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      October 10 , 1850 . ~ THE NORTHERN STAR . ?! . * ¦ •¦¦ ' :-. } £ '¦'¦ ' ¦ 5 1 I """ " '

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      The Genius Of Poverty. Weary And Worm Am...

      THE GENIUS OF POVERTY . Weary and worm am 1 ; Ironi early morn to sunset ha ? e I wrought , Shut from the clear nine sky . For life I toil and strive ; And little truly hath my labour brought , Except that Vm alive , , A child of sorrow sinking into naught . My soul—I hare a soul , mich sometimes rises with unfetter d might Beyond the base control . toiland

      Of sorrows , , nam , In paths of emulation sheds her light , Then , growing faint again , Awakes to darkness , misery , and mgnt . Oh , strange , bewildering life ! Rude streams have borne , me onward in their fall An ever-fetter'd strife . Alas I my cup of joy , Ere it aad reach'd my thirsty lips , was gall . Realities destroy The dear Elysiums which my fancies call . Etna .

      There's Something Good Ef Etert Heart. T...

      THERE'S SOMETHING GOOD Ef ETERT HEART . TFonld ' sfc win the crime-stained wanderer back From " Vice ' s dark and hideous tracklet not a frown thy brow deform , 'Twilladd butfiercenessto tbe storm ; Deal kindly—in tbat bosom dark S till lingers Virtue ' s glimmering spark ; Plead * with him— 'tis tbe nobler , part—There ' s something good in every heart . Bring to his mind the early time , E'er sin had stained his sonl with crime ; "When fond affection blessed his hours—And strewed his joyous path with flowers ;

      "When sportive jest and harmless glee Bespoke a spirit pure and free . Plead with him—' tis the nobler part—There ' s something good in every hearti There was a time that head did rest , Close to a mother ' s yearning brest—A time his ear the precepts caught , A kind and Virtuous father taught ? It matters not what treacherous ray First turned bis steps from Virtue ' s way Enough to know thou yet rnay ' st save That soul from sin ' s engnlp hing wave ; Plead with him—act the nobler part—There ' s something good in every heart .

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      Lig ht and Darkness ; or Mysteries of Life . By Mrs . Catherine Crowe , Author of " The Xight-side of Nature , " & c . London Colbuni . Light and Darkness , " or Mysteries of Life , " is a collection of tales , for the most part turning upon criminal jurisprudence , many of which have alread y appeared in . periodicals . Tales are amongst the most popular of reading : we can all get through a tale . The young , the untrained , or the impatient , to whom the length of a novel in three volumes is a * task , and who want intelligence to appreciate the art and knowledge of life displayed in a really good fiction , can easily sustain their

      attention for a tale : the most critical gladly turn to one when idle , or exhausted , or wearied with too much of heavy excellence . The more the length of a tale approximates to that of a novel , the greater variety and . solidity it will have , and great ability will always do more than little . The best mode of imparting depth and matter is by making stories illustrative , substantially if not formally . National tales on this account approach more closely to the novel ; for though it is quite true that a peculiar subject argues a peculiar aptitude , whereas tales of every-day life are often a mere succession of washy imitations , it is probable that contemporary tales would have a greater interest if they only illustrated any mode of life—had as it were a purpose .

      Mrs . Crowe has attained this purpose , by making tales of extraordinary crime , circumstantial evidence , the wrongfully condemned , narrow escapes , with some of the other states which accident , guilt , passion , or weakness , so frequently bring before the courts .. As these teles are rarely of the vulgar sort of crime , they often contain within themselves something larger than a moral for felons ; which Mrs . Crowe , who has a taste for moralising , never omits to improve . As her subjects are also drawn fronifpreign jurisprudence , she exhibits incidentallyfthe foreign practice , and sometimes explains . its apparent anomalies . Thus ,. The : " continually recurring

      " extenuating circumstances " in French ver dicts , is not the mere indulgence of , a morbid seutimentaJism , but a precautionary measure grouu'Ied on a former state of the law . When trial by jury was established during the first Revolution , a pardon could not be pleaded to the verdict of a jury : a new trial might be granted" by a court of review on discovering a flaw , but if the forms were correct sentence must be executed . The story of Lesurques , a man who was beheaded in spite of his evident innocence , illustrates that defect in the Revolutionary constitution , and the state of opinion which induces a verdict condemnatory of the prisoner , but sparing life .

      The tales in these volumes are of varying character and varying length ; some , indeed , being almosttoo brief forreprintingin volumes . The scenes of those which have crime in some way or other for their basis are laid oh the Continent ; the few stories of English manners avoid the criminal law , but are rather on that dark side of nature upon which Mrs . Crowe apparently likes to look . One section is devoted to foreign poisoners ofthe present century ; a terrible subject at all times , but a crime which seems to be more widely practised ^ in many countries , including our own , than Englishmen a few

      years since would readily have believed . In the manufacturing districts , the habit has indeed arisen with the occasion . The burial dnb furnishes a motive ; the march of mind a knowledge of opium and other quiet poisons . This scientific movement has not yet reached the boors ; in the rural districts they poison men as they poison rats ' ; giving occasion to needless suffering , and running greater risk of detection . Whether it be the coarse English peasant or the better-mannered and more sentimental German woman , they both seem " pretty much alike in the total want of moral intelligence and human sympath y ^ united with much of what is called

      plausibility . One of the cases under the head of Poisoners , though there was no attempt at poison in the case , is that of Madame Tiinet , which occurred in 1699 , and . is a strange example of the state , of fashionable opinion in Paris at the time . Monsieur and Madame Tiquet , were of course on ill terms ; indeed , there was open war between them . One night M . Tiquet was shot , by an unseen hand , near his own door .

