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Le Morean; its Wild Sports, Vineyards, a...
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Trade and Travels in the Gulph of Guinea...
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The Life of Kossuth, and his Doings in t...
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Escape of an Itaman Refugee to Liverpool...
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" WELCOME KOSSTJTH . " ^ vvdeomB Kossuth ' . " "Tea thousand thousand Par louder than old Ocean s loudest roar , Welcome , while Freedom ' s heart of hearts rejoices , "X adVent to our hospitable shore . Thy auveiH w r Welc 0 BJfi Kossuth 1 " < i -WBlcome , Kossuth I" It rings o ' er the Atlantic , America's free millions catch the strain : ^ ith h « e glee and exultation frantic , i ?« erb it to the Baltic back again . BeverD „ ^ Kossuth !"
Fierce JelUchicb ,. vile Georgey , and flogged * flaynau—To them , and to their tyrant masters pale , It comes as from throat of volcano . Rewafted , thundering back , on every gale ;—" Welcome , Kossuth 1 " All the free spirits of all climes respond it : AU states call'd free—save suicidal France ! Tho" Far-West , " and the Ocean Isles beyond it , Shout , sudden wakened from their long soultrance— " Welcome , Kossuth J " ind thy lov'd country ( how thy name endears ifc To patriot hearts !) which yet thou'lt live to free , With sympathetic gratulation hears it , And clanks her fetters with prophetic glee ! " Welcome , Kossuth !"
For she has steadfast faith in thy returning To lift her from Oppression ' s black abyss : This know her tyrants ; and , ' neath masks of scorning , Tremble , and feel" how awful goodness is !" " Welcome , Kossuth 1 " Welcome to all that hate the fiend , Oppression ; "Welcome to all that lore the angel , Truth ; Welcome to all that feel a degradation In flnngaiy ' s seonrg'd women and crosh'd yOUth— " Welcome , Kossuth I " \ ay , read tbv welcome in the stars that cluster " Around thee as a sun , illustrious guest ! "Victoria ' s crown itself draws a new lustre From this thy stay in progress to the West . " Welcome , Kossuth !" And thou art welcome to the aid * we proffer j
And thou art worthy;—for thou well hast won An immortality with Tell and Hofer , Wallace and Bruce , and glorious Washington . Koble Kossuth ! Sow , peace and joy attend thee to the region Where the free sons and beauteous daughters dwell Of the old Pilgrim Fathers - '—Thy religion _ Be Love , and Truth , aud Goodness still ! Fare" well , Glorions Kossuth ! W . Jokes , Leicester . - Alluding to a public contribution of funds for the cause of Hungary , to be p laced in the hands of Louis KOESUttt OU bis return from America to England . .
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Le Morean; Its Wild Sports, Vineyards, A...
Le Morean ; its Wild Sports , Vineyards , and Forests . B y Henri de Crignellb . Translated by Capt . Jesse . London : Saunders and Otley . Without having a taste for ' Wild Sports ' readers of every class will enjoy this spirited description of a district in France , which presents in perfection all the characteristic features of Forest life . Such a book best speaks for itself ; and we shall , therefore , give a few extracts , illustrative not only of the style of the author , but of the wild region to which it refers : —
Le Jlorvan ia a district of France , in which are included portions of tbe departments of the Kievre and the Tonne , having on the west the vineyards of Burgundy , and on the east the mountains of the Xivemois . Its ancient and picturesque capital , Tezeley , crowns a hill 2 , 000 feet in height , and commands a panoramic view of the country for thirty miles rouud . It has all tbe characteristics of a town of the feudal times , with high embattled and loop-hole ' d walls , numerous towers , and deep and strong gateways , under which are still to be seen the grooves of the portcullis , the warder ' s guard room , and the hooks that supported the heavy drawbridge . * * Le Morvan rears in its sylvan depths a population of hardy and honest men and lovely women , fresh as roses and say as butterflies . There the soft evening breezes
are charged with tbe songs of ten thousand birds , the odours of the eglantine , the lily of the valley , and the violet , which , shaking off its winter slumbers , opens its dark blue eye and combines its perfume wiih that of its snowy companion . Le ilorvan is a country that would delight an Englishman , for it is full of game ; here tho sportsman may vary his pleasures as fancy dictates . The forest abounds with deer—the plain with rabbits and the timid hare—and iu the vineyards , during the merry season of the vintage , the fat red-stockinged and gray-clad partridges are bagged by bushels . Here the sportsman m : « y w . -rtch in the open glades the treacherous wild cat and the bounding roebuck ; and , should these sports appear too tame , he may , if foot and heart are sound , plunge into the dark recesses of the forest in pursuit of the savage and grisly boar , or the fierce and prowling wolf .
The extent ot these ' dark recesses may he judged of from the fact that , notwithstanding the inroads made npon them to supply Paris with fuel , they still cover upwards of 200 , 000
acres . This immense wooded expanse is pierced by a tangled skein of paths , inown only to the hunter and foresters ; and among which , it is easy for the stranger to lose himself—as the following adventure testifies . A Paris student on a visit to his uncle , who resided in a large farm house ia the forest of Erveau , had a strong desire to shoot a cuckoo which he espied on the lofty branches of an ash tree . Accordingly , possessing himself of his uncle ' s gun , — warily and stealthily did the student approach ; bent nearly double , he scarcely drew his breath , as his distance from the tree grew less ; but , says the song of the poacher , — If women smell tricks , cuckoos smell powder . And again , — 'lis a difficult thing to catch woman at fault , More difficult still , an old cuckoo with salt .
