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Beauties Of Byron. " Ho. Ix. •* Childe "...
BEAUTIES OF BYRON . " HO . IX . CHILDE "HAROLB . " The poet Urns sings of tbe beauties and deronnities of xnsrrAxiA . * Oh , Christ ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land ! What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree ! What goodly prospects o ' er tlie hills expaud ! But man would mar them with an impious hand : And when tlie Almighty Efts his fiercest scourge
'Gainst those who most transgress his high command , With treble vengeance wUl his hot shafts urge Gaol ' s locust host , and earth from fullest _foemen purge . -What heauties doth "Lisboa _f first unfold ! Her image floating on thai noble -tide , Which poets vainly pave with sands oi gold , Rut no w whereon a thousand keels did ride Of mighty strength , since Albion was allied , And to the Lusians did her aid afford - . A nation swoln with ignerance and pride Who lick yetloathe the hand that waves the sword To save them from the wrath of Gaul's unsparing lord . J ¦ * ¦ * #
Poor paltry slaves ! _yetnorn midst noblest scenes—Why , _Nature waste thy wonders on such men ? Lo , Cintra ' _si glorious Eden intervenes In variegated maze of mount and glen . Ah , me ! what hand can pencil guide , Or pen , To follow half on which the eye dilates Through views more dazzling anto mortal ken Than those whereof such things the hard relates , Who to the awe-struck world unloek'd Elysium ' s gates 1 The horrid crags , by toppling convent crown'd , The cork-trees hoar that clothe the shaggy steep , The mountain-moss by scorching skies imbrown'd , Thc sunken glen , whose sunless shrubs must weep ,
The tender azure of tlie unruffled deep , The orange tints that gild the greenest hough , The torrents that from cliff to valley leap , The vine on high , thc willow branch below , Mix'd in one mighty scene , with varied beauty glow Then slowly climb the many-winding way , And frequent tarn to linger as you go , From loftier rocks new loveliness survey , And rest ye at "Onr Lady ' s house of woe f / where frugal monks theirUtile relics show , / And sundry legends to the stranger tell : Here imoious men "have punish'd been , and lo ! Deep in yon cave Honorius long did dwell , In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell .
And here anil there , as up the crags yon spring , Mark many rude-carved crosses near the path : Tct deem not these devotion ' s offering—These are memorials frail of murderous wrath : Tor whereso ' cr the shrieking -victim hath Tour'd forth his Wood beneath tlie assassin ' s knife , Some hand erects a cross of mouldering lath ; And grove and glen with thousand such are rife Throughout this purple land , where law secures not life . U * * * * Tct ilafra shall one moment claim delay , "Where dwelt of yore the _Lnshm's luckless queen ; And church and court did mingle their array , And mass and revel were alternate seen !
LordBngs and freres—ill-sorted fry 1 ween . 3 _Jnt here the Babylonian whore hath built * J A dome , where flaunts she In such glorious sheen , That men forget the blood which skeliatli spilt _. And bow the knee to Pomp that loves to varnish guilt . O ' er vales that teem with fruits , romantic WRs , ( Oh , tliat such hills upheld a free-born race 3 ) Whereon to gaze the eye with joyauce fills , Childe Harold wends through many a . pleasawt place , Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase , And marvel men should quit their easy chair , The toilsome way , and long , long league , to trace , Oh ! there is sweetness in tlie mountain air , And life , that bloated Ease can never hope to share .
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* _Lusitania , the ancient name of Portugal . t The ancient name of the capital was Ulisipo , or Lispo ; hence the Portugese Lisbon , the French Lisbonne , and our Lisbon . % This was written during the heat of the war with Napoleon , in Julv , 1 S 09 . § The _villase of Ciutra , fifteen miles from Lisbon , is perhaps tho most delightful place in Europe—teeming with heauties natural and artificial—Tocks , cataracts , precipices , gardens , palaces , convents , magnificent sea-view , & C , & c g Iu lSeO assassination was a common occurrence in the streets of Lisbon . Bjron himseHhad a narrow escape _lroin the Knife . 5 " The extent of Mafra is prod % 5 ous—it contains a palace , convent , and most superb church . " Writing to his mother , the poet says : — " About ten miles to the right of Ciutra is the palace " of Mafra , tbe boast of Portugal , as it might be of any country , in point of magnificence without elegance . There is a convent annexed : the Monks asked me if the English had any books in their country !"
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The Purgatory Of Suicides. A Prison Lluy...
THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Prison lluynic , in Ten Books . By Thomas Cooper , the _Chartist . London : J . How " , 132 , Fleet-street . _Ourifstilersare already familiar with , the title of _tUiswork , from the repeated announcements which lave _appeared in this paper ; and , we doubt not , that their curiosity has been considerably excited as to tbe sort of work tbe 1 ' _urgatorg of Suicides would prove to be . If iir . Cooper ( who is not ashamed to own bis past _comissiutt witli tie " gentle crafi" _) bad announced Uimself sis a maker of new _^ fittings for our readers' understandings , such , an announcement would have caused no surprise ; aud our readers would _wtwally have anticipated that in advertising tbe products of bis labour , Air . _Coopeb must have bad some confidence in the worth of his -workmanship ; and although tbe making of substantial shoes bv an aristocrat I were such a thins possible ) would . certainly
_csdic some wonder , the like work on the part of one of the useful class would create no surprise . On tbe other band when one of that clas 3 conies before the world as abook-makcr . it but seldom happens that liis labour is justly appreciated by any class . The privileged classes refuse to acknowledge , or even _in-Yestisate the merits of the daring aspirer ; and the proletarians , educated in the accursed belief of the natural and necessary inferiority of their order , smile incredulously when told that John Smith , thc weaver , or Robert Brown , thc shoemaker , lias written a book which the parson of thc parish could not have ¦ wr itten . That Smith could weave good cloth , and HlOWll make good shoes , they can believe ; but that cither could write philosophy or poetry by the volume they think all but impossible . They have been educated to deem themselves the "inferior order , " and despite thc examples of Paixe and _Ecnxs and a host of others , custom chains them to thc slavish belief .
Of course this does not apply to all of the proletarian class . The Democratic party—the advanced guard of that class—have learned a different doctrine , and that doctrine daily gathers converts . Still , if any of our readers have been somewhat incredulous as to Mr . _Coorcis ' s poetical talents , they may be excused . Poets are not made every day . It is , we fancy , no ven- difficult task to string together afew verses not Tory faulty , iu rhyme , and not absolutely outrageous _asrt--5 _irdsscnse , andthusconstituteone ' sselfa " poct ;" and of such " poets" there is in our day no lack . It
is , however , a very different thing to produce a work like ilr . _Coor-Eu ' s "Prison Rhyme . " comprising Weil on to a thousand stanzas . Such a work , If well executed , if bearing the genuine poetical stamp , is a great work , and , sooner or later , its author must reap his great reward . Should any of our rcaelcrshavc entertained misgivings as to Mr . _Cooitu ' s poetical talents , we must confess to Laving shared those misgivings . To essay to tread the path of Spencer , and _livnox was a bold attempt . Jlr . _Cooi'EK has , however , essayed to do Sfr —it remains to bo seen with what success .
