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      A Long And Last Adieu To Th I * ,W 14. 1...

      i _* , w 14 . 1845 . THE N 0 RTHERW STAR i _77 ~ j _. . _. *»

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      _HT _MTTHER'S KIST . Ifs _nse to get a grander fcame That I mans Sit the mom—-jfsnn quit the sward which first I trod—Ihe bield whaur I was bom . Ihe comforts o' its cozy hearth -ffin a' be sairly _rniss'd •—> This only remnant gangs wi' me , My ain anld anther ' s last . 5 est _toherseT , my vs & wA hopes On this anli box were built ; And now , though mauhood marfe my brow , My heart lies _litheh _till't . fhe hand that spares . _* : at mado me heir-Far sooner than I wi _* _-r—0 * muck ; "bat nought that pleased me _rnair Than tMs—my _-mitlier ' s last . X mind my merit ' s first reward—Though sma ' , yet 0 ' . how dear-Was gPen me fine the wed-hained purse

      That aye lay hoarded here . Han ' s meed o * praise Tve got since iyae—By Fortune ' s hand been blest ; But none prized like that ae bawbee Frae ont my -anther ' s "fcisi . 1 fcent nae wish but what I thocht Its stores could weel supply : We lang had lost a father ' s love—A husband ' s industry : Tet woman ' s ever eident hand , "Wi" nae ane to assist , Held aye the fangs o' misery far Frae affray mither _' s last .

      And sae its nae what ' s in it now—Though that he a' my store-That links me to the auld oak last , But for its _VTO-rfh of yore . I doubt this heart wfll ken nae _aiair A joy of sic a grist , As when a bairn Tve danced me roua ' , Or on my n-dther _- ii last . H . B . K . & Edinburgh Weekly Hcoister .

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      Esjessays On Natural History, Ic. By C V...

      _ESJESSAYS ON NATURAL HISTORY , ic . By C V _Waiektos , Esq . London : Longman and Co ., 1 Paternoster-row . I ( Concluded from f / ie _Noriliem Star of June 1 th . ) t Our firat extract this week describes a singular

      COMBAT BETWIXT TWO BASES . "i On Easter Sunday _. in the afternoon , as I wasprc _^ _seding irit with my brother-in-law , Mr . Carr , to look at a wild duck ' s nei nest in an adjacent wood , wc saw two hares fighting with _toiii _^ iicarabk fery on the open ground , about a hundred an and fifty yards distant from us . * * * # "We staid in in the wood some ten minutes , and on nearing it we saw ti the hares still in desperate _"totfle . They had moved al along the hill-side , and the grass was strongly marked « * with ' thtir down for a space of twenty yards . At last one of of the sylvan warriors fell on its side , and never got upon it its legs again . Its antagonist then retreated for a yard oi or so , _—stood still for a minute , as if in contemplation , ai _andffiennishMreiigefaliy on the fallen foe . This retreat a and advance was performed many times ; the conqueror

      si striking its prostrate adversary with its fore feet , and 6 clearing off great quantities of down with them , in the u meantime the _languished hare rolled over and over a again , but could not recover the use of its legs , although i it made several attempts to do so . " Its movements put - < you in mind of a drunken man trying to get up from the i fl _* wr _** it ' ' u * irdn % htinthealeJiouse . It now lav still i on the ground , effectually subdued ; whilst the other con-1 tinned its attacks upon it with the fury of a little demon . I Seeing that the fight was over , we approached the scene i of action .- —the conqueror hare retiring as we drew near . Ttook up the fallen combatant just as it was breathing its last . Both its sides had been completely bared of for , and large patches of down had heen torn from its ' hack aud belly . It was a well-conditioned buck hare , wdghiug . I should suppose , some seven or eight pounds .

      THE BOBIS . Prettv _codr-TOnm , the delight of our childhood , aud an olgect of proteelion in onr riper years . IVherever there is plenty of _shelterforhim , his song maybeheard throughout fhe entire year , even in the midst of frost and snow . In the whole catalogue oi British birds , cock-robin is the only one which in Ms wM state can be really considered familiar wiUi man . Others are rendered fame by famine and cold weather , and will cautiously approach the spot where food is thrown for them , hut the robir . will actually alight upon your table , and pick up crumbs on your own plate . When I have been digging in the pleasure ground , he has come and sat npon my spade ; and by every gesture proved his confidence . Tou cannot halt for any moderate time in the wood , hut cock-robin is sure to approach ,

      and cheer you with an inward note or two ; and on such occasions he lias more than once alighted on my foot . This familiarity is inherent in him , and not _-required . I am not acquainted with any other wild bird that possesses it . In Italy this social disposition ofhis does not guarantee him from destruction by the hand of man . At the bird market , near the rotunda , in Home , I hare counted more than fifty -robin-redbreasts lying dead on one stall . "Is it possible , '' said I to the vender , " that you can kill _audeatSiesein « _try- _» _ngstc' -sr " Yes , " said he , with a . grin ; " and if you will take a _dozeu of them home for your dinner to-day , you will come back fur two dozen tomorrow . " It is the innocent familiarity of this sweet warbler which causes it to be such a favourite with all

      ranks of the people in England . Kooody ever thinks of doing it an injury . " That ' s poor cock . robin ! don't hurt poor _( _jock-r _oW-a , "" says the nursery-maid , when her infant charge would wish to capture it . Mrs . Barbauld has introduced cock-robin into her plaintive story of Pity ; and , when we study the "habits of this bird , and see that his latimacv with us far surpasses that of any other known _wfld one , we no longer wonder that the author of that pathetic ballad , the _ChMrexxhi the Wood , should have singled _aut the redbreast amongst all the feathered tribe , to do them fhe last sad act of kindness . They had been barbarouslv left to perish , and had died of cold and want . _CocfcTOMnmiffid them , and he is described as bringing leaves in his mouth , and covering their dead bodies with

      " Their pretty lips with blaekcerries Were all besmear'd and dyed ; And when they saw the darksome _nigi * They laid them down aud cried . " "No burial these pretty babes Of any man receives , Till robin _redbreasts , painfully , Bid cover them with leaves . " This ballad has _Mmetfiing in it peculiarly calculated to touch the finest feeKngs of the human heart . Perhaps there is not a Tillage or hamlet in England that has not heard what befel the tabes ia the wood ; andhowpoor oock _^ robin dia aH in Ms power lor them when _deathhad closed their eves . I wish it were " in my power to do only half as much in favour of some other birds as this well known ballad of the Children in the Wood has done for

      poorcoi _* -romn . Air . Waterios has an excellent chapter on "Waste Lands in _whkhhfi-manfullv denounces the wholesale _robbencs committed on the poor by t _" ae * _ttist _*»* _acv ia tie eneloang of tiie common and waste- lands ol of the counfay . " Heath Common , " a place _whicii our own eves hare feasted on , iu the _aeigkU-uvtowl _ofWakefield , being threaten ... ] with anindosure Act * Mr . Wj _* -rtox _aditassed _audpubuS-kedthc _fifihiwaig protest tothe i _* _nhabitaiits of ihe to . vn : —

