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Majrch 29, 1851; The Norfhirn Stir,
Majrch 29 , 1851 ; THE NORfHIRN STIR ,
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Who Is My Neighbour? Thy Neighbour ? It ...
WHO IS MY NEIGHBOUR ? Thy neighbour ? It is Be whom thou Hast power" to aid and bless - , -Whose aching head , or burning brow , Thy soothing hand may press . Thy neighbour ? 'lis the fainting poor Whose eye with want is dim , Whom hunger sends from door to door ,- — Go thou , and succour him . Thy neighbour ? 'Tis that weary man Whose years are at their brim , Bent low with sickness , care and pain- — Go thou , and comfort him . -
Thy neighbour . ; Tis that heart bereft Of every earthly gem : Widow and orphan , helpless left- — Go thou , and shelter them . Thy neighbour ? Yonder toiling slave , Fettered in thought and limb , Whose hopes are all beyond tbe grave ; Go thon , and ransom him . Whene ' er thon meet ' st a human form , Less favoured than thine own , Remember , His thy nei ghbour worm , Thy brother , or thy son . Oh ! pass not heedless—pass not on ! Perhaps thon cans't redeem The breaking heart from misery ;—Go , share thy lot with him .
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THE LABOURER . The labourer , the labourer , God ' s nobleman is he—His works are graven in the soil-They float on every sea : The-keystone in the social arch ; Utility bis crest ; n < s days are spent in manly toil , Sis nights in balmy rest .
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lYetYeast : a Troilcm . Reprinted , TOtn . conect' tions and additions , from Fraser s Maga r zine . London : Parker . IbThOCGH not authoritativel y announced on the ItitHitle fage , it is well understood that this work i is Is from the pen of the author of Alton Loch , is * a writer who has lately done much to callattetfentionto «« the Condition of England Questiction , " and who undoubtedly possesses rare popowers , both of description and mental analyassis . Yeast may he termed a philosophical nazovel , for it has characms exhibited , lioth in acactibn and in discourse . The purpose is similalartothat of Alton LocJce , but the scene is trtransferred to other classes of society . In his
fofonner work , Mr . Kingsley dealt with the artitisans ; in this , the story and incidents relate tcto the intellectual classes of society and the ppeasantry . The story is , however , subordi-13 nate to the main purpose of the author . This iia , to exhibit the miseries of the poor ; the o conventionalisms , hypocrisies , and feebleness oof the rich ; the relig ious doubts which are s shaking the strong , the religious delusions and « cowardly submissions that are enslaving the i weak ; the mammon-worship tainting the i whole of society above the poor , and the bra-Itish , abject spirit , hut angry discontent , pervading the mass , at least of the *' agrieultural labourers .
Yeast , however , may be looked at as & series of sketches loosely strung together , descriptive of palpable social evils in the mass , and of metaphysical breedings among the more thoughtful youth ; a struggle which perhaps is always taking place , and which is no further distinctive of the present age than the form that is given by our intellectual aud religious activity- The orig in of evil , its presence in the worldj what man was made for , what he struggles for , what becomes of htm—have been questions that excited the speculative of all ages , taking various channels , according to the circumstances of the time . Considered
from this point of view , as a li f e-like picture of the heavings of the mass , " and the mental fermentation going on among individuals—of the yeast o society—the book displays great ability , and challenges careful attention . It is powerful , earnest , feeling , and eloquent ; the production of a man acquainted with society —who has looked closely upon its various classes , and has the power of reading the signs of the times . He has a truthful vigour of description—a rhetorical , rather than a dramatical power ; or he sacrifices the latter to his habit of expressing his opinions in dialogue , - where the author talks rather than the
dramatis persona . There is a genial warmth of feeling in the book , and wide human sympathies , Although the framework or story of Yeast is not well conducted or concluded , it is judiciously contrived for the purpose of embod ying some of the p rincipal types of existing society . The first hero , Lancelot Smith , is a young man of vigorous frame , strong passions , and a powerful mind . He has had his moral practice , if not his princi ples , corrupted at the university , although he has taken hig h honours ; his mind is unsettled by logical
scepticism , and by the" shams" he sees everywhere . . Argemone Lavington , the daughter of an oldfashioned squire , is the type of what the author thinks a similar class in woman ; intelligent , highly educated , religions after the Tractarian fashion , hut making self the object of all , thoug h unconscious to herself . By a well-worn accident , Lancelot and Argemone are brought together under peculiar circumstances , and love is the result . The attachment is put an end to hy Mrs . Lavington after Lancelot is ruined by the failure of his uncle ' s bank ; Argemone dies , and her lover goes
abroad , -without having been able to settle his opinions . Bound these two characters move many others , with more or less connexion . There is Mr . Lavington , the type of the country squire ; the Vicar of the parish , a darklydrawn Puseyite , and eventually a convert to Rome ; Luke , a cousin of Lancelot , and representative of the more youthful and sill y Tractarians , who places his conscience in the keeping of his priest . The uncle of Lancelot , the religious banker—though his religion does not prevent him from embarking in speculations that stop the bank—represents the "respectable" class of traders ; Lord
Minchampstead , the rich manufacturing commoner ennobled info a peer , may be considered the type of a class of which therearebutfewlivingexarap les ; Lord Vieuxvois belongs to Young England . Colonel Braccbridge , the jnstest and most finished picture in the book , is a representative ofthe travelled , aU-accomplished English gentleman and soldier , with loose principles , loose practice , hut of generous sympathies , ' and with deeper feelings , and with more thought than the generalit y would give him credit for . The catastrophe which overtakes him is the blot of this well-conceived and carefully-executed character , for it is improbable altogether .
Besides a number of rustics , ' and people more or less conspicuous , there is one Tre ? arva , a Wesleyan gamekeeper of the squire , ¦ wh o may be " considered the type of the thoughtful and faithful hntnble class , as his fr-end or patron Lancelot is of the intellectual ; Md for Lancelot , Tregarva cuts through many puzzling sophisms , as he is the first means of opening his eyes to the state of the poor and tne realities of life .
