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"Go moura , "< juoth she , ye our lieges so fat , Go fast for the sins of the labourer ' s brat , Tho' wicked—the . ' tile be the bonss that begot it . The poor skinny elf shall have better things taught it Than impious murmuring *—marry ings and cooing * , Bringing down on our land aU these doleful * a-doingi Waste not your devotions on fathers and mothert , Forth * suckling there ' s hope ^ - ' tis « J 1 up with often , Out buhops have worked you a wondrous pr » y « r ; ( Tkea wort for their wages—of course you're aware , )
'Tia easy of utterance—gracefully bo ** . And * warranted safe' to the requisite height . Tend weU to the hour , or ye mumble ia vain , ABpraym « wt be bagged by the Wednesday train . " She ended—so we , for oar country ' s good , We all went a-fasting as fast as we coulo—Such tossing and tolling—Such baking aid boiling—With steaming and stewing And brewing and—doing , TBI London seemed one mighty kitchen at last : The very clouds sicken ' mid fumes of the Fast .
Cabs , vans , and coaches all , Laden with life , — Big son and baby small , — Tailor not orer tall . Airing his pretty " gal , " All for a wife . Then away to tbe Heath ! to tbe " Conduit" away , Well have such fat fun this here blessed " Fast dsy . " Old Thames bears twice the common traU Of pilgrims on his breast . So cut , so jagged , from steam and sail , His purer flood , One mortal rand ! Vy eye ! how merrily they scud , With sandwich , gin , > nd jest . That song as it rings round tby shores bsppy river ! Our Freedom !—our Church!—and our—fort Days for ntrl
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THE WESTMINSTER AND FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW . Aran , 1847 . Loudon ; G . Luxford , Whitefriars-street . The opening article of this number of the Westmuster and Foreign , is devoted to a consideration of ** The Province of Tragedy ; " in which the writer contrasts Bulwer and Dickens , the contrast being in favoarof the latter . The article is brief and suggestive ; and , therefore , may be perused with pleasure and profit . Ia the article on "Speculative Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century , " the writer makes " awful smash" of the German transcendentalists , and triumphantly vindicates the commsn-sense philosophy of Locke and the English school cf thinker * . In a review of two works describing North Wales and the English lakes , recently published , the Reviewer cuts up Miss . Costello ' a topography and geography ,
and administers a slight reproof to DrMackay , for his outrageous puffing of " the Lakers , " . Wordsworth , Soutuey , and Co . The Reviewer says truly , that there is a test from which no poet can escape , and that is , fitness for quotation . To the end ef time , people will be sure to quote ' a clear description from Cowper , a burning line from Byron , a majestic thought from Milton , a nervous couplet from Pope , a sweet allegory from Shakespeare ; " but are not very likely to quote from Southey , Wordsworth , or Wilson . We suppose there cannot be much doubt that the Reviewer isfrom the country of Llewelyn and Glendower ; sure we are , that a son of the Ancient Britons reading the Reviewer ' sglowingdescriptionsof the mountains and torrents of the land of the bards , must , as he reads line by line , be ready to exclaim" We tread tbe land that bore us . "
We give a short extract from the Reviewer ' s recol lections of
WELSH SCE 5 KRT . Immediately after leaving Beddgelert , tbe beauties of Font Aberghulyn burst on the view . It is difficult to enjoy these beauties to the full , for tbe small natives sur * round you iu troop * with rubtnsnly morsels of mineral curiosities , for sale ; but in spite of this nuisance , Pont Aber ^ laslyn and its cairngorm-coloured river , aud its heather-purpled rocks will be sore to live long in unfading spkndonr in tbe memory ofstU who view them with appreciating eyes . Tao-y-Bwlch and Maentwrog have their varied recommendations , bnt tbu is not ( he place to enter on tbe merit * of these rival hostelries of tbe Valley of Festiniog . We must , however , pause at the waterfalls near Maentwrog , the Raven and Llyn-rhaisdrdha , both on the same stream , a tributary of the Tivy .
There is a path through a wood which overlooks both of these , bnt this view is unsatisfactory , especially as regtrds Llju-rhtUdr-dhu , the upper and better fall ; so we made a circuit through the wood , and after a laborious boor spent in forcing our way through tangled brush-Woodat length reached the very verge of the fell . Tlie bed of the river , for two hundred yards above the fallwe speak nnpoetically . and are not quoting Hiss Coitello —is a spout or gutter of solid rock , sloping at an angle of 35 degrees . The ^ river darts-with inconceivable rapidity , but in silence , and smoothly , along this spout , and at its termination shoots with a magnificent arch into the basin below , which is very appropriately termed the Blackpool , for it seems of ^ nky blackness . Tall trees surround it on every side , and a column « f mist , like tbe
cloud that u picture precedes the Israelituh host , raises its indefinite form h % h above thtir heads . From Uaentwrog , there is ample choice of roads ; that to the left , leads to Bala , that to the ti ^ ht , winds round the sea-coast to Harlech and Barmooth , and that straight forward , through Trawsfynnydd . We take the last , not is the most picturesque , but as leading to waterfalls , and make our first bait at the neat and tasty hostelry of Dol-y-mellvnlyn . It is necessary to procure a guide from this place , otherwise much time will be lost in tbe tiresome occupation of explaining to the few natives you chance t » meet the objects you have in view , in requesting to be favoured with thtir opinions and advice , and in receiving the most conflicting and bewildering directions .
Dul-y-melljulyn , tbe first M to which the guide conducts yon , is bnt a few hundred yards from the inn . The scenery is very beautiful , wooded and * rocky ; tbe fail is scarcely distinguishable from twenty others above and below it ; the noisy little river , the Maddoz , as christened after s resident proprietor , is a series of falls , and no one taken alone is of sufficient magnitude to attract much notice in this land of waterfalls ; bnt the aggregate of falls at this spot forms a very pleasing picture . The rocky bed of tbe river rears its huge masses of stone high above tbe stream , so high , indeed , that tbe Spray , eren during floods , can never moisten them ; these susses are of a dark brown colour , approaching to black , asd are curiously spotted with luge patches ot snow-white lichen .
Two miles from Dol-y . mellynlyn , and also close together , are two other falls—Rbaisdr-y-lfswddacb , sod I ulil-y-Cain . The first of these is of considerable volume , and is % double and picturesque fall , but , compared with its neighbour , it is really notbhVg . Tbe guide , after you are satisfied with tbe Mawddaeh fall , takes you through a little wood , and across a wooden bchea-covered bridge , under which tbe Cain flows discontentedly over a stony bottom , sfter itsheadlong leap : tie then tarns to the left , and yon stand at the base of the cascade . The basin which receives it is unusually smau , and the ground rises so abruptly all round it ,
except where the water escapes , that it is impossible to get a satisfactory view of the falU We clambered carefully sioi'g a narrow liege that margins the basin , and then , balding ou by roots and ferns , leaned back against tbe rock , and looked upwards at the waters that were falling iu tbuoder at our feet Tbe grass , the ferns , tbe fuarled oaks , ay , tbe very rock against which we were leaning , trembled with tbe continent concussion ; tbe little buiawsi filled as with Coiling milk , and the spray would Lave wet a dry man instantly to tbe skin ; but we bad already weathered seven hours of pouring raia , and this hule moisture in addition appeared quite unimportant .
