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June 14, 1845. ». The Northern Star, 8
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MY MITHER'S KIST . It ' s nae to get a grander hame That I maun flit the morn-Maun quit the sward which first I trod—The bield whaur I was born . The comfoi-ts o' its cozy hearth "WiB a'be sairly miss'd ;—This only remnant gangs wi * me , My ain auld mither ' s Mst . Next to hersel ' , my infant hopes On this auld box were built ; And now , though manhood marks my brow , My heart lies lithely ffll't The band that spares not made me heir-Far sooner than I wist—C much ; hot nought that pleased me mair Than this—my miflier ' s last . I mind my merit ' s first reward
Though sma ' , yet 0 ! how dear-Was gi ' en me frae the weel-hained purse , That aye lay hoarded here . Man's meed o' praise I ' ve got since svne—By Fortune's hand been blest ; But nane prized like that ae bawbee Frae out my mither ' s hist . 1 bent nae wish but what I iuocht Its stores could weel supply : We lang bad lost a father ' s love—A husband ' s industry ; Yet woman's ever eident hand , Wi' nae ane to assist , Held aye the fangs o * misery far Frae affmy mither ' s hist
And sae its nae what ' s in it now—Though that be a * my store—That links me to the auld oak Mst , Bat for its worth of yore . 1 doubt this heart will ken nae mair A joy of sic a grist , As when a bairn I ' ve danced me roun' , Or on my mither ' s kist . H . B . K MbSmrgh Wettito Register .
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ESSAYS OS NATURAL HISTORY , ic . By C Watjertos , Esq . London : Longman and Co ., Paternoster-row . ( Concluded from the Northern Star of June 1 th . ) Our first extract this week describes a singular
COMBAT BETWIXT TWO BARES . On Easter Sunday , in the afternoon , as I was proceeding with my brother-in-law , Mr . Carr , to look at a wild dock ' s -nest in an adjacent wood , we saw two hares fighting with inconceivable fury on the open ground , about a hundred and fifty yards distant from us . # * * * Westaid in the wood some ten minutes , and on nearing it we saw the hares still in desperate battle . They had moved along the hill-side , and the grass was strongly marked with their down for a space of twenty yards . At last one of the sylvan warriors fell on its side , and never got upon its legs again . Its antagonist then retreated for a yard or so , —stood stiU for a minute , as if in contemplation , and then rushed vengefully on the fallen foe . This retreat and advance was performed many times ; the conqueror
striking its prostrate adversary with its fore feet , and clearing off great quantities of down with them . In the meantime the vanquished hare rolled over and over again , but could not recover the use of its legs , although it made several attempts to do so . Its movements put you in mind of a drunken man trying to get up from the floor , after a hard night in the ale-house . It now lay still on the ground , effectually subdued ; whilst the other continued its attacks upon it with the fury of a little demon . Seeing that the fight was over , we approached the scene of action , —the conqueror hare retiring as we drew near 1 took up the fallen combatant just as it was breathing its last . Both its sides bad been completely bared of fur , and large patches of down had been torn from its back and belly . It was a weU-conditioned buck hare , weighing , i should suppose , some seven or eight pounds .
tub robin . Pretty cock-robin , the delight of our childhood , and an object of protection in our riper years . Wherever there is plenty of shelter for him , his song may beheard throughout the entire year , even In the midst of frost and SHOW . In the whele catalogue of British birds , cock-robin is the Only one which In his wild state can be really considered familiar with man . Others are rendered tame by famine and cold weather , and will cautiously approach the spot where food is thrown for them , but the robin will actually alight upon your table , and pick up crumbs on your own plate . When I have been digging in the pleasure ground , he has come and sat upon ray spade ; and by every gesture proved his confidence . You cannot halt for any moderate time in the wood , bnt cock-robin is sure to approach ,
and cheer yon with an inward note or two ; and on such occasions he has more than once alighted on my foot This familiarity is iohesewt in "him , and not acquired . I am not acquainted with any other wild bird that possesses it . In Italy this social disposition of his does not guarantee him from destruction by the hand of man . At the bird marker , near the rotunda , in Rome , I have counted fflore than fifty robin-redbreasts lying dead on one stall . "Is it possible , " said I to the vender , "that you can kill and eat these pretty songsters f " Yes , " said he , with a grin ; " and if you will take a dozen of them home for your dinner to-day , you will come back for two dozen tomorrow . " It is the innocent familiarity of this sweet warbler which causes it to be such a favourite with all
ranks of the people in England . Nobody ever thinks of doing it an injury . " ThaPs poor cock-robin 1 don't hurt poor cock-robin , " says the nursery-maid , when her infant charge would wish to capture it . Mrs . Barbanld has introduced cock-robin into her plaintive story of Pity ; and , when we study the habits of this bird , and see-that his intimacy with us far surpasses that of any other known wild one , we no longer wonder that the author of that pathetic ballad , the Children in the Wood , should have singled out the redbreast amongst all the feathered tribe , to do them the last sad act ot kindness . They had been bar barously left to perish , and had died of cold and want Cock-robin found them , and he is described as bringing leaves in his month , and covering their dead bodies with
tnem : — « Their pretty lips with blackberries Were aU besmear'd and dyed ; And when they saw the darksome night They laid them down and cried . «• So burial these pretty babes Of any man receives , Till robin-redbreasts , painfully , Did cover them with leaves . " This baUad has something in it peculiarly calculated to touch the finest feelings of the human heart . Perhaps there is not a virlage or hamlet in England that has not heard what befel the babes in the wood ; and how poor sock-robin did all in his power for them when death had dosed their eyes . I wish it were in my power to do only half as much in favour of some other birds as this well known baHad of the Children in Vie Wood has done for poor cock-robin .
