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THE MELANCHOLY MONTH OF MAY . ThePoets sing the merry month of May , But surely Nature never lookM so glum . Where are the flowers that make aU nature gay ? Where are the bees ? Alas ! they ' re aU a hum . Where arethe blossoms that should gem the bower 1 This year they make a very sorry show ; Tor _what-witii boisterous winls and pelting showers The buds are blown away before they blow . Milton alludes to zephyr gently playing With yoiiugAijrora _jf-jB of inirth and glee ; jf in the present year they'd gone a Maying , They must have done so with a _paropU-ie . They "bid ns forth in "May to hear the note
Of mghtmgale resounding through the plain ; This year we shouldhave ne eded a great coat ' As a protection ' gainst the rattling rain . Tbe munn'ring breeze is weU enough , no doubt , That gently dallies with fair Phoebe ' s curls ; Bnt not so pleasant when it blows about Tour Latin rapid and successive whirls . Adieu , dull month !—dark , dismal , wet , and drear ! Who caU thee -merry , know not what they say ; Thou'lt be the greatest cheat in aU tbeyear . ' Farewell , most melancholy month of May ! Cruiishank ' s ToMe-Book
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ESSAYS ON NATURAL HISTORY , & c . By C . _Watertox , Esq . London : Longman and Co ., Paternoster-row . ( Continued from the Northern Star of May 31 st . ) We continne our extracts frem Mr . _Watbrtoh ' b entertaining book : —
THE _SOUTAEV SFABBOW , Oft THBOSH . Its history is but little known to the -world at large , and its identity is exposed to be caUed in question on account of tha name -which it erroneously hears- The bird to w-hkhlaUudeis the _pai « riOU _" taru _«; in English , thesoH tary sparrow ; and in _ItaUai 3 , _j * a _*^ € roa * _Ctaria . * * The first time I ever saw this lonely plaintive songster was in going tohear mass in tiie magnificent church ofthe Jesuits at Home . The dawn was just appearing , and the "bird passed over my head in its transit from the roof of the Palace _Odescbalcln , tothebelfry ofthe church ofthe TwelveApostles , -angmgasicfieir . I thoughtit bad been the Italian madthird _, with notes somewhat different from those . of our own ; its song was partlythat of the blackbird , _andpartiytiatoftte _-rtfflriri-cock , lmtnotsolond as the
_las _^ nor so-varied first I found out my mistake in due time ; and , on seeing that tiie lord was the true _sohtary thrash , I paid particular attention to its habits . It is indeed 3 solitary bird , foritnerer associates with any other , and only with its own mate iu breeding time -, and even then it is often seen quite alone upon tiie house-top , where it warbles in sweet and plaintive strains , and continues its song as it moves in easy flight fr 3 m roof to roof . Tbe traveller who is fond of ornithology may often see this bird oa the remains ofthe Templeof Peace , _ajnlocia-«* -ma % In tiie Tola _BorgUese , bat much more frequently on the stupendous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla , where it breeds in boles of the -walls , anil always on tiie Colos seum , -where it likewise makes its nest ; and , inline , at one time or other of the day , on the tops of most of tiie
_-lurches , monasteries , and convents within and without the walls of the eternal city . It lays five eggs of a veiy pale blue . They much , -resemble those of our starling . The bird itself is blue , with black wings and taU ; and the blue of the body becomes lighter when placed in different attitudes . Whilst I lodged in the Palazzo di Gregorio , tbis solitary songster had its nest in the roof of the celebrated Propaganda , across the street " del due MacelU , " and only a few yards from my window . I longed to get at it ; but knowing tbat the Romans wonld not nnder-5 la _* _Qtl my scaling fhe walls of the Propaganda , in order to propagate tbe "history of the solitary thrush , and seeing at ¦ the same time tbat the hole at which the . bird entered was -very difficult of access , I deemed it most prudent to keep dear of the Propaganda , and to try to procure the nest
from some other quarter . The many promises which Eoraan sportsmen had given me , of the nest and eggs of the vilitary thrush , baring entirely failed , and I myself not being ahle to go in quest of them , on account , of an attack of dysentery , -which bore heavy on me , I despaired si obtaining the object of my wishes ; and I should have left Italy-without either nest or eggs , had not the Rev . Mr . Cowie , -rice-president of the Scotch coUege in Rome , ¦ exerted himself , as he had already often done , in tbe cause of natural history . This learned and worthy gentleman , * j _** nt expressly for a nest to the vineyard of his college Tt -ivas found in the roof of the house , and had four eggs In it . Tbe lad - < vno took it bad ¦ succeeded in capturing -the female bird . Hanug examined the poor captive as _-minutely as though I bad been a custom-house officer , I
¦ wrned it loose into the world , again * , and , as it new away , I hoped it would have better luck for the time to come . I scut the nest and eggs to England , by a different route from that which I myself pursued . Had I taken them with me , they would bave gone to the bottom of tbe Mediterranean Sea-. for in the night of the IGth of June , 1 S 41 , my sisters-in-law . Miss Edmonstone and Miss Helen _EdmtiDdEtonc , my little boy , my servants , and myself , were wrecked off tbe Isle of EJba . We had only _Sfteen Toirjates to save our . lives , before the vessel foundered , and we lost everything- except the clothes on onr backs . The solitary thrush is seen in all the countries sf the East , -up to Syria and Egypt , and probably much farther on . This bird is solitary to the fullest extent of the word .
We now return with Air . Waiemox to England , aid give the following singular acconnt of
THE SOWERS OF * VE < 5 ErATIOS . In those good days of old , -when there were no cornfactors in England to counteract that part of our Redeemer ' s prayer , _^ _Give us this day our daily bread , " by hoarding up vast stores of grain , until mouldiness and _voi-nun bave rendered it unfit for tbe use of man , there ? tood at "Walton Hall a water-n-dD , for the interest of the proprietor and the good of the country round . Time , the great annihilator of all human inventions , saving taxation and the national debt , laid this fabric low in ruins some sixty years ago ; and nothing bow remains to show tbe
place-where it oncestoodeiccptamassivemillstone , which measures fell seventeen feet in circumference . The ground where the miU stood baring been converted into meadow , this stone lay there unnoticed and unknown { save by the passing hay-maker ; from the period of the null' s dissolution to the autumn of the year 1813 , when one of our nut-eating wild animals , probably by way of a ffinter store , deposited a few nuts under its protecting cover . In tiie course of the foUowing summer , a single nut liaving escaped tbe teeth of . the destroyer , sent np its verdant shoot through the hole in the centre ofthe procumbent millstone .
One day I pointed out tine rising tree to a gentleman who was standing by ; and I said , "If this young plant « = cape _ffestroction _j _soTne time or other it will support the millstone , and raise it from the groan A- * * He -seemed to doubt this . In order , however , that the plant might have a fair chance of success , I directed that it should be defended irom accident and harm by means of a -wooden paling . Year after year it increased in size and beauty ; and when its expansion had entirely fined the bole in the centre of the millstone , it gradnaUy began to raise up tbe miUstone it « Kfrom the seat of its long repose . Tins huge mass of tone is now eight inches above tbe ground , and is entirely supported by the stem of tiie nut tree , -which has risen to the height of twenty-five feet , and bears excellent fruit .
