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Shelooks a sea Cvbele , fresh from Ocean , Kising with her tiara of proud to wers At every distance , with majestic motion , A ruler of the waters and their powers : And such she was ; her daughters had their doners Prom spoils of nations , and the exhaustless East PourMinherlap all gems in sparkling showers . In purple was she robed , and of her feast Honarchs partook , and deem'd their dignity increased . In Yen : ce Tasso ' s echoes are no more , :.- • - And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore , And music meets not always now the ear : Those days are gone—but Beauty still is here .
States fall , arte fade—but Nature doth not die , ^ jjorvet forget how Venice once was dear , The pleasant place of all festivity , The revel of the earth , the mask of Italy ! Bat unto us she hath a spell beyond Her name in story , and her long array Of mighty shadows , whose dim forms disposed Above the dogeless city ' s vanish'd sway ; Curs is a trophy which vrill not decay " "filth thcKialto ; Shylock and the Moor , And Pierre , can not be swept or worn awav .
The keystones ofthe arch ! though all were o'er , lor us re-peopled were the solitary shore . The beings of the mind are not of clay ; Essentially immortal , they create And multiply in us a brighter ray And mere beloved existence : that which Fate Prohibits to dull life , in this our state Of mortal bondage , by these spirits supplied , Pirst exiles , then replaces what we hate . Watering the heart whose early flowers have died , And with a fresher growth replenishing the vsid .
The spouseless Adriatic mourns her lord ; And annnal marriage now no morerentvv'd , The Bncnrtaur liesrotting unrestored , 3 feglccted garment of her widowhood I St . Hark yet sees his Lion where ha stood Stand , hut In mockery of his wither'd power , Orer the promt place where an Emperor sued , . And rnoiiarchs gazed and envied in the hour Tilien Venice wis a queen with an uneqnall'd dower , The Suabian sued , and now the Austrian reigns—An Emptror tramples where an Emperor knelt ; Kingdoms are shrank to provinces , and chains Clans over sceptred cities ; nations melt
Prom power ' s high pinnacle , when they have left The sunshine for a while , and dowaward so Like lanirine loosen'd from the mountain ' * belt ; Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo ! Th' Octogenarian chief , Byzantian ' s conquering foe , Before St ilark still glow his steeds of brass , Their gilded collars glittering in the sun ; Bat is not Dona ' s menace come to pass ? Are they not bridled !—Venice lost and won , Her thirteen hundred years of freedom done , Sink ? , like a sea-nreed , into whencejshe rose ! ™ letter be whfclm'd beneath the waves' and shun , Even in destruction's depth her foreign foes , Prom whom submission wrings an infamous repose
Statues o * glass—all shlvar'd—the long file Of her dead Doges are declined to dust ; But where they dwelt , the vast and sumptuous pile Bespeaks the pageant of their splendid trust ; Their sceptre broken , and their sword in rust , Have yielded to the stranger ; empty halls , Tlnn streets , and foreign aspects , such as must Too oft remind her who and what enthrals , Have flung a desolate cloud o ' er Venice ' s lovely walls .
Thus , Venice , if ao stronger claim were thine , "Were all thy proud historic deeds forgot . Thy choral memory ofthe Bard divine , Thy love of Tasso , should have cnt the knot "Wh : cU ties thee to thy tyrants ; and thy lot So shameful to the nations—most of all Albion ! to thee : the Ocean Qaten she-aid not Abandon Ocean ' s children ; in the fall Of Venice think of thine , despite thy watery wall ! I loved her from my boyhood—she to me "Was as a fairy city of the heart , Rising like water-columns from the sea , Of joy the sojourn , and of wealth the mart , AndOtway , ItadcluTe , Schiller , SbakspL-are ' s art , Had stamp'd her image in me , and even so , Altio ** gh I fousdher thus , we did not part , Perchance even dearer in her day of woe , Than when she was a boast , a marvel and a show .
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THE FORGATORT OF SUICIDES . A Pmsoi RniMB ix Tin Books . Bj Tnouis Coomb , iht Chartist . London : 3 . How , 132 , Fleet-strcrt .
( Continuedfrom the Star ofJfov . loin . ) I dreamt again—but ' twas a gladsome dream : A dream of portents beatifical : A dream where the prophetic brain did teem "With glorious visions of high festival In sculptured aisle , and dome , and raihbowed hall : A festival of Brotherhood and . Mind , By suicidal spirits held , from thraU Of Evil freed—and mystically designed To' adumbrate future bliss for Earth and humankind . As where the way to some hoar fane oiXile—Carnac , or Luxor , or fair Ibsamboul—Xay through an imaged path , for many a mile , Of sphinxes huge or lions , io that lull "With abject awe and fitted for the rule Of priests the worshipper approached—thus seemed The aisle fit path to fill with beautiful ¦ Expectancies the ghostly throng that streamed Aloes its wilderness of sculptures , as I creamed .
And when the dome we raught , our ecstacy Of hope ripened to rapturous orerbhss "With what the spiritual sense did hear and see Beneath that span colossal : Music ' s voice A sweetness gushed fit to emparadise The plastic forms of wisdom and of worth That there in mystic apotheosis Of statued life reposed : forms of old Earth They were—the best , the noblest children of her birth . Sange above range noae many-fashioned niche—A caverned space as wonderful and vast As that weird city which few travellers reach—Idumcssn Petra , in the dangerous waste ; And in such order were the worthies placed That they , though mute , the world ' s progressive story Of sp irit-toil revealed , £ rosa £ rst to last—And how the spark , first caught by sages hoary Pram Xatore ' a fire , Mind nurtured to aflame of glory .
From ancient Orient to the late-bora West- * Barn , thinker , devotee of enterprise , Philanthropist and patriot , soul of quest Por Sature ' s secrets , child in whose wrapt eyes She g lows so lovely that his spirit plies Its powers to imitate her forms—the gems Prom Earth ' s clay gathered—in immortal guise Seem there ensnrincd—beings wnose very names Shed splendour more ineffjhle thou diadems , A spiritual Pantheon ofthe Good , The Free , the Tireless , and the truly Great , It was : a mansion of sonl-sanctitude That held the -visitant spirit in a state Of ecstaaed entrancement—all-elate "With love and wonder , and yet hushed with awe ; And Mind seemed sounds symphonious to create That Heightened Mss , pondering on what it saw-So that our thoughts germed music , by soma unknown lair .
