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IRELAND . BT TEBDINAKP _PS . EILIGEATH . ( rranitofed by Mary _Hoxcitt . ) Tbe boat swings to a rusty chain ; The sail , the oar of use no longer ; Tht fisher ' s boy died yester-e ' en , And now the father faints with hunger . Pale Ireland ' s fish is landlord ' s fish , It gives him costly food and raiment ; A tattered garb , an empty dish , These are the mouraful fisher's payment . A pastoral sound is on the wind , With kine the roads are thronged;—oh pity ! A ragged peasant crawls behind ,
Aad drives them to the sea-port city . —Pale Ireland ' s herds the landlord claims—That food which Paddy's soul desireth—That which would nerve his childreu _' _s frames , The landlord ' s export trade requireth . To bim the ca ttle are a fount Of joy and luxury never scanty ; And eaeh horned head augments the amount Which swells for him the horn of plenty . In Paris and in London town His gold makes gaming tables glitter , The while his Irish poor lie down And die , like flies in winter bitter . Halloh ! halloh ! the chase is up ! Paddy rush in—be not a dreamer ! —In vain for tbee thtre is no hope ,
Tbe game gees with the earliest stea ner ! For Ireland ' s game is landlord's game , —The landlord is a large tncroacber ! € od speed tbe peasant ' s righteous claim ; He is too feeble for a poacher ! The landlord cares for ox and hound , Their worth a peasant ' s worth surpasses ! —Instead of draining _marish ground-Old Ireland ' s wild and drear morasses-He leaves tbe land a bo _^ gy fen With sedge and useless moss grown over ! He leaves it for the water-hen , The rabbit , and the screaming plover . Tes , ' neath the curse of Heaven ! Of waste And wilderness fonr million acres . ' —To yoa _corrupt , outworn , debased , No wakening peals prove slumber-breakers—• Ob , Irish , land U landlord's land !
_Ani therefore by the wayside dreary , The famished "Bothers weeping stand , And beg for means their dead to bury . A wailing cry sweeps like a blast The length and breadth of Ireland thorough ; The west wind which my casement passed Brought to mine ear that wail of sorrow . Faint at a dying man ' s last sigh , Came o ' er tbe waves , my heart-strings searing , The cry of woe , the hunger cry , The death-cry of poor , weeping Erin . Erin ! she kneels in stricken grief _. Pale , agonized , with wild hair flying , And strews the shamrock's withered leaf Upon her children , dead and dying . She kneels beside the sea , the streams ,
And by her ancient hills' foundations , — Her , mere than Byron's Rome , beseems Tbe title , " _N'iobe of natioas . " _Sjicilfs Journal
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_^ _bietosu THE MAGAZINES . Simmonds ' s Colonial Magazine . April . London : Simmonds and Ward , Barge-yard , _Bucklersbury . The openin ; article is on Ireland , in which ia advocated an extensive system of emigration as the principal means of removing the present evils of that unhappy country . Of course such a " remedy " has not our approval . " Sampson Brown" continues hiiamusin **; descriptionsof "Life in the Jungle . " An interesting account of * ' The _pres ° nt State _| and Agricultural Capabilities of Malacca" tells of the destructive effects of the grasping policy of thia country in the East . The Dutch formerly ruled in Malacca , and prosperity for both natives and settlers
was the consequence of their sway , but war has changed all that ; conquest—British conquest—has "made a solitude and called it peace . " From this article on Malacca we learn that the cruel and infamous practice of burning and affixing indelible blue marks on the foreheads of criminals is still in use in British India . Shame , shame ! An elaborate paper on The Condition and Prospects of the Aborigines of Australia , " shows the rapid extinction e that lace , caused by the ascendancy of the whites , and the vices which these have . brought in their train . It appears , tbat to shoot the aborigines is quite an amusement , like shooting sparrows at Battersea Red House ; and that poisoning them 13 almost as common as destroying house-vermin in
this country by ratsbane ! _| It is frightful to read of the sufferings of the aborigines caused by diseases imparted to them by the whites . Infanticide is general . " The blacks say they hare now no country , and are , therefore , unwilling to keep their children . " What a fearful declaration is this ot the consequences flowing from tho ascendancy of the " civilised , " *¦• Christian" ruffians ! A gloomv account is given of "The state of Canada in 1817 . " It would appear that tbe lesson ofthe recent " rebellion" is lost upon the aristocratic knaves and imbeciles who govern that country . " The amount drawn from the
_in--dustry of the people for public expenditure has increased within the last six years in a ratio of more Shan double the increase of the population , which is now burthened with a public debt of between three and four millions of pounds , besides local taxation and numerous useless paid local officers , all formerly unknown in Lower Canada . " It is not difficult to predict the end if this system is persevered in . The _lemainius articles are on " The Kaffir War , " " The French Fisheries at . Newfoundland , " "The Manufacture of Sugar and Rum , " " Dr _Leichhardfc's Discoveries in Australia , " and "Notes on Sierra _Xeone . "
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The People ' s Journal . Part XV . London : J . Bennett , 69 , Fleet-street . This part of the "People ' s Journal" is rich in ably-written contributions from the pens of Harriet Martineau , Joseph Mazzini , Miss Jewsbury , J . C . Prince , and otber eminent writers . We would have quoted from Miss Martinean ' s " Survey from the Pyramids , " from the "Picture of Parliament , " the '' Recollections of Pari 3 . " "SocialProblems , " "Win--ter Musings , " and other papers in prose and poetry , but cannot . All the room we can possibly spare we
• most devote to extracts from Joseph _Mazzini ' s able -article on ' * George Sand , " which article is decidedly the gem of this part . From our heart's depths we thank Mr Mazzini for his chivalrous and triumphant ¦ vindication of our glorious Byron . Never before bare *< we seen the character of Byron so truly pourtrayed . Himself gifted with poet ' s soul , ( who will question 7 & at having read the extracts given below ?) the Italian exile reads our poet as posterity will read and know him , and knowing him will weep and worship at his shrine .
BTBOX AST ) 020 BQK SAND . All those who have watched the sunrise upon tbe Alps from some lofcy peak have seen , as I hare from Mount _Cenis , first , the night ; tbe vast night , sad and void , but in wldch one would say a creation was elaborating itself —then the first ray of light trembling upon th * horizon , vague and pale like a timid and uncertain hope ; then the long line of fire catting the blue heaven , firm and decided as a promise ; and then , as at a given _tiguil , tbe Sea of vapours mounts slowly from the abysi , grey and ombre as Doubt , extending itself like a shroud between the earth and the star of day , rising like a bad thought betwixt the w * rld and troth ; to which succeeds the straggle eminently poetic between the 01 b , apparently _beamless and lifeless , and the rolling mist , here black as
_eury . there dull aud heavy as causeless ignorance , a . biting cold the while encircling you in its serpent-like folds , threatening yonr heart like uncertainty in the hour of trial—until at last the son , disengaging himself from tbe cloud , reveals himself high in heaven , calm in his glory , and inundates you , inthe midst ofthe daztling snows , with warmth and light . Such is the life of Genius . Envy and ptrsecution ;—but on one side of the tomb , it matters little which , assured triumph . You may burn the works of Rousseau in the public market-place ; the spirit of Rousseau will survive ; it will appear to you years afterwards embodied ia the French constitution . Yoa may misinterpret the spirit , and blacken at yonr
leisure , the memory of Byron—yoa nn */ exile bis statue t & om Westminster Abbey ; but tha people , who recognise an him the victim of one epoch and the prophet of _another , will read , and adopt him at thtir own , in spite of jou * » ° Posterity will end by placing his proscribed statue above the tomb where will lieforever interred the principle of arutoeraej . You may sound jour alarm -against _Gntge Sand in your 9 W _Qjurrterl _y , and forbid your youth to read her : yon will find some day , without well knowing how _. _the best places in your library usurped by her volumes . It is not so easy to suppress one of the two first living writers of France ; and when I say this I speak of literary merit merel y , of what regards form alone .
