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. i & ad OF SIR JOHN FRAKKLIS * St _6 SOB 6 S H . BOK 2 B . _«< The ice was here , the ice was there , The ice was all around . "— CdUridge .
_« n , _« her sail yon , Sir John-Franklin ? _^ STwhaier in Baffin's Bay ; - fcnoff if between the land and the Pole , I may _&»* a _Droad _s _^ - _**?* t _Asree youback , Sir John Franklin , 1 _aItou would lire and thrive , . .. _jJgjVeen the land and the fcgzen Pole *' So man may sail alive . nut londly laug hed the stoat Sir John , And spoke unto his men ;—Half Eng land is wrong , if he is right ; Bear off to westward then .
nh whither sail yon , brave EngUshman ? Cried the little Esquimaux . Betwe en yonr land and the polar star My goodly vessels go . name down , if yon would journey there , The little Indian said ; 4 nd change your cloth for fur clothing , lour vessel for a sled . Rat lightly laughed the stoat Sir John , And the crew laughed with him too ; \ sdlor to change from ship to sled , I ween , were something new ! « 1 through the long , long pohr day , The vessels westward sped ;;
And wherever the sail of Sir John was blown , The ice gave way , and fled—Gave wav with maBy a hollow groan , Ind with many a surly roar ; But it murmured and threatened on every side , And closed where he sailed before . Ho ! see ye not , my merry men , The broad and open sea ? Bethink ye what the whaler said _. Bethink ye of the little Indian ' s sled ! The crew laughed out in glee .
Sr John , Sir John , 'tis bitter cold , The scud drive 3 on the breeze , The ice comes looming from the _Sortfc , The rery . snnbeams freeze . Bright Summer goes , dark "Winter comes—We cannot rnle _% e year ; Bnt long ere Summer s sun goes down , On yonder sea we'll ' steer _. The dripping icebergs dipped and rose , ' Andfloundered down the gale ; The ships were staid , tbe yards were manned , And furled tlie useless sail . * * * The Summer ' s gone , the "Winter ' s come , We sail not on yonder sea ; _Tfljy sail we not , Sir John Franklin ? A silent man was he .
lie Winter goes , the Summer comes , We cannot rule the year ; I ween , we cannot rule the ways , Sir John , wherein we'd steer . Tie cruel ice came floating on , And closed beneath , the lee , Till the thickening waters dashed no more 'Tvras ice around , behind , before—Hy God ! there is no sea ! What think you of the whaler now ? What of the Esquimaux ? A sled were better than a ship ,
To cruise through ice and snow . Down sank tbe baleful crimson sun ; The northern-light came out _. And glared upon the ice-bound ships , And shook its spears about . Sir John , the night is black and long , Tbe hissing wind is bleak ; The bard-bound ice is strong as death Iprythee , Captain , speak . The night is neither bri ght nor short , The singing breeze Is cold , The ice is not so strong as hope , The heart of man is bold !
What hope can scale this icy wall , High over the main flag-staff ? Above the ridges the wolf and bear Look down with a patient , settled stare-Look down on ns and laugh . The summer went , the Winter came—We could not rale the year ; Bat Summer will melt the ice again , And open a path to the sunny main , Whereon our ships shall steer . * # * The Winter went , the Summer went , The Winter came around ; Eat the hard-bound ice was as strong as death , Ana the voice of hope sank to a breath , Tet caught at every sound .
Bark I heard you not tbe sound of guns ? And there , and there again ? 5 _Iisisome uneasy iceberg ' s roar , As he turns ia the frozen main . Sr John , where are the English fields , And where the English trees ? And where are tbe little English flowers , That open in tbe breeze ? Be sul , be still , my brave sailors ! Ion shall see the fields again , And smell the scent of the opening flowers , The grass , and the waving grain . Oh ! when shall I see my orphan child ? My JIary waits for me ;
Oh ! when shall I see my old mother , And pray at her trembling knee ? Be stuL be still , my brave sailors ! Think not such thoughts again ! Bat a tear froze slowly on bis cheek-He thought of Lady Jane . Ah ! bitter , bitter grows the cold , The ice grows more and more ; More settled stare the wolf and bear , More patient than before . Oh ! think you , good Sir John Franklin , We'll ever see the land ?