Without appearing to do so , from the height of ilia leafy turret , the prudent cuckoo kept a wary eye upon tl . e tortuous movements of his enemy ; but as he saw at a g lance what sort of a customer he had to deal with , he evidently did not feel any ; particular hurry to shift his quarters ; only every time he saw the double barrel moving up to the Parisian ' s shoulder , and that hostilities on his part were about to be opened , be , as if just for fun , dropped his own dear brown self on the branch below him , flapped his wings , and toon perching himself on a tree a little further off , gravely re-opened bis beak and resumed his monotonous chant . The young student , piqued and mortified at this discreet behaviour of the cuckoo , which , like happiness , was alwavs on
the Wing , perseveringly followed the provoking bird —one walked , the other flew , the distance increased at every Bight , and thus they goo over a great deal of ground ; the young man still believing his uncle ' s farm was close behind him—the cuckoo perfectly easy , knowing full well he could find his leaf y home whenever he might please to return to it . So , for the fiftieth time , perhaps , the cuckoo was vanishing in the foliage , when a sudden thought cramped i : ie legs and cut short the obstinate pursuit of the young lawyer ; he then , for the first time , remembered the wholesome advice his uncle had given him on his arrival . "Beware , my fine fellow , beware of going alone in the forest ; for to those who kuownothow to read their way , that is , on the bark of
the trees , the mossy stones , and dry or broken twigs , the forest is full of snares and danger , of deceitful echoes and strange noises , that attract and mislead the inexperienced sportsman . " " By Juno , " thought our hero , " as it is most certain that in Paris they are not yet clever enough to teach us geograpdyon the bark of trees , I am an uncommonly lacky fellow to have just remembered the dear gentleman ' s warning . Hang the infernal cuckoo ! Good morning , sir : my compliments at home . " And then , with the terrible carbine under Ms arm , he retraced his steps , expecting every moment to see peeping through the trees iu front of him his uncle's large white house and lofty dovecote . But , alas ! no such thing met his hungry eyes ; still on he walked , trees after trees were
Passed , glade after glade , and many a long avenue , bnt neither white farm house nor gay green shutters greeted his anxious sight . * * Many a Tow he made and many a blackberry ho pickefl as he walked hither and thither , in every direction . The day wore on , the sun had long " passed the meridian , and with the coming evening rose a gentle breeze , which moaned in the dry ferns ; and this and the rustling of the giant creepers * that reached from tree to tree , and swung between the ranches , fell mournfully On the student ' s ear . A 7 ague fear ,- a fatal presentiment of evil , began to « reep over him ; again he shouted , the echo from a dark wild ravine alone replied ; he fired his gun again and again , the echo alone answered his signal of distress , and nothing could he hear , except at inwmls ; fax far away in the green depths of the .
Le Morean; Its Wild Sports, Vineyards, A...
forest , the notes cuckoo—ouckoo . Faint and weary , from hunger and fatigue , the young man , no longer able to proceed , fell down at the foot of as dreading beach , and gave way to an agony of grief ; drops of cold sweat stood upon his brow ; the clammy feeling of fear took possession of his heart ; and though , perhaps , he would have had no objection to try the fortune of the pistol or the sword , in any college broil or senseless riot of tbe populace , the circumstances under which he then stood were so new to him , that he was quite unmanned and incapable of further exertion . In blood-red streaks sank the setting sun , his large tyellow orb glancing through the . trees like the
dimmed eye of some giant ogre ; twilight came , and soon after every valley lay in shadow ; the breeze , as if waking from its gentle slumbers , whistled in the highest branches , and , increasing in force , rocked the lower limbs , which moaned mournfully as the night closed in . Hungry and alarmed , and now quite worn out with his lengthened walk , the young Parisian lay stretched on the moss , listening with painful anxiety to this melancholy conversation of the woods , when , suddenly , and as night fell , spreading over the earth her sable wings , and shaking from the folds of her robe the luminous legions of stars , he heard a prolonged and sonorous howl in the distance—a strolling wolf ,
Cruel as death ! and hungry as the grave t Burning for blood ! bony and gaunt and grim , had scented the Parisian , and was inviting his good friends with tho long teeth , to come and sup on the dainty morsel . Touched as if by a hot iron , up got the terrified youth , and striking his ten nails into the friendly tree near him like an Indian monkey , he was in an instant many feet above its base . Here , astride upon a branch , shivering and shaking , each hair on end , and murmuring many a Pater and Ave Maria , unsaid for years , he passed the most horrific night that any citizen of the department of the Seine had ever been known to spend in the middle of the forest of Erveau . The following mornimr , bat not until the sun had already run
nearly half his course , for he never dared to leave his timber observatory before , le pauvre diable dropped down from his perch like an acorn ; aud , marching off with weary steps , and scarcely a hope that ere another night fell he should gain the shelter of some cottage , ho dragged himself along . On he rolled from side to side , torn with the thorns and bitten by the gnats that swarmed around him , sometimes calling npon his mother , sometimes upon the saints , when a wood-cutter happily met him , and seeing his exhausted condition , threw the slim student over his shoulders like a bundle of straw , and carried him to a neig hbouring village . There , he was put to bed and attended with every care ,
when he soon recovered , and received the charming inttlligence that be was about forty miles from his uncle ' s bouse—that be had been wandering for that distance in the most beautiful part of the forest of Ervean—and that if by any chance he had deviated a little more to the right in his unpleasant steeple-chase across the woods , he would have gone , in a straight line , eighty-six miles without meeting house or cottage or human soul until he found himself at the gates of Dijon , chief town of the COte-d'Or , where he might and would , no doubt , have been able to refresh himself with a bottle of Beaune and inspect the Gothic tombs of the great Dukes of Burgandy .