Anon , this minstrelsy so wondrous ceased ; And , with a groupe of spir its who stood nigh- * Gazing as if they would for ever feast On what they saw , yet sever satisfy Their yearning souls—forthwith , metheught , that I Became consociate—hearing how they spoke Their glowusg thoughts , by numbers that swept by Still undistract , and still with sateless look Scanning the sculptures as they were a priceless book , The scene changes : — Anon , woke thrilling sounds omnipotent , Cn earth , to null all thoughts but such as sprang "Up armed in the Drain while forth was sent The trumpet ' s peal—but iuch as sought a tongue ,
Tet found it not , while horn and harp notes clang Unto each others sweetness—or the heart Melted to faintness , with wrapt waiiings wrung Of hautboy and bassoon . Such prelude , thwart TEhe dome piercing , seemed well-known signal to depart . Soon blent these brothers were witti throngs that now node onward where , beyond the vault ' s vast span , I saw revealed a dazzling heaven-dight bow , Grand beyond likeness , and by wondrous plan Unto the hall with roof cerulean Serving for gate-way-avek . Thither to speed , "With up lift gaze , the spirit-crowd began—TThile to the prelude movements did succeed Of all superhest sounds the mind devours with greed ,
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Ftffl . puljea tympanum and deep . toned gtring Proclaimed dense myriad * marching with the step Of stately joy to some vast gathering ;—•^ haCever - ana ano ^^ ; hQf Antes and viols caused the . heart to . Uap . f-v ^ Y ? hhjoretaBteofits . panquei . ,. 3 Iinu hath known , . Ev " n ia itsi house of clay , rapture as ' deep """ , '" From HahdelV g iant pomps or organ blown / ' '"¦ ' ¦ '' ¦ " * "While long cathedral aisl « sIsome pageant proud Wig strewn .. r .. -- ¦ - ,-j ' :, r ^ •_ -.,, - - _ .-. _ : -- : j , Beneath the wondrous arch of heavenly sheen , I passed into the hall , when—lo ! no more Monarchal thrones and monster shapes were seen ¦ Wi thin ; but , from the middle of its floor Immense / ihelved gently upward countless store Of sculptured seats extending to the bound Of that ellipsis vast—and wisest lore By plastic art into each scat seemed wound-So that the mind read deepest lessons all around .
And , on the rim of the ellipse , where , erst , "Wild shapes reared iridngly , as if „ .. - . ..,,-,.. ™ ... To prop the rainbowed roof—in dread 'twould burst Ppon their heads—stood images of life , ' - ' . ' , * V '' Bright ' as' the ' sun , " their countenances rife ' -With blended beauty , intellect , and lore : Fair plumed wings theyliad—but ? twas a strife For mind to ' jadge what it did best behove To say they were—such grace seemed in th ' eir ' forms
enwove . And , as the myriad multitude swarmed in , Filling the spacious arapitheatre , In spirit-whispers some of seraphin And some of genii talked , and guessed these were Such mystic essences . ' Interpreter None needed long : the soul ' gan soon perceive They were her own creations , which the stir Of glorious brother-thoughts had power t' enweare To sensuous shapes—as if they did to sight upheave . " With visages as bright , with looks as blest As kindly and intelligent , all beamed And smiled upon each other , while their rest They took upon the graven scats . None deemed Himself nobler than others : none esteemed . Ills brother meanly : pride , and rank , and state , Had vanished—and , all equal , as beseemed A brother-throng , together Essence sate , . In love , of humblest citizen and potentate .
Aloft , o ' er all , thereof with splendour hued Of bows celestial still was self-suspended . The regal forms whose blazoned pomp I viewed In' earlier . dreams , now sat with sages blended—Uncrowned , unsceptred , all then * haught looks ended—With bards , and workers-out of human weal , And patriots who in lofty deed transcended I heir earthly fellows . Ghosts of erring zeal ' - Por faiths fantastic , creed 1 incomprehensible , And cruel idol-worships , whom I saw ' Climbing the Mount of Vanity—tlie wild Lone dweller in the cave , whose rage with awe I witnessed 'mong his snakes—the Poet-child , "With his lamenting harp , who wept , exiled To forest-solitude—the tuneful choir
Oi bards who walked the grove—the baud who toiled , For aye , to kindle the fierce fatal fire Of soul wherewith France lit the devastating pyre Of Liberty—a moiety of the ghosts Who idly lay along the beach i * th' land Of Sloth and Desolation—Sorrow ' s hosts—And crowds of those fair forms who , hand-in-haud , Sped o ' er the pasture-plain , with greetings bland , And garlanded with flowers—all sat arrayed In simple yet attractive guise : a band Of happy souls iunuraerable : parade , "Wealth , sorrow , guilty for ever from their essence fled ! Soft consentaneous murmurs soon were heard , 'Mid which distinguishable grew the name Of sage Lvcurgus—whereat claricord
And viol , clarion , pipe , and drum became Mute as expectant listeners—and the claim Fraternal to receive his speech , withmeok Tet manly front , he rose to answer . Maim No longer were the powers of voice : the Greek Did setm , and they that followed , with Earth's tongues to speak . Brother and sister spirits , to rehearse Our joy—he said—what volumed tongue bath skill ! Our happiness , like the eternal source From which it springs , doth ever overfill And over-run—so that our bliss we still
Augment , commingling bliss . I triumph not To think me a true seer : too deep the thrill Of ecstacy doth more me that all doubt And guess are past , and this beatitude is raught . Brothers , this blest reality hath swept The films of mystery from the general mind ; And he who doubted most now an adept Becomes in tracing Nature ' s progress : blind "Where many , once : but how it was designed From earliest eld , that pain corporeal—That hate , and all self-tortures of the mind Should pass away , and brotherhood prevail And joy—all now perceive with vision spiritual .
Te who , with opulence of speech endowed , Excel , begin the never-tiring theme"What mighty influences did long enshroud Themselves from vulgar gaze , and yet did seem To Nature's true disciples with ths beam Of splendour ' s self-revealed—and sure to drown And overwhelm all error , as a stream Resistless sweeps all human barriers down—Or as Light ' s genial smile o'ercometh Night ' s drear frown . How we now wonder , while our ken afar Travels from these joy-seats—surveys the dome Resplendent with full many an exemplar Of human virtues—and enrapt doth roam Along the dazzling aisle where graces bloom Ineffable—how we now wonder Truth So long was hid ! Be thine th' exordium , 0 Mithridates ! to pourtray the growth Of Good , and how she vanquished all her foes uncouth !—The reply of Mthridates we must reserve for next week .
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THE EDINBURGH TALES . Conducted by Mns . Johssioss . Edinburgh : Tf . Tait , Prince ' s-street . London : Chapman and Hall , Strand . The first and second parts of this work were noticed in this paper some monthssmce , and we then warmly recommended the work to our readers . Parts III ., IV ., V .. VI ., and VII . we received some time ago , and would have noticed ere this , but that we have been waiting for a favourable opportunity to speak of them at some length , as we desired to do . We have waited in vain , and now that we proceed to give the long-deferred notice , we find ourselves compelled , by press of matter , to make that notice as brief as possible . In the seventh part , the first volume is brought to a conclusion . This volume contains no less than nineteen different tales by the following talented and popular writers : —Mrs . JonxsiosE , Mrs . Fbasek , Mrs . Goke , Miss Mitfokd , Mrs . Crowe , William Howitt , Eowakd Quillinan . Thomas Cabltlb , Mr .