Iwas cruel to _sexd us here to starve , Without a helping hand . 'Twas cruel , Sir John , to send us here , So tar from help or home ; To starve and freeze on this lonely sea ; I ween , the Lords of the Admiralty Had rather send than come . Oh ; whether we starve to death alone , Or sail to our own eountry , _We have done what man has never done—The open ocean danced in the sun—We passed the _Northern Sea ! Sartain ' s ( American ) Magazine
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SHE NATIONAL INSTRUCTOR , Kb . IL W . Rider : W , Great Windmill-street . _^ SE second number of this new candidate for _Mtlic favour does ample justice to its title . _& contents are judiciously varied ; "while , in * l the same predominating principle of _^ _oal and political reform ia distinctly _siaried . " The Secret "—a tale commenced
111 the first number—improves as . it _prosssss _, and exhibits in a very graphic _^ per the workings of the present _classi-^ ation of society _* npon the mental and 8 br al character of those subjected to its _influfc _* 1 * - Fiction—when made the vehicle of _^ d information as to the causes which _per-*** Ihe intellect , and debase the moral being _** eof the "Haves and Have-nots" of so-5 _% —assumes a utilitarian aspect , which even _" 5 j most rigorous disciple of Jeremy Bentham * _" Dot be slow fo recognise , and has this _ad-^ tage , that , while the masses might he
def _^ Btl by didactic and logical expositions of _^ principles , they cannot help being _atr _^ d b y them when thrown into a dramatic _j ? _k "The Life and Adventures of Feargus _^ C onnor "—by himself—will , however , no ? _"H with the mass of the reading public , . * _" _* the great attraction of the National j _5 « 1 or . Apart from tbe excitement prog _N b y an exceedingly lively style of _narra-^ _ligfct which the portion of the _antort _^ Ph y in the present number throws on _Q _^ age of the author ' s father , on the kind _y _^ ncation he received , and the prevalent Z _* of school discipline , when Mr . O'Connor
jj ? * su bject of the potent birch—cannot fail _^ exc eedingly interesting to all students of _taU _^ _^ veil as to those who take an _inj _^ _tin the circumstances by which the char _j _^ of men are formed who afterwards _ex-^ powerful and wide-spread influence over _j _^ _llow-men . Mr . O'Connor graphically _ajj _? . first " love-making , " and furnishes _%£ _Castration of the oft-quoted words of "Th t e Wnr K of true love never did run smooth . " _ituy _^ "sequent portions of the narrative , we _Jug M _^ P _^ _t _m have much interesting and vai _^ formation , respecting some of the
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most momentous passages of modern history . "Excelsior" is a well-written sketch , showing the manner in which the most gifted , _highsouled , and patriotic of our race , are thwarted in their aspirations and endeavours to benefit their fellow creatures , and how often an untimely grave closes over the fondly cherished hope , which , even' in death , sheds its halo over their last hours . We may note , also , that the second number is decidedly more political and practical than the first ; while there is no lack of light and agreeable matter , the
utile is blended with the dulce . The opening article , on Home Colonisation , contrasted with Foreign Emigration , as a cure for national evils , is a brief but forcible statement of the merits of the two different systems . This paper—which is from the pen of the editor—after , pithily stating the creed of the emigration-mongers , proceeds to show , on incontrovertible authority , that this country possesses the power of supporting four times its present population ; and then proceeds to answer the question , why that power has not been developed , in the following manner : —
But it may be asked , if we possess these capabilities , why have they not been taken advantage of ? Fully to reply to that question would require some time and space . We can only indicate what appear to us the leading causes . The first is to he found in the individual appropriation of the soil , and the consequent existence of laws of primogeniture and entail , which lock up the land—God ' s gift to allin the possession of a few families . These _appropriates of the common store only allow the soil to be used as it suits their convenience , interest or caprice . In all cases their interests are considered , and not the interests of the whole community to whom the land really belongs . Its cultivation therefore , instead of forming a primary object with
society , and being conducted in the most comprehensive and scientific manner , has been carried on in accordance with individual enlightenment , individual views of _self-interest and the amount _^ of individual capital , enterprise and labour , which might be applied to it . The wretched results of this system are apparent all over England . In order to maintain political influence over- their tenantry , and perpetuate that predominance in tbe government on which our aristocracy pride themselves , the greater part of the land is held on tenancies _at-will . The result is , tbat farming is , in such cases , generally carried on from year to year , instead of being conducted on an extended and practical plan , involving considerable immediate outlay , but yielding enormously increased