It is well to know that should such a calamity as is here recorded befall the tourist , he may meet with assistance from the Cures whose habitations dot the district of Le Marvan adjoining Burgundy . Here is a description of the animals which frequent these lonel y woods ; that seems more like a picture of the interior of Africa , than a portion of a thickly [ populated country like France . In the violent heats of July and August , when the sun burns up the herbage—when the wind as it passes parrchesthe skin , and the sultry air scarcely allows the lungs to play—when the earth is quite dried up—the hot blooded animals , whose
circulation is rapid , remain completely overpowered with the heat in their retreats all day ,-either stretched panting on the leaves , or lurking in the shade of some rock ; bnt tbe moment tbe sun , in amber clouds , sinks below the horizon , and twilight brings in bis train the dark hours of night , and its humid vapours , the boasts of the forest are in movement , again their ravenous appetite returns , and they lose no time in ranging the woods , seekinghow and where they may gratify it . Then it is these large Mares , silent as a woman that listens at a key-hole—silent as a catacomb , —is all at once endowed with life , is filled with strange noises , like an aviary , and becomes as night falls , a common centre to which the hungry and thirsty cavalcade direct their steps .
The first arrivals are hundreds of birds , of every size and colour , who come to gossip , to bathe , to drink , and splash the water with their wings . Next come troops of hares and rabbits , who conic to nibble the fresh grass that grows there in great luxuriance . As the shades grow deeper , groups of the graceful roebuck , timid , and listening for anticipated danger , their large open eyes gazing at each tree , giving an inquiring look at every shadow , are seen approaching with noiseless footsteps ; when reassured by their careful reconaissance , they steal forward , cropping the dewy rich flowers as they come , and at last slake their thirst in the refreshing waters . At this instant you may , if you are fatigued , and so desire it , finish your day ' s
sport . You may bring down the nearest buck ; and as then the ' troop ^ wild with affri ght , make for tbe forest , the second barrel will add a fellow to your first victim . But no ! pull not the trigger ; stop , if only to witness what follows . See the roebuck prick their ears ; they turn to the wind ; they appear uneasy ; call one to the other , assemble ; danger is near—they feel it , hear it coming ; they would fly , but find it is too late : terrified , they are chained to the spot . For the last half hour the wolves and wolverines , which followed gently and at a distance their own more rapid movements , have closed in upon them from behind—have formed the fatal circle—have noiselessly decreased it as much as possible—and at length come swiftly down upon
the helpless creatures . Each seizes his victim by the throat—the tranquil spot is ere long full of blood and carnage , and the echoes of the forest are awakened to the hellish yells of the savage brutes that thus devour their prey . The cries of agony , of death , and victory , sometimes last for a quarter of an hour , and during the fifteen minutes that you are watching the scene from your hat , you may fancy the teeth of these brutes are meeting in your own flesh , and feel a cold paw with claws of steel deep in your back or head . The slaughter over , these monsters pass like a flight of demons across the turf , vanish , —and again all is silent . And when the tenth chime of the distant village clock is floating on the breeze , though it reaches not your cabin—when the falling dew , now almost a
shower , has bathed the leaves , with rain chilling their fibres—when the blue-bells and the' foxgloves and all the wood-flowers rest upon their stemswhen the songsters of tbe grove , with heads comfortibly tucked under their warm wings , sleep soundly in their nests , or in the angles of the branches—when the young fawns , lost in some wild ravine , bleat for their mothers whom they never will see more ; and the gorged wolves , their muzzles red with blood , are ^ stretched snoring in their dens and lurking-places , —then it is the heavy boars , shaking off their . laziness , ^ leaving their sombre retreats , take to the open country , and trotting , grunting , and with hesitating footstep ? , come and plunge their awkward and heavy bodies in the marshy waters , and wallow in the soft mud .
A considerable portion of M . de CrigneUe'a book is occupied by a description of the various methods employed to destroy the wolves which yet infest the forests of Central France in almost undiminished numbers . This animal , alike dreaded and hated by hoth peasant and sportsman—for he is the uncompromising enemy of everything else that has life—is hunted and destroyed in every possible manner . Battues , however , which occur twice a year , are the most efficient exterminators of
this terrible pest , and these are looked forward to with great pleasure by the peasantry . Bloodhounds , bred expressly f or the purpose , are employed with great success to run down wolves , and powerful traps , called ' trequenards , ' are set in parts of the forest frequented by them . As it is important that these engines should be concealed , their locality is indicated to the peasants by well-known signals which are placed in their vicinity . But though every precaution is adopted to guard against accidents , terrible catastrophes sometimes occur .
Trade And Travels In The Gulph Of Guinea...
Trade and Travels in the Gulph of Guinea , Western dfricai will an Account of the Manners , Habits , Customs , and Religion of the Inhabitants . By J . Smith . London : Simpkin and Co . The author ' having made several voyages to Western Africa , in the double capacity of surgeon and trading-captain ( as the Africans st yle the agents ofJGuropean merchants ) to oneof the first mercantile houses in England , —and having been repeatedly brought in contact with a great number of the inhabitants on several occasions for many consecutive months , has acquired , ' he thinks / ' some information , and witnessed some extraordinary scenes , ' worthy of being related to the English public .
Trade And Travels In The Gulph Of Guinea...