Strangers often inspect tbis original curiosity . When I meet a visitor -whose _mUd physiognomy informs me that his soul is proof against the stormy winds of politics , which now-a-days set aU the world in a ferment , I venture a small attemptatpleasantry , and say that I never pass this tree and millstone without thinking of poor old Mr . Bull , with a weight of eight hundred millions of pounds round lus galled neck;—fruitful source of speculation to a Machiavel . bnt of sorrow to a Washington .
_CBiSGES IK THE HABITS OF ASIHALS . My tom-cat , apparently an excellent mouser , will some--tames prefer dry biscuit to a mutton chop . Sterne ' s ass seemed to refchmacaroon . _HidaUauesreUsbmac-iroon , ire might doubt the fitness of the Spanish proverb , "La _rniel no es para la boca del asno " Honey is not made for the month ofthe ass . Parrots in cages wiU pull off their own feathers , and eat them by the dozen . Blackbirds , although on very short allowance , caused by the frosty -feather , -would not touch their favourite ivy berries _-rhlch were thrown down in abundance for them in tbe garden of my friend , Mr . London , of Bayswater . I knew z healthy old owl who took her confinement so much to heart that she refused aH kind of food , and died at last for " _3-antofit . And , - > vheaIivasintheMediteiTaneanSea , I saw a brute in tbe shape of man swallow pieces of raw fowl ( which he bad torn asunder , feathers and all , ) with as much avidity as Sir Robert Peel devours our incomes .
Mr . Wateeios defends the acconnt he formerly gave of the cayman , * -which it appears has been Questioned bymore recent writers , or rather a certain _"Writer in Lardner s Cabinet Cyclopedia . Air . Watkb-105 considers the cayman to be a lizard of an extraordinary size . Crocodile is the eastern name , and cayman , or alligator , the western name for this mon" -trous lizard . He refutes the old table of crocodiles shedding tears over their victims , and devesting their _< _" * n young ; and -relates some striking instances of -4-2 ferocity of tliese monsters . Here is one : —
THE CATXAS . _In-feajeMlBOSlcameAlAiriCoUi _*^ " - _* _*¦ tite Oronoque to the city of Angustura , where the _Sp-jJU-m gOTeraOTi-DoaFeHpedeYnciart _^^ _Icor-^ _VnOed with him for some time afterwards . He was a _•^• _Ser , of va _** infonnatioh in the natural history of the feantry _, and had been a great explorer in his time . He _iowea me a large map of Spanish Guiana ; having made a ftorahi 3 own personal survey of those " regions in early - _« e . On the "breaking out of the revolutionary war , _*** _&& , according to Canning ' s ram * nling speculation , was t 0 g _« e rise to a thousand republics , this true Spaniard _"fc oghtibr King Ferdinand TIL But fortune having _de-*^ _d-igainst-J * im , he left the _Owinoone , and retired to the island of Santa Crux , -where death closed Ms mortal career .
. Ihe Spa * _Mards , who have more pleasure than puntan-« m in their composition , - Brink it no _harin , after they _« ve _ptafSmned the _saered dnfieB of the day , to enjoy a fine _Snnday CTening , in gay attire , on the Alameda or _PSuhe-i _' _-alkj-w - _' _Kretij _^ I
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_K _^ * _*? ' Walk attached _*&*»** . and was in company with Governor Ynciarte , when he stopped on feacmnga certain place , and begged my attention to what _newas going to relate . « 'I _» ou Carlos , " said he to me , raark the opening which leads to the Oronoque . " I was on this very spot , a great number of the inhabitants being present , when there suddenly came out of tiie river an enormous cayman . It seized a man close by me , and earned him off to the water ,-where it sank with him to appear no more . The attack was so sudden , and the animal so tremendous , that none of us had either time or courage to go the _unfbrtunate man ' s rescue . "
* In The Former Account Of The Cayman He...
* In the former account of the cayman here alluded to , which appeared originally in the iramferings , there is given the best crocodile story we ever read—so good , that although the -work in which it appeared has been published some years , we think it will interest our readers to transfer it to onr columns The story relates the capture of a cayman in the River Essequibo in Guiana . About half-past five in tbe morning , ihe Indian stole oft sUently to take a look at the bait . On arriring at the place he set up a tremendous shont We all jumped out of our hammocks , and ran to him . The Indians got there before me , for they had no eltthes to put on , and I lost two minutes in looking for my trousers and in slip ping into them .
We found a cayman , ten feet and a half long , fast to the end of the rope . Nothing now reinained to do , but to get him ont of the water without injuring his scales , ' . 'hoc opus , hie labor . " "We mustered strong : there were three Indians from the creek , there was my own Indian Yan , Daddy Quashi , the negro from Mrs . Peterson ' s , James , Mr . R . Edmonstone's man , whom I was instructing to preserve birds , and , lastly , myself " , I informed the Indians that it was my intention to draw hhn quietly out of the water , and then secure hun . They looked and stared at eaeh other , and said I might doit myself , but they would have no hand in it ; the cayman -would worry some of us . On saying tins " consedere duces , " they squatted on their hams with the most perfect indifference .
The Indians of these _vrilds have never been subject to the least restraint ; and I knew enough of them to be aware , that if I tried to force them against their will ,, tbey would take off , and leave me and my presents unheeded , and never return . Daddy Quashi was for applying to our guns , as usual , considering them our best and safest friends . I immediately offered to knock him down for his cowardice , and he shrunk back , begging tbat I wonld be cautious , and not get myself worried ; and apologising for his own want of resolution . * My Indian-was now in conversation with the others , and they asked me if I wonld allow them to shoot a dozen arrows into him , and thus disable him . This would have rained aU . I had come above three hundred miles on purpose to get a cayman uninjured , and not to carry back a mutilated specimen . I rejected their proposition with firmness , and darted a disdainful eye upon the Indians .
Daddy Quashi -was again "beginning to remonstrate , and I chased him on the sand-bank for a quarter of a mile . He told me afterwards he thought he should have dropped down dead with fright , for he was firmly per-• _suaJeJ , it 1 liad caught him , I should have bundled him into the cayman's jaws . Here then we stood , in silence , like a calm before a thunder-storm . " Hoc res summa loco . Scinditur in contraria vulgus . " They wanted to kill him , and I wanted to take him aUve . I now walked up and down the sand , revolving a dozen projects in my head . The canoe was at a considerable
distance , and I ordered the people to bring it round to the place where we were . The mast was eight feet long , and not much thicker than my wrist . I took it out of the canoe , and wrapped thc sail round the end of it . Now it appeared clear to me , that if I went down npon one knee , and held thc mast in the same position as the soldier holds bis bayonet when _rushing to the charge , I could force it down tiie cayman's throat , should be come openmouthed at me . When this was told to the Indians , they brightened np , and said they wonld help me to poll him _mitoftheriver .
"Brave squad ! " said I to myself , "' Audax omnia _perpeti _, ' cow that you have got me betwixt yourselves and danger . " I then mustered all bands for the last tune before the battle . We -were , four South American savages , two negroes from Africa , a Creole from Trinidad , and myself a white man from Yorkshire . In fact , a little tower of Babel group , in dress , no dress , address , and language . Daddy Quashi hung in the rear : I showed him a large Spanish knife , which I always carried in the waistband of my trousers : it spoke volumes to hhn , and he shrngged up his shoulders in absolute despair . The sun was just peeping over the high forests on the eastern bills , as if commg to look on , and bid us act with becoming fortitude . I placed aU the people at the end of tbe rope , and ordered them to pull tiU the cayman appeared on the surface of tiie water ; and then , should be plunge , to slacken the rope and let him go again into the deep .