There are various scenes chiefl y in relation to country society . One of these is when Lancelot sccompanjgg Tregarvato a country fair , a sad and terrible picture of the "boldpcas ? utry . " After uv uiderhig about disappointed with the a t'sence of sports , merriment , or humour hovrer « r poor or coarse , Lancelot enters a booth , •^ H under the guidance of Tregarva , looks a listens to what is going on . You'll see somethins , if you look round , sir , a j- nat dea ! easier to explain—and I shonld have wousUt , a great deal easier to cure— -tfcaa want of * its . "
ti -sh-, tia that ?" «••> • r di * - ' « nt locking the young ones arc'from £ ~ fathers , and still wore from their grandfat ,. ?* . Look . at those three or . four old gritrainers insmg together there . For all their being , shrunk
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with age and weather , you won't see such fine grown men anywhere in this booth . " It was too true . Lancelot recollected now having remarked it before when at church : and having wondered why almost all the youths were so much smaller , clumsier , lower-brained , and weafeer-iawed than their eiders . "Why is it , Tregarva ?" "Worse food , worse lodging , worse nursingand , Vm sore afraid , worse blood . There was too much filthiness and drunkenness went on in . theold war-times , not to leave a taint behind it , for many a generation . The prosperity of fools shall destroy them I " "Oh 3 " thought Lancelot , "for some young sturdy Lancashire or Lothian blood , to put new life into the old frozen South-Saxon veins ! Even a drop of the warm enthusiastic Celtic would be better
than none . Perhaps this Irish immigration may do some good after all . " Perhaps it may , Lancelot . Let us hope so , since it is pretty nearly inevitable . Sadder and sadder , Lancelot tried to listen to the conversation of the men round him . To his astonishment , he- hardly understood a word of it . It was half articulate , nasal , gutteral , made op almost entirely of vowels , like the speech of sava « ea . He had never before been struck with the significant contrast between the sharp , clearly-defined articulation—the vivid and varied tones of the gentleman , or even of the London street boy , when compared with the coarse ,. half-formed growls , as Of a company of seals , which he heard around htm . That single fact struck him perhaps far more deeply than any ; it connected itself with many of his physiological fancies ; it was the parent of many thoughts
and plans of his after-life . Hero and there he could distinguish a half sentence . An old shrunken man opposite him was drawing figures in the spilt beer with bis pipe-stem , and discoursing of the glorious times before the great war , " when there was more food than there were mouths , and more work ttan there were hands . " , "Poer human nature ! thought Lancelot , as be tried to follow one of those unintelligible discussions about the relative prices of the loaf and the bushel of flour , which ended , as usnal , in more swearing and more quarrelling , and mora beer to make itnp : " poor human nature ! always looking back , as tho German sage says , to some fancied golden age , never looking forward to the real one which is coming . " " But I say , vather , " drawled out some one , " they say there's a sight more money in England now than there was afore the war-time . "
" Ees , booy , " said the old man ; "but its got into too few hands . " "Well , " thought Lancelot , "there ' s a glimpse of practical sense , at least . " A transient accident induces the company to call upon their warbler j for some singing ; of which this is a sample : — Blackbird was by this time prevailed on to sing , and burst snt as melodious as erer , while all heads were cocked on one side in delighted attention . I zeed a vire o' Monday night , A vire both great and high ; But I wool not tell you where , my boys , Jfor wool not tell you why . Thevarmer he come screeching out , Tozave 'nns new brood-mare ; Zays I , * You and your stock may roast , Vor aught us poor chaps care . "
" Coorus , hoys , eoorns I And lhschorusbinst out , Then here ' s a curse on vat-mew all , As rob and grind the poor ; To re p the fruit of all their works In **** for ever evermoor-r-r-r . A blind owld dame come to the vire , Zo near as she could get ; Zays , " Here ' s a luck I warn't asleep , To lose this blessed belt . They robs us of our turfing rights , Our bits of chips and sticks , Till poor folks now cans't warm their bands , Except by varmer'a ricks . " Then , < fec .
And again the boy ' s delicate voice rang out the ferocious chorus , with something , Lancelot fancied , of fiendish exultation ; and every worn face lighted up with a coarse laugh , that indicated no malice- — but also no mercy . Here is a capital delineation of an English day , in this present March month : — A silent , dim , distanceless , steaming , rotten day ia March . . The last brown oak leat , which had stood out the winter ' s frost , spun and quivered plump down , and then lay ; as if ashamed to have broken for a moment the ghastly stillness , like an awkward guest at a great dumb dinner party . A cold suck of wind just proved its existence , by tooth-aches on the north side of all faces . . Tbe
spiders , having been weather-bewitched the night before , had unanimously agreed to cover every brake and brier with gossamer cradles , and never a fly to be caught in them ; like Manchester cotton spinners , madly glutting the markets in the teeth of " no demand . The steam crawled out of the dank turf , and reeked off the flanks and nostrils of the shivering horses , and clung with clammy paws to frosted hats , and dripping boughs . A soulless , skyless , catarrhal day , as it that bustling dowager , old mother Earth—what with match making in spring , and fetes champetres in summer , and dinner giving in autumn—was fairly worn out , and put to bed with the influenza , under wet blankets and the cold-water cure .
