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M^JJay 31, 1845. THENORTHERN STAR, 3
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THE LONDON ENTERTAINING MAGAZINE. Part V...
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THE LAST DAYS OF THOMAS IIOOD. The follo...
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PUNCH ON "SUNDAY PLEASURING."
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M^Jjay 31, 1845. Thenorthern Star, 3
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I . Into that World of Light ' Thus stood I here , Musis Musing awhile on these nnblotted leaves , TOltl TiHthe blank pages brighten'd , and mineear Toun Found music in their rustling , sweet and dear , j And wreathes that fancy -weaves Enrw Entwined the volume—fill'd with grateful lays , And songs of rapturous praise . 'So sound I heard , But But echoed o'er and o ' er our Shakspeare ' s name , One Onelingeringnoteoflove . link'dwordto word , TBI TBI every leaf was as a fairy bird , Whose song is still the same : Or e Or each was as a flower , with folded cells For Packs and Ariels !
* And visions grew—Yisi Visions not brief , though bright , frosted age Hal Hath fail'd to rob ot one diviner hue , Mai Making theni more familiar , yet more new—These fiash'd into the page ; At A group of crowned things—the radiant themes Of Shakspeare's Avon dreams . ' Of crowned things—( R ( Rare crowns of living gems and lasting flowers ) So Some in the human likeness , some with wings—Dj Dyed in the beauty of ethereal springs-Some shedding piteous showers 0 : Of natural tears , and some in smiles that fell Like sunshine on a dell .
* Here Art had caught 1 The perfect mould of UamletV princely form , — 1 The frantic Thane , fiend , cheated , liven , methought ; 1 Here Tiinon howVd ; anon , sublimely wrought , Stood Lear , amid the storm ; 1 There Borneo droop'd or soartl—while Jacques , here , Still watch'd the weeping deer . ' And then a throng ( Of heavenly natures , clad in earthly vest , like angel-apparitions , pa « 'd along ; The rich-lipped Rosalind , all light and song , And Imogen ' s white breast ; Low-voiced Cordelia , with her stifled sighs , And Juliet ' s shrouded eves .
' The page ; turn'd o ' , Shew y Kate—or Viola—' my lady tongue' — The lost Venetian , with her living Moor ; The Maiden Wonder on the haunted shore , Happy , and fair , and young ; TiB on a poor , love-martyr'd mind I look—Ophelia , at the brook . * With sweet Anne Page The bright throng ended ; for , untouch'd by time . Came Palstafij langhter-IanreD . 'd , young in age , With many a ripe anil sack-deroted sage ! And deathless clowns sublime Crow ded the Ieaij to vanish at a swoop , Like Oberon and his troop . 'Here sate , entranced , Malrolio , leg-trapp'A ; he who served the Jew
Still with the fiend seem'd running ; then advanced Mtssina ' s pretty piece of flesh , and danced With Bottom and his crew—Mereutio , Benedick , press'd points of wit , And Osrick made his hit . 'At these , ere long , Awoke my laughter , and the spell was past ; Of th « : gay multitude , a marvellous throng , So trace " is here—no tints , no word , no song , On these bare leaves are cast—The altar has been rear'd , an offering fit—The flame i ~ still unlit .
'Oh ! who now bent In humble reverence , hopes oue -wreath to bini Worthy of him , whose genius strangely blent , Could kindle * wonder and astonishment ' In Milton ' s starry mind ! Who stood Alone , but not as one Apart , And saw man ' s inmost heart !' " '
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Essays Ox Natural History.—By Ciubeeb Wa...
ESSAYS OX NATURAL HISTORY . —By Ciubeeb Watfjiiox , Esq . Second Series . London : Longman and Co ., Paternoster-row . ( Continual from tin Nortltem Star of May 24 th J Mr . Watebiox appears to have journied to Rome not so much for health or amusement as to make h ' uuself nttjuaurtea -with the feathered tribes abounding there . Ornithology is with him a passion , to r atify which nearly all other matters are neglected Instead , therefore , " of ferreting ont antiquities , and visiting the schools of sculpture and painting , he pa-sod his mornings in the bird-market . Of this place w « bare the following description : —
THE 8 JBD-MABKET OF HOME i- held in the environs of the Rotunda , formerly the paiititeon . Nothing astonished me more than the ouanv , n « of birds which were daily exposed for sale during Sir season ; I could often count above four hundred thru 4 i « and blackbirds , aud often a hundred robin redir « i 5 tsiii one quarter of it ; with twice as many larks , tad other small birds in vast profusion . In the course of «•; thy , seventeen thousand quailshavepassed the Roman t Mom-house ; these pretty vernal and autumnal travel" hri are taken in nets of prodigious extent on the shores « " : 1 k Sk-literranean . In the spring of the year and at ' -W clo = * « jtf tiie summer , cartloads of ringdoves arrive at fin- stalls Hear the Botanda . At first the venders were «/ rwith me ; but as we got better acquainted , nothing
C- 'iiJ surpass their civility , and their wishes to impart K-rv information to me ; and when they had procured a £ : « vare specimen , they always put it in a drawer apart ft u > . These birdmen outwardly had the appearance of Italian londitti , but it was aU outside and nothing more - , iliy weKgvod men notwithstanding their uncouth looks , aa-isrooii Christians too , far I could see them waiting at i ! ic uw ^ r < , f the church by half-past four o ' clock on a wini ^ r's m « nin » , to be ready for the first mass . I preserved tBity birds , a porcupine , a badger , some shell-fish , and a 6 "zi-n land tortoises , whilst I was in Rome ; and these esi M ' .-d the- shipwreck t > v having beenforwarded to Leghorn , * - « t time previous to our embarking at ( Svita Veechia
: - -r Uiai j « ort . Whilst we were viewing the lofty fragment « a -waU which towers amid the surrounding ruins of < Jtacalla ' s baths , I saw a hole in it which is frequented V she large eagle owl < if Europe . A fearless adventurer i-id managed to get a young- one out of it the year before , ^ lie had sold it to the gardener at the Colonna palace , "tickriit it alive in the pleasure-grounds ; and there I I'iid it a visit generally once a week . Another pair of 3 *** noble wanderers of night is said to inhabit the encrusts outworks at the top of St . Peter ' s . These birds are -ay scarce iu this part of Italy . The bird-market did not , however , ocenpy onr Motor ' s entire attention . Here is a description of
PJO-ElLLISG AT B 051 E . A * you enter Home at the Porta del Popolo , a little on Jjur right is the great slaughter-house , with a fine stream ' ~ "ater running through it It is probably inferior to i- 'Ht : in hajy for an extensive plan , and for judicious tttatigtments . Here some seven or eight hundred pigs i * killed on every Friday during the winter seasou . Syihuw can exceed the dexterity with which they are ' ^ latched . About thirty oi these large and fat black : 5 jr arc driren into a COjntnodiOUS noil , follaweJ ly three t ! SiurnjCT j each With ft Sharp skewer in his hand , bent i ' oucend , in order that it may be used with , advantage , f ' r- -aterins iheP 611 these performers , who put jou vastly - !< iuind of assassins , make a rusk at the hogs , each ^ zingoncby the leg , amid a general yeU of terror on ir part of the victims . 'Whilst the hog and the man are
•' mtgling oa the ground , the latter , with the rapidity of * -U' « W , pushes liis skewer betwixt the fore leg and the ! "lr * quite into the heart , and there gives its tarn or ' *¦ * The pig can rise no more , hut screams for a minute ' - ¦ -, and then expires . This process is continued till : - are all despatched , the brutes sometimes rolling over " •* - ¦ ¦ ' Mathers , and sometimes the butchers over the brutes , *' " 4 a yelling enough to stun one's ears . In the mean V ** * - screams become fainter aud winter , and then all j ' / 'W oa ^ g uealn 0 f the last pig . A cart is hi " " -H ' lautt .. Qle carcases are lifted into it , and itpro-¦ y 'i- di :. . . - ^ , j ] le sjy ^ c ^ leaving oue or wore dead hogs ^ ; n » - doors t , f u , e uifl ' erent pork shops . So woou ap-|"; « itna « U y , Tioris the interaal hemorrhage prejudi-^' - 'J' -ilje jnfeat , for Rome cannot be surpassed in the - w-ar of h w \ ator , or iu the soundness of her hams .