      Ho would have been killed on the spot , were it not , as the doctors affirmed , that his heart had so contracted on the sudden alarm , that it had not ailed its usual space , and the ball had just missed it . He was carried into , the house ; and on being asked ; by the police what enemy he could point to as most likely to have sought his life he answered that he had no enemy but his wife ' An investigation was set on foot , of which she was fully aware ; but she asserted her innocence , and refused to fly . Oa the contrary she visited and received her friends , apparently , with a mind quite disengaged ; and when the Countess-d ' Annoy . observed to her that Monsieur Tiqnet could not be sure who was the assassin , she answered , that if be were sure , he would-take carejiot to tell it . " It is me they want to kill , " said she .

      She received numerous warnings and offers of assistance , all of which . she - rejected ; and when at lengthj She was arrested , nine days after the attempted murder , she displayed a hearty composure , that , '" combined , with the "insufficient evidence they had . ' might'haTe ' pnzzled theauthorities , ' Had hot a certautiZajiiais de place , called Augusts'Ca ' tehin , voluntarily come forward , and confessed , that , three " years . before , he , iloura the porter , and ^ eral others , had beep engaged by Madame Tiquei tb ' mnr fer her husband . The' plot failed at that time ; but-with this' indication , ' there was little , difficulty in : bringing home * the ' cr ime to

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      Madame liquet and Moura , who were both concerned todie . Monsieur liquet , scarcely . recovered from his wounds , proceeded to Versailles , and , with his son and daughter , threw himself at the feet of Louis XIV . to beg for her life , which being , at the instance . of the . Archbishop , refused , he proceeded to request that he might be appointed heir to her property—a . petition which seems to have afforded much diversion to the livel y Parisians ; and the king himself , in granting it ; observed , that the second petition had efiaced the merit ofthe first . Since ,. according to the law of that period , Madame Tiqnet ' s . property was liable to confiscation , we cannot altogether see the justice of the stricture . Monsieur Tiquet was in embarrassed circumstances ; and after the injury he bad received was fairly entitled to such a compensation . \ r ~ a „ WmiAt . and Moura . whn waw » 1 , fttfi n « n .

      The Chevalier de Mongeorge , and . her own family also , made every effort to obtain the commutation of her sentence , " but with equal ill success . . On being asked whether the former was privy to her guilty intent , she said , " Not for the world would I have dared to hint such a thing to him . I should have . l 9 st . him for ever if I had ! " The publication and execution of the sentence were appointed to take place on the same day ; and when ' she was conducted to the chamber of tortures ignorant of what awaited her , she inquired , " if her affair would soon be decided ?" " Soon enough , " replied the gaoler .

      And here a strange-scene ensued . The judge who had read her sentence—which was to the effect that she should lose her head on the scaffold , after first undergoing the rack in order to force her to a confession and the betrayal of her accomplices—had formerly been her lover . Uowbeit , he had his duty , -to-perform ; and , bidding her . place herself on , her knees before him , he fulfilled ., it . Proceeding afterwards , as was then the custom , to pronounce an exhortation ' , wherein he contrasted in the -most pathetic terms 'her former with her present condition—' . She who was once the idol of the world around her , blest with beauty , youth , talents , rank , and affluence , now a criminal on her way to the scaffold ! " —he entreated her to spend in repentance the " short time that remained to her , and by an ample confession to relieve him from the pain of seeing her placed on the rack .

      But he was mistaken if he thought to move , that iron heart . Cold , motionless , with an unshaken voice , and without even changing colour , she answered him— " You are right . The past and the present are strangely different ; for then you were at my feet , now I am at yours . But I have done with such recollections . So far from fearing , I desire the moment that is to terminate my wretched life , and release me from my misfortunes . I hope to meet my death with as much firmness as I have listened to its announcement ; and be assured that neither fear nor pain shall induce , me to confess myself guilty of a crime which I have sever committed . " The rack , however , soon forced her to break this resolution ; she confessed her own guilt , and that of Moura , but , as we have said before , exonerated

      Mongeorge . Xever before nor since did any execution in Paris , unless it were that of the Royal Family of France , excite so extraordinary an interest . Persons even of rank and distinction rushed from all quarters into the city ; and every window on the way she was to pass , and in the Place de Qr ' evc , were let at high prices and crowded with spectators , She declared herself penitent to her confessor ; begged pardon of Moura , who sat in the same carriage with her ; sent her tender remembrances to her children , and a prayer to her husband' that he would cherish them and forgive her . She died with an unshaken courage and selfpossession that enchanted the Parisians ; mounting the scaffold with a light step , contemplating the multitude with unmoved composure , and baring her fair neck-, with as much alacrity as if it were to welcome a carcanet of jewels rather than an axe .

      Tbe executioner was so amazed and confounded by the wondrous beauty of the head he was about to sever , that he was incapable of his office , and put her to much needless pain . Even after death the features remained unchanged ; and although she was in her forty-second year at the period of her execution , many people affirmed that she was more beautiful in death than she had been in life . Her husband buried her with much honour ; the Chevalier de Mongeorge , " who , quite inconsolable , had wandered about the park at Versailles during the sad ceremony , quitted France , and travelled for several months ; Parisian ladies sighed over the fair victim , smiled with contempt at the name of Monsieur Tiquet , and pitying the faithful lover , " wished that Heaven had made them such a man . "

      The longest of the English stories is " The Money Seekers ; " in which a selfish , weak , unstable , but not ill-designing lover , loses a fortune and his mistress , through a course of idleness and extravagance , brought on by expected heirship . The elements of the story are not very new—with an Indian uncle , the son of an old college friend , whom the nabob , has never seen , and a great dislike on tho part ? of the © M Indian to legacy-hunters ; there are ? also some improbabilities of structure ; but the picture 6 f the yielding votary of enjoyment and selfishness is true enough , and unfortunately too common .

