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, & the - , tike brave soldiers , we maTch for ward ; If you linger , or torn back , Ion nrast look to get a jostling "While you stand upon the track . Seep in step ! My good neighbour , Master Standstill , Gazes on it as ifc goes , > ' ot quite sure hut he is dreaming * la his afternoon's repose . i « Nothing good , " he says , " can issue From tins endless * moving on ; * An cient laws and institutions Are decaying , or are gone . -fle are rushing on to ruin -With our mad , new-fangled way . " While he speaks , a thousand voices , ja the heart of one man , say , " Keen in step 1 "
Gentle neighbour , will you join us ? Or return to " good old ways ? " Take again the fig-leaf apron Of old Adam ' s ancient days : Or become a hardy Briton-Beard the lion in bis lair , And lie down in dainty slumher , Wrapp'd in akin of shaggy bear-Bear tho hnt amid the forest , Skim the wave in light canoe ! Ah' I see you do not like it : Then , if these " old ways" won't do , Keep in step I
Be assured , good Master Standstill , All-wise Providence designed Asp iration and Progression For the yearning human mind ; Generations left their blessings In the relics of their skill , Generations yet are longing For a greater glory still J And the shades of our forefathers Are not jealous of our deed-We hut follow where they beckon , We but go where they do lead . Keep in step I
One detachment or otrr army May encamp upon the hill , Wbileanother in the valley , May enjoy " its own sweet will ; This may answer to one watchword , That , may echo to another ; But in unity and concord , They discern that each is brother . Breast to breast they're marching onward , In a good , now peaceful way , Tou'll be jostled if you hinder , So don ' t offer let or stay-Keep in step !
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TTptflfe ; or , Clubs and Coteries : a Novel . By the Author of * The Age of Pitt and Pox . ' 3 vols London : Skeet . The hero of this autobiographical novel lias evidently been created for the express purpose of recording the observations of the author himself on public ^ men , io a-n life , Parliament , and society . The story is eubfidary to this object , and most not therefore be criticised too severely ; it is enough to say that it naturall y answers the end . The merit of the book does not lie * o much in its plot as in the real knowledge evinced m the writer ; beth of the men and the society he brntes abont , and the story itself , no doubt presents fan accurate sketch of the temptations which besets ¦ vono aspirants to public or professional life .
f " The hero of the book is a younger son of an old "Whi g family , provided for sufficientl y by an uncle vho brings him up . The bar is his profession , politics his pursuit ; he is brought into Parliament through the op inion formed of his abilities by Lord John Rowland ( Russell ) and the interest of the Duke of Fleetwood ( Bedford ) . The period over which the actual story extends begins with the latter days o f tho Regency aud ends with the time of the first Reform jlinistry . The leading subjects of the tale ate "W ynville ' s experience at the Temple as a law-student , in political circles as a listener and talker , in Parliament as a rising speaker ; and his attachment to Lady Jane 3 Iowbray , whom he finally marries .
As we have intimated , however , the author is much more occupied with ' Clubs and Coteries' than his hero ; and the names of the characters described are so thinly veiled , that he might almost as well have taken them at once from the ' Court Guide . ' Remembering the recent expulsion of Lord Pahnerston from office by Lord John Russell , and his return of the compliment by unseating the wholeof his quondam colleagues , our readers will feel interested by the following sketch of the ex-Foreign Secretary , affricate ! to the late Premier : —
S Amongst the pupils of Mr . Canning who were inclined to Support reform , Viscount PaUarston was in some respects tbe most remarkable , from his union of many qualities not often found together . He possessed many accomplishments , enaMing hint to fill with effect a leading department of affairs . His reputation with the country in those days was not so hi gh as it deserved , for in the early part of his career he sacrificed too much to social enjoyment , being proficient in those graceful pursuits which impart more polish to the person than power to the will . But his nature was too masculine to sink beneath tbe flowery bondage of fashionable life , and apply ins to affairs he took them for his partirae . Popular with both sides of the House of
Commons bold without bitterness , at once affable and vaunting in his port , he could alternately conciliate or command as exigency required . With the advantages of official experience , he had also some of the main qualities requisite for power . Like more than one of his contemporaries , he had acquired from Dugald Stewart ' s teaching a certain largeness of thought , enabling him to look bevond precedents on the oScial file , and making him understand and sometimes sympathise with those ItrA social impulses which burst beyond traditional routine . As fluent in the cant of uip . omacy as if he had lisped it from his cradle , ho could as a deoater sail near the wind without committing himself to any t * tb , like one bred in the old Pittite school . His 8 ? crci » nal aptitude was undoubted , for be bad been connected
all his life with office—having served under larthmi , Perceval , Liverpool , Canning , and Wellin * . » a .-all being ministers of transitional Toryism . He i » u as much liveliness of fancy as is requisite for decora "'? a parliamentary harangue . He could sparkle with T » raicity in a style that scintillated , but never flashed w 'th the fire of genius , and was conversant with all tM arts of compilation and selection necesssary for parliameiiiarr speaking . Then , his fine presence , his buoyant minwl spirits , with his undoubttd manliness , excellently - ' uMaiued him before a popular assembly like the Commons . The wear and tear of public life , tbe pangs of ambition , the toil of competitorship , never soured him into moroseness , « r etched him into a mere thing of formula , like a isrd ened hunter after power . Though his thinking was
E 2 ver original or profound he could spice his common-?' a . ; es with so much piquancy , and dress up parliamentary P-atUndes with so much sounding rhetoric , and then rattle ctf liis concerted pieces with such swashing spirit that he ^ onjd deceive political novices into the idea that he was a I <" Binsii Wanting a high moral purpose , he was only a de-* sltory patriot , and was more calculated to attain present Notoriety than posthumous renown . On the whole he was a « iau fitter to head a faction than rule a nation ; for l uoujh aided by opportunities and the providence of events
