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March 1, 1845. , , . • The Northern Star...
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BMTAS 5 IA TO HIBEH 5 IA OR HER USELESS MEMBERS . - HI bad a Member what wouldn ' t work , _l" ** ye * _mmkrdsi * fferliimathometolmk ? I'd g ive itbim well , and cry ' Don't shirk 1 " And " Sow then lazy !" _~ Wot makes me mention this just now 2 Here ' s you akickin' np a row A keepin"' yoin * "Members At home to prate , When they ought to be helpin' to legislate . I want to know of what avail
Is Daniel O'Connell and all his tail ? They might as well have stoppM in gaol . I tell you what , ffibenjia-If I had a Member , A * Instead of hreakin' of ihepeace , And gran' work to the police , ' Why don't youtry to gain your cause By means according to the laws ? How can O'Connell earn his rent By staying away from Parliament ! I'd ask bbn how the cash was spent ; And also
say—Jf I had a Member , Ac "Why , . _- ffhat _' S the good , and wbere's the use Of all his railing and abuse ; His _buDs so large , bis jokes so small , Jn his Conciliation Hall ! "Be off at once 1 " I'd tell the pack : *• About join * business in a crack 1 " Unless you want to get tbe * sack f For , mark me , gentlemen , " If I had a Member , & c Tbat would bie better , sure , a deal , Than agiratm'for Repeal : A farce , a flam , a pack of stuff ! "WHcb jou ' ve'tjeenhoax'i-withlongenongh . ' Come now , give up the wild-goose chase , Believe me ' tis a hopeless case : Send every . Member to bis plac e , With the following observation—If J had a Member , ic . ' Punch
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TO THE POET MOORE . They are gone to the skies—they abandon the earth , To the seraphs-, their _landred , our minstrels are flown , Andhaveleft to the land , tbat is proud of their birth , - - - One -ray of their bri ghtness—one poet alone . There are many whose numbers are graceful and fair , - Whose thoughts are harmonious , whose melodies please ; - - And some , as they listen , can idly compare With the jewels of old simple sparkles like these . Bnt let the great Master once waken the lay , Once rouse from tbe sleep that has held him too long , And , as -from the sunburst the clouds troop away , ShaU aU be o ' erwhelm _' u in his torrent of song . One lay of his country- —all passion and tears , One wail of her grief , or despair or disdain _. Is worth all the efforts—the study—of years—Ol when shall webear them and hail _ftim again f Bid fhe minstrel awaken , and charm us , as when
¦ We knewirom his verse what the spells were of yore ; The harp is bis book ; and its chords are his pen What darkness enshrouds thee 1—return to us , Moore " ! L . Sa C .
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NOTICE . % g- Rnding that our poetical scraps , both original and . < _- _^ ected , _amimuktemnchmorerapidly than we can dispose of them by the ordinary channel , we have been induced to propose to ourselves and contributors the following _an-angement—viz ., to give . quarterly , in onr columns , a selection of poetical pieces , such . selection to be entitled " lEE "FEAST OP THE POETS . " The -first selection will appear this month ( March ) the nest in June , the next in September , and so on . The fast of the "Feasts" wiU _*• come off " in the Star of March 22 nd . Any of our readers , -. -disposed to try their fortune in an attempt to _procr-re admission to the "Feast , " must send in their j poetical contributions on or before the 15 th inst . _<* mununicatioBS received after that date -will not _-teattended to ;
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C . OMNGSBY ; or , THE 2 JEW . GENERATION . : BxB . D IsBAELi ,-Esci . 1 M . P . —London : Colburn _, . Great Marlborough-street . ( Continued from the Northern Star of February 22 . ) The scene changes from theCottonJord ' s " happy valley" to Coningsby Castle , the seat of Lord Mo . v mocth . TTe are not in a critical humour this week , in lieu therefore of onr own _c-omments we give the following extracts : —
: - CATHOLIC PEKBECDTION OF THE SPANISH JEWS . "Even afterthe fall of the principal Moorish kingdoms , thi Jews of Spain were still treated by the conquering _Gttas with tenderness and consideration . _^ Their mim"fjers , their wealth , the feet that , in Arragon , especially , _thi * y were the proprietors of the soil , and surrounded by warlike and devoted followers , secured for them a usage wMch for a considerable period made them little sensible off the change of dynasties and religions .. -But the tempest gradually gathered . As the Goths grew stronger , persecution became more bold . Where the Jewish population was scanty , they were deprived of their privileges of obliged to conform nnderthe tifie of _"JJnevos Chris-¦ tiarios .- "' At length the union of the two crowns under _Ferdinand and Isabella and the-fall of the last Moorish
"kingdom , brought the crisis of their fate both to tbe uew Christian and the _nonconforming Hebrew . The inquisition appeared , the institution tbat bad exterminated the JUKgenses and bad desolated ianguedoc , and which it should ever he remembered was established in the Spanish kingdoms asainst the protests of fhe Cortes and amid tbe terror ofthe populace . .. The Dominicans opened their -first tribunal at Seville . How many were burned alive . at Seville during tbe first year , how many imprisoned for life , what countless thousands were visited with severe though lighter punishments , need not be recorded here . In nothing was the holy office more happy than in multiform and subtle means by which they tested the sincerity of the new Christians . At length the inquisifion was to be extended to Arragon . Thehigh-spirited nobles of tbat
kingdom knew -that its institution was fbr them- a matter of Ufe or death . The Cortes of . Arragon appealed to the IHm ? and to the Pope : they organised an extensive conspiracy ; the chief Inquisitor was assassinated in the _catbedral of Saragossa . Alas I it was fated that in this , one of the many , and continual , and continuing struggles between the rival eigahisaaons ofthe north and south , the children of the sun should fall . The fagot and the Saa Benito were the doom of the nobles of Arragon . Those -who were convicted of secret Judaism , arid this scarcely three centuries ago , were dragged to the stake the sons of the noblest houses , in whose veins the Hebrew taint could be traced , bad to walk in solemn procession , ringing psalms and confessing their faith in the religion of the fell Torquemada . This triumph in Arragon , the
almost simultaneous fall of thc last "Moorish kingdom , raised tbe hopes * of tbe pure Christians to " the highest pitch . _Having : purged the new Christian--, they -next turned their attention to the . old Hebrews Ferdinand -was resolved that the delicious air of Spain should "be breathed no longer by anyone who did not profess the Catholic faith . Baptism or exile was the alternative . More than six hundred thousand individuals ( some authorities greatly increase the amount ) , the most industrious , the most intelligent , and the most enlightened of Spanish subjects , ' would not desert thc religion , of their fathers . _ForthistbeygaveupthedeHghtnulandwheran -they had Kveu for centuries , the beautiful cities they had raised , " _tbe-caiiversi-des from . which Christendom _dre-jvfor ages its most precious lore , the tombs of their ancestors , the temples . where tfiey had worshipped the God for " whom they had made this sacrifice . They had but four months
to prepare for eternal exile after , a residence of . as many cehturie £ , during . which brief period forced sales and glutted markets -rirtuaHy confiscated their property . It is a . calamity that tbe - scattered nation still ranks with the desolations of "Nebuchadnezzar and of Titus . Who after this should say the Jews are by nature a sordid people ? "But " tbe Spanish Goth , then so cruel and so haughty , where is be ? ' 'A despised suppliant to the very race which he banished for some miserable portion of the -treasure " which . their habits of industry have again accumulated . Where is that tribunal tbat summoned _Medina Sidonia and Cadiz to its dark inquisition ? Where is Spain ? Its fall , its unparalleled audits irremediable fall , is mainly to be . attributed . to the . expnkon of that large portion of its subjects , the most industrious and iutelligent , who traced their origin to the Mosaic and _Mahomedaa Arabs . ' - '• ¦
IXC-LAX . 0 X 1 . —THE COTHPY CIXB . ; , This was a -favourite haunt towards midnight of several of the younger members of the party at the castle who loved to find relaxation from the decorous gravities of polished life in the fames of tobacco , tiie inspiration of whiskey toddy , and the infinite amusement of lucian Gay ' s conversation and company . -This was the genial hour when the good story gladdened , the pun flashed , and -tbesong sparkled _withjollymirth or saucy mimickry . Toni ght , heing Conmgsby ' s initiation , there was a special general meeting ofthe Grnmpy Club , in which everybody was to 535 the gayest things with tbe gravestlace , and every laugh carried a forfeit , lucian was . the inimitable president . He told a tale for which he was famous , of " the