I now took the mast of the canoe in my hand ( the sail being tied round the end of the roast } and suuk down upon one knee , about four yards from the water ' s edge , determining to thrust it down his thror . t , in case he gave me an opportunity . I certainly felt somewhat uncomfortable in tbis situation , and I thought of Cerberus on the other side of tbe Styx ferry . The people pulled the cayman to the surface ; he plunged furiously as soon as hearzhred in these upper regions , and immediately went below again on their slackening the rope . I saw enough not tofall in love at first sight I now told them we would run aU risks , and bare him on land immediately . They pulled again , and out he came— " monstrum _horrenduui , infonne . " This was an interesting moment . I kept my position firmly , with my eye fixed steadfast en him .
By the time tbe cayman was within two yards of me , I saw he was in a state of fear and perturbation ; I instantly dropped tbe masf _^ sprang up , and jumped on _IusWk , turning half round as I vaulted , so that I gained my seat with my face in a right position . I immediately seized his fore-legs , and , by main force , twisted thein on his back ; thus they served me for a bridle . He now seemed to hare recovered from his surprise , aud probably fancying himself in hostile company , be begun to plunge furiously , and lashed the sand with his long and powerful tail . I was out of reach of the strokes of it , by being near his head . He continued to plunge and strike , and made ray seat very uncomfortable , lt must have been a fine sight for an unoccupied spectator .
Thepeople roared out in triumph , and were so vociferous , that it was some time before they heard me tell them to puU me and my beast of burden farther in land . I was apprehensive the rope might break , and then there would have been every chance of going down tb the regions under water with the cayman . That would have been more perilous than Arion's marine morning
ride"Delphini insidens vada _csrula sulcat Arion . " Thepeople now dragged us about forty yards on the sand : it was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman's back . Should it be asked , how I managed to keep my seat , I would answer—I hunted some years with lord Darlington ' s fox bounds . After repeated attempts to regain his liberty , the cayman gave in , and became tranquil through exhaustion . I now managed to tie up his jaws , and firmly secured his fore-feet in the position I had held them . We had now another severe struggle for superiority , but hewas soon overcome , and again remained quiet . WhUe some of the people were pressing upon his head and shoulders , I threw myself ou his tail , and by keeping it down to the sand , prevented him from kicking up another dust . He was finally conveyed to the canoe , and then to the place where we had suspended our hammocks . There I cut his throat ; and after breakfast was over , commenced the dissection .
George Cruikshank's Table-Book. Jose. Th...
GEORGE _CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOK . Jose . This is a very good number ofthe Table-Book . The illustrations are , as usual , excellent , and the literary matter this month is more entertaining than in some of the preceding numbers . "A Legend of the Rhine" promises to be a good story ; " Florence Preserved '* ' is a capital quiz , which will be well understood by the dons of " high life ; " " TheStage Lover " is one of a series of amusing papers on stage _charac ter e , by the Editor ; "The Melancholy Month of May" will be found in our Poet ' s Corner ; " A Fabulous Character " describes the -ndgar notion of what is an editor—his imagined happy life and all-potent rule ; his _conne-riorisandinfiuence- _^^ ocL'il , political , literary , scientific , theatrical , ic . After describing the editor as he is supposed to be by the imaginative publie , the writer next describes him as he really is .
AU EOIT 0 B , as he figures in real h'fe , is quite a different creature to what he figures in the public's Arabian imagination . He is , reader , like yourself ; merely a man ; and not , as jou have gathered from fictions and reports , a G rand Junction of _HothschUd and D'Orsay , with a branch of Dr . Johnson and Joseph Ady . On the contrary , an "Editor dresses plainly , keeps no stud beyond the one or two he wears in bis shirt , pays the income-tax with infinite grumbUng when bis salary allows him , but grumbles infinitely more when it does not ; is as fond of Champagne as any lady of fashion , but does not drink it as often , as it costs eight -nuttings a bottle ; sleeps on a mattrass stuffed with more straw and thorns than roses * rarely violates the edicts of FatherMathew , and has no more victims than any one else who has a tailor . » # # The thousand and one charms , too , tbat
colour and g ild liis existence , consist , in cold truth , in his devouring—no matter what his taste or appetite may be— - a quantity of raw manuscripts ; in answering questions about the colour of Prince Albert's hair ; in being insulted by every other conifcpondent ; in maltingan enemy for Ufe of every contributor whose article he . rejects ; in being presented with " the Ue" by any member ofthe aristocracy for saying he has a cold when he has not ; in being continually solicited to do miracles with his paper which Parliament and : the seven wise men could not effect ; in being every other . hour pestered _forcopy Ir-copy I—copy and in stopping up to aU hours of the morning in a cold printing-office correcting proofs .
Reader , unless you have had an university education , like bard work , have a soul for scissors and paste , are fond of reading the debates , are . addicted to late hours , and are ' partial to illegible MS ., every-day abuse , and _rhenmatiwris , remain as you are , and abjure printers _derils _, as you would impatient creditors . The _-i-omance about an editor may be very flattering and agreeable , but , believe us , so it ough _' t to be , to compensate in any measure for the prosy reality .
Punch-Pabtxlvii. There Aro Some Excellen...
PUNCH-PabtXLVII . There aro some excellent _illustrations in this months part of Punch , particularly " Papa . Cobden takuig Master Robert a Free-trade Walk ;" > , _« h \ , _^ next _Anti-Corn-Law League J 3 a-Ktar ; "The Greedy Boy who Cried for the Moon ;" Joey Hume ( the Call-boy of the House of Common ); and " Punch at the Royal Academy . " _Lnree of the admirable Caudle Curtain Lectures are contained in this part , besides excellent articles on various subjects , including theone on " Sunday Pleasuring , given in last week ' s Star , Of course there is also an abundant supply of jokes and fun of all sorts in poetiy _, prose , and illustration . We recommend . ftuicft to all who love wit and wisdom .
_J-nm 7 , 1845 . THE _NOltTTON ST _* H . _... / . ,. V , 3
The Christian Mythology Unveiled. By Loo...
THE CHRISTIAN MYTHOLOGY UNVEILED . By Looas Mitchell . London : B . D . Cousins , 18 , _Duke-strect , Lincoln ' s-inn-fields .
