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      ^ May 10, 1845. The Northern Star. 8

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      The Social Flower. There Grows A Strong ...

      THE SOCIAL FLOWER . There grows a strong and noble flower In Britain ' s genial soU ; Its root—the source of life and power—We trace in those who toil . In commerce we distinctly see The stem of fair renown , Its Leaves—the Aristocracy , The Flower is " the Crown . *" All time , all labour ' s vainly spent , Unless the whole be free ; To give the Stem its nourishment The Root wants Libert y . If then in strength you'd have it grow , Put forth , its bods and shoot , Heed neither Leaves nor Flower , but know The secret ' s in the Root .

      Cramp not the Root—give scope and room-Sot niggardly , by stealth—The Flower will then in beauty bloom , The _L-. aves show signs of health . Confine the Root , attempt to coop Its powers in any way , The Leaves must fade , the Flower wiU droop , Thc Stem itself decay . Oh , ye in powY 2 give ear to grief , Assist tbe labouring poor ; 'Tis they who knock and churn relief At Legislation's door .

      Their waning vigour oh ! recruit , Learn to be timely wise ; The _tc-iUng thousands form the Root Where jour existence lies . JerrouTs Magazine

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      Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine.-Mat...

      DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE _.-Mat . There is but little to find fault with ia this number : the ] es 3 tiie better , for fault-finding is anything but a pleasing task . The articles are mostly ably written , and breathe throughout that truth-seeking nhiianthropic , and cosmopolitan spirit for which this Magazine is already so _dMmguished . The only exception Is the article headed " The Novel Blowers , " which , to us , seems a rhapsody of nonsense—a string of sentences run mad . The Editor ' s story , "St . Giles and St . James , * " is continued with undiminished interest . Ia consideration of his youth , St . Giles

      escapes hanging , and is sentenced to be transported instead . Mr . Jerrold ' s comments on the hanging svstem of the " good old times , " when unfortunate wretches were , for nearly every description of offence , strong np in dozens , and his eloquent appeals for the completion of the good work commenced in our day—the abolition of death-punishments , will find an echo in the breasts of thousands of the present generation . Yes , thousands will respond to , thousands will aid , in the accomplishing ofAIr . Jerrold ' s _bless'd prediction : — " The time will eome , as surely as the tun of far-off years , wliai justice shall lay down her sword—when , witli better wisdom , she shall vindicate her awful mission to mankind , vet shed no drop of Ucod !"

      " How will it Look ? " isan excellent article , worthy the special attention of the lair sex , who would save themselves many cares and vexations by attending to thewholesomeadvicecontainedtherein . "Cathedral Pennies" is a well-timed and much needed exposure of fhe _disj'Taceful system of enforcing a tariff of prices far admission into our public buildings , particularly the cathedrals and minsters of this country . This system , bo _disgraceful to the established priesthood , is productive , however , of onc good result—it serves to bring them into contempt ; and the sooner they , in common with the priests of all sects , come to be universally despised , the better for the true interests and "happiness of mankind .

      " Impressiousof alate Trial for Murder '' is a clear , concise , and able resume of the proceedin gs of Hocker ' s tri . ' il . It is hard to disbelieve a dying man : but , in spite of hi * 3 last declarations to the contrary , our belief iu Hocker ' s guilt ia unshaken—and the article before us but confirms our belief . We , however , cannot agree with the writer in this Magazine , that if Hocker's trial " be a sample of other criminal trials , no one who is innocent can by any possibility be hanged for murder . " It is notorious that in days gone by innocent men have been hanged ; and there is strong reason for believing that an innocent maninnocent at least of murder—was hanged only a few months ago . Wc allude to William Howell , hanged at Ipswich for shooting a police officer . After Howell ' s death the gaol-chap lain admitted his belief of the poor creature ' s innocence of the charge of murder , but justified his execution on the ground that he

      was a great sinner ! Such legal murders may accord with priestly notions of justice , but do not accord with ours . Independent of all other considerations therefore , justice—yes justice , demands that the life of man should not be taken away , seeing that thepunish mentmay be as unjust , and as undeserved , as it is barbarous _anddeiuoralisinff . It is only fair to add , that the author of the " Impressions , So . " is , as well _> as ourselves , an advocate for the abolition of deathpunishments . The third chapter of "A History for Young England" gives the history of the Government of the Conqueror , and is rich -with"historicalfacts bnt too ' "tittle known . From the poetical contents we have i given a specimen above . Several reviews close the number ; that on Thiebs' " _Histo-fyoftheCoiisulatc and Empire , " is at once tiie most profound and just we have yet read . For our extract we take the _followius from "The Hedgehog Letters" by the editor .

      THE _SUTKOOTH QUESTION . To Mrs . Hedgehog , of New York . Rear Grandmother , —You ought to be in England just now , we're in such a pleasant pucker . The Church is in danger again ! I have myself known her twenty times hi peril , —bnt now , she reaRy is at the very edge of destruc tion . Tou know there's a place caRed Maynooth CoHege , -there they bring np Roman Catholic priests for the use of Inland . Well , there ' s a lot of folks , who will have it that this _College is no hit better than certain tanks IVeread of in India , where they breed young crocodiles to be worshipped by people who know no better . Sir Robert Peel intends to give £ 36 , 000 a year to this

      placeit used to have an annual grant of £ 9 , 000—that the scholars may be increased in number , and that they may be better taught and more comfortably boarded ' and loflgtd . _^ eu , the members of fhe Church _ofBnglandalthough here andthi > re _*& ey have grumbled at the matter , and have called the Pope names that pass in small change at Billingsgate—have been mute as fish compared to the Dissenters . It is they who have fought the fight ; it is they who have raised thepriceof _parchmeatl _^ darkemng the Rouse ot Commons with clouds of petitions . It is they who hare risen to a man , and have patted the British lion , and twisted his tail , and goaded him—as you'd set a boll dog on a cat— -to tear Popery to pieces .

      It ' s a settled "belief with a good many pious people , who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china , only using it on holiday occasions , for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day _wear—itfs a belief with them that a Papist is a sort of human toadan abomination in the form of man . "Doctor Croly has surely a notion of this sort A few days ago he appeared on Covent-garden stage ( I think his first appearance there since his comedy of Pride shaO . have a FaU ) , and called upon The Lord , with thunder and lightning , and the sword , to kill his enemies—meaning Roman Catholics ! And then the Doctor sbowedhow Providence had punished all naughty kings who had cast an eye of favour on the

      Pope . Capping this , the Doctor more than hinted tbat George the Fourth—the first gentleman in Europe , for he had a greater number of coats than all the rest of the kings put together—was somewhat suddenly called from bis loving people , because he had passed the Bill that _Emancipated the Catholics . WeU , when we think how many Catholics there are in the world—when we remem ber the millions of ' em scattered about the earth—it does appear to me a little bold in a worm of a man ( whether the said worm wears _deigrman ' s black or not ) praying to the Lord to destroy , crash , bora , whole nations of men and women , because he wasn't born to think as they do . Bnt co it is with some folks , vary proud indeed of their _Caristiamty .