      The denouement is thus brought about Mr . Livingstone , the nabob , is thrown into the society of Emil y Bering , the heroine , and is so struck with her ,- that he determines to marry her to her lover , Gerald Gage . That weak personage , however , has already allowed himself to be entrapped into a marriage that shall release him from his pecuniary difficulties ; and when Mr . Livingstone , somewhat after the fashion of the stage , tells Gerald \ of the wealth and beauty provided for him , he is placed in any thing , but a comfortable state of mind .

      Gerald ' s head seemed in a whirl ; the past ,. the present , the future , darted through his mind with the rapidity of an electrical shock—what he was , what he might have been ; his madness—his stupidity—bis " d—d ill luck . " His throat was parched , and his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth ; so that when Mr . Livingstone pressed . him . for an answer , he" could only gasp out , ?' It cannot—cannot be . " f * Well , " said Mr . Livingtone , " I shall only make one effort to shake your determination , and that is , the sight of the lady herself ; " and before the unfortunate victim could , expostulate , the old gentleman had left the room .

      Gerald felt disposed to rush out of the house ; but the dread of offending Mr . Livingstone , and so losing what appeared his only chance of escape from utter destitution , pi-evented him . So he sat with his eyes fixed vacantly upon the door till . it opened ; and Mr , Livingstone , pushing in Emily , cried , " There , look at her ; and if you doh'tlike her , why I must try and get you fifty pounds a year at the India House to keep you from starving . " The door was shut , the old man gone , and the young people in each other ' s arms in a second . Emily forgot the neglect—Gerald forgot the wife : young loves , past scenes , were alone remembered . Emily was all happiness . Gerald was in a delirium ; it was too much for His brain ; he pressed her convulsively to his heart , and covered her face with kisses . Emily felt how he loved , and thought how he must have suffered ; and she tried to . calm him and lead him into conversation , but in vain . .

      Some time—they knevf not how long— passed in these wild transports , when the door again opened , and Mr . Livingstone entered with parchments and papers in his . hand . " Come ! " said he , you have years of love and lovemaking before you—this evenmg must be mine . It ' s long since I have made anybody happy ; and now that I hope I have done it completely , you must come up-stairs to the drawing room , and let me enjoy the sight of my work . . First , . however , before we go , I will put this deed in your hand Gerald—it is your wife's

      marriage settlement , of two hundred . thousand pounds ., I have chosen to vest the property in her , rather than in ' you , for various reasons . One is , tbat I know her better , and am attached to her ; another , that I am aware , from your own confessions , that she is better fitted to take care of it . But a good husband need very seldom complain of this sort . of arrangement ; few women are so ungenerous as . to make him feel any difference ; and I am sure Emily Bering will not be one of them !" Emily turned a sweet smile of assurance on Gerald ; but his lips were compressed , and his

      features ghastly . " Come , " continued Mr . Livingstone , , " they are waiting tea for us ; let us go up-stairs : " and he gave Emily his arm . " Remember . Gerald , said he , tapping the young man on the back , " remember , when I . die she will be my heir . .... Silent and melancholy Gerald followed to the drawing room , shook hands with Mr . and _ Mrs . Miller , took his seat , and went through the dumb show of the tea table . Everbodywas struck with his countenance and strange demeanour , except Xicky , who never observed anything ' .. Mr . Livingstone thonsht that this sudden heap of joy had

      crushed him for the moment . " He will be all right to-morrow , " whispered he to Mr . Miller , but the lawyer ' s sagacity and Emily ' s affection were not so easily satisfied . The former was completely puzzled-he began to doubt his attachment to f-miiy ; but she , strong in her conviction from what had passed below , was sure that , whatever it might oe , it was not that that was affecting him so strangely ; and , true woman-like , she felt that any other woe _ must be light and remediable .- So she triedto cheer him ; smiled on him , gave him sweet ffi & fi ?}™ th ? teok tteir leave , and he handed her into . Mr . jI UIer ' s carriage , she pressed

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      his hand tenderly , and bade him see her to-morrow . - Gerald went home ; knocked at his father-in-law ' s door , and , on being admitied , asked for a night candlestick , and ascended to his room , locked himself in , loaded his pistols , put one in his mouth , and . blew his brains out . The report brought up the family , but when the door was broken open ho was dead . His wife died a few months afterwards , in bringing a child into the world , for which Emily amply provided ; and , when some years had elapsed , and her grief and regret had subsided , she married Charles Miller . * ,: „ i . _„ j *™ j „^ j .., , - ^ -, * '

      Lights And,Shades Of Ireland. B Y Asenat...

      Lights and , Shades of Ireland . B y Asenath Nicholson . Houlston . Mrs . Nicholson is an American lady , who , with praiseworthy benevolence , has devoted herself to the task of alleviating the miseries of the Irish people , in the terrible year of the famine . She was in Ireland during the whole of . that awful period , pursuing her own course of honourable benevolence ; and she . has stories to tell of physical sufferings equal in point of mere fact to anything in Mr . Osborne ' s work , which we recently noticed .

