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      October ,11, 1845. The" Korthery Star. "...

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      Beauties Of Byron. •Ho. Xiv. "Childe Hak...

      BEAUTIES OF BYRON . HO . XIV . " CHILDE _HAKOLD . " The second canto of this magnificent poem vras written in Greece in the year 1810 , when ihe poet ¦ was in his twenty-third year . At that time he appears to have regarded the restoration of Greeee as all but impossible ; hence the dejected and almost _despairing tone ofthe following beautiful stanzas . A few years subsequently , _Braos had cause to change his opinions aa to the destiny ofthe Greeks , and what lie did for _them—devoting to their cause his fortune , his person , his sword , his life—is it not written on the hearts of freedom ' s sons in every clime ? Is not his nameimperishably entwined with , that of his passionateh-Ioved

      GREECE ? Fair Greece 1 sad relic of departed worth ! Immortal , though no more ; though fallen , great . ' "Who now shall lead thy scatter'd children forth , And long accustom'd bondage uncreate ? ¦ Not such thy sons who whilome did wait , The hopeless warriors of a willing doom , In bleak Thermopyhe _' s sepulchral strait—Oh ! who that gallant spirit shall resume , Leap from Eurotas * hanks , and call thee from the tomb ! Spirit of Freedom ! when on Phyle ' s brow Thou sat * st with Thrasybulus and his train , Could ' st thou forbo"de the dismal hour which now Dims the green beauties of thine Attic plain ? Uot thirty tyrants now enforce the chain , But every carle can lord it o ' er thy land ; Ner rise thy soul , but idly rail in vain , Tremhling beneath the scourge of Turkish hand , From birth to death enslaved ; in word , in deed , un _mann'd !

      In all save form , how changed ! and who That marks the fire still sparkling in each eye , "Who hut would deem their bosoms burn'd anew "With thy unnuenched beam , lost Liberty ! -And many <__ ream withal tbe hour is nigh That gives them back their fathers'heritage : Por foreign arms and aid they fondly sigh , Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage , Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page Hereditary bondsmen 2 knoiv ye not "Who would be free themselves must strike the blow ! By their right arms the conquest must be wrought S "Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye ? No 1 True , they may lay yonr proud dcspoilers low , But not for yon will Freedom ' s altars flame . Shades of the Helots ! triumph o'er your foe ! Greece ! change thy lords , thy state is still the same ; Thy glorious day is o ' er , but not thine years of shame .

      "When riseth Laoedamon ' s hardihood , "When Thebes Epaminondas rears again , "When Athens' children are with hearts endued , "When Grecian mothers shall give birth to men , Then may ' st thou be restored ; hut not till then . A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; An hour may lay it in the dust : and when Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate , Recall its virtues back , and vanquish time and fate * And yet how lovely in thine eye of woe , land of lost gods and god-like men ! art thou ! Thy vales of evergreen , thy hills of snow , Proclaim thee Nature ' s varied favourite now : Thy fanes , thy temples to thy surface bow , Commingling slowly with heroic earth , Uroke by the share of every rustic plough : So perish monuments of mortal birth , So perish all in turn save well-recorded Worth :

      Save where some solitary column mourns Above its prostrate brethren of tbe cave ; Save where Tritonia ' s airy shrine adorns Colonna ' s cliff , and gleam along the ware ; Save e ' er some warrior ' s half-forgotten grave , Where the grey stones and unmolested grass Ages , hut not oblivion , feebly brave , "Whilst strangers only not regardless pass , _langering like me , perchance to gaze , and sigh " Alas If et are thy skies as blue , thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves , and verdant are thy fields , Thine oliveripe as when Minerva smil'd , And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds , The free-born wanderer of thy mountain-air ; Apollo still thy long , long summer gilds , Still in his beam Mendeli _' s marbles glare ; Art , Glory , Freedom , fail , but 2 fature still is fair .

      " Where ' er we tread't is haunted holy ground ; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould , Sat one vast realm of wonder spreads around , And all the Muses' tales seem truly told , Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams hare dwelt upon : Each hill and dale , eacli deep ' ning glen and wold 3 > efies the power which crush * d thy temples gone : _ige shakes Athena ' s tower , but spares grey Marathon The sun , the soil , but not the slave ,. the same ; Unchanged iu all except its _foreign lord—Preserves alike its bounds and _boundless fame The battle-field , where Persia ' s victim horde First bowed beneath thc brunt of Hellas' sword ,

      As on the morn to distant glory dear , When Marathon became a magic word ; Which utter'd , to the hearer ' s eye appear The camp , the host , the light , the conqueror ' s career _. The _nying iicde , his shaftless broken bow ; The iiery Greek , his red pursuing spear ; . Mountains above , Earth ' s , Ocean ' s plain below ; Death in the front , Destruction in ihe rear ! Such was the scene—what now remainetb here ? What sacred trophy marks the _halloiv'd ground , 31 e _« . -ord __ __^ Freedom's smile and Asia's tear ? The rilled urn , the violated mound , » The dun thy courser ' s hoof , rude stranger ! spurns around .

      Tet to the remnants of thy splendour past Shall pilgrims pensive , but unwearied , throng : long shall the voyager , with th' Ionian blast , Hail the hriglit clime of battle and of song ; long shall thine annals and immortal tongue Fill with thy fame the youth of many a shore ; Boast ofthe aged ! lesson of theyonng ! Which sages venerate and bards adore , As Pallas and the Muse unveil their awful loro . The above stanzas conclude our extracts from the second Canto of Childe Harold .

      Ax Agrostic. T Houhard Of Chartism, Acce...

      AX AGROSTIC . T houhard of Chartism , accept my humble praise : 31 eart-gratitude I yield for thy immortal lays . O h , that our tyrants would be wani'd by thee ! il ay they incline in time tiie slave make free . Ah ! would they listen to thy warning strains , S laves to make men and break their galling chains ! C an ' st weild thy pen—make soft the despot ' s heart ? O h , then , write on , and act tlie Briton ' s part . O nrs be the task , for freedom boldly fights—P reserve us , heaven ! in struggling for the right . E ach one for liberty declare the world all o ' er , K emovc our fetters , or , " Slaves ! toil no more !" J . SUAVi

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      Tbe Purgatory Op Suicides. A Pkison Iiii...