George Sand is a powerful reality . AU thst she ox . presses , even _supposing it error , is to her truth , it U written witb her heart ' s blood ; she would be ready , doubt it not , to sign it with the blood of her body . She has often scandalised and shocked her readers but it bas nerer beea in seeking merely for au artistic effect , or for an eccentricity of the woman of _ge-aius . No ; she has always believed herstlf to be accomplishing a duty . With a nature eminently democratic , tortured by the necessity of loving , yearning mid a stormy life for peace and order , how many times must she not bave felt almost frightened at the solitude into which she was plunging t How many times would she not have preferred , had it been possible , to act in all things with the multitude I Bat there was within her that instinct of strong souls , he fascina tion of truth , the revolt against the false and the unjust , the ardour of prosalytism . And she has _alvrajs-tjirt fa * , Qffs , witb whtt _itfiring _^ _QbejetJ t & il
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insuuee . The form of her aspirations for social reform , and of her religious presentiments , has sometimes slightly changed ; sbe has immediately hastened to declare it . Each of her books is eminentl y an action . It is a manifestation , I might say a confession , so much is there that is religious in tbat which characterises her , made without reserve and without disguise , without pride as witbout felse shame , and picturing truly the state of her mind at the lime of its production . It has been _fotradeasy to invent against her almost all ' kinds of accusations ; but never those of h ypocrisy , Jesuitism , o r of the vanity of an artistattitudinising or draping berl self in order to please .
But what is more , the individuality of George Sand U not only her oum , it is that of her age ; it is in this kind of idt-ntity that lies aber- * all the secret ofthe immense repugnance , and the immense sympathy which she has excited . It was felt from the first that tbere was in that voice , melodiously sad , yet proud and firm , more than an individual inspiration ; it spoke the secret of tha world around her ; the complaint of the age groping onward amidst ruins ; the aspiration , vigorous , though ill defined , of the coming generation * . In that double series , embracing all the high priests of art , from Homer to _Gottbe on the one side , from Dante to Byron on the other , the place of George Sand cannot be doubt-d By the peculiar nature of ber artistic genius , as well as by the temper of htr soeil , keenly alive to holy _indignation , to exalted pity , and te boundless love , she belongs entirely to tke second—to the geniuses who suffer , struggle , and aspire , not to those wbo calmly contemplate ; to those who desire to transform the medium in which
humanity works , not to those who derate themselves , calm and impassable , above it ; to tbe prophets ofthe ideal , the future , not to the painters of the real and present . She is born an apostle . Sorrows , uncertainties , hopes , daring , all that characterises a race fluctuating like our own , between a cradle and a tomb , between an epoch which is passing away , and another which approaches , she accepts all , and _embodies all in herself . She has encountered every obstacle in our adventurous path ; she has been woundeJ by erery thorn ; sbe bas dared the edge of each giddy precipice-, ever in advance , she beckons to us witb her hand , pointing out all tbe difficulties to be smoothed away , all the gulfs to he closed up . Coming in the days of 1830 , after aa heroic effort , which those who made it fondly hoped would have advanced the world a step , but whieh ended in nothing better tban a patch'ng up of tbe old system , sbe felt at once
that the question of life could not be solved by resting on the surface of a simple political organization ; tbat it _throbbed » t tbe very heart ef society ; and making a scalpel of _hsr pen , sbe prebed the eTil to its very seat , and laid it bare . Whenever tbis happens in the world ' s history ; whenever some one amongst us , appointed by God for the task _. coraej to disturb the torpor of humanity by grief and _reproaches , the first impulse of the crowd is inevitably hostile . " Why troublest thou the night with thy cries ! " say tbe demi-gods to Prometheus . " Why do you tear me from this welcome slumber t" says the unhappy one , wearied by suffering , to those who urge tim onwards ; " I was about to lose the consciousness of my misery ; you recall me to it—accursed beys !" Human _iudohnce asd apathy are the greatest _enemies that truth , and the genius which proclaims tru'b , can encounter upon earth .
