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BEAUTIES OF BYRON . so . XXV . " thj cuora . " This poem was first oublisued in 1813 , before the appearance of the third and fourth cantos of CMlde Harold . Header , peruse and admire tlie magnificent poetry breathing iu every line of the following picture of
OBEECE . Fair clime ! where every season smiles Benignant o ' er those blessed isles , Which , seen from far Colonnu ' s height , Jfsie glad theheart that hails the sight , And" lend to loneliness delight . -There mildly dimpling , Ocean ' s cheek Selects the tints of many a peak Caught by the laughing tides that lave These Edens of the eastern wave : And if at times a transient breeze Break the blue crystal of the seas , Or sweep one blossom from the trees , How welcome is each gentle air That wakes and wafts the odours there 1 *
Strange—that where Nature loved to trace , As if for Gods , a dwelling place . And every charm aad grace hath mix'd Within the paradise she fix'd , There man , enamour'd of distress Should mar it into wilderness , And trample , brute-like , o ' er each flower That tasks not one laborious hour ; Xor claims the culture of his hand To bloom along the fairy land , But springs as to preclude his care ,
And sweetly woos him—but to spare ! Strange—that where all is peace beside , There passion riots iu her pride , And lust and rapine wildly reign To darken o ' er the fair domain . Jt is as though the fiends prevail'd Against the seraphs they assaii'd , Aud , fix'd on heavenly thrones , should dwell The freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene , so form'd for joy , So curst the tyrants that destroy !
He who hath bent him o ' er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled . The first dark day of nothingness , The last of danger aud distress , jJBefore Decay ' s effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers , ) And mark'd the mild angelic air , The rapture of repose that ' s there , The fix'd yet tender traits that str « ak The languor of the placid cheek , . And—bat for that sad shrouded eye , That fires not , wins not , weeps aot , now , Aud hut for that chill , changeless brow ,
Where cold Obstruction ' s apathy Appals th » gazing mourner ' s heart , As if to him it could impart Ths doom he dreads , yet dwells upon ; Yes , but for these and these alone , Som » moments , ay , one treacherous hour , He still might doubt the tyrant " s power ; So fair , so calm , so softly seal'd , The first , last lookby death reveal'd ! Such j * the aspect of this shore ; ""lis Greece , but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet , so deadly fair , "We start for soul is wanting there .
Cliae of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain to mouutaiu-cave Was Freedom's heme or Glory ' s grave ! Shrine of the mighty ! can it be , That this is all remains of thee 1 Approach , thou craven crouching slave ; Say . is not this Thtrmopylst ! These waters blue that round you lave , Oh servile offspring of the free—Pronounce what sea , what shore is this t The gulf , the rock of Salamis ! These scenes , their story not unknown , Arise , and make again your own ; Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires ;
Aud he who in the strife expires "Will add to theirs a name of fear , That Tyranny shall quake to hear , And leave bis sons a hope , a fame , They too will rather die than shame : Per Freedom's battle once begun , Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son , Though baffled oft is ever won . B » ar witness , Greece , toy lMmj page , JLtteitit many a . deathless age 1 While kings , in dusty darkness hid , Hare left a nameless pyramid , Thy heroes , though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb , A mig htier monument command , The mountains of their native laud !
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SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . [ For many months past our poet ' s column Las been exclusively occupied with extracts from the writings ofBiHON . Tjesirou 3 , however , ofinfu 8 ingmoreTariety into this column , we have for some time past intended to give weekly , in addition to the " Beauties , " a good song , original or select . We had purposed to commence these songs on the first Saturday in the present year , but other matters prevented us so doing . We give this explanation , as otherwise it might ha supposed we wished to anticipate Mr . Cooper's projected "Song and Hymn-Book . " This -we neither wish to do , nor can do , as the one song weekly in this paper cannot at all interfere with the first-rate Songs and Hymns , intended to be published in a collected form . Mr . Cooper's project , we think a very excellent one , and will give it every aid in our power . Any songsof former rhymers we harein store , JHr . Cooper is ' welcome to select from . ]
THE LAND . BT THOMAS SPEXCE . [ Some forty years ago , Thosus Spexce proposed to restore to tile people of England the land of which they had been robbed , by making the laud and build ings of each parish the property of the people , aud dividing the rents amongst the people equally ; but the landlords of that day , who did not like the idea ol justice any better than do the landlords of the present day , persecuted and imprisoned Spexce , and never stayed their persecution until they had hunted him to death . They could not , however , destroy his principles , which hid fair at no distant day to destroy the usurpation of the landlords . ] A Sosc to U sung at the Commencement of tlie Millennium , iriien there suall le neither lords nor landlords , l > u * God an 4 Man will be all in all . Tcse—" God save tia King . "
Hark ! how the trumpers sound Proclaims the land around The jubilee ! Tells all ths poor oppress'd So more shall they be cess'd , 5 or landlords mora molest Their property : Bents t" ourselves now we pay , Dreading no quarter day . Fraught with distress . Welcome that day draws near , For then our rent we share , Earth's rightful lords we are Ordaiu'd for this .
Sow hath the oppressor ceasd , Aud all the world releas'd From misery ! The fir-trees aU rejoice , And codars lift their voice , Ceas'd now the Teller ' s noise , Long rais'd by thee . The sceptre now is broke , "Which with continual stroke The nations smote ! Hell from beneath does rise , To meet the lofty eyes , From the most pompous si » , How brought to nough : l
Since then this jubilee SelsaU at Liberty Let us be glad . Behold each man return To his possession No more like doves to mourn By landlords sad !