[ Second A o _*"*' cg . " | __ We return to this work for the purpose of stating a singular fact in connection with its publication—a fact which , in justice to the publisher as well as to the cause of free inquiry , should be made generally known . The author of " The Christain Mythology Unveiled" was a Scotchman by birth , and , according to present - usages , a " gentleman , " because possessed of what is called an "independency . " He would , however , in a far different state of society—a state which , we trust , the future will see realised—have made good his claim to the title of " gentleman , " from the fact that he devoted liis life to services of good for the benefit of his fellow creatures , and
employed his talents and money for the propagation of what he conceived to be the truth , and in aid of those who suffered fbr their advocacy of justice and freedom . The "Christain Mythology Unveiled " was first " published privately for the author" in the year 1840 , by the publisher of the present edition . This private edition was printed at the expense of the author for circnlation amongst his friends , and having disposed of , the copies in this way , Mr . MixcHMi applied to Mr . Cotrai . _vs to print a second private edition . Circumstances , however _. _intervened to prevent Mr . Codsins doing this , andsubsequently a second private edition was printed by another party ; bat we request the reader tonote that the first private edition had the name of the publisher to it : the second , had not . The first bore the imprint"Printed for the Author by Benjamin D . Cotrsms ,
18 , Duke-street , Lincoln ' s-mn-Flelds ; the second was simply , "London : Printed for the Author , " the without any publisher ' s name . . Soon after second private edition was printed , the author died , and Mr- _Coustxs hearing of his death , determined to give to the public what had been previously confined to the knowledge of a'few . He accordingly set about publishing the edition which we formerly noticed at some length , printing on the title-page , besides the author ' s name , his own as publisher . He commenced the publication of , the work in threepenny numbers , so as to place it within tllC ltach of fill _, classes , and , If ? possible , ensure for it a large circulation . The first number was published , and fhe second number was in the press , when an article
appeared in the Weekly Dispatch , announcing the death of Mr . Mitchell , and stating that he had bequeathed in his will the sum of jive _niin * _ire-i pounds to any publisher who should have the moral courage to print and publish his "Christian Mythology Unveiled , " with the author ' s name , and the publisher ' s name , on the title-page . Mr . Consuls , with no thought , with no knowledge , of this legacy , had already commenced the publication ofthe work with his name in the imprint . The work was completed—no other publisher attempting to do what Mr . Cousiss had done : and then he advanced his claim for the legacy . Two gentlemen , whose names we are in possession of , were appointed executors , with whom was associated a thirdi person
of whom we shall speak presently . The will , unfortunately for the ends of justice , had been bungled in the making . Oneof _theexecutorswasawitness tothe will , with a legacy of £ SO . To have acted as executor he must have thrown up his own legacy , the law not allowing a witness to a will to he an interested party . He therefore declined to act , The other _exccutoi-s also declined acting . The carrying out of the provisions of the will was therefore left entirely to a Mrs . _Nblsox , niece ofthe deceased , and by him appointed executrix in conjunction with the above gentlemen . This lady , wife of a Mv . _Nelsos , land-balifftothe Messrs . Broadwood , piano-forte makers , on the estate of Broadwoods , ' near Crawley , in tlio county of Sussex , is , as -well aB her _Imsband , Scotch , inheriting all that religious bigotry , associated with a love of ihe " suler , " so
characteristic of a large number of the canny bodies of . the " land 0 ' cakes . " To this lady Mr . Cousias m ' a ' de _ajiplicationfor his five hundred ponnds , and was met with a point blank refusal . "To give up the money , " he was told , "for the purpose contemplated in the will , would be to devote it to the service ofthe devu ! " All the other provisions of the will would be complied with , but religious scruples prevented compliance with this one . Mr . Cousins attempted to argue his right , but he might as profitably have " whistled jigs to milestones . " Seif-iiitcrest and religions duty were too closely combined to permit the lady coming to any other decision than that of herself keeping the five hundred pounds—of course , all for the glory of God . Mrs . Nelsox ' s conviction is , that " godliness is great gain ; " and the eloquence of a _Demostiieots . combined with the reasoning of a Locke , would tail to change her convictions .
Mr . Cousiss , of course , has what is facetiously called his " remedy at law "—a remedy which usually turns out worse than thc disease : Whether Mr . Cousiss will prosecute his right by legal -means we cannot say "; we believe , however , that he has no idea of abandoning his claim-Another matter we may mention . " Along with the deceased's plate , furniture , « fcc . _^ there * came into thc possession of Mr . Nelsox about ' 130 copies ofthe second private edition ofthe _"Mythology , " which the deceased had directed should be given tothe well-known publisher , Mr . Efhxghim Wilso . v _, for
distribution . . Whether Mr . Wilsos ever received the books , we know not ;; but the Nelsoxs informed "Mr . Cousiss ' that it was their intention to burn them—an intention which there is but'little doubt they have carried into effect . Such stupid and brutal bigotry in the present day is really astonishing The facts we have stated can add , nothing to the merits of " The Christian Mythology " Unveiled , " but when a liberal and enterprising man is plundered under the guise , of " piety , ' ? and robbed in thc name of religion , as Mr . Cousins has been , it is only right that the facts should be made known . .
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THE BOOK OF THE POOR MAN'S CHURCH . London ; Cleave , Shoe-lane .. When , in addition to one State Church , the people of this eountry are about to be taxed for the support of another—for the endowment-of Maytioothis , without doubt - the first step toward the endowment ofthe Irish Catholic Chureh—at such a time the extensive circulation of _thislittle work isvery desirable . From this book the people may learn of what they are defrauded for the support of the _English establishment , and , we doubt not , that , so learning , they would at once solve the Maynooth question by deciding that if one State Church is a great evil , another such Church will but double that evil . The Book of tiie Poor Man ' s Church treats of the
following subjects * . — " The Unchristian character of a Church Establishment ; " " The persecuting spirit ofthe Church ; " "The mercenary character of the Church ; tithe encroachments ; how the rich parsons have defrauded the poorer ones ; the sale of livings ; robbery of the poor by the clergy ; " " The indifference of the Clergy to their Duties ; " "Tbe weidth of the Clergy and the voracity of the Bishops ;" " The Church condemned by herself . " The amount of information given on all these "matters 18 astonishing , considering the compass into which it is crammed . As a work of reference it will be found invaluable . We had marked a lengthy extract , but can only find room for the following : ~ The state clergy consist of : —
First , —The Puseyite clergy , who "hold Roman Catholic doctrines with Protestant incomes . ' These are endeavouring to bring back into the church outward forms and observances which impress the senses ; such as crosses , images , pictures , flowers , candles , and bowings to the communion table . They also adopt fastings and observe saints'days—they claim apostolic descent ; and ascribe to the sacrament , and to the functions of their office , a virtue very flattering to their own conceit , but entirely at variance with the principles ofthe Reformation and with that worship -which is " in spirit and in truth . " Secondly , — The fox-hunting , ball-going , and race-frequenting clergy , who hold no doctrines at all , but who receive the incomes of tbe church . The respectable inhabitants of Canterbury have recently endeavoured fo put down the races , because of the grievous evils which attend them , but their efforts have heen frustrated by the clcrgv .