< : » the road from Rome to Sanies , Mr . yfxnanos - * 'HWer « laherd of
v ITiUAS BCFTAXOES . .. EEs "fid time glide on , every day producing something •^ '" * ? age the attention of my indefatigable sisters-in ^ and to give me sufficient occupation in ornithology ir ^ ** fs , t somewhat low in spirits when the day - V i ^ i ^ ° llitu we were t 0 ta 1 ke our < 1 Q ) art ,, re TOr v ' l ** Saw wore ^ rds on ine roat ^ om ^ ome to " n ' .., f- tlian l hni ohserred in the whole of the journey i ^ wji " ^ d - I"tes and common buzzards , sparrow a ? 5 " , f" 5 "ind-hovers , were ever on the wing in the t ii 4 ** " ** * e ^^ ^ s we 1 fteTe nesting our horses at ¦ V , ' ., ! : " ' the ade of the road , I had a fineopportunity jkL ™? . ''"^ 'O a very large herd of Italion buffaloes .
fr . ^ . ' ^ g animals have got a bad namefor supi :. j " < JGS . » and when I expressed my determination to « 'th ' » b r ' , tas wsrned * y the Italians not t 0 d 0 s 0 > ' 'Hu 0 is were tricked brutes , and would gore me ¦ •' v , » j 5 ' li 3 tia B singled out a tree or two of easy assent v ^ , - * Td ^ 'a 5 grazing , I advanced close up to it , i-. « , . ' luat oneorotherofthetrceswouldbea pros . ' ; " ^ * me » in case the brutes should be nnruly . They - •*; -.-., ^ i ^ and stared at me as though they had t ! . r . ^ j < 0 a man before . Upon this , I immediately : j - ! -i "* *' anB 5 - - ana lc e . into aW t " * 3 of antic n , j- .-l- h ^ ' " ' "" nhling loudly at the same time ; and the t ' -r-ajj ' ^^ «> w % and calves , fookofij as fast as ' ¦ '' "•!* . ij n - IK : lt , Jfcarin = me t 0 «* ani soundand -whole J j Wth a hearty laugh against the Italians .
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CTSMC-ES CUSTOH IS SICILY . In Sicily we saw au exhibition , the reeoliection of which haunted me like a spectre for many a week afterwards . It might be termed a melancholy parade of death decked out in a profusion of « ay anil spkr . did coloms . I could not comprehend by what species of philosophy these islanders had brought themselves to the contemplation of objects once so dair to them , but now shrunk info hideous deformity , and seeming , as it were , to ask for a removal from a situation which ill befits them , and which has robbed the grave of its just and long-aekuowledged perquisite . This abhorrent spectacle is no other than that of the dead brought from what ought to be their last resting-place , where the dryness of the climate has preserved tlieir flesh from rotting . They were decked out in magnificent attire ; but death had slain their beauty ; their godlike form was gone , aud the worm had left upon them disgusting traces of its ravages . " Metres , atone viri , defunetaque corpora vita . "
w e saw what once had been fine young ladies , and elderly matrons , and fathers of families , in dresses fit for a convivial dance ; and we might have imagined that they were enjoying an hour of repose till the arrival of the festive time . " But when our eyes caught the parts not veiled by the gorgeous raiment , oh , heavens ! there , indeed , appeared death in all his grisly terrors . 1 had never seen any sight in my life , before this , so incongruous , so mournful , so dismal , and so horrifying . These shrunk aud withered remnants of former bloom and beauty brought to my mind the exhibitions of stuffed monkeys which we see in our own museums , with this difference only , that the monkeys have glass eyes most unnaturally starting from their sockets , whilst the hollow sockets of the Sicilian mummies contain a withered substance , discoloured and deprived of all the loveliness that life had once imparted to it .
It is said , " if God sends meat , too often the devil sends cooks ; and we are inclined to believe this after reading the following specimen of
EOJIAS FIMBlNKS . There are many things in Rome which offend our English feelings , although the natives do not seem to be at aU affected by them . Thus all the spouts send down torrents of water from the eaves of the houses into the streets below , inflicting a deluge on those who have not learned theart of threading their way successfully through the spaces which intervene betwixt the descending torrents . Many a time have I received on my shoulders this annoying fall of water . The streets , too , are abominably filthy with offensive matter , causing a nuisance which would not be tolerated for a single day in an English town ; and within the entrance door of many of their dwellings there may be seen a pool which . Iwily cafts for the mop , if the purity of ladies' flounces be an object
worthy of attention . Again ; the kitchens of these Italians appear as though they had never once 1 > een whitewashed since the days of Ancient Rome ; Whilst their cooking utensils are , at times , none of the most cleanly . A friend of mine had ordered an omelet for supper . His servant , on going accidentally into tha kitchen , saw the cook preparing it in a kind of thing which I dare not exactly describe . But the reader will understand me when I inform him that the filthy rascal , not having a proper kitchen-pau at hand , had actually been up into the bed-room for a substitute . Our English maid , once expressing a wish for a culinary utensil in order to pour some broth into it , the Italian servanthad one in her eye which would just suit . She went and brought the brass pan in which we regularly washed our feet .