      HEATH C 0 SSI 01 _.. "Wakefieli-once Merry Wakefield ;—why art thou so ne longer f What envious hand hath smote thee , and changed thy garland of roses into one of rue and wormwood 2 Formerly thy _mirfece must have beamed with _-fflany smiles ; for thou wen known throughout the land bv the name cf "Merry WakeSild . " * And very merrv must have been thy days : for thy merchants ** ere prosperous , thy pcsplc happy , and thy prison emptv av , so empty , that time ivas when not one angle wallsThere _West

      _captiiecoddhefound -rithinits . was gateCommonopentoihypeop lcandtoantheworld besides , and the _Outwdod too ; and here it was that thy merry sons and daughters came to dance , and sing , and to drive dull care _a- * _av . But these once-famed rural hauntsi for niirtfa and glee are nowno longer thine : theironhandof private interest fell heavy on them ; and they were lost to thee for ever . Oh , how cruel and unjust it was , to sever from tha- those delightful walks which the foresight and good sense of _ourancestors had apportioned for thy welfare and left at thy command . ' __ andisor

      AIL _aE is now changed for the worse : and sad - wivfa _^ vc _-ae s' _^<* s * b ** come , which werc once so _bngnt ad joyous : _and woefnlisthe appearance of the avenues which lead to once Merry Wakefield . On one of them there frowns a Bastae so huge and terrible , and so _ap-aiDing with solitary ' cells , that i * _mewingittiesonlof man recoils within lum , and he begins todoubt if he is in a Christian country Things were not so in the gone-try days of once _Jieny Wakefield . _Ouanotherfes- _^ _a-iddyspreadinsi _^ _ctwe _. _^ op led hy those whom sorrow , and misfortune , f ? *¦? _£ ' " ™ _tn-etchefiness , have deprived of the choicest gift of Heaven to man . We read in their countenances the mournful historvof their sad destiny , and we fancy that we can hear iheni sav _, "You would have seen no sights so _sorroniul as these in the gone-by days of ence Merry Wake-• _fieli''

      .. _ , . „ On athii-d avenue we behold unsightly piles of bmldio s s , _ _SranaricS high and _spacious _. -but the workings _£ f _siich a « 3 _diam-itricaBy the reverse of those erected hy benevolent Joseph in ancient Egypt . And _iapa _^ _S over _Cader _- _sBridge , we see a gem of olden architecture , now _mouMeriiur into dust , -unheeded and untenanted , and with its windows broken . Tis s aid to have been endowed for mass , for the souls ofthe slam at tiie great battle in th * * oe * ighboiirhood . Some yeari ago it _" _¦ _af-yed as a counting-house ; but probably _** _V _^ V _^ _thnes _drovethebuyers arid sellers from _r , ts _pollutedfrails , which were kept so pore and bright in the gone-by days of onceMerryWakefield * ¦

      . . . _„„„ _Vak-mcV _^ once Merry Wakefield :-these sad innovations too plainly tell us that all is not _nght wi dun taee . Butthv cup of sorrow is not yet filled up ; J * *** * - _wavemeut still awaits tb . ee , and H wfll be a final Mwr » _tbafiwreniairing rural _sportswhich are now Within thy react _Eeaft Conuaou is to be enclosed ! Then adieu ,

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      a long and last adieu , to thy delightful walks , and rides _ftm _^ T , ' ° ae erer - _^^«« _gTrilds of -Heath S _^ _iTf'l undis turbed sojourn , time 2 _bwJ f _when , thefatal da _- > - ¦ _*•» cn _^ «™ * _wwT d Upon thec ' sa * ' _-MMltaryWakefield , _ay , whatls tobecomeofthyfifteen thousandpeople , who wdl n 0 l have a yard of pnblic land remaining , whereon torecover that health of frame , and rigour of ihe mind , so apt to be enfeebled when debarred from the advantage of rural air and pastime ! I myself will j 0 i „ thee in thy lamentations on the near approach of this great and unexpected event ; for many a walk do I take on Heath Common , to hear the wild notes of birds which are strangers t o my own domain and it is on Heath Common that I always expect to hear the first song of the _cutkoo , sweet harbinger of returning spring . Were I a Senator , —which God forbid , whilst Peel ' s oath stares me in the feed—I would stand unandfight thybattie tofhelast . * .,

      Wakefield , —once Merry Wakefield ' . —fare thec well ! I would not have a hand in the projected enclosure of Heath Common , even though poor Charley Stuart himself could come back , and were to give his royal sanction to it

      THE _DVIKG SWAN . The supposed melody of the dying swan seems to be a fable of remote _antiqiaty . I hare long been , anxious to find oul u _P ° ' ¦¦ _•"••" 't grounds the ancients could possiblv attach _rrclody to an expiring bird , which neither in youth nor in riper years ever shows itself gifted with the power of producing a single inflexion ofthe voice that can ba _prowunced melodious . * # # 0 nce I had an opportunity , which rarely occurs , of beingwith a swan in its last illness . Although I gave no credence tothe extravagant notion which antiquity had entertained of melody from the mouth of thc dying swan , still I felt anxious to hear some plaintive sound or other , some soft inflexion of the voice , which might tend to justify that notion in a small degree . But I was disappointed .

      TMs poor swan was a great favourite , and had been the pride of the lake time out of mind . Those who spend their life in the eountry , and pay attention to the ordinary movements of birds , will easily observe a change in them whenever their health is on the decline . I perceived that the plumage of this swan put on a weather-beaten appearance , and that the bird itself no longer raised the feathers of his wings as he passed through the water before me . Judging that he was unwell , 1 gave orders that he should he supplied with bread and boiled potatoes . Of these he ate sparingl y , and in a day or two he changed his quarters , _probably for want of sufficient shelter from the wind . Having found his way down to the stables , he got upon a small fishpond there , out of reach of storms . From this time he never fended for food , hut he continued to take a little white bread now and theu from n . y hand .

      _- At last he refused this ; and then he left the water for good and all , and sat down on the margin ofthe pond , with evident signs of near approaching death . He soon became too weak to support his long neckin an upright position . He nodded , and then tried to recover himself , and then codded again , and again held up lus head ; till at last , quite enfeebled and worn out , his head fell gently on the grass , his wings became expanded a trifle or so , and he died whilst I was looking on . This was in the afternoon ,-and I had every facility of watching his departing hour , for I was attending the mason--, some thirty yards from the pond to which the swan had retired . Ih .-never even utteredhis wonted cry , nor so much as a sound to indicate what he felt within . The silence which this bird maintained to tlte last , tends to show that the dying song of the swan is nothing but a fiible , the origin of which is lost in the shades of antiquity .

