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AXTKJEITY OP FREEDOM . St WILLIAM CULXEX BRYAST . ¦ v . iTClT ? aTC 0 ld trees , taU oats and gravis pines , ij Wfi itteMtt with grey grown mosses ; here the l inens nStre nched by - spade , and flowers spring up awn ^ own , and dieungathered Itu sweet . inge ^ lmgeVbere , among theflitting birds _ iIcah fllDai ) i » e fiq « trrel 9 » vand'nng brooks and winds , ? Aw shake the leaves , and scatter as they pass , SriS ^ ce from the ced ^ tMcklyset Vitfithi-alc blue berries . In these peaceful
sbadesefnireful , unprunea , immeawamj « nitdckto the earliest days of Liberty . h Gb freedom ! thou art not , as poets dream , iir i fair vonng g irl , with light and delicate limbs , wind wavy tresses gushing from the cap h -with -which the Roman master crowned his slave , mrhen he took off theses . Abeardedman , lednned to the teeth , art thon : one mailed hand spsraspslhe broad shield , and one the sword ; thy brow , notorious in beauty tho' it be , is scarr'd h ifith tokens of old " wars ; thy massive limbs 1 fiie ttrong with struggling . Power at thee has launch'd
i bill ' s bolts , and with his lightnings smitten thee ! > y 'hey could not quench the life thou hast from heaven , cifercilcss power lias dag thy dungeon deep , I U nd his swart armourers , by a thousand fires , refove forged thy chains ; yet , while he deems thee bound , e the links are shivered , and the prison walls II t'all outward ; terrible thou spring ' s ! forth , 5 > . s springs the flame above a burning pile , d Lnd shoutest to the nations , who return y & y shoutings , while tbe pale oppressor nies .
CI Thy birthright was not given by human hands * oi"hoa weri twin-iora with man . In pleasant field * , aWhile yet onr race was few , thou satfst with him i tto tend the quiet flock , and watch the stars , idlnd teach the reed to utter simple airs . loPboa by bis side , amid tbe tangled wood dflidst war npon the panther and the wolf , inEour only foes : and tbon with him did , St draw icThe earliest furrows on the mountain side , StSrft with the deluge . Tyranny himself , icThe enemv , although of reverend look . MHoary with many years and far obeyed . Us later born than thou ; and as he meets lflhe grave defiance of thine elder eye , nOne usurper trembles in his . fastnesses .
! Thon shalt was stronger with the lapse of years , BoBnt he shall fade into a feebler age—SeTcebler , yet subtler ; he shall weave his snares , In And spring them on thy careless steps , and clap Qi His withered hands , and from their ambush call Hi Bis hordes to fell upon thee . He shall send Oi Ooaint maskers , forms of fair and gallant mien , T < ? o catch thy gaze , and mtering graceful words , It To Cham thine ear ; while his sly imps , by stealth , I Twine around thee threads of steel , light thread on thread T That grow to fetters ; er binds down thy arms "With chains concealed ia chaplets . Oh ! notyet J JJay ' st tbon nnbrace thy corselet , or lay by 1 Thy sword ; not jet , 0 Freedom ! close thy lids i in slumber ; for thine enemy never sleeps . " t And thou must watch and combat , till the day < of the new earth and heaven . But would ' st thou
rest < a while from tumult and the frauds of men , ' These old and friendly solitudes invite ' Thy visit They , whileyet the forest trees Tfere young upon the tmviolated earth . . And yet the moss stains on the rock , were new , ¦ Beheld thy glorious childhood and rejoiced .
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Everard Twistatt: Atale Of The Kaffir Wa...
Everard Twistatt : aTale of the Kaffir Wars . ISyTUOSIASFOEESTER . Two vols . Benttey . The author of "Rambles among the Fjfelds and Fiiords of Norway" offers an agreeable addition to onr Colonial Library in this interesting novel . He " spent some time among the frontier Farmers , Dutch as well as English , in the interval between the two great
Kaffir wars" of 1831-35 and 1846 . He also undertook a journey into Kaffirlan . d , in spite of warnings and predictions . The result of the observations he then made on the mode of life and character of the Dutch-descended Boers and English settlers , as -well as on the native tribes , the country , and the parties among the colonists , be has thrown into the form of a novel , -which will , no doubt , be read with peculiar interest in consequence of the verv similar state of affairs in Kaifirland at
the present moment . The p lan is well designed to embrace the manners and habits of the colonists from Cape Town to the extreme frontier , as well as to introduce descrip tions of the scenery and to exhibit Kaffir \ f atfare . The hero , Everard Tunstall , is the son of an English country gentleman , -who died leaving very little surplus after all his debts were paid . Colonel Hamilton , the father of Julia , Everard's betrothed , breaks off the engagement on the plea of fortune , hut in reality as doubting the
young man ' s steadiness and energy . Everard emigrates to the Cape , and by the influence of Mr . Forbes , a merchant there , engages as a kind of manager with Van Arneveld , a frontier Boer of large possessions bnt embarrassed fortunes . The fact is , the Boer is a scheming Colonial politician , and his mind ia engaged on other matters than his own badness . He is dissatisfied with the British Government , more especially with the management of the frontier ; he intrigues for the movement of the Dutch Boers which
eventually took place to Satal Bay ; he negotiates with the Kaffir chiefs , supplying them with arms , and instigating the invasion of 1834 , on the promise that his property shall be spared , and hoping that in the confusion something will turn up to his advantage . Besides these elements for Colonial exposition , there are others of a more romantic cast , CluClu , a Kaffir chief with English blood in his veins and English training under the missionaries , is , of course , hopeless , in love with Johanna , Van Amevald ' s young Bister ; she in her turn falls in love with Everard , not
knowing of his engagement . And out of all these materials springs the action of tho tale . The matter of the book is obviously drawn froni actual observation ; the writer , as the sayfnjj is , " knows what he is talking about . " The habits Of living and tbe state of society at Cape Town—the difficulties of travel through a South African desert in a drought—the economy of the frontier settlements—the condition and customs of the Kaffirs—the assault and defence of a farm , and the incidents of Kaffir warfare—are all naturally interwoven with , the story , and exhibited at large .