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TA 1 TS EDINBURGH MAGAZINE—Jaxuiey . — Edinburgh ; Tait : London ; Simpkin and Mar-¦ hall . „ We feel great respect for "Wituui Howirr , than whom few writers have more instructed and delighted Tia ; we are , therefore , sorry to find him" in this number of Tait * Magazineholdingup O'Coxxm as a " patriot . " We will not dispute his picture of O'Cosseu . as * landlord , though 80 widely different to that painted by the " Times' Commissioner . " But ,
supposing 0 'Co . v . vEii to be all that Mr . Howrrr represents him to be privately , Mr . H . ' s views as to the agitator's acts and career as a public ] man are amazingly erroneous . Mr . Howirr tells us that 0 'Co . v . vEii" for the greater part of half a century , has been the leader of a moral movement , which has already produced the most magnificent > eaulta and that he has well won the proud title of the Liberator . " Indeed , Mr . Howitt , your simplicity is unmatched , if you really believe as you write . OCoKSEu , the " Liberator * " yes '
" The savour of the nation not yet saved . " Whom has he liberated ? •« He opened Parliament and oSce to Lis fellow believers . " Indeed he did , Tknt the "believers" were ofhisown class . Catholic
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anstocrats , Catholic landlords , C »> Uc adventurers and schemers these were the con « CK " ntious gentry whei . relievedfrom thenecessity of swaBo ^ inga string of ridiculous oaths concerning the Pope and the Pretender , were admitted to Parliament and office , and WthaM ? - ^ yP ^/ bo derived any benefit taf hat Watae swindle > .. Gatll 0 j ; ejnancipa . S 3 " . « Gosbell projected , and has continued , to S ? ^ i mora ,-fo"e agitation , which agitation has been the means oi keeping his carcase out of trouble , white it has not always saved his followers from death ana slaughter , as the records of the anti-tithe agitation abandantl y testify . He has carried on his 1 ° Jj f 0 rce" citation for rears , and yearly he has sucked from his miserable dupes a princely income under pretenceof gaining for them "justice" and KepeaJ . Himself and his numerous staff of menf Ju US toci * s ana ^^ i' 68 have fattened on the pence ot the deluded millions , while those millions are as wretched and miserable now as whan O'Cossell
commenced his " moral" agitation . He humbugged hia countrymen for years by bringing forward , and then shelving , the Repeal agitation , until at last he was compelled to go on with it , since which time he has continually juggled and thimble-rigged to keep up the steam without bringing the agitation to an issue , and never intending that it should come to any issue in his time beyond the "farthing a week—penny a month—shilling a year . " He who hurled his "high and haughty defiance" at the English government , played a cravenly part whe » that " defiance" was answered . Instead of taking a high and noble stand on principle , he wriggled and lied , and tried to show his "loyalty" by reminding his judges how he had hebed the English government to hunt
down the Chartists . When the Chartists were arraigned at Lancaster on a similar charge , though with one exception they were all poor and untaught —or self-taught men—all who possibly could give utterance to their thoughts did so ; they boldly defended themselves , and , caring little about personal results , they manfully vindicated their principles and their cause ; but the Repeal leaders feed lawyers , and permitted those lawyers to pursue any course without regard to principle , which those legalised traffickers in words deemed the best to save their clients from the law ' s vengeance . At this very time we see a second exhibition of this dastardly spirit by the fire-eating , blood-and-thunder Nation . Prosecuted for showing in his journal how Irish railwavs
might be made instrumental in murdering " Saxon " soldiers en muse , Duffy , instead of defending in his own person the prosecuted article , b running after lawyers , whom he will employ to prove , if they can , that the massacreing article meant something altogether different to the construction put npon it by every one who read it . These patriots are well worthy of their leader . O'Cosxell betrayed the English factory children , the Dorchester labourers , and the Canadian patriots . He fulminated his anathemas against trades' unions , did his best to get the government to put down those only means of protection for their labour which the working classes have , and did all that falsehood and slander could effect to destroy the Glasgow cotton-spinners . We ( the writer
of these remarks ) shall everrememberwith pride and pleasure that at that time we unmasked the " miscreant , " although we had , in consequence , to suffer the hatred and censure of the shams who tried to shield him from public odium . He was one of the authors of the "People ' s Charter , " and declared on the completion of that document that only the "fool" or the "knave" could refuse to adopt it , yet he subsequently repudiated the Charter , and heaped the foulest abuse upon its supporters . He hounded on the Whigs to persecute O'Cossoit , Stephens , and Oistler , and was not even satisfied when hundreds of victims crowded the gaol * . He ( Mr . Howitt ' s moral force friend ) offered the Whigs "five hundred thousand Tipperarv bovs" to shed the Mood of the
English working men when struggling for those rights he had bidden them contend for . He chuckled and exulted that it was " a handful of Irish boys" who shot Shku . and others at Newport . In the House of Commons , when his casting vote would have liberated the Chartist prisoners and restored the Chartist exiles , he walked out of the house and left the victims to their misery . We believe Mr . Hownr prides himself that he is an Englishman ; has he forgotten the disgusting calumnies poured out by this arch-calumniator against the women of England ? Wehave not much " nationality"in our composition , but remembering ! this calumny , we think praise of O'CoxxELLfromthelipsofanEnglishmanshouldniake that Englishman blush . Has he not done his utmost to revive national animosities , rekindle national antipathies and set Irishmen in hostility towards Englishmen ? Has he not excited a ferocious hatred against the people he calls " Saxons ? " Has he notconfounded
the English people with the English government , and taught his ignorant followers to look forward with joyful anticipation to the ruin , not of the government of England , but of England as a nation ? His latest [ act of rascality appropriately concludes this brief and . imperfect catalogue of his crimes . He has acted the part of "Lu-ORMEB , " and never stayed in his infer-I sal machinations until he has . succeeded in compelling tho Irish administration to prosecute for " sedition" Mr . Patrick O'Higgixs , whose only real " crimes" are , that he is a Chartist , and has done more than any other man to make known the villainies of which O'Coxxell as a public man has been guilty . There was a time when O'Conxbia was as popular in England as in Ireland , when he was believed in and trusted by the great majority of the people of both countries . He exercised a power which no other man wielded : —
" A ever had mortal man such opportunity Except Napoleon , or abused it more . " Had O'Coxkell been an honest man the people of the two Islands might ere this have obtained the rights of citizenship , the Charter would have been law , and thepeopleof both countries , united and free , would have been progressing in happiness and greatness . He has preferred another course . He has betrayed liberty in England , and done his best to revive barbarism in Ireland by rekindling the brutal prejudices which knaves and fools call" nationality . " The " magnificent results" Mr . Howitt speaks of as having flowed from O'Coxkell's public acts , have been triumphs only for the Catholic priests and the Irish profitoeracy . He embodies the triple character of lourpeois , lawyer , and Jesuit , and "the curses ef hate " and the hisses of scorn" —posterity will award to him .