« - might make or break ministries , he was not of an order w spirits that over whelm and establish empires . If trouble-. oine , the policy of the sovereign to such a man would he ?«¦ - * ! «• r Pa ,, ari ! : oa family motto being read con . rnm ^ i w ^"" t fnon Fkcti" ; for it is a testimony to the mor al order of nature , that it is more easv to crush than to _ p . eme statesman too enamonred of-himself . ' Such a i ^ Sf sympathies ofothers to make him laS R a 1 J com an 5 ° n picture of Lord John RowmlL h , wbich the au thor shows a favouru leaning to his subject : — "iiiu ^ ' ^ r ^ John R ™ * . « h <> ™ ^ ri 4 , fhH ^ the /?^ ene 8 ; and the circumstances of W 3 S ?* * 8 and L , s C T *™» witn 3 « illustrious ¦* l £ . 5 *" Peerage , gave his opinions a rnn . enna ^
**** ffil £ * f ° , £ H . <\ them « cept for his f % ' ^ li a \ i f ^ / K gU b , rth a "d a great historic a fcw * ed « vi I * * time been generall y looked upon as of 0 ! * 4 oS „ falle ? ^ ° 0 Te * house with applause S M * t « . « ° Jnad many claims on his kindly regards . The iv ' - " m » 3 * ELort aT " sententious , and read like care' ^ l l \^ Z ^! 7 - \ thej - were neatly worded , andoccav ' tf eS « Sj u- u i gram ' tl , e * ffere n ° t of that ier aere * v £ T blch [ ascInat « and carries conviction . ^ - ' « ti ; enn , ? , S 0 n 3 ] tboe ! entben » and Maclaurin was ^ We . ? SflTv ! eincd j ' T ^ kMc . that the dav Ch th v : ^ *^ tunes ofthe Whig party , and n £ ^ oftw" ? sts ° f tbe empire , would han / on tbe ' rel bat ainbHin , 8 arded nob , e and neglected essayist-^ " etl at . t ?? , Jet feeble speaker-who was then Rationed in i „ nb 3 ' and scofied at * nen his name was f time . a witb the great political celebrities of 4 j * knd jandn , _ J f 'ntroduced to Lord John "umy Tery & 6 t feeIlng was thafc extreme
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disappointment . I felt at once disposed to join with those who scoffed at the idea of such a man ever becoming the leader of the Commons of England , or a Prime Minister of the British empire . But after a little while , I changed my first opinion , and felt that there was unmistake force of character in that defined outline of the face—that wellchiselled mouth with its finel y cut lips , around which a slightl sarcastic smile played at times , while in the searchingly inquisitive glance of the eyes there was intellectual power and vigour of will . In short , I thought , on looking at the young nobleman , of Dryden ' s lines on Shaftesbury : — A fiery soul which working out its way Fretted ( he pigmy body to decay . And o ' er-informed its tenement of clay . Lord John Rowland seemed then in very poor health , his cheeks were sunken , his face pale , and he had a short phthisical cough ; certainly in appearance , he was the very last person that any one would suppose was destined
The applause of listening senates to command . We were now at the dinner table , and Lord John began to display his mental character in a way that rivetted my attention . His conversation was most interesting in its kind , though that kind was neither brilliant nor profound ; his memory seemed stored with a variety of curious facts , which threw light in various directions on society . Sometimes it was a story showing tho mercantile -value of certain popular works , and ho would cite for his informant , a bookseller in Paternoster-row ; or Prance he would mention some commercial anecdote , which he had learned from a Russian merchant ; or some personal history which he had from the proprietor of a leading newspaper . His facts were happily selected , and told in a pithy , unpretending style , occasionally dismissed from tho company ' s notice , with a short trenchant aphorism .
With another extract we conclude . It relates to a man whose name is held in detestation by a large mass of the peop le , as one of the most unscrupulous and tyrannical Ministers this country ever had . It is , however , valuable as illustrating the fact that force o £ character is the true source of success in life . The conversation takes place at a dinner party : — From tbe men of the present day , the conversation turned towards departed politicians . Lord Castlereagh ' s character was discussed ; and I was surprised to find that Lord Lingard , Sir F . Bennet , who for many years had been his prominent opponent , and Sir Charles Iforfch , rated him so highly . It was admitted by them all , even by Lord Lingard , that Castlereagh was grossly ignorant of the affairs of Europe ; but his personal courage , combined with his gravity and fascinating manners , had impressed both Lingard and Bennett with the same views of him .
"A braver man never lived , " said Lingard ; "his personal courage was matchless . He was perfectly civil , and never worked himself up , as others do , into fits of audacity . He was alwaj s the same . " " By Jove ! " said Bennett , " if Louis the Sixteenth tail had . Caatlereagbfor his prime minister , the afiairs of all Europe might have been changed . " " That proves nothing in favour of Castlereagh , " I remarked . " It was Pascal who said , that if the nose of Cleopatra had been an inch shorter , tho destiny of the world would have been altered . I confess that I never could conceive Lord Castlereagh to have been such a formidable man as you all appear to think him . "
" Because , Mr . Wynville , said Sir Charles North , " you were never personally in contact with him . You take your opinions of him from the newspapers from Tom Moore ' s witty squibs , from Byron ' s sarcastic allusions to him . But if you knew the man , you would hold another opinion of him . " " See whit he did , " said Bennett . "He began life as Mr . Stewart , an Irish Radical Reformer . He beat the Hills out of Downshire—I remember the time well . He was then looked to as the chief of the Irish Reformers . Pitt put his eye on him . Before he was thirty years old he was the leading minister in the Irish Parliament . He confronted all the bullies that infested that den of political
bravos . He put them all down . He circumvented the Irish Protestant leaders , and cajoled all the Catholics . He bullied all the bullies , and did it like a gentleman . In short , ha extinguished the Irish Parliament . He then came over here ; and after the Union , all tho Irish leaders were of very little weight or influence in the new state of things . Lord Clare , the big Tory bully of Ireland , was quietly flapped down by the Duke of Bedford ; and so with many others of the local great men of Ireland . But Castlereagh went ahead here ; a few years saw him Secretary of State ; and fr « m 1 S 12 to the day of his death , he was leader of the House of Commons , and kept his party well together . See what strong qualities of personal ascendancy were required to do all that !"