_^' c shall not now offer au opinion as to the merits of Mr . Coorj-a ' s pcem , for a very good reason , — * _£ >' «*¦ wc Lave readonly avery small portion ofit . Vi c read all books before we review them . Ia _Tvhie-h , _wcRelieve , wc _tllflcr froni sonic of our brotlioraii V l > rcss ' _Tru 0 rcv " - without reading at r . " -j ' _efcvci- wc propose tc extract pretty freely i' oiii the poem , and ibi : s afford our readers an oppor-IHM . V _, to some extent , ef _iiidging for themselves . ; ur opauor , of _ihewcrlc as * a whole we shall defer l _V'e e cc-JC'h : dcd our intended extracts . t . J _£ csa , ' ; : rac « hy _cxiRsctiHS tiic entire of thc j » Sr " \ , cfccl _taUol upon to do this both in ,, _* , , r ' Coon-it , as a Chartist , and more _pauK-uiavi y m justice to thai _unjustiv expatriated _-- -i csf tdfcni man , William Ellis , thc generous --nauients of Mr . Cooper will , we trust , help nv _^ T _^ r pnblie _'Pwathv in behalf of that ;! _* - _. , nn , l _* y—at this moment in urgent need
. - "' .. _epipathy iu a practical shauc—and also to _--feeii hat general demand for simple justice which T , \ ' _•?* - * ' > ' _*> at least , _slioiieniiig the duration of poor - - " is s misery . to-, !! ! lV , lt "" 6 " " _Prison JUiyinc , _"— part of an historical "cli " ' ~ a SericS cf _sbnMe * tides , —and a small Hebrew _tiles ' WCre _** _" _* ' ts of ltT 0 J * - ' aTSa ' " * - 'leVen weeks ' a j , ? " ! ' Stafford Gad . Tke first idea of creating _act _^"' 1 Inv ,,: ch the spirits of suicides should be the haiaV _^ _^ aTeriers J arf , se in my wind ten years ago;—ia ::, _^ JUeiU ; _SI'tni-vi-r have b _; . _-en composed except for my k ~ a ' uu , lt . —and _thepolhiral strife _Su which I have Bt j , '• ¦?» - * has certainl y given a form and colour to .. ' _...- " U _= " which tliev could not have worn had mv
_conun-lv-i " i a rca _^ _scd a- an earlier period . An _indivit _* tatT . 1 ° _" " ! _jsiMi r . ielde-d the awl till three and lo It . *'* - Slr , 1 _« _$ u = > aiui « ls : «« ak iiealUi and deprivation , u _,,. t ; a _''nowk-dgj of iangaaHiy * _. —and whose espcrisi « _nr _? r We v _' > _at first , " _jiiiiitcd to the humble ¦ _Ji aVbtf _Uu _0 _lmasttJ _¦ _. ::, 1 < 1 never enlarged beyond that _Sa-tmT " < _T 1 _S Yforlil : r OM a ne _wsjwper _, could scarcely have _I'ftiie-j „ afab _« c of verse eiubo . _hing more than a ftw 1 i : rit ' * ur Se . t ? i : ies * _i _5 J' Pt ' _vsecuioi-s have , at least , the vt-, _f __ l _*' " _* _'" _' _= Si- * - - a more robust character to _iny flu s ' _-,,-Y ? ?'' _' ll ! 05 t _assmvdly o « v -Jma _nolove for thc lJi _-n : * . ili =- -i" _^ 15 of : i o O : ! i" 1 _cn-iurcd from neuralgia , _^^ Udh ' > ' " II : now _ioi _wliat other torments ! , —oc-J _tfaiius ,- : ' _" " PsJst , » - ' - _* -11 . _'" ¦• ' •• d to the _se-ncraUy ' - _^• ves _fcihapris-KJSieit .
The Purgatory Of Suicides. A Prison Lluy...
I have not the slightest wish to enlarge on the circumstances of suffering under which my verses have been strung together : and only deprecate that severity of cr iticism which a CharM rlvsmer must expect to encounter—b y observing that I am painfully conseiousnry hook contains many passages correspondingly feeble with the debilitated state in which I often strove to ' urge on the completion of my desi gn . For reasons that involve the fate of others , as well as my own , I cannot omit to add a few remarks in thispreface relative to the causes of our imprisonment .
The firstsix stanzas of thefollowing poem may be considered as embodying a speech I delivered to the Colliers on strike , in the Staffordshire Potteries , on tlio 15 th of August , 1 S _42 . Without either purposing , aiding and abetting , or even knowing of an outbreak till it had occurred , —I regret to add tbat my address was followed by the demolition and burning of several houses , and by other . icts of violence . I , and others , were apprehended and tried . My first trial was for the most falsely alleged crime of burning and demolishing , or assisting to burn and demolish . Sir Wm . Follett , —then Solicitor-General , —used every endeavour to procure a conviction . I pleaded my own cause , —a number of respectable working-men proved my alibi , —and Judge Tindal intimated his conviction that the evidence did not prove I was guilty . The jury returned a verdict in my favour , —an ! I was thus saved from transportation , —perhaps for the term of my natural life , but was remanded for trial on two other indictments .
In a few minutes I met melancholy proof of tlie extreme peril in which 1 had just been placed ; for , on being taken back to the dungeon beneath the Court-House—a filthy , stifling cell to which prisoners are brought from tbe gaol on the day of trial , and which , in the language of the degraded beings who usually occupy it , is called' the gloryholo' —I found William Ellis walking about the room , and on taking his hand and speaking to him for the first time in my life , i learned tliat / _ichad justbeen sentenced to twenty-one years' transportation for a like alleged offence to that for which I had been tried and acquitted . Yet he assured nie , in the most solemn manner , that he was utterly innocent , and was asleep inhis bed at Burslem at the time it had been sworn he was on the scene of tlie £ re at Hanley . The aged woman with whom he and his
wife lodged made oath to the truth of this 3 but in spite of coiToborative proofs of his innocence , —he was convicted on thestrauge testimony of one man , who said that he first saw a tall figure witli its back towards him , at the fires;—thathe then , for a few moments , saw the side face , blocked , of this figure;—and that he could swear it was Ellis ! On the false evidence of this man alone , has poor Ellis been banished from his country , —leaving liis wife and children to the bitterest contumely and insult from his enemies . Yet—he had committed a crime—and it was so indelibly chronicled in thememories ofthe Stafford _, shire magnates tliat the governor of Stafford Gaol reminded him of it as soon as he was brought to prison —he had been guilty of an act of discourtesy to the Lord Lieutenant of the county ! At a county meeting . called
to congratulate the Queen on the birth ofthe Prince of "Wales , Ellis , atthe head ofthe Chartists of the Potteries and the democratic shoemakers of Stafford , opposed thc grandee when named as president of thc meeting , succeeded in getting a working-man into the chair by an overwhelming show of hands , and the intended " congratulation" ended in naught . Such was poor Ellis ' s real crime . Did it deserve twenty-one years' transportation ? Let his bitterest enemies answer , —for even they are now professing their belief that Ellis was not at the fires . I am , then , not fhelieaviest sufferer by false accusation ; — -yet I feel I have great cause to complain of the crookedness of their procedures on the part of our prosecutors
and , though it may subject me to a sneer for squeamish taste , I cannot help observing that I could havesubmittcd to imprisonmentwitliout giving tbe lawyers much trouble , if tlie proceedings against myself and others had been less crooked . When thetliirdindictmentagainstmewasread , —for " sedition" simply , —I told the Judge that I would at once plead ' 'guilty , " and give the court no further trouble , if he would , as a lawyer , assure me tliat it was sedition to advise nien _^ to " cease labour until the People ' s Charter became the law of the hmO , " —for tliat 17 iad so advised the Colliers in the Potteries , aiid would not deny it : but Sir Kicholas Tindal said he eould not assure me that it was sedition . '
After being at liberty sometime , on hail , I was tried before Judge Erskine , for a " seditous conspiracy" wilh William Ellis , John Kichards , and Joseph Capper . Again , I felt discontent at the _crookedness of the law or custom that rendered it possible for mo to stW indicted for a conspiracy with the poor exile , whom I had never seen nor communicated with in my life till we became prisoners _, lly _discontent rose to stern resolve , however , as soon as 1 found , by the opening speech of counsel , that it was intended , —by what I considered most villanous unfair . neSS , —tO revive all the old charges of " aiding to burn and demolish" in this second trial , —although under an indictment for conspiracy only . 3 Jy Judge acted worthily for one who bears the honoured name of Erskiue , and allowed mc all the fair-play an Englishman could desire who had to plead his own cause , without lawyer or counsel , against four regular gownsmen with horse-hair wigs . The struggle lasted ten days ; and the county papers made testy complaiats of " the insolent daring of a Chartist ,
who had thrown the whole county business of Staflordshire , andShropshire , and Herefordshire into disorder ;" but they were , of course , quite blind to the mean-spirited injustice which had girt me to fight against it . We were found "guilty , " as a matter of eourse ; but thcresult was to mc a -victory : fori so completely succeeded in laying bare thc _falsehooet of tbe witnesses who affirmed 1 had been seen in the immediate neighbourhood of thefires , that thejury told the judge they did not wish to have that part ofhis lordship ' s _notesread . to them winch _coiYlaVneutue ev _' _incne-e of the said witnesses , hut preferred that his lordship should write " mistake" thereon instead . My aged friend John ItichardS , and myself , were called up for judgment in the Court of Queen ' s Beach some weeks after ; and LordDenmtiri , Sir John _Tatteson , and Sir John Williams there read out tlie word " mistake , " as inserted in Judge Erskinc ' s notes ; and thus openly proclaimed the fact tbat my enemies had failed in their attempt to fix the brand of felony upon me .