The following adventure introduces Everard tfi Colonel Hamilton on African ground . The hero , in command of a Hottentot troop , is carrying despatches , and threading his way through a difficult country , anticipating an ambush at every step . After proceeding thus for the best part of an ntrar , a period of apparently interminable suspense , snots were beard in advance , internangled with learfnl cries and shouts . The troop pushed rapidly <»; though Tunstall still held them well in hand , and the advance was made in perfect order . ' The S : ene that now opened upon , them , as they rounded a thicket whichhad hitherth intercepted their view
, J" sufficientl y startling . - Alon ? the road appeared s train of white-tilted waggons , which had been brought to a sadden and , the oxen and drivers appearing in a state of we utmost confusion , fa front was seen a party « h Norsemen , the advanced guard of the convoy . ~ w « t _ array broken , and struggling with a cloud * L £ f- ' -T » hOTKn S S nts of assegais , aud S | - their shortened spears , were bearing wevi hite men back , with frantic yells , on the line SwSr ^ ^ Jtf theparty-a squad of the wiJ ¦ a * bea , j «« " » im 7—were lying dead and rifled jmthereaa . Ttwu . leader , a fine yonng »»
, m plumed hat , a pistol in his breast , with a S £ v \ knd aid a aword in the other , was St £ * " & his troOB - Bn * they were » uy outnnmbered , and the issue must have been u aea ?* ^ but for tho ^^ that £ F ^ , | Tm 8 , > inteafc upon following up the EnSf ? tZ $ *»* . ** a »» MBtthe eonfu-£ » ° i . fight , and tbe din of their horrid cries , 1 ^ . 5 a *«« of tbe approach of a new heew \ nl !!? - T 0 lIey ftom tbe Hottentot troopers , Bi 32 X « ww the road , told with deadly S £ on w ^ ° lH , ' -a «""** ¦ » fthairfi , lth hranduhed "pears to the support fch theveo * * mor 8 ' were closely engaged Tie ktter , encouraged by this nnJooted-fordi-
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V ersion in their favour , renewed their efforts to d isengage themselves from the enemy ; on whose fl ank and rear Tnnstall , still holding his troop in hand , and firing by sections , continued to pour so murderous a fire that they began to waver , and the issue of the contest , in that quarter at least , was no longer doubtful . But it had not escaped the observation of the young captain that a similar conflict was raging at the otuer extremity of the extended line of waggons ; and the state of affairs now admitted of his carrying relief to the rear-guard of yeomanry , who it " was plain were there engaged with another party of the Kaffirs . Things being in so favourable a position in front , he took this service on himselfwith the
, leading division of his troop , leaving the other to support the yeomanry they had already reinforced ; with strict orders that they should be kept together , reserve their fire , and not suffer themselves to be entangled with the body of the enemy , who still made a show of resistance . Then moving hisown division byfiles to the right , and putting himself at its head , tbey charged through the now wavering flank of the Kaffirs , literally riding them down without expending a shot , and galloping along the line of waggonsthe troopert being cheered as they passed by their countrymen , the drivers and voor-loopers of the convoy—a very few minutes brought them to the new scene of action .
It was much the same as that which had been presented at the other end of the line , only that the yeomanry , bavin ? been longer engaged without succour , were still more closely pressed . In the midst of the confusion , however , the attention of Tunstall instantly rested on one object . Where the fray was thickest , a single horseman , bareheaded—for he had lost his forage cap in the scuffle —was bravely struggling with a host of swarthy warriors , who hemmed him in on every side , while he was parrying with his sword the thrusts of their spears , charging some with his well-trained horse , and dealing heavy blows on the foremost of the assailants . His soldierly bearing and undress-frock , his worn and sun-burnt features , and his grey hairs , would have told to any one that his experience of the work in hand , bad been gained in many and far distant fields ; but in the gallant old officer Tunstall at once recognised Colonel Hamilton , the father of his Julia
. _ . ...... This might , indeed , hare been the last of his fields , for the conflict was very unequal , and two Kaffirs , of gigantic stature , were now pressing him bard , thrusting at him on either side with their spears , when as the intrepid veteran turned to cut down one of tbem , Tnnstall clave in sunder" the head of the other—who wore the Colonel ' s own . forage cap , which he had picked up in the early part of the fray—at the moment the savage was in the act of making a desperate lunge at the Colonel ' s unguarded side . " Well done , Everard ! " exclaimed the Colonel ; " you have spoiled my cap ; bnt I believe that black fellow would have had my frock too . Come , my boy , let us give the rogues no time to rally . " . Even while he spoke , the leading files of the
Hottentot troop , men deroted / yattached to their young commander , were in the melee , and firing their carbines at point-blank , disposed of the rest of the band which bad surrounded tbe Colonel , Side by side , the veteran , and the young officer who was now winning his spurs , closely followed by his faithful Hottentots , charged dark masses of the enemy , with whom the yeomanry , who had suffered severely , were maintaining an unequal contest ; but , struck with panic at the sudden arrival of fresh troops , and disheartened by the loss of their bravest warriors , the Kaffirs drew off . Some threw themselves into the wood ; a strong body which retreated along the road was pursued for some distance , and many were shot down by the Hottentot troopers .
Tunstall , having prudently drawn them off , was trotting them back in good order towards the convoy , when , astheyneared the rearmost of the long train of waggons , a group of females .-was seen assembled under a tree which shot . its branches over the road , long before he coiild distinguish the features of any of the party—yrhich , however , appeared to consist chiefly of coloured women—in one form , which stood out in strong relief from the rest , his heart told him he could not be mistaken . It bounded within his bosom for joy . It was Julia ' . crowning blessing of that eventful day . Pereceiving that she quitted her companions , and was advancing towards him , he suffered his troops to pass on , and flew to her side ; and having leapt to the ground , she fell on his breast , weeping !