"These are the kind of men who govern , " said Lord Lingard * " one man with Castlereagh ' s vigour of will is worth fifty of your clever , eloquent , accomplished speakers , like Lord Harrowby or Lord Dudley . "
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Bleak House . By Chakles Dickens . No . I . London : Bradbury and Evans . In keeping with a late spring , Mv . Dickens has at length put forth the * two green leaves' which he promised at the close of ' David Copperfield , ' and have since been anxiously looked for by his countless admirers . He has at length re-established his monthly relations with them , and for some twenty months at least they will enjoy the pleasure of his welcome p eriodical visit . At this time of day , we need not tell our readers that Dickens is more than a popular writer—he is an earnest and practical reformer . The charms of his styte—the exercise of that wonderful -power of creating character , and of awakening trio most varied emotions of which onr nature is susceptible , which makes him the Shakespeare of our own age , are subservient to a high sense of duty on the
part of the possessor of these rare endowments . His works are not fictions written for mere amusement or recreation . They are instinct with great and noble sympathies , elevated by having a purpose . ' Bleak House * is an attack upon one of the monster evils of English society—the Court oi Chancery . Its leading incident is a pet Chancery suit , ' one of the greatest Chancery suits known '—itself a monument of Chancery practice , ' 'in which every contingency , every masterly fiction , every form of procedure known in that Court is represented over and over again '— ' a suit such as could not exist out of this great and f ree country . ' How the personages introduced in the first number are bound up with this suit , it is impossible to guess , but sufficient is apparent to promise a superabundance of material to work upon ; and in such hands , who can doubt the result ?
Here is the introduction to the Court in which the cause of * Jarndyce v . Jarnd yce' is nourished for the benefit of the lawyers : — This is the Court ef Chancery ; which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire ; which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse , and its dead in e ' -ery churchyard ; which has its ruined suitor , with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress , borrowing and begging through the round of every man ' s acquaintance ; which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right ; which so exhausts finances , patience , couraoe , hope ; so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart ; that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give—who does not often give—tho warning , "Suffer
any wrong that can be done you , rather than come here . " "Who happen to be in the Lord Chancellor ' s court this murky afternoon besides tbe Lord Chancellor , tho counsel in tbe cause , two or three counsel who arc . never in any cause , and tho well of solicitors before mentioned ? There is the registrar below the Judge , in wig and gown ; and there arc two or three maces , or petty-hags , or privy-purses , or whatever they may > 3 , in legal court suits . These are all yawning : for no c umb of amusement ever falls from Jarkdvce ASn Jarsotce ( the cause in hand . 1 which was squeezed dry years upon years ago . The short-hand writers , the reporters of the court , and the reporters of the newspapers , invariably decamp with the rest of the regulars when Jarndyce and Jarndyce comes on . Their places arc a
blank . Standing on a seat at the side of the hall , the better to peer into the curtained sanctuary , is a little mad old woman in a squeezed bonnet , who is always in court , from its setting t <> its rising , and always expecting sonic incomprehensible judgment to be given in her favour . Some say she really is , or was , a party to a suit ; but no One knows for eartain , because no one cares . She carries some small Utter in a reticule which she calls her documents ; principally consisting of paper matches and dry lavender . A sallow prisoner has come up , in custody , for the halfdozenth time , to make a personal application "to purge himself of his contempt ; " which , beirg a solitarv surviving executor , who has fallen into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pretended that he had ever any knowledge , he is not at all likely ever to do . In the meantime his prospects in life are ended . Another ruined suitor , who periodically from Shropshireand
appears , breaks out into efforts to address the Chancellor at the close of the day ' s business , and who can by no means be made to understand that the Chancellor is legally ignorant of his existence after makin " it desolate for a quarter of acenlury . plants himself in a good place , and keeps an eye on the Judge , ready to call out " My lord ! " in a voice of sonorous complaint , on the instant oflm rising . A few lawyers * clerks and others who know tins suitor by sight , linger the chance of his furnishing some fun , " and enlivening the dismal weather a little . Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on . The scarecrow of a suit has , in course of time , become so complicated , that no man alive knows what it means . The oarties to it understand it least ; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minuteS withont coming to a total disagreement as to a !] the premises . Innumerable children have been born into the cause ; innumerable voung people have married into it : nimwah ' r
old people hare died out of it . Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndvee and Jarndyce , without knowing how or whv ; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit . The little plaintiff or defendant , who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled , has grown up , possessed himself of a real horse , and trotted away into the other world . Fair wards of court have f ded into mothers and grandmothers ; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out ; the legion of Wis in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of
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mortality ; there are not three Jarndyce left upon the earth , perhaps , since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew his brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery-lane ; but Jarnd yce and Jarndyce stills drags its dreary length before the Court , perennially hopeless . Jarndyce and Jarnd yce has passed into a joke . That is the only good thafc has ever come of ik It has been death to many , but it is a joko in the profession . Every Master in Chancery has had a reference out of it . Every Chancellor was "in it , for somebody or other , when he was counsel at the bar . Good things have been said about ifc by bluenosed , bulbons-shoed old bencher ? , in select port-wine committee after dinner in hall . Articled clerks have been in the habit of fleshinf their legal wit upon it . The ] a $ t Lord Chancellor handled it neatly , when , correcting Mr .