Madame Wolfexsbekger ' s " Letters from Naples " are concluded in this number of Tait . Her letters have been valuable contributions to the too imperfect stock of knowledge possessed by the people of this country concerning Italy . We hope to have further information concerning other parts of Italy from the samewrlter . For the able and courageous manner in which she has exposed the evils of that prime eurae of Italy— priestcraft—Madame Wolfexuerger deserves the thanks of every friend of freedom and progress . We shall , if we can find room , give extractafrom these concluding letters in the course of a week or two . From De Q , uiscey ' s " Notes on Gilfillan ' s Gallery of Literary Portraits" we take the following account of
THE DEATH OF 8 HFXIET . On Monday , July 8 , 1822 , being then in his twentyninth year , he was returning from Leghorn to his home at Leric " , in a schooner-rigged boat of his own , twentyfour feet long , eight in the beam , and drawing four feet water . His companions were only two , —Mr . Williams , formerly of the eighth Dragoons , and Charles Vivian , an English seaman in SheUey ' s service . The run homewards would not have occupied more than six or eight hours . But the gulf of Spezia is peculiarly dangerous for small craft in bad weather ; and unfortunately a squall of about one hour ' s duration came on , the wind at the same time shifting so as to blow exactly in tbe teeth of the course to Lerici . From the interesting narrative drawn-up by Ui . Tidawney , well known at that time for
his connexion with the Greek revolution , it seems that for ight days the fate of the boat was unknown : and during that time couriers hadb > en despatched along the whole line cf coast between Leghorn and Nice , under anxious hopes that the voyagers might have run into some creak for shelter . But at the end of the eight days this suspense ceased . Some articles belonging to Sliellaj ' s boat had previously been . washed ashore : these might have been thrown overboard : but finally the two bodies of Shelley and Mr . "Williams came on shore , near "Via Reggio , about four miles apart . Both were in a state of advanced decomposition : but were fully identified . Virian ' s body was not recovered for three weeks . From thestate of the two corpses , ithadbecoiae difficult to remove them ; and they were , therefore , burned , by the sea side , on funeral pyres , with the classic rites of paganism ,
four Englsih gentlemen being present—Captain Shenley of the navy , Mr . Leigh Hunt , Lord Byron , and Mr . Trelawney . A circumstance is added by Mr . Gilfillan , which previous accounts do not mention , viz . that Shelley ' s heart remained unconsumed by the fire ; but this is a phenomenon that has repeatedly occurred at judicial deaths by fire . Tbe remains of Mr . Williams , when collected from the fire , w « re conveyed to England ; but Shelley's were buried in the Protestant burying ground at Rome , not far from a child of his own , and Keats tho poet . It is remarkable that Shelley , in the preface to his Adonais , dedicated to the memory of that young poet , had spoken with delight of this cemetery—as "an open space among the ruins" ( of ancient Rome , ) " covered in winter with violets and daisies ; " adding—' 'It might make one in love with death , to think that one should be bnried in so sweet a place . "
" Every body knaws" savs Mr . Gilfillan " that , on the arrival of Leigh Hunt in Italy , Shelley hastened to meet him . Daring all the time b * spent in Leghorn , he was in brilliant spirits , —to him ever a sure prognostic of coming evil . " ( That is , in the Scottish phrase , he wa « fey . ) "On his return to his home and family , his skiff was overtaken by a fearful hurricane , and all on board perished . To a gentleman , who , at the time , was with a glass SUmyittg the sea , the scene of his drowning assumed a very striking appearance . A great many vessels were visible , and among them one small skiff , which attracted his particular attention . Suddenly a dreadful storm , attended by thunder and columns of lig htning , swept over the sea , and eclipsed the prospect . When it bad passed , he looked again . The larger vessels were all safe , riding upon the swell ; the skiff only had goue down tor ever , And in that skiff was Shelley ! Here he
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had met his fate . Wert thou , oh religious ' sea , onl , ^ TO * lB " head the caU 8 e ottt >! denied and insulted Deity . ! Were / e , ye elements , iu your courses , commis . swned to destroy him ? Ah , there is no reply . The surge is silent : Jhe elements have no voice . In the eternal councils the secret is hid of the reason of the mans death . And tfere too , rests the still more tremendous secret of the character of his destiny . " The latter portion cf Mr . Gu , FILlAN ' s account cannot fail to strike our readers as something most presumptuous and absurd . True , ho does not directly aver that the manner of Shellkt ' s death was a " judgment ; " but , that he meant this to be inferred his readers can hardly avoid believing . Wert thoa , oh religious sea . ' ( whaf . a - ' r *«>\ n ,, i „
, , avenging on his head the cause of thy denied and insulted Deity 1 There is no mistaking tho meaning ot this . In the eternal councils the secret is hid of the man ' s death . " Nothing of the sort ; there is no r ' , < ? " *& Mr- D ^ Quincey says , "The I ^ ZZla . 1 Particularly dangerous for small rf -I * &? WCath f * , and Mr " G * - " ™ la . v , himself , puts it still more plainly . He says , after the storm had passed , " Llic larger vessels were all safe ; the skiff only had gone down for ever . " What more natural' What more in accordance with maritime experience ? Shkllkv perished because he was in a small skiff , " a vessel not capable of encountering the storm . Had he been in one of the "larger vessels
, what rational man can doubt but that he would have been safe . If , indeed , there had been a great many " skills" in the gulf , and only one "large ship , ' and Shelley on board tiiat ship , and if , in the storm , the large ship had gone down while all the skiffs had been saved , then , if the superstitious had cried " a judgment , " although we should have been as sceptical then as we are now , still the ignorant would have had something like a colourable excuse for their absurd belief ; but , as the case really was , Mr . Gileiixan ' s pretended "judgment" must appear ridiculous to the most obtuse . The following paragraph , which we find as a note to the article on which we are commenting , leaves no doubt as to the causes of Shelley ' s drowning : —
The immediate cause of the catastrophe was supposed to be this : —Shelley ' s boat had reached a distance of four miles from the shore , when the storm suddenly arose , and the wind suddenly shifted : "from excessive smoothness , " says Mr . Trelawney , all at once the sea was "foaming , breaking , and getting into a very heavy swell . " After one hour the swell went down ; and towards evening it was almost a calm . The circumstances were all adverse : the gale , the current setting into the gulf , the instantaueous change of wind , acting upon an undecked boat , having all the sheets fast , overladen , and no expert hands on board but one , made tbe foundering as sudden as it was inevitable . The boat is supposed to have tilted to leeward , and ( carrying two tons of ballast ) to have gone down like a shot . A book found in tbe pocket of Shelley , and the unaltered state of the dress on all the corpses when washed on shore , sufficiently indicated that not a moment ' s preparation for meeting the danger had been possible .
After this who will deny that Mr . Gilfillan ' s trash about " religious seas , " is the most absurd stuff that ever an " auld wife" twaddled . Sir Thomas Dick Lauder contributes a Highland tale , entitled " Love , Jealousy , and Vengeance . " A lengthy review is given of Mr . Carltle ' s " Oliver Cromwell ' s Letters and Speeches , " which affords the reader a considerable insight into that work . One article on railways , and two on the Ministerial changes of the past month , together with the "Literary Register , " complete this month ' s number , which contains much very interesting matter , and well commences the new year .