      Rut I suppose Doctor Croly , Mr . _MTfeile , and such _™ _s— ' * ho seem to read their Bibles by the blue light of _™ n _^*( ne—believe that the extra money _gh-en to the Rowan Catholic priests of Ireland will only be so much Ponder _aoa _sj , ot _^ _jjj _, whjch they may bring down Pro-• _fcstams . Wdl , if money is to make converts , what has _*•*¦*"• Irish Protestant Church been about-, that has always ° _zi a full money-bag at her girdle , and more than that , plenty of leisure to reclaim the fallen ! She has always j "** " " a golden crook whereby to bring stray lambs into the mid , _—s » d yet has added nothing to her flock .

      Sow , according to my opinion , the folks who abuse _jaajnouth ought rather to feel glad that more money is to _*•"•• given to her priests , seei ** _" _* - what an abundance of money , and good things purchased hy money , have done *» the Irish Protestant Church . It has become slow as " _^ s become fat . _StiifFCTenapnlp _itctii-hion-mth'bank-™ _te > ana it is strange to see how religion wffl sleep npon C _if" _^ tnwefo 1 _^ people ought to rejoice that the _wtbolic priest is to bemade a Uttle comfortablein worldly matters ; " * ** ## Bat _-iwtfs a sort of people in the world that can't bear " raking _anym-0-w _. NK . T wander ther ever walk , unless

      _^ _" _^ backwaids ! I wonder they don't refuse to go ~ _" _™« n there ' s a new moon , —and _aRontof love and " _^* "forth at " ancient insatatjon , " the old one . But ¦ wnl _!» " _*** _*' sndl _$ * _>&*> _grandmoOier—always « " * _When Intifers first came in , how many old J ™™ ' « annch old soals—many of ' em worthy to be tinTT 5 _^ _p- » Hament- « tood by their matches and _fl-anrf ** ' ok ** ° _* snxrender ! " And how * _j ~ _£ w these old women—disgaisea in male _attire—^ % go about at pnblic meetings , professing to he "J to die for _aay-finder-box question that may come _"i _" - ies , re » aj . __ quite reai _^ to die fw it : all the readier ,

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      perhaps , because dying for auything of the sort ' s now gone out of fashion . * * * * * It is quite a delight to read Sir Robert ' s Parliament speeches . Did you ever talk to a man who seemed never to hear what you said ; but only thought what he should say to pass for an answer ! who seemed as though none of your words entered his ears , but all slid down his cheek ? I ' ve met ivith such people , and Sir Robert Peel—when I read his ifaynooth speeches—does remind me of ' cm . What a way he has of talking down the side of a speech , and never answering it direct ' . 1 hardly wonder thnt the playhouses don't flourish , wheu there's such capital actors of all sorts in the Houses of Parliament .

      I had just becu reading an account of two or three more Maynooth meetings , where some of the speakers talked about the true and the false religion , as though themselves had a sole and certain knowledge of what was true—what false : I had just been reading all this , when my eye fell upon a paragraph headed , "Lord _Rossc's Telescope . " Lord Rossc , you must know , is one of those noblemen who do not pull off knockers—knock down cabmen—and always take a front seat at the Old Bailey , on a trial for murder . Kb : he has been making an enormous telescope ; and the paragraph I write of , says" Marvellous rumours are afloat respecting the astronomical discoreriesmade by Lord Rosse ' s monster telescope . It is said that Regulus , instead ofbeing a sphere , is ascertained to be a disc ; and , stranger still , that the nebula in the belt of Orion is a unirersal system—a sun , with planets moving round it , as the earth and her _feRew-orbs move round our glorious luminary . ''

      No w _, at _oae time , a man might have been burnt alive for taking it npon himself to say tbat Regulus was not a sphere , bat a disc ; and that Orion ( I know nothing about him , save and except that a marvellously fine poem , price one farthing , was lately published with his name , ) did not wear in his belt any nebula , but a universal system ! La , grandmother . ' when I read of these things , I feel a mixture of pain and pity for men that , instead of having their hearts and spirits tuned by the harmony that Ood is always playing to them—( and they won't hear it , the leathern-eared sinners . _' )—think of nothing bnt swearing that ono thing ' s a disc , and the other a nebula , —when they only look through smaU glasses , wanting the great telescope to show ' em the real truth . ' And so no more , from your affectionate grandson , _Jon'ipeb Hedgehog .

      P . S . —I blush for myself , that I had almost forgotten to teU you that Doctor Wolff has come back , safe and sound , from the innermost part of India ; where he went to try to save the lives of two Englishmen , Stoddart and ConoUy . It was like going into a tiger ' s den to take flesh from the wild beast , Aud jet the Stout-hearted man went ! Such an act makes us forget the meanness and folly of a whole generation ! Captain Grover—a heart of gold , that ' . —has published a book on the matter , called The Bokhara Vicfims . As no doubt the New York publishers—in their anxiety to difiiise knowledge—have already published it for some five cents , do not fail to read it As for Doctor Wolff , I wonder what Englishmen wiU do for him ? If he'd come back from India after cutting twenty thousand throats , why , he might have liad a round of dinners , diamond-kilted swords , wine-coolers , as big as buckets , and so on : as it is , I fear nothing can be done for him . However , we shall see .

      George Cruikshank's Table-Book. Mat. The...

      GEORGE _CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOK . Mat . The illustrations to this entertaining publication are , as usual , excellent . The subject of the large steel engraving is "The Demon of 1845 " —the " demon" being the incarnation of the present railway speculating mania . There is another "Demon ( rf 1845 , " which we would gladly see satirised by the inimitable George—thc demon which moves thousands to revel in the blood and death-throes of their fellow-creatures . When these thousands rush to the scene of some abominable murder , or throne and press

      for hours together to " enjoy" the sight of the last moments of some miserable wretch condemned to a -violent death as a punishment for his crimes , surely they must be possessed with some demon of the most diabolical order—a demon which we would fain see exorcised from the face of the earth . Amongst the literary contents of the Table-Book , we have been muck amused by the Editor's description of "The Stage Assassin , " the tale of the *¦ ¦ Puce-coloured Carp , " and particularly by the sequel to "Betty Morrison ' s Pocket-Book . " From "Leavesfrom a new edition of Lempriere , " we give the following specimens of

      CLASSICS FOB THE MILLION . _Ancws , a famous glutton in Rome , who ate a leg of mutton and trimmings against Horace for a trifling wager . There were three ofthe same name , aR famous for their voracious appetite , and it was fortunate that they did not aR Rve in the same reign , for if they had aU flourished and gormandised together , a famine might have been the consequence . The second was thc most illustrious , for he wrote a cookery-book , which included a celebrated recipe for basiling a hecatomb . After dissipating nearly all his fortunein eating , he went and hanged himself , like a greedy boy who had spent all his money in tarts , and went into a corner to cry his eyes out _.

      _AncHiMEDES , a celebrated geometrician , of Syracuse , and original inventor ofthe invisible shell ; the advantage of his invention over that of Captain Warner consisting in the fact that Archimedes really did what the captain only talked about . When the town was taken , orders were given to save the philosopher , but a soldier killed him by mistake ; and MarceRus raised a cylinder , which is . something- like a pea-shooter , to his memory . Archimedes used to boast that he had an apparatus for moving tlic earth , which , by-the-bye , he might have done to a certain extent ivith an ordinary shovel . He said that all he required was a purchase , but no onc seemed disposed to become the purchaser . There is a screw called by his name , which would seem to imply that he had dealt in doubtful horses , or was of a somewhat stingy character .

      Tait's Edinburgh Magazine—Mat. In This N...

      TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE—Mat . In this number is concluded libs . Johnstone ' s exciting and interesting story of " Celts and Saxons ; or , the Goldsmith ' s Daughter , " which will add fresh wreaths to those already won by the authoress . " The Spring Novels" introduce us to some pleasant reading . An elaborate review of Thiers' "History of France under Napoleon" will supply the reader of this Magazine with all the points ot the French politician's great work , so far as yet published . We have been delighted with a story concerning a Portuguese fiddler ( translated from the Portuguese ) contained in this number ; it is the most delicious little morsel of a Jove tale we have read for some time past . " The Disturbances in Switzerland" we have best shown our appreciation of , by hansferring to our columns : the reader will find it entire in our seventh

      page , under the head of "Foreign Movements . " Prospect ef a Poor Law for Scotland" is an able paper , breathing the right sort of spirit . We would gladly have extracted from it , bat having already made our selection , we cannot afford further room ; we may , however , return t 9 it on another occasion . In the "Politics of the Month , " thc Maynooth , the Post-office , and the Oregon questions are briefly considered . "While we by no means share in the sanguine expectations of the writer in Tait as to the blessings to he derived from " Free Trade , " we cordially sympathise with the spirit in which he denounces that "most hideous of calamities—that - wildest and -wickedest of Mies "—a war between Great Britain and America . " Several other articles , reviews , & c . are contained in the present month ' s number , wliich is a very interesting one .

      Simmonds' Colonial Magazine—Mat. This Is...

      SIMMONDS' COLONIAL MAGAZINE—Mat . This is a more than usually interesting number , containing , however , much that we cannot approve of . Amongst the continuations are— " On the Agriculture of _Smdiistan ; " "PortPhfflipandSoutliAustralia ; " and "Australian Sketches ; " these last being very entertaining to the general reader , depicting , as they do , in the most pleasing style , with apparently no exaggeration , life as it is at the Antipodes . Amongst the new papers this month is a letter from Dr . Bisks , "On the Defenceless Condition of Jamaica , " which shows clearly enough that in the event of a war with America , it will be next to a miracle that can save this far more costly than valuable appendage to this countiy , from falling into the hands ofthe Yankees . Yet , strange to say , having

      shown clearly enough , that , at least as far as the pre servation of Jamaica is concerned , England is , at the present time , unprepared for war—the Doctor winds up with a whoop of defiance to the Americans ! He had better iiave reserved his " defiance" until , at least , he had been prepared to fight . In still stronger terms we must protest against the article signed W _" . S ., and entitled " Great Britain and the United States ; " the writer of which seems to pant for war , gravely arguing that it would be infinitely preferable to go to war with America now , than to put off the evil day , as "it is better to crush a single foe , instead of waiting for several to be let loose at once , " as , he contends , will be the case when Louis _Phjxippe goes to his account . He goes on" The States must , in the case of war , be divided :

      united to Texas , in a few years they would become too large and strongto make it safe for other nations . Divide the northern from the southern—make Texas a nation by itself , and their intestine jealousies will be such as to make them no longer to be feared by other nations , & e . " Against these damnable doctrines we protest . The mass of the English people , we assure our American readers , entertain no sueh views as the above . Many things are said and done in the United States which the British "Reformers regret , because they regard such sayings and doings as iirdmieal to the progress of free institutions . Bnt the sentiments we have above quoted from this Masaane , will , we are sure , meet

      with the condemnation of nine-tenths ol the British people . Amongst the usual fudge about that poor belied , ill-used animal , the " British Lion , the writer in this magazine says—" Then , again , the English people are , with few exceptions , anxious that a war should take place , in order thatthe di _^ race ot Booker ' s Hill may be wiped out . " Why ,. this writer must be crasy ! The fact is , that "the EroghBli people , with few exceptions , " rejoice that the tattle of Bunker's Hill _tenmna-ted as it did ing 1 ™? " _« _T tory to thesideof right and justice . That selfish , brutal , and barbarous feeling dignified by knaves and fools with the _high-so-anding -name of " nationality —that feeling which , played upon by the unprincipled

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      writers in the Irish Nation , enables them to fill their pockets , and make their dupes laughing-stocks for the world—that wretched prejudice , the last remnant of sayageism which prompts men to hail with fiendish delight the " successes * ' of " iheir country , " no matter thou « h achieved at the cost of every evil to mankind ; that feeling is all but banished from the breasts of Englishmen . There are " exceptions , " no doubt ; but the mass of the people would rather see Aebbar-Kius triumphant than Queen Victoria , provided their own sense of justice told them that the former was in the right and the latter in the -wron g _* With one more extract from the writer in Simmonds' Magazine wc must conclude , lie says" Chartism and domestic discord sleep , and a war ivould drain off those turbulent spirits which , in a lona

      peace , invariably spring up . " Yes , Chartism docs sleep : we acknowledge the fact , and we thank this writer for reminding us of it : hut it sleeps not the sleep of death , but the sleep of a sure and glorious re-awakening . We beg the "turbulent spirits "men made turbulent by bad government and social wrong , to notice that a remedy for their grievances is intended for them in the " draining off" of a war This writer has discovered that what _Btron calls the "brain-spattering , wind-pipe slitting art , " is the grand panacea for all existing ills . A stupid and sanguinary war is , according to him , the grand solution of the " Condition-of-England Question . " Wc are sorry that the editor of this useful magazine should have given up his pages to such a contributor . At present we cannot afford room for further comment on this subject . We intend shortly , under the head ef " Foreign Movements , " in our seventh page _.

      to give a series of articles elucidating this Anglo-American War Question . In the meantime , we earnestly denounce as the worst enemies of their species , whether they be English Tories , Irish "Repealers , or American ( so-called ) Democrats , all who would excite that most horrible of abominations , that most unparalleled of criminalities , a war between this country and the States . " A Few Hints on Foreign and Home Colonisa tion" contains a considerable amount of good sense , mixed up with no small share of nonsense . We have no space ior comment , hut as the article is to be continued , we may notice it on another occasion . There are several other articles , most of them of a perfectly unexceptionable and interesting character , extracts from some one or more of wliich we had intended to have given ; but we find we have already occupied to the foil the space wc can afford : we , there fore , reluctantly forego our intention .

      _ Wade's London Review-Mat. This Ably-Co...

      __ WADE'S LONDON REVIEW-Mat . This ably-conducted Magazine continues its successful career , exposing abuses , vindicating sound principles , and diffusing sterling information . In this number there is a continuation of the searching articles on " The Royal Society of England "—articles which must go far to cause the reform or breakup of that jobbing conclave . "Increase of Crimes and Pauperism" is a well-reasoned article on the subjects of which it treats . '' The Character and Campaigns of Marlborough" exhibits that " hero" in no very admirable li g ht . "The Maynooth College Question" is a sensible article , which may just now

      be profitabl y perused . " A Page of Truth , " by Ma tilda Duchesne , introduces us to some new facts of , and concerning , the character of the great Byron . The following account of the truly-noble poet is stated by thc writer in Wade ' s Review to have been uttered verbatim by Robert Rushton , formerly page to thc poet , and uttered by him to her , so recently as thc 1 st of January , 1844 . The recontre of the two took place on the railway between York and Sunderderland . The ex-page of the deceased poet was combatting with a teetotaler , and in the course of his observations remarked , I quite agr ee with my old master ' s opinion : —

      " Few things surpass old wine—and they may preach Who please—the more , because they preach in vain . " This excited the attention of the lady ( the writer in the Review ) , who begged the page would tell her something of " our great poet . " The page complied , and we here present to our readers the CHABACTER OF BVRON BT HIS SERVANT , ROBERT RUSHTON . "Few knew lordByron ' s character better than myself , and 1 am very sure that all who really understood it must remember his name ivith pride and pleasure : I have reason to add to these feelings the deepest gratitude for unceasing kindness . I was the son of a farmer on his estate , and from childhood was the object of his generosity ; I used frequently to accompany him in his rambles , and fishing and shooting expeditions . _More than once , indeed , was I saved from drowning by that superb dog , Boatswain , whom he has immortalised by the epitaph concluding , ' To mark a frkxuVs remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one—and here he lies !'