Mr . Waterios has an excellent chapter on Waste Lands , hi which he manfully denounces the wholesale robberies committed on the poor by the aristocracy in the enclosing of the common and waste lands ol of thecountrv . "Heath Common , " a place which our own eyes We feasted on , in the neujhbom-hood rfWakefield , being threatened with ^ closure Act Mr . Watebtox addressed andpublished the following protest to the inhabitants of the town : —
SEATS COMMON , Wakefield , -once Merry Wakefield ' -why art thou so no longer What envious hand bath smote thee , and changed thy garland of roses into one of rue and wormwood 1 Formerly thy fair face must have beamed with manv smiles ; for thou wert known throughout the land by the name of " Merry Wakefield . " And very merry mast have been thy days : for thy merchants were prosperous , thy people happy , and thy prison empty ; ay , so empty , that time was when not one single wallsThere West
captive could befound within its . was - gateCommonopentoth ypeopleandtoalltbeworldbeades , and the Outwood too ; and here it was that thy merry « ons and daughters came to dance , and sing , and to drive duU care awav . But these once-famed rural haunts for mirth and glee are now no longer thine : theiron hand of private interestfell heavy on them ; and they were lost to thee for ever . Oh , how cruel and unjust it was , to sever from thee those debghtfid walks which the foresight and good sense of our ancestors had apportioned for thy welfare and left at thy command ! sad and
AB , all is now ehangedfor the worse : and sorlowfol have the scenesbecome , which were once so bright and joyous : aud woeful is the appearance of the avenues which lead to once Merry Wakefield . On one of them there frowns a Bastile so huge and terrible , and so appalling with solitary cells , that m new ins it the soul of man recoils within him , and be begins to doubt if he is in a Christian country . Thmgs were cot so in the goue-by days of once Merry Wakefield . OaacotherissecnaBidely spreading structure , peopled bv those whom sorrow , and misfortune , and want , and wretchedness , have deprived of the choicest gift ° f Heaven io man . We read in their countenances the mournful Hrtorvof their sad destiny , and we fancy that we can «» r them sav , "You would have seen no sigbt § so sor-*> wtolastheseinthe goue-by days of once Merry Wakettld . "
On a third avenue we behold unsightly piles of buildins ? , —granaries high and spacious , —but the workings of winch are diametrically the reverse of those erected by benevolent Joseph in andent Egypt- And in passing over Calder ' s Bridge , we see a gem of olden architecture , now mouldering into dust , unheeded and untenanted , and with its window broken , lis said to have been endowed for mass , for the souls of the slain at the great battle in the neighbourhood . Some years ago it served as a countmgAouse ; but probably the pressure of the times drove the buyers and sellers fromits poUuted walls , ' bich werekeptsopure and bright in the gone-by days of once Merry Wakefield .
WakefieliL-once Merry Wakefield ' —these sad lnnotatiowstooVlaiBl y ten us that all is not right within thee . Bnt thy cup of sorrow is not yet filled up ; another bereavement sffll awaits thee , and it wiU be a final blow to * be few remaining rural sports which are now within thy rath . Heath Common is to be enclosed ! Then adieu ,
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long and last adieu , to thy delightful walks , and rides , ana manly games , on the ever-enchanting wilds of Heath common ; th y unrestr icted , undisturbed sojourn , time out of mmd . And when the fatal day of its enclosure snau have dawned upon thee , say , once Merry Wakefield , say , what is to become of thy fifteen thousand people , who will not have a yard of public land remaining , whereon torecovcrthat health of frame , and vigour of the mind so apt to be enfeebled when debarred from the advantage of rural air aud pastime ! I myself will join thee in thy lamentations on the near approach of this great and unexpected event ; for many a walk do I take on Heath Common hear the wild notes of birds which are strangers to my own domain ; and it is on Heath Common that I always expect to hear the first song of the cuckoo , sweet harbinger of returning spring . Were I a Senator , —which God forbid , whilst Peel ' s eath stares me in the face !—l would stand upandfieht thy battle to the last . b
Wakefield , —once Merry Wakefield!—fare thee well ! I would not have a hand , in the projected enclosure of Heath Common , even though poor Charley Stuart himself could come back , and were to give his royal sanction to it . *
THE DUNG SWAN . The supposed melod y of the dying swan seems tobea fable of remote antiquity . Ihave longbeen amdoustofind out upon what grounds the ancients could possibly attach melody to an expiring bird , which neither in vouth nor in riper years ever shows itself gifted with the power of producing a single inflexion of the voice that can be pronounced melodious . * # # Q nce j j , a ^ an opportunity , which rarely occurs , of being with a swan in its last illness . Although I gave no credence to the extravagant notion which anti quity had entertained of melody from the month of the dying swan , still I felt anxious to hear some plaintive sound or other , some soft inflexion of the voice , which might tend to justify that notion in a smaU degree . But I was disappointed
This poor swan was a great favourite , and had been the pride of the lake time out of mind . Those who spend their life in the country , and pay attention to the ordinary movements of birds , will easily observe a change in them whenever their health is on the decline . I perceived that the plumage of this swan put on a weather-beaten appearance , and that the bird itself no longer raised the feathers of his wings as he passed through tlie water before me . Judging that he was unwell , I gave orders that he should he supplied with bread aud boiled potatoes . Of these he ate sparingly , and in a day or two he changed his quarters , probably for want of sufficient shelter from the wind . Having found his way down to the stables , he got upon a smaU fishpond there , out of reach of storms . From this time henever fended for food , but he continued to take a little white bread now and then from my hand .
At last he refused this ; and then he left the water for good and all , and sat down on the margin of the pond , with evident signs of near approaching death . He soon became too weak to support his long neck in an upright position . He nodded , and then tried to recover himself , and then nodded again , and again held up bis bead ; till at last , quite enfeebled aud worn out , Ms head fell gently on the grass , his wings became expanded a trifle or so , and he died whilst I was looking on . This was in the afternoon , and I had every facility of watching his d & . parting hour , for I was attending the masons , some thirty yards from the pond to which tlie swan had retired . He never even utteredhis wonted cry , nor so much as asound to indicate what he felt within . The silence which this bird maintained to the last , tends to show that the dying song of the swan is nothing but a fable , the origin of which is lost in the shades of antiquity .
There is an excellent chapter on "FreshAir , " from which we give the following extracts : —
SLEEPING AT ISNS . Beds have vast attractions ; beds , to wit , of down and roses . But we are not told who has slumbered there the night before . In fact , we never ask the question . Mine hostess assures us , that they have been well aired ; but she does not mean that they have been aired by the noonday ' s healthy sunbeams . She gives you to understand , by saying that the bed has been well-aired , that , in fact , it has constantly been slept upon by a succession of travellers , of whose health , or the want of it , not the slightest mention is ever made # * * * A person , on whose veracity I could depend , and who seemed to have scrutinised tiiegener . il state of dormitories with a considerable degree of attention , once told me , that he had not passed a single bonr in bed for fourteen years . He said he was
his own master in that respect , and could suit himseli as be thought St , He added , that his aversion to outer a strange bed was extreme , He did not know who had been there before him , or whatimpuriries mightbelurking in the region of tlie feather bed , or whether it had been aired by Phoebus or by Bacchus ; and that the possibility of getting into a damp bed acted upon his nerves more terribly than did theoperarion of Sir Robert Peel's ineometax . "Audhowtio you manage , " said I , " withoutabed V " Uncommonly weU , " said he . "My apprenticeship , " continued he , " to the hard floor only cost me a fortnight , and after that all went right . " He then informed me that the advantages which he had acquired by abandoning the bed for ever wore incalculable . He said that so long as there was a current of fresh air in the place where he
laid him down to rest , he was excellently accommodated for a fair spell of sleep . Travelling had no longer any nocturnal terrors for him . Whilst others were anxious about tlie paraphernalia of their bedrooms , and peevish when things were not to their liking , he stood smiling on , pitying their distresses , and happy with the thought that he could stow himself away for the night in a moment , from bad bugs , bad breaths , andbad bedding . "Andyou Hill never more sleep in a bed V said I . ' "Never , " said he , with a smile f contentment on his face . "Mature has accommodated herself tome , and I to nature . What more can I wish V' He ceased on saying this . I entered fully into Ms fellings ; and ere 1 retired to rest I thought ifwehadmore of fortitude and less of self-love things would go better with us , both night and day , than they do at present .