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DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE . January London : Punch Ofiice , Fleetstreet . Bravely this magazine begins the new year . The Editor ' s story , " St . Giles and St . James , " abounds with beautiful thoughts , and reflections embodying sterling wisdom . The description of the robbery of the gold destined to bribe the electors of Liquorish , is most ably written . " Men of Letters and their abettors" coutainssome wholesome truths we are glad to see in print ; a great deal of nonsense has lately been spoken and written respecting the social position of literary men , which the opening portion of Paul Bell ' s " speech" will go far to correct . " The Winter Robin" is a delightful story , well-fitted to instruct , improve , and delight the youth of both
sexes , while it may also be read with advantage bv the adults of all ages and classes , particuIarlyChristian ministers , and lip-worshippers of justice and goodness . " English Scenes and Characters , " is the first of a series of papers by William Howitt . The character sketched in the present paper Is , " The Country Manty-Mekker . " There is life and truth in the portrait . These are the subjects we delight to see Mr . Howitt ' s pen engaged on ; we hope to have many of his characters and sketches . The valuable articles under the title of "Tbe Englishman in Prussia , " are concluded in this number ; we hope to meet this writer again . The excellent "Hedgehog Letters" embrace several subjects of public interest , including the ducal doings of the past month ; the " pinch of curry powder , " & c . As may be supposed , the unhappy dukes , Norfolk , Richmond , Cambridge , Wellington , and others , are most unmercifully whipped by the quizzical " cabman . " The tenth chapter of the truly valuable " History for
Young England , sketches the reign and adventures of the famous Richard Occur de Lion . Such are the principal contents of this number . Now for our extracts ; but where shall we select , when every article teems with beauties ? We might select from the pearls so profusely scattered through " St . Giles and St . James ; " the truthful and noble sarcasms of Juniper Hedgehog ; the sensible reflections of Paul Bell ; the beautiful moral of " The Winter Robin ;" William Howitt ' s English scenes ; or the historical pictures for " Young England . " But we cannot give extracts from all these ; and as the author of " The Englishman in Prussia" has brought his labours to a close , we will present our readers with a spice of his concluding description of Prussia and Prussian life . The whole article would occupy nearly three columns of this paper , we can only , therefore , afford room for the following extracts , tut the reader will do well to turn to the magazine and read the entire article , together with its other excellent contents .
CEBHAN HOUSES . German houses are generally _ built upon the principle of a thorough draught—that is , of obtaining , aot avoiding , a thorough draught . Opposite a door , window , passage , or gateway , there is usually another door , window , passage , or gateway ; and by these means you continually find yourself in the centre of a strong current of air . It does not matter in the warm seasons of tlie year ; but in tbe winter or other cold windy months , and more particularly in Rhenish Prussia , it is dreadful . In addition to this , tlie doors and windows do not fit close , so that you may sit and roast your body close to your stove , with a draught cutting your ankles off , from a long gap underneath the door , and another draught cutting rour throat from the side and chinks of the window-frame .
We have sat at dinner on a cold windy day in winter , in a room like an oven , but with our feet as cold as ico , from the wind of a great stone hall below , that had a wide staircase opposite the front door ( continually opening ) , the head of which staircase was directly facing the diningroom door , the saW dosr not touching the floor by at least half an inch aU along . As there are no carpets or other impediments to tlie wind , we had it "fresh" as any of the doors below leading to street or garden were opened , to say nothing of open windows . Then , the method of warming the rooms in winter by the German stove , is detestable . You are either mad » hot to suffocation , the horrid thing becoming red-hot , or it docs not give out half enough heat , and is often the only warm thing in the room . If the stove was alightand warm , we were never
able to convince any host or hostess of any house , public or private , that this fact was not the principal consideration , and that it was the person occupying tbe room who ought chiefly to be considered—it waswhether he was warm or cold , —that was the point ; the stove being warm was , in itself , little or nothing to the purpose—the stovo was not lit to warm itself only . It was of no use;—they smiled , or took it amiss , aud went away , saying , " Englandcrs wsre an original people ! " Sometimes the stoves aro lit by an aperture from tbe outside of the room , so that the regulation of the temperature being thus totally out of your hands , they either freeze you , or regularly bake you , just as the case may happen ; and you have no remedy but t * run out of the room . In the comforts and luxuries of social life , Germany is a hundred years behind England .
GERMAN BEDS . The beds are aU too short . A short man can scarcely lie quite straight without his feet pressing against thefootbo & ttl : K tail maw must either lie hunched up nosfc ^ m- * .-knees , or his naked feet and ankles must stick out over the wooden barrier at the bed's foot , or else ( as the pillows are generally higher than the head-board ) his head must hang over the pillows , and dangle towards the floor , an attitude in which , to our certain knowledge , several English travellers have awoke in the morning , to their momentary confusion and stultified astonishment . In winter—and this is the trying period —( few of our tourists know anything about , the winter)—then comes a fresh discomfort . In the first place , the blankets are not mads to " tuck in ; " thsy are much too narrow ; the part tucked in would be considered as wasted . For what use is tho part tucked in ? they would ask . This would be foolishly extravagant ; the blankets therefore are properly aud
wisely of the same width as the bed . The consequence is that half a dozen times in the night you are awoke by the cold coming in at ene side or the other ; in your efforts to repair the opening you make an opening at the other side , and by the morning your bed-clothes are huddled round you in no shape at all , and with no good success . So much for blankets ; but very often your only bedclothes is a sheet with a stuffed bag , in fact a small feather-bed laid over it . Now this puffed bag , which covers you , is just the width Of the bed , or SQRlCt ) lillglC 3 S | and little more than two-thirds of its length ; and here is a scene of misery ! You must inevitably lie in the shape of a frog , or your neck and shoulders would be quite uncovered , except by the mere sheet , A quarter of an hour of this , and you are sure to be in a vapour bath , the feather-bag is so excessively hot ; but every time you turn from one side to the other , the narrow fat covering jumps up somewhere , and lets in the freezing air ot your winter chamber . If you turn ut all hastily , you raise the thing
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on both sides , and s thorough urau » -. " "" -hinfly passes through your hot vapour bed , and astonishes your poor legs andback . Sometimes in tlie nlghf , and in darkness you have " a scene" with your feather-bag , which can scarcely be described . You awake with a frozen limb , or side , or shoulder—endeavour to adjust tlie . bag and cover yourself properly—find you have got tho thing broadways over you instead of loug-ways—try to put it rightit gets corner-ways—then no-how—changes its shape so as utterly to baffle and confuse you in tlie dark , till you do not know , and find it impossible to discover , whether you are in a wrong position in your bed or have got the bag wrong;—you are in a fever—it now gets better than ever , and less in size—becomes elastic , perverse , alivehas a will of its own—mid finally slips oft' upon the floor , either roliing underneath the bedstead , or getting itself involved wjth legs of chairs , s » that you arc compelled to get out in the frightfully cold air and grope about in tha darkness , up 6 > a tho icy carpetless floor , to recover your detestable and accursed companion .