The bishops are generally placed in their elevated stations by thepatronage of the nobility and the government ; and when so placed they look to their patrons for farther promotion . A bishop , if he pleases the government , is removed to a more lucrative bishopric ; so that sometimes the same diocese has two or thrcebishops within a single year , none of . whom seriously attend to its welfare , but rnsrely wait for a higher st . j > , to obtain which they are not unfrequently led to act as dishonourable a part in tbe House of Lords as the mere placeman or pensioner does iu the House of Commons . Tv 7 ieifter we look at the State Church , then , in its origin
—in its government—in itsprinciples—orinits tendency ; whether we contemplate its priesthood—its ceremoniesits revenues—or its character , we defy any man , to find a single feature of resemblance to it , in a New Testament Church . ' How striking is the contrast ! light and darkness cannot be more dissimilar than are a scrip tural congregation , termedachurch , and an ecclesiastical establishment , denominated in like manner . And if to all that we have said , be added , the uniform , hostility of the priesthood to the progress of public liberty and the diffusion of general knowledge , we shall hatesome tolerably accurate notion of the evils of a church establishment .. _-. " . This excellent sixpenny-worth should be in the hands of every one ,
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Death of William Laimaw , Esq . —We have to record the death of Mr . Win . Laidlaw , author of the exquisitely 8 impie ami pathetic Scottish ballad Lucy s _bJittin ' , " and various , contributions to natural history and general literature , besides being peculiarly distinguished for liis long and confidential _lntercoui-ae with Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford . Mr . Laidlaw died on thc 18 th May , at Contin , in the county ot Ross . Hia health , always delicate , had been iu a shattered and precarious stutc for some years past , nnd a second attack of paralvsis in the course of last autumn left little hope of permanent recovery . He wa 8 sti ) i 3 - _^ ] J 0 u . cver | _j 0 continue his interest in passing events , and he retained his habitual benevolence and serenity to * tho last , dyin " in thc midst of liis family and relatives without a
pang or struggle . A more amiable or affectionate mau never passed to a higher state of existence . Some of'the most eminent and " gifted of the visitors at Abbotsford ( as Miss Edgeworth , Washington Irving , and Mr . Moore ) have recorded their impressions of Mr . Laidlaw ' s modest worth , and there is scarcely a reader of " Lockhart _' s Life of Scott" in any part of the civilised world where genius or virtue is revered , who will hear without a sigh ofthe loss of that early and attached friend of the Great Minstrel , who was erer by his side for nearly twenty 7 rt ars 7 _* r r _*} _mWcc * with him oh the banks of the J * a _* ' _^* m' an * _l unrestrained confidence—who shared m the superintendence of all his rural plans and improvements—who wrote to his dictation some ot the imperishable scenes of his works—and who , at last ,
" when discord on the music fell , And darkness on the glory , ' ! was one ofthe few who watched over the latest manifestations , and the final eclipse of that greatest of contemporary minds . The deceased was a native of _¥£ i _# ' P _M ember , 1780 , at the farm of Blackhouse , situated on the _Douglasburn , near Traquair . He was the eldest son of an extensive store-farmer , in whose happy family Sir Walter Scott is supposed by Mr . Lockhart to have witnessed some of those traits of genuine worth and primitive hospitality with which he has heightened his delineation of the home of Bandie Dinmont . The acquaintance of "the Sheriff" witli Mr . Laidlaw soon ripened into aiender affection ; and the latter , after some reverses and disappointments , at . length went to reside
permanently 0 * 1 the estate at Abbotsford , which he took entirely under liis charge . Morning , noon , and night the poet and his friend might he seen planning out or improving plantations , buildings , and enclosures . Laidlaw knew the value of every acre of land , as Hogg remarked , and of every tree in the woods , with the characters of all tho nei g hbours and retainers . He was the life and animating spirit of that interesting and classical . property from 1817 till the death of Scott in 1832 , when the curtain fell on what might be considered a brilliant pageant , or dream of the morning , ending abruptly in blackness and desolation ! Mr . Laidlaw afterwards removed to the north , where Ids two . excellent and affectionate brothers have been law- resident aa tenants of large pastoral farms ; and he was engaged successively as factor on the estates of Seaforth and Balnagown , both
in Rossshire . His health at length gave way , and hc Mired to Contin—the famUy of Sir Charles Ross , ol Balnagown having handsomely acknowledged tlieir sense of liis services , by settling upon liim an annuity for life . His time was occupied in reading and studying botany , in which , as in most rural matters , lie was a groat enthusiast ; but he declined aU efforts to engage hini in writing a domestic life of Scott , or record of his intimacy with him , for which he might seem to be ' peculiarly well qualified . His thoughts and recollections , however , were seldom long absent from that memorable period of his life . He loved to dwell on the . warm benevolence and kindness of his great friend—on his marvellous genius and unconquerablespiritr _^ and one of the last sensations which death tore from the breast of William Laidlaw was the image of his beloved "Abbotsford . — Inverness Coiirier . "" ; ' ' _'*"' ¦
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. FIELD-GARDEN OPERATIONS . For ihe Week commencing _Moxxday , JunelOth , 1844 . " [ Extracted from a Diary of Actual Operations on ave small farms on the estates of Mrs . Davies Gilbert , ' near Eastbourne , in Sussex ; and on several model farms on the , estates of'the . Earl of Dartmouth at Slaitaaite , in Yorkshire , published by Mr . Nowell , of Farnley Tyas , near Huddersfield , in order to guide other possessors of field gardens , by showing them what labours ought to be undertaken on their own lands . The farms selected as modols are—First . Two school farms at Willingdon and Eastdean , of
five acres each , conducted by G . Cruttenden and John Harris . Second . Two private farms , of fivo or six acres : ono worked by Jesse Piper , the other by John Dumbrell—the former at Eastdean , thc latter at Jevington—all of them within a few miles of Eastbourne . Third . An industrial school farm , at Slaithwaite . Fourth- Several private model farms near the sameplace . TheconBecutiye _opcrationsin these reports will enable the curious reader to compare the climate and agricultural value of the south with the north of England . The Diary is aided by "Notesand Observations " . from the pen of Mr . " Nowell , calculated for the time and season , whicli we subjoin .
" The joys of theselittle ones shall be continually m the hoped for success of tlieir labours ; their thoughts shall be turned away from what is evil to that which is good . " _rltmy . — The school farms are cultivated'by boys , whs in-return for _thx-ce hours' teaching in the morning give three hours of their labour _intheaftex-noonfor the _maslex- ' s benefit , which _rexidex-s the schools selfsupporting . . _H'is believe that at Farnly Tyas sixsevenths of'ihe produce of the school farm will-be _assigxied to the boys , and one-seventh to the master , who will receive the usual school fees , help the boys to cultivate their land , and teacli them , in addition to 'reading , writing , die ., to' convert tlieir produce into bacon , by attending to pig-keeping , ivhieh at Christmas may be divided , after [ paying rexit and levy , axnongst them in proportion to their sex-vices , axid be made thiis indirectly to reach iheir parents in a way the most grateful to their feelings . ' ]
. : .... SUSSEX . -.-..-Mosday— WiUingdon School . Boys digging for potatoes after tares . Eastdean School . DoyB digging , sowing white turnips , watering , picking off weeds and stones . * Piper . Gathering flints . " DumbreU Digging ,-spreading , ashes ; sowing turnips , and mixing dung and _moulds Tuesday—WiUingdon School . Boys diggingfor potatoes , and turnips after tares . Eastdean School Boys hoeing potatoes , gathering weeds for the pig . ? , turning over a mixen : for . wheat . Piper . Hoeing carrots . Dumbrell . Digging up tare ground , hoeing carrots . . '' . '' , Wbdxebvay— WiUingdon School , Boys digging for turnips and potatoes after tares . Eastdean School . Boys emptying privy pails , nipping the blossom irom uiKt _giiiuutugvaiiivw
pOKHuea , . xijlki . _"running litter tothe piggery , and mixing it withmould . Buxxibrell . - Mixing dung and mould . TmmsDAY— WiUingdon School . Boys planting potatoes . Eastdean , School . Boys digging between potatoes , hoeing forward turnips , planting and manuring cabbages for winter . Piper . Turning the mixen . _JJumoreK . Digging np tare ground , ' manuring and hoeing carrots . _FniDAY—IViKingdon School . Boys earthing up potatoes . Eastdean School . Boys weeding wheat nndoats , hoeing peas , and pouring tank liquid between the drills . Piper . Hoeing potatoes . Dumbrell Digging up tare ground , and hoeing carrots . Satobuay—WiUingdon School . Boys emptying the tanks . Eastdean School . Boys cleaning piggery and paiU , watering carrots , and cleaning up . Piper . Hoeing onions . DumbreU , Mowing clover f ? or hay . ,
TOBKSniBE . StaitAuiatte School , From ten to twelve boys drilling turnips , sowing broadcast , digging the tare ground , have planted 300 cabbages and watered them , with twelve rows of turnips . C . Varley ,, manuring for and sowing turnips , -mixing peat earth with manure . «
_COW-fEEMSO . Willingdon School . Cows fed in the stall on tares and clover . DumbrelVt . Two cows stall-fed with clover .