SICK BOOMS AKD SLEEPIHG 500 MS . If we turn to a sick room , we are apt to surmise that the doctor in attendance never once takes the state of the lungs under his serious consideration , except in cases of apparent consumption . Although he has learned from anatomy that pure air is most essential to them , still he allows his patient to be in a tomb , as it were , walled round with dense curtains , where the wholesome breeze can gain no admittance , and where the foul vapours issue from the feverish mouth , and return to it , and from thence to the lungs , which are barely able to perform their duty . The windows are constantly shut , and the door most carefully closed , by which mischievous custom the lungs have no chance of receiving a fresh supply of air from without , and at last the patient sinks in death for want of it . If
those in typhus fever were conveyed to an open shed , screened on one side against the blowing wind , with a sufficiency of clothes upon them , very little physic would be required ; for the fresh air would soon subdue the virulence of the disease in nine cases out of ten . Then , a person finds he cannot sleep at night : if he would open the window , and take a few turns in the room , there can be no doubt but that sweet sleep , placidissime somne Veorum , would return with him arm in arm to bed . Wonderful is the degree of heat which is generated by the human body , when prostrate on a soft bed . Those parts of the sheets which do not come in contact with it , will , of course , retain their wonted coolness ; and then , if the
person becomes restless in his sleep , and rolls over upon them , he runs a fair risk of contracting rheumatic pains scarcely ever to be removed . Should a man ever have the terrible misfortune to pass the night in a damp bed , he would be much worse off than if he had been condemned to lie on a pismire ' s nest These little tormentors would merely blister him , perhaps even with salutary effect ; but the humid bed would cause him damage often beyond the power of art or nature to repair . I trust we may safely conclude that , when the soft and downy preparations for the repose of the night have been completed , we do wrong , very wrong indeed , to exclude the night air from our apartments . That we can absolutely do without it , ii certain ; but that we should do better with it , is equally
cert am . Mr . Wjhemos has a good word for the rooks , whose destruction it appears has , or had , been determined on bv the wise men of the north , the 1 timers of Scotland . Mr . W . shows most concl isivelj that instead of being enemies , the rooks are the best friends the farmers have in destroying the myriads of insects on which those sable gentry mostly feed . The concluding chapter of the work is "On Tight Shoes , Tight Stays , and Cravats . " His arguments on the two first of these fashionable absurdities have been enforced times without number , but his war against Cravats is something new . His arguments , we think , arc unanswerable .
CBAVATS . What in the name of hemp and bleaching , has a cravat to do with the throat of a man , except at Tyburn ? The throat is the great thoroughfare or highway for the departure and return if the blood from tlie heart to the bead , and back again ; and we all kuow that pressure on the vessels which contain this precious fluid maybe attended with distressing and even fatal consequences ; so that when a man falls down in a tit , the first attempt at relief on tlie part of the bystanders is to untie his cravat . Indeed , the windpipe , the veins , and the arteries located in the neck , may be considered as life ' s body guards , which will not allow themselves to be too severely pressed upon with impunity . When we consider how very near these main channels of life are to the surface of the throat , ire wonder at the temerity of the man who first introduced the use of cravats as a protection against the weather or as an orna-Lnt to the parts . When he was about tins roguish bus ,-
ness , why did he stop short at the neck ? Benugbtjust as wellbave offered clothing to the nose and cheeks . If these lastmentioned parts of our mortal frame can safely accommodate themselves to the blasts ofw-inter orthe £ 2 * sun , surely thethroatmight be allowed ^ o ry its fortune in the external air , especially when we see tMs important privilege conceded to femalesin every rank of life , and of the most delicate constitutions . If any part of the human body be allowed to be uncovered m these days of observation and improvement , certainly the throat of man has the best claim to exemption from the punishment which it undergoes at P « sent . However , wearenotquitesooufragetuB now ^ smsometiim & as we were when I was a lad . I remember ™ U the tune when cravats of enormous height and thickness were all the go . 'Twassiudthatthesejugular bolsters eamemto fashion on account of some unsightly rose-buds having made their appearance a littlebelow the ears of a dandy . This may have been scandal for aught I know to the con trary ; bat certain it is , that the new invention spread
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like wild-fire , and warmed the throats of all in high life . A connection of mine placed so much stress upon the necessity of it , thathe never consideredhimselfsufficientlv well dressed until hehad circumvented his neck with seven cravats . * * * # My own cravat , although it had nothing extraordinary either in size or shape , had once very nearly been the death of me . One night , on going my rounds alone in an adjacent wood , I came up with two poachers ; fortunately one of them fled , and I saw no more of him . I engaged the other -, wrenched the knife out of his hand , after I had parried his blow , and then closed with him . We soon came to the ground together , he uppermost . In the struggle he contrived to get his hand into my cravat , and twisted it until I was within an ace of being strangled . Just as all was apparently over with me , I
made one last convulsive effort , and I sent my knees , as he lay upon we , full against his stomach , and threw him off . Away he sent , carrying with him my hat , and leaving me his own , together with his knife and twenty wire snares . 1 cannot possibly understand why we strong and healthy men should be doomed by fashion to bind up our necks like sheaves of com , and thus keep our jugular veins in everlasting jeopardy . I know one philosopher in Sheffield who sets this execrable fashion nobly at defiance , and always appears without a cravat . How I revere him for this , and how I condemn myself for not having sufficient fortitude to follow his example J The armadillo and land-tortoise of Guiana , although encased in a nearly impenetrable armour , have their necks free . Indeed , man alone is the only being to bo found iu the whole range of animated nature who goes with a ligature on the throat .
# Mr . Waterios intimates that this will be the last timfl he will appear before the public as an author . We hope that he will reconsider this determination . From some tilings he has written we dissent : but it is our conviction that few can read his works without becoming wiser and better from their perusal . We hope it will not be long before we shall have the pleasure of again introducing Mr . Waterios to ouv readers .
Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine—Jtoe...
DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE—Jtoe . London : Punch Office , 92 , Fleetstreet . On the whole this is an excellent number of this truly and deservedly popular Magazine . The only exceptions we have to make are , that the portion given of the Editor ' s story of "St . Giles and St . James , " is too brief to satisfy the reader ; and that there is too little of that light reading which , without damage to the serious and mighty objects sought to be advanced by Doitglas Jerrold and his colabourers , might , we think , advantageously occupy a portion of this work . Of course we do not desire that a solitary page should be given up to meresicklv
sentimentality and absurd romance ; but , eschewing these , it y et appears to us that tales of wit and humour might be made to subserve the purposes of tins Magazine without detriment to its more serious contents . We suppose that something of this sort is intended by the "legend" of "The Bishop's Knock " in the present number ; hut we cannot speak very highly of its execution . By-the-bye what has become of the " Cat and Fiddle Moralities ? " We hope the Editor will resume them . If any one of our readers , disappointed and disheartened at what he deems the slow or doubtful progress of good principles , is inclined to despair of the future , let him take up the present number of this Magazine , and we are certain he will not lay it down again if he has once thoroughly perused it without
finding his hope abundantly revived . There have been , and are , unfortunately , too many causes to induce the simple suffering son of toil to" despair of a better future , and deem the struggle for justice hopeless . He sees arrayed against Ms " order" a ' government the most potent m the world , backed by a powerful aristocracy and priesthood , and the still mightier band of the " Kings of Gold . " The section of the middle class at war with the aristocracy are not less at war with the people and opposed to their enfranchisement . The public journals—so powerful for good or evil—are almost entirely devoted to the one interest or the other , that of ruling feudalism or rampant capital , to the exclusion of , and in opposition to , the interest of labour . Lastly , division and black-hearted calumny , caused and promulgated by men whose one idea appears to be
"Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven , " have brought discouragement to the ranks of the patriots , and disgrace on their name . The friends of freedom , therefore , contemplating the strength and resources of the system against which they war , the yet widely existing ignorance of the masses , and the treacheries of pretended friends , may be excused if , sometimes they feel inclined to waver in their belief in the progress and future triumph of their principles . Yet are the grounds for hope—nay , certainty of future triumph , —many and indisputable .
Take one only : the new literature of the age , of which this magazine may be regarded as the type . The number before us , from beginning to end , page upon page , proclaims the wrongs of the many , or vindicates their rights with an ability seldom excelled , and an earnestness never exceeded . The editor ' s story of "St . Giles and St . James" proclaims in every chapter the truth which erewhile society refused to listen to , that "circumstances make the man : " that the babe " born in the castitt" would , if placed in the situation of his brotherinfant "whelp'din the cottage , " become of necessity the victim and the slave of the demoralizing influences which from the cradle to tlie grave surround the offspring of the lowly ; while , on the other
hand , the child of the poor man , if exposed to the luxuries , frivolities , and falsehood of "high life , " would of necessity exhibit through his existence the natural results of such training . From these facts the reformer and philanthropist will deduce the conclusion , that an equal educational guardianship of all tlie children of the commonwealth , accompanied by a more equal apportionment of necessary labour , and distribution of the products of labour , are the only means by which the vices incidental to both poverty and luxury may be annihilated ; and society , being purged from social outcasts and useless drones , may become an intelligent , free , virtuous , and happy community . The " Mummery of Medicine" is an exposition
much needed ot the quackeries ot the medical tnue , more particularly their custom of wrapping up their prescriptions and inscriptions in dog-Latin . This is an imposture—a humbug , which it is high time was put an end to ; and we are glad that this magazine has opened fire upon this time-honoured but mindexploded fraud . " The Law of the Land" is a powerfully-written and truly political article , exposing the rapacity and tyranny of the landlords from the earliest period to the present time . " Man and the Criminal" is an article of the highest order of merit , whether we regard its design or its execution . We would that we could place it in the hands of every member of the community . Societies formed for the purpose of reforming our criminal code and abolishing death-punishments , would do well—first obtaining the sanction of the parties concerned—to reprint
this article in the shape of a cheap tract , " The Hedgehog Letters" are as " spicy" as ever , and must give the bigots the belly-ache to read tnem . " A History for Young England" is by no means the least important portion of this magazine ; and therevelations of the past contained in this history are , we think , nearly certain to lead the veritable " Young England" to look forward to the future , instead of backward to the past for the golden age of political purity and social justice . Lastly , even the critiques at tiie conclusion of the number all " breathe a purpose" of tlie right sort . That on Mr . D'Israeu's new work is the most philosophic , and indeed , in every sense , the best , on ihe subject we have yet seen . We have no room for extract : but we must perforce give the Mowing from the critique on SrMi : —
With all tlie sections of party that divide the country he [ Mr . D'Israeli ] is well acquainted , but has devoted his principal attention to the Chartists . Of them he may be said to he the historian ; nor has he unfaithfully narrated their proceedings . With their energy he sympathises , and feels for then- wrongs—or at least he exposes them . He-has evidently made himself intimately acquainted with their tenets and their proceedings , and has a just notion of their powers and capacities . And it is an instance of his political sagacity to endeavour to turn attention to a party who must exercise , ere long , a powerful effect , not only upon tlie social state of England , but upon the corresponding classes of other civilised societies . wealth
The grand contest of the universal man against , or , in other words , of the wants of humanity against the privileges of a few , must , iu a gcnerat ' - oii ot wo , cow \ e to issue . AH things proclaim it , and few can retard it . Indeed by many the question is narrowed to this simple point : —In order to improve the condition of mankind , is it necessary to alter the Jaws or to alter mankind ? Or again , does the amelioration of mankind depend upon having good laws , or does the having good laws depend upon the having good men f The Chartists say , " bet us malie good laws , and we shall have men as they ought to "be . " On the othernand , say the Young England " * . " Make men religious and virtuous , and the rest will follow .
Who will gainsay that this Magazine is even of itself a hopeful and unmistakeablc sign of progress-For the instruction and gratification of the iricnas of freedom , and for the more extensive propagation of the principles to which they are wedded , we heartily recommend io our readcrsthesupport anu circulation of this « : ; : ellent publication .