      TBE PURGATORY OP SUICIDES . A Pkison IIiitme ix Tex Books . By Thomas _Coom _ n . tlic Chartist . London : J . How , 132 , Fleet-Street . A splendid address to " _Ixight" opens thc Fifth Book—we can find room for only a portion of the stanzas : — Hail eldest Xight I -Mother of liun ; an fear ! Vague solitude where infant _Jdau first felt His native helplessness ! Beii & nh whose drear And so ' emu cover ture he , trembling , knelt To what in thy vast womb of darkness dwelt Unseen , unknown : —hut , witli the waking Sun , Shouting , sprang up to see glad Xature melt In smiles—triumphantly his Joy-God run Up the blue sky—and light ' s bright reign again begun ! Hail starless darkness 1—sterile silence hail !

      Would that o ' er Chaos thy wide rule had been Perpetual , and reptile Man ' s birth-nail Had ne ' er been heard—or , over huge , obscene , And monstrous births of ocean or terrene For ever thou hadst brooded—so that light Had ne ' er mocked mortals , nor tlie morning Sheen Uroke thy stern sign to give baleful sight To man—whose look upon his fellow js a bbVht ; Season of sepulchred and secret sin ! Beneath thy pall what vileness duth Man hide , Fr « sni _as : e to _age—tlje Miural Harlequin Who dons the saint to play tlie fratricide . Tillainy ' s jubilee _!—Crimt _* srevel . tide . '"Whose murky archives opened would proclaim Yon ermined judge a gold-bought homicide-Yon priest an atheist—and hold up to shame Myriads of knaves Writ" honest" in the roll of Fame

      The poet bethinks him ofthe condition ofthe toiling slaves of his country , and their submission to oppression incites him to curse their pusillanimity The allusion to Frost , that follows , is verv bean ! tiful :-Darkness ! iky sceptre still maintain—for thou Some scanty sleep to England ' s slaves dost bring : Leicester ' s starved stockiiigcrs their misery now . Forget 9 and JlancLester ' s pale tenderling—The famished factory child—its suffering A while escliangeth for a pleasant dream : Dream on , poor infant wretch ! Mammon may wring From out thy tender heart , at the first gleam Of lig ht , the life-drop , and exhaust its feeble Stream !

      Darkness '—still rule—that ihe Lancastrian hive Of starveling slaves may bless thee—for ev ' n they—With all their _wrstcheduess—desire to live ! Ave , men desire to _livcr-to whom the day Will bring again their woman's task—to stay At squalid home , and play tlie babe ' s meek nurse Till sound of factory bell—when they a way 3 _ lust haste , and hold the suckling to life ' s source—Within the rails ! _Ppon their tyrants be my curse *

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      Nay , rather light that curse on ye , yourselves—Te timid , crouching crew I Is there no heart Among ye stung to see the puny elves , His children , daily die—his wife dispart Her hair , and glare in madness ! Doth thc smart . Of degradation cease to rankle in your veins * Faint , though ye be , and feeble—will none start Unto hb feet , and cry , while aught remains In him of life— "Death ! or deliverance from our chains !" Cowards!—do ye believe aU men are like Tom-selves 1—that craven fear doth paralyse Each English arm until it dares not strike A tyrant !—that no voice could exorcise

      Old Tylers spirit—and impel to rise Millions omnipotent in vengeful ire ? Fool , that 1 am ' . are there not hungry spies On every hand—who watch , for dirty hire , Each glance of every eye that glows witli Freedom ' s fire 1 Frost ! while I rave in darkness , thon dost feel The sun in yon far southern felon . land—But feel ' st , therewith , thy chain . Thy wound to heal Ko help extends ! Poor victim ' . —sold , trepanned By hirelings ofthe minion whose spite planned Thy death , and built thy gallow 6—but , through fear Of Labour ' s vengeance , stayed the hangman's hand ; Victim of thy heart ' s thirst with bread to cheer England ' s lean artizan , and Cambria ' s mountaineer !

      How many a despicable sordid tool Of tyranny doth flippantly descant Upon thy deed—cleping thee " rebel fool , " And gallant Shell a " broil-slain miscreant " - — Who , had your cause and ye proved dominant , Would loudly have extolled your fearlessness , And boisterously swelled the choral cliauut Filled with the eulogy of your excess Of deep fraternal zeal to end Man ' s wretchedness ! In the notes to this Book we find the following re marts on Frost : —

      I write from no personal knowledge of John Frostfor the "Newport insurrection" occurred more than a year before I became acquainted with a single Chartistbut from the testimony of my eloquent and intelligent friend , Henry Vincent , who had witnessed Mr . Frost ' s upright discharge of duty as a magistrate , frequently partook of his hospitality , shared deeply his political views aud purposes , and speaks enthusiastically ( I mean in private ) ofthe poor exile ' s generous sincerity and patriotic _high-mindedness . So Mr . Cooper's " eloquentand intelligent friend , " _Hexht Vincent , yet continues to " speak enthusiastically of the poor exile ' s generous sincerity and patriotic high-niindedness . " This is news to U 3 . Mr . Cooper does well to add , however , that this

      enthusiasm on the part of the "political pedlar" is confined to " private" exhibitions . We should think they were particularly private . It may he true that Henry Vincent , the Chartist , frequently partook of Frost's hospitality , and shared deeply his political views and purposes ; but we are sure that Henry Vincent , the bought and sold advocate of " respectable" reform , is utterly guiltless of now avowing any connection with , or admiration of poor _Fhost . This " respectable" mouther of " moral" inanities , flimsy sentimentalities , and poetical puffery , whose hypocritical canting and

      whining about the . blessings ot religion , draws down the applause of the oily black slugs of dissenting and teetotal platforms , would be shocked to hear thc name ol" Fhost mentioned , and * ' the Charter " would cause him to faint outright . We can assure Mr . CoorEn , who glories in the name of " Chartist , " that his claiming the " eloquent and intelligent" for his " friend" will be deemed an unpardonable offence by that " respectable" gentleman : and the offence will be not a little magnified , from the fact of Mr . Cooper reminding the world that the now frothy Mawworm , Vincent , was once a Chartist , and a " friend" (?) of the " rebel" Fkosi ' s .