      There is an excellent chapter on " Fresh Air , " from which we give the following extracts : —

      SIXEP 1 SG AT IHNS . Beds have vast attractions ; beds , to nit , of down and roses . But we are not told who has slumbered there thc night before . In fact , we never ask the question . Mine hostess assures us , tbat they have been well aired ; but she does not mean tliat they have heen aired by the noonday ' s healthy sunbeams . She gives you to understand , by saying that the bed has been well-aired , that , in fact , it has constantly been slept upon hy a succession of travellers , of whose health , Or the want of it , not tbe slightest mention is erer made * * # * A person , on whose veracity I conld depend , and who seemed to have scrutinised thegeneral state of dormitories with a considerable degree of attention , once told me , that he had not passed a single hour iu bed for fourteen years . He said he was

      his own master in that respect ; and could suit himself as he thought fit . He added , that his aversion to cuter a strange bed was extreme . He did not know who had been there before him , or what impurities might be Iurldiig in the region of the feather bed , or whether it had been aired hy Phoebus or by Bacchus ; and that the possibility of getting into a damp bed acted upon his nerves more terribly than did the operation of Sir Robert Peel ' s incometax . " And how do youmanage , " said I , " without a bed V " Uncommonly well , " said'he . "My apprenticeship , " continued he , " to ihe hard floor only cost me a fortnight , and after that all went right . " He then informed me that tbe advantages _trhich he had acquired by abandoning fhe bed for erer were incalculable . He said that so long as there was a current of fresh air in the place where he

      laid him down to rest , he was excellently accommodated for a fair spell of sleep . Travelling had no longer any nocturnal terrors for him . Whilst others were anxious about tlic paraphernalia of their bedrooms , and peevish when things were not to their liking , he stood smiling on , pitying their distresses , and happy with the thought that he could stow himself away for the night in a moment , from bad bugs , bad breaths , and bad bedding . " And you wUl never more sleep in a "bed f said L " "Never , " said hc , with a smile of contentment on his face . "Nature has accommodated herself to me , aud I to nature . What more can I wish V Me ceased on saying tliis . I entered fully into his fellings ; and ere I retired to rest I thought if we had more of fortitude and less of self-love things would go better with us , both night and day , than they do at present .

      - SICK BOOHS AND SLEEPING BOOMS . If we turn to a sick room , we are apt to surmise that the doctor in attendance never once takes the state of the lungs under his serious consideration , except in cases of apparent consumption . Although he has learned from anatomy that pure air is most essential to thcm , stiUhe allows his patient to be in a tomb , as it were , waUed round with dense curtains , where the wholesome breeze can gain no admittance , and where the foul vapours issue from the feverish mouth , and return to it , and from thence to tbe lungs , whieh are barely able to perform their duty . The windows are constantly shut , and the door most carefully closed , by which mischievous custom the lungs have no chance of receiving a fresh supply of air from without , and at last the patient sinks in death for want of it . If

      those in typhus fever were conveyed to an open shed , screened on one side , against the blowing wind , with a sufficiency of clothes npon them , very little physic would he required ; for the fresh air would soon subdue the virulence ofthe disease in nine cases out of ten . Then , a person finds he cannot sleep at night : if he would open the window , and take a few turns in the room , there can be no doubt but that sweet sleep , pfacMffesimesomiic Deonm , would return with him arm in arm te bed . Wonderful is the degree of heat which is generated by the human body , when prostrate on a soft bed . Those parts ofthe sheets which do not come in contact with it , will , of course , retain their wonted coolness ; and then , if the

      person becomes restless in his sleep , and rolls over upon them , hc runs a fair risk of contraeting rheumatic pains scarcely ever to be removed . Should a man everhavethe terrible misfortune to pass thc night in a damp bed , he would he much worse off than if he had been condemned to lie on a pismire ' s nest . These little tormentors would m 2--cly blister _I-im , perhaps eveu with salutary effect ; but the humid bed would cause him damage often beyond the power of art or nature to repair . I trust we may _saf-ly conclude that , when thc soft and downy preparations for the repose ofthe night have been completed , we do wrong , very wrong indeed , to exclude the night air from our apartments . That we can absolutely do without it , is certain ; but that we should do better tvith it , is equally

      certain . Mr . "Waieetcix has a good word for the rooks , whose destruction it appears has , or had , been determined on by the wise men of the north , the farmers of Scotland . Sir . W . shows most conclusively that instead ofbeing enemies , the rooks are the best friends the fanners have in destroying the myriads of insects on-which , these sable gentry mostly few . lie concluding chapter of the work ia "On light Shoes , Tight Stays , and Cravats . " His _argumeiits on the two first of these fashiouable absurdities have been enforced times without number , but his war against Cravats is something * ncw . His arguments , we think , arc unanswerable .

      _CUAVATS . What in the name of hemp and bleaching , has a cravat to do with the throat of a man , except at Tyburn ? The throat is the great thoroughfare or highway for thc departure and return of the blood from the heart to the heaa , and back again ; and we all know that pressure on the vessels which contain this precious fluid maybe attended with distressing and even & tal consequences ; so that when a man falls down in a fit , the first attempt at relief on ihe part of the bystanders is to untie "his cravat . Indeed , the windpipe , thc veins , and the arteries located in the neck , may be considered as life ' s body guards , which win not allow themselves to be too severely pressed upon with impunity . When we consider how very near these main channels of life are to _* surface of the throat ' wonder , at the temerity ofthe man who first introduced tiie use of cravats as a protection againstthe weather , or as an ornament to the parts . _"WTien he was about this

      _roguishbusiness , whv did he stop sho rt at the neck ! _Hcm-gntjust as well have offered clothing to thc nose aud . _cheeks . If Sese last mentioned parts of our mortal tame can sately _fecummodate themselves to the blasts of muter , or the _f ™ 7 . _TZl surelv thcthroatmight beallowedtotry _STmrSel _Eternal air , especially when wesee _LS _^ t pr _itfegecon _^ oflife . and of the most delicate constitutions . If any _farfof te human body be _aUowed to be uncovered m ? £ _*> days ' of observation and _^ P _~ vement ' . _^^ _^ e _iroat of man has the _Wddiatoexe _^ on _^ punishment which it undergoes at present . However w e _^ not _qmte so outrag * . _^ as _^ e _werewhenlwasalad . _^ f _^ Z _^ w exTal ? hen cravatsof enormous height and J _^ _JglS the go . ' _^^ . _^^ _SX _^ SSSSi fishion on acconnt of some nnsrxgwy ™« _TMsmay have _toeen scandal for aught I _ta ° _^ ° f _« "J _trarvibut certain it is , that the ne „ mvenUonspread

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      hke _wild-fire , and warmed the throats of all in high life . A : conneotion of mine placedrso much-stress upon the necessity c-f it , thathe never considered himselfsufficienfi y weU dresseduntilhehad circumvented his neck with serai cravats . * * t _^ My own cravat , although it had nothing extraordinary either in size or shape , had once very nearly been the deatho _, me . One night , ongoing my rounds alone in an adjacent wood , I came up uithtwo poaehers ; fortunately one of them fled , aud I saw no more of him . I engaged the other ; wrenched the knife out of his hand , after I had ' _-arried his blow , and then closed with him . j W e soon came to the grouud together , he uppermost . in the struggle he contrived to get his hand into my j cravat , and twisted it until I was within au ace of beiug j strangled . Just as all was apparentl y over with m » , I inade last convulsive

      , one effort , and I sent my knees as * he lay upon me , full against his stomach , and threw him ! oft . Away he . rent , carrying with him my hat , and _, _leai-mgmebisown , together with his knife and twentv , wire snares . I cannot possibly understand why westrong i and health y men should be doomed by fashion to bind j up our necks like sheaves of corn , and thus keep our j jugular veins in everlasting jeopardy . I know one jilii-| losopher in Sheffield who sets this execrable fashion | nobly at defiance , and always appears without a cravat . ! How I revere Mm for this , and how I condemn myself j for not having sufficient fortitude to follow his example ! The armadillo and land-tortoise of Guiana , although encased in a nearly impenetrable armour , have tlieir necks free . Indeed , man alone is the only being to be found in the whole rauge of animated nature who goes with a ligature on the throat .