To show the author s power of depicting the country and its inhabitants , we take the subjoined description of the dwelling of a Dutch-African farmer : — The country was undulating , though witbonfc any marked elevation , and was entirely destitute of trees , except where a fringe of willows and acacias marked out the line of the water-courses . The surface had been covered with grass , affording excellent pasture for sheep and cattle , bnt was now so burnt up by a long drought , that a stranger might have wondered how the large flocks which from time to time were seen in the distance , as th e travellers galloped over the arid and dusty plains , , derived any sustenance from the withered and :
meagre herbage . Farm-places also , from time to time appeared , at one of which Tan Aroeveld drew bridle , and , after a brief halt to refresh the horses , again resumed his Journey . It wanted an hour of noon when he reached the bank of a considerable river , just below its confluence , with a stream running from the north , and crossing a ford , he presently reached enclosures of tillage , in some of which the forage , or oat-hay , was already ripe for the sevthe , and the red wheat gave promise of an early harvest . Passing between these , and gently ascending , our travellers came among orchards of peach , apple , and pear-trees , whose blushing fruit were swelling into maturity . A green avenue of oranffe-trees . and a vineyard , mantling with its
leafy and clustered riches a gentle slope , in formal ridges , with trim fences of quince and pomegranate , all in perfect order , gave signs of wealth and abundance , and indicated the near approach to the place of a substantial Dutch-African farmer . A massive gate swung open , and gave admittance into a vast area , bounded on one side by reed huts , sheds , and stabling , and on the other side by the raised mounds of tbe cattle-kraals . A number of dusky skinned men and half-naked boys were idly lounging about the sheds , or basking or gambolling in tbe sun , for it was Sunday , and a whole kennel of fierce dogs broke into a cry , and dogged tho horses ' heels , while Tan Araeveld impatiently cantered across the yard as one familiar with the place ,
regardless of everything , until his quick eye detected , with a glance of satisfaction , an unusual number of the long , narrow , canvas-hooded waggons of the country , drawn up under a cluster of oak-trees , which , towering near the house , offered at once a grateful shade and a convenient shelter . Tan Arneveld pulled up sharply before the stoep , wnich , approached by three steps , and furnished with strong wooden seats , was raised in front of ths dwelling-bouse , a low thatched building , commanding a view of the whole area . So one , as is usual on the clamour of the dogs giving notice of a stranger ' s approach , coming out to receive him , he dismounted , and threw tho rein to Adrian , who led thepantinghorsesto the sheds . inwardly reioicing in
appearances ; for his eye had marked the idle groups , which gave promise of frolic and fun . Our traveller pushed open the house door , when a scene nvesented itself , familiar enough to him , but of which a slight sketch , indicative of the patriarchal manners of a remote people , may not be uninteresting . The voor-huis or hall , at the the threshold of which Tan Arneveld stood , was placed , as is the custom , iu the centre of the house , and , in this instance , was of large dimensions . The floor , though earthen , was perfectly smooth and hard , beiw composed of theolay from deserted ant-hills , which , finily powdered and then well pounded and beaten , forms a close and solid surface ; and it was now smeared with a compound of fresh cow-dung and
water . The apartment was not ceiled , but was open to the reed thatch . From the rafters hnng bams , biltong of deer ' s flesh , and other dried meats , skins of leopards and deer , and various spoils , as well as implements , of the chace ; ostneh-effgs , pnmpkina , and calabashes , leather bags 01 dried fruit and rolls of tobacco , —a motley assemblage . Against the whitewashed walls were suspended a formidable range of long heavy guns , large horns of powder , bamboos for waggon whips , and thongs of the hippopotamus for riding ; and , for ornament , bonches of ostrich feathers , and a ferr Scripture prints in a quaint Flemish style . A tall cabinet of dark chestnut , containing in the upper
compartment a few hooks , and disclosing beneath netts of drawers , stored probably with quack medicines , ' of which the Africanders are ready consumers ; a small table of open filagree work , on which stood a bright brass kettle and brazier and some china cups ; and a massive chest curiously carved in panneli—all relics of tbe VaderJand preserred with religious care , were disposed on different sides of thehalL . A . long table occupied the centre , and chairs were ranged against the walls which , with bench and stool , were now occupied by a goodly company of both sexes , and of all ages , who , with solemn and becoming demeanour , seemed deeply intent on the business of tbe hour—That" business " being family worship .
The Tublk And Private Life Of Louis Phil...
The Tublk and Private Life of Louis Philippe of Orleans , ex-King of the French , from his Birth to the dose of his Btign . By L . & . Michatjd . Translated by V . L . Chemebt . Hamilton and Go . M . MiCMAtro ' s "Life of Louis Philippe " - * thick volume of five nundred pages , going with much detail info the leading events of that prWs ear # r > so as to ***» * naoreeoa
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nected and continuous narrative than has yet been published by friend or foe—is written by a man who knew his hero for many years , served under him in his earlier campaigns as a Republican general , and observed at no great distance his subsequent course from exile to a throne and from a throne back to exile . The result is by no means favourable to the character of the late King . Indeed , M . Michaud allows him no single virtue , and connects him with some of the most atrocious deeds of the last half century or more .
M . Michaud avows himself in the Preface a partisan of the elder branch of the Bourbon family : and as he expresses his conviction that the members of that family are endowed by nature with a rare combination of amiability , frankness , and generosity , he feels bound to maintain that Louis Philippe is not a Bourbon . He adopts and tells the strange story of Marie Stella Petronilla , which , at one time , made so much noise . The pith of this story is , that Philippe Egalite—whose character , unfortunately , affords no guarantee against the possibility of such an incident—exchanged his infant daughter for the son of a gaoler with whom lie had formed an acquaintance when travelling iu Italy , in order to preserve the family estates from lapsing to the Crown for want of heirs male . All the incidents
con-. nected with this supposed exchange of iufauts , and with the events of their after-lives , have the character of romance : —the time , the scene , the chief actors , and the final issues . Here ia the view M . Michaud takes of the transaction : — The virtues of the duchess have been pointed to as a refutation of the charge of exchanging children . It has also been alleged that no inducement existed for either the husband or the wife to perpetrate such a crime . We deny not the virtues of that illustrious lady ; but who can tell how far her wishes were controlled by her husband ? We know that the greater part of their fortune consisted of demesnes ( appanages ) which , failing male issue , of necessity
reverted to the Crown ; and that at this very period the duchess , after having been married four years , had given birth to but one child , and that U daughter still-born . Such was the state of affairs when the princess and her husband set out for Italy , where , under the titles of Count and Countess do Joinvill * , they spent several months at a village named Modigliana , situated on the top of the Apennines . Here the duchess proved to be in an interesting situation . The duke , who was fond of mean society , formed an intimacy with a gaoler , named Chiappini , whose wife Was similarly circumstanced . A bargain was entered into , that if the duchess ' s offspring should prove a daughter and the gaoler ' s a son , an interchange should be effected .
