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And lost tne dangerous , Tbe conqu e ^ in S agshaUc ^ OWntlleW ' Ille 3 t 8 teep The miguty miaia ° * oU With step serene and bold , idtanc'd , though all the world fa scorn derided ; Without * doubt or fear , Unheeding danger near , Tbey to the power of Truth their cause confided . With wonder and with awe . The heaven-born things they saw , Throug h years of toil , and oft through life , they gain'd ; And woke ihe dreaming world , In deadly slumber curl'd , To purge each thought and hope by error stain'd .
The paths before unknown , Which oft they trod alone , ¦ Re in admiring crowds may press to see ; Yet as we wond ' ring gaze On once untrodden ways , Content to live in sloth we may not he . For yet the mountain-height Its crest above our sight Rears up , while myst ' ries strange are aid between ; Wo too must higher climb , - Or truths still more sublime Than those out fathers * won wHl lie unseen .
Then gird the loins , and toil To break the rocky soil , And pierce through aU that bars our upward way ; Let wisdom lead the van , "While faith recounts to man That , oncebeyond the mists , there shines a cloudless day . And when the height we gain , And doubts no more remain , Each shall review with joy the paths he trod ; And we too shall behold , Like Moses as of old , High on a holier mount , the face of God I
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Quakerism; Ort The Story Of My Iafe. By ...
Quakerism ; ort the Story of my iAfe . By a Lady , who for Forty Years was a Member of the Society of Friends . Dublin : Oldham . The student of manners , as influenced by opinions , will find some quaint specimens of behaviour recorded from life in these pages . Ihe following general remark , however , merits emphatic extract : —
It is really a very difficult thing for a Quaker to be consistent with his own principles ; and even the most rurid are often found swallowing them wholetile . For instance , the vain adorning of the person wth dress , "jewellery , and gold . He considers it a tin to indulge in those things , and yet in bis shop he sells them . He makes his money hy providing for tbe sins of his fellow-Christians . He deems it a right thing to wear a broad brim to his hat , but he bas no scruple about making and selling hats of a
fashionable form for his fellow Christians ^ to wear . He would not be so wicked as to dress his servant up in livery , with a gold hand , & c , bnt in tbe way of business he will do it for another . If the " peculiarities " are essential'to the salvation of a Quaker , are they not also essential for all Christians ? Can it be that" Friends " sell and deal in those forbidden things , because they think " the people of the world "nave no chance of salvation at all , and that , therefore , it signifies but little what they indulge in , so that Friends profit by it ?
In the above passage is stated the cardinal difficulty of the Society , wherein lie the seeds of its decay . Snch nonconformity as its statutes of discipline profess , is not merely at variance with every rule of nature and common sense , but , if honestly carried ont , is totally incompatible with the simplest transactions of life . The reall y consistent Quaker , who declines wearing primary colours because there is a snare in scarlet , is the elder —( there teas such a man)— " who was made uneasy in his mind by the sight of red clover / ' He can be neither a haberdasher , nor an upholsterer , nor a toy maker , nor a seller of fancy goods —hardly an innkeeper or a chaise proprietor , His rale is stricter than that of the strictest
monastic asceticism , without the monastery walls to shut him away from the Tain world , and the religious ceremonies to supply that want which "knocks load" at the heart of every human creature who has been born with an iota of imagination . The Quaker ' s rule is untenable ; whence subterfuge , compromise , evasion , unsettlement of mind—pushed to its extremity . We will quote an instance , which is amusing in itself , and amusingly related . The " Lady " had married—and removed to Bristol : —
Soon after becoming a housekeeper I was called I on by the tithe collector . Friends annually sum np tbe amount of all they have lost by this suffering , as they call it ; and I was then under the idea , that " our noble testimony against an hireling ministry " was an essential part of all true Christianity , and that oor refusal to pay the unholy tax was an acceptable martyrdom , in a small way . I had heard much preaching on the subject ; , and very- much self-laudation on tbe faithfulness of the Society generally , indeed universally , to this our testimony , which so widely separated us from the hirelings of all other creeds . The two men who called on me , for the purpose of collecting tbe disputed impost ,
were exceedingly gentle and polite . They saw at a glance that I was an ignoramus , and kindly volunteered to inform me how other Quakers managed , for I had told them tbat my pro fession would not allow me to pay tithes ; and that if they insisted on forcibly taking away my property , though I would not resist , still I would look on it as actual robbery . — " Did you ever pay tithes , ma ' am ? " said one of the men . — "Sever , " I replied . —" "Well , then , " said be , " yon are a stringer here , I see , and I'll 3 ust tell you how the Bristol Quakers manage , for I am going about among them for twenty years past , and I am always glad to accommodate them , and meet their scruples . The sum you must pay is
one guinea ; so I will call here to-morrow , at eleven o ' clock in the morning , and yon just leave on the sideboard there some articles of plate—your tea-pot will do very well , or spoons , or whatever you like—then I come and take it away . You don ' t give it , and so your conscience is clair . You will then return to yonr Meeting-people , that your teapot , worth ten guineas , was distrained for tithe ; and as soon after as you like , you can go to Mr . Jones , the silversmith , and tell him how you lost your tea-pot , and are obliged to buy a new one . He will condole with you ; and after showing you a variety of new " ones to select from , he will hand you your own identical article , and say he can sell yon
that cheap—say one guinea . You nay yo « r guinea , and get your own safe back again , cleaner and brighter than ever ; and , if you like , you can purchase some other little trifling article ; for Mr . Jones is a very accommodating man , "—I was really hocked at the cool proposal of so nefarious and unprincipled a transaction , and indignantly rejected it ; declaring , at the same time , my firm belief , that no Quaker would be guilty of so nndfenified and false an act The man smiled , and said , " Aye , that it tile way they all go . on at first ; but ma ' am , it is a great deal the easiest and best plan in the end ;" and then be gave me the names of very many , sty own acquaintances , who regularly once a