The volume is full of interesting matter , and tells more about the natives of Western Africa than many books of larger dimensions and greater literary endeavours . The following is an interesting sketch of the manner in which trade is carried on between Furopean ships and the Negroes of the African coast . It certainly puts the Negroes in a more respectable li ght as ' smart' mercantile men than we had seen them ever represented inbsfore : — Few things astonish a white man so much on a first visit to this place , on a trading expedition , as the amount of goods solicited by and intrusted to this people . With the utmost confidence a fellow nearly naked will ask you for three or four , or even five thousand pounds' worth of goods on credit , and individuals are often trusted to that amount . I have trusted more than one man
goods , the returns of which were worth between two and three thousand pounds . Not one in ten , however , that asks for trust is worthy of credit to the . amount of so many farthings . Some few of tbe chiefs are really splendid merchants . Hard in making their bargains , but strict in their payments , they approach very near in their commercial transactions to their brethren of Europe and the civilised parts of Asia and America . And they go about their business in a business-like manner . "Capt . A or B , " a chief will say , " 1 want some trust . ' ' If you know that in the com . mercial sense of the word your customer is a good man , you will perhaps ask him when he means to pay you for any goods he may purchase , and what
are his resources ; and he is sure to preface anything he may have to say by asking , if he has not a good head and knows how to turn any goods with which you may entrust him to good account ; and if he has not a good name among white men , and if he does not aways meet his payments . Having admitted all that he says of himself to be true , he will inform you that he has so many canoes and so many slaves to man them , that he has several clever slaves to take command of the canoes and trade the goods in the interior , and that the only thing he wants is money ( goods ) to send to market . Trusting to any great amount , or even at all , depends entirely upon circumstances . If a trader have a good name and a large house
that is , numerous wives and slaves—pretty good criteria of his wealth—he may be trusted . But some of the young aspirants , to commercial fame may as safely be trusted as great chiefs . To acquire wealth , he knows ho must cultivate a good name , which makes him attentive to business and prompt in his payments . These men are easier to treat with than the wealthier merchants . * * Everything being prepared for the reception of goods , trade commences , every one being anxious to obtain goods on credit . If it be the first time you trade a ship , the chiefs and small traders approach the subject cautiously . They will apprise you of their great wealth and importance and the large amount of business they did when you were
captain , surgeon , or clerk of such and such a ship ; how well they paid their debts without detaining the ship a single day—the rascals perhaps never paid at all—what very good friends you used to be ; perhaps ask how the parrot or monkey is they presented to you on a previous voyage ; insinuate that they knew you would bring a ship to trade that voyage , you are such a clever fellow , and " savoy black man's fashion , and have told their women and boys so . " After a long palaver to this effect , they ask you to trust them ; if you hesitate they feel certain of success , and ask for a large amount , four times more than they know you will let them have , supposing that after asking so large an amount you will never refuse them a
considerable quantity . The goods being examined , a bargain struck , and a book signed to the effect that if you are not paid by a certain time they shall make certain forfeits , and thegoodsbeing paid to them , they go away in great glee to spend the evening in jollification . The staple articles of trade are Manchester cottons , guns , gun powder , tobacco , ru m , and cowries ; and besides these there are numerousotherartioles of commerce taken out , of less importance , as iron bars , copper and bar rods , beads , knives , hatchets , soap , earthenware , crystal , Jars , iron pots , horns , pearl buttons , silk handkerchiefs , & o „ & c . * * When you have sold all the goods that remained after giving trust , you send up the lofty masts of the ship that were lowered after mooring , as a
signal that you have done trading , and are now waiting for tbe returns for your trust ; and this is the time that your real trouble commences . Some of the people that made such splendid promises of trading with you when you first entered the river , have never been near your ship since they were trusted , bnt have been trading with other ships on ready money terms with your goods . This is exceedingly vexatious ; by giving credit , you perhaps lose a good customer , and run tbe risk of losing your goods into the bargain , or ;< t least of being put 10 great trouble and anxiety , and if you do not give credit , the great merchants will do no business with you . Your best friends now leave off trading with other ships , and send you the oil as it comes down
fromEboe , Quaw , dsc . If any to whom you have given trust be trading with other ships , with your goods , in order to turn the capital over as often as possible , or their canoes have been detained at the various oil markets , the work of dunning commences in earnest , and to convince them that you are really in earnest , you perhaps visit them three times a day ; your errand , if not always alluded to , is perfectly understood . * ' What come again , caplain , " a trader has said to me the third visit , " that time it be cockerap- ak , I took your face ; that time sun stand for top ( noon ) , I look your face : and now that time man wants to go moona , ( sleep ) , I look your face again ; what palaver this be ? "— " Trust , my friend , I want my money . What think you tell me that time vou get my money ? You no tell me
I cannot stand ( wait ) one day for your side , ( on your account ) and don't you see what way my ship masts stand , and by-and-by my people must cry for chop . " If they promise to pay you on a certain day , you may generally depend upon them . If you are very much tried , you sometimes lose or affect to lose all patience , and call them ugly names , as niggers , bushmen , & c , and threaten to " make book , " and send it to all the white men to inform them that they are rogues and not to be trusted , and to tell the merchants in England to caution their agents against having anything to do with them . If they have the means of paying , this sort of language will generally have tho desired effect , but you , like themselves , must study the characters you have to deal with , and treat them accordingly .