      In another " note on the Newport affair , Mr . _Coopjsb offers some further remarks , which wc feel bound to transfer to our columns . We must , however , dissent from the doctrine " tliat a resort to force , wider any circumstances , is indefensible , either as a _ivise or a just proceeding . " With all deference to Mr . Cooper , this is " indefensible" nonsense ; and we wish he hadleft this " prison reflection" in the prison , aud not brought it out with him , more especially as the very opposite doctrine is to be found more than once repeated in the poem before us : — " Treason doth never prosper : what ' s the reason 1 " For , if it prosper none dare call it treason . "

      So says Sir John Harrington ; and , without asserting that it was morally ov physically possible for the Welsh emeute of November , 1839 , to havo succeeded—I shall not shrink to avow my conviction that the fated enterprizc of jonn rrost , which had for its object the enfranchisement of every sane male inhabitant of Great Britain and Ireland , of twenty-one years of age . was equally as noble , _although not so imposing , as the thriumph-in-arms of the Barons of Jlunnymode—or ( he "Glorious _Revolution " 0 flli 88 . ItefiectiOll—aud , above all , yrison-reflectionhas , indeed , done much to impress me with the belief that a resort to force , under any circumstances , is indefensible , either as a wise or a just proceeding—but , for the life of me , I cannot subdue the feeling of an Englishman when tlie picture starts before mj imagination of Hampden On Chalgl'Ove Field "drawing the sword and throwing away thc scabbard . " And if Patriotism need not be

      ashamed at tlie thrill of the blood wliich such a portrait enkindles—why blush to own admiration for the heroism of poor Shell—a youth of singular masculine beauty , and an enthusiast for the enfranchisement of his own orderwho loaded and fired his piece three times , with the greatest intrepidity , before he fell in the streets of Newport ! We do not write History like the glorious old Greeks , or the memory of siteft a hero would not be lost . Lost!—let me remember that a Kugent—to whom all honour!—has had tlie moral courage to exert himself , and successfully , for the erection of a column on Cha !" grove Field , at thc bi-ccntury of Hampden ' s death . —May not a noble be found , in Koveniber 2039 , to commemorate Shell ' s _fnll at Newport with equal earnestness ? Servility and Prejudice may bc staggered at the thought notebut what would have been thought of a column to Hampden , when the bones of Cromwell , Bradshaw , and Ireton hadbeen dug up , and were hung in gibbet-irons ?

      The following allusion to the expatriated patriot Elus is pathetic and beautiful : — _EUis—lny brother!—though but once in life I Clasped _thj * haud—for OUC hoill ' s troubled breath Ileard thy tongue ' s accents—in the dungeon rife Witli sounds of maddened sorrow—yet , till death Hearse mc in silence , of my plighted faith To thee as to a brother , 1 will think : — Aud never—though it bring me direst wrath—That they wave wronged thy innocence , will I shrink To tell the oppressors whose revcuge-cupthou dost drink .

      A perjurer sold thee to the lordling ' s spite—The lordling ' s tenant-serfs dared not demur The verdict—for they marked his nod , though slight!—How sternly starless did the dread night lour On the low minions of tyraunic power When they , to exile thee—the wronged one—led ! 'Twas such a night as this ; and griefs heart-shower These yielding eyes , in my lone dungeon , shed ' For , ' mid the clank of chains , echoed thy farewell tread ! And thou , all guiltless of the violent deed Wherewith they charged thec , as thenew-born child 1—And he , failing t' entwine the vit _ tt > _v's meed With patriotic daring— deep-despoiled , Alike , ofthe sweet heaven that on ye smiled In your young loveling ' s eyes—your _widows frowned Upon by the rude world—scorn on scorn piled Upon your memories , by each hireling , bound To fawn or bark as he is bid—like the vile hound . '—

      The poet sleeps and dreams again ; here is the opening of his vision : — Upon a bleak and barren plain , I dreamed That I emerged—where one tall pillar reared Its _height until among thc clouds it seemed To end . Yet , ' twas but mockery when I ncarcd This lofty wonder—for its top appeared Beneath man ' s stature . low , around the base , Lay broken sculptures of great names revered In times of old ; but ruiti did deface Them till they looked like lletnorv in her burial-place .

      -And then another , and another stone Uprose , in the far distance—each thc aim Vain-glorious of its founders making known More by its wreck than record of the name Or deed it had been _stablisked to proclaim . Food for despondence , thus , thc brooding mind Gathered with semblant shapes that Heeling came Athwart its vision : —for , as Hits the wind , These imaged columns tied—or with new forms com bincd . In allegoric lessons for the soul—Of Liberty , each marble fragment strewed Upon that plain , each pictured deed and scroll , Told , as it lay in ruined pulchritude" She is a goddess 3 Ian hath oft pursued" Won seldom—and hath never jet retained "Her living presence ! " Dreary solitude O ' er all I saw in saddened vision reigned—Until a verdant mouud my anxious spirit gained .

      And , on the mound , melhought a mystic cirque Of giant stones , in simple grandeur rose—Jlesembling Earth ' s first fathers' handy-work—Their temples , or their tombs . Of Freedom's cause—When Gallia s sons hound laurel ou their brows Blent with the oak—full many a devotee—Self-railed from the wrath of friends grown foes—Iu earnest converse seated seemed to be 'Mid shadow of that huge cairn ' s hoary majesty . A band of the French revolutionists are introduced , including _Coxdoucei , _lluzoi , Hoi . aXd , Yalaze , Le Bas , and Babkcf . The language of the several speakers is very grand ; wc can , however , only find room for the following magnificent outburst , of which Condorcet is the speaker : —

      The spirit of Prometheus doth hut sleep Within thchuman heart , —lulled , drugged , and drowse By Power s robed _med ' einers who keenly keep Watch o ' er its breathings , —and have ever choused Their prey into more slumber , when aroused For a brief breath by . Freedom ' s vital touch , It started its sleek keepers , who caroused , Gaily , beside their prostrate victim ' s couch—Thinking it safe , for aye , within their privileged clutch 1

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      The spirit of Prometheus- dotb / but sleep Within man ' s heart : —the dasfc , blood-feeding fcsood ' Of serpents that so hush around it creep , ¦ Kow they perceive , with apprehension shrewd , Their Terror-Trinity of Crown ,. Sword , Rood—,. Isnearevanishment , —may justly dread The ruthless vengeance in its waking mood Of the heart ' s Titan thought : —Up from its ' bed Twill spring , and crush the asps that on its life misted ; The spirit of Prometheus doth but sleep : — The Hindis tornado wakes , through earth , ev'n now ! And soon it will to nought the fabric sweep , Of age-reared Priestcraft , and its shapes of woe-Its Hell , _Wrath-God , and Pear—that foulest foe Of human freedom!— " I will freely think !" 'TwiU boldly _teU the surpliced cozeners—VLo ! " I dare your monster God !—nor will I shrink " His tyrant tortures to defy—ev ' n though I sink

      "Amid the bottomless abyss of pain « Ye say He hath created for his slaves ! " There let him hurl me 1—and despite the chain " That spiritually binds me under waves " Of liquid flame , —He shall find ono who braves "His wrath , and hurls back hatred for a God " Who forms without their will His creatures—graves " Their natures on them—rules by his own nod " Of providence , their lives—and , then , beneath his rod"His scourge eternal , tortures them , without " Surcease or intermission ! " —Endless fire For a breath ' s error—for a moment's doubt !—¦ Infinite Greatness exercising ire Relentless on a worm!—Why ?—That the quire Celestial may His spotless glory sing—His attributes harmonious made by dire Infliction on his worms of suffering—And He Himself in joy extatic revelling !