      _, Mr . Water-ton intimates that this will be the last tiro . ' - * he -will appear before the public as an author . We hope that he will reconsider this determination . From somethings he has written we dissent : but it is our conviction that few can read his works witliout becoming wiser and better from their perusal . We hope it will not be long before we shall have the pleasure of again introducing Mr , Watubiox to our readers .

      Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine—Juxb...

      DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE—Juxb . London : Punch Office , 92 , Fleet street . On the whole this is an excellent number of this truly and deservedly popular Magazine . The only exceptions we have to make are , that thc portion f iven of the Editor ' s story of " St . Giles and St , _ames , " is too brief to satisfy the reader ; and that there is too little of that light reading which , without damage to the serious and mighty objects sought to be advanced by Douglas _Junnoui and Ms colabourers , might , we think , advantageously oecupva portion of this work . Of course we do not desire thata solitary page should be given up to mere sickly sentimentality and absurd romance ; but , eschewing

      these , it yet appears to us that tales of wit and humour might be made to subserve thc purposes of this Magazine without detriment to its more serious contents . We suppose that something of this sort is intended by the "legend" of "The Bishop's Knock " in the present number ; but we cannot speak very highly of its execution . "By-fhe-bve what has become of the " Cat and Fiddle Moralities ? " We hope the Editor will resume them . ' If any one of our waders , disappointed and dig . heartened at what he deems the alow or doubtful progress of good principles , is inclined to despair of the future , let him take up the present number of tliis Magazine , and we are certain he will not lay it down again if he has once thoroughly perused it without finding his hope abundantly revived . There have

      been , and are , unfortunately , too many causes to induce the simple suffering son of toil to despair of a better future , and deem the struggle for justice hopeless . He sees arrayed against his " order" a government the most potent in the world , backed by a powerful aristocracy and priesthood , and the still mightier band of the "Kings of Gold . " The section of the middle class at war with the aristocracy are not less at war with the people and opposed to their enfranchisement . The public journals—so powerful for good or evil—are almost entirely devoted to the one interest or the other , that of ruling'fejidalism or rampant capital , to the exclusion of , and in opposition to , the interest of labour . Lastly , division and black-hearted calumny , caused and promulgated by men whose one idea appears to be

      "Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven , " have brought discouragement to the rr . nV . s o _? tV . r * . patriots , and disgrace on their name . The friends of freedom , therefore , contemplating the strength and resources of the system against wliich they war , the yet widely existing ignorance of the masses , and thc treacheries of pretended friends , may be excused if , sometimes they f eel inclined to waver in their belief in the progress and future triumph of then principles . Yet are thc grounds for hope—nav , certainty of future triumph , —many and indisputable .

      Take one only : the new literature of the age , of which this magazine may be regarded as the type . The number before us , from beginning to end , page upon page , proclaims the wrongs of the many , or vindieateatueiY lights witli aa ability _sdA-om excelled , and an _earnestness never exceeded . The editor ' s story of "St . Giles and St . James" proclaims in every chapter the truth which crewhile society refused to listen to , that " circumstances make thc man : " that the babe _"twrn in , the castle" would , if placed in the situation of his brotherinfant "whelp'din the cottage , " become of necessity the -victim and the slave of the demoralizing influences which from the cradle to the grave surround the offspring of the lowly ; while , ou the other

      hand , the child ofthe poor man , if exposed to the luxuries , frivolities , and falsehood of "high life , " would of-necessity exhibit through his existence the natural results ef such training . From these facts the reformer and philanthropist will deduce the conclusion , that an equal educational guardianship of all the children of the commonwealth , accompanied by a more equal apportionment of necessary labour , and distribution of the products of labour , are the only means by which the vices incidental to both poverty and luxury may be annihilated ; and society , being purged from social outcasts and useless drones , may become au intelligent , free , virtuous , and happy oommunity . The " Mummery of Medicine" is an exposition

      much needed of the quackeries of the medical tribe , more particularly their custom of wrapping up their prescriptions and inscriptions in _dog-Latin . This is an imposture—a humbug , which it is high , time was put an end to ; and we are glad that this magazine has opened fire upon this time-honoured but mindexploded fraud . " The Law of the Land" is a powerfully-written and truly political article , exposing the rapacity and tyranny o f the landlords from the earliest period to the present time . " Man and thc Criminal" is an article of the highest order of merit , whether we regard its design or its execution . We would that wc could place it in thc hands of every member of tlic community . Societies formed for the purpose of reforming our criminal code and abolishing deatli-pnnishments , would do well—first

      obtaining the sanction of the parties concerned—to reprint this article iu the shape of a cheap tract . " The Hedgehog Letters'" are as " spicy" as ever , and must give thc bigots the belly-ache to read them . " A Histoiy for Young England" is by no means the least Important portion of this _magnzine ; and the revelations of the past contained : ; - ¦ : _Ma history arc , we tliink , nearly certain to _Jeao tho veritable " Young England" to look forward to ilie future , instead of backward to the past for the golden age of political purity and social justice . Lastly , even the critiques at the conclusion of the number all" breathe a purpose" ofthe right sort . That on Mr . D'Iskaeu _' s new work is the most philosophic , and indeed , in every sense , the best on the subject we have yet seen . We have so room for extract : hut we must perforce give the following from the critique on

      Sybil : — "With all the sections of party that divide the country he [ Mr . D'lsraeli ] is well acquainted , hut has _dovotod his principal attention tu the Chartists . Of them he may be said to be the historian ; nor has he unfaithfully narrated their proceedings . With their energy he sympathises , and feels for their wrongs—or at least he exposes them . He has evidently made himself intimately acquainted with then * tenets and their proceedings , and has a just notion of their powers and capacities , And it is an instance of his political sagacity to endeavour to turn attention to a party who _inustexercise , ere long , a powerful effect , not only upon the social state of England , but upon tiie corresponding classes of other civilised societies . The grand contest of the universal man against wealth , or , in other words , of the wants of humanity against the

      privileges of afew , must , in a generation or two , come to issue . All things proclaim it , and few can retard it . j Indeed by many the question is narrowed to this simple point : —In order to improve tlic condition of mankind , is it necessaiy to alter the laws or to alter mankind ? Or again , does the amelioration of mankind depend upon having good laws , or does the having good laws depend upon the having goofi men ! Thc Chartists say , " het us make good laws , and we _slmil have men as they ought to be . " _Ontheotlierhand , say : ' .. •¦¦ YoungEng landers , "Make men religious and virtuous .:. -: d the rest will follow . Who will gainsay that this Magazine is even of itself a hopeful and uuinisfakeable sign of progressif For the instruction ; md gratification of the triends of freedom , aud for the more extensive pro pagation of the principles to which they are wedded , we heartily recommend to our readers the support ana circulation of this excellent publication .

      \ Tait's Edinburgh Magazine*-Juse. Edinb...

