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GLEE—THE MEN OF KENT . BX- JESSE HAMMOND . _tfhen liberty was driven O ' er foreign realms to roam , By Xeptu _ste she was given Our island for her home . jheMen of Kent had _pitch'dher tent ; As ifbj ancient charter ; And thej had sworn , as freemen horn , Their birthright ne ' er to Darter . Then your bumpers raise to your country ' s pralst , As queen of the ocean wave * Be the standing toas _^ the land we _hoast Of beauty and the brave , "When hostile banners floated , And dangers gathered round i To liberty devoted ,
The foremost they -were found . The Men of lent , with fim _intend Ber sacred tree to nourish , On field or flood would shed their blood , That liberty might flourish . Then your bumpers raise , Ai Kow peace , her form displaying , Smiles on their fertile plains ; They join , due homage paying , In patriotic strains . " The Men of Kent now dwell content ; ' But should their country need ' em , Tirst of the tree , they st 21 will be The hody-guard of freedom . Then your bumpers raise , _kt
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ANACREONTIC . BT JL _TOOTMAK . Ifs wery well to talk in praise Of Tea and Water-drinking ways , In proper time and place ; Of sober draughts , so clear and cool , _XKpp * a out of a transparent pool Reflecting heaven ' s face . Of babbling brooks , and purling _riTIs , And stream * as gushes from the hills , If s wery well to talk-But what becomes of all such schemes , With ponds of ice , and running streams , As doesn't even walk ? When winter comas with , piercing cold , And aU the rivers , new or old Is frozen far and wide ; Andlimpid springs is solid _stufi _^ And crystal pools is hard enough To skate upon , and elide _;— _^
what then are thirsty men to do , But drink of ale , and porter too , Champagne as makes & nzz ; Port , sherry , or the Rhenish sort . And p _' rhaps a drop of summut short—The water-pipes is friz ! Mood ' s Magazine
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_OOKINGSBY ; or , THE NEW GENERATION Bx U- _D'Ishaeu , Esq ., M . P . London : Colburn , Great _Marlborough-street . ( Continued from the Northern Star of January 4 th . Book IL , chap , i ., opens with a political retrospect of the state of parties in 1834 , in which vear the once popular Reform Ministry was upset , and * the eagerlysought Reformed Parliament dissolved . The partial _hreafc-up of the Whig party at that period , the secession of Stanley and Graham , and the queer pranks of Chancellor Brougham , were , according to Sir . D'lsraeli , occasioned by the too great success of the party in the election of 1832 . There were too many place
hunters and expectants to satisfy , who , being left unsatisfied , speedily became hostile to their own chiefs—intriguers against the existence of their own p arty . In treating of the position of Sir Robert Peel in 1834-5 , Mr . D'lsraeli takes a glance at the history ofthe Tory party from the time of Pitt downwards Pit £ Is praised as the last of Tory statesmen ; the Duke , —though , as we have previously intimated , not considared by Mr . _IVIsraeh a great statesman , —is lauded as a great " military genius ; " but the Sidmouths , _Castlereaghs , _Vansittarts , and the rest of Stat gang , are consigned to a contemptuous infamv . The following is a masterly exposition of the " Condition of England" in 1816-17-18-19 : —
TEE JUJEE Or CCT-THBOAT CA 8 TLEBEAGH . Jfow commenced that Condition of England question , of which our generation hears so much , During _five-andtweutyyears evexyinfluence that can develope the energies and resources of a nation had been aeting with concentrated stimulation on the British Isles . National peril and national glory ; the perpetual menace of invasion , the continual triumph , of conquest ; the most extensive foreign commerce that -was ever conducted by a single nation _; an _illiniiiahle currency ; an Internal trade supported by swarming millions , whom manufactures and inclosurebills summoned into existence ; above all , the supreme controul obtained by man over mechanic power ; these are some of the causes of that rapid advance of material civilization in England , to which the annals of the world can afford no parallel . But there was no proportionate advance in our moral civilization . In the hurry-Skurry of money-making , men-makiag _, and machinemaking , we had altogether ontgrown , not the spirit , but the organization , of our institutions .
The peace came ; the stimulating influences suddenly ceased ; the people , in a novel and painful position , found themselves without guides . They went to the ministry ; they asked to be guided ; they asked to be governed . Commerce requested a code ; trade required a currency ; the unfranchised subject solicited his' equal privilege ; suffering labour clamoured for its rights ; a new race demanded education . "What did the ministry do f They fell into a panic . Having fulfilled during their lives the duties of administration , they were frightened because they were called upon , for the first time , to perform the functions of government , lake aU weak men , they had recourse to what they called strong measures . They determined to put down the multitude . They thought they were imitating Mr . Pitt , because they mistook disorganization for sedition .
Their projects of relief were as ridiculous as their sys tem of coercion was ruthless ; both were alike founded in intense ignorance . - When we recaU Mr . Yansittart with his currency resolutions ; Lord Castlereagh . with his plans for the employment of labour ; and Lord Sidmouth with his plots for ensnaring the laborious , one is tempted to Imagine that the present epoch has been one of peculiar advances in political ability , and marvel how England could . have attained her present pitch under a series of fluch governors . \ _jWe thank Mr . D'lsraeli for his exposure of the ruffianly government , which , at the period he speaks of , weighed like a nightmare on the heart of England , and , like a vampire , drained the blood of the people . _Ifever be it forgotten that it was that
government who , having used as tools the brave Geanien of Britain to _ crush the power of France , when no longer requiring their services flung them bv thousands into the streets , to perish of hunger , or die as Cashman died at the Old Bailey , hung on the gallows for demanding bread !—that it was that infernal government who wisely and humanely , when the -unemployed demanded work and bread , proposed the setting of Englishmen to the task of digging holes and filling them up again , aB a sufficient panacea for ihe evils complained of!—that it was that accursed government who suspended the Habeas Corpus Act , and crammed the prisons with the demanders for a radical reform of that House , the corruption of which _^ as Tmblushingly proclaimed by one of the jury to be
is " notorious as the sun at noon-day ! " —that it _Vas that atrocious government who passed laws to disarm the people ; to prevent them acquiring a knowledge of the use of arms ; to fetter the right of assembling for the discussion of grievances ; and to prevent the march of inquirv and the progress of knowledge by restrictions on the press !—that it was that truth-hating government who plundered and drove Cobbett into exile , and condemned Garlileand the other advocates of free discussion to years of torturing imprisonment!—that it was that bloody govcrmnent who sanctioned the horrible massacre of the people peaceably and legally assembled at Peterloo , to _^ perform a constitutional actthat of petitioning the Legislature ; and
