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A LABOURER'S THOUGHTS ON ST . VALENTINE'S BAT . Mary , I work'd beside a wood On last St Valentine ' s day , And as I delved I saw two birds Sit on a leafless spray . And where they sat a golden patch Of soft sunlight did shine , They chirp'd and chirp'd as though they said " Thou art niy Valentine . " And then I thought of thee , Mary , In London's noise and moil —• My arms grew weary aU at once .
And would not let me toiL I thought bow you had pledged your troth And I had plighted mine , And yet I could not say to thee " Thou art my Valentine . " "Poor birds , " I said , "in winter time Dow hard has been your fare ; When frost had garner d every grain , Aud siripp'd the woodlands bare . " - As scant a meal , as cold a home , Dear Mary , have been mine ; But , ti : ou _ h 'tis spring , 1 dare not say , " Wilt be mv Valentine ?"
"E ' er long , " I said , "the buds wiU burst And deck the trees with green ; But still my cottage home must be The ruin it has been . " And then I thought you once bad said , " If your home were but mine !" Though loved so well , I dared not say , Wilt be my Valentine ? ' * I said , " . Ton birds wiU build their nest , And blcssit with their young , And tell each other all their joy , Though with a wordless tongue ;" And then I thought how I could love A face that hoked like thhie ! —I saw my rags , and dared not say , " Wilt be mv Valentine !"
" O , happy birds , " again I said , "You'll rear your little brood ; l'our throbbing breasts will keep them warm Tour toil wn-find them food . " And then I thought haw I could moil , Dear love , for thee and thine . —The workhouse beU rang out ; I groaned , " I ask no Valentine !" " God feeds the sparrow ; " then I said , " And am I not a man 5 His Image—tlie immortal work That crown'd creation ' s plan . Am I forgotten on the earth , As though 1 were a clod 1 No , I am a ram . —from man I claim My heritage of God ' . "
God bless thee , love ! be patient still , The hoar will surely come , When every labourer in the land Shall own a Jiuvuui home . "When laws shall let us love—and Hve , As nature did design ; So keep thou to thy plighted troth , And I will hold to nunc . ^ -Douylas JeroVFs Magazine .
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-CONINGSBY - , or , THE SEW GENERATION ByB . D'Tsbaeli , Esq . ., M . P- —London : Colburn , Great Marlborough-street . ( Continued from the Northern Star of March l . J eONINGSBI ASJD 35 DOSIA . —ENGLAND ' S PKE 3 EKT ASO
fetcse . " TlOU will observe one curious trait , stud Sidonia to ¦ Cooingsby , in the history of this country ; the depositary of power is always unpopular , all combine against it , always it falls . Power was deiwslted in the great Barons ; the Church using the King for its instrument crashed the great Barons . Power was deposited in the Church : the Sing bribing the Parliament plundered Viz Church . Power was deposited in the King ; the Parliament using the People beheaded the Bong , expelled the King , and , finally , for a King substituted an administrative officer . For one hundred and fifty
years rower Las been deposited in the Parliament , and for the last sisty or seventy years it has been becoming more and more unpopular . In 1830 it was endeavoured , by a reconstruction , to regain the popular affection ; but in truth , as the Parliament then only made itself more powerful , it has only become more odious . As wc see that the Barons , the Church , the King , have in turn devoured each other , and that tlie Parliament , the last devourer , remains , it is impossible to resist the impression that this body also is doomed to be destroyed , and he is a sagacious statesman who may detect in what form and in what quarter the great consumer will arise .
"Where , then , would you look for hope f In what is more powerful than laws and institutions , and without which the best lavs and the most skilful institutions may be a dead letter , or the very means of tyranny ; ia the national character . It is not in the increased feebleness of its institutions that I see the peril Of England ; it is in the decline of its character as a community . And yet you could scarcely describe this as an age of corruption ? Kot of political corruption . But it U an age of social disorganisation , far more dangerous In its consequences , because far more extensive . You may have a corrupt government and a pure community ; you may have a corrupt community and a pure administration . "Which Tvoulflyoa elect ! Keither , said Coningsby ; I wish to see a people full of faith , and a government full of duty .
Rely xtpoa it , said Sidonia , that England should think more of the community and less of the government . Buttell me , what do you understand by the term national character ? A character is an assemblage of qualities ; the character of England should be an assemblage of great qualities . But we cannot deny that the English have great virtues . The civilisation of a thousand years must produce great virtues : hut we are speaking of the decline of public virtue , not its existence . In what , t & en , do you trace that decline ? Intheja «*? hatthe various classes of this country are arrayed aghinst each , other . But to 'wtiat do you attribute those reciprocal hostilities !
Not entirely , not even principally , to those economical causes of -which we hear so much . I think that there is no error so vulgar as to believe that revolutions are occasioned by economical causes , They come in , doubtless , very often to precipitate a catastrophe ; very rarely do thev occasion one . * * * * Do you iank , then , there is a wild desire for extensive political change in the country ? Hardly that : England is perplexed at the present moment , not inventive . That will be the next phasis in her moral state , and to that I wish to draw your thoughts . Jormystlijwhflel ascribe little influence to physical causes
tor the production of this perplexity , I am still less of opinion that It can be removed by any new , disposition of fcamical power . It would only aggravate the evil . That would l > e > ecarring to the old error of supposing you can necessarily & ia national content in political institutions . ¦ A political destitution is a machine ; the motive power is the national character . With that it rests whether the machine » iil benefit society or destroy it Society in * his country is perplexed , almost paralyzed ; in time it will move , aad it trill devise . How are the dements of t « e nation to be blended again together ? In what spirit is mat reorganization to take place ? To know that would be to know everything .