Things turned out according to this anticipation , and the terms of the engagement were mutually fulfilled . The gaoler received a large sum of money . His son , bom at Modigliana on the 17 th of April , 1773 , was removed to Paris , and kept concealed till tbe 6 th of October , when the ceremony of private baptism was gone through , as wa have already seen ; while the Duchess ' s daughter remained in Chiappini ' s house , and was educated as his own child , under tho name of Mario Stella Petronilla , supplies being secretly sent once a year from France . According to the Memoirs of Marie Stella Petronilla , she continued long in this melancholy position , ignorant of her high birth , and very illtreated by her supposed mother , who loved her
not , and lamented that son whose fate was hidden from her . The father bad some idea of the truth ; but knowing the dukoovAy as Count de 3 ouwiUe , never dreamed that he was a Prince of the Blood Royal of Frahce . His reputed daughter excelled all his other children in beauty . Everything , indeed , about ber indicated that she was of different blood . Her wit and precocity astonished every one . Before she bad coropletsd ber seventeenth year she so captivated Lord Kewburgh , a British nobleman , then travelling in Italy , that he made her his wife almost against her inclination , and conducted her to a home of splendour and magnificence
on the banks of the Thames . By this marriage she had several children , one of whom is now an English Peer . On the death of Lord Newburgh she succeeded to a handsome jointure , but of this she afterwards forfeited a great part on her marriage with a Russian nobleman , the Baron de Sternberg . With him she lived for several years in great style in St . Petersburgh . A son was there born to her , who , while yet yowg , accompanied hrr to Italy before the death of Chiappini , whom she still regarded as her father . This man before his death addressed a letter to her , which altered her whole destiny , and troubled the remainder of her days .
This letter , supposing it to be real , revealed to the Baroness de Sternberg the secret of her birth . It ran as follows : — Mv Lads , —I am near the term of my earthly existence , and now , for the first time , unfold the following secret , which very intimately concerns you : —0 n the day that yon were born my wife gave birth to a son . Your mother , who is long dead , was a stranger to mo . A proposal to exchange my boy for you was laid before me , and after repeated solicitations I was prevailed on to consult my worldly interests , for the terras were highly advantaeeous . You became a member of my family ,
while my son was received into that of the other party . Heaven , I perceive , has made « p for my faults;—you have been raised to a condition superior to your father's , though his rank also was noble ; and therefore I leave the world with some peace of mind . Keep this by you , as a testimony that 1 was not altogether deaf to the voice of conscience . In entreating you to pardon my crime , I beseech you to conceal it from mankind , that the world may never know what 15 DOW incapable of remedy . This letter will be forwarded to you after my death . ( Signed )
Laoeest Cnurrisi . This epistle was forwarded toher by the sons of Chiappini . '—thoug h" it is said they kept back some papers which might have been of great use to her in recovering the lost traces of her parentage . " Words , '' says M . Michaud , " can hardly express the effect produced by such a discovery on the mind of Marie Stella . "Gifted with great energy and lofty sentiments , she passed at once from a position which had been excessively humiliating to a higher rank . JTot a gaoler , but a great lord is her father . But who is the great lord ? Impatient to fathom this mystery —unwilling to believe with the gaoler that the past evil admitted of no remedy , she made inquiries and
sought evidence in every quarter . Her efforts procured her the knowledge that her father was the Count de Joinville , a French nobleman , whose rank and fortune she was ignorant of . To learn all the truth on the subject , she set out in the beginning of the year 1823 for France , accompanied by her youngest ehild , Edward , son of Baron Sternberg . She found her way to the village of Joinville , of which her father had held the lordship . Here she learned tbat Joinville had been part of the patrimony of the House of Orleans , and that the duke , who perished on the scaffold in 1793 , had sometimes travelled under that title . She next visited Paris , and there made several vain efforts to reach him who had succeeded to the title and the wealth
of that powerful family . She consulted many men of business , and became the dupe of sharpers and police officers , who received much money from her by way of payment , and robbed her of a good deal more . When her means failed she had recourse to an artifice , which , considering ber position and difficulties , was certainly very excusable . She made known , through tbe public journals , that the Baroness de Sternberg was in possession of a secret in whichtheheirsoftheCountde Joinvilleweremuoh interested . Louis Philippe was not longinhearing of this ; his covetous disposition already rejoiced in the hope of some addition to his immense possessions . He accordingly communicated with the baroness through his natural uncle , the old Abbe of
St . Phar , who thought that possibly he too might derive some wordiy benefit from the advanture ; bat wien tho royal duke and his associate found tbat the secret referred to restitution , and not augmentation , the gates of the Palace Royal were hermetically closed tgainst the baroness . She made great efforts , but as she was a stranger in Paris , and all her motions were watched by the police , then nothing better than the slaves of Louis Philippe , shs became once more the prey of those designing men with whom Paris swarms , who wera probably tbe agents of him whose interest it wai above all to overthrow her pretensions . A distinguished writer , whose name ah * does not we , out whom , from her description , we readily identity . her with
vainly endeavoured to make interest for the Dncbtss of Angonleme . After being duped and plundered thus , she was obliged to return _ and rtntw her restarch in Italy . She returned from Italy aftw an absence of -several months armed with fresh and important evidence , and above al with a judgment pronounced by the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Faenza , on the 29 th of May , 1821 , whi « h fixed her rank , and proved that she was not Chiappini ' s but the Count de JoUmlle ' s daughter . * " * When we know that the Duke of Orleans wis the only Frenchman who could then bear the the-designation of the Count de Joinville , and that at the very period in question he really was travelling with his duchess , this evidenoa seems sufficient to settle the question . The additional evidence did not " settle the question" so . far aa poor Maria Stella was
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concerned . Her story reads like a romance thiues - - * ° the Chapter ' M * Michaud con ' orutt tM ? ' ,, nd oiher important pieces of SdSSdanr ^ IT ** ft t 0 WOrk » g » in hopeful Hone wi * ' "" fortunately , sSo could not fe « Slm 0 «\? ? J p «« to direct her . She spenTSr moLl ° ° SI , arefJ of tne craft ^ Uonawcre Z In ?^? P ° - Pe ° ~ y tempta-^ m 7 r hlf n- n ^ - t 0 bw in the most insidious 3 ? with a nrfd "'^^ W ^ nts , but she rented that she XI tl i > ' J ""* ?* »> yalty .- Convinced nntnin ^ n fh ? da «« hter of the Duke of Orleans , such lould . ?« V \ roc <* niti ° " ofher rights a n ? lnneTfPPPn y he . r' IIer Mature , mien , and Sedor £ l Z v ? ko testified t 0 this distinguisneo origin . Alt imnartial mm . liotonnH „;* i .