In Africa—as in places nearer home—the priests are found to be the greatest obstacles to progress ; Mr . Smith says , ' Another great difficulty in the way of acquiring or imparting information , or of inducing them to adopt our more civilised customs , is the almost unbounded influence of the priesthood , who exercise the power of lite and death to a fearful extent . For a very trifling infringement of their ecclesiastical laws ( which are so blended with civil laws , that it is an easy matter to find occasion of offence ) , a chief is ordered to proceed some four or five months ' journey , thither and back ; into the interior , to consult the Grand Ju-ju , as he is called , to the chief's great hindrance to business , and at no trifling
expense and trouble . And what is worse than all , should he not come down with a handsome douceur in tbe shape of English goods to both the priests at home and tbe Grand Ju-ju in the interior , he need never expect to find his way home , again . Innovation is dreaded by the priests . They have wit enough to know that if a slight advancement only iu civilisation were made , ft , would . i & yMly progress , and their priestly power and arrogance would speedily be thrown off . I will just relate a little circumstance iu illustration of their disinclination to adopt European customs . Observing a large guana crawl out of a hole in the mud floor of a
king ' s sitting-room , while conversing with him about a dash or present I was to take him next voyage , I offered to bring him a quantity of flags , or bricks , to lay the floor . He seemed pleased with the proposal , and after musing a short time , replied , he would consult the priest and tell me the result . On calling next day he informed me that Ju-ju would not allow it . This is a small matter in itself , but sufficiently indicative of the power the priests exercise over even their kings . Being subject to rheumatism , he is very kindly penniued to use a piece of hoard as a footstool , to protect him from the damp , during the rainy season .
The following is a negro account of tho creation of man , and the origin of blacks and whites , which is just as credible as other myths held in . high respect by more civilieed
races : — At the factor } of an English trader , a mafoukamachanga-man , a superior order of mag istrate , joined us at the breakfast table , of whom I learnt now the cock fell into sad disgrace , by occasioning one half of the inhabitants of the world to be p laok , while the other hall is white . The con versation on this subject was in substance as follows— " What will you take mafouka-maclianga ; here ' s fish , fowl , and goat , cassavi . anil brciid ; sweet tonibo , coffee , aud rum-and-water . " — "Part a part , " {« . liKhJ Of each , ) " but what kind of fowl that a be , a cock or a hen ?"— " I don ' t know ; it makes no matter , I
suppose . "— " Oh , but it makes a great deal of matter , —if he be a cock , I cannot eat him . "— " Why eo ?" — " Because them cock be d rascal . "— " How is this—what harm has he done you 1 " — " A great deal of harm , the rascal ; had it not been for him , I should have been white man , all same yourself . "" What has the cock to do with jour being a black man ?"— "Everything . "— " Come , tell us all about it . "—• ' Well , I must . You see , when God Almighty first made man , he had only one day to make them in . He began early one morning , and worke d hard all day , very hard , for he wanted to make a great
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many , ^ hen was close for night , ho ordered them all to stand up in " a row , that he might see how they looked . Well , he examined them all over , and thought they would do very well , as far as shape went ; but be had made them all Mack , and bethought they would look better if they were wiute ; so ho turned to to white-wash them , and white-washed yery hard all night that he might get them finished before the time he was limited to had expired Well , when he had got just half through nis work , the cock crew , and it was morniner . so he
was obliged to leave the rest unwhite-washed . If it had not been for him , God would have finished them , and every man would be white . This is the reason why one half of tlie world be white men , and the other half black men , and why I cannot eat h * "t 7 ZT ras < > al that would not wait till God had finished ! ( Early morn is expressed all over this coast by cockerapeak , ( the cock speaks , ) and it is the hour of rising . ) The mafouka-mnchaDga cooled his ire with half a tumbler of raw rum ; and the cook being sent for , who assured us it was a hen , he made a hearty breakfast on fowl and the other good things without more ado .
The Life Of Kossuth, And His Doings In T...
The Life of Kossuth , and his Doings in the Hungarian W & r . Collected by a Hungarian . London : Donaldson . At a time when public attention is so generall y turned to the illustrious Magyar Patriot , this cheap and clever summary of the leading events of his careerj will be found of use by those whose purses do not enable them to command ampler but hi g her priced works ,
Escape Of An Itaman Refugee To Liverpool...
Escape of an Itaman Refugee to Liverpool — By the screw steamer Arno , which arrived at this port from Italy hst week , we had transported to our shores an interesting refugee , in the shape of a ; mere boy , sixteen years of age , whose name , for obvious reasons , we are not permitted to mention , who had literally to " run his country to save his neck . " Half an hour before the Arno left Leghorn he was brought on board concealed in a sack , and placed for safety among the provisions in the lazaret ; The person in charge of " the parcel " paid its passage money to England , and thus far was all Captain Haram knew about the matter at the time . On getting clear of the port , however , it turned out that " the sack , " like many of those dropped in the Bosphorous , contained a living freight ; and a dark eyed boy made his appearance to claim the protection of the commander of the vessel . His only credentials were an appeal to the
sympathies of human nature in assisting a fellowcreature in distress , and a letter of introduction to Messrs . M'Kean , M « L * rty , and Co ., of this town , It appears that this young gentleman , and a number of other precocious spirits , had formed themselves into a secret society or club , for the printing and circulating of religious and political works , among which the distribution of the Bible and pamphlets on tbe " freedom of Italy" formed a prominent part . The authorities having got wind of their proceedings , several of the members were arrested and summarily shot ; and to escape a similar fate , our hero was embarked on board the Arno . His parents knew nothing of his connexion with the affair , until startled by the appearance of the soldiers to demand the person of their son ; and for a couple of days previous to the Arno ' s arrival at Leghorn , he had been removed from house to house in the suburbs of the city to escape detection .