I make no doubt but that many will be disposed still to think and say , that however far I might _ba from intending to excite to violence , since violence followed my address , it is but just tliat I have suffered for it . I beg to say , however , tliat I hold a very contrary opinion . If an Englishman excites his wronged fellow-countrymen to a legal and constitutional course , ( and Lord Chief Justice Tindfil told tlie Staftordjury tli-. it now the old Combina tion Act was abolished , it was perfectly legal and constitutional for men to agree to cease labour until the People ' s Charter became law , ) it surely is not the person who so excites them that ought to be held responsible for the violence they may commit ui : der an enraged sense of wrong , but the Government alio wrongs them . I appeal to Englishmen of all shades of politics whether this is not the judgment we pass ou all the fortunate revolutions tliat have occurred in our history .
1 et Sir William FolJetf , nho again used his decayingstrength , the hour before judgment was passed upon us in the licnch , pointed to mc with an auste : e look , and said , _"Thisman is the chiefauthoi * of the violence that occurred ; and I conjure jour lordships to pass a severe sentence on the prisoner Cooper . " _Scarcely three years have passed , and the great lawyer is wo move . He wronged ine ; but 1 think of him witli no vindictive feeling , for my imprisonment has opened to me a nobler source of satisfaction than he could ever derive from all his honours . He amassed wealth ; but the Times , alluding to thc "frequent unhappy disappointments " occasioned by Sir William _Follen's non-attendance 011 cases he undertook to plead , says— " So often did they occur , that solicitors and clients , in the agony of disaster and defeat , were iu the habit of saying that Sir William often took briefs when he must have known tbat lie
could not attend in court ; and as barristers never return fees , thc suitor sometimes found that he lost his money and missed bis advocate at a moment when he could badly spare either . " I am poor , and have been plunged into move than two hundred pounds * debt by the persecution of my enemies ; bnt I have the consolation to know that my course was dictated by heartfelt zeal to relieve tb . ; suftcrings and oppressi < ms of my fellow-men . He was entombed with pump , aud a host of t : tLd great ones , of every shade of party , attended tlie laying of bis clay in the grave ; and they purpose now to erect a monument to his memory . Let them build it -. the self-t'di ' . cate . d shoemaker has also reared his ; and , despite its imperfections , he has a calm confidence that , though tlie product of _povcrly , aud sufi ' i-ring , and wrong , it will outlast the posthumous stoue-bioek tliat may be erected to perpetuate the memory of tlie titled Lawyer .
The following are the first eight _sianzes of thc poem , all _avo can Ibid room i ' or this week : — SxAvrs , toil no more . _'—Wliy _' _fich-i-, and moil , and pine , To ! , - ! iit the _tyrant-ftHgers of your chain ? Slaves , toil no more ! Up , _frmii the _midnight mine , Summon your swarthy _thousands to the plain;—Ueiicalk the bright sun marshalled , swell the strain Of Liberty '—and , while lhe _lordliogs view Your uar . _ded hosts , with stricken lirr . rt End brain , — Shout , as one mail , — " Toil we no more l-.-ncw , . Until the ilanv cease their slavery to the Pew I "
" We'll crouch , and toil , and weave , no more—to weep !" Exclaim your brothers from the weary loom : — Yea , now , they swear , with one resolve , dread , deep" We'll toil no more—to win a pauper ' s doom ! And , while thc millions swear , fell famine ' s gloom Spreads from their haggard faces , like a cloud IVig with the fear and darkness of the tomb ; How , 'neath its terrors , are the tyrants bowed ! Slaves , toil no more—to starve . '—Go forth , and tamo tho Proud !" And why uot tame them all ?—Of more than clay l ) o your high lords proclaim themselves ?—Of blood Illu > trious boast they ?—or , that reason's ray Eeams from the brows of Hollo ' s robber-brood More brightly than from yours ? Let them make good Their vaunt of nobleness—or now co . _ifcss The majesty of ali 1 liaise _yi the _feud—ICot , like their sires , to murder _, md possess ;—But for unbounded power to gladden and to bless .
What say ye , —that the priests proclaim content ? So taught their Master , —who the hungry fed As well as taught , —who wept with men , —and _1-tnt , Tn gentleness and love , o ' er bier and bed Where wretchedness was found , until it fled ? _Rebuked He not tlie falsa one ? , til ! his zeal I rcw down tlieir hellish rage npon his head ?—/• nd who , that yearns for world-spread human weal , Do h not , cie long , the _wek-Lt of priestly vengeance feel 1
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Away ' . —the howl of wolves in sheep ' s disguise Why suffer ye to fill your ears '—their pride Why suffer ye to stalk before your eyes ? Behold , in pomp , the purple prelate ride , — And , on the beggar hy his chariot's side Frown sullenly , —although in rags and shame . His brother cries for food ! Up , swell the tido Of retribution , till ye end the game Lo : tg practised by sleek priests in old Religion's name . Slaves , toil no more i—Despite their boast , ev ' n kings Must cease to sit in pride , —without your toil : Spite of their sanctity , —the surpliecd things Who , through all time , have thirsted to embroil Man with his neighbour , aud pollute the soil Of holiest mother Earth , with brother's gore , — Join but to fold your hands , and ye milfoil To utter helplessness , —yea , to the . core Strike their pale craft with paler death!—Slaves , toil no more . '
For that these words of truth I boldly spake To Labour ' s children in their agony Of want and insult , —and , like men awake After drugg'd slumbers , they did wildly flee To do they knew not what , —until , with glee , The cellar of a christian priest they found , And with its poison fired their misery To mad revenge , —swift hurling , to the ground And flames—bed , cassock , wine-cups of the tipplei gowned : For that I boldly spake these words of truth , And the starved ruullitude , —to fury wrought By sense of injury , and void of rulh _, — Rushed forth to deeds of recklessness , —but nought Achieved of freedom , —since , nor plan , nor thought Their might directed : for this treason foul 'Gainst evil tyrants , I was hither brought A captive , — 'mid the vain derisive howl Of some who thought the iron now should pierce my soul ( Tobe continued ) _.