On the great question which , at the present day , occupies the attention of all classes , Mr . Kingsley writes forcibly and boldly . Here is a powerful remonstrance with a poor Puseyite haukerer after infallibility : — Not that . Anything but that . "Whatever is right , that is wrong . Better to be inconsistent in truth , than consistent in a mistake . And your Romish idea , of man is a mistake—utterly wrong and absurd —except in the one " requirement of righteousness and godliness , which Protestants and heathen philosophers have required and do require just as much as you . My dear Luke , your ideal men and women won't do—for they are not men and women at allbut what you call " saints . "
, Your Calendar , your historic list of the Earths worthies , won t do—not they , but others , are the people who have brought Humanity thus far . I don't deny that there are great souls among them ; Beckcts , and Hugh Grostetes , and Elizabeths of Hungary . But you are the last people to praise them , for yon don ' t understand them . Thierry honours Thomas a Becket more than all Canonisations and worshippers do , because be does sec where the man ' s true greatness lay , and you don ' t . Why you may hunt all Surius for such a biography of a mediaeval worthy , as Carlyle has given of your Abbot Samson . 1 have read , or tried to read , your Surius , and Alban Butler , and so forth—and they seemed to me bats aud aeSBS—OUC
really pitied the poor saints and martyrs for having such blind biographers—such dunghill cocks , who overlooked the pearl of real human love and " nobleness in them , in their greediness to snatch up aud parade the rotten chaff of superstition , and selftorture , and spiritual dyspepsia , which had overlaid it . My dear fellow , that Calendar rains your cause —you are sacres aristocrates—kings and queens , bishops and virgins by the hundred at one end ; a begcar or two at the other ; and but one real human lay " St . Homobonns to fill up the great gulf between— a pretty Hst to allure the English middle classes , or the Lancashire working men!—almost as charmingly suited to England as tbepresentfree , industrious , enlightened , and moral state of that
Eternal City , which has been blest with the visible piesence and peculiar rule , temporal as well as spiritual , too , of yonr Dalia Lama , His pills do not seem to have had much practical effect there . ... My good Luke , till ho can show us a little better specimen of the kingdom of Heaven organised and realised on earth , in the country which does belong tohim , soil and people , body and sonl , we must decline his assistance in realising that kingdom in countries which don't belong to him . If the state of Home don ' t show his idea of man and society to be a rotten lie , what proof would yo « have ? . ...-. perhaps the charming- results of a century of Jesnitocracy , as they were represented on the French stage in the year
1703 ? I can t answer his arguments , you see , or yours either ; I am an Englishman and not a controversialist . The only answer I give is John Ball ' s old dumb instructive " Everlasting Xo ! " which he will stand hy , if need be , with sharp shot and cold steel— " Xot that : anything but that . Xo kingdom of Heaven at nil for us * if the kingdom of Heaven is like that . Ifo heroes at all for us , if their heroism is to consist in their being not-men . Better no society at all , but only a competitive wild beasts ' -den , than a sham society . Better no faith , no hope , no love , no God , than shams thereof . " I take my stand on fact and nature ; you may call them idols and phantoms ; I say they need be . so no longer to any man , since Bacon has taught us to discover the Eternal Laws under the outward phenomena . Here on blank materialism
w / 111 stand , and testify against all Religions and Gods whatsoever , if they inust needs be like that Roman religion , that Roman God . I don't believe they need—not I . But if they need , they must go . We cannot have a " Deus quidani deceptor" If there be a God , these trees and stones , these beasts and birds must be His will , whatever else is not . Mv body , and brain , and faculties , and appetites must be His will , whatever else is not . Whatsoever I can do with them in accordance with the constitution of them and nature , must be His will , whatever else is not . Those laws of nature must reveal them , and be revealed by Him , whatever else is not . Maa ' s scientific conquest of nature mnst be one phase of His Kingdom on Earth , whatever else is not . . 1 don ' t deny that there are spiritual laws which man is meant to obey—How can I , who feel in my own daily and inexplicable unhappiness , the
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fruits of having broken them ? -But I do say , that those spiritual laws must bo in perfect harmony with every fresh physical law which we discover : that they cannot be intended to compete self-destructively with each other ; that the spiritual cannot be intended to be perfected by ignoring or crushing the physical , unless God is a deceiver , and his universe a self-contradiction . And by this test alone will , 1 try all theories , and dogmas , and spiritualities whatsoever—Are . they in accordance with the laws of nature ? And therefore when your party compare sneeringly Romish Sanctity , and English Civilization , I say , " Take you the Sanctity , and give me the Civilization ! " The ono may be a dream , for it is unnatural ; tho other cannot be , for it is natural , * and not an evil in it at which you sneer but is discovered , day by day , to
be owing to some infringement of the laws of nature . When w " draw bills on nature , " as Carlyle says , "she honours them , " ---our ships do sail ; our mills do work ; bur doctors do cure ; our soldiers do fight . And she does not honour yours ; for your " Jesuits , have , by their own confession , to lie , to swindle , to get even matt to accept theirs for them ; So give me the political economist , the sanitary reformer , the engineer ; and take your saints and virgins , relics and miracles . The spinning jenny and-the railroad , Cunard ' s liners and the electric , telegraph , are to me , if not to you , signs that we are ; on some points at least , in harmony with the universe ; that ' there is a mighty spirit working among up , who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil , and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God . "
Yeast is a work written by a thinker , and it will , we trust , set many thinking about the deep and grave questions mooted in its pages .
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. Memoirs of a Literary [ Veteran . Including Sketches and Anecdotes of the , most ' dislittguished Literary Characters from 1794 to 1819 . B y H . P . Gillies . Three vols . Bentley . These memoirs open with glimpses and sketches of Scottish country and landlord life at the close of the last century , among which amusing prominence is given to that of an old starched Tory laird who had accepted the absurd challenge that he could utterly smash and destroy within one hour , and with no weapon of any kind to help him , all the crockery ware
that could possibly be brought before him within that space of time ; and who , conceiving himself bound in honour to keep his word , did do it accordingly , b y dint of stron g arms , and legs fortified with huge fisherman ' s boots . This kind of -anecdote is followed by notices of Edinburgh life . Mr . Gillies , during attendance on lectarea . at the university in 1806 and for some jbllowing years , having seen something of the society in which the Scottish capital was rich at that time , and witnessed the "first sprightl y runnings" . of Scott ' s great and fruitful genius .. Here tho autobiographer
is often livel y and interesting in his retrospect . Mr . Gillies - began ¦ life under favourable auspices . He belonged to . a famil y of some distinction in Scotland , and inherited a > atriraony which though small was apparently sufiicient for his wan ts and tastes . All :, the outset of his life is accordingl y fair and untroubled . He indul ges in literary pursuits without any sharper stimulus than his predilection for them ; becomes an advocate without
the necessity of toiling for fees ; is bibliographical , and can afford to give large sums' for rareVack-letters or editions of Shakespeare ; writes poems , and corresponds with poets ; studies and delig hts iu German literature ; takes part in the outset oi Blackwood , and writes for that and other journals ; translates some foreign dramas with success and begins tho series of translated scenes from German , Danish , and other plays , by which his name became afterwards best known . Meanwhile his
small estate had become involved , and soon after passed from him . He left Edinburgh in 1821 for a tour in Germany ( where , among other notable circumstances , he made the acquaintance of Goethe , who reminded him in appearance of John Kemble , ) and continued to live in the Scotch Athens but for a few years after his return . The most memorable part of his memoirs of this date is the description of ; Scott ' s warm and zealous friendship to
him in the midst of his . own troubles and distresses . But Mr . Gillies seems to have had little capacity of self-hel p when distress once fairly overtook him , nor had his practice of literature at any time qualified him to make it very profitable . He came to London in 1827 , and with hearty help from Scott , established the Foreign Quarterl of which he S 00 O ceased to b © editor , however , and never afterwards appears to have recovered any stead y source of support .