year , as he jocularly said , " allowed Mr . Jones to . clean their plate . " "There is old Mr . R . " aid he , "has a fine massive aUver tea-pot . It is always laid out ready for me ; I always give notice before I go ; and now , twenty' times 1 have carried it off and got it brightened for him . He values it at twenty pounds , and his tithe is only one pound ten . . And there is young Mr . R . He likes me to get his spoons done for bim . He gives so many dinners he likes to have them bright and new-looking . " 'Seeing me still very incredulous he said , " Well , ma ' am , I won ' t call on you for a week , to give jou time to think about tbe nutter . " During that week I went to old Mr . R- ' s , and told his daughter that tithes bad been
denuded of me , but that I bad not paid them , and iras expecting another visit from the collector . * ' Oh ! yes , " said she , " this is just the time they go about . - They seized a valuable silver tea-pot iron us last week . My father values it at twenty guineas , and the demand in money is only about thirty shillings ; but it is a noble testimony we are Called upon to bear ; and I trust our faithfulness will yet lie the means of opening the eyes of profwdng Christians to the nature of a pure , free , gospel ministry . I trust , my young Friend , thou ^ lt be faithful . '' She spoke so seriously , that I hesitated to say what I intended about Jones ' s ¦ ho p , lest the idea that I for a moment could think her or her father capable of such a deed might © Send . I then called on young Mrs , R ., and men *
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tioned the same thing to her . " They did , indeed , " said she , take our spoons ; but my William has some « ay or other managed to get them back , I can ' t tell how he manages ; but 1 suppose they are ashamed of taking so much over their demand , and so return them . At any rate , they are sent back beautifully polished ; and notouly that , bnt a handsome sugar-spoon , with our crest engraved on it , was also amongst them . I suppose they were sorry , and put iu the spoon by way of atonement . " I suspected that my Friend William might know more than his wife on the subject , but said nothing . I then went to Jones ' s shop , and boldly asked if they would return mo articles of plate which might be distrained for tithe , on paying the exact amount of tithe demanded , and was politely informed , that they would be most happy to do so—to enter into the same arrangement with me as with other Quakers . tioned same thing to her . ' « Thev did . indeed . "
" But . " said I , " what recompense will you require for affording me so great an accommodation ?" " Sone whatever , " replied the shopkeeper ; "the Friends arc very good customers of ours ; we are always glad to see them entering our doors . " " And what must I pay the collectors ? " "They make no charge either ; you ' ean give them an odd shilling now and then if you like , for they are very honest , civil fellows . " Faithful to their appointment , at the end of the week , the men came to me , walked straight into the parlour , and over to tbe sideboard , ° nd looked disappointed not to find the plate ready ! ai « out for them . I told them 1 had to apologise for doubting their veracity . I had inquired , and found tbat their statement was true ; but as 1 could not see any sense in such a roundabout way of paying , I thought it simpler , and came to the same thing in the end , to pay the money at once , which I did .
There is no denying the cleverness of these sketches : —and we are tempted to take another example , —but merely for the amusement of our readers . The species of intrigue which it records is well known beyond the bounds of Quakerism , —only it takes here pleasant colours from the quaint and peculiar modes of life in which it is acted , — I was one evening , at . a large tea party , introduced to a very beautiful young bride . She had a large figure , well and most gracefully formed ; the roseate hue of her cheek , and the soft brilliancy of her downcast eyes , were only' equalled in beauty by the exquisitely fair neck , and tbe rich dark brown hair , banded in the smoothest Madonna style
on her lofty brow . Her dress was of the richest dove-coloured satin ; and her Quaker cap , and neck-handkerchief folded in neat plaits across her bosom , were of India ' s most costly muslin . Tbe handkerchief was attached to the dress by a gold pin , with a pearl bead ; and tbe belt of her dress was fastened in front by two more gold pins , each with a diamond head . The bridegroom was a very small , thin , awkward , ill-made man ; his facefrom which every morsel of whisker bad been shaved off—wns white , flat , and meaningless ; and his dress , though quite new , was badly made , aud badly put on ; it was , however , a strictly Quaker costume . In the course of the evening I said to the lady who had introduced me , " However did that
mean-looking little man manage to get such a very lovely bride ? " She smiled , and answered , * ' Strange as it may seem , I assure thee , it was Rachel who courted him , not he her . I will tell thee the story . About four years ago , Rachel ' s younger sister was married ; and she was somewhat annoyed , tnat she the elder , and so much the handsomer , should have been passed by ; so she resolved to provide herself with a husband ; and thou knowest when a woman makes np her mind to do a thing , she triumphs over every obstacle . Rachel ' s first step was to draw out a list of the names of the eligible young men ; opposite to each name she placed the amount of his annual income , as correctly as she could ascertain it . The most wealthy
was placed at the top of tbe list , and so on in regular gradation . She had twelve names down . They lived in all parts of England : —one in London , one in York , one in Bristol , and so on . Sylvanus Otway was at the head of tbe list . She had never seen him , and he lived near Norwich . He was down for seven thousand a year . Rachel seriously informed her father and mother that she had " a concern " to attend tbe Norwich quarterly Meet * ing . They had no acquaintances they cared for there , and were disinclined to take so long a journey ; but Rachel became so silent and sad , and so often told them she was burdened with the weight of ber concern to go , that they at length yielded to her wishes ; and father and mother ,
Rachel and her sister Susanna , and one of the brothers , all went to Norwich . As the father and mother are acknowledged ministers , of course they were taken much notice of , and invited to all the Friends' houses ; amongst others , to Friend Otway ' a , and Rachel soon had the pleasure of being introduced to Sylvanus . She was delighted to find him a fine , handsome , intelligent-looking young man , and to perceive tbat he was decidedly fascinated with his new acquaintances ; and when , at parting , he whispered to her sister , loud enough for Rachel to hear , " I hope soon to be in your city , and to have the pleasure of calling at your house ;" her cheek flushed with triumph , and her heart palpitated with joy , at the success of her scheme .