' _"" - _"J-j * respectable count- " - family who bad been established in the shire for several generations , but who ( it was a fact ) haa been ever distinguished by the strange aud humiliating _** iCC *_ liarity Of being born with sheep ' s tails . " The Temarkable rircumstances under which Lucian-Gav had " Oe . COme . acquamted * iri ! b this fact ; the traditionarymysteries "b j which the family in question had . succeeded for generations in keeping it secret ; , the decided measures to which the chief of the family had recourse to stop for ever ; die rumour-when it first became prevalent ; and , finally , the origin and result of the legend ; were details which Lucian Gay with the most rueful countenance loved _toespend upon the attentive and expanding intelligence of jfimew member of the Grumpy Club . Familiar as all pwr-6 ent were with the story ' . whose stimulus of agonising
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ns-bikty they had allitf turn _wpeHehced ; it was with extreme difficulty that any of them could resist the fatal explosion which was to he attended withhhc dreaded penalty . bord Beaumanoir looked oh the table with desperate seriousness , an ominous pucker quivering round his lip ; Mr . " Melton crammed his handkerchief into liis mouth with one band , while he lighted the wrong end- of a cigar with the other ; ' one youth hung over the back of his chair , pinching himself like afaquir , while another hid his countenance on the table . " It was at the Bunt dinner , " eon-, tinuedlucian Gay in an almost solemn tone , " that an idea for a moment was prevalent that Sir Mowbray CholmoadeleyFetherstonehaugh _, as the head of the family , : bad resolved to terminate for ever these mysterious aspersions on his race that had circulated in the
county for more than two centuries ; I mean that the highly respectable family of the Cholmondeley Fetherstonebaughs had the misfortune to be graced with that appendage to which I have referred . ; His health being drunk , Sir Mowbray Cholmondeley Fetherstouehaugh rose . He was a little unpopular at the moment from an ugly story about killing foxes , and the guests -were not as quiet as orators generally : desire , so the Honourable Baronet prayed particular attention to a matter personal to himself . Instantly there was a dead silence —; " but here Coningsby , who had moved for some time very restlessly on his chair suddenly started up , and struggling for a moment against the inward convulsion hut in vain , stamped against tbe floor and gave a shout . "A song from Mr . Coningsb y , " said the president of the
Grumpy Club , amid an universal and now permissible roar of laughter . Coningsby could not sing ; so he was to favour them as a substitute with a speech or a sentiment But lucian Gay always let one off these penalties easily , and indeed was ever ready ' to fulfil them for all . Song , speech , or sentiment , he poured them all forth ; nor were pastimes more active wanting , fie could dance a Tarantalla like a lazaroni , and execute a Cracovienne with all the mincing graces of an opera heroine . His powers of mimickry indeed were great and versatile . But in nothing was he so happy as in a Parliamentary debate . And it was remarkable that , though himself a man wbo on ordinary occasions was quite incapable without infinite perplexity of publicly expressing his . sense of the merest courtesy of society , he was not only a master of the style of
every speaker of distinction iu either house , but he seemed in his imitative play to appropriate their intellectual as well as their physical peculiarities , and presented you with their mind as well as their manner . ; There were several attempts to-night to induce Lucian to indulge his guests with a debate , bnt be seemed to avoid the exertion , which was great . ' -7 As the night grew old however , and . every hour he grew more lively , he suddenly broke without further pressure into the promised diversion ; and Coningsby listened really with admiration to a discussion , of which the only fault was that it was more Parliamentary than the original . B » t loud as was the laughter , and vehement the cheering with which Lucian ' s performances were
received , all these ebullitions sank into insignificance compared with the reception which greeted what he himself announced was to be tbe speech of the night . Having quaffed -full many a quaigb of toddy be insisted on delivering it on the table , a proposition with which his auditors immediately closed . Their orator appeared , the great man of the night , who was to answer everybody on both sides . Ah ! that harsh voice , that arrogant style , that saucy superficiality which decided on everything , that insolent ignorance that , contradicted everybody ; it was impossible to mistake them ! And Coningsby had the pleasure of seeing reproduced before him the guardian of his youth , and the patron of the mimic—the Right Honourable Nicholas Bigby . _^ -
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THE L 02 TOON ENTERTAINING MAGAZINE . B . D . Cousins , Duke-street , Lincoln ' _s-inn-fields . From the second part of this excellent pennyworth we give the following extract : — .
THE SBESS-HAKEB . Is there a more helpless , a more forlorn and unprotected creature than , in nine cases out of ten , the Dressmaker ' s Girl , the daily Sempstress—pushed prematurely from the parental hearth , or rather no hearth , to win her miserable crust by aching fingers ? Crust—literally crust—is nearly all the reward ofhoursof drudgery , of a monotonous task , at which the heart sinks , and the eyelids are fain to droop , until aroused and strung anew to labour . Daily bread—a phrase that to most people combines many things-- —is to our heroine a literal truth—a
cold reality . . She is a thousand times more to be pitied than yonder ballad-singer , withher feet imbedded in highway-mud , bawling the last effusion of the author whose noblest aspiration is to be a butterfly , or , in shrill treble , screaming the semi-poUtical satires of the poets of Seven Dials . Sher—theminstrel—hasno respectability to keep up ; she has not to stiut her appetite , that she may have a plurality of gowns ; he has not . to sooth a hungry stomach with a bit of gauze , a yard or so of riband—any morsel of finery that shall at least be the type , shall present a show , of a condition of comfort , although the cupboard shall remain empty for it .
Poor , gentle thing!—now hurrying on , fearing that she isfiveminutes _' too late , and now pausing , aud creeping into a doorway , to let some staggering drunkard pass , roaring and reeling home . It may be , too , that this Uttle creature was born in the lap of comfort—was the pet , the hope , of . a fireside—was the darling of a circle—the child of competence , of luxury . Death , however , has taken her father—the sole prop and stay of a house of plenty ; and the widow , after struggling , from year to year , has passed from had to worse ; and now with four-children—our little Dressmaker ' s Girl the eldest—pines in a three-pair back room , whence every morning our young heroine , with a patience and a pensive-sweetness— -the gifts of early adversity—sallies forth to unremitting _toU . - Our little "Dressmaker has arrived at the " work-room . "
After two or three hours , she takes her . bread-aad-butter , and warm adulterated water , denominated tea . Breakfast Humedly over , ' she works , underthe rigid ; scrutinising eye of a tast-mistress _i some four hours more , and then proceeds to the important work of dinner . A scanty shoe of meat—perhaps an . egg— -is produced from _! her basket : she dines , and sews again till five . Then comes again the fluid ofthe morning , and again the : needle until eight . Hark!—yes , that ' s eight now striking .- Thank-heaven ! thinks , our heroine , as she rises to put by her work , the task for tbe day isnone ! ' At this moment a thundering knock is heard at the door ! The Duchess of Daffodils must have her robe by four to-morrow 3
Again the Dress-maker's Apprentice is made to take her place—again she-resumes her thread and needle : and perhaps the clock is beating one , as . she again , jaded and half dead with work , creeps to her lodging , and goes to bed , _stHl haunted with the thought " that as the work is very back she must be up by five to-morrow . She has , however , certain glimpses of holidays ; she is despatched to receive orders , , to take home work ; and despite herself , if the weather be fine—if it be not her late to trudge , ' ankle-deep in mud , with bandbox in one hand , and umbrella in the other— -she cannot but pause at shop windows , and indulge in a day-dream that shall possess her of a few trinkets from the jeweller's , her eye unconsciously wandering towards the ; wedding rings— at the next window a new bonnet—at the next , a ' gown for very great occasions ..