Blowers , the eminent silk gown , who said that such a thing might happen when the sky rained potatoes , he observed , " or when we get through Jarndyce and Jarnd yce , Mr . Blowers ;"—a pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces , bags , and purses . How many people out of the suit , Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwholesome hand to spoil and corrupt , would be a very wide question . From the Master , upon whose impaling files reams of dusty warrants in Jarndyce and Jarndyce have grimly writhed into many shapes ; down to the copying clerk in the Six Clerks' Office , who has copied his tens of thousands of Chancery-folio-pages under that eternal beading ; no man ' s nature has been made the better by it . In trickery , evasion , procrastination , spoliation , botheration , under false pretences of all sorts , there are influences that can never come to good , The very solicitors' boys who have kept the wretched suitors at bay by protesting time out of mind that Mr . Chizzle , Mizzle , or otherwise , was
particularly engaged and had appointments until dinner , may have got an extra moral twist and shuffle into themselves out of Jarndyce and Jarndyce . The receiver in the cause has acquired a goodly sum of money by it , but has acquired , too , a distrust of his own mother , and a contempt for his own kind . Chizzle , Mizzle , and otherwise , have lapsed into a habit of vaguely promising themselves that they will look into that outstanding little matter , and see what can be done for Drizzle—who was not well used—when Jarndyce and Jarndyce shall be got out of the office . Shirking and sharking , in all their many varieties , have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause ; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil , have been insensibly tempted into a loose way of letting bad things alone to take their own bad course , and a loose belief that if tho world go wrong , it was in some off-hand manner , never meant to go right . Thus , in the midst of the mud and at the heart of the fog , sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery .
Mrs . Jellyby , ' a lady of very remarkable strength of mind , who devotes herself entirely to the public , ' in a variety of schemes—finel y christened by tho general term 'Telescopic Philanthropy '—represents a very large class of people in this country , who will scarcel y like the manner in which Mr . Dickens holds the mirror up to nature . Chapter IV , would be a very nice little tract to give away to philanthropic ladies—young and old—at the doors of Exeter Hall , during the May meetings . Here is a g limpse at the menage of Mrs . Jell y b y , which is situated in Thavies Inn : — A narrow street of high houses , like an oblong cistern to hold the fog . There was a confused little crowd of people , principally children , gathered about the house at which we stopped , which had a tarnished brass plate on the door , with the inscription , Jellyby .
"Don't be frightened ! " said Mr . Guppy , looking in at the coach-window . " One of the young Jellybys been and got his head through the area railings !" " 0 poor child , " said I , " let me out , if you please ' . " "Pray . "be careful of yourself , miss . The young Jellybys are aways up to something , " said Mr . Guppy . I made my way to the poor child , who was one of the dirtiest little unfortunates I ever saw , and found him very hot and frightened , and crying loudly , fixed by the neck between two iron railings , while a milkman and a beadle , with the kindest intentions possible , were endeavouring to drag him back by tho legs , under a general impression
that his skull was compressible by those means . As I found ( after pacifying him ) that he was a little boy , with a naturally large head , I thought that , perhaps , where his head could go , his body could follow , and mentioned that the best mode of extrication might be to push him forward . This was so favourably received by the milkman and the beadle , and that he would immediately have been pushed into the area , if I had not held his pinafore , while Richard and Mr . Guppy ran down through tho kitchen , to catch him when he should be released . At last he was happily got down without any accident , and then ho began to beat Mr . Guppy with a hoop-stick in quite a frantic manner .
Nobody had appeared belonging to the house , except a person in pattens , who had been poking at the child from below with a broom ; I don't know with what object , and I don't think she did . I therefore supposed that Mrai Jellyby was not at home ; and was quite surprised when the person appeared in the passage without the pattens , and going up to tho back room on the first floor , before Ada and me , announced . us as , "Them two young ladies , Missis Jellyby ! " Wo passed several more children on the way up , whom it was difficult to avoid treading on in the dark ; and as we came into Mrs . Jcllvby ' s presence , OHO Of
the poor little things fell down stairs—down a whole flight ( as it sounded to me ) , with a great noise . Mrs . Jellyby , whose face reflected none of the uneasiness which wo could not help showing in our own faces , as the dear child ' s head recorded its passage with a bump on every stair—Richard afterwards said he counted seven , besides one for the landing—received us with perfect equanimity . She was a pretty , very diminutive' plump woman , of from forty to fifty , with handsome eyes , though they had a curious habit of seeming to look a long way off . As if—I am qunting Richard again—they could see nothing nearer than Africa !
" I am very glad indeed , " said Mrs . Jellyby , in an agreeable voice , " to have the pleasure of receiving you . I have a great respect for Mr . Jarndyce ; and no one in whom he is interested can bo an object of indifference to me . " We expressed our acknowledgments , and sat down behind the door where ( here was a lame invalid of a sofa . Mrs . Jellyby had very good hair , but was too much occupied with her African duties to brush it . The shawl in which she had been loosely muffled , dropped on to her chair when she advanced towards us ; and as she turned to resume her seat , we could not help noticing that her dress didn ' t nearly meet up the back , and that tho open space was railed across with a lattice-work of stay-lacelike a summer-house .
Tee room , which was strewn with papers , and nearly filled by a great writing-table covered with similar litter , was , 1 must say , not only very untidy , but very dirty . Wo were obliged to take notice of that with our sense of sight , even while , with our sense of hearing , we followed the poor child who had tumbled down stairs : I think into the bnck kitchen , where somebody seemed to stifle him . But what principally struck us was a , jaded , and unhealthy-looking , though by no means plain girl , at the writing-table , who sat biting the feather of her pen , and staring at us . I suppose nobody ever was in such a state of ink . And , from her tumbled hair to her pretty feet , which wore disfigured with frayed and broken satin slippers trodden down at heel , she really scorned to have no article of dress upon her , from a pin upwards , that was in its proper condition or its right place .