GERMAN COOXBBT . Many of their dishes are excellent ; and of their three hundred methodscf dressing potatoes , a very dciirsble selection mi ght be made . A grwimany of their soups also , for flavour , wbolesomeness , and'eepnomy , are net to be surpassed . Butfovoriginality , fay inventiveness , for the bringing together of ihe roost apj > are » Uy uncongenial and incongruous materials , they certainly exceed any . thing that an Knglithnian could imagine . The table dhote of a good hotel always presents an- agreeable variety . Pea-aoup with slices of raw beef in id , or followed by raw herrings ( " cured" in some way , but not cooked ); baked beef with preserved plums , and hot yellow goose , fat laid upon slices of brown bread or toast , may seem rather startling to delicate stomachs . Baked ducks
stuffed with chesnuts and onions , and garnished with a sauce of pickled cherries or very sour brandy-cherries ; potatoes fried with vinegar and sugar ; turnips covered with cinnamon ; and black pudding " assisted" l » y baked pears preserved in syrup ; potatoes stewed with onions and sugar ; French beans fried in brown sugar ; and boiled salmon smothered in custard , or a light batter pudding ;—all these may appear ingenious , if not generally seductive . After a great many dishes of this kind , ths last that comes before the desert , is almost always hot baked mutton with a rich brown sauce , mads "thick and slab . " The following specimens of Koch-Kunst will also be found interesting : —a duck stuffed with almonds and apples ; raw ham , with pancakes and salad ; potatoes and caraway comfits ; a turnip sliced , and made delicious
with rock-salt , pepper , and caraways to be eaten with coffee ; a hare stuffed with clwsnwts , & c . In the matter of poultry the German cooks have need of all their art , as there is really very little flesh upon the bones of their fowls ; and a goose is commonly a mere skeleton , with a gristle and a thick yellow fatty tough skin over it ; in fact , an English friend has truly designated it when he said a German goose was just like "a little fiddle in a leathern bag . " The use of blood in many of their dishes is alarming to our notions of refinement , especially as it is made no secret of " the art , " but is openly carried in jugs and cups from slaughter-houses . The legs of mutton are also apt to be very muscular and pipy . Tho King of Prussia sends to Windsor for his mutton . How gladly would every Englishman iu Prussia do the same .
The writer says coffee in Germany is -very good , but the tea is detestable , and made of undeniable hedge-leaves . "The manners of the Germans are polite , pleasant , eordial , and very ceremonious ; for the most part obliging , and without any of those airs of pride and superciliousness with which Englishmen are so constantly and so justly taxed . " This writer intimates that considerable hypiocrisy exists in Germany as regards " morals ; " you may sin , only take care that your sin be cloaked ; preserve your character , and that is everything , gome account of the amusements of tho country is given , including the Carnival , and the Christmas festivities . The writer thus honestly and candidly concludes his views of THE GERMAN NATION .
In concluding this series of papers , tbe "Englishman ia Prussia" requests permission to offer one or two' emphatic remarks . Much lias been said of a disparaging kind in the views hs has taken of the politics , religion , morals , and customs of Prussia ; nor have various objectionable characteristics aud domesticities been allowed to pass without comment . All he can now say is this , he has spoken the truth exactly as it presented itself to his mind . But no disparagements that he has thought himself bound to utter—no sense of absurdities , incongruities , and short-comings , have in any respect altered his estimate and opinion of the essentially high qualities
existing in the inner spirit of the German nation . He regards Germany as tlie great storebouss of new ideas ; as the nation by which the kingdoms , equally of imagination and of science , have been ruled over iu modern days by potentates of a genius ranking with the highest ; as the nation producing the greatest number of indefatigable and life duvoting spirits in the cause Oftrutll , b 0 tll abstract and practical , though chiefly abstract ; as tbe nation to whom , of all others , the modern age is most indebted for new food for its soul ; and as the nation in which ( though the practical development and organization may devolve upon England and France ) tbe redemption of the modern world will be originated .
Several "reviews" conclude this number , in * eluding a brief , not very clear , but on the whole very favourable notice , of Mr . Cooper's " Ptrgatoryot Suicides . "
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SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZJNE-Janu-Auv . London : Simmonds and Ward , Bargeyard , Bueklersbury . When this periodical commenced , in January , 1814 , there were then several journals in existence devoted to Colonial and Indian affairs ; others have started up in the interval ; but , we believe , with the single exception of one weekly journal , this magazine now stands alone as a literary representative of tho British Colonies . Amidst the rise , decline , and fall of so many similar publications , it is pleasing to observe the success of this one . We believe that success has more than fulfilled the most sanguine expectations of its projectors . This is gratifying to us , inasmuch as enterprise , industry , talent , and honesty ,
by whomsoever exhibited , command our admiration ; and the parties possessing these claims to public support , our best wishes . True , we see some things in perhaps every number of this magazine we cannot accord with , opposed to our own pv mcip' . es , ov at variance with our own views , but we are not so Utopian as to imagine we can find all men , or even the majority , coinciding with us in all things . Wc are satisfied if we can find the writers of a publication like this exhibiting their faith in human progress , and helping that " progress" by representing the interests and vindicating the claims of our brethren beyond the wave , at the same time adding to the « H A * L . « M « aA ^ Tam . Amv . l AHlAIIAlHfl . & ltA ntlHtlAA ^ l \ lAr « _*_ T f M Al II information and enlarging the sympathies ol then
- countrymen " at home . " An important and interesting " Account of the Settlement of Nelson , New Zealand , " opens this number . The description is by a writer on the spot , and apparently has not the least tinge of exaggeration ; the article bears evidence of " plain sailing " throughout .. The " Account of the Liberated African Establishment at St . Helena" is continued in this number . The author of these articles writes well , and makes subjects , otherwise repulsive , readable , and even interesting , by his manner of treating them . lie tells us that Lemon Valley , the residence and burial-place ef Napoleon , has , since the removal of the withered remains ot * him ,
"Whoso game was empires , and whose stakes were thrones . Whose table earth—whose , dice were human bones , " ceased to attract attention , and has already fallen into almost utter oblivion . The house occupied by the fallen emperor has long since been converted into a barn , is now fast mouldering into decay , and probably in tho course of twenty years will exist no more . The willow trees whieh shaded his grave have been cut down , and the grave itself is comparatively neglected . A valuable statistical article on " South Australia" will well repay perusal . A most interesting account of ' Tho Mahogany Tree of Honduras "
describes the tree in its natural state , tells of its discovery , and relates the toils and difficulties encountered bythecuttersofthisvaluablewood . Thisnumber contains tho fourth of Mr . M'Combie ' s "Australian Sketches . " describing Melbourne and New Town , Port Phillip . The principal of the ramaining articles are "Notes on the Sandwich Islands , " " Sketches of Santa Cruz and St . Thomas , " "The Indians of Orialla , " and " lleminiseences of the Island of Cuba . " The poetry of this magazine is usually of a superior order ; there are two beautiful pieces in the present number , one we select for the gratification of our readers : —
THE INDIAN VOYAGER . I 1 T UENttt U . RUEECt , KSH . I ' ve wandered in distant regions , The homes of the fair and free ; Of wealth and poverty . I ' ve counted the hostile legions ; Prince , pauper , and priest ; Gold , galleys , and gleo : Oh ! lot ine feast with tho savage beast , In the wilds of my native sea . I ' ve traversed the fields of the stranger , By river , road , and rail ;
Alas ' . eV « those who quail But little iimigine ( he danger : Train , tunnel , and track ; Burst , boiler , and break : Oh ! bear me back to my mountain hack , And my boat on the glassy lake . I ' ve dwelt in the City of Wonders , The haunt of the worldly-wise ; Their sullen , clouded skies , No sunshine of heav ' n ever sunders _> oe , funnel , and foam ;
Cold , catarrah , and cramp : Oh ! let tnc roam to my tropic home Illumined by Nature ' s lamp . I ' ve loitered in grove and in garret , long sacred to lyre and to lute ; But now , unpaid , all mute Hangs the harp of a Byrou or Barrett Hate , huiiKer , and hire ; Drudge , drivel , and drone ; Oh ! let mc lire my rustic lyre In . thu flash of tho torrid : onok
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I've worship'd , in church aud in chapel , The type of each Christian scheme ; Here Bigot . ; WMsupwme—There Discord has thrown Ctn- ' a if * * apple : Cowl , cloister , and cant ; Glebe , Gospel , and gall : Oh . ' letmechauntiu the desert haunt A hymn to the Lord of All . I ' tarried with Dives , the miser , And smiled in his daughter ' s train—Who would her hand obtain For her wealth , not her worth , must prize her Pe'f , plunder , and pride ; Sin , sorrow , and shock : Oh ! let mo glide to my homely bride , U « bride of my native rock .