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TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE-Juke . Edinburgh : 'fait , 107 , Prince ' s-stveet . Tail for this month opens with a lengthy a ™* cul ;; gistic review of Lord Brougham's " Lives of Men ot Letters and Science who flourished in the time ot George the Third . " Who's to decide when revteivers disagree ? Let any one read this review in Tmt , and then read the notice of the same work in Jerrold s Jlamtfne for this month , and he will be com pelled , we fancy , to after all betake himself to his lordship s hook before he can hope to form a just conclusion as to its merits . Probably , the exact value of the work and the just estimate of the intellectual powers ot its author will be found to lie somewheremidway between the high-flown eulogies of the writer in W and the
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wholesale condemnations of the critic in Jerrold . iostenty , however , will , we imagine , rate Lord brougham much lower than his northern admirer seems willing to admit ; or should his popularity be maintained , or , rather , revived in years to come , we may venture safely to predict that that revival will not be on the southern side of the border . "A Sporting Legend of England " is a short tale , the character of which is betokened by the title , by Jons Mills , whose productions are always welcome . " Raby nattier is a review of a new work , bearing that name , in winch tlie reviewer administers a welldeserved ( instigation to the writers of what is ™ H * n
the lliieves" Literature . " From the "Life and Correspondence of Nikbuhr , the Historian , " is given a most interesting account of Nelson ' s attack on Copenhagen , of which the historian was an eyewitness , as he filled at that time a government office under tue Danish crown . " British Aggression on Snide is an able and just article . There arc some reviews and other articles we have not read From a notice in the "Literary Register" of a work entitled The French in Algiers , we give the following sketch of the unconquerable Arab , a man dear to the hearts oi every lover of freedom and hater of oppression ; and we are not ashamed to add—speaking for ourselves-one of our "household gods . " Here , from the pen of a Frenchman , who had been a prisoner m the camp of the Emir , is a portrait of the glorious
ABD-EL-KAMB , I will now endeavour to describe a man of whom at present very little is known . From all that I had hoard , I expected to find a bloodthirsty barbarian , always ready to cut off heads : my expectations were false indeed . Abd-el-Kader is twenty-eight years of age , and very small ; his face is long and deadly pale ; his large black eyes are soft and languishing , his mouth small and delicate , and his nose rath er aquiline ; his beard is thin , but jet black , and he wears a small mustachio , which gives a martial character to his soft and delicate face , and becomes him vastly . His hands are small and exquisitely formed , and his feet equally beautiful . The care he takes of them is quite coquettish : he is constantly washing thein , and paring and filing his nails with a small knife with a beautifully carved mother-of-pearl handle , which he holds all the while as he sits crouching on his cushions with his toes clasped between his fingers .
His dress is distinguished by the most studied simplicity ; there is not a vestige of gold or embroidery on any part of it . He wears a shirt of very fine linen , tho seams of which are covered with a silk braid terminating in a small silk tassel . Over the shirt is a liaick , and over the haick two white hernouses ; the uppermost garment is a black bernouse . A few silk tassels are the only ornaments about his dress he wears no arms in his girdle , his head is shaved , and covered by three or four skull-caps , one within tlie other , over which he draws the hood of his bernouse . Abd-el-Kader's father , who dted abowttwo years ago , was a marabout called Mahadin , who , by means of his fortune , his intelligence , and his character for sanctity , had acquired very great fame and influence among the Arabs .
The Sultan is said to be a most tender husband ; and his conduct proves the truth of the report , for he has not a single concubine . His wife is very pretty ; her tall slender figure is seen to great advantage under the graceful folds of her haick , which is girded round her middle with a red worsted cord . The Arabs usually like large fat women , but Abd-el-Kader's taste is different . Though often absent from his wife for three or four months at a time , his attachment to her remains unchanged . Even from the banks of the Ouet Mina he frequently sent her presents of fruit , butter , honey , and other , rarities . He has had one daughter by her ¦ and though it was asserted that she was delivered of a boy on the very day on which the French entered Mascara , ' ! do not believe it ; for if Abd-el-Kader really had a son , I am sure the Arabs would have told me so . During the night the thirty negroes keep watch ronnd tlie tent , that nothing may disturb the repose of Abd-el-Kader and liis wife ; and during their absence from the camp a guard of foot-soldiers supplies their place around the Sultan's tent .
This number , take it for all in all , is an interesting one . The extracts from Lord Brougham's work will be welcomed by those to whom the original book may not be attainable .
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TRADE'S LONDON REVIE \ V-J « SE . London ; On- and Co ., Paternoster-row , This is rather a dull number of the London Heview . Most probably the " melancholy month of May" has had anything but a vivifying influence on the writers while preparing their matter for the prcsentnnmber . The principal articles are on the "Woolwich Royal Military Academy ; " " Late Alterations of the Debtor Laws ; " and an article on the celebrated French writer , Montaigue . This last is the cream of the number , and forms a fitting companion-piece to the notice of Rabelais given in a former number . We hope there will be more—many more similar sketches given . They cannot fail to be instructive and
interesting to those readers who have not the advantage of being able to peruse authors other than those who have written in their own mother tongue . The heaviness of the present number , which concludes the first volume , is likely , wo understand , to be remedied for the future . " A portion of Mure numbers will he dedicated to tales ' , ' poetry , and dramatic notices , accompanied by occasional iUuBtrations . " The new volume ( commencing on tho 1 st of July ) is to open with an Oriental Romance , which will be continued in succeeding parts . These changes , if spiritedly carried out , will , we doubt not , prove beneficial to this Review , which , even at present , is one of the cleverest publications of the time .
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fig- The Illuminated Magazine , the Colonial Magazine , and Traveller ' s Magazine , will be noticed in our mat . ' Publications received : — " Says and Nights in the East . " " Chronicles of the Bastile , " Part IS . " The Orphan , " Part 8 . "Address on Education , by Dr . Smiles . "
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MRS . CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES . cauble , whilst walkixg with his wife , has been bowed to by a younger and even prettier woman tuas mrs . cavdm 5 . If I ' m not to leave the house without being insulted , Mr . Caudle , I had better stay indoors all my life . '' What 1 Don't tell me to let you have one night ' s rest ! I wonder at your impudence ! It ' s mighty fine ; I never can go out with you , and—goodnes ' s knows ! it ' s seldom enough-without having my feelings torn to pieces by people of all sorts . A set of hold minxes ! What am I raving about ? Oh , you know very well , indeed , Mr . Caudle . A pretty person she must be to nod to a man walking with his own wife ! Don't tell me that it ' s Miss Prettymanwhat ' s Miss Prettyman to me ? Oh ! You've met her once or twice at her brother ' s house ? Yes , I dare say
you have—no doubt of it , I always thought there was something very tempting about that house—and now I know it all . Now , it ' s no use , Mr . Caudle , your beginning to talk loud , and twist and toss your aims about as if you were as innocent as a born babe —I ' m not to be deceived by such tricks now . No ; there was a time when I was a fool , and believed anything ; but—I thank my stars!—I ' ve got over that . "Abold minx ! You suppose I didn't see her laugh , too , when she nodded to you ! Oh yes , I knew what she thought me ; a poor miserable creature , of course . I could see that . No—don't say so , Caudle . I don't always see move than anybody else—hut I can't and won't be blind , however agreeable it might be to vou : I must have the use of my senses . I ' m
sure , if a woman wants attention aud respect from a man , she'd better be anything than his wife . I ' ve always thought so ; and to-day's decided it . " No ; I ' m not ashamed of myself to talk so—certainly not . A good , amiable young creature , indeed ! Yes ; I dare say ; very amiable , no doubt . Of course , you think her so , You suppose I didn't see what sort of a bonnet she had on ? O , a very good creature ! And you think I didn't see the smudges of court plaister about her face ? You didn ' t see ' em ? Very likely , but I did . Very amiable , to be sure ! What do you say ? Imade her blush at my ill-manners ? I should like to have seen her blush ! 'Twould have been rather difficult , Mr . Caudle , for a blush to have come through all that pair . t . No—I ' m not a
censorious woman , Mr , Caudle ; quite the reverse . No ; and you may threaten to get up , if you like—I will speak . I know what cohur is , and I say it was paint . I believe , Mr . Caudle , J once had a complexion ; though , of course , you ' ve quite forgotten that : I think I once had a colour , before your con-i duct destroyed it . Before I knew you , people used to call me the Lily and Rose ; but—what are you laughing at ? I see nothing to laugh at . But as I say , anybody before your own wife , " And I can't walk out with you but you ' re bowed to by every woman you meet ! What do I mean ly every ivoman , when W ' s oi % _ Miss Prettyman ? That ' s nothing at all to do with it . How do I know who bows to you when I ' m not by ? Everybody , of course . And if they don't look at you , why you look , at them .