      Oh 1 what a potent poison hath benumbed The human mind , and robbed it of its might Inherent!—since , affrighted , cowed , begloomed , And stultified—this juggle of the Night It kneels unto , and calls " _divinest light !"—¦ But , it will soon tbe jugglers' toils ouileap Who long , behind the altar of their Sprite Of blood , have played at terrible bo-peep With Man!—the spirit of Prometheus doth butsleep!— - For the remainder of this Look we must refer the reader to the poem itself , where they will find tlie lion-licking , lady-loving , Jew Jack-the-Giant-killcr Samson introduced ; with sundry , anti-atheistic speeches on his part , and sundry priest-frightening replies on the part of the revolutionary suicides . Wecannot afford room this week for further extracts , and , indeed , had we room , we should hesitate to add anything to the extract just given—a piece worthy of the great Shellby himself ; What higher praise could we award Mr . Coor £ R ? None .

      George Cruikshaniv's Table-Bookoctober. ...

      GEORGE _CRUIKSHANIv'S TABLE-BOOKOctober . London : Punch Office , 02 , Fleetstreet . " Return from a delightful trip on the Continent forms the subject of the large steel engraving by Cruikshank in the present number . It represents a party conveyed in an open boat from the Belgian packet to Dover harbour . Wind and waves combine to make all concerned supremely miserable , as is evident by tho despairing faces of the unfortunates , most of whom are engaged in " casting up their accounts . " The article thus illustrated is written by Angus B . _Rbach , who can write very cleverly , though his present production is by no means firstrate . The Editor contributes an irreverend and cockneyish parody on Goldsmith's famed " Edwin and Angelina , " entitled " The Hermit of Vauxhall . " The " Legend of the Rhine" exhibits , this month , symptoms of spinning on the part of the writer ; the present chapters are not good . The following article being brief , we give it entire : —

      POETICAL invitations . If all the young ladies who sit down to a piano to sing a song were to be taken at their word 6—that is to say , at the words of the poet , which , for the time being , they adopt as their own—much awkwardness might be tho consequence . If the invitations that are frequently issued were to be literally accepted , we should have people rushing to willow glens the day after an evening party ; or jumping into cabs and giving directions to the cabmen to drive " where the aspens quiver , " " down by the shining river , " whither they had been requested to "bring tlieir guitar" by some syren of last night ' s soiree . Pour or five years ago it was customary to recommend a whole roomful of company to hurry " Away , away to the mountain ' s brow ! " and many of our readers will recollect being intreated to " leave the gay and festive scene" considerably before supper , and to " rove ' mid forests green , " for the

      purpose of watching the lingering ray " that shoots from every star ; " which , as the stars happen to be innumerable , would have been a very endless business . To ask a gentleman to come and watch the rays that shoot from every star , is almost as bad a 3 inviting him to come and count the " five million additional lamps" at Vauxhall , a task under which even Cockev must have fallen prostrate . The coolness with which a request for a meeting " by moonlight alone" is frequently conveyed may be all very well in a crowded room-full of guests , but if the solitary interview were to come off at the appointed hour , tlie strongest of female nerves might be shaken . As the invitation is general , any one present is at liberty to accept it , provided he fulfil the condition of coming alone ; and if Spring-heeled Jack should happen to overhear the song , he might take it into his head—and heels—to keep the appointment .

      Young ladies Should be very careful in issuing notes of invitation to a moonlight soiree , for they do not know who may overhear them , and attend the rendezvous . The Cock-lane Ghost , had ho been living when the song of " Meet me by moonlight" was composed , would have been a very likely sort of gentlemau to he waiting " in the grove at the cud of the vale , " for the purpose of bestowin _ the snect light of his eyes—glaring through two holes in a turnip—upon any one who had asked for it . We must say , we prefer the present system of writing songs with no meaning at all , to the old method of asking people to a moonlight tete-a-tete , a meeting iu " a _tranquil cot nt a pleasant spot , " or a coiMrsaxione " where the aspens quiver . " " You'll remember me , " pledges you to nothing , unless a waiter sings it while you nod your assent , and a promise to do something " when hollow hearts shall wear a mask" is certainly void , fov impossibility .

      The illustrations are all excellent , and cannot fail to cause the realisation of the idea of " laughter _holdins both liis sides . "

      Pl'nch-Paki Li. London: Punch Office, 02...

      _PL'NCH-Paki LI . London : Punch Office , 02 , Fleet-street . "Morry and wise , " our hunch-backed friend maintains liis post as chief satirist 6 f wrong , falsehood , and folly ; sparing no one , from the Queen on her throne , to the sycophant of the Morning Post . The recent royal visit" to Germany has afforded Punch matter for much "jest in earnest , " whicli the high and mighty of thc land would do well to reflect on . We can assure their " high mightinesses" that , at any rate , the people will not fail to reflect—and what

      the result of their reflections will be , '' needs no ghost to tell . " In a number of the present Part is a double "cartoon , " entitled "An Historical Parallel ; or Court Pastimes , " in which Queen Elizabeth and her Court are represented as witnessing a bear-baiting , in 15 S 0 , and Queen Victoria as gazing upon the slaughter of the deer at Gotha , in 1845 . Punch states that a book is in preparation for the uso of the heir to the throne , in which tlie examples of his parents will be put forth in a series of easy lessons in one syllable , of which the following is a specimen : —

      The Deer is a poor _^ _Yeak Brute , which it is good to Kill . It was once the Plan to Hunt the Peer ; but it Buns 80 fast , that it puts one quite in a Heat to try to Catch it . A Prince should not get Hot , or be at much pains to Hunt thc Deer , but should have the Deer all Caught , and put in a small Space , wliich they can in no way get Out of . Then the Prince should come with his Gun , and Shoot at the lleer . when he must Kill some . It is fine sport to see the Deer fall Dead in the PJace , where they arc all put so Close that a Prince , Shoot how he will , must Hit some of them . If you are a good Boy , you shall have a Gun , and some Deer to Shoot at with the Gun ; and then they shall bc all put Dead in a How , for you to look at them . Oh ! what nice Sport for a Prince of the Blood !