admiration to her forcible assertion ofher claims . ™ dern ° f ^ - 0 S ? ible t 0 liston Without being nrhiio *¦ ho £ \ iUaa » nie Adelaide , the duke ' s sister . StoJS ^? ^ ^ , ^ i « dlyrecalled to tint on SI fafcl - ' ftogMler . It is even said Shful , 1 ™ a 810 ? ' when 8 h 0 conducted her Jmm L son Edv ! a » 'd to the picture gallery , tho SSLa ° ^ Crvin S a ^ ge portrait of Louis Sft „ * i , ' -f , 0 r » , Papa Chiappini ! Papa Chiappini ! The baroness was vexed by this "l j ?}* „? L . lice ' * ho were ever on her track , who did all m their power to prevent tho circulation of her memoirs , threat ened her repeatedly with impmonment . It j s a Grange fact that Louis 1 d
AIII . anCharles X . not only consented to , but originated , allthosemanmuvresagainstthe baroness . Those princes seemed thon to repose entire confidence in him whom they regarded as their cousin , though that individual was ceaselessly engaged in schemes wh , eh compassed their destruction . Tho fail of the elder Bourbons , and the succession of Louis liulippe to his good cousins , rendered tho baroness s position more than ever difficult . She was more than once desired to return to England . The intervention of the Ambassador shielded her from persecution ; but she was now alone . Tho Baroness de Sternberg had conducted nor favourite son Edward to Kusaia , so th ^ t hot coura ge and consciousness of the justice of her claim formed her only protection against the spies that surrounded her . Her memoirs having been seized , and
the tribunals of justice closed against her by the ruling powers , whose tools they then were , they ended , by pronouncing her mad ; the only pretext for this calumny being a peculiar fancy which she had for feeding some birds which flew to her windows from the gardens of the TuiUwves . Vfo know , however , on irrefragable testimony , that to the last she retained full possession of her reasoning faculties . She never abandoned her claims , but always subscribed herself Baroness de Sternberg , born Joinville . During the last five years of her life , a fear of being arrested in the street caused her to confine herself to her own house , where she knew she was safe through the protection of the English ambassador . On the night before her death , in 1845 , happening to hear the cannon announce the opening of the chambers , sho called for the public journal that she might read tho speech of that brigand . She never spoke again .
It is a very curious feature of the timecontrasting strangel y with the clear publicity to which every event in high places seems devoted through the agency of the press—that family doubts and difficulties , lie in the way of all the royal dynasties in France . M . Michaud appears to consider the present Orleans family as not Bourbons on the male side , — doubts have been often expressed as to the legitimacy of Louis Napoleon , —and the Count de Richemont claims the Crown as prior iu blood to the Due de Bordeaux . Thus , the Republic has not onl y three royal lines to face , but in each line there are claims and counterclaims to settle .
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Although during Passion week dramatic performances are in abeyance , most of the theatres aro devoted to special entertainments of various descriptions . A . Monsieur Sao . opened the St . James ' s Theatre on Wednesday evening with an entertainment which certainly has novelty to recommend it . The principle is very simple , being merely the varied application of a continuous jet of water rushing from a huge syphon , standing upright in tbe centre of the stage . By placing upon the top of this machine perforated dUhea , baskets , and other media of strange forms and patterns , the water is made to assume a
variety of shapes , sometimes graceful , sometimes grotesque , but always producing a pleasing effect on the spectator . Flower baskets , vases , umbrellas , and bird cages are in turn formed by tlie jet ; while sometimes the aid of fire is called in , and an extraordinary effect produced , by the apparently harmonious combination of the two hostile tlements . Some grotesque figures are made to dance up and down on the jet , to the huge ( Might of the children , and a good deal of fun , albeit somewhat of the broadest , is elicited from the evolutions of a sick lady , to whom this novel spec ' m of hydropathy is applied . The entertainment , as will be seen from th » foregoing observations , is merely an ingenious application of a well known experiment , and being
also very short , not exceeding an hour in duration , is hardly sufficient , singly , to sntertain an audience , but as a pleasing interlude to the more potent magic of the mighty wizards who are to bewitch the town during Easter week it will be a variety , and no doubt fairly appreciated . At the Olympic Mr . Henry Russell came forward with a " vocal and pictorial entertainment , " entitled The Far West , the substance of which was an illustrated account of tho slave trade , from the point at which the negroes are captured , in the interior of Africa , to that at which , apparently reconciled to their fate , they are disporting themselves with dancing and music at a plantation in Carolina . All the intervening scones , including the horrors of the passage , the chase of tho British
' . ' preventives , " the arrival at the slave port , the auction , and the sugar , cotton , and rice labour at the settlements—the luxury of the planter ' s mode of living , exemplified by a shining villa situated in the midst of a nourishing garden , being contrasted with the wretchedness and poverty of those upon whose labour their wealth depends , & c—are introduced , the whole presented through the medium of a moving panorama , sketched with a good deal of rough fidelity , and , though coarsely painted , not without some striking effects of contrast and colour . Meanwhile , Mr . Russell separates each division of the panorama by a song , an anecdote , a philosophical reflection , or a joke , with interludes on Kirkman's " Amico di Piano , " to accompany
the scenic illusion ! Tho audience seemed mightily pleased , and applauded the songs and sentiments , none of which were remarkably new , although they were all appropriate and short , with vehement goodwill ; and as Mr . Russell declares his positive intention to carry this entertainment into the very heart of the slave States , sotting consequences at defiance , the Anti-Abolitionists may as well take warning , and be on their guard against 80 novel and formidable an enemy . Tbe theatre was crowded . At tho Adelphi Madame Tbillon and Mr . Hudson commenced a series of four evening performances . At the H » ymarket Mr . 0 . II . Adams delivered his annual lecture on astronomy , which derived further interest from the recent addition of " nine now
planets" to the orrery ; and at the St . James's Mrs . Fanny Kemble Butler summoned her friends and admirf ra to a reading of Henry VIII . Beyond the bridges , at the Surrey , a musical performance , supported by a host of talent , took place ; while in another direction , at the Marylebone , tbe first of Mr . Jarrett's series of grand " vocal and instrumeatal concerts" drew an audience that completely tilted the little theatre , tho programme , one of the regular " monster " species , being supported by the talents ofHerr Formes ( who wasenoored in every thing ) , Signor Marches ! ( encored in " La Danza" ) , Alexander Billet , who played one of the brilliant fantasias of Thalberg , and was greatly applauded , Mr . Lazarus , Signor Cioffi ( encored in a solo on th »
trombone ) , Messrs . Viotti and LindleyCollins ( encored in solos on the violin and violincello ) , and an army of singers , male and female , too numerous to mention . Add to these the performance of Mendelsshoa ' s Elijah , by the London Sacred Harmonic Society , at Exeter-hall ; tfce sixth Amateur concert in tbe Hanover-square Rooms ; the Operatic concerts by Signor Montelli , at tbe Princws ' s Co / mart Rooms ; Mr . Howard Glover ' s concert at Sadler ' s Wells , at which Ernst porformed ; Mr . Newman ' s Ventriloquism atCroaby-hall ; Mr . Jacob ' s Wizardry at the Beaumont Institution ; and Dr . Dirling ' s Eleetro-biology at Miss Kelly's Theatre in Soho , — all of which took place with others that do not in > mediately recur to us—and it will hardly be denied tbat those who sought amusement hare bad a plentiful variety to choose from .