who imprisoned Hunt and others for being present at that meeting , so . brutally and horribly put down!—that it was that hellish government who plotted the riotings at London , and Derbv , and in Scotland—who hung Brandreth , Wilson , Baird , Hardy , Thlstlewood , and their fellow sufferers—deliberatel y concocting what they called "treason , " that they might murder patriots " as " traitors . ' "—that it was the chief and king of that government—that bloated mass of heartless sensualism—that beastly incarnation of all the devilries of kingcraft , —Fvm the fourth , —who thanked the Yeoman Cavalry butchers of the Manchester people , and sanctioned every atro-< % of his ministers , and who , at length , not daring to meet the public gaze , shut himself up in his den , where , at last , he died , rotting away imch by inch ; his death causing universal joy—millions invoking oases on his tomb !—that the prime actor in the doings of that government , the Irish snake
Castlej _^ h _, the practical oonfuter of the fabled deedsof St . * atriek , died by his own hand , a self-murderer , " cnt-« hghi 3 own throat at North Cray , in Kent ! " and , _r'Suy ; never he it forgotten that there are yet alive _jjjuraerous minions of that government on whom jusooenas not been done ; and in reward of whose crimes _^ _ging would be too good-ra thousand-fold too _mer-^^ areturn ! _¦* _$¥ _* _*? Mr . _insraeli ' s description of the way in _-jy ? L things were managed by the bribed supporters _^ _toding defenders of the Castlereagh _rtgiiM - _•—Jwofl * _^» of _BigbysJ indeed , at this period , one _emipg S' « vourable to that fungus tribe , greatly distin ¦ bs oln i them 6 * lTes- Tney demonstrated , in a manner Perso _Evincing , that it was impossible for any _<^ pacitT _^ 0 Ssess sa _S «* n ' : _^» knowledge , or virtue ; any trati _r not a « nPP ° rtep of the existing adminis-» ~* - " any one impeached the management of a o _^ artment _, _fte public was assured that the accuser
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had embezzled if any one complained of the conduct of a colonial governor , the ' complainant was announced as a returned convict . An amelioration of the criminal code was _discountenanced , because a searchm the parish y _epsterof an obscure village proved that the proposer had not been born in wedlock . A relaxation of the commercial system was denounced , because one of its principal advocates was a Soeinian . The inutility of Parlia mentary Reform was ever obvious , since Mr . Rigby was a Member of the House of Commons . _ We must quote the following truthful sketch of the _Ohurch-plundenng , people-oppressing Whigs : —
Jtisinthe plunder ofthe church that we must seek for the primary cause of our political exclusion and our commercial restraint That unhallowed booty created a fee _titious aristocracy , ever fearful that they might be called upon to disgorge their sacrilegious spoil . To prevent this they took refuge in political reli gionism , and , paltering with the disturbed consciences or the pious fantasies of a portion of the people , they organised themselves into religious sects . These became the unconscious PrmtoVians of their ill-gotten domains . At the head of these
reUgiomsts they havo continued ever since to govern , or powerfully to influence this country . They have in that time pulled down thrones and churches , changed _dynat . ties , abrogated and _remodeued Parliaments : they have disfranchised Scotland and confiscated Ireland . One may admire the vigour and consistence of the Whig party and recognise in their career that unity of purpose that can only spring from a great principle ; but the "Whi gs introduced sectarian religion , sectarian religion led to political exclusion , and _poUtical exclusion W _8 B BOOn accompanied by commercial restraint
A pretty squad of hypocrites those to set themselves up as " Church Reformers , " " Free Traders " and advocates of "Civil and Religions Liberty ! " ' The Young _Englandera appear to be great admirers of George Canning . Of their favourite statesman we shall have something to say in our next . ( To _betontinued . _}
The Illuminated Macazine.-Juniibr. We Ar...
THE ILLUMINATED _MACAZINE _.-JuniiBr . We are sorry to be compelled to enter our protest against the opening article of this month ' s number-Chap . III . of Carieton _' s tale of "Fatherland . To serve his own views , which must be of the most contracted order , the author has painted the discontented among the working classes ( by far the great majority of the working population ) , as being brutes and drunkards in the manufacturing districts ; and ruffians and incendaries in the agricultural . He has done more : he has placed in the mouths of the vilest characters , sentiments and phrases embodying principles sacred to freedom and justice . Tliat incendiaries and poachers —( poaching we deem no crime ; the poacher is the "illegal" asserter of a natural
and inalienable right)—widely exist , we have but too good evidence ; but that either class understand the principles libelled by the author of " Fatherland , " we utterly deny . We feel warmly for the success of the Illuminated ; and for the sake of the magazine , we earnestly hope that Mr . Carleton ' s productions may be brought to a speedy termination , if they be of a class of which the present is a sample . There Is a lachrymose article in the present number , entitled "Royal Funerals—Past and Present , " in which the author laments the decline and fall of those heartless pageantries and glittering follies , Royal Funerals I The funeral of that rotten debauchee , George the Fourth , and his precious brother , the Duke of I . 0 . XL , were , it seems , models of perfection in the eyes of the author of this jeremiad , " typifying the grief of the nation" at the loss of these worthies ; while thc recent funeral of the late
Princess Sophia , which was unfurnished with some of the usual trappings , and conducted with less of dignity than common on such occasions , excites the fierce ire of the author of the paper . Some of his animadversions may be well founded ; but we really think it would have beenmore in accordance with the declared objects of this magazine , if the lives and deaths , the births and funerals , of the poor— those on whom useless good-for-nothing princes and princesses feed and fatten , had been taken into the author ' s consideration , and formed a subject for his pen . We gladly cut short these fault-finding remarks to give our meed of approbation to such articles as "TravelandTahV'byLukeRoden ; "OurDream ;" " A Legend for Christinas Time * , " by Angus Reach ; "The Adventures of a Scamp , " Ac . From "Travel and Talk , " by far the best contribution to the present month ' s number , we give the following attracts . We should premise that the BceneiB "the Eternal City : "
CASTLE OP 61 . ANGELO . The round castle of St . Angelo , at the end ofthe bridge , has a very imposing appearance ; the square platform On which it Stands is so mutilated and changed by buildings and garden walls that one scarcely recognises its original form . 'When Adrian , in the very . height of the power , splendour , and extent of the Homan Empire , founded this mausoleum ( for such you are aware was its original destination ) , it was cased with marble , surrounded by innumerable columns and statues of exquisite merit , and had a dome surmounted by an enormous cone of brass , something like a pine apple . At such a period , who that , looked at the apparently immutable grandeur of that mighty empire , could have anticipated that it would be _dcspoUed of its ' ornaments and turned into a fortress ? Kay , that the veiy statues would be used in defence of it and thrown down on the heads ot the besiegers . How beautiful were these statues may he judged by one of them recovered from the rubbish of the ditchthe celebrated Darberini Faun , at Munich .
But who indeed can look forward four hundred years : a long immortality in the mutations of empires ! _T 7 e seem destined to see changes as great several times in a century if the present ungovernable appetite for "Reformations" shall continue .