      \ _TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE * -Juse . Edinburgh * . Tait , 107 , Prince ' _s-street . Tart for this month opens with a lengthy and eulogistic review of Lord iJrougham ' _s " Lives of Men ot Letters and Science who flourished in the timeot George the Third . " Who ' s to decide when reviewers disagree ? Let any one read this review in 3 _ojf , antt then read the _notice-of the same work in _^/ _V Maqasine for tbis month , and he will be _compellea , wefaney , to after all "b etake liimself to hia . lordship s book before he can hope to form a just wnclusion as to its merits . ProbaWy , thc exact value of the work and the just estimate of the intellectual po _^^ _f * author will be found to lie _somewheremidwa y " et the high-flown eulogies of the writer ia _Tflrf ana we

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      wholesale condemnations of the critic in Jerrold . _tosterity , - however , will ; , wc imagine , rate-Lord Bhouoiiam much lower than his northern admirer seems willing to admit ; or should hi * _r-opularitv be maintained , or , rather , revived . in vears to come , we irwy venture saielv to predict that that revival will not be on the soutlieHi side of the border . "A Sporting Legend of England " is a short tale , the character ot wluch is betokened by the title , bvJoit . _vMm-- , whose productions are alwavs welcome . _"Itabv Rattler is a review of a new work , bearing that name , m which thc reviewer administers a wclldeseiTcd Mitigation to the writers of what is called "the ilueves' Literature . " From the "Life mid Correspondence of Kiubciib , the Historian" is

      , given a most interesting account of Nelson ' s attack on Copenhagen , of whicli fhe historian was an evewitness , as he filled at that time a government oftlce under the Danish crown . "British Aggression on Sinde " is an able and just article . There arc some reviews and other articles we have not read . From a notice in the " Literary Register" of a work entitled The 'French in Algiers , we give the following sketch ofthe unconquerable Arab , a man dear to the hearts of every lover of freedom and hater of oppression ; and we are not ashamed to add—speaking for ouvselves—one of our "household gods . " Here , from the pen of a Frenchman , who had been a prisoner in the camp of the Emir , is a portrait of the glorious

      ABD-EL-KADER . I will now endeavour to describe a man of whom at present very little is known . From all tliat f had heard , 1 expected to find a bloodthirsty barbarian , always ready to cut off heads : my expectations wcre false indeed . Abd-el . Kader is _twenty-eiglit years of age , aud very small ; his face is long and dcadlv pale ; his large black eyes are soft and languishing , his mouth small and delicate , and his nose rather _aquUine ; his beard is thin , but jet black , and he wears a small mustachio , which gives a martial character to his soft and delicate face , and becomes him vastly . His hands are small and exquisitely formed , and his feet equally beautiful . The care he take ' s of them is quite coquettish : he is sonstantty washing them , and paring and filing his nails with a small knife with a beautifully carved mother-of-peari handle , which he holds all the while as he sits crouching on his cushions with his toes clasped between his fingers .

      His dress is distinguished by the most stwdioi simplicity ; there is not a vestige of gold or embroidery on any part of it . He -wears a shirt of very fine linen , the seams of which are covered with a silk braid terminating in a small silk tassel . Over tho shirt is a haick , and over the baicktwo , white bernouses ; the uppermost garment is a black bcrnouse . A few siik tassels are the only ornaments about his dross ; lie wears no arms in his girdle , his head is shaved , and covered by three or four skull-caps , one within the other , over which he draws thc hood ofhis bernouse . Abd-el-Kadcr ' s father , who died about two years ago , was a marabout called Maliadiu , who , by means of his fortune , his intelligence , and his character for sanctity , had acquired very great fame and influence among the Arabs .

      The Sultan is said to be a most tender husband ; and his conduct proves the truth ofthe report , for he has not a single concubine . His wife is very pretty ; her tall slender figure is seen to great advantage under the graceful folds ofher haick , which is girded round her middle with a red worsted cord . The Arabs usually like large fat women , but Abd-cl-Kader's taste is different . Though often absent from his wife for three or four months at a time , his attachment to her remains unchanged . Even from the banks of tbe Ouet Mina he frequently sent her presents of fi _* uit , butter , honey , and other rarities . He lias had one daughter by her ; and though it ivas asserted that she was delivered bf a boy on thc very day on which tho French entered Mascara , I do hot believe it- "for if Abd-el-Kader really had a son , 1 am sure the Arabs would have told me so . During the night the thirty negroes keep watch round the tent , that nothing may disturb the repose of Abd-el-Kader and his Wife ; aud during their absence from thc camp a guard of fbot-soldiers supplies tlieir place around the Sultan ' s tent .

      Tltls number , take it for all mall , is an interesting one . The extracts from Lord Brocoium's work will be welcomed by those to whom the original book may not be attainable . '

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      WADE'S LONDON _REVIEW-Juse . London : Oit and Co ., . Pateraosteivrow . This is rather a dull number of the _Zojic _' _oiii Review . Most probably the " melancholy month of May" has had anything but a vivifying influence on the writers while preparing tlieir matter for the presentnumber . _Theprincipalarfciclesareonthe "Woolwich lloy . il Military Academy * _¦« L ate Alterations of the Debtor Laws ; " and an article on the celebrated French miter , Montaicue . This last is the cream of the number , and forms a fitting companion-piece to the notice of Rabelais given in , a , former number . We hope tliere will be more—many more similar sketches given . They cannot failto be instructive and

      interesting to those readers who hav « not the advantage of being able to peruse authors other than those who have written in their own mother tongue . The hcavvnesa of the present number , which concludes the first volume , is likely , wc understand , to be remedied for the future . " A portion of future numbers will be dedicated to tales , poetry , and dramatic notices , accompanied by occasional illustrations . " The _nftvr -volume _( comuicuciiig on tlio 1 st of Jury ) is to open with an Oriental Romance , whicli will be continued in succeeding narts . These changes , if _spiritedly carried out , will , we doubt not , provoboneficial to tliis Review , which , even at present , is one ofthe cleverest publications of the time .

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      * 2 g _^ " The Rluminated Magazine , the Colonial Magazine , and Traveller ' s Magazine , will be noticed in our next . ' ' . _Pufiftcationa received : — " Davs and Nights in the East . " " Chronicles of the'Bastiie , " Part 18 . " The Orphan , " Part 8 . "Address on Education , by Dr . Smiles . "

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      . MRS . CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES . OAUM . E , 'VirttSX WALEIK & WITH MS WIFE , HAS BEEX

      BOWED TO BY A YOUNGER ASD EVES PRETTIER W 0 MAS THAN MRS . CAUDLE . If I ' m not to leave the house without being insulted , Mr . Caudle , I had better stay indoors all my life . "What ! Don't tell me to let you have one night ' s rest ' . I wonder at your impudence ' . It ' s mighty fine * , I never can go out with you , and—goodness knows ! it ' s seldom enough—without having my feelings torn to pieces by people of all sorts . A set of bold minxes ! What am I raving about ? Oh , you know : . very well , indeed , Mr . Caudle . A pretty person she must be to nod to a man walking with his

      own wife ! Don't tell me that it ' s Miss _PrettymanwhatfsMiss _Pi-ettyman to me ? Oh ! You ' ve met her once or twice at her brotlier ' s house ? Yes , I dare say you have—no doubt of it . I always thought there was something very tempting about that house—and now I know it all . Now , it ' s no use , Mr . Caudle , your beginning to talk loud , and twist and toss your arms about as if you were as innocent as a born babe —I ' m not to be deceived by ' such tricks now . No ; there was a time when I was a f ool , and believed anything ; but—I thank my stars . '—I ' ve got over that .