A long article on the disputed play of " The Two Noble kinsmen , " is brought to this conclusion : " That the play of * The Two Noble Kinsmen * is one to which Shakespeare possesses a better title than can Improved for him to * Pericles : '—that to him belong Ha entire plan and general arrangement ; but that perhaps , lor want of time to complete it bv * day named , and probably by way of encouragement to a young author of some promise , he availed himself of the assistance of Fletcher to fill up a portion of the outline . " From the article on "Sites for Public Monuments" we extract the following very interesting particulars respecting
XBK CATHEDRAL OF COL 009 C . A greater triumph of mind than history has yet retorted of individual achievements in art , will be tbe completion , within the nineteenth century , of the Cathedral cf Cologne . Six hundred years have passed away since tbe original design was traced of this the noblest nonumect of medieval architecture . The name of its author has been forgotten , bnt bis spirit has lived ; lived ia Us own beautiful creations ; lived through times of war and pillage , and that mslremon of ecclesiastical finds which retarded and interrupted for long periods tbe progress of the work ; lired through the Reformation , which , even ia state * which remained Catholic , put sn
end to tbe building of cathedral * , and for a time involved ia utter ruin the multitudes to whom the ancient religion bad given employment in the sister arts of sculpture , architecture , music and painting ; lived through French rtrolation * and European conflicts ; lived to an age of scientific miracles ; and in that age , and by a generation to whom the wonders of the printing press , the telescope , the steam-engine , the railroad , the elictric telegraph , have become familiar , lir < . d to witness the Present doing homage to the genius of tbe Past—art confessing itself outdone—and tbe people of different states and opposite creeds , Protestant , Catholic , and nationalist , cembining to complete the unfinished monument of their fore-
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fathers , ai an acknowledged model of tasts and construe the skill which has never been surpassed . The first stone of the cathedral was laid on the Mth of August , 1248 . The building was continued at intervals during tbe next centuries , and then abandoned . The intention of completing it , however , appears never to have been wholly relinquished , and the erane , which had been employed for raising the stones to their destined height , was left on the top of the south tower , iu anticipation of Its further service . There it remained for four hundred years , regarded by the inhabitants of Cologne as a symbol and pledge of a promise unredeemed , but for which a time would come . When , at last , the erane fell to the ground from decay , it was not only missed , but its loss was felt as a public calamity . With the crane all hope seemed to have finally departed ; and it ia not a little curious and interesting that this simple Incident should have led ( as it would seem to have done ) to the great national effort now making for the restoration and completion of tbe entire edifice .
In 1819 an old Burgermeister bequeathed a legacy toward restoring the crane ; this was followed by a subscription for repairs ; and , finally , the Prussian government took the matter iu hand and determined to complete tbe cathedral . Tbe new foundation-stone for the body of the church was laid with great ceremony on the ith of September , 1842 , by the King of Prussia , surrounded byprincesfrom nearly all the royal families ef Germany , hi the presences ! a countless multitude of spectators , embrsc » g the whole population , of Colegne and the neighbouring towns of the Rhine ; - a scene well described in the October number of tbe Quarterly Review . At its conclusion , the block having been lowered , and the usual speecbes delivered , the Dombau Heister addressed the artisans , telling them t « resume their labours to the mnsic and sentiment of Schiller ' s " Song of tbe Bell . "
" He was answered by a hurrah from the tower ; tbe crane moved slowly on its axis ; a chorus of workmen ' s voices rose in sonorous melody ; a block of stone was seen mounting slowly through the air ; every hat was waved , his Majesty '* the heartiest of all ; and , Amidst roars of cannen , one stone more was added to that tower , where the last had been left above four centuriet before . " In this article the writer reviews the " vexed question" of the Wellington statue , which he contrasts with that of Peter the Great at St Peters
burg , greatly to the disadvantage ot the first of these monstrosities . The writer advances some novel but conclusive views respecting tbe Duke ' s effigy , which we commend to all who take any interest in the question , wbieh we do not ; and « e suppose our readers agree with us . The next article is more important , but not so conclusive ; indeed the writer , while throwing doubt upon the views of others , settles nothing himself . His subject is " Theories of Population , " and the writers reviewed are Double day and Thornton . The theory of Mr Doubleday is embraced in the four following propositions : —
1 . —That when the existence of any tpecits , animal ox vegetable , is threatened , there is a stimulus to increase . 2 . —If any species , animal or vegetable , receive an Immoderate supplv of aliment , or become plethoric , it does not reproduce itself at all . 3 . —If moderate aliment be administered it reproduces itself without increasing . 4 —If equal portions of tbe species be put into these different states , the decrease of one portion will be compensated for by the increase of another , and tb numbers of the whole will remain as before . We have net seen Mr Doableday ' s book , but judging by the review , we fancy he is rather more than a match tor his reviewer .
An article entitled " Reports on Lighthouses , " is followed by an elaborate but inviting review of those "lights ot the nineteenth century , " Strauss and Parker . This article , take it for all-in-all , is the most admirable in tbe whole number . The reviewer ' s brilliant argument and bold criticism will command the applause of all inquirers after truth—of aU who are "bold enough to be honest , and honest enough to be bold . " The following quotations from Parker ' s " Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion , " will parly explain the ideas oi the American Reformer : —
THEDEHY . " The feelings . Fear , Bcverence , Devotion , Love , naturally personify God , humanize the Deity , and represent the Infinite under tbe limitations of a finite and imperfect being , whom we ' can know all about . ' He has the thoughts , feelings , passions , limitations of a man : is subject to time and space ; sees , remembers , has a form . This is Anthropomorphism . It is well in its place ;—some rude men seem to require it . They muvt paint to themselves a Deity with a form—the Ancient of Days—a venerable monarch seated on a throne , surrounded by troops of followers . But it most be remem bered that all this is poetry ; this personal and anthio " pomorpbhic conception is a phantom efthe brain , that
has no existence independent of ourselves . A poet personifies a mountain or the moon ; addresses it as if it wore the form of man , could gee and feel , had human thoughts , sentiments , hopes , and pleasures , and expectations . West the poet's fancy does for tbe mountain , the feelings of reverence and devotion de for the idea of God ;—they clothe it with a human personality , because that is the highest which is known to us . Men would , comprehend the Deity;—they can only apprehend faim-A Beaver or a Reindeer , if possessed af religious faculties , would also conceive of tbe Deity with the limitations of their own personality , as a Beaver or a Rein deer , —whose faculties as such were perfect ;•—but tbe conception , like our own , must be only subjective , foi man is no measure of Cd . "—P . 123 .