THE _VATICAS . What an enormous mass of building is the Vatican ; it measures more than twelve hundred feet by a thousand feet ; the rooms are innumerable ; it is impossible to give even a passing glanco at them ; they are reckoned by hundreds—I might almost say by thousands . I must confine myself to a very few of the objects of interest it contains . While my companions rambled about St . Peter ' s for the fifth time , in a sort of quiet fascination which seemed to occupy every senBe , I strolled up the steps of its almost interminable staircase , which leads to the Vatican . It was one of the public days , when the galleries of pictures and statues are thrown open to the people , but a small number of whom , however , seemed Inclined to take advantage of thc permission .
The first tiling which struck me with surprise was , that there should exist so great a number of genuine authentic statues and busts of ancient personages , executed during their life—domestic portraits , in fact , not only of the great men of antiquity and of their wives and children , but ofthe unknown vulgar . Portions of tombs and other monuments to the dead , with their inscriptions , testify again and again to the identity of the motives and feelings of the human race , in all ages and countries . There are epitaphs as tender as ihe connubial or parental feeling of modern rimes could inspire , and although the insincerity of such testimonials has passed into proverb , it is evident that they are often dictated by the most affectionate devotion ; one cannot read these inscriptions without a very-vivid feeling of admission to the inmost sentiments of the men of other days . The large hiatus between Roman and _aodarn history seems filled up , and our own Kings follow in natural succession the Emperors of Rome .
ME "TELLOWTIBEl . In going to-day , from the Piazza d _« l Popolo to St . Peter ' s , I noticed a long row of hoys on the banks of the Tiber , near the bridge of St . Angelo , sitting on a high wall , and occupying themselves in angling ; I say angling—not _flsfc fag , for ihe prey was the rubbish floating down the muddy river—sticks , rags , bits of board , hay , straw , and a thousand other things were the reward of their patience and industry ; from time to time , as a prize of greater magnitude or value was lifted aloft , a loud shout from the others testified their delight , aud showed their unselfiih dispositions ; to be sure tho party might have been gregarious , aud seeking their prey in partnership ; but when a thing admits of assigning two motives , let ui take the best . The amusement will give some conception of the beauty
of the " yeUow Tiber , " as it was called twenty centuries ago —a more disgusting and filthy ditch cannot be found . It appears that these boys , like the chiffoniers of Paris , form a Tegular class of the population ; and it is strongly su » - pected that while some are tubing below , others are occupied higher up the river in throwing in the prey ; a very safe kind of robbery from its difficulty of detection , and the impossibility of identifying the thief and the receiver ofthe stolen goods . We can give our unqualified approval of the illustrations to this number . "Our Christmas Dream , " by Fhiz , is excellent ; but "Broad Lea Farm , "by Prior , is a gem of beauty . We ihould add that some clever reviews of new books conclude the present number .
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GEORGE _CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE BOOK . Edited by G . A . ¦ . 'Bkkitt . 1 S _4 , Strand . We hail with pleasure the appearance of this new candidate for public favour , appearing as it does under the management of two such talented men as the universally popular George Cruikshank , and the author of the " Comic _Blackatone . " The illustrations are ofthe first order , _specially the frontispiece , which is the most beautiful and ekborately-nnished etching we ever remember to have seen . Thc literary portion is hardly equal to what we had expected from the pen of the eiitor ; the usual allowances , however , mu 8 _tbemadeforfhedMcultieiatienttingthe " getting out" of a first number . _Doubtlea _, supported by the encouraging patronage of the public _. _improvement where required will speedily be visible . W _« quote two extracts : — the pnnosoPHX or cattle _hbows—mw £ iabtws .
The present is the age of enlargement . Shonk _^ per * make arrangements for the enlargement of taeirpremises ; the Legislature decrees the enlargement of prisons for debt ; newspaper proprietors enlarge their sheets ; and , in order to keep pace with the enlarged views which are prevalent in the present day , tho agriculturists have commenced permanently enlarging their cattle . Perhaps the remains of gigantic animals that geologists have occasionally lighted on , may be traced to some antediluvian cattleshow , and our ancestors may have rushed to an exhibition
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of prize : mammoths with the same eagerness'we of the preBent day evince in running after overgrown beeves and alarmingly blown-out muttons . As we are informed that there , is still , ' _? room for improvement , " we mustpresume that more extensive bullocks , and more extravagantly exaggerated 6 lieep than any we have yet seen , are threatened by the _Smithfield Cattle Club . Tons there is something painfully pantomimic in the thought _; and we look forward to the possibility of the extinction of mutton chops , except as huge jointB—a stateof things which " win be ruinous to the poor chop-house interest . Already docs Brobdignagian beef choke up the entrance to the butcher ' s shop ; and extensive indeed must be the scale upon which the business of weighing it is conducted . It has occurred
to us that the same care and expense which are lavished on the fattening of animals might be beneficially . applied to the feeding of our own species , and we should suggest that the experiment should be tried , by offering premiums for prize paupers . Overseers and relieving-officers might be _justiy proud of sending up favourable examples of what could be __ done by judicious dieting ; aud the Poor-law Commissioners would no doubt be glad ofthe opportunity of vindicating their system from the starvation stigma which is now generally attached to it . A fat pauper , labelled East Betford Union , would be the best answer that could be made to the reports which have gone abroad with reference to the workhouse regulations of the place alluded to .
_CUTTIHG DOWN AN ARTICLE , A Dialogue between an Editor and his Amanuensis . Editor . —let me see . We have to fiU a vacant space of half a page , _Whatarticles have we to select from \ Amanuensis ( reading titles ) . — "Lines written to King Charles the night after his execution . " " The Wars of the League , a . tale of the Corn Laws , " "Stanzas ad . dressed to a young lady on her having asked the author whether he danced the Polka ! when he said , he did not , and she recommended him to take some lessons , when he replied he eertainly would . " . Editor . — -The title of that would have answered the purpose if it had been a little longer . Proceed . , Amanuensis . — "Lore and _MadnesB , by one who has known the One , andii still suffering from the Other . " " The Bell Ropes , a Sequel to the ChimaB . " - " A Sonnat . " Editor . —Ah ! let us hear the sonnet . That will give us the required quantity if the quality happens to suit . Read it out , if you _plaase . Amammsi * ( reading ) .