returns at a future period . Wherever the landlords bare had the intelligence to make the granting of leases the foundation of their agricultural system , tbe invariable effect has been an immense augmentation of the gross produce . The proceedings ofthe late Lord Leicester at Holkham , and the influence he exerted over the whole system of farming in Norfolk , is an eminent instance of the truth of this statement ; and , generally speaking , tbe state of agriculture in tbe lowlands of Scotland , is a still more striking illustration . In addition to the obstructive and impoverishing effect of entails in the landlord class , and the want
of leases among the farmer class , the game laws , and the sporting propensities of our gentry , may be mentioned as prominent _caused of the comparatively uncultivated state ofthe land of this country , very large portions are occupied by game preserves , plantations , and pleasure gronnds , for the delectation ef the wealthy classes , which , if cultivated for the support of man , would yield rich and luxuriant crops . Thfi farms in the immediate neighbourhood of these preserves , are plundered to an enormous extent by the depredations of the game , and , of course , this helps to diminish the total amount of food produced for the subsistence of the people .
Besides these inherent defects in tbe holding and cultivation of tbe soil , so far as the landlords and farmers are concerned , there has , within the last half century , been another powerful agency at work , to prevent the real value of agriculture to a country being properly appreciated . -The introduction ofthe manufacturing system , with its large and rapid returns to the owners of capital and machinery , has naturally turned the main current of the genius , tbe industry , and the enterprise of the country in that direction .. While the most extraordinary progress has been made in the production of textile fabrics , and in the discovery and application ofthe most delicate , complicated , and powerful machinery for that purpose , the : art of agriculture has not advanced in anything like the same proportion , in consequence ofthe abstraction ofthe national energies to manufacturing pursuits .
The combined effect of these causes bas been to produce an artificial sterility in the soil of our native land , and to lead partially informed persons to tho conclusion that Britain is . over-populated . But while it can be demonstrated , tbat there are the means of producing food for one hundred or one hundred and twenty millions of human beings , while , at the same time , we have not more than a quarter of that number to support , it is evident that this is a gross fallacy and delusion , - ; _, The writer forcibly contrasts the ¦ _ merits of the two different plans as a remedy for national grievances : —
Instead of sending away any of that labour , which is the true wealth of the eountry , to reclaim wilder nesses , cut down forests , and cultivate prairies elsewhere , tbey should be kept at home and employed in fertilizing our own soil . Every thousand acres which may by skill , labour , and capital , be won from either artificial or natural unproductiveness , would , in fact , be an increase to the surface of the kingdom , as much so , as if a slice of a thousand acres bad been cut from the shores of some of those distant lands to which it is proposed to transport the " surplus labourers , " and added to our own .
Until the unemployed and uncultivated land of this country is brought into full play , we have no " surplus labour . " Our first duty is to subdue and cultivate to its full extent , " the land we live in . " When that is done , it will be time enough to think about emigrating , the mode in which that emigration should be conducted , and who should be the parties to emigrate . On the mere score of economy , the plan of Home Colonization is preferable to that of Foreign Colonization . In order to produce the sli g htest effect on the labour market by means of emigration , we may assume fairly , that one million families should be taken ont of it at once . Calculating the outfit ,
passage-money , and maintenance of that one million , until they got in their first crops , at tbe low amountof £ 20 a head , it would require £ 100 , 000 , 000 to locate them . If the plan of systematic Foreign Colonization is to be considered at all applicable to the evils of society , this process of sending off people and treasure , would have to be repeated very frequently . One of the most undoubted facts in history is , that population very speedily replaces itself under favourable circumstances ; the vacuum caused by the abstraction of one million persons from the labour market , would soon be filled up , and then the depletory process would have to be repeated .