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS . _Tjsswtive A . yalysis . —[ _"Mature at all times answers the questions , that are put to her—and such questions ' are experiments . "—Zfe % ]—Unless you are instructed by chemical analysis as to the composition ofthe soil , you cannot apply manure of any kind whatever to crops with unerring - - certainty ;¦ " neither can you apply on all occasions tor information to the expert analyst j but may you not cause a plant to assume its functions , and predict its own requirements ? Suppose you wish to take a particular crop from your field . Select an average space of two rods in such field—and introduce the crop you wish to . be afterwards grown there . By appl y ing the various manures indicated in known quantities to its different parts , may you not , by a minute attention to the progress of the crop , find out what kind of manure will be acceptable , or the contrary ? The year following , the whole field may be cropped with more , if not entire , certainty of success , with the same vegetable .
Rape . — _[ S " eea sown , I peck broadcast ; or J peck of rape and li peck of rye . ]_ This is a very valuable plant _focsoihng . . Wneu you have reason to fear that turnips wwn , after , tares might not attain to proper size , substitute . rape . It roay . be sown in drills and hoed ; but for soilmg , ! l 6 W it broadcast from June to beptemberv . The early sown , may be cut in November , and again in the-following _Bprmgr ; . The'late . sown will stand over winter , and be the first . greetf food in spring . A little rye mixed with it will be an unprovement . _s Cows , like sheep , greatly ; relish this plant , neither , does it communicate any ill taste to milk . . Cut up the rejected . woody stems and mix them with turnip or other mash . A crop of turnips may follow both , or winter wheat may follow those sown in June .
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To _rssr the _sinENGTH of Guano . —[ " Guano ; though no saiu \ worksmiracles . " — Peruvian Saying , ]— 'Procure a few . ounces of fresh burnt lime-storie , reduce it to a fine powder , " which introduce into a bottle perfectly dry in the inside , and keep it well corked f _^ r future use , renewing it frequently . Take a tea spoonful of each sample of guano you wish to test , which place in separate cups , and add a spoonful of water , then measure , with a dry spoon , the same quantity of quick lime into each cup , in a moment , stirring quickly , and the sample that gives the strongest smell of hartshorn is the best guano .
Hoe CosmuALLY . —Your crops being nowgeneraiiy above thc-ground , your principal attention ought to be directed to _keepins down the weeds by perpetual hoeing , and your turnips in particular must not be neglected . The triangular hoe , made at Birmingham , is undoubtedly best adapted for turnip hoeing ; tor once cleaning ' of its three sides cleans three hoes , and the corners will nicely pick out the plants . Do not leave them too thick , and thus lose both in the quantity and quality of the crop . Where the rows arc 27 inches apart , from 12 to 14 inches is near enough . Persons short in the back make thc best turnip hoer e , therefore careful boys may be employed . Very nice work it is too for young girls ; may prevent many a consumption , and add to their bloom . After the hoe has performed its part , let the most promising plant be seized with one hand and the inferior ones removed with the other .
_"TRANSFLU-raa Swedes . —Fill up all intervals in the ridges of your turnips , or failing places on broadcast lands , with Swede plants . Let your planting stick never rest , keep its point to thc root , and insert the plant so firmly that il cannot be nipped up by a slight pull , and remember that the almost momentary act of placing a single plant may be the means , without further cave on your part , of providing 0 or 8 or Wlbs . of solid food for your cow during dreary winter . Os _Eleciriohy Applied to the _Growts 01 ? Plants . —At the last meeting ofthe Royal Institution , the Rev . E . Sidney read a communication " On the Electricity of Plants in the several Stages of tlieir Development . " At the commencement and at each
division of this communication , Mr . Sidney dwelt on his desire to be considered , not as the promulgator of any theory on _theinJhience of electricity on vegetable growth , but as the cautious observer of important and instructive facts . The following six propositions were maintained : —First , electricity appears to exercise an influence on growing plants . After noticing the experiments of Maimbray , Nollctt , Bertholon , Davv , _> and others , Mr . Sidney mentioned that ha had himself accelerated the growth of a hyacinth in the common glass jar by giving it sparks , on alternate days , from the machine . Secondly , fluids contained in vegetable tissues possess a high conducting energy , as compared with the ordinary substances found on the earth ' s surface . In
confirmation of this , several experiments were shown to prove the _coilduCvillg energy of vogetablfl polnls . The fact was also stated that if was impossible to give an electric shock to more than one at each extremity ofa circle of persons standing on a grassplat . This the operator easily did when they transferred themselves to a gravel-walk . In the former instance , the current went across the grass , instead of being earned from onehuman body to another . A jar , of forty-six square inches of coated surface , was discharged by a blade of grass in little more than four minutes of time , whereas it required three times that period to produce the same effect by means of a metallic needle . Mr . Sidney said , however , that probably the Wade of grass had many points . Mr .
Sidney also showed a drawing of Mr . Weekes ' s electroscope with vegetable points , ivhieh Mr . Weekes prefers to any artificial ones he has yet tried in tho open air during the passage of a cloud . Thirdly , there are indications of adaptation to electrical influences in the differences of form of parts of plants in the different stages of their development . Thus the moistened germ of a vegetating seed becomes a good conductor . The ascending and descending portions arc , in the majority of instances , pointed . Plants designed for a rapid growth have generally a strong pubsscence . Those destined to meet the variations ofthe seasons have often thorns or prickles . As surfacebecomes needed for other purposes , the pointed is changed to the expansive form of the vegetable
organ . _Astheperiod _' offruitingapproaches , it seems desirable that electricity should be carried off . Hence the hairs , & c , fall off or dry away . . Tho apparent exception is that of pappi , which have a special office for ' conveyance of seeds . Gardeners put metallic hoops over fruiting melons which tends to take off electricity and shade them ... Fourthly-, Mr . Sidney inquired , whether there are not natural phenomena tending to confirm these views ? Vines and hops are said to grow rapidly during and after a thunderstorm , and peas to pod after a tempest . As to hops , these effects may be ascribed to the destruction of aphides , & c , by the lightning ; but as these animals arc tenacious oflife , the storm whicli destroys the parasitic insect , would probably also kill the plant which fed
it . Again , it is observed , that there are no plants wherever simooms , which appear to result from a highly electrical state ofthe atmosphere , occur . Mr . Brydone _' s observations of the presence , of electricity in the atmosphere of Mount Etna , ' in-places where vegetation was absent , and its deficiency wherever vegetation luxuriated , also indicated the influence of plants in distributing atmospheric electricity . This was illustrated by an experiment with a cone of chalk , with a piece of moss on one part .. The part without the moss brought near thc machine , onl y slightly affected thc electrometer . The moss carried off the electricity entirely . Fifthly , Mr . Sidney suggested the inquiry , whether the forms and geographical distribution of certain species of niantsdid not indicate
design with reference to their electrical properties and uses .- ' The prevalence of the fir tribes in high latitudes was noted . These trees are characterised by their needle-shaped foliage ,-and . it . _was-arghed that the conducting power , with which this foriujnvestcd them , might modify dryness and cold , ahd aid in the precipitation of snow ; 'Mr . Sidney concluded by suggesting modes of applyingelectricity topractical agriculture and horticulture . First , with xegavd to the free electricity in the _atriiosohere . Having mentioned some experiments of Mr . Foster , of Finbrassie , on growing crops , Mr . Sidney described modifications of this arrangement made by Professor E . Solly , in his experiments atthe Horticultural Garden , and by himself . The latter consist oi wires
suspended over the growing crop from other wires wluch are kept parallel to the horizon by being _fasteneij to insulated rods .., Secondly , electricity artificially generated by the voltaic pile . Mr . Sidney haa found that potatoes , mustard and cress * , cinerarias , fuchsias , and other plants ; havb their development , and , in some' instances , their productiveness ;! increased by being made to grow between a . copper and a zinc plate connected by a conducting wire ; while , on the other hand , geraniums ami balsams arc destroyed by the ' - same influence , Mr , Sidney at present believeB that the application of _eieoirioiiy to vegetable growth may be made available in horticulture . The question as to agriculture may be decided when more experiments are tried , and the philosophy of the experiments fully determined .