Sylvanus soon followed them , as he had promised , and proposed for Susanna . He ^ aa promptly accepted ; and they were married as soon as the rules of our society would permit . Rachel was exceedingly vexed and disappointed ; but she is not a person to be discomfited by one f . iilare , so she resolved to try again ; but she has never been friendly with Susanna since . The next on her list was Josiah Gumble , of York , and his income was six thousand . Again she informed her father , that she felt it was required of her to attend tbe York Quarterly Meeting , and she added , " it bad been borne in her mind tbat the ministry of her beloved father , at that solemn assembly , would be blessed to some waiting minds . " There is nothing pleases oar ministers more than flattery of their preaching gifts . Rachel is an adept in it . I have often found it difficult to keep my features in sober
decorum when I have heard her speaking of the inward peace she had felt from the acceptable services of ber much valued Friends . And then she presses the hand of the minister she is flattering with go much feeling , as she says ; but they like it , and Rachel has her own ends in view . She went to York , and soon obtained the desired introduction to Josiah Gumble ; he , too , was young and passably well looking ; Rachel contrived to be very much in his company ; but she saw clearly that he could not be caught . She told me she had never met any man who was so coldly'insensible to beauty , and so stupidly indifferent to flattery . However Rachel was not disheartened ; for it soon came out that Josiah was the victim of an unrighteous attachment to the daughter of a clergyman ; for love of whom he deserted our Israel , and is now—alas ! that it should be so—with bis six thousand a
year gone over to the camp of the alien . The third on Rachel ' s list was John Jones , of London , her bridegroom now ; he is worth two thousand a year ; and , as thou must see , no beauty . When Rachel first saw him , she was half inclined to leave him for somebody else ; but the next on her list is only six hundred a year . The sacrifice was too great , and besides , James Lewis might be as mean looking , so she resolved < jn the conquest of John Jones . It was very easily accomplished , be made no resistance , he at once became the
worshipper of her beauty ; and now that they are married , I think it wiil be her own fault if she is not happy . He is not very wise , but he is good-humoured and good-natured . " " How did thou become acquainted with this amusing story ?" said L "Is it not a breach of confidence to tell it ? " "So , indeed , " she replied , "there were more than a dozen of us iu the room when she told it herself , and showed iis the list ; she said she did not want it now , so she gave-it to Martha Elton , and bade her give a copy of it to any of the girls who would like to try the same plan of getting settled in life . "
Here is a new anecdote of the Regency : — I was shown , in tbe Women ' s Meeting-room , the seat on which his Majesty , King George IV ., when Prince Regent , bad for a moment placed himself , when led by tbe spirit of adventure , and , as my informant stated , a most unbecoming curiosity , he had , disguised as a woman Friend , made his way into the secret conclave . His dress was all right ; a gray silk gown , a brown cloth shawl , a little white silk handkerchief , with hemmed edge , round bis neck , and a very well-poked Friend ' s bonnet , with the neatly crimped border of his clear muslin cap tied under the chin completed the disguise , in which he might have escaped detection very well , were it hot for the tell-tale boots , aud the unfeminine position in which the arms and ' legs bestowed themselves . The young woman who sat behind him .
ana saw tne neei protruding from its silken robe , sliptquietly-out of meeting , and gave the alarm . Two men Friends were speedily summoned , and the Royal intruder felt himself gently tapped on the shoulder , and requested to walk into another room . He made no resistance , but quietly went away ; and receiving the usual notice , that the rules of the Society would not allow any bnt members to be present , he retired , and calling a hackney coach , drove off , perhaps flattering himself that his incognito had not been penetrated ; for although his countenance had been instantly recognised , still nothing was said to intimate that it had been so . Resolute that none but the initiated should be pre ^ sent , they were yet careful to treat with courtesy their most unexpected visitant , and even deferentially to respect his assumed character .
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A Voyage from Leith to Lapland ; or Pictures ¦ of Scandinavia in 1850 . [ fB f W . Hubtoh . , Two Vols . Bentley . The author of this book , on what is even in these travelling days an out of the way nook of the world , is , it appears , quite a young
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man who , with a poetical temperament , and an acquaintance with general literature , seems to travel for a liking for locomotion and strange scenes . He appears to have visited many distant regions , and to have served a voluntary apprenticeship to the sea service . The summer of 1849 saw him in a hospital at Paris , dangerously ill of cholera ; the opening winter found him on board a steamer bound for Hamburg , which he could not reach , owing to the ice in the Elbe . But he was not a fine weather traveller , to be stopped by trifles ; to Copenhagen he was bound , and to Copenhagen he „ . „„„ ., „ TO ;* K -i : „ i * .. __! . '
would go . Landing at Gluckstadt , he proceeded to Kiel ; and thence got to the capital of Denmark by means of small trading vessels , a diligence , and a steamer . At Copenhagen uo wintered ; and in the very earliest days of spring started for Sweden , still in a small trader . Bnt the spring of our almanacks and of the Baltic are two different things . Weather drove bim back and coated the sea in shore with ice . When he finally sailed , they bad to cut a canal to get out the vessel . When they reached Drobak , in tbe very early part of April , Mr . Hurton proceeded to Christiania , in a sledge ; crossing streams and arms of the sea upon the ice ; and as late as , the 26 th of April he walked over the ice on the fiord of Christiania . At this town he lingered two
months , and then was off to Bergeu , again in a coasting vessel ; and thence in another trader he sailed for the island of Tromso , one of that numerous archipelago which lies off the Northern coast of Norway . This place he made his head-quarters ; crossing to the mainland to visit an encampment of Laplanders with rein-deer , taking a trip to Hammerfest , the capital of Einmark ; and proceeding to North Cape in an open boat . He has ere now started off again to some remote region -. and all apparently for love , since there is no trace of a purpose in the book beyond the gratification derived from scenery and change of scene . Even that pleasure would to many tourists have been a sad toil , pursued in the manner of Mr . Hurton .