ilr . TVateotox is a most devoted Roman Catholic . The miracles and legends of his church are believed by him with unfaltering faith . At Rome he saw the ticulus , or piece of wood on which was written the inscription over the Lead of Christ when nailed to the cross—of the genuineness of the article he has not the least doubt I The benediction annually bestowed on the lower animals in Rome , in the name of St . Anthony , has Ms warm approbation ! He believes with Sir Wiiuam Hameltos , that the exhibition of the head of St . Januarius has upon the occasion of an eruption of Vesuvius , caused tho eruption to cease . ' He relates the pomp and circumstance at ^ tending the annual liquefaction of the blood of St . Januarius , of which he was au eve-witness , and
declares Ins firm conviction of the troth aud fact of the " miracle 3 " For the account of this great Neapolitan festival , we must refer the reader to the book itself . Mr . Watebios is too good a man , and too sincere in his convictions , for ns not to respect his views , however much we may be opposed to them . We may , however , remark , that seeing that Italy is so highly blessed , according to Mr . ' vvateutox , with priests , monks , saints , relics , miracles , and the fidl and undivided sway of the " only true church , " it is passing strange that a country so favoured (?) should be the worst-governed , and its people the most wretched in mind , body , and estate of any people in Europe . Ignorance the most gross , idleness the most degrading , filth the most disgusting , and disease
the most repulsive , arc the characteristics of the mass of the ^ Neapolitans , as vouched for by nearly all travellers . If the priests can work miracles with the UoodjofSt . Januarius , why cannot they work the miracle so much wanted of making the Neapolitans an enlightened , industrious , cleanly , and healthy , population ' If they cannot do that , of what use is their "liquefaction" and other " miracles , " except to increaseaud perpetuate their own wealth and power at the expense of the misery and slavery of the many ? Mr . Wateetos highly lauds one Benedict Jossr-n Lame , a religions beggar " who died at Rome in the odour of sanctity , on the 16 th of April , 1 / S-3 ; " he was a Frenchman ^ ho , preferring a life of Loly vaerancv to labour of any description , took np his
Quarters at Rome , where he passed his life in wandering about the churches , praying , and living on the alms of the credulous . Mr . Waiertqs says— "Bbsewct will probably be canonised , ere long , as the process of his beatification has already commenced ! " Of such materials Rome ' s saints are made ! What was there in a life so spent to entitle this idle and hypocritical or fanatical mendicant to Le elevated to the rank of saintship ? Who will assert that the honest English labourer or artisan , who ncrforms his duties to his family and to society , bearing with toil and battling with adversity , is not a far nobler character in the sight of earth and heaven than such useless vagrants as this St . Benedict ? May our country be tor ever preserved from the degrading superstition which Mr . WiTEniox seems so ardently to admire . { To be continued . ]
The Family Herald. P.Uir Xaiv. London: G...
THE FAMILY HERALD . P . uir XAIV . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . This part of this excellent publication is filled with most entertaining and instructive matter . The Wandering Jew is brought down to the conclusion of the seventh volume , which terminate s with an account of the breaking ont of the cholera , in Paris . From the able editorial articles we give two extracts , one from an article on the Religious Warfare in Switzerland , the other from an article on the May-BOOth question : —
TvTiat may be the result of this contest we will not attempt to divine ; but we think we are well authorised to say that the day is not far distant when some severe struggle will take place between the two great religious powers of Christendom . The progress of civilisation , of humanity , demands it . The mouths of men are shut in ultra Popish countries . The resident English cannot even build themselves a chapel in the city of Naples or in the city of Home , to worship God after the fashion of their fethers ; a Trotestant cannot preach in public without bong seized by the authorities ; innumerable books , political and religions , are proscribed , and refused admittance into papal territories—books that , perhaps , are calculated to inflame and to perplex the mind , but books , notwithstanding , which open the eves , and lead men out
of old established prejudices and forms , which of themselves are gradually dissolving and losing tlieir power over the most intelligent , OV the most active aJ riionglit-Ail , perhaps also , tllC most immoral porlion , of the community . Governments of this bigoted character arc losing hold of tbe convictions even of their own agents , and their most influential constituents . They stand , like pyramids , by tlieir own weight and antiquity , and byreason of the difficulty of removing them . But as obstacles to the progress of human tlioagbt , as tyrannical powers , which control the faith and opinions of men by physical force , and forbid even a supply of many interesting , innocent , and instructive materials for thinking on the mysteries of creation and providence , they cannot long be tolerated in tlieir present condition . The volcano
must hurst ere long , and when it bursts , war is one of the forms in which it will exhibit itself to the vulgar eye . The American Revolution started a great controversy of popular versus monarchical Governments , which is not yet solved , except to those who take a side , and are pleased to assert that they are satisfied . The French Revolution started a question of philosophy versus religion , which still rages , thirty years after the war has terminated Paine ' s "Bights of Man , " and his "Age of Reason , " were but biblical types of what was going on in the national mind when the war was raging , and what was destined to go on when the military combatants had sheathed their swords and retired to their quarters . The war still rages in the human uiiml ; these rights of man are every dav more and more discussed , in public aud in
private . Before the time of the American and French Revolutions , public discussions were comparatively unknown : the debates of Parliament were not reported : popular meetings were seldom held to discuss any public question ; newspapers were small in size , and few in number . There could be no great war respecting international subjects , for want of materials . But the revolut ionary war , by the increased excitement which it gave to the mind , supplied these materials , and urged on the controversy . Xov has the controversy which that war stirred up into a flame ever ireaFcd to this day . It has produced our own Reform , aud all its consequent experiments on the old constitution of England—experiments
which have not satisfied , and can only lead to some other crisis , of which way at home or abroad is the outward sign . Thwreis food for war in the world yet ; aiul the increased activity of party spirit is no uncertain sign of its approach . The Catholic nations are very weak , or they would have been at war with us long ago . France is a neutral power—Roman Catholic in name , but so anti-Roman that the Pope excludes almost every popular French publication from his dominions . It would side with Protestants in politics , but it hates or is jealous o £ England . Its very hatred of England preserves its neutrality . Had passions suppressed are not appeased ; and if the soldiers have not yet begun to fight , the people are already in arms , and even now all England and Scot-
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land is excited upon a Roman Catholic question . After the fear of Puseyism is partly hushed , now comes the fear of Maynooth priestcraft . Meetings are held , com . mittces are formed , petitions are signed , complaints are uttered , louil , long and deep ; the alarm bell is rung throughout , the land . We are not fighting , vulgarly speaking , but we are at war , notwithstanding ; and the Swiss cantons , which are now engaged in a bloody strife about the Popish question of Jesuitism , are merely exhibiting after another fashion that very operation of religious passion which is at present more silently and metaphysically going on amongst ourselves .
The opposition to the Jfaynooth graut is immense ; and its energy aud its ubiquity reveal an important fact in the history of the present times . They give a splendid manifestation of the life of Protestantism in England and Scotland , and its unconquerable hatred of Papal dictation and Pioman priestcraft . It is alesson to all Christendom . It is the proof of a great fact—a fact that seemed to want a proof—to allay the fears of Protestants on the one hand , and to disappoint the fond expectations of Romans on the other . The proof has been given ; and , as the Times welt observes , there has been no such exhibition of Protestant feeling since the foundation of the Protestant constitution in 1688 .
The present part concludes the second volume of the Family Herald—a . good opportunity is therefore at present afforded to new subscribers to commence taking this publication , which is one we can warmly receommend to them .
The London Entertaining Magazine. Part V...
THE LONDON ENTERTAINING MAGAZINE . Part VI . London ; Cousins , IS , Dukc-strcct , LincohvVmn-fi elds . Thc exciting tale of Matilda , by Eugene Sue , is drawing to a close , and will be concluded in the next part of this truly-entertaining periodical . The remaining contents of tills part are , as usual , interesting , and cannot fail to please .
The Last Days Of Thomas Iiood. The Follo...