Behold Byron ! he appears , long before George Sand , at the close of one epoch , but before the appearance of the other ; it the midst of a community based upon au aristocracy which has outlived the vigour of its prime , surrounded by a Europe containing nothing grand , unless it be Napoleon on one side , and Pitt on the other—genius _degraded to the lerel of egotism , intellect bound to the service of tbe past . The future has nowhere an interpreter ; belief is no more , there is its pretence ; prayer is ne more , there is a morement of tbe lips at a fixed day and hour for the sake of the family , or what is called the people ; love is no more , desire has taken its place ; the holy warfare of ideas is abandoned , the conflict is that of interests . The worship of great _thoughts has passed away ; that wbich U has but the torn banner of some
corpse-like traditions , —that which tccu ' _ei bt hoists only the standard of physical wants , of material appetites ; around him are rains ; beyond him the desert ; the horizon is blank ; a long cry of suffering and indignation escapes from vlie breast of Byron ; he is answered by anathemas . He departs ; be hurries through Europe in search ofan ideal to adore ; _hs traverses it distracted , palpitating like ifareppa on the horse , borne onwards by a fi 1 rce desire ; tbe wolves of envy and calumny pur suing bim . He visits Greece ; he visits Italy ; if any where a spark ofthe sacred fire , a ray of divine poetry is preserved , it must be there . ** och ' ug . A glorious past , a degraded present ; none of life ' s poetry ; no movement , save tbat ofthe sufferer turning on bis couch to relieve bis pain . Byron , from the solitude of bis exile , turns
bis eyes _ag-iin towards England ; he sings . What does be sing ? What springs irom the mysterious and jet unique conception which rales , one would say in spite of birasel , over all that escapes from him in his sleepless night ! The funeral hymn , tbe death , the epitaph of the aristocratic idea ; we discovered it , we _continentalists , before his own country . He tikes his types from amongst those privileged by strength , beauty , and individual power . Tbey are grand , poetical , and heroic ; but solitary , isolated ; tbey hold uo cemmuuion with the world around him , unless it be to role over it ; they bave no kindred ; they live from their own lite alone . They repulse humanity , and regard the crowd with disdain Each of tbem says , I have faith in myself ; never , I have faith in ourselves . Tbey all aspire to power or to
happiness . The one and the otber alike escape them . Byron destroys them one after the other , as if he were tbe executioner of a sentence decreed in heaven ; they all die , and a popular _maledic'ion wanders round their solitary tombs . This is , for those who read with the soul ' s eyes , what Byron sings , or rather what humanity sings through him . The crowd do not comprehend it ; tbey listen , fascinated for an instant , then repent , and avenge their momentary _forgetfolness by calumniating and insulting the poet . His intuition of the death of a form of society they call wounded self-love ; his sorrow for ali is attributed to cowardly egotism . They credit not tbe traces of profound suffering which betray themselves through his lineaments ; tbey credit not the presentiment of a new life which from time to time escapes his
trembling lips ; tbey believe not in the despairing embrace in which he grasps tbe material universe , heaven , stars , lakes . Alp 3 , andsea , and identifies himself witb it , and through it with God , of whom , to him at least , it is the symbol . They do , however , take into consideration some unhappy moments , in which , wearied out by the emptiness of life , he has raised with remorse , I am sure , the cup of ignoble pleasures to his lips , believing be might find forgetfolness there . How many times hare not bis accuser * drained this cup , without redeeming the sic by a single virtue ; without , I will not say braving , but with _, out having even the capacity of appreciating , tbe burden which weighed upon Byron ! And did he not himself break into fragments this unworthy cup , immediately that the cry of new life was heard in Greece ;
immediately that something appeared worthy of the devotion of bis life ? Such has been , for I have not in the least departed from my subject , such is still , with a large portion of the society of the present day , the fate of George Sand . And it is this which rendsrs her doubly dear and sacred to us . She has suffered through us , and for us . She has passed through the crisis of the age . The evil tbat she has pictur . d is not her evil , it is ours . It does not come to us from her ; it was , and is yet around us in the air we breathe ; in tbe foundations of our corrupt society , in the hypocrisy above all which bas spread its ample cloak over all the manifestations of our life . Only whilst we , p » tly from incapacity , partly from cowardice , have been silent , at the risk of allowing the evil to become a fatal sore , the has spoken ; she has with daring
band torn away tbe veil ; sbe bas laid bare tbe festering wounds , and she has cried to us , Behold your soeiety I She bas had not only the intuition but the courage and sincerity of genius . Thank God ! she has had also as much as pouible its reward . I do not speak of glory , which , whatever has been done to prevent it , has crowned her ; I know well that she values it but little . I do not even speakof something much more precious—ofthe small number of chosen souls , the initiated and preclusive of every country , who communicate with her from afar , whom her voice encourages and consoles , who rise up stronger from the perusal of her works , and fellow ali her steps with love and admiration . I speak of thereward which God hag given , her through her own conscience , by the work of holy calm which bas heen achieved
within her , and wbich has found its gradual expression in the series of ber works . It is thit work which itis most essential to point out U all those who would from the present time truly comprehend and judge _weerge Sand . Tbey must embrace her whole career , and follow it step by step in its ascending progress , from the depths and the stagnant vapours of society , up to the tlear azure of those exalted regions to which she has raised herself by degrees . There may possibly exist some danger to the weak iu one or other of ber isolated volumes , but good , and great good only , can be the result of making a complete study of the whole . How many things which appear to us offensive and out of place , and prosaic in nature , reveal themselves full of meaning , and
harmonised ic the general beauty of tbe whole , when the landscape unrolls itself from the highest peak , to ths persevering traveller ! How we shall smile at these sorrows , at these inexplicable diaonls tbat we bow call by the name ef nil , when , the painful course of development and trial once accomplished , we can from the height of a superior and perfected existence feel and understand our life in its unity of intelligence , of love , and of power The law of physical nature , and of our life , is often re- ' produced ia miniature in the task of genius ; and I regret that the translator of George Sand has failed to perceive this , and that she has commenced by destroying all idea of progressive order , of the morel and philosophical re . lationship of her works .
I have said somewhere in the brgtnning of these pages , and I recall it when citing Lei Lettret tfun Voyageur , which ao man could ever bave written—that , _thankt bt to God , Gea Sand is a _isyrrmn . It is tbis indeed wbich is the last and most important cause of the immense excitation produced by her works . As a writer , as an apostle of religious democracy , George Sand , high as she may bs placed , does not stand such alone . What sbe is , she is as a teaman . In the vast and imposing question whieh is beginning to ferment in men ' s minds , and which I hare no intention of treating here , ofthe emancipation of _womaa of the determination of her duties and her rights in the world , tke materials for decision were wanting to us ; and it was evidently not from our _impression , from our judgments tbat we could draw them . We might , indeed , in some exceptional moments of revelation _Uu-Qtuh _affscfoui _uadmlMd a _iroaww ; _wmwi , ali that
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she feels , all tbat she dreams , all tbat sbe pursues , what sanctifies her or makes her fall , what weighs upon ber and transforms her true nature , in the present arrangement of society , a woman only could tell us ; and no woman bad as yet told us . Some women , indeed , before her , had endeavoured to deal with the question ; but simply on the ground of right , and , as theorists , giving us what tbe common element of humanity could supply , and nothing more ; nothing that a man could not bave written . In France , Madame de Stael bad made a step in advance by her "Corinne : '' there , woman is shewn as a beingglfted witb an individuality , the working out of which should be tbe source of anew ideal . But more strong in intellect than in heart , and not having had , after aU , to struggle with life in earnest , as George Sand , Madame de Stael was not destined to advance upon the pa th as yet but diml y seen . She withdrew herself in reality souii afterwards in "Delphine , " where tbe woman is _suballernised even in tbe words which serve as an inscription to the work . *
Madame Sand is the first who has boldly entered the arena , and she has mantained her position through all . As a _nunwn . being she has pleeded for the equality to which her sex has a right , by mingling herself , theoretically and practically , with all our straggles , with all the great questions , religious , social , and political , which at present interest us : as a teaman she has declared to us the secret of ber sex , its inward life in all its phases , under all circumstances ; and she has tlius prepared tlie way to a just conception of the special mission reserred to her sex—of the duties and special rights wbich have fallen to Us share .
Her life is in her books . Every soul worthy of understanding her will learn to find her there . George Sand is one of those geniuses whose every work contains the image of its author , visibly transferred to its page by her own tears and heart ' s blood .
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The Family Herald . Part XLVII . The Musical Herald . Part XI . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . Both these publications continue their successful career . As usual , the "Family Herald" is replete with interesting and suggestive matter . We had marked extracts , but havenotroom for them . The «• Musical Herald" contains an excellent selection of music and musical literature . We understand that both publications continue to increase in circulation . The "Family Herald" has been now some four years before the public ; its increase of sale , notwithstandign its previous immense circulation , and the many competitors it has to encounter , is , therefore , proof that the public are not wearying of an old friend , but , on the contrary , are more and more attracted by the " Herald ' s" decided superiority over all similar publications .