Prom this agreeable book we shall take a few extracts illustrative of life in their northern regions . Here is . part of a description of a sledge drive from Drobak to Christiania , and is fresher in imagery with all the wild interest of Ainsworth ' s description of Dick TurpuVs ride to York . We did not go by the usual Christiania road , because the state of the snow and ice was favourable to a more direct , albeit adventurous route ; so we struck off across fields , and over hills , and though
plantations , where nothing but the most dexterous management saved us from being upset every minute ; for tbe sledge whirled madly between tho trees , so that every now and then it was thrown on its "beam-ends , " as a sailor would say , and thus dragged along for many yards . At times the underwood closed upon us so that we were almost torn from our seats—the next moment , perhaps , we shot down a steep rugged declivity and emerged on a level free from shrubs—and no marvel , for it was a lake ! * * *
About half-way between Drobak and Christiania we descended a romantic fir-clad mountain gorge leading down to a bend of tbe Christiania fiord , over tbe frozen bosom of which the residue of our journey would lie . It was difficult to judge where the shelving shore ended and the fiord commenced , for ice and snow covered both so that the eye could barely distinguish . the difference between terra firma , and the vast sheet of very deep salt water ; and this , the reader will recollect , was in April * * * Trot—trot—trot went the snorting quadruped ; jingle—jingle—jingle went tbe " bells "; creakcreak—creak went the snow , as onward we rushed . There were numerous other sledges abroad , and a
long dark string of them were racing behind us . Shouts , jeers , and laughing rang through the clear air as one outstripped the other—only to be overtaken in turn . Onward ; tbe April sun shines with unclouded brilliancy , and for miles there is one glistening level surface , enclosed on either side by towering ranges of hills , fringed from summit to base with snow-laden firs and pines . Onward ! through the shrewdly biting but exhilarating air , that seemeth pure as though this were the first hour it ever floated o ' er mother earth . Onward ! my heart longs for the first glimpse of fair Christiania . Onward ! there are no turnpikes herebut ah . there is something far more difficult to
bilk than a turnpike 3 A huge split in tbe ice extends directly athwart the fiord , and the opposite edge has sunk out of sight fur a breadth of many feet . Ber Fanden ! who would have expected this ? Many sledges are already brought to a premature standstill as well as ours , and others are joining us every minute . The drivers dismount and survey the yawning chasm , but no narrower part can be discerned than that where the main track thus abruptly terminates . The sturdy Norsemen look blank , and growl forth sundry eloquent maledictions on the treachery of the Ice—second only , in their estimation , to that of woman : but all the objurgations in the N- < rse vocabulary will not throw
a bridge over the gap , and it is too wide for even a race-horse to leap—leaving men and sledges out of the question . Some long sticks are procured , and it is found tbat tbe sunk portion of ice is only about breast deep below the surface of the congealed water , and gradually shelves upward to the sound sheet beyond ; but the question is , whether that submerged section will not disappear altogether beneath the weight of a horse and . sledge , leaving nothing but salt water between them and a bottom , Heaven only knows bow many hundred fathoms down below ! A spirited young Norwegian loses patience , and vows he will dash across at all risks . Stand aside , comrades 1 Faintheart
never won fair lady ! The adventurer backs his light sledge to gain a fair start—utters a cheering cry to his sagacious horse—and forward the latter bounds , giving a spring on the edge of the chasm sufficiently to carry him half over . A moment the sledge surges and floats helplessly , while tbe horse flounders and struggles to get a footing . A lash from the driver ' s whip and an urging cheer from the interested spectators of the experiment follow . Another anxious moment , and hurrah ! horse , sledge , and driver , are all safe on the firm ice . Tbe practicability of the thine being thus proven , I urge my old driver on in turn , and we are soon by the side of the daring pioneer .
Mr . Burton ' s mode of proceeding naturally introduced him to the people of the country , and to characters among the people . This is a scene on his voyage from Bergen to Tromso . The Bergette Marie in one respect resembled an emigrant ship , for we had almost a dozen families aboard , returning to their native Nordland . ' They were all of the lower classes , and it was amusing to notice the ' composure with which some of them exercised their calling as shoemakers , die , on deck in fine weather . Some of the men bad leather breeches and leather jackets , and all were very decently although thriftily clad . The women wore ample petticoats of dark blue cloth and jackets of
a similar material , with jaunty rows of buttons , and a nice white shirt-collar turned over . Two or three of the girls were very pretty , and looked extremely interesting in this simple attire . Their cheerful yet modest and becoming behaviour was highly agreeable . I often wished for English needles , scissors , and such trifles to present them with , for no gifts are more acceptable in the Nor th . The stout rosy children were dressed inexactly the same fashion as their mothers . These Nordlanders although evidently very poor had nothing about them of that sordid , grinding destitution to be seen in similar classes in Britain . They had enough for their humble wants , and were ever cheerful and
contented . They carried their provisions in chests , and lived on dried fish , potatoes , rye bread , butter , coffee , and milk . I frequently enjoyed the astonishment which my presence appeared to excite among them ; and at times understood their whispered speculations as to who I could be , and what extraordinary motive induced me to share their rude voyage . One and all of them behaved towards ine with frank respect ; and several frequently paid me delicate little attentions , which I reciprocated to the utmost in my power . The men slept among the crew oh the goods under the loose decks , but the women and children shared the spare cabin , and honest larcub treated them with a constant kindness and consideration , that warmed my heart and
won theirs . Mr . Burton ' s Icelandic Sketches are not only the newest , but the best things in his volumes . The followicg scene , a Scandinavian , ia from his entrance to Tromsdai , in Lapland : — I had , probably , wandered four or fi ve English miles down this noble dale , when a wild but mellow shout or halloa floated on the crisp sunny breeze from the opposite side : I listened eagerly for its repetition , and soon it was repeated , more distinctly andhore musically , and then Ifelt sure that it was the callof a Lap to the herd of reins .: - ' *
, , " They were on the far side of Elv ; and just as 1 reached one bank of the stream , they ' came up to the other . The water here flowed with extreme violence , and was piercingly cold , but I unhesitatingly plunged in , and waded across . Iu a