I re stood in the peasant ' s cottage-T he heart-drop hung in his eye : His children heaved a sigh For a mess of poorhouse pottage : Tithe , treason , and test ; Guilt , gallows , and gore : Oh ! let mc rest my harrow'd breast On the far Atlantic shore , St . Lucia , Nov . 1813 .
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WADE'S LONDON REVIEW . Lrawfon : C . B , Christian , WJritefriars-street , Fleet-street . We have received the December and Jan 4 * a * ynumbers of this Review together , and so too , we observe , have some of our wcefely contemporaries . We hope tins is not to bo tlie standing arrangement ( , ?•> , as it , ° t £ i le y- i iculous tor Bs ' in themiddle ef January , imt > , to be commenting on a Magazine-published © n the 1 st of December , 1845 ; and yet not to notice ut at all would be unjust both to the writers therein and to our readers . The December number contains some most excellent artieles . In the first place we have a continuation of " Jl Vagabondo , ! ' ' very cleverly written , and very amusiug Ave must ,, however , make this objection to Master Vagabonds —that one month we have had a ebapier and the
next month none . It is provoking ensugh to be baulked m the middle of a good story whh the abo . minable announcement" to be conthmed , " even when one feels certain that the next month ' s number , if it brings not the conclusion , will , at least , bring the " continuation" of tho story ; but how much more provoking it is when one can have no faith that the neat number will even " continue " the fragmentary article . More than once the readers of this "Review" have been so served by " II Vagabondo ; " thus in No . 13 we had a chapter of his adventures , "to be continued , " but No . 14 contained no mention of him . No . 15 ( December ) has a chapter—far too brief , but No . 16 ( January ) has nothing from or of him . This
is " too bad . " " The Field of the Forty Fools " is an illustration of Highland life in the olden time . The very title of " A few more Thoughts on Rabelais" will ensure readers for the article . " Lyell ' s Travels in North America" is a well-written review of Professor Ixm / s able , impartial , and interesting account of the United States , and North America generally . " The Unhappy Man " is , we are sure , a sketch from real life . The "Diary of a Modern Traveller" is continued from the preceding number , and gives some graphic pictures of life in the Crimea . This number concludes with a sketch of the career and character of the famous Earl of Mansfield . We give the following extracts from the " Diary of a Modern Traveller" : —
TUB STEfP Of THE CRIMES , The stepp consists of an immeasurable turf , mostlyformed of , at best , a dozen species of plants , partly social , partly herbal , and partly fruit bearing , and among which predominates the melilot . They are all or a tDiu n , , growth , manifesting the natural fertility of the soil . ; The eye can descry no tree , no visible height , no water , brook , or spring , only now and then a half decayed draw-well , around which lie grouped the panting horn cattle . ( The infancy of civilisation here may be inferred from the mode in which water is drawn from tbe well at one of the first stations of this stepp : namely , ahorse is fixed to a rope , that draws up a pail at the other end of the rope , by being whipped away from the spot . ) You meet with camels measuring the distant plain with grave steps ; half savage horses , avoiding shyly the traveller as well as the hunchbacked beasts of burden ; swine , wild , longbristled , and black , pasturing around the dwellings , as if
they were the legitimate aborigines of the unpopulated country ; huts , with flat-turf roofs , upon which grass thrives as abundantly as upon the open field ; still farther you meet with whole flocks of wild geese , which frequently approach the traveller , so near at first as to show their fine checkered feathers , and then , after having satisfied this vanity , betake themselves to awkward flight ; also long trains of waggons drawn by two oxen each , travilling slowly to fetch salt from Perecop to tli * interior , or corn . braiuly to Simphoropol finally , the first Stepp-Tartars , their heads covered with long woollen caps of sbicp . skin , with brown Mongolian faces , from which glare a pair of very small black eyes—these are , together with a burning sun , upon the whole , the leading objicts that offer themselves to tbe view of the travsller through the Nagayian and Crimean siepp ( as also the stepps of southern Russia , and more (( specially of the Caucasus ) , from Alesliki via Perecop to Simpheropol .
TARTAR HOUSSS , Particularly uncomfortable for us Europeans is the in . terior of the house of a Tartar . A roundly vaulted door , but at tho same time so low , as to force any man of middle stature to bend his back in entering , leads to a low ante-room , from which two side doors conduct into the so-called parlours , one of which being destined for the male , and the other for the female inmates . Very strictly separated are the two sexes ; also , among these Mahometans , the women but seldom leave their apartments ( and more especially among the higher classes ) ,
and even then only very deeply veiled . The cushions or bolsters around the walls , tins charcoal basins in the centre ; the cooling vessel of the oriental Kalikan , or pipe ; the beams of the roof that pass along the ceiling , for the purpose of suspending on thtin various utensits ; the room freely ascending alter the Italian fashion , as high up as the very gables of the house ; the worked carpet , that is not absent even in the poorest dwelling , and the low room tables—all this reminds the traveller that he is here in the east , though only on the northern border of it , where the patriarchal and stationary principle already begins to contrast with European
civilization . Widely varying views have been taken of the Tartar character , our modern traveller says— "Mv own opinion is , that there is hardly to be found a people more lazy , stationary , and given to fatalism , but at the same time also quiet , harmless , and moral , than the Tartars of the Crimea . Their strict honesty is greatly extolled , a feature that advantageously distinguishes them from the Russians generally . " We must defer till next week any notice of the January number .