The Dress-maker ' s Girl has a profound secret—a secret hidden in the inmost recesses of her virgin heart . " A lieutenant of the Guards —( take care of that lieutenant ) —such a pensive-looking , melancholy , elegant-young man , kissed his hand to her twice in Pall-mall . " This secret she had revealed to nobody , except ten familiar friends . She learns a song—sometliing about" A Soldier's Bride " —which she bums whilst working , unconscious of the tittering of her sister sempstresses ; and only breaks off to blush and tell them not to be so silly . These , however , are green , sunny spots in the life of the Dress-maker ' s Girl : as . she grows towards womanhood , years bring with them a deeper sense of her forlorn and unprotected condition ; effacing her beauty , saddening her mind , and making her taste all the bitterness of that bitter morsel of bread earned by tasked needle work . ¦
Can there be a more forlorn , more , pitiable condition than that of the Daily Sempstress , growing old and lonely on the wages of her ill-paid craft ? Follow her to her room—the topmost nook of some old gloomy house , in some gloomy court : survey the abode of . penury : of penury striving with a stoutness of heart , of which the world knows nothing , to put a bright face upon want : to smile with patience on the greatest , as on the pettiest privations . This is the Dress-maker , long since past her girlhood ; tbe Sempstress , no longer outstared in the street—followed for her beauty— -flattered—lied to ; tempted with ease and luxury , when her own home offers nothing but-indigence and hardest labour . This is not
the young , blushing creature walking in London streets , her path full of pit-falls ; . the lawful prey of selfish vicethe watched-for prize of mercenary infamy . No ; she has escaped all these snares ; she has , iii the innocence and constancy ofher heart , triumphed over the seductions of pleasure ; has , with the wings of a dove , escaped the net spread for her by fiends with the faces of women . She has wasted the lightheartedness of her childhood , ' and the bloom of her youth , in daily , nightly , toil : and arrived at middle age , she is still the working Sempstress—the lonely , faded spinster—the human animal vegetating on two shillings per diem . Is not ' this the fate of thousands in this our glorious : metropolis ? . '•
And yet how much worse , bow much : more terrible the destiny of thousands of others ; of poor , unprotected creatures , with hearts in their-bosoms , once throbbing with the best and purest hopes , once yearning with the noblest and tendercst affections—creatures in whom the character of wife and mother might have shone with the brightest lustre—cast abroad aud trodden on like wayside weeds "; loathed and scorned by one sex ; outraged , bullied by the other ; until deceived , woniided , and exasperated nature rises against its wronger .- ?; and , denaturalized in voice , face , and feeling , we cannot recognise , the Dressmaker ' s Girl—tiie modest , gentle tiling ' , rathblushingface and dewv eye—in that screeching virago , that howling ,
raving Jezabel , now stamping in the impotence of drunkenness and rage at that- ' stone-faced policeman , now tumbling , dead as a carcass , in the mire , and weeping maudlin tears of g in and vengeance ! And why is this ? What has worked this grievous transformation ? What has effected this awful , this disgusting change ? Alas ! some ten—nine—seven years ago , temptation showed its thousand gifts—apples of seeming gold , with ashes at the core— -to the poor Dress-maker ; proffered life-long ease , all the happiness and luxury enjoyed by her high-born sisters ; and to assisttemptation , there was a yearning of love _^—a faith and easy credence iu the woman ' s heart , that made her not altogether selfish , calculating : whilst , on the other hand , they were incessant labour and pinching
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economy , and—ahd _" —but the story is the story " of hundreds ; she f _« _ll—and i "The once _falTfl woman must for ever fall i " ' The modest , virgin flower is become the _^ scoff of tiie nitiU ; titude , the moekery of a mob ! ' j Part III . is published , and besides the continuation of Eugeke Sue ' s Matilda , , contain s a -variety of _mat-; ter in prose and poetry , which , to be appreciated , ; must be seen and read .
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THE GREAT GUN . _iVewishwecouldseethe conductors of this publication abandon a system which certainly reflects no honour oh their labours , and is not at aU calculated to increase the popularity of their ' paper . , We allude ; to the shallow , ill-natured , but-futile attempts made to run down ther writers of Punch . ' . more especially one particular writer in that excellent publication . If this was all we had to complain of , we might be silent ; for we might safely leave the gentleman alluded to to defend himself ; But principles are ridiculed , and the best sympathies of our : nature run-amuck against , to give vent to the envious and splenetic feelings ofthe Great Gun writere . ' Iii proof of this we might name several hi g hly objectionable articles : enough that we nanie the piece entitled , " Yirtnous Indignation , the Somr of the Literary
Man of Feeling : " a production conceived in the worst possible spirit , and as trashy as it is base . ' We don ' t like to have to say this . We know nothing personal ofthe writers either'in Punch or the Great Gun , . * we judge of both by their works , and would , if we could , award our unqualified approbation to the latter as well as to theformer . We gladly turn from this unwelcome task , tospeakin terms the Yery opposite , of much contained in . the Great Gxm . Its jokes , many of whicli we transfer weekly : to our columns , are of the raciest ; and there-are not wanting articles of * a serious cast which have bur wannest _approbation . Of these we may name the articles in the Nos . for the 1 st and 8 th of February , entitled— " The Critical Literature " of the London Press ; " and the following excellent remarks on the life and treatment of that magnificent musical genius Carl _Mabia Von Weber .
consistency . lately a paragraph appeared in the daily papers giving a detailed account of the solemn inhumation of the remains of the lamented , and gifted composer , Carl Maria Von Weber , which took place-at . Dresden , with great funeral pomp . Nearly twenty _ years have passed * since Weber paid a v _' sit to this country , and received ' to a certain extent , the encouragement due to hisMalents ; that is to say , although everybody went to hear his opera of "DerFreiscbutz , " the composer did not receive one farthing either from' the proprietor of the English Operahouse ( where it was first produced in England ) , nor from the lessees of Drury Lane or Covent Garden .. - ; _,- .
The musical career of Weber had been one . of continued disappointment . "His works were nearly unappreciated ; their beauties were condemned as faults . The marvellous harmonies , which the world has Bince reluctantly acknowledged as the masterpieces of a mighty genius , were at first looked upon . as combinations of discords , and his wilder and more unstudied efforts as the ravings of an overwrought brain . But the world has repented of its injustice ; -it has decreed that the name of Weber , hitherto cherished by the few . who have listened to . " Oberon , " to the overture of "The Ruler ofthe Spirits , " to , "Euryanthe , " setting-apart his most extraordinary , though perhaps not- finest work , "Dcr Freischutz _, " -shall be loved and revered by thousands .
His countrymen have celebrated his triumphs by a festival—ceremonies in which the musicians of Dresden , and even some from Berlin aud Munich , have hastened to join , and accompany his mortal remains from their resting-place at Magdeburg ( they had reposed quietly iii a vault in London for a considerable time ) , to the . tomb prepared for their reception in the . city of Dresden . By following the mournfully-decorated barge containing them down the Elbe by torch-light , by bending over his grave in the mockery of " effective sorrow , " they imagine they have more than atoned for the entire neglect of the living genius , aiid have cast a halo around the dead .