TO THB _BUKE OP WELLINGTON , " Thou art a famous general indeed . " Editor . —Everybody knows that . Cut it out . Amamentii ( reading ) . ....... "To thee the wreath of glory is decreed . " Editor . —Very true ; but as that forms the rhyme to the previous line—it must come out . Amanuensis ( reading ) . . " Not Hannibal , not Soult , not Marshal Key , Not Blucher , not Napoleon , not Dessaix—" Editor . —The reader will never take the trouble to untie all those knots . Cut them out Amanuensis ( reading ) . "Not Alexander when he fought and won , Did do the noble deeds that thou hast done . " Editor . —That not being as it were tied to all the other _nott , the first line must be omitted , and the second being dependent on it , must go too , Cut it out , Amanuensis ( reading ) , " Great in the senate , greater in the field ,
In neither wert thou ever known to yield . " Editor . —Poetically pretty , but historicaUy false . He yielded in the senate once or twice . Cut it out . Amanuensis ( reading ) . ¦ - " Mercy 'tis known has ever been thy creed , Though none so well can make a people bleed . " Editor . —Capital ! Excellent ! An admirable article ! Amanuensis . —It ' s all cut out ! ! 1 Editor . —Yes ; but we can restore some of it . I have It . Begin with the first line and end with the last , commencing the . latter yvith , "For" instead of" Though . " Prefix as a title the article— " Epigram on General Tom Thumb , '' and read it to me _. Amanuensis ( reading ) . EPIGRAH ON _QENEXAI . TOH _THUlfB , " Thou art a famous general indeed , For none so well can make a people bleed . " Editor . —That reads very well . Let it be put into type Immediately .
[ Egtt Amanwentk . Editor / alls nsleep over a pile of Correspondence . ] We should add thattne Toole _Boofcismostelegantly got up , handsomely printed on fine paper , the cover only being a treat to look upon . We hope George CruiMank ' s TdbU Book will be found on the tablet of thousands of his admirers .
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DOUGLAS _JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE Januabt . This new Magazine is a " sign ofthe times . " Let _iceptics doubt and croakers growl , questioning the progression of the human " race : that progression is rapidly emerging from the chaos of doubt , and be coming , a" great fact , " which ere long none will dare to gainsay . But a few years ago the reading world was led captive by the _magjc pen of a Scott : and that world —{ what a microscopic atom compared with the reading world of the present day !)—was moved to . transport or to tears by the chavalric doings and unmerited misfortunes or fictitious sorrows of gallant knights and ladies fair . All this is changed . Now Charles Dickens and others like
him have effected a revolution in novel ; writing .,: It is the many , not the few , who now form the . materials from which are quarried the heroes and heroines of fiction . It is no longer courtly intrigues and aristocratic broils which afford themes for the " peerage of the pen : " but , on the contrary , matter-of-fact struggles , about the genuineness of which there , can be no mistake , —the struggle for life and right in which the mighty order of workers—ho counterfeits , are the actors . It is not the rose-water sorrows of queens and ladies , but the scalding tear-drops of fluffering women and martyred children , which , proclaimed by the novelist , now excite the sympathies ofthe vast and ever-increasing " race that read . " Truth is Btrange ! yes , is stranger than fiction , as now proven b y the " annals of the poor , " in our day , for the first time , fairly published in the sight of earth and heaven . Surely the reign of wrong is
drawing to a close ! Surely the day of suffering is coming to an end ! when those to whom heaven hath given the gift of _genius , no longer prostitute their powers to the service of falsehood and tyranny , but use them for the god-like purpose of vindicating the truth , and smiting oppression from the heights of power to the depths of impotence . _TTe have named Charles Dickens as one of _tne principal promoters of this revolution in literature : but we must not forget Thomas Hood , Douglas Jerrold , and many other kindred spirits . It its with this last-named gentleman we . have now more . particularly to . do . His retirement from the editorship of the Illuminated _Magatins afforded us unmixed pain ; and we are sure excited the regrets of some thousandi . It is , therefore , as may be Euppdsed , with no ordinary feelings of pleasure that we nail his re-appearance as editor of the new magazine now ; under
notice . This magazine is intended to be devoted to the consideration of the social wants and rightful claims of the Pxopli . In the _language ot the prospectus , "it is intended that it shall appeal to the heart * of the masses of England . " This is taking high ground : but we have faith that the Editor is a man fully capable of maintainingh is position . " It is our belief , cays he , "that the present epoch is pregnant with more human _interigt than any previous era ; as it is also our faith that the present social eonteet , if carried out on all sides with end in
• conscience and tender heart , ' mast a more equitable allotment of the good provided for all men . To aid , however humbly , in this righteous and blood less struggle is a truer , a more grateful glory , thin any glory blatant in _gazettes" We add , Amen ! and may the success of Mr . Jerrold ' _s present undertaking he every way commensurate with _hishopeful aspira tions , and the mighty good he sets himself to help to accomplish . The present number opens with s tale by the editor , entitled "St . Giles and St . James ' s ; " it is written in the author's best , inimitable style , and will stir the heart * of thousands . ' TTe give tha
IHTBODUOTIOX , Our first paragraph shall b _« a confesiion of ignorance , If e know not the genealogy of St . Giles . All we knovf is this . Our St . Giles was horn—we can hardly say first saw the light—in Hampshire Hog-lane , We believe that we arepretty sure of his father , but at once lose ourselves seeking his grandsire . We are immediately in a genealogical fog , without even a link ' s end from the Herald ' s-office to guide us . True it is , we might , if we would , sit contentedly down in the darkness , and our imagination , aided by obscurity—as men are apt to close their eyes when they would take a bright internal look —might in a trice discover the family tree ; now complacently following its branches as they waved towards the court-end of the town , and now avoiding them as they struck towards Tyburn , TTe might do this , for it has been done many a time , and for only so much hard cash But can the family of St . _Giles-fee us for the labour ? No . Then we trust we are not so wholly lost to the decencies
of life as to lie gratis . _Hevwtbeless , we one some explanation to the polite reader , for that we have given typographical precedence to St . Giles to the apparent injury of St , Jameg . We think we have a just r « _FMi for tins . There appears to us—and sure we are the like opinion burnt in the breasts of many _moit _respectaplc- peopl _*—more of the original animal man in St . Giles than in St . James . He seems to vindicate , and that brazenly , unblushingly , the baseness of M » origin . He stands before us a crwture ofthe earth or rather , ofthe mud of the earth . If it " be otherwise , then has St , Giles again and again been muck abused , mistaken .
The very nakedness of Bt . Gile »—« coordmg *? _ou * heraldry— -makes him elder brother of St Jaxne * . _> 4 * _consider him , he is as much the elder , a » the b * r _» » kin of man is older than than the silks and velvets , that have enwraptit . _Hemaybe " amarkedandbranded ' , _rag _» bond ; but , _neverthelMs , he is the elder brother . Contemplating him , " wt behold in his wante—in hif . fierceness , _bsgotten of these wants—the proscribed from the confines of this world ' s Paradise . Consider the history of man , Tour vagabond is lost In the shadows of antiquarian nigh t —now , your gentleman is a common-place of yesterday .