IDE BIBLE . The Bible is made for man , not man for the Bible . Its truths , are old as tbe creatien , repeated mote or less purely in every tongne . Let its errors and absurdities no longer be forced on the pious mind , but perish for ever ; let the Word of God come through conscience , reason , and holy feeling , as light through tbe windows of morning . Worship with no master but God , no creed bnt truth , no service but lore , and we bave nothing to fear . Aecotdiogto Parker , the great merit of the
Catholic Church "is its assertion of the troth , that God still inspires mankind as much as ever : ' ' its great fault , tbat it "limits this inspiration to itself . " Of the Protestant Church , the grand merit " is its proclamation of freedom of conscience within the limits o f the Script ares ; the grand vice , its erection ot the Bible into a master of tbe soul . " Parker contends tbat ( true ) Christianity " has no rites , no priests , no creed ; puts nothing , permits nothing between the soul of man and God ; fears nothing from the truth ; demands only a divine life . " By far the most interesting portion of tbe Review is the criticism of Strauss ' s * * Life of Jesus . " We give the following
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BTRAtSS . In the apinion of Strauss , the biographical details recorded of Jesus were cast in tbe moulds . of imaginative invention , preserved iu his age aud nation . These were determined almost entirely by the prevalent expectation of a Messiah ; within the wide compass of which may be discovered parallels , which may bave been sources for roost of tbe incidents in tbe gospels . Our author ' s plan , therefore , once adopted , is plain and mechanical enough . By the side of each scripture section , in turn , he spreads the picture of tbe Messiah , drawn out of all accessible sources , from tbe Pentateuch to the latest Talmudists : as be can find , or summon into existence by tbe magic of bis look , a succession of correspondences , he ticks them off , stroke by stroke ; and then , combining bis discoveries , produces the Jewish sketch as the prototype of tbe Christian story .
The following is a brief extract from the Westminster Reviewer s powerful and eloquent description of
THE PROGRESS OF FREE THOUGHT . The bodily breadth of belief , that rested with equable weight on the whole area of Scripture , i » no longer to be found among the educated members of any church . The high claims ef the former age have suffered many abatements . The bint may now be innocently dropped , that perhaps there was a limit to the wisdom of Solomon , and the learning ot Moses . The archaeologist , curious about the longevity of nations , and anxious to re-construct the wrecks of an immemorial civilization in India or in E ? f pt , is no longer arrested by the chronological margin of the flood ; bnt obtains unlimited grants of land beyond , from which tbe mirage will retire as be advances . Geology , after exasperating the jealous guardians of Christendom , by disturbing the Creation , no longer offers ,
by way of hush-money , to establish the Deluge ; but reoaUiiii "Beliquiss Silurians , " and is mere ashamed of its ' pejMnce than of iu sins . The Tower of Babel does not stifcd in the way of researches into the origin of languages ; and even tbe Fall imposes no limit to the ethnological speculations which treat the common parentage of all mankind as an open question . Tbe admissions tbat now and then slip from divines—such as Dr Arnold ' s statement that St Paul entertained an erroneous expectation of the approaching end of the world—show , in the most striking manner , bow changed is our theological meridian . Even in tbe religious taste of the classes who combine belief with habits of cultivated thought , an index of the same thing may be found . The simple appeal to verbal and external authority has . lost its effect
from the pulpit or the press . In maintaining the influence oi Christianity , the main stress is more and more thrown on its moral , esthetic , philosophical , and affectionate elements . Consistent believers in its supernatural origin are not fond of dwelling , as their forefathers were , on the records of purely physical interpositions of God : they rest , with grateful faith , on such events as tbe resurr ection of Christ ; the raising of the widow ' s soa ; tbe healing of tbe leper and the blind ; on the miracles of obvious majesty and mercy , which correspond with some nible action of the imagination and the heart : but are painfully chafed when obliged to think , wiih any distinctness , of tbe turning of rods into serpents , and of dast into
flies ; of the story of Jonah ; of the conveyance of demons into swine ; of the endowment of handkerchiefs , aprons , and shadows , with miraculous gifts ; or of any like incidents , in which the shock to expectation is unrelieved by apparent divineness of purpose , and dignity of mode . We ar * far from denouncing , or from praising , these things as indications of unbelief or of illumination ; we refer to them simply as facts , manifest and interesting to every thoughtful observer . We will add . that though , of course , they imply & loosened belief in some thugs once held certain , they are not apparently attended by any decliae of religions earnestness in the present age . la England , at least , tbe prevalence of a reverential spirit among thinkers of every class stems to
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open a prospect of some union , having a deeper founds , tion than mere dogmatical concojwnct ,-.,,, The Reviewer thus Eums ] up his estimate of the labours oi Strauss : — We cannot belieretbathenceforth any instructed theologian will waste bis strength in attempting to harmonise the gospels ; or tbat laymen will be expected to make nothing of their discrepancies ; or tbat future books of Christian evidence will stake everything on their authorship ; or that the religion of mere testimony and authority will longer repudiate tbe alliance of tbe religion of reflection and consciousness . Dr Strauss will not carry mankind to his own point : but neither will be leave them where they are . He bas found a fulcrum for moving the globe ; but he does it under tbe human condition : be swings himself across half the universe ; and he stirs the world—an inch . Most truly was our Byron inspired when he wrote : —
"Even godamust yield—religions take their turn J ' Twas Jore ' s—' tis Mahomet ' s—and other creeds Will rise with other years , " & c . We live in an age of transition , bat he is a mole-eyed brute who cannot see something oi the future . In the review or summary of " Foreign Literature , " we have notices—far too brief , some of thereof several new and important works ; to wit : some new songs by Beranger ; Miobelet ' sand Louis Blanc ' s Histories of the Revolution ; Lamartine ' s History of the Girondins ; De'focqueville's Louis XV ., & c , dec . From the last-named of these , we give the following extract : —
LOOTS xv . Up to the age of two * and . twenty the king evinced no disposition to conjugal infidelity . He was then remark , ably handsome , and tbe ladies of the court vied with each other in efforts to allure him . His confidential attendants , according to tbe invariable tactics of their class , were eager to provide him With a mistress , and took care to make aim observe tbe amorous advances of the fair dames around him . At first bis answer was on all such occasions , " The queen is a much finer woman . " But the pertinacity of his tempters , seconded by the weakness and vacuity of bis own nature , at last prevailed ; and his panders , Bacheller and Lebel , cast the bashful and reluctant young monarch almost by
force into the arms of Madame de Mailly . At the head of the triumphant conspiracy was tbat grave and reverend person , that zealous and demure churchman , Cardinal Fleury . Unseen he directed all the machinations of tbe plot , selected tbe mistress , and contrived tbe interviews . Madame de Mailly was perfectly free from ambition , the geeatest of merits in the old minister's eyes , for it relieved him from all apprehension ou the score if bis own influence ; her love for tbe king was genuine and disinterested , and she even beggared herself for tbe sake of her sordid lover , whose avarice was such tbat he did not blush to amass money in a time of famine by jobbing in corn . As single-hearted and fond as La Yalliere , and still more unhappy , like her she tied penitent , a victim to the base ambition of her own sisters .