" Yon find me , my dears , said Mrs , Jellyby , snuffing the two great office candles in tin candlesticks which made tho room taste strongly of hot tallow ( the five had gone out , and there was nothing in the grate but ashes , a bundle of wood , and a poker ) , " you find me , my dears , as usual , very busy ; but that you will excuse . The African project at present employs my whole time . It involves me in correspondence with public bodies , and with private individuals anxious for the welfare of their species all over tho country . lam happy to say it is advancing . Wo hope by this time next year to have from a hundred and fifty to two hundred healthy fimilios cultivating coffee and educating the natives of Boorioboola-Gha , on tho left bank of tho Xiger . " The dinner hour of the establishment is nominall y five , but as Mrs . Jell yby says , * Wc dine at all hours . ' At last , however , it is served up , aud
Soon after seven o ' clock we went down to dinner ; cavefully , by Mrs . Jelly by ' s advice ; for the stair-carpets , bosides being very deficient in stair-wires , were so torn as to be absolute ( raps . We had a fine cod-fish , a piece of roast beef , a dish of cutlets , and a pudding ; an excellent dinner if it had had any cooking to speak of , but it was almost raw . The young woman " with the flannel bandage waited , and dropped everything on tbe table wherever it " happened to go , and never moved it again until she put it on tho stairs . The person I had seen in pattens ( who I supposed to have been tho cook ) , frequently came and skirmished with her at the door , and there appeared to be ill-will between them .
All through dinner ; which was long , in consequence of such accidr-nts as the dish of ' potatoes being mislaid in the coal-skuttle , and the handle of the corkscrew coming off , and striking tho young woman in the chin : Mrs . Jollyby preserved the evenness of her disposition . She told us a great deal that was interesting about Boorioboola-Gha and the natives ; and received so many letters that Richard , who sat by her , saw four envelopes in the gravy at once . Some of the letters were proceedings of ladies' committees , or resolutions of ladies' meetings , which she read to us ; others were applications from people excited in various ways about the cultivation of coffee , and natives ; others required answers , and these she sent her eldest daughter from the table three or four times to write . She was full of business , and undoubtedly was , as she had told us , devoted to tho cause . Esther Summcraon , the heroine , promises to be one of the author ' s finest crea ^ ons . The world of
fashion introduces us to Sir Leicester Dedlock and his lady . ' Sir Leicester is only a baronet , but there is no mightier baronet than he . His family is as old as the hills , and infinitely more respectable . He has a general opinion that the world might get on without hills , but would be done up without Dedlocks . Ho would , on the whole , admit nature to be a good idea ( a little low perhaps when not enclosed with a parkfence ) but an idea dependent for its execution on your great country families . ' Lady Dedlock' has beeu for years at the centre of the fashionable intelligence , and at the top of the fashionable tree . '
Bleak House. By Chakles Dickens. No. I. ...
For months tens of thousands of wistful readpw will follow with interest the fate and fortunes of th dramatis persona , who are clustered round the great central cause of ' Jarndyce v . Jarndyce . '
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RECEIVED . Tht Master Engktm and their Workmen . Three Lectures By J . M , Lodlow , Esq . London : Bezer . Tht Bookcase . Vol . 1 . Across the Rocky Mountains . By W . Keilv , Esq . London : Simms and M'Intyre . The Biographical Mayaxine . No . III . London ; Passmore Edwards . —[ The present number contains a well written and exceedingly interesting , memoir of Percy B . Shelley , Which is worth the price of the whole . ] The Gardeners' Record . No . I . For March . London Groombridge and Co . —[ This new candidate for popular favour , is under the management of Mr . J . T . Neville , Secretary to the Royal South London Florioultural Society , and seems admirably adapted for the purposes in view . ]
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ASTLEY'S . A grand historic and equestrian spectacle , entitled " Tancred , or the Triumph of the Crusaders , " has been produced on a scale of magnificence for which this theatre is bo justly renowned . The tale is so well known as to render a detail of the plot and incidents unnecessary . Considerable praise is due to the management for the effective manner in which this piece is put upon the stage : each scene is an imposing tableau , and the gorgeous dresses , scenery , elephants , zebras , ifec ., remind the spectator of the palmy days of Palestine , and the chivalry of the crusaders . Messrs . Ferris and Hustleby ably impersonated Tvwted . aud the reuowned Godfrey de Bouillon . Miss Fenton acted in her usual clever style , and the spectacle was enlivened by the drolleries of Barry and the bewitching archness of Mrs . Beacham . Some excellent tumbling by the Nieolo Family followed , and after the usual scones in the circle , the entertainments concluded with the laughable farce of " No . "
ST . JAMES'S THEATRE—THE HUNGARIAN MUSICAL COMPANY . This company has given the first concert of their series in this fashionable theatre to a very aristocratic audience , amongst whom we noticed her Grace the Duchess of Somer . set , his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the countess Buol-Sohauenstein , Marquis d'Azeglio , the Sardinian minister , Viscountess Palmerston , Lady Ashburton , Prince of Nassau , Lord Cranborn , die .