      " After the denouement of his unfortunate marriage , I again went abroad with him ; * our route was across tbe Alps to Switzerland , thence to Italy and Greece ; but , at my mother ' s request , I returned home before he died , Ob , that he had lived but a few years longer , to prove bis personal character as great as his intellectual superiority ! Oh , that he had lived to see his actions portrayed by the pen of truth instead of the barb of malice !" "There were unquestionably , " I replied , " some evil traits in his character , bnt I cannot help considering him as one ' more sinned against that sinning . '"

      " Indeed , it was so ! If ever has the world presented a stronger illustration of the words 'No prophet hath honour , < 5 sc . He was of a proud and and most sensitive temper—a warm , generous heart , open as day to melting charity , and a mind that required more than ordinary soothing and caressing . His friends—those whom he loved , and who loved him—could lead him whither they would ; their influence over him was literally unbounded ; and he wag singularly tenacious in all his attachments , as well as generously forgiving to his enemies . Ee had a great and noble mind , formed by nature to be an example as well as a wonder to the age , —but , mingled with his good qualities , he had also the weaknesses inseparably attached to them . Unfortunately for his country , most

      unfortunately for himself , his domestic position was through life calculated to foster his weaknesses into vices , —to suppress his good principles and feelings until , when they did , in spite of every restraint , burst forth , they resembled the fitful blaze of lightning or volcanic fire , rather than fhe steady , warm , and fructifying light ofthe sun . It was only during a very few years before the close of his brief career that Byron was really himself —that his heart , purified by a deep and genuine , although unhappy love , for one well worthy to inspire it—his mind elevated by the exercise of one ofthe noblest sentiments thc human heart can feel—sympathy with the oppressed , —it was only then that he appeared as he was , or tbat the world began to understand his character , or to know tbe injustice that had been done him . "

      " Certainly _. that is true , " I remarked ; "but youmust not forget that it required more discernment than the million possess to discern his real excellence , veiled as it was from ordinary sight , not merely by the malice of others , but by his own studious efforts to hide every feeling or emotion that would have done him credit , " " True , he had seen so much of cant and hypocrisy , — he had observed so miich baseness under the veil of religion and morality , —that he fell into the . error of imagining them to be inseparable , —and , although his ardent and highly imaginative temperament , aided by great temptations , led him into many errors , so great was his abhorrence of cant , that he took no trouble either to conceal his real errors , or to contradict false aspersions . I will give you one anecdote ofhis early days , which he himself related with great gusto , —merely as a specimen of 'his tutors , confessor , and mother . ' One of the objects of his youthful aversions was an old chaplain , who was a perpetual spy on his actions , and who stood in high favour with Mrs . Byron , from the tales he carried

      to her ofhis lordship . On one occasion the old fellow laid information that he had detected Lord Byron kissing one of the maids . When called to account the young delinquent did not deny the imputation , and after exhausting herself and every English epithet of abuse at once , ' exit Mrs . Byron in a rage . ' His Lordship then turned round and informed the reverend _intermeddler that he would be revenged on him indue time . He was not a man to break his word ; as friend or foe , he was equally sincere , and he tracked the tale-bearer until he convicted him of a much less pardonable transgression . For a long time afterwards , when _ond wherever he might meet him , he chanted in audible tones , 'From ( every parson knows what ) and all other deadly sins , good Lord , deliver us J' Can you wonder that such incidents as this and similar were well calculated to give him an intense horror of « aiit in all its forms , —that it was almost gratifying to him to read the abuse showered on him , and then rejoice in the inward conviction that he was not that which he seemed V

      "But , injudiciously as his mother , treated him—unjust as were the censures of the world—his ruin did not seem tobe accomplished until the agency of Lady Byron came into action . I may perhaps be wrong in supposing it , but I cannot but think his disagreement with his wife gave the final blow to his happiness , and undermined all his determinations to reform . " "It was a fatal connection , " observed 'the Page ' mournfully , " a dreadful trial to himself , although perhaps a blessing to the world . Had he married Miss Chaworth , or had he been tbe happy husband of any other woman , the world would probably have lost some of

      his greatest works ; but our own benefit should not make us forgetful of his anguished heart—his fevered brain . The bitterness , the sarcasm with which he speaks of the world—the contempt and aversion with which he mentions 'the sex' too frequently ought to be considered not as the deliberate sentiment of his calm mind , but as tbe false colour with which , in the writhings of anguish , . he seeks to invest the paradise from which he is exiled , —to persuade himself , even more than the world , that his abandonment has been an act of deliberate choice . I can only compare the state of his mind for some time after the separation—to what , were the body in question , we

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      # On a scrap of paper , in his handwriting , dated April 1 * , 1816 , 1 find the following list ofhis attendants , with an annexed outline of his projected tour : — Servants * . —Berger , a Swiss , William Fletcher , and Robert Rushton John William Polidori , M . D . —Switzerland , Flanders , Italy , and ( perhaps ) France . The two Eng lish servants , it will be observed , were the same " . Yeoman and "Page" who had set out with him on his youthftil travels in 1809 , and now , for the second and last time , taking leave of his native land , on the , 25 th of Ap ril . he sailed for Ostend , —MOobe _' s Life ' of Byrcm .

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      should term h ysterical—a convulsive laugh , only assumed to prevent tears , and frequently mingling both together . Hence I should say arises ' that-close mingling of the absurd ami the sublime wliich so frequently annoys the reader , even of his greatest works . No passage , perhaps , c _1- "' PWm ' ' more fu " 1 of dee P P ' lt ! l 0 S ' ••*•¦ * * " rhe Shipwreck ; ' 'Don Juan ] yet , even it is disfigured by the occasional tone of levitv . ' l 7 _fourned for those who perished in tho cutter , And also for the _biscuit-casks and butter . ' Onthe other hand , the prevailing deep melancholy of his own mind breaks out in the lightest and gavest passages , and produces some of the most deeply affecting pictures ofthe desolation of thc heart . Bo you remember the first canto of Don Juan , where , after satirising every thing and person within his reach , he breaks out with « No more ! no more ! 0 , never more on me ,

      The freshness of the heart can fall like dew , Which out of all the lovely things wc sec Extracts emotions beautiful and new , Hived in our bosoms like thc bag o' the bee : Think ' st thou the honey ivith those objects grew ? Alas ! 'twas not in them , but in thy power , To double e ' en the sweetness of a flower . No more ! no more ! 0 , never more , my heart , Canst thou be my sole world , my universe 1 Once all in all , but now a . thing apart ! Thou canst not be my blessing or my curse ; Th' illusion ' s gone for ever , and thou ' art Insensible , I trust , but none the worse ; And in the stead I ' ve got a deal of judgment , Though heavenknowshow it everfounda lodgment !' "She had a fearful power , " I observed . "I bave often tried to picture to myself the woman whom Byron could select as a wife . "

      "Ah ! you would have been surprised indeed had you known her . She was rather pretty , and with sonic pretensions to Blue-ism , a poor substitute in woman for qualities in which she was utterly deficient , —mind , heart , and soul , —possessing not one idea of her own ; incapable of deviation from the precise line of opinions prescribed as orthodox in her own home , —never abandoning herself to one generous impulse , or one glow of enthusiasm , —a mere thing of truisms—a being of _conventionality . She married liim because , although not in the zenith ofhis fame , he was a Lord , and a _Lion—uoila tout !