If Louis hid been slow to cast aside the restraints of decorum , it is notorious with what desperate assiduity he afterwards revelled in depravity , and helped to bring about that catastrophe which be had ability enough to foresee , and heartlessntus enough to disregard , because he believed it was not to happen in hip day . His reign may be divided into Ave portions , two Of which we hare briefly glanced at—namely , tbe regency , and the ministry of Cardinal Fleury ; the remaining three are denoted by ( he names of the three successive mattresses en titre , Mesdames de Chateauroux , de Pompadour , and du Barry , The first of these was a proud and ambitious woman , one ot tbe three sisters of Madame de Mailly , who supplanted her in tbe king ' s favour . She desired to exalt the glory of her royal paramour , and under her
influence Louis seemed for a while to snake off bis apathy and sloth ; she insisted that he should apply himself to the business of government , and appear at the head of his army . But her reign was brief ; she died suddenly , and the king relapsed into his old habits . Then came the vindictive procuress , Madame de Pompadour , who tilled the Bastile with the vietims of her resentment , and thePars ^ twCjr / s with female children kidnapped , or purchased , or tempted to offer themselves voluntarily , to bo instructed in the principles of religion and the practices of vice by tbe devout and debauched monarch . Wheu Pompadour died , it was quite in accordance with the fit and natural sequence of things , that du Barry should step from a brothel to take her place as virtual queen of France .
There was likewise a natural fitness in tbe manner of death that befel Louis XV . Alarmed by some symptoms of contrition manifested by him , the Countess du Barry , who had long followed the system of Madame de Pompadour , prevailed on the king to make an excursion to Trianon , where he would find a young girl whose charms would dissipate his gloomy thoughts . But the girl was already labouring under tbe latent stage of small pox ; the king caught tbe infection , and died in a few days , at the age of sixty-four , and after a reign of fifty-nine years . His death was welcomed with joy by the nation which had once regarded him with such genuine and warm affection . When some one bantered the priest of St Genevieve on the inefneacy of the prayers and ceremonies at the shrine of the saint on the occasion of tbe king ' s illness , " Why , " replied the priest , " is he not dead f What more would you have V
From Lamartine ' s History of the Girondins , there is an extract given describing the private life of Robespierre . Of this we purpose to speak fully as -oon as an English translation of Lamartine ' s work is published , and we see one already announced . Michelet ' a History appears to be one of that half mystical chat acter of which his People largely partook . Louis Blanc ' s History is not favourably spoken of by the Reviewer , but the very reasons why he condemns it almost assure us that this "History " is the one before all yet published or publishing , that will most faithfully represent the Revolution . The English publisher who would print & translation of this " History" at a moderate price would be a public benefactor . We pray our poets to give us , if they can , a translation of " Notre Coq" one of the new chansons of Beranger ; the refrain almost seta w » crowing : —
Co , co , coquerico , France , ren . ets ton scbako . Coquerico , coquerico 1 " Alter * mass of "Miscellaneous Notices" of new works , follows a political postscript , which we have neither time nor space to comment on . Suffice it to say that the writer is dreadfully alarmed at the triumph of the Ten Hours' Bill , which he predicts must fail when brought into operation ; aud on the subject of Ireland predicts all sorts of horrors ascertain to flow from the ministerial measures . In one thing only we agree with the writer of the " Postscript , " and it is , that the Irish are miserable , not because they are Celts , or Catholics , or because of small farms , but because ot the rillanous system of Landlord rule , without a radical reform of which there is no hope for Ireland .
On tbe whole , we have read this number of the rF « tmt ' n « reranfl ! foreign Quarterly Review with great pleasure . Of the Quarterlies it is second to none in sterling value , while its contents generally are much more agreeable reading than either of its content poraries .
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Attempted Escape from Gaol . — The very crowded state of Euuiskillen gaol has attracted a good deal of public attention of late . The number at present ; and for some time past , confined , exceeds three hundred In such a state of things it is impossible to prevent intercourse ; and the Irishman's proverbial love of country and of liberty may be expected to lead him to plot with bis fellow-convicts for escape . A conspiracy of this nature was detected among ( he convicts under rule of transportation ( numbering nearly fifty ) , and no doubt would have led to the most disastrous consequences had not their intentions been discovered , and the plot frustrated . It was arranged that one of the party rhoufd feign ill , and white the officers of the prison would be engaged in renderingassistanccor conveying him to the hospital , they would seize the officers ,
press them into a hall or yard , and lock them up and make to the room where the fire-arms are deposited , and with those arms all who opposed were to be shut down , till tbe conspirators regained their forfeited liberty . A signal was to be given to another party of convicts in another hall as they marched to their cells at the breakfast hour , and all were to join . Fortunately , the governor got under the plan before the concerted hour to give the signal , and got them unsuspectingly divided and marched to their cells . When secured , he and bis assistants put irons upon tbe most determined and refractory . They confessed their design , and regretted that it had been discovert d , averring that they wonld gladly have died in attempting their escape' -that death would have been the consequence , either to the governor and his assistants , or to the conspirators—perhaps to both .
A Gknpinb Irtshhaic . —A few days ago , as a gentleman ef our acquaintance was walking up Northgate , in Wakefield , he was accosted by a son of tbe Emerald Isle in the following manner : —" Arrab . yer honour , and would ye be after telling me the n ame of tbe street opposite ? " To which the gentleman replied " Providence-slreet . " "Sure enough , and yer honour , and that ' s the very street I ' m wanting , and faith , I ' ve a particular friend who lives in that same street , bnt , by my soul , I ' ve intirely and complately forgot his name—nerhans . now . sou would be
after telling me bis name too . " This so excited our friend ' s risible faculties , that he burst into an immoderate fit of laughter , to the no small aroaiement of poor Paddy , who retorted , "Faith , and you ' re no gentleman , or yon wouldn ' t be after thrating one in tbat manner ; by my soul , but ye may have to ask the same question yourself , someday . " A second fit of laughter was the result of this droll remark , and Paddy , after looking unutterable things , walked away , no doubt to find a more gentlemanly informant . —Lotas intelligencer .
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THESE ARE THE CHAMBERS'S OF 1815 ! IWe have already shown to our readers the Chambers s of 1847 ; we now refer to the previous opinions ot these changeable economists . Whence this wonderful change ?]