THE LAST DAYS OF THOMAS IIOOD . The following is abridged from a notice by Mi-. S . 0 . Hal ) , in the Art-Union— "Mr . Hood ' s existence was a long disease rather than a life ; yet Ms temper , nnembittered by continual pain , remained ever cheerful and kindly , turning , to the very last , his wm sad suffering into jests , and forcing those who wept over hisagony , fierce as it was ( till he was overtaken by the last dull sleep that continued for three days proceeding his death ) to smile at the witticisms of his conceits , lwsmv strangely mingled with the consciousness of his situation , and his solemn forecast
of the rapidly approaching hereafter . Nor were such terrible contrasts reserved for ll ' lS death-bed only . Even wheu the ' Song of a Shirt' was knocking at every heart in Great Britain , its author was panting for breath ; and soon after he was confined to his bed , and literally propped up by pillows to write wit . And so he struggled on , through successive paroxysms of illness , till the last few months found him working amidst the very crisis and beatings of heart disease ( morethan once even in the intervals of delirium !) at the monthly chapters of his last novel—doomed to remain , like his life , a great fragment . But it is all over with him now . HftisYBleasedrVomlnboursnever
remunerated m proportion to the pleasure they-gave , and to the enormous profit they produced to others , seldom perhaps thought of by those whose hearts they opened j and whose care they seemed to beguile . Latterly liis friends had been agonized by Ms terrible lament— ' I cannot die ! I cannot die . ' and they could not hut be thankful to lay him , on tha iota of May , in a calm grave , at Kensall-green . It will not , wcarc sure , be long before a monument is raised to bis memory ; and there are hearts enough in England to remember that his widow and children have hut the small pension bestowed by Sir E . Peel , whose letter , in words that did equal honour to the Minister and the poet , conveyed Ms vc « yet that the grant was necessarily so scanty , and a request that he might be permitted to make the pers onal acquaintance of one with whose works he was intimately acquainted , and whose talents and character he had long appreciated and admired . "
Punch On "Sunday Pleasuring."
PUNCH ON "SUNDAY PLEASURING . "
The Two Following Letters Appeared In Th...
The two following letters appeared in the Times last week : — NO . I . " Sin , —Can you assist me in the following dilemma ? " Is a visit to the exhibition of the Royal Academy a rational , Christian-like , and proper amusement for the afternoon of Sunday , after attending divine service in the morning—aye or no ? " If it be , why am I aud my class excluded on that day ? "If it be not , why were 'their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge , Prince George , the If eredfitary Grand Duke and Duchess of Meekleuburgh Str < ilitr . ( attended by Mr . Edmond ilildmay ) , and the Grand Duehess Stephanie of lladen , accompanied by the Marchioness of Douglas , and attended by the Baroness de Strumredcr , " as per Court Circular , admitted ? "Yours , & c , "A Clerk , " Who never leaves business until dusk , " so . II .
" Sib , —In answer to 'A Clerk , ' applying for the opening of the Royal Academy on tho Sunday , 1 would observe , that the tilled personages whom he names ( if they were admitted on that day ) violated their duty to God and society by going , but in no way justified an act immoral and indecent in itself ; and that if once this barrier should be broken , there can be no reason why every public exhibition iu the country , and the theatres at night , should uoi equally be open also , as in Paris . "I am , sir , yours obediently , " Ose or toe PjEortE cailed Christians . "
The documents were attentively read by our exalted chief , and were observed to affect the venerable M \ Punch , in a most extraordinary manner . The latter letter especially excited him ; and he was awake all night after it had appeared , tossing about in his bed in a fury , and exclaiming , " Stiggins—it's Sliggins—I know it is—the rascal ! to say the Royal Family is immoral and indecent , and insult the Grand Duchess Stephanie , and the Baroness de Stvumfeder !" The next morning he arose quite calm , and calling for pens and paper , addressed the following ironic letter to the Clerk who wrote to the Times : —
" Jfr dear , rnocon unknown Fbiekd , —I have read your letter with deep feelings of sympathy . I know your condition—I know that you live ia Chelsea or Camden Town , with four children and a lodger . You work in that little runt of a garden of yours for hnlf-an-hour or so before breakfast : and baring hurriedly swallowed yfiur meal , in company with Mrs . Clerk and the family , and having kissed the four pair of red cheeks , all shining with bread aud butter , trudge off for a three-mile , walk to business in the city , where nine o'clock finds you at your desk over the ledger . At seven or eight you are back to that little dingy cottage of yours , and must be glad to get to bed early in order to be ready for tho next day's labours .
" How can you have leisure to improve your wind under these circumstances ? Xly dear , worthy fellow , you roust be in a state of lamentable ignorance—ignorance , indeed ! 0 , you poor miserable sinner , not to know how ignorant you are : and to dare for to go for to make such an audacious proposition as that about being allowed to sec pictures on a Sunday ! "To look at pictures ou Sunday is a' violation of your duty to Heaven and society . ' It is an act 'immoral and indecent . ' ' One of the people called Christians'has let you into that secret , in a neat and temperate letter , in reply to yours , which the rimes publishes—and a very liberal and kind Cluistian lie must be who warns jOUi
" It is it mistake to duty a , « i an examination of works of art , though tney reay ennoble aud improve your mind on Saturday , is not an odious and wicked action on Sunday . Uaroness Sti-um / eder may do as her ladyship likes . As for the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden , her Royal Highness is a Frenchwoman , by biyth , and a Princess living in a country where sail errors prevail—this dreadful one am ong others : —of admitting the public to recreation after the hours of devotion on the Sabbatii , and flinging the galleries auu museums open to the poor who catv sec ftiem ow -no other dav .
" Hake up your mind , my lad , and console yourself for living in the only country in Europe where you are debarred from such godless enjoyments , Suppose that it has been the custom of all Christendom ( and of England , until pious Oliver Cromwell cume and put an end to the diabolical superstition ; to recognise Art as not incompatible with religion , ; md to believe that harmless happiness was iutendedand designed to be a part of the weekly holiday . We are right , depend upon it—and all the world for ages and ages is wrong . Woe betide tho unfortunate sinners ! I can ' t think of a company of French or German peasants ( I have seen many such ) wincing umle ) an elm-tree , with Monsieur ! e Cure looking on , very likely , without a feeling of horror at their criminality—tempi-red , however , with pleasure in remembering that wein England are free from such crime ; and thatlamnftt involved , like these countless myriads of human beings , in the commission of deadlv sin .