In this country , said Sidonia , since the peace , there has been an attempt to advocate a reconstruction of society On a purely rational basis . The principle of Utility has beea powerf _ . y developed . 1 speak « ot with lightness ofthe labours of the disciples of that school . I bow to intellect ia every form : and we should be grateful to any school of philosophers even if we disagree with them ; doubl y gratsol in this country , where for so long a period our statesmen were in so pitiable an arrear of public intelli gence . There has been aa attempt to reconstruct * " * ety oa a basis of material motives and calculations It has failed . It must ultimately nave failed under any GJrcunisianees ; its failure in an ancient and densely peopled kingdom was inevitable . How limited is human
* SQn , tbe profoondest inquirers are most conscious . Iw , ? iaafeDt ed to the reason of man for any of the _ rf a < an * 7 ements which are tie landmarks ofhuman SfeeedTV ^ " ^ ° S ress - » was not reason that betl r * g ' "" ^ as not reason thatuent forth tbeSaracen Zj'y ^ nquer the world ; that inspired the ^^^! ™ " ^ tutea the Monasticorders ; itwasnot * wW -reat S Pr « " * iKCTOlution . Man is only SEStS ^! acts fiomt ,, e * asEion 8 ; nwer tee - IfcZL I * ^^ IWalstotheLnaginatioii . Even Kormonco-unfa wore votari es than Sam . ^ C ^ S nt « - ^ r 0 nCe SttMUed * , ^ awgimraon may now sate it 1
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Mauls made to adore and to obey : but if you will not command him ; if jot : give him nothing to worship ; he will fashion his own divinities , and find a chieftain in his own passions . But where cau wc Slid faith in a nation of sectaries ? Who can feel loyalty to a Sovereign of Downing-street % I speak of the eternal pr inciples . of buinaii nature ; you answer me with the passing accidents of tlie hour . Sects rise and sects disappear . Where are the Fifth-Monarchy men ? England is governed by Downing-street ; once it was governed by Alfred aud Elizabeth . We defer comment ; but beg our readers to mark that Sidonia , who may be presumed to speak . the opinions of "Young England , " considers that to attempt the reform of the present system by " any new disposition of political powtr" —Chartism for instance—would but "aggravate the evil-. " a view not likely to be acquiesced in by Mr . Disraeli ' s Chartist admirers .
Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine.—Mar...
DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE . —March . "We thought the first number of this Magazine was all that was excellent ; we pronounced the second number to Jbe faultless ; but the present number is even an improvement On its pvedecoBsors . Indeed , this is flic Magazine for the Millions , and by them it should be universally read . We know that even a shilling a month—payable in one amount ;—is a greater sum than thousands can afford to lay out in the purchase of a book . Still , there are ways and means , which if adopted by the working classes would secure for this Magazine an immense circulation The supporters of circulating libraries , and the frequenters of the metropolitan coffee-houses , alone have it in their power by simply asking for it , to procure it a sale of some thousands . Again , in the readingrooms which in different parts of the country the working classes have established or have access to .
they could easily introduce this Magazine , and once introduced the number of readers whom it would not fail to interest would be sure to continue its demand , lastly , in howmany small towns and villages , where there ar e no libraries , no reading-rooms , but where working men , anxious for information and fond of reading , unite for the purchase of a weekly paper , and assemble at each other ' s houses to Lear the paper read—how easily could they club their pence for the purchase of this Magazine monthly . In speaking of these several parties , we of course speak of those to whom even a shilling is an object of some importance ; to all who can afford to purchase the Magazine for themselves , we strongly advise them to do so . They will not only find the most delightful entertainment for the present , but will also * have for the future a work which will truly grace their book-shelf , a store of instruction and amusement of the best description for the tim e to com e .
It is almost needless to say that we have no pecuniary interest in thus advising ourreaders . We may add that we know nothing of the proprietors of this Magazine , nor hare we any personal knowledge of the writers therein . It is * for the love ofthe principles advocated by those writers , our admiration of their talents , and for the ardent desire we have to sec the social and political condition of the millions changed for the better , that we wish them to become readers and supporters of this Magazine , which so nobly and eloquently advocates their cause , the cause of suffering humanitv throughout the world . t ThelEditor ' s " St . Giles and St . James" is continued with increasing interest ; the gems of thought which are scattered thrcugh the narrative are beautiful beyond all praise . His characters , too ,. are drawn with a fidelity to nature , only equalled by the magic pen of Dickens . From an " admirable article on the Window Tax , we give the following extract : —
THE IUXUBT OF 1 IGHT . We hardly know a more melancholy sight than a house with half its windows blocked up , to avoid the duty payable upon them . The mind Hies from the out to the inside of such a dwelling—and a dreary picture it sees there . Rooms illuminated only hy an eternal twilight , not bright in sunshine—dim when a summer cloud passes —dark from the morning to the evening of the cheerless winter day ; then passages , like the passages from cell to cell in gaols , where you grope , and stumble , and feel your way ; staircases where your only guides are the bannisters or the wall , and kitchens like the bottom of mines . Outside the sensation is as dismal . You look upon the house deprived of half its windows as upon a one-eyed man . The tiling is unnatural . There is no cheerfulness , no
lightness of expression about it . The architect may have been skilful , and the form of the fabric may be graceful ; but the skill has been thrown away—thegracelost . The tax-gatherer has overthrown the artist in the Struggle . Ask a . Frenchman what he thinks of our cities . Ten to one the word " triste" will be the reply ; and , compared to continental towns , they are " triste . " The very first thing which , strikes an Englishman as he puts his foot upoii ' thc soil beyond the Channel , is the light , gay , airy appearance of the town He is landing at . The houses appear aU smiles , and affability , and cheerfulness—a carious contrast to the dull , forbidding dwellings he has left , in a moment the cause of the difference flashes on him . The windows— "Alia '" he exclaims , " as our ancestors of old believed that running waters couid stop
the pursuit of unholy things—demons and night riding witches—so do tho salt tides of the Channel stay the progress of unholy taxes ; here there is no window duty ! " To Sir Francis Dashwood , who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer about 1762 , we owe the origin of the window tax , at least in its present shape . Before that period , a house-tax existed ; the manner of reckoning it was then changed , and its amount based upon the numher of windows contained in each dwelling Dashwood was a poor weak creature , a nominee of lord Bute ' s : Wilkes fell foul of him in the " If orth Briton , " and Churchill lashed him hi one of his vigorous satires . It is recorded , that after his window duty'feat , the children in the street—no doubtincited and urged on by their seniors—called after him as hepassed along , " There goes
the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer England has ever known . " The asseveration might have been bold , but there was uo mote , boldness in it than truth . If Dashwood and George Granville originated [ the light and air tax , it was Pitt who , by his immense additions to the burden , rendered . it the foully oppressive thing it now is . Sixteen shillings and sixpence per window was the amount of the duty which the heaven-born Minister laid upon heavenborn light and air . Here was a proper retailing of sunbeams—a petty huckstering which intercepted the free gift of God , shown to be the most free , by being the most universal of Ids blessings—and dispensed it to the poor at the rate of sixteen and sixpence per windowful ! Food does not everywhere faUin the same profusion ; fertilising rain does not everywhere fall in the same warm plenty ; nurturing aud fostering heat does not everywhere put
forth the same strength and regenerative power ; but light is everywhere ^—it clothes the world as with a garmentit flows from the grand centre of the universe to its uttermost limits—it ia all-pervading and all-penetrating Through the stained glass of the cathedral through the loophole ofthe prison—through broad portals and through narrow chinks it makes its way , retiring all , cheering all , blessing all . Such is light , or rather such was intended to be light . Man's legislation wars against God ' s designs . Man ' s contrivances mar God ' s gift . Our firmament may be as the skies of Claude , but legislation says , our dwellings shall be as the Interiors of Rembrandt : always , unless you pay!—pay for liberty of lungs and of eyespay for a chance of health and strength . If you are rich you can—if yon are poor , typhus will prevent you from feeung the want of either light or air . You will need no windows in a coffin !