      The following extract suggests a lesson tS the women of more favoured classes . Mrs . Nicholson is severe on the false system of education for Irishwomen ofthe upper ranks ; and the facts of her case afford a commentary on her sarcasms which makes it difficult to resist their force . See what a waste of that wealth which should have brought sustenance to many was caused by sheer ignorance on the part of those wtio might be , and ought to be , the lights of the people : —

      When the famine had actually come and all the country was aghast , whon supplies from all parts were poured in , what was done " with these supplies ? Why , the lest that these inefficient housekeepers could do . The rice and Indian meal , both of which are excellent articles of food , were cooked in such a manner that , in most cases , they were actually unhealthy , and in all cases unpalatable . So unused were they to the use of that common article rice , that they , steeped it the night before , then ; poured the water off , without rubbing , and for . three or four hours they boiled , stirred , and simmered this , till it became a watery jelly , disgusting to the eye , and unsavoury to the taste , for they never salted it .

      besides unwholesome for the stomachs of those who had always lisedadry potato for food . The poor complained that it made them sick ; they were accused of being ungrateful , and sometime ' s told they should not have any more ; and the difficulty , if possible , was increased by giving it out uncooked . For the starving ones in the towns had no fuel , and they could not keep . up a fire to stew it for hours ) , and many of them ate it raw , which was certainly better when they had good teeth than cooked inan unsavoury way . But the Indian meal ! Who shall attempt a description of this frightful formidable ? When it first landed , the rich , who had no occasion for using it , hailed it with joy , and some actually

      condescended to say , " They believed they could eat it themselves . " But the poor , who had not yet slid down the precipice so far as to feel that they were actually dying , could be heard in the streets and in the market-place to interrogate one another , " And have ye seen'the yaller Indian , God save us awl ? By dad and ' PeePs brimstone' has come over again , to scrape " tbe maw of every divil on us . " . . * , * And the yaller Indian was called by all manner of epithets , andi went through all manner of ordeals but the right one . The . Indian meal by some was stirred in cold water . with a stick , then put quite dry upon a griddle , it consequently crumbled apart , there was no turning : ' -it ; and one desponding . '

      woman eame to me saying , " That the last bit of turf had died on her , and not a ha'porth of the yaller Indian would stop with its comrade . " ¦' . Others made what they called " stirabout ; " this was done , too , by first steeping in cold water , then pouring itinto a pot , and immediately after swelling became so thick that it could not be stirred , neither would it cook in the least . The " stirabout" then became a " standabput , " and the effect of [ eating this was all but favourable to those who had seldom taken farinaceous food , They actually , were afraid to take it in many cases , the ' government meal in particular , fearing that the " Inglish intinded to kill them" with the " tarin and serapin 5 " but when

      hunger had progressed a little ; these fears subsided , and they cared neither what they ate or who sent it to them . Bad the women of the higher classes known how to prepare these articles in a proper manner , much money might have been saved , and many lives rescued which are now lost . When the first clamour had a little subsided , there followed the recipes for cooking Indian meal . One of these , highly celebrated for a while , was from Italy , and called " Polentia , " whether spelt correctly the learned must decide , but this same Polentia would do for gentlemen and ladies too . The recipe cannot precisely be given , but enough to know that it was turned and overturned—covered and

      uncoveredboiled and steamed in . a pot— -and then came-out ger . t ' eely , " in a becoming shape , according to the form of the pot used . Sow , this was often on the tables of the gentry , for the recipe and meal were from Italy ; the poor would only hear of this at a distance—the cooking they could never attain . Next came American recipes . , These , with all due credence were accepted as the one thing needful , for they possessed these redeeming qualities : ^ -first , they were from America , the land which they loved , for many of their " kin" were there ; next , that , though they thought that nobody but negroes ate it—yet negroes liuei on that food ; and " sure the Americans wouldn't hurt ' em . " These recipes were

      prepared in due form , and made up with suets , fats , sweets , and spices , so that the Laird John Russell himself could " ate ' em . " A great and grand meeting of lords and nobility was held ,, called by the poor the " yaller Indian maitin ;" and a bon & fide sanction put on to the ' Indian meal cake . Here again was a difficulty—the meal was for the hungry ; where could they produce spices , sweets , and fats for such delicacies ?—and as thoy thought that these were necessary to make it safe to eat , then their fears were awakened anew . But a few weeks adjusted all these difficulties , for when the number of the slain had increased in every parish , all murmuring of the quality of food ceased—they suffered in uncomplaining silence .

      But if the women of Ireland have a work to do—the more incumbent on them to undertake now since it has been so long and fatally noglected—their husbands and fathers , the owners of the soil , have theirs before them also . The nature of this will be best illustrated b y the example of what one honest and well-advised landlord , Lord George Hill , has already tried and accomplished— -as detailed by' our American recorder of his good deeds . The consequence is , that not a single person died of famine ; at Gweedore ! It is to be hoped that , out of the many who are buying lands in Ireland under the new Incumbered Estates Act , there will not be a few with the courage , capital and courtesy needed to pursue with success the example set them by Lord George .