Instead of this most wastefal and inefficient plan , by which , not only the existing capital of the country , but its power to produce more , would he most imprudently squandered , we say , that xwEXir _iuujoxs sterling judiciously applied to the reclamation and colonization of our waste and crown lands , would be both an immediate and a permanent benefit to all parties ; the country would add to its already large capital , the people would have a larger cultivated area on which to depend for subsistence , and the labourers who had been instrumental in producing this addition to the cultivated territory , the real wealth , _aad the permanent prosperity of the country , would , under ajust system , share largely in that prosperity , without having undergone any of the sufferings , dangers , or diseases which ever track the steps of the foreign emigrant .
"National Education a means of promotmg Universal Happiness , " is a new and important view of this most essential question , of which we can only give an idea by the subjoined extracts : — Since the pursuit of happiness is the prime business of life ; since there is an eternal craving for it in every human bosom—is it not highly desirable that all arrangements which appear likely to produce it , should be called into immediate operation ? In this light , National . Education assumes a new and
important aspect , as a medium through which the sum . of general _happiness might be increased . The uneducated man _; in genera ] , is incapable oi experiencing the pleasures which spring from the possession of knowledge . The sciences may unlock their stores , and pour their inestimable , inexhaust .-ahle treasures at his feet , but he has no taste for tbeir beauties , no mind to appreciate their value . The landscape may be clothed in all the wild luxuriance of nature , but he lacks the inner sense which imparts life to its beauties , meaning to its varied manifestations . .
"A primrose by the river ' s bnm A yellow primrose is to Mm , And it is nothing more . Bat the case is reversed with tbe educated . The most elevating pleasures that humanity can feel , _sprn _» from the proper exercise of a _cottmted understanding , and of an imagination duly disciplined and subdued . An acquaintance with literature , even if it be but partial , is a source of pure delight , the _phUosophic student digs up happiness from the entrails of the earth , and derives both amusement and instruction from the pebbles on its surface . Nature is to him an interminable source of gratification . Chemistry nnfolds to him its wonders , and exhibits toe constituent elements of organic and inorganic
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bodieB . Geology enables him to trace the various physical revolutions which have occurred on the surface or in the bowels of the earth , and informs him that other races of- beings were , its . denizens before man was called into existence . Mathematics expand bis power of thinking , and open up tbe pathway which leads to an acquaintance with the sublime science of astronomy , which of itself unlocks fresh fountains of felicity . When the sun has set in glory , and his last rays have fallen upon hill and valley , streamlet and woodland , when the gorgeous tints on the clouds are vanishing , and in
Twilight _^ r grey , comes on ;" when '' The lowing herd winds slowly o ' er tho lea , " and all nature is sinking to repose—then how cheering it must be to tbe educated man to wander from home—or , alone , on the watch-towers raised for science , to banquet on the beauties of the scene ! The moon , rising in the eastern sky , flings her silvery mantle over the landscape—the stars do homage to her superior brightness ; while earth and its waters roll on , illumined by her lustre and reflecting her image . "What high and ennobling feelings arise in the philosopher ' s mind as he scans the Heavens , and roams in thought over the immensity of the
Universe . Overwhelming thoughts of sublimity and vastness _, lofty conceptions of the beautiful min gled with tender reminiscences of bygone years , agitate his breast . The appearance of the revolving orbs above , calls up feelings with which the names of a Copernicus , a Galileo , a Newton , and a Qerschel , are associated . The history of the heavens lies spread out before him , and he is enabled , in some measure , to behold its future condition in perspective . "Who will have the temerity to affirm that the astronomer , in snch circumstances , does not experience the purest and the most elevating delight ? And where is the individual , possessed of the least spark of philanthropy , who would not wish to make such pleasures in some measure accessible to all ?