Itis a positive and undeniable ., fact that Weber never received , in his own country , the slightest remuneration for " Der _Freischutn . " A bankrupt manager swallowed Up his rightful emoluments . And when the score was first brought over to England , with a view to its production at one of our national theatres , it was pronounced by the musical director ( an artist of the highest talent ) not only to be totally unfitted for our stage , but ineffective in itself . i A manager of more enterprise tried the opera as an experiment at-a summer theatre , and he announced it as " a new musical performance of an extraordinary character , " and that " the eccentric vehicle for music and scenic effect was a literal translation from the highly-celebrated German opera , & c ., & ci , of Carl Maria Von Weber . " It was received with great success . We have alluded before in the Great Gun to the salaries
of principal performers . For a certain period both Braham and Miss Stephens performed in the English Operahouse version of " Der Freischutz . " let us look how matters stood : —
Mr . Braham ' s salary , per night ,. . £ 21 0 0 Miss Stephens' . ....... . 20 0 0 Carl Maria Von Weber ( the inventor *! . . . » _, andcreator _) . . . -.... - . . ' ., _"'¦ ¦/ _-. Weber fared better with his " - Oberon , " which was performed at Covent Garden with far less effect , in ' _conse-i quence of the ntter meagreness of the libretto , for he received one thousand pounds ; a sum inadequate to the merits Of the work , but . beyond what his modesty either hoped or expected . The encouragement which Weber had never received in his own country came too late to do ' more than cast a momentary brightness over his fortunes in England . He had followed in the weary and almost heart-broken track of his predecessors , Mozart and Beethoven ,. He died !
It is left for future writers , when his works , by the diffusion of musical knowledge , shall have been far better appreciated , to observe that , _tw-enty years after , the death of Weber , the musicians and authorities of Dresden ( in sad imitation of one of the favourite manias of the Parisians ) removed his remains . to their-city , as if the . soul that breathed throughout his harmonies was sleeping still within ffVe perished clay they had thus disturbed .
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Publications Received . — " A Journey up the Mii _sissippi . " " The Runaway Apprentice . " '¦¦
A Bowl Of "Punch," Fresh Brewed Ine Pope...
A BOWL OF "PUNCH , " FRESH BREWED _inE POPE . The Pope he leads a happy life , "So contradiction knows , nor strife ; _He rules the roast by "Right Divine , - ' 1 would the Papal chair were mine S But happy , now , I fear he ' s not , : Those Irish are a noisy lot ; And as vfifc Dan he has to cope , I think I'drather hot be Pope . O'Connell better pleases me , With aU he will be maketh free ; He raises rhtt with wondrous skill ; like him I would my pockets fill . But even he , the great Kino Dan , Is forced to sink the gentleman , And bluster where Repealers dine ; I would not change his lot for mine .
So here I'll take my lowly stand , In what is called " this favoured land ;" Put up with strife , ii need be mine , _JTor at an empty purse repine . , But when my pocket ' s filled , with glee I'll dream that I O'Connell be ; And when their mouths Repealers ope , i _> I'll thank my stars I ' ni notthe Pope i Justice , ' axd her Fees . — When English justice talks of being equally accessible to th ' e . rich and the poor , it is veiy like Old Mrs . _OsZwdiscouwingbn chastity , or slave-buying America swaggering about freedom . Justice is , in truth ; only to be sought by fees-. You must _dVpp money in her scales _before she will use them . A fellow named John ' Cpbke " . _-was recently , committed to . _gaol for an attempt to rob two
miserable . girls . The case * was one of peculiar atrocity , as the scoundrel had first _cbai-ged'one of his victims with robbing him .: The ' magistrate , ' 'however , soon made Cooke and tiie ' poor girl change , places at the , bar , " and the rascal was committed for trial . Well , we thought , the _raffiaa will now get hia deserts : the majesty of the ofiendeillaw—for that is the phrase—will speedily vindicate itself . Not so fast . There were fees to be paid ,:, " In orde-r to obtain 4 s ., the fee for the indictment , the poor girls had . to pawn some of their dress , and eyeh tnen ( the _con-, . table said ) he was obliged to advance the only shilling he had about . him to make Up the sum ; but when they went into the office , thc crier demanded Is . _Oo . ;'
his fees , and said he would send the hill hack to the _Indictment-offiee if it were not paid . _, The girls were wholly unprepared Jbr this demand , hut ran forthwith to scrape up the money . In their absencethe crier had sent the bill before the grand jury , and the witnesses ¦ were absent when called . The bill was consequently thrown out , a « c ? the prisoner discharged . " The lesson to be gathered from this is , let no miserable woman , however grossly abused and robbed , tliihk . of punishing her wronger unless she can procure , _five-and-sjxpencefees to purchase the satisfaction . It is an absurdity to think that justice sits at Glerkenwcll Sessions , or anywhere else , to dispense right gratis ; ' nonsenseshe sells it .
Imsn Agricultural _Association . —Inconsequence of the declaration of Mi * . _O'Connell _i that he would die on the floor ' of the House of Commons , and then go over to Ireland to agitate foi * repeal , there was an extra meeting of the Irish Agricultural Association , at which it was unanimously resolved that the first prize should be given to the :-Honourable Member , for tiie _wrrea-Cwt * Bull that ever was known . Baths for the Poon . —Wc understand that some of the railway companies , desirous of carrying out the project for supplying the poor with baths , have had their third-class carriages constructed so as to serve the double purpose of a locomotive and a washing-tub . They arc supplied with water _from , the rain , which pours in upon all sides ; and enqugh to constitute a . bath is provided in a veiy few . mmutes , if the weather happens , to be favourable to the _beneyolent object
A Bowl Of "Punch," Fresh Brewed Ine Pope...
biography :-laman blanchard . " ' ( From the Literarif Gazette }' ¦ ¦ With feelings , we' have hot' words to -express , it is tins day our painful task to record the death , on Saturday week , of iltir _, Laman Blanchard ; a personal friend bng associated with and intimatelyknown . to ns , _amra literary , man'whose writings _ljavc justly earned for hini a contemporaneous \ _-ind wide-spread celebrity ,., and a fame which will be more extended and permanent _.,, Alas , that we have to add , the manner of his ' loss" was one of those calamitous instances of the helplessness of weak humanity to bear _Wfgainst the pressure _^ of afflictions . Thcniindsof individuals devoted to the ceaseless , toils of'literature , calling , forth and wasting , their . energies , . are but ill prepared to endure sufferines of another nature . Tlm
ideal earihot slide into and compete With the real world ; and though it may . be a refuge -for griefs of . " a le & _vpoignant , character , the . imagination , however compact , is unable to wrestle with , and withdrawiis from the ' more severe visitations ' of mortal distress . It was the heavy misfortune of Mr . _Blanchardj afew weeks ago , to be deprived of ; a wife , ; whom a protracted illness had only the more endeared to hima woman so . equable in temper , so waim-hearted , so amiable to "all , - and so attached to'him , -that none could be surprised at the more than bridal affection which subsisted between tliem , and seemed the vert
spirit of their being . For Blanchard himself was of a fine and congenial temperament . Endued with great ( perhaps with too much ) sensibility , he * was open , sincere , gentle , susceptible to every the minutest act of kindness , firm in integrity , and overflowing with high sympathies towards all that was generous and good . His family bereavement preyed upon him night and day ; and at last hia excited sense was torn with deliriuni , and wrecked in the sea of trouble wliich overwhelmed the powers of reason ; ahdniade him unaccountable for his acts . She was gone from his side with whom he . might truly , have said , The mind much suff _' rance does o _' erskip
When grief hath mates , and bearing fellowship . His consolation had not only departed , but was the source of his' intellectual prostration- ; ' the shock was fatal to a fancy and' uhdersianding _, which had ' ibr many years- stood the test of > unremitting labour for the press , ; and , he who had _channedthousands ahd tons of' thousands" continuall y with' his pleasant thoughts ; fell a sacrifice to an " o ' ercharged he ' art . " We have incidentally alluded totheprominent features of Mr . Blanchard ' s character ; but must return to offer a slight remark on points . in it which particularly rivetted _our'fe ' ga-d . _aiiu . _admiration . His unaffected sensibility was absolutely beautiful . It was inherent , spontaneous , - and embraced the whole sphere in which he moved . It was alike seen in benevolence towards the poor and lowly ; in charity
towards a class too often excepted _fi-omlihe rule , ' ' the infirm and _erringj . in justice tempered with mercy towards all ; and in the most genial and confiding love towards those whom he esteemed . " And so of his integrity . It was without parade or outward demonstration- and seemed' to be an innate part of himself . Yet its veiy gentleness and quiescency made its force . There was no assertion , belonging to it , to beget opposition ; and any desire that might arise to impede its way perished in the face of its invisible omnipotence ; ; We never knew a man so humbly resolute and so nobly inflexible , with demeanour , manners , arid language that ihight appear to indicate a softness to _be- ' wrought upon , ana a disposition to evade a collision rather than to brave a conflict . Those who could surmise this , were diametrically mistaken . , ¦ .