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      Jekny Lind in AMEriicA .-rMdllo . land ' s doings occupy a very limited space in our files by this steamer . She was enjoying a triumph at Boston , however ; had visited the Cambridge Observatory ( where avain effort was made to . discover a planet specially ; in honour of her . call ) . ; and subsequently received a visit from the Governor of the State ; and the Executive Council , her reception of whom was courteous , whilst her conversation was philosophical as regards her gifts , and charitable as regards her poorer fellow-creatures . Her concerts continue to be crowded , and tho enthusiasm was . "tremendous . " She had engaged with Barnum to visit

      London at the " World's Fair " , in June next , and tho remainder of her eighty nights of song in the United States would be devoted to New York , New Orleans , and , it is added , Havannah . She sang on the 30 th at a rehearsal ,, and was / ' quite indignant' ^ at the multitude , present . Mr . Dodge , the £ 125 donor for the first' ticket , ' had received public honours at the concert-hall on first appearing . We find in the journals the following excellent" Jennygram , '; ' relative to the hatter who bought the first ticket in New York . It is headed " Genin's Motive : "—

      "Don't fancy there is any revealing Of a heart that could easily melt ; It wasn't , a matter of feeling , But merely a matter of' felt' !" — Times . . Tkhrihlb Calamity . —Vienna , October 9 . —The Reiclis Zeitung ¦ gives a terrific picture of the catastrophe ^ the place of pilgrimage called Herrgott , on the Weis , near Purgstal .., At one of the publichouses the pilgrims ( of whom 3 , 000 were assembled at Herrgott ) spent the hi « ht in eating and drinking . Whilebakingthe fish the oven took fire . Behind the inn were a number of stables and barns , in which hundreds of the pihrrims were reposing , and

      almost all perished in the flames , which rose so rapidly through tbe thatdhed roofs , fanned by a strong jvind , that there was no possibility of raising ladders to attempt to rescue a single person . Many threw themselves from the lofts , and , with broken limbs , half consumediwith fire , reached hither and thither with the . most pitious cries . . JKfot a . single engine was in the place , and wo are assured , by an eye-witness , that the fearful calamity at Leopoldstadfc , in 1848 , fades into nothing by the side of this awful Calamity , Scarcely half of the pilgrims were saved , and those whohave survived have for the most part been much injured . The bodies ,. of the dead were foun d burnt to . a cinder .

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      HAYMARKET . ' . ... ' ii « , "S O P 6116 *' for the / season on Monday night Mr . Webster did not" inaugerate" the occasion by the production of any ; novelty . All . the entertainments of the evening ; Were old favouriteslhe bmous Family , The . Rough Diamond and Mo ' s yourFrtcnd ? - ^ te 6 t , ^ they used to be , with great spirit , and received with great applause ; the manager and principal performers being most cordially welcomed as they severally made their appearance . Last r week during the recess the theatre has been newly painted and decorated , and looks exceedingly fresh and cheerful .. A new royal . box , has been erected by the Queen ' s command ; It is adjoining to and on a level with the stage , of , spacious dimensionsand fitted

      , up with the utmost elegance ; . Behind it is a retiring room beautifully , ornamented . The decorations consist of light Pompeian pilasters , forming panels . _ all round ; each panel containing a view of some scene . familiar to her ! Majesty , and chiffly copied from , well known sketches EnX ? , !^ - , n r ° yalJ 5600 " - 'Wenoticedparticularly Windsor Castle , Osborne House and watertall , Balmoral , the residence of Prince Albert when in wrmany , . and other scenes of similar interest . Their effect is very light and pleasing , and the room is the perfection of taste . and comfort . We . trust it will often be occupied ; for , to visit the English theatres frequently and habitually is : the only way by which the sovereign can really and effectually encourage the JMiglish drama . These decoration ' s have been executed by MrvSaw / and his assistants , under the direction of

      Mr . C . Manby . The cast of the Serious Family was nearly the same as con _ the previous period of its representation . Mr . Hudson , however , now-first essayed the character of Captain Murphy Maguire ( apart previously filled by , Mr . James Wallack )'; and Mr . Parselle ( a useful , actor from the Lyceum ) performed the little part of Frank Vincent . The comedy went off with its usual success . Miss Reynolds . gave exquisite finish to the character of Mrs . Charles Torrena , and Mrs . Stanley was exacting and imperious as the morose mamma . Mr . Aminadab Sleekin the hands of Mr . Buckstohe , was the perfection of canting hypocrisy ; and the parts of Capt , Maguire and Mr . Charles Torrens were ' ably filled by Mr . Hudson and Mr .-Webster . General applause followed , the descent of the curtain , which again drew up and disclosed the performers on the stage *

      OLYMPIC . A new comedy , in two . acts , called My Wife's Daughter , was produced at this theatre on Monday night . It is byMr . Sterling Coyne , and is worthy of his clever and practised pen . It is , indeed , one of the pleasahtest little pieces that we have seen : and ,, in itself as well as its performance , it reminded us ofthe Parisian stage . The heroine of this piece is a lady of forty , endowed with considerable personal attractions , and devotedly attached to . a young husband , who has married her chiefly to repair his ruined fortunes , but who has been subsequently fascinated by her really good qualities .. Not wishing her pretensions to youth to be too much compromised , the lady has kept in the background a grown-up daughter , the offspring of

      a former marriage , but the young damsel escaping from her boarding school : has sought her mother's house , and is for a while concealed by her youthful father-in-law . This concealment leads to several misunderstandings . The wife , knowing that , somebody is hidden , but not discovering who that somebody is , concludes that her husband is unfaithful ; the valetde-chambre thinks that he might take advantage of the young lady ' s equivocal position by offering her his hand ; and an old friend of the family is led to believe that his own juvenile better half has paid a mysterious visit to the married Lothario . All these asperities are smoothed down by the' discovery that the lady ' s daughter-is the person harboured , and she is duly married off to a young gentleman she really loves .