      Here is a new and improved nursery rhyme for the young Guelphs . _*— - Sing a song of Gotha—a pocket-full of rye , Eiglit-and-forty timid deer driven in to die ; When thc sport was open'd , all bleeding they were seen—Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before a Queen ? The Queen sat in her eftsy chair , and looked as sweet as honey ; The Prince was shooting at the deer , in weather bright and sunny ; The bands were playing Polkas , dress'd in green and golden clothes ; . The Nobles cut the poor deer ' s throats , and that is all Punch knows !

      The following is , we fear , too _' good to be true , we eould forgive Prince Albert all his sins—including his hat-making , deer-slaughtering , and other offences perhaps still more heinous—if he would do the state the good service of making game of the _veracious and dangerous brutes described in the following announcement . — Several of the Civic Companies have invited Prince Albert to a day ' s sport in the _^ City . They have ot & red to collect in the area of thc Stock Exchange all the bulls and bears that are in the habit of prowling about the neighbourhood . As soon as these are despatched , a number of desperate Slags , that have been broug ht up expressly by the r .-Always , will be _toWen from Capel-court into the interior , and his Royal Highness will be armed with unlimited power to hunt down as many as he pleases . The following is excellent : —•

      CIIILDHEX _' S SOXG FOE TUE _COUL'llG _GKIiGOllIUS FEbI We ' re happy German children ; You praise our glossy hair , Our wreaths and pretty costumes , Our cheeks so fat and fair : Our little bodies never G rew stunted at the loom ; Our infant eyes ne ' er ached in Tlie _pit-scanVs choky gloom . We never _sobb'd to sleep , on straw-Close crouched for warmth , like _verminlVe are uot English children ; Ho , Gott sey dank , we are German .

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      They say our _EngHah sisters Are never blithe as we ; But , Queen , you look so gracious , That this can never be . They tell us _they's ill nurtured , Of raiment scant aad rude"Sot picturesque , as wc are— _"' A wild and wolfish brood ! Then bless good Saint Grogorius , That did our lots _determinetVe are not English children ; So , Gott sey dank , we are German "When you go back to England , You'll think on what you ' ve seen Then ask our English sisters lo dance upon the green . Perhaps they'll look less savage , With seemlier clothes and food ; Perhaps with kindly teaching

      1 ou'Jl change their sullen mood 'Tis sad that they sliould go in rags , And you , their Queen , in ermine—We are not English children ; No , Gott sey dank , we ' re German ! "Queen Victoria ' s Statue of Shakspeare" is an _exajllent piece of satire , which , if Victoiua read it , and if she has aught of sense and shame in . her composition , must make her blush crimson to the eyes . One thing the tenant of Windsor Castle may be sure of , tha . t reverence for that well-nigh worn out ju < _r

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      WADE'S LONDON _REVIEW-Ociomm . London : C . B . Christian , Whitefriar _' s-street , Fleet-street . The contents of this month ' s number are : — " Ambition , a Greek tale" ( concluded ); " Vital Statistics ;" "Parrot ' s Journey ; to Ararat ; " "II Vagabondo " ( continued ); " Mickelet ' s History of France ;" " Railway Speculation ; " and " A Practical Survey of Ancient Coins . " These contributions are ably written , but are almost all of a dry , and not generally intcrestingcharactcr . " II Vagabondo" is an exception , but his reminiscences this month exhibit him , with all his cunning , in the unenviable character of a spooney ; we must not forget , however , that even Gil Blas showed himself soft on more than one occasion .

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      that wc have not space at command to give to our readers a specimen of the good things this number contains . Amongst its contents is an original ballad , the music by S . Wylde . The illustration to this month's number is a perfect gem—a lithographic portrait of _Murillo from a painting by himself . II . c . Maguire is the artist who lias drawn the copy , and a most exquisitely beautiful production it is . We must again express our approbation of the theatrical criticisms in this serial , which are penned by a . master-hand .

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      THE FAMILY _HERALD-Parts XXVII . XXVIII . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . We have only room to say , that we havo read the greater portion of the varied contents of these two parts , and having so read , we unhesitatingly recommend the Family Herald as the very best of the penny publications . More than that , we can conscientiously say , that the Family Herald is far superior to many higher-priced publications . Its every page is filled with entertaining instruction , aud instructive entertainment . No family should be without the Family Herald .

      Memoir Of The Earl Spencer. The Largest Gifts Of Nature And The Most Esteemed

      MEMOIR OF THE EARL SPENCER . The largest gifts of nature and the most esteemed

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      results of education seem occasionally to be combined in the same individual , for the purpose of enabling him efficiently to discharge thc duties of a situation to which by mere accident he may have been raised ; hence it is by no means uncommon to find great lawyers on the bench , veal statesmeu in the Cabinet , and learned divines in episcopal palaces . But no one could sec a heavy agriculturist leading the House of Commons without being convinced that , in that instance at least , original predilections and early habits had combined to nentvaVixe the bounty oi' fortune . It was impossible to behold such a man enacting tho part of a Minister of State without feeling that it was one of the oddest amongst the London

      exhibitions . In its day it was a show that attracted all strangers ; and successive audiences have retired from the scene , frankly acknowledging tliat it was even more wonderful than thuy had expected . During cight-and-twenty years thc subject of this memoir—being then Lord Althorp—held a scat in the House of Commons , and was a very active member of that assembly . There can be no doubt that when Lord Goderich resigned , the Whig opposition set up Lord Althorp as their acknowledged organ ; and , of course , every one remembers that he was the Ministerial leader in thc Lower Ilouse , not only in the Government of Lord Grey , but during the first Melbourne Ministry . In

      that position he was placed with as slcnacr personal qualifications for the post as ever fell to the lot of mortal man , although no one will be disposed to deny that he was a person of great private worth ; that he possessed some intellectual vigour , and was distinguished by many aimable qualities ; but his attempt to be a leading Minister in a popular assembly partook so largely of the ridiculous that it reached the burlesque . In tracing out the strange career which led to these absurd results it would not be very interesting to dwell upon the early history of tlio noble Earl . One naturally desires to review the process by whicli a mighty intellect reaches maturity ; but to examine the advancement and cultivation of an ordinarv understanding yields little profit and no