We have run over the outline of -Mr . Gillies ' s career ; but autobiography , save towards the latter part of the work , is little more than a link to connect together anecdotes and sketches of marked individuals with whom the author came in contact . These relate to some ofthe most distinguished men of the age , in literature and Scotch law , and to characters even yet more remarkable in themselves from peculiarities which the state of society in
Scotland in the last century rankly developed . These things are told well , though verbosely ; and the reminiscences of that period have a more kindly feeling and a freer air than belong to those of a latter day , when misfortunes may have soured the mind . The anecdotes and characters of literary men will be found interesting ; the sketches of the Scottish gentlemen of those days will give an excellent idea oflifeinthe North during the latter half of the eighteenth century .
Some of these indicise consist of what are cajled- " good stories ; " and perhaps the best relate to the Laird of Bonnymune , an unconscious humourist , who was once eo celebrated that George IV . used to command the attendance of a certain Mr . Harris who was skilled in imitating him . Two peculiarities characterised the Laird—he would never use a carriage , and never sleep from home ; which traits produced the Laird ' s nig ht-ride .
The good old magmfico ' s taste in drinking became at length obtuse ; so th-ifc one evening after dinner , at a friend ' s house , he very willingly drank cherrybounce , mistaking it for port , and declaring that it wasa pleasant , pure , fruity , and generous wine , and very old in bottle . " As a matter of course , when the midnight hour approached , the laird wished to ride home , and' the horses were ordered . But Peter had never in his life seen his venerable master " so far gone ; " besides , they had a long way to ride , and the night was both dark and gnsty . After some consultation with the kind host and his family , it was agreed that Bonnymune could not and must not attempt to ride home . But as any proposition for his going to bed or staying- in the house after twelve o ' clock would be resisted and resented with obduracy , stratagem was used .
They led him out of doors with a light , which the wind instantly extinguished . Then , in the pitchy darkness , they assisted him to mount , not upon horseback-but upon a "fail dyke , " Anglice turfwajl , a common kind of fence in the far Jvorth . Flere Peter had cleverly attached the bridle to the stump of an elder-bush ; he put the reins and the whip into his master ' s hands , and then retired , with the words , "Jfoo , your honour , tho road ' s straight afore ye !"
Away went the laird , as he supposed , whipping and spurring to his heart ' s content ; till he arrived at the land of dreams and utter oblivion , when , wearied of his exeitions , he tumbled off .. , ^ ow Peter ventured to advance . "Eh , sirs . ' hech me , to think o' the like © ' that . " Then , raising his voice , " We ' re at hame noo , sir ! we re at hame , I ' m tellirt' ye ! Your honour ' s just fa ' en off at our ain stable door . '' But stratagem was no longer needed . The lairn
persisted most comfortably in his profound sleep , and was carried to bed without a murmur . Xext morning , however , no sooner did he awake to consciousness , than he vowed vengeance for the trick that had been played on him ; declaring , moreover , that had he been allowed his own way , he could have ridden home as well as ereche did in his Hie . He departed at daybreak , in huge wrath . antl would not , by any persuasions , be induced to visit at the same house again .
Lord Buchan , the elder brother of Erskme , had throughout life those eccentricities which ago only full y developed in . the ex-Chancellor : he figures conspicuously in the pages of these volumes . Here is an account of Cupid and the tea-kettle : — Another of-his Lordship ' s breakfast parties dre w on bun the ridicule of all the town , It was even
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h ? TS j * ° "»* -W a « lever satire and vinninfr ihW m . ad « for himself such inveterate scond K 5 TT * *«•* ke was forced to ab-S whifwl ? haa 8 ele ted » --Wywing ladies of ha himSf 71 ° to on the Mne Mules , whilst he himself received them as " Glorious Apollo . " w ^? i > f W ^ aktea » Hke «** ti * S -ncense spread , Wreath droundthe president ' Bbolaurelled head . "
i „ £ 2 T lad ' and their illustrious host , were LadSS M' unluckil y ' the cla 8 Ri 0 ™ dels Zn -i ° itMce ' beeil t 0 ° closely observed , ' for t ^ Z ™ V er Himmpoti the nine young ladies 7 uZZ leh am \ ? d tbafc tii ° y aI 1 sta « e < - 4 M » d , t ? ft ^ i ^ i , ee ^ in 2 ' r ^ o uUf % «»«¦; For this trifling blunder Apollo cared not a rush . It detracted not one iotafrom his own dignity , in h ™ S , , , - The < -l .- " ^* 3 cene had fc ken place and therewttu he was content . *
Here is a peep at the present Prime Minister forty years ago : — liri ^' * "ty * 1808 > but **» Tears ;„ * £$ ? th , ° , , -w-y »«<• tacetious debaters m the dingey old . hall of « the Speculative , " was our present Prune Minister . I doubt not that Lord John ltnssell , yo ung as he thon was , thought the mocK dignity and solemnities of the society rather quizzical However , he kept up his attendance , and cheerfull y took part in itsgoings-on . Hislordshippossibl y may remember those meetings , like shadows or glimpses out of dream-land -. and . nos .
sibly , too , may have wished that he could recall the past , and escape from the turmoils of omce to the quietude of his drawing-room , well stored with books , at good old Professor Playfair ' s ; or from the glare : of St . Stephen ' s , to the twilight glimmer of the debating hall aforesaid . I recollect some of those evenings—one in . particular—when a hapless member had been appointed to act tho part of Advocate for fyieen Mary ; how Lord John did cut him up , and , by affected pity . and sly sarcasms demolish ail . chance of acquittal for that unhappy princess—at least within the walls , of " the Speculative ;"
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED . Philip Augustus , by G . P . It . Ximbs . ( Parlour Library . ) Simmu ' and M'lntyre . Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love , hy T . Gerald Massky , a Working-Man . Watson . MUSIC . A Lay for the Church ' , the poetry by A Park , music by R . M'Pdeesion . Purday . The Census , a comic song , by A . Park . Purday .
