he told hira what had happened . " Ay , ay , " said Mr . Elwes , " I don t mind it myself- , but to those who do . that ' s a mce comer , „ tne rain ! " -Pictorial Hal f Hours .

      J ] l ? re ^ H"ax and tii e Yankee .-A Yankee and a frenchman owned a pig in co-partnership . W hen killing time came , they wished to divide . tHe carcase . The \ ankee . was very anxious to divide so hat he could get both hind quarters , and msuaied the i'renchmanthat the proper wav to divide was to ciu it across the back . The Frenchman agreed to > t , on condition that the Yankee would tnr ' u his br . sk and take choic : of the pieces after it was cut in two . The Yanke e turned his back , and the r rrnchmaa asked—' _ ' Vich piece vill you have ; zc piece v . id ze tail en him or ze piece vat aint got no tail ? " — " Ti e piece with the tail ! " shouted the Yankee instantly . — " Den by gar you can take him , and I taf . t : r . e oder one , " said the Frenchman . Upni lurni ; : 2 nriv . im ! , -the Yankee found that the Frenchman had rut off all the tail and stuck it into the pig ' s mouih .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 8, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_08021851/page/3/