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The Miners ' Advocate . April . Edited and published by W . Daniells , Douglas , Isle of Man . There are some valuable articles in this nunirer on the "Rights and Wrongs of Labour , " * ' The Barnsley Explosion , " and interesting reports ot miners'proceedings . "We are glad to learn thatthe circulation of the Advocate is rapidly increasing . The Ashtonian . April . Ashton-under-Lyne ; J . Williamson , Stamford-street . This is a penny monthly literary miscellany , published at Ashton-under-Lyne , and seems tobe worthy of public patronage . The number before u _*» contains an article of the right sort on the 'fen Hours' question ; a beautiful poem by J . G . Prince , and much other interesting matter .
_Pcbucations _Rkceivko— " The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review ; " " The Memoirs of a Physician" ( No . 2 . Parlour Library ); The Man-inthe-Moon" ( No . 4 ); Parts IV . and V . Haydn ' s "Creation , "and VII . and VIII . Handel's "Messiah" ( London : V . Novello , Dean-street , Soho ) .
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TUB EASTER HOLIDAYS . Easter Monday , though possessing all the elements of a right roystering " Saint" Monday , specially provides for its numerous votaries entertainments ofan original , varied , nnd _Jiigbly-attractive character . The people ' s holiday in question was ' not one { whit behindhand i : i tbis respect , and though the greuter part of the day was downcast and gloomy , intermingled with a good sprinkling of rain and hail , those persons bent upon enjoyment were not retarded , by tbe lowering aspect of the weatber , from visiting tbe muni popular places which Cockaigne so peculiarly delighteth to honour . The innu . merable fairs in the vicinity of London were thronged—Greenwich - being the centre-point of attraction . ' - Scratchers , " as usual , were in great requisition ,
affording infinite fun to tbe " gents" and juveniles , and equally disconcerting tho steady and anti-go-ahead visitors . The Park , too , —one of tbe most popular places of public resort in the vicinity of the " great metropolis "—was crowded to excess— " kisB in the ring " delighting the gallants and the "high-spirited" of tbs gentler sex ; whilst some very laughable feats were performed by the stumbles and jumbles of antiquated holyday folks , who grow young a _^ aia for half an hour whilst ascending and descending "One Tree " and other hillocks—and _whase gryrations , and puffing and blowing , afforded vast merriment to lookers on , aud those whose courage would be frightened out ofits propriety in achieving similar mountainous _undertakings . —But we have not space to dilate further ; and will at once proceed to furnish our readers with a concise _cccouut of the representations at the leading theatres : —
DRUB . Y _, L ANE . —Mr Bunn produced a spectacle quite inimitable , founded en _Felicien . David ' s musical opera of "Le Desert , " and cleverly adapted by Mr Tully , under thc title of tbe * ' Imaum ' s Daughter . " , To those who delight in " tpectacle " we say visit Drury . lane . Anything more vivid than a battle betweea the caravan and the Arabs bas been rarely witnessed on any boards . The bait in the desert , with the horses , camels , etc ,, on the ground , was full of life . The simoom was wonderfully contrived . The rolling on of the drifting sand , and the wind of fire were great mechanical and scenic triumphs , and ware received with thunders of applause . The desert by starlight with the subsequent sunrise was
also very beautiful . The great coup de theatre was the final procession with the chariot drawn by the two elephants , _although tbe circuit round tbe stage was marred ia some degree by the harness of "Jenny Lind "becoming entangled with her trunk ; her partner in colossal tame dragged her out of the maze , and tbe house was in ecsta . sies , "ifaritana" preceded the ) _orientaIspectacle , and went off with eclat ; hut the audience reserved outbursts of acclamation to greet the poetical manger , and at the end ef the performances insisted upon bis appearance in front ot tbe curtain ; but Mr Buon declined the honour —and a wicked wag turned the sweet voices into _sheuts of laughter by throwing a real bun , " done brown , " upon the stage
HAYMARKET . —Ur Plancbe bas added to his reputation in tbe new _Eaiter _pisce at this theatre , yclrpt the "New Planet , "Ac , It is full of piquancy—indeed , so innumerable are the jokes and witticisms , that the _audience are kept throughout in continual laughter . The same liberality bas been bestowed upon tbe scenery , appointments , etc ., , for which Ur Webster is so conspicuously distinguished . We doubt not the " New Planet" will form a focus of attraction for some weeks to come . ASTLEY'S . — Mr Batty presented his numerous patrons with a delightful evening ' s amusement . ' Good wine needs no bash ; " and we cau emphatically and conscientiously say , we never visit this splendid Theatre witbout being highly gratified . In tbe present representation , the "Bride of Abydos , " the resources of the menagerie have been taxed to the utmost , to give due
effect . Tbe scenery , executed by Mr Laidlaw , is very magnificent , and reflects high credit upon tbat gentleman's artistic powers . The groupings are eminently picturesque , the appointments of the most " liberal conceit , '' the horse furniture gorgeous , the panoramic effects most grateful to the eye , the costumes really , and without one word of exaggeration , surprisingly beautiful , and tht properties generally magnificent . In the _"Sceues of tbe Circle "Mr Barry , the Clown , on bis return to tbis theatre , received unanimous plaudits ; and at the con . elusion of the entertainments , Mr Batty must have felt highly gratified that his spirited efforts to please were dnly appreciated ; and the public , in crowding boxes , pit and gallery , will , whilst enjoying a really excellent and highly-pleasing entertainment , only " render unto Cissar that which is _C-asat ' _s , " and so return the management a fair percentage for a large outlay of money .