The "HecoUeetions of Hazlitt" is a most delightful paper . "_ The Genu of Steam , and the Great Britain Steam-ship , " gives us an imaginary conversation between Worcester , Watt , and Fulton ; inwliichthey discuss the past and probable future progress of the mighty power—steam . "The Crimes of Quacks , " and "The Tally System , " are admirable exposes of two gigantic evils of our present socialsystem , fraught with injury to millions . The poetry is of a superior character this month—we give one piece , which will be found elsewhere ; another , " The Meeting of the Metals , " we reserve for future extract . We conclude with the following caustic effusion from " The Hedgehog Letters , " which we hope Sir James Graham will " read , mark , learn , aud inwardly digest : "—
To — , Names . Thank heaven and the printer that there are such things as ! You , my dear friend , will know to whom they apply , and may , therefore , receive this letter without its bringing down upon you the government of Naples . However , don't venture to write me any answer—for I ' m in Sir James Graham ' s books ; I ' m down—a marked man . Unhappily for me , a Polish refugee lives in our garret , and the eye of Itussia is upou me . Nevertheless , there has been , I find , some good luck in this . - I ' ve now discovered that the two gentlemen , with beards , who used to hire me when the Emperor Nicholas was here , to drive them from one end of the town to the other , did so to come at the plot which was hatching in our attic . However , they got nothing out of me , but as old Lumpy says , icicej
warty . Still , I'm not comfortable . As a cabman , I ' ve been boxed up with Spaniards , Italians , Sardinians , Austrians—men of all countries and all colours . Well , I don't know at this minute that every letter to Juniper Hedgehog—that is every copy—isn ' t in the office of Sir James Graham ! A nice thing this to go to bed and sleep upon ! When I think of the sort of letters—full of delicate and tender matters—that has come to me , I own it does make me burn and fluster to think that I may not have a single secret to myself : no—Sir James , the Postoffice burglar—has broken into my affairs , and at this moment he knows all my poverty , all my little stragglings with little debts , in fact , all my inner man . I seem : o myself to walk about the world turned inside out ! And
this evil , be it remembered , may be the fate of thousands , although , poor wretches , they may not know it . Who shall tell how many men ' s souls are at the Home Office under the Graham tyck and key ! Still , says Sir James , the whole security , not only of this country , but in truth of the whole world , depends upon wax and wafers . There is no donbtthatbast summer afewItalians were denounced to the government of Naples , and duly shot , — in consequence of seals broken at Downing-street , This is comfortable to reflect upon . Though if ' Sir James was a squeamish man—which he is not , for no man ever braved the pillory with all its unsavory accidents with a stronger Stomach—then would he never again behold the Queen's head upon the red post-stamp without thinking of human blood !
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Sir James , however , has two natures , —or rather , two parts . Like the picture of Death and the Lady , Sir James io Only corrupt 011 One side . Thus spoke Tom Buncombe to the foolscap burglar—the sealing-wax Jack Sfteppavd : — " He has had the meanness , ay , and the . baseness , to conceal his act , and has not had the courage to avow it . " Upon this , the Speaker , in one of his conciliatory moods , observed that " such observations were very personal . Would the honourable gentleman withdraw them ?" Whereupon Mr . Dunconibe answered : — " Sir , I applied those observations to the right honourable gentleman in Iiis Ministerial capacity : to those observations and to those topics I adhere ; so they inusf and shall remain . " And they do remain . And Sir James remains " as a minister , " a " mean , " "base , " cowardly agent : How strange is the distinction between the minister and the man—they ' re quite two different things ; like the calipee calipash of a turtle .
Sir James Graham rose to answer , with a confidence that would have honoured the Old Bailey , He said" Mr . Buncombe was a person quite indifferent to him . " This reminds me of the chap , who after he'd been flogged half a mile and move at the cart ' s tail , with all the world looking on , said to the man that had flayed him— " Sir , you ' re beneath my notice . " I could write more , but Lumpy's called me for a fare . The fun , however , is not over yet ; and you may hear more of Sir James in my next . Meantime , if you write , don't either use wax or wafers : it ' s only wasting property . Send your letters open , aud believe me , your faithful friend , Juniper Hedgehog .
George Cruikshank's Table-Book. March. T...
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOK . March . This is a good number . The illustrations are , as usual , rich with humour ; but the principal ) of them , cntMcd " The Folly of Crime , " conveys alesson to the viciously inclined , which we have never seen surpassed . Moralists labour to dissuade from crime ; priests—themselves tocoften the greatest criminalsdenounce crime ; legislators and their instruments punish crime ; but George Cruiivshank exhibits the folly of crime . His inimitable pencil exliibits a thousand-fold more forcibly'than pen or tongue of moralist or priest the miserably self-destroying fruits of the course pursued by the votary of vice . The literary contents are good , particularly the poetry : the " Song of the Months" is beautiful . From one of the prose articles wc give the following humorous sketch of- THE STAGE LADIES' MAID .