      entertainment . Earl Spencer was born on the 30 th of May , H $ 2 . In due time he went to Trinity College , Cambridge , where he obtained the honorary degree of M . A . There was little chance that such a man could become a senior wrangler , or contend lor classical honours ; if , however , he liad graduated in a college instituted for the pnrpose of teaching thc arts of fattening oxen or breeding slicep , no man could have carried off the prize from so great a proficient in those very useful matters as John Charles Spencer . But . IS the qualities of short-horned bullocks and black-faced rams have little connexion with Greek literature or mathematical science , he departed from Cambridge a very undistinguished student of that learned University . At the very earliest possible age he entered

      the House of Commous , having been elected for _Okehanipton . While he sat for that borough itcould not be said that he did anything in the House of Commons which reflected much credit upon the choice of the electors who had returned him to Parliament ; he was , however , at that period so very young a man that no very considerable displays of legislative ability could be expected at his hands . But il * his talents—such as they were—had not yet begun to _devolooe themselves , his ambition was more precocious , " and he offered himself for Cambridge at the earliest opportunity that occurred . The death of Mr . Pitt led to a general election , but Lord Althorp ' as candidate for his " alma mater " was defeated by a largo majority , and he was fain to fall back upon the constituency which lie had pTC viously represented . In the same year a vacancy occurred for Northamptonshire , where a considerable portion of the estates of the Spencer family are

      situated . For . that county he was returned after a severe struggle , and continued to represent it for a quarter of a century . During the ' Fox and Cil'CriVille Ministry the office which he first held under the Crown was conferred upon him . It was one of small importance—namely , a Lordship ofthe Treasury ; but , every one knows , it belongs to that class of situations by means of wliich the scions of the aristocracy arc usually initiated in the mysteries of official life . From this time forward he laboured with the assiduity and zeal which distinguished the leading Whigs ot that period ; by whicli they succeeded in gaining the confidence of a numerous " and powerful party in the ilouse of Commons , while thev at . traded the support of thc Liberal and Reforming body throughout the country . In his hostility to the Duke of York , in the year 1 S _09 _, Lord Althorp rendered himself rather conspicuous ; and when that illustrious personage resigned the ? _ommaii ' . _l of the

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      army , tho subject of this memoir concluded a long speech by saying "that resignation ought to occasion no regret , as his Royal Highness had lost the confidence ofthe country . " He also took that opportunity to denounce the practice of conferring high office on persons of such exalted rank . The next series of debates in whicli he took a prominent part were those occasioned by the escape of Bonaparte from Elba , when he showed that which no one now will be disposed to call patriotism , in moving an address to the Prince Regent , praying liis Royal Highness not to disturb the peace of Europe . The peace of Europe , however , was established upon a much broader basis than it could have been by the policy which Lord Althorp recommended ; and from the moment that the war ceased , his Lordship , in

      common with the other Whigs , took up the tradeof _worrying the Minister about economy and retrenchment . For some years they had little else on which to _| found a series of clap-trap speeches , and , to do them justice , they made the most of the plausible arguments with which the state of public affairs then furnished them . On his political and Parliamentary career , we may readily bestow all the praise which consistency deserves ; for whatever May have been his political vacillations at a later period of life , it must bo acknowledged , that so long as the Tories remained in power he was an uncompromising WJiig . He deprecated a large naval establishment ; he clamoured unceasingly against the military force which itwas thought necessary to maintain ; he opposed the Six Acts with as much energy as was

      possible in a man so phlegmatic ; he resisted the grant bf £ 0 , 000 to the Duke of Kent on his marriage ; he moved for a repeal of the Foreigii Enlistment Bill , arid he opposed the Irish Insurrection Act . But the subject upon which he most frequently submitted motions to the House was the state of the public finances : and , because he took upon himself to censure the financial plans of others , it was concluded that he was capable of propounding fiscal measures himself ; when Lord Grey , therefore , came into power he selected Lord Althorp for his Chancellor ofthe Exchequer ; and it is not easy to have imagined a more infelicitous choice ; for though he possessed many qualities highly deserving of respect , and justly entitling him to the confidence of his party , that man could never have found himself at home in the Treasury Chambers at Whitehall , whose tastes and knowledge almost exclusively qualified

      him for rural pursuits ; whose eye was better filled by the image of a plethoric ox than a full exchequer , and who will be best remembered in the history of his race as the " Bucolic Earl Spencer . " Nevertheless he was an active member of Parliament , and we should needlessly extend the limits of this article if we were to follow him through every stage of" his Parliamentary career , or even enumerate a tithe of the occasions on which he addressed the Ilouse of Commons . Events , however , with which lie was intimately connected were assigned as the reasons for breaking up two Administrations—the first of these was the Goderich Ministry , during which it was proposed to appoint Lord Althorp Chairman of a Finance Committee ; and that proposition led to thc resignation of Mr . llerrics . This circumstance was stated to be the proximate cause of Lord Goderich ' s surrendering the seals of office . But it is well known that this was not the real cause of the Duke of

      Wellington ' s accession to power , and it is as certain that the removal of Lord Althorp to the Upper Ilouse was not the sole operative circumstanccwhichdissolved the first Melbourne Ministry ; yet his Lordship ' s name is in the popular mind most closely connected with both changes of Administration . Very Very little more need be added respecting his conduct as an Opposition member ; he took an active part in promoting the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts ; he opposed " the grant of £ 2000 a year to the Canning family , and he supported a proposition for abolishing the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland . In 1830 he became leader ofthe Ministerial party in the Ilouse of Commons , occupying , as already stated , the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer . As might have been expected , his first budget was full of

      blunders ; and , however startling these errors might be , they occasioned even less surprise than thc cool indifference with whicli he retraced his steps for tlic purpose of correcting them . His influence , however , seemed scarcely to suffer ; for the Ministry to which he belonged enjoyed thc support of five hundred members of the House of Commons . But even that vast majority melted away under the continued operation ofthe inconsistency which marked the character of Lord Althorp at this period of his political life ; for his opDonents charged him — and upon no weak ground ' s—with supporting questions in Opposition which he opposed during his tenure of office . Amongst the instances cited to his disadvam tage were the assessed taxes , the extension of the elective franchise , the ballot , the newspaper-tax , the cheap pamphlet duty , military flogging , and the pension list . Ol" the measures which he supported and was instrumental in carrying , Parliamentary Reform and tho Poor Law Amendment

      Act may be reckoned the most conspicuous . Respecting thc latter of these , public opinion has been so unequivocally expressed that any more special reference to the subject in this place would be superfluous . But as to the Reform Bill , his Lordship certainly seemed to be the chief agent in carrying it through the House of Commons . -Technically speaking , Lord John Russell had " charge of the bill ; " but , to do Lord Althorp justice , he made himself perfectly master of its details , and the admirable good temper with which he discussed the whole of its provisions excited unqualified appJause ; while the extraordinary powers of recollection whicli he displayed while debating its details drew forth the most flattering compliments even from his opponents . And his success was the more remarkable when we recollect that liis temper was . tried erery night by the withering sarcasms of Mr . Croker , and his memory unceasingly tested by the indomitable industry of Sir Robert Peel .