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Laps . ' u ™ t- » L r hogirl was sirailar ' ' " shape , but h r i o wo i ° , r coa , ' liKbt-eoloured woollen cloth , a material frequently used in summer ior the psesks of both sexes , as being cooler than rein-doer skin or sheep skm . Her head was bare , and hor hair hung low eycr her shoulders . Iler features were minute , and the prettiest and most pleasing of any Lap , I ever . saw either before or since . The complexion was a tawny reddish hue-common to all Laplanders . The legs of the nymph in question were bare trom the tops of her hoots to the knee , and were extremel y thick and clumsy—furnishing a striking contrast to the delicate shape of her hands . The twain were accompanied-by three little reindogs , and were very leisurely drivimrtbe herd
onward , eacn navmg a branch of a tree in hand , to whtsk about , to urge the deer on . The girl had a great coarse linen bag slung round her neck , and resting on her back . This she filled with a particular kind of moss-as she went along . I asked her what she gathered it for , and she gave me to understand it was used in milking the reins , but in what manner was as yet to me a mystery . I found both the girl and the youth very good natured , and the eyes of the latter especially sparkled with merry humour . They could speak only a very few words of Norwegian , but understood some of my questions in that language , and very readily answered them . They were driving tho herd to be milked , and on my telling them I was an
Englishman , come from afar to see them and their reinSj they repeated the word " English , " several times in a tone of surprise , and regarded me with an interest and curiosity somewhat akin to what the appearance of one of their people would excite in an English city . ¦ . ''¦* *' . *• . I asked the girl to show me the moss tbe reins eat , and she did so ( after a little search ) , and gathered me some . It is very short in summer , but long in winter . In Sweden , I learn that this most admirable provision of nature forms the sole support of tho deer during nine months in the year ( and , in consequence , the existence oi tho Laplan . ders also depends on it ) , grows much more abundantly , and is of greater length ; which is the
reason most Laps prefer Swedish lapmark for their winter wanderings . Coming to a marshy spot where a particular long , sharp , narrow grass grew , I plucked some , and asked the Laps if tbey did not use that to put in their boots in lieu of stockings ? They instantly responded affirmatively . This id the celebrated bladder carex , or Cyperus grass ( the carex vesicaria of Linnaous ) . I gathered some , and afterwards found it in several parts of the Island of Tromso ; but it only grows in marshy spots . The Laps at all seasons stuff their boots quite full of it , and it effectually saves their feet from being frostbitten . Onward we went , driving the herd , in which 1 gleefully helped , thetbreelittle dogs at times harking and fetching up stragglers .
The Laps occasionally gave a short cry , or urging shout to the reins , and 1 burst forth with my full lunged English holloa , to the evident amusement of my companions . The scene was most exciting , and vividly brought to my recollection the forest scenes in As You like It . The brilliant sunlight , the green grass , the figures of the Laps , the moving herd of reins—the novelty of the whole was indiscribabiy delightful . I found the reins did not make such a very loud eliciting noise as most travellers have asserted . Here were hundreds of reins striking their hoofs together , and yet certainly the noise was anything but loud from their cloven feet and
horny fetlocks , and would hardly have been noticeable , had I hot particularly listened for it . But another thing , of which I had never read any notice , struck me much—the . loud snorting noise emitted by the deer at every step , Vnpoetical as my fancy may seem , it reminded me most strongly of the grunting of swine , but was certainly not so coarse a noise , and at the same time partook much of the nature of a" snort . ' The cause of the noise is thiswhen the deer are heated , they do not throw off their heat in sweat—their skin is too thick for that , but , like the dog , they emit the heat through the mouth . *
Books Received. Henry Mosterlon, By 0. F...
BOOKS RECEIVED . Henry Mosterlon , By 0 . F . R . Jaues . And Mansfield Park . By Miss Austen . Vols . LX , and LXI . "Parlour Library . " . Young's Introduction to Algebra . Simms and M"lntyre . The Law , as to ihe Exemption of Literary and Scien ' tific Societies from Parish and other Local Rates . By G . TivtoR . Crookford . The Difficulty Solved ; or the Government of the People by Themselves . By Victor Cossidbranx . Watson .
The Coast Of Africa. Slave Tbadb.—We Ext...
The Coast of Africa . Slave Tbadb . —We extract . from the private letter of an intelligent officer the following interesting remarks on the Coast of Africa service . It is dated April 1 , 1851 : — " I think for the present the slave trade is suppressed , but a number of slaves are assembled at Lagos , Agway , and Widah ; ' an d as the boating season is over here , and thick weather coming . on , no doubt but they will again commence .. Borne of the slave merchants would gladly give up the trade , but they are so circumstanced with the King of Dahomey that it is impossible : for instance , his Highness sends an order to a merchant for 100 pipes of rum , 1 , 000 muskets , powder , Ac . ; in lieu of paying in money or produce , he marches down a string of slaves ,
which the merchant must receive in payment , or take nothing . With the King of Dahomey at present rests the principal part , if not the whole of the slave trade carried on from Cape St . Paul ' s to Porto Nevo . Lagos is an independent kingdom . The lawful king is at present in : Fernando Po without a sixpence , his throne being usurped by his nephew , who is a great scoundrel . - The ex-Ring promises to abolish slavery for ever in his dominions , and permit tbe British to build a fort at Lagos , if they will restore him to his kingdom . A singular fact has just occurred under my own eyes , which shows the temper of the present King of Lagos , who is , doubtless , ruled by the slave merchants . A vessel arrived in the roads from Bahia , with a great number of liberated slaves on board , but they are not permitted to land at that place ; they will in all probabillty be compelled to give * p Badagry . If we
can get the King of Dahomey to give up slaving ( which I scarcely think possible under present circumstances , as I foretold you the failure of Mr . Forbes's mission ) , and erect a fort at Lagos , we shall suppress the traffic entirely in the whole of the Bight of Benin . The fort at Lagos could be held t he same as the Wydan ; and nothing could be easier taken than the present town , and the ex-King restored . Palm oil is very plentiful this year along the coast ; tbe price is about Is . 8 d . per gallon . Ivory is plentiful at . some places ; but theprice keeps up . Few Sardinian vessels come here now , as there is no sale for them . Their lag has been a good cloak for the slave trade for many years , as tbey keep their national flag flying until the slaves are actually on board , so that tbey are never taken empty ; when full their colours are thrown overboard , or a . Brazilian substituted . "— United Service Gazette .