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Upon this phUosophical principle do we place St . Giles beforo st , James , and believe us , - dear reader , for no catchpenny ' reason ' ' whatever . - Wc'do hot say that a three-legged oakon ' stool is a ; finer / . more . commodious chattel , than a gilded chair ; but , in . the genealogy of household moveables , 6 urc wo are it ranks as the elder brother , : ' ""' St . Giles and St . James ! Is it possible they can be brethren ? . Every . particle of . their faces , every atom of their covering , cries "Wo ; " externally , as different as the aforesaid _three-legged stool and glittering chair ; and jet , in truth , of ' the same frame-work—the very same . Impossible ! -. Let us see , ,. ' ¦ " . ¦¦ "What a clumsy . thing is this three-legged stool ! What heavy joinery work ! Surely it was shaped by an adze , arid put together by some bungler , ignorant of the craft . What a piece of stark vulgarity !
\ How very handsome the chair of ceremony ! How soft to tne _touc-n—how plqasant to the eye ! s . AU damask , carving , and gilding :. Well ,, wo have strlpt ' away the oovering ; we havo scratched a littl e : of the gilding oft ; and what is there beneath ? Why / oak—mere oak _^ - « younger branch of the treer—a piece of kindred wood to the threelegged stool . The same material makes stool and chair but then the magical delusion worked by damask , gold , and dainty carving 1 In this way It is our hope to show St , _fifiles and St . James—to prove their brotherhood—their identity of material . We may , here and there , scratch a little of the gilding off one , but only to display the kindred nature of both . Thus , St . James may sometimes appcartobeonly St . Giles better stuffed , and with a brighter covering .
Into the tale of "St . Giles and St . James , " it is not our purpose to enter , more than by remarking that its object is evidently to contrast the misery and crime-creating influences of the one with the Sybarite _gorgeousiieBS and ; _heartlessnesi of the other . The subjeot of the opening chapters is the finding , on a bitter winter ' s night , of an unfortunate child ( the "St . Giles" of the story ) and its supposed mother , freezing to death on a door-step . The watchmen , who have : been aroused from their _plumbers , don't know what to do with the _wbiriani because " she isn't lead , and she isn't a breaking the peace ! " It being too late to get her into the workhouse , she is taken to the watchhouse , where she dies . Here is a burst of eloquence such as few men could pen , in denunciation of !
_lUM _' S IMHUMANITT TO KAW . Foi an instant , the ' watchmen in silence gazed upon the bube . Even their natures , hardened in ' scenes of _crinuv . and destitution , were touched by the appealing innocence : ef the child . " Poor little heart . " * . said one , " God help it ! " cried another . ' Yes : God help it ! And with such , easy adjuration do we leave thousands and tens of thousands of human souls to want and ignorance ; doom them , when yet sleeping tho sleep of guiltlessness , to future devils— -their own unguided passions . We make them outcasts , wretches ; and then punish , in their wickedness , our own selfishness—our own neglect . Wo cry "Cod help . tho babes , " and hang the men . Yet a moment . The child is still before us . May we not see about it—contending for it—the principles of good and
evil i A contest between the angels and the fiends ? Come hither , statesman j you , who live withuv . a party circle ; you , who nightly fight some miserable fight ; contiriuaHy strive in some selfishstruggle for power and place , _considering men only as tools , thc merest instruments of your aggrandisement ; come here , in the wintry street , and look . upon God ' s image in its babyhood I Consider this little man . Are not creatures such as these the noblest , grandest tilings of earth ? Have they not solemn natures —aie they not subtly touched for the highest purposes of human life ? . Come they not into this world . to grace and . dignify it ! There is no spot , no _coaTBer stuff , in the pauper flesh before you that indicates a lower nature . There is no felon mark upon it—no natural formation indicating the thief in its baby
fingersno . inevitable blasphemy upon its lips ., It lies before you ' a fair , unsullied thing , . ' fresh from the hand of ' , God . Will you , without ' an effort , let the : great fiend stamp his fiery brand upon it ! Shall it , even in . its sleeping innocence , be made a trading thing by misery and vies * A crea . ture borne from street to street—a piece of living merchandise for mingled beggary and crime ? Say , what , with its awakening soul , shall it learn ? . What lessons whereby to pass through life , making an item in the social sum ! ' Why , cunning will be its wisdom ; hypocrisy its truth ; theft its natural law of self-preservation . To this child , so nurtured , eo taught , your whole . code , of morals , nay , your brief right and wrong , are writ in strange j figures than Egyptian hieroglyphics , and—time passesand you soourg * the creature never taught , for the heinous guilt of knowing nought but ill ! The good has been a sealed book to him , and the dunce is punished with the
jail . Doubtless , there arc great statesmen ; wizards in bullion and bank-paper ; thinkers profound in cotton , and evory turn , anA . v & riation of the market * , abroad and * at home . ; But there are . statesmen yet to come ; statesmen of nobler aims—of more heroic action ; teachers , of the people ; vindicators ofthe universal dignity of man ; apostlts . of the grsat social truth , that knowledgc- _^ -whioh is the spiritual light of God—like his material light , was made to bless and comfort aU men . And when . these men arise—and it is worse than weak , it is sinful , to despair of th « m—the youngling poor will riot be bound upon tha very threshold of human life , and made by want and ignorance _,, life ' s ibame . and misery . There is not a babe lying in the public street on its mother lap—the . unconscious _medicant to ripen into the criminal—that is not a reproach to the * State ; a scandal and a crying shame upon men who study all politics , save the politics of the human heart . .
TTe havo : left ourselves no space to do more than merely enumerate tho titles of the other articles , most of . whichare ofthe first order . of Magazine literature . "Shadows of coming events" is a most able political article , the entire of which could we transfer to our colomns , would express our own views on the . questions on which it treats . " The finery of war" is sufficiently explained by its name , and is all that could be wished for on such a subject . " Recollections bf : Hazlitt" we have not found time to read . " A few words , on early . . Shop-shutting " ably advocates the cause sought to be' served . " A hhtory for Young England" is the commencement of
a series of papers , the first of which is interesting , chiefly for tie extracts it contains from _, the _^ writings of that great Englishman of whom our country may well be proud—Sir "Walter Ralei g h . We shall look forward to the continuance of tMs "History " with some interest . " The Hedghog Letters , " containing the , opinions and adventures , of _Juniper Hedghog , Cabman , London , and written to his relatives and acquaintances in various parts of the world , are rich indeed ; The second of these letters , smashing upthe Puseyitesystem , is capital .. If this Magizine continues as it has begun , succeed it must . To believe otherwise would be to doubt the potency of truth and despair of the cause of humanity .