      The great purpose ofthe piece is the elaboration ot the wife ' s character . ' She is a woman nf strong affections , and so acutely alive to the difference of years between herself and her husband ,, that the slightest circumstance easily proves a cause of irritation . Such a character could not have been , intrusted to a more fitting artiste than Mrs . Stirling , whose peculiarity consists in an appreciation and natural representation ofthe minutest shades of feeling , and her delineation of that state of mind winch is commonly called " thin-skinned , " is perfect . The valet-de-chambre , assuming the airs of an exquisite , exhibits Mr . Compton in a new position , and his vulgar arrogance and

      imperturbable coolness are admirably sustained . Mr . W . Farren , in the part of an old man married to . a young wife , gives a ludicrous but somewhat melancholy picture of infirm . . old age affecting the vigour and vivacity of youth ; and Mr . H . Farren did justice to the character of the husband . The , success of My Wife ' s Daughter was unequivocal , ' and the author bowed from his box in . answer to tho repeated demands of a crowded audience ..., A new . Divertissement followed , " abridged from the celebrated Ballet of La Peri , called the , Sultan ' s Dream , in which the graceful dancing of Madame Louise , and' the talented Madlle . Adele , was rapturously and deservedly encored .

      SADLER'S-WELLS . THEATRE . 3 Phe appearance of Miss Sarah Lyons , a young actress of considerable promise , in the character of Des > deih ' ona , is a new " feature ' at this house . MissLyons is possessed of great personal attractions ' , and though she does not seem to be yet free from the trammels of tuition , she gives evidence of earnestness and sub - stantial feeling rarely to ho found iu one so youngs In the reiterated appeals to Othello in favour of Michael Cassio , her manner assumed more than ordinary artlessness , and the endearing expressions gained much effect from her youthful and innocent appearance . Othello is one of Mr . Phelps ' s best Shaksperian characters . Ileis eminently an actor of feeling , and the play of the countenance under the influence of increasing jealousy , is a remarkable instance of his peculiarity . The honest- indignation and sincere grief of Emilia , is admirably embodied by Miss Glynn .

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      Dreadful Conflagration at Sea . —Much anxiety has beenevinced in ; the City during thelast few days respecting the loss of a first-class steam-ship in . the atlantic , ' which is reported to havebeen totall y destroyed by fire . The following details were furnished by ! Mh . Barras , captain of the William , from Quebec , v ^ hp ' . comraunicated tho loss to the authorities . Milpyii ' fl . Tne William left Great MatiSj ' in the . Gulfcof'Sti-Lawrence , on the 4 thult ., and on the'evening ' of the 12 th a largo steamer , with three masts , was observed in hit 46 d . 14 m : N ., 16 n . 56 il . 27 m .. W . ' , steering to tho north-west . The niehtioij ' of this , circumstance is the more . necessary , \ in order that this ship might not be confounded with the one that was subsequently seen on firej as she was-proceedingin ^ quite a different

      direction . Towards dusk on tho following day a strong lurid glare was- noticed about fifteen miles to the southward of their , course , and Mr ..: Ban-as ,-concluding that it was caused by some unfortunate ship in-flames , - very , promptly bore down , towards her , with a view of picking ; ' up the crew ., lie di . reeled a good look out to be"kept , it being thought that th . oseon board had- left in the boats , and were knocking about . in . the ocean . During , the period the William was making for the blazing ship , the wind blowing from thei ; IJ . ; the flames raged with terrific violence , and , to use ah expression of pne . of thecrow ,. " it looked more like a mountain of fire than a ship in . flames . " The scene is described to have been one of awful grandeur , both ocean-and sky being illuminated as for as the eye could reaclv

      In the course . of two . or three hours . ' . the William f ' ot within ' : ' a quarter of a mile of the flaming wreck ' . ; he was enveloped : in , flames- ifrom stem to- stern , and from her . light build and a quantityof ironworks it was apparent that she was a steamer ^ an d that ofalarge olass .- ' -She was burned ; within a foot of the water ' s edge . Mr . Barras' states that . : he saw the platform , between the paddle boxes , tho iron stanchions , and , the davits for-the stern boats , a rig only adopted by steamers . They had a full view of the deck'pf the vessel , and nothing could be seen of the crew 6 i' the passengers . ' It being supposed that they had taken , to the boats and had been ' picked up by one of the many vessels that , take tho track at this period of the year , the William , after continuing in the vicinity of tho wreck , was held to her

      course , on the wind , a- [ bright , light being kept up , and a good look-out in all directions . A sail was observed in the south steering N . W ., and it was thought ^ he migh ^ bave succeeded ( in getting those belonging to the steamer on board ; At day-break hands were sent up to look round on all points for the'boat . sj but none ^ were ; to . be seen . A craft was noticed . in the N . E . steering W . but nothing else . Mr , Barras can give no opinion as to whore the unfortunate vessel was from , or where she was bound , but he is confident sho was a steamer . The spot of her destruction was about four days ' . ' run from Halifax , but riot being in the usual course to that port , will account for tho American mail not bringing tidings of the conflagration . It is tho impresr sion of those ^ belonging to the William , that tho crew and the passengers had escaped .. ;» When they got down to her she had apparently . been burning

      six or eight hours , and as . the weather had been very fair , the moon , being up , they concluded that all had got away in the boats , and had been picked up . Mormon Emichunts . —Lately , a hundred persons arrived in Liverpool from Bedford and tho neighbourhood , on their way to the Salt Lake Valley , North America , the adopted , country of tho singular sect the Mormons ., The party . cons ! sted . of ., small farmers , market gardeners , labourers , , and mechanics , ; with their wives and children . Corn *—There is nothing so distressingly painful as a Corn , and yet nothing which ' can be so easily remedied , We have ourselves given a trial to that excellent Corn Plaister , known as " Paul ' s Every Man ' s Frie'hd , " . aijd are so convinced of its efficacy as to recommend it to tho notice of all our ' readers . ' Paul's'Every Man ' s Friend can bo obtained of any respectable'Chemist in town or country , in boxes at Is . lid ., Or the'auantity of three small boxes in one , for 28 . M ! ^ : '"" - , '

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      : Aitoaney—A Cat That Settles Difference...