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IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDSSPADE HUSBANDRY . ( Fromthc Information for ikt People , No . 72 J _ , f * Continued from our last . ) In order to irrigate a field , there must be a difference of levels , the water being made to run in a main channel along the highest side , aud thence sending email rills all over the lower parts of tho ground . The principle of adjustment is by sluices . When theslope is considerable , the water requires to bo sent diagonally across the field , and being catched in mains at intervals , is again distributed , if need be , in new directions . Thisjscalled catch work irrigation . The follow hie observations on tho subject occur in Stephen ' s Practical Irrigator and Drainer : — "In the
formation of an irrigated meadow , there are two rules of the greatest weight : one is , that no part of the works be made on a dead level ; and the other , that every drop of water be kept in constant motion ; but to give exact directions for the formation , is beyond the ingenuity of man ; for no two pieces ofland ore precisely alike , which renders it impossible for the irrigator to follow the same plan in one field that he has done in another . Each meadow , therefore , requires a different design , tho construction to be varied according to the nature of the ground and the quality and quantity of the water . Inclined plains are absolutely nece . sssry for tbe purpose of irrigation ; and the benefit of irrigation depends so much upon the » ood management arid patient perseverance
of those who bave the superintended of it , tbat I do not wonder it has so often proved unsuccessful . However simple the construction of a water meadow may appear to be on a superficial view , those who enter minutely into the detail will find it much more difficult than is commonly imagined . It is not an easy task to givo an irregular surface the equal slope requisite far the overflowing of water . It i * very necessary for the irrigator to have just ideas of levels ; a knowledge of superficial forms will not be sufficient . Few people unacquainted with the art of irrigation , and the regularity of form which the adjustment of water requires , have any idea of tho expense of modelling ; the surface of a field . Where land is very uneven , it is sometimes advisable to break it up with
the plough , and take % crop of oa ' s befor e the formation ; by which means the land can be properly cleaned and pulverised beft-re levelling it into form with the levelling plough and spade the following year —an operation whi « h may be executed at half the expense of doing the whole with tho spade and wheel-barrow . But there is one advantage by doine ; tbe whole work with spade and barrow , especially where Jhe turf is strong , which is , that the water can be applied as soin as the beds are formed ; but by breaking up , and taking a crop of oats , it will require two or three years after the grass seeds are sown before tlie water can be used , which some proprietors think too long to w » it , therefore will rather beat an additional expense to have the turf lifted
and laid down again ; by so doing , the whole operations may be performed in one season . Tho grass seeds generally used for laying down land for water meadow are , vernal grass , crested dogstail , soft meadow grass , rough-stalked meadow crass , foxtail , floriu grass ( agrostis stolonifera ) , which last is one of the prevailing grasses in nil good meadows ; and the best way of planting it is to cut the wlrble into short pieces , the same way as cutting straw into chaff , and sow it with other sides . It is not always that those grasses give a good crop the first year ; therefore , to obviate this evil , some perennial ryegrass seed should I esowa along with tho others , to produce a crop of hay before the watering commence . "
It must be understood that the irrigation of any meadow is not to be incessant . There are times when the water must be " altogether turned off , and the ground left to dry ; it U af these times that the herbage is to be out and removed . In large meadows , it is customary to turn off the water , from dif . ferent patts at different times , by which a constant succession of crops is obtained . Speaking on this part of the management , Mr Stephens observes : — " One of the greatest defects in the management oi irrigated meadows in this country , is the not paying proper attention to freeing the ground from subterraneous and stagnant water ; for experience shows that , wherever there is too much moisture beneath the surface , or if the water lodges too long upon it , the crop will always be coarse and scanty . Another great error generally committed is , allowing the water to run too lone at a time , without properly
drying the ground . I know some instances in this neighbourhood where the ground is not attempted to be dried from the time the water is put on the meadows , in the autumn , till ei ^ ht or ten davs before the cutting of the hay ; the consequence is , that the grass is of tho coarsest quality , and the ground has become so very bogtiy , that the whole crop of grass is obliged to be carried by people to some other place to be made into hay . Another inconvenience arises from bad management , which , lam sorry to say , is too prevalent in this country ; that is , permitting the grass to stand too long before cutting ; tho consequence is , coarse hay . badly made , and in many instances half rotten before b-ine put into the stack ; and , moreover , owing to the lateness of the season , the aftermath is entirely lost ; so that the proprietor has not received half the value of his meadow whicli he ought to have received , if the hay had beeu made in the proper season .
The first operation of the irrigator is to adjust tbe water in the conductor , or . ii th * . meadow is iu more parts than one , the water in each conductor mint be first regulated ; then he commences anew by regulating the stops in the first feeder ; but should there not be sufficient water in the feeder , a little more must be let in , by malting the aperture wider or deeper , till the water flows regularly over the sides from one end to the other ; from the first , he proceeds to the second feeder , and so on , until tho water in ail the feeders is adjusted . Let the beds of a water-meadow be ever so well lorind , yet . by somo places sinking more than others , or by the ice raising the surface of the ground , although the water along the banks of the feeders have been ever so nicely
adjusted , it often happens that the-. 'e may be sotr . e places between the feeders and drains with too little water , when it will be advisable for the manager to make a third round , redressing inequalities of tho surface , so as to give every spot an inch deep of water . Every part of the works being regulated , the water should bo allowed to run through the whole of October , November , December , and January , from fifteen to twenty days at a time , without intermission . At the expiration of these periods , the ground should be made complei ely dry for live or six da > s , to give it air ; for there are few species of grasses , which form the most nutritious part of the herbage
of water meadows , that will long exist under an entire immersion o ( water . Moreover , if the frost should be severe , and the water be & in to freeze , the watering must t e discontinued , otherwise the whole surfac . ' will become one sheet of ice ; aud wherever the ice takes hold of the ground , it will undoubtedly draw it into heaps , which is very injurious to the plants . The object of this early preparation of the meadows is to ' take advantage of the autumnal floods , which bring alon ; with them a variety of putrescent matter , which is found very enriching to land . " At the most convenient period of the year , the various channels will require to be cleaned out , and the works repaired .
PnOTKOn . NO B 1 VKB BAN ** . Much valuable land on the banks of rivers and rivulets is often laid waste by the encroachments ol floods . A few words on this important subject seem to be necessary . It may bo laid down as a principle in natural science , tbat water is irresistible , and therefore it must not be resisted—it must be humoured . All windings in streams are caused by resistance . The water , in rushing onward , dashes aitainst a projecting stone or hard part on one of its banks ; this sends it in an opposite direction , and it strikes against whatever obstacle is presented . This process of interruption swn causes a mouldering of the banks in opposite directions , so that at length the water runs in a zig-zag or serpentine course . All this might have been avoided by allowing the water a perfectly free course .