The moral and social qualities at which we have thus hastily glanced shone in all Laman Blanchard's literary productions . The lightest and most amusing of his essays ' partook , of his philanthropy and pathos , and _Jiiined ; in various ways and moods at the improvement of his fellow-creatures , and the amelioration ofthe general lot . His graver and political efforts breathed all his unbending fidelity to the side upon which his opinions ranged _.. He recently wrote in the Examiner , having previously , a few years since , been connected with the . Courier newspivpe * _9 as an editor and leading contributor . - When that journal
fell into the hands of the opposite party ( shortly before it sunk , under its _, frequent mutations ) , My . Blanchard was again thrown upon his pen for a precarious' provision , dependent upon health and strength , _; and . the difficult access to a imarket where his talents might be appreciated . This , no thanks to friends or parties , he found iii the New Monthly Magazine ; in _Ainsworth's Magazine , and in' other periodical publications ; , and also iii occasional employment on works "whichthe ; publishers ' . thought likely to be popular , such as the PosthumousMcnwirs of . L . E . L Was there an inscrutable link between their destinies
—her mysterious fate and thatot her biographer ? ... __ No man eyer _^ ntertained a more _modest . apprec _' _uvtion of his own merits than Mr . Blanchard . '" We never _heai-d him _speaklof anybf Ids . writings ;< and , what is equally rare and laudable inour day , we never heard liim decry tlm ' writings' of others his contemporaries ; nor do we believe he ever experienced one feeling of envy or jealousy at success , though it might in every other judgment exceedhiiownMthfar less grounds to recommend it . ' Arid we b' ught'td look at the vast massi and _^ variety \ of liis _^ d ' _u _^ tiohs , _* . which cannot be believed till what has flowed in a , hundred _streams is collected . - into ] one _gj-and . river . ; it ' . will then be _seentKatFhismindvwasimost ' fertUe , never ceasing to throw off original conceptions , fanciful -ideas ,
poetry of a high order , whether playful or pathetic ; and being in tmth ; an . _inexhaustible source of that perpetual / _anftdiveraified profusion , of literary wealth with which he ' _^ enlivenedand en richedthe periodical publications _ofhisday ,- in _'^ which men of first-rate learning-and _exalted- genius" a _^' _ewamped till they _aredeadl ! : ¦ ¦ *;;¦' : ¦ >¦;¦ ; - _'* . ¦ ' - "• ; : ; * ¦¦ ' ' : ' v _'* ¦ ¦ " ";; . In person ' Mr . Blanchard was of middle-size and light and active form . His countenance was well -modelled , and _hiseyes peculiarly expressive'either of deep emotion or , gay liumour .. i . flis ; manners , as we : have noticed- were , p lacid aiid . gentlemanly ; and his conversation , serious or lively , as occasion suited , ' was always agreeable , candid , and , acceptable . His society was ; niuch sought by a numerous circle of _litei-aiy and otlier friends , * to Whom his ' stores of ' information recommended . and ; his :. most ; estimable qualities'
endeared . _.., He has , left a _daughter ,, accomplished under his " anxioussuperintendence in music , and " other feminine graces , and'bf whom he was , ' almost' passionately fond , _; _and'tlu'ee ' sons younger _thah-her , to lament the untimely _lossjof a * father , of whom and ; of whose memory they have Just „ and abundant _pounds to be proud . The sad ' n ' ess which-hiust-mix' with their filial recollections cannot as ¦ yet be consoled ; but- it must fratify them in ! the depths , of-their orphanj woes to now . that a body , of _^ _the , admirers and friends of their _honoiived paiVent' haye so far _provided that they ' shall not-siifferthat'desti . utioh'whichisbut tw ' often the inheritance _? of . the .: children , of _igenius . -rFor several years . their _prp-per . education , jand ;; earthly comforts have been , secured " ; a _^ the ' means suggested , if not adopted , fof the ' eligible fi ' ettlem _^ Ht' of the younger branches . Mr . Blanchard was " only forty-two'years OfagC ; .-. ' _.:::. . ' ; ... ¦ ¦ ¦ :.: "
Fuheiul of Mb . Laman B- __ A . \ c * iAB D _.--rOn Saturday afternoon" the remains" of this truly estimable and much-lamented _gahtle ' niah ' we _^ e - _infe _* re < _l 'Iii the i cemetery tA Norwood . He _: was _followed * to Ms last . earthly _wsting-place by a number of his early and valued collaborqieurs in „ the , field . of . literature _,, and other Mends etideafed ' to him " byhis _wai-nith' and kindness of heart ; "' The ' chief _^ mourners oh _tlie ' sad occasion were" the three' sons ' of . Mr _^ Blanchard , with Mr . Evans , Mr . Iveymer , and Mr . Smith , _brothei-s in-law . There were also present—Mi * . E , Tennent , , M . P ., ' 0 : _' Lanc _^' er R _4 ? , _* -W . _^ erdariVD ; _^ Laiidseer , P _. _^' . Stbnei' George Gruikshank _* , ' Kenny Meadows _,, W _.,. _JF . _Ainswoi-thi William Hazlitt _; W . -N : i rJames ,, Henry Baylis ,. S C . Hall , R . Keeley , J ,. B . _-Buclwto ' ne , * Samuel Lover , ' 'Geoi ' ge Patmore , ' Mark l _^ moh ; _- — - _HuM ; 'Cbventi _^' ' Patmo _^^ _amountingaltogether-toseventypersonfe , assembled to : pay a last tribute of respect to their departed friend . .
. Miilho-Ose, The ^ Poet.—We Were Much P...