Machinery for Cooperage . —A novel method of constructing casks and barrels , and all vessels connected with cooperage , may be seen in operation at the Patent Cooperage Works , in Wenlock-road , City-road . By the employment of the steam engine the circular saw and a recently invented jointing and backing machine , a cask of the largest dimensions can be completely formed and made ready for use in the short space of five minutes from the raw material—viz ., a piece of oak . The staves of the cask are first cut with straight sides , the circular saw being placed at a right angle with the oak plank . The stave is then placed horizontally , and bent into a curve by a powerful machine , and brought into contact with a circular saw on each side of it , placed at an angle . This process gives the
proper shape to the stave , the sides being gradually tapered at the ends and made to bulge in the middle . The jointing and backing machine , the new invention , is also used for this purpose , and is more rapid in its execution than the angular saws—it in fact works with the most marvellous rapidity and precision . The staves and one end of the cask are then placed in a machine formed of iron rods , called a trussing machine , each rod acts upon a separate stave , and the whole of the staves being equally compressed into a circle , the hoops are placed around them , and the cask is complete . The neatness and finish of the work is equal to what a good cabinet maker can produce , every part being true
and accurate . The calculation is that fifteen workmen with the use of this machinery can make 150 casks a day , whereas the same number of persons using only manual labour , could scarcely produce a seventh part of that number . The importance of the invention , and the application of steam power to it , may be imagined from the fact that the great brewing firms of the metropolis alone expend many thousand pounds annually in cooperage , that the expenditure of the navy is still greater , and that the demand of the vintages of the continent is so great that a great deal of wine is lost from the difficulty of furnishing vessels to hold it , The process of this invention will repay the time of a visit to the works .
Prkpatmknt op Letters . —The following has been issued from"the General Post-office : —Notice to the Public . —On and from the first of November next , all letters or packets posted at any provincial post-offices for places within the United Kingdom , must either be prepaid by stamps , or be sent unpaid , as money prepayment for inland letters will no longer be permitted at any such office . " The introduction of the universal prepayment of letter postage by stamps will then be complete , with these exceptions : viz . —that money {[ prepayments of postage on inland letters will still be allowed in London ; that unpaid letters will be paid through the post ; and that money prepayments of foreign postage will be permitted .
The Sfarquis of Granby has come to the rescue or resurrection of Protection . At an agricultural dinner at Waltham on the Wold , the noble heir of Belvoir maile himself very merry with the •« Times , " the " p ;) or ' Spectator , '" Mr . Wakley and his inquest on Protection , & o . He did not believe Mr . Disraeli had given it up , and he was sure a general election would restore it to the statute-book . Increase in the Liverpool Customs Receipts . —For the quarter just ended , there has been an increase in the Customs receipts at Liverpool of upwards of £ 58 , 000 on the corresponding quarter of 1850 ; that lor the present year having reached £ 1 , 013 , 361 . This improvement bears a remarkably large proportion of that for the kingdom generally , which is only £ 83 , 190 ; so that the increase at all the other ports together amounts to little more than £ 25000 .
, Loss or as American Steam Ship by Fire . — The steam ship La Payette was entirely destroyed by fire , while lying at Ohagres , on the 11 th of September , The passengers and crew were all saved ; part of the freight was lost . She had arrived there a lew days previous , and had taken mi board a lew passengers to return , some of whom , such was the rapidity with which the flames spread , saved nothing but the clothes « n their backs . The La Fayette was under the command of Captain Stoddard , and was a new ship . She had only made a voyage to Europe previous to going to Chagres .
Dr . Ci-akkb and his Wife . —All conference business is not allowed to transpire before the public ; and had not the question just expatiated on not been a public one , it would have been sooner and more summarily dismissed . At the conference to which reference is now made , a subject was about to be introduced , which the preachers were not to disclose even to their wives . Dr . Clarke , who was seated in one of tho front seats on the floor of the chapel , partially sheltered from the eye of the president , was in the act of slipping out unperceived , when a voice was heard , " Dr . Clarke is about to leave the conference , Mr , President . ' ' —President ; " You muse not go out , Dr . Clarke . " —Dr . Clarke : "Imust , Sir . "—President : " You must not , Dr . Clarke . "—Dr . C .: " I will , Sir . "—
President ( more peremptorily ) : " You must not . —Dr . C .: "You state , sir , that we are not to tell our wires the subject that is about to be brought forward ; I want to hear nothing that I cannot tell my wife ; I tell her everything . Those who have talkative wives may refrain from telling them ; but mine is not such ' ; what is deposited with her is kept safely . "—President : " Yery good , doctor , you m-iy stop , ' ' as jour wife can Keep a secret . " The question was not so much one of delicacy as one respecting which it was necessary to guard ngitinst premature disclosure ; and subjects frequently escape from a second person tlioughtleasly , when out of the pale of the first interdict , as though the responsibility rested solely with the first hearer . —Rev . James Jslveretl .
lhe " Connaught Watchman" says that at a concert given at B ; illiiml < jfc list fieek vlvmwg the fair , a Roman Catholic clergyman having refused to take off his hat during tho performance of the National Anthem , was hooted out of the room . A Floating Theatre . —Spaulding , tho circus proprietor , is about building in Cincinnati a monster floating palace , ' for theatrical , circus , and menagerie performances . It is to he 400 feet long , witli sixty feet beam , and is to accommodate 4 , 000 spectators . It is to be towed by two steam tenders to the various towns upon tho " Mississippi and its tributaries , in summer , and to be moored at the levee in Jfew Orleans in the winter . It is estimated to cost 40 , 000 dollars , and will bo completed next spring , —Montreal Courier .