A most striking peculiarity in the position of the stage ladies' maid is the ascendancy she immediately gains over every one in tlie house she happens to have got admission into . The only person she condescends to patronise is her young mistress , whom , however , she never assists in anything but a love affair , but that even Is beneath her notice unless it is clandestine , and terminates in an elopement , which she insists on having the entire conduct of . She permits no scruples of delicacy or propriety on the partofher young lady , who , by the by , seldom expresses any stronger sentiment of self-respect than such as may be implied in the words , "Really , Betty , I tremble at the step I am about to take , " when the ingenious interrogatory of "lor , Miss , what's the use ? " from tho stage ladies' maid , at once removes any feeling of compunction
by which the stage young lady may for a moment have been influenced . There is generally a struggle going on in the mind of the latter between duty and affection , when the casting vote is demanded from the stage ladies' maid , who ^ black-balls duty at once , and gives a plumper for disobedience . The stage ladies' maid , nevertheless , receives bribes from the representative of the duty interest , namely , the heavy man who receives thirty shillings a week for doing the respectable utility , and talks of having just dined with the minister . While , however , she gains a knowledge of the heavy man ' s plans , and accepts from him at every interview a heavy purse filled with gallery checks , as a reward for her exertions in his behalf , the stage ladies' maid is urging her young mistress to rush into the threadbare arms of a halfpay captain who makes love to her , by whistling : Up at the window , following her into the Park , kissing her maid , and practising other elegant little arts which military men —on the stage—are ordinarily addicted to . Perhaps ,
however , the most curious portion of the stage ladies ' maid ' s conduct is her treatment of tlie master of the house , whom she keeps in a state of continual subjection , by an uninterrupted course of insult and violence . She ordinarily addresses him as an old hunks , shakes her fist ia his face , thrusts his hat and cane into his hand , — all the while pushing him towards the door , —when she has any purpose to serve by getting rid of him . If he begins to talk , she talks him down , so that he can only Splutter and Say , " Whew , " but he never thinks of either giving her a month ' s warning , or paying her wages and sending her about her business . The stage ladies' maid never thinks of leaving the drawing-room when visitors are present , but often remains in it alone to sing a song with Swiss variations which must be heard all over the house to the great disturbance of the family . In dress she always excels lier mistress , and frequently wears very thin muslin over pink satin , the muslin being open all the way down the back , and an apron with pockets of very retlierchc embroidery .
Heartily recommending the Table-Book to all om friendsj-we conclude with the following tit-bit
;os the pbebekt R 4 II . WAT BPECCtiTION MAUIA As gudgeons hurry to their fate , To railway bubbles some incline ; Forgetting that beneath the bait A hook's the end of many a line .
The Illuminated Magazine-March. A Good N...
THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE-March . A good number this of our old favourite . The chapters of Mr . CifiLuiON ' s tale , " Fatherland , " contained in this number impress us with a higher opinion of this tale than we had previously entertained . " Travel and Talk , " by Luke Roden , is continued , and , despite some eccentricities of the writer , is most entertaining and instructive . His denunciation of the system of cruelty formerly universally pursued towards children by their schoolmasters , will be read with much interest , and the just and kindly sentiments of the writer will undoubtedly be reciprocated by the entire body of his readers . His descriptions of Naples are the most delightful wc have ever perused : but we by no means
sympathise with his regrets that the English Sovereign has not a palace as magnificent as that of the Caserta i for tills reason—that such pomps must be paid for by the people . We are not wanting in admiration for the beauties of architecture , nor insensible to the charms of that magnificence with which princes delight to surround themselves ; but we would have the revenues of states devoted to other and better purposes than pandering to the selfish luxuries of one or a i ' ew individuals . We would have the people well fed , well . clothed , and well housed , before the people ' s money is expended in apportioning indescribable luxuries , and building palaces for kings . We admire national edifices ; and agree with Lvke Rode ? that most of the buildings so called in
England are a disgrace to the English name ; but let us add , that the kennels where tens of thousands of the English people are doomed to vegetate are a dis-Erace a million-fold more degrading . ' We would aye all this changed : and then say we " all hail" tho triumphs of architecture , and let England in her public edifices outrival , if that be possible , the glories of Greece and Rome;—with this proviso , that the national edifices shall be the property of the commonwealth , for the use , advantage , and enjoyment ofthe universal people , and not as now the exclusive nests of Koyal automatons and public plunderers .
Lure Roden furnishes his readers , no doubt unconsciously , with the most cutting satire on the vaunted glories of these Italian palaces . On the very grounds in the neighbourhood of , and close to the Palace of Caserta , the pauper population swarmed in crowds , and the noise of the miserable wretches preferring their petitions to the visitors was absolutely deafening . These are the natural fruits of kingcraft , and that system of class domination to which Luke Roden is politically attached . Perish the palaces , say we , so that pauperism perish with them ; if that be the only way . of ridding us of the monster-degradation .
"The Adventures of a Scamp" become every chapter more interesting ; and now that his misfortunes have commenced , wc may expect them to become still more so , as gentlemen of his character usually shine best when put to their wit ' s ends . '' The Philosophy of Newspapers " is a capital article , by Axons ( B . " Reach ) , combining with amusement some sterling reflections which the gentlemen of the " fourth estate" would do well to reflect on . From " The Past , the Present , and the Possible "—a very clever paper—we take the following : —
TOIUJtrilS OF THE ASOL 0-SAX 0 SS . To this union of Celtic , Saxon , Banish , and Norman blood , mingling in one general stream , must we attribute that rare combination of impulse , caution , courage , energy , and indomitable perseverance , which marks the English , nationally , as the natural aristocracy of the world . It produced the inteUect and abstract wisdom of a Bacon ; the world-filling poetry of a Shakspeare ; the ruling genius of a Hampden ; the stern purposes of a Pym and an Eliot ; the religious enthusiasm of a Cromwell ; and the lofty works of a Milton . It perpetuated the naval ascendancy , first commenced by an Alfred ; and furnished the military skill which the whole world has witnessed under many names , besides those of a Marlborough and a WeUington . It went forth to other lands , and gave them a Washington and a Franklin ; and the sea banner of England was once more renowned in its " star-spangled "
offspring . It gave to the world a Brindley , iv Watt , a Smeaton ; and taught the lesson that the primal curse , rightly understood , was only a disguised blessing . By the sweat of the brains within their foreheads , these great onel ofthe earth made clear to men ' s understandings that human drudgery was to cease . They established a dominion more powerful than that of the Romans—a dominion over the powers of nature , never to cease till human inteUeet shall wither , and be no more . Many are the nations of lurope who have sent forth colonies intoTother lands , but none so numerous as those of the English ; and still more remarkable is the fact , that the English or their descendants have invariably possessed themselves ofthe dominion over the colonies of foreign natiohs , whenever causes of dispute have arisen . In the East Indies , the French possessed colonies . During the process of war they changed hands , and the English became their masters .
The Illuminated Magazine-March. A Good N...