      " A bold minx ! You suppose I didn't see her laugh , too , when she nodded to you ! Oh yes , I knew what she thought me ; a poor miserable creature , of course . I could see that . No—don't 3 ay so , Caudle . I don ' t always see more than anybody else—but I can't and won't bo blind , however agreeable it might be to you : I must have the use of my senses . I ' m sure , if a woman wants attention and respect from a man , she'd better be anything than his wife . I ' ve always thought so ; and to-day ' s decided it . " No ; I ' m not ashamed of myself to talk so—certainly not . Anood , amiable young creature , indeed ! Yes ; I dare say ; very amiable , no doubt . Of course , you tliink her so . You suppose I didn't sec what sort of a bonnet she had on ? 0 , a very good creature !

      And you think 1 dwln t see the smudges of court plaister about her face ? You didn ' t see ' em ? Very fikely ; but I did . Very amiable , to be sure ! What do you say ? I made her blush at my ill-manners ? I should like to have seen her blush ! 'Twould have been rather difficult , Mr . Caudle , for a blush to have come through all that paint . No—I'm not a censorious woman , Mr . Caudle ; quite the reverse . No ; and you may threaten to get up , if yon like—I will speak . " I know what colour is , and I say it was paint . I believe , Mr . Caudle , ¦/ once had a complexion ; though , of course , you ' ve quite forgotten that : I thin ]*; I- _onci ) had a colour , before your eon'duet destroyed it . Before I knew you , people used to call me the Lily and Rose j but—what are you laughing at ? _I-see nothing to laugh at . But as I

      say , anybody before your own wife . " And I can't walk out with you but you ' re bowed to by every woman you meet ! What do Imean by every iveman ; when it ' s only Miss Prettyman ? That ' s nothing at all to do with it . How do I know who bows to you when I ' m not by ? Everybody , of course . And if they don't look at you , why you look at them . 0 ! I ' m sure you do . You do it even when I ' m out with you , and of course you do it when I ' m away . Now , don't tell me , Caudle—don't deny it . Tne fact is , it ' s become such a dreadful habit with you , that you don't know when you do it , and when you don't . But / do . " Miss Prettyman , indeed ! What do you say ? You won't lie still and hear me scandalise that excellent young woman ? 0 , of course , you ' ll take her

      part ! Though , to be sure , she may not be so much to blame after all . For how is she to know you ' re married *? You ' re never seen out of doors -with your own wife—never . Wherever you go , vou go alone . Of course people think you ' re a bachelor . "What do you say % You _wetl ' _-know you ' re not ? That ' s nothing to do with it—I * only ask what must people think , when I ' m never seen with you ? Other women go out . with their husbands ' : but as I ' ve often said , I ' m not like any other woman . What are you sneering at , Mr .. Caudle ? - -How do I know you're sneering ? Don't tell me : I know -well enough , by the manner of you . , " No ; you never take me out—and you know it . No ; -and it ' s not my own fault . How ean you lie there and say that ? Oh , all a poor excuse 1 That ' s

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      what you always say . You ' re tired of asking mc . 3 ndeed -because I always start some objection ? Of course I can't go out a figure . And when you ask me to go . you know * very well that my bonnet isn ' t as it should be—or that my gown _hnsii ' tcome home—or that I can't leave thc children , —or that something keeps me indoors . You know all this , well enough , before you ask me . And that ' s your art . And when I do go out with you , I ' m sure to suffer for it . Yes ; you needn't repeat ray words . Suffer for it . But you suppose 1 have no feelings : oh lio , nobody has feelings but yourself . Yes ; I'd forgot : Miss Prettyman , perhaps—yes , she may have feelings , of course . " And , as I've said , I dare say a pretty dupe people think me . To be sure ; a poor forlorn creature 1 must look in everybody ' s eyes . But I knew you

      couldn ' t be at Mr . Prettyman ' s house night after night till eleven o ' cloek —and a great deal you thought of me sitting up foryou—I knew you couldn't Ik there without some cause . Aud now I ' ve found it out ' , Oh , 1 don't mind your swearing , Mr . Caudle ' . It ' s I , if I wasn't a woman , who ought to swear . But it ' s like you men . Lords of the creation , as vou call yourselves ! Lords , indeed ! And pretty slaves you make of the poor creatures who ' ro tied to vou . But I'll be separated , Caudle ; I will ; and then I'll take care and let all the world know how you ' ve used mc . . What do you say ? I may say my worst ? Ha ! don't you tempt any woman * in that wav—don't .

      Caudle ; for I wouldn't answer for what I said . "Miss Prettyman , indeed , and—oh yes ' , now I see ! Now the whole light breaks in upon me ! Now , I know why you wished me to ask her with Mr . and Mrs . Prettyman to tea ! And I , like a poor blind fool , was nearly doing it . But now , as I say , my eyes are open ! Aud you'd have brought her under my own roof—now it ' s no use you ' re bouncing about in that fashion—you'd have brought her into the very house , where——" *• Here , " says Caudle , " I could endure it no longor . So I jumped out of bed , and went and slept somehow with the children . "— Punch .

      Scotch Squatters.—The Term "Squatters" I...

      Scotch Squatters . —The term " squatters" is very ambiguous . In America , it designates a ragged rascal without a cent in his pockets , and with a rifle or woodman ' s axe in his hand . In Australia it designates a young Oxonian or retired officer of tho army or navy , possessed of stock to the value of some thousands . In Scotland , it seems to designate a person very differently circumstanced from either of the preceding . Among other glens of the far north which have been cleared is one that is called Glencalvie . Here , according to tho account given by tho people themselves , UO tenants and cottagers with their families have been turned out of doors . A journal of the country denies that this is the casebecause ,

      , " The truth is , that the district in question—namely , Glencalvie , was let to only four tenants ; the other occupants ofthe glen squatted thero as cottars under these tenants . " This denying the existence of 86 out of 90 families , on the plea that only four of the 00 are leaseholders , almost equals in coolness the logic of Cooper ' s negro— " Him no man , massa ; him only tailor . " In an Englishman it might have passed f or ignorance , but it is difficult to imagine a Perthshire Scotchman unacquainted with the fact , that in the north of Scotland the cottar is designated the "tenant , " and the leasehold f armer tho "tacksman . " But it is with the novel use bf thc epithet "squatter" that we have to do . The Scotchmen who '' squat under tenants" are men who have followed their

      fathers and grandfathers for unknown generations in the occupancy of their huts and kail-yards . Their families are of older standing in the district than those of the tacksmen , or , in ninety-nine cases in a hundred , of the lairds . The uninterrupted tenure of tlieir dwellings—devolving from father to soncontinued from year to year without a lease—is a practice which had its origin beyond " the memory of man . " It is the custom of the country—the unwritten law of the Celts . Thc Scotch squatter is no clandestine intruder upon the soil ; he stands in the p lace of his forefatheis _, and the act which ejects him is a violent innovation on the customs ofthe country —a forcible change in a mode of _tenanc _)* , sanctioned by the " uso and wont" of ages . The landlord has