Punch. Paut L. London: Punch Office, 02,...
PUNCH . _Paut L . London : Punch Office , 02 , PJect-street . Tlie extracts tliat have appeared in our columns , during tbe last month , from the pages of our cverfaeetious , and right well beloved brother , Punch , leave us but Jittle room to say aught in the way of commendation of the part before us . The inimitable Caudle Lectures continue as racy and as provocative of mirth as ever . Amongst the humbugs of tho day , Punch has not forgotten tbat prince of charlatans , King Dis , whom , he thus apostrophises :- «
TOO TAIL BX A _HEAV . Mr . Daniel O'Connell , —Pray , sir , are you aware that you are a head taller than you have any right to he ? In the year 1813 you were pleased to promise that you would achieve repeal within six months , or else "lay your head upon the block , " Since then eighteen mouths have elapsed , whilst neither has the empire been dismembered , nor yourself decapitated . There you go , sir , with your head on , in defiance of all tliat is trustworthy . You have thus disappointed Great Britain on the one hand , and Ireland on the other . It is to be hoped that you keep your temperance pledge better than you have kept your pledge to intemperance . You still walk and talk likevery like—one Lord Lovat ; whereas you ought to bear yourself , and your head , like St . Denis . Your head must be more brazen than Friar Bacon's to
remain where it is . True , is has diminished somewhat of lato ; hut no thanks to you for that . Hide your diminished head , if you will ; keep it instead of your word : otherwise , will you nill you , I will have it taken it off myself . I have an artist who will execute you at a moment's warrant ; and if you had ten thousand heads I should have as many blocks to bring them to . _Poxen . P . S , The nation is open to a compromise with you . If you wish to keep your head , would you object to parting with your tail ? The illustrations are hardly so good this month ; but , if never worse , wc shall have but little cause for grumbling , "We again it-commend this excellent publication to all who love wit and wisdom .
George Cruikshank's Table-Bookseptuhder....
GEORGE _CRUIKSHANK'S _TABLE-BOOKSeptuhder . Lontlon : Punch Office , 92 , Fleetstreet . This , as regards its literary matter , is by far a better number than usual . , ( A Mouthful of Fresh Air" is a capital quiz at fresh water sailors , and is capitally illustrated . That excellent burlesque , "A Legend of the Rhine , " is continued to the great amusement of the reader . Thc continuation ot' the articles on " Social Zoology" is also gootl , anil "SongS Of the Sentiments" passable . " Orders for the 1 _'Jay" is one of the best things in the number , and although a caricature , contains too much of truth at bottom . Thc writer professes to be the Editor of a Sunday newspaper , and thus inveighs agaiust the " editorial nuisance" of " orders" : — I need not tell you an "Order" is the privilege a newspaper enjojs of sending to any theatre , or exhibition , a piece of raper , which admits the bearer free of expense . It generally franks two persons .
An Editor , as you know , has thc power of exercising this privilege regularly once a day . * * # I never had the patience to count the number of theatres and exhibitions that arc open in London , but including the dioramas , industrious cockchafers , infant Grimaldis , and the sixpenny theatres in the suburbs , there cannot be one less , I am sure , than one hundred . This makes one hundred orders the Editor has the power of disposing of every day . Hence arises his greatest misery . These one hundred orders . are sure to bring two hundred letters;—to say nothing of the hundred persons WllD call on the Editor at all hours of the day ; no matter whether he is in tho agonies of composition or not , I myself am never free from these applications , * # # I cannot move out , or enter a room , but I am driven into a corner for an order . * # * I cannot buy a pair of gloves , or have a tooth pulled out , or pay a hill , but the _Vucroiry is certain to be , " " You couldn ' t Oblige me , sh' with au order ?"
I say nothing of the injury these confounded orders do to the theatres and exhibitions they are supposed to benefit—for , recollect , a person who has once tasted the pleasuve of going to a theatre for nothing , never thinks of paying again ; but I do inveigh most indignantly against the perpetual bore they arc to an Editor ! lie must , in common civility , answer every one ofhis letters ; this makes two hundred letters a day . Those persons he does not oblige—that is to say fifty out of every _hundred—catt him all sorts of complimentary names , and tell him , tbe first opportunity , what they think of his " meanness . "
For thc remainder of the article wc must refer our readers to tlie Table-Book itself . The illustrations are all excellent , as being by tho inimitable George tlicy must of necessity be . Next to a good joint ol Old " English beef , we commend the Talk-Book for every table .
Tiie Connoisseurs: A Monthly Record Of T...
TIIE CONNOISSEURS : a Monthly Record of the Fine Arts , Music , and thc Drama—September , London : E . Mackenzie , 113 , FJect-strcct . The coi _. tents of this number arc somewhat heavy , and not so much to our liking as the contents of the August number . The principal articles are , " The Historical Painter , " "The Conductor , " "The Decline of the Drama , " " The past Opera Season , " * ' Inau _^ nvation of tb # Statue of Beethoven , " and the mi nthly " Theatrical Summary . " The criticisms on theatricals are ably mitten , although severe whore the writer believes severity to be deserved , and , " take them for all in all , " calculated to make this publication a first-rate authority with all who love the play . Wo arc glad to see our views as to the talenteti performances of Mrs . _Wahmsb and Mr , _I'lir-Li'S , borne out by so competent a critic as the Editor of the Connoisseur . Wc do not remember to have noticed in the papers the following curious fact : —
The _Dhama is Tcei ; _i ; t . —The regular drama , although in disgrace with us , has , it appears , been successful in other places . The pupils of tbe College of Ii check , in Constantinople , on the birth-dny of their superior , gave a representation of " the Merchant of Venice , " in English , and the "Malarte Imaginaire , " in French , the performers being all Turks . The exhibition was received with such relish , that a series of performances in Turkish and modern Greek is said to he in contemplation . The Turks will , no doubt , find this an improvement on their professional story-tellers , aud cause to he dramatised , the Arabian _Sight ' * Entertainments .
Thc present number contains an original ballad entitled ' Sacred Sorrow . " the words by E . G . TfisTUOUP , Esq .: the music by Kate _Lodeu . Ihe illustration io this r-utnberis a moat beautiful specimen _oflithosraphic art ; a copy from a cartoon ol large dimensions by Mr . II . J . Towsskxd . _, The subject is from ShaUspearc ' s fairy play , the ' Midsummer Ni Ut's Dream - , " and dep icts tne moment when Fuel : is about to disenchant Zgsander , All connoj ' _si-airs will do well to make this publication their " _ciiide , philosopher , and friend . "
The Balloon; Or, Yerostatie Magazine. —S...
THE BALLOON ; or , _yErostatie Magazine . —Sra » - ti : ; . ! _iji : k . London : B . Steill , 20 , Paternoster Row . That thc editor of this magazine ( Henry Wells , E = q ., ) is no mere enthusiastic theorist , is proved in nearlv every pae ; e of the present mouth ' s nmnber ofthe Balloon / but particularly by the description given of his newly-invented waterproof car , to enable _mi'an & uts to descend in safety into stream ? , rivers , or the sea itself , without fear of drowning . Such a car the editor has invented , and its utility , it appears , is soon to be put to the test by Mr .