" { some of those unfortunate creatures believe it is wrong to cat mutton-chops on a Friday— and the wretched bigous will tell you that it is 'immoral aud indecent , aud an insult to Heaven and society' to do such a thing . Blind aud miserable superstition : You must not amuse yourself on Sunday with pictures—but as for chops on a Friday , eat as many of them , my good friend , r . s you can buy . " And it is in vain of you to . :: postulate with that ignorant arrogance of yours , whi- ¦ : ; you mistake for good sense , but which is ' ouiy moristn ,. ; pride and self-conceit ;
it is in vain for you to say'if a -uni thinks it is a crime to eat chops on a Friday , I won ' t force him to eat them , but in the name of common ' s - 'use let me have mine . ' If I think iu common with liis lloyal Highness of Cambridge anil Baroness Strumftder that there is i . o harm in seeing pictures on Sunday , what man of the people called Christians has a right to doom me to perdition for my opinion ? He }\ , u content that another shoulu judge for vou , and take his word for it . Hu has disposed of Baroness Stmmi ' eder and the other titled personages , as you sec . Do you think he does not know what is good for , or what will hereafter happen to , such a poor miserable creature as
youl " Xo , my worthy friend—let this man lay down the few , and be you contented to believe bh » . He must be right : he says 'he is one 0- ' the people called Christians , ' If
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others of the people called Chvistiaws give you different doctrine , don ' t listen to them . Coals and gridirons they are in fatal error . Ho thankful for your chops on a Friday . "itcmumber that the rational awl beneficent law of the hind is that you are never to enjoy yourself ; that w . ion the Saturday ends your hard week ' s labours and the day ot rest comes , you have no right to interpret your ideas of rest in your own way . " It might be rest to your weary eyes , that have been weared all the week over the blue lines in a ledger , to look at such a picture as the Catharine at Raphael , in the National 6-allei-y , or the Claude that hangs beside it . It may be that you have a heart to be touched by their beauty , and elevated by those representations of pmifipd
and ennobled Nature . I , for my part , have often walked out with Mrs . Funch of a Sabbatii evening , and looked at the fair landscape and the happy people , aud heard the clinking bell tolling to chapel too ; and yet , somehowstayed in the fields without . Who knows whether the sight of God ' * beautiful world might not awaken as warm feelings of reverence and gratitude as the talk of the Rev . Mr . Stiggins in-doors , who was howling perdition at me over his pulpit cushion for not bring present sitting under him . It is very probable that lie thinks his sermon a much finer thing than a fine landscape , and can't understand how a picture should move any mortal soul . But , stop—why are we poor worms to understand what he doesn't understand , or to inquire about anything which is beyond liis Reverence ' s comprehension ?
Be you content , then , my poor friend , tofo !! oiv that profound and humble-minded instructor . Depend on it , btiggms knows best what ' s good for you . Doesn't he say so , anfltsn'fc he an honourable man ? Never mind all Europe , but stick to Stiggins . Remember your lot in lite , and be resigned thereunto ; no more aspiring to seo pictures on Sunday , than to enjoy pine-applcs and champagne ow the other days of the week . Aud if doubts and repinmgs « , i « cross your abominable mind , read over his letter , and after you see how he has disposed of poor Strumfeder , thank your stars that picture-gallery doors are shut against $ ou on Sundays , and that you are the clerk you arc . « Pckcij . " " P . S . By the way , there is oue point in Stiggins ' s admirable letter which is not altogether supported by his usual logic . ' There's no reason , ' he says , ' if the Royal Academy were opened , why every public exhibition through the country and the theatres at night should not be
opened too V To this it must certainly be answered , that if the museums in Birmingham , Manchester , & c , were open on Sunday afternoons , they would no doubt occasion in the provinces the dreadful depravity against which Stiggins . protests in London . " But because an Exhibition was open on Sunday afternoon , it does not , therefore ^ follow that a theatre should be open on Sunday night . No , dear Stiggins , that is not put with your usual mildness of argument . The garden of St . James ' s Park is open till dusk , and the ungodly walk there—but it is not , therefore , open all night , You might go out for a walk of an afternoon , but it does not follow that you should stay out all night . No , Stl ggy , I would not allow any one to say that of you . And our admirable legislature has provided that only the gin-shops should be opened on Sunday—not the wicked theatres . "
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FIELD-GARDEN OPERATIONS . For the Week commencing Monday , June 3 rd , 1844 . [ Extracted from a Diary , of Actual Operations on five siu . atlfa . Yius on the estates of Mrs . Davies Gilbert , near Eastbourne , in Sussex ; and on several model farms on the estates of the Eavl of Dartmouth at Slaithwaite , in Yorkshire , published by Mr . Nowell , of Farnley Tyas , near Huudersfield , in order to guide other possessors of field gardens , by showing ; them what labours ought to be undertaken on then * own lands . The farms selected as models are—First . Two school farms at Willingdon and Eastdean , of
five acres each , conducted by Gr . Crutteuden and John Harris . Second . Two private farms , of five or six acres -. one worked by Jesse Piper , the other by John Dumbrcll—the former at Eastdean , the latter at Jevington—all of them within a few miles of Eastbourne . Third . An industrial school farm at Slaithwaite . Fourth . SeYcralpmatemodelfarms near the sameplace . The consecutive operations in these reports will enable the curious reader to compare the climate and agricultural value of the south with the north of England . The Dury is aided by "Notesand Observations " from the pen of Mr , Nowell , calculated for the time and season , which we subioin .
" It is a very pleasant sight to see children engaged in useful and healthy labour upon a spot of ground which they can call their own : they shall he kept apart front the vice and folly of the young men of the city . " Note . —Me school farms an cultivated- by boys , w / io in return for three hours' teaching in the morning , give three hours of their labour in the afternoon for the master ' s benefit , which renders the schools seusupporti . v' 0 . We believe that at Famly Tyas sixsevenths of the produce of the school farm ivill be assigned to the boys , and one-seventh to tlie muster , xvho will receive the usual school fees , help the boys to cidtivate their land , and leach them , in addition to reading , writing , dv ., to convert their produce into bacon , by attending to pig-keeping , ivhich at Christmas may de divided , after paying rent and levy , amongst them in proportion to their services , and be made thus indirectly to reach their parents in a way the most grateful to their feelings . \
SUSSEX . Monday—Willingdon School . Boys digging , and manuring for potatoes after tares . Eastdean School Boys digging , sowing turnips , watering them with liquid manure , planting potatoes and cabbages for winter . Piper . Hoeing amongst the potatoes . DumbreU . "Weeding oats . TvssDAT—Wfllingdon School . Boys digging , manuring , and planting potatoes after tares . Eastdean School . Boys rolling barley and oats , weeding peas , hoeing potatoes and carrots , sowing the garden with lucerne . Piper . Setting potatoes . DumbreU . "Weeding tares , paring off clover stems . Wedxesdat— Willingdon School . Boys planting potatoes after tares . Eastdean School . Boys emptying pails , and mixing the contents with monk ! , weeding tares , and getting forward potatoes . P ' qxr . Hoeingandmending lucerne ; had but one slight shower of rain this three months at Eastdean .
DumbreU , Paring clover stems , burning , aud digging . rflUBsiMY— Willingdon School . Boys planting potatoes , Eastdean School . Boys digging , planting potatoes , planting cabbages after rye , and mending with liquid . Piper . Digging where the tares grew , and setting potatoes . DumbreU . Paring clover stems , and digging . fitvotx—Wi llingdon School . Boys digging the second time for turnips . Eastdean School Boys sowing turnips between the carrots , transplanting turnips , hoeing mangel wurzel , weeding oats and barley . Piper , Setting potatoes . DumbreU . Paring clover stems , digging , and spreading ashea . SiTunDAT—Willingdon School . Boys digging the second time for turnips . Eastdean School . Boys hoeing potatoes , cleaning out ipigs , $ » , \ te , m \ school room . Piper . Emptying the tank , and mixing liquid with dung and mould . DumbreU . Digging .
YOKKSHIHE . Slaithwaite School . From nine to ten hoys breaking sods , burning wicks , making a tank . C . Varley , carrying manure , ridging for turnips , and sowing them , James Ham / owl , sowing tares , preparing for turnips , earthing potatoes . John BaMwA , delving , limin g cabteps . COW-PEEDISG . TMtngdbn School . Cows fed on tares and clover . Dumbrell ' s . Two cows grazed in the pasture the whole week , stall-fed morn and even on tares till Wednesday , afterwards with clover . Heifer stall-fed on tares . Slaithwaite School . Cow stall-fed on rye and tares . C . Farley ' s , an mown grass .