SURREY . —The doors of thu _well-pttronizad theatre wera besieged hours before the usual time of admitting tbe public , to witness a new drama , called the '* Discarded Daughter , " a piece containing a more than average amountof talent imparted to the "domestic drama , " and filled with sentiments so well understood by the tegular _Surreyites . We had an abundance of stirring incidents , interesting situations , etc ., and due respect was shown for the virtue of the heroine— -all of which was vociferously applauded by the audience , who were , bowever , evidently on the qui vive for the great attraction ofthe evening , vis—the _extraordinary performances of a troop of Bedouin Arabs—tbe real Simon Fures—whose wonderful ability has already created tbe astonishmen t of our Parisian neighbours—and whose famo was not one jot abated by the unprecedented evolutions we
witnessed . Extraordinary leaps and summersets we have seen at Astley's , but nothing * ever approaching the daring of these denizens ofthe desert . They pile them * selves up into pyramids , climb lato columns , and divide again into individuals , imitating the " flight of stags '" and the "spring of the leopard . " They hare a peculiar style of summerset , made sideways , and preceded and followed by a series of rapid twirls that recall _descrip * tions _ofthedaweAugdervishss . In aU eases thsy have a most _cst-llks facility of falling en _thslr feet . It would be impossible to describe tbeir performances in detail : the crowning achievement was a series of summersets within a circle of bayonets fixed upright , executed with astonisbiug precision . It is evident here that the least failure would have been highly dangerous , if » ot fatal . The execution , of tbis exciting feat was rewarded with _tttWUta of applause . Under tho " Ultutrtow _fwi ' * "
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anagement , at the Adelphi , we _reelect several Bedouin Arabs going through some surprising performances ; but the party now in England are much more numerous ( fourteen in number ) and the _coup-dcefl is , of course , more striking aud complete . Two new pieces ( afarce , and another drama ) concluded the entertainments , the house bein crowded in every part . SADLER'S WELLS . —Mr Phelps , the highly talented manager , put forth an attractive bill of fare : — " / ane Shore , a new musical interlude , called "The Rival Sergeants , " and the amusing farce ofthe "Bengal Tiger . Divested as the tragedy was of Mr Phelps ' powerful acting , the house , ou the rising of tbe curtain , presented a very respectable , though not a crowded audience , and the combined efforts of the very efficient company carried this powerful tragedy to a triumphant
conclusion , the wily Duke of Gloucester being ably represented by Mr G . Bennett , and Miss Cooper , Mr Marston , and Miss L , Addison , _receiving much applause , especiaUy the last-named lady , whose limited career has already gained her many _admlrars , _ h er commanding talents enabling her to successfully " play up to" an actor of ao much deserved reputation as Mr Phelps . Tbe plot of the "Rival Sergeants , " ( which was as sue cessful as could be desired ) turns on the endeavours of two _sergeants oftlie French Guards to win the affections of Margaret ta ( Miss J . Wailack ) , a joung lady possess _, ing more solid attractions tban mere personal charms . Sergeant _Chnrles' _^ Mr Scharf ) is the favourite ; and his rival , Sergeant _O'Lynn ( Mr H . Mellon ) , a native of tbe Emerald Isle , in endeavouring by very questionable expedients to supplant his more fortunate comradeis
, placed in some - embarrassing and ludicrous positions _. and is eventually outwitted and exposed by the / air object of his professed attachment , who discovers that he feels more regard for her purse tban her person . Several _irt"idental songs were very prettil y sung by Miss Wallack . OLYMPIC—Mr G . Bolton has again re-opened this _theatra for the summer season . We cannot do less than wish bim success , more particularl y as we hear , and indeed believe , _Mr'Bolton to be sincere in his endeavours to restore this once popular and elegant theatre to its wonted pristine condition . All the " parts" make a " whole , " so saith the philosopher ; and surely it must have occurred to Mr Bolton tli at , for due and correct representation , an efficient and working company must be selected . We do hope tbat the performances on Monday are not to be taken os a sample of what the
manager intends " to put before the town . " And , besides , it is really unfair to two or three popular and respected actors , that the whole buithen of an opening night should b - levied on their shoulders—indeed , to these gentlemen , and the aid of the prompter , the '' jtf ountaineers " clambered to a dreary close , Mr Denvil sustaining the leading character . In the ' Spare Bed , " wliich followed , Mr Romer awakened tht audience , putting them iu a good humour ; andit ' _isonlyjusttothiscleverandindustrlcusactortosay , that his abilities were fully appreciated on this occasion ; although , in our humble opinion , Mr Romer—though not ajuvenile—has never been co great a favourite as bis talents entitle him to be . Mr George Wild appeared in a new burlesque , and bis popular and peculiar acting diverted tbe audience , and created some laughter , whilst Mr Romer and Miss Williams did all that combined
talent could do ; bat we must admit that even tbe title of the burlesque fails in being understood—and we defy tbe most inveterate punster to discover tbe funniment intended to be conveyed in "Joan of Arc , the Maid of AlUie-ans ; " the only meaning we cau devise is , that Joan of Arc is supposed to execute the work ofa regular household drudge—doing , indeed , the labour of "all-yeans" in the house , ThiB is " a worser , " and should , witboutdelay , be transmitted to our facetious cotemporary Punch . We do not say the burlesque is without vigour or spirit , and we trust , for the sake of manager and actors , it will have a run ; but we do most _earnestly hope Mr Bolton will at once see the necessity of _organising his company , not allowing himself to be too repeatedly thrust before the public in leading characters , under tbe _impression that he is a _preatactor _, —but thathe will _. in justice to himself and brethren , divide fairly the honour and merit , so as to successfully and effectively offer tbe public the (( legitimate" drama , * and hence , foster and
encourage " legitimate" acting ; when we do not doubt his aeward will be in tu © plaudits of crowded and well-conducted houses . We have been thus candid , out of the purest good-will towards Mr Bolton ' s undertaking ; it will , we desire , be our more pleasing duty to record the unequivocal success of new and more satisfactory efforts . THE COLOSSEUM The doors of this splendid establishment were opened to the public at s _reduced price of admission , and the new system was rewarded with deserved success , upwards of 1 , 000 visitors having been present in the course of the day and evening , Tbe _entertainments comprised the Panoramas of London , by night and day ; the exhibition of sculpture , stalactite caverns , prize cartoons , eke , which have already acquired their meed of popularity among the sightseers from town and country . Surely encouragement ought to be cheerfully continued to tbis interesting exhibition _. It is indeed " a sight for a father , " ay , and mother , sister , and brother—and , we hope , even a respected grandmother .
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . —Tbere was a vast deal to be seen , and sufficient tobe heard , to please , recreate , and improve most persons . The electro magnetic telegraph signal apparatus , and tbe living specimens ofthe Gymnotus Electricus , or electrical eels , were _amongst many other objects that attracted much attention . Various useful inventions also caused much satisfaction , and the lectures of Professor Bachboffuer , and tbe otber gentlemen engaged , drew _together in the theatre a vast assembly of eager listeners . The museum is now in ad . mirable order , and tbe arrangements for facilitating instruction both by lectures and by the illustration of in . numerable models are almost perfect ,
_CREU 0 RNE GARDENS . —The veteran Green made his first aeronautic trip shortly after _stx o ' clock , from these gardens , ia the great Nassau balloon . He ascended in company with twelve gentlemen , in the presence of several thousand spectators within tbe grounds , and several thousand more without . The wind was blowing from the north-east at tbe time of the ascent , so that the balloon was carried immediately across the river , sailing over the Wandsworth fields , and taking a direction towards Sydenham and Croydon . The veteran pilot appeared in the best possible spirits , and was cheered by tbe voice *! of the company assembled as he mounted into the clouds . The visitors immediately afterwards repaired to the different amusements provided for themthe festivities being kept up till a late hour—the company _sepsrating highly delighted at the magnificent improvements effected during the recess . We hope these truly beautiful pleasure gardens " for the million" will be extensively patronised .
MADAME _TASSAUD'S . —An addition has been made to this exhibition of the figure of Pope Pius IX ., dressed in his pontificals , end in tbe act , it wuuld seem , of _granting a benediction . Two French Roman Catholic clergymen who were present , said they bad seen his Holiness , and pronounced it to be '' striking . " A handsome figure of Henry VII ,, attired ia a sumptuous velvet robe , trimmed with ermine , and wearing the collar of the Order of the Garter—one also of Macready as Coriolanus , an excellent likeness—havebeen introduced since our last notice ef this exhibition , where half a day may be very amusingly and not uselessly speat _.