The damage done to lands by flooding , has led to numerous experiments for keeping the water in its channel , but seldom with any degree of success ; because the attempts have been to them in the current by sheer force . In nil cases in which it is desirable to keep out tides or high floods from lands , the only secure method consists in giving the banks such a slope that they will present no resistance whatever , but allow the water to rise and subside with equal ease and tranquillity . Asa general truth , the greater
the slope the better ; and it should never be lens than a foot and a half for every foot in the height . Employ no stenes or stakes , or any thing else , for the current to catch upon ; but cover the slopes with smooth turf , at a season which will allow of its growth before the floods set in . If any palches get broke , let them be annually mendtd . To keep out high floods , tlie banks mu ^ t be made correspondingly high . Artificial embankments , in a flat country , should assume the form of a long mourn ! , sloping on both sides .
Notwithstanding the obvious utility of this simple and unexpensive mode of protecting ' river banks , instances ol damage are constantly occniriit ; ' from projects of an opposite kind . Mr Stephens mentions the following as one of many within hia knowledge : — " An embankment was thrown round tho small island , Mugdrum , in the river Tay , to protect the land from being overflowed by the tide ; but it was made so steep , that the first spring tides levelled the greater part of it to the ground . A second attempt was made , with the additional expense of a stone wall facing the water , which shared the same fate with the former bank . Since these failures , a third embankment has been erected with nothing but the natural toil of tbe land , and the whole covered with thin turf . The length ef the present slope next the sea U five times the perpendicular height of the bank , and the inner ukum three times ;
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the water meeting no resistance , rolls down the long slope without doing any injury . " We refer to Mr Mepnens useful treatise for further information on this subject , as well as on irrigation and draining . ( To 6 e continued in < mr n « xt . )
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HAYMARKET . —Mrs Nesbltt returned to the scene of her former triumphs on ' . Monday evening last . And , truly , her reception was as enthusiastic and genuine as the most zealous admirers of this beautiful and gifted lady could desire . Long before the rising of tbe cuitain tho "little theatre" was crowded with a highly lashionabte and intellectaal audience , wbo bad assembled , not merely to witneis the fascinating perform ances of Mrs Nesbltt , ' but , as lovers of the legitimate drama , had gathered together to offer a tribute of heartfelt cougmtu . lation to one who has no competitor , and whose return to the stage may be justly bailed with the most unbounded admiration . The comedy selected was " The
Love Chase , " in which , in her original part of Constance , ten years ago , at this theatre , she achieved one of her most brilliant and abiding triumphs . Mrs Nesbltt is returned to us as beautiful in person and as winning in style as when she took , what we are delighted to find was not , a last farewell . The stage is her true home—for hers is a spirit to receive and impart pleasure ; and however we may regret the circumstances which have caused her return , we cannot but rejoice that she will again make not only tbe walls oi tbe Haymarket echo with her joyous peals , but that thousands of hearts will be made glad with the sound of her genial voice and the sunny smiles of her radiant features . Her Constance has moulted no feather of its wonted excellence ; there is tbe same heartiness in the mirth , the same pathos in the sentiment , andtbesame true womanliness through , out . The fine description of the chase was given as only
Mrs Kesbitt csn give it ; and tbe taunts and tbe sarcasms of the scsne with Yf ildrake on bis musical affecta . tions of the Widow Jones , were all instinct with the purestspirit of comedy . Each successive ictne was rewived . Tilth watwi greetings ; at tbe fall of ibe curtain she was called forth amid enthusiastic cheers , waving oi kerchiefs , and innumerable bouquets were cast in honour at her feet . The bouse was crowded in every part , ami bore rather tbe aspect of a / ete than of a dramatic per . formsnee . —The Widow Green of Mrs Glover is a worthy companion-piece to the Constance of Mrs Kesbitt . Thore is no similar talent to Mrs Glover's now extant in any European theatre ; we may vainly seek , either for her matronly beauty , her intellectual powers , or her fine appreciation of dramatic character , The audience complimented themselves by calling her forward to expref s their sense of her unfailing and unfaded excellence , Mr Webster acted Wlldrake with his usual spirit .
S ADLER'S WELLS . —The task of banishing from the stage " The Tempest" as modified by Dryden , and reviving the play in its original form , was performed by Mr Macready during his management of Covent Garden . The directors of Sadler ' s Wells have ever been actual , d by a similar spirit , and bave donealltbey can to restore the genuine plays of Shakespeare for the benefit of an audience which is certainly strong in enthusiasm for tb * name of the great dramatist . Their " Richatd the Third" was a striking instance in this respecf , and now they have followed in the steps of Mr Macroady by producing " The Tempest , " in its proper shape , and with every regard to scenic decoration . They have even shown more rigidity in adhering to the original text than was displayed at Covent Garden , for , while they adopt
Mr Macready ' s plan of substituting a picturesque storm at sea for the opening scene of the sailors , they restore tho speech in the third act , " You are three men oi sin , " to Ariel , who appears , as written , in tbe form of a harpy , whereas at Covent Garden this speech was givew to Prosper © . The circumstance is perhaps ef no great importance to tbe play , as Ariel is supposed to speak completely under the influence of Prospero , to whom the words may easily be transferred . But it is right to mention It as an instance of good . Shakesperian faith on tho part of Mr Phelps , who by following the original plait sacrifices one of the most important speeches of a part which cannot bo called a thankful one . Prospero and Miranda , ( played at Sadler ' s Wills by Miss L . Addison , ) though the lattvr is a beautiful impersonation of feminine Innocence , are neither of them characters which artists ambitious of walking in the highest path would be anxious to play , were they not surrounded by the naimof Shakespere with that halo which renders it illustrious
to act in any of his pieces . The comic parts of " The Tempest" are those which " come out" most with a general audience , and it is remarkable to observe tho keen sense of enjoyment fit by the Sadler's Wells ' an . dience at the drolleries of Trincolo ( Younge ) . and Stephano ( Scharf . lin company with Caliban . Mr 0 . Bennett ' --performance of this last character embodies a reaUj fine conception . The lubberly hatted , the abjsct crouching , the brutish veneration , are faithfully depicted , the actor realising the combination of strong vindictive passion , with mental Inferiority . The scenery iscntirely now and very beautiful , the sudden conversion of a calm " profile" sea Into a " carpet" of billows , with the ship tossed upon them , being as clever a management of a storm as one would wish to see . The audience , who flock to ace " The Tempest" in crowds , testify their approbation by applause , which is indeed enthusiastic . A little interlude , called " The Rival Serjeants , " by Mr W . Collier , has been produced with success . It is very slight , but it causemirth , and is enlivened by a number of agreeable songs to well known tunes .
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According to a letter from India , a boy , seven years old , was lately discovered near Feroz ( 'pore , in tlie den of a she wolf , who is supposed to have " nurse' ) and done for him" as an ancestress of her ' s is said to have done for Romulus and Remus some eenturu > ago . The boy is quite savage , and will touch m thing but raw flesh . Among the names attached to a petition lying at tho Ilolborn baths for the abolition of Smithfieid market , occur the signatures of Bull , Cow , and Calfe . At tbe Sussex assizes last week , there were no lew . than four actions springing out of family feuds , viz , one by a father against his sun , one by a son against his father , one by a son ag . iinsthU mother , and one b ) one brother against another . Another present of illustrated books has been forwarded to the Q , u * en by a publisher of New York .