      As a natural consequence , the wedded pair had no sentiment in coramen—no _faart-union—and so , when his glowing imagination burst forth in poetic rapture , she called him ' Fool' and thought him ' madman !' Their politics , too , were at variance ; she thought it derogatory to her high estate to mingle with her inferiors . He , on the other hand , was , like all true poets , a philanthropist ; his enlarged mind led him to consider the whole human race as his brethren , aud to be courteous to the poorest and the meanest . All this , as Lord Byron could not understand , she despised , and had not sense to concool her contempt , "

      "I need scarcely ask if you blame him for the separation V " Oh , no ! His passionate attachment to his cliild precluded that , lie would , lam sure , have endured anything rather than that parting . Doubtless , during his brief probation as a married man , his temper was greatly soured by tbe daily harass of embarrasments , ivith which his high spirit ill fitted him to cope ; but what tender , or even honourable wife , would consider that a cause for abandoning a husband \ It was painful to witness the agony he endured when he . thought of his separation from his daughter : his lip would quiver and his brow contract ,

      like those of a person enduring excessive agony , while , in spite of his pride , tears would roll down his cheek . He could not bear to haye such emotion witnessed , and would turn away almost fiercely . It was strange , yet true , that his wife was the only woman who appeared to have no regard for him ; no other could resist his fascinating manners ; but she could hear him spoken of in terms that any other wife would have resented as a deep insult—and so she was praised by his enemies ! ' Calmly she heard each calumny that rose , And saw his agony with such sublimity , That all the world exclaimed , What magnanimity 1 ' "Ho could not behave ill to any woman , "

      'I have heard , " Iremarked , " that even in his habits he was very peculiar , " " He was so , certainly . On a wet drizzling day , when every one else was luxuriating at the fire , be would be out all day ; and , if it were particularly suitable for exercise , he would be either in his library or ' loUicking' on the grass under a tree , in deep thought . Just before he joined the patriots of Greece I left him—a step which I have repented deeply ever since . I never saw my noble master again . Poor fellow ! he had been hardly used . Those who ought to have been his dearest friends were his worst enemies , and he had none to whom he could look for comfort . How heartbreaking are all his allusions to that great domestic trial ! All others had been comparatively light , or had served to arouse his powers ; but he sank under it . ' All my feelings have been shaken :

      Pride , which not a world could bow , Bows to thee—by thee forsaken ; E ' en my soul forBakes me now !' " For a while it seemed as if , having nothing to hopenothing more dreadful to fear , he had become perfectly reckless . But not long did this mood last . He awoke to his better self—to active exertion , not only in his literary career—but as one possessing means and will to be a benefactor to his fellow-man , How liberally , even in his days of poverty , his purso was shared with the unfortunate , many can attest , how he devoted it , and all his energies also , to the welfare of his fellow men . In thc glorious struggle for the liberty of others he lived—for it he died , It is most interesting to watch the gradual refining of . his mind during the latter years ofhis Ufe ; how gcucrously he acknowledged the errors into which his

      fmpetuosity had led him in earlier life ; how , even to her who had caused him much misery , every word was kind and thoughtful ( to his mother he had ever been so ); how careful he was of the welfare ( temporal and eternal ) of his children ; how devoted and faithful to her whom he loved , illegally , indeed ; but , considering national customs , we can scarcely pronounce more than uuhappily . ' Many tell us to walk in the paths of virtue . Byron did morehe gave those whom he advised the power of acting up to it . If we live to see his character viewed apart from prejudice and party , unsullied by cant and hypocrisy , we shall find that very many of his enemies' accusations consisted of mere random invective and proofless assertion . His faults were those of education and circumstance , —his great and noble qualities were all his own , ' He was a man , take him for all iu all ,

      We ne ' er shall look upon his like again . " The narrator of the above conversation states that she has given Mr . Rushton ' s words ' . ' without qualification or curtailment . " We beg to thank the lady , and also the editor of the London Review , for giving publicity to this "Page of Truth . " The length of the above extract prevents any further comment on our part , other than expressing oar reiterated approbation of this talented magazine .

      The Illuminated Magazine-Mat. We Wish To...

      THE ILLUMINATED _MAGAZINE-Mat . We wish to do justice to this popular Magazine in its new form ; and , therefore , we are compelled , by want of room , to postpone our comments till next week .

      The London Entertaining Magazine —Pari "...

      THE LONDON ENTERTAINING MAGAZINE —Pari "V . London : B . D . Cousins , 18 , Dukestreet , Lincoln ' _s-inn-fields . "We had intended to have given an extract from the well-stored pages of this trulv-entertaining publica tion , but want of space forbids . The part before us is brimful of good tilings , and well deserves universal encouragement .

      The English Institutions: An Educational...

      THE ENGLISH INSTITUTIONS : AN EDUCATIONAL POEM . By Allen Davenport . London ; Cleave , Shoe-lane . The name of Allen Davenpobt must he familiar to many of our readers as that of a patriot long active in the cause of freedom , and associated with every popular movement in this country from the time of the Spcnceans to the time of the Chartists . Age , and its consequent infirmities , prevent him now taking that active part in the struggle for liberty which he formerly took , but we have the best evidence for believing that his sympathies are as warm as ever for all that is connected with man ' s

      progression and man ' s happiness . It is pleasing to us to have the opportunity of acknowledging the benefits conferred by such men as Alles Davenport upon their order ; and it is no less a duty with us to remind the young men ofthe present day of those services , ahd thc gratitude they owe to such men . The poem before us is too small in size and costonly two or threepence , we believe—to render it necessary for us to extract from it , it being within the reach of all who choose to patronise the author . We may , however , add , that the poem has our approbation , and will be found worthy the perusal of all who honour struggling ability and consistent patriotism .

      Thkcircular Of The Anti-Persecution Unio...