Danger o * Modbluho in Wax . —Few person * , especially , perhips , of the many , young ladies who are now practising the very pleasing art of modelling fruits , flowers , dec , in wax , at all suspect the great danger in which they are ' placed from the poisonous nature of the colouring matter of the wax which they handle , so unsuspectingly . The white | wax , for instance , contains white lead ; the green , copper the yellow , chrome yellow ; the orange , chrome yellow and vermillion—strong poisons all ; while many other kinds of wax are equally poisonous , and , therefore , dangerous . There are very many persons who are aware of . the intense sufferings , for many years past , of Mr . W . Bally , phrenologist and modeller in wax , in which latter
branch he has laboured for twenty : four or twentyfive years , three of them as teacher of the art at the Manchester Mechanics' Institution . Mr . Bally bas been at times completely paralysed , and is now , aud has long been very nearly so , especially , in the hands and a rms ; and he has also been afflicted with extensive ulceration of the throat , and has almost totally lost his voice . ( Both himself and his medical adviser , after a long attention to his symptoms , are satisfied that the primary cause of his affliction is the extent to which the subtle poisons in the wax with which he has worked have been absorbed into his system through the pores of his hands ,
while the disease has been generally strengthened , and one part of it accounted forty the occasional application of his fingers to . his lips . while at work . Mr . Bally , says that he has known , several cases in which young ladies have Been attacked with partial paralysis of the hands ah'd ' arros , after having devoted some time td ^ tho practice of modelling ; but atthe timeho hadno •' suspicion of the cause ; As all the requisite colours can be obtained from vegetable matter , and as the . use of mineral colouring seems to lead to such deplorable results , the subject should be carefully investigated by those working with coloured vax , ~ Mxnehesi < r Emminer .
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SURREY . After the opera last evening a novelty was introduced under the name of The Magic of Life , a , vkoti ^ with which tbe house itself did not shew tho most int imate connexion . It is d ivided into two periods , seven years asunder , in the first of which Mr . Mildmaye Sharpe , a man of fashion is favourably contrasted with a vulgar but good-hearted fellow , Dick Brown , who plays skittles and pummels all his acquaintance . Both are suitors for the hand of a Lady Eveleign , and a duel ensuing , Sharpe ' s skill m fencing proves too much for poor Dickwho falls
, wounded , and with him the curtain , on the first act . In the second , he re-appears a polished gentleman , while his rival has fallen to decay , and become a sharper . They fi \ 'ht again , the sli / irper is defeated , and Dick carries off the prize of virtue and education , in the shape of the' beautiful Lady Eveleigh . It will be seen by this outline that there is nothing very novel in the plot , nor has the dialogue any special claims to originality ; but the jokea-chiefly pugilistio-tellamazingly , thedrcsses are good , and the whole piece is got up with a caro which will win it a reasonable run .
MARYLEBONE . A new domestic drama , in three acts , by Mr . S . Emory , called The Lone Chateau ; or , the Three Murderers of Sevigny , was produced here last night , lo those who have no objection to " sup full of horrors , " this piece is calculated to afford much satisfaction , for it may he truly said that few playgoers have ever seen in the same space of time such a vast amount of human slaughter as was witnessed on this occasion . There were , in short so many deaths before the close of the second act , that it was difficult to conceive how the piece could be brought to a termination , except through the aid of" the executors . " Murder J murder ! seems to have been the grand object sought to be attained throughout , and this end is acoomolished with such
completeness , that , at the fall of the curtain , the stage presents a most gloomy picture of desolation and dismay . To recount the various horrors which are represented in this tale of woe would indeed be a fearful task , but it may be stated that , the chief actor in the scene is a young French count , who , having left his lawful wife for dead in a vault beneath the ruins of the " chateau , " attempts to take unto himnelf another , and challenges her brother to morta ! combat because he forbids the marriage . The result of this duel is , that the young count , who has been dealing death and destruction around him , is himself numbered amongst tho dead , and the play terminates . The piece was well acted by Mr . Hoskins , Mr . Graham , and Miss Lebrun ; and , although it was far from being one of the best specimens of this style of melodrama , it was received with some favour .
STRAND , On Monday a set of acknowledged stage characters , including the blunt sailor , the young lawyer from London , the village belie , and the country lout , were once more introduced to a Loudon public , in a " new" burletta , entitled The Village Nightingale , The incidents of the piece showed little more originality than the characters ; and the jokes gave evidence of a depth of research rather than any native humour . The acting was good eneugh , however , to make tho piece tolerably amusing , and the singing of Miss Kelson and Miss E . Romer carried the plot to a successful issue , so far as the applause of a friendly audience on a first night can be accepted as a decision upon the popular element of a dramatic production . Mr . Craven , the author , after the fall of the curtain , crossed the stage amid moderate applause . QUEEN'S . The performances at this house commenced with a grand Saxon romance , entitled The Fiery Ordeal ; or , Emma of Normandy and the Captive § tte « n , The plot is laid in the reign of Edward the Confessor , and includes most of the historical characters of that eventful period of English history . Mr . Chester as the Monarch , Mr . Green as tbe traitorous Earl oi Murcia , and Mr . Burford as the celebrated Goodwin Earl of Wessex , performed their respective parts with ability . Miss C . Gibson and Miss Rivers , as
tne yueen Motner ana tyueen , pertormed their arduous parts with much energy , and were greatly applauded in the last act , when they demonstrated their loyalty to the monarch by passing unhurt through the fiery ordeal—tbe denouement being the destruction , hy the same ordeal , of the Earl of Murcia , who had twice attempted the King ' s life , and contrived to evade detection , and to oast suspicion upon the royal ladies . The scenery and decorations were good , and in keeping with the early period to which they referred . The second piece was the favourite ballet called The Resemblance , or the Peasant ' s Dream . The grace and agility displayed hy Miss Kate Kirhy attracted universal admiration , and she was well supported hy the other members ol the corps de ballet . The entertainment concluded with a domestic drama , entitled The Night Shriek ,. or ihe Convict ' s Story . HAl MARKET . Mr . Haekefcfc , the American actor , who is engaged at this theatre for a few nights , appeared last evening in the character of Falstaff , in the Merry Wives of Wind / or . He was " well made up , " and his whole appearance save a good idea of Shakespeare ' s "fat knight . " He did not exhibit great richness of humour , but his conception of the character was good , and he acted it throughout with much ease and gaiety . His best scenes were the adventure of the buck basket , and his subsequent descriptions of
it , which produced grt'iit laughter ; and bis paroxysm of terror on the appearance of tbe fairies in the last scene was also highly comic . Altogether his performance was highly intelligent and satisfactory to the audience . The play , as a whole , was pleasantly acted . Mrs . Ford and Mrs . Page had very agreeable representatives in Miss Reynolds and Mrs . Fitzwilliam ; Mr . Davenport was Ford ; Mr . Bucki-tone had his old pan of Master Slender , and Mr . H . Bedford made the Welsh parson , Evans , more than usually amusing . The house was full , and the performance was much applauded .