Fbaseu Txxleb , Colonel Johsson , and Sir Thomas Dick Lasdkr . It would bo useless to offer even a word as to the excellencies of the above writers , their names are sufficient surety for the worth of their productions , and form the best evidence it would be possible for us to advance in proof of the high character of these " Tales . " We have before noticed the tales written by Mrs . Johnstone , we will , therefore , on the present occasion , give our readers a taste of William Howitt ' s quality . In part VIL is a story of the " ExpJoits of Johnny Barbyshire , a Primitive Quaker , " This eccentric character was a farmer living in one of the most obscure parts of the country , on tlie borders of the Peak of Derbyshire . He was a Quaker , and never was there a man , from the first to the present day of the society , who so thoroughly exhibited that quality attributed to the Quaker , in the rhyming nursery alphabet— " Q was a Quaker and would not bow down . "
The sayings and doings of this queer character are told in a " most entertaining manner by Mr . Howitt , who states thalJonxsT Dakbtshire is no imaginary ehavActer , but a oona . fide specimen of the many instances to be found in country nooks , of English independence run to seed . "Never was there a more pig-headed , arbitrary , positive , pugnacious fellow . He would argue an ybody out of their opinions by the hour , he would ' thvecp them down , ' as he called it , thai is , point blank , and with aloud voice , insist on his own possession of the right , and of the sound common sense of the matter , and if he could not convince them , would at least confound them with his obstreperous din and violence of action . " The scenes between Jn ' r a and jDjgcobt I » rso . \ , the parish priest , are most diverting ; thus on one occasion Jonsxx was present at a vestry-meeting , called to vote a churchrate , when he held forth as follows : —
" Sow , I'll tell you what , lads , " said Johnny ; " you ' re made noise enough to frighten all the jackdaws out ofthe steeple , and there they are flying all about with a pretty ca warring . You ' ve spun a yarn as long as aU the pests and rails round my seven acres , and I duunaseo as you ' ve yet edged in so much as the th' owd wise men o' Gotham did , and that ' s a cuckoo . I ' ve heard just one sensible word , and that was to recommend a cast-iron pulpit , in preference to a wooden ' un . > As to a church-rate to repair th' owd steeple-house , why , my advice is to pull th ' owd thing down , stick and stone , and mend your roads with it . It ' s a capital heap 0 ' stone in it , that one must alj 0 ff , and your roads are pestilent bad . Down with the old daw-house , I say , and mend th' roads wi't , and set th' parson here np for a guide-post . Oh ! it ' s a rare ' un he'd make ; for he ' s always pointing th' way to the folks , but I never see that he moves one inch himself . " "illr . Barbyshire , " exclaimed the clergyman , in high resentment , "that is very uncivil in my presence , to say
the least ot it . " " Civil or nnciva , » returned Johnny ; "it ' s the truth , lad , and thou can take it just as thou likes . I did not come here to bandy compliments ; so I may as well be hanged for an old sheep as for a lamb— -we'll-not make two moutbfuls of a cherry ; my advice is then to have a cest-iron pulpit , by all means , and while you are about it , a cast-iron parson , too . It will do just as well as our neighbour Biggory Bysonhere , and a plagnydeal cheaper , for it will require neither tithes , glebe , Easter-dues , nor church-rates t " The way Johnnt punished the rapacious toll-gate keeper ; . the way he courted his wife ; and how he ruled that wife , and his . zaan-serrants , and hjs maid
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servants , is laughabJ * told b y Mr . Howiti , " ® must give one more ext ^ cl ^* J « n . NNT < fhJd | ot | ifitc trouble respecting Xmare COmmitted ' to his'ljhaj ' ge bya-gentlemanf—TJnder p ? culiar circumstances Johnny unfortunately caused ; the- mare . ; to : break oneof herj , legs ,,. and v the animal had , to _ be destroyed : ' Prom ' tliis ' arose a law-suit , iii " which Jolinny was concerned as defendant ; The '' case had ' proceeded on the part of the p laintiff ,-no'lawyer appearing for Johnny , and the judge was about to declare , the case decided against the defendant in default of his appearance ; when ' ¦ " ¦ ' ;
There was a hasty plucking off of a large hat , which somebody had apparently walked into court with on ; «» d the moment afterwards a short man , in a Quaker dress , with his grizzled hair hanging in long locks on his shoulders , and smoothed close down on theforeh ' cad , stepped with a peculiar air of confidence and cunning , up to thebar . Histawny , sunburntfeatures , andsmalld 8 rkeyes , twinkling with an expression ef much country subtlety , proclaimed him at once a character . At once a score ' of voices murmured— " There ' s Johnny Barbyshire himself !" He glanced , with a quick and peculiar look at thecounsel , sitting at their table with their papers before , them , who , on thoir part , did not fail to return his survey with a stare of mixed wonder and amazement . You could see it as plainly as possible written on theirfaccs , — '' Who have we got here ? , There is some fun brewing here to a certainty . " * . ;
But Johnny raised his eyes from them to the bench , where sat the judge , and sent them rapidly thence to the jury-box , where they seemed to rest with a considerable satisfaction . - ; . .- , . - - ,-, . ¦¦ . ,,, : "Is this a witness V inquired the judge . "If SO ,. what is he doing there , or why does he appear at all , till we know whether the cause is to be defended ? " ~ "Ay , Lord Judge , as they call thee , I reckon I am a witness , and the best witness too that can be had in the ease , for I ' m the man himself ; I ' m John Barbyshire . I didn't mean to have any thing to do with theseehaps i ' their wigs and gowns j with th « ir long , dangling sleeves ; and I dunua-yflt ' nieaii to have onjr thing to do wi' ' era . But I just heard one of ' cm tell thee , that this cause was not going to be defended ; and that put my monkey up , and so , thinks I , I'll e'en up and tell'em . that it will be defended though ; ay , and I reckon it will top ; Johnny Barbyshire was never yet afraid ofthe face of any man , or any set oif men . "' '¦¦ - ' -
; . ; ¦ "Ifyou are what you say , good man , " said the judge , " defendant in this case , you had better appoint counsel to state it for you . " . * ..-. "Nay , nay , Lord Judge , as they call thee , —hold a bit ; I know better than that . Catch Johnny Barbyshire -at flinging his money into a lawyer ' s bag ? No , no . I know them chaps wi' wigs well enough . They ' ve tongues as long as a besom steal , and fingers as long to poke after ' em . Kay , nay , I don ' t get my money so easily as to let them scrape it up by armfuls . I've worked early and late , in heat and cold , for my lit ' 0 money , and long
« nough too , before these smart chaps had left , their mother ' s apron-strings ; and let them catch a coin of it , if they can . 2 fo ! I know this case better than any other man can , and for why S Because I was in it . It was me that had the mare to nimmer : it was me that rode her to the doctor ; I wss in at th' breaking of the leg , and , for that reason , I can tell you exactly how it all happened . And what ' s any of those counsellors , —sharp , and fine , and knowing as they look , with their tails and their powder , —what are they to know about tho matter , except what somebody'd have to tell ' em first ; I tell you , I saw it , I did it , and so there needs no twice telling of the story . "