At the Cape of Good Hope , the Dutch posaessed colonies , and the English became their masters . At the Mauritius , the French possessed a colony , and the English became its masters . In Canada the French possessed a colony , and the English became its masters . In Louisiana the French possessed a'colony , and the English descendants became its masters . In Florida , the Spaniards possessed a colony , and the English descendants became its masters ; aud gradually from Texas , these same English descendants will penetrate southwards , and ultimately become the rulers of Mexico . In La Plata the Spaniards possessed a colony , and the English took possession of it , but were driven out again , because they went merely as military adventurers , aud not as rulers . Yet now , by a slower yet surer process , they are gradually colonising and the
gaming dominion . In New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land , is the English race , though of the ruder kind , surely planted . In Tahiti , the Friendly Islands , ihe Sandwich Islands , and New Zcalnndis the same stock fixed . The Grecian Islands are under thou rule ; and gladly would the Grecian mainland receive them in exchange for the imbecile Bavarian . In the West India Islands , Spaniards , Frenchmen , and Dutchmen , have possessed lands now ruled by Englishmen . Even the unwholesome Sierra Leone is their domain ; and . the time must ultimately come when the Barbary States will rescue themselves from French misrule , by proclaiming themselves the subjects of English laws . Over the largest portion of India is . their sway acknowledged ; and the land they have gained in China by the strong hand , will
gradually accumulate , till a beaten and vanquished people acknowledge that theirs are the circumstances in which an invasion is a questionable evil on the one hand , and a positive good on the other . And where shall we seek the reason of this triumphant superiority of the English race over aU others 1 In the fact , that they are the most just and most intelligent of conquerors in modern times . They rule - by the same process which ensured the dominion of Rome over conquered nations . The people they conquer are happier under their rule than under any other ; The French in Algeria stable their steeds in the holy mosques ; the English iu India offer no violence even to the most absurd of religions , hut respect ' the prejudices of their subjects . The French are destructives—the " bricklayers' labourers" of revolution : the
English are Conservatives , destroying nothing till thejhavewell considered the necessity . Not that the men wielding the English power have always been superior to tlie wieldcrs of French power . On the contrary , they have frequently been inferior to them , The most advanced philosophy of human progress is put forth by French writers ; but the utmost a Government can do , is to guide the torrent of natural impulse ; no Government can wholly change its direction . French rulers and writers may be in advance of their countrymen , and English rulers may be in the rear , but the different results which history gives of the two nations up to the present hour , mark distinctl y the differing national characteristics . The preponderating principles of action in France are those of the Celtic virtues and vices ; while those of England are marked by the stronger qualities of the
Teutonic race . We cannot close this notice without expressing the delight wc have felt at reading the "Old Man ' s Ramble in the Footsteps of Whittington , " by G . II . Francis . It would be but tantalizing our readers , and doing an Injustice to the author , to give any brief , extract we might squeeze iu this week ; we , therefore , resist the temptation , hoping to have the opportunity of quoting front it at length in a future number of the Star . The illustrations this month are not numerous , but are good . On the whole this is an excellent number , and affords us the opportunity of again recommending the Magazine to our readers , which we do most cordially .
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THE ILLUSTRATED FAMILY JOURNAL .-No . L—London ; Sherwood and Co ., Paternosterrow . Solomon was a wise man , at leastso weare told . For our own part we have always considered that the proofs of his foolishness are much more evident than those of his wisdom . But let that pass ; he has the name of being the wisest of men ; and in spite of Shakspeare a name ia everything . Still , we fancy when he declared that there was " nothing now under the sun , " his wisdomship was for once , at least , at fault . Or at any rate If true in his own day , life wise Saw , so often quoted , is altogether erroneous now . Solomon knew nothing of the wonders of literature . He could not have had the remotest prescience of the
vyoiuiors of the cheap literature of the present day , otherwise he would never have , left on record the now exploded fallacy that there is " nothing new under the sun . " Here is something new—the Illustrated Family Journal—something that " Solomon , in all his glory" and with all his power , could not command . We " confess that we ourselves had doubted tho possibility of printers and publishers producing anything which should exceed in cheapness and beauty publications already in the field : but we were wrong as well as Solomon . Here is a publication of the possibility of which we had never dreamed . Most of our readers may know the size of the new series of & i » W Edinburgh Journal ; this publication is of the same form and size . Each number contains sixteen double column pages ; the paper is good , the type new and clear , and the printing beautifully executed . But there Is something more—a feature not to be found in
any similar publication , viz ., a profusion of wood engravings done in the first style of tho art . The first number contains ; betides the beautiful head-piece , no less than ten of these wood engravings , of which two or three are perfect gems . Of the literary contents it is our good fortune to be able to speak in equally favourable terms . Amongst other articles the first number contains one of Tennyson ' s beautiful poems — "Mariana . " One of Douglas Jerbold ' s pleasant theatrical sketches . A capital review of Serjeant Talfourd ' s "Vacation Rambles . " A description of the progress and processes of " Photogenic Drawing . " A romance from the French , & c , & e . The first number of the Rhistrated Family Journal was published on the first inst ., tho price is but twopence ; and we . understand not less than £ 20 worth of engravings will appear in each number . Such a combination of art and literature cannot fail to prove a hit . The success of the Illustrated Family Journal is certain .
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Biography.-The Rev. Sydney Smith. (Compi...