DRURY-LANE THEATRE . The manager of this establishment brought forward the first of his promised novelties on Saturday night , in tbe shape of 9 , grand opera in four acts , entitled the » Sicilian Bride , " the musio by . Mr . Balfe , the libretto , originally written in the French language byM . St . Georges , translated into English by Mr . Bunn . The performance of this work occupied the entire evening , its more than ordinary length precluding the necessity of other entertainments . The house was crowded as might have ' beon anticipated . Although we are not prepared , after one hearing , to rank the " Sicilian Bride " among Mr . Balfe ' s best works , we must admit that it contains some of his best writing . More correct and effective execution would doubtless bring out a great number of points completely lost in the
weakness of tho Drury-lane band and chorus . It was a mistake , moreover , to consign so laborious and difficult a part to a debutante like Miss Crichton . She , however , must not be discomfited . In the midst of all her stage-awkwardness , enough of intelligence was exhibited to show that practice and study may enable her to obtain everything that is wanting ; while her singing , unequal as it was , at periods reached a high degree of expression and refinement . Mr . Sims Reeve worked zealously in the cause , and may bo considered to have been tho mainstay of tho piece . Mr . Whitworth displayed his accustomed intelligence , activity , and musical feeling in an up-hill , and by no means agreeable part . Of tho other characters nothing remains to be
added . The opera was placed upon tho stage in a liberal and efficient style . The scenery was beautiful , tho costumes and appointments appropriate , tho supernumeraries abundant and well trained . In short , no efforts were spared to insure success ; and , not to speak of tbe frequent applause and encores , if the final incidents of tho performance—an unanimous call for Mr . Balfe , who came forward and was enthusiastically cheered ; a summons for the principal artists ; and another for Mr . Bunn , who , after tho applause had subsided , expressed his gratitude to the audience in a short and emphatic speech—if these incidents may bo presumed to constitute success , the opera of tho " Sicilian Bride " must bo chronicled as perfectly successful .
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. UisiSTKRS op the French . Army , in Alqiers . —We have just received the following afflicting accounts from Bougia , the exactitude of which there is unfortunately no reason to doubt . The expeditionary column of Gen . Bosquet , after having defeated' the vain attempts of Bou-Burghia , remained in its position in the very heart of Cabylia , about twenty-five miles from Bougia , whence it was able to observe all that was going on in the country . On the 18 th tho weather began to sot in very bad ¦ the rivulets were swollen by the heavy rains ; the communications between tho town and the camp wore interrupted , and the troops began to be in want of provisions . During the night of tho 21 st there was a very heavy fall of snow ; in some places it was six feet in depth , and covered the tents of our soldiers . On the 22 nd an order was given to strike the camp ,
and the troops commenced their march towards Bougia . Tho cold was very severe , and the men overcome by privations and fatigue , had lost their habitual vigour , and fell dead along the road . The column wns thrown into disorder , and a disaster soon occurred similar to that which was experienced eight years ngo by the column of General Lcvassour , in the Bou-Thaleh . In the evening of the 22 nd some stragglers began to arrive at Bougia , and the accounts which they gave threw the town into the greatest consternation . Measures were immediately taken to render assistance . Independently of the resources at the command of the military , an appeal was made to the inhabitants . Mules , horses , and every means of transport , wore put in requisition ; many of tho inhabitants left the town , provided with torches , in search of our unfortunate soldiers ,
and every house was open to receive them as they mi g ht arrive . Fires were lighted in the streets , soup and hot wine wove prepared for them . What is very remarkable is , that the Kabyles never sought to profit by this disaster , but , on the contrary , wherever they met with straggling soldiers , they assisted and brought them to Bougia , as well as they could do it . The official report will soon make known the loss of tho French column . At first it was estimated at 300 men at least , but nothing positive is yet known , as stragglers are constantly arriving at Bougia . Several have been placed in the hospital with their limbs frost-bitten . Theloss of officers will bo small : the only
one known to have perished is M . Laure , an assistantsurgeon , who fell a victim to his courageous devotedness , having been drowned in saving the lives of a captain and two soldiers . Generals Bosquet and Jamin did not roach Bougia until tho night of the 23 rd , - they did everything that it was possible to do under such circumstances . General Jamin arrived to-day at Algiers . This event changes nothing in the situation of the affairs of Kabyliaevery army in the world lias met with similar accidents ; and it is a further proof of the necessity of establishing good roads on all points which our columns are obliged to pass ovor to secure the submission and tranquillity of the country . —Akhbar .
The English Abroad . —The following is an extract of a letter from a British resident at Leghorn , dated Feb . 20 , 1852 , — " They are talking of making all the British take out permissions from the police every six months , and some every three months , to remain here , and every time the permission is renewed there is about 5 s . C ' d . to pay , and every one of a family to have a separate one , which would como to bo a considerable tax . Taeir object is twofold-First , to raise money to support tho Austrians ; and , second , to have it in their power to send any aivay when their leave is out . The old merchants who have been born and lived always hero are quite indignant at this . There was a public meeting at tho Consulate to-day about it . " Commission' of Lusacy on a CnAiNCERr Prisoner , —On
the 5 th mst . a writ de lunatico inquirendo was executed at the Southwark Literary Institution , Borough-road , Southwark , before Mr . Commissioner Winslow , and eighteen special jurors , respecting the state of mind of John Price , Esq ., aged eighty-four , totally blind , late of Margate , in the county of Kent , but now an inmato of the Queen ' s Prison , confined for contempt of the Court of Chancery , a gentleman possessed of property of tho value of £ SO , OO 0 . The commission had been issued b y Mr . John Wild Price , the only son of tbe unfortunate gentleman , with a view to his liberation . The jury returned a verdict— " That John Price is now of unsound mind , and incapable of managing himself and his affairs , and has been so since the 1 st of October , 1 S 43 . "
Lord Campbell ' s Asti-Catuolic Vigilance . —The opening of tho Norfolk circuit last week was distinguished by a religio-political incident—a rare and undesirable variance from judicial monotony . A few years ago Mr . Scott Murray , tne high sheriff , was perverted " to tho Romish faith , and he had appointed Mr . Morris , a Roman Catholic , who like himself , had seceded from the church of England , to bo the judge ' s chaplain . In delivering his charge , Lord Campbell took occasion to say that "the high sheriff , without . meaning in the slightest degree to be guilty of an imprdpriety , and , indeed , being informed ifc had been done in other counties , has appointed a chaplain of his own religion , and that chaplain has appeared in the garb of his order in
accompanying the high sheriff and hor Majesty ' s judges coming from tho place where the sheriff meets them " to the place where we now are . Gentlemen , that I do not approve of ; and I think it my duty to say that I hope such an occurrence will not be repeated . " The grand jury , at the close of the day , in making thoir presentment , desiri'd to express their respectful thanks for his lordshi p ' s observations on the subject of the attendance of the chaplain , and assured him of their unanimous and entire concurrence in the sentiments addressed to them by his lordship . Since then Mr . Scott Murray has addressed a , smart cpisUo to Lord Chief Justice Campbell , showing a number of instances in which Roman Catholic chaplains have been permitted to attend the judges .