"But are you going to produce evidence ? " inquired the counsel for the other side . " Evidence ? to be sure I am . ' What does ths chap mean ? Evidence ? why , I am defender and evidence andaU !" There was a good deal of merriment in the court , and at the bar , in which the judge himself joined . ' !' . There wants no evidence besides me ; for , as I tell you , I did it , and ; I ' m not going to deny it . " . "Stopl" cried the judge , "this ^ singular . If Mr . Barbyshire means . to plead his own cause , arid to include in it his evid . nee , he must be sworn . Let the oath be administered to him . " . . ¦ - ' - "•• ¦ ¦ " ' * ' Nay , I reckon thou need put none of thy oaths to me ! My father never brought mc up to cursing and swearing , and such like wickedness . He left that to th' ragamuffins and rapscallions i' th' street . I ' m no swearer , nor liar neither , — thou may take my word safe enough . " "Let him take his affirmation , if he he a member of the Society of Priehds . "
" Ay , ' now thou speakost sense , Lord Judge . Ay , I ' m a member , I warrant me . " .... The clerk ofthe court here took his affirmation ,, and then Johnny proceeded . .. " Well , I don't feel myself any better , or any honester now for making that amrmation . I was just going to teU the plain truth before , and I can only tell th ' same now . And , as I said , I ' m not going , to deny what I ' ve done ; No ! Johnny Barbyshire ' s not the man that ever did a thing and then denied it . Can any of these chaps i' th' wigs say as much ? Ay , now I reckon , " added he , shaking his head archly at the gentlemen of the bar , " now I reckon you'd like , a good many on you there , to be denying this thing stoutly for me ! You'd soon persuade a good many simple folks here that I never did ride the mare , never broke her leg , nay , never saw her that day at all . Wouldn't you , now ? wouldn't you t" Here tlie laughter , on all sides , was loudly renewed . '
"But I'll take precious good care ye dunna ! No , no ! that ' s the very thing that I ' ve stepped up here for . ; It's to keep your consciences clear of a few more additional lies . Oh dear ! I am quite grieved for you , when I think what falsities-and deceit you'll one day have to answer for , as itis . " The gentlemen , thus complimented , appeared to enjoy the satire of Johnny Barbyshire ; and stiUmore was it relished in the body of the court . But again remarked the judge , "Mr . Barbyshire , I advise you to leave the counsel for the plaintiff to prove his case against you . " I ' st niver oss ! " exclaimed Johnny , with indignation . " l ' st niver oss •'' repeated the judge . " What does he mean?—I don't understand him , " and he looked inquiringly at the bar . " He means , iny lord , said a young counsel , "that he shall never offer , —never attempt to do so . "
" That ' s a Barbyshire chap now , " said Johnny , turning confidentially towards the jury-bos , where he saw some of las county fanners . "Be understands good English . " For Johnny's extraordinary defence , the result of the trial , and the strange consequences that ensued , we must refer our readers to the work itself . The story is throughout most excellent . We have not room to say even a word concernieg the other " Tales , " hut this we the less regret , seeing that the entire volume , consisting of upwards of 4 . 00 beautifully printed , double columned pages , may be had ( we believe ) for a trifle above four shillings ! This venture of Mr . Tait ' s has , we are informed , been eminently sncce & si ' ul , and well it deserves to be so . The Edinhirgh Tales have our hearty recommendation . '
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SHARPE'S LOKDUN MAGAZINE . Novembee London : T . B . Sharpe , 15 , Skinner-street , Snow
hill . . This publication is intended to supply the general reader with matter ol an amusing and instructive character , at such a price as to include purchasers of cverv class . It will appear in weekly numbers and monthly parts ; but the monthly parts will be issued at the commencement , instead of the end ofthe month . On the 1 st of a month , the monthly subscriber will have his Dart , containing the four weekly numbers ( or five , as it may happen ) in advance , while those who prefer to purchase by single numbers will receive them weekly in the ordinary way . This plan is a good one ; it constitutes this publication a monthly " magazine , and also a weekly periodical .
Each number is illustrated , so that there arc several illustrations in the monthly part . Those in the present part arc very good . We must especially distinguish the * ' Well of St . lveyne" ( Southey ' s well known ballad ) , and the " Lost 'Hunter . " There is some good readable matter in tin ' s part , and altogether the work promises well . We must except one article , that entitled " America and her Slave States . " The spirit of this is most objectionable ; and wc imagine the editor would find it somewhat difficult to reconcile the fierce anti-republican spirit of this article with the merit assumed by him of keeping his magazine " perfectly free from , political andtheological controversy . "
The Balloon; Or, Aerostatic Magazine. Oc...
THE BALLOON ; OR , AEROSTATIC MAGAZINE . Ocxobek , November . London : Steele , Paternoster-row . These numbers of the Balloon contain much interesting information respecting the past history and progress of aerostation . In the number for the present month we observe the outline of a play Reconnect aerostation with railway transit . IW plan is a novel one , and certainly not more impracticable than many schemes to which the public have recently subscrified their money . For the present , ballooning being over for this year , this magazine is to be discontinued . On the first of May next it will be resumed ; and as the rage for ballooning is likely to increase next year , there can be little doubt but that the Balloon , when revived , will be successful . Certainly the ability aud zeal of the Editor entitle him to look for success .
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PICTORIAL PENNY BALLADIST . Paiit I . London : JVC . Moore , 12 , Wellington-street , North Strand . - „ „ , _ . f This is an admirable work . The Ballad Poetry ol England has shed more true and enduring glory on the English name than all the victories gained under the red-cross banner , from Agincourt to uater . oo , yet , strange to say . this poetry is unknown , unless merely by name , to tens of thousands of the present generation of Englishmen . Perhaps the mam cause of this woeful * , noraucc has been the high price 01 wci
the works in vjbich the old English ballads e euslrnned , v ,-hi-jh prevented the masses fr om obtaining them . . - Whoever , ' therefore , does what is r ! ^ to bed- one by the publisher of this work , perio » i « ; the p ? . rt of a public benefactor . The Pictwial Battodir { ispublishing in penny weekly numbers , and row ithly parts . The first part contains—1 st , the iar nous old ballad of " Chevy Chase ; " who that has 1 " jad this ballad in his bovhood can ever cease to rct nember it ? Right worthily is it placed at the commencement of the work , 2 nd , " Tite Nut-Browne
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„ . '¦ ALMANACKS . ¦ lAc Mners' Almanack for 1846 / N ^ wcastle-upon-¦ - ' ¦ : ¦ MoTyno : : 3 finers ' Advocate OfiiC e - , _ Containing , Resides the usual amount *> f information found in almanacks , tables for t'alculating wages , prices for hewing coals , either by t . he score , yard , or ton market ; weather , tide , anu ' other tables ; , accidents in mines , ventilation of coal niines , with tables showing the speed of air currents , arid a wass of other useful information . " Wi * Friend-in-Necd Almanack , for the vcar 1 S 1 G . " Londen : J . Shaiv , 24 , Gloucester-street ; Com - niercial-roadEast .