BIOGRAPHY .-THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH . ( Compiled from various sottrces . ) A gentlemen ofthe name of Smith ., who resided at Lydiard , near Taunton , in Devonshire , was the father ofthe reverend and learned person whose name stands at the head of this article . Although his family were inhabitants of Devonshire , it so happened that the subject of this- memoir waa bom at Woodford , in Essex .. The ancient school founded at Winchester by William of Wykeham was the seat of learning at which Sydney Smith imbibed his first draughts of knowledge ; there laying the foundation of those attainments , and developing those intellectual [ powers , which have during the last half-century exercised a much more considerable influence upon the literature and social condition of England than
to the cursory observer might at first view appear . He was elected to New College , Oxford , in the year 1780 , where , ten years afterwards , he obtained a fellowship ; but it was not until six years subsequent to the last mentioned date that he took the degree of M . A . Some years afterwards he became tutor to the son of Mr . Beach , M . P . for Cirencester , and accompanied him to Edinburgh , where he remained for five years , during a considerable portion of which he officiated at the episcopal chapel m that city . At this time and place his career as an author may be said to have commenced ; and amongst the earliest of his literary acquaintances were Lords Brougham , Jeffrey - , and Murray . It was from > suggestion of Mr . Smith that one of the most famous periodicals
in Europe originated . He proposed to the noble and learned persons just mentioned—all of them still living—that thejr should unite with him in starting a review ; and of that publication the subject of this memoir was appointed editor . Few readers require to be informed that the publication here referred to ia one which has enjoyed almost uninterrupted popularity for a period of more than forty years , under the title ofthe Edinburgh Revimv . Very soon after the commencement of tlie review Mr . Smith ceased to be the editor , for he removed'to London , wnere he settled in the year 1803 , and in the 35 th year cf his age married the daughter of Mr . Pybus , the banker , That such a man as Mr . Smith should become an
extremely popular preacher will readily be imagined ; accordingly we find him about . this time in the full enjoyment of fashionable notoriety , preaching at the Foundling Hospital , and the Berkeley and the Fitzroy Chapels . One of the publications of that period describes him as having been " engaged " to preach at those places of resort , just as one might speak of a theatrical " star" being " engaged" to perform at Covent-garden or Drury-lane . Doubtless the Rev . Sydney Smith was , in his own way , a star ofthe first magnitude ; and too happy were the prop rietors of whatever trading chapel had the good fortune to place in their pulpit a man whose sermons were pointed and elaborated without the appearance of art ; natural , without the affectation of ease , and spirited without any flagrant breach of " the ecclesiastical
proprieties . It was impossible , however , for an author of his reputation to disturb the repose of the pulpit by those sparkling compositions which alone coukj flow from his pen , without its being aserted thafc'he transgressed the ancient rules according to which sermons have been composed for " time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary ;" there was , therefore , no lack of self-elected judges to dispute his orthodoxy , or of blunderers to criticise his style . '; . « Although Mr . Smith had now ceased to be the editor of ihe Edinburgh Review , —although he had , as he himself modestly " says , " placed its managemeni in the stronger hands of Lord Jeffrey and Lord'Brougham , " he yet continued to be one of its ' most active contributors , writing frequentl y on prison discipline , on the abuses and corrupting influence of the Game Laws , on transportation to Botany Bay . on toleration ,
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on Methodism , on education , on Irish bulls , mad Quakers , chuuneysweepevs , counsel for prisoners , and a variety of other subjects . To the criticism of individual writers , or the estimate of literary character , he gave but little of his time or attention .. The only person to whom he has devoted more than a single article was the celebrated Charles James Fox , a man for whom Mr . Smith ' s admiration was intense ; and te whom , in personal appearance at least , he is said to have borne a strong resemblance . It is not unworthy of observation , that the late Lord Holland , the nephew of Fox , warmly patronised Mr . Smith ; and when Lord Erskine held the great seal . Lord Holland prevailed on that noble and learned person to bestow on Mr . . Smith the living of Frostouln , in
Yorkshire , where he resided for some years . It was about this time , or shortly before it , that he attacked the system of education pursued at Oxford with so much * ardour as . to draw upon him a severe reply from the Provost of Oriel . The chapels where Mr . Smith preached in London were crowded with the wealthy , the dignified , and even with the learned inhabitants of this great city ; a circumstance which naturally attracted the attention of those gentlemen who manage the affairs of the Royal Institution . It happened , therefore , that before he went to live in Yorkshire it was thought that his wit , acumen , and learning might be displayed to advantage elsewhere than in the pulpit . He therefore became a lecturer on the belles lettres at the Royal Institution , and , of course , bis prolusions were attended , according to the theatrical phrase , by '' overflowing and fashionable audiences . " In
everything which he attempted he appcara to have been eminently successful . At college he graduated with honour and obtained a fellowship . He projected and contributed to a review which has enjoyed the highest degree of prosperity ; he attempted an ambitious style of preaching , with a vigour of talent which distanced all rivalry ; he became a public lecturer , and the whole world of May Fair flocked to Albemarlestrcet to enjoy his humour and become enlightened by his researches ; he published political works which have gone through editions so numerous , that as many as 20 , 000 copies of some have been sold he lived long enough to enjoy his reputation , and to attain to a greater age than falls " to the lot of ordinary mortals ; and yet those who appreciate wit , who can admire learning , and who honour the man that used both for the good , of his species , will be disposed to think that , old as Sydney Smith was , he died too soon .
It was one of the Whig Ministry of 180 G who conferred upon Sydney Smith , the living which he held in Yorkshire ; but he was not long settled there when the cry of "No Popery" expelled the Government of that day from the councils of the King , and Mr . Perceval ruled in their stead . It was then that the most popular of Mr . Smith ' s works made its appearance . The celebrated Letters of Peter Plymlevunder which designation it was the pleasure of Mv . Smith then to wTite—went through so many editions that the anti-Catholic party stood aghast , and really trembled for Protestant ascendancy . In 1829 he had received the rectory of Combe Florey , in Somersetshire , a living the value of which is about M 00 per annum . In the year 1831 , during the Ministry
of Lord Grey , the Rev . Sydney Smith became one of the canons residentiary of St . Paul ' s . Mr . Smith had by this time declined into the vale of years , and the pecuniary advantages derivable from the exercise of his literary powers had ceased to become an object to him : his pen was therefore in some degree laid aside , and he was not induced to resume it until an occurrence took place which he regarded as a downright invasion of his property and of the rights of deans and chapters , which , as a member of . one of those corporations , he had sworn to defend . Lord John Russell had introduced into Parliament a bill which very materially interfered with the interests of those bodies . The provisions of that bill may have possessed many good qualities , or have been disfigured by
innumerable faults ; but the merits ol the controversy have not outlived the occasion ; the part , however , wliieh Mr . Smith took in the dispute will not soon be forgotten . Lord John Russell was a Minister of the Crown , and a member of that ducal house to which every Whig looks up . with hereditary veneration ; but for these things Mr . Smith now cared not a jot . The property of himself aad his brethren had been placed in jeopardy by the Government measure , and so , with merciless resolution , he set about the task of making mincemeat of its authors . Letters from the facetious canon residentiary instantly appeared in the daily papers . Many people , even Whigs , began to think that he had the right side of the question , but those who thought differently
exclaimed , how dreadful thataman professing "liberal " polities ; and promoted by the "liberal party , " should thus treacherously wound his patrons [> These reproaches sat lightly upon his conscience . The feelings of a Whig may be wounded sometimes with impunity ; but let a Government beware how they touch his pocket . The assault of Mr . Smith upon Lord John was marked by the fierce intensity of personal interest . Every weapon of controversy was pressed into the service ; one moment the reverend gladiator was seen prostrating-his antagonist with the heavy artillery of his argument , and the next overwhelming him with banter and ridicule—here assailing him with an irresistible fact , there laughing in his face—now launching the thunderbolts of his
indignation , now giving way to irrepressible drollery , His late letters on the Pennsylvanians are fresh in the recollection of our readers . They supply the most varied illustrations of knavery , the drollest sarcasms on fraud . He was in . his T 4 th y eav at the time of his death , which took place at his residence , Greenstreet ; May Fail * , on Saturday evening , Feb . 22 nd . We cannot close this brief mention of the dates of his long and useful life , without quoting his own aceount ; of himself , published a few months since in the Revue des deux Mondes . It was addressed to M . Eugene Robin , the writer of an acute and welHonccl critique upon his works . " I am 7 ' 1 years old , and being canon of St . Paul ' s , in London , and a rector of a parish in the country , my time is divided equally between town and country . I am living amidst the best society in the metropolis , , am at ease in my
circumstances , iu tolerable health , a mild Whig , a tolerating churchman , and much given to talking , laughing , and noise . I dine with the rich in London , and physic the poor in the country , passing from the sauces of Dives to the sores of Lazarus . I am . upon the whole , an happy man , have found the world an entertaining world , and am heartily thankful to Providence for the part allotted to me in it . " Sydney Smith ' s writings , notwithstanding their apparently temporary character , have given him what is likely to be an enduring place in English literature . It is a rare distinction , but one which ought to be written on his monument , that while he wasted no g ift of those so liberally bestowed on him in ministering to the unworthy pleasures of others , or in promoting his own aggrandisement—as a wit , he was more beloved than feared .