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . The Professors of this most excellent Institution have , we are glad to find , commenced their lectures on some of the most interesting models , & c , deposited in the Great Exhibition . Doctor Bachhoffner having taken for first the Electric Copying Telegraph of Mr . Bakewell ; by this apparatus a letter written in London may be copied in Liverpool or at Edinburgh at the rate of ' Z 00 letters per minute , with a degree of accuracy that the verv autograph of the writer could be distinctly sworn to . This process , although extremely simple , is of that nature that , without diagrams , a notice would fail to give an idea of its merits ; we ,
therefore , recommend our friends and the public to go to this Establishment and judge for themselves . We find from a notice that Doctor Bachhoffnor intends shortly , in addition to the highly interesting experiments of M . Foucauit on the Rotation of the Earth , to give a popular lecture on the forthcoming Eclipse of the Sun ; which , although not total in this country , yet so much of the sun ' s disc will be obscured as to render the event one of intense interest . The mechanical inventions in the Crystal Palace will be lectured on by Mr . Crispo , and will be , no doubt , highly satisfactory to the strangers who will visit the metropolis during this eventful season .
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\ The Court of Ch anckrt . —On Tuesday , a return was printed by order of tbe House of Lords , showing the operation of the act of last session to regulate the Court of Chancery in Ireland , under which suits were allowed to be commenced b y petition instead of bill , and which return was obtained in reference to the reform of the Court of Chancery in England . It appears that from August last , when the act came in force , to the 12 th oi' June inst ., 872 suits were commenced by petition , and in that period only 33 by bill . As many as 300 orders , in the nature of decrees , were made upon petitions presented , and 31 final orders . No case had occurred in which a suit had been commenced by petition , and the defendant had applied under the act that the plain tiff should proceed by bill . The return is of some value at the present period , when it is urged tbat suits should be commenced by petition instead of by bill , and shows the number of matters brought before the Courtof Chancery in a few months .
Mercantile Marine Act . —A return has been published of the memorials presented to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council ior Trade , aguinst the operations of those purls of the . Mercantile Marine Act which relate to the engagement and discharge of crews nt the shipping offices , and to regulations fur maintaining discipline by fines . Ic appears from this return that memorials of tbe above kind have been sent in from the ports of Shields . Peterhead , Sunderland , S « aham , Hartlepool , Middlesborough , Whitby , Stockton , Hull , Lynn Resis , Arbroath , Southampton , London , Dundee , Newcasile , and Yarmouth . ¦ '_
The Rotal Children to bb taught Gaklic—The Inverness Couriersuys that a correspondent / who dates from the Temple , states that her Majesty and Prince Albert have commissioned a gentleman from the north to engage the services of a Gaelic teacher for the roval family ! " There is every chance , " he says , " ' of an intimate friend of mine getting the appointment . " This is certainly a compliment to the ancient language of the Gael . Statistics of Prisokkkb . — On Tuesday a return ordered by the House ' of Lords was printed , from which it appears that the number of prisons-s tried at the Spring Assizes in 1850 nnllSSlin the counties of Hertford , Essex , Sussex , Kent , and Surrey , was in the first year 305 , and in tho s ^ ond 833 , Singularly enough , in the county of Kent the number was the same in each year , 172 , being more thun the double number in either of the other counties .
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Ladies , who marry for love , should rt-niRiiiber that the union of angels with women has been forbidden since tbe flood . The wife is the sun of the social system . Unless she attract , there is nothing to kee ;> heavy bodies , like husbands , from flying off into space . Sugar is the substance most imiver-viily diffased through all natural products . Let married people take a hint from this provision of nature . Advice to the Wbaltiiv . —It is one of the characters of a good man to dispense liberally , and enjoy abstemiously , the goods he ltDo-. ra In .- may lose and must leave . A Sign . —The oak has burst into leaf before the ush this season—a most unusual oronrnmce , and looked upon ns the harbinger of a pieiniful season .
Great talkers not only do the least ., but say the least , if their words be weighed instead of reckoned . Labour . —What men want is not talent , bnt purpose ; in other words , not the power to achieve , but the will to labour . Throwing i SoMERSET .-Mr . Hsmywicke , the magistrate , is the best tumbler in London . He turned a bomcrset from Marlboroiigh-sireet Police court to the Houseof Correction , adistsuce of nearly two miles . 44 Washing FLUiD . " -In a certain village , the topers label their rum fugs " Washing Fluid . " Very appropriate , for rum has washed many a rusn clean out of house , home , and humanity .
Weslkyan Scismatics . —Ere the Conference sits again , if the policy of the clique be . recklessly pursued , tbe total secessions may be 1 S 0 , 01 ) 0 . So much for the doings of an ambitious and infatuated priesthood !—Wesleyan Times . ' Arithmetic in the University . — " I say , Frank , my boy—if Trouncer ' satfiveto two , and Nutshell at three to one , what ' s the betting against tbe pair of them ? " "I ' m sure Ido ' nt know : —take you six to one . "—Punch .
The Moustachs . —A writer in the Naval and Military Gazette contends that a moustache , acting as a respirator , is a preservative from consumption * Hence hairy-lipped re & imeuU are more free Iron , diseases of the lungs than others . A Hint for the Summer . —A light thread net , suspended before an open window , will effectually keep out the house fly . It is a singular fact that these troublesome insects will not pass through the meshes of the net , even though these meshes arc more than an inch in diameter .