O ) Iffi sure you do . You do it even when . I ' m out with you , and of course you do it when I ' m away . Now , don't tell me , Caudle—don't deny it . The fact is , it ' s become such a dreadful habit with you , that you don't know when you do it , and when vou don't . But / do . J " Miss Prettyman , indeed ! What do you say ? You won't lie still and hear me scandalise that excellent young woman ? O , of course , you'll take her part ! Though , to be sure , she may not be so much to blame after all . For how is she to know you ' re married ? You ' re never seen out of doors with your own wife—never . Wherever vou co , you go alone .
Of course people think you ' re a bachelor . What do you say % You well know you're not ? That's nothing to do with it—I only ask what must people think , when I ' m never seen with you ? Other women go out with their husbands : but as I ' ve often said , I ' m not like any other woman . What are you sneering at , Mr . Caudle ? How do I know you ' re sneering ? Don't tell me v I know well enough , by the manner of you . "• No ; you never take me out—and you know it . No ; and it ' s not my own fault . How can you lie there and say that ? Oh , all a poor excuse ! That ' s
what you always say . You ' re tired of asking me , indeed , because I always start some objection ? Of course I can ' t go out a figure . And when you ask me to go , you know very well that my bonnet isn ' t as it should be—orthatmygownhasn ' tcomehome—orthat I can't leave the children , —or that something keeps me indoors . You know all this , well enough , before you ask me . And that ' s your art . And when I do go out with you , I ' m sure to suffer for it . Yes ; you needn't repeat my words . Suffer for it . But vou suppose I have no feelings : oh no , nobody has feelings but yourself . Yes ; I'd forgot : Miss Prettyman , perhaps—yes , she may have feelings , of course . " And , as I ' ve said , I daresay a pretty dupe people think me , To be sure ; a poor iorhiv creature I must look in everybody ' s eyes . But 1 knew you couldn't be at Mr . Prettyman's house night after night till eleven o ' clock —and a great deal vou thought of me sitting up for you—I knew you couldn't be there without some cause . And now I ' ve found it out ! Oh , I don't mind your swearing , Mr . Caudle ! It's I , if I wasn't a woman , who ought to swear .
But it s like you men . Lords of the creation , as you call yourselves ! Lords , indeed ! And pretty slaves you make of the poor creatures who're tied to you . Bnt I'll be separated , Caudle ; I will ; and then I'll take care and let all the world know how you ' ve used me . What do you say ? I may say my ivorst ? Ha ! don't you tempt any woman in " that way—don't , Caudle ; for I wouldn't answer for what I said . "Miss Prettyman , indeed , and—oh yes ! now I see . ' Now the whole light breaks in upon me ! Now , I know why you wished me to ask her with Mr . and Mi-s . Prettyman to tea ! And I , like a poor blind fool , was nearly doing it , But now , as I say , my eyes are open ! And you'd have brought her under my own roof—now it ' s no use you ' re bouncing about in that fashion—you'd have brought her into the very house , where——" "Here , " says Caudle , "I could endure it no longer . So I jumped out of bed , and went and slept somehow with the children . "—Pimcft .
Scotch Squatters.—The Term "Squatters" I...
Scotch Squatters . —The term "squatters" is very ambiguous . In America , it designates a ragged rascal without a cent in his pockets , and with a rifle or woodman ' s axe in his hand . In Australia it designates a young Oxonian or retired officer of the army or navy , possessed of stock to the value of some thousands . In Scotland , it seems to designate a person very differently circumstanced from either of the preceding . Among other glens of the far north which have been cleared is one that is called Glcncalrie . Here , according to the account given by the people themselves , 00 tenants and cottagers with their families have been turned out of doors . A journal of the country denies that this is the case , because .
Ihe truth is , that the district in question—namely , Glencalvie , was let to only four tenants ; the other occupants of the glen squatted there as cottars under these tenants . " This denying the existence of 86 out of 90 families , on the plea that only four of the 90 are leaseholders , almost equals in coolness the logic of Cooper ' s negro— " Him no man , massa ; him only tailor . ' In an Englishman it might have passed for ignorance , hut it is difficult to imagine a Perthshire Scotchman unacquainted with the fact , that in the north of Scotland the cottar is designated the "tenant , " and the leasehold farmer the "tacksman . " But it is with the novel use of the epithet " squatter" that wc have to do . The Scotchmen who " squat under tenants" are men who have followed their
fathers and grandfathers for unknown generations in the oocupancyof theirhuts and kail-yards . Their families are of older standing in tlie district than those of the tacksmen , or , in ninety-nine cases in a hundred , of the lairds . The uninterrupted tenure of their dwellings—devolving from father to sencontinued from year to year without a lease—is a practice which had its origin beyond " the memory of man . " It is the custom of the country—the unwritten law of the CeKs . The Scotch squatter is no clandestine intruder upon the soil ; he stands in tho place of his forefathers , and the act which ejects him is a violent innovation on the customs of the country —a forcible change in a mode of tenancy , sanctioned by the " use and wont" of ages . The landlord has
a right—due notice being previously given—to resume the occupancy of his own land , or transfer it to another tenant . Nay , it is for the advantage of the whole population that the old system should be changed . But some forbearance may be claimed for simple ignorant men called to venture on a new state of being . It is hard to give them an odious nickname because they do not see at once that what directiy increases the landlord ' s rent wiU indirectly benefit themselves . —Spectator . Hide asp Seek . —The Prmfifurnishes us witJi the following amusing story : — " About three weeks ago a young and pretty woman went to amalson-de-santc and asked to be taken in as a boarder . She stated to tlie director that she was in good health , and
required no medical treatment , but wished only for a retirement from domestic annoyances . She was received , and for a week lived alone in the apartment which she had engaged . One morning a carriage stopped at the door of the house and a young man , elegantly dressed , alighted . Obtaining a private interview with the director , the visitor informed him that the lady who had lately become his guest was his wife , who , in a pet arising from a trifling matrimonial quarrel , had left her home , but that , feeling he was in the wrong , he had come to seek a reconciliation . The" worthy director could not resist such an appeal , anil , showing the penitent up to the lady , left him with cordial wishes for his success . Within an hour the parties came forth with
countenances radiant with smiles , and , having paid the account , took leave of the director , with many thanks for his kind attentions . Some days after their departure another carriage drove up , and a gentleman , neither so young nor so attractive as the first , entered , and asked for the same lady , saying that she had misbehaved herself towards her husband , and deserted him ; but that , in consideration of her youth and inexperience , he , the new visitor , had succeeded in inducing the husband to forgive and take her back . ' But / replied the director , 'the quarrel is already at an end . The husband has been here , and they went away together in perfect harmony . ' The well-meaning friend was perfectly astounded . On recovering himself , he explained that the lady , who was married to a man much older than herself , was importuned by a younger lover , and had fled to avoid him , but had no doubt yielded at last ,
and that it was with him she had quitted the asylum she had sought . Again several days passed , when the director , who had been much afflicted at the idea of having done evil instead of good , was walking along tlie Boulevards , and met a servant in the same livery as that worn by the footman who came with the first carriage . Resolved to repair , so much as in him lay , the mistake he bad committed , he had the servant arrested and taken to the Prefecture of Police . In consequence of the information extracted from him , a commissary , with assistants , was sent to the house in which the fugitives had taken up their abode . We are ignorant of the last act of this serio-comic melodrame . " Scotch Fisheries . —A company is proposed to be established at Dundee for prosecuting on a large scale the deep-sea fisheries on the cast coast of Scotland .