Thb Crown Lamds .—We Understand That The...
Thb Crown Lamds . —We understand that the greater portion of the timber standing in Hainault , Epping , and Waltham Forests , will be cut down during the ensuing year , and the jan ( j wm De en closed , and either brought into cultivation or dispose * of ; as the revenues ariainji from them , and some other Crown lands , are hardly sufficient to meet the expenses incidental to their management . —Chelmsford Chronicle . Thb Koh-i-noor Diamosd . —Mr . Chubb has been commissioned by the executive : committee of the Groat' Exhibition to manufacture an apparatus ( according to a design submitted by him ) for the safe custody of the Koh-i-d / amond . The plan adopted , whilst y . roviding for the complete security of the gem , vhlUUow a perfect Vi 6 W : of its lustrous beauty to be had ,
Father Qavazzl'b Oration. The Jesuits—(P...
FATHER QAVAZZl'B ORATION . THE JESUITS—( PART II . ) Resuming his strictures on the doings of these indefatigable disturbers of society , he would not defraud them of tuair due , but readily admit the large amount of cleverness they brought to the working of their schemes , however questionable the means employed in furtherance of objects not less equivocal . Tbe great mental movement of tbe 16 th century , and the onward impulse which Europe felt thrilling throughout her remotest boundaries , were alarming symptoms which it became the business of tbe Order
to clog and chain down . Limb by limb the giant of reform found himself entangled in the meshes of a legion of industrious pigmies , who silently and laboriously plied their separate tasks and fastened the ligaments of intellectual bondage with persevering and combined pertinacity . At Salamanca , at Coimbra , as at Prague aad Ingoldsiat , in Italy as in France , the reticulated web of scholastic sophistry was rewoven ; these main members of the European community were put back into their leading strings , and a net-work of benumbing influences silently extended over ihe whole surface of society . Wilh a firm and tenacious grasp they h * ld in grim monopoly the education of the upper classesscorninthe
, g bulk of the people whose initiation to knowledge they systematically discountenanced—the jealous irapediments by which they sought to obstruct and eliminate other religious fraternities e ngaged in the teaching department , the speaker illustrated bv reference to the annals of his own order ( the Barnabites ) , the struggle to which they subjected the Scolopmns ( fathers of the pious schools ) , the Theatines of Italy , aad the Oratorians of France . What was the upshot of this artificial and unnatural system of exclusion ? With indignant kick the philosophy of the 18 th century prostrated the rotten barriers
, and entering on the hitherto reserved arena , put to flight its privileged occupants , and careered in triumph over the ground of science and literature . They laboured long of late years in France , through the fitting instrumentality of thw ix > x , \ Montaiembert , to obtain in that country what they modestly entitled la Merle d ' enstignmmt . In what does that liberty , now that they have got it , actually consist ? In the rampant riding rough-shod over all teaching but their own ; in muzzling Miche ! et , aud every professor of eminence in the French University ; in striking terror through the ranks of the whole '
educational body , from the highest occupant of scientific chairs to the lowest pedagogue of Nillage instruction , restoring the manacles of the mind and the slavery of the-soul as far as they can venture on the forbear , ance of modem civilisation . But there is this difference between the chances of such a system , and the odds in favour of infidelity . Unbelief soars in the open day , like the hawk , and pounces on its prey in the full meridian blaze of noon : Jesuitism hunts in the dark , adopts the nocturnal habits of the owl and creeps under cover of kindred opacity on the vermin of its predilection .
If they cramped the wholesome development of the mind they were no less disastrously skilled in circumscribing within the nawtvw sphere of these unnatural restraints the expansion of the human heart , and under the pressure of their education of thraldom were withered not only the sacred familiar affections , but the more ennobling impulses of patriotism and national independence . It was a pompous boast of ( heir apologists that the generation which grew up durinfc the interregnum ol their discontinuance from 1772 to 1790 , was thereby lett to achieve all the atrocities of the French
revolution . This statement he canvassed in its various bearings . The chief actors in the more disreputable scenes of that period were of an age to represent the youth of their colleges : but the glowing energies and vigorous resolves which shattered the old superstructure of social decrepitude , and demolished despotism throughout the land it had cumbered for ages , could never have been the work of Jesuitical training—fit but to suckle slaves ; while the wretched poltroons who fled into emigration , and made no stand for their rotten cause , we ; e mostly of an age to have been scholars of the Jesuits .
It were absurd to expect from the tuition of me » , accomplices . in all the . tyrannies and participators in all the oppressions that ever crushed , the hopes of mankind , the daring and the detertuift & twya rerjmsitc to rid the world of the foul and fraudulent , imposition . Pedagogues of tbat sort may produce panisans for Don Carlos or the Portuguese Caligula , Don Miguel : they may try and teach the youth of the Two Sicilies to obey Ferdinand of Naples , as they equally sought to uphold that other sanguinary idiot , Ferdinand of Spain . But constitutional monarchy is on its march : whether in that form , or in republican plentitude , the approach of freedom is inevitable ; and the co-existence of Jesuitism with its emancipating advent being found utterly impossible , that sinister society is doomed .