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A BOWL OF "PUNCH , " FRESH BREWED , CURIOSITIES or MURDER . For a time , the field near Haverstock-terrace , Hampstead—the scene of the late terrific murderpromises to empty the parks and Kensington Gardens of the beauty and fashion generally to be found there . Wc learn from the Post , that two days after the discovery of the murder-Several carriages , containing ladies , drove up to the field , and gentleman on horseback , attended by their grooms , rode across to view the place . Not content with seeing , many brought away boughs and twigs from the surrounding trees , and chips from the fence against which the unfortunate man feU after he was struck , and whereon the marks ofthe bloody fingers of the murderers were imprinted .
Of course these boughs and twigs will be carefully planted , and so may grow up and flourish a continual memento of agony and blood . Thus , instead of camellias and other exotics , forming opera bouquets for" beauty and fashion , " we may fov a time have twigs of hawthorn and privet , from the field of murder , as the only wear . We humbly suggest , too , thatthe " chips from the fence" should be curiously preserved—set in gold , as shawl-broaches and other trinkets for those " ladies" of susceptible hearts who flock to a scene of frightful homicide as to a flowershow—and who inspect and pry into the bloody fingermarks of murderers , as though they were exhausting their admiration on some new geranium or wonderful
fuchsia . One oi the supposedmurderer's buttons was found in the field : what a gem that would be , shining in the bosom of lovely and fashionable woman I Should the assassins happen to want money for their defence , we doubt not that they could obtain a very handsome sum by selling locks of their hah ^ to fashion and beauty—the genuineness of the article duly warranted by the turnkeys and hangman . As certain ladies and gentlemen cast such an air of fashion about murder , we earnestly advise M . Jiillien immediately to put forth his Haverstock Polka . The music-sheet might be further recommended by a very striking lithograph , commemorating the atrocity . "
Sik Jajies Graham and the Spv System . —It is said , in extenuation ofthe conduct of Sir James Graham in opening privateletters , that itenablcs him to do away with the spy system . This may be true to a certain extent ; but Sir James does away with the spv system as the Lord Mayor does away with the Lord Mayor ' s fool , fey performing the dutiesi himself . It is clear enough that no ministry is in want ot spies while it has the services of a Sir James Graham . Our Game Laws , etc ., to wit . — From acaloutof , inn . vwnr , lvmade . it anneare that France possesses
at present no less than s *^^ } ^ ^^?" dr <& and seventy-seven laws ! W ^ doubt £ England , with aU its wealth in ^ his respect can boast of as many ; but then what a comfort it must be to an EngfohmanthataUthe lawsof lus country are Im fbr the poor , and not one of them a law exclusively for the rich ' . P . , ,, Warning to Travellers . —Lovers of single blessedness , beware t Bachelors who lave your liberty , remain at home ! The last census of France has just disclosed the awful fact that , in Paris alone , there are no less than & J . 00 P widows J 11
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A Fr / N . s-y Advertisement . —In the Athenmum an pears 'the following announcement : — " Odd volumes wanted ;—Brougham's St-atsemen , first edition , vol . I . " Our friend Toby thinks that his old master , Mr . Punch , is sadly negligent in not pointing out this refuge for the destitute , which is . charitably opened for Lord Brougham amongst his quondam associates , where he yet can be received as Mr . Brougham ( quantum mv . Uitus ad ilk ) the rampant demagogue and Edinburgh reviewer . No Go . —Tho French chemists profess to have detected both lead and copper in the human body . English beggars affirm , on the contrary , that there arc individuals from whom copper cannot possibly be extracted . "
Love is often a solitary leaf , but neither storm nor blight can fade it . Like the perfume that a dead flower sends forth , it is sweet when all the gay sunshine has departed ; when all its bloom is past , it has the fragrancy of memory ; it is tlio last lingering beam that glows long after sun and star have set—a refuge from the tempestuous and bereaving storms of life . Done Brown . —Mr . Greene , the chairman of committees ofthe whole house in the House of Commons , is said to be tired of his job ; and no wonder ; for if the House will persist in talking so much as they do—keep the poor gentleman screwed to his chair for seven or eight hours at a stretch , night after night—it is evident , all Greene as he is , he will very soon " be done JJroum . " —Great Gum .