A wise , well-adjusted , and liberal scheme of National Education , if carried into effect , would place these refined gratifications within tbe reach of the m- jority of men . The people , if rightly trained from infancy to manhood , would have placed in their hands the key with wbich they might unlock _alftbe stores of knowledge . A taste for the sciences , and for literature in general , would thus be generated , and a fine and high-toned morality would be made to | ervade all the ramifications of society . Crime would be repressed if not abolished ; vice would become _dishonourable and abhorred , and the full tide of popular opinion would be brought to hear on those dispositions and actions which ere prejudicial to the . interests of the Commonwealth .
One ofthe veteran Beranger _' s " people ' s songs , " expository of the body-and-soul-destroying character of our boasted modern civilisation , as respects large portions of the population of this and all other " civilised countries , " will not fail to awaken a sympathetic chord in thousands of hearts which have themselves felt " The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune . " If the National Instructor continues to blend sound abstract social and political information with fiction and poetry , directly bearing on the interests of the masses , it will worthily vindicate its title , and deserve a circulation at least equal to any of its cheap contemporaries .
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PRINCESS'S THEATRE . The announcement of a highly attractive bill of fare , for tbe benefit of Messrs . Macfarren and Loder " , two of our most distinguished musicians , whose operatic works have been eminently serviceable in maintaining the reputation and prosperity of this establishment , brought together an audience on Monday night which filled the theatre to the roof . The entertainments consisted of the first act of-Charles II , the second act of the Night Dancers , the . farce of The First Night , and a concert , in which several eminent vocalists and instrumentalists appeared , including Miss Catherine Hayes , Madame _Macf & Ken , Mr . Sims Reeves , Herr Ernst , M . Vivier , Mr . Benedict , Mr . Osborne , Mr . H . B . Richards , Mr . W . C . Mac- ; farren , & c . The whole passed off with the greatest eclat , and entirely to the satisfaction of the audience . Mr . Loder conducted in the orchestra .
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STANDARD . This popular little theatre was taken on Wednesday night for the benefit ofthe wife and family of John J . Fusseil , one of the Whig victims of 18 i 8 , who is still suffering imprisonment in _Tothill-fields House of Correction , and from the numerous attendance , there is no doubt but that the object was achieved . The romantic spectacle of Peter Wilkins , or The Flying Indians was presented on this occasion , and froni the manner in which Mr . Douglas has placed it on the stage , aided by the talents of Messrs . Gaston , Gates , H . Lewis , and Mrs . Honnor , promises Jto . have a successful run . The ' interlude of Matrimony followed , in which Messrs .
Lewis Herbert , Basil Potter , and Miss E _ , Terry convulsed the _hoWe'ftith laughter . _The'perfjjrmance concluded with a powerful drama , entitled The Haunted Orange , or The Heart and the Key This piece abounds with striking effects , and thrilling incidents , and affords ample scope for the talents of Messrs Lyons , R . Hcnnor , Gaston , Mrs . Honnor , and others of the corps dramatiaue . The scenery is splendid , and the performers appeared to vie with each other in emulation . The audience retired well pleassd with the night ' s enjoyment , which was further heightened by the satisfaction that they had served their friend and brother John J . Fusseil .
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_ASTLEY'S . The _Afghanistan War ( the revival of which we noticed last week ) continues to attract crowded and delighted audiences . The scenes in the circle are of a superior character , and enlivened by tbe drolleries of the rival clowns , Barry and Wheal . Mdlle Gardoni received well-merited applause for her elegant exercises on the tight rope . The laughable farce of the Lottery Ticket concluded the entertainments on Tuesday evening . llvUVO V ** * _UvuMVj w _* _b « f * a _> _fe _«
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . A _serieB of lectures on the chemistry of hydrogen , with especial reference to its application for conveying by balloons pyrotechnic and other signals to Sir John Franklin , has just been commenced by Mr . Pepper , chemical professor at this establishment . The materials and construction of the balloons were first noticed ; as they might be made of oiled silk , gold-beaters' skin , or prepared paper the latter was preferred , because , with ordinary care , it lasted very well , and had the great additional advantage of cheapness . A five-feet goldbeaters' skin balloon cost £ 10 , whilst a dozen paper ones could be made for £ 3 16 s . ; thus the number of balloons to be sent might be increased , and the
chances multiplied of some of the signals finding their way to the missing expedition . The chemical nature of hydrogen was then demonstrated by various experiments—its extraordinary lightness shown by comparison with coal gas . The buoy signals , to be used in case of distress by the searching party ; the pyrotechnic _signah by parachutes ; the rocket signals , and . Darby's arrangements for firing , are all clearly explained . The construction of the fusee or quick match employed , and Us admirable principle ( the argand ) , was likewise demonstrated ; and it was shown that it would burn just as well for a few minutes as for several consecutive hours . The discourse was illustrated by numerous brilliant and appropriate experiments .