Hampton , who is fast completing a splendid new balloon in Dublin . Thc present number contains also articles on several other subjects , including " Thc Destruction o ! the Albion Balloon , " and the " History of Mr . _Hampton's Balloon . " There are also short accounts of tlie several ascents of Mr . Green during the past month . The editor has some faults of style which ive could wish to see amended . The funny * (?) anecdote of the silly eloiiigs of thc country rustics at East Ham , on thc occasion of the descent of Mr . Hampton's balloon , is neither _vt-ry witty , nor very probaUe : at any rate , if true , it is not _wci'th the S _' aico it _ot'cupic-s . As _baiko-. _iing has of bite experienced a revival , and again occupies uibiic attention to some extent ,
The Balloon; Or, Yerostatie Magazine. —S...
the appearance of this publication is well-timed , and can hardly fail , we think , to find numerous supporters . - Ballooning has been hitherto but little better than child ' s play ; we arc persuaded ,-however , that it mi » hfc be turned to the most important uses ; and wc shall be glad if this publication helps to produce so _desirablo a consummation . If it does not , it will not bo through any deficiency ¦ of zeal on the part of the ' editor . " .
Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine—Sept...
DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE—September .. London : Punch Office , P 2 , Fleet-street . Amongst the contributors to this month ' s number of Douglas _Jeumold ' s excellent magazine , we are glad to announce the name of our friend—tlio poet of Chartism—Thomas CoorEn ; who' contributes a simple tale under thc title of "Charity begins at Home . " The following extract will he its best recommendation : —
" CHAKirr BEGINS at home : " All the world , in the village of Sturtoil-Ie-Steeple _, bad said so , before the time of old Dorothy Pyccroft but Dorothy did not join all the world in saying so . Stu ' rton is a homely little place , situate in the pleasant shire of Nottingham , and lying ; within a couple of miles of the Trent , mid old Lincolnshire ; and its church steeple forms a pretty object in the landscape which you view from the hills above _Gainsboro ' . Dorothy Pyccroft , from the time that she was a child but the height of a table , went to Gaiiisboro ' m . irketwithbuttci ' , cggg , ai'poultry , a $ regularly as Tuesday returned in cuch week ; for the hearty old dame used , commonly to boast that she had never known what it was . to have a day ' s illness in her life , although , at the season we are beginning to gossip about , she was full threeseoie-aud-teii , It was a bonny sight to see the
dame go tripping o ' er the charming lea which spreads its flowery riches from Slurton-le . Steeplo to the banks of noble Trent , by four of the clock on a gay summer ' s morning , with the clean milking pail under her arm , that was bare to the elbow . You would have thought , at a distance , she had been somo blithe maiden in her teens . And then the cheerful and dear tone in which she summoned her cows , calling to them as kindly as if they were her children—'' Come , my _pratty creatures » . ' ¦ ' a call that was the signal for n treat of pleasing pastorial music to the enthusiastic early svngUx on tlie Trent * . the rich , varied "low" of the cows—alto , tenor , and bassanswered that call , in changeful echo across the stream ; the angler ' s delighted car caught a treble , heavenward , from the matin lark , to complete the " harmony ; " and even the cackling of the geese , uttering their confused joy at the sound of the dame ' s voice , seemed to mingle no
unpleasmg " discord" with the natural chorus . By the time that her morning ' s milking was over , the spoilt maidens of the village were only beginning to open their kitchen window-shutters ; and she usually passed the whole train of them , loitering and chattering about their sweethearts , on their way to the lea , as she returned homo , with the rich load upon her head , and her arms fixed as properly a-kimbo as could be shown by the sprightliest lass that ever carried a milking-pail . Some little shame was commonly felt among the loiterers as they passed tlie exemplary old woman—but it did not result in their reformation . Old Farmer Muxloe , who was always abroad at daybreak , aud usually chatted a few moments with the dame just at thc point where the footpath crossed the bridle-way over the lea , often commented iii no very measured terms , on the decline of discipline among the milk-maids since the days when bo was a lad .
" Ah , dame ! he used to say , " there have been somo sore changes since you and I used to take a turn around thc maypole ; I ' m sure the world gets lazier and lazier , every day . " " Why , you see , neighbour , fashions change , " the old dame would reply—for she ever loved to take the more char itable side of a question — " may be , things may change again , and folk may take to getting up earlier , after a few more years are over . " " I'iaith , I ' ve little hope on't , " tho old former would reply ,-and shake his bead , and smile ; "but there ' s nobody like thee , Dolly , fov taking the kindest side * . " " Why , neighbour , I always think it the best , ' ' Dorothy would' rejoin , with a benevolent smile ; " I never saw things grow better by harsh words and harsh thinkings , in my time , "
And then the old farmer would smile again , and s . _iy " Well , well , that ' s just like thee ! Cfod Mess thee , Dolly , and good morning to thee ! " and away he would turn Dobbin ' s head , and proceed on his usualmorning's ride from field _' toiioia . The work of her little dairy , added to the earo of ; i humble household , composed of an infirm and helpless husband ; and an equally infirm maiden-Sister—With all and sundry , a stout house-dog , two tabby cats , and a fruitful poultry-yard—usually occupied Dorothy Pyeerolt through the bustling forenoon of each day . And when there was no immediate call upon her skill and benevolence among sick neighbours—for she was the cleverest herb-woman in the village , mid exercised her knowledge ofthe healing art without fee , or willing acceptance even of thanks—she would sit in her polished high-backed chair , and work through the . livelong afternoon at her spinning-wheel , drowsing her two infirm companions into a salutary rest and _forgetfulness with the humming monotony of her labour , but revolving within her own mind many a useful and solemn thought meanwhile .
Dorothy sat absorted in this her favourite employ , one afternoon in autumn , when an itinerant pedlar made bis customary call at the cottage doov . The dame's mind was so deeply involved in the contrivance of ono of her little plans of benevolence , that she did not recognise the face of tbe traveller until he had addressed her twice . " Any small wares i ' or children ? any needles , pins , 01 ' thimbles f" cried the pedlar , running through tlie list Of his articles with _tlieglituiess of frequent repetition . " No , Jonah , I want none , " replied the dame kindly ; "but , may be , you'll take a horn o' beer , aud a crumb or two o' bread and cheese 1 " The pedlar assented , well pleased j and lowered the pack from his shoulders , and set down the basket from his llttlld ; next , seating himself in a chair Without tlie ceremonial of asking , and in all the gladsome confidence of welcome .
" Thank you , thank you , dame , " he said , aud smacked his lips with pleasurable anticipation , as he took the horn of smiling beer and the piece of bread and cheese from the dame ' s hand . "You ' re welcome , Jonah , " replied the dame heartily , " Have you walked far to-day , and what luck have you had ?" " I ' ve come twenty miles , and have never taken handsel yet , dame , " answered Jonah , in a melancholy tone . "So , poor heart ! " said Dorothy , very pitifully ; "I must buy iv trifling dozen of needles of thee , however , before thou goest . I fear times are hard Jonah ; I hear many and grievous complaints , "
" Times are harder than over I knew them to bc , dame , I assure you , ' rejoined Jonah ; " and they that have a little money seem most determined to hold it fast . Sore murmurings are made about this by poor folk ; but I don't wonder atit myself , " concluded the worldly pedlar ; "for , in such sore times as these , there's no knowing what a body may come to want ; and , as the old saying goes , you know , _ihime , ' Charit y begins at home !'" and Jonah buried liis nose iu the ale-horn , thinking he had said something so wisely conclusive that it could not be contradicted . " They say it was a parson who first used that saying , '' observed Dorothy , glancing from her wheel , very keenly , towards the pedlar ; " but , for my part , Jouab , I am very far from thinking it such a saying as a parson ought to use , " ' " Say you , dame ? " said Jonah , opening his eyes very wide . "Did charity begin at home with their Master ? " Said Dorothy , by way of explanation .