      _THKCIRCULAR OF THE ANTI-PERSECUTION UNION . London : Watson , _Paul's-alley . Tne' Anti-Persecution Union is a-society established for the protection of all who may be assailed by the law ' s persecution for the free expression of their opinions ; and also to aid in obtaining the repeal ot all laws fettering the right of free speech , and unrestricted publication . It confines its sympathies to no sect or party , and gives its aid to all who may be oppressed , irrespective of their tenets or opinions . The case of Mr . Johnson of Hull is just now occupying the attention ofthe society . The first number of the Circular

      says—The prosecution of Mr , Johnson arose out of lectures delivered in Hull , by Mrs . Martin , in September last . Mr . Johnson , for the act of having received the admission money at the door on that occasion , was fined £ 20 and costs—his house was taken possession of by the police , and his goods , to several times the above amount , sold by public auction in payment . To effect this , recourse was had to an infamous' and obsolete statute , the 39 th of Geo . III ., known as theGagging Act . As soon as these proceedingB _, wcre reported to the _Anti-Persecution Union , the committee called a public meeting in London , where , upon it being shown thatthe conviction of Mr . Joh ' _nBon was entirely illegal— recent Act ( the 2 nd Victoria , c . l _'" _•^^^ _dthat-io conviction onthe 39 ( A of Geo . in . shaU he nm _wnUu procured , by ( he _Attorny-General it was agreed , that as this prosecution was undertaken at

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      the instigation of a local functionary in Hull , and n <« by the __ Attorney-General , an action for the recovery of the fine would hold good . An action was ordered , and the Union forthwith brought one . For further particulars of this case wc must refer the reader to the Circular . Tlio Union has , we know , recently had a large accession of members , but the members' contributions being fixed at a very trifling sum , these sums alone will be iusufticient to sustain the action : other assistance is therefore needed , and will , we hope , bo forthcoming ; for a more infamous violation of every principle of right and justice—and it appears of law too—we never knew , than the case of Mr . Johnson presents . We commend tliis C ' lrettfar to all who arc in favour of the free expression of thought and opinion .

      The Truth-Seeker-No. Iv.-The National Te...

      THE TRUTH-SEEKER-No . IV _.-THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE ADVOC ATE-AruiL , Mav . These publications contain several talented aud interesting articles . Both ably support the principles of which they are the exponents .

      The Rising Sun; Or, Lines On Various Sub...

      THE RISING SUN ; or , LINES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS . By Frederick Livesly Peter Fooo . Stockport . It may be one of the " rights of man" for a man to wake a fool of himself * _¦ ! but if so , he has no right to annoy othere with his folly . For his own sake , we advise Mr . Fooo to desist from liis printing and publishing , " 0 wad same power thc giftio gie us To see ourself as ithcrs see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion . " Let Mr . Fooo reflect upon this , and take our advice .

      Fatal Collision At Sea.—The Steam-Vessel Tiger, Which Arrived On Monday Afternoon In Tho River From

      Fatal Collision at Sea . —The steam-vessel Tiger , which arrived on Monday afternoon in tho river from

      Cork, Was Run Into By A Large Brig On Th...

      Cork , was run into by a large brig on thc night of Sunday last , off Dover . Several of thc passengers were asleep on the forecastle , and immediately the crash took place they all started up in a state of terror , thinking that the vessel . was sinking , and endeavoured to make their way aft . One man , who witli his wife and child was asleep onthe side on which the collision took place , immediately snatched the infant away from its _iPgUier , and was following the rest , when lie put out nis hand to grasp hold of the bulwarks , not knowing , in the darkness which prevailed , that they had been carried away , and in one moment botli ho and the cliild were precipitated into tlio waves , and were never seen more . The poor wife , upon learning thc fate of her husband and infant child , was completely frantic . Tho engines of thc Tiger were immediately stopped , and she subsequently took the brig into tow and brought her up to Gravesend .

      Extraordinary Proceedings in a Church . — Windsor , Monday . —A curious circumstance occurred yesterday at the parish church of Clewer _, near . Windsor , which has heen the subject since of general remark and comment throughout the neighbourhood It appears that the Rev . Mr . Carter , thc rector , invariably enforces that rubric which requires the baptismal service to be performed afterthe second lesson . Yesterday one of the male sponsors at a christening was rejected by the rector upon the ground that he considered hini to be unfit to undertake such a responsibility . The man so rejected being , we believe , rather deaf , and not particularly " bright , " appeared not to comprehend very clearly the nature and cause of his having been objected to ; accordingly ,

      during the remainder | ol the service , he . wandered about thc sacred edifice , muttering aloud , to himself , and expressing great dissatisfaction and annoyance at the stigma cast upon his character . The service was much interrupted by this unseemly exhibition . A parishioner who was present , observes— " If Mr . Carter thought the man was unfit to be a sponsor he was right , and did his duty in objecting to nim ; but ought he not to have ascertained beforehand who was going to be sponsor , and thus have avoided such a painful scene ? Will Mr . Carter compel the rich as well as the poor to have their children baptized immediately after the second lesson ? Docs the reverend gentleman intend to carry out all thc rubric , or only so much as he pleases ?"

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      Bankrupts. (From Tuesday's Gazette, May ...

      BANKRUPTS . ( From Tuesday ' s Gazette , May 6 . ) William Thurncll , _Leadsnhall-street , City , upholsterer —George Warriner , Lloyd' s Coffee-house , City , tavernkeeper—Richard ltobinson , King William-street , Strand , wholesale spirit-merchant—John and Thomas Batt , Old Broad-street , City , dealers in silk—Edward Stone Darvcll , Great Tower street , City , colonial broker—David Censer , Woolwich , Kent , victualler—William James ; Taylor , Highstreet , Camden Town , grocer—Robert Cross , Colchester , Essex , corn-merchant—William Meeaon , Aston , Staffordshire , innkeeper—William Start , Sneinton , Nottinghamshire , lace-makcr—Henry Bent , Bricrley-liill , Staffordshire , chain-maker—James Haigh , of Honley , Yorkshire , clothier —John Ward Newton and Francis Jacob Newton , llotherham , Yorkshire , spirit-merchants—Christopher Hall , Sheffield , grocer—John Brown and Alexander tjrquhart , Man-Chester , carpet-warehousemen—Moses Humphries , Manchester , joiner—George lawrie , _Fleetwoou-upon-Wyre , Lancashire , - . chemist—Michael Cox , Weymouth , Dorsetshire , ironmonger—Thomas Forsyth , Durham , hotelkeeper .

      DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS . S . Bateman , Birmingham , factor , second dividend of ls 8 _" td in the pound , any Thursday , at the office of Mr . Christie , Birmingham . M . Hadley , Walsall , druggist , second dividend of 6 _* sd in tho pound , any Thursday , at the office of Mr . Christie , Birmingham . N . Beard , Beech-street , Barbican , leather-seller , dividend of lid in tho pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Follett , Sambrook-court , _Basingholl-sti'cet . B . Turmaino , Canterbury , porter-merchant , final dividend of lfd in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Follett , Sambrook-court , Basinghall-street , S . Skinner , Grecnham , Berkshire , brewer , dividend of Jd in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr .

      Follett , Sambrook-court , _BttsinghuU-strect . C . Dotesio , Slough , Buckinghamshire , hotel-keeper , dividend of 4 s in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Follett , Sambrook-court , Basiughall-street , W . C . Thompson , Liverpool , merchant , second dividend of 15-lCths parts of a penny in tiie pound , any Monday , at the office of Mr . Turner ,, Liverpool . Broughton and Garnctt , Nantwieh , Cheshire , bankers , fifth dividend of 3 d in the pound , on Saturdays , May 24 and 31 , and . any subsequent Monday , at the office of Mr . Turner , Liverpool . B . Sayle and T . Booth , Sheffield , ironmasters , second dividend of 2 s 6 d in the pound , and , upon new proofs , first dividend of 7 s Cd in the pound , any Tuesday , at the office of Mr . Fearne , Leeds .