Professor Challis has confirmed the statement that a ring , similar to that which surrounds Saturn , encircles the newly-discovered planet Neptune . A society has been formed in Lonrfon for the publication ofastratagraphical series of British fossils , and it will take the title of the Pa !« Dntographical Society . Senor Mon , the late Spanish minister of Finance , was about four years ago , a kind of clerk to Count Toreno , and lived in a poor lodging-house in Madrid , at the rate of half-a-crowo or three shillings a day ,
but he is now supposed to be worth * 500 , 000 . The Italian aeronaut , Orlamli , who has made four hundred and twenty ascents with success , is said to have completed a machine which will enable him to control the balloon in the air , and to guide its direction with certainty . A newspaper was lately posted at Bremen , in Germany , for » firm at Swansea . It was , however , forwarded to New Zealand , and was eventually returned to Swansea , alter it bad travelled upwards ot forty thousand miles . , , , died at Wexford
A man named Daniel Aitken lately , Canada , . it the age of 120 years . During bin life he hod contracted seven marriages , and he lett o 7 « grand and great-graudchildrea . " The gross total quantity of all soap made in Great Britain during theyear 1846 , araounted to 1 , 831 , 9551 b . of silicated soap ; 107 . 750 , 0901 b . of other hard soap ; and 15 , 807 9021 b . of soft soap . An Irish car driver in his list of journey expenses , •• barged , "Refreshments for the horse , 2 d . " On inquiry , it turned out that the rogue meant whi p cord ! A grand exhibition of works of the Fine Arts is to be opened at Amsterdam on the 3 rd of May . Foreign artists will be allowed to exhibit . _ .
There is a tailor living in New York who works * fast that he ia compelled to keep a pail of water by him " to cool his needle in . " Mr W . Lambert , of Risbury Court , Herefordshire , has now in his possession a lamb , yeaned on the 28 th ult ., with six legs , four on the left side , and two on the right . The two additional legs are their propo length , bnt are attached to the body only by hangiuj ; tothe . 'kin . . Mr Brack , treasurer at Glasgow to the Highland Relief Fund , has received £ 10 . 000 from the Brttisn Association , making in all from that Association th < munificent sum ot £ 28 , 000 ; One of tho leading members of the Young Irelano Association was asked why the "«*«» ' weekly' aeh ,. A « l 0 , l « mpnr . « . f rent was not published with then
usual weekly proceedings in the Aatton ; to whic ^ hegavo the following very satisfactory reply :- Th .-dtvil a rap we got the whole week . Phantoms are only seen in the dark . There arc always miracles in a land of ignorance .-Z ^ martine " I am alwayssorry , " saysa trench writer , when a woman becomes an author ; I would much rathes that sh « remained a woman . "~ i We are always sorry whtn a man becomes a fool , { as the writer of the above proves himself to be , ) we ^ rould much rather he remained a man . — Ed . N . S . ] Tne keeper of the serpents , and otoer reptiles , at the Gavden of Plants , has just brought to perfection an apparatus , of great simplicity , for the artificial hatching of e ^ -gs .
The Emperor of Russia has just given orders that the works of the railway from St Petersburg to Moscow shall be pushed forward with the greatest activity , and tbat the number of workmen at present employed shall be increased by 50 , 000 soldiers . Alter a recent snow-storm in Orkney large knolls of snow were found over the sountry , looking like heaps of manure covered with snow ; but which , when examined , turned out to be cylindrical , like hollow fluted rollers , or ladies' swan-down mulls , bearing a strong resemblance to the latter , iney had beeu formed by the wind rolling up the snow , as boys form snow-balls fer amusement .
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Labour Roix , Public Work * ih Iheund . —Week ending March 6 . 734 , 792 ; March 20 , 6 ( 54 , 442 ; March 27 , 638 , 047 ; Aprl 3 , 525 , 518 . Vi : Rr Sensible . —Ths municipal authorities of Berlin having announced to the King their desire to give a grand banquet to the members of the Dipt , his Majesty has replied that with the misery that exists , it would he better to employ the money in more useful objects . Jew aw Gbkthb . —The King of Bavaria hai ordered that , in consequence of the dearness of food , an increase of salary shall be awarded to the Jewish schools , the same as to the masters of Christian , schools .
l . ABUAN . —Mr Brooks , so well known as the enter , prising traveller and successful settler in the Indian Archipelago has received an official sanction and reward of his labours , by being appointed cimirais . sioner and consul-general from England to the Sultan and Independert Chiefs of Borneo . Poliosac—The eldet son of tho late Prince de Polignac claims a seat in the Chamber of Penrs , because , when his father was condemned to " civil death , " the law whereby the Peerage was hereditary had not yet been repealed . The Cobdhn National Tbibute Fund . —Since the last advertisement of [ subscriptions to this fund , £ 559 have been added , including £ 100 from Mr Jedediah Strutt , of Belrer , and £ 50 from Messrs Petrte and Co ., of Rochdale . The total amount of the subscriptions now reaches £ 60 . 692 .
Tub Ci'ABT Defbscks . —The orders in hand at the Royal Arsenal at the present time , in connection with the coast defences , amount to 23 58-pounder guns , and 228 8-inch guns , to be mounted on dwarf platforms . These guns are to be distributed to Gravexend and Tilbury Ftirt , Portsmouth , Plymouth , Guernsey , SheernChS , Malta , Corfu , Quebec , Hong Knng , & c Importation or Herrings , —The ship Ina , arrived in the Commercial Docks , from St Jolm \ % New Brunswick , has brought , in addition to an extensive
cargo of wood goods , the very large number of 637 boxes of herrings in a preserved state , and 4 firkins of butter , the production of that British province of North America . Fatal Accidknt . —On Sunday afternoon a sailing boat containing four young men was upset in the river Thames , at Battersea Reach , and John Somes ' , aged 19 , son of Mr Somes , of the King ' s-road , Cliel . sea , was drowned . The other three , being able to swim , kept themselves afloat till assistance reached them horn the shore .
Chkap Mktropolitan Tiuvklijno . —Omnibuses have commenced running from Battersea to j { oxton conveying passengers the entire distance , about nine miles , for sixpence . The Ant and Bee , steam vessels , running from London Bridge to the Webt End , have reduced their fares to one halfpenny ; and ths Citizen Stf am-boat Company have commenced running heir vcs . ^ Ih to Hammersmith , Wandsworth , ana Putney at reduced fares . Unostentatious Chariti . —A gentleman called a few , days ago at Messrs Hallett ' s , who are bankers to the Western Dispensary , Charles-street , Westniinstcr , and saying he much regretted to find the charity ho poor , he placed a fifty pound note ou the counter , desiring it might bo put to Utclr credit as the " donation of a governor . " declining to leave his name .