Straw as Manure . —I have heard farmers complain they had so much straw , they could scarcely make it into manure . In such a case I would recommend their adopting my plan of cutting it into chaff : with a two-horse power cutter , by Wilks , of Sheffield , ' we can cut up about thirty-two trusses per hour . As my bailiff says , "You may almost carry away a truss in your shooting-jacket pocket when it is cut up . " I find in practice , that it absorbs the urine as it falls , like a sponge , the liquid entering at both ends ofthe short cut lengths , decomposition takes place rapidly , the manure is more equally , moist , and very soon made ; one cart load so created is equal to two of long
Straw , so we save half our cartage—an important matter . It is quite clear that long uncut litter must remain dry until trodden down and broken longitudinally to admit of moisture , the best part of wliich is often washed away before the straw is ih a state to absorb it . If you desire to keep your horses and stock clean , it is necessary to spread a little long straw on the chaff bed , the latter holding so much moisture . Our solid and liquid manure all goes into one tank , and is generally carried on tho land in five or six weeks , occasionally pumping Borne of the liquid from the well on the top of the heap . —Mechis Letters on Agriculture .
A Fact about Potatoes . —An intelligent farmer tells me he never loses his potatoes in dry or wet seasons since hc has treated thc sets or cuttings in the following manner : —As the eyes or sets are cut , they are dusted with /«¦•/< slaked lime ( slaked immediately before using ) until they are coated with it all over . The lime forms a paste over them , which prevents the moisture running or exuding , and thus removes the danger of shrivelling or rotting in a dry season like the last , when the results were forcibly illustrated . A portion of the field was planted with sets in the usual way ( without lime ) on an abundant dressing of farm-yard manure . These shrivelled , were slow in comingup , and were but a moderate crop ; on the rest of the field the'limed sets were denosited without manure—came uo quickly and
regularly—were an uniformly fine crop of large potatoes , superior in every respect to thedunged portion ; the limed portion received a dressing of two ewt . per acre or Peruvian guano , applied at two intervals after the plant appeared . This is' the third season of so treating the potatoe sets . I have no doubt the same result is partially produced by the practice of Mr . Dimmery , a successful potatoe grower ( as quoted in Mr . Morton's book on sous ) . Mr . D . spreads soot in the drills on which the sets are deposited . In this case I imagine the soot adheres to the moist surface _efjMe set and prevents the escape of sap . Both _nont and lime _mus"t act as a manure , perhaps by supplying carbon . . ' The ' plan is deserving ot trial , and _seemsreasonably advantageous . —Ibid .
ExrBAOBDi » ARY PERFoniiANCE . —A short time since a performance rather ' extraordinary in farm labour took nlaee in the south of Devon . Mr . Dewdney bet Mr . H . K . Skinner , of Whatcombe , North Huish , _neai- 'Totnes , £ 1 , that . he could not sow seven bags of barley in one _hour _ ; but withdrew the bet . M 5 \ Skinner however was in the field , and did the work
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in three minutes less than the time stipulated for !' Mr . II . K . Skinner has also Bown eight bags'and three quarters in one hour and thirteen minute ? , over five acres of land on Great _Aish Farm , the property of Henry Kingwrf ) , Esq ., in the parish of South Brent \—Exeter _Flyixxq Post .
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Advice Gratis . —Mr . Baron Alderson aud Mr . Justice Maule arc thc most good-natured as well aB the wittiest judges on the bench . The latter , some short time since , tried a man for bigamy , who pleaded a runaway wife as his excuse , Thc _judge told him before taking a second wile he should have got a divorce from the first , and explained the whole process in a very familiar and single-minded manner . Every shade of the process was delineated , but not a word of the costs . It was as satisfactory as a _lwturt * on colours in the Blind Asylum . Mr . Baron Aiderson , whilst trying thc poor wretch Connor , dropped a word of advice to his brother coroner , M . "Wakley Thc latter , indignant at not liaving the murderer before him , adjourned his inquest on the victim sine die . " Tell Mr . Wakley , " says the learned baron , " when he next adjourns sixxe die he puts an end to his authority in the matter . "
Oraxoe Peel . —Tiie ultra Protestant party in Ireland declare Peel lias proved himself everything but Orange Peel . A Strange Want . —A country gentleman has been advertising in the Times for a " Double Brougham . " Lord Campbell has requested us to state , that lie has one to dispose of , at any price , which has never been used on railways . Should his lordship succeed we shall debit him with the price of an advertisement . _Conaxct Demkitios . —What is " free trade ?"Holding an Anti-Corn-Law-League Bazaar at Corentgarden Theatre , and charging double the value for even * article . —[ This is the "sliding-scale" upwards 1 ]
What is Luxury ?—A candle would have been a luxury to Alfred ; a half-crown cotton gown to his Queen . Carpets , in lieu of rushes , would have been luxuries to Henry VII . ; glass windows in lieu of horn , to his nobles . A lettuce to Henry VIII . ' s Queen ; silk gloves and stockings to Queen Elizabeth * , and so on , " ad infinitum . " Charles Waterton , Esq ., author of several works on natural history , in an account of his family , tells that one ofhis ancestors , in the time of Henry VI ., " was sent into France by the King , with orders to contract a royal marriage , and was allowed 13 s . a day for his trouble and travelling ' expenses . Kissrxo without Measure . —A Mr . John Jones ,
writing on the 27 th ult ., to his" dear Betsy , " a pretty Cheshire Abigail , subscribed himndf her '' true lover , John Jones , with 2 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 001 ) ki _* _sue * s !" A Family Scexe . — " What are you doing there , Jane ? " "Why , pa , I ' m going tb dyo my doll ' s pinafore red . " " But what have you got to dye it ? " . _ "Beer , pa . " "BeerI who on earth told you that'beer ' would dye red ? " Why , ma said , yesterday , that , it was beer that made your nose so red , and I thought . " " Here , Susan , take this child . " '