. _MiiLHO-osE , the _^ Poet . —We were much pleased on our visit to _Edwia-jtoiwe , oil Monday last , * to witness a neat : monument , nearly finished , and about to be _'erectediin the . _Cemetjeryf at'Nottingham , to the memory of-the late Robert MUlhouse , the . poet .. At the Sherybod _Gatheringj . ' on the : fith July , 1842 , a' subi _scriptiori-was entered into for that purpose , and the work , was , ¦ committed to ; the care of Mr : Widdison , sculptor , _oLEdwinsto-ffe _^ who , wc must say , haa _executedtiieitask Soinhiitted to his charge in a .. clever 'arid- ' appropriate mariner _^ The mohiimeTit _ifeiilf is
; about : six'feet high ; . Gv ' erthe surbase is the tablet ' containing , _the following inscription . .. Emblematical i ofthe subject , over the inscription , is alyre entwined : within a , wreath—tiie * whole _sumounte _^ with ari ele-• gant j ci _* oss-fldiy ; 'i / : Thc design-itself is gobd : arid sub * _, stantial _. and . _tjiework hi executed in a'manner highly , creditable to . the artist himself , an _$ will _jgrove itself _woi-thy of the genius whose memory itis lntended'io perpetuate . ; flThe poetic inscription _^ fro ' m the peri of Mr . Spencer , Hall , -who was the intimate , friend pf poor Millhouse , arid is creditable both to the head and heartofthe writer'i _^ _i- _'* ' J ' * _'*" ' ¦ '•'• _'" ' - i : * _- * ¦'* - ' "
: _¦' ¦ ¦ . ¦ ' - , _;¦ _-, InMemovyof" _--: j [ j-, . ROBERT . _IMILLHOPSE ,, r . . . " Author of , " Destinies of Man , " ¦ , _SShcmood Forest , " " ' The Sorigof the Patriot , " ; ¦ _"* .. " Blossoms /; arid otlierPb ' _cni ' s , . wlio died at Nottingham , . April 13 th , -1839 ,. aged 50 years , " When Trent shall flow no more and blossoms fail On Sherwood ' s plains to scent the springtide gale When the lark _* s . lay ., shall lack its thrilling charm * And song forget the pati'iot ' fi _. soul to . wavm : - ¦ "When love _o'fer human hearts hath lost all sway , His fameniay pass—but not ' till tlien—away : ' For Nature taught , and Freedom fix ' edliis rhyme , And virtue dedicated it to Time . " , - Nottingham Journal
r _*^ v _* _* * _+ _*¦ _+ « _n _^* _*^* _^» * * * •* * r *¦ if t * ¦ . AsTosisniso PRECocm . —A . charity boy , only siX _i jears old , belonging to ' St . Martin s .-parish , " _^ being asked byoneof the ovcrsecre what was' his notion of ; . perpetuity ;' _i- _' * instantly _Replied , "Tile Income Tax . "
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• Resources : Of Syria;-—At A " Late Mee...
• Resources : of Syria ; - —At a " late meeting of the Syro-Egyptian Society , _MivF . W . Aiiisworth , of * the late Euphrates expedition , * in the chair , numerous coloured'drawings of Syrian costumes and scenery were exhibited ; and the _^ learned ' chairman gaveithe society amostlucidcxplanation _^ f alarge " picture in Oil ;; painted ¦ by Mr . ' ¦ Barker / and whicli , afthougH'iii an unfinished state , he consented , at" the request / of the ' council ; tb send for . 'It was a representation of Mount Casins , - the month of the Ororites , its romantic pass , and the ; bay of Aiitioch . It is impossible , in few words , to do justice either to the picture or to Mr . _Ainswoi-th ' s observations : The subject abounds in interest . ' ¦ After commenting on tlio _gebgi-aphical position , of the Orontes—the beautiful little _island ' of _Mehbcea _;^ named after the' nymph of whom Orontes
was eHanioured , ' and which must riot , he said ; be confounded with the Thessaliari Melibcea—the Grotto beyond , with ' 'it's gently murmuring' _Waterslowing from within , and the rain ' s by which it is surrounded , those especially of the ancient church of Ham , alluded to in _Jfr . Cary ' s '" Fragments , " the monastery and column of St . Simon Stiiytes , mentioried by Gibbonthe traditions connected with Mount Casins—the cdrious atmospheric phenomena which are at times to be observed from its summit' ( six thousand feet above the level of the sea ) , and' other- objects which have employed the- pen of Pliny , Strabo , Oppiahas _/ Oyheget , Virgil , Spartianus , Gibbon , Annianas , Marcellinus , and others ; he pronounced the whole district to be replete in classic interest , and rehiarkable for its vegetable snlendour and scenic beauty ; The author
of the paper having alluded particularl y to the capabilities of the north of Syria , the salubrity , of 'the climate . of Swadeyeh , and the great variety of soil ( his father , -who has held land there more"than forty years , having succeeded in cultivating plants , shrubs , and trees , ofthe most opposite natures , which he has introduced from all parts of the world ) , the conVer ' sa-, tion turned ' upon the immense advantage offered by this countiy for colonisation , especially _^ s remarked by Mr . _MuBsabini , p ' roteetibn was afforded to ' European residents , schools were being established , the necessaries of life were cheap , the climate was perhaps 'the finest in the world , the soil was good , medical men were being sent out , and there was a regular inter , course with Europe by steam . In reply to a question
put by-one' ot 'the members , Dr . Holt Yates stated that Europeans were now permitted to hold land , and _thei-r property was respected , which was not alwaysthe case , and he regretted that' emigration to Syria was not 'encouraged . It could only be because theresdurcesandbeauty of that country were not sufficiently known' . It was remarkable that there was no person who had once visited Syria who did not desire to return ; that by calling it a " terrestrial paradise " Mr . "Barker was right , ' but that , in lus opinion , it must be seen to be appreciated . He then exhibited a diagram of the site of the ancient " Soli , or Pompeiopolis , " situated on the north-west shore of the Gult of Iskenderoon , on the Cillcian coast , not far from Tarsus , the _^' birth place of St . Paul—the river Cydnus , which , is celebrated as having borne the
love-sick Cleopatra to the presence of Mark Antony —Adana , and the river Syhom , spanned by the ancient' bridge of Justinian , which has several arches , affording positive proof of the once prosperous state of the _districts—the-pass of Issus , famous hi history as the spot where Darius and Alexander contested the dominion of Asia—and lastly . of Antioch , erected by the . General Seleneus in honour of his father Antiochus . ; -This ¦ Soli , he observed , was not to be confounded with" Soli in Cyprus , " built by the Athenians in honour of Solon . The spot represented in the diagram was originally _, founded by pirates , but had subsequently become one of the most important cities of the Levant . There werc still thc remains of a large port with two piers extending into the sea , with sufficient water for merchant vessels . A flight
of wide steps led up from it to a double row ot stately columns , the remains of a _iihignificent building , probabl y an exchange or hall of commerce , on eithcrsidc of whicli were extensive ruins , and an amphitheatre of considerable size ; the plains beyond being capable of high cultivation , the whole bounded by the towering heights of Mount Taurus , which are thickly wooded , and supplied Mohammed Ali with timber for building his ships ; there was abundance of stone , excellent water , and even coal and iron , but of these things no use was made . Although there was a spacious harbour and good _, anchorage in the bay at all seasons bf the year , Capt . Be ' aiitbrt , he " added , in his survey of Asia Minor , speaks of " . extensive and pes tilential' morasses" in the neighbourhood , and corroctly—but these might be removed , and were removed by H . R . H . BrahimPaseha , and by Mr . Hay , one of the society ' s members , who drained the land , and burnt up the brushwood and briars with which the country was overgrown , and there was then no
longer any ., malaria ! But when _, the Turks again took possession ' , they purposely broke down the embankments ' , which , with" the pernicious influence of an unchecked redundant vegetation subject to decay , and the summer heats , reduced the plains to their orig inal unhealthy state . There was , however , no permanent source " of malarial ,. and in the hands of Europeans this might' unquestionably be made one of the finest coloniesin the world . The plains of Adana alone ,: if cultivated , would ; _support thousands , as they have 'done ' 'before ; and ' together with . Tarsus , Soli , Aiitioch , and Swideyeh , 'would '* speedily * become a most lukm'iant and flourishing commercial torritoi _* y , and , unitin _^ as it does all the advantages of sea and land , an important _. outlet for the riches ofthe ea 6 t ; for being oh the high road between' _Alepjpo , "Damascus , the _'Euph-rsite ' s _^ 'Iiamai _Ploriis , '' and Asia Minor , it already ( constitutes the principal gate of Syria , infinitely superior to that , of Beyroot and Lebanon , althoughI now _^ deserted arid run to _waste—^ infact , a _mbreeligible'spot for a settlement could not be found .