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS . Top-dressing Potatoes—[ "Saltpetre increases the vital action in man ; it doth the same in plants . " ]—After the breaks or intervals in the rows are filled up , the application of saline top dressings will naturally commence . The following are the best mixtures for such purpose , and are deduced from the results of numerous trials which have been ingeniously tabulated by Professor Johnstone . They may be applied to the crop when the plants are five ov six inches high , by scattering them upon the ridges , previous to a shower of rain . No , l . — -For one acre of manured potatoes . Saltpetre , $ cwt . ; sulphate of soda , f cnt . ; sulphate of magnesia , 5- cwt . No . 2 . —Saltpetre , f cwt . ; gypsum , 1 cwt . ; salt , 1 cwt , ; sulphate of magnesia 4 ewt .
, No . 3 . —Nitrate of soda , £ cwt . ' ; gypsum , 1 cut ; wood-aah-charcoal , 30 bushels ; salt-pan bittern , 20 gallons . Top-nnES 3 iNGs Fon Timxips , — [ "Hoe your turnips while and whenever the sun shines . " ]—Hoe early to frighten away the fly , and scatter top dressings upon the row to drug them , immediately before a shower ; the hoe following soon after , will allow no peace to these pests . Introduce the saline mixtures forthwith into the ground . No . 1 . —After manure and guano or guano alone . — oi
Apply a dressing 1 * cwt . of gypsum to the acre . Ao . 2—After domestic , or natural guano and manwnfcp-Apply nitrate of soda , lJ cwt ., mixed with 1 cwt . ot gypsum ; or , sulphate of ammonia , 36 M No . o - . —After rape dustand manure . —Apply i cwt . nitrate of soda mixed with 1 cwt . of gypsum . " The author can speak with confidence , and from experience as to the efficacy of such manuring . ? . 'Ike quantity of dung may he diminished in proportion to tlie value of the saline substances introduced before the seed , and in . subsequent top dressings . Let all dressings be well mixed with abundance of coal ashes , to time , plague , and drive away insects .
New Discovery of Masube in Africa , —The doubt which has hitherto existed of the finding of nitrate of potass and nitrate of soda on the African shores has within the last few days boen entirely removed by the arrival of information giving its positive locality ;
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m consequence of which a very considerable stir has taken place in the shipping interest , the few persons to whom the secret is known taking every available vessel , at rates ranging from £ i to £ 110 s . per ton , " to be put into tlie snip ' s boats , " which is said to be satisfactory to the owners . O . v the Use op Soap-suds as a Manure , — About twelve months ago I had at my command a tank that received nothing but the suds that came from the laundry : I thought I would try its effects . The first thing I tried it on was hyacinths in pots , and the result was most astonishing . I tried some of Potter's liquid guano at the same time , as an experiment , but found the suds most beneficial . Manv pernios
who saw the hyacinths , said they never saw finer . I used it alternately with pure wafer . I also tried it with strawberries that were forcing , awl though the plants were previously very bad ones , the result was very satisfactory . French * beans in pots were also a great deal improved by its use , and I think if itwere extensively employed it would be found very beneficial to a great many plants . It must be remembered that it was not used from the wash-house , but was allowed to run into tbe tank , which was always nearly full ; by this means it may be used without the least injury to any growing plant requiring such stimulus . —J . Moms , in the United Gardeners' Journal .
OATS . —The oat is , within its range , one of the most useful grains with which man is acquainted , The mealy matter of it contains less starch and mucilage than that of barley : and not above a fifth part of the saccharine matter ; but it contains nearly one half more gluten : so that , as food for man , the oat forms a sort of intermediate between wheat and barley , being less nutritious than wheat , more nutritious , but less light and digestible , than barley ; and rather more stimulant than cither . Of oats , or oat grasses , there are about twenty-five species , some of them amongst the most troublesome and destructive weeds with which the farmer has to contend . Only one species is cultivated , but there are , as in the ease of the other grains , a great many varieties of it . The older writers , indeed , describe another , the naked
oat , or pilcorn , as having been once in abundance [ and repute in some parts of England . The grains of that oat were without awns ; and it is said to have i got its naineofp / fcow , or peelcom , from the circumstance of its thrusting clear out oi the husk , and thus not requiring to be " shelled" at the mill , as is the case with all the oats in cultivation . Of whatever country the oat may have been a native , it must have been of a country that is rathe * cold . The oat does not thrive well in a lower latitude than about 48 degrees , there being little of it south of the parallel of Paris . In the north , however , it is highly important . It thrives upon almost any soil , and stands almost any degree of cold ; and if it can be
ripened before the frost sets in , the more bleak and barren the soil on which it grows , the finer is its flavour . ^ There are four or five varieties of the oat , which yield differently ; but the one which is best adapted for human food , though not the most productive , is the old white oat , which was so long the principal article of food among the poor in this country , especially the northern parts of it . "Where wheat can be readily obtained oats are not much used for bread , but they are used largely in the feeding of horses , with which they arc supposed to agree better than any other species of grain , Oats are also sometimes employed in brewing and in distilling ; but are considered inferior to barley for those purposes .
Hye . —Rye is a grain plant cultivated in this country and in the northern parts of Europe , for food ; but the quantity of it grown in Britain has become much loss since agriculture was more improved , and the land brought into a better state of cultivation . The meal of rye contains nearly the same quantity of mucilage and starch as that of oats , about twice the quantity of sugar , and a fourth more gluten . It is , therefore , bettor adapted for fermented bread ; but it very soon becomes acid or sour : indeed , it undergoes the acid fermentation in the process of baking ; and therefore , though rye bread is rather pleasant from its acid taste , and has a gentle action on the bowels , it is not either so nourishing as that of the other grains , or so easily digested . The soil
upon which rye succeeds best is dry sand ; accordingly it is the principal grain in the countries to the eastward of the Baltic Sea , and to the south of the Gulf of Finland ; it is grown also in some of the light sandy districts on the eastern coasts of Scotland , aud in the northern parts of England , though more spav ' mgly m the latter . The peculiar properties of rye arc understood to lie in the husk , ov in that part of the grain which is immediately in contact with it ; for coarse as the common black bread or ruck of the Russians is , which is made of the rye , husk and all , it has a flavour which is not found in the fine rack of tlie Russians , which is made of rye flour ; avid if the latter were not sweetened by some addition , such as honey , it would be very unpalatable .