Another . — Pa , doesn't all mean everything' ?" " Yes , my son , it meaus the whole . " " Well , then , where the Testament says , 'Swear not at all , 'it means swear not at everybody , doesn ' t it V " John , put my horse in the waggon—I must go to the _niill . " "This is the Way the Money Goes . "—In the year 1843 , eight million one thousand four hundred and forty-nine pounds , one shilling , and fourpence , was spwit by the people of this kingdom in tobacco I —a tolerably round sum to " end in smoke . " If the weed had been worked into pigtail , rather more tbaD half an inch thick , it would have formed a line 99 , 470 miles long—long enough to go nearly five times round the world ! Peei ., xhk "Solbmm Sivkll . "—In a semlmental drama , played at a minor theatre in London , the chime of a bell caused one of the characters to exclaim— I know that peal—the solemn swell , ' * " Ahj Tliis was at once converted by the audience into an
allusion to . Sir Robert Peel , and produced much laughter and applause . The Lord Chamberlain has , therefore , ordered that tho line shall be struck out , or so altered as to destroy the possibility of the Premier being laughed at as a " solemn swell . " Lr . _i noni "Jonathan" Aim "John" Look Ovt ? —We understandtbat . it is probable that a third farty is about , to claim the territory disputed by _Jngland and America ,, termed the Oregon . Many natives ofthe sister isle say that , from the name , there can be no doubt it originally belonged tothe O'Regan's , and when they get the "Repale" they are determined to obtain it for the " gim of the say . " If it is good for nothing else to them , it mavsefve for an Irish Botany Bay , and when Dan is proclaimed King he can send his son John there as Governor _,, with Bishop O'Higgins and Dillon Browne as his Councillors . When established they will expel the Saxons , Americans , and Indians , in the true spirit of Irish "conciliation . "
"One Trial is Sufficient . "— "Would it were lawful to marry two wives ! " exclaimed an enthusiastic young bachelor , desperately in love with a couple of country cousins ; "Try one tobeginwith , " was the rejoinder of a surly old Benedict , Important to Bachelors . —In tho comedy of " Time Works Wonders , " Douglas Jerrold says'' Women are all alike . When they're maids , thepre mild as milk . Once make ' em wives , and they _ltan their backs against their marriage , certificates : and defy you . "
Fact Worth Knowing . — -An antidote , for arsenic has been discovered by _, Dr _. Buosen in thc bydrated peroxide of iron , a simple preparation wkich ought to have a plaice on the shelves of every druggist in the kingdom . > , ; ..,.. ' . _-.-. ¦' . ' : _..- ; _-.. _THEArkcALS , by , Datuoht . —A theatre ; . is . constructing at Leghorn , the cupola of wliich is composed of glass ; by this means representations by daylight will be attainable ., . . ... ; . * A Rational _Axsweh . —Diogenes , being asked what time a man should dine , replied , " A rich man when he will , and apoor man when ho can . " i Please the Pigs . —The curious colloquial phrase , " please the pigs , " is acorruption of " please the Pyx , " that is , the vessel containing the Eucharist , which was regarded as the divinity by believers in _transubstantiation . ; Avarice . —In an old caricature of this detestable vice , his satanic majesty is represented as conveying a miser to his realm , who during the journey makes a proposal to supply the abode with fuel at a reasonable rate . •'
¦ 'Wonderful Accubaoy!!!—In a weighty fome of _generalgeography , lately " published , the author ( Hen-Stein ) informs us , that "London _iiesontheserpentine _riyer , which discharges itseli'intothe Thames . " _¦" . ' "Too Ignorant- to be _Eotbusteo with ' ib * Franchise , "—The mayor of a certain Welsh _country town recently issued the following mandate— "Desires you will ordur the widder Jenkins to pere befour ' me at Town all to morroh at A lavin , has I mey opammon 1 hur and pass hur hoam , has she Ls likerlye to be very true balsam hear . " To Gentlemen that * ' Can ' t Wait . " - —A gent _r courted a lady for twenty-eight years , and then 1 married her . She turned out to be a perfect virago , _» , but died in two years after the wedding . "Now , " " said . the bereaved one , in a seif-gratulating tone , _s , " see what 1 have escaped by a long courtship . " Broken-head Provident Society . —A number" of of
poor persons intend to form a Broken-head Society , y _, for the purpose of raising a fund to compensate poor or E eople whose crowns are cracked by gentlemen ef a " a igficr grade , ' Such an institution seems necessary , y , as , under the present law , the poor man gets the he "kicks , " and the Crown the "halfpence . " The Lames ;—A quaint writer says— "I have seen en women so delicate that they are afraid to ride ide for fear of the horses running away j afraid to to sail , for fear the boat should overset ; and afraid to l to walk , for fear the dew might fall ; but I never saw one one afraid to get married . " ' . . Very Considerate . —A friend of the late Thomas _nas Hood's , afflicted with the same mania , said , with vith tears standing in his eyes , " Ah , poor fellow—died lied from motives of generosity—wanted to enable the un- . undertaker to wm a lively Hood . "
Folly in the Wig . —At the beginning of tbceigli- _: ightecnth century the " wisdom" of our ancestors was was evinced in the wearing of enormous wigs , costing ting from thirty to forty guineas . Thieves were constantly intly on the watch to plunder thc wearers , by unthatching king them in the streets . " A most ingenious mode ' { % s [ says Mrs . Stone , in her CnronWcs of Fashion ) was , for a for a thief to carry on his head a sharp boy in a coveredrered basket , who , in passing through & 'crowd , would dex- dexterously seize and conceal the _mostattvactive-lookin-tfkin !; periwig . "
Remorse of Conscience . * —A * decayed old _gcntle-entleman , who ended his days in the Gainsborough _wovk-vovUhouse , being on his death-bed , and having _--omctliinpthin _** - which hung heavy oh his mind , desired the vicar oicav oii the parish might bo sent for , who arriving in haste . _hastei the mystery was cleared by the pauper telling ijimg liim that , '•• once upon a time , passing . over a certain _^ om iicom _t mon , he ' saw two men putting down a ' _dircctioh-post _i-post rind , waiting jtill ' they had done ' andleft ' ihe , went an < ht an « turned " the pest in an _oppositcdirectioii _, and it _lia _< it ban always been a heavy'burthen on 'Lis conscience tence tt thiiik ho ' tv'many , _uhfcrtunatetir _^ vellera . lichadsenadseni tW ' _xyrotigwayV' ' _*/ ' '"" _, ' . '" . _: A Superfluous Wish . —At a recent public _dinneidinnein wliere the Duke of Cambridge was—of conrse-rin _thr-in ifab chair , Viscount Ranelagb . proposed the Duke ' s health healtH and concluded by , wishing " Iiong ears to his Royis Hoy .- ; Highness . " ., .,
Split in Conciliation Hall . —Young Ireland ailand aw Old Ireland , it is said , have _e-narrelled about tlbout ti " Godless Education" scheme . 1 f Peel two factions by the ears , it is a master-stroke whereby the body of quiet people of benefit . For has not the poet remarked by thelrowT ? " ° CCtt " a _ote
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 7, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_07061845/page/3/
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