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The Seven-mile TunseIi through the Alps . — The following details are gathered from Dr . Granville's paper , as promised . To give at once some idea of the boldness of Chey . Mens' undertaking , we may , in the first place , state that , in its progress , tho tunnel must pass under some of the most elevated crests of Mount Cenis—one , in particular , where there will be 4 , 850 feet of mountain , capped with eternal glaciers , over head , at the middle of the tunnel , so that not only will the workmen and machinery in construction , and the passengers and trains in transit , be buried to that depth in the mountain , bntall idea of shafts , eitherto facilitate excavation , or to promote ventilation , must be out ofthe question . Tiie breath of life itself . must he
respired , from either extremity , with artificial aid , in shape of currents of fresh air transmitted , and of foul withdrawn , by mechanical apparatus ever at work , at least during excavation , which is also itself to be effected by machinery of a new and simple nature , worked by water power of mountain streams , whereby the trains are also to be run through tho tunnel wbich ascends , from tlie northern or Savoy side , at Modane , all the way to its exit at _Bardonneclvc , with a gradient eqvwl to W in 1 , 000 . The machine , once presented to the rock , projects into it simultaneously four horizontal series of sixteen scalpels , working backwards and forwards by means of springs cased in , and put in motion by the same water power . While these are works
at work , one vertical series on each side simultaneously up and down , so that , together , they cut out four blocks , or rather insulate four blocks on all sides , except on the rock behind , from which they are afterwards detached by hand . It has been already ascertained that each of tho two machine ? , at the opposite ends ofthe tunnel , will excavate to the extent of 22 feet a day , and it is estimated that tho whole excavation will be completed in four years . The gallery to bo perforated by the machines will be 13 feet wide by 7 feet high , and this once cut through , the bore will be enlarged by ordinary means to 25 feet in width and 19 feet in height , and a double line of rails bid . The estimated cost of this great tunnel is only 13 . 804 . 942 f . ( £ 552 , 107 ) . It is to be immediatel y commenced at the north entrance . —The Bxdlder .
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Colbbidge asd thb _Jsw . —The other day I was what you would ca \\ floored by a Jew . He passed me several times crying for old clothes , in the most nasal and extraordinary tone I ever heard . At last I was so provoked , that I said to him— ' Pray , why can't you say old clothes' in a plain way , as I do now ?" The Jew stopped , and looking gravely at me , said in a clear and even fine accent , "Sir , I can say ' old clothes' as well as you can ; but if you had to say so ten times a minute , for an hour together , you would gay ' Ogh Clo' as I do now ; " and so he marched off . 1 < s & a so confounded ; witb the justice of the retort , that I followed and gave him a shilling , the only one I had . — Colerid ge ' s Table Talk . Patience is very good , but perseverance is much better ; while the former stands as a stoic under difficulties , the latter whips them out of the ring .