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. / PUNCH'S TRIBUTE TO O'CONNELL . "As the day icomes round when the grateful millions , whom you are making so wise , industrious , and happy , are clubbing their , halfpence for your benefit , it becomes us all , dear , Dan , to offer our quota oi admiration to you ; and I hereby send you my contribution , in a coin with which you are yourself in the habit . ol relieving the necessitous—I mean a little slack jaw ., ; In a case of necessity in your country , y ° . . He always the , very first to come down with a subscription of that sort . And I wish to heaven that poor Paddv , who has no »<*¦' of the commodity , and takes it from you so kindly , would bat pay you back , in this present hard season , in the same circulating medium . I am not averse to the subscription-box at most times . A good croSvd—a good rattling scene between me ^ hd Judy , or me and the devil—and , ; " now , gentlemen and ladies , " my man goes round for the subscription , and the coppeis come tumbling into the tin . I don't like that vulgar cant of calling it a begging-box : we are worthy of our hire , both of us . ;• ¦ " . ¦
But there are times and seasons to take the money from poor devils who are starving !—actually starving To be going round for money just now in Ireland—to tako the last pence of the poor , ragged , kindly , hungry , foolish creatures—it turns my gorge somehow . Youcan't be going to accept the money . Do without this time . If you have none , go down to Devrynane , and go tick- but don't take the poor devils' money . : For the credit of us adventurers who live on the public , aud who are said to be goodnatured and free-banded—rogues as we are—stop tlie collection of tlic coppers , just for this once . I know the old gag about " forsaking great professional emoluments , " and so forth . But let them off this time—tho poor starving rogues—the good-natured simple Paddies , who roar at all your jokes , huzzay at
all your lics . ' come leagues upon leagues to attend your show , and have paid their money so often ! ' -Divesand Lazarus" is bad enough , and tho contrast , of . the poor man's sores and the rich . man's purple . ' But put it that Dives absolutely begged the money from Lazarus , and grows fat while the other starves , it will be even so if you take these folks ' money—but I am again growing too serious . , Not that I quarrel with a joke , my dear professional friend , or am jealous of yours ; but I think , of these latter days . ^ you have been a trifle too facetious . That excessive good humour the which you have flung into the discussion of the Starvation Question—or rather that airy gaiety witli which you have eluded it—hopping facetiously awayfrom it when pressed upon you , and instead of talking about the means of
preventing your countrymen's ruin , telling a story about tho coolness of the Lord Lieutenant ' s rooms , or having a' fling at the Saxon , or telling a lie about the Times' commissioner , struck me as rather out of place . A joke is a joke , and nothing can be more pleasing than a lie ( we will call it a hoax ) in its proper place—hut not always . You wouldn't cut capers over a dead body , or be particularly boisterous and facetious in a chapel or a sick room ; and I think of late , dear sir , you have been allowing your humour to get tlic better of you on occasions almost _ as solemn . For , isn't Hunger sacred ? isn't Starvation solemn ? And the Want of a nation is staring Daniel O'Connell in . the face , and the Liberator replies with a grin and a jibe . All the country is alarmed by the danger , and busy devising remedies to meet it . Tho gentlemen ol
Kerry subscribo . < £ S , 000—the Liberator subscribes , the Advice that corn shall not bo sent out of the country . The Lord Lieutenant does all that such a feeble , absurd ceremony as a Lord Lieutenant can do —gives a coremony of consolation ; savs . Government has employed scientific men , will send for others , and so forth , Dan sneers at the scientific men because they are Saxons , and fancies he covers his own astounding selfishness and indifference by tiiis brutal claptrap . The people come ( locking to Conciliation , Hall to know what Dan will do—what he'll propose , God bless him ! that's to get them out of the scrape ? and ho puts up'Mr . Dillon Browne to indulge in ribald jokes against Agricultural Societies ; arid he himself amuses the meeting with a piece . ot lying buffoonery about the Times' commissioner . He
owns it is a lie ; boasts and chuckles over the lie . " If he wasn't turned out of the house , asTdcclareri he was , he ought to have been turned out , " and all the audience roar . What an audience , and what an orator ! Think ofthe state of mind of the poor fellows who have been got to like and listen to such matter ! who , perishing themselves with hunger , still feed and fatten him to whom in-their extremity ( when every man with a heart in his breast is devising plans for their rescue ) the old cynic , who wallows in their bounty , does not offer a shilling ; but foi all advice , jeers ana belies their English brethren who , by God ' s help , are able and willing to assist them , and for all consolation entertains them with lies and laszis . I think it was the French-newspaper * who called you the Irish Moses ; and now the people
are calling upon their deliverer , and behold , out comes Jaek Pudding ! My brazen old brother buffoon ! If I had the enr of your Paddies in Conciliation Hall I would tell them a s ' tory : — " During the Consulship of Platicus , when I was green and young , I had a dear friend ,-who for some years made a-very comfortable income out nl nie , by cheating me at cards . He was an exceedingly agreeable , generous , social fellow , and professed and felt , no doubt , a warm regard for me ; ior he used always to win and I to pay with unalterable confidence and good humour . I furnished his house for him , 1 paid his tailor ' s bills , ! kept the worthy fellow in pocket-money . Win what ho would , I wouldn't
believe he was a cheat . At last , as I insisted on not discovering his practices , my jolly friend did not give himself the trouble to hide them ; and one day , when we were p laying a friendly game at eearte together , I saw him with a selection of eight or nine trumps and court cards comfortably spread in his lap , from which he supplied his hand as he wanted . " God save the Greens ! I leave the amateurs of good jokes on the other side of the channel to determine the moral of this fable . Who are the green ones there ? and whoso confidence and blindness are so inconceivable , that the old sharper who takes their money scorns even to hide the jugglery by which he robs them . Pu . nch .
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MansxatjOHTER by a Police Inspector . — The town of Chipping Norton has been thrown into the greatest excitement in consequence of a police inspector , named Nott , having on Wednesday week struck a prisoner whom he was conveying to the lock-up house on a charge of felony , and from which blow tho poor man died on the following morning . So groat was the oxcitcment during the holding of the inquest , that the mayor issued handbills calling upon the people to keep the peace , and stating that the fullest investigation should take place . This document appeased the minds of the populace , who had before evinced an inclination to administer Lynchlaw upon the inspector . An inquest was held on Thursday , before Mv . Westall , coroner for Oxfordshire , when tlie following particulars were elicited : —
The deceased , William Slatter , kept a horse in a stable near to thatof Mr . Hall , and the latter having lost a quantity of chaff , charged tlie deceased with having stolen it . This he denied ,, but eventually Nott , the polico inspector ^ , was sent for , and in the deceased's stable there was a quantity of chaff which Mr . Hall said lie could swear to as being part of that stolen . Upon the lattsc trying to get the ftaaff out ofthe manger , the dsceased prevented him as muth as he could , saying that the chart was bis own , and never belonged to Mv : HaU , and Bat he should not have it . Nott , the- inspector , said they would have the chaff , and addsd these words : — . " I ' M soon settle you , " upon which he drew from his right hand pocket a thick stick , aiv = £ struck deceased a vio ' ent biow on the head , which caused him to stagger , and deceased said , "You have dons- a fine- thing now for me . " Nott was repeating t £ e- blow , when Mr . Hall pulled his arm back and sai « L . " Far God'ssake don't strike him any mare ; there are plenty of people here to
assist you 1 ? it is . required . The handcuffs were then placed on tlu > deceased , and be was conveyed to the lock-ap house . On his way there he complained how badhia head was . This was about seven o ' clock in the evening . The next morning , on Nott going to the lock-up house ,- he found his prisoner dead . In consequence of the great excitement prevailing in the town , it was thought proper that a post mortem examination should bo made by a non-resident surgeon , and consequently the inquest was adjourned until Saturday , in order that tlic ' jiiry might avai ' themselves of the services of W . Wingfield , Esq ., \ u eminent surgeon of Oxford , ' who promptly attended and after making a post mortem examination , s' , ate to the jury that he had no doubt that deaf u wa caused by the blow given deceased on the . ) . eadb Nofct ; and the jury without hesitation vc * umed verdiet of " Manslaughter , " and Nott was { he " > am evening sent to Oxford Castle to take his , ' , rjal at th next assizes ,
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¦" 7 ; 'y ^' . ^ T 7 , ' L 6 mM . ' . P 7 " \ ' " > METBOPoiwJot-DisiBicT Cou . vcJi . ^ The above bodv me ' . Mthe . dispatc-h of business at tlie Jiall , 'lATr . rn againjane , , 011 Sunday , afternoon , NoVemuer'lGtli . -Mi \ John , Mi ! Is , \ vas called to the chair ; and reported that the Chartists of the Tower Hamlets wereabbut to convene a great public meeting , to take si telr steps as may conduce to the restoration- , of our esi'lcd patriots , Frost ,. Williams , and Jones . ; Several ' other WcaJities reported that they ¦ were - taking si . ' niiar steps . Other -. very promising and pleasing , reports of the progress of the movement were 'made , and t he council adjourned . . . ' . - ^ -, :-.,.. •¦ , • ^ n ' A n Y ^ criM c ° »» "ttke . —Thiscommittecmet in tlie Hall , J unra ; ain-lanc ,. . on Sundav afternoon November 10 th :-Mr ^ Stallwood was unanimously called to tho chain' The minutes ; of the previous meeting having been confirmed , Mr . MvIhg on be-T »• f * WIlee 5 er ' statfid that the £ 2 voted to Mr . John ttichards . at the '" previous meet in . * : I . nd i . » nn
duly jorwarded . The chairman stated that Mr . Jonn Cleave had authorised him to state , that ho was prepared to hand over an 10 U for the balance of money he held on behalf of the victim fund / and further , that he would pay any order , made by tlie comiviittee ; to victims , from time to time , on account of tL > e same . It was unanimously resolved , that : Mr . Curve ' s offer be accepted : A letter was read . from Mr . John Gray , of Goodham , near Jiurnlcv , relative to Tviomas Tattersai , and it was unanimously resolved ' , , that thesum of £ 8 be awarded to Mr . Thomas Tatter , sal , and that the secretary ( Mr . T . M . Wheeler ) be hereby empowered to draw thelsame fivm the-fund , and forward it immediately . Jt ms also unanimously resolved , : that the secretary be instructed to-, draw up an address to the public on behalf of the " 'Rational Victim Committee , " and present the same at our mxi meeting . It was then resolved , that tMa meeting stand adjourned until this day fortnight , at half-pasfc four in the afternoon , the meeting then- broke up .-
VktkuAN PAraiOTs' & xb Extxes' Wibows' akd CniLDBENs' Fuxkjj—At the joint committee meeting of these two ' fuudsyheld at JSlr . HuRBes , 32 , Barbican , on Thursday night ? before last , £ 2 were again disbursed forthe relief gf the suSsrers . The committees meet again , jointly ,, next Afonday night , at , eight o ' clock , also at Mr . Hughes . I beg tee acknowledge the receipt of sixpenso from Jv 3 r . G > . Msnsfleld , juu ., of Bradford , Wilts ; acid shall be happy to- receive more numerous contri & utions , knowing the distressed condition of those for whom these funds were instituted . — Thoius C ' 90 w-: i ? ,. 13 i . BlssfiiMars-road .