An Aboriginal , —A native boy named "Joey" recently made his escape from Pander ' s Island , and being met with in the bush by some of the police , was conducted to the chief station in this city . There he has remained for several days ; heis fed by the policemen , and seems quite happy and contented . He can speak English so as to be understood , and runs about the offices a favourite with all . "Joey" is about thirteen or fourteen years of age , thick set , and has a fine open countenance . He is a good speciiwen of a race nearly extinct ; he seems highly susceptible of improvement and instruction , and we hope something wil be done for him by the humane . —Mart Town \ Conr ] ier , New Bill on the Law op Debtor and
Creditor . —The new bill , founded on the report of the select committee appointed to inquire into the operation of the Act of last session with respect to debts notexceedingi £ 20 , contains only four clauses . By the preamble it is declared to be expedient and just to give creditors a further remedy for tho recovery of debts due to them . It is proposed , that if any person is iadebted to any other in a sum not exceeding £ 20 , besides costs of suit , for which sum any judgment shall have been obtained or any order for payment thereof from any court of competent jurisdiction , it shall belawful for the creditor so obtaining a judgment or order to obtain a summons from an v Commissioner of Bankrupts for the district in which such debtor shall reside , or shall have resided for one calendar month before the date of such judment or order , or from any Court of RequestsCourt of Commissioners ,
, or other court for the recovery of small debts . The debtor may be examined as well as the creditor , and an order made for payment of the debt by instalments or otherwise ; in case a debtor shall reiuse to disclose his property or his transactions respecting the same , or respecting the contracting of tlie debt , or shall not make answer thereof to the satisfaction of the commissioner or court , or shall appear to have been guilty of fraud in contracting the debt , or of having wilfully contracted it without reasonable prospect of being able to pay it , or of having concealed or made away with his property , in order to defeat his creditors , or if he appears to have the means of paying the same by instalments or otherwise and shall not pay the same as ordered , then the debtor may he committed to the common gaol of the
county . An order may be made for payment out of any salary , pay , or pension , of more than £ 30 a year . No order of imprisonment is to be for a longer period than forty days . The power of the Act of last session { 1 and 8 Victoria , cap . 96 ) is to extend to all cases of balances not exceeding £ 20 . It is not requisite for a debtor or creditor to employ either counsel orattorney in making applications or taking any proceedings under this Act . Should the measure pass as it is framed , a creditor may summon a debtor , and if he resides in the city of London , and in the opinion of the Court of Bankruptcy comes within the category of offences mentioned , he may be committed to Newgate for forty days ; or by a Court of Requests , if resident in Middlesex , to the House of Correction , i The bill was presented by Lord Brougham .
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The Political Tinker.—Most Of Our Reader...
The Political Tinker . —Most of our readers wil be familiar with an old fellow , Whogocs about bellowing and shouting iu the capacity of a political tinker . His anxiety to get a job makes him sometimes very noisy , and unfortunatelyhe is seldom entrusted with repairs that he does not make a much larger hole than the one he has been employed in stopping . The old tinker is said to have a very sharp eye to the " tin , " of wluch in his time he has received large quantities . He sometimes uses a good , deal of soft solder , of which he gave a curious instance the other day , when trying topatch up a sad hole in a pretty kettle of fish belonging to Lord Ellcnborough , —Pimcft . A Shakev Peer . — We understand that poor Brougham accuses Punch of an attempt to write him down . His fidgetty lordship must he in a very nervous state , if he is in constant fear of our knocking him down with a feather . —ibid .
Deeds sot Words . —The members of Conciliation Hall are so earnest for a dissolution of the Uijion , that they have got up a split among themselves . — Ibid . He-conciliation Hall . —Since the affecting scene at the Repeal meeting , where there was such violent weeping , Mr . O'Connell and Mr . Davis have been called the Irish " Thiers party . "—Ibid . "The Disowned . "—It seems that "Young Ireland" is like Mrs . Savah Gamp's ilfrs . Harris—quite an imaginary personage . Mr . O'Connell assures us
he doesn t know any such party , aud it is equally " unbeknown" to Mr . Davis and everybody else . We think , after this cruel desertion of " ' l ' tmng Ireland , " some member of the Repeal Association ought to be taken up for deserting his own offspring ; and we say this the more feelingly , as we arc inclined to think favourably of tlie little fellow , since he has been so universally disowned . But perhaps he has been sent " a-begging" by his parent purposely , that he may learn the value of imitating the Liberator as early as possible—Ibid .
Master Wood . —We saw advertised the other day , in the Times , a " Mahogany child ' s chair . " We have heard of wooden-headed boys who won't or can't learn at school ; but we should be curious to see this mahogany child whose chair is announced for sale in the public journals . —Ibid . A Baboain . —A Gin to be Disposed of . —To any of the Irish members who have any fear in crossing the Channel , it is particularly recommended . Apply in person to Mr . Joseph Hume , or by letter to the Serjeant of the House of Commons , who , upon being favoured with a member ' s address , will bo happy to oblige him with the " call" at his own residence . — Ibid .