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The CavsTAL Palxci > . —A dissenting friend of ours calls the Crystal Palace " the Meeting House " tor alt naMons . —The Month . Cos . —What is the difference between a Puseyite and a Baptist?—One uses wax candies , and the other dips . —The Month . . Emigration . —On the 15 th of September there arrived in New York no fewer than 3 , 890 emigrants , of whom 2 , 452 were from Liverpool . Servants . —Make not a servant a confident ; for if he finds out that you dare not displease him , he will dare to displease you . Superstition . —A Dorsetshire matron always cuts her children ' s nails so that the parings fall on the Bible ; because then " they will never steal I "
Irish WaIachite . —Specimens of malachite have lately been brought from copper mines in the coun ' . v of Cork , equal in beauty to that found in Russia , Very Consolatory . — " I feel , " said an old ladv , "that Tvegot about through with this world . ' I shan t enjoy much more trouble , nor suffer much more comfort . " Goon cotton , it is said , can be grown on the African coast ; six bags were last week shown at Manchester , which were forwarded as samples fron > Liberia . An Orthodox Clerical Topbh . —Fielding mentions a clergyman who preferred punch to wine , for this orthodox reason , that the former was a liquor nowhere spoken against in Scripture I Ya . nkeb-Doodle-do . — An American paper remarks , since the late triumphs of the Yankees in steaming , sailing , & c ., " Yankee-Doodle-do" should be changed in England to " Yankee-Do 6 dle-2 ) M . "
Goon AnvicE . —A young student at a veterinary college , being asked , " If a broken-winded horse were brought to him for cure , what he would advise . ' promptly replied , "To sell lllQl BS S 00 U 88 possible . " Pi . EASUltB . ~ 'Whenever we drink too deeply of pleasure we find a sediment at the bottom which pollutes and embitters what we relished at first . A Dbsibahle Debtor . — "Mr . Brown , 1 owe you a grudge ; remember that !"— "I shall not be frightened , then ; for I neyer knew you to pay anything that you owed . " Ridiculous . —We are never ridiculous when we act as nature dictates ; when we assume what she never gave ng , we at once become ridiculous . A Daring Box . — "Oh ! my dear , how came you so wet ? " inquired an affectionate mother of her son . —" Why , mar , one of the boys said I daren't jump into the creek , and , by gosh , I tell you I ain't to be dared . "
Bens are not confined , to Ireland . There is a perpetual advertisement in the London papers of " unmarketable shares , " every description of which the advertiser states " he continues to 6 ui > and sell ! ' ' Punctilious . —A man in Lowndes County , Alabama , having published another as " a liar , a scoundrel , and a poltroun , " the latter complains that he does not spell poltroon correctly ! Another Phase of Church op Englandism . —An Oxford graduate double classman , and late University scholar , advertising for a curacy , says he has a knowledge of music , a good voice , and that his views are " Hookerian . " ; What is InLENsss?—A public mint , where various kinds of mischief ar . e coined , and extensively circulated among the most despicable of the human race .
Peat Compant . —The great Peat-working Company of Ireland has commenced vigorous operations at Cahirciveen , near Valencia Harbour , and has been for several weeks affording employment to from 4 , 00 to 600 of the peasantry of that district . A SwiNMiER at Glasgow has been in the habit of buying rotten eggs , on pretence of making blacking with them ; by a chemical preparation be made them look good , and sold them for eating . He has been fined £ 10 for the disgusting cheat . Artfcl Thieves . —Two lads entered a retail shop in Bradford , and stated that they had dropped a penny down the cellar grate . The good-natured shopkeeper descended in search of the coin , and in the meantime the juveniles decamped with the till .
Very Affectionate . — "Weel , Sandy , " said a neighbour , the other day , to a little boy in the South of Fife , whose mother had been seriously indisposed , " Hoo is yourmither the day ?"—" Deed , I dinna ken verra weel hoc she U" replied Sandy , scratching his head ; " but the coo ' s ta ' en ill—that ' s war nor my mither . " Emigration from Ireland . — The intelligence from the western counties of Ireland respecting the thinning of the population , by the wholesale flight of the cultivators of the soil , is found to be substantially correct . It is evident that the emigration of the Irish people to America must speedily terminate in the utter annihilation of the Celtic race .
Speculators generally die poor . If they make one thousand pounds to-day on a coal mine , they must try and make two thousand to-morrow , by dabbling in the Do- 'Em-Brown railroad . Like the boy who undertook to steal preserves through a knot hole , they get their hands so full of sweets that they can't pull them back again . Female Railway . Passengers . — The Great Northern Cmnpany have put up a notice at their stations , informing females that the servants are ready to secure all classes of female passengers seats in carriages in which other females arc travelling . The ladles are also informed , that upon appealing to the guard at any station at which a train may stop , it is the duty of the guard to place them where they will be free from annoyance . Reverend "Sons of Guns . "—In the game list for the county of York we find the names of forty '' Reverend" sportsmen : —
Let Mother Church this comfort take , While everywhere dissent increases ; The conons though her sons forsake , They rally with their fowling pieces . Sale of Poison . —The first prosecution under lhe new Act for regulating the Sale of Poison lias taken place at the petty sessions for Accrington , when a druggist was fined in the mitigated penalty of five pounds , for having sold to a young woman , not of full age , two ounces of arsenic before it was mixed with indigo or seot , as required by the law . The poor girl , it appeared , said , when applyiug for the arsenic , that her mother it wanted to destroy rats ; but she took it herself , and died in consequence .