Cixr Locality . —Mr . Cooper ' s leeture ,. l « 3 t Sunday night , was not attended by- much more than half ol his usual audience , owing to-the state of the weather , antl the dirty condition of the streets .-: the Jhir face . * which generally constitute a- largo part of the eomp .-iny were almost entirely wanting . Mr . Hushes , jun ., was chairman ; and , after one ef the Peoplesongs had been sung , introduced the lecturer . The subject announced being " The discovery of-America , " Mr . C . prefaced it by some interesting remarks on the navigation and commerce of the ancients . With the invention of the mariner ' s compass by Gioia , in 1302—an invention also claimed by the Chinese—the lecturer ' s principal theme began .- He described , first , the voyages of discovery made by the Portuguese along the coast of Africa , as far as the
" Cape of Storms , " or , as it was afterwards named , tho " Cape of Good Hope ; " and then related the birth and boyish sailorsliip of Columbus , witli his early assertion of a belief that India might bo reached by sailing directly to the west . His patronage by Ferdinand and Isabella , and the circumstances of his first voyage , so full of breathless interest , were graphically described , witli the brilliant oceurrenc-a of Iiis discovery of one ofthe Bahama Isles , on the 12 th of October , 1492 , after a perilous navigation of 3 , 000 miles across the trackless Atlantic . The second , third , and fourth voyages ofthe immortal discoverer , and the degi'adiit & . fncfc of Lis being carried home in chains to Spain , ; after the third voyage , —his high and unsubduable spirit , —and the many traits of generosity and nobleness . which characterised-him , were depicted in glowing colours . The voyage oi
Vasco de Gama , anu his arrival at Calient , in the East Indies , by way of the Cape . of Good Hope : and the philauthropicstruggles . of Bartholomew las Gagas , on behalf of the enslaved natives of the New World , formed the next and not least iftcresting portion of the'lectnre . The conquests of . Mexico by Cortex , and of Peru by Pizarro , gave opportunity for highlycoloured and exciting descriptions ; and Mr . C . wound up his subject by recommending to reflection the great lessons to be derived from a view of resolution triumphing orer difficulties , as evinced in the life of the great Columbus , —of philanthropy as displayed in the conduct of Las Casas , —of the hatefulue ' sa of war , as depicted in the acts of Cortex and fizarro , —and of the abhorrent character of priestcraft , as instanced in the part taken by the priest Valverdc , who gave the si gnal to the plundering Spaniards for tlieir massacre of the confiding
Peruvians . ME 3 . THIH TYDYIL . The Land . — 'I he shareholders of No . 1 Association met oil Sunday evening last , when , the following resolutions were adopted : —'' That we are in favour of enrolment as recommended by counsel . " " That we arc in favour of all the members becoming freeholders in prefew . iec to selling the estate . " "' We are of opinion that it be left to the discration of each member whether he will have two or four acres , " "That wc earnestly impress on the delegates to prevent any one having more than four acres . " '' We recommend that the new rules be printed uniform with Mr . O'Connor ' s work on Small Farms . "—[ Wc have given the sense * f the resolutions agreed to by our Merthyr friends ; but the report was so badl y written it was impossible to give it in full . — En . N . S . 1
GREENOCK . Mr . M'Geatu . addressed two public meetings in the Hall of the Mechanics''Institution , on the even in » . s of Tuesday and Wednesday , the 11 th and 12 th . His first subject was the Land , which he handled in a manner creditable to himself . and satisfactory to his audience . Mr . M'Giath commenced by showing statistically the extent and Capabilities of the Land of Great Britain to miintain the population , lleshowed , in a clear and convincing maimer , the whole people ' s right to the use of it , and concluded by giving an exposition of the principle rules and regulations ofthe Chartist Co-operative Land Society . Mr . M'Grath was listened to with marked attention , intermingled with bursts ofapplar . se . His second subject wa « i"The duty ofthe people at the present . alarming crisis . "
YALE OF LEYEN . Wchavc lately had a visit from that uncompromising patriot and advocate of democracy , -Mr . . M'Grath , who delivered an eloquent and instructive lecture on Thursday evening , the 13 th inst ., in Mrs . Moody ' s llll'gO linll / fioilhilJ , to an intelligent audience of working men . Subject of the . Lecture , " The Land and its capabilities . " Alter speaking for the course of one hour and a half , rivctting tlie attention of his audience to the subject as he went along , lie wound up one of the most splendid lectures that it was ever our lot to hear . On Friday evening , the 1-ith inst ., Mr . M'Grath lectured again in the Odd Fellows' Hail , Alexandria , to a most respectable audience of intelligent working men . Subject of the lecture , "The Land , and how to get it . " He handled his subject in an admirable style , demonstrating to the entire satisfaction of his audience their natural right to the noil . At the close of the lecture a number of rules were disposed of , and sonic cards of membership taken out .