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LETTER OPENING AT THE POST OFFICE . ' Watson , Paul's Alley , _Patemoster-row . . This tract is mainly a reprint of an article in the _WesDmnster- Review ' for September , 1844 , ; entitled " MAMiifi anctthe _ethicslof Politicians . "• There is also added to the reprinted , article , a communication from Mr . WAssiNr , ' giving an account of the heroic ( toothers _Bandieka , with some particulars of ? heir , foul murder by the infamous . Neapolitan Government . The tract is one ofthe best of the many excellent works published by Mr . Watson , and
cannot fail , if widely circulated , to do good service _te the cause of liberty . ¦ . ¦ ¦ : ; The space occupied by the preceding reyiews com pels us to be ; very brief with our remarks , and prevents us doing anything , like justice to this welltimed publication . This , however _* we the less regret seeing that the small sum of fourpenco will put the reader _^ . possession of the work itself . The Walminiter _Bevieuer commences his masterly article with the Mowing plain-speaking introduction : — ,
We f _«« l It incumbent upon us to denounce , In the strongest language we can command , a principle of administration , which , if carried out , would , be found _sabversive of ell the moral obligations of society ; and yet a principle now openly advocated , not merely by political opponents , but in some instances by men with whom we have been accustomed to act , and a class of politicians standing well in the world ' s regard for public character and private worth . This is honest ; this is bold . The Westminster Revieu is in its party predelictions a mere Whig ; to denounce then its own party , and to hold up to deserved scorn and opprobrium the chiefs of that party , who equally with they of the " adverse faction " have been guilty of violating the most sacred of the laws of morality ' s code , is a service done to truth and justice worthy of all commendation . Pity it is that the . Rwiwi " has found so few of the organs of public opinion to follow its noble example . The Reviewer proceeds : —
We have long considered the state of our academical and university education to be the cause of half thc errors committed In le g islation ; but of all the evils to be traced to this fruitful source , Hone aro greater than the moral canker they occasion . The ethics of Archdeacon _Talcy and Profimor Sew « U , —political expediency on the one hand , and blind submission to authority on the other , — the _tronifonnatious of Ovid and the _hiatorj of Puuic Wars , leave no place for the decalogue , or any sound interpretation of its meaning ; and the result in after life , when our high-born university graduates appear at tho council board , 'it , as the world . _has seen with astonishment , a formal _recognition of _jetti laxcent as a fundamental maxim of state policy . The reports of the _Committesi of the two houses are ablv sifted , and the enormous crimes attempted to be justified , or at least , _apoltgised < for in these _ihameloH . . reports , tre brought clearly Wore the reader .
_Ws aili fully aware that thoie who prepared it ( the report ); _arid those who signed it , so bewildered themselves by their own sophistries , that they did not , in fact , well know what they were about ; but wc feel not the less ; neceisit ; of stripping the principle advocated of all disguise , antj „ would present it to the reader in its naked _hidcbuineis . ' _'' » ¦ - " A monster of such frightful mi ** , Ai to be hated needs but to be seen . "
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> Here , then ; is the moral creed of English statesmen in the 19 th century ; or more correctly speaking / a portion of . that ; craft of government which , sets itself above all laws , human and divine . , . . ' ¦ ...- .- ¦ 1 . Theft ' is , permissible , when information important to the public interest can only be obtained by stealing it from a letter . 2 . 1 _/ _tino is permissible to conceal theft ; in the tacit form of resealing a . letter , so that the fact of its . having been opened may never be detected . 3 . Forgery is permissible for the same object ; in the form of counterfeiting Beals aud imitating Post-oKce 6 tamps , :
4 . . _Treacheries permissible in / cases of emergency . ' The servant may betray his master for the ' public good ;' the confidential agent may act as a secret spy . The bearer of a written communication , comprising , pei'Vaps , the lives and fortunes of individuals , may carry it direct to their bitterest enemies , and be honourably commended for his breach of trust . ft , Rogde . _hakinq is also permissible ; for the arts of knavery are somewhat distasteful to honest men , and forgery , in particular , is a skilled profession , which cannot be thoroughly acquired without many opportunities of practice . C . Ttbannoos injustice is permissible ; in the form of secret accusations , and secret tribunals for trying a man in the dark , upon the evidence of stolen documents , of which tho purport may be wholly misunderstood .
In using the word permissible , we have put the case less forcibly than we should have done , to place it upon its true merits . The business of a public office , like that ofthe Secretary of State , does not consist in the exercise of optional privileges . Sir James Graham , or Lord Aberdeen , when they opened Mazzini ' s letters , did so , not , of course , from motives of idle curosity , but from a sentiment of duty . ' Observe , then , where our moral legislators are leading us . It is the duty , say they , of a Minister , in certain ' cases of emergency , ' affecting important public interests , ' to steal , to he , to COMMIT FORGERY , and TYBANNOUS INJUSTICE ; and to keep inconstant training a staff of knaves fit for similar acts of public service , when not convenient to perform them personally .
So here we have it proved , proclaimed , made " notorious as the sun at noon-day , " that we Englishmen live under a THING which maintains its power by thievery , lying , treachery , rogue-making , and tyrannous injustice . ' We shall presently show thai . murdbb is also chargeable to its account . Passing over the other portions of this pamphlet , we come at once to the proof of this charge . Our readers will remember the unfortunate expedition of tho Brothers Baxdieha from Corfu to Calabria , where they and their compatriots were brutally murdered . It is proved , in the work before us , that through Mr . Mazzini's letters _. wliich were villanously opened by the agents of Lord Aberdeen , our Government became acquainted with the facts ofthe intended expedition , which it should be stated Mr . Mazzini was doing his
utmost to prevent , foreseeing the ruin that would , if persevered in , fall on the actors . The information obtained by such damnable means was _communicated to the Austrian and Italian Governments . No information of this—no hint , was given to the patriots . On the contrary , it is shown , beyond doubt , by Mr . Mazziki , that the Neapolitan Government sent its vile agents to Corfu to lure the unfortunate exiles into the fatal trap set for them . The horrid plot too well succeeded , and tho result our readers know . The blood of these martyred patriots is on the head of Lord Aberdeen ; and were there justice to be had in England—did the House of Commons really represent the people of England—before its bar Lord Abkkdmn would be impeached , and this foul blot upon our country ' s honour would be fearfully but justly avenged .
This is not all ; it is now well known that the Polish Revolution , that struggle so heartily sympathised with by the people of England , was put down , not by Russian force , but by British treachery ! Tho vile Whig Government , the hypocrites who at that very time were bawling for " Civil and Religious Liberty all over the World ! " and convulsing England from centre to circumference , with their rascally " Bill " agitation ; these , scoundrels were at the samotime in league with the ruffian Nicholas , imparting to him everv particle of infonnatiou they could obtain which would enable him to thwart the plans of the Polish patriots . It is now equally well _Icnown that some
hundreds of French , Spanish , Polish , German , and It _» - lian patriots , have been consigned to dungeons , where many of them yet remain , betrayed by the hellish agencies employed by the English Government to aid the propping up ofthe continental despotisms . The brief memoir of Mazziki contained in tho Reviewer ' s article is intensely interesting . While it cvposes-the infernal means adopted by the continental despotisms to keep down liberty , it makes known also , the' glorious spintwhich , animating the patriots of nearly every nation in Europe , will never cease its labours till its ends are accomplished—the regeneration , of nations , and tho universal overthrow of tyrannv .