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[ The following is inserted by express desire of the parties concerned . ] AN ADDRESS Written anil spoken on Monday , the 10 th of March , 1851 , for the benefit of Mr . P . Martin , one of the political victims of 1848 , at the John-street Institution , John-street , Fitzroy-squaro . Br John Shaw .
Brethren ,. Chartists , Friends ! who kindly sympathise ' ' ' In woe , endured by simple or the wise ; ¦ ¦ Your gen ' rous hearts or hands nro ne ' er withheld From suffering nature . No ! when ye have beheld Tho tyrant ' s victims in adversity , And human pangs plead god-like liberty ! You ' ve ' plied their wants , and thus decreased their pains ; The patriot ' s soul you ' ve cheered . Aye tho' his chains ' Should fret , and gall , and soar his noble heart , He smiles full conscious that he acts a part Shall freedom win .. Delight imbues his soul ,
Still panting for the prize—the wished-for goal Ofpowerforall ! Yes , heaven itself desi gned-Fraternal love , peace , plenty , to mankind . , Alas ! of Nature ' s bounties so deprived By base oppression ! that we ' re now arrived Where famine gaunt stalks daily through the land . Grim death strikes down our brothers with the brand Of despot kn & ves . Shall we still brook the frown Of haughty titles—priest , or prince , or cro-vn ? Forbid it , Shades of Cromwell , Hampden , Pym ! Thou patriot * pure ancestor of him Who disregards a suffering nation ' s cry ,
And mocks in weakness cowardly sophistry ; Progress repelling by finality , Upholds the Throne , the Church , and all State ills , By bludgeons , budgets , torn-fool Papal bills . Taxes on labour , knowledge , air and light-On all things else , by minions armed to fight . . ¦ Spirits arise ! Oh , ye immortal men . ' Come Sidney , Marvel , Milton , and Tom Paine ; Thou martyred Emmett , Tone , Fitzgerald brave ; Or Cartwright , Hunt , and Cobbett quit the grave . Diffuse your " wisdom ; and despair dispel , " And lead humanity from earthly bell , Till through our ranks resounds the word "Unite !" The world shall witness majesty and might Our common foe to vanquish .
While we serve Poor Martin here to-night , prove we deserve " The flights of Man . " Ah , then shall sland aghast ' ¦ '' .-Both Whig and Tory Lordlings , when at last A People's Toice proclaims , " We will be free ;" Our motto ' s not Divorce ;' tis Unity ! Poor feeble Martin ! Friends , bis former zeal Still glows within ; for him 'tis I appeal . True democrats his sterling worth must know—His tortures too from the ferocious foe ; Vile whig bastiles have wrought in him no change ,
Nor would he now with oligarchs exchange His poverty and rags . His noble mind . Now laughs to scorn tho wretches who confined In dungeons cold , whence his afflicted limbs Disease engendered , singing Chartist hymns . Thanks , fair ones , thanks ! and men who help each other ; You ' re happy made to-night a auff ' ring brother . Grateful for boons , your aid he'll ne ' er forget While red blood warms his heart . —But 1 must yet , ( If true you think him to our righteous cause ) . Crave ono good lusty round ofloud applause . 0 Lord William Russell beheaded for high treason . '
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ADELPHI THEATRE . The author , of a new melodrama , produced on Monday night under the title of The Disowned , has missed one grand quality—clearness of construction , and for the absence of this quality nothing else can compensate . We perceive that a certain gentleman , whose love has been slighted in his youth , has murdered his rival , arid adopted the daughter of that rival as his own child . We perceive that another gentleman , who has , likewise in youth carried off his steward ' s betrothed , - has , brought up his "illegitimate son without exp laining the intimate connexion which exists between them . ¦ We perceive that the steward desires to make of this lad an instrument of vengeance , but that his plans are defeated , and that the
youth dying at the end ofthe tale , through the explosion of a brace of pistols while a house is burning , is acknowledged by nig parent . All this we perceive , bat we are unable clearly to trace the course of action through the four hours which it occupies , and hence many scenes fall perfectly flat , and there is a disjointed appearance in the whole work . The entire Adelphi company is employed to give it effect , and there are the accessories of elaborate set scenes and popular rustic groups , but the piece altogether wants point and purpose , and hence nothing comes out with full force . Some ofthe situations told with the audience , and there was considerable applause at the end , mingled with demands for the author . But there were also many hisses , and the p iece cannot be said to have made a real" Adelphi hit . "
LYCEUM THEATRE . Mr . Jerrold , jun ., son of the celebrated author , has written a smart little farce , entitled Cool' as a Cucmler ,. which was produced on Monday night , Thecool gentleman , admirably represented by Mr . Charles Mathews , has picked up a cigar-case belonging to _ an old gentleman ' s son , and on the strength of this . introduction enters the old gentleman ' s house , and makes himsel f perfectly at home . The soa , who has been banished from his father ' s house to prevent a mesalliance , is treated by tbe intruder as a burglar when he comes home again , but at last th « impertinent wight ' atones for his misdeeds by attempting a reconciliation between father and sor / . Nothing can be slighter than the structure of thii farce , but Mr . Charles Mathews is well fitted , an < the dialogue is exceedingly neat . The success is unequivocal ,
HAYMARKET THEATRE . 1 very novel experiment was on Monday made at tbh house—the production of an English version of Moliere ' s Tartu ffe , not lowered into the condition of the Ilypociite , but closely following the orig inal , blanii verse being substituted , for the French Alexandrine . So literal is the rendering that , with the exception of a short speech made to heighten the "exit" of Damis in the third act , we d p not believe there is a single lino not to be found in Moliere . The manager , in putting the