BAOUP . The Land . —On Sunday evening ; November Tfth , the -members of the Baciip branch of the Clartist po-operativo Land Society held their weekly meeting in tho Cimrtist-rooni , Rochdalc-raad ,. Viion a very interesting discussion to » k place on the present rules of the Land Society and the Dewsbur / rosoJtitions . The following resolutions were-agrcc-ito-unanimously : — " That it is tlie opinion oli'thfonieetin " that the ' selection of occupants bo taken an their shares are paid np instead of by ballsb , as lb w-illgi ' vo a greater stimilus to the society . " - — " That ; the ' tJlh
Dewsbury resolution is calculated * to tbrsw a f ; ai : iji on the society's proeeediags , and ia injure th * character 01 the present directors < w the flbartb-t Cooperative Land Society , inkadii ^ tho >> vjnliei » think that they have been appropriafcSijg the fund * of the said society to their own aggvaadiseinent . '"—• "That it is tlie opinion of this musKlng thai the- present directors are entitled to the V « st thanks of ihe shareholders for the noble and straightforward manner in which they have performed tlieir duties . "— " That this meeting stand adjourm id to the 23 rd of November . "
B . 4 RN . SLEY . The Laxr . —On'Monday night last wo had a full meeting of the meinbers . vf the Land Society , to nominate a member for the forthcoming Conference . The nomination unnnimoi , sdy fell on Mr . John yalhir . ee for the Barnslcy and '• Vorsborough common branches . Mr . Frank Mirlield very warmly defended the conduct and cbara : trxof the Board of Directors , ami remarked that ha was surprised how any man dare impeach tho cha jacter of such worthy anil deserving men , and concluded by moving the following resolution , which Y / ns seconded by Mr . Peter llbcy , and unanimously- can-ied amid the plaudits of the meeting : — " ' Phat the thanks of the members of the Chartist Co -operative Land Society of the Barnslcy and Wore ' oorough-commoa branches are hereby e iven to th e' Board of Directors for their efficient and economical management of the society .
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- FttExeit Convicts—It appears from a recently published account of the criminal statistics of 1 ranee , that during the lasi eight years 0 , 000 convicts were discharged from tho hulks at Brest , Toulon , and Rochcfort . Of this number 1 , 700 have been brought to trial and convicted again of new crimes within live years after their liberation . During the same pei iod 53 , 000 have been released from tho central prisms . Of these 10 , 000 have been brought again to tr al within thesame space of five years for fresh oft ' enc s .
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^^ ^ X ^ lWW SjSR ^^ page 125 , is the . following specimen of Je ^ al bothe .-ation and perspicuity : _ -Whenra . . person . is : biAinjfl ' Wd . ii tiling ' , ari'd fief , docs what miy , enable : JiiiflW ^ fiio thing , ho ii , ' siipposcd , iri .. equity , ; « a ffo . icwitii tho viewof doing , yiii & t ^ eis bonn & to do . . < r- - -. Kbepihg ihe Unities . —At a-meeting of tkcNofitingham Protestant Operative Association and Reformation Society , held a short time ago ; one oi' the speakers declared that they " would make the walls of S . ome totter in Nottingham ; " ' ' -
_ A Yankee Pura . — " Christians and Jews , Catholics and Protestants ) Mormons and Infidels , have all met on one common ground ; and , on one subject ati least , have become so united as to give-reason to be 1 tcre . that the time is near at hand when watchmen in . Zion shall sou eye to eye : —via . they all admit that T ii'C and Co ., No . 9 , Bowery , will sella beautiful and durable hat , made in the most I ' ashianaWe style , " for a less price than an ; other establishment in the citv of . Gotlia'TO . " ¦ ¦ . ¦ . ¦> >¦¦¦¦< !» . New WniGum axd Measures , —The monster newspapers '; we now used in many shops-instead of tin ? usual we / 'Shts . Four supplement * , we-. believe * , go to ix hundred weight y The leaders , however , are never used , as th ey are found to be much-heavier sbhie'days than others . '— 'Punch . ' Why and ^ hcai \ V 2 . —Why iV a- person who never lays a wager . vy bad as a regular gam bier ?—Because * he is no better .
" jGradiexxs J ^ Asr—Poi > t ; r / erita JjfifESffK !" --A typographical c & tr of a- curious character occurred in one of the Lcafdon papers- of this week . In tho advertisement ofthe Swansea and'Mall , , the letter B was substituted forsTJ in Jkill . Tiae prospectus went OH to State , tluvi" " . as rise passenger tr . i ^ o from Swansea to that ftfeality was so exiensiv * -, no doubt could be entertaimstf that tite line would pwve mess remunerative . "—CctMOi't ' coi .
' : ' - MGSr ^ ELdl & lES .-[ From ihfrj / ne Mercury ] . ' THE iSHffclAl , savEii . ; ., . ( Asivmg . lvfSiritoben Peel . ) Tune— "I ' ve kiised and i « prattled . " " I ' ve fciss'd and I ' ve prattle * with fifty J ' ah- maids . And changer ! them as ofSas ye see— . I ' ve kissed and I ' ve-prattK-irWitii fifty Stir maids / And changed them as oit lis ye see . ' On grave Mother Clmrcb , Ckj ? k 1 first to * k his nereh '; And at Oxford I took my dvgre ' e ; But I found Iilt too old and tso- ' -niueh of a scold , And so cried " Tolwation " -Mr ms , So mistake C llut ,. old . Girl •* Toleration "ibr'ai ' e ! '
Dot ere I could fix , Papistical trrelts - Again soon allured »« e to rover " The lady in scarlet" I ibuiid was no harlot ,. But worthy of " Protestant hive . . " ' Though the cross it might rust or-tliat beautiful breast , 'Tv . as still i-nunJIy cbaiining to-scu ; . . So on "Emancipation" I took np a ? y station—» - . The "Pope and the Devil" for me ,- . Ko mistake ! But the " Pope antl the Devil" for me ! -
Oh l who would not tsach the dear lass-that he loves Every grace that may make her divine ? And , as Cymoii grew bright when lovs knt his light . E ' en so I dets-niiincd should mine . . So I founded a College to teach her thathnor / leilge , "Which graces p ' tn idolatry . 'Twas "Maynooth and Endowraent / 'Ul'iynooth and En dowment ; " aiayuooth antl Endowment" for mej--Kb mistake ! But " Maj-nooth and Endowment" for nie !
Next , I found new flame in a plump rural- dame ; " Protection" site ask'd a . < a hocn I As gallant as Hector , I von- 'd to " j .-roteeMuir "" Protect" hrr 1 did to some tunc ! We soon fell to chiding . I found she lov * d ' " sliding , " ' Her " scale" took in every degree . So I whkjier'd my fair , she got ' more than-her shave . " And cried " Trade free as air" for me ,. No mistake ! But " Trade free as air" for me !
Oh 1 there's nothing like roving to keep r . « aan loving I often both think it and fe « l , And " Unions" I find—howe'er tender arikind—May yet stand in need of " Repeal . " So whoever woos best shr . il have my behest ; " ft'hig , Tory , or Bad , though she ho . For a ' * Trade " freo as air , " e'en in love , I declare ; And the wannest and briskest for me , No mistake i But the warmest and briskest for . me I Tl'D
Invasions or Escuyn . —Tnc Mpoltfm Column , at Boulogne , has just been completed , afi ^ niawai'ds of thirty years' labour . The conviction of it has latelybeen deferred out of . compliment to the-Prince do JoinviUe , who felt rather scrupulous about a numument being h ' uUhcd in honour of an inv ; wtOM that had never taken place . His consent , hovrcvpsywas at last caincd by the prani .-o that a similar column should binjrcctcil opposite Brighton , to commemorate a visit the warlike Prince paid there a short cime back . —Patch .