Killed at Last . —We regret to say the House of Commons voted its own destruction last week . Mr . Macldnnon obtained leave to introduce a bill to " prohibit the nuisance of smoke" ! As everything in tlie House begins in smoke and ends in smoke , the passing of the bill will , as a matter of course , " put a period to the existence" of this branch ofourLegisture . —Ibid . ' HEBnoiiADAi . Boards . —Oxford , Feb . 13 . —I have been , sir , a carpenter lor many years , but never yet met with a "hebdomadal board . " What is it ? Where docs it come from ? Is it the sort of wood that "heads of houses" are cut out of ? A few words from you would make tlie matter a deal planer to Your humble sonant , A Plane Dealer . I We never
saw one of them . —En . ]—Ibid . The late Edmuxd Keax . —Kcan had his degrees of intoxication , according to a calculation made by a faithful servant of his , named Miller . This man was devotedly attached to his master—all menials adored him—anil if Kean happened to lie dining with a party of gentlemen , which he was obliged to do sometimes , Miller , who was as anxious about his conducting himself with propriety as . a father could possibly be ,, when it was getting late , and the servants WCl'G ordered to leave the room , would take his station near the door , and from time to time make the following
inquiries of any of the party who might happen to pass him : — How is master getting on , sir ? Oh ! very well , Milto , would bo the probable reply . Is he getting—ch ? says Miller , significantly . Getting what isays the stranger . Getting tipsy , sir , if you must have if . Oh ! just a little . Ah' ! I though how it would be , Miller would say with a sigh . And he promised me he'd behave himself . In half an hour ho would make another Inquiry to the same effect , and receive for answer , " Oh 1 he ' s just a little high , glorious company ! He's just going to sing us a song . "
Going to sing ? says Miller , with anxiety . " What is lie going to sing , sir ? What ' s the name ofthe song ? " . The Storm . The Storm ! Ah , I see how-it is ; if he ' s going to sing the Storm he ' s getting very drunk . Another half hour would pass , and he would listen at the key-hole , or , perhaps , open the door quietly , and thrust his head into the room , withdraw it in an instant , and , shutting the door , turn round with a look of horror , aud exclaim " It ' s all over ! he ' s past hope 1 he's out of his senses—ne ' s talking Latin . ' " Too Early or too Late . —An actor of the name of Bland attached to the Durham Theatre waa used to Dciform the part of Catesby in Riehard III . Richard
hail so impressed upon his mind the high importance of bis being yery quick in saying ' the Duke of Buckingham is taken , '' that on one occasion he announced the joyful tidings two minutes too soon . Again at the first pause , he popped in "his head and proclaimed , " my lord , the Duke of Buckingham is taken ; " and again was pulled back by the tail of his tunic . When the right time actually arrived , he was a little too late , and Richard , foaming with rage , shouted out— "Now , sir ?"—" The Duke of Buckingham , " said Jemmy very ' calmly , "is taken now Vco . vxell ' s "Ghost . "—Daniel the "Big , "the Daniel Lambert of green ould Ireland , as well as the agitating Daniel O'Connell , of that country of 1 ' hevcuitasy bondsmen , " spoke the following words , by way of peroration to a speech which he delivered to a repale meeting on Monday last . — " Itia difficult to say how long the term of my life may last , " natheticallv exclaimed the Agitator ; " nature tells
me that it cannot be long ere I shall be called to another world , and when I shall lie in my cold grave , and my voice can be no longer heard by the people , I may * yet warn England not to dare to continue in their present tyranny . "—Vide Morning Chronicle of Wednesday for the above . Either this tag to O'Connell ' s last agitating speech contains a redoubtable " bull , " or the great Agitator has "fooled to the top of their bent" the superstitious confidence of Paddy-land . —Satirist . Baron Meresham . —That the speeches andgeneral political conduct of Sir Edward Knatchbull formed only so much smoke , without perceptible fire , has ever been our opinion , excepting when turnpike gates have been in question . The government , at length , appears to think with us , for we perceive he is about to be created a peer , by the style and title of Baron Me ( e ) rsham . —Ibid . A GIBBS AT TtfE VATICiN .
" The Treasurer-Cardinal has been suspended by the Pope , owing to a defalcation of his accounts . "—Dai papers . Moos talks of his peep At old Louis Pkiujpe , But never to rival great Gibbs may he hope ; Sh practice on Cbolt A Cardinal holy Has tried on a victim no less than the Pope . Take courage then , Gibbs , Since to " brush with the dibs " Is accounted so " smart" in a quarter so high ; One fool ' s-cap you've got , And why should you not
Aspire to a Cardinal ' s hat by-and-bye 1—Ibid . Brougham complained , the other day , that the House of Lords was " disagreeably cold . " Lyndhurst said he did not find it at all cold , and could only ascribe the sufferings of Brougham to his not having the same dress that he the Chancellor had . Lord Lyndhurst never spoke a greater truth ; all the clothes in Mvers ' s shop , were it possible to place them on the " shivery shakery" limbs of poor Harry , would fail to make him feci comfortable and warm in Ids seat in the Lords . No ; nothing less than the robes of the Chancellor could restore his wonted circulation by the impetus it would give to his mental and physical system . — - Ibid .
PARADOX . The Irish Land Commissioners , Pursuing their impartial plan Of hearing all and minding none , Subpoenal and examined Ban . " But Dan , " says Devon , " brazenly Said all were wrong who'd gone befora ; . High rent and great prosperity Went still together , " Daniel swore . Castxeueaqh ' s State Contribution , on the score of the Income-tax , as he informed the legislators of St . Stephen ' s the other evening , amounts to something handsome . Nevertheless , some of his outgoings are much larger than the Income-tax . The Opera is a heavier impost than Peel ' s , and a singingwoman or danseusc will , in a single season , draw from him a vast deal more than the Premier has any chance of obtaining under the most favourable
circumstances . —Ibid . A Man of Letters , —A few years ago the Ministry of that day was styled the literary Ministry . The present one well deserves that appellation . As a " man of letters , " Graham alone would immortalize any Ministry . —Ibid , ' , „ .. ' „ „ Castleueaoii has been inhaling the "bnny ] breeze »' at Brighton , and doing as well as a sprightly young noble of independent means , and who pays a large sum per annum to the Income-tax , may be expected to do . The other day , promenading on the Chain Pier , he inquired of the collector how the structure answered ? Did it pay ? Tho man shook his head , and replied in the negative . Whereupon his lordship improvised the folio wing : — Tis truth the tollman tells , I fear , That badly pays this Brighton pier ; But , lord , hou-inany Peers I'd name , Their tradesmen say , do just the same l—Ibidj
Mb . Ex-Bako . v Gurnet . —This " ermined Senior of the Bench , " when called to the bar—of the Old Bailey—some fifty years ago , was aLiberal in politics , rather extremely so ; " in witness whereof , " we may mention that he christened one of his sons Russell and another Sydney , after the celebrated Lord William and Sir Algernon . In bis character of judge , however , the learned baron was neither a liberal expounder nor aliberal administrator ofthe law . That , perhaps , may have been the effect of his long practice at the Old Bailey , for it an advocate whose clients vims , should cultivate e BBOtJGHAH 'lis said of Lord B .
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