Talk of conspiracies and secret associations in the face of tbis permanent gang of hidden plotters against all individuals and national security . Tbe foul term cannot touch us . For the recovery of its existence , a nation needs not , does not , conspire . The hour of deliverance comes round in the appointed course of providential wisdom , and the breath of the people is the hurricane that sweeps in purifying blast over the face of the land . He ( the Father ) never joined any secret society in his youth , nor would he now in the maturity of manhood . ' He knew his fellow-exiles from Italy , and could- vouch for the feelings of friendly reverence they bore to the institutions of this glorious country , which had I sheltered them from the hand of oppression . ( Cheers . ) He proceeded to stigmatise the Jesuit
conspirators at Friburg and Lucerne . Nor was Switzerland the only free nation marked out for their intrigues and malignant activity . The object and obvious drift of the late aggressive and insulting measures of the Pope revealed tbe same agenc-v busily engaged in accomplishing here a similar work of discord ; into tbe details of this often thrashed argument he entered with all the freshness of indefatigable indignation , and wielded the flail of his unflagging eloquence , belabouring alternately tbe Austrian envoy at Rome ( Prince Esterhazy ) aud the Westminster cardinal , whose alliance offensive and defensive with the Jesuits he exhibited as a barga ri mutually advantageous to the Contracting parties , however disastrous to the interests of true religion , the peace of the country , and tbe integrity of the empire .
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Chinese Pirates . —Thefollowinginterestingparagraph is from the Friend of C / mia : — " About nine o ' clock on tbe morning of the 20 th of February , information was given at the police station , that some mandarin boats , having chased a fleet of pirates into the Bay of Aberdeen ( Shek pai-wan ) , were holding a desperate engagement , and that the government officers were likely to have tbe woral of it , Mr . Superintendent May , without a moment ' s delay , marshalled a company of policemen , and within an hour arrived close on the field of action . Mr . Deputy Superintendent Caldwell , in the meantime , proceeded on board the war steamer Reynard , and that Vessel ' s Course w » s turned in tbe direction of the combatants . The town wag indeed all alive ; but the steamer , the
police boat , the superintendent , his deputy , three inspectors , and the very cream of the force were all too late . Mr . Ma-leang-eng , a mandarin of the filth class , with eight vessels and 300 men , had won all the honours , and had succtcded in capturing four boats and nine out of the aggregate of their crews of a hundred . It appears that on the 19 th of February , about four p . m ., a boat proceeding from Hong Kong was boarded off Chung-chow by three piratical vessels and plundered not only of the sum of 200 dollars , but of clothes and sundries to the value ot 100 dollars more . There happened to be two Chinese officers on board the plundered boat , who when left to pursue their course , hastened to lay their hard case before the officer Ma , who chanced to be lying with two fast-sailing vessels under the Island of Tung-chung , not far from
Castle Peak Bay . That functionary immeditely got under weigh , picking up other Teasels on his my towards the delinquents , who were descried about four o ' clock on the following morning . A little before six a . « . they entered Shek-pai-wan The pirates then anchored abreast of the town , and opened fire , which Commodore Ma gallantly returned , the shots , however , committing more mischief on shore than on the objects to which they were directed . It was at tbis stage the messenger left for Victoria . Shortly afterwards the pirates left their vessels in a body , warmly pursued for some distance , and of the whole hundred only nine were taken—we are wrong , six others were afterwards captured by her Britannic Majesty ' s police force , who , with the others , were in the course of the evening safely lodged in Victoria Gaol . '
Guano ox ihk law of Max .-Near tho sound of the Calf of Man many tons of guano , probably tha accumulation of centuries , have beendiscovered in a sequestered place , supposed to be the resort of sea and other wild fowls , and probably of sheep . It is almost impossible to get to this retreat by land , consequently boats havo to be employed in taking it to Port St . Mary and other creeks , where quantities have already been landed . It is said to be not so heavy as foreign guano , but there is little or no difference in its appearance .
Rest of Land . —The grass parks in the viclnifv of Falkirk kave let this year . J on the whol ? , at an advance of about 15 net cea ^ Soot «/ i ») n » : ¦'
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CesuXDRUMs . — 'Why arc geese like opera-dancers'J-—Because no other animals can stand so long on one leg . If Richardson ' s flute could speak English , what would it s ? y ! - » Well , I ' m Wow'd 5 " why will next year b » the same as h » st ?—Because last year was eighteen hundred and fiftv , and the next will be eighteen hundred and tiftyfico . Mow to om- vot / iiEYKs .-If you would increase ™ e aw and prominence of your eyes-just keep an ST , * ° It tli 0 , T ; y ™ SP "" foolishly , and aod it up at thsend ot the quarter Si'iaiTs-lhc quantity of spirits which paid duty tor noma consumption in 1 S 50 , was 26 701 f & i < rg \ . Ions ; viz .,. 23 , 502 , 535 British , a nd 2 , 902 , 201 ; Colonial . Licentiousness , — The licentious never love ; and where ever levity preponderates , there is seldom any pure and ardent passion .
A New Discovksv . —m , Foucmilt , of Paris , has invented an ingenious yet simple machine , which , by means of tho pendulum , demonstrates indisputably the rotatory motion of the earth . Slaves in Ameiuca ,. —It is estimated that the present number of slaves iu the United States is 2 , 938 . 000 . Tbe increase in fen years has been at the rate of 1 SJ percent . A Dummo-v . —" . Torn , what ' s monoraauy ?"«¦*• "Why , you see , Dick , when a poor feller steals , it is called larceny ; but when it ' s a rich 'un , the , jury says it ' s monomanv , and he can ' t help itthat ' s it . "
Insects . —A small quantity of vinegar will generally destroy immediately acv uvs « ct that may find its way into the stomach , and a little salad oil will kill any insect that may enter the ear . A'CutbCustombb . —A person made a very decent morning ' s work , by tilling Up iao censu 3 papers for the old women of North Shields , at a penny a piece . —Shields Qazttii . Good for Something . —When tho Persian poet Hafiz was asked by the philosopher Zenda what he was good for ? -ho replied , "Of what use is a flower ?"— "A flower is good to smell , " said the philosopher . — " And I am good to smell it , " said the poet . A Wretch . —That wretch deserved to be bowstrung , who , being pressed to stay a little longer , replied— " I will ; fiftcea miwiles will make no difference , my wife is now as wad as she can be . "
Rojib . —A recent return states the population of Rome at 170 , 824 , in which number there were thirtyfour prelates , 1 , 240 clergymen , 3 , 829 regular ecclesi-» stics , l , ' i 67 cloistered nuns , and 321 students for the priesthood . Very Kind . — "Ned , who is the girl I saw you walking with ?"— "Mi . « s Hogg . " — " Hogg , Hoggwell , she ' s to be pitied for having such a name . ""So I think , ' rejoined Ned ; "I pitied her so much , tbat I offered her mine , and she ' s going to take it soon . " Wanted a IXamty- —A Manchester paper contains the following advertisement : — " Wanted , for the approaching Exhibition , as a great natural curiosity , a railway company with its capital account closed , and paying honest dividends . Species being rare , price no object . Apply at 1851 , Capelcourt . "
Chinese ruEnjioMKiEEs . —Amissionary , writing home from China , says that the Chinese use little fire , and measure cold by the thickness of jackets . Three jackets cold is moderately cool ; six jackets cold is keen ; and from ten to fifteen jackets cold is extremely severe . Thb way to wealth is as plain as the way to market . It depends chiefly on two words , industry and frugality ; that i ? , waste neither time nor money , but make the best use of both . Without industry and frugality nothing will do , and wi'h them everything . The British miller has lost nothing and has gained a g ^ t deal by free-trade . He grinds more home corn than ever ; and he in addition ground last year nearly four millions of quarters of foreign wheat alone , besides all the foreign oats aud barley that were ground . —Scotchman .