A Preto Pickle . —A good lady , who had two children sick of the measles , went to a friend for the best remedy . Her friend had just received a note from another lady , inquiring the way to make certain pickles . In the confusion , the lady who inquired about the pickles received the remedy for the measles , while the anxious mother of the sick children read with horror the following : — " Scald them three or four times in veryjhot vinegar , sprinkle them well with salt , and in a few days they will be cured . " Soon after the Copemican system of astronomy
began to be generally understood , an old farmer went to his parson with the following inquiry : — " Dr . T ., do you believe iu the new story they tell about the earth moving round the sun ? " " Yes , certainly . " " po you think it is according to the Scriptures ? If it ' s true , how could Joshua command the sun to stand still ? " ' Umph ! " quoth the parson , " Joshua commanded the sun to stand still ; did he ?" _-i"Yes . " " Well , it stood still , did it not ? "" Yes . " "Very well . Did you ever hear that he set it a going again ? " _^
A Gentleman being asked what article of trade was most adulterated , replied , " religion . " . You can never overtake Time . It is best , therefore , to be always a few minutes before him . New Digging Machise . —An implementhas beer invented by Mr . J . Hutchinson , of Market Hill , for digging the land by horse power . The machine consists ofa hollow _: cyUnder of iron , with- spades attached to its _surface-at right angles to each other , and about one foot square apart . ' During our visit the machine was in use planting potatoes ; it went along the furrow , with two women following , who dropped a set in each ofthe holes made by the implement , which one man easily covered with a broad wooden hoe . It was computed that as much work can be done'by three hands with this machine , as by ten hands without it . —Armagh Qagette .
If a man be gracious and civil to a stranger , it shows he is a citizen of the world , and that his heart is no island cut from other lands , but a continent that joins them . i . i At as excellent hotel , not a hundfed miles froni Liverpool , they were one _dayshdrt ofa _waited , when a newly-arrived Hibernian was hastily made to ' supply the place of a more expert hand . V Now , Barney , " said mine host ; " mind you serve every man with soup , anyhow . "—Bedad I'll do that game , " said the alert Barney , Soup came on the start , and Barney , after helping all but one guest , came upon the last one . "Soup , sir , " said Barney . — " No soup for
me , " said the gent . — "But you must have it , " said Barney , "it is the rules of the house . "— " D—n tbe house , " exclaimed the guest , highly exasperated ; " when I don't iwant soup I won ' t eat it—get along with you . "— "Well , " said Barney , with solemnity , " all I can say is jest this ; it ' s the regulations of the house , and the divil a drop else ye'll get till ye finish the soup ! " The traveller then gave in , and the soup was gobbled . _Oue p erson abusing another in the presence of Churchill , the poet , said he was so extremely stupid that if you said a good word he couldnot understand it . "Pray , sir , _^ did you ever try him ? " said the poet .- " .- ' ' . ' •'
At . a public garden in the suburbs of London , a waiter , observing one of his master ' s customers bolting before his bill was paid , roared out to a brother attendant : "Run ; run , Boh , there ' s two teas and a glass of brandy and water escaped over the fencecatch ' em . " . , ' , A Glasgow _ryouth walking with his sweetheart along Queen-street -of that city , stopped at the door ofa pastry-cook ' s shop , ahd addressing his lady-love , said , " Now , my dear , what will _youtaka ?" . She , expecting to be _treated to some of the good things of the shop , modestly , replied , "I will take anything yon like . " "Then , ? says he , " we will take a
walk , " and marched past the shop . The Poet Laureate was formerly called the king ' s versifier , and may be traced-as far back as 1251 , at which period his stipend was one hundred shillings per annum ; it is now £ 100 a year . In tbe " History of English Poetry , " Mr , Warton says , " In the reign of Edward IV . theirtt mention is made of the more dignified appellation fbf Laureate , which was originally bestowed on John Kay . " Mr . Wharton is also of opinion that , the title arose from the degrees taken at the University _$ _? Oxford , on , which _occasion a wreath of- laurel was' , _presented to the new graduate who ms styled _Jhe _^ Laureatus . .,. _^ Z