. Secession of a Catholic Priest . —On"Sunday evening the Rev . G . Evison , late a priest of the Church of Rome , renounced the doctrines of that communion in the church of St . Pauls Bermondsey-at which numerous similar senes have taken place of late " , Tho rev . gentleman was late chaplain to tho Roman Catholic congregation at irOrtSQ & t
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A Blush is the complexion of virtue , Glory , —The best kind of glory is that which is reflected from honesty . Friendship . —Friendship is composed of a single soul in * wotting two bodies . v . oNs . - 'Why are good resolutions like fainting ladies ?—T ^ want carrying out . —TW ? m ° st proper punishment for quack tloc ' ors ? DEi , nr „ ld be confined to the Pill-ory . mamS *^ r pre " 5 5 irl open ihe hont d 9 or ' J ^ SR ^^ SSStl . riding ou the '' rail , " IiTSeof ft ^ - 8 tln thef r ° of a fat old gentleman . PursuiL T & ° ' break * -l * h « r « wonderfully . . VnSl ri , iOT *« M « TODBR DlFFICULTIES—Stud yiHg
htoSySto tro ° „ hrP ° r -A man ^ New York has got gS ^ teSStfaA ^ A New- INVENTION-An amateur chemist has discovered that oat straw and the other common straws of this country can bo converted into cotton by M . Clausen ' s process , ia the same way as flax straw . ' ' The Greek Sl . wb . —An American on being asked how he liked the denuded statue of the Greek Slave exhibited at tbe Crystal Palace , replied , " I reckon that where she was raised , cotton was dreadful scarce . " A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face a beautiful behaviour is better than a beautiful form . ' It gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures ; it U the finest of the line arts . Goon Advice . — " I say , " said a dandy to an intelli gent mechanic , * ' 1 ' vo got an idea in my head . '' '' "Well , replied the other , "if you don't cherish it with great care , it wm die for want of companions . "
A Conservative . —Mr . Horace Greely , in a speech delivered a few weeks ago , compared a stubborn "Conferva * tive" to a horse on board a ferry-boat ; "the horse may back , but the boat moves on , and the animal with ii , notwithstanding . " Truth is considerably cracked up as a virtue , and yet we know of nothing that would sooner make a nuisance of a man . Speak the truth of everybody you meet , and where would your bed be ? In the mud-gutter about half the time . Prisoners in France . —The "Times" says it has taken some pains to ascertain the number of persons arrested in France within the last few weeks , and it is assured by the best authorities , speaking on sufficient evidence , that the number probably reaches 100 , 000 . Graceful and Elegant . —Grace is , in great measure , a natural gift ; elegance implies cultivation , or something of a mere artificial character . A rustic , uneducated girl may be graceful ; but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well-trained .
Arabian rnoVERB . —By six causes a fool may be known : — "Anger without cause ; speech without profit ; change without motive ; inquiry without an object ; putting trust in a stranger ; and wanting capacity to distinguish between friend and foe . " # Droiiwicu Salt . —The brine-springs from which this salt is extracted appear inexhaustible . It was made at the time of the Roman invasion , and they still yield 70 , 000 tons annually ; 40 , 000 tons are used for domestic purposes , and for agriculture , the remainder in chemical processes . Titles . —A Quaker , vindicating the pertinacity of his sect in refusing to give titles to men , gave this ; whimsical account : " I had tho honour , " said he , " one day to be in company with an excellency and a highness . His excellency was the most ignorant and brutal of his species , and his highness measured just four feet eight inches without his shoes . "
Female Influence . —I have observed that a married , man , falling into misfortune , is more apt to retrieve his situation in the world than a single one , chiefly because his spirits are soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments , and his self respect kept alive by finding , that although all abroad be darkness and humiliation , yet there is a little world of love at horns over which he is a monarch . Little Kindnesses . —Small acts of kindness , how pleasant and desirable do they make life ! Every dark object is made light by them , and every tear of sorrow is brushed away . When the heart is sad , and despondency sits at the entrance of the soul , a trifling kindness drives despair away , and makes the path cheerful and pleasant . EXTRACTS FROM " PUN'CH . " Political Cricket . —The celebrated cricketer , Manners , is going to have an innings at last . A Dis-appointment . —The appointment of poorDis . as Chancellor of the Exchequer .
A Sum for the Chancellor of the Exchequer . — Deduct Sir Charles Wood from Benjamin Disraeli , and show that bjust Income Tax remains . Something Like a Brother . —Flora : " That ' s a very pretty waistcoat , Emily !"—Emily : " Yes , dear . It belongs to my brother Charles , When he goes out of town he puta me on the free list , as he calls it , of his wardrobe . Isn't it kind ?" Characteristic Fact . —So desirous is little Nap . of imitating his great uncle in every possible particular , that we understand he has recently declared his intention of in future TDaulariy wearing his coats out at Elba 1
Our Lady of Atocha . — The Queen of Spain has offered her robes and jewels , worn when struck by the assassin , to our Lady of Atocha . But why not the whalebone stays that defended tbe mortal attempt of the dagger ? Believing , as we do , that whalebone stays have had so many victims , slowly killing thousands of young women , we confess we should " like to see an offering of that valuable work of whalebone that has saved the life of one . Political On-dits . —Mr . Disraeli , immediately on receiving his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer , sent round the corner to a book-stall for a copy of Walkinghome ' s Arithmetic . A pencil and slate , in the course of the evening , were ordered by the Right Honourable Gentleman . The Marquis of Salisbury repaired to Downing-street , ia order to procure some impressions of the Privy Seal .