p isce on the staije , has gone to work in the right wiy—transferring to the Haymarket boards the usigesof the Theatre Frangais . The drop scene dil not descend between the acts , but a few bars of j music alone indicated the division ; the one ro ) m in which the whole action takes place is 3 tfed up > itb characteristic elegance , an imitation of an oa £ floor being one , of tho loading features , and th ( costumes were of the moat reclierche kind . We hare had " 'Nights ' wi''Burns . " This , was . really anevehing with Moliere . The actors were placed in in entirel y new position ; they had to accommo-
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date tiiomselves to a convention not their own and tho way in which they moved in their new a ' tmosphere did them great credit . Mr . Webster , as Tartuffe , was tho measured hypocrite , carefull y weighing every syllable , and conveying the inward uncleanness by an artful glance . Miss Reynolds , as Elmire , the great part with the " grandos coquettes" ofthe French stage , was ladylike and quietly , fascinating . Mrs . " Fitzwilliam , as Dorirje ; was overflowing with archness , aud every point that she uttered told thoroughly , whether it was delivered with sarcasm or good humour . Less characteristic are tho half docile Mariane , played by Miss Laura Addtsion ; the gallant Valore , represented bv Mr . Ho we .- tho
fiery Danus , enacted by Mr . - Davenport ; the vacillating Orgon , sustained b y Mr . Lambert ; the sensible Cleante , exceedingly welt read by Mr . Ttoi-n-s ; the bland M . Loyal , performed by Mr . Charles Selby ; and the pompous Madame Pernelle , sot forth by Mrs ! Stanley ; but all these parts were effectively given , and there was the pleasing sensation , that the piece was as well supported as the present condition of the stage will allow . Parsons accustomed to tho French theatre only , where all the actors have been trained in . the conventions of tho haute comedie , may , perhaps , complain of a want of jinessc in the performers ; but to those who take the fair standard , ' and regard . a bodv of Jinglisli actors , working in a sphere totally different fr
om anything in which thev have been previously , engaged , as a really , new attempt , the spectacle on Monday must have been high ! v gratilying . With the audience the piece went Admirably . It might have been deemed questionable whether they would have tolerated at all a drama in which the unity of place is so rigidlv observed and m which any approximation to the bro . idly laroioal IS carefully avoided . But everv situ . ition was thoroughl y relished . The delightful episode of the lovers quarrel in tho second act , beautifully enlivened b y the acting oi Mrs . Fitzwilliam , went ott with clamorous applause , as well as the scenes that show the . exposure of the hypocrite , and , from . the beginning to the end , thero was no si ; 'n of weariness . A general call was raised for " the performers at the end , and Mr . Webster announced Tartu ffe for repetition amid loud applause .
Mr . J . William Wallaok appeared on Wednesday evening in the character of Hamlet . His performance evinced considerable talent , and in some of the great scenes ho made a strong impression ; but he has one fault , so great that it absolutely neutralises all his merits . He is the slowest actor we have ever seen upon tho stage . Thero is no play in which the dialogue is so varied as in Hamlet ; in many parts it is as light and colloquail as the language of comedy . But Mr . Wallacks move at one uniform pace ; asking a question or making a passing remark in the same solemn , measured tone , with which he utters the gravest and deepest thoughts . He utterly forgets the advice to tho players , which , in this character , comes from ' his own lips ; he cannot speak a speech "trippingly on the tongue ;" he must mouth it , be its import what it may . This grievous fault gives extreme heaviness to his performance .
i A farce , entitled JMc the best of it , founded on a French vaudeville called Le Pont Casse , was produced on Wednesday night . Mr . Benjamin Rurr ( Mr . Buckstone ) , a geiifcleuian of che" fast " school , and Mrs . Driv . ei ( Miss P . Horton ) , a lady whom he has followed into Sorth Wales , finding themselves alone at a small inn , and boing unable to progress in consequence of the nearest bridge being broken , choose as a pastime a game of cards , with the condition that the loser shall be the slave ofthe winner for two hours . Burr loses , and is consequently reduced to a state of serfdom . At this crisis Mr . Driver ( Mr . Howe ) , the lady ' s husband ,
arrives at'the inn with a theatrical lady ( Mrs . Fitzwilliam ) , on whom he passes himself off as a single man . Mrs . Driver , concealing herself , and availing herself of her power over Burr , compels him first to challenge her husband , then , wheri to her astonishment Driver accepts the . challenge , to apologise , and finally to make love to tbe danseuse . Poor Burr has no taste for the artistical lady , but is compelled to marry her at last , and . resolves to "make the best of it . " The weight of this little piece rests principally upon Mr . Buckstone , whose coolness under . all difficulties was admirably sustained . The odd situations and the points in the dialogue created amusement throughout .
' QUEENS THEATRE . Another version of Azael the Prodigal was produced on Monday ni ght . The plot 13 similar to that produced at Drury Lane , with the exception that instead of being an Israelite , Azael is one of a tribe of Arabs , and that the piece terminates in tho death of the false friend by the hand of the profligate . Tho spectacle is well got up , the scenery is gorgeous , the dresses in good taste , and the dialogue is nearly , if not altogether , original . Azael is represented by Mr . C . Green , Zaide his betrothed by Mrs . C . Boyce , Lia , Miss C . Gibson , and flephto by Miss P . Hamilton . These artistes contributed much to the success of this melodramitio spectacle , and at its conclusion Mr . Green was called for by the audience , when he announced its repetition until further notice . Life ' s Helm , which wo noticed in our last , concluded the evening ' s entertainment .