TiiEXCit Pioucnreo . —At the last , meeting of tho Highland Agricultural Society , Mv . Aitchison , of Drummorc , read an account of " Experiments with trench-ploughing" made by Mr . J . Proudfoot , Pinkie Hill , near Musselburgh . Mr , Proudfoot has been in the practice , for several years past , of trench-plough ing a considerable quantity of land every year for green cro » s , and last year he trench-ploughed twenty acres . The trenching consists of one plough going before and taking a furrow of 6 inches in depth , and another following in the same furrow and taking 8 or 0 inches more , so that together they reach a depth of 14 orlo inches , and which is accomplished in just double the time required for common ploughing . The trench-ploughed land requires no working in spring excepting harrowing or rolling before the planting of tho potatoes , and it is this non-stirring of the soil in spring , which , in Mv . Proudfoot ' s opinion , has been the cause of keeping tho drought out ol his
grormu , which is a light sou resting on a gravelly subsoil . and preventing the potatoc failure in it for upwards of twenty years . Last year he planted C acres of potatoes on the trench soil , and G acres on laud worked in the ordinary manner in spring , the entire 12 acres beingequallywellinamu'ed : and though the trench-land was eight days later in being planted , the potatoc stems were as early above ground , were much stronger in the stem , and yielded 14 bolls , of 4 cwt . each boll , per Scotch acre , more . The trenched ground yielded 62 bolls , and the other 48 bolls , per acre Scotch , and both were a good crop and of good quality . Sir G . Suttie , having alluded to the practice of manuring land in autumn for the turnip crop . Mr . Aitchison mentioned that his turnips , which were raised on manure that had been applied in autumn , rotted much more readily by the month of January , when stored , than those which were manured at the usual time .
Corn Rents axd Leases . — -The following resolution was unanimously agreed to at the last monthly meeting of the Hales worth Farmers' Club : — " That a move general adoption of corn rents , in connection with permanent and modified leases , would place the tenant-farmers of this district in a comparatively better position than when under the liability of fixed money payments . " Prodigious Ox . —One of the finest specimens of beef ever witnessed in Birmingham , was exhibited aoout a fortnight since at the back of Mr . Holder ' s , Rodney Inn , Coleshill-street . For neatneasand symmetry of form , and fatness , the ox was the best of its species ever slaughtered in that town . The noble animal was of the Durham breed , by Mr . Arbutknot ' s
bull Despot ; was bvevl by Mv , Baldwin , of " \ YS 8 tunon-Avon , ncai' StsaifovJ-on-A-von , and fed by Mr . Newbold , of BaginfcoM , near Coventry . The gross weight was 202 ? lb ., or 253 sfc . 3 lb . A great portion of this extraordinary beast was sent to the metropolis . Bones and Sulphuric Acid . —Mr . P . Davis , ol Milton House , near Pembridge , Herefordshire , has j favoured the council of the Royal Agricultural Society with the following statement of results : — " 25 th April , 1845 : —With reference to Mr . Pusey's suggestion as to tho propriety of using bone-dust dissolved in sulphuric acid , along with compost instead of water , for turnips , I can confirm his idea from practice , having ast year manured fiacres with only 13 bushels of wDfrwm
ttissoivettm 270 } b . of the acid and 16 * 0 gallons of water After standing 24 hours , the liquid was mixed with three cart-loads of coal-ashes , and left to remain for a week ; during which time it was turned over two or three times . The . mixture was then drilled , along with the seed ; and the result was a fair crop of common turnips off a piece of poor land without other manure , and at a- cost of only 12 s f ) d ' per acre . " The council ordered their thanks to be returned to Mr . Davis for this communication , with a request that he would further favour them with a statement of his previous cropping of the field , as well as of the quantity of his crop when freed from tops and tails .
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Railway Accident . —On Wednesday , as the halfpast ten o ' clock train form Glasgow wascoming along the Kilmarnock Junction , near FergnsbilJ , it came in contact with a cow . The engine passed over and drugged it along a short distance . Its death was instantaneous . — National . Distressing Suicide . —On Thursday evening an inquest was held at Long-barn , near Crediton , Devonshire , on the body of a young woman , aged seventeen , nam ed Ann Partridge , who destroyed herself by taking oxalic acid . It ^ appearcd that Miss Partridge was in the habit of daily going to Crediton for the purpose oHcavn ' mg the jniWrnery business , and that some time since she was grossly assaulted on thc road
by a young man , who is now suffering imprisonment at Exeter for the assault . She appears to have been exceedingly nervous aud unhappy smce the indecent attack had been made upon her ; and though she never alluded to thc matter , there can be no doubt that this was thc cause of her depression ot spirits and unhappy fate . Two letters were found m net * room , neither scaled or folded , but , from the appearance of thc ink , they had evidently been written but a few hours , i hey were addressed to her sister . She stated— " The cause of my misfortune was a sad broken heart , known to none but myself ; " and concluded by asking pardon of God and her parents for the weakness she was showing . The jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased died from taking oxalic acid , administered by herself . "
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A Good Reason . —Everybody is astonished at the little progress made b y the railway committees . In tin ' s , however , there will appear not much to wonder at , when it is considered that railways must be made in right lines , and that the House is little accustomed to straightforward m : occed «} gs . . r , I im ^ f Disputes op Doctors . —A . quarrel has * , arisen between the surgeons and general practitioner which Sir James Graham proposes . to step jniaoil settle . We recommend the Home Secretary , to let > the profession alone ; for " "Who shall decide when doctors disagree ?"—Ibid . Highly Appropriate . —Ireland , we understand , at the dictation of Daniel O'Conncll , is about to repudiate the shamrock , and instead of it to assume , for a , national emblem , the aspen , as ivpical of eternal agitntion .-m
A Baud Bargain . —It has been urged as ah' excuse for the Trafalgar fountains , that they are at all events very durable . Our own opinioiws , that they are altogether unendurable . — Ibid . Poor Creature!—We have often heard the Sister Isle called "Poor Old Ireland . " Poor Ireland , it seems is so very old , that she has now lost the use of her members . —ibid . Very Simple . —A gentleman last week became a member of the Royal Humane Society , under the impvession that he could have one of their drags to go in to Epsom races . —Ibid . The "Plague . "— "My dear , " said a wife to her husband , "did you ever read of the plague in London V " No , I don't want to read it . lis enough to have a plague in my own house !"
A Brotueblv Conjecture . —The editor of the Chi ' cinnattan says he has been in a " sea of trouble" for several days past , on " several accounts . " Probably the longest '' account" was his tailor's . Glory !—Near St . Sevier lives an old soldier with false leg , false arm , glass eye , complete stt of teeth , nose of silver covered with a substance resembling llesh , and silver plate replacing part of his skull—he was a soldier under Napoleon , and these arc his trophies of glory ! _ A Genius . —At a meeting of the TTesleyan Missionary Society , lately held in Nottingham , wc learn from the Mercury , that a motion was seconded by a Mr . James Everett , of York , " in a speech of extraordinary humour , sparkling with points of wit , and abounding in the varied tropes which Mr , E , is so
well known to have under perfect command , and which his exuberant fancy pours out like tho waters of an exhaustless fountain . His genius , unfettered as the antelope , bounded over hill and dale , paused and gazed at every prospect , siuiJ ' . ' < Z the g « k , aud dashed along again , exploring every nook , and rock , and covert of an almost boundless range of thought , and making an amazing variety of topics culled from political , social , and ecclesiastical economy , contributing to the argument and illustration of a missionary speech . " Behind the Scenes at a Solicitor ' s . — "I say , lluntham , there ' s some stuff in my room that we may get something out of . " •" ' Who is it ? " " That Mr . Covcrly , of Devonsliire , who signed the bond to Snatchifct" " More fool he ! But that ' s his affair .