"An , dame ! " said thc pedlar , quickly discerning Dorothy ' s meaning , " I fear but few parsons think of imitating their Master , now-a-days ' . " " That ' s more than I like to say , " observed the gentle Dorothy ; I think there are more good people in the world than somo folk think i ' or ; but I'm sure , _lonnli , we all want n better understanding of our duty towards each other . " " Right , Dame Dorothy , right!—that ' s the best sort of religion ; but there ' s the least of it in this world , " rejoined the pedlar . " Why , Jonah , " continued the good dame , " I think there might easily be a great deal more good in the world than there is . Everybody ought to remember how many little kindnestcs it is in their power to perform for oihti s , without any hurt to themselves , " " Yes , a sight o' good might be done in that way , dame , " observed the pedlar , beginning very much to :: clmiro Dorothy ' s remarks ; " and how much more happy the world would be then I "
" Just so ! " exclaimed Dorothy , —her aged face beaming with benevolence ' , — " that is the truo way of making the world happy ; for all to be trying to do their fellow-creatures some kindness . Ami then , you sec-, Jonah , when Oliee the pleasure of thus acting began lo be felt , there wokW soon be upretty general willingness to make greater efforts , and eve : ! > _- , utJ « _CI-S of SelWllterest , » S it is wrongly called , in order to experience greater pleasure , and likewise to increase the world ' s happiness . " " Truly , dame , " said the pedlar , " you do me good to hear you talk . I ' m but a poor scholar ; yet I can tell , without book , that you must be right . " " But then , you see , Jonah , " continued the dame , half unconscious of Jonah ' s last observation , "if everybody were to say , Charity begins at home , ' this general happi . _ne-ss would never begin . I like best , Jonah , to think of the example of the Dlessed Being who came into tho world to do us- all good . He went about pitying the miserable and afflicted , and healing and blessing them . Charity did not begin at home with him , Jonah !"
The tears were now hastening down Jonah ' s rough cheeks . How forcible are lessons of goodness ! how irresistibly the heart owns their power ! Jonah could not support the conversation further . Dorothy ' s plain and unaffected remarks sunk deep into _hisbosoiii ; and when he rose up , and _bucl-letl on liis pack onec more , and the aged dame gave him " handsel , " ov first monev for tho day , by purchasing a few pins and needles , thc poor pedlar bade her farewell in an accent that showed he felt more than common thankfulness for her kindness . Alas ! this is a world where good impressions are , too often , speedily effaced by bad ones . Jonah c . _illei ! next at ti : o _i-at-J of u wealthy fquirc , and , with hat in hand , ashed fur leave to go up to thc kitchen door and expose his wares to tho _se-muils . The squire refused ; and when Jonah pleaded his poverty , and ventured to remonstrate , the squire _froivmngly threatened to set the dogs upon him , if he did not instantly decamp ! Jonah _utrne-d uwav
And Bitterly Cursed The Unfeeling Heart ...
and bitterly cursed the unfeeling heart of the rich man , —avowing , internally , that Dorothy Pyccroft was only a doting old fool , —for after all , " Charity begunat home . " The entire tale , though brief , is too lengthy for our columns ; we may state , however , that Dame Dorothy next encounters the parson of the parish , who , in roply to her expressed idea , that the rich might help the poor , replies that "though many may be better off than tho " noor , " still , tlicy have nothing to give away— " charity" begins at home . " The dame combats bis reverence on this proverb , and the result is his much-needed "conversion . " The following tells the ' sequel ofthe storv : —
His fine manners were laid aside . Ho became n real pastor . Il _« was , from that day , more frequently in tho cottages of tlie poor , twenty times over , than in the houses of thc rich . He distributed of his substance to relieve the want of others , and lived himself upon little . He forgot _crseds , to preach goodness , and pity , and rawcy , and love . He preached till he wept , and his audiences wept with him . His lifo was an embodiment of the virtues lie inculcated . And when , in the course of five short years , ho laid down his body in the grave , —a victim to the earnest conviction of his heart , —thc poor crowded around his hallowed restingplace with streaming eyes , and loving , but aiiiictcd hcarti , wishing they might be where he was when thoy died , since they were sure his presence , they said , of itself would make a heaven !
Tho young clergyman interred Dorothy Pyccroft but half-a-year before his own departure ; and her last words were words of thankfulness that ever she had shown the young mau the fallacy of the proverb— " Charity begins at home . " We shall return to this magazine next week .
To The United Trades. Fellow Operatives,...
TO THE UNITED TRADES . Fellow Operatives , —Where shall wc find a man amongst our political economists , or even in society , bold enough to say that industry eloes not deserve protection ; yet where is thc man who will venture to affirm that it is protected . My _fvkllds , _tllCVC IS < 1 very obvious reason for this state of things . The wealth and greatness of the nation is watched over , and protected by , the Government ; the interests oi the capitalist or monied man is secured by it also , and by the same power provision is made for the security of all tangible property , as well as for personal safety t but labour , which forms in itself the only bona fide property of more than two-thirds of the entire population , is left unprotected , unprovided for , and falls , like the prey of the jackal ] , into the lion ' s jaws . Are we , then , to look to the capitalist
for that protection to industry which tbe legislature refuses to give ? The present position of society proves how much we have to expect from them _. Has not tho Government hitherto afforded them every facility for practising upon thc rights of labour ? Nor has any advantage been lost sight of by the competitive spirit of the age—they have been readily turned to account . The price of labour , which ought to _rcjrulnte the price of every article of consumption , is being reduced daily , whilst that of the principal necessaries of life , together with our enormous burthen of taxation , remains nearly the same . Thus , a great portion of the industrious classes , who have to live by their labour alone , are absolutely reduced to a state of starvation ; they arc literally crucified between two thieves—the avarice of tho capitalist on the one hand , ami the demands of Government on the other .
What , then , will ultimately bo the condition ofthe working classes if those evils are allowed logo on _uncheekeel in their progress ? It is allowed on all hands , that competition is one of the principal causes of those reductions that take place on the price of labour , and that it forms one of the leading features in every transaction of commerce , none will deny ; that the spirit of competition keeps pace with the extension of our commerce Is equal certain . "What , then , have wo to hope from the capitalist ? What , irom thc Government ? What , from anything save our own exertions to secure the rights of industry ?
From those we have much to hope—much may be done , but the result wiil _bs in accordance with the direction of our powcivs , and proportionate with our endeavours to emancipate ourselves- The evils with which we have to contend arc great ; they are of longstanding , therefore great and strenuous must ba thc exertions that will free us from thraldom , and raise us from our present deplorable condition _^ Yet shall wc give up the pursuit of such an object , simply because great exertions are required i ' or tho accomplishment of the same ? Shall we tamely submit to thc most appalling sufferings of poverty , and allow those who labour not at all to fatten on our follv—to
revel in ease and luxury on our sweat and toil , without making a determined si and against their unjust and unprincipled practices ? "Without any preconcert or . the pavt of the employers of labour , ' tho present system of competition " is calculated to produce the greatest evils that can afflict the working classes ; for it is very clear that self-interest is thc spring of action in all mercantile speculations . It follows , then , that the great bulk ot our merchants and manufacturers arc impelled by similar motives , and this produces a spontaneous unity of action , thc natural tendency of which is to curtail the price of labour . To make this more clear , let us take , for example , any given branch of commerce . Tho individuals following that species of commerce seek to promote their private interest as ranch" ns possible , and when , under a depression of trade , or other existing _cn-cetmstai-iccs , this cannot ho accomplished to their satisfaction , the man of business will try to remedy the evil—he must live by
his capital , lie will , as far as possible , reduce the price of the raw material—next , that . of labour -, thus the prime cost of the finished commodity is considerably lower than it has been heretofore . This enables him for a time to attract the attention ofthe market , or purchaser , and io amass wealth which he never would have done had this expedient not bceu adopted by him . But other competitors having similar interests to promote , soon find that tlicy must resort to similar practices , or they will be as a elcad letter in the market . This is done . Thc impulse thus created soon subsides , and no sooner does it lose its efficacy by finding Us own level , and begin to re-act upon thc original progenitors of the same , than they make a fresh attack upon tho rights oi industry . Thus thc evil has been gradually increasing , anil will continue to increase , unless the working classes determine to place themselves in a position that will enable them to have full command over the price of tlieir labour , which may bo done without injury to any party .