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC IMSTITUTIOU . The chemical professor of this establishment , Mr . J . H . Pepper , has just commenced a lecture on the preparation and bleaching of flax . The lecturer stated th-it about £ 9 , 000 , 000 were paid annually to foreign countries for this article , which we mi g ht very well raise ourselves . After a brief description of the preparation of the plant , a portion of which might be described by three concentric circles , viz ., the epidermis , or outer bark , liber , or inner bark , ( wherein the fibre resides ) called the heart and centre circle , composed of woody matter , termed the boon . After explaining the killing , rotting , or rusting , the breaking and scutching , the lecturer alluded to the various new chemical processes which had been devised , to get rid ofthe troublesome operation of kitting , ' and stated that
a handsome fortune would reward the disclosure of a new , complete , and expeditious plan for preparing the flax yarn , * but care was required in all chemical processes to prevent the weakening or partial destruction of the fllire . AU flax contained matter which it was necessary to get rid of in the best kind of goods ; white , and fair linen of course being an absolute requisite of civilised life . Bleaching agents might be considered under three heads . First , Absorption agents , such as chat-coal . Second , de oxydezung or hydrogen , giving agents as the preparation of white indigo , by protoxide of iron . Third , Oxydizing agents , which were numerous , arid of these chlorine wasthemosfc . valuable . Aft-r alluding to , the first , and second , which were not used for bleaching fabrics , the learned professor proceeded , by a number of experiments , to show the agency of chlorine .
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A Slight Mistakb , — "When Sir Isaac 2 vewfcon changed his residence , and went to Jive in leicester-place , bis next door neighbour was a widow lady ; who was much puzzled by the little she observed of the habits of the philosopher . One of the Fellows of the Royal Society called upon her one day , when among other domestic news , she mentioned that some one had come to reside in tho adjoining house , who , she felt certain , was a poor mad gentleman , "because , " she continued , "he diverts himself in the oddest way imaginable . Every morning , when tho sun shines so brightly that we are obliged to draw the window-blinds-, ho
takes his suit on a little stool before a tub of- soapsuds , and occupies himself for hours blowing soapbubbles through a common clay-pipe , which ho intently watches floating about until they burst . " He is doubtless , " she added " now at his favourite amusement , for it is a fine day ; do come and look at him . " The gentleman smiled , and they went up stairs , when , after looking through the staircase window into the adjoining court yard , ho turned and said , ' * My dear madam , the per » on whom you supposo to be a poor lunatic is no Other than tho great Sir Isaac Jfewton , studying the refraction of light upon thin plates , a phenomenon which is beautifully exhibited upon the surface of 11 common soap-bubble . "
A " Convert" from Mormonism is travelling over the kingdom exposuig tho absurdities of his late creed . At Chester last week , he said thatafter he had become somewhat sceptical , he resolved to put their abilities as to " casting out devils" to the test . Going one day into the assembly with a downcast , vacant look , and showing signs of eccentricity in his behaviour , the "brethren" at once declared that he was " possessed with tbe devil . " On their saying this , he pretended to attempt to escape , but they followed and overtook him , and then muttered some prayers over him , in the midst of which he was so tickled with the mode in which he had deceived them , th . ithe burst into an involuntary fit of laughter . The brethren at once declared that the "devil" had been expelled , and " congratulated him 0 : 1 his happy "'
escape . _ „ ..,:. _ .- < . _ . ,.. „ Tub Cheap Gas Qukstios . —Meetings have been hold to promote an amalgamation between the " Citv of London -Gas-light " ' and the " Great Central Gas Consumers" Companies . The ]« nctiori , it is said , will save the expenditure of £ 70 , 000 . The capital of the amalgamated companies is proposed to be £ 250 , 000 , in shares of £ 10 each , tho conditions of tho Act of Parliament of the Great Central Gas Company to be applied to- the amalgamated companies . " Committees have been appointud to agree to further details . Meanwhile , the citizens may congratulate , themselves on the certainty , in any case , of procuring cheap gas .
Thk Contribution that will win thb Prize . —It is rumoured that government intends sendin- * to the Crystal Palace copies of all the . measures that have been passed this year , as its contribution to the World ' s Exhibition of Industry!—Punch
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• Ti V - * RI 1 , r wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest race . The best physicians are Dr . Diet , Dr . Quiet , and Dr . Merrrman . ^ Long SToni 8 S . ~ Attecdotes are often spoiled by being too long : stories , as well as bovs , often outgrow their strength . Tub innovation of the barren waste in Leicester ttquanu considered as one of the ItyUest speculations 01 the day . a r Tiik EXPOttis of silk manufactures , twist , and yams arc increasing at the rate of eighteen per cent . Co . v . —Why are the authors who treat ou physioi-nomy like soldiers ? Because they t «(« dOOUt face . -
Tiik rural police numbers about 3 , 000 . and costs £ 20 , 000 per annum ; or nearly £ 70 per man to the counties that have it . Bv doing good with his money , a man , as it were , stamps the imago of God upon it , a » d makes it pass i-urrent for the merchandise of heaven . — RUTtRDOE . Passions and Affections . —It is just on entering into life that we anchor by the passions aud affections , and if the ground does not hold US , we drift away hopelessly . A hkkpectbd husband says that , instead of himself and wife being one , they are ten ; for she is 1 and hft is 0 . Tun SLOANEs . -- "It ; is far worse to be cast in wax than into prison ! " ns the Sloanes will say when they see themselves in Madame Tussaud s " Chamber of Horrors . "
Faults . —The most ignorant have knowledge enough to detect tho fauj ts of others ; the most clear Sighted aro blind to their own . An Irishman at a temperance meeting the other mght referring to his standing in society , said that he had been a working man ever since he was born . Yum and Tajik Animals . *— " Which is the most dangerous of all animals ? " said some one to Diogenes . —•• ' Among wild animals the slanderer , and among the tame , tho flatterer , " replied he . Proposing . —Some maiden ladies object to the first part of the proverb " Man proposes and God disposes " , tor , tlvey gay , Uie mew don ' t propose . Guilt . —As the shadow follows the body in the splendour ofthe fairest sunlight , so will the wrong done to another pursue the soul in the hours of prosperhy . FttiB . VDs . —Those who have resource ! within themselves , who can dare to live alone , want friends at least , but at the same time best know how to prize them the moat .
Heads and Tails . — -The cat-heads and cat-tails aro two very different parts of a ship . The cattails disorder the equanimity of the jolly tars very much , and they fly to pig-tail for consolation . Hasdsomb and Good Wombn . —It was a pertinent and forcible saying of the i ' mperor Napoleon , that a " . handsome women pleases the eye , but a good woman pleases the heart . The one is a jewel and the other a treasure . " Uncultivated LA ^ D . — -From a recent report it appears that fifteen million acres of ground remain uncultivated in England , and this rather from the want of skill and industry than insuperable natural obstructions .