"Jim ; did you ever double the Cape " of Good Hope ?"— " I expect I have ' . "— " When ?"— " Last night , when 1 put my arm round the cape that belongs to the dress of the young lady that I have good hopes o f making Mrs . Dusenberry . " Recently , a gentleman was accosted by a female vagrant , when he replied that he never gave to beggars in the street . " If I knew where your honour lived , " quietly responded the woman , " I'd be calling at your house , and then I shouldn ' t interfere ivith your arrangements , ' " It is understood that the gentleman called to the bar under the name of Mr . Sims Reeves is not the eminent tenor of that name , however singular the coincidence . The voice of the legal Reeves is a iarytone . A Gentleman one day observed to Henry Erskine _, who was a great punster , that punning was the lowest of wit . " It is so , " answered Erskine , " and therefore the foundation of all wit . "
f HE 7 . debate strange questions down east . The last was— " What is the difference between the Bridge of Sighs , and the size of a bridge ? " The next is to be— " The difference between a fac simile and a sick family . " Choosing a Husband . —An American sea captain had as a passenger a young lady of great personal attractions , and five young gentlemen , also passengers , and who , in the course of a short voyage , all fell desperately in love with the young lady . The young lady liking all the five young gentlemen equally well , felt herself placed in a position of some difficulty , and applied for some advice to the captain , who , being of an original turn of mind , proposed to the young lady that she should jump overboard , he
having a well-manned boat alongside , to prevent the possibility of accident , and that she should marry the man who jumped in after her . She was very much struck by it , and it being summer time and fine weather , and naturally fond of bathing , decided to accept the proposition . Accordingly , on a certain morning , when her five admirers were all on deck , she went over the side head foremost . Four of the five immediately plunged in after her , and said the young lady to the captain , when they were all on deck again , "What am I to do now ? see how wet they are . Said the captain to the young lady , " Take the dry one , " , which she did . What fart ofa ship is like a farmer ?—The tiller . _Diiprns of the European Seas . —In the
_neishb ' ourhopd of the Continent the soas are often shallow and their bottom seems to be only the continuation by gentle slopes , of the relief of the continents which border them . Thus-the Baltic Sea has a depth of only 120 feet between the coasts of Germany and those Of Sweden—scarcely a twentieth part of that of _Lago-Maggiore _joear the Italian Alps ; farther north it becomes deeper . The Adriatic , between Venice and Trieste , has a depth of only 100 feet . In these two cases we see tbat the bed is only the continuation of the gentle inclination of tho plains of Northern Germany and of Friuli . It is the same with the Northern Sea , and with those which wasli the British Islands . Here is found a submarine plateau , which serves as a common basis for the
coasts of Prance and the British Islands nowhere docs it sink lower than 600 feet , and frequently it rises much higher . Between France and England the greatest depth does not exceed 300 feet ; but at the edge of the plateau , ( south-west of Ireland , for example , ) the depth suddenly sinks to more than 2 , 000 feet ; we may say that here tho basin of the Atlantic really begins . . Tlie seas in tho south of Europe are distinguished from tho preceding by their _mucb greater depths . Tho basin of the Mediterranean may he called a basin broken through and fallen in , _resemtying on a small scale what the Pacific Oc _« an is on a largo one . All the short and abrupt slopes of the lands ' surrounding it fall rapidly towards the interior . The western basin , in particular , seems to be very deep ; it is isolated from tho Atlantic by a submarine vidgo or neck , which , inthe narrowest part of the Strait of Gibraltar , is notmore than 1 , 000 feet below the surface . But a little
farther _townds the east tho depth falls suddenly to 3 , 000 feet ; and at the south of tho coast of Spain and of the Sierra Nevada , a depth of 0 , 000 has been ascertained by Captain Smith . Captain Berare indicates still greater depths on the coast of Algeria . If we may believe Marsigli _, and it he has not made some mistake in the statement , thero has been found iu tho prolongation of the Pyrenees the enormous depth o 9 , 000 fcot . Not far from _Cjpe Asinara , on the'iorth-west of Sardinia , the plummet has been sunk ] without touching bottom , at a depth of nearly 5 , 00 ( 3 feot . —6 u « ot _' s Earth and Man . Military Slvisos Basks . —According to a return made to _jarliament and printed on Tuesday , the number of _depositors to military savings banks on tho 31 st of March , 1849 , was 6 , 747 , of which 5 , 756 belong U the cavalry and infantry , and 991 in the _ordnance corps . The total amount of the fund for _military savings baukg , up to the 14 th March last was _£ 0 y , GG 0 . 6 s . 45 d .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 1, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_01061850/page/3/
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