How , then , is this great work to bo accomplished but by a wise direction of our power ? How , but by having one common centre which shall direct and control the movements ofthe multitude , and by bringina our united efforts to boar upon any given undertaking ; , so as to sccuro the greatest possible _advantages ? Union is strength , but discretion is tho soul _ofthis business . Truth is wholesome , though it may be unpalatable . Past experience proves that it is but little use attempting _sectionally to gain any permanent advance on the price of ' labour , or even to withstand the encroachments made upon it . if wo intend to achieve any real good , wo must be united in one body—wc must be wise , aud eliscrect in our counsels : we must have a long pull , a strong pull , and a pull altogether .
We must rebut tho attack of , and make our tkseent upon tho enemy with tho perseverance of a Napoleon , and , like him , conquer out * foes by doing business under a new system . Let us show to the oppressors of labour throughout the empire that that ingenuity and energy which have so long been exorcised for their aggrandisement , shall now bo directed in thc defence of our rights in obtaining a just remuneration for our labour . Let the Trades that have not done so already , rally round tho standard that lias been so nobly unfurled— " Tut : Association of United Thames roii tiik Piiotrwiox or _Isnus-Tiir . " Let them add lolhe numbers of this national movement , giving it their countenance and support , and the . _ttomwr of independence , planted upon the ruins of a declining power , shall yet be SCClf _Wavilljr triumphantly over tho heads of the brave rods ei Tell . " _JUBIlllA .
Ricumtr. Oastluu.—We Have Heard, From Au...
RicuMtr . _Oastluu . —We have heard , from authority on which wc have pretty sood reason to rclv , that Pit-hard _Oastler has mm ! e .- £ 30 , 000 upon the LfcCUS Stock-Exchange , by legitimate business ns a shin _ebi'okor ; that , having in every instance exhibited thc strictest integrity , and on repeated occasions displayed an unusually nicety of honour , in handing over to his employers profits that have generally been retained by the broker , but to which _ill * . Oastlcr did not consider himself honestly entitled , his fniv _. spread as a faithful dealer and an uprisht man ; nnd his business Increased _accordingly . Once , wc are told , he saved to a speculator " £ 3 , 000 or - £ 4 , COO , which , by the custom ofthe trade , might have gone into the broker ' s pocket . _Ko wonder Richard Oastlcr prospered ; and ho deserved lo do sof- r many well-known reasons . He is a man whose welfare is of public import ; and whether his honest gains be above or below the sum stated , there are thousands in this country who will rejoice as heartily at _liiss-uccess as they sincerely sympathized witli him in thc time ofhis misfortunes . " To crown all , we arc assure J that Mr . Oastlcr contemplates entering Parliament , choosing from among thc many interests that now have a voice in the national assembly , to represent tho interests of humanity on the short-time question . And then what a contrast will bo oltcrcd to the _admiritiff f _. _nze of weary _povcifv . or virtuous ambition sin . ; - in « bv the wav , ' between Richard Oastler , eonfinetl in the _i- _'ket Prison for debt , and Richard Oastler , " _Esojuive , " a man of wealth , and an able and influential member of Parliament ' . —Blackburn Slanelavd . Ma . Richard _Oastixh . —An absurd statement respecting this gcnfleinan and his gains in _business as 1 < sharebrokcr appeared asa loading article ill tllC " lllackbarn Standard t > f WedncsdiiY last , and has since boon copied into the _L-miion journal : * . There is no foundation for the ; statement tlmt Mr . Oastler _b _flkmttoemcrPnriiami'jit . _- _.-iJid a- ? to tho amount oi libs gains ; thc _statcine-iit adve-rtud to _extig-jevatcs thcra very much . —Lads Intdlincnetr .
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_** _, _JP >* + Xvt > nrt _* _rS _* + _~ . ¦»« '"¦ " * E 1 . B 0110 S fok SowiWAMC-Wiy is Sir William Molesivorthan appropriate candidate for the boiouga of Southwiirk ? Because , to get into a borough is & _-U that a mole ' s worth . —If the shenit or high ba lili take the show of hands in favour ot Miall , whan then ? " Wiry then , " answers n , debtor from tlio Queen's Prison— " it will not be tho first time that a sheriff or a bailifflias taken mv all !"—How are tte Radicals pursuing Mr . Piichcr in this borough i They are pursuing him with two strong candid hates , —What would be a numerical minority at this election ? It would bc _.- ( . numerical minority it nil tlio voters were unelcr _n » c . —Wny will the Speaker's delay in tho issue of tile writ greatly fatigue whatever member may bc returned ? " Because he'll have to stand so long before he can take his scat . — Joe Miller . Agiuwax . —What lit would you put into the mouth of an Irish peasant to make him go quiet ? 'fhe bit of haul . —Ibid .
. Arr . ROrr . iATE wish , " Prom your black looks you wish me dead , " Said ISrougham to Campbell , man of law ; " No , no , " said Jock , " I wish , instead , You merely had a stiff _Icck-jaw . " _Ckkmax Titles . —The Duke of Brunswick lately defended Jiiniseif ill person iu tho action _of'Ubcl brought against him by his former solicitor , Mr . Yalhuice , at Croydon , and in course of thc proceedings thc Duke complained ofhis being served with a wiit irt which ho was described as n person " commonly called the Dnkcof Brunswick , " which he _consielcrctl ail insult , "for , " ho said , " In my country if a Duke has sixty sons they arc all Dukes ( laughter ) , and if a Count has sixty sons they are all Counts . " No wonder that Dukes and Counts arc so numerous in Germany .
"Widower Smith asd "Widow Jokes . —Widower Smith ' s waggon stopped one morning at Widow Jones ' s door , and ho gave tho usual country signal that _JiO wanted somebody in the house , by _droppingluu'tiius , and _utting double , -with his elbows on his knees . Out tripped thc widow , as lively as , i cricket , with a tremendous black ribbon on her snow-while cap . " Good morning" was soon said on both sides , and the widow waited for what was further to be said , "Well , ma ' am Jones , perhaps you don't want to sell one of your cows , no how , for noihing , any way , do you ? " " Well , there , Mr . Smith , _yoit couldn ' t have " spoken my mind better . A poor lone widder , like me , does not know what to _tlo with so many critters ; and I should be glad to trade if wo could fix it . " So they adjourned to the meadow ..
Farmer Smith looked at _lloan , ami then at tho widow , at thc Downing cow , and at the widow again ; and so on through the whole forty . Tho small call was made every day for a week , but farmer Smith could not decide which cow he wanted . At length , on _KaUwday , when widow Jones was in a hurry to get through with her baking for Sunday , and ' had " ever so much" to uo in thc house , as all farmers * wives and widows have on Saturday , she was n little impatient . Farmer Smith was as irresolute as ever . " That ' ere Downing is & pretty fair critter , but "he stopped to glance at the widow ' s face , and then _, walked round her—not the widow , but the cow . " That ' crc short-horn Durham is not a bad-koking
beast , but I don't know "—another look at the widow . " Thc Downing cow I knew before the late Mr . J one . * bought her . " Here he sighed , at the allusion to the late Mr . Jones she sighed , and both looked at each other . It was u highly interesting moment , "Old Roan is ; i faithful old milch , and so is Brindle ; but I have known better . " A long stare followed each speech ; the pause was getting awkward , ami at last Mrs . Jones broke out— " Lord ! Mr . Smith , if I ' m the one yon want , clo say so ! " The intentions o ! widower Smith and widow Jones were duly published thc next day , as is the law and custom in Massachusetts ; and as soon as they were outpublishcd , they were married . —American paper .