Improvement in the P 6 w « b-loom . —We . were favoured , says the Leeds Intelligencer , with _airbppbi _' . unity ,. the ., other - . day , , of . , visiting the Iron-works of Messrs . John . Cawood , and Son , in _tlus'town , Leeds , and examining minutely the workingof some Linen Power-looms * oh their premises , lor whicli letters patent have been taken out by Mr . Martin Cawood and , Mr . William Prichard ofthia ; town . . _; We werc delighted to observe the ease and . rapidity with which nearly all _kinds ' of linen fabrics were woven , from the broad damask table cloth to the finest shirtings . The principal improvement in these patent looms , as wc learnt , from Mr . Prichard , consists in an uniform aud regular letting off ' or , inscribing off of the yarn froni the warp-beam , thereby producing an evenness and equaKty-in the wetting of the cloth , wliich has
beenheretolore unattainable . By tlm newly patented motion being attachtd to . the loom ,, a . web of several hunrfred ' _yards'ih'length' can be perfectly and uniformly-woven frbm ' 'the _'' comfnencemcnt of the warp to . the . end . : With the hew invention there are no loose weights ,, levers , and ropes attached _tp the yam beam : tlicse cumbersome , ana unseemly , and uncertain appendages' being entirely 'dispensed "with . " - Another improvement consists iu a motion for stopping tho loom , without the . _assistance ofthe weaver , the mom ' eh . the weft breaks or the yam in _fkc weaving . bobbin '' beedmes _^ exhausted '; ' at' the ' same time that the cloth woven presents no thin places or inequality of surface or substance . Moreover this contrivance entirely obviates the necessity , ' : on'the , part of the ¦ weaver , for having to ' put' back by unfolding tiie clotli _frb-fli _/ 'the " cl 0 th beam , and winding upon the _yaiiirbeiiml The : next improvement consists in a _self-actings "temple , " which revolves as the cloth is being woven , always remaining at the saiiie distance
from the openirig of thesheard or shed , and from its peculiar cbhstruction _^ _retehiQS out the selvage to the full _^ width of thei piece— -no care wh atever being required to attend to . it on the part of the weaver ; and _we-obseryeet"that . there were-no teeth marks , or damages done tothe cloth , as is commonly _^ the case wheh'th ' e ordinary ' " _temple" is used . The last improvement , and that which is more especially applicable to linen weaving , consists in a spring beam of cast or wrought iron attached to the back of theloouv and , which y ields to the stroke , and resumes its original position-the moment the' slay leaves thc _cljoth ;" . thus giving : ' a ' h artificial elasticity to the yam . Tiieihveiitions . can be applied to any power-looms . From a close , inspection of the working of them , we think it hkhlyprbbable that in a very short time nearly all the linen manufactures will be woven by power . c We . are informed that the weaving of the quantity woven wiU ' npt ' exceed in cost one half what it docs by hand . . !
AmiFicuL Rain . —We copy the following article iii relation to the subject from the Philadelphia Inquirer : _—rWe are indebtedto a friend at Washington for a circular in relation to Professor ; _Eupy-s _theory of Artificial _tRaih ; by whicli'we _leam ; that ; the _exlwrimehtwassuccesstully . _triedlaist summer , 'in ' two ca _^ ih : the "interior _^ of Pennsylvania , and , one iri ; Indian _* i . A letter dated ' Coudersport ,, Pa ., July -j 9 _,, and signed by a number , of respectable mdiyidu # _i statesithat on Saturday _^ . July 13 th ;; about one o ' clock , ' the fallow of D . _tH .. ; Ellswortli , -Esq , containing about six acres , was fifed . At the time - the fire was ' set the day was calm ahdwarm , aii'd would be ' con sidered'cleai'jthei _* e were soriib flying cioiids , with' slight ' appearance of rain to thc north , but none in the " neighbourhood : The . fli _* e . spi _* ead , rfpidly , and burned with , great yiplciiqcT In a short tune a white cloud was seentoforn _- i over the _blM ' _. ' _snibKC'which rose over "the fire ' witli great velocity , : nearly peroeffdicular . ' The ' white _clbii'd
rolled-, outwardsj . abovei especially . towards , the north ' and , south , and probably more still _towardt-. the east _,, as the wind was gentle ih that ' direction ,, and as tlic raih ' v . _'hicli'fellfrOm' it' incieasciVas'it ' pi'Oceoilcd oast as far as'heard from . ' : It did not _swcll-out _' very far towards the west . In . less than an .. houv from the commencement of . the burning' very , large drops of ra _' ih were ' _seeir descending * _. by many 'inhabitants '' , of Coudersport from the cloud , glistening in the- * rays ofthe sun like , diamonds . It rained . but little ; at . Coudersport , whicli was about-. one hundred rods west of th ' e'iireV arid -none at all one half mile west ofthe village . The signers expressed the ' opinion that this rain was produced by ' the- ; burning of the fallow , and they therefore addressed' Professor Espy a letter stating the fact ; _-- _^ Ario . thcrr successful . ' experiniciit ' wjis made by _. burriing a'fallow of J two acres , oii . thefiuih of _DjMetzgar _. _-at Pike , Potter county , on the 14-th of August—to which place the Cou < iei » port shower of
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July 13 th extended—A distance of twenty-two miles rait . The certificates are full and unequivocal .- — Hi * . W . Hemble Salter , of Pulaski _
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H ' DO-ALL . . ' , _; ¦ . ; Mac thirsting for fame , but still more so for pelf , i In trying to do all has done for himself .-: i ¦ : MiscniEP fok the Million . —ih _^ c _' dnsequence . oi the state of the law , allowing a _pci * soh to walk mw the British Museum , and smash the !* Pbrtlahd Vase for . three pounds , it is possible that this sort ' of amusement may supersede the hitherto aristocratic amuseT merit of breaking windows , and _n-rehchihg offd' _-oi _* - _knOCkei'S . A morning's 'lark in' the National Gallery would be cheap at ' thirty pounds , if hali-adozen were to club together for the purpose , and the sum would include the privilege of , running walkingsticks into six of the best pictures " ' the collection coritainsi WeI presume the law ' _l-j'left Iii . this _atate
for the purpose ot allowing the luxury , ' of jniscliief ti ) those who are disposed to pay for it . Three pounds were all the law demanded for the amusement , of breaking the Portland Vase , or _ratlici _* loi * ' breaking the shade , the latter being the only articlehhargedfor , arid the vase being ,-of course , thrown in gratis . ' tt is not often that the Jaw is so veiy particular to a shade as it hasbeenihthisinstance . Weshouldh'ketotnowwhere the thr ee pounds' came from that were sent ' anonymously to pay the fine for the mischievous donkey who smashed the precious article . No doubt , if the money could be ' traced , it would be / ound to hare been supplied by one of the "vulgar rich , " who would be nappy to ' deiholish the Elgin marbles at so muchayard , or take the Museum ally round upon a reduced scale of penalties . —Punch . I Si _* _i _* ontmous Terms . —We have heard nothing lately . of the " long range . " The reason is , the same thing is now so much better expressed by the Income Tax . —Rrid . _-.....- _,-.. _- ' .
Tue __ Privileoes of _PjwiLMMEKr . —The arches on Westminster Bridge have been turned into dust-bins , two or three of them being filled with heaps of rubbish . Now there is no excuse for this accumulation , when the House of Commons is so conveniently nigh . —Ibid . ¦ .-:-. ' . AnisTocBATic CoNnEscENsiot * . —A Northumber land newspaper , reporting the " opening ofthe north : dock at Seaham , " observes— " The sea was allowed to enter in the presence of the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry . "—Britannia complains that there has been no " ruling the waves" ever since . Noi to be Outbone . —At Waterloo , a Highland regiment and the Scots Greys met in the thickest ofthe fight , and raised the cry of " Scotland for ever ! " " And ould Ireland for longer ! " exclaimed an Irish dragoon .