A Lady ' s Aoe . — ' Pray , sir , " said Lady "Wallace to David Hume , " lam often asked what age I am ; what answer should I Waive ? " Mr-Hume , immediately guessing her ladyship ' s meaning , said , — "Madam , when you are asked that question again , answer tbat you are not yet come to the years of discretion . Lectures on Comic Wr . iTF . ns . —The At / i £ »< e «» t announces that it is Mr . Thackeray's intention , during the coming season , to deliver a course of biographical reminiscences of some of the comic writers of our country during the eighteen ! h century . The course will commence about the middle of May .
The Census . —The Watcrford News says , "We are informed that Thomas Cooke ,. one of the police , when taking the Cciisks in 1841 , asked a lady her age , she told him she wai twenty-eight years of age . He , to his great surprise , on inquiring her age in 1851 was told byliershe was exactly twenty-seven years of age . " Electro - Magnetic Motivr Po-wkr . — Mr . Hjorth's engine formerly required four powerful magnets tojproduce a double stroke , but he lias succeeded in constructing a model of an engine , which by one hollow magnet , produces tbe same results , and which can be extended in diameter according to the required power . —Mining Journal .
TheNewM . P . for CovKNTflT . —Mr . Geach , tha new M . P . for Coventry , was formerly a clerk in tbe Bank of England , at a salary of £ S 0 per annum . He was subsequently director of a banking establishment at BiiTflingham . The hon . gentleman is now a large iron merchant , whose income has lately been returned at £ 30 , 000 per annum . Miutauy Model Lodging Houses . —The attention of military men has been called , by the United Service Gazette , to tbe adaptability of the model lodging house system to married soldiers , who might thus be lodged in convenient proximity , to thaw barracks , and derive , the utmost possible benefit from their late increase of lodging money , with profit to the government itself ; in place of being scattered , as now , through distant and unhealthy localities .
Profit Axn Loss . —The Jfu « Advertiser says , tbat a " gude man" in Driffield , after having spent a year or two in the married state , had the misfortune , the other day , to lose his wife . No sooner was he bereft of tlie partner of his cares , than he consoled himself with a review of his wordiy circumstances . " I had , " said he , "but a shillingin my pocket when I was married , and now that my wife is dead I have ninepence ; so that I havo only lost threepence . " The Wjsh-Bone . —A love-lorn swain hroke a wish-bone with his" heart ' s queen , " somewhers up in New Hampshire . " Neow , whatdo you wish , Sally ?" demanded Jonathan , with a tender grin of expectation . " I wish I was handsome . " replied the fair damsel ; " handsome as Queen Victory !"— " Jerru-salem 1 what a . wish \ " replied Jonathan , " when you ' re lundsome ' miff neow 1 But I'll tell you what I wish Sally ; I wish you was locked in my arms , and the key was lost ' . "
Land in the Coi-okies . In Australia or New Zealand 100 acres of land cost JEI 00 sterling ; in the Canterbury Settlement , £ 300 . In Western Canada 100 acres of the best land in the empire can be bought for £ 40 ; in Lower Canada for £ 20 . In New Brunswick , where there are still 11 , 000 , 000 of ungrantcd acres in the possession of the government , for £ 12 10 s . In Nova Scotia , where land is now , in many districts , as valuable as in any of the colonics , and , fiom the increase of commerce , soon will be in all , we givelOO acres of Crown land to an emigrant for £ 10 . —Speech
of the Hon . J . Howe , ' The Diffbrenck BETWEEN COMMON Law AND Equwv . — " Pray , my lord , '' said a gentleman to a late respected and rather whimsical Judge , " what is the distinction between the law and equity courts ? " Very little , in the end , " replied his lordship ; " they only differ so far as time is concerned . At common ,, law you are done for at once ; in equity , you are not so easily disposed of . The former is a bullet , which is instantaneously and most charmingly effective ; the latter is an angler ' s hook , which plays with its victim before it kills it . The one is prussic acid , the other laudanum . "
Wilkes and his Father . — " I had a father , a perfectly good humoured man , who loved laughing . He said to me , one day , * Jack , have you got a purse ? My answer was , ' No , sir . '— ' lam sorry for it , Jack , said my father ; * if you bad , 1 should have given you some money to jut in it . ' I got a purse ; and m two or three days my father asked me again , ' Jack , have you got a purse ? ' ' Yes , sir . ' - 'I ' m glad of it ' said my father ; ' if you had not had a purse , I would have given you one . " This was mere fun ifrmy father ; for he was exceedingly generous , and gave me all I could wish . " — Mikes a Letters to hit
Daughter . Unproductive Labour . —We went , some time ago , to inspect the operations of a tvead-mi \\ and OU " servin g a peculiar gullennesaand fretfuln * ssab % utthe prisoners upon the wheel , at tho same time that the machinery was moving with unusual ease and levity we requested an explanation . "Why , sir , " said the attendant , " the prisoners are grinding the wind , and tbey don t like it . ^ The magistrates have got an idea that it s wrong to interfere with the regular millers , and so they won t let us have any corn to grind , and that always worries the men . '' And the men were ngb » , for they felt not merely the undisguised seventy of the punishment , but they were conscious of tne violation
or an instinct which lead us naturally to take pleasure m witnessing the efficacy and fruitful-U » u T ^ ir eren when not Pitted to partake of it . —Weekly New $ . ASwiKDM .-Tbeotherday , al 8 dyliring in Li yetpoql , purchased for fivs shillings , from a man the street , " a sweet little canarv , " with tail-feather "radiated like a fan , " and , as she said , " of sneh deep orsnoecolour . " On examination , howcver . supposed Vanary proved to be a hen sparrow ' with saffron . It ' s tail-feathers were starched curled ! >
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