      T . Burton , Brambam , Yorkshire , shoemaker , first and final dividend of 2 s 5 d in the pound , any Tuesday , at tho office of Mr . Hope , Leeds . E . L . Aarons , St , James ' s-place , _Aldgate , oilman , first dividend of ls lOd in the pound , on new proofs , any Saturday , at the office of Mr , Edwards , Frederick's-place , Old Jewry . D . Roderick , St . Martin ' s-court , victualler , second dividend of 2 d in the poiind , any Saturday , at the office of Mr , Edwards , Frederick's-place , Old Jowry . T . Berridge _, Manchester , tobacconist , second dividend of 8 id in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Pott , Manchester . C . A . Bradbury , Stockport , draper , final dividend of ls 2 _fd in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Pott , Manchester . J . Whitlow , Manchester , laceman , first dividend of 4 s fid in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Pott , Manchester . F . Rinder , Leeds , butcher , second dividend to first class creditors , 3 s Hd in , the pound ; second and third class , 2 s 6 d in the pound ; and fourth class , ls 8 d in the pound , any Tuesday , at the office of Mr . Hope , Leeds .

      DIVIDENDS . May 29 , J . C . Johnson , Lawrence Pountney-hill , Can . non-street , City , merchant—May 29 , J . Johnson , Little Abingdon , Cambridgeshire , builder—May 29 , A . M . Soulby St . Mary-at-Hill , City , _wine-mcrchant—May 29 , S . and T , F . Jackson , Bermondsey-street , woolstuplers—May 29 , G , Winning , Dover-street , _I'iccadiUy , upholsterer—May 29 , C . Teesdale and R . Toulson , Westminster Bridge-road , furnishing-ivarehousemen—June * , II . Turner , Theobald ' sroad , Bedford-row , cowkeeper—May 28 , II . Bundey , Upper York-place , Portland Town , builder—June 6 , W . Meek , Southampton , ironmonger—May 28 , 3 , Potter nnd W .

      Maude , Manchester , calico-printers—May 28 , W , Hegmbottom , Ashton-under-Lyne , Lancashire , cotton-spinner—May 29 , J . Jones , Chester , fellmonger—June 17 , II . W , Blackburn , Bradford , Yorkshire , woolstapler—June 17 , J . Prior and II , Brady , Kingston-upon-Hull , brush-inanufacturcrs—June 12 , J ,, W ., J ,, S ., G ., and S , Wood , Liver sedge , Yorkshire , _machine-makers—June 12 , It . Elh' ott , Sheffield , merchant—May 30 , W . Hams , Castle Hayes , Staffordshire , brickmaker—May 29 , W . Ambrose , Awrc , Gloucestershire , timber-merchant—May 29 , W . Adamson _, Hexham , Northumberland , butcher—May 29 , J . Brown , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , cooper .

      Certificates to be granted , unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day of meeting . May 29 , J . Taylor , _Market-street , May-fair , Carpenter-May 27 , W . Meek , Southampton , ironmonger-May 30 , R , Kipling , _Wood-street , Cheapside , warehouseman—May 28 , J . Burrell and T . Holt , Thetford , Norfolk , iron-founders-May 28 , H . Turner , Theobald ' _s-row , _Bedford-row , cowkeeper—May 2 J , W . Henderson , Sunderland , mercer-May 27 , W . _Fergusson , Liverpool , draper—May 27 , J , Jones , Chester , fellmonger—May 28 , T , Robinson , Eccleston , Lancashire , _lime-burner—May 30 , E . Broun , Birmingham , merchant—May 27 , R . Champion , Friday _, street , City , furrier—May 27 , J , Forrester , New-cut , Lambeth , grounds-merchant—May 27 , W . Behnes , Osnaburghstreet , New-road , marble-merchant—May 27 , S . Smeeton , West Smithfield , cattle-salesman-May 27 , C , S . Haward , Colchester , tallow-chandler—May 27 , II . Bentlcy , Liverpool , commission-agent .

      _PABTNEBBBIPS DISSOLVED . J . Williamson , , H . Anderton , and P . Harr ison , Pendlc ton , Lancashire , dyers—W . G _, Winnan and "ft . Georga , Penzance , _woolstaolers—S . Reed and T . Walton , Fetterlane , City , goldsmiths—R . Cameron and J . Dow , Lockwood , Yorkshire , surgeons—J . Fringe and G . Bland , Change-alleyj City , _wine-merchants—J . Jones and R '; S . Marsh , Liverpool , surgeons—L . and A . Heyman , Liverpool , outfitters—E . Charlton and J . ' Green , Ardwick , Lancashire , bone size-manufacturers—J : and R . S . Wilson , Handsworth , Staffordshire , builders-H . P . Fischer and F . Lous , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , merchants—J . Lugg and B . Shaw , Upper Queen ' s-row , Cambridge-road , _Mile-end , surgeons-J , Bloxsome and J . S . Carr , Woodbndge ,. SuC folk , linendrape ' rs-E . Simpson and J . Kendall , Lancaster , _cabinet-makeft-W ; F . ( Jostling and F . 0 . Toker , Godliman _^ _street , _Doctorsf-Commons , _proctors-U . J . t , Toplis and H . Butto ' _rfield , _, St . Paul ' s Churchyard , foreign mer chants—J . Cunningham and II . Robley , Bristol , West India merchants-J . D . Bertolini and A . Christie , St , Martin ' _s-street , St , Martin . _in-the-fields , _hotel-keepers .

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      CouKTsiiir . —A man , to be successful in love , should think only of his mistress and liimself . _Rochefoiicault observes , that lovers arc never tired of each other's company , because tliey are always talking ot themselves . Tempting Offer . —An advertisement in a Philadelphia paper reads as follows : — " Stolen , a watch worth a ( niiuircd dollars . If the thief will return it he shall be informed , gratis , where he may steal one worth two of it , and no questions asked . " The Railways axd the Lawvkrs . —It has been calculated that one hundred thousand pounds will go into the pockets of the lawyers during the present session of Parliament in tho shape of fees to counsel for attending before committees of thc House of Commons , if there is such an outlay for law , the estimates for making a raihvav should include not only iron , but brass .

      Yi uat a Shame !—If there is any law against badger-baiting , it is broken every night in the House of Commons , where poor Bobby , the Tamworth badger , is regularly baited , to the high diversion of the lovers of cruel sport . Quick Passage . —Mr . Gladstone left the Ministry some time back , taking with him a small bundle ot principles sooner thau part with one of them , and started immediately for the Opposition . In less than twenty-one days Mr . Gladstone returned , meeting his old friends at thc vcrysanio point at which he had left them ; but thc honourable gentleman was compelled on the journey to _tlu'ow away his principles in order to hasten his return . Tin ' s is the quickest passago that has been effected within thc recollection of thc oldest member . —Punch . A Cute Fox . —In Ireland a sharp fellow is said to be " as cute as Power ' s fox—thc fox of Ballybotherem , which used to read the papers every morning to find out where thc hounds were to meet . "