      : AiToaNEY—A cat that settles differences between mice . " Fhiendshtp . —" Where arc y .-u going ? " said George Sclwyn to an acquaintance . — " To , see a friend . " - ^ " Well ,. I'll go with you , for I never saw one yet . " . A Curiosity . —The latest curiosity is a chicken grown from an egg-plant . We suppose it was hatched by the setting sun . ' , , . Law is like a sieve ; you may see through it , but you must be considerably reduced before you can get through it . Dear Etes . — " Those dear eyes of thine , " as the old gentlemah'said when he bought his wife a pair of gold-mounted spectacles . " The Law ' s Delay . "—The Chancery suit of the Attorney-General v . Trevelyan is now one hundred and sixty-four years old . --. '

      An Indication' . —When a man attempts to tie his cravat around a lamp-post , he may be considered in a rather " how came you so" condition . . Cot-throats . —Europe has 500 , 000 more armed men than at the last war , during the time that Napoleon was at the highest point of his renown , ' The Sea-serpent has been seen , in Kinsale Roads , " said a traveller ., "What ! " exclaimed Paddy ,, '' Is he coming to Cork by land , then ? " ; . Mas- - - Partington . — " Important business with her father ! " muttered Mrs Partington : " why it ' s very strange . Bless me ; it's very singular that he never calls when heir father is at home !" One of our young beaus says he likes all kinds of Anna , but Anna Mosity . He can't bear her . He is distant relative to tho one who said Satan was a female , with the original name of Ziicy Fair .

      JNever set yourself up for a musician just because you . . have got a drum in your ear , nor believe that youjare cut out for a school-teacher- merely because you have a pupil jn your eye . A dandy , witt a cigar in his mouth , on board a steamboat , once stepped up to a foreigner , and said , " Pray , sir , do gentlemen smoke in your ; country ?" " Gentlemen do not smoke in public in any country , " was the laconic answen Three of the Judges upon the bench commenced life as reporters for the public press , namely , Lord Chief Justice Campbell , Mr . Juatice Talfourd and Baron Alderson .

      Twentv-six thousand sea-faring men , now subscribe 2 s . 6 d . each per annum to the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent , Society ^ To Female-bathers . —An assemblage of native girls in the Sandwich Islands will , in quick succession , leap from a precipice seventy feet high , into the foaming torrent below . Think of this , ye bold ladyba'thers ~ arBrightbn ; A good Vule . —Never suffer your children to require services from others which they can perform themselves . A strict observance of this rule will be of incalculable advantage to them through every period of life . A very tall man was in the street of Boston , when an old lady , who admired his gigantic stature , addressed him— "Mister , were you large when you were small ? " Yes , marm , I was considered big when I was little . " -

      A Grocer ' s Shop . — . Boy . Please , sir , to tell me the time ofthe day?— Grocer . Twelve ., o ' clock . Exit boy , who returns in a few seconds , and again inquires the time of the day ? Grocer . Did I hot just tell you that it was twelve o ' clock ?—Boy , Yes , sir , but that was for another woman , and this isfer my mother .

      EPIGRAM . Said Death to Pol Sly , " Putno rum in thy tea . Or die as thy mother died , aged twenty-three . " Pol gave him an answer , that struck the churl dumb , " . My mother , you know , put no tea in her rum . " Changing Places . —Jenny Lind , on board the Atlantic , asked one of the firemen , an Irishman , if he had it in his . power , would he exchange places with her ?— " Faix , I certainly would , " he replied , " if I could sing as well . "— " And why V asked Miss Lind . — "Faix , and because , " said he " the wages are better . "

      A Hopeless Task . —To see half a dozen uncles , two or three brothers , and a maiden aunt of seventy , holding consultation to devise ways and means to prevent a young girl marrying the young man she loves , is just about as ridiculous as to see an intoxicated man attempting to catch his own shadow . " I sayj boy , whose horse is that you ' reriding ?" - " Why , it ' s daddy ' s . " "Who is your daddy ?" — " Don't you know ? . Why , Uncle Peter Jones . " " So—you are . the soil of your uncle ?"— " Why , yes , calculate I am . You see dad got to be a widower , and married mother ' s ,, sister , and now he ' s my uncle . "

      A chap walking out , came across , " old Isaac " sitting in the broiling sun , fishing . " Well , Walton , " said he , " what in the world are you doing there ?" —* ' Fiffin ! " ( Fishing . ) " What ?" , — " Fiffin !" " Fishing ? Well , what ' s the reason you can ' t talk ? What ' s in your mouth ?"— " O ,. nuffin but woutns ( worms ) for bait ' . " Mankind . —Mankind are more what they are made by their fellows than , what they are made'by their Creator . Tho wolf is ferocious , because'hunted from a whelp . The snake turns upon you , because

      you disturb and pursueit . The child grows surly , because unjustly coerced . But , above all , man becomes unjust and cruel , because pursued with cruelty and injustice by his brother meii . —Mrs . Goke ' s Money Lender . A Trying Situation . —It was the remark of a humourist , that " to talk about a person having the power to weep on all occasions , is the height of moonshine . I'd like to see a man cry with a pretty girl beside him , pockets full of cash , and plenty of champagne within reach !"