      The opening of the year 1834 was characterised by the notable affair of "Who is the traitor ? " Mr . Hill , then member for Hull , having stated to his constituents that an Irish member , who had violently opposed the Coercion Bill , had gone to a Cabinet Minister and secretly nrged him to pass it , as otherwise no man could live in peace in Ireland . This created no little excitement ; and Mr . O'Connell , on the meeting of Parliament , demanded the authority from Lord Althorp . The noble lord said he should not act a manly part if he did not declare that lie had good reason to believe that some Irish

      members who spoke and voted against the bill had used very different language in private . Mr . O'Connell started up , and accused Lord Althorp of shrinking . On which the noble Lord said , "Does the honourable and learned member accuse me of shrinking ?" Mr . O'Connell at once retracted the expression , and added , " 1 feel I ought not to use a harsh expression towards the noble Lord . " The result of the affair is in the recollection of every reader . After an inquiry by a committee into a specific charge against Mr . SheiJ , tiie matter was supposed to have originated in misinformation or misapprehension , and there it dropped .

      A more serious matter came to embarrass thc Government . The manner in which they met Mr . Ward ' s " appropriation motion , " by proposing a commission of inquiry into the property and resources of the Irish church , led to the retirement of Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham , to protracted debate , and produced that fierce and sudden assault from Lord Stanley on liis recent colleagues , which led Lord Althorp , in his quiet way , to tell him that he always had thought his genius would never have fair play until he became an Opposition orator ! But the debates revealed weakness in the Government , division amongst its supporters , and greatly damaged its _niOl'Ul pOWei' . Afterwards , Mr . Littleton , the Secretary for Ireland , became involved in a dispute with Mr . O' _Conneli . lie had unadvisedly assured him , in

      a private communication , that the Coercion Bill would not be renewed , not being aware that Earl Grey contemplated renewing it . This led to much unpleasant personal recrimination and explanation ; and ultimately Lord Althorp sent his resignation to Earl Grey , even after the Ministry had refused to accept Mr . Littleton ' s . This led to Karl Grey ' s retirement . In his speech , detailing the circumstances , he termed Lord Althorp "the leading member of Government in the Commons , on whom my whole confidence rested—whom 1 considered as the right arm of the Government , and without whom 1 felt it was impossible that the Government could go on . " Earl Grey was replaced by Lord Melbourne , and Lord Althorp was induced to retain his place as Chancellor of the Exchequer . This he did till the

      death of his father , on the 10 th of November , 1 S 34 , and his own consequent _elCYatiOIl tO the peerage , which furnished an occasion , of which William IV . immediately availed himself , for declaring the Melbourne Ministry dissolved . Sir Robert Peel was summoned from Italy to face for a few months an adverse liouse oi" Commons , and when once more the Liberal party regained their scats on the Treasury benches , no office was found in which Lord Spencer could assist his quondam colleagues . Thus ended thc public career of thc noble Earl , the close of whose natural life it is now our duty to record . __ _Kine years ago he gave up the hopes and fears of political existence , and though he delivered two or three speeches in the House of Lords during that period , yet his oratory was for the most part confined to agricultural dinners , and the distribution of prizes at Cattle in

      Shows . Amidst such scenes he seemed precisely that position for which he was intended by nature and qualified by education . His popular manners , bnrlv frame , and unpretending exterior , would seem to justify the saying , that though he was a farmer amongst lords , he was no lord amongst farmers ; tnat , on the contrary , ho was most thoroughly one oi themselves , and quite to the " manner born . mere the imperfections of his husky voice were not criticised and the errors of his inconclusive logic were not felt ; his repetitions and stammerings ,- his common-place sentiments , and clumsy style were either unperceiml or indulgently forgiven ; while his unfeigned kindliness of disposition , the ingenuous tone ot" his character , _swewi the simplicity of his bearing were usually remembered to his advantage ; and should at a moment like the present on eft account be forgotten _.

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      _naors of comfort generally administered by friends . Having your health proposed at thc age of forty , _ta a " promising young man . " Reading a newspaper on a railway , containing an account of "live-and-twenty lives lost" only the day before . Losing a heavy sum at cards , nnd all your friends wondering how you eould have been " such a fool . " Putting on a white neckcloth , whicli you fancy becomes yon , and being hailed all the evening as " waiter . " Publishing a novel which does not sell , and _reading in a review— " This work is equal to anything of Ainsworth _' s . " Breaking down before ladies in thc middleof asong , and a _tvag calling out " Encore . " Losing your latch-key , and wife and mother-in-law both sitting up for you .

      • Having your gig nearly upset bv an omnibus , and being abused by the conductor for not seeing " vera _ye're coming to . "—Punch . Vegetable Diet . —However much the diseasa among the potatoes may distress the poor Irish during the following winter , it will not in the least alter the diet of the Great A gitator , whose living is very plain , having existed all his life upon cabbage , —Ibid . SnouLD Cromwell have a Statue ?—Everybody is asking , " Should Cromwell have a statue ? " and echo is in all directions bawling out , "Yes , of course . " It is true that Cromwell cannot bc traced back to Lady Redburga , or proved to be a lineal descendant of Ethelsantha _, the wife of Alfred ; but he certainly played his part of sovereign as well as if he had been

      " native and to the manner born" for it . We should like to know whether he has not as good a right to a statue as Richard the Third , who played Old Harry with the Tower bedding , and made _sandwiehea ofthe infant princes between a couple of feather beds . Nothing can palliate this romance of tho palliasse , and there is no excuse for a downy uncle , who smothered the heirs to the throne in downy goose-quill . He made the mattress and pillows of the young princes the means of bolstering up his own title to tlic throne : and his subsequent conduct was very disgraceful , for we defy any one to see the play of Pichard the Third without coming to the conclusion that Pick was a deceitful scoundrel . In fact , the false front he assumed has caused that article to > bear the name of Dickey up to the present period Then , again , look at John ! We sliould like to know

      what on earth he deserves a statue fov . He was a fellow , according to Shakspeare , always putting out young princes' eyes with enormous pincers . Ilia intimacy with Hubert was enough to condemn him in the opinion of any well-regulated-minded individual . Henry the Eighth , too , ought to _havestoodafc the bar of the Old Bailey for sexigamy ; but wo think we have said enough to show that there arc a few kings in our Ilnme and Smollett , who ought to be deprived of statues , if merit gives any claim t _» the distinction of being "done in stone" for the New Houses of Parliament . Cromwell was , until his elevation , a very respectable brewer , and at least oa a level with Barclay , Perkins , or Meux ; and though he was not an entire sovereign , he is by no means tobe thought small beer of hy the true constitutional Englishman . —Md .