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[ we bare already shown to our readers the Chambers ' s of 184 ?; we now refer to tbe previous opinions of these changeable economists . Whence this wonderful change ? 1
IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDSSPADE HUSBANDRY . ( From the Information for the People , No . 72 . ) [ Continuedfrom our last . ] Let us now proceed to the practical application of this valuable fossil manure , commencing with its use in the reclaiming of-waste lands . If moorish or waste soil is much infeswd with the tenacious roots of rashes , heaths , and other weeds which resist the mechanical action of the harrow , and yield slowly to putrefaction , the best mode is to till the ground , and allow it to lie in tbis state for twelve or eighteen months , or even two years , before applying the lime It is then generally applied in autumn , and tilled ic as soon as possible ; but if not immediately tilled
in , the soil with tbe _lirao on it sbould fce harrowed , so that its decomposing effects may act as powerfully as _poisible upon the vegetable matter . After these operations , thu land is sown two successive years with oats , without any fallowing ; and along with the second crop of oats some persons sow ic out in grass seeds for pasture . Others , after the first or second crop of oats , give the laud a summer fallow for one season , or a green crop with manure . On the following season another crop of oats is taken , along with which grass seeds are sown , and in this state it is committedto pasture . In some cases , after tillage ,
tbe soil is allowed to lie for one , two , or more years , according to its nature , after which it is reduced to a complete state of pulverisation by a well-wrought naked summer fallow . On tlie spring following it is limed , and the lime is well harrowed in along with grass seeds alone , and in th © following season the hnd is cammitted to pasture . This , however , is a very expensive mode , and cannot be recommended to tenants whose lease is ofa moderate length . It is decidedly the most enriching mode of laying down waste land with lime only for pasturage , as the energy which the lime communicated to the soil is not exhausted by grain crops _.
It will now be observed that lima is a most impo _* _N I tant engine of improvement for waste lands ; for it decomposes and brings into active use the inert vegetable matter , and also serves as an elementary earth for the growth of plants . For peat lands , after being drained , and generally all rough lands reclaimed from a state of nature , lime is invaluable , and equally so for either tillage or pasture . In _connexion with turnip husbandry , it has been the grand reclaimer in many parts of Scotland , and will effect similar ends in any district of country not possessing a sharp and active Boil ; in Buch places it is not required , and its application may do barm . Laid on merely as a topdressing—that is , thinly powdered orer the landlime is found to have very extraordinary effects . Mr Aiton , in his Treatise on Moss , observes , — " If lime or rather calcareous substance * are laid on the award , though the land be neither laboured nor any seed sown , such aire tbo effects of hot lime , that the nou plaaU wm _taitaatly _tipppw , _^ d . t nab _ai tam
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tiful sward of clover , daisies , and the richest poa or meadow grasses , will rise spontaneously . " _, From the result of experiments in many different situations , it seems satisfactorily proved , that the proprietors of waste lands within reach of lime have themselves to blame for the _grouuds continuing iu _Bterility . The complete _melioration , however , is net to be expected at once ; but opon proper arrangements being entered into between the landlords and thetenants _. a _greatproportionofttiepastoralgrounds , _S _»^ of wns , - _» miSht _^^ m means be progressively improved . _i-ilrnfw _^ -. mi a e , , ncral _* ish ° f farmers to use _5 nh t 1 "' _? 8 _S than by top-dressing , which is much to be regret ted , as the lime , when used in
_tilmJT M Wlt u ove _™ " > PPiW . eventually _exhausts the _soi ; whereas , by applying it in _topicempg , it wiH prove highly _beneficial . Therefore , in a climate rising sue hundred feet above the leve ot the sea , top-dressing is the most effectual way in which lime can be applied for improving ffin _C f ; _TK ' The and i - ¦< _*« * h _*» _"ay exhausted by any species of cropping ; it is put m a state of being benefited by the dung of the animals grazing upon it ; and by duo attention being paid to _kvepinj the land free frora wetness , by draining , it will be progressively fertilized . In the application of lime , it is a rule which should invariably be attended to , always to give abundance , and in a newlv-slaked condition , ia order that it may have its _Aili ' eftet . If slaked a considerable length of time before it is appliedit
, does not act so powerfully either in reducing the natural herbage or neutralising the acids , as when applied in a hot powdery state . There are very thin , moorish soils , however , where lime by itself will not improve the herbage , these requiring a nourishing betorp a stimulating manure ; and on such lands , a dresswgof _cood earth will be found to have the same _«*» h 1 8 " me bas on a stron e _-- ' Top-dressing _wiiii clay or sand may also be performed with advan-SS » 1 m 7 m wi' a tracts , where lime cannot _3 ~* ? » n d " These earthy materials have a _enSeTv _L e eCt l _- l Pro «» pasturage ; they » _nnn ! L _^ , the _- > Ttn _^ moss plants ; and if _^ _J ™ *!*? * . _" _* -- dePthof an inch or so , will generate a sweet herbage , rendering tlie ground capable of being benefited by the droppings of the animals it supports .
_inmoATioN . While some lands can be reclaimed only by draining , others , which are naturally dry , may be rendered equally serviceable by irrigation , or artificial watering . Lands in the dry climate of Australia seem to be in this condition ; instead of depriving them of water , they require all that can be conveniently led towards them . Much of the land in the inner parts of North America is likewise so dry , that drainage is altogether undesirable , and irrigation is in many cases a means of fertilisation . It may happen that lands naturally marshy are as much the better for irrigation as dry deserts ; but in ail such cases the lands must in the first place be drained . This leads to an explanation of the principle of irrigation .
When water lies in or upon the land , it stagnates and produces a marsh , which is alike insalubrious and unproductive . The extensive Pontine marshes in the neighbourhood of Rome present a remarkable example ot both these conditions . In order tbat water may not be injurious , it must be kept flowing , always running amongst and from the blades of herbaee . Regarding the theory of irrigation , Sir Humphrey Davy _sayB— " Water is absolutely essential to vegetation ; and , when land has been covered with water in the winter or in the beginning of spring , the moisture , which has penetrated deep into the soil and even the subsoil , becomes a sort of nourishment to the roots of plants in thc summer , and prevents those bad effects which often happen in land
in their natural state , from a long continuance of dry weather . When the water used in __ irrigation has flowed over a calcareous country , it is generally found impregnated with carbonate of lime , nnd in this state it tends , in many instances , to ameliorate the soil . Common river water , also , generally contains a certain portion of organisable matter , which is much greater after rains than at other times , and which exists in the largest quantity when the stream rises in a cultivated country . Even in cases where the water used for flooding is pure , and free from animal and vegetable substances , it acts by causina the more equable diffusion of nutritive matter exist * ing in the land ; and in very cold seasons , it preserves the tender roots and leaves ofthe grass from being injured by frost .