_Advantage of a "Friend at Gomvr . — The two police commissioners have hitherto received a salary of £ 1 , 200 each , and it is rumoured that Sir James Graham is about to increase it io no less < i sum limn £ 1 , 000 . At present the Kctherby baronet does not contemplate any increase in the dietary of paupers . A _Ivm- _'Oi'M Joke . —One ofthe best jokes of the reform times was with thc waiter . "All reformers here , waiter , I suppose ?" . said an old Tory , payinghia bill . " Ob ye *? , ' sir , all reformers here , waster and mistress and all , sir . " " And you , John , are you a reformer V " Yes , I am very staunch for reform _, sir . " " Very well then , John ; there ' s the bill , the whole bill , and nothing but tha bill . " And so saying , the gentleman laid down _bis money , _—Aliv Monthly Magazine . SlT . blMR _PjilioIUTloJ _* . — "Strike for thc green graves of your sires ! strike for your altars , your homes , and your hoi air furnaces ! " —Acm lorh papers .
Birth _Extbaohdixahy . —The following is a literal copy of an announcement fcYwavilcdto us for insertion among the births ofthe week . It is something like Robinson Crusoe ' s first night ' s lodging on the island of Juan Femamlcs in a tree—rather _ti breezy berth : — " On Sunday Last at Is _Koitlcuce Mrs . Of A Sun and Air . "—Leeds Intelligencer . "Tiik Devil can- qgote _ScKii'iunis . "—Agcntloman , having a remarkably long visage , lately passing a turnpike gate , overheard oue _lcet say to another " That gentleman ' s face is longer than his Ufa . " Struck with thc singularity of thc rale observation , he turned and requested an explanation ; "Sir , " said thc boy , "I read at school that man ' s life is biit _. i span , and I am sure your face is double that lemrth . "
_ANDOV-EK DISGRACE , Done-dust may _l-o .-i _jh-juio manure , And must _ahuiid-int crops insure : But human mouths were ne ' er _di-sijpied To he the mills those hones lu grind ! Ladies and Gknti . i-. mks . —1 asked the landlord ihe inn at Corning , who wan very attentive , to his guests , to find my coachman . He _immeiliatciy cried out , in his bar-room , " Where is the _"c-ntleimin that brought that man here V' A few days before , a farmer in New York bad styled my wile the " woman , " though he called his daughters ladies , and would , 1 believe , have freely extended that title to their maidservant . I was told of a witness in a late trial at Boston , who said , " While lie _•* . _!* . _<] . mother-gentleman were shovelling up mud , " & c . —l . geli's Tvaveh .
SCEXK IS THE 0 AI . I . ERY 0 ! - ' _I'l'l _' . ! , _! : ' _TllEATIlE . " 1 _'at Mooney' . " shouts a voice in the gallery . " Halloo ! " answers 1 'at from tho _opposite side of the gallery . Voice . —Can you see ' em , _l _^ at ? ( _Aloaning thc Lord and Lady Lieutenant . ) 1 ' at _Mbonev . —I can . Voice—Well , what ' s he like ? 1 ' at Mooney . —Oh , mighty _Jiltoa grazier or middleman . Anyway , ho has got agooa long nose of his own . ( Loud laughter , in which _hi-f lordship heartily joins . ) Voice . —Is bc clever , think you ? I _' _ai Mooney . —! M bo sorry _t-j make him _shicckeeper . ( Laughter again . ) Voice—Hoes he look good-natured ? I ' iit Mooney . —Well , be dees , and enjoys a joke , too . Heaven bless him ! like a gentleman as ho is . _Voit-t * . —Then we'll not have to _scuel him back . ?
Tat Mooney . —No , I don't think we shall . Wc may get worse . ( Knars of laughter . ) Thoy say bo ' s mighty generous , and means to spend hi .-: money like a prince . Clalicry . —Bravo ! bravo ! We'll keep him , ttienwe'll keep him . Three cheers , lac ' s—three cheers for Iho Lord Lieutenant . ( _Ohcm and _lauehlci _' . ) Voice . —Well , and what ' s the like , Fat ? Pat Mooney . —Oh , nothing particular . f _hc'd not frighten a horse . ( Hoars , her ladyship joining . ) Voice . —Is Hie tall ? Pat Mooney . —Wait till she Mamis i'p . Voice . —May be she ' s stout , Pat ? 1 ' at Mooney . _—i- _' aix ' . you may stiy that . It isn't the likes of her lives on buttermilk . ( Hoars . ) Voice . —I / ye think she's good-natured ? Pat Mooney . —Oh , " I'll engage she is , She has the raal blomi in her , and there's plenty of it . ( Roars , and " Hravo ! " fvumthe Gallery . ) Manv Voices . —She'll do then , Pat- ?
Pat Moonoy . _—Oc-h , she wiil—fhe will . 1 'ij engage for her ladyship . Voice . —Wo niav keep her , then , may wc ? Pat Mmmev . —Och ! the longer the better , thc _longi-r the betier . ( Hoars . ) It ' s her ladyship that'll sneak tlio good word for thc man that ' s in _t-hrubbie _, sine ! never let the _d-tec-nfc _woinsn _"ant that ' s ; n the straw-God bless her I Gallerv . —Bravo ! bravo ! three cheers for her _Laiiyship . _'—Ihj'co cheers for fhe Lady Lieutenant L ( Cheers and laughter . ) 1 ' at Mooney ( seeing thc Lord Mayor ) . —My sowl to yo ! Dan Kinnagan , is that you ? Gallery , —Ah ! ah ! Is that you , Han Finnagan ? —is that vou ? ( Hissesand _lanehter . )
Pat Mooney . —Faix ' . it ' s good lor tne likes of us to see you down ' among the gintry there , Han Fiuna-¦ 2 _.-IH ' ( Laughter , at which his Lordship did not seem P _' . _wiicnluv'y ' pleascd . ) Och ! you needn't look up so sour at us . ' M . _iny's the good time you ' ve sat on here _voiirst-If;—voii know itis , yo old vinegar bottle { Rear .-:. ) _Tuici _* . —Sure the world ' s pone well wid you any way , JJan Fiimagan . Ye hadn't thcin white kid cr _] o \ 'QS—° l _' : it Mooney . —No , nor yet that grand cocked hat there .-
—Voice * . —No , nor that white waml , yo cormorant ; when vou kept the , chandler ' s shop , and cheated Mike _Kellv " out of a fardcu ' s worth of pipes , and—Gallery . —Ah ! ah ! Who cheated Mike Kelly ? —wlio cheated Mike Kelly ? ( Great confusion , during which the orchestra strikes up . _)—Jiemdeg ' _s MisceHang . " What ' s i . v a Namk ?"—One of tiic most singul . it * surname ? ever mf _* t with is that of a gentleman offoriime in Kent . His family name was Bear , and as he had uv . _" . ! . oviial relatives oi" the name of Savage , hi .-
parents < i ; vc l _.-im ( he Christian ( or rather im-Christbvu _; i _^ me * of - _N _- . _vr ; go . 1 idic ? be enjoyed thc pleasing and am ' iao ' . c _uir . ws e >! ' Savage Ikver , i . uei _.
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 6, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06091845/page/3/
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