      a right—due notice being previously given—to resume the occupancy of his own land , or transfer it to another tenant . Nay , it is for the advantage of the whole population that the old system should be changed . But some forbearance may be claimed for simple ignorant men called to venture on a new state ofbeing . It is hard to give them an odious nickname because they do not see at once that what directly increases the landlord ' s rent will indirectly benefit themselves . —Spectator . Hide and Seek . —The _Prcssefnmishes us with the following amusing story : — " About three weeks ago a young and pretty woman went to a maison-de-sante and asked to be taken in as a boarder . She stated tothe director that she was iu good health , and

      required no medical treatment , but wished only for a retirement from domestic , annoyances . She was received , and for a week lived alone in the apartment which she had engaged . One morning a carriage stopped at the door of thc house and a young man , elegantly dressed ,. alighted . Obtaining a private interview with the director , thc visitor informed him that the lady who had lately become his guest was his- wife , who , in a pet arising from a trifling matrimonial quarrel , had left her home , but that , feeling he was in the wrong , he had come to seek a reconciliation . Thc worthy director could not resist such an appeal , and , showing the penitent up tothe lady , left him with cordial wishes for his success . Within an hour the parties came forth with

      countenances radiant with smiles , and , having paid the account , took leave of the director , with many thanks for his kind attentions . Some days after their departure another carnage drove up , and a gentleman , neither so young nor so attractive as the first , entered , and asked for the same lady , saying that she had misbehaved herself towards her husband , and deserted him ; but that , in consideration of her youth and inexperience , he , the new visitor , hadsucceeded in inducing the husband to forgive and take ' her back . _« But , ' replied the director , ' the quarrel is already at an end . The husband has been here , and they went away together in perfect harmony . ' The well-meaning friend was perfectly astounded . On recovering himself , he explained that thc lady , who was married to a man much older than

      herself , was importuned by a younger lover , and had fled to avoid Mm , but had no doubt yielded at la 9 t , and that it was with him she had quitted the asylum she had sought , Again several davs passed , when the director , who had been much afflicted at the idea of having done evil instead of good , was walking along the Boulevards - and met a servant in the same livery as that worn , by the footman who came with the first carriage . Resolved to repair , so much as in him lay , the mistake he had committed , he had the servant arrested and taken to the Prefecture of Police . In consequence of the information extracted from him , a commissary , with assistants , was sent to the house in which the fugitives had taken up their abode . We are ignorant of the last act of this serio-comic _melodrame . "

      SooTcn Fisheries . —A company is proposed to be established at Dundee for prosecuting on a large scale the deep-sea fisheries on the east coast of Scotland . Ak ABORrcLYu , —A native boy named "Joey" recently made liis escape froni Fh ' nder ' s Island , and being met with in the bush by some ofthe police , wa 3 conducted to the chief station in this city . There he has remained for several days ; he is fed by the policemen _, and seems quite happy and contented , lie can speak English so as to 1 » understood , and runs about the offices a favourite with all . "Joey" is about thirteen or fourteen years of age , thickset , anil has a fine open countenance . He is a good specimen oi a race nearly extinct ; hc seems highly susceptible

      of improvement and instruction , and we hope something wil be done for him hy the humane . —Hobart Toim \ C < mlier . New Bill os the Law of Debtor and Creditor . —The new bill , founded on the report of tho select committee appointed to inquire into the operation ofthe Act of last session with respect to debts not exceeding £ 20 , contains only four clauses . By the preamble it is declared to be expedient and just to give creditors a further remedy for thc recovery of debts due to them . It is proposed , that if any person is indebted to any other in a sum not exceeding ,- £ 20 , besides costs of suit , for which sum any judgment shall have been obtained or any order for payment thereof from any court of competent jurisdiction , it shall be lawful for thc creditor so obtaining a judgment or order to obtain a summons from any Commissioner

      of Bankrupts for the district in winch such debtor shall reside , or shall have resided for one calendar month before the date of such judment or order , or from any Court of Requests , Court of Commissioners , or other court for the recovery of small debts . The debtor may be examined as well as the creditor , and an order made for payment of the debt hv instalments or otherwise ; in case a debtor shall refuse to disclose his property or his transactions respecting the same , or respecting the contracting ef the debt , or shall not make answer thereof to the satisfaction of the commissioner or court , or shall appear to have been guilty of fraud in contracting the debt , or of having wilfully contracted it without reasonable prospect ofbeing able to pay it , or of having concealed or made away with his property , in order to defeat his creditors , or if he appears to have the

      means of paying tho same by instalments or . otherwise and shall not pay the same as ordered , then the debtor may be committed to the common gaol of the county . An order maybe " made for payment out of any salary , pay , or pension , of more than _* _£ fj 0 a year . No order m imprisonment is to be for alonger period than forty days . The power of the Act of last session ( 7 and 8 Victoria , cap . 96 ) is to extend to all cases of balances not exceeding £ 20 ' : ' It is not requisite for a debtor or creditor toemploy either counsel orattorney in making _applications or taking any proceedings under this Act ., Should the measure pass as itis framed , a ' _creuitdi- ' may summon a debtor , and if he resides in ' the'dity of London , and in the opinion of the Court of Bankruptcy comes within the category of offences mentioned ; he may be committed to Newgate for forty days ; or by a Court . of Requests , if resident in Midalei 5 ex , "to the House *• or Correction . The bill was presented by Lord Brougham .

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      The Voutwaj.- Ti.Ykeb.—Most Of Our Reade...

      The Voutwaj .- Ti . _ykeb . —Most of our readers wil be familiar with an old _felloiv , who goes about bellowing and shouting in the capacity of a political tinker . His anxietv to get a job makes lum some _, times very noisv , aiid unfortunately hc is seldom entrusted with repairs that he does not make a much larger hole than the one hc has been employed in stopping . The old tinker is said to have a very sharp eye to the " tin , " of which in his time he has received large quantities . Hc sometimes uses a good deal of soft solder , of wliich lie gave a curious instance the other dav , when trying to patch up a sad hole in a pretty kettle of fish belonging to Lord _Ellenboi'ough . — ' Puxich .

      A Siiakey Peer . — We understand that poor Brougham accuses Punch of an attempt to write him down . _Uis fAdgctty lordship must be in a very ner vous state , if he is ' in constant fear of our _knockiig him down with a feather . —Ibid . Deeds xor Words . —Tlio members of Conciliation Hall arc so earnest for a dissolution of the Union , that they havo got up a split among themselves . — Ml . Ke-coxciuatio . v Hall . —Since thc affecting scene at tlic Repeal meeting , where there was such violent weeping , Mr . O'Connell and Mr . Davis have been called the Irish " Thiers party . "—Ibid . " The Disow . _ned . " —Jt seems that "Young

      Ireland" is like Mrs . Sarah Gamp ' s Jfrs . Haxris—quite an imaginary personage . Mr . O'Connell assures us hc doesn't know any such party , and it is equally " unbeknown" to Mr . Davis and everybody else . We think , after this cruel desertion of " Young Ireland , " sonic member of the Repeal Association onght to bo taken up for deserting his own offspring ; and we say this the more feelingly , as we are iuclined . to think favourably of tho little fellow , sinco hc has been so universally disowned . But perhaps hc has been sent "a-begging" by his parent purposely , thai he may learn the value of imitating the Liberator as early as possible , —Ibid .