" Poor Fugitive Slave Bill ! " said Mrs . Partington , as her eyes ran over the morning papers , and her quivering lip botrayed the agitation of her mind ; " poor fugitive slave , Bill ! I hope from my soul they won ' t catch him—I hope they won ' t . " Wexforp has been rid of beggars by a very simple process . The magistrates imprisoned the vagrants for twenty-four hours , and had them well washed . This discipline was found to act wonderfully well , for not one submitted to it twice . —Irhh Paper . Fashion—a power as invisible and as despotic as the grand Llama of Thibet . Her mandates , of which the origin is utterly unknown , are nevertheless understood and communicated by some inscrutable instinct , and obejed with still more inexplicable and
umnquinng submission . How to find plenty of Room in a Crowdbb Omnibus . —Conductor : Would any gentleman mind going outside to oblige a lady ? Unfortunate gentleman ( tightly wedged in at the back ) : I should be very happy , but I only came yesterday out of the Fever Hospital . [ Omnibus clears in a minute . ] The Washington Monument , now in process of erection at New York , is to be 500 feet high , 55 feet square at the base , and 33 feet square at the top . It is now 76 feet high , and \\ u cost 12 , 000 dollars , having taken two years to bring it to its present elevation .
Enjoyment . —There is a limit to enjoyment , though tbe sources of wealth be boundless ; and the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation . A Parliamentary Division . —Sibthorpe says , " The present House of Commons may hi divided into two classes , cotton apinners and yarn spinners ; and he doesn ' t know which is worse . " Metropolitan Sewers . —Tho gross amount required for tbe Metropolitan Sewers , exclusive of compensatioii j will be £ 1 , 080 , 000 , which will be raised and paid off by an additional rate of 3 d . in the pound for thirtv years .
When is a Person Rich Enough . —when I was young , an old i-entleman asked me . "When is a person rich enough ? " I replied , " When he has a thousand pounds ? " "No . "— "When he has ten thousand ? " " No . "— " A hundred thousand ?" " No . " - " What then ? " " When he has a little more . " Thought . —A vast chain of associations is often spread out before the mind hy a few simple words , and those associations aro , nine times out of ten , totally different from any other that the speaker intended to awaken . Number One . —A gentleman who has occasion to walk with two ladies , with one umbrella , shiuld always go in tho middle—that secures a dry coat to himself , and showing no partiality to either of the ladies .
The editor of the Bttnoor Mercury says that he knows two individuals , who are cousins , having the same name , whose fathers were brothers , whose mothers were sisters , and whose wives are sisters . He challenges the whole world for a similar coincidence . A Uniots WoRKiiotssE . —A crowd of snts , cronies , and drabs , blif-htcd maidens , and bloomiess children , dwell there in " wards" and " dormitories , " existing by'" dietary , " fed without a host , wearied without work , herding without love , and dying without a mourner . *—rimes .
Popox . vrroN of the World . —Professor Newman says it is a mathematical certainty that , if the existing population of the world were to increase for about eleven or twelve centuries , at the same rate as the British population has for some time past , no room would be left on the solid earth for men , women , and children to stand upon , allowing only a square toot for each . A Gkntlk Hint . —A sportsman , who , during the shooting season , had gone to pass a week with a friend in the country , on the strength of a general invitation , soon found by a gentlebint , that be would have done better to have waited for a special one . ' * I
saw some beautiful scenery , ' was the visitor s first remark , " as I came to-day by the upper road . "" You will see stilt finer , " was the repty , " as yea go bsck to * morrow by the lower ouo . " California . —the population of St . Francisco is about 85 000 . In that " city seven newspapers . ire published ; there are ten first-class hotels , and eight express companies . One hundred and seven ini / es of streets are laid out , about a ou . trterof which arebnilt upon , and seven miles are substantially planned in roads and side walks . Forty-seven steamers are employed on tiie Ciliforuia rivers , and eleven stcan ships are employed on the Pacific side , between San Francisco and Panama .
A Miller , who lately quitted bis mill to ke . ' ; p a public house , sent to a painter to paint him a sign , on which he wouiti have a mill . " I must have the miller looking out of the window . " "It shall be done , " said the painter . " But as I was never seen to be idle , yim must make him pop in his . head if any one looks at him . " Tnis was promised , and in due time the sign was finished and brought home . _ "It is well done , " said mine host ; " but where is the miller ? " " Oh ! " replied the painter , " he popped
in his head when you looked . " M . de NtEirwERKKRKK is at present executing the model of the statue of Xapoleon , destined ipr tho citv of Lyons . It represents the Emporoi- with his hand on his heart , pronouncinir the phrase , since become historical , of " Lyonwc , I lovo yon Y III 18 U , on arriving at Lyons from Grenoble , tho Lmperor was surrounded by such a compact and enthusiastic crowd that ho delivered no speech , and could only utter U \ o celebrated exclamation mentioned above .
The Folly 01 ? I'mdk .-The Rev . Sidney Smith , for many years one of the contributors to the great English Reviews , thus discourseth on the folly of pride in such a creature as man : — ' * After all , take some quiet , sober moment of life , and add together the two ideas of pride and of man ; behold him , creature of a spat , high , stalking through infinite spacem all tbogiandeur of littleness . Perched on a speck of the universe , every wind of heaven strikes into his Wood the coldness of death ; his soul floats from bis body like melody from the string : day ami night , as diistonthe wheel , he is rolled along the heavens , through a labyrinth of worlds . andall the creaiionsof boa are U-iming above and beneath . . Is this a creature to make for himself a cro-. vn of glory—to tieny his own flesh—tO mock'fit his fellow , aprutijj from , that dust to which both will soon return ? Does the
proud man nut evr ? Does be not suffer ? Dees he not die ? When lie reasons is he never stopprtl hy difficulties ? When lie acts , is he tierer tcinp <'« l by pleasure ? When he lives , is he free from pain . When be dies , can he escape-the common grave Pride is not tbe heritage of man ; hn miiitf frnoiut dwell with frailty , and atone for hjnsrane ? , emr , ami imperfection . ' '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 29, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_29031851/page/3/
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