      Literary News . —Last Saturday s papers contain two interesting announcements : —Louis Philippe makes Victor Hugo a peer of France , and the Duke of Wellington calls the Homing Post a liar . In France thc journalists think thatthe King has bestowed a deserved honour on one of their profession . In England the _ilfornmg Post feels much obliged because the Duke accuses it of falsehood . In return for this compliment , the hvave Briton cringes down to the testy old nobleman ' s feet , and prays tliat his Grace may be immortal . In France , then , a literary man is made a duke ; in England he is happy to be kicked by one . What English writer won't be proud ofhis profession after that—aud ofhis station m the country ?—and thank thc Moruinq Post for representing hiin . — Punch . —[ Whether to bo called a " liar" by the Duke of Wellington , or be made a Viscount by that incarnation of meanness , hypocrisy , and rascality , Louis PiiiLii'i'i * _, be the greatest honour , wc leave to

      casuists to detenu ine . II ' c think it to be about sis of one and half-a-dozen of thc other . When thc Duke calls thc Editor of the Post a "liar , " and the Post-man snivels his admiration ol * the Duke in reply , no one is surprised , tliis being quite in keeping with tlic thorough baseness of the literary hacks who soil themselves to do the dirty work of the aristocracy . But when Victor Iluoo doffs the poet ' s crown , to brand his brows with the coronet of a viscount , there is indeed causo for surprise and sorrow . Alas ! that he , of all men , should exhibit such self-abasement ! That he should become one of the _thingsx-thc tools—of a perjured king , to register liberfcicid . il edicts , and condemn brave men to the dungeon and tho guillotine for resisting a tyrant ' s crimes ! Such arc the functions of a peer of France—such is henceforth the grovelling work of Victor Hugo I " How are the mighty fallen !"Ed . N . S . ]

      Bushes _Aoais . —Why arc fashionable ladies like good painters ? Because they _lill up thc back ground so well . Ah Example wokth Fouowiko . —Louis Philippe has set an admirable example to her Majesty , lie has issued an ordinance relieving Guizot temporarily ofhis official duties , upon the ground that he needs " repose . " All things considered , we should say Sir ltobert would feel grateful for a similar exoneration If he wouldn't wc should ! Arv American Plea tor Acojaraiso a _Murdurer . —At New Orleans , a young man named Hatch stabbed a companion so that he died . He was arraigned for murder , but the jury acquitted him on the plea that "tho deceased had threatened to slap his ( tho prisoner's ) face . " The crime seems to us to have been as foul a murder as was ever committed , and the murderer's acquittal seems most strange and remarkable .

      Juluen ' s Prison Music . — iW . Jullien—out of abounding gratitude for the patronage he has obtained from the musical English—has had a poor widow spirited away from her five children , and locked up in Whitecross-street , for having in her ignorance sold four copies of a work which had pirated one melody from the great Frenchman . We are no apologists for literary , musical , or any other pirates * , but we do think that a man ' s heart-strings must be as rigid as the strings of his fiddle—that he must bo wholl y fitted up with cat-gut—who would consign a really innocent woman to the miseries of a gaol for an unconscious infringement of thc law of copyright . However , let Mrs . Charlotte _Templeman _, of 5 Great Portland-street , Oxford-street , tell her

      , own story . She was served with a bill of injunction thc widow was put in Chancery : — " Knowing nothing whatever of law , I immediately called upon M . Jullicn , and also upon lus solicitor , Mr . Lewis , No . 9 Lower Orosvenor-street , Bond-street , and stated to him my sale and profit [ the profit 4 d . ] ; and I also assured him that no more of the melody should be sold by me . Things remained in this state until yesterday , when two sheriff ' s officers entered my shop , and took me to Whitecross-street prison , where I remained all night . How I have been liberated I know not , any more than why I have been confined , only that I have been obliged to pay 26 s ., and sign a paper , the contents of which I know no more of than the man in the moon . "—We think

      it only right that thc ladies in high life—whom Jullien delights to acknowledge as his patronessesshould know of the charity exercised by their minstrel towards a poor woman , fighting thc world's hard fight , to support five fatherless children . Perhaps , further to ingratiate himself with fashionable wives and mothers , M . Jullien may compose the Whitecross-street Polka , to be especially danced by widows and orphans . —Punch . No auon Sinecure A widow lady has written to us to ascertain if we can inform her how she can obtain for her youngest son the situation of a " Commissioner for the Reduction of the National Debt . " He is notolder than fifteen , she says , and is very well qualified for the situation , as he has been brought up like a gentleman , and never been accustomed to do _anvthinff . Wc arc afraid from this description the

      young man will hardly suit , as the duties for the reduction are so heavy , that a report has not yet been published , though it has occupied the attention of the ablest arithmeticians for years . —Ibid . Cube of Pauper Souls , —Thc Aylesbury Board of Guardians have reduced the salary of the Union chaplain , Mr . Gleadah , from £ 20 to £ 10 . This ia prudent and economic . It is well known that pauper souls—unlike the souls of the rich and respectable , that require especial care—maybe cured , like herrings , by the thousand . Hence , Mr . Gleadah is expected to cure wholesale , and is paid accordingly !—R > id . The Oldest Inhabitant .-We have finally found out who that much talked of individual , the " oldest inhabitant" is . An elderly chap , speaking of his great knowledge of the western countiy the other day , said that lie had known the Mississippi river ever since it was a small creek . He's thc man . — New Orleans Picayune .

      A Personal Reflection . — " I see the villain in your face , " said a western judge to an Irish prisoner . "May't please your worship , " replied Pat , "that must bo a personal reflection , sure . " " Tuou art the Man . "—An heiress onc day told her physician , who attended her during along illness , that she liad made up her mind to marry , upon his asking the name ofthe chosen fortunate one , she bid him go home and open his Bible , giving him chapter and verse , and he would find it out . lie did so , and thus he read— " Nathan said to David , thou art the man . "

      A Happ _** and Independent Mas . —At the Magistrates'Office , at Huddersfield , tho following curious scene was lately exhibited : —James Bottom , a careless-looking , humourous , _good-looking fellow , was summoned by the Surveyors of Marsh for 2 s . 6 d ,, due from him for highway-rates , when the following colloquy ensued : —Magistrate— "Why don't you pay this 2 s . 6 d . ? " Bottom—" Because I never paid taxes in my life . " ( Laughter . ) Magistrate— " What rent do you pay ? " Bottom— "None ; I ne ' er paid any in all my life . " Magistrate— " How do you live ? " Bottom— " Why , I lives in a cot . " Magistrate— " Who lives with you ? " Bottom— " I lives by myself . " ( Laughter . ) Magistrate— " Well , they will take your goods for payment . " Bottom— " Ah \ but I have no goods . " Magistrate— " Why youmust be a happy man * , you pay no rent , no taxes , have no goods—where do you sleep 1 " Bottom— " On a

      bedbut its a fixture . " ( Laughter . ) _MagiBtrate-- _"l think you are a fixture . " Bottom—" Very likely . " ( K . oarS ( Of laughter , amidst whicli this independent happy man walked with much deliberation out of the Court ;) An order was , however , made , but on what to execute it may perhaps be * a puzzle , — £ eco !« _Ixxtelligehccr . _IupijiH'ucB . _—Fit-noy Kelly , examining a veryyoung lady , who was a witness in a cage of assault , askett her if the person , who was assaulted did not give the defendant very ill language , and utter other words so bad that he , the learned counsel , had not impudence enough to repeat them ; Bhe replied in the affirmative . "Will you , madam , be kind enough , then , " said he , "to tell the court what these words were ?" — 'Why , Sir , " replied she , "if ym have not * m »« - dence enough to apeak them , hw can you suppose that I haye ?"

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 10, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_10051845/page/3/