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MR . COOPER'S "DESPOTISM . " We last week received the following letter , which want of room compelled us to defer till this week : ¦—Mb . EniToa—I was much surprised and grieved as a Chartist , at Mr . Cooper ' s letter in last Saturday ' s Star , respecting the getting up of a Song and Hymn Book . The object I approve of ; but Mr . C . ' s arbitrary censorship of the different contributions which may be sent ; his fiat , "That I have license to reject the whole or any part of what you send , " neither I nor any other man of thought can approve of . Why it is nothing else but rig ht down despotism , Were I a poet , Mr . Editor , and seeking for fame , it would not be in Mr . Cooper ' s hands I should
place my work for revision . Who made him sole judge of poetry 1 And were he the cleverest man in the kingdom I would protest against one individual deciding upon the claims of many . Mr . C , as a Chartist , knows our principles to be , that all shall legislate for all . If a song book is wanted , let a committee be chosen who can settle the merits of the different contributions in verse , but let us hoar no nioiv in this or any other case , from a democrat , that I will do this or that . Being no rbymist myself I cannot be said to write from jealousy—only , not being in Kussi . i , I am no advocate for despotism in any shape . Yours truly , Rothi'rhithe , Surrey . ionn Matihas .
Wc give the writer of 'the above epistle credit for believing himself to he " a democrat , " but certainly he adopts most extraordinary means to prove his faith in democratic principles . We have turned to Mr . Cooper ' s letter to the "Chartist Poets" ( published in this paper of January 3 rd ) and really wc cannot sec one idea , ov one word therein , which can be laivly objected to . Mr . Coovku thinks a good Chartist Song and Hymn Book is needed . lib offers to contribute several of his own productions to such a work , and invites all his " rhyming brethren" to also contribute thereto . lie adds , very properly , that ho must he the Judge » i tho pieces sent to mm , awl must be allowed to exercise the power ot rejecting the whole , or any part of the songs he may rcccivo .
Mr . Mathiascalls this" arbitrary ceiisoreiiip , uespotism , " & c . If such be " censorship and despotism , " what does ho understand liberty to be ? Mr . Coopkb , for the public good , undertakes a troublesome office without fco or reward . He hvvs by his pen , yet he offers to give the productions ot his pen to aid a public object . He offera to take upon nimaelf the onerous and thankless duties of Editor o tho inten ded work , ( a task we don't envy him ) , and he will evidently incur further trouble , and perhaps pecuniary expense and risk , at tho same time devoting the profits of the speculation , if any , to a most holy purpose , the aiding of our Veteran Patriots , aud the Wives and Families of the Chartist exiles . To impute to Mr . Cooi-kb " despotism" Ac , as Mr . But
Mathias does , is monstrously unjust . Mr . Mathias does not object to " censorship" only it must be the censorship of a " committee . " fhero ar « too many libera }* of Mr . Mathias s stamp . Clothe tyranny in a democratic gavb , give it a popular name , and forthwith , in the eyes of such men , the devil of despotism becomes translormcd into tho angel of liberty . We should be g lad to know how a committee could decide as to the merits of Chartist Rhymes" better than Mr . Coopeb ? Or how the decisions of such a committee could be more satisfactory than the decisions of Mr . Cooper ? It Mr . MvriiiAS thinks a committee could make up a better Song Book than Mr . Cooraa , let him get together such a committee , and then wc shall have two song books instead of one . Again , if the persons whoso
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j "songs" or "hymns" Mr . Cooper rejects , dispute I his judgment , their remedy is to publish on their t > wn account , and then we may have a variety of soi . " hooks . ^ Once for all , we must repudiate « ini courts -mn t ' i ' mtolerant and ridiculous system of ntoddiin '*; * *«»» ~»'" ' ' « . ! freedom of members of the great Chartist parly . We —» ish men to be trek As much ft . om mobs as klngs-from you os me . Mr . Coopib is * PoeL-a man of genius ' taste and uuted nature
judgment , by with talents which his own industry has rendered fruitful lie ;« «» honour to his class h'ud party . To the name of thafc party he has clung despite the wishes , warnihoo and objections of those who , ton great extent , have ' it in their power to influence his social existence , it is " too bad" that such a man shoald have his motives misrepresenteo , and his doings distorted , by the nn * just suspicions and surmises of the very parties he is labouring to serve . If Mr . Coopeb can do a good thing , let him do it after his own fashion . We would do so ; and we think we know enough of Mr . ; Coopkb * to predict that he will so do likewise .
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EXTRACT FROM A LETTER ON THE LATE CRISIS . [ From Punch . ] * Jh « following manly and straightforward letter baa been addressed to our respected towiu-man , Mr . M'Fai'lanc , by a gentleman holding a distinguished ^ publie situation in London . It is the testimony of a penon whose means of information cannot be questioned ? and when we name the writer , Mr . M'Puncb , of Fleet-street , the public will agree with us , that the composition ( like every other by the same pen ) does honour to the head and heart of our countryman :
I " We arcout of office , and lord Brey has done it all , I Formy owwpart , I told lord John that , provided- he ? would go fova- total Cons low Kspeal , I was . his man . We all said soi- jHacnulay said so . Lord John agreed * At the elevenSl'hour in conws & rey and says he will not act ? with Palraerston as Foreign Minister ;' and the embryo Cabinet Ur destroyed by that ill-timed objection , and" the pangs and travail of a-week end in bitter disap « poinimsnt , "" ¦ fto will , per'hvps , be anxious to Icnow , my dear M'Fariane , how thfrinterpositioa of my lord tfrey coulil
ruin tBe just-formed' Administration . Y-on will ask , is it possible that the wwld could not- go- on without Lord Grey and with Lord- Palmerstoa , or without Lord Palmersito and with I "» rd Grey ! ' Is- each of these noblemen absolutely nccessasy to tho welfare of the empire , and can't we survive unless- we have both of them in av Whig Ministry ? You picture to yourself-Death intervening—yo-j fancy that though Grey , should-perish , of Temple be carried oft * to ancestral vault * , or both eat each other up and expire—yet the kingdom would surviv % * ha sun would rise pretty mwh as usual , and the- stocks ( after a period of mourning )/ would rally .