Has he got the money ? " "ho ; but he has got a d—d fine estate . I know it well , but ho doesn't suspect that . He isin a devil of a funk , and is ready to give his cars to keep the matter snug . " " But will his estate bear bleeding ? " said Mr . Uuntbam . " Oh , it's as good as gold ! And what do you think ?—upon my soul , it ' s like tho game walking into one's net—ho wants ns to raise the money for him ! " " I hops you told him wc couldn't . " " Of course I did . I tickled htm nicely , and made it a favour to try . ' aiul that ' s what 1 am supposed lo conic to you for . It would be apity to let him slip through our lingers , for there he sits like a lamb to be slaughtered , Jind wc may do what we like with him . " " Is there no way of making a fatter bill out of him before we get
him the money ? Couldn't you egg him on to dispute the bond * " " Impossible ; you know he confessed judgment , and signed a warrant of attorney , five months ago . There's nothing to do now but to issue execution . " " Suppose , " said Mr . lluntham , nieditaiingly , " we were to liavo him grabbed and locked up ? " " " That might make him desperate , and then he would get into Playfair ' s hands , and wc . should lose the chance . " " Damn that fellow , 1 say ; bo ' s always spoiling the game forothcr people . " "What the devil does he think that attorneys can live by' settling actions ! ' No , no ! when two fools want to go to law , let 'em go at it hammer and tongs—never stop ' cm ! But the very first thing that dirty dog Playihir does , is to try to reconcile the parties , aud recommend them not to go to law ! i \ ot go to law ? Wby , what
would become of all of us it people didn't go to law ? That Marplot Playfair is tho curse of the profession I Well then , if that ' s the case , we had better hook our man at once . You say he'll bear bleeding ? " "A 3 much as you please . He ' s in a pretty sweat , though he tries to seem cool ; but I sec through him . He'd give hisoyestogctoutofthe mess quietly . " " Come , then , Ictus go at him together , " said lluntham ; " andmind , you're to do tl « V blarney . 1 shall say it's a thing impossible—that wc must proceed to execution , and all that . " The CitAiuctfEiusTiC or " Pahty . "—Speaking of the Great Captain's influence in the House of Lords , Ellenborough bauncingly exclaimed , " 0 I the Duke has power to carry anything—he could carry the monument ! " " Possibly , " replied Normanby ; " that is aparty column—it leans to one side . ' "
XIKES AND DISLIKES . " Towards the Right Honourablu liaronct Pool , llegiti'd , nay , affection , I certainly fuel , " In debate , exclaimed Dublin ' s itcuorder ; " But as for the Cumberland JJaroiict , Giviliaih , Ify feelings , I own , are by no means the same—¦ My love doesn ' t stray o ' er tic border !" Pleasure of Place . —Colonel Jlowan has returned from his fishing excursion . These police commissioners , if they have not a very lucrative , have a very easy office ! Messrs . Rowan and Mayiic " go to ^ play " three months alternately in the most agreeable manner imaginable .
Cool , —Mr . Daivdson , brought before the senate of of Michigan for contempt , left Now York before the case was disposed of , leaving a letter directing the senate to send tho "reprimand" after him—through the post-office . " Rather xot , thask vou !"—What kind of per sonal service is that for which persons are never expected to appear grateful ?—The service of a writ . A Reason against Annexation . —At an anti-annex ation meeting in New York State , one gentleman from the country objected to the annexation of Texas , on the ground that there were crocodiles there , lie didn't " want ' cm brought into this country . "
As EwroR on ins IIioh Horse . —The Northern i Herald , speaking of tho Maynooth grant , has the fol- ¦ lowing eloquent ebullition : — " Compared with such i impiety as this , it would be a comparatively insignifi- - cant piece of profane blasphemy to mouth the hea- ,-vens , and tell tlieir Maker that his material sun , i , spreading life , and warmth , and glory , throughout it creation , is a ctuse , and seek to exclude its rays from to , their dark and vile habitations !" " oo !" Anu so the Queen will not appear in , At least tliis year , the Isle of Erin .
What think you then of Peel ' s VSltl pVCSUgC , TUcio first frulu oi' ina fiim ' u pcacc-messagc 3 Instead of oil upon the ocean Of Irish clamour and commotion , A . ttd smoothing Queen Victoria's sail To tlie green shores of Iuisfail , * Her voyage has been made uncertain As aught behind the future ' s curtain . ' 1 \ vaX \ w \ mttt \ " message , " then , ' tis \> lain , " Has failed at present in the main—Has proved no halcyon to tlie stems , But rather wears the petrel ' s form !
The laii-: Mit . Stmckuxd . —The GhU , whichfirsinrsll announced tho death of this lamented comcdiamlian having informed us of that fact , . iiltled— " Duriniurin :: Mr . Strickland ' s unavoidable absence , liis pare hac hai been sustained by Mr . Webster , " Thk Joiuu . N Water . —llcv Majisty having sot thot tin example , which is of Ramish origin , of having Uig ft ' Royal infants baptized with water from the Itivi Itivii Jordan , fchoro is cveiy probability of the Royal whil whi' j being imitated pretty generally by the aristocratocrat i portion of the community . The water , we learn Jam H our daily contemporaries , used at the christening ning the infant sou of Viscount and Viscountess Villier'illievi '
on Saturday last , at St . George ' s church , Ifcutoranovcj square , was "bottled up" and brought from tlmi til Kivcr Jordan by Emerson Tenncnt , tho BelfastM .. StM .:: c m ' „ * * new joint stock company is now iu tk iu tl , course of formation , to be called " The Hirer Jotd ; Jordili pure and unadulterated Baptismal Water BottliBottHi . T M' , ? - n ,, eKthc PatKawge of Royalty , ami wind wi-i some "brilliant" name for chairman . When then tt Jordan water J 8 ti „ brought into general use ( luso ([ tailed In- the company at 3 s . per single christmmtoni ] and as for twins ) , tt is only to bo feu-od it * 8 l will longer bo considered cither fashionable or aristocLristoc : ; : tic . —Satirist .
Gratituoe for Three Fartuiscs . — Mr tcly Let O'lliggins ! doesn't thank Sir Robert Peel for t for tt proposed grant to Maynooth , not a bit ; th ? I ' reni I'rcrai need not , therefore , hope , by improving the bedsc bedss the Maynooth students , to bolster np his popuiaropuiarir in Ireland . For , after all , as his lordship okservol . xervf this miserable grant of £ 26 , 000 , amongst eight might rc . v lions oi' Roman Catholics , does not amount to tm to mm than three farthings yearly for each . Really , Jally , ! 1 Robert , this won't do ; the price you offer mVlr fr > V Ingratitude is exceedingly small—decidedly shabb y , luibby ,, might say . Wc quite agree with rny Lord O'llizginiiffgiji No pairiotte Irishman can afford to be grateful . 'atoful . three farthings per annum , —Great Gv . , \ .
Pkkse . vts to Di . w—At a meeting of the Rcriie Rcrir Association last week Mr . O'Conncll said "hcl "he ' : ' received a present of a snuff-bo * from Bolton , wJton , whi was stated lo he made by an Irish workman . na v « vp .. aaa the hoof of a Kerry cow . " Query ? Ty ~ ;> > , rY ; ' > , -, rather from the Pope ' s bull which lately a * f tt f l ' Agitator ?—Ml . * Au ancient name fort nc S ' . uer-. i !
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 31, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_31051845/page/3/
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