As Onn Fancy . —In the Times of Friday , 'there is an . 'ldvei ' iis . i'iuciit for an active young woman who , among oilier qualifications , _ " uudei-et-ands-bright stoves . " She must be a very inio'ligei .-r-r / prson to be abb ; to have an undeivrtandinsr with a bright stove ; for if we wore in stwd . r such an article fin * ;> . month , we should not . succeed in csjabl / shinij : t sort of' sympathy between oursolvi'S niid liiohTi ' -plsotv - We presume , however , that this kind of UiwWstar . feiii . " 13 perfectly practicable , and we think it very possible that the expression , " Sermons in sttKitv . " must be a misprint for " Sermons in sltivi \« , " ' which Shakespeare probably thought of . ant ! which- ahio-ceeurred to the person advertisiniffor a hmisemsid who under * stands them when in a state of bright . v . -ss . —Hid .
How to rsK Bad Potatoes . —A great-deal has been said and written about what ought to be done with diseased potatoes . In Irelau- ! , at least , they niijjht , though we dare not hope they will , be converted to a verv t i-ci ' ul pm-ptco . Tho rot I en posm-e-is an effective , and at tho ; - ; irae tinia ttota da : itrcroi : s miesiie . and would serve admirably I ' m- pi'iii ? a Rental agitators off their piai forms . This is tho issc which a yood Paddy would make of a good-ibr-no-hiug . Murphy . — Ibid . No Smokiso AttowKj ? . —The Allej & aay .-J . retsicdisfc Cftit ! ci't ' . noo ! aU- ! y W'auHvd "Th .-it . 10-minister shall bo admitted into lhlu Gonfrrcuee w ' m-uyss toWieeo in any of its forms , except as medicin ? , and i ? i that case satisfactory evident * shall be givim ! - '' . Tliss decree will bo likely to taise a smolc .
b : v 7 RAor . m : > A ;; r © emaxh i- 'oij Qj . ii . "Tt 13 a faef , that tiie demand by the printers loriiie little j ' eiter q is so ffivat that the t « pe-f « uni . ; i ? r >; ire doinc i ! i . tU : it ^ f else but casting to ? 'it , > So many wtnim liwe liuu-tl their way in * o prnit , that the- printers liave been thrown out of tWsr cak-ii ! . -ition . % -. : md . tbc supply is not ttilequ .-ito to tlto tlem .-i . -id . if , . t-iert-i-.-w . sreiitlemen happen to fia £ themselves sobbed plava - -Mr . they \ vill know the reason . " T ? rr . Disriii ' AMnue tub Tailcss . —Some . timc-agQ , a-
Fresch tca ' .-her . ;*? -s ) dei ! t . hi t'Sfbrd . -by tl , ! .-name ot Dv . canp , called . t » a Mr . " \ Vhh , £ 5 : nm , a Mierccr . w ! so lived opposite Wnivcrsity CUIege , . f » r .- ! - waistcoat pieeis but eoiiijUnat recollect ? ha j : amc-. « iftise material lie wislitnl ii > r . IIo sa ' : ih « tliou ^' a it . was do English for d « - triable . Jlt-i- . Vi'Jiickii . iKi . mejilJoiK'd tili SOWra ! UaVHSS Of his i :: & : lirj biujlmi ss . ¦ nab : xs Old Nick . Befcfckub , tte . ^ "" 'No . no , i ' ; -w :- . s \ w > . A : \ t , " was-the reply- At length life . Vv- ; tliwisjiit or ' . Patan . " Ob , dat js-v « , t I \ ant , " 3 » id- Ihicaeej . " I waii ; a . saitm vmeoatJT
" Got ) - iisirs . tv . v . Couiacgv . nt-xr . i-l . v . i . Vs-isr . . titk ; Tow . v . "— " !* hi > n 1 thinl-3-of t ; . o ; : ! ri ! is ansa years I . lived in fihOBir ' s-ga i Xl ' . 'iis ^ nuvcr . k ^ iwing whieii side a" tho world t- !« ist « L givt •;•?•*— miveiweeing l ^ sn got " tip , —never hewfog a binliiv . - iii . stl « 'jseepe it > , a cage— . thinking iht-. v was baaUy : ! iiviV . ? iigupiui , ill - earth , but bricknvvx-rs' ; tnd Cii ^ Kiiti . 'rss '^ 'iirk—I iio feel it a . idessing kfciay old age . tiiat 1 ejai . see tli 4 trees ef a . summer lanwiinir vavla $ c • ibon & imo—I /!** . fcei imopywith all -shifflgs , feeiuf- ^ jheni to ' Ho so . bri ^ lst and bt ' autilul , iiTi-u ; briinra'njciwcr wiiSi GtidVl"o « ii : cs !* . " --" That * * true . Jcia ^ vtry tyne , " - ssitl .- St . ( iil-. s ; " and Tm j ; lad to ssa it , . yore look li »*" -py . "— " As a . liuttei % , " " criod Jaw . " A- . ^ l , ] , or , i ;>> v « you 1 . whoa I sometimes think what l . rs hi l . s » ndoii : vli « -n I thiidv » ' the po » r folks teat ' s , theaa . nnw—lie poor > crotuss that ' s as' ^ Ue as ? 4 ' ay-bu ' 's . for a yr-srnr so , and then tv . mblo .. as liv . fjwsay , it- ^ thc muil . and g » b
trod on by any ' iody , tils » lu-y divi- and avt > no moro .. thought on t i » . r » : poii-on ' iisI vat' ;—* . eii , I ; sisfethankful ... iliat I've been . ' aroiigbt . iSst 6 ' . ' . ih « place to feci myscif ,.. its I may say , Mmewiiat cleans- ! - from . Lmiiion ' mad ,, ami my heart . ovoneiiiby-. Th ; : siv . eet ami . § i ; ctty t-iiingai about me . " —r . Amsyon diditt know nathing of gar-., dening , Je ) 3 v > licn : * ou lirsi eame f said St . Giles .. _ ' 1 tell js > u not a bit * Usit vou \ o ao t-hoaght- cn'ii , how soon s ^ ni'itt w ith tho- wsll in , iuni learns , i s . ' ialU never lavsot what Mr . Captk-k sns . 1 to nn \ wk-a v . o ) first eo'iie ,, and 1 didn ' i-Uiiitk Icbukl . tak-a to if ,, ' , Jem , " - says ho to me , 'a garden is a beaalijtvd book-,, writ ^ \> y tlic . finger of God ; uvivy { L ^ wc * a » d every / 1 ka ' . ^ B a letter ; vou ' vo bnlv to learn * c-j «^ -and he ' s at peor dunce that can't , if ho will , do that—ta'Scarm . ' em , and join ' era , and tbcn * jo on resdini , ' and syad ... WI , and you'll fino yoursolf cari-k-d away iVoni thca earth to the skies by . tho beautiful story > ou rc £ o ";< ii »; 1 through . ' "—JcrroliVg ShiVina Magazine ,
"An ' . IIotsi . Oi ; i . 0 ? Joint . —A gentlemaii / ivlio 1-atUI been stoptiiiij ; at an hotel . within a hundred liiiles Oi !! Birkenhead , where during the ten days of liis sojouvni the invariable reply to " John , whiit can I l-. av . o for : dinner ? " was " Very nice chops and steaks , ' i ; h •; ; at length sent for his landlord , aird quts .-tly . tojd Xvm that " his was the stiffesi , hot el he had . c . vrr Ptoprooi at . " "Indeed , sir ! tbd » t * Ti' >{ ,: . s 5 r—hoiOo , ' ' sjr "" " Why , I have been here Iw ' ten'davs ti ' mi Ptu \' lv-. - \ v ' witness « mt there ' s never a joint iii it . " The ' la : U lord vanished .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 22, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22111845/page/3/
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