" In this , ray . dear Mac , you are in gross-error . " * fca do not ssem to understand that the Whigs ai'B our natural leaders—appointed by-Heaven and the Bed Uos * £ to rule and govern us ; There are about a dozen of this privileged class « rf uobletntn—set' apart from tho vest e-i " the world—having gorermnenl vested in ttiem , as pries * - hood is in the Brahmins ; or was-in the tribe of Lev ! , Read the Court CivcvlAr about these Whigs—tlitse great irrevocable rulers of ours . They see nobody else ; they keep ' . \ loof from the world which they govern . Iris TiondT John goes to Jlinto-liouse , or Minto to Lord John ; or Lord Palmerston gave a dinner to Lord Minto and-Lansdowne ; or iho iihnj » - , s of Jisnsdowne entertained at Bowood , Lord Minto , Lord Palmerston , bora JWm
Huesell , A'c . They seeonly one another , these grrat Siguiorsj They decide in their conclaves what is good for us > no doubt . The working people , headed by your' Gubdensand Yilliers work , and toil , arid strive—organise the forces of tho country against- the 'Corn Laws—Beat it down ; and then Lord Jiohii conies nobly iu , and says , 1 Well done , my heroes ; you have conquereil in- this battle . And I place myself-at your head . Hiave beea opposed to your measures for a long , long time ; but yoa have fought your fight so well , that I condescend to lead you . 1 am your natural niistoci-acy—I , and P ' almerston , and Grey , and the rest of us .- Our services are priceless . We intend to come into-the ministry upon your shoulders . '
" It was in this way that Louis-Bhilippe walked into Paris after the three days'" fighting and revolution ia 1830 ; and blessed the people ; and took . tl ! epron"is-, ja ! id ha » ruled ever since as Managing . Director of the Breneh nation . Philippe was always- a Whig . Me lived ia England , and profited by our institutions , There arc forty articles in the Whig faith j the thirty-nine ivcknow of , and the fortieth is : — ¦ It is ordered by Heaven , and decreed by the laws of Nature , that the Whig Surdsshould have governance and authority over the people of England . ' " Lord John is not a proud man , very likely ,, but fas has these convictions before named ,. and acts upon them . There you have a proof how honest- he is . He conceivesthe country can ' t be governed without Lord Palmerston and Lord Grey . They must rule , or DowningrStreet ha 9 no charms for him . So he docsn'ti hesitate a moment : ofiice he resigns ; it is impossible without Lord ffalmerston—the country may go to tbe deuoe ; he can't preserve it without Lord Grey .
" 1 tremble to think , my dear M'Barlane , that some desperate atheists may be even now thinking of denying ; this old dynasty altogether , and asking , " Suppose Brey goes , and Uussell afterwards , and Balmerston , the God of Vt » r , and all the race of Jlinto ? Suppose , when one > lord can't agtee with t'other lord , the third lord lines it necessary to break up a Government ; : is all England 10 b » baulked because their lordships are-so squemish V "I for my part , however , must hot speak . I was look ing forward to the Tape and SealiinjiWax-ofnc ? . as my berth , « nj may bo considered an ii ! terested . pa »! $ . lit my opinion the Whigs are so necessary , ' that-: —that ! don't happen to know aynbody else to take their place . But , 0 my dear f riend , why—why wcrnt G-reyor 1 'iiluierston out of the way 1 '• ¦ ¦¦ : < " Ever yours truly , ; "T . B . "M'Pt / Kcir . " To P . MTarlane , Esq ,, Edinburgh . " "
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CuttE for a Bowel Complaisx .. — The- late Lord Erskine being one day indisposed in . the ' jL ' mut of King ' s Bench , told Mr . Jefcyll "thatlie ha < l a pa » in his bowels , for which he could get no-relief . " " I'll give you an infallible specific , " said the fejumorou * barrister , " get made Attorney-General , and tlien you'll have no boivels . " . ¦¦ .,. t . Emancipation of thk " Bnowss /'—The "humane hero , Wilberforce , who , under the" standard of Libertv , freed thousands of blaslcs from their possessors , was not by half the Liberator that he iswho disburdens his own bondsman ef their browns \—Me-¦ phystopheles , ¦ ' Official . — The unoccupied pedestal in Trafalgarsquare is , we hear , to be appropriated tp afbi-tuiiate-German General , who obtained a fielii marshal * baton without ever seeing a shot fired in' war ;—Ibid .
Profasitv . — That man is profane who stops the > flowing of lus tears with a handkerchief , because—he » dams his eyes . —Ibid . Infidel Tumvet and Cubistun Ksolasd . —T 7 « "atlier from a writer in JMwkmoti , that wc migha fcarn lessons of wisdom and humanity wen from the barbarous Turks . In Turkey , the Criminal Cod * has been so much amended , that— "Theextreme repugnance of the present Swltan to sign death-warrants even incases whieh iu . this country would 3 c considered amounting : to wilful murderhas CUllSlUCi riuu —
as , eu no ........ ; , -- ¦ „ rendered capital punishments , exiremc y rnr . * . Hence we much doubt whether beiaghted Constantinople ' would offer such ghastly rabibnojM iw have this week edified the population of Christian Lonusai . The Divan does not shed Wood in revenge :: tlitf Council of St . James ' s still demands a" eye tar are eve a tooth for a tooish , after tko good old Jewish , way . The English Minister bangs according , as ho says , to the bible ; whilst it wwiUlseem tlicbiinixmHis Turk legislates in the benevolent spirit of the Ive ** Testament . —PuiwS . ¦¦ ,. " \
How to Makk a Railwat— Takeasheotfotloolscap paper and a Court OuftU- for 1790 . ' lftekyour Lotus and llight lloiunwalte , add halfcvtan ex-Members of Parliament , and season-with alcw merchants and F . R . S . ' s . Then throw in an es | ineer , a Banker , and a Lawyer ; garnish with ¦ imaginary advantages , and serve up in an advertisement . " -Ibid . Observations of a Naturalist . —Thfe , being aboufc the time for the meeting of Parliaiusnt , the stag begins to draw in his horns . The'Bauwap-ligcoa makes a deposit of its nest-egg , and tie Lawyer-bird comes to cany it off with his long bili The latter has been preparing all the season for feaiheritig liis ne »» and now succeeds in doing so . —Ibiti . '> A Dramatic Rkusii . — What a devilled turkey » * n tha insiniditv of a tuiltev boiliwl . is the subjois « l
plot of a drama to a drama of ths dull old tunes . We take the description from a Sunday print . It ® deliciouslv peppered :- "In it "the Et 9 < jtir * PfXion ) are exhibited * worthy English farmer lon » o his «« . and being luinod by the rapacity of hi landlord , the seduction of the farmer's to « i * . 7 « * daught « irl by tlie only son of the aforesaid landlord , a daughter falsely accusing her own mother of a ruubeni hi whx W sivye herself ' and child from being turned adwft , and di * * carded by her seducer , ad < no / . tnie »«» » . aoiir « tary , and highway robbery : the underplot being miujo up of the adventures of a saucy , uvntty w » J <*>\ . * ; l Ac . There is but one tbing wanting m this delicious , drama : there is no murder . AY anting Wdod , it ; a m the plum-pudding without the bmidy . I \ cyerttu . te » , who shall say , with such pieces ifeeiwod . by the Lou ' Chamberlain ( sinee we miiat have a licensor ) . time he is not an admirable schoolmaster . for tho QMlories?— -Ibid . ¦ ¦ ¦ : ..
A LWI-UASBED COMPLIMKNT .-. ' God WCSS JOM honour ! you saved W , lW !^** WPj £ a captain under whom ho had sewed . Saml your life ? ' replied tho officer . "Do l * ^ }^ doctor « " " No , " answered the man ;¦ . ; but I WJ " under vou nt the battle of Corunim ;; and when job SSlfonoWcd , orelSelshouldluivebeen luIled ..
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 17, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_17011846/page/3/
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