Important . — Mr Anthony , surgeon , of Btixham , was lately called to a young married female , about nineteen years of age , who ha I taken about 100 grains of oxalic acid , lie administered milk with a view to form a coagulum , which succeeded in the most effectual way by producing instantaneous vomiting , as he expected ; after every ejection from the ftiomncb , Mr A . repeated the dose of milk , in quantities of a pint and sometimes half a pint , until vomiting ceased , and tho pulse was restored to its natural tone . Miik being a decided antidote to thf poison , too much publicity cannoi be given for the information of the public .
Dkubt > hirb Dialect . — An honest labourer of Chestcrfi- Id , when bting examined on the recent trial of Plaits for murder , puzzled both judge and counsel by his provincialisms . When de « cribing the emptying of the cesspool ar . d finding tbe remains , ho said , "something carao in the gate ; " " the gate , " exclaimed the judge ; "the gate" echoed the counsel ; bsth wearing a greatly puzzled aspect , until it was explained that the gate was synonymous with the way ; the jury , however , who were chiefly selected from th » Peak , well knew what the witness meant . Subse . quently , the same witness deposed to lidding " a stafe , " whicli led to a repetition of questioning and wonderment , which was satisfied by the explanation that a straight piece of turned wood was meant . Tub Jewish women of Frankfort-on-the-Maine have formed an association for the education of poor Jewish eirls .
A Large Subterranean Cave has been discovered under Bell-street , Birmingham . When or for what purpose it was formed is yet a mystery . Tiik Right Wat to convert the Jews . — The society fumed some time back in Posen , for purchasing land , and letting it out at a moderate vato to poor Jews , in order to induce them to follow fixed labour , instead of getting their living by selling pedlar ' s wares , or other unrecognised pursuit i , is eontinuifl £ its operations with success . Up to the present time more than 15 , 000 lewiab f & nvUfe have demanded portions of land , and this fact proves that ihe Polish Jews are beginning to prefer agriculture to commerce .
Tame Bians . —At the Rectory , Llanfoist , the Rev . James Jenkins has a lawn adjoining his garden , where may be seen several robins and chafiir . c'ies , tlie worthy rector making it a daily , practice of feeding them ; and he has so successfully trained them , that the moment he enters the lawn they will immediately come to his call , and fly , each in its turn , to the number of six or eight , into his hand to be fed . Kojjwkoian Ice . —A vessel named the D'ivid Foye , arrived in the Regent ' s Canal from Frederick ' s Hold , Norway , has brought , with the exception of a few fathoms ot firewood , some spars , and two cases of Norwegian game , an entire cargo of ice , comprising from 300 to 350 tons weight of this singular article of merchandise .
Glorious Winter Quarters . —A terrestrial paradise appears to have been found by our forces at Tampico . In December they were luxuriating on i ; reen peas , oranges , bananas , lemons , eat > va « s-buck ducks , teal , snipe , & c ., which sell » t price ? truly vemftvkab ' . o . Wild ducks were only ono cent eacn . It is a glorious place in wiu'er , but a dreadful yellow t ' ev .: r sepulchre in summer . —New York Sun . Bb Just befqrk tou auk Grnkrous . — A sliep . herd in the ceunty of Caithness lately lust two or three of his master ' s sheep , and being detcrniined his employer should not be loser in the matter , stole the same number from u neighbour , for which he has just been committed to tho gaol of Wick . —Itossthire Advertiser ,
A Surk Puoof . —It is said that Prince Massimo , postmaster at Rome , is the undoubted and the only iiueal descendant of Fabiuit Maximus , ami the slow couch system adopted at the post-office under his auspices , is cited as an additional proof of his extraction , if any werenepded . Jenny Lind . —Mr Bunn has modestly ottered to take £ 2 , 000 from Jenny Lt ' nd , and annul the contract , provided she will also sing three times in his theatre bJbre she sings anywhere else in Iceland . SitAKSpji-iRif ' s House . —The house at Sttutf <> rd » upoti-AvDti , in which Shakspeare is supposbd to have been born , and in which he certainly spent -x part of iiis boyhood , is about to bo sold by public auction . Quker Characters . —Some species of infusorial animalcule , inconceivably small as they are , and utiiy visible through powerful microscopes , have , nevertheless , upwards of a 100 distinct stomachs .
Ethkh . — -A lew days ago , a lady un < l"nveiifc an nponuion for cancer in the breast in Manchester . Mr Bi ' .-keisteth , surgeon , was tho operator . Ether was used , and the patient experienced no pain , Fem \ i , k Recruit . —A recruit at Glasgow , a few " ' aysMnce , was rejected , on being discovered to be a female . Tlie amount of prooerty looked up in Chancery ia up « Hi - ' . w of forty millions sterling . Scfferiso and Loviso . — " O mother , " said a very iUtle- hiid , " Mr S does love Aunt Lucy—he sits by h . t—ho whispers to her—and he hiifjs her . " "Why , Edward , your aunt does not auto that , iUk > s she 2 " * ' Suffer it , yesmother , she loves it . " Quits Lucid . — "Doyou know Mr B ? " " I do . " "What sort of a man is he ! " "Inthemornng he is a whiskey barrel , and at night he is a barrel , iwhiskey ! " "Ah , indeed !"
Hard Times . —An old lady was complaining a few days since , in the market , of the excessive high price ofpiovsions . " It is not tho meat only that is so nonuously dear , " says she , " but I cannot obtain Hour for a pudding for less than double- the usual price , and they do not make the eggs half so large as they iwcdtobe !" OIuautv . rb . — "Where are your quarters , Fktue ^ tn ?" -aid a captain to one of hi * volunteers—a son of the snd . " Oh , Captain , jewel , " said he , " niverrainlion it ; 1 have been inrouled now for a week ; I pint the bounty the first night , and devil a quarter ilid 1 sec sines : not so much as a tin cint piece . '
A Hard Cask . —A tailor , while travelling on the lakes ' , was asked by a Yankee where he liycd . and what his business was , Ac , to which he replied that lie lived hi Toledo , and that his profession was sitting on the smooth side of poverty , and jerkng out the cords of affliction . To which an exchange replies : "We ' ve been there , " and found it pretty tough . work , sometimes , to "jerk" the Aard btot * through . Ei-boiioss . — Mr William Pinnoy , a liberal , was returned for East Somersetshire , on Saturday last , in the room of Col . Gore Langton , deceased , without opposition . Earthquake . —A strong shock of an earthquake was felt at Bergen , Norway , on tho 21 st ult .
llixi to SuoauAKKRs . —IfshoeswcM constructed of tho iihapo of the human feet , neither too large nor too small , and making an equal pressure everywhere , corns and bunions of the feet would never exist .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 17, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_17041847/page/3/
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