In general those waters which breed the best fish are the best fitted for watering meadows , but most of the benefits of irrigation may be derived frora any kind of water . It is , however , a general principle , that water containing ferruginous impregnations , though possessed of fertilising effects when applied to a calcareous soil , are injurious to soils that do not effervesce with acids ; and that calcareous waters , which are known by tbe earthy deposit they afford when boiled , are of most use on siliceous soils , or other soils containing no remarkable quantity of carbonate of lime . " Whatever be the actual properties communicated by the water , it is certain that the general effect of meadow irrigation is greatly to increase the quantity of herbage , and render it more sweet and nourishing for cattle than if grown on dry grounds . ( To be continued . )
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A Polytechnic Institution has been formed at Bombay . A law for the regulation of the press has been laid before the Germanic diet . Sweetmeats of all kinds are now made by machines , which are said to perform as much work as
nine men . A few days since , the funeral took place here of the once celebrated vocalist Mariani Sessi , who , in the time of Catalani _, appeared as a rival star . The funeral oftlie Prince de Polignac took place on Saturday , at St . _Germain-en-Laye . It was strictly private . The _gardenet of General Harrison , late president ofthe United States , complained to him that the boys stole his grapes , and advised him to get a good dog . "No , " said the general , " 1 * 11 get a good schoolmaster , and he will take care of the boys and the grapes too !" Nettles have been on sale in Preston at threepence apound .
It has been calculated thai the food ofa wild rabbit costs a halfpenny a day . A guard on the Great Western Railway has written a tragedy , called "Athelstan , " which has been punished by subscription . The Builder says that to put the silver edging to muslin wbich is always thrown away before converting the material to use , costs the country £ 20 , 000 a-year . A Winchester man , a teetotaller , _the other day , asVed a neighbour if he were net inclining to the Temperance Society ? and he replied " Tes ; for when he saw the wine his month watered . " Prises were lately offered by the French govern ment for the composition of religious and moral songs , and no fewer than 1 , 700 competitors entered the lists .
More recruits are said to have been raised in Ireland since the lst of April , 1840 , than in the three years immediately preceding . A Kendal paper mentions the birth of a monstrous calf , whkh was furnished with two perfect heads , . , During the * trials at the lats * Nottingham assises , the pockets of several persona were picked ia thc court . ... 1 At the Sussex Assizes last week , therewere * t » o less than four actions springing ant of family feuds , viz ,, one by a father against his sen , one by a sor * against his father , one by a son against hia mother , and one by one brother against another . Vesuvius continues to be ver y active ; but the Neapolitans feel no fear , as none of tbe _symatems have manifested themselves which are known to be the forerunners of a great eruption .
A patent has been granted for the _manufacture of iroacoaches . An _onnibus , carrying nineteen per- ] sols , besides the driver and cad , is _sajd to weigh only 11 cwt . A sepulchre whieh hag been ret _*!* _- _^ discovered at Rome , near the family vault of the Soipios , contains inscriptions relating to the deposit of the bodies of freedmen of Paulas Emilius and Julius Cesar , and of the tiring woman of _thefamoua Messalina . A return , obtained by Mr Hume , ohows that the actual expenses incurred at the Mint in the lato r «* . coinage of light gold coin ,, amounted to £ 6 * 7 , 815 . George the Third carae to the throne in lWOi when the national deb * was . 120 _mUlions ; m lSI 9 v when ho died , it was _&& millions , having increased during that period about £ 36 , 000 a day , or nearly £ 23 a minute . . .
The sentence on the private of marines , _ordwed to be mmg at the ya _* td-arn » of one of the Queen ' s ships , for striking a corporal , has been commuted tft transportation for life . . Tbere are at present no less than thirty widows keepers of Inns in Carlisle . An Irish peasant , on a small ragged pony , was floundering through a bog , when the animal in its attempts to push on , got one of its hoofe into the stir _, runs . * ' Arrah , my boy , " said the rider , " if you are going to get up , it is time for me to get down . ' The young crops throughout the Belgian provinces are reported to present a very promising _appearanoe _. The village of Preigney , in the department ef the Haute- _^ _Taelne , was nearly destroyed by fire a few days since . The loss of property ia estimated at ; _$ & 0 , ft 0 d francs .
Memory is like a picture gallery of our past days . The fairest and most pleasing of the pictures ate those which immortalise the days of useful industry . Mr Luke Hansard has commenced the issue of a new journal , called The Spirited tht Timet . The Prussian minister of the interior h _» B appointed sixteen » hort _* _-h » _r-d _writewto report the proceedin g . * _tftluMAtroiiiti ,
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Tub Port and the Pum , _t 9 nER . —A poet was once asked by his publisher how many copies of his poem then in sheets he would like to have put in boards f " The whole edition , " replied the confident author . '• Humph ! " said the publisher , "Justus you please ; but if you wiil take my advice , you will only have a di zen or so . " * ' Why not the whole ? " asked the indignant poet . "Because , " answered his _adviser , '' it spoil * them for waste paper . "—Frazer . Prussian ARMr . —It is- said that thc Prussian government intends to reduce the establishment of it * army .
BALiiOBNiNO . —A letter from Pisa states that the Italian _seronaut , Orlandi , who has made already four hundred and twen'y _wrial voyages with continued success , has just completed an entirely new machine , which is proved with machinery , to enable him to have complete control ofthe balloon in the air , and to guide its direction with certainty . Bats were never known to be so plentiful in the stack-yards and granaries near Lancaster as during the present season . Bad Trade . —The trade of Rouen is now in a very distressed state , and the manufactories are only worked three days a week . I » wa . —Professor Wilson has completed his continuation of Mill ' s " History ef British India . " Sin _Gaspaud Lb _M-jrc-haw , the lately appointed Governor of Newfoundland , has left town with his suite for Halifax .
_IlKLFif-o the Poor . —H . Gbok , Esq ., of Titheriey , last week bought a number of sacks of potatoes , at 18 s . a sack , resolving to furnish each poor industrious man with one sack of three bushels , the land he allows them to have rent free . The onl y _stipu > lation he makes with the _reeipients is , that ai * shall be planted , and if the crop be good the quantity furnished to be returned , if not , the poor will have nothing to pay either for land or seed . Lithoorapbio Stone . —A' quarry of good lithographic stone has been discovered on the southern coast of Arabia , and it has been proposed to export it to India , where lithographers are chiefly supplied from Europe ,
Sharp . —At the late Exeter Sessions , one Lee was tried for stealing a razir . After the recorder sum * med up , the prisoner _bej-ged to supply an inadvertentomission on the part of the judge . " Gentlemen of the jury , " said Lee , " if you havo any doubts , you are to give me the benefit ef them . " He was acquitted . Hasoiso . —Several thousands of persons lately assembled at Racine , in the state of Wisconsin , to see a man hung for murder , but the sheriff informed the people that the governor had reprieved the prisoner for thirty days . Disappointed by this postponement of the show which they had expected , they hung the effigy of the governor , and then separated peaceably .