Abuses of Convents . —An extraordinary congregation , or commission , composed of six cardinals , baa been appointed by the Pope for the purpose of inquiring into the moral state of the Convents , and reporting on the best mode of reforming the abuses which have crept into these establishments . A Temple of enlarged Christianity . —On the 1 st of May the foundation was la \ d at the Buvsxeg , in Hamburg , of a vast edifice , to give shelter to those hundreds of families—Christian and Jewish—who at each quarter ' s rent day are unable to satisfy their landlord , and are therefore driven out into the open street !
The MoTnm . —A writer beautif ally remarks that a man s mother ia the representative of his Maker . Misfortune—and even crime—set up no barriers between her and her son . While his mother lives he will have one friend on earth who will not desert him when he is ready to despair . Her affection flows from a pure fountain , aud ceases only at the ocean of eternity . The Aoapemone . —A hi'use of business in Bristol having recently sent some goods to "The Abode of Love , " had the bill returned to be made out afresh , according to the following note : — " The Agapemone , near Bridgewater , June , 1851 . Messrs . W and Co ., the enclosed bill is returned to be made out with tbe proper address — namely , 'My Lord the Agapemone , & c .
The Longest Railroad in the World . —The New York Inquirer says that the Erie railroad , just opened—the longest in the world—runs through a wild country , with not one town along its whole course of ten thousand inhabitants ; " shanties and log huts , and Indians and lumber men staring at the luxurious trains , as Broadway dandies and eye-glassed ladies stare hack at the novel barbarity through which they shoot . " Marriage a SACRAMBNT .--ARoman prelate once asked an old woman how many sacraments there were ? To which she observed there were but two . "But , " replied the bishop , "there is marriage : what prevents you recognising so holy , delightful , and happy a state , as one of the sacraments ?" 4 -Ah ! sir , " replied the old woman , "if it is so very good , what is the reasoa you have never partaken of it ?"
A Clevkr Dog . —A correspondent of the Preston Chronicle says , that a gentleman in Manchester has a dog that will find his master ' s snuff box however it is concealed . " Lately he placed it upon a high chimney piece , and , upon ordering the dog to find it , the cunning animal pulled a chair from the side of the room to the fire-place , and mounting upon it , soon produced the box required . " A New Project is about to be started for the construction of a great central station atSmithfield , with extensions to it from all the great metropolitan lines . The proposed capital is £ 3 , 000 , 000 . It is estimated
that the undertaking will yield an income , from all sources , of £ 392 , 187 ; and deducting £ 82 , 117 for working expenses , there will remain a profit of £ 300 , 000 , or ten per cent , en the capital invested . French News from England . —One of the " own correspondents'' of a Paris daily paper sent to London , to describe the Exhibition , gravely relates as a specimen of English manners that a great sporting nobleman recently gave a magnificent banquet to his friends , and when it was over , told them that they had eaten the winner of the Derby , which he had had specially killed as a mark of respect both to the horse and them ? 41
Taken down a Peg . " —On the road to Epsom , a moustached youth , on the top ot a drag , evidently ambitious of being mistaken for " an officer , " thus saluted a fat coachman , who was gravely driving bis master and family— " Holloa , you sir ! where ' s your shirt-collar ? How dare you come to the Derby without a shirt-collar . " Jehu , growled forth , without lifting his eyes from his I horses— ' ow the dooce could I have a shirt- collar when your mother has not sent home my / washing . "
Hydrophobia . —At a meeting of the Edinburgh li Town Council a few days since , on the subject of f issuing the usual proclamation against dogs being g allowed to run about unmuzzled , Professor Dick k gave it as his opinion that there was no such thing g as hydrophobia in the lower animals ; what went it properly by the name was simply an inflammation of if the brain ; and that the disease , in the case of if human beings , was caused by an over-excited ima- tgination worked upon by tbe popular delusion on n tbe effects of tbe bite of rabid animals .
! Conversions from Romaivism . —Chtmnte , June ie 1 . —If Protestant England has to witness sometimes 38 iUie desertion of Siimo of her children to Rome , it it remains for Roman Catholic France to have to re- bcordthe wholesale conversion that is here taking ig place of Romanists to Protestantism . This day , y , ( Sunday , the 1 st of June , ) no Jess than thirty-twovo i ndult Roman Catholics of both sexes , in the pre- 'esence of a numerous congregation , in the Frenchch iProtestant church at Roohefort , publicly abjureded the errors of Popery , and embraced tbe more pureire land enlightened Protestant faith . . . . .
WoMAN .-At a late meeting of " Christian Com-m--munists" in New York , Mr . Channingproposediedl the following toast :- Woman , faithful m friend-idship , fond in love , patient as Providence m m i parental devotion , loyal to follow as brave to lend nil im collective duty . In her harmony of instincts andmdl the unity of holiness a type of Heaven on earth .-. — To Woman . " This met with a response from ma a ladwwho expressed her hope that " where womemeni tver ' e re « arded not merely as ornaments , they should ^ ld ,, indeed , " possess tbe ornament of meek and quieuiell spirits , and become as polished corner-stones in thithn new social fabric . " _ .. _ _
_ Clear Days in London . —The Western Timeimei shows bow an old lady at Teignmouth became envenvee loptd in a London fog . Not having much faith in . iiii railway promises , she applied last week to know iw i i the company really meant to guarantee " six clemUan days in London for . 10 s . 4 d ., as they had ptomised . ' ed . . ' On being answered in the affirmative , she instanthntll became a member of . the Exhibition Club , declaiclaui ing that on her last visit to London it was envenvt't loped in fog , and she could see nothing , ami that aat :: would be worth ' twice the money . to have one cleacleaa
day there , much less six . On being told it referreerree to . time , and not to weather , the old lady withdredree her name , in a great rage , saying , ''No one coufcouhl understand the company . " ' , United States . —The Washington Republic , pul puhl lishei the " feven th census of the United States con conn plete ,. thouu , h not iu all details officially ' youchewhew ¦ ' he following aro th « results :-In the Rre » Stateta bibi 13 . 533 , 328 freemen , 119 slaves ; in the Slave . b « ateate * Mid lei-moiies , l ^^^ e who e number ( ber c ( foul population , 23 26 / . « 8 : Ite wM thMe ^ representatives in congress n -- * P" eil npPoippoi » Free states have now gamed an increase . ! nPi pi lionmeat .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 28, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_28061851/page/3/
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