The following is tho affecting account givon by Mr . Mazzjsi ofthe execution ofthe heroic martyrs ;—The Bandiera and their seven companions died calm and intrepid , bearing witness to _tneir faith , as becomes men who die for the Just and the True . One who was present at their last moments at Coscnza , on tho 25 th of July , speaks of " them as of saints , reminding one of thc martyrs of the first ages of Christianity . Tho morning of their execution , they wero found asleep . They paid almost minute attention to their toUet , as if tbey were about to accomplish an act of religious solamnity . A priest approached them ; they mildly repulsed him ,
saying that , having sought to practise the law ot the gospel , and to propagate it even at the cost of their blood among those emancipated by Jesus , they hoped more from their own good intentions than from his words . "Itcserve them , " added one of them , " for your oppressed brethren , and teach them to be what the Cross has made them , free and equal . " They walked to the placo of punishment , conversing together , without agitation , without ostentation . " Spare the face ! " said they to the soldiers , who were making ready : "it was made , in the image of God . Viva _i'Itaxiv ! " This was their last cry upon earth , God and their brothers will recollect it .
"If we have success , " they wrote tome in their last letter , on the 11 th of June , "hasten to join us ! If we faU , teUow countrymen to tmitaf * our example ; for life lias oeen given us to employ _ndblyand usefully , and tlie cause for which we shall have fought and ' da « t is _tu purest , thi _notiest _tM mr warmed the breasts of men : it is the cause o / _Libeetv , of Equalitv , o / HuHAmTV , o / tft < Independence ' and Unitt of Italy . " ; Mr . Mazzini adds bitterly , "Suck are the men against whom your government has leagued itself with Austria and the King of Naples . " No ! Mr ,
Mazziki , the government ofthe Aberdeen ' s and Graham ' s is not our government—not the government of the people of England ; it is the government of the aristocracy and . the profit-mongers ; but is no representative of the British people . By the people the liberticidal acts of the goverhm _» nt are abhorred and repudiated ; and the actors execrated as not less the dishonourers of their own country than the foes of universal liberty . We heartily commend this work to our readers , trusting that it will be circulated far and wide .
Viva l'Italia ! While Italy continues to produce such sons as the god-like _Bandieka , liberty , can never be despaired of . 0 land of immortal glory , _tbjr day is coming ! Popes and Kings shall strive in vain to prevent this resurrection . ' " The full noon of freed om shall shine oh thee yet !*
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Williau Teom . —The Inverury poet has , we observe from a notice in the Abtrdeen Herald , gone to London to superintend the publication of a new edition of his works . The London papers , particularly Punch and the Examiner , have done much to forward the interests of this unfortunate son of genius ; and we trust they will not lionise him too much , to the injury of his simple , unsophisticated tastes and habits . Poor John Clare ( now in an asylum ) never fairly relished his country life and humble cottage after his acquaintance with London ; and the Ettrick Shepherd ( who had always during his stay in the
metropolis , half a dozen dinner and supper parties on hand ) was certainly not the better for it . The strong , energetic mind of Burns , it will be recollected , was not proof against the blandishments of fashionable society in Edinburgh . The efforts of the friends of Thorn should be steadil y directed towards a permanent provision for him in the shape of an annuity , however small . He is now approaching fifty years of age , and the "light of song" must soon begin todccay . We rejoice to hear , that by his first edition , and the kindness of friends , the poet has cleared above £ 200 . —Inverness Courier .
Thh Pobt Thom . —An Indian paper , just received has the following : — " An appeal to the generosity of the Calcutta community was made not long since by the Calcutta , Star , and warmly supported by- the Hurkam , in favour of the Scottish poet Thom , of Invernry , Aberdeenshire , who has undergone much distress , owing to want of employment in his occupation of weaver . Scotland celebrates the memory of Burns with fetes and processions , leaving her _liviitg pott to 8 tarue in a garret . We are happy to say that a considerable sum has been subscribed for Mr . Thom ; in fact , upwards of £ 100 . "
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¦ Gillespie tub Burolau—Escape akb Capture . On Saturday last , Gillespie , who was arrested on suspicion that ho was one of the parties who broke into the shop of Mr . Grindal , grocer , Wigton , was brought before the sitting magistrates , on . Satiu * day last , and was fully committed to take his trial at the ensuing assures . He was immediately conveyed to the lock-up , from which , notwithstanding be wa * legironed and a person in charge of him prior -to his removal to gaol , he contrived to esc ape , and lor some time succeeded in evading the police . On Wednesday morning ; however , he was discovered by Kent , in Botchergate , with a woman s cap and cloak on , and was immediately taken into custody and safely lodged in the gaol , where he now awaits his trial . He is supposed to have taken an active part in the recent robberies in this city . —Carlisle Paptr .
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EXTRAORDINARY ADVERTISEMENT . The peculiarity ofthe advertisements which _SOUM * times appear both , in . the provincial and'metropolitan journals , has often ; given 1 rise to comment . ' : ! We think ,-however , that , very . 'i ! few _; amongr . theni can compete with the following , which-appewedi _Jn an American paper more thantwenty years since '; -. - ' IHE _SUBSCRIDEU J S . # ' ¦'• " •! ¦!'¦¦' _" Being determined not to . move from . this State ,-tf . quests all persons indebted ,- topayparticular > attention to his New definition of an ¦ -
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SOLID ARGUMENTS . ' _.-Hot oysters , boiled lobsters , ham and eggs , butfjie and cheese , & e ., & c . AOITATIOHS . Cider , vinegar , Bait , pickles , & c . GRIEVAKCXS . Pepper-sauce , mustard , cayenne-pepper , Ao . PUNISHMENTS . Rum , brandy , & c . etc ., ic . SUPERFLUITIES . Snuff , tobacco , cigars , pomatum , die . _EXTRAORDIXABIES . _Sea-eerpenis' bones , wooden 6 hoes , water witches , cW N . B . —The above articles will be exchanged for JNECESSABIES , VIZ . : — Bank bills at par , crowns , dollars , half ditto , _quartes ditto , pistureens , ninenenny pieces , fourpenny , halfpenny ditto , or cents .
TERMS OP PATMKNT . One-half the sum down , and the other half on tha delivery ofthe articles . BUDIMENTS GRATIS , VIZ . ' . — Those indebted for Arguments Must not be . ... „ Agitated ; _pJak _4-n >« lr . if . o / _vl-IPVflnCft If they should meet ..... Pumslimeh * For calling for such Superfluities ; Nor think it Extraordinary " Thatlfindit Necessary To demand immediate Payment _Anorew Smith ,
Tho smallest favour thankfully received , * Andrew Smith , t Any one the cap fits . t Hezekiah Goddard , Sheriffs Deputy . A Long Nap . —A young American , who is travel * ling in Europe , gravely announces in a letter , that Professor YanGrusaelbach , of Stockholm , has brought to a state of perfection thc art of producing a torpo * in the system by the application of cold , of degrees of intensity proceeding from less to greater , so as to cause , the human body to become perfectly torpid ; iu which state it may remain for 100 or 1 , 000 years , and then be awakened to a new existence !