" You are quite welcome , " as the empty purse said to the shilling . Who was the rmsT Patron op a _Nawspaper ?—Cain : he took A-Bcl's life . Broken Enolisii . —A Frenchman having a weakness in his chest , told his physician he feli ' . a pain in his portmanteau . ' ' _*'' . _[ _Soat . —The Irish . petition Parliament for an extended trade with England in soap—being desirous of lathering tiie Saxon . '—Punch . - Disastrous . —One of Punch ' s . friends , who ' waspresent at the battle of Navarino , in the peaceful capacity of a passenger , received a cannon ball in his chest—which utterly destroyed a dozen shirts that were packed up in it !
The Holy Shirt of Tbeves . —As much doubt exists in the _mhuli _' of many ovemice sceptics respecting the holy shirt at Treves , we can assure them that there need not be a second opinion as to its being very holy indeed . -Common sense must dictate that no shirt of such an age could possibly be preserved complete . The French priesthood had better send the relic to his _Holi-neaa the Pope of Rome to have the article put into thorough reoair . It would , at all events , furnish a job for the distressed needlewomen of Rome , and they might be granted dispensation into the bargain . In its present condition w-e much question whether the holy , shirt could " a tail unfold . "— Great Gun .
Kind Indeed !—Since thc destruction of The Portland Vase , Lord Brougham , who takeBa lively interest in art , has presented to the British Museum a cast of his countenance to supply the _^ place of the shattered vase . Tliis , if not a handsome , is , at least , a very liberal g ift . It will be inserted in the catar logue of the Museum as The Brougham Mug . —Ibid . . Irish Practical Wit . —A Tipperary Rockite sends a letter of advice to a neighbour , about taking a certain piece of land or letting it alone ; arid ends with this pithy question— " What ' s the whole world to a man if his wife be a widow ?"—Poid . [ '' The Arch-Humbug Again . —It would be , doing O'Connell an _injustice if we did not give all the
currency inour power to some few Of "this bestabused man in the world's" _fiowei-s of Billingsgate . Speaking at Intimidation-hall , the other day , of the conduct of a Roman Catholic gentleman , Montesquieu Bellew , member for Louth , the " * best-abused " thus broke out : — " I denounce hini , as an arrantan unsavoury—renegade . If ever he shows his face again , at a Louth election , mly as that face was now , it would look _xtglier coming away " , A pretty broad hint this , of what is called a . slating in petto . Again Wakley . comes in for this " nate and _ifligint bit . " ,. " Wakley was like the old woman called Innocent Abigail , ] who went to hell without asin . " What a pity Dan is not over here to refresh the house with his oratory I—Satirist .
Babes of Grace . — Those pious builders , Messrs . Grissell and Peto , whose gift of bibles and tracts to the workmen in tlieir employ , we recorded : in our fasti in order , wc suppose ; to render them {* if not more obedient to command , at least more tractable , liad recently a curious illustration of the use to which the holy volume was turned in one instance . A workman deliberately offered his bible lo thclandlord of a public-house for a quartern Of gin . The boniface » much to his credit , refused the offer . * _*« Well , " said Grissell and Peto's babe of grace , " aarl . have no money , will you trust me till Saturday ! when I promise to pay you . " "No , " said the landlord . "A pretty fellow you arc for a Christian , " chuckled the babe ; " you will neither take the word of a man nor thewordof the . Lord . " So much for , thrusting religion down thirsty throats . —Ibid . A " LIGHT" SUBJECT .:- . A paraddx— -but true , alas I
And 6 ne that much _chagriu'd us ; Peel takes the duty clean off glass , But leaves it upon _u-indoics . ' —DM . The Destruction of the Portland Vase is not , quite' so prodigious and irreparable as at first imagined . ' The accomplished nieh'ders _; of antique , pots : and pans at thc Museiim _' iire ' hard at work , ; endcavonring to put the broken 'fragments into the " t _piistirib shape of'the vase , and Sir _Henrv'EHls says ; with every fair chance of achieving _^ tne-jpb . A cracked pitcher , - or a reputation with a'flaw in it , is better than none at all ; and the Portland 'vase- when repaired , by this rule , ought still be ' venerated , despite its fractures—just _aBan ancient belle , on the strength of her past reputation , retains a few . strag- _^ gling admirers , even though the ravages _bftinie may be visible through the cracks of the ' paint used to conceal them—Ibid . ;
. limitation of laboub . _Btv James sat quiet and composed , - . Nor changed his posture nor his face ; Indeed , some say lie almost dosed While Duncombe called him mean and base ! Whatever of his pluck be said , To pity Graham Sat inclines ;* Think that on Friday he had read Some eighty thousand valentines 1—Ibid . Lord Brocoiiam has been recommended to have a
galvanic ring passed through his nose , in order to , cure the twitching to ' which that organ isI subject . ' His lordship has promisedto take toe subject into \ t serious and quiet corisldcratiohi—/ _Wti . ' i ' ;|' . '• ' ' V ; - , "i ' A _.-True Bill . — The following is ia _venfeblejcopyofj _, a " bill , " passed a few days siiicc ; ala _vjJ _^ e ! in . _Egri sex _^ to a gentleman who had _Icft'lmfiorse at one of ; tiie urns , viitli ' tdircctions that it should be . haited for .,, tlic hight ;! and ' . brpught home tiie next morning .. ; The * hiah ' wno biW glit' flie animal brought alsp _^ _- _the account . ; in _nncstion with him . *— . . Ti , > :. . ;"'
j , _Tp . aiios _" : ; " '; \ . ; . _^ . _W .: !] Toagitmoiwrium . . . ' 0 6 . ,. 1 / ' . ' ., ' . '' _..-. ,- ' . >{ ' ¦ _K % _::, ¦ ' .,.: ; _^ or such of oii r readers as are notu _^ ed to hierog'l _* , * - phics _. we givethe translation : — ' . ! . ' , "' . ' ., '' - ' _-.- ' , :::.: r Tpanlioi _* se ' . ' *' .. . '' .., ' 4 s (' d . . - Tbagettin _? ohhimhomc . . _Z-.-l '& '' _$ . ¦ ¦ ¦ _* ' v . i .. -. * . ¦ '¦ .. ¦¦ _;• - _;¦¦ ¦¦ ¦¦' : _- ¦ _$ >• : _$ .: _'¦ _>* \ _llv-• . Surely this is a fine ' : _fiimilar episode of , _cguestrlaB _^ _i literature . ' _'""'" . . " ' . '• ¦' .. ' .: ' ' . ' ' _^ yr
: How . to . Produce Couiuge , Scirj-tipioai . lv . ' —5 A gentlch"ian r passing through a . certain _stveet , spied' am little fellow _bnsjiy , employed in _hiflieting rather ? heavy blows : Oii . his ! pate , just behind the ear , with a ' brickbat ; . Being'desirous of-knowing what " .-sin-so young a . ' cnildi had _conimittcdjhvhich required so ex- ' traordinary -a penance , he asked the boy win- he wash * pounding . his : head so . violently . " 0 , sir , " ' said the- ' lad earnestly , .-while' the : ; big tears chased each , other ' dowii . his cheeks ,, . " 'that great Bill / Smithlcalledmeia liar , yesterday !; _audirnirtiy . _hU'toraiBe _' . the bump , of cmnbativeness _. 'm as to _get- _pluck'to _^ _Ye-b _^ _'agoo ' d licking'to-moiTOW . " : _.,.-. , . _¦;¦ . ,-. . ' j , f 1 " _y-ijka ' - _" ' _" _.: ¦ A Commodious Establishment . — 'A be _^ t-shop at Gravesend has-in front st boardj _^ on _^ _M-is'fl . aintcd the following' ahnouncemeht ' _;~** Goo 4 ' R ' _cColitoO'lationforsteam-packets , '' '•'! _' - »' _- "' - - _* -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 1, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_01031845/page/3/
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