      Master Wood . —Wc saw advertised the other day , in the Times , a " Mahogany child's chair . " We have heard of wooden-headed boys who won't or can't learn at school ; but wc should be curious to seo this mahogany child whoso chair is announced for sale in the public journals . — Ibid . A Bargain . —A Cam , to be Disposed of . —To any of the Irish members who have any fear in crossing the Channel , it is particularly recommended . Apply in person to Mr . Joseph Hume , or by letter to the _Seijeant ofthe House of Commons , who , upon being favoured with a member's address , will be happy to oblige him with the " call" at his own residence . — Ibid .

      Axecdote of the late Joii . v Tajvell . —A gentleman recently arrived from the United States , where the circumstances attending Tawell's case had excited much attention , lias communicated the following characteristic trait , which was well known some years since { when it transpired ) amongst the commercial circles of Now York . Tawell , in the course ofhis peregrinations , had occasion to visit thc capital of Philadelphia , where Rowland Stephenson , under an assumed name , carried on the business of a winemerchant , one of his sons ( the eldest ) living with him as an assistant in business ) . Tho Quaker had imported on speculation a quantity of Australian red wine ( a new article ) , which lie was anxious to introduce amongst the Yankees , and Standish ( Rowland

      Stephenson ' s assumed name ) , was recommended to him as a likely man to promote his views . Tawell , whose address was highly prepossessing , was offered dinner by thc young Stcpnenson ( his father being momentarily absent ) , in order that the business might be leisurely discussed . On his return home , the exbanker , who had learned the previous history of his visitor , expressed liis repugnance to sit at table with a man who had suffered an infamous punishment , and ordered young Rowland to disinvite his guest , as ho would nob , contaminate himself by familiarly associating with a returned convict . Tawell , who in an adjoining room , overheard thc conversation , quietly entered thc apartment where the two Ste « phensons werc discussing the matter , and walking demurely up to the elder one said , " Friend Rowland , thou remindestme of an occurrence which took place whilst I was yet a youth , and wliich I will narrate to thee . There was . in the year 1795 , a wealthy

      and influential man of London called Weston , who , not contented with his large gains as a banker , must needs commit a forgery , by which he ruined many hapless families . He , however , was caught and condemned . On the day of his execution , a wretched youth , one Colin Recolet , was doomed to die also , for having had in his possession a forged one-pound bank-note . They were on the gallows . The hapless vouth in his dying agony tendered his hand to his fellow-sufferer . But the rich and haughty hanker proudlv turned away , and drew apart as far as his bonds permitted , deeming it beneath him to notice or permit any familiarity with one so lowly . Friend Rowland , had thee and I met formerly , as might possibly have occurred , in a situation like that I have described to thee , I should undoubtedly have bade thee an eternal farewell with the same composure and pity I now feel in quitting thy abode . " Saying which thc beavered Quaker stalked solemnly out pi thc house . ( Weston and Recolet were hanged in

      1700 . ] Political _Defikitio-ss . —It has rested with Mr . A . B . Hope to give a new definition of Conservatism ; hchas designated it "the prodigal heir of thrifty Toryism . " This certainly is not bad in its way . "Thrifty Toryism" took especial care not to allow a farthing to ' escape from its rapacious clutch , especially ns far as pampered Protestantism and the Church was concerned . Conservatism is no doubt very prodigal in giving the benighted juveniles in training for priests the means of getting better brogues and breeches , and education .

      Ax Ixgexious Tor for _Ascbrtainixo the State or the Weather . —Walk to any of the entrances te the inclosureinSt . James's-park , and look for the gatekeeper in thc green coat ; should this personage be discovered standing outside his lodge chattering with a pretty nurse-maid , you may be assured that the day is fine ; should he , however , be seen in the interior of his box , reading an old newspaper , we recommend you to put up your umbrella : it is raining smartly . —Great Gtm . Father _Mamew's Principle . —To such an extent does Father Mathew carry out his principle , _that'he has cut aman because ho was called a " rum fellow ; " and a person in his neighbourhood styled " Old Tom , " to oblige thc great apostle of the pump , has changed his name . —Rid .

      Another Long Parlumest . —From an announcement in the daily papers by an experienced sportsman , that grouse will be very scarce this season , we may safely anticipate that Parliament will not break up very early . —Ibid . Barefaced Robbery . —Amongst the novelties submitted to public inspection at the Anti-Corn Law Bazaar at Covent Garden is a monster sheet of tissue paper , a mile long . This is downright swindling , as the "League' _-nas evidently yd two more miles to account for ! We call fhh _vt-. _-y free trade indeed . — Ibid . A New Custom-House . —The anti-Ma } nooth people are placarding the walls of the metropolis with " Rome , ihe great custom-house of sin ! " According to these people Peel is unmindful of his duty . — Ml .

      Very Bad Indeed . —A country gentleman passing down Ludgate-hill , the other day , was struck with amazement on beholding Harvey ' s shop , of which tho front has been rawd as high as the second floor . '' Ah ! " cried he , shaking his head , * ' how dreadfully London has become when shoplifting is earned on openly to such an extent . —R > id . _ToxATnAx ' s CostrLAiNT . —It is rumoured that the principal reason Miss Texas hesitates taking Jonathan for hotter or worse is his being subject to tic dol-Jar-ism . —Ibid ,

      Short and Sweet , —Once upon a time , as all love stories begin , a young gentleman of rank and wealth laid siege to the heart of the daughter ofthe famous Colonel Crockett : and finding favour in the eyes of the lady , he wrote to the father requesting his permission for the immediate union . The following characteristic reply was promptly acted upon : — "Congress Hall , Washington . —Dear Sir , —I received your letter . Go a-head!—Davip _Crockeit . ' * A " Scese" in the Lords . — For a place of real public amusement give us the House of Lords . It eclipses even- other in this metropolis . For the true fun . thc " rale thing , " as Paddy says , it " bates

      Bauagher . " Batty s clowns are clumsy producers of mirth compared to the coronetted actors in "the scenes in the circle" at the upper house in St . Stephen's . Par _evexxiple , Monday night , when the * ' iron Duke" moved the Maynooth grant , that sagacious specimen of hereditary wisdom , night . Newcastle , interrupted his Grace by asking him in a tone and manner worthy of the Barons that startled King John at Runnymede— " Ifthe Queen knew anything about thc matter ?" The Duke , unheeding , goes on with his speech . Newcastle—I say , my lords , I require an answer . The Act of Succession , thc —• " BrOuah ' am—Hold vour _torieue .

      Newcastle—I shall not . You must answer me before _' yoii go on . * The Iron Duke to EUcnborough , at his elbow—What ' s all this about , eh ? EUenborough audibly whispers , winks at Brougham _, who bounces up and exclaims—I'll not stand this . I'll not sit here , or stand here , and allow any mart to deny that we have a right to enter into , to continue , and to close any discussion , of anv kind , and on any suhiect whatever . Newcastle rises , but he pulled down by "Witt chilsea . The Duke—As I did not come here Men to th noble Duke , I didnot near him , _andthewfore _. m lords . I'll proceed , Ac— _-Statr-in ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 14, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_14061845/page/3/