_Abkrnitht and THE Yankee _Captaix . —An _Ame . rican ' captain , being one morninc : shown into Aber nethy ' s consulting-room , immediately , in Yankeo fashion , emptied the contents of his mouth upon tha floor . The man of medicine stared—keeping hia hands in his pockets , according to custom , untd the patient should explain . " What shall I do for my uyspepsy ? " asked thc American captain . " Pay ma your fee , and I ll 'tell you , " replied the doctor . Tha money was produced , and Abernotliy coolly replied , "Instead of spitting your saliva ovcrniy carpet , keep it to chew your food with . " An Imsn officer dreadfully wounded in battle , as he was lying on the ground near a soldier who waa making a terrible howling , exclaimed , " What do you make such a noise for—do you think nobody is killed but yourself ? " !
A Sly " Bet . "—Miss Elizabeth Peabody offered to lay . a wager , on the Presidential election , with any eligible young man , viz ., that if Polk was elected , she was the winner , and should have her opponent for a husband ; but if Polk were defeated , then lies opponent was the winner , and would be entitled to have her for a wife ! Who can Beat it . —It is stated in the papers that a young wife in Lowell , Mass ., has presented hear husband with five children in eleven months ! An editor asks , " who can beat it ? " The Baltimore Sun replies by asking , "In the name of Bedlam who would wish to beat it ?" A Contribution to Chemical Science . —MM . Henry and Devergie profess to have detected lead and copper in man . That there is lead , and in Large quantity , in the composition of many men , he wouH indeed be a leaden man who denied ; but beggars affirm that there are individuals in _tlw human family from whom they find it utterly impossible to extraoS copper !
The Salvation ot ? the Country . —The _skittlo p laying came off with immense success . Sir Joseph knocked the pins ahout quite skilfully . Master Bowley took an innings at a shorter distance also j and everybody said that now , when a baronet and hia son played at skittles , the country was coming round again as fast as it could come . —Dickens . Novel Mode op Catching Rabbits . —A oolTe _* pondent of a contemporary says— "When I lived at Seaton Sluice , my companions and I used to go & i nights with a dark lantern on Hartly Links , and catch rabbits with _sca-fcrrets , as wc called them We got large crabs ( commonly called dog-crabs ) from off the rocks ; we stuck a lighted candle , about onn inch long , on the crab's back , and sent them into tho holes , before which we placed a net . Before thp crab got far into thc hole , the rabbits came tappyr _lappy into the nets . In this way we caught numhera of them in a short time . "
A Puzzler . — "Mamma , do sheep write ? " "No , child . " " Then what do they have pens , for , mamma ?" TnE Wat to servh a Fool . —A wight , rejoicing in tho name of _Parkhurst , has scratched his name on the windows of several ofthe first-class carriages ofthe Greenwich Railway , and some wag has mada the _yery mortifying addition— " Since hung at Maidstone . " Both name and history _liavo , on some of this carriages , since been carefully obliterated , evidently by thc hand of tho original offender ; for it is noo likely that any friend , however well-disposed , would volunteer such a service , and thereby run the risk _. of being detected by tho Company ' s servants . Origin of the word Tariff . —The puzzling name " tariff" is derived from the town of Tarifa , at the mouth ofthe Straits of Gibraltar . When thc Moors held possession of both the p illars of Hercules , it was here that they levied contributions for _vossels entering the Mediterranean—whence tho generic nam * .
AposTROPmi to Gold . —God of the eravon heart . 1 idol of millions , how splendid are thy temples , how zealous are thy worshippers ! They gather around thy . smile in the morning , they leave not thy devo tions at midnight ! Thou _smilest upon them , and they grow mad in the midnight of their palaces They make themselves monarchs in fancy , and conquerors in dreams . Who can withstand thee ? Thoti leadest the feet of beauty , thou directest the arm of the brave ! thy pathway of . triumphs , thy presence the solace of power ! Thou silenced tho voice of eloquence when the Macedonian held thee up glittering before the eye ofthe orator ; and the mistress of tha world rose before thee in the balance ! Disposer ot emnires . thou snreadest over the world . Thy spell
nerved the assassin and urged on the betrayer . Thy yellow visage incited the spoiler when he sought _thoe on the crimson field , and made himself red in the carnage . In all ages thou hast triumphed . Whether in the thirty pieces rewarding a Juda » , or the sparkling crown on the brow of a tyrant ; always _alili » invincible . The man of business bows obsequiously to thee . Tho man of fashion falls before thee , and the miser clothes thy garment as though it were the curtains of heaven ! Thou hast a retinue of coaches , and an army of slaves . Thou hast a goal of a _snleudid misery , where the truilt makes her alliano
with death . The virgin of the sanctuary fears not thy footsteps , and the shorn priest flics not the po _^ ci of thy magic . —Ossian . ''' . '"'[ How to make a " Gut . " —Get aheadof long hah turned up at thc ends , and put it on a chapeau Fran cais ; take a pair of mustachios , an imperial and eye « glass ; add to these a blue satin scarf , with a gold pin like a beadle ' s staff , braided coat , crimson waistcoat , ladies' boots , canary kids , a tremendous swagger , and a very small riding whip . Put these together on a block , turn it into Regent-street about _thrpa o ' clock , and you will have succeeded in making a perfect Guy . —Punch .
Binevolencb . —Wliy is cold weather productive of benevolence?—Because it makes . people put tlwii ? hands in their pockets . Niggerism . — " I shall retire in « K _« gust , " _as . t | M nigger said to the hurricane . ' _¦¦;¦ . '; ' An Error of the Press . —A Cambridge pane * giving the conditions of a proposed prize for the best hexameter verses ' , says " the exercises aro to be ' sent in by tha 31 st of March , and are not to exceed w _» hundred miles in length . "— 'These compositors will' f _» the death of us !
Wasp-like Women . — My notice was attracted tcf & lady—no not a lady , but to the waist of a lady befor _* me . Wasps and brush handles , but she was screwed up a few ! I can't begin to find a comparison for it . Sue , was compressed into a span- _^ drawn up almosi out of sight—a perfect show . And this is what !* called a good figure \ I don't know what sort of . a figure , without a figure 8 . Well , some women _xt foob , if they we women .. ' I'd rather marry a wonia like a sugar hogshead than connect myself with sw * a looking hour-glass . —Sam Sikh , ; ' " ;
Good manners are the blossoms of good sense ,. * n _< L it may be added , of good feeling too ; for if the law of kindness be written in the heart , it will lead to that disinterestedness in littlo well _greatthingt that desire to oblige , and tion of others , which are nerg . —Locke .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 11, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_11011845/page/3/
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