      A Sailor s Idea or Good Meat . — Warburton , in his account of his voyage up the Nile , gives an amusing instance of a singular opinion held by sailors . He says-r" On arriving at Kench ; we gave the crew a Fisast consisting of an old ram , preferred by them to younger mutton , because it stood more , chewing . " ' Jenny Lind . —The New York Evening Post sings in this fashion : — "Not sweeter sang the birds of Eden , Than this fair Nightingale of Sweden : Theonly difference ' twixt the two lies here—1 T / teirnotes were gratis , hers are very dear . " A Dog ' s Tail . —There is a great deal of philosophy in a . dog ' s tail . It is as great a tell-tale as a lady's

      fan . ¦ If a dog is pleased , his tail is immediately in a wag-ish humour ; if he is afraid , it droops : if angry , it " sticks out . " You can tell the character and disposition of a dog by . his tail , as well as Donovan can decipher yours from tho " bumps " Cash versus . Notes . —' -The following imse was adopted by a large number of Yankees who shrank from the high prices paid to hear Jenny Lind , " not that they , loved music less , but money more . !! When the doors were opened , for the second private" rehersal , the musicians : entered one after the other : flute , fiddle , doublebass , and drum , trumpet and opheiclide , all came , much to the bewilderment of the doorkeeper , who never knew them to pass that way before ; and judge of Jenny ' s - surprise ,

      to find an orchestra , vocal with sweet sounds ; behind her , ' and an , equally large though perfectly silent one , staring her in the face . The keen Yankees had borrowed a lot of old instruments , and played on the doorkeeper , the only thing they could play on . A " HArrvr" Explanation . — A large partly assembled at dinner one day in a hospitable mansion in tho South of Scotland , under the genial presidentship of a bachelor host . The wine went freely round , and a very : long sederunt was terminated by '¦ the party , with one exception , retiring from the diningroom to enjoy coffee and cigars . This exception was ah elderly gentleman , renownedfor his social qualities , who had been- Selected to fill the seat at the

      o-lher end of , the table ,: and who had freely exerted himself in tbe perl ' ornianco of his duties . Not relishing the smoking part of the entertainment , he kept his seatfora little time in deep meditation , and then ringing the bell informed the oW butler of his intention of retiring forthe night . Thinking he saw something like a smile oh the servant ' s face , he turned gravely round , saying , "Ay , John , I think I'll go to bed ; but I ' m no' fou , John , mind that ; I ' m no- the least fou ; but Fm just fatigued wi'drinking . " ; A Rat Story . —The following dodge is said , by tho G < jr « taiitoii / n , Telegraph , to have been recently enacted in the city of Philadelphia , as the play hills have it , " with unbounded success : — "A fellow , half-dandy , half-loafer , entered an oyster saloon , and

      gave his orders fora plate of raw . While swallowing tho bivalves , a huge rat came rushing over the counter . The oyster eater and oyster seller started at the sight , and the latter made , a rush for the critter , followed by several of the " hangerson " about . the saloon , but the rat succeeded in making his escape through . the back door . -: The party had scarcely returned , and the customer had swallowed his last oyster , ' when another rat appeared . The result in this case was the same as inthe former one , and the landlord and . his friends returned to discover that his customer had disappeared , after borrowing from the till its contents / amounting to fifty dollars ! The rogue had an accomplice outside , who had let the rats in at the window . Shrewd trick that . and worthy , the reputation of a Philadelphia lawyer I " is Gardener

      i Gardenbr ' s Conundrum . —Why a the ' most extraordinary man in the world?—Because no man has more business upon earth , and always chooses good grounds' for what ho does ; he commands his thyme , is master of tho mint , and fingers penny-royal ; he raises his celery , every 1 year , and-it is a hard year'indeed that does not produce a plum . He meets with more boivs than a minister of state , arid makes up more beds than a French king , and has more painteflladies , and more genuine voses & t \ i lilies than are '' to be found at a country wake . He makes raking his business more than his diversion ; But , unlike other gentlemen , he make it an advantage to his health and fortune . Distempers fatal to Others never hurt him , for he thrives in a consumption ; and he . can boast of more laurels , if possible than the Duke of Wellington ,

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      HEALTH WHERE'TIS SOUGHT ! HOLLO fAY'S PILLS . Cure of a Disordered Liver and Stomach , ivhen in a most hopeless state . Extract of a Letter from Mr . Matthew Harvey , of Chapel Hall , Airdrie , Scotland , dated the 10 th of January , 1850 . Sin , —Your valuable pills have been the moans , with God's blessing , of restoring me to a state of perfect health , and at a time when I thought I was on the brink of the grave . I had consulted several eminent doctors ,. who , after doing what they could for me , stated that they considered my case as hopeless . I ought to say that I had been suffer , ing from a liver and stomach complaint of long standing , which during the last two years got so much worse , that every one considered my condition as hopeless . I , as a last resource , got a box of your pills , which soon gave relief , and by persevering in their use for some weeks , together with rubbing night and morning your Oiatnient over my chest and stomach , and right side , I have by their means alone got completely cured , and to the astonishment of myself and everybody who knows me . —( Signed ) Matthew Habvev . —To Professor Holloway .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 19, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_19101850/page/3/