Aa'ecdotk of the late Jous Tawell . —A gentleman recently arrived from the United States , where the circumstances attending Tawell ' s case had excited much attention , has communicated the following characteristic trait , which was well known some years since ( when it transpired ) amongst the commercial circles of New York . Tawell , in the course of his peregrinations , had occasion to visit the capital of Philadelphia , where Rowland Stephenson , under an assumed name , carried on the business of a winemerchant , one of his sons ( the eldest ) living witli him as an assistant in business ) . The Quaker had imported on speculation a quantity of Australian red wine ( a new article ) , which he was anxious to
introduce amongst the Yankees , and Standish ( Rowland Stephenson ' s assumed name ) , was recommended to him as a likely man to promote his views . Tawell , whose address was highly prepossessing , was offered dinner by the young Stephenson ( his lather being momentarily absent ) , in order that the business might be leisurely discussed . On his return home , tlie exbanker , who had learned the previous history of his visitor , expressed his repugnance to sit ;\ t tabic with a man who had suffered an infamous punishment , and ordered young Rowland to disir . vite his guest , as lie ' would not contaminate himself , by familiarly associating with a returned convict . Tawoll , who in aa adjoining room , OYCVhcavd the ¦ conversation ,
quietly entered the apartment whore the two htcphensons were discussing the matter , and walking demurely up to tho elder one said , " Friend Rowland , thou remindestme of an occurrence which took place whilst I was yet a youth , and wluch I will narrate to thee . There was , in the year 1705 , a wealthy and influential man of London called Weston , who , not contented with his large gains as a banker , must needs commit a forgery , by which he ruined many hapless families . He , however , was caught aud condemned . On the day of his execution , a wretched youth , one Colin Recolct , was doomed to die also , for having had in his possession a forged one-pound
bank-note . They were on the gallows . Tho hapless youth in his dying agony tendered liis hand to his ' fellow-sufferer . But the rich and haughty banker proudly turned away , and drew apart as far as his bonds permitted , deeming it beneath him to notice or permit any familiarity with one so lowly . Friend Rowland , had thee and I met formerly , as might possibly have occurred , in a situation like that I have described to thee , I should undoubtedly have bade thee an eternal farewell with the same composure and pity I now fed in quitting thy abode . " Saying which the bcavcrcd Quaker stalked solemnly out of the house . [ Weston and llccolct were hanged in 1790 . ]
Political Defisitioxs . —It has rested with Mr . ' A . B . Hope to give a new definition of Conservatism ; helms designated it "the prodigal heir of thrifty Toryism . " . This certainly ia not bad in its way . " Thrifty Toryism" took especial care not to allow a farthing to escape from its rapacious clutch , especially as far as pampered Protestantism and the Church was concerned . Conservatism is no doubt very prodigal in giving the benighted juveniles in . training for priests the means of getting better brogues and breeches , and education .
Ax Ixgexious Toy for Ascertaining the State op the Weather . —Walk to any of the entrances to the inelosure in St . Jamcs ' s-r . ark , and look for the gatekeeper in the green coat ; should this personage bo discovered standing outside his lodge chattering with a pretty nurse-maid , yon may bo assured that the day is fine -, should lie , however , be seen in the interior of his bo :-:, reading an old newspaper , we recommend you to put up your umbrella : it is raining smartly . —Great Gun . Father Matiiew ' s Principle . —To such an extent does Father Mathcw carry out his principle , fhatjhe has cut a man because he was called a " rumfellow ; " and a person in his neighbourhood styled " Old Tom , " to oblige the great apostle of the pump has changed his name : —Ibid . . , **? t
Axonren Lose Parliament . —From an announcement in the daily papers by an experienced sportsman , that grouse will be very scarce this season , we i may safely anticipate that Parliament will not break ; up very early . —Ibid . Barefaced Robbery . —Amongst the novelties sub- ¦ mitted to public inspection at the Anti-Corn Law r Bazaar at Covent Garden is a monster sheet of i tissue paper , a mile long . This is downright t swindling , as the "League" has evidently yet two 0 more miles to account for ! We call this very free e trade indeed . —Ibid . A New Custom-House . —The anti-Maynooth pco- ) - pic are placarding the walls of the metropolis with h " Rome , fhe great custom-house of sin 1 " Accord- 1-ingto these people Peel is unmindful of his duty .-. Ibid .
Very Bad Indeed . —A coir .-try gentleman pass- singdowrt Ludgclc-hu ! , the other day , was struck sk with amazement on beholding Harvey ' s shop , of of which ihe front has been lvu & d as high as the he second fioo-. "Ah ! " cried he , shaking his head , id , " how dreadfully London has become when shop . > p . lifting is carried on openly to such an extent . —Ibid . : i . Jonathan ' s Complaint . —It is rumoured that the the principal reason Miss Texas hesitates taking Jonathan lan for better or worse is his being subject to tic dol-. lollar-ism . —26 W .
Shout and Sweet . —Once upon a time , as alllovaove stories begin , a young gentleman of rank and wealthalth laid siege to the heart of tho daughter of the famou 3 iou 3 Colonel Crockett : and finding favour in the eyes ofis of the lady , he wrote to the father requesting his his permission for the immediate union . The Mowings-lug ¦ characteristic reply was promptly acted upon : —a : — ¦ " Congress Hall , Washington . —Dear Sir , —I re- received your letter . Go a-head!—David CROCKEir . ' siT . ' ' A " Sceke" in the Lords . —For a place , of rea rea , public amusement give us the House of Lords . It . I eclipses every other in this metropolis . For the trus tnv fun , the " rale thing , " as Paddy says , it "batebate ;
Banaghcr . ' Batty ' s clowns are clumsv produceiluccn of mirth compared to the COroneUcO . flCtOVS ill " 111 "till soenos in the circle" at the upper house in Sin Sn Stephens . Pctr esewplc , Monday night , when tbn tl : " iron Duke" moved the Maynooth grant , that sag * sagi ; i cious specimen of hereditary wisdom , higlit Ne \ Ne \« castle , interrupted his Grace by asking hint in a toi a toi i and manner worthy of the Barons that startled Kir . ! Kir t John at Runnymede— " If the Queen knew any thiiy thii i about the matter ?" The Duke , unheeding , goes on with his speech . 3 ch . Newcastle—I say , my lords , I require an answensweiv The Act of Succession , the ¦—Broucham—Hold vour toneue .
Newcastle—I shall not . You must answer wer n before you go on . The Iron Duke to Ellcnborough , at his elbov elbow What ' s all this about , eh ? Ellenborough audibly whispers , winks at Broughfoughi i who bounces up and exclaims—I'll not stand " t > na t ! t I'll not sit here , or stand here , and allow any lany n to deny that we have a right to enter into , tox » , tq ^ -i tmue , and to close any discussion , of any EStd , mV on any subject whatever . - , •( .-- •( ¦ : Newcastle risea , but he pulled down by V by \\ chilsea . ^ C ^ vv The Duke—As I did not come here tdittoiUStienUt noble Duke , I did not hear him , andthewforeSfore j lords , I'll proceed , - & c ,- £ « tir » i { , £ \ £ \ I r— V r— V
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 14, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_14061845/page/3/
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