      Fon Parliamknt . —A _Caktoon . —The decorations ofthe new Houses of Parliament will be incomplete , unless they include a representation of Justice , who is supposed to preside over parliamentary proceedings _. That the jib of justice , to use a nautical term , should have a mediaeval cut , is highly necessary , for two considerations . In the first place , Justice , cheek-byjowl as she will be with Chivalry , and other Gothic company , will otherwise resemble a denizen of tlio Waters out of its element . In the second , the Justice of Parliament , for an obvious reason , should bc dc « lincated in a style approaching caricature or burlesque , which is precisely that of the art of the middle ages . Fov these good " reasons , it is essential that Justice should grasp her scales and sword by a mode

      ot prehension practicably by no mortal * , and that those properties should be cumbersome and awkwardlooking in thc extreme . There is a profundity in representing her as a supernatural being , taking hold of things in an impossible manner . On the samo deep princi p le she should be drawn standing in an . attitude which thc human mechanism docs not admit of . There is another good reason , whieh we will not enlarge upon , why Justice should appear twisted iu the British Senate . The tardigrade character of Justice ought further to be made visible in her feet , which should be quaintly clumsy , and contorted to a degree involving lameness . The anatomical

      difficulties which oppose these requisites are to be : veiled with a profusion of drapery , which , as our sagacious ancestors well knew , will cover outrageous drawing . The face of Justice should bc that of a monumental brass , both on account of the festhetical character of the material , and thc corpse-like attributes proper to Gothic sanctity . The cause of right and DiUUl'C versus humbug , which Justice is ever trying , _ongU . t to be manifested by scrolls stuck into her scales , inscribed , of course , with old English characters . Altogether , the person of Justice should be deformed , and llCl' look old-maidish ; SO that she may be devoid of the Paganism of symmetry and beauty . —Ibid .

      The _Foncis of Habit . —The Canopus , originally a French vessel , has generally been the lirst in the races of the Experimental Squadron . Our brave sailors say this is to be accounted for , by the fact of lier being a foreign ship , and _having been taught from her cradle to run away at the sight of an English vessel . — Ibid , Punch ' s Political _DiCTiois-Aity . —Anarchy . —Tho entire absence of government * . as , if the governor * goes out for the day , tho children arc left in a state of anarchy . Persons living in anarchy arc , as far as politics are concerned , said to be in a state of nature ; hut they soon get into such a state of ill-nature , that it is found necessary to place some control over them

      —Ibid . Irish Imagery . — " _Intisse _OnAiony . "—At a recent Repeal meeting Mr . O'Connell was described by one of the speakers as " an oak of thc forest , every hair of whose head was sanctified . " We never saw an oak with a fine head of" hair ; though it is , no doubt , possible ; for people arc talking a good deal just now about the curl in tllG potato ; and if potatoes can bc possessed of curls , wc do not sec why trees should not have hair also . We can scarcely sec how O'Connell is an oak of thc forest , though , in our opinion , he seems to he most at home when in thc Groves of Blarney . — Ibid .

      310 B MELODIES . ( Extracted from the Tyne Mercury . ) THE A . \ DOV £ K . ANTHEM . ( For Two Voices . ) As " said or sung" by the Kcvs . C . Dodson and G , Vf , Smyth , TcN £ — Gregorian Chant , Say be was frolicsome sometimes , And staid too long- at the " Eight Bells , " lie cannot always count tlic chimes , Whose heart not gall but kindness swells . The curate and myself , I wis , See nothing here that ' s much amiss . Admit that to his daughter dear He sent by chance a dinner "hot , ' The act was" charity" ' tis clear , And wc still preach it ; do we not ? The rector and myself , 1 wis , See nothing but what ' s good in this !

      What ! deal with treats like this as Crimes I "Why 'tis 110 question , e ' en at ltume , Nor ill thc columns ofthe Times That _•• ' Charity _'jejiinsi at Home _" Hector and curate , then , in this Can nothing sec that ' s far amiss . ' Talk not to us of _"stinking bones !" There ' s much of '* G usto" in that same , Quite good enough for "Jacks" and " Joans !" Just so thc llishop likes his game ! And , therefore , lie and wc in this Sec nothing that ' s at all amiss . Grant that to maid and matron both He was gallant ; is that call'd " lewd 1 " It only proves he was not loath , Kind soul ' . to soothe their solitude . The Curate and myself in this Can ' t , really , fancy aught amiss !

      True lie might say his prayers " twice over , " But why on this must scandal fall ? Attack , instead , the graceless Hover Who never says his prayers at all . Hcetov nor Curate can in this Find aught that is the least amiss ! Newcastle , Oct . 1 , 1 S 10 . 'J * . 1 ) . Jewish _Financier , —The Hebrew has a peculiar aptitude in managing money . Joseph was tveasuvksr to Pharaoh , Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar , Mordecai to Artaxcrxes , and Levi to Don Pedro the Cruel . The Moors who first invaded Spain had an Israelite foithc Chancellor of the Exchequer , and a gClltlClllUH of the same nation now lends moncv to all the nations of the earth .

      1 osmvE Asn _Comparative . —All attempt to poison yourself is a " rash" act ; but a slice of fried bacon is " a rasher ! " A ¦ showery day is " damp ; . " but this refusal of a young lady to marry you is" a damper 1 " A sovereign short in weight is "light ; " but a boat for the conveyance of goods is " a lighter ! " What you attach to a window is a " blind ; " but a Hash of lightning in your eyes is " a" blinder ' . " Prince Albert is called a " fine" man ; but one , who refines metals is " a finer ! " A stiff old lady is " prim ; " but a child ' s spelling book is ' * a primer !" A cracked head is a " sore" affair ; but a skylark is "asoarer ! " A negro is a "black ; " but one who cleans boots is " a blacker- " A _capital O is a "boldO ; " bnt thc member for Chippenham is a " Bolder O !"

      How to Understand inn _OunnF . NCT Question . — O _^ en your window at one end of tiie room and vour Uoor at the other on a stormy day—and your _kno wlegO will be complete . —M MiUw . [ ' ... ¦•

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 11, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_11101845/page/3/