Mowing Machine . —Mr . Morgan But / cr , of New Hartford , Oneida county , informs us fiat he has used Ketchum ' s mowing machine for two seasons , and can cut with it an acre of grass per hour , with one pair of horses ; that it cuts " as smooth as any farmer could wish ; " leaves the grass spread evenly over the ground ; that it will cut lodged grass , and that which is fine at bottom . He states that it is manufactured by G . W . Allun and Co ,, Buffalo . Price from 100 dollars to 115 dollars . —American Cultivator .
An 0 » m 5 S . —Among the peculiarities of Cavendish , the celebrated chemist and natural philosopher , was his excessive dislike of women . On the authority of an old inhabitant of Clapham , it is stated that Cavendish would never see a female servant , and if an unfortunate maid ever showed herself she was instantly dismissed . He was in the habit of ordering his dinner daily by a note , which he left on the hall table , whence the housekeeper was to take it ; and such was his horror of the sex that , having one day met a maid servant on the stairs with a broom and a pail , he immediately ordered a back staircase to be built .
A Bit of Advice . —Never make a " poor mouth ;" but if you are wise , you will always affect independence , though you may be as poor as Job ' s turkey . If you are poor ; don ' t let folks know it , as they will discover in you a thousand blemishes—a host of defects which would never be discovered—or at least never talked about—if you kept a stiff upper lift , and carried yourself , as if you had ten thousand dollars , inst-ad of but ten cents , at your command . It is as natural for the world to hold poor folks in contempt an it is for cats to steal cheese . —American Paper ,
Coleridge on Horseback , —C leridge was a remarkably awkward horseman , so much so as generally to attract notice . lie was once riding along the turnpike-road in the county of Durham , when a wag , approaching him , noticed his peculiarity , aud ( quite mistaking his man ) thought the rider a fine subject for a little sport , when , as he drew near , he thus accosted Mr . C . — " I say , young man , did you meet a tailor on the road ?"— "Yes , " replied Mr . C „ who was never at a loss for a rejoinder , "I did ; and lie told me , if I went a little further , I should meet a goose ' . " The assailant was struck dumb , while the traveller jogged on . —Dr . Chalmer ' s Life .
The Dkath of a Wife . — "The death of a man ' s wife , " says Lansartine , " is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion . Henceforth tbe glare of the world , with its cares and vicissitudes , falls upon the old widower ' s heart ; and there is nothing to break their force , or shield him from the full weight of misforture . It is ts if his right hand were withered ; as if one wing t > f his angel was broken , and every movement that he made brought him to the ground . His eyes are dimmed and glassy , and when the film of death falls over them , he misses those accustomed tones which would have smoothed his passage to the grave . "
American Description of a Teetotaller . —I once travelled through all the State of Maine with one of them ' ere chaps . He was as thin as a whippin ' -post . His skin looked like a brown bladdur after some of the air was leaked out , kinder wrinkled and ruinpled-like , and aa dim as a lamjj that ' s living on a short allowance ofile . He put me in mind of a pair of kitchen tongs , all legs , shaft , head , and no belly ; real gander-gutted looking critter , as hollow as a bamboo walking cane , and twice as yaller . He looked actually as if ho had been pitched off a rack at sea , and dragged through a gimlet-hole . He was a lawyer . Thinks I , the Lord a massy on your clients , you hungry half-starved-looking critter , you , you ' ll eat ' em up auve . You are just the chap to strain at a enat and swallow a camel , tank , shank , and flank all -it a gulp . '
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Wreck of a French Corvette . —Intelligence has reached us , by the overland mail , of the wreck of a hue frigute of war belonging to the French Republic , called the Alcmene , mounting thirty-six guns , commanded by M . Le Compte d'Harcourt , on the west coast of Sydney , New South Wales . Towards the latter end of June she proceeded on a vovage from Hobart lown , and on tbe 3 rdof July , when between luapara Head and Hnckianga Head , she was driven ashore on a formidable ridge of < -and . AU exertions proved fruitless i » getting her off . Nearly the whole of the crew succeeded in reaching the coast , but unhappily all were not preserved , between twelve and fifteen poor fellows having perished in tryingto reach , tho beach . Several of the officers and men , after obtaining aid , pushed their way on to Auckland , and having informed the governor of the lamentable event , his excellency instantly adopted the most prompt measures to afford them assistance . The tosa of the Instate will reach to upwards of £ 30 , 000 .
The " Cologne Gazette" says : —" The Russian , government have made war against beards . Very few are now seen at . Warsaw , but there are still a great number in the provinces . It is said that travellers with beards who arrive at the gates of Warsaw are immediately turned over to military barbers , who cut > tf their beards . "
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RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY and VERUASEUTLY Cl / itEO WITHOUT A TRUSS !_ Da . GUTHRBY fctill continues to supply the afflicted with his celebrated remedy for this alarming complaint , iv ich has never failed in effecting a perfect cure . It is applicable to every variety of Single and Double Rupture , in male or female of any age , however bad or long standing ; is easy and painless in application , causing no incunvenienca or conlinement , < tc . ; and will be sent free by post to any part of tttc Kingdom With lull instructions , rendering tailurc impossible , on r . eoipt of seven shillings in postage stamps , or by post-office order , pajable at the Genersk l ' uxt-ollice . Address , Henry Guthrey , M . D ., 14 , Hand court . Holborn London . A great number of old Trusses and Testimonials have been left behind by persons cured , as trophies of the success of his remedy , which may be scon by any suf . ferer . 1 1 aui thankful for my restoration to health and comfort , by your beautiful cure of my Double Rupture . '—Mrs . Barrett .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 25, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_25101851/page/3/
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