Artichokes a Substitute for Potatoes . —It has latterly been much urged upon the cottagers tho utility of extensively substituting in their allotments and gardens the Jerusalem artichoke forthe potato . No weather hurts it , it appears to grow almost any where , and yields quite as large a crop as the most prolific potato . Gekjm . v Emigration : to America . — Upwards- of 6000 German emigrants have , within the last fortnight , passed through Cologne , on tlieir way to Bremen , Havre , and Antwerp , where they will take their departure for America .
A Mi 8 EB .-An old man , named Horvilte , who had lived for some time in a state of the most dreadful misery in a wretched garret ia the rue St _Gcrmain-I'Auxerrois , and was frequently rel eved by his neighbours , was a few days ago found dead in the heap of straw that served for his bed ; there was discovered among his miserable rags a sum of 7 . _000 f . in money , a bank note of 500 ( . and a quantity of plate and articles of jewellery . —Galignani . A Noble Example . —Lord Harry Vane , M P ., who has recently become the proprietor of the great por . tion of the land in Ashton Keynes , Wiltshire , has authorised all his tenants to destroy , in auy way , the
rabbits they may hereafter find on tlieir respective farms . [ V » e trust other large landed proprietors will follow this example . None deny that these vermin are other than most destructive ; and it is terrible to reflect that , when the people are crying loudly for food—cheap food , the poor man should be prevented ' rom securing it , which he could abundantly and readily do , if the privileges held eut by Lord Harry Vane were generally granted . J Iuustratio . v op Mr . Disraeli ' s Orator ** . —The Spectator , in allusion to Mr Disraeli's speech in the recent Cracow debate , says : — "Mr Disraeli undertook to make out that there had been no
violation of treaty . and succeeded in making an entertaining speech . This gentleman has a knack at displaying wit and sense in a thesis on some nonsensical theme . It is a sort of literary tightrope daneing ; you wonder * how the posture-master can execute such striking actions uponso worthless a sanding-ground . You may admire the feat , but as to results the exertion all goes for _nothing . " More Flies . —The Dumfries Herald- , says , that en Monday forenoon , about 10 o ' clock , a _slrower of flies , which darkened the air as they descended , fell on the Appan-road , about half a mile to the east of Dumfries , and covered the road for 600 . or 700 yards , as thick as hailstones .
_Si » ou _* lab Circumstance . —One day last week as one of the gentlemen commoners of Winchester College was discussing a barrel of oysters with a friend , he was surprised on feeling in his mouth something harder than the general nature of the oyster , —it turned out to be a very large pearl , valued by a Winchester jeweller at 200 guineas ; who affirmed that it was the largest he had ever seen . Cowl Roy , Peer of France , who was Minister of Finance under the Restoration , expired at Paris on Saturday . He was one of the largest landed proprietors in France , his revenue amounting to two million francs ( £ 80 , 000 . ) The Liverpool Times of Tuesday contains an announcement that in future its price will be 2 £ J .
_Ujupormitt . or Postage _Tnaui-fiuouT Gbumant . —A letter from Berlin , of tbe 80 th , says that the governments of all the states ofthe Germanio confederation are negotiating for the establishment of a uniform postage tariff for all Germany , and that a congress of tlieir delegates will shortly meet at Dresden to settle the rate of charge . Railway , of Ten Thousand Miles . —A proposition has been started to form a railway to connect , with the exception of the short sea-passage to Antwerp or Flushing—London with Canton , iu China , ( a twelve days ' journey only ) with ramifications to all the principal cities , towns , and works of Europe and Asia , and to many in Africa also , if thought desirable , by means of which roads a daily post and free intercourse , commercial , social , and philosophical , may be established and permanently maintained over a population of frora six hundred to seven hundred millions of people .
A Contemporary , of Burn * . —Mr _Geoffj-e ' _. _Thonison , the correspondent of Barns , and the main prompter of bis immortal lyrics ,, was lately presented with a testimonial , a beautifal silver vase . Death o p a Diplomatist . — The "Journal des Debats" announces the death , at Munich , on the 23 rd ult ., ot Baron Alexander de _Cetio , one of the most distinguished diplomatists of the present century , in the 72 nd year of his age . Murder AuTnomsKD . —Richard ,. a slave ot Kobert Rowan , who whipped another _slavey Maria , to deatb , in Charleston , U . S . has been trie 4 and acquitted , because he did it by the direction of his mistres * . New Roman Catholic Cburck . — A new Roman Catholic church , to be called St Patrick and St Austin , is now . erecting in Johnson-street , Commercial-road , St . Gieorge ' _s in the EaBt . It is on a very large scale , with school-houses for 800 children attached .
A FruiwuiiVine!—Afewc ' diys ago , the _wifn of the Rtv . _$ , Rider , Vicar 06 Nuneaton , near Coventry , _was-safcly delivered o & lfaurchildren _. who are all living . About ten months ago she had three children ai a birth , who are stall living . _DiscRBtFj & oi * thb _buttsr _ptoT , ifcc—The " Boston Liberator" mentions that among tbe deserters Iretn tbe American army is the Rev . W . H . Barnes . The _reverendi gentleman having secured three months ' _aalatyia advance , shrank , from the sight ef gnmvisaged War . _IsftAjjiit * _- *! Flour . —An _aarival of 1 , 200 sacks of flour _has-taken place from Itaiy , by a vessel arrived trom Leghorn , the produce ot" that place . Ant'Quauia _*** D ' _scoY-utr . —On Monday _iihe nav i gators employed near the seven arches on the Chertsey Railway , dug up a . va ? e , apparent !)** ' of ancient Roman manufactures . It was about _l _* o feet high , land one in diameter , and contained _tiic-remaina of a
child . Ma _LABoucHBBJt*—We have authority to state that there is no toundaeiion whatever _tpr a report which has been circulUted . for the last day or two , to the effect that Mt _^ abouchere intends , to retire from the office of Irish , Secretary . —Times ,. British _Mvsjm-m . —No lesa than 19 , 170 persons passed on Raster Monday Through the collections of this , instUt _* w « . As an ipstance of the increasing interest _mhioh the public * * takes in this national collection , w . e may state tiat on Easter _Mondayt lS 45 . the number ofvisicors was 15 , 310 ; whereas on Monday there were 19 , 17 ft During the year latt there wer * 319 , 37 * 1 , whiU > during last year there were ¦ MMM . _ . . c IW 4 , < 7 V _4 « c ot
Moss _SfMPio-a 3 . _OTfHE Wind-up . — The glories Conciliation Halt are drawing fast to a dose , and the _reamant of tha - -staff * that still lives on the shillings and pence of the poor duped _cont-jbutors must soon betake tb * _emse \ ve- to some more honest caimg . 1 believe I aa correct in stating that the Horary , which cost upwards of £ 1 , 000 , U w tha _»»** . _»«[ would bo disposed of on reasonable terms tor cash _, down , " _aattte money is sorely wanted to defray the liabilities for which the finance committee of the association have unfortunately mado _theum-Ives re _fotc "U .--At Liverpool on Sunday night ai tho tea o'clock Woodside steamer the ferry , when about half man , name unknown , I _wmtaud _, mi vtm _towinft
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 10, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_10041847/page/3/
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