Lord Malmesbury has remained at home since his nomination to the post of Foreign Secretary , notwithstanding the very general supposition that he is abroad . Sir John Pakington has be-in occupied in making the requisite arrangements for rendering his seat in the Colonial Office comfortable , as he finds it somewhat harder than the Cutinty Bench . Lord John iManners has been surveying his family tree previously to entering on the duties of his high berth , as Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests . The Earl of Eglinton has buckled oh his arniour to enter the lists as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland . Considerable astonishment is expressed at the fact thai Colonel Sibthorp has no place in the Cabinet .
Ax Oppressed Mind . —It is veVy seldom thafc hardworking people commit suicide—suicides being one of the accompaniments of soft hands and indolence . The best thing a girl can take for an oppressed mind , is a husband . An old maid with " nothing to worry her , " will be aa , melancholy as dyspepsia—marry her , however , and make her ¦ the mother of four romping boys , and she will be as cheerful I as sunshine . An Anti-Garotte Weapon . —Mr . Blissett has just registered an " anti-garotte , "—a portable and convenient weapon . It is in form a small constable ' s staff , but itcoa-itains inside it a blue light . This light is revealed by un-iscrewing the top—always to he done when alono in a darkk road or stivct ; and when assailed you have nothing to ddc but " puoch" the assailant on the head , face , or body ; andd the weapon will " blaze away" at him , in a manner that hae won t stand long .
. , _ Glass . —Window-glass was not employed in Englanddl until the year 1557 ; aud ten years later it was still so scarcae : that , according to the family records of the Duke of Northum-Qnorland , the glass windows of Alnwick Castle were re-Amoved whenever the family happened to be from home . Nolbi other substance has tended more to advance science and addldl to ths comfort and happiness of man than glass . What thaei microscope has revealed , what astronomy lias disc / osed , d , what chemistry has taught , we ovfe directly or indirectly toioi its tife , and without it half ihe refinement and enjoymentstsi of civilisation would be lost .
Colt ' s Pistols . —At the trial made by the Americans . Board of Ordnance . Colt ' s holster pistol was fired 1 , 200 times , s , and his belt pistol 1 , 500 times , cleaning bat once a day , y , when the Board determined that no further trial was ne-ecessary , and reported that neither of the pistols appeared totoi be injured by the firing . The penetrations of Colt ' s holsterer pistol were found to be through seven inches of hoard , and biaisi belt pistol through six inches . And from a trial recently madslei at Woolwich , ur . dcr the direction of Col . Clumbers , lt . A ., L . „ it appeared that even by men unaccustomed lo theuseoioii this particular arm , great precision of firing could be at-ittained , as with a small revolving belt pistol , at a distance ofofi fifty yards , put of forty-eight shots , twenty-live bullets tooiolS effect , within a space of oue foot square , and of them mi thirteen hit the bull ' s-eye , which was only six inches ii in diameter : the whole number of shots striking the target . .
Women' and Men . —Women , and especially young wqjtqi men , either believe falsely or judge harshly of men in obobh thing . You , young loving creature , who dream of youom : lover by night and by day—you fancy that he does the saniiniin of yon ! lie does not , he cannot ; nor is it right he sbouldildl One hour , perhaps , your presence has captivated him , subub ] dued him even to weakness ; the next he will heinthithii world , working his way as a man among men , forgetting fcifciii the time being ynur very existence . ? Possiblv if you saw himimi his outer self hard and stern , so different to the self yoi ^ ott know , would strike you with pain . Or else his inner anancc diviner self , higher than you would dream of , would turrarrr coldly from your insignificant love , l ' et all this must be ( ie ;; yon have no right to murmur . You cann ot rule a i »» n sn tt soul-no woman ever did-except by holding unwoitlijtlijj swav over uh worthy passions . Be content if you lie in msmm heart , as that heart lies in Lis bosom-deep and ealmlim . . ts bentinss unseen , uncounted , oftentimes wrteH . ¦ but stufoU : ' giving life " to his whole bcing- ^ M « ° t <«» ' %
. Ths Cost op Polios i . v Larojb Towns .-A report re res centlv printed to the Sheffield , Town Council by thcthu Watch Committee s tates , that the cost per man of thithn p « iica force to ftp teh atu , ai AbS lOi . 4 < J . ; in Lcedtada ¦ W Gi lid iiiMmLJ 140 4 s ' - ; in ^ "'castletlee £ G 0 it ill in SJWr * « ' liull r « 19 s - * 2 dl 2 dl and in Sheffield , & E 4 & - lOd . per annum . In Leeds anianm Shield ih « co < t per man is considerably reduced- by tb tba earnings of the r ' oice ; but whilst in the former borough , th thi net annual cos t per man is ± 5 ;/ lis . 3 d ., in Sheffield it jit ii but £ 32 1 * - 7-1 - fn PWP 011 ' ' ^ to population the policnlicc forc e of liirin : r : « ham is as 1 in 71 Gi ; of Bradford . 1 i 1 ii 1 07 li ; of Newcastle , I in 1 , 0681 ; of Hanch stor 1 il ii 6814 ; ' of Hull , I in 592 $ , and of Sheffield , 1 ia 1 . U 01 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 13, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_13031852/page/3/
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